Starfire Smile Bones Novels & Stories

I ask. Her eyes are still closed and she holds up a finger as she continues to crunch the bones before swallowing them and opening her eyes. “Hmm, not bad,” she says, smiling at me. “I’m connecting to my hyena. It was Bajaro’s idea. She said hyenas eat the bones of their prey, and she thought it might help me connect to that part of me. I have to admit, it sounded gross, but I kind of like it,” she says, then growls before biting into the bone again and crunching her way through another bite.

The Beast clawed at my chest, shredding my starmetal shirt. "Burn!" I screamed. I unleashed a pulse of solar flare directly into its mouth. FWOOM. The fire went down its throat. The Beast didn't die. It swallowed. It drank the fire. Its stomach glowed orange for a second, then faded back to gray. It licked its lips. "MORE," a voice hissed from inside the beast. Not the Beast's voice. The voice of the Skeleton in the deep. The Beast clamped its jaws shut. My hands were inside.

It was clearly from a beast. "Mystic Supreme Bone." Orabella gasped in amazement. At that moment, Pacino's eyelids twitched uncontrollably, and his aged eyes flashed with a fierce intensity. "Gideon, seize it quickly. That's the finger bone of an apex overbeast. It is Mystic Supreme Bone, with countless incredible applications. We can't let it slip away." In reality, as soon as Orabella had cried out, Gideon had already activated his Solar Titan Physique, exuding an air of dominance.