《Not Quite What You Meant (Short Story Collection)》Dragon Slayer
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Wild animals do not make good pets. It's something your father told you time and again. When you tried to rescue the baby foxes after their mother was shot for killing the chickens. When you wanted to adopt the injured owl after nursing it back to health. Wild animals do not make good pets, but there's a baby dragon right there, and even if its mother is a terrifying death machine terrorizing the land for kilometers around, there's a young and innocent little wyrmling who's going to need protecting. It takes all your years of monster-hunting toughness to resist the urge to go pat it, but despite your occasional bouts of sentimentality you're a professional through and through. You hoist your cylmer carbine and mount it on your shoulder, steadying it with one hand as you go over the usual checks. Barrel clean, ammo loaded, armor stabilized, power in place. You flick the switch. The weapon hums as it starts to chill, spellfrost spilling out and crackling against the side of your helmet. The wyrmling lifts its head, tongue testing the air, its eyes big with uncertainty. "Just wait here, little one," you murmur, starting up the slope to the cavern entrance. "I'll be right back. Got to deal with the big one first." The elder dragon sleeps, bones both human and otherwise litter the ground, while behind it the glint of stolen gold and steel and crystals proves this particular wyrm's great successes as a gatherer of shiny objects. You aim the carbine square between its eyes, but before you can pull the trigger the dragon jerks awake, mouth already opening in a snarl as its eyes narrow in on you. You fire anyway. The bolt goes wide, ice shattering off the far wall of the cave. The dragon spreads its wings. Wind rushes into the cave as it inhales. If not for the armor you'd have been blown off your feet with the strength of it. You steady your aim, adjust for the new position, and fire. A spear of ice shoots out and slams into the dragon's open mouth. It coughs and roars, but its attempt at building up a fire breath was disrupted. You fire again, this time going for the eyes. The dragon shrieks and flails, wings battering the cave as it starts building up momentum, as it drops to all fours and gallops toward the entrance - towards you. You've done this before, so you're prepared. You flip a second switch and the carbine whines as its power increases. You count down the seconds as it charges. Three, two... You fire. The bolt fires with a recoil that knocks you down. Thicker than your forearm, more a battering ram than a spear, the jagged projectile strikes the pained, angered, afraid dragon straight in the skull. A groan and a crunch, and the dragon's momentum slows as it falls in a crumpled heap. You slowly climb back to your feet, trying to roll the crick out of your neck. You're not as young as you once were, and the third-gen cylmer frost carbine really packs a punch. You tag the dragon's body with your slayer mark, so the retrieval team can verify you were the one to slay it, then pack up the carbine and check over each piece with the swift professionalism of every professional monster slayer. You'll get a bonus for the baby. Potential future problem averted, after all. Wild animals don't make good pets. You're not a child any more. You can ignore your father's advice.
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Novos Hitchhiker (Defunct)
Yet another unfortunate soul has met their end by way of Truck-senpai and has now been reborn into a world of swords and magic. However, the soul was not reborn alone. The soul has been pushed into the body of young Celestine, an ordinary human girl with no distinguishable features or talent whatsoever. The soul is a parasite; a hitchhiker as Celestine lives her life in the world the wandering soul imagined as it tried to make sense of the Void. Cover stock image credit: Mihraystock @ deviantArt
8 206Blood Island
So far, life had done Nuriel Cunningham no favors. The orphaned daughter of a petty thief, she's had to grow up on the streets, with nothing but her wits, her late father's advice, and whatever luck she can scrounge up to keep her alive. However, now that luck seems to have ran out. After being discovered passing as a boy on a ship sailing the Caribbean, Nuriel is blamed for the ship's troubles and thrown overboard, seemingly to her demise. But rather than die, she awakes on the shores of a strange and terrifying island, one inhabited by monsters from a bygone age. Now she has to use every bit of cunning and skill just to stay alive, as one false step could cause her to be torn apart for some ancient creature's dinner. But as she works to stay alive and uncover the island's secrets, she becomes aware of something very troubling. There is someone else on the island, someone not quite human, a creature with glowing red eyes watching her from the shadows. And though the creature seems benevolent, perhaps even friendly, Nuriel is not about to let her guard down. After all, every stranger is an enemy, and there is nothing more dangerous than the attention of another person.
8 161Sol-int
Logical consciousness before birth ,however impossible with the udder lack of brain cells was quite the gift. One could see it as a curse, stuck alone in a dark and near silent womb for months with little need for rest. Phycological torture for those who couldn't grapple with the thought of such a miraculous time. After all if such awareness was available before the proper Brain matter was grown them how would one gain consciousness? Well there is only one simple and miraculous word to describe it. Magic. Whether it was a highly organized magic system, a chaotic mash of dark arts, or some divine intervention it could be considered to be magic non the less. And magic? Well one had plenty of time in the womb to discover and train it. And that was exactly what one would do if they found themselves in such a situation! Thanks to WifuLabs for the cover.
8 114MCU shifting script
Im just publishing my mcu script so i won't hahe to write it down and maybe someof you can get some inspiration haha
8 71The All Being
There was a prophecy, a solution, a choice, and an unusual thing that could destroy the world in its pursuit of knowledge. Will that happen? The only way to find out is to wait and see. Follow the journey of a curious and peculiar creature as it pursues knowledge of anything and everything. There may be some strange changes but wasn’t there a saying that you should put yourself in someone else’s shoes? What better way to learn about something than to literally become that very thing!
8 182Her Choice | ✓EDITING
A happily married couple, Levi and Aurora.What happens when Aurora finds Levi making out with another woman in his office?You'll have to read to find out...
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