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Phantom Star: Chapter 10

Five ships. 

The twinkling of their engines in the distance glinted in space, it was a beautiful image for the danger it represented. They drew closer and closer, coming to kill me.

I tore my eyes away from the viewport, and towards the Tab at my side that had a map of the system, and the estimated ranges of all of our weapons.

I needed to bring the pirates into range of not just the static defenses, but the Octavius, and do it without l...

Devouring the Neverglades:(Beta Version) Chapter 6

Eventually the break came but not because I was out of things to infuse.

No, we were just running low on mana liquid, and I was told to do something else.

Which meant after morning chores I was running out of the compound full speed to meet up with the boys.

I found them already out on the stream banks hunting around and ran up and then right past them. I needed to run!

Freedom!

I leapt over rocks, and around...

Phantom Star: Chapter 9

“Pass me that, would you?” I asked, pointing and the Crabbit chirped as it brought forth the tool I needed. 

It was easy to forget that tools could drift off in the depths of space.

I was on the hull of one of the ships that had been given to me, peeling shield emitters out of the hulk.

It was a simple repetitive task that I could have left for the scrappers who would have done the same thing, or even the Crabbit.

Bu...

Phantom Star: Chapter 8

“Targets received! received! Ten enemy ships! Oh no!”

“We’ll be okay!” I called back, as my Tab filled with the data the Octavius sent over.

Ten enemy Pirates. Mostly Civilian retrofits. Lots of weapons and things but still just Civilian ships not really designed for combat. Weak to no armor, and a power system likely not designed to handle the load.

Not that strapping on tons of weapons on a ship made them less dangerous regardless.

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Phantom Star: Chapter 7

My anxiety was getting to me, my hands folded into themselves in a constant twisting as I looked at the man opposite me.

“Do be more at ease my dear I beg, you are making me anxious.” Chief Engineer of the Octavius, Eugene sat across from me gently sipping his drink. We were at the Hab deck on the station, and we were even sharing a meal of sorts.

I just felt so awkward. I was doing everything I could to pretend some of the parts on the Phantom Star weren...

PTV: Early Chapter 82

“We got quite a battle today folks! A family feud! Elizabeth Ferrous, a returning contender aiming for the top this year, and her younger cousin. Victoria Ferrous, the Trainer of the first flying Gyarados, and our very own Drrrrragon Master!” 

I winced a bit at the obvious focus I was getting over my competitor. 

But that was that, and this was this. I stepped out onto the field and up the little challengers podium.

The Ice Fiel...

Phantom Star: Chapter 6

Kyle Ferrous Manager of Scrap processing station UNK-L

Kyle had seen a lot over the years. Pirate ships detonating in plasma fire. Scrappers hauling an alien Vordt ship behind them which quickly got snatched up by the Duke.

This wasn’t even the first time one of his scrappers had taken a ship and tried to get it running.

It was the first time he looked at a ship and simply couldn’t understand how it came to exist.

Kathe...

Phantom Star: Chapter 5

The actual broadcast of the start of the war had finally happened, and while at first everyone had gotten tense, months of nothing meant that eventually everyone relaxed.

We weren’t anywhere near the front lines, or even the sidelines, or backlines.

Benefits of being far out onto the frontier.

Everything slowly settled down, Baron Ritz slowly became a normal part of our lives, eventually a new status quo was reached. 

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Phantom Star: Chapter 4

“Kathy! There you are!” I looked up from my Tab, food half in my mouth and blinked at the familiar figures. 

I couldn’t quite say anything but I threw up a hand in hello and started chewing.

“You’ve been gone so much! I haven’t seen you for more than a second or two in forever!” Marie whined and I just shrugged as I continued swallowing,

“Marie, don’t whine. You know what Mom says. Kat, nice to see you not running for t...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 205

Miguel Hernandez

Everything was falling apart! Just because he had taken the drugs! They should have been his anyway! Who cares that Daniel that Tino fucker thought it was his. Miguel was important, not some street scop fucker!

But now, despite having flatlined the gonk for refusing to do what Miguel wanted, everything was going wrong.

The first attack had almost worked, if not for his bodyguard. And now Father hired an entire horde ...

