《Codex of Shadows》Chapter 2
Advertisement
“Friends, we are gathered here tonight because of what everyone here already heard earlier, although I am an Atheist and until now didn’t believe in a God, but considering latest events I have no other choice than to believe. Seven of us here will decide upon our further actions after we discuss everything among ourselves, everyone will speak in turn one by one and we won’t interrupt anyone for any reason, if you have anything to say, remember it or write it down and speak when it’s your turn. Now let’s begin, Hex, you start first and we go clockwise.” Said Nick before he sat down.
“Okay, so from what I understood, we can all choose if we want to go to another universe for a test or not, well I have my own doubts, we don’t even know what the test is, what rewards we are talking about and what punishments there are, what if we just send ourselves into death just because we were greedy for money, power or glory. I want to hear your opinions, so ill finish with this. Tragic go on…”
“Thanks Hex, and I told you not to call me that, my name is Jeff not Tragic, can you guys seriously stop with that already… Now back to the point, I talked earlier with a friend of mine, he is Muslim and he heard almost the same message we did, only difference was his Allah was talking to him instead of our God, therefore I can confirm the truth of what we heard, well at least to some degree, I honestly don’t know if there is a reason for Gods to lie to us, you know why I’m called Tragic, so I am not really a fan of risks, whatever your decision may be I will follow you guys ‘till the end of earth if I have to, that’s all I have to say, Einstein your turn.”
Advertisement
“I don’t have much to say, I’ll just agree with Tragic, whatever you guys choose I’ll follow, we are all together since forever, and I plan on staying like that.”
“Touching, Einstein you really touched me, I’m going to start crying now, boohoo….”
“Ted, knock it off, your turn.”
“Jeez Max you really have to get a sense of humor someday. You guys know how big of a coward I am, this time I’ll side with Tragic, I’m not fond of risks, but what scares me more than deaths is that you guys will lose sense of humor without me, so I have no other choice but go wherever you guys are, even if we are all to die, you will all die laughing!”
“Fuck you, you can go die I have no plans on doing so!”
“Mark, chill out bro, I was just joking, you are even worse than Max you goddamn warmonger, go pick a fight with someone your own size you big ape.”
“Want a fight shrimp?”
“Ted, Mark, that’s enough, it isn’t time to fight, Mark what’s your opinion?”
“Well that voice, whoever that was, said our luck and strength will be tested, hell yeah I’m going, there’s not a chance in hell I’ll miss out on a fight.”
“Didn’t expect anything different from you anyway, was foolish to even ask, guess it’s my turn then… I, I’m going…” Mumbled Max.
“Wait, what?!” Everyone screamed in unison.
“You, mister plan for everything, want to go somewhere where you don’t know anything, come here I want to see if you bumped your head or if you have a fever maybe.”
“I’m serious, you guys might not believe me, but I have some weird feeling about this, it’s like if I don’t go I will miss out on something extremely big.”
Advertisement
“So mister plan it all has a good feeling about this, well you guys already know the drill, let’s go get rich! Hahaha!” As Ted said that everyone exploded into laughter.
“Hey Ted, what about May?” Max suddenly remembered.
“Oh right, well she said whatever we guys decide she will respect, and she will stick with me whatever happens.
“Are you sure bro, she isn’t orphan like we are, she has parents, maybe it’s not a best idea.” Said Nick.
“Duhh, that’s what I said to her, but she wouldn’t listen to me at all, she is too stubborn sometimes…”
“If she wasn’t she probably wouldn’t be with you this long.”
“Okay guys, we have couple of hours left, please do your preparations, we meet here at midnight again, don’t bring anything valuable, bring only food, water and some necessities, that would be all.” Said Nick and then he left the room first without saying anything
Advertisement
The New Community
In the not too distant future, the world is settling down after world war 3, recovering and rebuilding. From the ruins, new communities and governments arise, along with Talents, people with extraordinary abilities. Amongst the groups is the Community, based in Europe, an inclusive group of towns that values everyone, regardless of Talent status. Leading the recruitment charge is Zoe, a powerful technomancer, one of the first generation of Talents. On her adventures, what will happen? Your votes will decide. A/N: I'll update chapters when I get to places where I feel it's right, I don't know where to go and want some direction or would like to have you help with the narrative in some way. Having others make choices forces me to be creative and I think that's when I'm at my best. Keep an eye out for polls in post chapter notes, they usually last 2 days. As always, love each other, and know I am grateful for every single person who reads my works.
8 237Genetic Parole
Jean is just trying to get by like everyone else. Not that everyone else is doing so good, unless apocalypses are your thing. Does it count as an apocalypse if death just leads to an existential crises on the nature of reality and consequence? Besides that it's just your normal adventure story. Aliens conquer planet, aliens store minds in a virtual prison, aliens loose track of plucky hero that slips through the cracks. Plucky hero keeps his sanity by disgarding sanity as a concept, and travels the virtual multiverse in search of his body and his home. The usual.
8 190Resurgence of an Immortal - Sample
This is a sample of my upcoming book. Follow Dexter as he's thrown into a world of monsters, both of the human and beast variety. He must survive and grow strong enough to return to Earth and reunite with his beloved fiance Amelia. This progressive fantasy combines Eastern and Western themes. Fans of Dungeons and Dragons or similar book series like Will Wright's Cradle and Tinalynge's Blue Phoenix are sure to enjoy this novel as well. I would appreciate any and all feedback while this is still in an editing stage. Thank you.
8 83Animus-Blade: Sword Singer
My first story, feedback is appreciated. Fifteen-year-old bookworm Joan lived a poor but sheltered life, her only worry was the upcoming rite that granted individuals of her age a soulbound magic weapon called an Animus-blade. Failure to acquire one labelled you as an outcast who is left to rot by society at large and Joan has good reason to believe that she will be among them. But after her only friend, Alessia goes missing Joan is slowly dragged into the cruel world and is forced to decide how she will confront the darkness in the recesses of humanity or be broken by it. [Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - April 2022]
8 212NCT & WAYV IMAGINES
nct and wayv imagines-mature contentrequests [closed]ongoing
8 112Zombies, werewolves, aliens & wolfwalkers
Seabrook has always attracted strange things but now a days humans and monsters live in harmony but when aliens arrive things get complicated especially when they discover the secret of Alex Jordan.
8 167