I realized I haven’t posted much about any story other than the first two chapters of Throne of the Abyss and I’ve already talked a lot about Vica so I figured I’d post the first scene he appears in.
A few notes on the plot so far so no one gets lost:
Ruuno is the protagonist who works with the Lumen Dias Knighthood(LDK)
Anima are an antagonistic species
Izera was an anima overlord who was sealed in a necklace years ago
Izera is going to break out so Ruuno and a group of select knights are going to destroy the necklace he is sealed in.
In short, it sounds like a totally cliche story, but that’s the point, because I like to take cliches and spit on them. It’s kinda a sadistic pleasure So trust me when I say this story has a twist at the end. Anyway, enjoy! Please?
But as he looked off into the trees, a flicker of violet caught his eye. He stopped his horse, pulling back on the reins as he stared into the trees. A pair of purple eyes met his own and Ruuno's heart stopped in his chest. Looking a little closer, he saw the form of a man, dressed in a fashion similar to a noble, with a pitch black coat over a pale daisy yellow buttoned up coat with ebony buttons and a white jabot collar. He appeared to have dark gray, almost black, hair, but looked very young, maybe a year older than Ruuno himself. But the bright purple eyes told him this person wasn't even remotely human. The man—no, anima—cocked his head to the side, his eyes never leaving Ruuno's. His eyes shifted in color from purple to a bright blue and he winked. Ruuno's jaw dropped a little and the anima waved at him, smiling.
“Hey, what's the holdup, little blond riding hood?” Tiara called.
“That,” Ruuno replied, pointing to the anima with his arm trembling. “That is the holdup.”
The group followed his finger and a second later, a sword surrounded by a glowing purple light thrust through the air and almost impaled Guryon if he hadn't unsheathed his sword and blocked it at the very last second. The sword recovered from the block and went on the offensive. As if controlled by an invisible swordsman, it swooped around, thrusting and slashing at Guryon, but a few seconds later it retreated, floating next to the anima, who stepped out of the shadowy woods, along with several other blades and other weapons. The entire party dismounted, preparing for battle.
The anima held his hand up and waved at the group, although it was a bit more sarcastically than how he waved to Ruuno. “Why, hello there, noble knights! Care for a cup of tea? We can sit around, gossip, and eat biscuits around a table!” his voice was melodious, but possessed a distinct eerie tone to it because of how unhinged it sounded. His eyes had turned a reddish-purple in color and he seemed to be on the verge of giggling like a schoolgirl. “Hahaha, no. No, no, no, nono!” He sang the last part and burst out into gleeful laughter.
“Oh, shit,” Aegeus muttered.
“What?” Helen asked.
“I think know which anima this is, and it's not good,” Aegeus muttered.
Ruuno racked his brain from his anima studies class, trying to run through the names and descriptions of all the infamous anima before his internal monologue became something like claws on blackboards. His eyes went wide and he could hear his heart pounding in his throat. “Vica,” Ruuno whispered, wondering why the powers that be hated him so much. This got a reaction from everyone, even Fulbright. Apprehension graced their faces and fear slipped through some of the brave facades they had attempted to put up when they heard Vica's name.
Vica had been Izera's right-hand man back in the Spectral War. Izera trusted him above all others and Vica in return was devoted to Izera on an obsessive level. Ever since Izera fell, Vica had been a near-constant threat to the LDK but had been abandoned as an active target because almost every knight who faced him was killed. The ones who didn't either ran or Vica just kept them alive to mock them. That wasn't to say Vica didn't still go after the LDK on a regular basis. Vica was able to store and summon weapons from his aura and control them with deadly accuracy, making him one of the more lethal anima out there. There was even one recorded case where an entire regiment was sent to fight him, and were all killed. What was the icing on this doom cake? He was bloody insane even by anima standards.
Vica laughed and clapped his hands together as Ruuno said his name. “Bingo! Glad you all still remember me!” He brought one hand up and started waving it distractedly as he rambled. “I mean, I don't forget about the LDK, ever, although I don't know all of the names of it's members, but I do remember most of you because you're all, I don't know, complete scumbags?” Vica said this as a question, but it was clear there was no ambiguity about it in his mind. He giggled and pointed at them one by one as he named them. “Colonel Aegeus Euclid, Captain Fulbright Behnam, Sergeant Helen Manius, Major Guryon Haluk, Lieutenant Tiara Dobroslav, and a cute John Doe.”
Ruuno's mind drew a blank for a few seconds. “What?”
