Darkness and Starlight 27 - I'll Wait For You
In the week that passed since the battle with the strange other raptor, James' mind turned clouded with worry. He began to focus less on things, his ways more absent-minded and it took Koopin more effort to make him remember where he was. This came to...
A Battle for the Soul 1 - As Prologue to the Black Abyss
**_THE SCRIPTURES OF ODDCLAW_** **Twelve: A Battle for the Soul** _"I knew then that they had been men, neither gods nor demons._ _It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe._ _They were men - they went a dark road, but they were...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 5.5 - Trading Steel
"Kurasawa lived with the Koreans?" gasped Sanjin at the office. "Sa-Rhee-san told me yesterday," Kiryu nodded, "we were talking about stuff and he mentioned Kurasawa was a friend he knew back...
My Sword, My Clan 13 - His Destiny's Calling
Far across the ocean, on an island in the western region of Ivalice, there lied a castle. A castle that had once been sacred of its own history that the world simply never knew, one Ivalice itself would not record upon the mysterious breeze flowing...
A Dino's Crisis 3 - Hunter of the Stars
After his initiation, James would wake up amongst the pack in the following week, now sleeping within their grounds, awaiting any order from his new superiors which was essentially everyone in the group. Soon one female approached him, one who had...
The Rogue and the Hunter 2 - Blue Skies
"Are you absolutely certain?" asked Jane. "Well what do YOU think it is?" said Andrea. "I think it is just a collected group of meteorites that just HAPPEN to look like that." "That's impossible," stated Thomas, "no comet or meteorite looks like...
And With His Many Jagged Teeth 12 - He Stayed Five Nights
James did not even register what had happened in the first few minutes of the shot firing. He laid on the floor, dull ringing through his ears with blood not his own slightly smeared across his right cheek. The scout he had just spoken to sat...
A Battle for the Soul 8 - By Proof of Blood
"Are you ready?" she asked. "Yes," said James, "I have everything we need." "Including that sword of yours?" said Thomas crossing his arms. ...
So Shall He Consume Me 6 - By The One Who Manipulates Time
_Look at this poor creature. He has a face so tainted. We must let him sleep._ Whispers from the darkness came to him as the raptor softly opened his eyes with a sudden bleak gasping breath. Pain ran through him as if he had been thrown...
Midline Shift 14 - Red Sand
The terminal opened up with a video call, as James sat by Leiah waiting to see the other side of the galaxy. In this case literally, for according to their current position Leiah's home was in the Far Rim of the galaxy, a cluster literally called such...
Epilogue: Scale 2 - Revelations
The subway was not the one he quite remembered from Union Square, but rather standard form as a collective of several stations he had struggled to piece together. Literally, by the Frankensteinian tapestry of white spackle, black formica and simple...
Midline Shift 35 - An Unconscious Truth
_"James?"_ A voice called out to him from far away, far beyond the reaches of space as he tried to comprehend. He felt nothing underneath, nothing above or below as if trapped within purgatory of the senses, his sight beyond reckoning as an infinite...