Shadow Glitch Novels & Stories

Golden arrows slowly emerged, timidly trying to chase away the shadows of the night. The great fire disc made its appearance. First, it emerged as a red line growing wider and wider until it rose victorious into the angelic blue sky, ready to stretch its arms over the whole earth. It tamed its color slightly, becoming comforting as it shyly soaked up the night frost with which you would think it was soothing its own color.

Flattering without being seductive. Like I had already said, the last thing I wanted was to give this man the wrong idea. I knew it was practically impossible, but I didn’t want to give sexual favors in return for this money. I was not desperate like that. Maybe I would consider it in a future time, but definitely not now. After pulling out the shoes I was going to wear—low heels—I went to the bathroom. Shower time was always scared to me, but I found myself rushing it. I already knew I was going to be late but I didn’t want to reach even later than I was originally supposed to.

She moved the dagger down in a fluid motion, as if she were cutting into the wards that were keeping me apart from Avalon. The wind began to pick up as Lilith struggled to cut through the portal. Her skirts and hair flying wildly about her. Her feet picked up off the ground as she continued her enchantment, by now she was all but screaming the words. Eventually light began to break through the cut in the nothingness before us, and suddenly a whole new scene appeared before us.

Shadowblade didn't exist in our world, nor did the monsters, so we need to try and allow the world to repair itself. "Okay, I'll give it a shot.”

I drove every fragment of my consciousness into the petrified muscle of my right shoulder. Ga-chi. The stone groaned, a dry, mineral friction that made my vision strobe with gold static. My fingers, fused to the hilt of my broken blade, didn't even twitch. I was the foundation, and the foundation was being purged. Kael’s digital shadow on the monitor didn't just flicker; it bled. The red sigil on the floor was mirroring his data-stream. His silhouette on the screen turned the color of a fresh kill, his white hair pixelating into jagged, crimson shards.

Cassius’s roar was a physical force, a shockwave that seemed to momentarily halt my violent journey. Gritting my teeth against the fire in my shoulder, I twisted, forcing a torrent of mana into my palm. I lifted my head just enough to see it: a knot of congealed night, a writhing mass of animated shadow with tendrils like whips of solid darkness. A Shadowveil. It was pulling me into its formless body. I aimed and unleashed a lance of amethyst light. The blast struck true, and the creature didn't just die; it unraveled, dissolving into a silent puff of black smoke.

A flicker of something trapped behind the black void. He is fighting. Inside. And losing. The shadow’s attention shifts. It turns its faceless head toward me. I freeze. It sees me. The air grows heavy. The vision begins to tear at the edges, like fabric pulled too tight. The shadow moves closer, sliding towards me. I feel cold pressure at my throat. Like invisible fingers testing my pulse. Then... Everything explodes into darkness. I slam back into my body with a gasp so violent it burns. Stone scrapes my palms.

He realized that he had made a shovel fall to the floor. “Who is it?” A guard’s voice emerged from inside the room with the cocking sound of an AK. Adam felt his blood abandon his head.

But the end of what was unclear. I searched the abyss and found nothing. Fear overwhelmed me; images started to appear one by one. Cleo, Prue, work, mum, and the last was Damian. Each disappeared as if they were smoke. Whisps filled the air and dissipated one at a time until there was only one left. The whisp from Damian floated across to me. It morphed into a guiding light as the ticking became faster. Something deep inside felt the pull; I needed to follow it. Step by step, one foot in front of another, I followed his light. It led me to a door in the middle of the abyss. The door stood solid in front of me as the whisp passed through it and disappeared.

Kessler's POV I looked around and realized that everywhere was still dark, so I looked around trying to figure out where I was, but all to no avail. "Where am I?" I shouted when I suddenly fell into a hole and my eyes opened to White Walls and different machines beeping around me. At first, it was blurry so I closed my eyes for a few minutes before I tried to open it again and realized I was still in the same place. The sunlight from the window prevented me from seeing clearly, so I moved my body a little to the left side and saw Seth sitting closer to me...