Category: The Calamity

The portal opened up and Silva stepped through it with Alison at her side. They came out of the portal and onto the streets of the Free City. As she stepped onto the sandy ground, the place felt different. The liveliness and energy that had used to be there was missing. It just felt hollow.

The massive doors to the throne room opened slowly. As expected, it was entirely empty considering they left it that way. Somehow it had avoided the worst of the damage in the attack. There were some dislodged rocks and some cracked glass but that was it.

“That about does it. Can you move at all?” The doctor took a step back putting his hands into the pocket of his worn white jacket. He had on faded brown clothes, a face like a fox, and short cut black hair that seemed to be purple in the tint of the setting sun. He […]

The battle in front of the Free City had grown more chaotic with the arrival of the reinforcements. The nil fought with the fierce and frantic vigor of beings not of this world. Their stamina seemed to be limitless, matched only by the savagery with which they attacked the defenders. But between the combined might […]

Come on. It’s time for you to wake up. You’re not dead yet and it’s not time for you to be reborn. The fights not over. Cancer groaned. His head pounded. He didn’t want to get up. The ground was wet and cold and honestly very comfortable. But the more he internally thought about it, […]

“Is it just me or are these things getting harder to kill!” Vincent shouted as he swung his sword quickly. Two quick strikes and he barely made a dent in the scaled armor of the demon. It took a slow step backward into the sand but all his sword had managed to do was piss […]

The Sanctum was overrun. The nil had torn through the streets, overrunning most of the guard posts and the homes. It wasn’t that the Sanctum was ill prepared in general, but that they were ill prepared for the sheer massive size of the army. Coming over the hills that served as the natural wall of […]

“Everyone brace!” The soldiers heeded their king’s call and got down on their knees, grabbing the rampart of the walls. They closed their ears to the screeching of the nil and shouted the same order down the line. This was drowned out by the crash of a massive boulder into the gate. The ground shook […]

“You know I never realized that the mage council would ever be worth a damn. But here we are having them organize a city wide barrier,” Vincent shrugged. “Seems crazy but ever since I met you that’s been my life.” “They may not be as powerful as we are but they are respectable. And you […]

The proving grounds were occupied by assorted groups. They had segregated themselves off to various wedges. The Norians gathered, the Zodiac sitting and enjoying the last of breakfast, and finally the Niess family were at the far end both of their dragons flanking them sitting. Alison was true to her word returning her brother and […]