Hermit Edens Zero Novels & Stories

I The wind embraced the bodies of Draeko and Grazziena and thereafter it slowly faded. Draeko and Grazziena looked at each other. “Did you feel that, Sweetheart?” Grazziena asked with astonishment. Draeko nodded and whispered to her right ear, “Yes, I did, Sweety. Let us relax, Thutaara did nothing to hurt us and I really hope, she won’t anymore.” “We will be praying for that, Sweety.” She gave him a glance and then smiled with a bit of relief flashed through her beautiful face.

As he leaned down and kissed my forehead, his gaze slowly moved to my flat abdomen, and endless regret filled his eyes. For the first time, he felt truly despicable, and yet, he was greedily clinging to that stolen peace. He was too afraid to imagine what would happen once I regained my memories… Outside the hospital room, Aunt Helena watched everything through the glass window. Her fists were clenched so tightly her knuckles turned white. George’s underboss patted her shoulder and sighed. “For Donna Bella, this outcome might be the best one. She’s forgotten all that pain. At least right now, she’s happy. The Don looks like he truly knows he was wrong. Let him make up for it.”

Hair scattered across her neck. Alexander stayed over her. Not moving away. Not letting go. His fingers traced the new golden sigil on her skin. Deep inside the destroyed control system, a surviving crystal relay flickered. The erased countdown reformed itself. Not green this time. Gold. A final line appeared: [ZERO TOXIN ORIGIN CONFIRMED — EDEN DESCENT COORDINATES: UNLOCKED FOR THE NEW KING]

"They’ve targeted the Lagos-Central Rift! If that Seed isn't neutralized, the orbital lasers will fire!" Dante was at my side, his "Dormant" body shivering from the cold of the mercury. He didn't have the Wolf’s heat to protect him anymore. He was just a man in a tattered tactical vest, his skin pale, his eyes wide with a terror that was purely human. "I’m not surrendering it!" I screamed, my hands clawing at the glass floor beneath the liquid silver. "I’m not giving them another soul to farm!" "Then you have to push the frequency out!" Arthur roared. "You have to birth the 'Zero-Point' here, now! Use the mercury as a conductor! Send the blast into the Trench, not the city!"

Talus was still standing by the glass case; Herman had blood on his mouth, and the Thorn of the Bond was pulsing more strongly. “She’s moving,” Talus said. “I know.” “And the fourth name has heard the command.” The lights went out. For a moment, the only light was the red glow of the relic, and then a white flame appeared inside the case. It gave off no heat, and it didn’t consume glass, but Herman screamed when he saw it. “That must not cross,” he said in a broken voice. “They don’t understand. It doesn’t kill bodies. It kills everything the gods touched.”

She was in pain. “I'm sorry”. I whispered to her and forced my eyes closed. Letting out a shaky breath, I placed my hands on her baby. “Limiosidesha”. I chanted over and over again as a blue light left my heart. I was giving it to her. We were running out of time.

“Listen, maybe we should deal with your unconscious biter first? And since when did she start biting you like a rabid dog? Is this some new kink I had no idea you developed or what? I’m lost.” As I rambled off, a slight smile spread across his lips. Lucius still held the goddamn head as he approached me and slapped his hand on my shoulder. “Eden isn’t exactly a human, if that’s what you’re asking. I think this proves my point for all those times I repeated she was special, no?”

He did his usual thing where he sat me at the table and headed off to get a tray for us to share. Jared and Shane and some of the other guys had started following his example. Lately more and more people have been coming by the table, to say hello or to hang. There was something strange going on at Eden High; the shift was almost palpable. I had missed it in the beginning, too preoccupied with my own blossoming affair. Belle has been keeping me posted though she herself wasn't sure what was the cause of the power change. Daily it seemed more and more, that the once popular girls were losing their following.

Hermes felt a powerful hand grab at his neck, lifting him so that his feet were inches from the ground. Elektris narrowed her eyes then, with an abrupt jolt, swung her arm around and threw Hermes across the street as if she was tossing a ball. Hermes hit a tall building with a jumbo tron on it. The large screen had been displaying a report that the earth was under an alien attack and—

were beginning to dock. ​"Today, the Gutter is empty. The Market is closed. And the 'Debt' is a word that our children will have to look up in history books. We are no longer the 'Heirs of the Rogue.' We are the Stewards of the Sun." ​The Gift of the Eternal Bloom ​Kaelen reached into his tunic and pulled out a single, glowing seed. It wasn't the Andromeda-Seed or the Triangulum-Signal. It was the Whirlpool-Core, the result of the "Humanization" of the Zero-Protocol.