Mushrooms, Turtles and Pipes, Oh My! 8 - The Desert Trail
"So," asked James during one fine morning in Shiver City, "where to now?" "Welp," began Koopin, "we gotta head back through the Toad Town Tunnels and back south towards the train station." "Wait...really? Why?" "Well that's my next destination,...
Mushrooms, Turtles and Pipes, Oh My! 5 - The Northern Lands
Two weeks later, James Campbell stood waiting for his travel contact. It had taken him a while to make up his mind, but he finally decided that he had no other option. The early morning had passed, the dawn chorus having sung their notes long ago...
Mushrooms, Turtles and Pipes, Oh My! 4 - The Morning After
Sometime later, the raptor awoke from his drunken sleep, seeing from a window that it was now sometime in the morning. He was still in the bed of the koopa from last night. The koopa in question was still asleep next to him. Scrunching his eyes with...
Mushrooms, Turtles and Pipes, Oh My! 2 - Koopas Aplenty
Wandering more towards north-east of the vicinity of Toad Town, James found two paths to go. A bridge leading towards what appeared to be a fortress in the distance, and a natural set of steps leading down to the village, which lay at the bottom of a...
A Fatal Game 8 - The First Child
Returning back to the cavern beneath the mansion, James found no trace of either Boona or the mysterious mother. He could almost imagine hearing her song faintly resonate from the stones within. The cave was somehow less cold than it had been before,...
A Fatal Game 7 - Twinkle Twinkle
His flashlight tried its best to light the way, but even the light was afraid to go beyond its reach. Rocks had crumbled around the sides, the crushed remains of human bodies barely seen beneath. It was the first time he had seen any actual bodies in...
A Fatal Game 6 - Blindly Searching
The cold stare of the four Buddhas greeted James upon his awakening. His eyes softly adjusted themselves back to the darkness until he lifted himself up, allowing his flashlight to cast its glare across the floor. The Poe was nowhere to be seen. He...
A Fatal Game 5 - Masking Reflections
Fractured scales as white as bone, eyes blacker than the deep sea at night. Shivering mouth with fangs that seemed to shift in and out of existence. The entire body seemed to blur just on the edge of focus. He felt at first the same paranoia one feels...
A Fatal Game 1 - The First Night
**THE CHRONICLES OF FINALGAMER A Fatal Game** _"There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us." Mrs Helene Alvin, Gengangere_ ...
He Walks As My Shadow 8 - The Dark Tower
The next time FG would awaken, he found himself within a pleasant little orchard off the beaten path. Jon and Felicia watched over him, one worried with the eyes of a big sister, the other stern and mostly indifferent. The raptor felt a stiffness in...
He Walks As My Shadow 7 - The Demon and the Werewolf
Two days after the nightmare, Jon Talbain visited them once again. He sat with Felicia on the hotel bed, while James sat on his own opposite them. The werewolf could tell, even without Felicia's telling of that nightmarish awakening, that the raptor...
He Walks As My Shadow 6 - To The Old World
The aftermath of the battle, as epic as it was for the raptor, had taken quite a bit out of him, doing all he could to keep standing while Felicia happily fuzzled and nuzzled the white wolf. "Hehehe, you were helping Joe home again right?" The wolf...