Tony Earthbound Novels & Stories

"Agreed." He hesitated before stepping back. "Be careful out here, Aria. Not everything respects the bond." Then he turned and melted into the trees. I stood there, heart pounding, breath shallow. Lunelle returned minutes later. "You didn’t run." "Neither did he." She nodded approvingly. "Then maybe you’re both braver than you look." I smiled faintly, but it faded quickly. Because deep down, I knew she was right. The bond wasn’t just real,it was only beginning. And whatever was coming next... would change everything.

Because it will kill you. Arin Don't say anything. He took Isla in his arms. And stand up and shout Arin - "I am the son of the thunder god. I am an angel. I am returning Isla's life with all my strength. A magic circle spin around them. Arin put isla on the ground. Arin looks at Yama and says time has come man, your dreams come true. Yama could not understand anything. Just kept crying.Then the thunder god came and said,

Waiting. Something was coming. I could feel it in my bones. --- Two hours later, I wore a different face. Gone was the brooding warrior tangled in dreams and memories. Now, I was Gabriel Vermont, ruthless CEO of Vermont Blackstone Holdings, the multi-billion-dollar enterprise that oversaw silver mining, security tech, and discreet supernatural holdings in the East. I walked into the tower’s executive floor like a thunderstorm in a suit—black-on-black, tailored, perfect. The staff straightened as I passed. No one made small talk. No one dared.

Tony Someone shifted against me and I opened my eyes. Tasha was laying half on me and I shifted a little to pull her close to me. ‘Mine,’ a weird voice said in my head. I blinked in surprise. What in the hell was that? ‘My name is Tone. I’m your bear.’ Bear? What the hell? I didn't have a bear. ‘They marked us and I woke up.’ I looked down at her. ‘They? What do you mean they?’

Maybe the mystery backer was as strong as Ray and Alexis. Unfortunately, this question was proving to be the most difficult to draw out an answer from the two men. Both men remained silent at the boy’s enquiry, none willing to answer. The earth wielder had an ugly look on his face. He wanted to talk, he really did, but he was unable to speak a word. The gaze his leader gave him terrified him more than Abe. “Oh? It seems that I’m not trying hard enough” Abe remarked. Once he was done speaking four earth spikes rose from the ground at great speed. They were so quick that the target of those spikes wasn’t able to respond until after he was already run through.

His posture was firm, solid, commanding. He stood before them as immovable as the mountains themselves, his every step a projection of authority, a presence that could not be ignored. He was their Alpha, a force of nature, and he commanded the very air around him. There was no question of who ruled this land, no debate about his leadership. His words were law. And yet, despite the strength and resolve that emanated from him, Leora couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing.

He sank beside Lilly and I, his hand shaking visibly as he tried to steady himself. "Marcus, what's wrong?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper. He glanced around nervously before leaning in close. "I saw something," he whispered. Lilly’s eyes widened in horror. "What do you mean?" she whispered. Marcus's voice trembled as he recounted the terrifying scene he had secretly witnessed. "I was hiding in the shadows, my heart racing, as the guards dragged a screaming slave into Romain's lair. Romain was in his wolf form, bound in chains, but his eyes blazed with a fierce intensity. As they entered, he unleashed a blood-curdling howl, the sound sending chills down my spine.

The wall made a small, relieved sound when the picture came down; walls do not enjoy being accessories to euphemism. Evelyn watched from the stair, hair braided firm, the red scarf from Maera knotted in a looser confidence than yesterday. “Her true name?” she asked. Isolde set the frame on the console beside a bowl of pebbles that had once kept tulips honest. “Ellyn Taverne,” she said. “Her river name was Nell. She taught half a ward to read and the other half how not to be polite about what they’d read.” The new brass plate waited on the console, letters cut plain: ELLYN TAVERNE (NELL), RETURNED BY THE RIVER, SURVIVED.

Only his voice echoed which respected by Alcheron who now bended his knees and waited a second before he stood again. "Lord." Alcheron uttered and the man behind the terrifying voice replied again. "What's now Alcheron?" Alcheron faced the darkness and the stroke of lightnings passed through the only window up on the highest island of the room, which was the throne of the Lord. "Lord Treznor. Pardon.We your disciples have no report about your command. We did a lot but there are no traced that the traitor Deimos left in the old river of the Kerberos." Alcheron said that made the entire room filled with anger as the Lord shouted.

I could feel Luca beside me, his presence a constant, yet strangely distant in the growing storm of energy around us. The moment the light had burst forth from the stones, everything had shifted. The air crackled with raw power, a force that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. I could hear the low hum of the earth beneath me, the heartbeat of the land itself. But it was more than that. It was like the land was alive, breathing with us, responding to our bond.