Sakura X Petals Threadmarks: Chapter 1 The bus rattled to a stop with a pneumatic hiss that sounded like the world's most exhausted sigh, and Taylor Hebert pressed her forehead against the grimy window, watching the gravel lot unfold below. Pinewood Summer Camp. Two weeks of forced socialization, bug-infested cabins, and activities...
Forced to spend time with barbarians who's only use to the universe was to die amusingly. Loki looked around the small sandstone warren they'd shut him in, meditation obviously a subpar activity with this much noise from up above.
I forced my unwilling body and mind into exercise clothes and spent the better part of an hour in the gym. Everything burned and I hated it dearly, but the warm shower afterwards almost made up for my pathetic performance.
Taylor looked unaffected. She pulled Zoe forward easily, a firm grip around the woman's dull red hair, cutting a path through the trash to the coffee table. She forced Zoe to her knees, swiping the table clean to press the woman's head to the wooden surface. Taylor leaned over her, placing her face just next to her's.
His entire body was being forced through something too small, too tight, suffocating him. His skull ached, his skin burned. He tried to scream, but his throat was raw. No sound came out. Then— Light. A blinding, painful light. A rush of cold air. Then— A cry. A newborn's cry. His own cry. No. No. No. No. No. Something was terribly wrong.
Decades after an alien invasion ravages the Earth, a mysterious portal opens in Iceland. When an army straight out of a fantasy novel comes through and slaughters all in their path, the nations of Earth are once more forced into a war they didn't want. Now for the first time in its history, the...