Jasper Hale Eclipse Novels & Stories

he began. Memories from a while ago were drawn-out from the back of my mind. The night the wolves came, the night I got lost, the same night I met Ivan, well ,accurately speaking, when he met me, I was passed out when it happened. The young man went on to explain, " whenever Master Hale, Jasper, goes out running, especially on full moons, I take time to indulge in one of my hobbies, astronomy. It happened for a short while, eighteen minutes to be precise and few took notice, including me. The moon was red."

Jean held her youngest daughter close as she reassured her. “I don’t understand mom, how did the barrier fail?” “I don’t kno-“ she was cut off in her reply as her eyes shot up toward the darkening sky, her green eyes widened in horror. “No, it can’t be,” Alexa followed her gaze and landed on the solar eclipse, almost complete as the moon and the sun met. “An eclipse?” she asked confusedly. “How could they have known? There’s no way,” Jean sprung up as she watched the eclipse complete, and the world plunged into complete darkness.

They'd gotten them, Lun thought. Both Gideon and Ethan smiled. Alissa looked at her with a raised eyebrow, still touching the beer glass with her fingertips. Then, her eyes were riveted on the man standing next to her. His blue eyes seemed to be able to see inside her. Gradually, a mischievous smile appeared on his handsome face. He raised a black eyebrow at her. Yes, they had caught them.

The pair of linen dolphin shorts of the same color loosely swayed as she moved towards him. "Please leave, let us meet tomorrow during the Annual meeting of the Wushi-Chin Cooperation Funds Mr Chandler Chin." Retrieving the gun placed on top of the dark sheeted bed, he stood up, inches apart from her. She felt a bit short when she looked up to meet his eyes. "Hila-" He was interrupted by her narrowed eyes that basically said 'Call me that again and your family won't have to worry about your succession'

It burned so cold it was hot. "Jack." Haley’s voice was small, barely audible over the surf. She was sitting cross-legged on the sand a few meters away, her neon-pink laptop open on her knees. The screen’s glow illuminated her face, which was streaked with grease and tears. "What is it, Hales?" Jack asked, his voice rasping. He sounded like he had swallowed broken glass. "I... I was trying to triangulate our position," Haley said, tapping a key. "But the GPS is dead. The satellite uplink is dead. But look at this."

“Only once. Near the end. One of the guards said something about ‘preparing for the Eclipse.’ That they needed the bloodline intact.” The room went quiet. I felt the familiar burn behind my eyes, the heat of fear rising in my chest. The Eclipse. It had always been a myth, a warning buried in prophecy. But now it felt closer than ever. “What changed?” I asked. “Why now? How did you escape?”

Leia asked unable to use her baby brain while Michael and I looked at each other in realization. “The Solar Eclipse,” I muttered out looking at her for assurance and nodding her head at me she said, “Yes, the Eclipse. I saw an Eclipse in my dream and I am pretty sure that this was exactly what the goddess had been pointing at.” “Ephialtes can only be defeated during a Solar Eclipse.”

“It’s a time of worship.” “In the book about myths and legends from my childhood,” I tell him, “there was a myth that said lunar eclipses were the only time the Moon Goddess slept, and her followers spent the night dancing and singing and offering tithes at her temples so she’d awaken again and bless them with her light.” We stand in silence and watch the eclipse reach its peak. “Do you think Ella can see this where she is?” Isaac asks. I don’t let my surprise, and relief, at the mention of her name show. He’s barely spoken of her since she left.

I used to think I wouldn’t be leaving her side, but I think the Goddess had different plans. I turned to look at the man in the carriage behind us. He wore a fedora that cast a shadow on his face, black trousers that looked a bit too big, and white button-up sleeves that had a tiny pocket with a small watch attached to it. He pulled a scroll behind him and unwrapped it in front of us. “I’m ordered to assist Harvey Sebastian and Eleanor Trevino for a safe trip to Azen,” the chaperone read through the scroll. But he scanned all of us in confusion.

"Right beneath the cargo bay. We need the blast to come from underneath, to shatter the containment and trigger the Stone’s core." I can feel the stone exerting pressure in the back of my skull. A void waiting to be filled. "It’s going to work," I say, mostly to myself. Kaleb slides out from under the truck, wiping grease from his cheek as he walks over to me. "It has to," he agrees. He looks at the eastern sky. The horizon is beginning to gray. "Dawn," he says. "The Eclipse starts in six hours. Totality is at noon." Six hours to wait. Six hours to sit around with a bomb and a prayer.