Creaturefantasy Stories

🍀1st Place at the 2025 Four Leafed Clover Awards🍀 "What do I hunger for..." The existence of Shades are as old as history. Soul-eating entities with skin as black as ink and a presence as cold as ice. They don't have an end goal, their only purpose: to consume. Through a series of events, a Shade meets Dawn, a shy, noble girl that's still coping the loss of her father, who died three years prior. The Shade curses himself to her umbrella. All the while, making a vow - to protect her and watch over her, even if that means ostracizing himself from the rest of his species. --- What to expect: - A character focused story with a cast you'll grow to love. (Or absolutely hate) - Grim, dark moments, balanced out by comforting and cozy moments. - A story that takes place in a Medieval London-esque world that's expanded on as the story progresses.

The lhounds, or lion-hounds, were never intended to be anything more extraordinary than very large, very formidable working animals. The scientists who crossed the great Etabrian hounds with plains lions had merely hoped to produce a more effective protector for the herds. What they produced instead was something much larger, much fiercer, and very much more intelligent than anybody had foreseen. And, it turned out, possessed of other, rather unsettling abilities that the scientists had certainly not intended. When the decision was taken that these inconveniently powerful creatures should be destroyed, the lhounds did not oblige. They escaped into the mountain vastnesses and for many years remained there, feared, half-legendary, and very wisely left alone. But Etabria's uneasy peace is beginning to fracture. Lhounds are being stolen - and dark rumours are spreading of creatures bred or broken into weapons. And far from the centre of power, Queen Eruda begins to fear that the greatest danger to the Kingdoms may not come from beyond their borders, but from within. For Lenard Denarion of the Imperial Lhound Regiment, and Xand, his immensely powerful and enigmatic lhound, the journey begins as an urgent mission across hostile country. It will become something far greater. For if Etabria is to survive what is coming, human and lhound will have to stand together. Not as master and beast, but as minds joined in loyalty, courage, and terrible necessity.

Cimmeria Thrace had entered Vesperion Academy believing knowledge could protect her. She had been wrong. In Kaeltharion, the Prolonged ruled from ancient towers while the Brief struggled to survive beneath them. Cimmeria had been chosen to enter their world, believing the academy could become her escape. Instead, she found black marble halls, brutal trials, dangerous creatures, ancient traditions, and secrets buried beneath centuries of privilege. Then there was Evander Valtorin. He had been born into power and raised to believe the world belonged to people like him. Beautiful, influential, and gifted with the ability to control the minds of others, he had never been denied anything. Until Cimmeria. She did not worship him. She did not fear him enough. And she refused to become another person beneath his control. Her defiance fascinated him. His attention frightened her. What began as unwanted fascination slowly became something darker, drawing them into a dangerous world where obsession could disguise itself as devotion and power could become its own form of imprisonment. Beneath Vesperion's gothic towers, something was changing. The city seemed to feel it. The academy seemed to know it. Even the ancient machines beneath its foundations appeared to be waiting. Cimmeria had entered Vesperion, hoping to build a future. She would discover that survival required more than intelligence. It required strength. It required courage. And sometimes, it required becoming something the people who underestimated you could never have imagined. A dark, futuristic, gothic romance filled with obsession, supernatural abilities, dangerous power dynamics, forbidden attraction, academy rivalries, ancient aristocracy, psychological tension, and secrets beneath the rain. Vesperion was never simply a school. It was a world waiting to consume her. Mature themes. Explicit content. Reader discretion advised. © RelleLebby / R. L. / Relle H.

This is the story of a creature trapped between two worlds, destined to become the silent bridge between nature, men, and a legend that still breathes by the sea.

Marco believes in science. The world around him has stopped cooperating. At thirteen, he wants to be a biologist like his parents, but after a strange incident at the old golf course, reality begins to warp in ways he can't categorize. His mother signs him up for the Kitten Brigade - a well‑meaning group of retirees with too much time on their hands and an obsession with rescuing cats. Their search for an elusive orange tomcat leads them straight into Golden Rays Country Club, a fortress of perfect lawns, forced smiles, and rules no one questions. Inside, Marco uncovers people and secrets he was never meant to see. Magic isn't something he wants. It isn't something he believes in. But now there's no going back. He has to choose between the comfort of science and taxonomy, and the possibility of a reality bigger, stranger, and far more alive than he ever imagined.

1,272 years after the fall of the Guardian Beast... the world remembers monsters. Not the truth. Deep within the ancient forests a secret grows. A war brews on the horizon between two powerful societies. The Giatornga, have risen again, dragons are being hunted. But hiden from the light of the dawning sun, the promise of new life stirs. Will happiness remain, or will darkness return to burn the world once more.

a handbook of somewhat strange creatures

When Havenroot burned, Pyrope-known by most as Snowstep-ran until his lungs felt hollow. The raiders stole his home, his people, and the warmth he thought would last forever. All that remains is silence... and the strange, unstable power he doesn't fully understand. Lost and exhausted, Snowstep reaches the Neutral Zone-a floating market of travelers, merchants, and hybrid species who live between borders. Here he meets Rowan, a patient merchant, and Tidewhisper, a quiet wanderer who sees more than Snowstep wants to reveal. They offer him a place to rest. A place to learn. A place to heal. But danger follows the wind. Merchant codes warn of unusual beast movements. Giant wood-eaters are fleeing their homes. And smoke rises from the next village-the same pattern that destroyed Havenroot. Snowstep isn't ready to face the past. But the past is already walking toward him. A journey of trauma, hidden strength, and a found family traveling through a fragile world of hybrid clans and merchant routes.

𝄞✦⟢𓂃⋆｡‧˚ʚɞ˚‧｡⋆𓂃⟢ Accused of a crime they never committed, two boys-who can't stand each other-are cast out by the very village that was meant to protect them. With nowhere left to go, they cross into the forbidden forest, a place where people vanish without a trace and are never seen again. Lost among ancient trees and impossible paths, they stumble upon a forgotten beach hidden beyond the heart of the forest. There, they find an abandoned little house and, with no home left to return to, decide to make it their own. As they struggle to survive, every day becomes a challenge-finding food, staying warm, and avoiding the strange creatures that lurk in the shadows. But when they choose to free a mysterious being trapped among the rocks by the shore, they unknowingly change their fate forever. From that day on, something watches over them. They never see the dangers that quietly turn away, nor the monsters that flee before they can attack. All they know is that, somehow, they keep surviving. In a forest that stole countless lives, two abandoned boys may have found the only place they truly belong-and the family they never expected. 𝄞✦⟢𓂃⋆｡‧˚ʚɞ˚‧｡⋆𓂃⟢