《Vento Aureo || Her Muse ||》|| 9 ||
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Ever since she was born, many people including her parents thought she was a dumb child. She never utter a single word nor a sound. Nothing left her lips.
The only one who thought of her something more was her older brother, Caffe. With little education Caffe had, he taught his little sister how to read. He taught her how to write even if it is on an old newspaper or book. Despite others saying it was a waste of time to teach Latte, Caffe saw intelligence behind her pink and brown eyes. The hunger in her eyes told him everything - hunger to learn.
Caffe and Latte could only depend on each other. He took the title of brother and parent for Latte, trying his best to raise Latte well. They can't depend on their parents as they prefer to think about themselves. Living in poverty, he taught Latte how to defend herself if trouble comes in their way.
He did small and odd jobs to support each other. As they grew up, fourteen year old Caffe took the risk of joining a gang. With risk, there was more money than their eyes could ever laid on. Their small fortune comes to an end when they thought Caffe to be a traitor. Its was from the truth.
"What ever you heard, don't come out from here." Eight year old Latte looks up at his brown eyes. His short brown hair with white streaks is what she loved the most. Shaking in her spot, her nails dig into her brother's arm. She doesn't want to be alone. "I will be fine." Caffe reassures her. He pulls her to his bedroom. A small round rug was pulled back to reveal a trap door on the floor. Lifting the trap door, Caffe force her to the hole. He made her to lay on the dirt floor under wooden floor. Her tiny body let her able to fit in the hole. Caffe gave her his folded knife for protection.
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"Trust me, I'll handle this." He told her. She wanted to believe him but the sinking feeling in her gut tell her otherwise. Laying in silence, the rug was pull back to normal, covering her body. The only source of light was the small opening between the floor boards. Her pink eye peered through the space. Latte heard an argument between her brother and the members of the gang. Their names burned in her memories as it left her brother's lips. She heard her brother struggle then deathly silence afterwards.
Her eye close when something fell on her cheek - something wet. Her right hand touches the liquid resting on her cheek. The sight of red made her eyes water. Her brain try to force itself not to believe it is her brothers but her heart knows the truth. She laid in that dark hole, suffering in silence through the whole day. In the early hours of the morning, she come out of her hiding spot. Her eyes on her brother's dead body. He died from multiple stab wounds in the chest and stomach. The sight of his red nails and cuts on his arms told her that he fought until his last breath.
Clutching her brother's folded knife, Latte changed that day.
From an innocent girl to a driven soul out for blood of the men who killed her brother.
"So, how to do feel now?" Pericolo asked Latte. His eyes wander down to the see the men she slain by her own hands. Fourteen year old Latte glances at the capo with a mixture of emotions behind her eyes. With the snap of her parasol, she closes it to let it rest on her left shoulder. "My life's mission is done and yet..." Latte slowly signs to the capo. She looked down at her work.
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Bloody bodies of those men - stabbed to death like her brother endured many years ago.
"You felt empty." His words struck her heart. Latte lowers her head. She turns to him to reveal sad eyes. "Yes, I felt emptiness. What will I do now?" She signs to him. Pericolo turns away to the girl to approach the open door. "I don't have the answer for you. You have to find out yourself." He spoke up, "...I offer you a place to work under me. It will a different line of work than you are doing now but a change is a good way to start. The choice is yours."
Latte looked down at her work - she soiled her hands with their blood.
Will she remain an empty soul with no purpose? Or find another path?
Something touch her shoulder, making her look up. Looking behind her, she saw no one. For some reason that touch felt familiar. That touch held the feeling of encouragement.
Taking the first step, Latte approached Pericolo to hold up her hand to him.
Instead of shedding blood for revenge, she uses her strength to protect and take down foes who stood in her capo's way. In return, he taught her how to become a better person. Thanks to Caffe and Pericolo, she was able to become the person she is today.
