Light
* * * "It's not going to hold! We have to stop it, now!" "There's no turning back at this point! We're past the point of no return, if we fail here, nobody will make it out alive, not a single person!" The ground shook from the massive surge of...
A Growing City
The largest cities are always the best places to fit in. No matter how strange a person might be, they'll always go relatively unnoticed in the metropolises of the world. Assuming they mind their own business, of course. Martina thought this would be...
Chapter 3
It took a few minutes for Xenia to become calm enough to speak coherently, after having seen the chaos happening between Jackie and the soldiers. The sunlight continued to shine onto Jackie's body, but there were no further visible changes, leaving...
Chapter 2
A wave of intense heat radiated out from Jackie's body onto Xenia's hand before the two could touch. Xenia had to take a few steps back to avoid suffocating from the heat, which gave her a new opportunity to observe Jackie's newly transformed body. The...
Chapter 1
"Personal log. Entry 86. I've lost yet another assistant last week. This one got sick, the same way as so many of the others before. The symptoms were all there... Coughing, wheezing, loss of motor control, gradual changes in pigmentation of the...
Preface
Earth. The blue planet. Nobody had ever imagined they might live long enough for this title to lose its meaning. Ever since it had first been seen from beyond our atmosphere, the world as we know it had been unique by its distinct blue colour and...
Sits and the Temple of Boom
The ruined temple was exactly what he had imagined. There were vines hanging from the fragile ceiling, and dust rose gently in the air with each careful step he took. Pressure plates dotted the thin tunnels to his destination, the perfect traps for the...
The Best Defence...
The duty of a city guard is simple. Protect the city and its citizens at all costs, from threats within and without. No matter what, the city guard would always remain the last line of defence against invasion, where the army would fail. For a city as...