Vica smiled, the innocent smile jarringly out of place on an anima's face. “Don't worry, cute in a non-romantic, purely aesthetic way. Although, I would like to know your name. It would be really unfortunate if I had to go run around and burn and ransack LDK bases to find your file with your name.”
Ruuno gripped the hilt of his sword and pulled it out of its scabbard. “Ruuno. Corporal Ruuno Lykke,” he growled out.
Vica rocked back and forth on his feet as his eyes turned a blue-violet. “Ruuno. Rune no. Rune-o. That's a pretty name. Not like Fulbright or Guryon. The title doesn't sound nice with it, though. It's cacophonous. Ooh, that's a word some of you might have to look up in a dictionary! And Lykke. Like Lykke. Pretty.” Vica seemed to muse over this for a few seconds, like it was a riddle or something important, then smiled again and was in front of Ruuno in a second.
Ruuno's eyes widened and his hands holding his sword shook, having barely seen Vica move. He had never been this close to an anima, especially not one who Izera himself relied on. He tried to swing his sword, maybe chop Vica's head off, but his muscles just couldn't move. Vica reached over and tapped Ruuno on the nose. “Bop-boop!”
“W- what?” Ruuno stuttered, shocked that he both let an anima touch him and that said anima didn't even hurt him.
Vica beamed. “You are too cute to be a member of the LDK. Why don't you hop off that horse and let me give you a safe place to stay?”
That snapped Ruuno out of it. He slashed at Vica with his blade, who nimbly danced back. “I'll never join you, or Izera, or any of you monsters!”
“Aw, that's a shame,” Vica whined. “But don't worry!” He winked. “I don't give up, so how about I kill alllllll your little friends, and then you come with me because I won't leave you another choice?”
Ruuno gritted his teeth. “I would rather die.”
“Not an option,” Vica said, winking again. He reached over and patted Ruuno's head, one of his swords parrying the blond's attempt at stabbing him again. Vica turned back to the rest of the group. “As for you, I don't like you. You've killed a lot of anima, especially you, Captain Shiny! I think I want to hurt you, very badly.” Vica paused and thought for a second. “Yep, definitely want to hurt you. Oh, and you are trying to kill Izera! I really hate you for that!”
Aegeus' eyes widened. “How do you know that? That information was-”
“Classified?” Vica asked. He smiled and glanced up and to the right. “That's a funny word. Classified. Class, if, I, and Ed. Classes are where knowledge is dispersed, if means possibly, I means me, and I don't know who Ed is, but I don't think he has anything to do with restricting information either. Huh, weird word.”
“Hey! Looney bin!” Helen snapped. “Where did you learn about that?”
Vica played with a small white flower he had gotten from somewhere, smiling at it. “Oh, you know, I have friends. Some of which may or may not be in your organization.”
“We have a mole?” Guryon cried. “Oh, this day just sucks more and more.”
“He could be lying,” Tiara reasoned.
“He knew about our mission, he couldn't have found out without inside information,” Aegeus growled. “We can worry about the mole later, we have to deal with Vica now.”
Vica grinned maliciously, more swords and daggers appearing around him along with a few axes, a mace, and a club. “I won't let you hurt Izera, so I'll have to kill you.”
“Fat chance, psycho,” Guryon growled and lunged at him. Vica dodged then sent three swords directly at his head that Guryon barely managed to block. Ruuno thrust his sword directly at Vica's chest, wanting to tear the anima's heart out but Vica parried the blow happily then knocked him back with the club.
“Sorry, Ruuno!” Vica sang. “But I can't have you getting in the way of the fight! Don't worry, I'll pay attention to you later.”
“Wow, that borderlines on creepy,” Tiara commented.
“Oh, hush up, I need to deck the cuckoo anima,” Tiara said, grinning confidently, but there was a quiver in her lip. Like a ninja, she dodged around Vica's blades and delivered a vicious roundhouse kick that Vica somehow blacked with his forearms, smacking her leg off to the side. He grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her to the ground blocking another kick in the process, this one with a sword which left a deep cut in her leg. She fell on her back and Vica stood over her, fighting everyone else off with his army of blades.
“Aw, you don't think you're the only one who knows martial arts, do you?” Vica smirked and held one of his swords above her body. “So sweet, but so futile. Bye-bye!” With that he thrust the sword down but at the last second, it was knocked to the side. Vica frowned and his eyebrows rose, looking both surprised and annoyed at the same time. Tiara glanced up and saw a familiar pair of green eyes mixed with blond hair and smiled in relief.
