(Small recap. Edward sang 'Sugar' at Jacob and Elsa's wedding. He bring Alex to the stage, kissing her and exposing their relationship.
It earned Phil's blessing, but Alex decided to bring Abby into the relationship too. Thus, they began a relationship with the three of them.)
[Edward POV]
"Hey. Look. Elsa said she and Jacob had arrived in Bali." Alex told me as she checked her messages.
She wore a black shirt.
Only a black shirt. As she leaned in on the kitchen counter, I gave her buns a smack.
"Ow, you bitch." She cursed me.
A week had passed since the wedding. The news outlet picked up on the event, and it was covered in a lot of different media.
I walked behind her, slapped her ass again. She turned, fully prepared to fight me, but I grabbed her wrist and pulled her in close.
She gave up as she saw my head leaning into her. I stuck my tongue down her throat and kissed her passionately.
"Hmm. So you didn't have enough last night?" She asked tauntingly.
I smirked and said, "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."
"Ugh!" Alex shuddered in disgust, spitting slightly. "You bastard."
I cackled as I walked to the kitchen. Suddenly, another big breasted girl hugged me from behind.
"Eddy." Abby giggled, nuzzling her face on my back and sniffing me like a dog. "I want blood." She asked cutely.
"Blood?" Alex froze in confusion as she watched it from the side.
"Sure." I turned to Abby slowly and made out with her too.
Abby licked her lips after we finished and said, "Your blood is delicious as usual."
Alex grimaced and sat down on the kitchen counter. "That saliva being a filtered blood is just a myth."
"No. It's pretty much confirmed." Abby said mischievously.
"I refuse to accept that. Although the salivary gland transfers amylase and various others to create the saliva, it's filtered. It can't be called blood anymore." Alex debated.
Abby rebuked her, "Then explain why saliva can be used to determine people's antibodies and health condition? It's connected to the blood."
"It's partially true. Otherwise we wouldn't need a blood test. People can just do a spit test every single time." Alex argued passionately.
Then, both girls turned to me at the same time.
"Eddy, who do you think is right?" They said in unison.
I slid plates to both of them, stopping it right in front of their seats. Then, I threw toasts into the plates before throwing blueberries to Abby's plate, and avocado to Alex's plate.
"Hmm. It's hard for me to pick sides. I agreed more with Alex. Saliva is filtered, that's why it can't be called blood anymore."
These debates became a daily occurrence at breakfast for the entirety of last week. It was really fun.
My phone beeped when I was eating my breakfast. A steak sandwich and a 10 egg omelette.
"The movie is… leaked?" I widened my eyes in shock.
Abby and Alex quickly rushed towards me, peeking through my phone.
"What's wrong? Why are you so surprised?" Alex asked frantically.
"An animated movie was leaked to the internet." I shared the details with everyone.
"It's a Cuban animated film." I added. "They were targeted by the hackers."
"Oh." Abby exclaimed flatly. "If it's Cuba, then the budget isn't that high, right?"
"You're right. The movie was made for 2 million dollars." I said casually. Then, I got pretty pissed off.
"But I was the one who invested that two million dollars in the startup company."
"Oh no." Alex was shocked. Abby tried to placate me, "It's only two million. I mean, you're a trillionaire."
"It's not that I'm pissed off because of the money. I'm pissed off because the people wouldn't have the chance to compete at the box office."
In the past four years, multiple Cuban movies had crossed 50 million at the box office. The movie about my mother gained around 400 million worldwide.
So Cuban's media was rising. If the animated movie got to theatres, it could possibly have a major win.
They made the animation for over three years. All hand drawn animation.
"Oracle. Scrub the movie from the internet." I gave orders to my AI. "Find out who did this too."
"Already done sir." Oracle replied within three seconds. "The leaker is a 17 years old boy in Chile."
"Give him a warning and fry his computer." I said casually. Oracle said, "As you wish."
Then, he showed me footage of the hacker's computer self destroying themselves after a cryptic, threatening message appeared on the boy's computer screen.
"Is this Dark Edward? I kinda like him." Abby kissed my cheek and wrapped her arms around me.
"It's not even in the top 10% of the dark stuff he had done." Alex said teasingly.
I pulled her to sit on my lap and said flirtingly, "Now that you know my secret, I have to find ways to silence you."
