Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.

(COMPLETE) Lady Mhysra Kilpapan was blessed from birth with a distinguished family, a glorious home and a giant eagle miryhl of her own. Fully aware of her luck, she wants for nothing in life - except a chance to become a Rift Rider. The elite force of the Overworld has been closed to women for over one hundred years and not even the legendary Wingborn are allowed to join. Until now. Women are being admitted to the Riders again and Mhysra wants to be first in line. Except her parents have other ideas, and there are plenty of others who are less than pleased about the change. Yet if Mhysra can find a way to reach Aquila, she will let nothing stop her. But the Overworld is in trouble and the vicious kaz-naghkt are destroying Rift Rider bases one by one. The Riders need help. Can Mhysra and her friends really be the difference between survival and destruction? Or will they fail before their first year of training is through?

Fin is a more or less normal teenage boy living in the kingdom known as Lenseia. Well, normal as in there really isn't anything special about him. He's relatively weak, not exactly ugly but definitely not handsome, and definitely not good at remembering the swordplay sequences he's supposed to have memorized to become a knight. But, well, as things do in this sort of story, that all changes when he finds the baby dragon...

Cole is small, weak and teased all the time. He is expected to work in the mines like the rest of his family but is too weak and small. Many of the kids in his school tease him for being so smart and successful in school. But a letter from the king is sent to Cole and sends his life on a new turn.

She lived with 11 boys He lived in a Mansion She drank anything He drank water She's a failure He's a Success Maddie loved her life with her 6 brothers and their friends. She was the free-est person, could do anything she wanted. She hates school and everything about it. She was part of the town's biggest gang so she was well known. Milo was just like any other rich kid on his side of town but he had one issue. He's deaf but very good at reading lips. He avoids everyone except his closest friends. Passing with all A's was just a walk in the park. Milo and Maddie cross paths making this adventure worthwhile. Confusion, anger, and maybe..possibly... a little love. *completed* If you want to do fan art or write about the story please leave credit and the hashtag #tdbbg

Star was a thought to be a completely normal girl. But that all changed. And there is only one person that can save her now. But is it too late? Will she be able to complete her quest in time? Will she save the one she loves? Only God knows the answer.

Edited by @KelseyDragon17 Anna lives in a world where by the time they turn eighteen, every man and woman must have a beast bond. Those of them left unbonded are cast out of the city, deemed violent and insane; for if even a rat will not lower itself to bond with you, you must be the lowest of the low. Anna has lived a simple, easy life as the part of one of the most powerful families in the land. Each member of her family had bonded mighty rare beasts, a sign of great power. It boosted them through society's ranks. Her father had bonded with one of the last of the unicorns. Her brother, a manticore. Her mother, a great eagle. Even her adopted sister bonded with a lion. But as her eighteenth birthday approaches, and with no beast having choose her, she must make a choice. Stay, and bring shame upon her and her family... Or leave the city on her own terms. Striking out across the Ashlands, Anna will discover an adventure she wasn't looking for, and a prophesy she has stumbled into the middle of. Can she bring two species who once slaughtered each other together to save themselves? Can she win this battle? Or the ones ahead? Highest Ranking #7 in Fantasy Featured August 18th

(formerly "Halloween Prince") After a tragic incident, Emily Scott started hearing a man's voice in her head. Something about it was eerie and yet so frighteningly familiar. In the hopes of erasing the 'voice', she started seeing a psychiatrist--but instead of achieving normalcy, she discovered stranger things that might question her sanity. Who was the voice in her head? Who was the person sending her letters? As Halloween approaches, her curiosity intensifies. All this could lead to somewhere unpleasant, things that might be best kept buried in oblivion. But someone will not rest until she returned to where she rightfully belonged, and she herself will not rest until she discovered who 'J.V.W.' was. This year's Halloween might be the big turning point of Emily's life.