Annihilation Novels & Stories

I compliment her and she doesn't say a word which means she's flushing. We don't talk much and say good night before we go to sleep. Since I'm in Zurich we started calling each other every night before we sleep. Ashley said she became those nightmares since she's back at home. She sees always the same. Some women wearing all black in a dark room and telling her to go away from 'him'. She still doesn't know who this women is or she means. I thought of a ritual with her to forget her dream and now it became something important. It really helps her to forget about the nightmares and it even helps me to not miss her that much.

I grunted. "Well, this one is important. Since you're new you might not know this, but everyone here is playing a death game. An assasination and survival game to be exact." "A 'what' game!?" I almost raised my voice, "What do you mean?" now saying it softer.

"You are a Legacy-App running on a system that has already migrated to the Cloud. And today, we are going to Force-Quit the North" The Ziggurat lashed out, and a beam of Absolute Clinical Logic hit my chest. It didn't burn; it Erased. I felt my "Too Much" energy being compressed into "Null-Values." My rage was being turned into "Error-Logs"; my grief was being turned into "Cache-Files". "Hope, the starlight... it’s Turning to Static!"

"The one Marcus's journal mentioned. Die and both worlds collapse." "Yes. Mutual destruction." I pulled up another image, a diagram carved into the stone showing two circles overlapping, then shattering into fragments. "The prophecy describes it as 'the unraveling.' When the Cycle-born dies during the merger attempt, the energy Lycaon has gathered doesn't dissipate. It tears through both realities like a wildfire through dry grass. The human world and the supernatural world collapse into each other catastrophically. Imagine earthquakes that split continents, storms that drown nations, reality itself coming apart at the seams."

“It cannot model us correctly without emotional data.” “And if it models us correctly?” Kael asked. “It may stop preparing for worst-case eradication.” Silence. That was the unspoken truth. Misinterpretation was the greatest danger. Serik met her eyes. “So we risk vulnerability to reduce miscalculation.” “Yes.” The entity pulsed agreement. Miscalculation historically primary cause of annihilation events. The word hung cold in the air. Historically. It had seen annihilation before. Approval was not unanimous. But it was enough.

"Yes, there are some who want money. Some who are just plain crazy. Some who like killing for the sake of it." I know where this is going. "And some who want to kill just because they hate non-humans?" She nods. "Yes. They're called purists." "So, the Silver Hunters have all these different factions within the group... And no one knows anything about them?" "Not until they're in your face." Alice stops walking. "Until it's too late." Ice fills my veins, and the wolf in the woods comes to mind. Was that a normal animal I saw? Or something else?

, she was going to be the damned death of him. Glossary Ankhas- Currency used in Pythas Pythas- One of the numerous planes of existence, Populated by Magical Beings

The alpha was meticulous in his ministrations, as was true to the perfectionist personality. Little groans and pleasured sighs escaped him as Lex worked. His legs twitching every once in a while, when the blonde would begin working out a knot. Azrin wasn’t sure vampires could go to heaven when they perish, but if they could, the Brunet envisioned something like this. It was glorious.

To touch it was to have your own heartbeat synchronized to a lethal frequency until your chest cavity imploded. "It’s a dead-man’s switch," Cassius cursed, his scanners short-circuiting against the crimson light. "The moment Malakor’s signature vanished from the Nexus, these wards entered 'Total Erasure' mode. If we don't drop them, the entire archive - and the mountainside above it - will be reduced to subatomic dust."

I know she cares about her champion just as I care about Terrax, and I am glad Krystal is showing her support. "Audience members, the field's electrical shield will engage now. Each beast will be set free, and it is up to the champion to kill the beast in order to move on to the final stage. If a champion is rendered unable to fight, a team of hunters will be sent in. The champions unable to kill common beasts will be pushed under the losing champions from days one and two. The clock starts when the champion enters the field," the Kea says, and my eyes widen as a yellow electrical field appears in front of our row.