Nowhere For Very Long Novels & Stories

Joshua took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. "Send everyone out. Even if we have to turn the whole pack upside down, I want her found!" Charlie nodded and left immediately to issue the orders. But days passed. And no matter how many wolves they sent out, there was no trace of me. It was as if I had vanished from the world completely.

“Baby Doll, I love you, but you are dangerously close to getting left in Nowhere.” “You’d miss me.” “Eventually.” We finished saying goodbye, engines roared to life, and the Black Daggers rolled out of Nowhere with the Sons of Doom watching from the parking lot behind us. For the first hour, Marcus did surprisingly well. Then he started shifting on his seat. At first it was subtle enough that I might not have noticed if I hadn’t known exactly why he was uncomfortable. A few miles later he started standing slightly on the pegs whenever the road allowed it, lowering himself back down carefully before doing the same thing again several minutes later.

Andrew mumbled, pulling the blanket over his head. Andrea peeked out. “We don’t have school today.” I sighed. “Yes, you do. It’s Monday.” Andrew blinked slowly. “But… we’re not in Colombia anymore.” Andrea sat up suddenly. “Since when?” I gestured vaguely around the room. “Look around.” They both went quiet. “…Oh yeah,” Andrew said. “I forgot.” I stared at them. “How do you forget an entire country change?” Andrea shrugged. “So where are we?”

The real problem is simple. I feel nothing. And no amount of waiting will change that. Driving down Al Scoma Way, the universe throws us a rare bone and hands us a parking spot right next to the restaurant.

This time, the voice was back—but strained. "Attention, survivors. Due to... complications... you are being granted a rest period. You will be transported to a neutral zone. Duration: twelve hours. Use this time to... recover." The message cut off abruptly. The bus drove for what felt like forever. Finally, it stopped. The doors opened onto a space that was completely white. Empty. Featureless. "A neutral zone," Willow said. "I've heard of these. Rare. The system only uses them when something goes wrong."

Someone was meeting Nadia. At midnight. In secret. Who? I moved closer. I pressed myself against the wall beside the door. Voices drifted through the wood. I could not make out the words. Then Nadia spoke louder. “You should not have come here.” The stranger answered. Their voices were too low for me to identify. “I had no choice.” Then Nadia said something that made my blood run cold. “Not tonight.” The stranger replied. “We do not have much time.” I leaned closer.

~Aston~ I swear I’ve been running through this nothingness for far too long. I have no idea where I am or how long I’m supposed to be here. I would love nothing more than to be out of this space and back to the land of the living. I stop, stop running and stop thinking. I look around but see exactly what I expect, which is nothing. There’s no light and no shapes. There’s no sound or things. Even the fire is gone at this point, and I actually miss its presence.

The wind howls outside, whipping the trees into a frenzy. Adrian stares out the windshield, his breath catching in his throat for a split second before the confusion sets in. He looks around at the desolate landscape—no buildings, no lights, no store. Just dirt, rock, and a deadly fall. "Where the fuck is this?" Adrian snaps, turning to glare at Ryder. "This isn’t downtown. This is the middle of nowhere. Are you kidding me?" Ryder just shrugs, a small, enigmatic smirk playing on his lips. "I told you it was hard to find."

Most of all though, where even is here? That’s right, I don’t even know where I am still. It has been nearly a week now and not a word has been said. Apart from the Makedon empire, but where even was that? My thoughts of being in Greece have now been dashed. There is definitely nowhere like this place in Greece. Maybe we were somewhere in Asia? The question of when though is important to, we were clearly not in the same time as they would all be using guns, not swords and bows. Just what were those rocks? And what was that white space?

It was an assurance of her safety. I whipped out my cellphone and opened the app. It took the fucking app a couple of minutes to load. The location was in the middle of the ocean. In the middle of fucking nowhere. We're fucked.