**Updated weekly** She was the darkness that craved the light, and he was the light that craved the darkness. The world of magic has died, but has it? Even as many of the old heroes are now mythical figures. Many mortals remain oblivious to the corruption, control, war, and... power that still remains. As years have passed by, new heroes are born, reincarnations of the past savers they were once before, though may seem weakened by time, power still remains in their blood. Even in mortal forms. So to protect the new generation of heroes, Wisteria Academy hides them from the preying eyes of the dangers that now lurk in the new world. Yet, for Nyx and Lynx, Wisteria Academy is much more than that. Both a shelter and a warzone they must fight to rid of the darkness that consumes them. So the question remains.. Will they remain strong? Or give in to the alluring darkness that overshadows their souls?

***2024 Watty Awards Shortlisted*** https://www.wattpad.com/list/1642504418 **Action/Adventure Second place winner of The Fabulous Writer Awards ** War. For as long as memory serves, it has consumed the lands of Druzatria, stripping away freedom and peace from the kindred who dwell there, claiming countless innocent lives as casualties. For Onyx, life has been blood and sand. She is a gladiator, made for battle, bound by chains. She was forged in the Queen's arenas, raised not as a daughter but as a weapon, honed by violence and bloodshed. Abandoned by her father and gripping to the fading memory of her mother; she's learned to bury any weakness deep, to survive at all costs. Though her power rivals that of the strongest, she is bound-imprisoned by the Queen's merciless hold, wielded only as a tool of destruction. The arena has sculpted her into an unbreakable warrior, yet she is locked in a relentless struggle with herself. Haunted by the urge for something more. Until an Orcish Halfbreed enters the pit, the clash of their blades ignites a fate neither could foresee-a fight that will alter the course of her fate forever. Setting both on a path neither expected. Will she fall further under the Queen's iron grip, or rise and claim the one thing she has fought for her entire life? Will she lose everything she has fought to keep? And is she willing to pay in blood?