Evolution Part I: Chapter Twenty-two
A week after I'd first started hanging around Lopside, I finally felt like we'd started making progress. He now understood that when I was making noises at him, I was trying to communicate and he was picking up some nouns, like "food" and "water." But...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-seven
\*\*\* The nebulous void that my existence became after that was terminated about a month later. By that time, I'd gotten so huge and heavy that I was on the verge of needing assistance myself in getting up. Fat Gut across from me had gotten quiet....
Kovu and Mipa: Faith Failing
Stillness pervaded the forest where the lioness plodded through the sparse, though leafy undergrowth which thrived in the constant gloom. Vines dangled motionless from far above or else grew and twisted around the green trunks of the trees who managed...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-four
\*\*\* It happened fast, so fast that I cannot clearly remember what happened. Instead, I recall a series of snapshots, like bolts of lightning in my memory. The opening of the gate, its metallic whine cutting through a thick haze of sleep and...
New Alveri Chronicles: Heliana (Chapter 1)
**New Alveri Chronicles:** **Heliana** By Shalion, Brian, and Goran Heliana Chapter 1: Leaving Home The tuna's head popped off with a squelch as I twisted it in my claws. "Really, this is too much fuss over my account." I said as I placed the...
Kovu and Mipa: Mipa
Kovu thought his eyes were deceiving him. There looked like a patch of grass moving through the grass towards him. But there it was, tall fronds of grass waving in the air as they approached...straight for him! Desperately Kovu went for the loop...
Kovu and Mipa: First impressions
Eager not to face whatever person Mipa had gone to consult, Kovu renewed his efforts to break free of the snare, this time knowing that his life could very well depend on it and time was assuredly short. The dark maned lion twisted and turn, arching...
Evolution Part I: Chapter Two
For the betterment of my social and psychological wellbeing, the four dogs of the litter, including myself, were moved to a large communal kennel away from where the brooding bitches were housed individually. There, all the other male pups were housed,...
Kovu and Mipa: Serpent's Bounty
The carcass of the snake took weeks to eat, even with Mipa's impressive appetite. Seeing as the carcass was too heavy to move, even with the large felines' combined strength, they both decided to hunker down there around it. It was an easy decision,...
A Bronze Rising: Funkin Farn
"Tell me more about this... what did you call it? 'Funckin'?" "No, it's pronounced Pumpkin, Puh." The human lad explained about his staple crop. The human syllables were difficult on my thin, scaly lips, particularly, "p's" and "m's." "And they are...
A Bronze Rising: Sir Drakling
The second plan to smooth over my conquering of Devonshire bore fruit. Tobias was the obvious candidate for a new human regent and I felt comfortable in his obedience enough to allow the farce to exist in the minds of strangers. If anyone questioned...
A Bronze Rising: Drinking Dragon
It was quite sweet. I did not partake a lot of sweet things in my diet, so the sweetness of the wine was the biggest shock, but not an unpleasant one. The alcohol was very unlike anything I had eaten before. It seemed almost that, beyond the wetness...