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The rain was pouring, the blood dripping off my dry hands. I stared at the bloodied body in front of me. I see a flash of black in the corner of my eyes, I turn my head to see a small black cat with bright orange eyes. It stares back at me. I get snapped out of my trance at the sound of the police sirens. I grab my bag and the things I could get off the person in front of me quickly. I run down the street until I know I’...
The crowd starts to roar at the football team. ‘Winning like that’s a surprise’ “Look the cheerleaders are doing their new stunt.” “I hope someone breaks their leg” Hearing all the comments Raven looks up from her skateboard. One of the cheerleaders catches her eye. Raven watches the one cheerleader until she is out of sight. “Hey, dipshits. Who’s the cheerleader with the pink hair?” ...
"Come on! I can see the lights. We can get you saved" "There is no point, I'm turning too fast" "NO! There is a reason. I need you to survive this life" The two kids continued to run towards the base. The younger kid was partly dragging the older kid. Once at the gates they started to yell. "HEY! LET US IN. HELLO!" "STOP!" The older yelled pulling their hand away. "I can't be saved. I a...
"The number one hero is coming here! He is picking the hero actor for his movie" My little brother screamed in my ear. 'There goes my morning nap' Our world is full of fakes, and I hate all heroes. My whole family praises these people who wouldn't care if they died. I get up and make some breakfast for my siblings. I'm the oldest of five kids. Our parents are never home, so I have raised them. I'm 16 the next ol...
Third POV Kaze is training with her teacher, and the entrance exams for the school of heroes are soon. She has been told since she was a child that she will never be able to be a hero. She was born blind, and her other senses are strong thanks to her blindness. She had been training for ten months to get into shape to fight, whatever they fight in the exams. Her teacher had told her having short hair would be bett...
Karro Sephtis is a photographer for the king and queen of Wrosrisite, many of the civilians love it when the Dragon carnival comes around. Karro has to record the event for the kingdom. The most popular dragon people celebrate is the Kirin Dragon, however, it hasn’t been seen in generations after the Great War of Frostbite. The war took many lives including the Kirin dragon, Karro believes the dragon is out there somewhe...
Kit Katlin is the oldest of her family, her siblings have a different father than her. She has four siblings ages, five and six, seven and eight. Kit doesn’t who her father is, she is 16 her mother got pregnant while at a party at age 19. Eli is the youngest, he loves Kit even though she is much older than him. Kit was going threw the attic looking for some party supplies, her mother is having a party celebrating her pro...
Name Age Height Species Izzie 18 10 ft Titan Deer Opal 19 2 ft Pixie Fang 17 5’2 or 8’2 Werewolf Rasberry 18 4’10 Rabbit Yuma 20 5’11 or 8’11 Werewolf ⚠ Trigger Warning: This story contains talk of Sexual interactions and Sexual Violence ⚠ A large wild werewolf was chasing a helpless rabbit until a titan deer jumped in the way. Fang was only a young were...
“Emiko?” Ari asked. “Huh, yeah?” “You haven't picked a group yet, wanna join mine?” Ari asked. “No thanks, I work better alone,” Emiko said and left the room, the teacher didn’t care because they have permission to leave whenever. “Mr Popo? Are we allowed to work alone?” a student asked. “No, I’ll talk to Emiko when they return to class.” Emiko has always been this way, it started when ...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story contains talk of death and fighting⚠ Ava Heifer is a young Kelpie girl, her friend Freya Aliz is a unicorn who was sent out to seek and lure people to their family homes. Kelpies eat rotting bodies when unicorns eat the souls of virgins. Creepy, yes but the girls don’t actually do their jobs, they just go off and hang out all day saying they couldn’t get anyone. One morning their par...
Nyx is a young villain who is working with the largest shop in the death market, the deadliest illegal market, her job is to kill other shop owners and dissect them for selling. She is terrified of doing this cause she is only 15 and her parents were killers making her fear them. When the shop owner killed them he didn’t know of her existence he took her and raised her for ten years. He had a soft spot for her because sh...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story has talked of drug abuse, neglect, and hospital. You have been warned⚠ Rinkyu has lived in the hospital her whole life she fell ill shortly after birth. Rinkyu is the only daughter of her family. Rinkyu has six biological siblings and nine half-siblings. All of the younger kids were raised by Bes, the oldest of all of the kids. The mother was always at work while the...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story contains Sexual violence, Mental health, Substance abuse, Physical violence, gore, or abuse, Suicide or self-harm ⚠ Oliver Green and Aoki Shin have been dating for three years and Aokifinally moved to Brighton to live with Oliver. They had met at a wreck sight, helped people get out of the area, pulled people out of the cars with care, and checked with the shops around if ev...
⚠ TRIGGER WARNING: There is some cursing and talk of death in the following story.⚠ Wynter is Phil’s, a crow, and Kristan, the goddess of Death, youngest kid. She has three older biological siblings; Will, Dave, and Tom. Her adopted older sibling; Toby. She has witnessed the death of two of them, imprisonment of one, and other attacks, along with Toby’s webbing. She along with her father...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains talk of Physical violence, gore, abuse, Suicide, cussing, and self-harm. You have been warned, the following story has sensitive topics!⚠ Valda Combs, a young teen girl in a city of those who have special powers making them known as ‘Penny’s’ strange name right but it’s because when powers first showed up they were considered useless and gross. As they evol...
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