Buried In The Sky Novels & Stories

~~~~~~~~~~ BENEATH THE HOUSE — NIGHTFALL They buried Sky in the cliffs just beyond the tide line. Not with marble. Not with prayers. With code. Matteo and Roji stood guard while Inez uploaded a digital key Sky had once embedded into the Umbra root systems. It was his failsafe—a backdoor map, encrypted into a ghost file. Now, it would serve as his grave marker. Aria stood beside the makeshift console. Her hands trembled but she didn’t flinch. "She saved us," Inez said.

Alive. And trapped beneath the ice.

In my previous life, my Alpha mate buried me and my daughter alive as sacrifices to resurrect his first love. After being reborn, I personally took everything from him and sent him to hell! … Serafina Pike heard my words and grabbed Ethan Horn's arm while sobbing. "Ethan, since the Luna refuses, let's not force her. It's not her responsibility, after all."

At the bottom, the stairway opened into a vast underground city. --- The Skyline Vault was not a vault at all—it was a network of glass towers buried beneath the crust, their surfaces pulsing with faint white light. Bridges of energy connected one spire to another, suspended over a gulf so deep it swallowed their voices. “It’s like a living circuit,” Kira whispered. “Built from the old world’s remains.” Adrian stared in awe. “No… built from its memories.” As they stepped onto one of the glass bridges, holographic panels flickered to life, projecting faint images of cities, faces, and maps—fragments of human history, preserved like ghosts. The Vault was watching them.

KNOX’S POV The sky hung heavy and grey above us, it seemed like it was going to rain but nothing happened. Everything was just cold and grey. Melissa’s casket sat beside a hole in the ground at the cemetery where the club buried its dead. With simple pines and no flowers. No ceremony. Just a box and a grave and silence. This was what betrayal earned you. A hole in the ground and people who couldn’t wait to forget you existed. I stood at the back of the gathered Vipers, my arm around Elara’s shoulders.

Snow covered the whole world in cold white. I laughed, and tears fell with the laughter. But Joanna, I would not live to see three months from now. I was going to die in this winter.

They may not like me, but at least when they're near, other students can't kill me. Ahead of me, Rowan, Seyla, and Lyra, all link arms as they giggle in excitement. I slow my pace slightly to keep a distance. I don't want my sour mood to bring down theirs. I glance up at the night sky, and I gasp. I stop walking altogether as I take in the millions of stars lighting the sky. I almost forgot how beautiful the night sky is.

It didn't rain on the day of my burial. There was no bleak rain or gloomy clouds like in the movies. On the contrary, the sun was out, and the weather was ridiculously good. The sunlight was almost blinding, and the sky was so blue and cloudless that it looked like a flawless crystal. I wasn't buried in some desolate back of the hill. Instead, Dad had used all of his connections to get me buried at the prettiest spot in the city's most expensive private cemetery.

Cerise thinks, Desperate to see her only star among the red, dark sky. The morning comes, and the sky remains blood-colored. Joy-I weeps like a child, far from the mature image she always puts on. Yzander and the doctor stood at the corner, as suspicious as ever. Halo and Nicholas struggle to keep sleeping, as the murmurs and crying stop them from doing so.

Kendra’s head turned, and her dead eyes stared into Sidney. The hole smelled wet and earthy. Particles of soft soil clung to Sidney’s skin, and wispy roots stretched out from the walls around her. When Sidney finally looked up, she noticed the hole cut the falling light into a perfect rectangle. Sidney stared up at the dark clouds above before shovels penetrated the sky and turned to dump chunks of dirt down on them. Sidney opened her lips to scream, but the dirt filled her mouth. Before she could scramble to her feet, she was buried in the crushing black again.