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Fuji takes cultural and mythological aspects from eastern society and bundles it with original fiction. Sun goddesses, Elder dragons, and magical powers galore. Further down this page contains minor spoilers, avert your eyes if you wish to read without any predisposed knowledge. With that in mind, let’s go into where we start this story- The sun goddess Amaterasu has gone missing, plunging the earth into eternal night. Beings of darkness and pain have started emerging from the shadows and have been deemed the title Yokai. The shogunate has formed a committee of samurai and swordsmen gifted with the embers of Amaterasu to slay the beasts of shadow, but their efforts have grown unsuccessful. Ash covers the land as snow. The embers of a forgotten time have died out. All that’s left is us and the dark. *** Main site Discord Vote
8 112A FORGEMASTER OF WAYLAND
William Drake, a modern day Illinois blacksmith, is no stranger to unusual orders, but the latest one is odder than most. He has been commissioned to create a sword of bizarre specifications, and the sword isn't the only thing that's strange. His customer, Markham, is definitely not a local, and balks at the bill. The sword is stolen by Markham, and William storms after him, finally retrieving the blade at the top of a rented Scottish tower. During the confrontation, William is transported, artifact in hand, to an alternate world called Wayland.Sly bartering demons, the Aos Si, wish to claim Wayland, as does a rival duke and his mage, Veddick. Meanwhile, a banished dieity, Credine, is seeking return to Wayland by using William as his unwilling avatar. Caught in a web between the three competing powers, William must unravel the mystery of the sword he has forged, stave off the encroaching god Credine and save the residents of Wayland from the god, the usurpation of the rival duke, and the Ao Si.
8 85Age of Teras: Monster Evolution
"A Tera is not just an evolved beast. Teras might have almost ended humanity's reign over this planet, but they were also the reason that we rose up from the ashes of the cataclysm and fought back against the hordes that sought to vanquish us. Whether you're someone who chooses to depend on your own power or one of those who trusts nothing but the overwhelming power of their weapons, you cannot deny this fact."In the year 2020, a catastrophic event caused an upheaval of the earth's crust which resulted in the end of the industrial age.A new age was born, where all the species on Earth, including humans, evolved in order to survive.200 years later, an 18-year-old teenager who had survived for 8 years in a forest with the help of a trusty Siberian husky walked out to find that humanity had integrated itself with these wondrous, exotic yet deadly evolved beasts which came to be called as Teras.Also, there seemed to exist a "Path to the Stars", where anyone could grow in power in any method of their choosing by defeating a list of increasingly stronger individuals in combat, who would each bestow them with the materials and knowledge needed to get to the next level.With only a single clue in hand that might lead him to find just who he was, this man began his journey. Schedule: 1 Chapter/Day, ~1300-1600 Words Long ... For advance chapters, head to: www.patreon.com/KillerHemboy
8 234A Mildly Odd Reality Breaker
Omar receives an unexpected visitor who comes baring a gift—a "registration ticket"—in the form of a small metal card. The ticket is itself an offer to participate in the game, "Reality Break." Accepting this offer means that Omar will be able to perceive the true nature of reality where there is not one, but two dimensions of time, and in this second dimension history changes (and somewhat "frequently"). Along with this, he will also gain access to the "chronopause"; another reality that is not so much parallel to our own as it is perpendicular, which acts as both a place and the natural boundary between non-sequential points on the timeline. Using the chronopause, Omar will become a chrononaut with the ability to travel through time, and as a player, he will be given a cybernetic interface and his own portable extradimensional storage space. It's a strange conversation, but due to Omar's dismally short attention span, he only consciously hears that last bit about the portable pocket space, and that's only after the physics-defying void is opened in his living room and literally waved in front of his face. Reality is certainly stranger than most people realize, but then again, so is Omar. Thankfully, he responds well to shiny things, and for better or for worse, his chronic inattentiveness is the least of his psychological issues. Omar also has a mild form of "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" which presents itself as an occasional, arbitrary need to disobey others (especially authority figures). However, his oddest psychological issue by far is his "abnormally hyperactive" subconscious mind. Outwardly and consciously, Omar is a lazy, apathetic man-child prone to mildly asinine behavior. Subconsciously, he's some sort of genius capable of extraordinary feats of cognition. Most of the time, Omar is a (technically) functioning adult, but in order to live as such, he must rely entirely upon unusual abilities he's completely unaware of, despite the fact that he uses them regularly. Up until now, his life had merely been ridiculous, but now it was also a game. Note: The narrative style is that of a reliable narrator with a "3rd-person sarcastic" POV. This story takes place in the Reality Breakers/Chronopause universe.
8 142Regretting And Rejecting
When Hannah is mated to her old bully, everyone implores her to move on and forgive him for the good of the pack. She will need to decide if the pack is worth risking her happiness or if she should do what she's wanted to do for years.Leave them all behind.**This is an enemies to lovers story. If you don't like that trope, don't read this story**________________________________________"I think I could give you a chance." I say quietly and he let's out a breath of relief. He takes my hand off of his face and places a kiss to my palm before resting it on his chest, covering it with both of his larger hands."Really?" He asks hopefully. I give him another wide smile.Before I narrow my eyes and scowl at him, ripping my hand away from him. His brows furrow in confusion as I take a step back."No."Cover made by @ViaAlyssaNicole
8 247The new girl (Shizukux Female Reader)
I don't know tbh you guys meet and yeah chemistry happens
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