Chapter 164
Worst Birthday Gift Ever Part 2
(Jhonny)
Balls of falling black death, in a gray and dying land, where only crazy Cassiopeia, the Doctor, is capable of standing around without flinching.
Honestly, Jhonny had joined the Midnight Hunters because of how powerful a...
2023-11-23 12:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163
Worst Birthday Gift Ever Part 1
I have to say, sometimes having friends is the same thing as having enemies that you just can’t get angry at.
Tingle.
My hand burns. In fact, my whole body is now vibrating angrily at a molecular level.
Poof....
2023-11-22 01:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22
Synchronizing
(Misha)
Patterns, routines, and above all trusting the known universal truths. These are the things that Misha had long ago accepted as the only way to progress and succeed in life.
In her past lives, she had been a cog in the wheel of consistent g...
2023-11-20 02:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162
Smoke And Death Mirrors
(Mallory)
What do you give someone who can make and do anything they put their mind to? That was what Mallory had found herself asking.
What do you get your best friend, who means the world to you as a birthday gift something that is bot...
2023-11-18 19:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161
The Art of Deception
There are moments in time, parts of your life where you realize you are too confident, too cocky. Sadly, I found myself in just such a situation at this very moment.
Here I was, hundreds of feet in the air, floating above what was likely hostile ...
2023-11-18 02:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160
An Impossible Task
It was impossible. Utterly and physically impossible.
The task, the mission I had been given by Mallory, especially about the random subject that popped up. Just thinking back on everything, how we got here, what it all meant, the only thought that...
2023-11-16 23:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
Repair Costs
(Frank Grimes)
Frank grew pale as he looked over and saw all the parts that were broken. There was no magic, no deception, just this Phil guy, going through and showing each component that his assistant had pointed out.
The head gasket had a crack r...
2023-11-15 20:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159
The Cassie-Do List
“Blah, blah, blah.” The Lich continues to speak, but I don’t really have the patience to pay attention to him.
Since class is over, I had been hoping to try once again to visit Zero, though this meeting went just like the last. I did...
2023-11-13 14:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20
Pruning the Evolutionary Tree
(Misha)
Blinking.
Everything had been so cerebral for Misha.
Even now she was still trying to understand exactly what had happened, or what was still happening.
Physical Characteristics:
Stren...
2023-11-12 01:42:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158
Joy and Sadness
Everyone from my morning classes devoted to Qi Manifestation were all working together, doing burpee after burpee with Jhonny. The Lieutenant had long since collapsed into an exhausted pile of bones and barely breathing muscles.
The Lich by now had lo...
2023-11-10 14:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
Head Games
(Amoni Jacobs)
The game had started just as Amoni and her pack had expected. Well, her pack plus Michelle who was close to becoming part of the pack, but for whatever reason the virus hadn’t spread to her, yet. Michelle, well let’s just say she was a wo...
2023-11-09 11:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157
Last Minute Realizations
Speed. Form. Grace.
These were the points I held in my mind as I made wall jump after wall jump, obstacle after obstacle. My point was not to go my fastest, but to go where I could hit every spot fluidly and gracefully.
After passing th...
2023-11-08 10:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18
Meeting the Pack
(Amani Jacobs)
“Ohh, hey girl.”
The voices and annoying cheers of boys and girls alike echoed in the hallways. Hearing them was easy for Amani with her enhanced hearing. If she had tried, she almost felt that she could taste the dif...
2023-11-07 12:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 156
A Simple Morning Workout
The day started off well enough. The sun rose, at least I assume it did due to the rapid temperature and barometric pressure changes. Animals seemed to be stirring in their pens.
I even got a random visit for Kujo who was trying to provide fo...
2023-11-06 11:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostGood Morning everyone,
I first off just wanted to say thank you all for staying with me for another month. As promised earlier this month too will be free, making the next payment due date 1 January 2024 (for the month of December).
A few quick announcements, tha...
