Adventure

The Grand Era: Beginning of the End
In the beginning of this world there were two entities. Powerful deities whose central natures opposed the other. One, the Ordered Xalbus, the other, the Aberrant Drishca. One peace and harmony, the other chaos and destruction. The Xalbus sought to create more in this world and so he created the elementals: Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. He created them to help shape the barren existence into a veritable bounty of wonder.
By James Stacks4 years ago in Fiction
The Leveling of Humanity CH 1
Chase sat on his couch in the small two-bedroom apartment he called home, staring at the news for the third straight hour. The shock of the past seven days was still weighing on him, but being from the newest generation of free-thinkers, it wasn't something he couldn't comprehend or process. Truthfully, he had often read stories, watched media, and daydreamed about being in a video game-like setting where his stats were on display. A world where he could level up and focus on what he wanted to do with more guidelines than the real world offered. This was now his reality and the reality of the rest of humanity. Everyone was flocking to the location of the pillars of light, descending from the alien ships and attacking the orbs of light to level up. Chase also wanted to go, but the closest location to him with spheres was near Atlanta. Unfortunately, that was about a 95-mile trip away, and he lacked the funds to make it there. Things had been tight for him financially since Emily had broken up with him and took most of the stuff in their formerly shared little apartment. One income to pay all the bills was hardly enough for the pricey apartment in the city where he lived, but he had to make due.
By J. James4 years ago in Fiction
Greed
A small oceanic planet of a passing trade route. Caligann Point a large artificial island sat between the only two landmasses on the entire planet. It was a popular stop for travelers between the two continents. No spaceport but I popular stop for traders as it was the only land mass that could rise with the tide during the rainy season that lasted half the year. A never ending pour of water on the dark side of the planet. The super massive star and the speed of the planet made each year quite short.
By Eric Baird4 years ago in Fiction
Oh The Humanity! - Chapter 1
1985… Richard woke up in his cushioned plum colored chair, as a thin stream of blood ran out his right nostril, muffling the smell of burning metal. He frantically rushed to undo his seatbelt as the source of the stench grew stronger. Upon finally undoing the mechanism he used to find simplistic, he stood up to rush out the gaping hole behind him, but remembered Calvin, who had taken the window seat. Richard turned his head left to see the unconscious boy, laying limp in his seat, with shallow cuts from shattered glass across his arms and face.
By John Freed4 years ago in Fiction
Western spaghetti's era
The antimatter blacksmith kept beating his anvil thinking about the old good times where he watched, or better, admired his beloved papa who seemed so in love with the anvil and the powerful and hasty weapons and tools he forged, while the clumsy clouds he gave birth to at every hit of his arms on his trusty and rustless friend, were playing a Caribbean hide and seek. No one of them though had made a claim of thrones, they were just enjoying their game. Wouldn't be beautiful to be as carefree and lighthearted?
By Iskall4 years ago in Fiction
Avalon Mysts
Chapter 2 With her head pounding, Aurora rose from her mysterious collapse and sleepily listened for the sounds of her mother making breakfast. A bird chirped loudly in her ear instead.
By Sheena Seib4 years ago in Fiction
Avalon Mysts
Chapter 3 The main path ran parallel to the brook, winding in and around the underbrush that lined the banks. Little animals scurried up and down the trees, like they were playing a devilishly clever game of tag with their friends, all the while ignoring the two humans that walked amidst them.
By Sheena Seib4 years ago in Fiction
Of Wolves, Ravens, and Writing Desks - Chapter 3 Lucy Lost
*** Nightmares about The Crate are always the worst. Flashes of the beatings, the agony of starving, the shivering nights in winter where all we had was a single thin blanket.
By If You're Feeling Adventurous...4 years ago in Fiction
The Guild of Thieves
*Zanetti* They called her the Ghost’s Whisper. Her true name was Zanetti, and tonight she was sneaking by the Lijun, the criminal underworld of Ettenberg. They called her the Ghost’s Whisper because that’s what she was to the rest of the world, a whisper on the wind, and like a ghost she was never truly there, the only trace of her presence being a suspicion. Zanetti slipped out of the shadows and into the market of Lijun, wearing a mask of course. Her mask was white on top, with gold and black swirls at the bottom, creating a beautiful pattern. It was a risk to stand out at the Lijun, a risk she took knowing people feared her name, and the mask was a symbol of her name.
By Meaghan Priest4 years ago in Fiction
Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
Kevin inspected the right arm of his favorite leather jacket. The tear by the cuff had gotten worse during the maelstrom at McGuiles. It was now the only memento of planet Earth he had. The man in the trench coat had blasted them through the solar system, and they were now floating pleasantly past the heliosphere, on the beginnings of interstellar space. The Oort Cloud (that surrounded the solar system Earth was in) was beginning to come into view.
By Po Ivey4 years ago in Fiction
The Holocene Extinction
Capri Smythe Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And the end of the world didn't happen all at once or in the blink of an eye, as the old cliché often said. No, that fucked-up shit happened during a thunderous boom with lights so bright in the night sky, people thought fire had lit the heavens ablaze. And for the past two weeks, hordes of aliens in pods had invaded Earth, carrying away human females. I had managed to stay off their radar by traveling at night.
By Avery Meadows4 years ago in Fiction
World Fixing
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. I wish I could eject these damn babies into it. I squeeze hard on the brakes and the bike comes to an abrupt stop. That shuts them up.
By Richard Gwynn4 years ago in Fiction