Crossfire Novels & Stories

I felt the weight of everyone’s gaze, Alex and Elysia watching from the clearing edge, Remy stepping closer, silent as always. Remy’s eyes narrowed. “Frostfire,” he said softly. “It hasn’t appeared in generations.” I blinked at him. “Frostfire?” He nodded slowly. “A rare manifestation of Phoenix energy. Powerful. Unpredictable. Dangerous if left unchecked.” The flames pulsed once, then collapsed into nothing, leaving frost on the ground, shimmering faintly in the sunlight. My breath came in quick, sharp bursts. “You’re… extraordinary,” Twix murmured, studying me carefully. “You’ve inherited something beyond anyone’s expectations.”

Xander positioned himself in front of Vivi as Kane and Dax sprang into action, powerful bodies charging forward with unrestrained fury. Vivi’s heart raced. She wasn’t some helpless female; she could help. Focusing, she reached deep within, calling upon the Starfire—the energy within her swelling with warmth and luminescence, illuminating the darkness around her. The bond solidified, glimmers of connection soaring among her mates, burning as fiercely as a wildfire.

He revved the shotgun again, barreling into the next wave like a storm given flesh. Rafe watched it all, unflinching, his grin spreading. “Beautiful chaos, isn’t it? I could watch you burn all night.” Cruz’s fury spiked. He stepped into the open, rifle raised. “Then watch this.” He fired. Rafe ducked back, the bullet sparking off the steel container behind him. His men scrambled to shield him, shouting. Blade roared across the pier, smashing one with the butt of his shotgun. Gray cut down another, their blood misting the air like spray from the tide.

“Then we do this together.” Celeste nodded. “The first fire will be named. The justification dismantled. And the pattern broken.” Outside, the city lights flickered on as evening settled. The world continued, unaware of the history written into ash beneath its feet. Evelyn looked once more at the folder on the table. Fires. Names. Lies framed as necessity. The first fire had been lit in fear. This time, the truth would burn instead. And it would not stop until the pattern was gone.

FURY. It surged through her veins like wildfire racing over parched ground, hot enough to burn away every trembling thought. Her breath hitched, her vision narrowed, and the world became nothing but him. Cian’s sneer, his hand digging into her waist, the cold certainty in his eyes that she would break.

They quickly formed a new group chat and left out Cyrus, Zoey, Kenneth, and Chloe. Since the Frostfall began, every building had spawned dozens of side groups. Distrust and two-faced survival filled every corner. [What do we do? Cyrus is angry. He's going to kill us. We don't have guns. How can we fight him?] Someone finally found the courage to speak after the panic faded. [Cyrus doesn't talk sense at all. We only tried to discuss something with him, and he opened fire.] [What scares me is how many people he has shot in the last few days. How much ammunition does he even have? Why does a normal person have so many bullets? And how does he own a sniper rifle?]

Before the firefighters could check anything, Ruby yelled and sobbed. "Why must you keep targeting me, Janice? There's a fire! Why are you still trying to stop me when there's something as urgent as a fire?!" The firefighters looked confused and kept glancing between us. Danny also stepped in front of her and pointed at me. "Let them go in for the evacuation! How long are you going to keep this up?!" I was furious. They could target me all they wanted, but the people in that factory were innocent. They did not even care enough to perform basic fact-checking.

Programmed response lag—triggered by the comms blackout. Dark red Wildfire erupted from the greatsword, flaring for less than three heartbeats. The flame's color began to shift. Dark red to ice blue. Ice blue to ashen white. Each shift a precise counter-modulation of his scent frequency. By the third second, the Wildfire broke completely free of his control, surging back along the blade toward his arm. The old callus on his sword-hand hissed faintly under the ice-blue flames. High-temperature Wildfire reversed into low-temperature ice flame. His hand absorbed both burn and freeze simultaneously—two opposing physical forces tearing at the same flesh.

“FIRE!” Gunfire ripped through the night. Muzzle flashes lit the intersection in stuttering white. The smell of cordite and ozone mixed with the copper stink of the horde. Ara moved through the surge like the air itself had thinned around her. Empowered strikes shattered jaws. Kicks snapped necks. Her blade took heads clean. Daniel stayed tight on her blind side, sidearm barking without pause, dropping anything that tried to circle behind her. In the middle of the melee her HUD locked on with a steady, blinding light:

“This is Blaz Flame. This kind of fire can burn a person even if they are in armor.” “There are different kinds of fires?” Anna frowns. “A dragon can create three kinds of fires,” Lavi explains. “In human form, we can create the Blaz Flame and the Cold Flame. Cold Flame is the regular kind of fire which we see in every household. It can burn down a human but supernatural creatures can recover from it. A Blaz Flame is more dangerous. Any area burnt with this flame will result in instant death. Luckily, this flame does not have a long range. It is only for enemies who are up close.”