Chrysalis Novels & Stories

​The hum within the Forbidden Wing of the Cradle Scriptorium was no longer a mechanical vibration; it had become a thrumming pulse, a collective heartbeat of a million forgotten species. The stasis-pods, rows upon rows of silver glass cylinders, were no longer static tombs. They were chrysalises.

She jokes and I sense her anxiety but decided not to let her know and just smile at her. “With the power and faith entrusted to me, I present you, Pandora.” Selene announces raising her hands to the night sky and everyone cheers. The dome that raised when the ritual began was coming down in little snowflakes of light. I was amazed at everything around me. It was like I had another way to see life.

"A unique mutation. One in billions. The perfect vessel for advanced consciousness." While they kept him engaged, James and Thompson's team maneuvered into position around the lab's secondary entrances. "What happens when you have it?" they asked, fighting another wave of neural distortion that threatened to collapse their fragile balance. "Another world-ending event? Project Chrysalis failed." "Evolution doesn't happen in a single step," the clone replied. "Chrysalis was merely phase one—destabilization. Phase two requires superior minds to guide reconstruction." His gaze intensified. "Minds like Sonia's. Like yours, Alex. You

It whispered secrets of the cosmos, promising to reveal the true nature of their cosmic adversary. Elysia, always in tune with the natural world, sensed a connection between the Nexus Crystal and the balance of nature itself. She believed that harnessing its power might help restore the harmony that had been disrupted by the ongoing cosmic threat.

Because when a stranger knocked at your door in the middle of the night, asking for shelter amidst a crisis, there was simply no excuse to be made. Within that thirty days the butterfly would go through the craziest of cycles, starting as an egg enclosed within a shell that is both impenetrable and fragile. Gian embodies everything she hates about people. He's loud, too energetic, and always loves inserting himself in other people's business. Aera would make him leave if she could, and she tried for days on end. An apartment unit does not have enough room for two people who clash in every way possible. Then that shell would break to let out a creature that was hideous and scary and weird.

“And this is the crap the Elders built a prophecy on? My entire childhood I was being used as a tool, groomed for a Luna position and stripped of all my freedoms… because of this?!” He gave a small shrug. “I personally wouldn’t have done any of that… but I can see why the other Elders, men of faith, would have pushed that agenda. It is easy enough to piece the puzzle together. You’re the first female born to Chrysalis in over a century. Maybe longer.” He then pointed to one of the houses on the triangle. The one I’d labelled foresight. Immediately, I swallowed back the bile in my throat. “Born to a Beta who served an Alpha that had a son not two years prior.”

she yelled his name in her mind. He was the only one to answer these numerous questions she had. Her mind finally succumbed to sleep. "Dex?!" she yelled his name trying to find him. It was too dark to see anything but she heard him weep, she found him sitting on the floor with the suitcase she had found but he was covered in blood and so was the suitcase. He stood up and began to walk closer to her but she stepped back, and the more she did the more he broke down and the more he faded from her eyes. When she could no longer see him, she wept and yelled his name but he never came back.

Chief Rann had been right all along, I was nothing but a virus, a disease, something that didn’t belong with humans. Groban’s eyes were absolutely normal and dark brown the one second, so beautiful, but then they started changing, they started glowing in a deep yellow color and I felt my chest begin to shake as I sank to the floor, I hadn’t even let him kiss me but I had infected him with my virus somehow. The tears wouldn’t stop coming, I looked down at my hands and felt such anger toward myself. I was a monster, Groban was protecting me, a hybrid and I infected him with a virus, my virus. I thought as more tears started to fall.

It was burning up to the point that it was making me feel dizzy. “What the hell is going on Groban?” I gasped as I suddenly felt myself clutch onto my hand for dear life. “You’re busy with a transformation Laya, you’re wolf is wanting to evolve and take on a lycan one,” My eyes shot up to him in disbelief, “What!?” I was finding it incredibly difficult to understand what he was saying to me right now, “How is that even possible?”

A mate mark. “I’m happy for you,” Lydia said. Thalia smiled. “I’m happy too. And Knox… he’s a good guy. I’ve seen how you two look at each other.” Lydia smiled faintly. “Yeah, I guess so.” Thalia pulled out a necklace. The pendant was a woman’s head with snakes for hair—Medusa. It looked golden, but it felt alive. “This is my parting gift,” Thalia said, placing it around Lydia’s neck. “I can’t say goodbye at the garage—it’ll break me. So remember me until we meet again.”