GianKingdom of Howard“Get out.” Gian commanded the prone woman who lay in his bed, there was no sense of emotion in his voice as he let out his voice. It was simply as if he was being forced to do so, there was no emotion, there was no love and all the feelings that had come from the night before died away in an instant.“King Gian…” Ann had told him seductively, gnawing at him and caressing him as the woman stood up from the bed, “Let us do this again, shall we?”“She’s easier to deal with than that bronze bitch from the west” Gian thought to himself as Ann left his room without a second thought, he remembered Eloisa being quite a problem as he commanded her to leave, but this harlot was easier.As Ann left the prince’s quarters, Gian resigned himself to a hot shower, he was planning to talk to King Malik after this and bring down Colter further. He remembered his younger brother carrying around a sketch of a beautiful woman. He grinned as he thought about the time, he crumpled the
AquilaVikalyn, Kingdom of HowardIt had taken them quite some time, the irritation built and their anger soared as they tried to look for the magical rabbit that Samuel had told Aquila. Their purpose was to serve king Dyron, but in this instance, they were only being detrimental as they were unable to move forward.They had no new leads, they were wandering blindly in a forest looking for a pest of a creature that does not seem to exist and they were hungry. They had all transformed themselves into Ecanus once more in order to fool anyone who might have spotted them. But their leader Aquila, the one who had managed to seduce and extract information from Samuel the sinner, smashed his fist against a tree’s trunk in anger as they still had no new leads.“Fucking hell!” he roared while his subordinates stared at him in fear and wonder, “The king of darkness will have our heads should we fail!”The fear of doing Dyron wrong hang heavily over their heads, they had wanted to please the ki
VidaVida’s Apartment, New York CityShe had flung a pillow at Tessa’s words; the word love had triggered her to a breaking point. Tessa managed to dodge it while looking smugly at her.“Yes, Vida Vance and Colter the Hobo, kissing in a tree! F-U-C-K-I-N…” Tessa began singing with a grin while Vida just growled in annoyance and tried to stop her from completing the song.“Come on, Sads!” Tessa teased her this time, “You surely couldn’t deny it!”Vida rolled her eyes and tried to shift the topic to Harry Fletcher, while Tessa laughed uproariously.“Oh don’t you dare start on that, bitch!” Tessa said half annoyed and half amused, “NOW YOU TALK ABOUT HARRY FLETCHER!”Vida blushed as her plans failed while Tessa shook her head, this time being serious:“Look hon, Colter might be some kind of a beautiful hobo, but I can sense from his intentions that he only wants to do good for you. Do right by you and treat you well. If you have fallen in love with him, I cannot blame you.” She winked at
VidaVida's Apartment, New York City"Please, please, make it work."Vida peeked through the glass doors of the microwave and watched the ceramic container spinning around.That night, Vida decided to cook lasagna for Colter. She found a recipe on Pinterest that required no oven and wanted to try it out. She just hoped that it would look and taste the same as what was promised in the pin.As she waited for the lasagna to cook, she went to the bathroom to freshen herself up. She took her time brushing her hair. Her brush had never seen the light of day. She always finger-combed her hair, because why the hell not?But after being asked on a date by Colter, she opted to start using her brush in an effort to tame her locks.Speaking of the date, Vida shuddered at the thought of it being a bit of a flop. She still thought about what went wrong. Everything was going fine until that almost kiss.Did I do something wrong? Vida thought. Maybe he got turned off by her unkempt hair. It was a pre
DEITY FLORAThe Palace Grounds, Kingdom of HowardWhat Deity Flora had seen just now was not for the faint of heart.It was unlike any of her visions before. Disturbing would be an understatement. "The King must brace himself for the worse." The Deity whispered to herself as she crossed the palace grounds towards the King's Throne Room."A pleasant day, Deity Flora."Deity Flora stopped floating in her tracks. She did not need to turn around to know who it was. "Hello, Prince Gian.""I hope you're doing well," the prince said, his hands crossed behind him."I am certainly doing my best right now. Thank you for asking." Deity Flora slowly faced the prince. "My, you do have a habit of sneaking up on everybody."The prince's nose flared with the observation. "I just happen to be in the right place, at the right time. Sheer luck, I supposed.""Luck never made a man wise. Remember that, My Prince." Deity Flora then curtsied as a sign of respect and started floating away."Is there news ab
ColterNew York City“Sorry, I have pressing matters to attend to!” Colter announced, hurriedly leaving the bar as soon as their shift ended. He ended up drawing weird looks from Tessa and Vida as he sheepishly grinned while stepping around them and out into the streets.“Take care!” Vida called after him with a blanching Tessa by her side, “Girl, he just abandoned you and you tell him to take care?!”He slipped through the crowded streets of bustling New York City, weaving sidewards and dodging them as these citizens paid no mind to what was in front of them. His thoughts were still filled with the visions of the kingdom in utter chaos. Fear had been injected into his veins, his blood running colder than ice.Moving into an abandoned area, it was an alley that stood between two derelict factories. Glancing around for any watchers and spectators, Colter focused his powers all over his body and with a whoosh, he darted upward into the air, flying with blinding speed.He gazed around th
TessaTessa’s Apartment, New York CityThe sky was quiet, but the environment was not. A flock of evil looking birds had taken down a lone figure trying to fight them off, she heard his grunts of exertion as he swung a bladed weapon at them, all around him were carcasses of the same birds that were attacking him.“Get away!” the familiar sounding man shouted, slicing away at the still attacking birds, he pointed an open palm at them and conjured a stream of fire, but they easily dodged his attacks due to him being apparently tired.Everything was on fire, buildings that were not modern to her eyes were ablaze, a tall palace was slowly being torn down by blasts of magic. The stones from its tower fell into the plaza below it, splattering the panicking people running below it.It was a gristly sight and Tessa put her hand towards her mouth in shock. Blood and fire were everywhere, people that looked like knights were trying to fend off hideous looking creatures with crude weapons.Her a
AquilaNew York CityThey had finally arrived in this weird place, like Colter before them and any other creature that might have crossed the portal, it was an alien landscape. The buildings were so tall that they cast shadows over the bright city.Aquila was annoyed at how excessively large it was and how polluted it had seemed. He had been able to smell their air and it was not as fresh as the air in their home world. Unlike every other village, town and city they had seen before, Aquila noticed at how in this world, the people are still active even at the latest of nights.“Find him” Dyron’s voice echoed in his head and Aquila doubled his concentration on tracking the missing prince. He had isolated the scents of everything that was in the air, from the smoke that their steel carriages seemed to emit, the cold breeze of the night air, the smell of human essence that was vastly different from an Ecanus, the animals that were littered around New York City and finally, after flying fo