2023-11-05 17:02:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17
Putting the Ass into Assimilation
(Julie)
VROOOMMMMM!
The fully restored 1995 Ford Mustang GT roared to life, every ounce of its V8 engine on full acoustic display for everyone to hear. With the wide-open fields leading from the barn that had long since...
2023-11-05 14:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude I
(Ten Years Later)
(Lauren)
Lauren stood in the rain in front of a stone. The reason she chose to do this was personal. At first, she made multiple trips a year, but those times slowly stretched out, until now when it had been over a year since she last visited this s...
2023-11-05 05:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
Organo-Tech
(Misha)
It was gone, well muted was a better way to put it. Misha’s mind, once her sharpest tool, was heavily worn down. Well worn down by her standards at least, as she could still feel herself slowly gaining control over the alien operating system that...
2023-11-04 21:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
Homecoming
(Andrea)
This time going home couldn’t help but feel failure. While no one would say otherwise, Andrea knew the truth of the situation, that she had failed. At least that is what she told herself.
Honestly, other than Misha, Andrea’s first attempt...
2023-11-04 05:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14
Not Again
(Andrea)
“Hi mom.” Andrea spoke into the phone.
Just hearing her daughter’s unbridled fear and apprehension in her words caused Julie, Andrea’s mother, to instantly go on alert.
“What is it?” Julie asked, now fully awake despite the l...
2023-11-03 12:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude IX
(Cassidy)
The world as she knew it was breaking. Her mother, the center of her world was dying of cancer and there was nothing that she or anyone could do for her.
Father was there, and he was great. Deep down Cassidy knew that her father would give her all the love...
2023-11-03 01:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13
Automated Naturalization and Terraforming Subsystems (ANTS)
(Misha)
“Don’t give the Aboriginals fire, for they will inevitably burn down their own homes.” -Ancient Psycher proverb.
To say that Misha was shocked to see what the equivalent of a part...
2023-11-02 18:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
ANTS
(Dr. Grier)
The stone reacted every time someone touched it, after so many years of being around the stone and enhancing her own sensitivity to the world of magic, Dr. Grier could tell at least that much, that something was happening.
Originally, the theory...
2023-11-02 12:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155
The Auditors
“So Master, how was your day off?” Jhonny asks, a bit of excitement in his voice as he asks.
We are in our lessons. Now that the troubles with the missing patrols have been settled, and the absence of the King and Princess has been established, I fin...
2023-11-01 12:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
The World Destroyer
(Dr. Grier)
There was a replica of the ancient lodestar stone, multiple of them in fact. Their purpose, and why the school would have so many was easy to understand. Namely, the school and most importantly its protective faculty didn’t want the l...
2023-10-29 13:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154
The Answer
(Mallory)
There are times when you realize that your best friend might just be the death of you. Today was no different, as Cass had somehow managed to trick her into first being furious at the idea that she might have to be violated by some old ghost spir...
2023-10-28 13:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
The Giving Tree
(Misha)
“Oh, hello little ones. My name is Doctor Grier, and today I will be escorting you around campus, showing you what is possible if you apply yourself in science and math.” An overly cheerful Dr. Grier greeted. Her words were incongruous to h...
2023-10-27 12:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153
The Challenge
Silence.
The imperial chamber that we were all waiting in felt like the wind had been forcefully sucked out of it, as we all sat and stared, waiting for Mallory’s next words.
With a simple yes, we would have an easy road to peace, a no ...
2023-10-27 03:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning everyone,
I wanted to apologize for my slower posting this week. My entire family has been suffering from the Flu, it even took me down for a bit.
That said, I have a LOT of news to go over.
First, just restating that there will not be any payments for October (whic...
2023-10-26 11:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
The Call
Clink, clatter, clop.
The repetitive shot and make of a basketball flowing through a metal hoop and metal chain linked netting could be heard echoing through the backyard. The sound was so repetitive and persistent that Andrea had mostly gotten used t...
2023-10-25 10:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post