Half Face Blades Cardiac Spike Novels & Stories

But he pulls a trick out of his hat, rendering me speechless and in pain. A cold blade cuts into my ribs, plummeting into my body as he presses it painstakingly slowly, smiling with every inch that enters my body. He holds his weight with one hand beside my face, snarling as he looks into my eyes with no remorse. I grab his arm in an attempt to prevent any further blade from pressing down into my tissue, but he continues until there's no more blade to enter me.

Sizzzzzz. The drone drove the copper wire straight into the petrified heart valve. The needle didn't just pierce; it bored. My quartz heart gave a sudden, violent lurch, the gold static spiking so hard it blinded my internal retinas. I felt the 14-B virus shriek as the copper suture established the first manual ground.

She buried her face in her bloodstained hands, feeling helpless and drained. A few minutes later, the doctor reappeared, his expression serious. "Ms. Anderson," he said gently, "we’ve encountered an unexpected complication. Your mother’s heart condition is more fragile than we anticipated, and the recent blow to her head has caused additional stress on her cardiovascular system. The trauma might have triggered a spike in her blood pressure, which is interfering with her ability to undergo the surgery safely. We need to review her medical history, specifically the documents from her last surgery, to understand how the previous procedure may have impacted her current condition and how we can m

"I thought you were going to tell me more about your little project! Come on, keep talking!" "I am going to peel the skin from your face for that." His voice dropped into a dangerous, vibrating register that made the air itself seem to tremble. He swiped his left hand through the air, and three sharp, purple psychic blades materialized, launching straight at my chest with deadly precision.

His knife—a monomolecular blade that could cut through enhanced armor like tissue paper—traced a silver arc toward Griffin's exposed back. Only years of combat training saved Griffin's life. He spun with inhuman grace, the blade grazing his ribs instead of piercing his heart, drawing a line of fire across enhanced skin that healed even as the cut was made. But Twin B's assault didn't pause—he flowed from the missed strike into a grappling maneuver designed to break Griffin's neck with mechanical efficiency.

My nipples rapidly tighten into hard tingling points, and I fervently wished he would reach out to play with one of them just to relieve the aching a bit. Jack scooted to the edge of the bench until I was positioned right between his legs. Then snapped his hard thighs closed so I was unable to move back or forwards as he finally revealed the thing in his hand. It was a large sliver flip blade pocketknife and with one smooth motion, he flipped it open. He kept his eyes glued on my face watching it closely for signs of pain. I sucked in a breath, as a sense of panic began to rise as I watch him check the sharpness of the blade before leaning forward and laying it flat on my thigh.

He grabs my face and turns it toward Cael, who is holding our mother while she bleeds onto the stone, and toward the other me, who is staring at me with pure terror in his amber eyes. The knife in my hand pulses once in time with my own heart, then again in time with Cael's, then a third time in time with the other me. I cannot tell which heartbeat the blade wants, and I cannot stop my arm from rising.

And why did every single crisis in his life seem to arrive at the exact moment he stepped outside his own territory? I pressed the wound spreader in gently and located the second bleed site and my jaw tightened. There it was. Small but insistent, tucked behind the muscle tissue exactly where Adela's tools hadn't been able to reach, and the reason the readings had been inconsistent was because it was mobile, moving with Celeste's breathing, which meant the only way to deal with it was to be faster than it. "Clamp," I said. Adela handed it over. Three minutes and forty seconds later, I had it.

She replied, "I believe in making things happen. Cecilia, your triumph won't last long." Over the next half month, Blake personally delivered Zach's medical report to Kai. During this period, he discovered the most significant issue. There was a sharp fragment of a knife near Zach's heart. A minor lack of caution could result in the sharp fragment cutting through the blood vessels of his heart, leading to massive bleeding or death from ruptured vessels. This was the reason Zach had been in a coma for such a long time. Blake worriedly asked, "What should we do now?" Kai responded, "He has to undergo surgery as soon as possible."

He lunged, moving with a jerky, unnatural speed. I dove into the dirt, the void-blade whistling inches above my head and shearing a massive cedar trunk in half like it was dry straw. I rolled, my "wolfless" body feeling heavy and slow, but my mind was operating at the speed of a supercomputer. "Aris! The Faraday-Smoke!" I shouted into my comms. "He’s using the city’s old frequency to stabilize the graft! I need a Magnetic-Spike on my coordinates!"