Xiao X Aether Novels & Stories

The shockwave blew out the remaining windows of the fortress, sending shards of glass flying like diamonds in the dark. ​We were locked in a stalemate, our blades hissing as the energies fought to consume each other. ​"Look at yourself," she hissed, her face inches from mine. "You're bleeding. You're trembling. You're human. I am the First Life. I am the pure extraction. I don't need a Shield. I don't need a Doctor. I am the End." ​"You're a tool," I spat, blood bubbling at the corner of my mouth. "Silas made you to be a battery. He made me to be a person."

His face was a mirror, reflecting the devastation of the city around them. "I can get you there," Julian’s voice resonated, though his form was visibly thinning. "But I cannot go with you. I am a creature of the 'Ground.' The Aether is pure data—pure spirit. To enter it, you must leave the biology behind." "Explain," Alexander demanded, moving to Elena’s side, his hand gripping her shoulder as if to keep her from floating away.

Aether’s voice sliced through the air. “She already made one. By choosing you once.” The guards flare up in anger. I could see Castillo’s wolf stirring in his eyes, glowing faintly. For a split second, I thought he might shift. But then Aether moved towards me, slow and steady. He didn’t touch me, but his presence felt like something more than a cover, like some sort of barrier. And I made my choice, I turned my back on Castillo --- That night, the moon rose a deep blood-red, putting everyone in utmost perplexity

I state clearly stating that his precedes here weren’t appreciated but he doesn’t seem to get the news. He remained mute leaning back, not seeming like he was about to go anytime soon. “What do you want?” I asked irritatingly. He smiles his green eyes glittering, “You’re beautiful”” he says instead cutting me off guard. “You’re Lyra Skye? The wolf he got married to” he states yet again alarmed at how much he knew. Who was this guy? “I’m Xavier Blackwood” he responds. I read through his mind but could only get the fact that he wanted to know me out from him. He seems to know how to shield his thoughts.

“What are you doing here, Annalise? Who invited you? And I know for fact that Ethan’s circle wouldn’t. And Claudia would rather die than have to invite a gamma, regardless of who she is.” “Not everything that happens in this world revolves around you, Xavier,” I said sweetly, turning to face him. “Believe it or not, I do have other acquaintances besides you. Alpha Ethan and I go back quite a while. The idea of me not telling you is just a matter of a small game. It was to respect you, Alpha.” He gave a humorless laugh. “You expect me to believe that? That Ethan would actually want to be around you? Or that you would tolerate being in this lavish world?”

Aria shivered, but not from the cold. Xander dipped his index finger into the vial, coming away with a generous measure of the glowing, silver paste. His hand trembled slightly—a detail that moved Aria more profoundly than any grand declaration could have. The Alpha of Moonrise, a man who had faced down rogue armies without blinking, was trembling at the prospect of touching her. "The first rune," Xander whispered, his voice thick with emotion as he brought his coated finger to her collarbone, just above her heart. "Is Anam. The soul."

Her accent heavy The first extraction attempt hits like a hand closing around my spine from the inside. Vorathian Aether architecture, I've read about it in the research logs, in the pre-mission briefings that feel like they happened to someone else's life. It is nothing like Zephyrian channeling. Where Vaelor's Aether moves through me like light through water, warm, golden, a thing that knows me, this is cold and precise and surgical. It reaches through my channels the way a key reaches into a lock, feeling for the mechanism.

She immediately pushed Xander away as she inhaled a deep breathe, “Didn’t I tell you clearly enough that I don’t want to ever see you again? I told you to stay away from my sight!” Xander took one step, two steps, three steps backwards until Xiao saw a figure which totally made her world upside down. It completely went through a 360° turn the moment her eyes laid upon him. His vivid aura emanated a strong facade with the pair of eyes he has... cunning and tiger-like. Almost seemingly looking like a predator patiently waiting for its prey. She felt scared yet secured at the same time. Ironically, the only foreign and twisted feeling she could never feel from anyone aside from him. His messy a