LoZ: Shattered Peace chpt 8 by Stormsworder, literature
Literature
LoZ: Shattered Peace chpt 8
Chapter 8: Moving On
The sun shining overhead seemed too bright, too cheerful, for the dark days the kingdom had faced. Standing here before her uncle's grave, she played over and over in her mind that fateful battle that had changed everything. If Greil had survived, how different would things be…? Would all this madness have been averted with Aremas having an old friend as a voice of reason? Could Greil have prevented the decline into near-civil war in Hyrule?
She wiped at her face as she felt the tears trickling down, taking a shuddering a breath. While Greil was her uncle, she had lived most of her life with him as her father… and
Allen Quinn was the typical Irish guy even if he lived several systems away from Earth and hadn't been to his homeworld since he was three. That didn't change the fact he had what he called his "Irish habits" of visiting the run-down pub almost every night and drinking down horrible beer that nearly melted his esophagus.
Habits I might need to be changing, he reminded himself as he stood outside the pub leaning against the dusty wall, pouring out the smelly beer onto the blue dust of Amaranthine's earth. Travers Tavern was a hole in the wall with a faded sign that had been painted a number of times because the changing owners never di
The military jeep raced across the dunes of blue dust, the chilly winds of the surface of Amaranthine barely bothering its occupant. There was nothing in sight, at least not out where the mining teams lacked something to dig for. After all, that was all the Amaranthine colony was about: creating a profit for the corporations and the Confederation. It was a surprise terraforming even took place on the planet, but the big-wigs in government had quite a few plans.
First Lieutenant Lexine Steiner used one hand to shift her wraparound sunglasses back up onto her face, the other grasping the jeep's wheel with a fingerless black glove. She hadn't
Deep into that darkness peering
A Guardian of Light stood fearing
The demons hiding in the world of dark.
Abominations that struck fear in man's heart
Laid beyond the light, beyond the Veil,
Biding their time to make Earth a Hell.
Men did not know of their looming doom,
But she had read from the cursed book in the room
And knew what she was destined to do.
For it was her time to make sacrifices, too,
In order to stop the utter destruction of man.
She faced the avatar of dark with sword in hand.
LoZ: Shattered Peace chpt. 7 by Stormsworder, literature
Literature
LoZ: Shattered Peace chpt. 7
Chapter 7: Unlikely Allies
Relieved didn't even begin to describe how Danielle felt to finally be back in her room, having spent a few hours in the infirmary with Cale as their wounds were treated and the events explained to Rurik and Blaine. Fortunately, the injuries were minor, but the two siblings had to have them treated and then swathed in cloth bandages. Clad now in just her cotton undershirt and loose brown pants, her bare feet padded across the rug laid out on the floor. Scratching absentmindedly at the itchy bandages about her neck, she nearly collapsed face-down onto her bed and savored the feeling of the plush comforter. The sun w
On that day, the world burned.
The wrath of the gods the people had earned.
Burned was the crops and fields of grain.
Burned was the livestock; rivers became tar.
Burned were homes near and far.
And burned was the soul of a child;
As she watched the destruction of her land
The flames turned to blood on her hands.