“Leave her alone!” Ruuno shouted.
Vica crossed his arms and looked like a petulant child. “Ruuno, please stay out of the way. It's distracting to fight and have to worry about you being in the middle of it. What if I hit you?”
“And he's just doing this because he thinks you're cute?” Guryon asked while trying to avoid being hit by a pack of daggers. “Jeez, how far gone is he?”
“Vica's obsession gives us an advantage so I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth!” Aegeus yelled as he dodged a golden sword, trying to knock it out of the air. “Ruuno, try to get in and stab him! Vica doesn't want to hurt you for now and we might as well use that!”
“Oh, you want to use my love for Ruuno against me?” Vica cooed, frowning at them. “That’s so cruel.”
“Says the anima who gets off on murder,” Ruuno said scornfully.
Vica sighed, twirling a strand of hair around his finger, looking bored. “It's amazing how you could twist a story around so much. If a normal man started screaming bunnies want to kill all of humanity, people write him off as a crackpot. If he starts acting on his beliefs, people call him insane. When a knight started screaming the same thing, somehow people paid him attention. When he started acting on it, they joined in.”
Guryon gave him an incredulous look. “Did you just relate murdering, bloodlusting lunatics to bunnies?”
“No, I related them to knights,” Vica replied.
Ruuno could not believe Vica had just said that and neither could any of the others. Ruuno’s hands clenched into fists and he started to tremble in rage at Vica’s callous brush-aside of all the harm anima had caused and his scorn at those who only wanted to protect people. “You son of a….”
“Before you finish that, know that my mother was actually an anima who could morph into a dog and speak to canines, so it wouldn’t actually offend me,” Vica said with a smile. Ruuno felt his anger boil over as he lunged at Vica, his sword slashing faster than the human eye could see. Vica looked ever so slightly surprised as he repeatedly blocked Ruuno’s strikes with five different swords. “Wow, you’re really good when you get angry. Maybe we can train sometime? I could show you some moves, if you want.” Vica winked at him again before blasting him to the side with a purple light. “But for now, just sit over there and watch me turn your friends into shish-kebabs like a good boy.”
Ruuno winced as he got up, every muscle in his body protesting. “I won’t let you hurt them, I won’t let them fight you on their own.”
“Famous last words of the meat shield, everyone,” Fulbright muttered.
Vica’s smile faded from his lips and his eyes turned pure red. “Excuse me, Ruuno. I need to take care of someone.” In the blink of an eye, he was right in front of Fulbright and lifted him up by the collar. “I don’t like people who diss their own allies and comrades. It’s wrong and it’s mean. People like that don’t deserve to have their comrades watching their back, and if any of you get in my way except for Ruuno, I will kill you as well, extra bloodily.”
“Get the hell away from him!” Guryon roared, charging forward and stabbing at Vica with his sword, which Vica blocked as usual with one of his many swords, but Guryon didn’t stop.
Vica glanced over at him for a second and narrowed his eyes. “So be it.” Eight swords surrounded Guryon and attacked ruthlessly, with the brown-haired man barely hanging on.
Ruuno breathed heavily and he limped over to the fight. He couldn’t let Fulbright or Guryon die. His arm feeling dead, he started to throw his own strikes, weak as they were. Vica gritted his teeth and looked honestly annoyed as he blocked Guryon’s and Ruuno’s attacks, as if he was straining himself. Ruuno focused on a drop of sweat trickling down from Vica’s forehead and saw Vica’s constant focus for blocking so many strikes so close to his body was taking its toll on him. Ruuno took a deep breath and yelled, “Guys! Attack him so he has to block you! It’s harder for him to block
Aegeus, Tiara, and Helen looked at Ruuno in bewilderment, then saw Vica’s face. Aegeus met Ruuno’s eyes and nodded solemnly, then ordered, “Everyone, attack now!” Tiara pulled out a knife and started slashing the blades themselves and trying to hit Vica when she had the chance to force him into blocking and Helen threw fireball after fireball at him with his swords barely able to absorb the blows. Aegeus took up the role of defending the others when Vica tried to counterattack.