Phantom Star: Chapter 3

This was the most difficult moment of my life. Line after line was typed in, questions that I just had to get right answered one after another, and then finally it popped up a message.

“Exam done.” I said and looked at the tester. Uncle Milbert. A very exacting man that always frowned.

He nodded and in seconds my results were posted.

I slumped in relief.

“That’s close, but a pass. Work on your policy knowledge.” He ...

Phantom Star: Chapter 2

“C’mon you stupid thing!” I growled, loosening connectors that had been flash fried and then left to cool in the vacuum of space for a few decades wasn’t easy. The plug wasn’t moving and I finally gave up. Crabby, give me a hand?

Yes! I’m here to help! Strong Strong Strong! It repeated as my Crabbit floated over and grabbed the plug and instead of pure strength used that gravity panel inside to just push against it. I moved back and the plug popped, s...

Phantom Star: Chapter 1

Welcome to Phantom Star! The first chapter of my new original series. I know everyone has questions about what is going on with GitC and how my upload schedule is going to be, and I understand that. So I wanted to try and answer some questions first.

Phantom Star is going to be uploaded onto Patreon, pretty much as fast as I get the chapters edited. Up until about Chapter 20, which is where I ...

PTV: Early Chapter 81

“Draco Meteor!” I roared out in delight. Cackling madly as the energy roared up into the sky, and my opponent's face took on a colored hue as the energy sent a warm glow across the stands.

Then it exploded like a firework.

Hide from me will you!?

“A-Golem!” He cried out, but hiding underground in the grass field wasn’t going to work!

Let’s see you dig your way out of this one!

“Mwahahaha!” I c...

Devouring the Neverglades:(Beta Version) Chapter 5

Although the men went out almost every day. There were times like if it was storming, or something major was broken down and needed to be fixed before they could go out that they would stay in the compound.

Which happened a week later. In this case it was a storm. The entire compound was battened down as the winds whipped water every which way.

Although rain and water didn’t bother me, everyone was cautious when this sort of thing happened.

Devouring the Neverglades: (Beta Version) Chapter 4

“What were you four even thinking!? Honestly!” Aunt Betty was a pretty woman, in her twenties if I wasn’t mistaken. She was also a really good cook, even better than Mama, and Erik often teased us that his mother was the best.

Of course she was also incredibly fearsome because Betty was a butcher. Right now the five foot nothing woman was glaring at us, covered in snake blood as she had already removed the head and was working her way through the incredibly thick skin.<...

Devouring the Neverglades: (Beta Version) Chapter 3

It was a long drive out of the city and back home.

The whole time I had the pamphlet open and was reading through it.

I did actually know how to read… Mostly. The writing wasn’t English, so it had taken some work over the years, but between what I had picked up before my memories kicked in and what I remembered from my last life. Well I had worked hard to figure it all out. Getting as much practice as a girl without access to a school could, to figure it ...

PTV: Early Chapter 80

“And the overwhelming might of Victoria Ferrous is still on display!” The announcer called out, as I watched my opponent recall their Nidoking. 

It had been a good try, but my opponent’s Nidoking wasn’t anywhere near the old man from Pallets King.

“Will Victoria Ferrous recall her Arcanine after that mighty clash? It doesn’t seem so! Another round with the Legendary Arcanine!”

The challenger threw out a pokeball eventually ...

Devouring the Neverglades (Beta Version) Chapter 2

The festivities seemed to explode after the discovery, but Papa being the wise man, noticed I was not happy at the moment, and picked me up and carried me into our home in the compound. I was huffing irritably into his neck as I rested my cheek on his shoulder so he could feel how unhappy I was.

“C’mon Monster. There isn’t anything to be unhappy about.

“I don’t know what’s going on.” I eventually spoke as Papa brought us to our little living roo...

Devouring the Neverglades (Beta version) Chapter 1

A/N So I mentioned I was going to post a bit of another original series I've been working on for a long time in exchange for my normal GitC schedule for a bit. This is a Original Series, Fantasy novel, and I'm very fond of it. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1

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“Got one!” Erik happily shouted out spitting mud out from his mouth as he did. The eight year old held to his bare chest a thankfully small wriggling Rock Crab even if he was struggling to hold the muddy creatu...

