Lykanthropy

Chapter 115 Getting A New Ride (1)

Chapter 115

Getting A New Ride (1)

I have to say, nothing is more depressing than being at a couples’ retreat place solo. You have the beach, the surf, the fresh ocean air that smells of decaying whale excrement and other even less savory decaying organic materials.

Then you have the happy go lucky couples who all run happily from the shore to the surf, swim for a bit, then come out to spend time with their loved ones. It is enough to make you wish you focused before choos...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 18 : The Tier II Dungeon (Gold)

Chapter 18

The Tier II Dungeon (Gold)

One hundred floors, or twenty sets of the five variants. Ten sets at Green, or easy. Then these last ten set were at Gold, or medium. Honestly Alexa was glad, well as glad as she could be, that she had kept to her original plan. The learning curve going from being able to take her time, to every hallway being a wall tightening spike trap was a bit much.

The only reason she had even been able to make the transition was because among the s...

OUTCAST:Chapter 173 Ajimal The Great: Sidhertha, the Uprising that Changed a Nation

Chapter 173

Ajimal The Great

Sidhertha, the Uprising that Changed a Nation

Ajimal The Great floated over the broken remains of the Sidherthan capital. From the air he could see everything. He had of course dreamed of moments just like this, moments where he would be overseeing an army that brought the once might Sidherthan empire, the thorn forever in his side, to its knees.

Still, he could not help but feel that the view that was unfolding below him was in any way wha...

ALEXiThymiA: Interlude II

Interlude II

“Where is my new consultant?” Rayne Johnston yelled at Bullford. She paused for a moment, then continued. “Weren’t you supposed to be telling her to check in daily? What time is she supposed to arrive here today?”

At that Bullford looked visibly flustered.

“You see. I wasn’t aware that we would be able to locate and identify so many more victims of Lykanthropy, so soon.” Bullford admitted.

“So you what? Cast her out, said don’t call us,...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 17: The Tier II Dungeon (Entry)

Chapter 17

The Tier II Dungeon (Entry)

“Welcome to Bottomless Gorge.” The Entry guard said, as he greeted and scanned Alexa’s identification card. This was the same card she had always used, the one linked to her 500+ Tier I dungeon runs.

For a moment she wondered if there was going to be a problem with her entering this dungeon.

Happy beep.

There was the nice chime sound of her card being accepted.

“I see, you are a pre-awakened and this i...

ALEXiThymia: Chapter 16: Outcast, Again

Chapter 16

Outcast, Again

The next day, Alexa and Luke arrived at school, only to find that everything had changed. Alexa looked around to see that all her fellow classmates, and many of her teammates who had been cheering her on just yesterday, now looked at her with contempt.

“Cheater.” Dathney Williams said, her voice easy to pick out from the crowd. She had always been on to target Alexa.

At this, Alexa knew word of her pre-awakened status had been revealed. Sh...

Chapter 114 The Bonfire Trap

Chapter 114

The Bonfire Trap

You ever have one of those moments where you realize that the crazy girl at the party suddenly has eyes for you? That she then claims that she understood the messages that you were not putting down for her all night. That she is ready to home with you, that she has grown beyond her previous relationships where she set her former lover’s slippers on fire, particularly after the one time when the flames went wild and burned down the entire house?

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 15: The Consultant's First Case

Chapter 15

The Consultant's First Case

There are many things that Alexa knew she wasn’t good at, bartering was one. The reason being is that it required her to want to interact with people on a deeper level. The problem with that was, dealing with people always seemed like a waste of time. Especially, when there were more important things she could be doing with her time, like training to earn augmentation crystals, or the ever present going into dungeons to earn crystals direct...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 14: The Interrogation

Chapter 14

The Interrogation

Bullford still couldn’t understand how to read the girl before him. Honestly the video was recorded so poorly that there was nothing that could be made from the contents. The only thing that Bullford was certain of, was that there was at one point a werewolf, then the next this girl punched the werewolf so hard, she reverted to being human.

It was a miracle, something that had never been seen or done before. Had there not been a recording of th...

OUTCAST:Chapter 172 Brenna A Duel: of Cultivators

Chapter 172

Brenna

A Duel of Cultivators

Lykan glowed. That was the only way to describe his transformation. One second he was normal everyday Lykan, the next he was a god made flesh and bone. His body glowed with a golden light. One that threatened to burn away the retinas of any mortal who stared too long.

He was a solar eclipse made flesh. He was the beginning and ending of the universe. For that one brief moment, Brenna looked on and saw perfection. Not perfection ...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 13: Emasculated by a Former Crush

Chapter 13

Emasculated by a Former Crush

Like an angel of vengeance she appeared, right when Johnny least expected her to. This was not the resolution he had been hoping for when he first awoke to find that he had suddenly become the center of Central’s dating scene.

It started with a great review, then a message that he thought was a hoax, but now wondered otherwise. Especially after the confrontation, then the way Alexa Thyme, the Alexa Thyme, snapped her mechanical penc...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 12: Call it Brotherly Intuition

Chapter 12

Call it Brotherly Intuition

“Yo, this is serious.” Luke said in hushed tones once they were outside the gymnasium.

“Seems so.” Alexa added.

“Look, aren’t you frightened about what might happen?”

At that Alexa paused and just stared her brother in the face.

“Right, you wouldn’t know fear if it bit you on the ass and infected you with Lykanthropy.” Luke admitted.

Alexa just shook her head, before adding. “Lykanthropy isn...

