Halo: The Pillar Of Autumn Novels & Stories

He was losing in his own game. Silvia blinked rapidly trying to stay conscious. "Ah," A soft moan left her lips and her breath hitched, eyes going wide as saucers. Hunter paused, pulling back he looked into her eyes. Hazel dunes with specs of violet gazed into jade spheres with specs of gold swirling in them. The intensity of their smoldering gaze had them both consumed by the invisible aphrodisiac that flickered in the hot air that cocooned them. None of them broke eye contact. He licked his lips and her eyes dropped down to those full pink lips before meeting his gaze again.

Her body hadn’t stopped shaking, her skin clammy with sweat, and her breaths shallow as if she were trapped somewhere deep inside a nightmare. Then I noticed it. A soft glow began to rise from her chest, subtle at first, then brighter, warmer. My brows furrowed as the source revealed itself: the pendant she always wore. It floated, weightless, just above her skin. The light it cast was golden, pulsing like it had a heartbeat of its own. I blinked, unable to look away. Was this... magic? A relic? Something ancient? My heart pounded as questions raced through my head. Who exactly are you, Lyra?

“But I didn’t. Because you were with me. And when I took you in my arms, the pain disappeared. For both of us.” She didn’t want to believe it—but even without Circe, she knew he was telling the truth. “So what are you saying?” “I’m saying, for some reason, we cancel out the mate bond pain when we’re together. That’s why we have to leave. If we stay, someone will notice—and now that they’ve marked each other, it’s going to get worse.” The truth hit her like a slap. Thalia and Harold had marked each other. Already. “I promise, Lydia, once we return to my pack, I’ll help uncover everything. Just give me time.”

Clarice casually commented. Demetria continued her narration, “Someone alerted this guy to his impending arrest. When the elders arrived at the island, all the five hundred women had already plunged into the cliff in mass suicide, refusing to be parted from their false God. His mind control over the women was both excellent and terrifying. It’s horrific to see 500 dead bodies of women floating in the sea, reaching the shore, shocking the villagers. A mass grave was held, and Grandpa Mortaz arrested this guy, putting an end to the tragic Harem cult.”

Jade’s power pulsed in waves, laced with something new—panic barely contained by bone. Autumn spoke first. “I saw Mara.” Whispers erupted. One of the elders, an albino vampire with no eyes, leaned forward. “The Hollow is waking.” “She tried to pull me under,” Autumn said. “She’s inside the veil.” “No,” Jade said softly. “She’s beneath it.” That silenced the room. “What does she want?” asked Dominic. Autumn’s voice barely rose. “Me.” --- Later, in the quiet sanctuary of the Mirabella library, Autumn traced her fingers over the open Book. Pages turned with the wind, but one stopped her—a prophecy she hadn’t seen before.

"She is the 'Seed' that refuses to grow. We are here to ensure the harvest is uniform." Behind him, the Processed began to spill into the cathedral of frost. They didn't come with anger. They came with the indifference of a tide. Men and women I had seen weeping for their lives hours ago were now moving like drones, their hands outstretched to begin the liquidation of the vials. "Julian! Protect the pillar!" I screamed. Julian didn't hesitate. He grabbed a heavy iron shard from the tunnel floor and stood before the thawing Custodian, his face a mask of grim defiance. Selene moved to my side, her hands glowing with a faint, residual blue light—the last echoes of her parity with the system.

Elena watched patterns, understanding how favour and fear balanced in shadow economies. "Lot seventeen," the auctioneer announced. "Information on Project Moonfall—government program targeting supernatural communities. Bidding opens at fifty million or equivalent exchange." Elena's enhanced hearing caught accelerated heartbeats. Several supernaturals leaned forward, personal stakes obvious. She recognized opportunity. "PhantomByte offers alternative," she announced. "Not purchase, but trade. I'll decrypt and distribute Project Moonfall freely in exchange for collective favour…one minor assistance from everyone here, callable within five years."

“And I ended up hungry, so I decided to have breakfast here to get to know a bit of the rest of my new pack.” I walked to the chair Diana had pulled out for me to sit. I noticed the four people present besides Roamur exchange glances, as if trying to figure out how they should react. “So,” I said, smiling at them. “Nice to meet you. I am Violet Karin, Rayan’s Luna.” “Nice to meet you, Violet,” the middle-aged woman with a white bob on the other side of the table said. “My name is Aurora, I am Orion’s mate, the Alpha’s counselor.” She gestured toward the older man, who nodded and bowed his head in my direction.

said Cornelio. Cornelio stick his sword into Varniant’s head. “[Extracting the core.]” said Appsylon. Varniant type never stop screaming while the core is extracted. When the core already extracted, his sword thrown a huge Cartridge of harvested core. “Herrscher, how’s your status?! We got no visual from outside of the cocoon!” said the commander. “He defeated it …” Said the PRD-class. “What?” said the commander. “Squad 105 LST-class Herrscher, Cornelio Halozy successfully extracted the core of the opponent. Unknown Varniant path has been defeated!” Said the PRD-class.

My wings were gone, my power was a memory, but my legs still knew the path through the refinery’s guts. We burst onto the surface of Lagos just as the countdown hit 00:45. The sky was a bruised, terrifying violet. The Atlantic was retreating from the shore, the water being sucked back into the horizon—a "Tsunami-Warning" that the earth was about to buckle. Three miles out, the silver wreckage of the Celestial Pillar was glowing with a blinding, radioactive white. I saw him. A white speck moving across the surface of the water, running with the speed of a "Void-Wolf." Dante didn't stop at the hull. He dived into the gaping wound of the ship’s reactor core.