Alex wrapped her arms around my neck too and said, "My feminist teaching told me to never let a man stop me from shutting up. But if it's your lip, then I might actually–"
I kissed her before she could finish speaking.
"Blood exchange." Abby grinned.
Alex glared at her immediately, pulling away from me. "It's not blood!" She argued.
I couldn't play with the girls anymore since they had to go to work. Abby went to the forensic lab, and Alex went to her own lab.
Despite me having the most advanced lab in the world at my house, they still wanted to work in their own space.
"I too have my own job to attend to. Why did I even have two girlfriends if I have to work all the time?" I sighed.
…
I stopped by Enid and Jenna's production to have lunch with them. I wanted to go have fun with my girls at first, but Alex and Abby told me not to stop by.
Mainly because we kept messing around in the lab.
There was an iron throne on the set, located at the top of a snowy hill.
Enid and Jenna were using my Canvas set for this scene. The set had simulated the snowy mountain to perfection.
"So, it's an Iron Lady, and the Knight will escape from the wolf, running towards her, and she'll save him?" I was reading the plot with intrigue.
"Yes! And she will teach him her swordsmanship." Enid nodded enthusiastically.
Her works was basically a modern 80s style sword and fantasy movie genre, like Conan the Barbarian, Beastmaster, and so on.
It has a Game of Thrones style setting, except with less politics and more fighting and romance.
Like a korean webtoon.
I wonder if that's where Enid got her inspiration. She read a lot of webtoon.
"So I was wondering. Can you be the Iron Lady?" Enid asked me carefully.
I was taken aback. "You want me to play a lady?"
"She wore armor, and only had a skeleton for a face. I just need your swordsmanship for this scene." Enid clasped her hand together and begged. "Please?!"
"Fine." I said cheekily. "But I'll add that to the list of things you owe me."
"21 favors and counting." Enid grinned.
Jenna heard it and was confused. "Why are you counting favors you give her?" Jenna asked me.
"I'm not the one who kept count." I chuckled.
Enid opened her hands wide and explained, "Once I owe him 100 favours, I'll have no choice but to repay him by giving him everything!"
"Is that why you were counting?" I said with disbelief.
Jenna laughed and said, "Always a hidden agenda with her."
Enid cackled madly and said, "Hey. What else can I do? He's never going to look at me if I don't do this."
I waved her off and went to the stage, wearing a bloodied, rusty golden armor. My head would be CGI'd into a skull later on.
Holding a sword, I showed my performance by slicing a boulder in half. It was a boulder made of light anyway, but it seemed extremely realistic.
I had a lot of fun acting in the series. It took me a few hours to shoot all of my scenes. '
There was a lot. Enid definitely tricked me here.'
Basically I would have scenes for over five episodes. My plot would end with my apprentice surpassing me, and stabbing me in the heart, finally allowing me to die.
"Thank you so much for your hard work!" Enid jumped giddily as I walked out of the set. The fake snow disappeared from my hair as it was only made of hard light.
I sighed and said, "I'm going to expect payment for this."
"Sure. I'll pay you the standard stunt man rates. You're a newbie stuntman, right? Maybe 200 bucks?" Jenna said seriously.
"You're taking advantage of me right now huh?" I smiled with disbelief.
She grinned and said, "Hey. You're the one who didn't sign the contract. Now you're going to get whatever I said you're getting."
I grimaced and said, "I'm going to report you to HR."
"Lizzie is my best friend. She's not going to process that complaint." Jenna teased.
I didn't really care about the money anyway. But, when I was acting again, a thought kept thugging in my mind.
A script that was sent to me a few days ago.
'Dunkirk, a movie by Christopher Nolan.'
I have received a lot of script offers, but rarely for a serious movie or a biopic.
"Maybe I'll accept it." I said casually. Nolan never wanted to use Canvas, since he liked to film in real locations. It'll be a wonderful experience for me to be working with a wonderful director like that.
Suddenly, I realized something and looked at my beefy body.
"I'm going to have to do Christian Bale level body transformation, aren't I?"
I could easily use a transformation jutsu for this, but I wanted to experience taking the effort for once.
"Here." Enid gave me a stack of papers.
"What's this?" I asked her suspiciously.
She grinned and said, "It's the backstory for the Sword King. We're going to shoot his flashback tomorrow."
"Enid?" I was exasperated. I glanced at the paper and realized that I had been tricked from the start. It was a guy, not a girl. She didn't even plan to cover my head with CGI later on.
