World First Novels & Stories

she said as she points towards the swing where no one was playing. "Sure," I simply answer as I follow her to teh swing set. "Okay, I'm going to reintroduce myself to you. My name is Airel Mae Weston. I came from a different world. From a dimension called Endalia, it's widely known as a magical dimension. That dimension has an abundant source of magic, although no one knows exactly why. The planet I'm living in is called Celestial Planet. Currently, it has only one Kingdom, the North Star Kingdom. The ruler of that Kingdom is our Queen Louise. She is also your... sister," Airel explains, while staring at my reaction.

Our life. This is the top of the world.

And the world feels vast, alive, and waiting. For the first time, I step fully into it.

Marcus stepped forward. "Can somebody explain what's going on?" The woman looked toward him. "You're standing inside the remains of a civilization that vanished before recorded history." That certainly wasn't the answer Marcus wanted. "What civilization?" "The First Kingdom." Confusion immediately spread across the room. Nobody had ever heard of it. Not historians. Not hunters. Not vampires. Nobody. The woman continued speaking while the survivors listened carefully. "Before Valenfort existed, before vampires appeared, before humanity built its oldest cities, another civilization ruled this world."

The room became silent. The Former King's eyes narrowed. "What was it?" The First Memory hesitated. Then answered. "The first civilization." Nobody moved. Nobody breathed. The first civilization? Before kingdoms? Before history? Before everything? The woman nodded slowly. "As far as modern existence is concerned..." A pause. "...Genesis created reality." The silence that followed was almost painful. Kael blinked. "That's impossible." The First Memory smiled sadly. "Most important truths are." Nova felt her stomach tighten. Because suddenly, the dream felt far more important.

A violent storm suddenly swept through the western side of the city. At both the hospital and the Cartwright Group headquarters, the electrical systems began malfunctioning over and over again. The wiring was brand new, yet the power would short-circuit out of the blue. Entire buildings would fall into darkness before the electricity was restored minutes later. Dean knew exactly what it meant. These were the signs of the world collapsing, and every time another abnormal event appeared, the System’s warning became more frantic. System: [World Self-Destruction Countdown: 15 hours, 12 minutes remaining.]

I guess goodbyes can make you miss those things you once thought, would be better, gone. I didn't mean like it was a permanent goodbye but yeah, it was a goodbye to my home, my neighbourhood for the first time in my life. My arms were folded, overlapping one another when I felt something cool on my left wrist. I looked down and realised that it was a drop a tear which made me frown a little; I was crying and I wasn't even aware of it. "Funny," I whispered to myself, chuckling humourlessly.

The love could’ve been looming over your cotton-soft heart since your birth, or an acquired intimacy for it one day while sat in the wool; for as long as one had as ever trod shoe-leather. Those were some of the thoughts Venin had the moment his country had been attacked by its neighbour with their tanks and their bombs; and their bombs and their guns. And as his head thought about how the world had always been a roundabout of chaos, like Thanos, he longed more and more for the approval of death.