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No sensation at all.
An endless white void stretches in every direction.
You stand alone.
"..."
For a few moments, nothing happens.
Then a faint blue light appears before you.
The light grows brighter.
Larger.
Lines begin forming in the air.
A screen.
A massive translucent blue screen...
Uzumaki Naruto yawned as he rose up from his bed and shook the cobwebs from his head. The blond proceeded to wipe the crud from his eyes, waddled his way to the bathroom to take a shower and brush his teeth like clockwork. Soon after finishing, Naruto picked up his clothes that consisted of a...
CHAPTER ONE: THE FALL OF THE BLACK PALACE
It was the end of the world.
A lone figure in stark black robes hurried through a vast, empty hall. The walls soared up on either side of him, rising to a vaulted ceiling so high it was nearly hidden from view. They were carved from soulstone...
Please be aware that I have created a Patron page which I am doing because unfortunately times are tough and I need to make ends meet and help a family member who recently lost their job and has not been able to find anything in the last four months. My original stories, former stories, one...
Princess Viola de Lens is the royal family's black sheep, the magicless outcast in the house of the world's greatest magicians. As an outcast, she faces scorn and neglect... until one day, she just snaps, punches her honorable twin brother's lights out, and enrolls herself into the Knight...
Prologue: An Old Acquaintance
It was supposed to be death. She was, by all means and ends, lost. Yet something underneath the ground she lay upon called for her. As she watched the commander and her short-term comrades leave her to the unforgiving surface, something else came to her in her...
Chapter 1: Rain And Gold
It all began with her death.
Water came down through the night in a light drizzle, slowly kneading the streets outside into mud. Aksel stood in the orphanage's kitchen, right against the window, knowing everyone else would be too busy with dinner to pay any attention...
Carvahall
Deep breaths.
In
Out
In
Out
He repeated the motion, filling himself with lungs full of air before exhaling. Once his heart had steadied and he felt the exhaustion fading away from the mount's climb, Tavin finally opened his eyes and embraced the darkness.
The others would...
Prologue: The End
"In twenty years, our planet will be destroyed. Everyone else is already gone. It's just us now." The resigned sound of a man in his early forties who had much to regret came through a small white box sitting on a white table in a huge hydroponic greenhouse.
A young man in a...
Chapter 1: The Promise
"Will you stay with me forever?" A young girl asked, tears in her eyes.
"Yes, I'll be with you forever." A young boy answered, trying his best to hold back his tears, but in that moment, it simply felt impossible.
A moment of silence fell between them, the only sound...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: One-Billion Recharge, and They Swallowed My Money!
Chapter 1: One-Billion Recharge, and They Swallowed My Money!
"Wang Heng, you ungrateful bastard! I swear I'll kill you!"
Xiao Wen opened his eyes and abruptly sat up from the brand-new gaming pod, gasping for breath, his forehead covered in sweat.
His gaze swept around instinctively, only...
PROLOGUE
It was a summer day.
The heat was suffocating.
The cicadas kept chirping.
The smell of roses.
A reminiscent dream,
That he can't shake off,
Nor Remember.
Fresh grass brushes his fingers,
Trees are wavering,
The wind is ceasing.
An encounter,
Its beginning.
Its end...
In a far-flung realm, shrouded in the mists of a world not our own, a creature staggered in a tangled forest, his breath ragged, his heart pounding like a war drum.
This was no ordinary man—his skull had just been cracked open by the crude, splintered club of a snarling goblin. Blood trickled...
"12 is an important number. The most theologically important number, to be accurate. We measure our time in 2 divisions of 12, there are 12 months in a year, the first Priest of the System, Aclot, was said to have spent 12 days and 12 nights feeding the poor. And of course, the age when the...
“Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does what a spider can!”
Peter Parker, better known to the world as the vigilante Spider-Man, hummed cheerfully as he swung beneath the New York night sky, the city’s endless forest of skyscrapers stretching out below him.
And why shouldn’t he be in a good mood? For...
By the time I open my eyes, it was the same scene that will sear into my mind forever to come. My wife, my dear lady, dancing at the local town's festival. A flower adorned her silken hair, as she was dancing with her lady friends without paying any attention to how much attention she is...
Teaser:
Click. A door gently closed and someone stepped into a mostly quiet empty room
Thud. Thud. The sound of work boots being kicked off into a shoe mat broke the silence of a dark apartment.
Bzzzt.
The sound of a cheap ceiling light buzzing on was followed by a bright light washing over...
Somewhere on a street in the suburbs of Kellblay City, inside the bowels of the local MinouseMart, Soren Vonesdar, night-shift employee, was stacking Ramen cups on the shelves at the back of the store, labels facing outward and chicken flavor in the center, since the middle shelf was empty once...
Prologue: Leaving the Past
Cold. Dark. Quiet.
It's so cold here.
It's so quiet at the end of all things. Frey, are you here with me? Or am I alone again?
I don't think I want to be alone.
I don't think I can be alone. Not after everything that's happened.
I have taken Lea's power, and her...