Chapter 113 Leaving to Not Much Fanfare

Chapter 113

Leaving to Not Much Fanfare

Apparently, security is a big deal. Especially for a fledgling military force that is just coming into its own and has only one real claim to power. Of course, the situation only escalates when that one claim to power is an ancient alien structure that puts your newest recruits on par with some of the best space faring races right off from the start.

So, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when armed security guards descended upon A...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 11: Progenitor

Chapter 11

Progenitor

“I have reason to believe that someone in your community might be infected with the Lykanthropy virus at this very moment…” Bullford said, then paused as he looked around the gymnasium of so many students.

Most let out gasps. He had them, they were all still. Most twitched imperceptibly to his vastly heightened senses. This twitching was a common occurrence Bullford found, when dealing with humans who learned that an apex predator was in their mid...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 10: Lies We Tell Ourselves

Chapter 10

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Hormones, if Alexa didn’t know any better, she would swear that she was having hormonal issues. In fact she had to use that very response to her mother over the weekend.

“Is that blood I smell?” Judy, her mom, asked.

“Yes, it is that time of the month.” Alexa responded, in her cold mechanical tone. Though her mind was racing, trying to hide the wound on her arm. Likely the spot where the blood was coming from.

“Oh, al...

Chapter 112 Nightmare Mode

Chapter 112

Nightmare Mode

You ever have one of those days, where you wake up and think you are more than prepared enough for anything that could possibly come your way. So, you go in, expecting multiple choice, only to find out that it is essay format that must be written in a unique cipher while timed. Also, you cannot use notes or keys to remember your cipher, so you come up with something that you think will work, but mid-way through you think you know the cipher but can’t r...

Outcast: Chapter 171 Lykan: Cultivation and Advancement

Chapter 171

Lykan

Cultivation and Advancement

There are very few moments in time that can truly be defined by one event, before it happens. Sure, one can go back and eventually deduce that one motion, one perceived sleight caused a cascading change of events that would have a monumental impact on the development of a nation. But most of those moments are fleeting and require a lot of people to speak about the event after it happened.

For Lykan he was living in that mom...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 9: Social Dynamics

Chapter 9

Social Dynamics

Being the children of two awakened has a lot of pressure associated with it. The children are not allowed to get personal or augmentation health that they did not earn directly. The parents are to provide the minimum amount of financial assistance as possible. The parents cannot themselves pay for their children to enter a dungeon.

This was why Jim and Judy Thyme were both pleased and a little disappointed that their children, effectively concocted ...

Chapter 111 Sleeping Beauty

Chapter 111

Sleeping Beauty

You ever wonder what the prince really thought when he came along and saw snow white sleeping there surrounded by a bunch of dwarfs? Ever wonder how brazen it was for him to just saunter up and kiss the sleeping woman? Am I the only one who wonders if the boy, the alleged prince, was a fledgling necromancer? Okay, maybe I am a bit cynical about the whole matter.

The only thing is, here I am, in the fourteenth universe, which is really the second u...

ALEXiThymiA: Interlude I: The Crime Scene

Interlude I

The Crime Scene

Rayna Johnston, the Tri-State investigative lead was first called to the out of the way woods at just past 3:13 AM, after a full manhunt for a rogue werewolf serial killer had been dispatched.

Tracking down the serial killer was a little easier than expected. When one of the two main virals, species that predominantly expand their kind through sharing either the Vampyre or Lykanthropy virus, a special task squad is called. This special task squad ...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 8: Down With The Sickness

Chapter 8

Down With The Sickness

Of all the times to experience a true life and death battle; during those moments when Alexa could feel emotions would have to have been one of the last times, she would have wanted to have this experience.

Yet, with these moments of clarity being what they were, she felt something break. She felt the moment her fear shattered, and gave way to something deeper, something primal. With a wave of euphoria, she found a slight smile creeping onto ...

Chapter 7 The Fix

Chapter 7

The Fix

Few words can adequately express the feelings Alexa manages to unlock during her moments of clarity that are caused by absorbing augmentation crystals. They should be painful; they should be so much that it would cause her to balk at the sheer thought of getting one. That her attributes were so high, that absorbing more would cause near paralysis.

To be fair, when Alexa did absorb her crystals, she did feel something close to paralysis, but it was due to he...

Chapter 110 Freedom Or Something Like That

Chapter 110

Freedom Or Something Like That

For the first time in my entire life, I had no true direction. I had no real job prospects lined up. I had no future goals, only now after everything do I realize how I had put all my eggs into one basket.

I had been so stupid in my first few times, well only one real time, at life. I had banked everything on my Awakening and getting into the Military Academy. I had been so certain of that future, that I didn’t even plan for the i...

ALEXiThymiA: Chapter 6: It’s A Trap - Dungeon

Chapter 6

It’s A Trap - Dungeon

The two entered the trap dungeon, at which point they were taken to a waiting room.

“This is the primary waiting room. All dungeons have something similar. In this, we can either break apart for an individual challenge.” Alexa began, by first pointing to the three separate tunnels that led from the entry room. “As you can see there are three different tunnels, each with a corresponding difficulty level. These are generally denoted in t...

Chapter 5 A Typical Date (2)

Chapter 5

A Typical Date (2)

“…I know probably too much about you…” Just John, Alexa’s date admitted.

Then Alexa in her attempt to deescalate the situation answered the only way she knew how. With the truth. “Yeah, probably.”

There was an awkward pause as the two looked at each other. They were both here for a date. Or as Alexa liked to refer to these, a date consultation. She was not on a date, as she could never be able to express herself in any meaning...