Eryndor Academy trains those brave-or foolish-enough to ride dragons. To most, it's a place of honor. To Ellie Talarion, it's the only place left to hide. Dragonriders are feared, their training deadly. If she survives it, she might finally be safe. But dragons have long memories, and some choices burn brighter than fate itself. ✅ Fully written | 📅 Updates every Wednesday & Saturday until complete ✦ This story, The Flame and the Shield, is also published on Royal Road under the title The Bonded Sky by K.L. McLean. ✦

Ten years after the Veil was torn and the worlds of men and magic became one, peace seems complete. Samuel of the Glow... once an orphan, now Chancellor of a United realm... believes the war between light and shadow is finally over. But when children begin to vanish from the orphanage that he and Liora founded. Old scars awaken. Every protection charm fails. Every trace leads toward the same impossible truth: the barrier between realms is breathing again. As Sam and Liora search through forests haunted by living runes and echoes of the third realm, they are joined by two mysterious travelers who claim to have lost their own children. Together, they uncover a deeper secret - that the third realm was never destroyed, only sleeping. And it's dreaming through them. Now, the current of creation is shifting again, pulling all three worlds toward a single gate that could restore balance... or end everything. The Gate Between Realms is a tale of light and loss, of love tested by illusion, and of a world learning that peace is not the end of the story - it's only the pause before the song begins again. Welcome to the Realm's Cycle. Every story you read here-every adventure, every secret, every hero-exists in the same universe. Sam, Liora, Evelyn, and others all live in a world where magic, mystery, and consequence ripple across every tale. Each story is a completed work, released episode by episode. If you love this story, there's more waiting-more journeys, more secrets, more legends. Step into the Cycle. Witness how the threads connect.

That stormy night was supposed to be just an ordinary night for two young men - Noel Sanjaya and Arka. But in the ancient mansion of the noble Sanjaya family, Noel has just completed an ancient ritual-one performed only once every five centuries. The kingdom's ministers gather in silence, witnessing the birth of a new 'Aksesa,' a mysterious title that has served as the hidden pillar of the Carta Kingdom for millennia. On the other side of the city, in a small cafe about to close, Arka is fighting to finish a college assignment, battling sleep and dreaming of his grandfather's steamed chicken. He has no idea the storm is no ordinary weather... or that his life is being irrevocably changed. Two nineteen-year-old men. Two worlds that have never collided. One ancient cycle awakening: The Dark Period. As the kingdom braces for a cataclysm that strikes only once every five hundred years, a buried secret begins to crawl from the shadows. And when destiny finally brings Noel and Arka face to face, one of them will discover he is not who he thinks he is. Because sometimes, a kingdom's greatest hero... is born in the most unexpected of places.

Velora Academy was meant to unite the realm. Light and shadow. Magic and legacy. But beneath its towers, something older is waking. And she was never meant to survive it. Isabella Thornevale arrives at the academy with fading power and too many watching eyes. They whisper about her. Doubt her. But something inside her is changing. And the one person who's never looked twice at anyone, is now the only one looking at her like he sees everything. In a school full of secrets, trials, and divided loyalties, she'll have to choose: obey the light... or listen to the dark. He was made of shadow. She was born in light. Together, they might just rewrite fate.