Songs of the Mountain 3 - A Cage Within Stone
"OI, WAKE UP!" She had hoped the past night had just been a vivid nightmare. But there she was lying on the floor of a prison cell carved into the rock of an underground cavern, staring at the ceiling as the raspy...
Return to Sender 9 - Two-Tailed Zone
_The ocean roared from all around him, walled off from the inner sanctum that now crumbled within a howling gale that near-deafened him. The jungle remained at his back, dark and mysterious with the most deadly of paths, all of which were now futile...
My Sword, My Clan 10 - My New Steed
"Dahlia?" said Baldwin. "Yes?" she replied. "I...I have been wanting to tell you sszhomething for a few monthsszh now." "R-really? What?" "I...I think I'm in love with you. No, I KNOW I am in love, I wasszh not sszhure of it until now but I...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 2.5 - The Language of Flowers
As lieutenant of the Obakimura family, Kiryu rarely ever came to the Toho Clan headquarters but it always astonished him every time he visited. The grand pagoda of black-lacquer tiles and austere wooden front, in a courtyard of stone lanterns and...
My Sword, My Clan 16 - His Dance of Death
In the depths of the Broken Petal, Cadbury stared intensely of a most piercing sharpness from his stable. James in turn stared at him unblinking, sitting with his hand on one knee keeping his chest supported up as felt twitches round his pupils. The...
The Silent Rain 4 - One Who Does Not Exist
"Sh-she betrayed me, SHE BETRAYED ME!" "I TOLD you," said the boy on Oberon's back, "didn't I tell you about Gizamaluke, she brought it here!" "Wh-wh-why, why-HHHH!" He tripped in his staggering run, frantic with tears through the wilderness of...
A Battle for the Soul 4 - Beneath Ebony Wings
[i][u]Third Energy Anomaly Report - Subject Eleven Preparation[/u][/i] [i]11-02-2041[/i] [i]Recorded by Dr. Andrea Dixon[/i] [i]The time is nearing for our next appointed anomaly. My calculations estimate that within the next four days we...
The Race of the Rexes 3 - Anything To Win
After their registration, the participants were told to wait a week before they could finalise and organise all the racers in the different races. In the meantime, James and Gunther headed to a local bar known as The Ibis. A tiny place, only big enough...
All Things Quiet And Sweet 1 - A Blind Run
**THE CHRONICLES OF FINALGAMER _All Things Quiet and Sweet_** _"A sin takes on new and real terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out." Mark Twain_ Fog. A symbol of fear, obscurity and distortion. To twist faces and...
I Dreamed of Fire 2 - Dawn of Spring
[b][i]BRRRRIIIIIING![/i][/b] "Rrrraaaaargh," an elephant rose like the cryptkeeper, "roise an' shoine Jim." "Nnnnnnngh", the raptor pulled the covers over his head, "I dun wannaaaaa-" ...
A Fatal Game 11 - Closure
The cave was almost pitch-black, the walls barely outlining their corners. James noticing many twists and turns throughout the place, as if it were one giant maze. Even the small white lights, wispy flames floating in the darkness, could barely...
A Battle for the Soul 6 - In A Chapel of Dissonance
"How's he looking?" asked Jane. "Still breathing," said Kevin, "despite losing a SHIT ton of blood." "I'm pretty sure that wasn't ALL of his blood." ...