Ruuno’s hopes lifted up as he saw Vica struggle to stay on top of everything, the anima’s eyes darting around like a trapped animal before his lips drew back in a vicious snarl. He threw down Fulbright and curled his hands into fists that began to glow with a purple light as he shook in rage. “You’re all meanies!” Vica screamed, a flash of purple energy throwing everyone back. Ruuno slammed into a tree and felt a new wave of pain wrack his body and a quick glance at the others’ faces showed him the fear that had crept into his body wasn’t just him. Vica stood up straight and moved his angry, unstable glare from Guryon to Tiara to Fulbright to Helen and finally to Aegeus. “I will hurt you,” Vica seethed. “You’re meanies! You people hurt Izera two hundred years ago and you’re trying to hurt him again! No, you’re trying to kill him! I’ll never let you kill him! If Izera’s going to be strong enough for his seal to break soon, that means he’ll come back! I want him back! I need him back!”
“Yeah, to wipe out humanity,” Tiara snapped.
“No! I just want him back!” Vica cried, shaking his head and stamping his feet like he was throwing a temper tantrum, tears falling from his eyes. “I want my Izera back! You won’t prevent him from coming back!” He suddenly laughed, the merriment sounding unhinged and twisted. “You will never win! Izera will be back! Izera will live through this, and in three months, I’ll see him again! Izzie will return! Izzie, Izzie, Izzie, Izzie!” Vica started to giggle and he suddenly seemed a lot more dangerous than he had a few minutes ago. “I miss Izzie, and if I kill you, Izera won’t be in any danger.” Vica glanced over at Ruuno, madness glinting in his eyes. “Oh, Ruuno! I hurt you! I’m so sorry! But you seem to want to put your faith with these people, so I guess I’ll have to cause you pain before things get better. But I’m not giving up, I’ll make you reject them and everything they stand for! You’ll be mine in the end!”
Aegeus scrambled to his feet and sheathed his sword, looking panicked. “Retreat! Retreat now!” he cried, then mounted his very spooked horse and rode off a gallop. No one disagreed in the face of a livid anima who was five seconds away from murdering everyone minus a certain blond and as if a hive mind, the other five got on their horses and rode off at lightning speed in a pack formation.
“Oh, you’re running now?” Vica yelled behind them. “Well, the LDK has always been a bunch of cowards. But don’t think I won’t follow! Izera will return!” Vica’s voice dissolved into chilling, maniacal laughter that echoed in Ruuno’s ears as he urged his horse to go faster.
Forest groaned as the second he had opened his eyes; his entire body ached. He stared up at the sky, without a single cloud across the vast expanse of blue. Quickly, he pushed himself up and held his head in one hand. Ugh, what the… where the heck was he? Did aliens abduct him in the middle of the night or something?
He looked around seeing nothing but grass, rocks, and trees with sunlight streaming through the leaves. Forest took a moment to appreciate the irony of him being in a forest, before the panic fully set in. Where was he? Why was he here? What happened to him? Who brought him here?
“Hey!”
Forest jumped and whirled around, still sitting, as a boy ran through the woods up to him. Dark brown hair flopped over gray eyes which stared curiously down at Forest, hope springing into them. “Oh, thank God. I was afraid I was just seeing things,” the boy said, brushing his hair out of his eyes. “I thought I was all alone here for a second.”
“Do you have any idea what’s going on?” Forest asked, relieved to see another person.
“Just woke up a few minutes ago,” the boy said, shaking his head. “Same for you?”
“Yep,” Forest confirmed.
The boy offered him a hand and pulled Forest to his feet. “I’m Louis, what’s your name?”
“Forest.”
“Well, if that isn’t a bit of irony,” Louis muttered.
“Already realized that,” Forest replied.
Louis looked up at the sky, frowning. “Seems like it’s been day for a while now, but I don’t know how long I- we have until it gets dark again. Anyway, let’s find some more people. Survival theory and all that.”
“More people in a group, the slower you move but the more likely someone will be able to solve a problem or have a skill that allows the group to survive,” Forest said quietly. “Up to a certain point, when resources become scarce.”
“The first person I meet is not a total idiot, my luck is good today,” Louis said. He paused, then amended, “If you ignore everything else going on, that is.”
Forest had so many questions he wanted to ask the other boy, but he let them die on his tongue. Louis was in the same situation he was in, and likely didn’t know any more than he did. Asking would just annoy the other boy and Forest didn’t really want Louis to be pissed off right now, especially in this situation.
“Hm, hey, Forest? Give me advice on something,” Louis commanded suddenly, startling the green-eyed boy.
“S- sure!” Forest said, eager to be of use.
“Should we call for other people and run the risk of drawing the attention of something less friendly, or keep quiet and look around but probably not find anyone else to help us?” Louis asked.