"Before you get mad, you should know that this is Frankie's idea, not ours." Enid added warily.
"Huh?"
Jenna nodded and said, "It really is Frankie's idea. She said you needed a push."
I was greatly taken aback by it.
Jenna smiled and said, "Just give up. You know you can't go against her."
"Fine." I sighed and said, "Where do I sign?"
Once I was done with my work, I went back home.
"It's been a while since I had fresh juice." I picked up a guitar.
After reading the backstory of the character, I had an idea.
…
That night, when my girlfriends came back from work.
We were in the kitchen, and this time, I wasn't the one cooking.
Abby put a plate of food in front of me.
"What's this?" I was surprised when I saw the way the food was dressed.
Bubble rice as the topping for the pancake that was cut out into a human face. Then, strawberry jams were slathered all over it.
"Is that a corpse?" Alex asked warily.
"No it's not." Abby grimaced slightly. "Sure, the bubble rice looks like maggot. And the jam looks like blood–" She paused and exclaimed in bewilderment, "It does look like a corpse!"
I snickered as Abby became frantic.
Alex said, "Why are we eating breakfast food at dinner anyway?"
"There's no rule in the universe that says you can't eat breakfast food at dinner." Abby snarked at Alex.
"Besides, you love it." I exposed Alex.
She grinned and said, "Not maggot pancakes though."
"That's true." I agreed with Alex now.
Abby grimaced at me and said, "You sure have no principle."
I nodded and said, "That's also true."
After the short banter, I asked them, "What do you think about me acting in a biopic?"
"Of yourself?" Alex was confused.
"Shouldn't you be dead first before they make your movie?" Abby asked quizzically.
I sighed in exasperation and said, "Not me. I have received a script from Christopher Nolan. I'm thinking about accepting the role."
Abby grinned and said, "Shouldn't you prepare for the audition first? Why are you acting like you already got the role?"
"Because I do?" I replied playfully. "I mean, just look at me."
…
The next day, at Enid and Jenna's production.
Enid kept telling me the backstory of the character.
"So he cursed god, after the love of his life was accused as a witch and was burned at the stake. He killed the entire kingdom royalty, slaughtered every guard that tried to stop him, and even burned down the entire kingdom as he felt everyone was complicit in the crime."
I grimaced and said, "I already read the background story."
"Yeah, so, you know this is an important scene." Enid said firmly.
I looked at her with disbelief. Jenna laughed and said, "Just let him do his thing."
"Right. So, this is your partner. I think you know her." Enid introduced me to an actress.
"Imogen Potts. Right?" I shook hands with her.
The actress blushed a bit and said, "I'm starstruck right now. I can't believe you know my name."
"Don't flirt." Jenna scolded me.
"I literally just introduced myself." I replied with disbelief.
"Yeah, but you did that while exuding sex with your body." Enid said, disgruntled.
"???"
I was extra confused today. But I decided to just do the work.
"Hey. When the scene comes, can you play this song?" I showed Enid my work. "It will let me get into the character better."
"Sure." She replied easily.
Miss Potts and I shot a few scenes with us having a romantic love story. The king married us as I saved the kingdom from a war and became a hero.
She was a princess, I was a commoner.
But as I gained a lot of power in the kingdom, the king got jealous and sent me on a deathly expedition to fight against a frost dragon.
He never expected me to come back. But I did.
With my armor battered, dried blood on my hand and cheek, I trudged my way to the center of the king's plaza, only to stumble into a nightmarish sight.
My own wife, being burned to death by the church, being accused as a demon worshipper. She still wore the golden bracelet I gave her, which was the only thing I could recognize.
"The demon heretic is here!" The kingsguard surrounded me while the king sat calmly on top of his plaza, looking at me with displeasure.
"Why did you come back?" The king asked in a cold tone.
Everything clicked for me. I looked at the sky and began laughing madly. My eyes turned unfocused, showing a glimpse of craziness which made the other actors get scared and took a step away from me.
"So, what fate has in store for me!? After I gave everything to the kingdom?!"
I held the giant broadsword and pointed it to the king. "I curse you. I curse the gods. I will make sure, you will die at my hand today."
The king smirked and said manically, "Just listen to the heretic's word. Cursing the god? How pathetic. Guards! Behead the traitor!"
