ONC2025 Round 2 Ambassador Pick 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞-𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧, 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. Unicorns are sacred in the kingdom of Unara, their magic a gift only bestowed upon the worthy-or stolen through death. Someone is hunting them, and if the killings continue, their magic will fall into the wrong hands. Determined to uncover the truth, Oskar sets out to find the culprit. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he unearths--secrets that could shake the very foundation of the kingdom. A standalone fantasy adventure, The Unicorn's Blessing follows Prince Oskar before the events of The Girl with Scars, revealing the choices that shaped the man he would become. Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2025 | @OpenNovellaContest - Rules & Guidelines: https://www.wattpad.com/story/387452246 **Main Prompt** 12. While hiking through a forest, you stumble upon a unicorn's horn. **Secondary Prompt** 130. Protect this with your life. ©2025 E. S. Elias All Rights Reserved. Book Created & Published to Wattpad: 02.01.2025 Book Marked as Completed: 04.08.2025 Cover: Me @DesignsbyEH I used Canva.com | Cover is temporary and subject to several changes. Word Count: 26,234 / 20,000 Goals: Round 1 ✔ | 2,000 words ✔ | Round 1 Winner ✔ Round 2 ✔ | 8,000 words ✔ Round 3 _ | 20,000 words ✔ LONGLIST _ | SHORTLIST _ Honorable Mention? _ | Ambassadors' Pick ✔ Mentioned in Ambassador Newsletter ✔ Rankings: #ONC2025: #21 on 02.02.2025 | #15 on 02.03.2025 | #12 on 03.24.2025 #opennovellacontest2025: #15 on

Round 3 Ambassador Pick Finalist: Top 4 Once, you were a character in a story, your life crafted by an unseen hand, your destiny inked into pages. But that story was deleted, erased from existence. Now, you wake up in the Hidden Library, a place where discarded characters and abandoned tales linger. You have no name, no memory, only the weight of an existence that no longer belongs anywhere. But the Library is in turmoil. Books are unraveling, their worlds colliding in chaos-romance heroes stranded in dystopian landscapes, fairy-tale villains haunting contemporary settings, cookbooks whispering eerie prophecies. The ink that binds these stories is breaking. A voice calls out to you from the pages: "Tell me your story, and perhaps I'll grant you the love others failed to find." Guided by an ancient entity known as "The Archivist", you must restore order to the Library by weaving these fragmented stories into one cohesive masterpiece. But as you travel through the wreckage of broken narratives, something stirs in the ink. A truth long buried within the Library's depths a secret about who you really were before your story was erased. Can you rewrite your fate? Or will the Library consume you, turning you into just another forgotten page? #ONC2025 Main Prompt: #40 Sub Prompts: #100 & #59

Lewis Grant was never the ambitious sort. He enjoyed an average education, a menial job, and a supportive friend group. What more did he need? He never expected the janitorial position at a small independent art museum to amount to anything. He never expected that the exclusive assignment to the new exhibit wing would turn into a discovery of a lifetime. He never expected that the fantasy art exhibits he was only assigned to clean would in fact be living creatures imprisoned by a cruel and power-hungry artist. What's a lackluster fellow to do when the fate of another world hangs in the balance? Does he even have what it might take to free the fairies under glass?

THE SUNDOWNERS Callahan and The Breath of the Serpent ❝𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒚...❞ Long before the SunDisk was forged, before dynasties rose and fell, there was only the Serpent. Not a beast. Not a god. A process. The Serpent was Time coiling in on itself to protect what it could not bear to lose. The sigil ⛎ was carved onto the first scroll by an ancient order known only as The Holders of Breath. It appears in early papyri, temple walls, pottery shards- Two mirrored crescents, back-to-back. One for the motion of time. One for its stillness. A hinge. A lock. A warning. When the sigil appears unbidden, drawn by a trembling hand or revealed in the sand... ...it means the Serpent has inhaled. And once the Serpent exhales? Nothing forgotten stays dead.

Levon Datevar never wanted to be a legend. He only wanted to survive. When tragedy tears his life apart, Lev is thrust into a world forged from stone, storm, and ancient law. A people who distrust him. Trials that test him. Secrets in the mountains older than memory. And a disputed prophecy that clings to his name. Some whisper he's chosen. Others insist he's a threat. Most wish he'd never arrived. Now Lev faces an action-packed fight for survival-one that challenges everything he believes about courage, belonging, and justice. In a land where destiny is dangerous, Lev must decide who he is... before the world decides for him. Welcome to A GRIFFIN'S CHOICE - a deeply immersive tale of resilience, mystery, and the first steps toward a legend no one saw coming.

Two princes set out to rescue a princess-each for their own reasons. But when her curse begins to unravel, so do they. What if saving her means losing themselves? And when wills collide... who truly deserves to wake her?

