Shards Of Earth Novels & Stories

All the things I used to look forward to now cut deep into my heart. I quietly slipped into the shadows at the edge of the room without anyone noticing. My whole body was tense, but the tears kept falling despite how disgraceful it was. My chest ached as if it had been torn open. I pulled out my phone and sent my boss a message. "Something urgent came up. I'm leaving early." I got in the car, my mind blank. Suddenly, I remembered what the doctor had said and patted my chest, whispering to myself. "Don't cry… The doctor said I can't have any strong emotions… No crying…"

Shadows clawed the ground around her boots, unspooling faster than she could rein them in. Elara’s smile widened. “Oh, she’s cracking.” The duel escalated. Fire, shadow, steel — everything colliding in bursts that scorched the sand. Sierra and Malick fought as one, their threads pulling tighter with every movement. His shadow and hers tangled, indistinguishable. Too tight. Too close. She felt his heat, his fury, his fear — like they weren’t two people at all, but one body splitting apart. And then her control slipped. The shadows erupted from her chest, wild and jagged, tearing the ground open in black cracks that bled silver light. Elara stumbled back, for once her smirk gone. Gloria’s eyes

“Drop shields or I shoot.” Knight felt the peculiar solidity of Bones' telekinesis creep around his body. The invisible power became an impenetrable barrier between himself and the threat of a bullet to the brain, but it wouldn’t be enough. They were in foreign territory who knew where in the world with nowhere to run. Bones could only hold his shields up for so long, and their three heavy hitters were out cold.

His eyes are bright yellow and his skin has a glassy material jutting out from his hands and joints. “Shard of Chaos, third shard release: Entropy.” Nothing happens for a few seconds, then a star whizzes past at incredible speed, just barely missing Míriel. She rushes to attack him but stops to dodge another wave of asteroids. Then another star. Soon, more. And more things start flying across the system randomly. What is happening?, is what is on my mind. A particularly large star is headed for the battle planet we’re on, but Zeus flew through and destroyed it.

The arrival of the Entropy-Shards signaled the end of the honeymoon period for the Bicameral Sovereignty. It was one thing to share a planet; it was another entirely to defend it against the unraveling of the cosmic fabric. The black snow did not melt. As the Entropy-Shards drifted down from the darkening moon, they struck the sapphire plains with a sound like shattering glass, but instead of breaking, they began to "eat." Wherever a shard landed, the vibrant blue mud of Novus turned into a grey, powdery ash. The molecular bonds of the matter were being systematically unknotted, reduced to a state of zero-information.

This get away is more of a toxins related one. I need to get my mind off this bullshit. Now. S H A T T E R E D "ASSHOLE!" I grunted while laying another punch to the jocks now broken, bloody, damaged face. He was almost knocked out cold on the dirty alleyway ground as I kept his body pinned down which was almost two times bigger than mine. He pissed me off at the wrong time. I looked up for a split second during my chain of punches and that's when I saw it. The red and blue flashing lights.

Jarek shifts mid-leap, tearing into the shadows, but they’re endless. “Run!” Ryland barks, grabbing Selene’s arm. We sprint through the crumbling fortress, the shadows closing in. Selene clutches the shard, her glow flickering. “We’re not going to make it,” she gasps. “Yes, we are,” I growl, shifting to shield her. The shadows surge, their touch like ice. --- **The Third Shard** The final shard lies in the northern mountains, hidden in the tomb of the First Alpha. The air is thin, the cold biting.

The air shimmered, distorted by heat and magic. She dismounted, her boots sinking into scorched soil still warm beneath her feet. Ahead, the crater steamed , wide, deep, and glowing from within. Sienna stepped forward, drawn by something she couldn’t resist. At the crater’s center lay the shard , a massive fragment of translucent crystal, humming with the same pulse as her wrist. It was beautiful, terrible, alive. Her fingers twitched. She should have feared it. Every instinct screamed to stay back. Yet the closer she drew, the more the world seemed to fade , sound dulling, color draining, until only the shard remained, a beacon in the void.

It's not enough," Leo said. He was staring at the walking cities on the screen. "They have shields," Leo said. "Null shields. Our bullets will turn to dust before they hit the walls." "Then what do we do?" I asked. Leo looked at the Spire above us. "We need to wake up the rest of the family." "Family?" I asked, confused. "You're an only child, Leo." "Not me," Leo said. "The Star." He pointed to the map. To the deep earth. "The Northern Core wasn't alone. Elena guards the Southern Shard. But there are others. The old network. The Lay Lines connect them all." He looked at me with eyes that were suddenly very old. "If I can link the Core to the grid... I can pull power from every dormant shard

“She’s right. The molten dragon’s presence stabilized the path, but the rift itself is only one fragment. The Moonfire spreads, and its shards extend beyond this mountain. If we do not contain them, they could tear the Veil apart entirely.” Luna’s hands glowed faintly as she absorbed the warning. “Then we proceed carefully. Eyes sharp, hearts steady. We’ve survived the first trial—but the Moonfire Rising has many stages yet to reveal.” Shards and Shadows As they moved deeper into the basin, molten shards began protruding from the cracked earth, each shard radiating unstable energy. Some pulses were minor, like tremors, but others were violent enough to throw rocks and sand into the air. Torr