Saint Joseph School

Standing on the edge of what once was Saint Joseph School grounds, Kierin slipped her hands into her pockets, and stared. The light gust of fresh, clean air that always surrounded her picked up a few locks of snow-white hair and flicked them over her eyes, quickly buffeted by a countering breeze and ...

Taylor had sent me home, telling me he had to think over what I told him. He seemed excited. Maybe, I thought. Maybe things are going to change. I tried to detect any emotion in response, but it seemed there was nothing left.

Something definitely changed. But it wasn’t what I expected.

The next ...

Epilogue [/b]

I found the closest town’s police station and told them of the Spiders‘ occupation of the warehouse. I contacted my parents and, after some argument, got them to get me a ride to Paragon. They had me dropped off at MAGI, and after that I ended up at St. Joseph School.

The incident ...

Chapter 7 [/u]

Lightning crashed, and a soldier fell to the ground. A hand grabbed my arm roughly, then pulled back as static burst from my body. I turned and waved my hand, sending the Wolf Spider crashing against the wall with a gust of wind. He slumped unconscious to the ground. I turned and ...

His aura was even brighter than Mirage's. I watched from behind another tree, cloaking myself very carefully. I could dimly hear Shanoria's voice speaking plaintively to Mirage before she attacked. Her first attack seemed to have no effect, but the next few strikes hit strong with a strange fighting ...

“Hmmm…” Taylor peered at me closely, his strange expression emphasized in my vision by violet lines tracing over his features. Several weeks ago the seal around my eyes had been removed, and I‘d gotten some of my old vision back. It was still clouded by darkness, and I still used my energy sight ...

Something not unlike hunger twisted painfully in my chest. I could feel my energy surge with every burst of power from Mirage's training. I frowned as she brought down another tree, making sure to avoid the splinters flying like shrapnel. She hadn't been this powerful when we had patrolled last time ...

My hand reached through the twisting shadows, pressed against the soldier’s armor. The dark air undulated with an explosion as the energy in his body was torn. Most of the other Council fighters were knocked to the ground, and the few that remained were quickly dispatched by the black and violet ...

(( This is horribly late... the events here occured one week after prom. ))


It was a week after I'd gotten out of the infirmary.

Walking around the city was strange and frightening experience. The skyscrapers, streets, and hills appeared to my damaged eyes to be surfaces of shifting shadows, and ...

I slowed to a stop, feeling my body reform out of the wispy dark energy at the grassy top of Ithaca Island. The cool night air was familiar and refreshing, though it still didn't feel the same as it used to. I took a deep breath. My eyes stung under the bandage.

The memories came back, like they ...

"Kierin? Are you awake?"

"I am now." I turned my head towards the now-familiar outline of the nurse. The last time I had seen her was when she'd brought in something earlier that day. It was a basket which I'd been told contained colorful balloons, a stuffed panda, and candy. A note attached to it ...

It was like living in another world, one that never stood still and offered no kindness. Everything was represented in shapes drawn by shifting shadows, and every time I moved my head, the darkness of my vision broke apart, reforming a moment later into the same shapes, from my new perspective. It ...

Sleep wasn't an escape for long. The pain returned, shadows crowded my inner vision, and dark whispers echoed endlessly through my mind. I felt as if my conscious was being attacked, that something was trying to gain control and settle in. My body temperature shifted relentlessly between feverish ...

I thought I had been getting used to pain.

The last thing I could remember was a wall of shadow closing in on me from all directions. After that I was engulfed, all contact with my body lost; my consciousness had retreated from the outside world, leaving me in the twisting darkness of my mind. I ...

Rise from the Ashes

"Are they themseoves to blame, the misery , the pain?
Didn't we let go, allowed it, let it grow?
If we can't restrain the beast which dwells inside
It will find it's way somehow, somwhere in time
Will we remember all of the suffering
Cause if we fail it will be in vain"
- Our ...