(Song: "100 Little Deaths" by Juliet Simms. In this chapter- this is the aftermath of the accusations that Zelina has caused, Lyra has started working on her next single and we also get to see the debut of Aleister Black's "closet" songwriting skills- I know, I put that pun in there for a reason, as well as her upcoming feud with Shayna Baszler and her alliance with Rhea Ripley as this is a two part chapter. Stay tuned... x -TM)

Old City Cemetery- Jacksonville, FL: July 26th, 2019.

After the accusations that Zelina caused begin to settle and die down, Aleister and I are heading out to shoot a lookbook for his clothing line, BlxckMass Clothing. He drives to an abandoned graveyard that's the perfect setting for the shoot.

We take photos alongside the cemetery and mausoleums- a few of my favorite photos were taken of me wearing his "Heritage" tee and his "Buried in The Woods" top as I'm leaning against the statues that line the graveyard. I went kind of subtle with my makeup today but it was enough to make a point and I put my hair in a long braid.

As Aleister's taking photos of me, I see him look up at me from the camera lens.

"You're beautiful, liefje." Aleister murmurs and my heart melts. I blow a kiss at him and smile.

Maybe it was the way I loved the look of the cemetery, but I immediately got inspired to finally finish that song that I was working on. When we take a break, I pull my notebook out from Aleister's "Burner" backpack and I sit down next to one of the fountains that lined the cemetery- jotting down the last lines of this song.

After twenty minutes of work, I finish this song and I finally came up with a working title for it. I decided to call it "100 Little Deaths". I grin as I close my notebook.

"You've been working on this song for quite a while now," I jump when I see Aleister standing in front of me, I hate that he's so quiet sometimes. I take a breath as my nerves settle and nod.

"Yeah. I finished writing it," I say with a soft smile. Aleister smiles and he sits next to me, he wraps his arm around my waist and he brings me close to his side, my own arms wrapping around him.

"I didn't mean to scare you, liefde. I'm sorry," He whispers and I shake my head, looking up at him. I place a kiss on his jaw.

"Don't apologize, Shadow. I get so immersed in songwriting that I forget about everything around me." I murmur. Aleister kisses my head as he chuckles and holds me, my head settling on his shoulder. I hand him my written song and he looks over it, reading the lyrics until something crosses his mind. He takes the pen I was once using and he crosses out two of the lines. I raise a brow at him.

"What are you doing?" I ask, looking over his shoulder and Aleister gives me a side smirk as he then rewrites two brand new lines in the song.

"Try this. Trust me, it'll give it more of an edge." He hands me back my notebook, open to a new blank page with the lines he wrote- "I was born between the church and the devil, in the dirt with one hand to the sky." and "You just never know if there's a gift in the curse, you just never know if there's a gift in the hurt."

"These are great, babe. Since when did you take up songwriting?" I say with a laugh. Aleister places a soft but tender kiss on my lips.

"Since I fell madly in love with a songwriter," Aleister chuckles softly as he cups my cheek with his hand. "I love you, Lyra."

I giggle and I kiss him again, wrapping my arm plainly around the back of his neck. "I love you too. Thank you for adding those lines in. I never would have thought of that." He nods and kisses my forehead before a smirk crosses his face. I raise a brow at him.

"What?" I say and he takes my hand in his before leading me to an open part of the cemetery- and it has a huge meadow with not even a single tombstone in sight and it makes my breath catch in my throat as I look over at him. It's beautiful.

I watch as he starts taking out a blanket and some snacks out of his backpack and he sets the blanket down.

"Are we really picnicking in a graveyard?" I say and Aleister chuckles as he looks at me.

"Why? Did you not want to?" He says, his voice laced with amusement and I watch as he starts taking a Monster and Red Bull out of his backpack- he opens up my can of Red Bull and sticks one of Jeffree's straws in it before offering it to me.

"No, it just surprised me that you had all of this planned, babe." I take the can and I sit with him and I kiss him on the cheek, appreciating his kindness and his gesture as well.

Making of the "100 Little Deaths" Music Video- July 27th, 2019: Los Angeles, CA.

I immediately flew back to LA to finish "100 Little Deaths" and I wanted to get the music video going as soon as possible. I had a pretty dark concept in mind, for the first half of the video- I'm tied up to a chair and I'm being tortured by someone in a mask, they smash a guitar in my face and blood dripped down my entire face and onto my "Burn In Hell" cropped tee, faux leather pants and Demonia "Hellraiser" boots, as well as using a mirror and smashing it.

Until I break free from the chair that I'm tied to and I fight back- little do I know that the person that is under the mask is myself- as in it's a reminder to keep fighting your demons and it also represents all the times that Devon caused me pain, it was a little death.

The other half would be me performing the song- I wore a mesh "Antisocial" top from Widow, a black faux leather crop top and a pair of jeans from Widow as well and boots from Dollskill- and it's the first time I've worked with an actual band in the video.

After several hours of shooting and with some slight help from Aleister on how the video should look, we wrap it up and I'm really stoked with how it came out.

July 28th, 2019- Orlando, FL.

Aleister and I are at home together and spending time with the cats and while I was working on some new music, I hear my phone buzz. I pick it up and unlock it to see a text from Rhea. I raise a brow as I read it.

Hey, Lyra. I was wondering if you want to hang out today and get some new ink?

I grin as I start to type out a response after I set my guitar down and I tell Rhea to come by the house in about an hour or so. Aleister looks over at me and he sees my grin on my face.

