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no, we are back with chapter 2 of The Scarlet Innocence. I'm gonna try and put everything that Zoe goes through in one year I mean one chapter I mean, I did that in Country Hearts and I made a mess of things so I was deciding if I should do all this in one go, I know it'll probably be a super long chapter, but there's a lot that I want to do in this chapter. If not, I will try and separate it. I'll just cover bits and pieces of her life as a counterpart in the story going through all those details, just takes so long. I will only cover her highlights. I know I know you would want me to do a full-on discovery, but I think we should do it in smaller bits to cover up more about her being artificial and everything like I did when I did a whole thing about her like Lily did as I did with Lily, Zoe will be similar. I would be rushing it, but I don't think so.

what does go over all her quick things of her being a counterpart OK then let us get started shall we?

13 years later

it's been a while since I have aged now and the longer a baby a child I've gotten used to my monitor life and voice, and I love my parents very much even though I wasn't born to them I was adopted by them the bakers Fred, and Samantha are really sweet people I just wish I could return the love to them. They're smart too scientists they told me scientists are building teleport devices to travel all over the world with special teleport devices and go from different continents to learn all kinds of different things. It was so much fun to travel we could go in the world anywhere we were at peace with every country was one world one country, not one country but one world the multiple languages but we've learned every laI also found peace with me by finding the Lord in heaven, he gave me great peace maybe not joy, joy, or something I couldn't feel any emotions to anything love joy anything I asked my parents, but they couldn't figure out why I couldn't feel anything I want to feel. w.

my parents told me I was adopted. I'll have to get some answers sooner or later, but they told me I was a counterpart. I knew about that. I knew about counterparts and I knew their short lifespans. I studied them. I am one myself I know this because every time I look in the mirror, I look funny when they find me when I am on their doorstep and then I awaken as a counterpart soon my time will wake up as well and we will connect. It'll be a connection. I will feel it when it happens. It'll be an automatic connection to my head to him to me to them, it'll be the complete connection and things our bodies, but our consciousness will be one that time counterpart. I played game time. It was a big game. The people who created the game have ceased. Now they have become legends and they are right about the world of Valencia's existence knew the world existed and Alvin existed, and if I was a counterpart, he was my creator, I didn't connect to Alvin at all. I knew Alvin's name obviously because I played the game. I'm not foolish. I would not call him the manipulator Kronos Timecrest as they call him. That's what they call him. I am the Timecrest counterpart. I know that for a fact because I can feel it in my bones.

I'm connected to him through magic. It is magic that connects us magic connection, magic bond everything I can feel but I knew something was off about me. I knew my body was artificial. I knew my thoughts and emotions were lacking. Emotion is fake as well. I knew, but also I knew I had a soul and in all my years of studying time press I never did any of them to feel like me not feel we all were always emotionless. We were all born. That way. Alvin creates us to be that way, but I feel different. Mostly I've time and counterpart, especially counterparts, and how artificial they were. I still am artificial.

he thinks I'm stupid like I couldn't figure out that I am wow I'm just waiting until my time press contact me and I don't need Alvin to tell me that I'm artificial no way I already know it. He is stupid more than I am and I'm very smart. My parents are smart, and they were overjoyed to have a time counterpart in their home.

I have a sore and I gave it to the Lord, so if anything happens to me if I do die early because I heard counterparts do I will go to heaven, but my Timecrest I can't leave him abandoned me and I won't die. I gotta take care of him by his side I just need to keep his attention during the whole process and he can't know who I am. I have to keep it a secret. I have my thoughts, but not my emotions, and monitored. I don't like being this way. Maybe there's a way to break this curse.

maybe I can find a way maybe if I can be with him but I can't right now when he's 13 I'm 13. He'll be waking up soon.

and so will I my parents will be joyed. My powers will be awakened then I have to figure out what to do after.

that happens and be happening soon. I'll be awake and so will he who will activate the watch soon and I'll have to see images and comments. I know that's how it works.

I played the game. I just had to figure out when he would deactivate the watch. It'll be soon. I know that I can feel what he does.

