Literature - Fiction

“I’ve come for you, Yuki Hayashi. I need you to save my people and I need your power!” Ayumi shouted at him sounding almost desperate, but pulled back quickly looking away gathering herself back. It was enough to make Yuki jump back a couple steps taken completely back by the change once more.

He did not understand what was going on anymore. ‘Is this some joke that she is playing on me? Is Hiroshi near?’ Yuki looked around the school grounds trying to make some sense of what was ...

The Inner Man – Episode 5 – Hostage

The man with a scar across the side of his face walked out of a building followed by two of his men. They had left Tokyo two weeks ago in their search for tying up the lose ends. The only clue that they were working with was that their target had moved to Osaka. This meant that they were outside of the domain of The Awaking Dragons. There were more variables than just the ones of finding the target in Osaka.

The Osaka underground was ...

The Inner Man – Episode 4 – Boys

The first week of school had been rough for Chiko, as rough as he figured it was going to be considering his crazy teacher and students that were completely enamored with him. After the first day, he had tried to remain relatively quiet in the class, fortunately the teacher rarely called on him to answer questions, especially during mathematics. She probably did not want to go toe to toe with him in another battle of the equations. That suited him fine ...

The morning and remainder of the time in class that followed after the introduction of the new student, Ayumi Nishimura, was carried out normally for everyone, everyone but Yuki. He had become distracted by this new girl that was sitting behind him. Normally, it would have been easy enough for him to let his mind wonder through his fantasies during homeroom, since nothing of importance usually happened. ‘Ayumi Nishimura…why did she smile at me like that?’ However, he was not able to get his ...

The scene around the fallen tree continued to develop with more people gathering at the site drawn in by curiosity and an already large crowd formed. Most of the students began passing through to reach their school. Left a short distance away from the street a figure in the shadows of the tree watched carefully of the events. A slow grin pulled up on their lips as though they understood and were pleased. They faded into the shadows without drawing attention leaving the confused neighbors to ...