Chapter Six – Surrender There was no one in the combat cell when Emma entered the room. A quick glance showed her that the room was as empty as it had appeared on the screens in the waiting room. With any luck she wouldn’t have to head back there […]
Chapter Seven – Blind Bethany Parks watched as the remaining fights from the second round concluded. She was mildly impressed by some of the fights she saw on the screens. In her mind she ran through the strategies she could use to disable, defeat and even kill the fighters […]
Chapter Eight – Rankings Once again Ash was late arriving at the girl’s assembly hall, although this time he was only off by a few seconds and, luckily for him, the coaches hadn’t yet begun their speech. As quickly and quietly as he could, Ash slipped into one of […]
Clarification and Rankings Hi, So thanks to the wonderful corrections and questions of some of you guys I’ve realised that I really needed to clarify things a bit more. In case you haven’t already, go read my foreword, that should help with some of it and I’ll be updating […]
The jostling impact of the plane’s wheels hitting the tarmac woke Kyoshi. In the seconds before she got control the thoughts, judgments, and trickle of emotions bombarded the young advanced mind from all sides. Mostly, people were irritated. It was a five hour flight from Atlanta to San Francisco and […]
Chapter Nine – Friday It was the night after the ranking matches. In the girls’ common room laughter sounded, most of the dorm had turned out to see how the Lower Sixth matches had gone, both here at St M’s and Brashmoore and up North within the other HCPs. […]
Chapter Ten – Relax Brashmoore and St Mary’s campuses were located deep in the English countryside. This was in part to avoid having too many humans and reporters trying to get onto the highly secure and well-guarded grounds, but also to protect those same people from unexpected losses of […]
The flow of people through the hospital ER was average; which to anyone other than the seasoned medical personnel on staff meant it looked really busy. There were a variety of medium to serious lacerations, one sex related injury that everyone was staying far away from, and a few return […]
Chapter Eleven – Match The following morning was wet and cold. It seemed autumn had finally bucked the last of the summer’s hold on September. Ash waited in the hallway that lead into the combat cells. He was vibrating with barely restrained energy, his strategy running over and over […]
“Have a holly, jolly Christmas. It’s the best time of the year…” Anika plastered a smile on her face and kept it there. <She’s cute, but she’s not that cute,> Anika watched as the entire Whitfield family belted out the lyrics and butchered the song. The entire family was packed […]