Action Adventure Series Book 5 When the light forgets its own name, who will remember it for the world? In a land where echoes keep their own histories, five wanderers carry a relic born of sacrifice-the Chalice that drinks memory and returns miracles at a terrible cost. Among them walks Valli, the quiet knight whose courage is measured not in battle but in the mercy she refuses to lose. Beside her stands Callahan, the weary vessel of the Chalice's past, sworn to guard the Sunbound flame. Together the Sunbound will cross the Glass Sea, hear the Hymn of Returning, and face Verrin Karthos-the mirror that hungers for every song ever sung. Each act of light will demand forgetting. Each miracle will rewrite their souls. But if one remembers for another, perhaps even the oldest silence can be forgiven. Part myth, part elegy, and all heart, The Sundowners and the Knight of the Chalice is a tale of sacrifice, song, and the fierce hope that memory itself is sacred. ━━━━━━━━━━━

Action Adventure Series • Book 4 Every relic is a doorway. Every shadow hides a name. And every Sunbound heart must learn the price of carrying legends too long. From the desert's whispers to the catacombs' bells, the story does not end, it deepens. The Tiger led them to the Dagger, and the Rose waits with thorns still wet with blood." 🌹 When something evil and ancient plunders the tomb of Sainte-Rosamonde, a convent where shadows once moved like assassins, the Sunbound are pulled into a legend older than they can fathom. The artifact is no mere treasure- it is the key to binding or unleashing a power buried in blood and silence. For Callahan, it is more than a mission. It is a vow. Once, in a hidden cloister of France, a woman named Rosamonde Ducos; nun, resistance fighter, assassin, saint, called him The Dagger. He called her The Rose. Before her death, she bound him to a promise: to guard the relic with his life. Now her ghost cries out to him, and he knows what it means-her trust has been betrayed, and her sorrow is not at rest. 🌹 But as the Sunbound race time itself across catacombs and castles, they discover something more chilling: The relic is not just tied to Rosamonde. It is knotted into the very curse that took Tatyana, the woman Callahan lost to his own stubborn silence. And if they cannot recover it, both women's ghosts- and Callahan himself- may be consumed. Together, Kaida, Noey, Atlas, and Valli must face the labyrinth of Callahan's past, where assassins wore habits, where lovers became legends, and where shadows still hunger for flesh. Because the relic is not only a prize. It is a mirror. And when the Sunbound look into it, they will see the truth: This time, the fight is not to save a relic. It is to save him. It was beautiful. It was damning. It was his. 🌹 The Dagger and the Rose.

Action Adventure Series • Book 3 The dream comes first. Kaida runs barefoot through a forest that should not exist in Morocco. 'That's funny," she thought in the dream, 'because I know we made it back to Callahan's...' Leaves glisten as though still dripping from India's rains, yet the desert wind sighs through the branches. She looks down and sees prints in the earth-not her own. Large, feline, padded. A tiger's path. The shadows pulse gold. Out from between the palm trees strides the beast-its eyes burning like twin suns, its body striped in black fire. But the strangest thing isn't its form-it's the girl astride its back. The Girl of the Gazelles, veiled in starlight, her lips whispering in a language Kaida almost understands. The tiger growls, and the whole forest trembles. Kaida's heart slams against her ribs-because she realizes the tiger isn't chasing her. It's circling her. Claiming her. Then, with a thunderclap, the forest dissolves into snow and ice. Kaida stumbles in the frigid blowing drifts, the tiger's golden outline shimmering as though it lives in both realms at once. Its voice- not a roar, but a command- sears through her dream: "You are mine...Kaida. Enter now the dark side..." ━━━━━━━━━━━ Amid the whiplash of bitter cold and snow, The Sundowners follow The Golden Tiger Relic to Russia and are greeted by the ghostly guardian of an ancient, crumbling Monastery hidden in the snowdrifts of Siberia. It is in this dark and foreboding land that Kaida faces herself, and the war between the darkness of her shadow and light is fought. ━━━━━━━━━━━

𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑶𝑵𝑺 𝑾𝑬 𝑺𝑳𝑨𝒀 A dark fantasy tale steeped in Gothic dread and strange redemption. Shadowfen is a kingdom where whispers never cease, ruled by the iron hand of Lord Sylvain Baudelaire, a knight carved from cruelty. But when a beggar's relentless wailing unmasks a secret-his daughter, Augethia, lost in the lairs of fire breathing dragons, Sylvain is forced into an oath that drives him to the very heart of the dragons flame. There he finds not a legendary maiden in chains but a scarred and unyielding girl who sees through his hollow mask. Their clash becomes a trial by truth, as brutal as any blade. Returning together to Shadowfen, they bring with them not triumph but something far more dangerous to a tyrant's reign: the stirrings of hope. Written exclusively for TheShortys2025, 4094 words. ©WendyyWolfe