Sweet, sweet times

"It can't be the right place, can't it?" A pretty large and rounded up figure was now standing in the dark alley, following the directions to the letter. Literally, the one he got this very morning, swidden through the mailbox indoor of his house....

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Take my hand

?When thinking about spa facilities, people often mislabel it as boring, overpriced snoozefest for rich narcissists. But that wasn't the case for those places, neither here in Blue Lagoon, which offered much more than a painfully clichè name. It...

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YCH "Insolence"

Who said that mortality is associated only with something feeble and insignificant? And who said that summoning rituals were tied to gloomy basements, in pitch black darkness, to the sounds of reverse played heavy metal music? While away from...

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Not another job hunting

"Shoot!" The sudden cry, followed by a muffled thump, sounded between the trees. Luckily, it wasn't an order, commanding someone to fire a weapon, literally. Apparently, the gentle cursing belonged to a canine creature, who involuntarily showed...

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Ascension

Should we be afraid of god? Not The God, but any divine, powerful being, omnipotent and omniscient? What if we could reach such, currently beyond reach, levels. Should we be afraid of ourselves? - Is it going to work? The spoken words drowned...

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Sentinels Youth Part 2

Tsumé let out a sigh after reading the email, lowering her phone and looking up to the sky in exasperation as she walked. "Okay... Well that was a bust. Didn't even give me an interview," she said. "Why is it so hard to get an after-school job? I...

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The Temple of Tikal

It had not been easy to convince Lighris to let him go back out, but hiding at the house out on the acreage was even getting to an introvert like Volcan. Eventually his brother caved and allowed Volcan to go back to street performance without a fuss -...

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Toronto City Wars: Warp vs. Bantam Beaver

"_How long has it been?"_ Asked the Japanese-accented voice on the other end of the phone that Phyllis held to her ear. "_Three years, wasn't it?"_ "Four, actually," the brown beaver replied, lounging against the brick wall behind her. "Though, this...

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Depths of Athenia

_Post Unity Year: 237_ _Ocean World of Athenia II, AKA Redwater, Athenia System_ _Day 21_ "_Red Snapper to Diver team, comm check,"_a deep voice sounded through the speakers of the three diver's helmets. Arno Engelburg had his eyes on a crustacean...

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The Lightnings: Unity Falls

It was a long night for them. Both were exhausted when they got back to the mansion. On their journey back they had seen fire engines battling a fire at the city's police department which illuminated the night sky, but the crews appeared to have gotten...

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Entangled

Entangled by Varien Quill It was an almost perfect start to college life for Yuuichi Michimiya, a first-year Shiba Inu, but there were still some things that could make it much better. Mainly it happened because of Shoichi Urata, a wonderful...

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Final Preparations

Volcan failed to guard against Korban's next swing, causing his haphazard attempt at a parry to result in his halberd burying itself in the ground. He pulled it free, and barely managed to get out of the way of the sweeping sword in Korban's follow-up...

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