Sarsaparilla's Scary Super Power. Completed Fantasy Sci-fi Drama
Sarsaparilla is an older teenage girl living on Mars. And, like many other young people around her, she has a super power. Or, rather, she is supposed to have a super power. Only she has never been able to activate it, she doesn’t even know what her super power is. This annoys her, tremendously. But she hides this behind a really sweet smile.
Adalace is another teenage girl, also on Mars. She knows what her own super power is, and it is quite a good one. She is also really cute… so long has she keeps her feelings under control and doesn’t let out anything from her dark past.
Teylon is a man, currently living on Earth. He likes to think of himself as still young, even if he is over fifty. He’s a bit smug about his successful career and is thinking of retiring… until a sadly unfortunate event leads him to the conclusion that he had better immigrate to Mars. Immediately. Apparently, meeting one’s own Angel of Death tends to cause people to make profound changes to their lives…
Mars society had better brace itself, because once these three people, plus another three also not so quite stable individuals, collide with each other, the resulting explosion is not going to leave anyone on Mars unaffected.
This is another Esmeralda, the Angel of Death, story. It follows on from my previous two such stories, but it is in no way dependent on the previous stories. They can be read in any order.
It is fully written and proof read (using Word for Windows, no real editor touched this transcript) and comes to about 247,000 words (about 895 Royal Road pages). It is organized into 50 chapters and I will be publishing them roughly one per day.
In my writing, there are multiple characters and multiple points of view. Each change in a point of view is introduced by a header, giving the viewpoint character’s name first, and possibly a title. Inside a Point of View section, dialog in italics represents the Point of View character’s thoughts, while dialog between quotes represent normal spoken dialog.
This story is very much inspired by the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun. However I have only taken some elements from the anime, and changed everything I took to make my own story, and so it does not count as fanfiction.
Yeah, I know, the book cover page isn’t very good. It’s the best I could do, by tracing over a stock image. The two ladies shown are supposed to be Adalace and Sarsaparilla. Ideally I would have liked there to be two images of this pair, one where they are smiling sweetly and looking cute, and one where they are looking really angry and dangerous. But that totally exceeds my graphics abilities. You will just have to imagine it.
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1. Chapter 1: Sarsaparilla gets an ice cream, Adalace gets a computer, and Teylon gets a command.
2. Chapter 2: Teylon Immigrates to Mars
3. Chapter 3: Teylon meets Adalace and Sarsaparilla
4. Chapter 4: Maggie the Magneto
5. Chapter 5: Erasyl the Eraser and Leroy the Levitator join the party
6. Chapter 6: Teylon socialises the teenagers, with some ‘Help’ from his Angel of Death
7. Chapter 7: More true confession time for Teylon
8. Chapter 8: Teylon falls flat on to his face.
9. Chapter 9: Introducing the Girls in Pink, and Adalace’s expedition
10. Chapter 10: IronBark Adventures
11. Chapter 11: Esp Fight at IronBark Dome
12. Chapter 12: Adalace and Sarsaparilla start to get along with each other
13. Chapter 13: Adalace and Sarsaparilla ‘help’ Teylon with some more true confession time
14. Chapter 14: Both Sarsaparilla and Maggie have nasty scares.
15. Chapter 15: Maggie’s Continuing Misadventures
16. Chapter 16: Maggie’s Aftermath
17. Chapter 17: When Teylon and co meet the Girls in Pink, again, its Category 5 Warning time!
18. Chapter 18: Sarsaparilla’s Super Power
19. Chapter 19: With two more girls to look after - things are getting really difficult.
20. Chapter 20: All about the committee
21. Chapter 21: Juniper and Kaydence go shopping
22. Chapter 22: Maggie and Erasyl get weird
23. Chapter 23: Sarsaparilla gets Judgemental
24. Chapter 24: Dealing with Ajaeren
25. Chapter 25: The committee and Ajaeren
26. Chapter 26: Leroy’s dark past. And Adalace’s.
27. Chapter 27: The School Theatre Night
28. Chapter 28: A very high energy theatre night
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