It probably will be soon sooner than later I hope it will be even though I don't feel emotion. I still have hope and other things my 13th birthday is coming. My family went to celebrate. They always celebrate nowadays because of me they celebrate every birthday every achievement. I'm a genius after all I'm smarter than the average of these people of the humans I mean, I'm human too, but I've always felt different than them.

my birthday came and passed had a full birthday with bad normal emotions. I would feel overjoyed, but I don't know who always told me to be lucky to be a counterpart that means at a time Cress has chosen me or have been chosen or I was made they told me was special because I was purer than any other counterpart. That means anything I could die anytime they knew that only if your Timecrest dies, they said you only die if he dies, they know that he's male I guess cause they play the game Your time is special he lives so you should live case that means my time is none other than I won't figure that out for a while I don't know him obviously but I know who Alvin is a time manipulator Kronos Timecrest the time manipulator I know him he created me.

every counterpart and I know this every counterpart before me knows this I never thought of looking at my number and I just a number. I'm not just a number anymore. I have a soul I have a name. My parents named me Zoe another time if ever I mean not every time a counterpart has been named you get attached to them. They had me saved. I got saved because I wanted to know what it meant. I have a soul I knew that other kinds of parts before me ever did they die and never died like some animal does which is sad, but I can't feel the sadness I want to feel, but I can't

The only thing I have is my science so I sit in my lab and work when I'm not at school. I've been working on these teleporting devices. They're not like the teleport orbs in the game they're different. The world uses them. I was working on an upgrade. We use the teleport from class the class of like different places we travel around the world and work, our school is scattered all over the place is full of iodine, but I know what it is. It's I am or it's a form of the I am that my body is made of I am in time crystals I get my magic my body will glow with a blue color, and my dark hair shimmer looks like a human medium sometimes my hair will turn this blue color white color. My whole body will change that form.

how rude my name is Zoe I didn't introduce myself to you and yes, I am a counterpart. I know that much. I'm special more than any and I love working in my lab making these teleport devices and other things.

my skin is blueish at times like I am but most of the time I have this peachy color skin I have brown hair, but in certain expects, it can turn tired of a white color but my eyes are blue as I am, but I'm not cold. I just don't have any emotions no expressions, and I live in a futuristic earth where the gain Timecrest is a legend the magic of the game made the world of Valencia real Valencia is a real place where real people live there. Crest and counterpart are real studied them or at least myself.

I am human, but yet not quite my full name is Zoe Baker. My parents are Fred and Samantha Baker their scientists like me, but I travel around the world to go to school because that's how we go to school. Now we study all around the world the whole world Utopia everyone gets along most of the time, I guess it's a good thing. I guess Chris and other things too. Being a counterpart helps too, but I have to act like I don't know who I am when I contact her when he contacts me.

it was time to celebrate my birthday. I did and got everything. I wanted a wonderful party a wonderful cake present everything a 13-year-old would want. I even got new tools to work with all kinds of new and exciting things to experiment with even stuff to make me a robot assistant, there were all kinds of robot assistance out there now with the echo devices, which were even more advanced now than they have ever been acquired of some of that robot assistance that was popular back in the day back in the 2000s is 3000s now or late it's early 3000s it's 3003. Yes, it is. It is 3003 well I made the most of 3003 as I can or 4003 it's 4003. It's been over 1000 2000 years since the game Timecrest became a right legend it's 4003. Sorry about that. I didn't mess up the time I'm sorry, the rapture hasn't happened yet. I guess the world ain't bad enough for that yet.

we have all cause of incredible technology houses that can change with a piece of a button. We can hide in our own house. If you'd like we can change its layout anytime it can be different teleporting devices that can teleport you from everywhere in the world, you can go to school anywhere you want, and learn about different things and cultures, we still have to have a passport obviously to go there but we get a passport so we have to travel around the world for school unless you're in preschool elementary and beyond we travel all over the world. I'm in middle school. I get to travel to more places than I ever had in my lifetime.

I like to study tech old and new even old technology from the 2000s or even the '90s 1900s was interesting and beyond I like to experiment with old tech and new tech agent technologies in old new technologies that have not been made as I said, let the echo devices which have been advanced more cell phones and more advanced I like to see the difference in the old cell phones from the past, but the old iPhones the very first iPhone that came out in 2007 compared to the newest iPhone at the time now which I have no idea what number it is. I have collected every cell phone every Apple phone and every, android phone from the past and the present, not the future yet I play the game on iPads and Apple watches as well. My parents are rich so they let me play around with all this technology.

I have so much of it. The old one doesn't work much, but I can play with it. Travel to different places in the world. I learn about all kinds of new things in cultures. Some still haven't even left their ancient states we would go to jungles in Africa to see if anything has changed there, but not much except for the iodine in low in the air or ancient civilizations that have been destroyed or we would go see zero in New York that's amazing to see all the destruction or not the destruction but the deserted well Sneaky Crab headquarters after the death of the creators, I would go at least on my own for that one, but we've been to New York we've been to California I've been everywhere. The world is a utopia. We are connected as one world now one world power controls us in a good way I live in the center of it. All in the center of the world is where I live. There is no country anymore everyone agreed that no more war. It's always peace. No more war and peace.

