Ugly Duck Novels & Stories

My stomach flips. Where, in bloody hell, are we now? With the lighting, I take a proper look at the 'person' that dragged me in here, and instantly, I regret it. It is NOT a person at all. It’s got duck’s feet. Webbed and filthy, stomped through slime. Its arms? Of course, it's chicken feet! Thin, gangly like bent twigs, and ending in those hideous claws. But the worst of it, the absolute worst, is its head.

The final champion of the Lunar Rage awaited them in the ruined central quad of Blackthorn University. It was a nightmare given colossal form — a towering abomination made of fused bodies, twisted faces of their fallen friends and family screaming silently from its flesh. It stood over fifty feet tall, pulsing with pure rage and hatred. “You dare bring new life into my world?” the creature bellowed in thousands of overlapping voices, including Elara, Viktor, Tyler, Mia, and Marcus. Kael shifted into his most powerful wolf form yet. Serena’s hands blazed with violet fire. Damien became a living storm of shadows and blood.

Jo pretended to shiver as she danced, the snow getting heavier to indicate the storm. Jo appeared to be buried in the snow, then suddenly burst out of the snow costume, no longer gray but white, as if she were a swan. As the sun came out, all the other kids danced and watched as the once ugly duckling joined the swan queen, Christina, and danced off stage with the others, waving goodbye. “In the end, Ugly Duckling learned she was never a duckling, a frog, or a kitten. She was always a beautiful swan.” I concluded the story.

Most of the females that I know looked like porcelain dolls, while I was nothing to write home about. I have never been bothered about how I looked or appeared to others but after experiencing this level of hate from Conan, then I was certain his hate must be triggered by my ugly appearance. The only person who accepted me was Aniella. To Aniella, I was like a flower who would boom like a princess when the time was right. She was the only one who made me feel like I deserved to live. My face was covered with acne and different dark spots, my legs and hands were neither smooth nor pale, instead, it was littered with scars. Maybe that was why he developed a feeling of hatred when he discovered

'Your runaway filthy brother who kidnapped the princess! ... Volumptuous beauty twirled her swan like enticing body carving out in space, her sensuality beaming through the voice of her moves as hazel orbs were stuck on her breathtaking curves shaking to the beat, alluring like the flower of the spring. Daksh emptied the wine glass as he recklessly threw it against the wall, shattering roar trembled the dancing doll as she haulted her steps in mid air, stupified by his sudden aggression.

"That toad Ursula just doesn't know when to keep her tongue from flapping." Chelsea's mind wandered back to the woman with the puffy face. "Her name is Ursula? What is this, a twisted remake of The Little Mermaid?" he quipped, earning a scathing glance from Ethel. She gritted her teeth and snorted, "I think that bump on your head did more damage than we thought, you're sounding dumber by the minute!" "Says the person who pushed me into having that bump!" Chelsea snarled, his eyes flashing with anger.

I keep my eyes down not to meet any of the sneers in the classroom. Stay strong. Breathe. Sadly, I can't ignore the whispers. The popular girls are already at it, talking about me while throwing me dirty stares. "Oh, look, it's the ugly duckling." I'm the ugly duckling. "Does she ever change her clothes?" No, I have no money or parents to pay for new ones. "Aren't her parents like... Alcoholists?" They are. "I heard they threw her out." I left. "She lives in an apartment together with Ciara and Zendra."

I muttered, looking at his foggy eyes. But he didn't stop, his hands grabbed my face again and those blue eyes seemed to stare deep into my soul. "You're so beautiful, ugly duckling." Me? Beautiful? I knew Gina was way more pretty than I could ever be. I was extra curvy and he'd always called me ugly duckling since I was a kid. “Stop this, Kaelen, I think the drugs are getting to you," I muttered, looking down, “and you're my sister's boyfriend."

He says clearing his throat. "Can you please let me stay here for a while?" She says clenching her jaw, very clearly showing that she's pissed. "Sure, it will be my pleasure to have you as my house guest, right Suki?" He asks Suki, she barks playfully and smiles sticking her tongue out. "Thank you." She bows to him. He smiles at her like an idiot, there, the girl he fell in love with is back. She just turned a bit stupid; not turned she was made into a stupid by that cruel man that she loves. How can she love him if all he does is inflict pain on her? Love isn’t supposed to make one cry, it is supposed to make one happy and if one is always sad and crying then that’s not love.

Just as she was about to turn the last corner, she began to tremble in fear. "Hey look what we got here " a red-head girl called out and the other girls turned towards Lily Winter's direction. "Wow, Miss ugly you look so stuck at 90's with this outfit you're wearing" another girl mocked. "If you ask me that fit an ugly duck like her, she won't look any better even if she is wearing the nicest dress in Vogue, a duck can't turn into Swan overnight" the meanest looking girl with heavy makeup and thick mascara on commented dryly and turned back her attention to her phone.