Living in a world where the human race is dying off faster than it can reproduce, sixteen year old Maddie Ryan has started her period, an almost guaranteed sign of fertility. Knowing it's only a matter of time before the government finds out and forces her into the life of a Breeder, where her sole purpose will be to help repopulate the earth, she is faced with a harrowing decision. Does she willingly accept her fate or take matters into her own hands and run? Both options will tear her away from the life she has always known and from those she loves most, her parents and her best friend Travis, the boy who owns her heart. For nineteen year old Travis Brennan there are only three people in this world who matter... his mother, his little sister Grace, and his best friend Maddie. Maddie's sudden disappearance not only forces him to confront his feelings for her, but leads to a chain of events that will forever alter the course of their lives. As truths are revealed and lies are uncovered, Travis and Maddie will learn that there is much more at stake than they could have ever imagined. Highest Ranking: #1 in Science Fiction!!! 2016 WATTY winner! Updating weekly on Saturdays. Includes the original, unedited Wattpad version, and the new, completely edited and published version! We hope you love it!

"That tree is bad luck." Those are the words my momma told me when the tree was first sprouting. It had begun its growth the day I was born. Many people told me I was a curse upon our dainty little town in the suburbs of Arizona. Some, though, said I was not the reason the tree had sprouted - though even my family knew that statement was untrue. The week of my birthday every year, the festival is held. Everyone is forced to come in formal attire, and watch. Watch the chosen ones fall to their knees abruptly. Everyday of that week, there is 2 chosen ones. One man and woman. Except on the day of my birthday. That day, there is double - 2 women and 2 men. Eyes on them as they fall to their knees. And then everyone's eyes fall on me. Because I, Iris Forello, planted the Killing Tree.

This story accounts the endeavors of the Legion of Tempered Steel. on their quest to retake the world of Celestia from a hostile force. their commanders have become so desperate that they resort to questionable tactics to secure victory at the expense of the soldiers sanity (This story will be an ongoing thing so don't think it's a finished product).