PTV: Early Chapter 79

“Electabuzz! Thundershock!” My opponent screamed, but it was too late for that. Gyarados had been sweeping the girls team, and now her last Pokemon was desperately sending out blasts of electricity into the clouds.

The lightning hit the clouds above, and just splattered into them. To my delight, rain clouds were pretty good shields against electricity based attacks. I’m sure if the Electabuzz was stronger, like Ash’s Pikachu, my Blue Heart would be in more trouble, bu...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 204

Thanks again for watching over me. I called out as I slipped down into the Netrunner Combat Zone through the bar-like entrance.

Hey no problem. You bought food. So I’m just hanging around. Besides, it’s still interesting. Malcolm confirmed and I nodded. 

I had come to earn some XP. Or try to. I had maybe burned some bridges a bit too much trying to get every ounce of XP I could get last few times.

So I was...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 203

“Don’t slow down now!” I called out and Malcolm grunted as he continued jogging, although I could tell he was flagging.

Eventually he gave up and walked over to lean against a SCSM to gasp for air.

“Don’t stop moving. Keep walking around a little.” I warned him, and after a glare he did so. 

“I-I should get some Synth Lungs.” He gasped out and I laughed and just shrugged. While it wasn’t something I would recommend as the exercise wa...

Ghost in the City: Early chapter 202

An hour later Kang Tao headed off having retrieved the data and everything was settled.

Just another night in Night City where the corps felt that killing anyone that had even touched their data was the better course than just trusting some mercs to have not read it.

I didn’t, but I was tempted to after they screwed us like this, but Regina had gotten paid and then some for all the trouble, so I was just going to let it go. I didn’t want to deal with Kang...

PTV: Early Chapter 78

The sun was rising. I stood out on the porch of the little bunk house they had given me staring out over the quiet morning.

Ivy and Kiba were still inside sleeping, but the sun had woken me right up.

Today was the day. 

Today was the first day of the Indigo Conference. My first public battle. I’d be fighting in front of thousands of people, and basically everyone in Kanto would watch it on the TV if they couldn’t come.

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 201

The intel was good. An old ripperdoc shop, long abandoned by the owner, had been taken over. The group had klepped a shipment from Kang Tao. Some proprietary data or whatever, and they wanted it back, but hadn’t managed to track down who stole it, so some middle manager had hired Regina who hired Hiromi.

Honestly I was pretty relaxed, slipping into their data stream was tetchy. Maelstrom always had more potential for running into a Netrunner than some other gangs. 

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 200

I considered going out and using it right away, but I needed to test it first, and I had perfectly good guinea pigs. 

I mean friends!

Ichi and Malcolm were summoned!

The little food place I had called them too was nice enough, but I wasn’t inside. Instead I was on a roof across the way watching the two boys arrive, look around not seeing me, and slide into a booth.

I quickly hacked into both of them and slipped in the ...

PTV: Chapter 77

Walking through the crowds of people made me incredibly nervous. I was getting looks, but nothing that made me think everyone knew who I was.

But here we were. Pokemon League Village. The Gathering place for all the trainers to rest during the League. I could even have a little bungalow house if I wanted to stay here during the competition.

“Oh look!” Mama called out in delight and looked over and winced.

The shops were already being put ...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 199

I woke up the next morning feeling well rested and ready to take on the world. A full eight hours and I was ready to hammer life.

I hit the gym first. That final level for Body would mean I never have to stop at a gym again in my life. Which was a temptation that was too strong to put off.

The weights let me push and I found a good chunk of the morning disappear in a haze of aching muscles and willpower overriding my tired body.

No level ups,...

Ghost in the City: Early Chapter 198

Hayato wanted to meet up for the completion of the gig. So rather than party, or split up we all headed across Japantown back to the expensive highrise where the TC bosses had their meeting.

Taking the elevator up with the entire crew was interesting. I could feel the tension ratcheting up from Hiromi and Ichi, while Malcolm was more calm, and Rebecca was expecting trouble, and seemingly happy to pull her gun.

The door opened to the same hallway and as we ste...