تسجيل الدخول**Chapter 100 – Better Days****August 2031 – Thursday morning, Pearcy, Arkansas**Alarm hits at 6:15 a.m.—earlier than usual. I slap it silent before it can wake the house, roll out of bed already half-awake from last night’s messages still glowing in my head.Gray dawn light leaks through the blinds. I pull on black jeans, a faded Yellowcard tee under the red-kanji Nakamura hoodie, lace up my beat-up Vans. Dragon-feather necklace settles against my chest—warm, like it approves of early starts.Downstairs is quiet. Mom’s still asleep, Dad’s probably already out on the lake for his morning run. I grab a banana, scribble a note—*Out early, skating. See you after school.*—and slip out the front door with my board under my arm.Warm August air hits my face, crisp with pine and water. Street’s empty except for a couple of early joggers and the distant hum of a boat motor on the lake.I drop the board at the end of the driveway, foot on the tail, headphones in. Cue up Yellowcar
**Chapter 99 – Sparks and Earth****August 2031 – Lake Hamilton High School, Pearcy, Arkansas**Second day.I wake up to the alarm blaring Deftones—*Digital Bath* this time—and the faint smell of Mom’s miso soup drifting up the stairs. The dragon-feather necklace is warm against my chest, like it caught some leftover heat from yesterday’s flames.I throw on a gray hoodie (Nakamura kanji still in red on the back), jeans, sneakers. Grab the skateboard and backpack. Bus ride is quiet. Headphones in, staring out at the lake glittering under early sun. Thinking about yesterday. The pack didn’t eat me. Jake’s handshake felt real. And Mia… she kept glancing over during fire class. Quiet, but curious.I step off the bus, board under arm.The parking lot smells the same—pine, lake, wolf musk—but today it doesn’t feel quite so heavy.Jake spots me from across the lot, lifts his chin in greeting. A couple of the pack nod too. Progress.I head inside, locker slam, schedule check.
**Chapter 98 – Freshman Fire **August 2031 – Lake Hamilton High School, Pearcy, Arkansas**280 Wolf Street First day of high school, and I already feel like I’m Skateboarding into a lion’s den.Or rather a Wolves Den.Lake Hamilton High.Home of the Wolves—literal werewolves.The rival school to Lakeside, where my big sister Seras was cheer vice captain, sunrise goddess, and basically untouchable legend.Everyone in Hot Springs knows the name Nakamura now.Thanks, sis.I sling my backpack higher—plain black, no fancy runes yet—and step off the bus.with my Skateboard in hand held by the trucks. Black hoodie with the Nakamura Kanji in red on the back and a dragon Feather on a necklace from my Brother-in-law Lucian.The parking lot is packed—kids laughing, horns honking, scent of pine and lake water thick in the morning air.But under it—wolf musk.Strong.Territorial.The pack is here.I’m just a freshman fire wizard—fourteen, scrawny compared to some of these sophomores already shi
**Chapter 97 – Dawn Alliance** **March 26, 2031 – Storm Academy Secure Conference Chamber**The morning after victory feels too quiet.I wake early—Remy still asleep, arm heavy across my waist, coyote-gold aura dim with exhaustion.The academy is stirring slow—students returning, staff rebuilding wards, distant laughter echoing in halls that haven’t heard it in months.But peace has weight.I slip out careful, crown humming faint on the bedside table.Dress in simple leathers—no armor today.The secure chamber is deep underground—old war room from the academy’s founding, walls layered with Deep Script, blood wards, and now new USSF encryption nodes.Rowan set the link last night—triple-encrypted quantum channel, Shambhala resonance key, my blood signature lock.The holo-table activates at my touch.Screens flicker.First—USSF Liberty Prime command deck.Colonel Reyes center—uniform crisp, eyes sharp.Dr. Harlan beside—coffee in hand, hair wilder than yesterday.General Voss—new face
**Chapter 96 – War ends New Love Begins **Rowan & Kayo Focus – March 23–25, 2031 – Storm Academy Dormitories**The portal back to the academy opens like a sigh of relief after holding your breath for months.One moment, the biting Antarctic wind cuts through scarred armor, ice cracking underfoot like breaking bones, the smell of void ash and purified fire still clinging to clothes and skin.The next—warm spring air rushes in, carrying cherry blossoms and the faint scent of rain on old stone, the familiar hum of academy wards wrapping around us like a mother’s embrace.Storm Academy.Home.The Court steps through together—armor scarred deep, faces etched with exhaustion and quiet victory, but alive, whole, unbreakable.Seras and Lucian first—hands linked tight, sunrise dimming to a gentle glow around her, dragon wings folded gentle against his back, copper scales catching petal light.Celeste and Remy next—crown quiet for once, coyote grin wide and relieved, his arm loose around her w
**Chapter 95 – Heart of the Void **March 22, 2031 – Final Nest, Antarctic Convergence**The last nest is buried under miles of Antarctic ice—a frozen fortress hiding the swarm’s true heart.A black cathedral of carapace and void, pulsing beneath the polar cap, feeding on the planet’s core ley lines like a parasite sucking marrow from bone.One massive spire rises through cracked ice—taller than Everest, wide as a city, tendrils spreading global, corrupting oceans and skies with black veins visible even from orbit.The Grand Matriarch waits inside—queen of queens, mother of the invasion, source of every tendril that has choked the world.We come as one.The full alliance—united in fire and blood and light.Court at center—bonds blazing hot, rings pulsing synchronized.USSF fleets orbital—lances charged to maximum, targeting arrays locked.Shambhala monks chanting wards that hum like ancient songs, floating serene amid chaos.Kōjin’s forgefire echo lingers—hammer sigils burning molte