Enid played the music as I started my fight with the guards.
[Let the World Burn– Chris Grey]
"♫♪Lost in the fog♫♪"
"♫♪ I fear that there's still further to fall ♫♪"
Enid was immediately immersed into the scene.
I cut off a couple guard's head, and the king's smile turned into a fearful expression.
"KILL HIM! KILL HIM NOW!" He ordered from his golden throne.
I smiled, sweating heavily. The kingdom's King Guard Captain approached me wearing his golden armor. It was actually Woo-Jin inside there, acting as an extra for the scene today.
I smirked and said, "The strongest knight in the world? Ridiculous. You're just the King's royal hound."
"♫♪ It's dangerous 'cause I want it all♫♪"
"♫♪ And I don't think I care what it costs♫♪"
"So be it." The Captain said and dashed towards me. I barely managed to avoid his slash, blocking him with my greatsword. The impact caused me to slide backward on the ground before I could finally stop.
The sword clattered as we each tried to dominate each other.
"♫♪ I shouldn't have fallen in love! Look what it made me become ♫♪"
I was stabbed at the back by an assassin while the captain distracted me. I coughed some black blood from the poison.
Even though my face was exhausted, my eyes showed unbridled rage.
"♫♪ I let you get too close. Just to wake up alone ♫♪"
"♫♪ And I know you think you can run. You're scared to believe I'm the one ♫♪"
I held the greatsword with both hands and swung it with all of my might. A huge whirlwind appeared and knocked all the guards back. Some of them died from the impact.
"♫♪ But I just can't let you go ♫♪"
The climax of the music and the fight scene seemingly harmonized together into a perfect symphony.
"♫♪ I'd let the world burn! Let the world burn for you♫♪"
The captain's eyes shook. But he kept dashing towards me. I let him stab me.
"♫♪ This is how it always had to end! If I can't have you then no one can ♫♪"
I grinned as I managed to stop him in his tracks and swung down the greatsword, cutting his head from his body.
"♫♪ I'd let it burn! I'd let the world burn ♫♪"
The King's teeth clattered fearfully. He tried to run, but I walked towards him menacingly.
He stopped and fell to the ground, pissing himself as he tried to appeal to my senses.
"I'm the king of the kingdom. You can't do this to me–"
"♫♪ Just to hear you calling out my name! Watching it all go down in flames ♫♪"
I smiled in satisfaction as I saw the king spew out blood.
"♫♪ Fear in their eyes. Ash raining from the blood orange sky. I let everybody know that you're mine ♫♪"
"Don't worry. I'll send everyone with you soon. And then, you can all go to hell together." I twisted the sword, which made him lose consciousness and died immediately.
"♫♪ Now it's just a matter of time♫♪"
I went to the church and killed the bishop.
"♫♪ Before we're swept into the dust. Look what you made me become ♫♪"
I killed all of the princes.
"♫♪ I let you get too close. Just to wake up alone ♫♪"
I killed all of the soldiers.
"♫♪ And I know you think you can run. You're scared to believe I'm the one ♫♪"
I killed everyone who stood in my path.
"♫♪ But I just can't let you go♫♪"
The Kingdom burned to the ground. I was surrounded by over a thousand men.
"♫♪ I'd let the world burn! Let the world burn for you ♫♪"
"♫♪ This is how it always had to end! If I can't have you then no one can ♫♪"
"♫♪ I'd let it burn! I'd let the world burn ♫♪"
"♫♪ Just to hear you calling out my name! Watching it all go down in flames♫♪"
Enid's smile turned brighter as she watched the exact scene in her mind come to real life.
"♫♪ Let it all burn♫♪"
I held the burned corpse in my hand and walked away from the kingdom.
"♫♪ Oh, I'd burn this world for you~~♫♪"
"♫♪ Oh, baby, I'd let it burn♫♪"
"♫♪ For you~~~♫♪"
There was no one else left alive in the kingdom. The camera followed the trail of corpses I left behind.
"♫♪ I'd let the world burn♫♪"
"♫♪Let the world burn for you ♫♪"
The corpse was holding her stomach till the end. Tears fell into my eyes as I realized she was pregnant.
"♫♪ This is how it always had to end ♫♪"
"♫♪ If I can't have you then no one can♫♪"
My scene ended after 16 hours of shooting. It took me two days to finish all of the backstory.