Amaris walked down the sidewalk with Alisha and Didi, her mind still hazy. Her father gave her the release from the hospital, but there was still much she didn't understand about Hope's statement.

"Don't you remember?" Hope's voice inquired, sitting on a wooden bench.

Amaris looked around and realized that she wasn't on the sidewalk with Alisha and Didi. Instead, she was standing in front of the church with packs of people. She looked down and realized she was wearing a black dress and a piece of paper.

"I'm so sorry," someone said, placing a hand on her shoulder.

Amaris felt tears slide down her cheeks as she stared at the open doors inside the church. She could see people sitting in pews or others standing around, talking. This day she knew in a heartbeat without knowing what was going on.

She slowly made her way inside the church, chewing her lip and keeping her eyes lowered. There were people saying they were sorry or explaining what truly happened. She glanced up through her bangs, seeing a picture near the front of her mother.

"You shouldn't wander off," she looked up at Jaxton Crossfield, smiling weakly.

"Why does the whole town have to come to these funerals? Shouldn't it just be for family?" Kai Crossfield asked, guiding her to one of the pews up front.

"There is no family," Amaris murmured, keeping her eyes lowered.

It has always felt like she had no real family. There were people in her life she lived with, but the past was nothing but empty. Her parents weren't together, and her twin sister is a mystery. She was just the crying girl; she kept losing everything in her life.

The voices in the church began to gradually die down as people took their seats. She spotted on the other side that Alisha and Didi were sitting with Jack, making her want to vomit. They shouldn't be near him after what he has done.

Jack slowly walked up to the podium, looking down at some pages, before there was a loud slam. There stood Aubrey with her smirk gathered on her face, twisting a pocket knife in her hand, beside a different girl she didn't recognize.

"It's an open funeral, so anyone can attend, murderer," Aubrey sneered, slowly clapping her hands. "Once again, you've fooled the town."

Amaris gripped her hands on the pew, watching as Aubrey walked toward Jack, her eyes not leaving his. She didn't want to deal with their feud for one day, but that wouldn't happen in any of these worlds.

"Aubrey, you can't be at this funeral," the funeral director said.

"If one murderer can be inside a church, shouldn't another be able?" she mocked. "And I don't believe Jackson should be speaking on account of Molly O'Rally, correct?"

It was a truth that wasn't revealed to the town. Her parents were only married for a year since they had them when they were seventeen when they were born. She didn't understand it, but apparently her parents were never divorced, but she feigned that and Jack were married.

"Just like Micheal O'Rally and Amaris O'Rally," Aubrey laughed, walking over to one of the empty pews. "Claymore's top doctor and his daughter."

Jack glared hard at Aubrey, who was sitting silent. There was the odd whispering in the large crowd of people, but people would still believe her mother married Jack. Nobody would search into the facts, and the judge wouldn't come forward.

"Shouldn't Amaris or Micheal be the ones speaking then?" Aubrey snarked.

Amaris lowered her eyes, shaking her head because she knew Jaxton or Kai would try to convince her. If she started talking, she would probably keep crying while people judged her.

Suddenly, she heard a few gasps when she slowly raised her head. Her father was walking toward the front of the church dressed in a suit with his own papers in hand. Anyone would be surprised because they knew he was highly regarded by anyone in Claymore because he has treated Jack more than once because of injuries.

"This doesn't feel like a funeral," Kai whispered.

This is exactly how the funerals went in Claymore. Aubrey would ruin it somehow, then it would be in the news about what happened and if anyone died while at the church.

"I'll let Jackson speak his words," her father spoke. "I'm sure he has lots to say."

Amaris could see the vein popping above her father's forehead, but he kept a neutral expression. She wondered if the feud wasn't just about her mother, but secrets Jack kept like always.

Jack looked at the crowd while Amaris lowered her eyes. He started going on about how she was an amazing mother and how much she cared, but Amaris knew her mother couldn't help her when she was being abused. Maybe it was because she was such a disappointment or Jack told her she couldn't.

"Amaris," she flinched at her name. "She was an amazing daughter."

She covered her ears, snaking her head and sitting on the ground. Jack had no reason to call her amazing when his face filled with fury was the only thing she could see in her mind.

"Highly depressing, isn't it?" Hope inquired.

Amaris slowly looked up, seeing everyone around her frozen. Instead of the area being normal colours, everything was a hazy blue except for Hope, who was running a finger over the wooden podium.

