Aether X Novels & Stories

, Erica mumbled, slouching back in the seat. "Hm?" "He never told me the consequences of rejection", she said in a clipped tone. "I also found out that my power is Aether and not air", she added. "Aether?" Xavier repeated confusedly. "Yes. Apparently, I can fuse two elements together", she briefed as she glanced at Xavier who looked quite impressed. "And your aura detection?" Xavier queried making Erica chuckled. "Aura detection? Xavier, am I a machine?" Erica feigned a glare which was promptly ignored.

he said with gratitude lacing his voice. Now it was falling in place. Xerxes did that intentionally. Drugging me with Aconite and Malachai had the cure so that I was dependent on him and him only. “Oh no, I do not any anything, just an alliance between our packs. How about that?” Augustus nodded, a wide smile on his face. “Of course,” Augustus raised his glass and grinned. “Toast to our future alliance,” Kai smirked, his eye found mine and he smirked. “To our future alliance.”

I scoff loudly at him “bullshit” “If he wants to marry her off, am here sitting ready to marry her?”, never, not in this eternity. “You never know what is waiting infront of you in eternity Ethan..., believe me or not am feeling this thing”. “What if the red roses are just a mistake?”, I ask him speaking a possibility. He scoff at it and said “she is a floral goddess for fucks sake”. “whatever”, I say rolling my eyes. “By the way who is the man you locked in dungeon?”, lucas asks.

She could hear animalistic sounds coming from outside and while she was glad that they had not been killed, she wasn’t so sure about this time. She could hear the snapping of bones and she knew that the fight got more serious than it was before. Right outside, Alpha Xander stood above Alpha Norman. “Spare me please.” He begged. Xander wanted to spare him so he could be an example to other Alphas who wanted to be over ambitious. He needed to remind them that this was his territory and nothing happened without his permission. But then he looked at the three girls whose lifeless bodies lay in the grass. He made up his mind.

Keila was a teenager now, all sharp angles and quiet curiosity, more interested in marine biology than digital deities. The peace was a ceramic bowl—beautiful, but we knew its fragility. It shattered on a Tuesday. Not with a helicopter, but with a priority data packet, encrypted with a key only Luther and I possessed. It was from Dr. Aris Thorne. The message was terse: Pattern anomaly detected. Convergence point: Project Aether. You need to see this. Coordinates attached. Project Aether. We knew the name. It was the global scientific consortium’s moonshot: an attempt to create a stable, sustainable fusion energy grid. The solution to everything. Clean, limitless power.

My words came in a rush, breathless, as if speaking them fast enough might change the terrifying reality. Valen’s gaze softened, but the tension in his jaw remained. His silence only made the desperation claw harder at my chest. Caelora’s eyes flicked between the two of us, a faint frown creasing her brow. “It’s not that simple, Maerwynn. The Aether doesn’t just exist within you—it’s bonded to you. Removing it would be like tearing out a piece of your soul. It’s not a mere relic to be passed along like some heirloom.”

I open the channel. It is not violent. That surprises me. I expected pain, I have been braced for pain, the blinding, total, body-ending pain of a system running far beyond its tolerances, and instead, what I feel is the opposite. It is the sensation of a door that has been held almost-closed for twenty-eight years, finally, fully, opening. The Aether comes through me like a river finding its original course. Not explosive. Not destructive. Like something that was always going to go this way and is simply now going there.

I said getting up from my seat. " What your mouth Richard" Major Mark cautioned and I shot him a cold stare. " Well, they're fine, Austin was bitten too but that has been taken care of" Faceless said "What do you mean, taken care off?" I asked as I caught suspicion in his tone. " He will become a metahuman just like his sister" he replied lighting a cigarette. I sat back dejectedly, I wasn't expecting this. How could he? " That's the only option if you want him to live" he added

“ The Primordial siblings were not dragons. No one knows who they really are, other than the fact they were made of pure Mana and created everything by expending parts of themselves. Ether created the sky, bodies of water, and the ground we are standing upon. Aether created plants, animals, and weather. And Nether created the sun and moon, thus giving us night and day. However all that creation had an unexpected consequence. The leftover Mana formed into another being, Xether.” “ Xether?” Icarus asked tilting his head. “ I've never heard that name before.” ” I’m not surprised. Xether isn’t part of the accepted curriculum. Because he created the first Half-Breed. By the time he shows up the o