Pain Never Fades
Shattered: Redux Chapter III: Pain Never Fades _Time doesn't heal anything...it just teaches us to live with the pain..._ _-Anonymous_ _ _ Alex sighed as he paced the small room he had been confined to. It had been a few days since he regained...
What Has Been Done, Can Not Be Undone...
Shattered: Redux Chapter II: What Has Been Done, Can Not Be Undone... Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort... _-Lucinda Riley_ _ _ The cornerians aboard the station gazed at the gigantic alien...
What Pride Has Wrought
Shattered: Redux Chapter I: What Pride Has Wrought _Pride comes before the fall..._ _-Anymonous_ **The Great Fox** **Saturday, March 15th** **9 ALW (Years after Lylat Wars)** A shaggy orange and white peaked tail slumped lazily off the side...
Workaholic
The Creed Chapter 5: Workaholic Avitus rose from his couch, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. The small alarm he placed beside his head on the table was buzzing annoyingly. He slammed a hand down on it, silencing the infernal machine. Once more...
Ordinary
The Creed Chapter 4: Ordinary With a grunt, Avitus leveraged open the door to his small flat, holding a large brown paper bag of groceries in both arms. He stepped into the apartment and walked past the tiled entryway into the kitchen. He dropped...
Truth Is Deceptive
The Creed Chapter 3: Truth Is Deceptive When Avitus agreed to go with that vixen Carmelita, this was not what he had in mind. The Assassin sighed as he leaned back into the stiff-backed and extremely uncomfortable metal chair he had been...
What Is Reality
The Creed Chapter 2: What Is Reality? The Assassin regained awareness and groaned in pain. It felt as if he was in some soft padded bed. He forced his eyes open and closed them again swiftly as he was bombarded by harsh white light. That made no...
Relativity
The Creed Chapter 1: Relativity Sly sighed as he walked the streets of Paris. His relationship with Carmelita had crashed and burned terribly. He had tried; he really did, but the kind of life she lived just wasn't for him. He was a thief by trade...
Truth Is Relative
The Creed **Prologue: Truth Is Relative** A lone figure swathed in black, stood atop a high-rise, hood peering down at the building adjacent, deep in the heart of New York City. Their target lay within its confines, a piece of Eden, one of great...
Halo: Left Behind, Chapter 5: Hope
Halo: Left Behind Chapter 5: Hope _Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment_ _-Napoleon Bonaparte_ **The Jacksonville** **Orbit over Harvest 2527** **October 9th_ _** Liam woke up with a deep feeling of ease and comfort. Warmth...
Halo: Left Behind, Chapter 4: Why We Fight
Halo: Left Behind Chapter 4: Why We Fight _Hope is strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost..._ _-Sergeant Varros, Battle of Harvest. He and his entire battalion were slaughtered in defense of public civilian...
Halo: Left Behind, Chapter 3: War Is Hell
Halo: Left Behind Chapter 3: War Is Hell _War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is..._ _-Unkown Soldier_ **Harvest Colony** **Edge of system space 2527** **October 9th** **28 hours since start of conflict** The small prowler...