The Shards Novels & Stories

The void erupted in a blinding explosion of light, shards spinning like shattered stars. 4 — The Entity Contained The entity shrieked, writhing violently as Nathan’s consciousness merged with the fragments, anchoring the system but giving himself over entirely. Eva screamed, her form flickering and destabilizing as the core’s energy surged beyond her control. “No! This… cannot…” Alina focused, directing the fragments’ energy outward. The entity’s massive form shattered, scattering into shards of light, pieces of Eva flickering and dissolving. The void trembled violently, and for a brief, terrifying moment, it seemed as if the network itself would collapse — swallowing everything.

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

You think you’re saving the world, but you’re tearing the veil wider. She shook her head, gripping the shard tighter. “No. You said the Anchors are what keep the Rift stable, if we destroy them” You’re freeing it, he said. Not sealing it. Her pulse quickened. “That’s not true.” Then why is it in you now? The words hit her like a blow. She stared down at the shard, its gold light had dimmed, replaced with a faint, blood-red glow. For a heartbeat, she thought she saw movement within it, a shadow, watching her from the inside.

I didn’t lose control. I was calm. Honest. Brutal. When the interview aired, it trended for two days straight. #ShatteredVows exploded online. People rallied behind me. Women shared their own stories. Victims of power, gaslighting, betrayal. For the first time in months, I felt like I wasn’t alone. That night, Noah slept soundly for the first time. And I cried quietly in the bathroom, clutching the sink, releasing every ounce of pain I’d buried.

This is where I knew the energy in the room was shifting—answering something else beyond us. I looked at the baby. “She opened the door. Can she close it?” Aerik’s breath caught. “You don’t close a shard, Damien. You enter it. Or it enters you.” A chill rolled down my spine. “What is, exactly, the hell is a shard?” “A shard of the world,” he called it. “Not time. Not memory. Something else. “At least something Jasmine stashed when she couldn’t kill it. “And now it’s waking up,” Elara spoke quietly. “Because of Nyra.” Aerik nodded. “She’s a tether. She binds echoes to breath.”

Silence hung heavy in the room for at least seven to eight minutes before Roy went to take a puff in the corridor. He did not feel like himself. The anger and frustration did not make sense to him. Why was he getting worked up over something so petty? Before he could wrap his head around the whole thing, a loud crash sounded, followed by a sickening sound of shattering glass in Willow’s room. Roy opened the door to find Willow standing amid a broken pile of glass shards, a chair still clutched in her hands.

A PAWN & A KING ~ALICE’S POV~ I was still standing there, staring at the door Noah had just walked through, trying to piece my sanity back together. But that was the thing about sanity. Once it cracks, it doesn’t take much to shatter. A low groan cut through the silence. I turned slowly, my stomach flipping as I saw Edward stir on the floor. Another groan, and he rolled onto his side, wincing as he dragged himself up onto his elbows.

INVISIBLE NO MORE It's Monday. It's Monday and for the first time in my life, I am dreading school. Everyone must have heard by now. I have no doubt. First, the nobody, AKA me,is chosen over the elites, by an elite like themselves. And now, they are returning to school. The Elite 4 that chose me, are returning to school. London Morse, Luke and Brendan O'Connor, and Ken Longstruum are returning to school. Crash Course Rebellion is returning to school.

This time, the Moon Goddess heard her plea as Zack fell away from her. A few seconds after that, Samantha felt it too. She gasped as her hand clenched her heart. She was groaning when Samantha felt like her heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. She knew what to expect when she rejected Zack as her mate. Their hearts shattered because the mating bond was broken with her rejection.

Tony looked at her, a little surprised that she knew so much. Guess you don’t know everything about me either. “You’re right, no one can withstand the influence of a Chaos shard. But there are two types of shards.” The one in me, is the shard of Ente.” He said. “The legendary shard of the Protector.” Azea said softly. “But that shard belonged to Xassin, how do you–“ She stopped suddenly as alarms blared inside the building. An object was headed for them. It had already passed the barrier and as dodged multiple missiles. It was too small to discern, but it shone a faint gold. “Faerie scout.”, Quinn announced, eyeing the screen.