“We’d be safer now if we kept quiet, but in the long run, it might be better to have more people,” Forest said.
“Fair point, so it’s really between sacrificing safety now to ensure security in the future, or being secure now but go forward on unstable grounds,” Louis mused. “Hm, I can’t say I want to be surrounded by a bunch of scared people, but I do want to live and as I said earlier, survival theory says we should in this situation, so I guess we have to start yelling.”
“Got it,” Forest said, then took a deep breath. “Hello? Anyone here? Any bears, cougars, or monsters stay away!”
“Hey! Anyone else out there? If anyone can hear me, come over here!” Louis yelled.
“Hello?”
Forest and Louis stopped yelling for a second when they heard the response, then started shouting at the top of their lungs. “Over here! We’re this way! Come on!” They kept rambling until they heard a crunching and a few seconds later three girls and a boy ran out of the woods. One of the girls took one look at the pair, then jumped on Forest and hugged him. “Ack!” Forest yelped. His face warmed up and he pushed her away slightly, but she just clung on tighter. “Can you get off of me?”
“Please no, I’m really scared,” she whimpered.
“I...” Forest looked down at the girl whose long light brown hair was swaying slightly in the wind and the parts that weren’t were being upset by her shaking shoulders, and hugged her tightly. “It’s going to be okay, I promise.” He felt a strong sensation, like sadness greater than he had ever felt before, and his head started spinning. Then, just as soon as it came, it was gone as he loosened his grip slightly.
“Why’s she crying?” Louis asked.
“Guessing because she’s scared, Einstein,” a blond girl with long, wavy hair and a sleeveless denim jacket said, hands on her hips.
“Now isn’t the time for crying, we need to keep our heads,” Louis ordered. “Now everyone tell me your names so we can get a move on doing whatever our next move is.”
“I’m Brittany,” the blond girl said, throwing back her hair.
“L- Lucille,” the girl clinging onto Forest’s shirt chimed in.
The only boy of the group glanced at them with disdain evident in his eyes. “Philip.”
“Call me Merry,” the black haired girl said.
“Mary, huh?” Louis said. “As if that wasn’t one of the most common names in existence.”
“Merry,” she corrected, sounding bored. “M-E-R-R-Y. Everyone makes that mistake.”
“Neat,” Louis replied, not sounding like he really cared. “I’m Louis. And this is is Forest,” he added, almost as an afterthought.
“Either of you idiots have any idea what’s going on?” Philip asked.
“Watch it,” Louis warned. “We can all just leave you behind. We don’t need any hindrances to our survival.”
“I’d like to see you try,” Philip snarled and Louis’ eyes narrowed.
“If I think you’re a threat, you’re not going to last long here. Strength in numbers, after all. And if you’re not a boon, you’re a danger, got it? We’re alone in an alien environment and if you think undermining me is going to help anything, you’re sorely mistaken. I will drop you if I think you’re going to cause us all to die by your refusal to be a team player, capisce?” Louis said. Everyone stared at him. He laughed nervously. “Sorry if I was a bit intense, I’m just… a little nervous, to put it lightly.”
“Yeah, okay, fine man, we’re cool,” Philip said, looking away. It appeared he had been more than a little intimidated by Louis’ speech.
“Right,” Louis said, taking a deep breath. “So how long have you been awake?”
“I dunno, five, ten minutes?” Philip said. “I had to wake these idiots up.”
“I was already awake,” Merry commented. “I just didn’t want to get up.”
“Great for you,” Brittany replied. “I had to wake up to this moron standing over me.”
“Excuse me?” Philip snapped. “I could’ve left you lying there, you know!”
“Please, you wouldn’t have,” Brittany scoffed.
“Let’s all calm down,” Louis said. “Did you see anyone else?”
“Nah, it’s just the four of us,” Philip replied.
“I see...” Louis mused. “I suppose there could potentially be more of us out there, but this group’s large enough for now. Let’s forgo looking for now and focus on figuring out where we are and how to get home.”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold up!” Philip snapped. “You just want to stop looking for anyone else? What if there’s another group out there? Or even worse, there are a bunch of kids out on there own? And what if they’re really young? You want to leave a preschooler or a toddler out in the middle of the woods?”
“A hypothetical preschooler or toddler,” Louis said coldly. “Besides,” he continued in a much more friendly, charismatic tone. “I doubt if, and that’s an if, there’s anyone else out there, they’d be much younger than us. It’s more likely they’d be around our age. After all, we all look like we’re in high school, right?”
