Year 2200. Elysia Novarum awoke to the gentle hum of the alarm integrated into her brain—a common modification in Aetheria to adapt to the planet's extended light cycles. She got out of bed and walked towards the window, opening it to the outside world. The landscape that unfolded before her eyes was surreal and vibrant. Aetheria's sky had a deeper shade of blue, almost purple. The vegetation, adapted to the different lig...

Continued from Part 1... He ran through the halls until he found a bathroom on the other side of the school, shut the door, and leaned his weight against it. The Genie’s sparkling pink cloud floated around him before gently coalescing into her human form. Her bubbly demeanor was gone, replaced with a soft, remorseful expression. “I’m sorry for displeasing you, Master,” she said with a formality George found disturbing. Ge...

Mia Underwood rolled over in bed, feeling the cool metal of her cybernetic limb brush against the warm flesh of Takeshi's bare chest. The room was bathed in the soft glow of the neon lights that pierced through the blinds, painting the floor with a rainbow of colour that were spread across the warm wooden surfaces of her apartment. The faint hum of Neo Tokyo's endless activity was a soothing lullaby that filled the air. S...

Stafford Regional was abuzz with the usual morning activity. Teachers and students parked in their respective parking lots, while the rest were dropped off by the fleet of buses arriving from every corner of the region. Since it was a sunny day, many students were still loitering outside, soaking up the rays or sneaking a drag off their vapes. There were the typical cliques one might expect: the jocks, the nerds, the dram...

“Please help us,” Alice called the dark haired girl grew closer, still muttering about losing something as well as cursing munchkins, whatever those were. “Yes, please help,” the scarecrow said, joining in and drawing her attention to the field and to the pole that Alice was hanging naked from. “What in tarnation? Well, I’ll be,” The girl exclaimed, catching sight of Alice for the first time, her attention previously devo...

Mia Underwood, her raven hair a stark contrast to the neon lights of the bustling city, stepped into the crowded street of Neo Tokyo. The air had the aroma of street food and the distant hum of hover bikes. Her eyes, now cybernetic marvels, scanned the area with a precision that could cut through the dense fog of the digital world. Each step she took was a silent promise of unspoken power. Her slim and fit body moved with...

“5...4...3...2...1...we have liftoff of the Phallus 5 rocket” The great pink rocket roared into the air with its two-person crew sitting in their pressure suits in the bulbous purple command module atop the great booster. This was the maiden trip of the rocket with its crew trained to practice activities that would be required on a future trip to Mars. Things that had never been done in the weightlessness of space before....

Chapter 10 KayT dressed quickly, her mind still buzzing from the frenzied encounter with Zara. The cool wind of Zenthia’s surface bit at her skin as she pulled her jacket on, but her body still hummed with the warmth of their intimacy. It was a dangerous game they were playing, one moment tangled in passion, the next on the verge of betrayal. Zara had always been a weakness of hers, and she hated that it still held true....

Mia awakens in her apartment, the last remnants of her fireplace bathing it in warmth and light. The flickering shadows dance across the walls, telling silent stories of the flaming embers. She stretches, her muscles relaxed from a night's sleep on the soft bed. Her apartment, a bastion of comfort in the sprawling, neon-lit labyrinth of Neo Tokyo, feels eerily quiet. The digital clock on her nightstand blinks a string of...

Chapter 7 KayT lay in the dim light of Seren's chambers, the warmth of their recent intimacy still clinging to her skin. Her breath had slowed, but her mind was anything but calm. The stakes had just risen higher than she had anticipated. The Heart of Vaylax was no simple treasure—it was a force, an entity of power, that could warp the minds of anyone who tried to wield it. But the Consortium’s ambition to possess such po...