Chapter 22
First Day of Supers High School (1)
Being the new kid at a new school is never easy. Especially when the school in question is the Tri-State regions’ attempt to pool resources together so they could educate all pre-awakened students at roughly the same time.
This is...
2022-11-13 02:49:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 116
Me Versus the Universe
You ever have one of those moments, where you intend to do the right thing. You go about your day, the way you think you should. You try to be a law-abiding citizen. Now granted part of my problem was the fact that I intentionally annoyed General Fel...
2022-11-12 16:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
Grounded Forever (From Spelunking)
Alexa arrived on the surface, in a relatively clean state, all things considered. As she kept her final few days in the house that had already been cleared, she was able to get fresh water from the sink. Alexa almost wanted to ask where th...
2022-11-12 12:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20
Return to Bottomless Gorge
When Alexa returned from the first Trials of Ascension, she was changed on a deep and fundamental level. The dungeon core of Bottomless Gorge could not warn her in any way of what happened when she went beyond the hundredth floor for the first tim...
2022-11-12 06:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
Tier II Dungeon (RED)-RUM
Alexa knew that as soon as she entered the red layers of the Tier II dungeon that the training wheels were off. This was made particularly clear with the message sent to her mind.
You are now entering a Tier II RED 2022-11-11 23:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 115
Getting A New Ride (1)
I have to say, nothing is more depressing than being at a couples’ retreat place solo. You have the beach, the surf, the fresh ocean air that smells of decaying whale excrement and other even less savory decaying organic materials.
Then you h...
2022-11-11 15:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18
The Tier II Dungeon (Gold)
One hundred floors, or twenty sets of the five variants. Ten sets at Green, or easy. Then these last ten set were at Gold, or medium. Honestly Alexa was glad, well as glad as she could be, that she had kept to her original plan. The learning curve...
2022-11-11 09:09:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173
Ajimal The Great
Sidhertha, the Uprising that Changed a Nation
Ajimal The Great floated over the broken remains of the Sidherthan capital. From the air he could see everything. He had of course dreamed of moments just like this, moments where he would be overseeing a...
2022-11-11 04:48:39 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude II
“Where is my new consultant?” Rayne Johnston yelled at Bullford. She paused for a moment, then continued. “Weren’t you supposed to be telling her to check in daily? What time is she supposed to arrive here today?”
At that Bullford looked visibly flustered.
Chapter 17
The Tier II Dungeon (Entry)
“Welcome to Bottomless Gorge.” The Entry guard said, as he greeted and scanned Alexa’s identification card. This was the same card she had always used, the one linked to her 500+ Tier I dungeon runs.
For a moment she wondered if there...
2022-11-10 11:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
Outcast, Again
The next day, Alexa and Luke arrived at school, only to find that everything had changed. Alexa looked around to see that all her fellow classmates, and many of her teammates who had been cheering her on just yesterday, now looked at her with contempt.
...
2022-11-10 04:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 114
The Bonfire Trap
You ever have one of those moments where you realize that the crazy girl at the party suddenly has eyes for you? That she then claims that she understood the messages that you were not putting down for her all night. That she is ready to home with you, tha...
2022-11-10 02:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
The Consultant's First Case
There are many things that Alexa knew she wasn’t good at, bartering was one. The reason being is that it required her to want to interact with people on a deeper level. The problem with that was, dealing with people always seemed like a waste o...
2022-11-09 20:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14
The Interrogation
Bullford still couldn’t understand how to read the girl before him. Honestly the video was recorded so poorly that there was nothing that could be made from the contents. The only thing that Bullford was certain of, was that there was at one point a were...
2022-11-09 11:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 172
Brenna
A Duel of Cultivators
Lykan glowed. That was the only way to describe his transformation. One second he was normal everyday Lykan, the next he was a god made flesh and bone. His body glowed with a golden light. One that threatened to burn away the retinas of a...
2022-11-09 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13
Emasculated by a Former Crush
Like an angel of vengeance she appeared, right when Johnny least expected her to. This was not the resolution he had been hoping for when he first awoke to find that he had suddenly become the center of Central’s dating scene.
It starte...
2022-11-09 03:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
Call it Brotherly Intuition
“Yo, this is serious.” Luke said in hushed tones once they were outside the gymnasium.
“Seems so.” Alexa added.
“Look, aren’t you frightened about what might happen?”
At that Alexa paused and just stared her brothe...
2022-11-08 21:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 113
Leaving to Not Much Fanfare
Apparently, security is a big deal. Especially for a fledgling military force that is just coming into its own and has only one real claim to power. Of course, the situation only escalates when that one claim to power is an ancient alien structu...
2022-11-08 10:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
Progenitor
“I have reason to believe that someone in your community might be infected with the Lykanthropy virus at this very moment…” Bullford said, then paused as he looked around the gymnasium of so many students.
Most let out gasps. He had them, they were al...
2022-11-08 03:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Hormones, if Alexa didn’t know any better, she would swear that she was having hormonal issues. In fact she had to use that very response to her mother over the weekend.
“Is that blood I smell?” Judy, her mom, asked.
“Yes, it is th...
2022-11-07 19:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112
Nightmare Mode
You ever have one of those days, where you wake up and think you are more than prepared enough for anything that could possibly come your way. So, you go in, expecting multiple choice, only to find out that it is essay format that must be written in a unique...
2022-11-07 10:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 171
Lykan
Cultivation and Advancement
There are very few moments in time that can truly be defined by one event, before it happens. Sure, one can go back and eventually deduce that one motion, one perceived sleight caused a cascading change of events that would have a mo...
2022-11-07 09:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
Social Dynamics
Being the children of two awakened has a lot of pressure associated with it. The children are not allowed to get personal or augmentation health that they did not earn directly. The parents are to provide the minimum amount of financial assistance as possible...
2022-11-07 00:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 111
Sleeping Beauty
You ever wonder what the prince really thought when he came along and saw snow white sleeping there surrounded by a bunch of dwarfs? Ever wonder how brazen it was for him to just saunter up and kiss the sleeping woman? Am I the only one who wonders if the b...
2022-11-06 13:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude I
The Crime Scene
Rayna Johnston, the Tri-State investigative lead was first called to the out of the way woods at just past 3:13 AM, after a full manhunt for a rogue werewolf serial killer had been dispatched.
Tracking down the serial killer was a little easier than e...
2022-11-06 11:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Down With The Sickness
Of all the times to experience a true life and death battle; during those moments when Alexa could feel emotions would have to have been one of the last times, she would have wanted to have this experience.
Yet, with these moments of clarity bein...
2022-11-06 04:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
The Fix
Few words can adequately express the feelings Alexa manages to unlock during her moments of clarity that are caused by absorbing augmentation crystals. They should be painful; they should be so much that it would cause her to balk at the sheer thought of getting one....
2022-11-05 18:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 110
Freedom Or Something Like That
For the first time in my entire life, I had no true direction. I had no real job prospects lined up. I had no future goals, only now after everything do I realize how I had put all my eggs into one basket.
I had been so stupid in my fir...
2022-11-05 11:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
It’s A Trap - Dungeon
The two entered the trap dungeon, at which point they were taken to a waiting room.
“This is the primary waiting room. All dungeons have something similar. In this, we can either break apart for an individual challenge.” Alexa began, by firs...
2022-11-05 04:48:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
A Typical Date (2)
“…I know probably too much about you…” Just John, Alexa’s date admitted.
Then Alexa in her attempt to deescalate the situation answered the only way she knew how. With the truth. “Yeah, probably.”
There was an awkward pause as the...
2022-11-04 13:50:42 +0000 UTC View Post