"What?" He says and I laugh.

"Oh, I'm heading out in an hour with Rhea." I say as I get up off the couch and I start to head upstairs and get ready. I quickly shower and I put my hair up in a ponytail, before heading into my closet and change into a Killstar "Firebreather" top and a pair of black leggings from Black Milk- I also slip on one of Aleister's Stay Cold Apparel hats before I hear a honk outside.

"Have fun, babe. I'll see you when you get home. I love you." Aleister says as he places a light kiss on my lips before I grab my keys and head out the door and I see Rhea parked outside our driveway.

"Hey, Scythe," Rhea says and I smile as we hug each other. "Let's go get some new ink."

We take off for a tattoo place in Palm Beach called Aces High Tattoo. It's two hours away from Orlando but we stop and get something to eat along the way. We head inside and we meet our artist, Sara- who has black and green hair.

Rhea and I talk to her about our tattoos- Rhea wants to get a mandala with roses on her knee and a quote from Vegeta on her ankle and I want to get the Japanese symbol for "Shadow" on the inside of my arm so it's peaking out when I turn my arm with my crow tattoo. It's a surprise for Aleister. Sara takes me first because mine's quicker than Rhea's. I grit my teeth as she starts the linework.

"So, why Shadow?" I hear Sara say as she's filling in my tattoo. I turn my head toward her.

"Shadow is my boyfriend's nickname," I say. "He also has Japanese tattoos on his arm and I've always found them fascinating."

"That's so cute," Sara says and I smile as she finishes up my tattoo, wipes off the ink. Rhea, who's standing next to me in the chair, she takes a look and a soft look crosses her face.

"Aw, Aleister's going to love that," Rhea tells me and I nod before her voice takes on a teasing manner. "You need to show him. Facetime him right now."

"I can barely lift my arm as it is," I tell her. "Why don't you use my phone to call him and be the camera operator?"

Rhea shakes her head and rolls her eyes. "Your arm is not as bad as getting a full leg sleeve done or getting a knee piece like mine. But, fine. Lemme see your phone."

I hand my phone over and she starts to Facetime Aleister, which he answers in two seconds and I can hear his surprise when he sees Rhea on the other line.

"Rhea? Where's Lyra?" Aleister says and Rhea walks over to me as I'm sitting in the chair.

"Over in the chair. She got another tattoo and she wanted me to show you because she can barely lift up her arm," Rhea explains as she flips the camera over and I extend my arm out so my new tattoo is shown.

"I-I can't believe this," Aleister's voice is in shock when he gets the translation but it's also soft.

"What do you think, Shadow?" I say with a soft smile.

"I think my black heart just melted." He tells me and I start to giggle while Rhea laughs. "It's really dope, babe. I love it and I love you."

I grin. "I love you too, Shadow." And I hear an audible gag from Rhea. "Oh, shut it. You were the one who wanted me to show him in the first place."

Rhea chuckles. "I know and I'm glad you two both had your lovey dovey moment." Her voice becomes deeply sarcastic. "You two are so cute it makes me wanna barf."

Aleister and I both laugh. "May I suggest you close your eyes and cover your ears next time?"

"You know, I would but it's too much fun to not make fun of."

After my new tattoo is wrapped up, Rhea and I switch places and she gets her Vegeta tattoo first and it's a quote which is- "I do not fear this challenge, rather like a true warrior I will rise to meet it."

Her stencil for her mandala and rose tattoo on her knee goes on second and I can see her bracing herself for the pain.

"If you need a hand to hold, I'm here," I say and Rhea shakes her head.

"I'm good. But thank you, Scythe. I appreciate it." I watch as Sara gets to work on her outline and I can see the agony on Rhea's face. I decide to distract her from the pain by playing 100 Little Deaths for her to listen to. She nods her head along to the heavier parts of the song.

"You wouldn't believe who co-wrote this song with me," I say. Rhea's brow raised. "Aleister."

"Really? I never knew he had songwriting in him," Rhea tells me and I nod.

"Neither did I. He wrote the lines 'I was born between the church and the devil in the dirt with one hand to the sky' and 'Well, you just never know if there's a gift in the curse, you just never know if there's a gift in the hurt.'" I explain. "I never would have thought those things when I wrote this song originally. But he changed the lines to these ones and obviously, it works really well."

"It does. You need to have him come in and work on songs with you from now on. Because this one is incredible." Rhea smiles at me.

"Thank you. I appreciate that." Rhea's mandala outline is done and now she has to let it heal for two weeks before it can be colored back in.

We then take off from the tattoo shop and Rhea drives me back home. When I walk in the door, Aleister's waiting for me with a soft smile on his face. He takes my hand and I extend my arm out a bit- even though it's really sore for him to see my tattoo more and he gently runs his fingers across my tattoo.

"It looks even better in person," Aleister murmurs and I smile. I kiss him on the cheek and I wrap my less painful arm around his neck.

"I'm glad you like it," I whisper. He smiles and places a soft kiss onto my lips. He rubs my back sweetly. "You're everything to me, Shadow."

"I better be because you have me tattooed on you, Little Crow." Aleister teases and I roll my eyes as I punch him playfully and he laughs.

"I was trying to be cute and you ruined it," I mutter and he places a soft kiss on my forehead.

"I'm sorry, babe. I do love it. It means so much to me." He runs his hand through my hair as he holds me in his arms and I lay my head on his chest. Even though that was absolutely absurd, I'm glad he loves my tattoo.