Raided The God's Warehouse Novels & Stories

as "Loss." Silas, Lyra, Kaelen, and Elora stood on the ruins of a skyscraper, their forms looking like flickering candles against the golden flood. Around them, the millions of newly-transformed "Shadow-Wolves"—the human population of Sector 0—were being "Harvested." The Market-God wasn't killing them; it was "Foreclosing" on their marrow, pulling the magic out of their bodies to pay for the "Cost of the Invasion."

One of them responded, raised his bottle of beer. "I still can't believe Dean made us rob his twin." A lanky one laughed. "He hates him, obviously." "And we all hate their younger brother Saint who's a threat our race" their leader spoke again. "The day we get that one? I'll gladly die with him." The others echoed loud laughter together, but not for long. The warehouse door was kicked open forcefully from outside. The force shook the whole warehouse so much they thought it'd crumble. The water drums behind the door fell chaotically over each other, flooding the place with unplanned erosion.

The staggering presence grew until the green sarcophagus reached within a mile from the battlefield. Unable to withstand the pressure any longer, a voice screamed, "It's the Divine Corpse! The Divine Corpse has awakened!" The peaking morale of the invaders pouring through the crumbling formation of the routed defenders immediately plummeted down a dark hole and the deserters felt themselves filled with renewed faith that their accursed order might be salvaged after all. "We're saved!" Exultant cries from the defenders tore through the air with whoops and exclamations of joy, "Come back, all of you! The Divine Corpse is awakened! The Divine Corpse is awakened!"

“I only remember one Claudius. And the way they talk, it could only be him. The mercenary and murderer Claudius, the leader of the “Black Skull” “Goddess. You're right. Claudius isn't too far away for the rogues to be here.” “We don’t know if the “boy” they said is Reed.” “What if it is? We can’t afford it.” The wolf bypasses the rogues and begins to wander through the abandoned warehouses. If they were there, it wouldn't be in one of the warehouses that were active.

“We are still investigating. I will let you know when we get something from it.” Aithan walked over to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. “Okay. Kindly notify me once you do. Be safe,” I added before I disconnected and turned to my mate. “Our warehouse was raided.” “What?” Aithan drew a step back. “When? How? By whom? Did they get them? Tell me they did.” I shook my head and let out a sigh. “They didn't.” It would have been great if they did. “What do we do now? Should we head over there? Were any of our men wounded? Do they need our help?”

I can see Lily and her mother out of the corner of my eye as I walk deeper into the den and take a sit on the comfy office chair in the corner of the room, folding my legs and watching them. “What warehouse are you talking about?” the mother asks. “Oh your husband did not tell you?” I say, feigning surprise. “You shut up.” Robert shouts. “Oh but they should know the truth, she is your wife after all she deserves it.” I say to Robert as I turn in the wife’s direction. “Not another fucking word, you bastard” He snaps at me “In the early hours of today one of your husbands warehouses was raided by some ‘unknown’ men and they made away with all of his drugs.”

Lucifer and Freya both leapt out of the gaping hole halfway up the gigantic warehouse, even as alarms and klaxons rang out inside and all around. They too fell down to the mega highway, smashed craters into the titacrete, and completely disrupted hopper traffic. At the same time, up above on the warehouse roof, Raijin’s Tsunami, Xylo’s Phantom, and Kali’s Rakshasa all powered on and rose up from their suddenly-deactivated antigrav platforms. Confusion and panic immediately set in as numerous warehouse workers ran in all directions - to wherever they felt was safest.

She looked like a queen, and I had just spent the last hour treating her like my favorite toy. "Matteo, talk to me," I barked into the phone, stepping away from the bed. I didn't care that I was buck naked and dripping. In this business, modesty is for people who aren't in charge. "Boss, warehouse 15... the one where we have a lot of new goods we want to send to Singapore. It’s gone. Stolen and all the men watching it, are dead. Only one of them survived.” "Stolen?" I growled into the phone, the word feeling like a piece of glass in my throat. "And my men? All of them?"

"Dad... go save Godmother! The bad men took her in there!" Elias's gaze went sub-zero. The Alpha aura radiating off him was so intense the air seemed to warp. He handed the boy to a guard. "Get him out of here. Somewhere safe. Now!" "Mr. Manwaring!" Two guards jumped in his way as Elias turned toward the other shed. "We've lost the element of surprise! That warehouse is packed with old gas canisters. If a fight triggers an explosion, this whole place goes up! You can't go in there!"

Mateo looked at my leg with worry. "I see you're hurt," he whispered. "I guess we have the same agenda," Andrew whispered. We all turned back to look at the warehouse. "We're going to raid this warehouse while the vampires are all distracted from Scarlet and Blacktail. We'll get everyone out of there and take off to the north. Are you in?" Mateo asked me. "Of course," I whispered. I couldn't just go without saving these guys after all. "I'm glad you came," I told him. I felt Destery nuzzle my back suddenly.