Vox Machina Allura Novels & Stories

The first floor had been turned into a training room filled with numerous alienware gaming desktops, all of which were the most expensive model of the brand. “These computers are even better than the one we used for competition…” Alex was surprised as he approached those computers. Each monitor was labeled with the members’ exclusive gold stamping names, including his. Upon hearing that, the others immediately gathered around the desks, looking at the equipment with delight. Although the villa was huge and classy, it was not as impressive as the advanced equipment to this bunch of gamers. Noticing everyone’s happy faces, Xyla was pleased too. Her gratitude to Stanley Batton deepened once aga

I drove back to West Miami in a trance. My skin was stained with the very splatters of Saul’s blood. Vane’s cold, lethal twist played on a loop in my mind. The sound of the snap, the way Saul’s eyes had gone vacant. I pulled the Corolla up to the curb of my apartment building. But the sidewalk wasn't empty. Idling under a streetlamp was a machine that looked like it had been forged in the same dark furnace as the man sitting on it. It was a Combat Wraith, a custom-built powerhouse, trapped in a cage of steel.

"If I go down, I’m taking your 'Mother of Alphas' title with me. I want you to look into their eyes and see nothing but static!" ​The Machine’s Logic ​The automaton stepped through the smoke of the blown-out doorway. It was a terrifying fusion of the Vane-Security-Model-9 and the distorted consciousness of Alpha Vane. Its chest plate was translucent, revealing a miniature obsidian shard pulsing with a sickly amber light. The digital projection of Alpha’s face on its visor was flickering, his features stretching and warping like melting wax.

"It’s not your fault. This isn’t something a machine would catch. Not unless it was looking for it. By the time we left Valemount, Dr. Hernandez didn’t say much until we were comfortably seated inside the car. “I don’t know how you caught that Alora, but in all my years of being a doctor, I have never come across such a discovery.” “Thank you Dr” “You’re remarkable, Alora. I don’t know what part of you fascinates me more, your mind or everything else I’m just starting to see”.

He did something stupid for me and now, Now I just couldn't sit and watch him die. Cursed Chimera venom! What made it so bad was, I couldn't move him as the venom would spread faster. He would be dead before we reached the Quinn estate but I had another idea, One One enough to work. "Maisy! Maisy!" I yelled to her repeatedly but she remained unresponsive. When I got closer, I noticed she was trembling. "Maisy?" "Stay away from me!" She warned, Her eyes glazed, with fear. Her hard exterior was only a coping mechanism to help her adjust to the unheard horrors she had seen in one night.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 The world was upside down. Smoke curled from the van’s engine, smelling of burnt rubber and ozone. Maya’s ears were ringing, a high-pitched whine that competed with the rhythmic pulse of the progress bar flickering at the edge of her vision.

Maddox grabbed my hand. “Undressing? That is what one does before they get in the shower.” “It’s not ready for you.” Maddox went under the sink and pulled out a white hockey disc looking thing. “What is that?” He tossed it on the floor. “It’s a steam thing that is supposed to release calming shit and relax you or something. I’m not sure. Someone told me it would be good to relax you and calm… I think.” “Yes, alpha.” I barely got the words out when Maddox’s hand wrapped around my throat and pushed me against the wall.

Ermingard replied. “Put him on video feed...” Professor Morell blurted out. Ms. Ermingard placed the cellphone flat on the table and tapped something on the screen. A thin light came from the device, which widened out and created a 3D image of a frowning Professor Morell’s face. “Woah! What is that?!” Vincent exclaimed with joy, “That is just so totally cool!” “I know, right?” Dorin said, equally impressed, “And there’s not a thaum of mana used in it!”

It was sharp enough to cut someone’s neck on. “Max was my fathers beta. He is mine now. He tried to over take my father as an alpha and was punished to stay in wolf form unless given permission. And I don’t give him permission in front of strangers.” Informed Kent. “Oh—well please come in. Take a seat.” My mother almost broke her back as she bowed and led them to our couches, “‘Marianna, sweetheart, come out here.” I saw Marianna orange fabric before I saw her nervous face. She bowed as well and took a seat across from Kent.

"The firewall... it's biological! It’s using the Machine as a living brain!" At the center of the room, the machine moved. DEUS EX MACHINA. It stood ten feet tall, a skeleton of chrome and glowing red wires. It didn't have a human pilot this time. It ran on pure AI anger. WRRRRRM. The Machine’s eyes glowed crimson. It raised an arm cannon. "TARGETS ACQUIRED. FAMILY STERLING," a hollow, synthesized voice echoed. BOOM! A beam of concentrated plasma blasted the room. "Move!" Kael tackled Aurora, rolling her out of the blast radius just as the floor where she was standing melted into slag.