A/N: This chapter isn't as long as the previous one, but it's still important. Special thanks again to Blackstallion21 for editing this chapter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ V. The Spirits Of Nature Pristine and the others headed toward the Mystical Forest. At one point they stopped and took off their extra clothing for the atmosphere was getting a bit warmer....
Chapter One He was walking around the lake, trying to lose the extra 30 pounds of girth his 35 year old body had added since college. His mind wandered over many such subjects as it often did during such hikes. He was a home town kid, one who had gone off to college and returned to work after graduation. A rich man monetarily, but a poor man who deeply regr...
I'm so glad to post again. I got a lot more stories. This episode is like a little hinge between things. I will follow it up with more once I decide which story should go next... Days turned to weeks in the long winter. Babies were delivered, it became the season of children in the tower. In a room in the upper tower, Marcos lounged with Kaarthen and seve...
Aminata Amponsah yawned and stretched as she stood on the Rampart, looking at the multitude of Undead besieging the remnants of metropolitan Accra, Ghana. The tall, dark-skinned and curvy young Muslim woman, a native of Kumasi City, did not like what she saw. Although a forty-meter-high wall with barbed wire on top protected what remained of metropolitan Acc...
Things were moving fast, too fast. In the morning I sat in my glorious bath alone, soaking away the aches of the night before, and ruminating on the deeply ingrained lessons of history imparted through my education at Cassipe's hand. Ours was a violent Queendom. Once we had been hundreds of tribes, all quite different, according to many even some of those t...
It was a dire night, the winds howled like wolves on this chosen night. Hersir Ulf a brute man of no more than 33 in age was in the river washing away the blood of the enemies he slayed hours earlier. He had long, wavy black hair, lightly tanned skin and a build that made many of woman swoon. A man of his own mind. Ulf did not take kindly to orders but he w...
The sweat was dripping down my brow, the clock painless clicked away as I watched the dealer throw out the cards to the three remaining players at the table. I was one of those players. I was currently in second place in chips a mere 16,000 behind the leader. As I collected my cards with bated breath I took a peek and felt my excitement rise. Ace, king of...
He was back, sliding through the cold air in great swooping circles with me at their centre. Balanced on two great wings, he lit the night sky with ostentatious jets of fire from his throat, the flame glittering off his vivid red scales. A part of me wanted to spread my wings and leap up to join my suitor in the air, but I repressed it: a fire dragon had to...
She squirmed; I loved it when they wriggled, and their smile, so often plastered to their faces throughout the evening, disappeared as the reality of their situation dawned upon them. She gasped and bit her lip, writhing on the soft, plush carpet of my expensive apartment. I put the King of Hearts onto the shagpile, causing her to give a sudden, sharp intake...
The next days flew by I tried to live in the excitement of it rather than dwell on my worries of the future and the mysterious man who negativity still crept back every now and then. I decided that I would do one final cleansing spell and deep meditation before the big day. I now had a ring of ivy around my forehead, as if my body was giving me a crown for t...