Love's Twisted Trunk
It beats within us all, pumping vital lifegiving fluid through our bodies until the day we die. The heart is also where our emotions affect us most, slowing down when calm, speeding up when terrified or excited, stopping when shocked or afraid. It's...
Haunted Finale
Alden led Dusana to the front door of the old, abandoned house. Wood creaked and concrete groaned as the cooling weather made them shift and swell. Alden opened the heavy wooden front door and stepped out into the night, stopping and turning to the...
Electric Fever.
Rescue. That's what every one wants to do, be the hero and rescue someone from a life more torturous than they could possibly deserve. We all want to be the courageous hero and prove that we're not without consious or soul, that we can elevate...
Divide
Ucci pulled her Mana Pepper in the window, putting the hardy plant on her countertop and retrieving a pair of Mithril pruning shears from the collection of horticulture implements under the counter. It was rare that she would have to use them, and she...
Light's Way
The paladin watched silently; only his heavy, labored breathing any indication that he was still alive. He watched as a Dragoness he had only just met tore into the flesh of Erebus the Shadow, a powerful Western Dragon known for butchering knights, as...
Children Chapter 7: Family Matters
Cibbie and Melissa walked back into the Den together, idly chatting about their drakes. Melissa was surprised that Amanda was clean of blood, not to mention how shiny her scales were; but then Cibbie told her that Flare had cleaned her after the events...
Children chapter 3
Housekeeper Cibbie had spent hours in Michael Starfury's office, working on her P.R.A. after Markas had left for the night. She'd designed it to look like Hazard Wrathgaze, but had changed the dark stripes on its torso;...
Serpents and Supers
There's a story behind everything. Even the tiniest piece of gravel had to come from somewhere, else you'd have nothing to curse for producing the stone your motorcycle lost traction on, and you'd end up just being really clumsy and feeling like a...
Shadow Gazer
Everfree Forest, the last great expanse of Equestria which hadn't fallen to the sway of Pony control; once it had been a beautifully manicured forest with the Royal Palace at its centre and a gorgeous city surrounding the palace, but after the first...
Spellbreaker: Twisted faith
The week following his transformation got progressively worse for Matthew. His condition never changed, for better or worse, but he did get rather stronger and faster physically. He had gotten the hang of his transformations and could do it on the run....
Cerberus
**The Curse** It had been cold that spring evening, unusually so even for how cold winter had been. Cerberus was strolling home from work in one of the busier parts of town, the five foot ten sixty five kilo seventeen year old feline idly sniffing...
Children Chpt 9: Kinslayer
Kinslayer Pride eventually introduced Sharp to the other people in the room, the artificial intelligence warming up to them quickly. Michael shook her hand personally. "Miss. Sharp, I welcome you to the Hunter's Guild. For observational purposes...