Feeding the Queen
Queen Nyra had always been known for her ferocity. As a younger owl queen she had led her army from the front, her consort Kludd at her side, his great wings flashing white at the edge of her considerable range of vision, his helmet glinting darkly in...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
Sonic and Bunnie finally stopped running - Bunnie virtually dragging Starla along by the wrist - when they saw their friends waiting for them outside the gates. Sonic slowed to a trot and then a walk and Bunnie stopped to get her breath back, while...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
Robotnik walked into the interrogation room, his hands clasped masterfully behind his back. As he entered he deigned to look at the animal his Hoverbots had captured. It looked no more recognisable as a species close up. Its bizarrely brightly-coloured...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
As they walked along, Antoine looked over at Starla. He had noted with great interest at first that she was armed with daggers. He'd been trained to sword-fight as a pup and, although he found little or no practical use for this skill as a Freedom...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
NICOLE spoke. "SpaceTime: the fabric that holds the universes together and also defines the boundaries of each." Once NICOLE had located the reference in its in-built library Sally wanted to hear, the squirrel's questions came freely. Some, NICOLE...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
Sally smiled to herself as she brushed her hair in the mirror. The party had ended as parties usually did: the bored, the tired and the unsociable had gone early, and the reduced numbers had encouraged the others, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups,...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
Bunnie got back to chatting with Sally, as much as anything to guess at how she felt about Starla. She watched the ground squirrel as they talked, and thought to herself. Sally fretted an awful lot and Starla had worried her, no doubt about it. Most...
Sonic and the Deliberate Mary Sue 1
The space around her was black; almost-invisible wisps of vapour streamed past, too fast to be natural. No stars, no stars at all. The air smelled dusty and chilled her right down to the bones. She sensed that she was travelling at incredible speed....
Commission: The Great Enslavement - chapter 1
Time. Meaningless word for me some years ago, but now means much. We all grow, and change, as it passes. There is nothing static in this world. Time begets change, and change happens to all. It is a part of life...a necessity. Without change you are...
The Prodigal Sergal
The morning held the usual routine for Aroha: at dawn, she woke up in the scrub bushes outside the city. As the sun burned the chill from the sand she approached the gates to snipe back and forth with the sentries until they grew bored enough to let...
Commission: The Great Enslavement - chapter 6
Jai grunted quietly as he drifted up out of sleep. Even before he opened his eyes he noticed the raw feeling in this sinuses. He swallowed and felt a small injury in the back of his nose, but decided it was probably healed over. He smelled straw and...
Commission: The Great Enslavement - chapter 5
The tree cover wasn't anywhere near thick enough for Jai and Tong to pick up parts of the machine and stash them anywhere dry. That was clearly and undeniably true but Jai looked around anyway, just in case he could see somewhere dry enough. Just in...