Everyone took a moment to realize and appreciate this fact, then Brittany nodded. “He does have a point. There’s probably no one else and if there is, they can take care of themselves.”
“I agree,” Merry said. “I don’t want to walk around this place anymore. I just want to sit down and rest for a while.”
“I- I’m sorry, but I’m with Philip,” Lucille said. “We shouldn’t leave anyone else out there just because we were too lazy to look!”
“It isn’t laziness, it’s just logic,” Louis explained, smiling sympathetically. “I wish we could go looking, but we just can’t.”
“We can totally go looking for others!” Lucille snapped, pulling away from Forest. “We can’t just abandon the others on a whim-” she broke off and swayed where she stood, then pitched forward and would’ve fallen on her face if Forest hadn’t caught her. The others looked on in shock and fear, except for Louis.
“This is what I’m talking about. We’re all tired and if we wander around looking for people, someone is going to pass out like you almost did. It’s just logic, people. If we figure out where we are, we can figure out where shelter is, which means we can rest, and which also means we can get home faster. Not exactly rocket science,” Louis said as Lucille stumbled back onto her feet. “Come on, let’s just start walking.”
“How is that any better than looking for others?” Philip demanded.
“We won’t be shouting and attracting anything that might be hungry,” Louis replied. Philip looked concerned and didn’t protest any more. “How about Brittany and Philip bring up the rear, Merry and Lucille stay in the center, and Forest and I lead?” No one had any reason to argue. “Great, let’s start walking.”
“Hello, fellow humans!” a male voice yelled boisterously.
“Oh, look at that. We didn’t even need to search,” Louis said. “Hey there!” he greeted the boy and girl who had just ran in through the woods.
“We’ve been looking for a while for anyone else,” the girl said, rubbing her forehead. “For me specifically, anyone else other than this guy.”
“Someone’s hit it off,” Brittany commented.
“He’s tried to flirt with me every thirty seconds,” the girl replied.
“Okay, that’s… great,” Louis said. “Keep it in your pants, buddy. We’re not repopulating the earth right now.”
“Hey! I resent that implication!” the boy protested.
“Just keep away from me, loser,” Brittany said. “You don’t have a chance.”
“Can we all focus on other things?” Forest asked, right before he was struck with the same dizzying feeling from earlier. He stumbled to the side and had to lean on Louis, the other boy jumping in shock.
“What are you doing?” Louis demanded.
“S- sorry,” Forest replied, standing back up. “Just got dizzy there for a second. I’m good now.”
“That’s the second time someone has almost passed out,” Merry said, looking a little worried.
“There might be something in the air,” Louis said. “Any objections to us getting moving now, or does Philip want to make us stay here longer until someone actually falls to the ground unconscious or dies from whatever toxins were affecting Lucille and Forest?”
Philip looked at the ground and shook his head. “No, you’re right. Let’s get moving,” he growled out.
“Excellent, now come on. Everyone follow me,” Louis commanded. Forest nodded and fell into step slightly behind Louis but still beside him as everyone else followed the gray-eyed boy. Forest glanced at Louis for a second, then looked straight ahead. Louis was definitely the most likely person to become the leader of this group, if they weren’t rescued soon. He briefly wondered if he should say something to the others about the hunch he had, but pushed it aside. Even if it was true, there wasn’t much point to bringing it up. Besides, they were dealing with enough already and they’d probably find civilization before long, so they didn’t need to worry too much.
The first chapter of my online fantasy story, Throne of the Abyss will be out before the new year, so Happy New Year to everyone whose New Year’s Resolution is to read more! Follow this blog for updates and chapters.
Louis from Throne of the Abyss. The first person Forest meets when he wakes up and eventually becomes the leader of the group. He’s charming, but has a crueler streak and makes it clear his decisions are final. Intends to keep most the group alive, but his methods are considered by some to be more ends justify the means.
Finished a Few Chapters of the Potential Internet Story
Still waiting to hear if anyone wants to read it, but I intend to publish chapters bimonthly and let people read it at their leisure. I could also put out an audiobook on YouTube, if anyone wants. If anyone wants to read a book online in increments for free, just like or reblog this post. Official art will also be put out.
Worked on a variety of my stories and looking into agents for On Silver Wings. Also, if anyone’s reading this, would you be interested in reading a book online with chapters posted every two weeks? Just like or reblog if you would, I’m working on a project where I feel like a story told chapter by chapter with time in between for the reader to theorize what’s coming next would work very well.
