Stories
Explore the world of Arcania through these bite size short stories.
Midnight Festival – Chapter 1
Sara knew the egg couldn’t be real. Little girls didn’t win dragon eggs, especially not at random, and not in the village Pirth. But what if? She wondered, walking back to the house with her brother, Hue, as the festival behind them burned to its dying embers.Soon, the multi-colored wagons lining the circle would pack up and move on to the next village, to the next celebration somewhere far off. They wo...
Midnight Festival – Chapter 2
Electricity encircled Opeth, the Osiris Beam as lightning tore the sky. Pistons whirred and blue light rippled through its entire body, glowing like lantern light beneath its slick, metallic skin. Its roar came like an avalanche of iron scraping steel as Botan howled, her wing singed and smoking. Quickly, grab on to me, Botan said telepathically to the children. Hue grabbed hold of one of Botan’s tendrils and he...
Midnight Festival – Chapter 3
Sara and Hue fell for what felt like a long time before collapsing in a heap at the bottom of a black ravine. When Hue came to, he had trouble seeing his hand in front of his face.“Sara?” he said, groping the ground next to him. “Where are you!” “Here,” Sara said tearfully.Hue picked himself up and rushed to his sister, who had fallen a few feet away....
Midnight Festival – Chapter 4
Xao’s tongue formed first. It dripped wet with saliva as it lapped up shadows. A skull, pointed and sharp, took shape around the tongue, forming teeth and eyes and horns. Deep indentations cracked along its body,bleeding red light in the shape of the all-seeing eye. With it, Xao reached across the catacombs for the children’s’ minds. Their memories.
He touched Sara’s first.
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Midnight Festival – Chapter 5
Botan’s brilliant blue eyes were gouged out and her wings were broken. Even still, she fought. She clawed at Opeth’s metal body, ripping out chunks of scrap. She swung her tail madly, swatting the soldiers as they came. The tendrils along her neck and back burned with bright light that seeped into her neck and out her mouth in a beam of blistering energy that cut through the walls of skulls and shook the catacomb...
Midnight Festival – Chapter 6
Botan’s brilliant blue eyes were gouged out and her wings were broken. Even still, she fought. She clawed at Opeth’s metal body, ripping out chunks of scrap. She swung her tail madly, swatting the soldiers as they came. The tendrils along her neck and back burned with bright light that seeped into her neck and out her mouth in a beam of blistering energy that cut through the wal...
Soldier of Shadow – Part 1
Behind, even higher peaks rose to kiss the sky. Below, hundreds of bundled villagers hurried their carts and children up the jagged mountain passageways to seek shelter in makeshift caves throughout the range. She watched as the villagers’ carts trundled along the haphazard pathways, tumbling over into the abyss below as often as not. She sent them a silent wish of good fortune, and hoped they would hurry along the...
Soldier of Shadow – Part 2
Rubis reared back; the rubies closest to her wingtips lit up scarlet; the light shook inwards, glowing underneath the skin until she let loose an inferno.It was enough to shake Jain out of the memory and force Amina to duck.Amina flew underneath Rubis. “Fire!” Jain yelled. Shadow rimmed with blue light filled her glass horns and streaked behind as Amina fired them like rockets. The shadow formed new horns instan...