Ayakashi: Ghost Guild Novels & Stories

“So, she is part demon? One of Dante’s sprogs that slipped through the net?” “No,” Lucas leaned forward to rest his elbows on his knees as a weary sigh escaped him. “Atlas and Amos don’t have wolf spirits remember? Chloe does; Hecate.” “Hecate? What kind of name is that?” “It’s the name of a Greek goddess. As far as we can tell, only the Wolfe line has a wolven spirit with a Greek name. Even Sierra and Alvaro don’t have them. So, how come she has one?” Lucas raised an eyebrow, hazel eyes darkening as the questions piled up. “I think we need to make a call.”

He stands behind me, arms crossed, a shadow refusing to be drawn in. The old rogue begins to speak. “She came in the season between the moons. The one with no name. The one where wolves forgot their howls. She wore no crown. No mate-mark. No Alpha’s scent.” The hum continues beneath her voice, like breath rising from old earth. “She walked alone into the Bone Lands, where no pack claimed the soil. Her hands bled spiral. Her eyes burned red. Her name was ash. Her tether already severed.” A shiver ripples through the pack. No one looks at me.

Elias stirred faintly. Kael approached her, sword dripping black shadow. “No more games,” he spat. “You’re just a ghost in someone else's war.” And then— A second howl rang through the air. Not Lyra's. Not Rowan’s. Elias’s. --- Elias Awakens Kael turned too late. Elias lunged with a speed that blurred the world—his wolf form breaking free in a burst of white-hot light. The collar snapped off with a scream of metal. His claws found Kael’s chest, raking across his armor and sending the tyrant sprawling.

Ashen whispered, “the others will become real too. All of us. We’ll walk freely. We’ll make choices. We’ll change things.” Liora gasped. “The realm isn’t ready.” Ashen raised the page, The blank began to bleed words. Names. Powers. Fates. “It doesn’t matter,” she said. “We’ve waited long enough.” The eyeless man stepped forward. “The old rules are dead.” The assassin twins drew their mirrored daggers. “Now we write ourselves.” Ashen held out the page again. “Name me, Liora.” The ink swirled, words rising into the air like smoke, Light-Breaker, Silence-Thief, Queen-Before-Her-Time, End-Daughter. “No,” Liora whispered. “No, no ”

Jack roared. Across dimensions, Haley squeezed her eyes shut and unleashed a massive wave of pure, chaotic reality-bending energy. The universe glitched. Inside the Aethelgard, the spectral fur of the Ghost Alphas suddenly solidified. They gasped, their intangible forms suddenly anchored to the laws of physics. "Now!" Jack yelled. Charon moved like a viper. The assassin lunged from the shadows, his blade finding the throat of the nearest solidified ghost. The creature dissolved into ash.

she stated, but I heard her fainting as her thoughts weren't my concern. "Okay, okay, enough about Xenra," Asher said. "Let's talk about us, and not Xenra; she doesn't have to be a ghost that keeps hunting us whenever we try to have our sweet time together," he added. His words plunged me deeper into confusion, and I began to wonder what Asher meant by a ghost that kept hunting them. When did I hunt them for goodness sake? My mind was still spinning with thoughts when Akira's chuckle broke into my thoughts. "I think I know where you're coming from," she said after her chuckle had subsided. Her words were wrapped with laughter as she spoke.

I would tell Troy what I knew, but decided to wait until I could tell him, and my mom and dad and Pops all at once. "Yes. Whatever soul they had before the Mistress got a hold of them is gone. We find the Akuma mainly in graveyards because they feed on corpses. I shuddered. "But how do you know their souls are gone?" Troy set down his sword. Then he took the one I held and placed it on the counter next to his. "I'm half dragon, Jack." "I know," I said, wondering where he was going with the comment.

The Castle isn’t that far away, and she is sure that the Shadows are no match for her. The full moon was shining bright. Just in case though, Accashia wishes the late Luna’s soul to guide her. ============= The bigger beast slides towards Calleb’s direction, but Pilak is faster than him and was able to avoid its attack easily. The silver beast turned and bare sharp teeth at the bigger beast.

One Light Oracle's strength is always leveled 10 times more than a normal element user so wiping the Akashians is of no difficulty for them. The Akashians are one of the four great tribes. They are the tribe that uses Wind Manipulation. The other three tribes are also Manipulators of the Main Elements of the earth such as Water, Earth and Fire. And to keep the balance between their powers, lands had been given equally to each of them except for the center of the Great Horalian Kingdom. The one who owns the center of the kingdom are the Maelies; the Royal Bloodline and the only clan that can use Blood Manipulation.

“That’s as good as ringing a bell.” The shadows between the trunks parted. For one heartbeat I saw it—massive, low, too many bones moving under one hide. Eyes like coals. Not wolf. Not bear. Something that didn’t belong to any pack’s stories. My wolf screamed inside me. Dax grabbed my wrist, yanking me back. “Run,” he ordered. Kieran’s gaze snapped to me, desperate and furious. “Aria, don’t—” The creature lunged. And the ash ring at my feet exploded upward like a black wave.