The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen **(Tick)** It had only been two days, but Tick already felt as if he were healing. For the past forty eight hours, he'd had his chest, and the burn that marred it, pressed firmly against his father's back. The wampus cat's fur...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve **(Porter)** The woman took a hesitant step forward, her hand over her mouth. "Porter?" she asked in a soft whisper. "Is it... I had heard Rayalga talking about you, but... it can't really be..." "How do you know me?" Porter...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Nineteen **(Sarah)** Sarah flopped down gratefully on the hard marble floor next to Misty. She and the others had gone back to rejoin Ozzie, Misty, Faska, and Manchi, leaving Droma alone to work on the lock. "What did you find?" the elf...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Eighteen **(Vega)** Vega hissed as he ran his hand over the tear in his Slayer's coat. That accursed giant had managed to break through his defenses once, and even though he hadn't actually been injured Vega would now have to return to the...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven **(Sarah)** The tension in the mines was thick enough to cut with a knife, and Sarah began to notice things she hadn't seen before as she was being led through the tunnels a second time. The Mythics that lived there wore grim...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Thirty Five
Chapter Thirty Five **(Sarah)** The crowd watched in somber silence as the tiny coffin was lowered into the ground. Sarah hugged her mother around the neck as they watched, sniffling. To her right stood Porter, holding hands with Glenda, whose leg...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Thirty Four
Chapter Thirty Four **(Porter)** _"Porter, we have to do something!"_ Sarah's voice shouted into the boy's head. _"But... what?"_ he asked, staring at the enormous abomination in front of them. Terror roiled inside of him, making his legs feel...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Thirty Three
Chapter Thirty Three **(Misty)** "Misty, on your right!" Misty's ears perked up at her brother's warning, and dodged to the side just as an axe cleaved the ground open right where she had been standing. While the Mythic recovered, she pounced on...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Thirty Two
Chapter Thirty Two **(Porter)** Black clouds formed out of nowhere to make a halo around Uthas Drall's head, spreading outward to block out the sun and leave the forest in darkness. Lightning crackled in them, thunder boomed, and the Fear Feeder...
The Protector and the Peacemaker: Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Fifteen **(Granger)** Vega knelt down and picked up a small bit of dirt between his thumb and forefinger, rubbing them together with a thoughtful expression on his face. After a moment, he stood back up, allowing the dirt to fall from his...
The Slayer and the Sphinx: Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty One **(POV: Porter)** _"Porter? Porter?"_ The name bounced inside the young man's head like an echo in a cave, soft but persistent. His skull felt like it was being inflated like a balloon... and it wouldn't take much more to pop...
The Slayer and the Sphinx: Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Eighteen **(POV: Ozzie)** Ozzie saw the Slayers arrival before he saw the Slayers themselves. A thousand teleportation rings lit up the forest behind him like a second sun had ignited underneath the trees, and the young man raced down the...