I like it. It helps out a lot. We can travel wherever we won't even though we still need passports we don't need airplanes. We could just teleport from place to place I can go to school and in a new place and a new location anytime can you imagine what it is like when I go to high school or college and other places in the world I know every language of the world I learned multiple languages at our young age, I can speak every language in the world that language is the main language for everyone, but everyone can speak multiple languages unless they haven't been discovered yet.

and that is my life.

A few months later

The watch was activated

it was happening my body was tingling. I could feel the magic the watch was about the activate. I can feel it being a part. I knew these things it was. It was starting now I could see him. I can feel him I can hear him. My Timecrest there he was, I could feel and hear him talking about asking if I was the time manipulator and all that kind of thing, and then Alvin's voice, even though I couldn't tell him that was who that was because he couldn't hear him, but I could.

tell me I shouldn't tell him anything and that I was artificial. He wanted to tell me that before anything could happen I couldn't tell him I already knew I was artificial and then I'd die sooner or later as soon as Ezra takes him, I will die, but I know something about Luther. Alvin didn't know if he did he didn't he would not die which means I wouldn't die.

and I couldn't tell him I already knew this information. I would comment and watch every scene just like the game, but I couldn't play the game right now, I decided to see what Luther was going to do next those violet eyes were amazing to watch I couldn't feel romance because I didn't feel emotion, I could one day a boy about my age. I can tell that young Luther was amazing to watch. Unlike me. He had motion-strong emotions. I can feel them. I feel his emotions. I wanna feel them for myself, but I couldn't.

I was emotionless expressionless as the only thing Alvin did to make me like normal and that way, but he was mad at me. I had to learn about that later I could take care of my Timecrest for the time being I watched out for him I did things for him. I talked to him. I tried to stop him with different things without the game was different. He went to every scenario which is different for me. Had time to go see Riley and time to go get the cupcakes and his barbecue chips.

I thought everything happened from the trip from his battles with the Torah and me and was taken care of by Dr. Crawford to not want the Voran age trials and dying afterward on the Sordi and the timelines. I don't wanna go through all that at once there was so much that happened so many possibilities that happened, everything that played out in my mind so many details that I don't wanna go over right now.

people knew the existence of counterparts and Timecrest, but people didn't understand us well enough my parents did a little more at least because they rejoiced when they found me. There were five people, though orphans children who stayed in an orphanage who went to school in my class five girls who did understand me a little bit, they were my best friends and they were lonely in this orphanage, but the orphanage wasn't as good as Blood Moon Haven. They weren't treated nicely. They were named after the virtues that to lean on.

I had friends with them since we were all in kindergarten together we were separated. I wish mother and father would adopt them and then they could live with me as my sisters. They said it was complicated right now they said we'll see what we can do and we can we can try to adopt the sister, we just need to figure out how they said.

and when we do, they'll become your sisters, Zoe, I had emotion I would smile, but I felt gladdened. At least I continue to watch and feel and not feel but watch and hear things around me and my Timecrest life I try to help him through the timelines and his second death when he got back and talk with Janice and the destruction of ashes separation, and that was the end of it..

I thought that he was gonna take me or take him but he didn't is it because of the Chrono gym how is he feeling Luther? How are you right now precious one?

not because I have a motion, but because I want to know, I want to see you. I'll figure out a way to come see you one day just to see how you are. I know that I can never return to the human world, but I have things I need to do here before I can see you precious.

And I know you'll be grown by the time I see you, but you need to hold on. You probably won't expect me to come, but I will come whenever you need me. I will be there. I am your counterpart and I will protect you not harm you, I will harm you, but I will not. I will save you, I will bring you whatever problem you were precious to.

even if I can't feel anything, even if I can't tell what I can't I will be there for you, Luther. I will help you with whatever problems you need me to help you with, but I have things like I said I need to do here first life to live as well, I'm glad I've been your counterpart and I'm glad I haven't died and I won't refuse.

that I promise to you.

and whatever trouble you are in, I will help you whenever you need me. I will be there to come to comfort you.

Even though I have like of emotion, I will help whatever it is whenever you need me Luther, my Timecrest my everything I will come for you and I will come and help as much as I can. I will see you.

Just listen, darling, we're all pawns and Alvin's game,

but I'll come and offer you something more freedom.

and I will make sure you are OK whenever you need me I will come I will not let this separate

I will play us. I will see you one day my time pressed.

I will play the game. I'll do anything and everything. I promise you that and promise you everything Luther Timecrest, this I swear.

And I'll come to Alencia one day you shall not come here to the human world even if everything is in peace there's nothing here for you, Luther I will come see you I promise.

Ending here I know it's short and brief, but there's a lot more to the story than just her counterpart time and talking to Luther the whole time like in Country Hearts are my other stories sides. There's still more story to come. I hope you enjoy this one too, though this is a good chapter. Please check it out.

And I'll see you in chapter 3

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