"What are you doing to me?" Amaris whimpered, pressing her lips together.

"Showing an aspect that could help us get out of that stupid place. I don't want to get hit by a meteor," Hope said, shrugging.

"But... my mom's death has nothing to do with this."

"True, but it's needed to be known for later."

Amaris didn't know how to process what was happening to her. Hope was the one controlling the flashbacks of the life she has already lived in pieces, but this wasn't out of kindness.

"Do you remember what your sister did?" Hope slowly walked toward her, crouching near the pew. "It's not about what she took away, but when you discovered the truth about the weak girl she is."

Hope snapped her fingers while Amaris glanced around in a classroom. There was a female teacher up front, reading from a history textbook. She glanced back seeing Alisha behind her with Kai on her right.

Claymore's school system normally had more than one grade in a classroom. Everyone still learned the same thing, but the education about history and Aubrey was always the priority. People always had questions about the history of the past or wondered how everything was caused.

"The meteor shower was sudden," Amaris flinched at the teacher's voice. "Nobody expected humanity would be destroyed, but researchers assumed the future may have time travel."

"How could a meteor shower destroy the entire world?" Didi asked the teacher.

"That information has always been unknown to everyone. The only people who could maybe stop it would be your three classmates," the teacher said.

All eyes went to her, Jaxton, and Kai. She didn't want to be the key to stopping the end of humanity because she'd be screwing with her life. She didn't want to make it any worse than it already was.

"Not quite," Aubrey snarled from the wooden classroom door. "There's one more."

Aubrey punched her stomach, her eyes growing wide. In a split second, Amaris saw her own sister's body lying on the ground. Alexandra slowly opened her eyes from the white flooring, looking around at the many who stared.

Amaris could feel her entire body trembling. She didn't want to take a step near her sister, but she wanted to learn the truth. If she could figure out everything she's being shown, maybe she could change her own life.

"You!" Alexandra growled, turning to face Aubrey. "I'm not giving you what you want. I'm not your puppet!"

"Your incapacity to understand your life is pathetic. Maybe that's why you're weaker than your sister," Aubrey taunted.

Alexandra stuck out her hand as Aubrey went flying to the high ceiling, landing flat. She fell quickly back to the ground, resulting in a bloody nose. She slowly stood back up wobbly with her chin tilted high.

Amaris felt her heart racing with wide eyes, jumping out of her chair to slide down against the wall. Most of her classmates were staring at the chaos, but Kai and Jaxton came rushing over to her side.

"Listen," the teacher started. "We don't want to fight you, Aubrey."

Amaris watched the teacher go flying over her head and out the window to the cement ground above. People rushed close to the windows, frozen in shock, as Amaris looked at her sister with her hand still raised.

"Did you forget your sister is in this classroom?" Aubrey questioned menacingly. "Of course you did, because you don't care about her."

Alexandra's eyes went wide; she lowered her hands and made eye contact. Amaris felt her body rocking slowly back and forth, while Kai and Jaxton were snapping their fingers in her face. Her sister killed someone for no reason without Aubrey's control over her.

Suddenly, everyone in the room disappeared except Kai, Jaxton, Aubrey, and Alexandra. Amaris felt tears slide down her cheeks, her eyes staring all over the room except at her sister.

"And that teacher wasn't the only one," Hope's voice said again.

Now, she was standing in the park with images of people flashing before her eyes, of people she knew. Some were people she met along the way until she was directly facing her sister.

"Yay!" Amaris widened her eyes, looking back and seeing the real Aubrey Prices.

She looked slightly older than she normally did in her form, with the real Hope Prices behind her. She still had her sly smirk like always, her eyes filled with nothing but the darkness that she carried with her.

"We're human again! Woohoo!" Aubrey cheered, jumping around in circles.

"Do you understand it?" Hope's voice asked now in a black space with her. "Do you see where all the cause and effect come from?"

"No, I'm not doing that," Amaris panicked. "You do that."

"It doesn't work that way, Mari. Rare twins can't be killed by anyone else but each other," Hope said. "It all starts and ends with your sister."

Amaris stared up at the navy blue sky, realizing she was back in the past. No reliving the memories she pushed away or had to live through, but one crumbling thought made her tremble.

"Hey, did you figure out a way?" Caine asked, waving a hand in front of her.

