Unbreakable Universe Novels & Stories

The golden light over Chronos Prime winked out, and in its place was the vibrant, chaotic, glorious technicolor of a billion free wills awakening. The Astropheles, its task complete, fell silent. The Stillness faded from its heart. We drifted, exhausted, saved, the cracks in our story slowly knitting back together, stronger for having been broken. It was over. The Canon was broken. The universe was free. We didn't know what would happen next. There would be chaos, conflict, joy, and tragedy—a universe of stories writing themselves, without curators, without authors. Jeff put his arm around me, his whole, real hand squeezing my shoulder. Lina leaned against us, spent but smiling.

Only one messaged from him and all my worries would be gone. “I hope he won’t get mad.” I whispered while staring the table out from the garden. Until now I couldn’t believe that our house was still the same. I thought Demir would let Laura lived here and changed everything. As I was about to stand the frame suddenly fell on the ground. My heart skipped in surprise to hear the loud bang and the broken pieces of glasses scattered on the ground. I was about to pick one of the broken glasses but it pinned on my fingers and so as my phone suddenly vibrated.

“I’ve never known. All I’ve ever known is that I don’t fit. That everything breaks around me. People. Places. Systems. I just break things.” Sethis rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah. Well. This isn’t just breaking things, darling. This-” His gaze flicked toward the wall again, still split between the fractured geometry and the corrected half that still hummed like it was waiting. “This was the universe trying to fix something.” Lucien’s arms folded tighter. His voice was low. “Or make it worse. Depending on the view.”

The Vow of the Vacuum Ethan gasped, his "Strong Frame" collapsing onto the "Gilded" floor of the docking bay. The "Universal Audit" was "Dead." The "Sovereign-Prime" was no longer a "God-Script"; it was a "Broken Asset" tumbling in the "Null State" of orbit. "Is it over, Dad?" Thomas asked, his "Friendly" eyes wide with "Raw" relief as he stood over the "Liquidated" cooling core.

They'd take a wolfless girl and her little sister, and they'd use the two of them to bleed me dry. Nora had spent her entire life being the thing other people used against the people she loved. I'd watched Victor do it with Lily. I would sooner cut off my own hand than become one more man who turned her own heart into a leash around her neck. Maybe, Rend said, quieter now, she's stronger than you're giving her credit for. Maybe she gets a say in what she's able to carry. Shut up, I told him, and pressed my split knuckles flat against the cold iron rail until they ached.

Not broken, not yet, but bleeding. To be continued…

This was precisely where the rift had been, he was sure of it. But there was only grassy earth where the hollow crack in the land had once been. He sat heavily upon it, balling his hands into fists. “The rifts are all gone,” said a strange voice, one Atticus couldn’t quite place. He looked up, scrubbing his sallow face and blinking blearily. Looking at the stranger was like looking straight into the sun. “They’re gone,” he said again, and Atticus decided the stranger was, indeed, a he. “Red Ripper is gone; so too are the nasty side-effects of their dangerous magic. The rifts were cracks in the very fabric of the world. No Red Ripper, no rifts.” He shrugged.

I will not let him have me. Each night, I lay on this cold floor, surrounded by the torment of my own thoughts, but I held onto that one truth, the only thing that kept me anchored in this hellish existence. The purity of my soul would remain my own. Even as Colton tried to break me down, even as he pushed me to the brink of insanity, I knew that I would never let him win.

However, we could only proceed with preparation because we might be their last hope. "We need more help." "We are. That's why Alpha Matthew and I try to reach out to our allies for help." He then placed the unfinished pie back on the table before giving his full attention to me. "I won't be around all the time. But Alpha Matthew will arrange a warrior to protect you, and you can definitely mind-link me anytime. My connection will always be open. Are you okay with that, Luna?" "Of course. Why wouldn't I be okay? You have a big task to do." A second later, I sighed heavily, knowing I was useless in this situation. "Only if I can help."

He picked it up fast, his hands fumbling with the phone. "Mom? Mom, calm down...what? What do you mean you're arguing with Selene...Mom, stay away from her... she's unstable... Mom..." A loud crash came from the phone, audible even to the people sitting nearby. Dorian's eyes stretched wide, panic flooding his features. "Mom? Mom!" Voices shouted on the other end. Someone screamed, a high, terrible sound. Someone cried. There was the sound of things breaking, of chaos. Then the call ended abruptly.