Backhand Blade Ash Of War Novels & Stories

Eyes wide with terror. And standing beside him was Ash. But he wasn’t smiling anymore. He looked… cracked. Pale. Sweaty. Like the blood loss was finally catching up to him. “You shouldn’t be here,” Ash said quietly. Noa stepped into the room. “Let him go.” Ash laughed hoarse and dry. “You never listen.” “I’m done listening to you.” Ash picked up something from the tray beside the table. A scalpel. Tiny. Precise. Cold. “You know what this is?” he asked.

“Then perhaps I will remind you what it means to bleed.” A spinning kick sent Ash back into a column, shattering stone and iron. Bianca advanced, daggers aimed, but Ash recovered with unnerving speed, slashing her blade upward. Sparks flew. The corridor seemed to pulse with the rhythm of their battle, every wall and shadow complicit in their war.

Toward. Toward Ash. Toward Cove. Toward the kid about to explode. “Mother!” Wrath shouts. “Don’t!” I hit the vines. They don’t grab me. They part. First Blood knows First Blood. Ash is on her knees. Burning. Cove is on his. Smoking. Vines connecting them. Feeding. Killing both. I drop between them. Bone knife’s in my hand. Again. Always. “Stop,” I tell them. To Cove. To Ash. To the Tree. “Both of you. Stop.”

The man commands. And the hell breaks loose. THIRD PERSON POV Two armies charge at each other as the man’s voice resounds through the woods. Beast slashes through the wolves with her silver blades, then whoever’s behind her finishes the enemy off. Aiden and Asher work with Leo as her sidekicks, efficiently killing off the Undeads at the front. The sounds of gunshots can be heard throughout the whole area, alerting every living thing about the bloodbath taking place there.

Their heads lolled forward until their breath steamed against my chest. Kaia wiped her blade clean against the snow like it was nothing, like the black smoke wasn’t still curling up from the corpses—or what was left of them. Her shoulders rose and fell in steady rhythm, but her eyes stayed sharp, scanning the trees like the fight hadn’t ended. Asher was the only one who looked human at that moment. Bent over, hands braced on his knees, chest heaving. His breath puffed white, his jaw clenched hard enough to crack. The club he carried was nothing more than a jagged half-stick now, but his grip didn’t loosen.

“It’s what we came for.” Then he wraps his fingers around the hilt and pulls. The sound that follows isn’t just metal scraping stone, it’s deeper, louder, like the earth itself groans in response. A rush of cold air spirals through the chamber, scattering dust into the light. The blade comes free, gleaming faintly even in the dimness. For a heartbeat, everything is still. Then the hum fades. Asher exhales slowly, staring down at the weapon in his hand. His knuckles are white, his eyes wide. “It’s real,” he breathes. “It’s actually real.”

Each slash of Kenzo Harusame’s blade increased in strength and power as he finally overpowered Ash’s Septuple Slash. With one swing of the blade, he severed the blade in Ash’s left hand with one motion, knocking Ash back a few yards. Ash crashed to the ground, sweating profusely. His hand was wounded, with a deep gash on the spot where he gripped his sword. Blood streamed out of the wound and ran down the blade, painting it a bright red.

I had no answer. She let me go. Her gaze shifted to the urn in my arms. "You won't take this when it's offered? Then I am taking it from you. "You will not see your father's ashes again." She reached. The blood in my arms went cold. The control I had been holding cracked. "Please… please don't. It wasn't me. I'll do anything, anything you want. Just don't." I was about to fall to my knees again. I would have. The pride and dignity I'd had walking in here had been gone for hours.

He crashes into another soldier and both slam into a crate. I blink. Nyxara’s expression hasn’t changed. But I know. She did that. Without touching him. Without moving. Without even looking directly at him. My wolf watches her carefully. “You keep doing that.” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” “Terrible liar.” “You’ve said that.” Another hunter raises his weapon. His flashlight flickers. Then dies. Then another. Then another. Within seconds the warehouse sinks back into darkness. Only moonlight remains. Nyxara finally looks up at me.

Breathing heavily. A wolf. Not fully alpha yet, but powerful enough. For a heartbeat, they just stared. “We’ve been fighting a wolf,” one of them whispered hoarsely. Too late. They charged anyway. Idiots. The first one slashed wildly. I darted to the side with unnatural speed, jaws snapping around his wrist. Bone crunched between my teeth. He screamed, dropping the blade. I shook him hard and threw him aside like he weighed nothing. The second Ashbound lunged with his weapon aimed straight for my neck. I twisted, the blade grazing fur instead of flesh. My claws raked across his chest in one brutal swipe.