"I think..." she whispered. "I have to kill my sister."

"What?" Caine and Kai both questioned.

Caine may be from a town in their timeline, but Kai knew what would come along if one twin killed the other. Yet she could never murder someone, especially her own sister, whom she has barely gotten to know.

"Hope said," Amaris murmured.

"Of course she did," Kai groaned. "Are you sure this isn't one of Hope's games?"

Amaris looked down at her feet, because Kai could be right. Hope could be using her like she normally does when it comes to any scheme she ends up pulling.

"The sky has been getting darker," Caine said, pointing up.

Amaris glanced up and saw the navy blue, which almost looked black. There were no stars shining or even clouds blocking the view of them. It was official that this meteor shower might start sooner than expected.

"Do you know what's up with the sky?" someone asked.

They turned, looking at three people from the group they saw this morning. The one boy in the middle has his arms crossed, carrying some camping gear in his hands. The girl behind had a lunch while the boy had one hand behind his back.

"We don't know," Kai said. "What's with all the equipment?"

"We assume it's some big storm, and all the houses here have locked doors that won't open. We tried blowing up the doors, but it's impossible," the boy sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"It's basically camping," the girl said, rolling her eyes.

Amaris glanced towards Kai, because she had no idea what that was. It sounded like you end up going somewhere to build your own house, while collecting food and whatever else that one boy had.

"Have the houses fallen down at all?" Caine asked, hands on his hips.

"Glass has broken from windows or plants have been destroyed, but nothing else," the boy said. "I'm Callum O'Riely, and that's Maeve Rosco, and Brian Wright."

Callum's last name sounded similar to her own, which made her chew her lip. If they were somehow related in the past, he could maybe know about the Rare situation or have some ideas about how to stop this giant mess.

"What happened to your head?" Caine asked, pointing behind him at Brian.

From a distance, Brian had his head wrapped in a white bandanna that was soaking with blood. She noticed that part of the blood had dried and that his elbows and knees were covered in blood.

"When that girl made us disappear, we landed on a road where cars were," Brian said, bringing out his hand behind his back and revealing a gun.

Amaris backed up quickly, her heart racing. The memory of Alexandra killing her sister came rushing back. He was definitely going to shoot her, but she wouldn't die.

"You can't kill her," Kai said. "Trust me, I want to kill her too, but she knows a lot that could help. It's not just that, but she's immortal."

Callum, Maeve, and Brian didn't look convinced. Any person hearing someone being immoral would think it wouldn't make any sense since this was normal society. Apparently, supernatural things didn't exist, but crime and abuse were normal.

"So, we're expected to sit around until whatever is happening kills us?" Callum inquired with raised eyebrows. "Supernatural stuff doesn't exist anyway."

Amaris didn't understand how they couldn't believe in the supernatural when they had living proof. Hope made them travel to a different part of Chatham out of boredom, injuring a few of them.

"So, where are you camping?" Kai asked.

"At Kingston Park," Maeve said plainly. "There's a shelter area there, and it isn't far from fast food places."

They still had fast food restaurants, but not many. Studies in Clay have shown that since fast food is bad for your body, they encourage people not to work there at all. It's considered the worst-paying job because it doesn't hold stable income for an apartment, since people will refuse.

"Alright..." Amaris trailed off.

They turned and walked in the opposite direction. She didn't exactly know what she was getting herself into, considering she'd never been camping in her life. The longest she's stayed was in a church, but she ended up dead.

They walked down a street with shopping stores, a bank, and a hair salon. She wasn't used to seeing so much, since Claymore was small. Clay was the larger city where all the research was done for everything, especially the crime rate from Hope.

"What's that?" Callum pointed up to the sky.

When Amaris looked up, she widened her eyes and spotted small circles glowing in the sky. They get expanded with everything—plants and stray animals—all dying around them.

"Shit," Kai said. "We need to get out of this place!"

Kai gripped her and Caine's wrists, before they fell onto the road in an unknown place. She spotted Hope standing in front of them with her eyebrows raised, and her arms crossed. It was then that she pointed a knife toward them with a smirk.

"Well, who knew it was so simple to get out of the past?" she snarled. "Now, it's real business."

"Did you lie?" Kai spat, standing slowly.

"Why in hell would I lie? Accusing me of something you have no evidence for is considered a lie," she taunted. "Amaris still has to do what I told her. Now, we're..."

