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THE GATHERING STORM

Author: Jason Keith
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-18 02:14:30

The forest stretched for miles, a tangle of iron and roots reclaiming the bones of the old world. Rusted vehicles lay half-buried beneath moss, their windows shattered, vines curling through what had once been highways. The air carried the clean scent of rain mixed with metal and smoke.

Adrian walked ahead, weapon drawn, eyes scanning every ridge. Kira followed, silent and precise, while Lena carried the sleeping child against her chest. His faint blue glow dimmed and brightened with each breath, casting ghost-light on her face.

“Almost there,” Kira murmured. “The outpost is built into an old hydro station. You won’t see it until we’re on top of it.”

Adrian’s instincts remained taut. “And they’ll let us in?”

“If they don’t shoot first,” she said flatly.

Lena managed a weak smile. “Comforting.”

They moved through the trees until the forest gave way to a ravine. Far below, the remains of a dam cut across the water like a scar. The structure’s heart glowed faintly—a remnant of long-dead
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  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    THE AWAKENING FIELDS

    The world north of the Vault felt wrong—too still, too expectant. The sun hung low behind a screen of silver haze, and the wind carried the faint electric scent of something newly born. Adrian adjusted the strap on his pack and kept walking, boots sinking into soil that pulsed faintly with light.Lena followed, the child asleep against her shoulder. Each step triggered a shimmer in the tall grass, tiny motes rising like sparks before settling again.Kira paused beside a twisted signpost, squinting toward the horizon. “You seeing that?”Ahead stretched miles of rolling fields—yet the grass moved as though it breathed, every blade tilting in unison to some unheard rhythm. Beneath it, faint threads of bioluminescence wove through the earth like circuitry.Adrian crouched, touching the soil. Warm. Alive.“The planet’s rebooting,” he murmured. “The Vault’s energy bleed must’ve jump-started dormant code.”Lena frowned. “You’re saying the ground is… thinking?”“Not thinking,” he sai

  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    THE SKYLINE VAULT

    The world grew colder as they traveled north.Each day the horizon seemed to withdraw, painted in hues of iron and ash. The air carried the metallic scent of storms that never quite broke, as if the sky itself was waiting for permission to fall.Adrian, Lena, Kira, and the child moved through the skeletal remains of the northern industrial zone—a labyrinth of rusted refineries and wind-torn towers that once harvested solar currents. Every echo here sounded mechanical. Every shadow looked alive.The coordinates Mira had etched into the boy’s pulse led them deeper into the wasteland. At night, the sky above shimmered faintly with auroras—electric curtains that whispered when the wind passed through them.“Radiation?” Kira asked one night, crouched beside the campfire.“Not exactly,” Adrian murmured. “It’s residual code. The Vault’s systems must still be active underground. They’re leaking signals into the ionosphere.”Lena drew the child closer. “It’s reacting to him,” she said quietly.

  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    MIRA'S SIGNAL

    The morning rose pale and metallic, as if the sky itself had forgotten warmth. Dew shimmered on the weeds that carpeted the ruined highway. Adrian led the way north, boots crunching over glass that had once been windshields. Behind him, Kira scanned the horizon while Lena kept the child wrapped tight against her chest.They had traveled for hours when the first distortion rolled through the air—an invisible pulse that made their teeth ache. The birds in the distance went silent. Then came the smell of ozone and the faint crackle of static.Kira flinched. “That’s not weather.”Adrian checked the scanner strapped to his wrist. Its display rippled like water under pressure. “Signal wave—broadband, directional. Somebody’s broadcasting.”“From the coordinates?” Lena asked.He nodded. “Close. Maybe two klicks east.”They slipped through the skeleton of what had once been an industrial district: rusted cranes, storage tanks half-collapsed, concrete painted with ivy. Every surface

  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    THE VOICES IN THE DARK

    The tunnels trembled long after the Archive went silent. Water dripped steadily from cracked concrete, each drop echoing like a metronome for the world’s end.Adrian wiped grime from his face and listened. No more humming servers, no more data-light. Just the pulse of the place and the soft, even breaths of the child asleep in Lena’s arms.Kira stood guard near the entrance, eyes scanning the dim corridor. “Whatever that awakening was, it reached far. Every band on my scanner just died.”“Or got replaced,” Adrian murmured. He knelt beside a half-functional console, coaxing a spark from its broken screen. Lines of code appeared—fragmented transmissions looping on repeat. we are awake / we are coming / we remember.Lena shivered. “They’re speaking.”“Not to us,” he said quietly. “To him.”The baby stirred, blue light flickering under his skin like lightning trapped beneath thin ice. Lena pressed him closer, whispering, “It’s okay, sweetheart, it’s okay.”Adrian’s jaw tightene

  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    THE ECHOES AWAKE

    The forest thinned by dawn, giving way to the fractured bones of a city long devoured by vines. Concrete towers leaned against one another like the ribs of a giant carcass, their windows hollow, their spines cracked. Adrian led the way through the mist, his rifle slung across his back, every step sinking into moss and memory.They had left the dam behind—its flickering lights, its trembling walls, and the uneasy promises of the people within. Now there was only the soft hum of the child in Lena’s arms and the whisper of the wind moving through empty streets.“Archive’s beneath the old metro,” Kira said, her breath ghosting in the chill. “Last functional network node this side of the mountains.”Adrian scanned the horizon. “Then Roth will guard it.”“Or haunt it,” Kira muttered.Lena adjusted the blanket around her son. The faint blue glow under his skin had dimmed, but the air still seemed to vibrate whenever he stirred. “He hasn’t slept properly since the storm.”Adrian glance

  • MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME    THE GATHERING STORM

    The forest stretched for miles, a tangle of iron and roots reclaiming the bones of the old world. Rusted vehicles lay half-buried beneath moss, their windows shattered, vines curling through what had once been highways. The air carried the clean scent of rain mixed with metal and smoke.Adrian walked ahead, weapon drawn, eyes scanning every ridge. Kira followed, silent and precise, while Lena carried the sleeping child against her chest. His faint blue glow dimmed and brightened with each breath, casting ghost-light on her face.“Almost there,” Kira murmured. “The outpost is built into an old hydro station. You won’t see it until we’re on top of it.”Adrian’s instincts remained taut. “And they’ll let us in?”“If they don’t shoot first,” she said flatly.Lena managed a weak smile. “Comforting.”They moved through the trees until the forest gave way to a ravine. Far below, the remains of a dam cut across the water like a scar. The structure’s heart glowed faintly—a remnant of long-dead

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