They looked around at the busy roads filled with passing cars. There were billboards promoting how to keep your family safe from the murderer in front of them. Claymore wasn't an informative place, which meant this had to be the one place.

"This is Clay," Kai said. "Where me and Jaxton live."

"Wait, where are those other three?" Amaris asked, looking around.

"Dead," Hope said simply. "I knew we wouldn't last long there because that curse protects you."

"Curse?" Caine asked.

"The town of Clay is the intelligent of the four. They research this abnormal world where people fear me like the plague," Hope said.

Amaris didn't remember ever stepping foot in this city. It was overwhelming seeing how busy the place was, unlike Claymore, where it was quiet because they didn't want to get killed.

"Being Rare is a curse," Hope rolled her tongue. "You seem like a gifted individual, but it's nothing but an unfortunate life. People who know target you out of fear of seeing identical twins wandering this place. In their research, I'm nothing but a stepping stone."

Hope snapped her fingers, seeing Alexandra flat on the ground in front of her. Amaris knew they were still connected until she had to kill her own sister. There was no way she could perform such an act, even if Hope forced her.

"Killing your sister will change all this, Mari. Do you realize you'd be doing us all a favour? I'd stop killing, Jackson would be dead, there would be no more Rare problems, and your mother could come back."

"What?" Amaris asked.

She knew Jack being dead would be something that was helpful, but she didn't think it was possible to bring the dead back to life without a possession. Hope's intention was to stay linked to Alexandra, but Amaris didn't understand what reason she still had.

"Kill your sister, and all will be normal," Hope said.

There were many thoughts running through Amaris's head, which she didn't even know where to stop. She wanted more input on the situation than just Caine and Kai had because she was terrible at everything.

"It's all your choice, Mari. If you do pick murder, you'd be doing good for all of us and could stop the curse," Hope snarked. "I've got some planning to do."

Hope grabbed Alexandra by her ankle, dragging her down the sidewalk. Amaris noticed her eyes were open slightly, but they were still icy blue. It was a way people could tell a difference, but she didn't want to kill her sister.

"Maybe there's an alternative?" Caine suggested. "Murder can't be the only way to get rid of whatever you are."

Murder seemed the only solution when it came to anything in this world. Hope's entire game existed until she got what she wanted. Now, she's doing something with her sister for benefit.

"Good and evil," Amaris murmured. "If I listen to Hope, do I save everyone or just stop the curse?"

"Hope is trying to use it," Kai said.

Amaris didn't know the best answer in this situation. Hope's intelligent, especially when it comes to murder and anything related to being these sorts of people. If she did listen, she might do something right in her life.

Kai grabbed her and Caine's wrists, teleporting back to Chatham. When she looked around, there were meteors crashing all over the ground. There were large clouds of smoke filling the entire city without a person in sight.

"Watch out!" Caine yelled, pulling them away from where a meteor had landed near them. "Why the hell did you bring us here?"

"We're saving the past," Kai said plainly.

"What?" she and Caine both asked.

How on earth could they save the world from mass destruction? Meteors would keep falling into this entire would blow up. She may not die, but Caine could. She pressed her lips together, trying to think of an alternative.

Kai put a hand toward the sky near a meteor, which stopped. He lunged his hand forward, resulting in it falling back into space. That was only one of the thousands of meteors that crashed to Earth. There was no way to stop them all without one of them getting hit by one.

"If we can prevent this city from being destroyed, I think that will stop the curse from being on us. This will change our entire lives," Kai said, looking at the two of them. "We're the otherworldly."

"What about Jaxton and Alexandra? What happens?" She panicked, running a hand through her hair.

Suddenly, all the meteors froze in the sky. She looked up and spotted the sky was still black, and some people came out from behind broken buildings. There, walking toward them, stood her own twin sister.

Amaris took a quick step backward as Kai stuck out his hand, freezing Alexandra in place. She was glaring hard at Kai, while Amaris felt Caine grab her hand, pulling her away from the scene.

"What are you doing?" Kai demanded.

"It's none of your business," Alexandra spat. "Let me bring my sister back, and all will be fine."

"And what about me and Caine? Are you going to leave him to die and me trapped here?" Alexandra said nothing to Kai.

The two glared at each other but didn't move. Amaris felt herself being lightly pulled away by her wrist because she knew the two would fight each other. It wasn't for the sake of being the twin of darkness, but because it was over her.