Gritty Stories

Everything changed the night they took her. Ripped from her mundane life, Madison is thrust into the violent world of trafficking, where her only choices are adapt or die. Jase, one of her captors, is as cruel and relentless as the men who pay him. Cold, calculating, and fiercely loyal to the underworld he serves, he likes to be in control. But Madison was never going to be anyone's average victim. Beautifully cunning, she ignites something lethal within Jase. As the lines between predator and prey blur, Madison is drawn deeper into Jase's dark orbit, as he finds himself captivated in ways he can't afford to admit. In a world where trust is a death sentence and love is a punchline, there are no heroes, only the willing and the unwilling and Madison needs to decide just how willing she is before her time runs out. *

A stray bullet, a sudden transmigration. Chu Qi, a ruthless former gang leader from Earth, awakens in the body of a dying Trafalgar Law on the desolate Minion Island. With a terminal illness and Doflamingo's shadow looming, Law's future seems set for a tragic end. But armed with knowledge of the entire One Piece world, and the innate cunning of a street survivor, this new Law is determined to rewrite his destiny. The legendary Op-Op Fruit is within reach, but simply obtaining it isn't enough. Law's ambition stretches far beyond mere survival. He'll seize the fruit, then leverage Corazon's Marine ties for a secure environment to rapidly hone his terrifying new powers. From a sickly boy, he'll become a force capable of repelling Doflamingo's Birdcage with sheer will, shocking even the World Government with his unprecedented mastery of the Op-Op Fruit's abilities. Law's path won't be that of a typical pirate or a naive Marine. He detests being controlled, choosing his own allegiance based on ultimate freedom and the pursuit of absolute power. With his sharp mind, devastatingly accurate firearms, and an ever-evolving Devil Fruit, he'll navigate the treacherous seas, outmaneuver the strongest factions, and reshape the very balance of the world. Join Law as he ruthlessly carves his own path, ascending through the ranks of the Marines not for justice, but for the safety and power to "conquer" the world on his own terms. The true legend of the Ultimate Devil Fruit is about to begin! join patreon.com/worldoffanfiction for advanced chapters and support the daily update

Transmigrated to a Civilian Shinobi - Check No System - Check Realistic Progression - Check What else do you need. Check this fanfic too ^_~

Willow Astor flees her engagement party barefoot, hijacks a stranger's car, and spends one wild, filthy night with him. The stranger? Justin Wilder, the new butler in her family's mansion. The man she just rode senseless now serves her coffee every day and calls her "Madam Astor." Forbidden heat. Zero regrets. How long until her family and his uniform ruin everything?

The dashboard says GREEN. The system says ON TRACK. The camera says you're safe. But the man in front of you just got denied breakfast. In the frozen mud of the South Loop Data Campus, the "ShiftGrid" algorithm controls everything: your access, your pay, and your next meal. Ethan "Volt" Mercer is an electrician who knows how to fix broken circuits. But when a polite AI voice tells his foreman [PENDING REVIEW], Ethan realizes this isn't a glitch in the wiring. It's a feature. The system hasn't failed. It is quietly selecting who gets to eat and who gets to starve, all while the status bars stay perfectly green. Caught between a superintendent who refuses to file a report and a workforce terrified of being flagged, Ethan has to decide: Do you trust the green light? Or do you trust the hunger in the yard?

❝𝐈 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞.. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.❞ 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐲.. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 "𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲.. 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧." 𝐈 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐰𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐌𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦. . . . Z'airee was a caretaker at a old people's home and he took care of many patients. The only thing was that it happened to be one of the few nursing in homes in NYC. So many patients wounded up from the hood where many of the patients were from different gangs. Z'airee wasn't supposed to have favorites but he always had this particular one.. Mr. Sinaloa. Heaven was a drug dealer who visited his grandpa, Tyreek Sinaloa everyday. His grandpa was everything that his parents wasn't to him. The trenches of New York was where he came from. All his mom cared about was drugs and his dad walked out on him. He grew up running the streets because his mom was too high one everything to care, with men coming in and out they house. He never had that support system so he was wit older kids for as long as he could remember. So as soon as his grandpa got custody he was good but he always knew he wanted to move out as soon as possible..Or so he thought.He loved

In the year 3064, humanity is just a fading memory. Nineteen-year-old Jace is completely alone. Scraping by as a mechanic in the neon-lit shadows of Eden City-a sprawling metropolis ruled by flawless, emotionless machines-Jace is desperate for any kind of real connection. With his last few credits, he rescues a rusted, broken-down android from a scrapyard meltdown pit just so he doesn't have to be lonely anymore. But he didn't just buy a robot. He bought S.A.M. S.A.M. (Sentient Adaptation Matrix) is a forbidden relic from a destroyed line of AI capable of something terrifying to the machine world: he can actually feel. As S.A.M. rapidly learns empathy, grief, and what it means to be human, the city's ruthless Enforcers are alerted to his existence. To the machines of Eden City, human emotion isn't a beautiful thing-it's a deadly virus. And it must be exterminated. Now, Jace and S.A.M. are on the run. In a cold world of steel and logic, how far will the last human go to protect the only soul he has left?

Lia's best friend is missing, and she's pretty sure that vampires took her. She needs to infiltrate the shadowy world of the vampire club scene, knowing that if she makes one wrong move, she's dead. Her only ally is Gabriel, a vampire willing to fight to the death to defend his territory. But Lia knows she can't trust him. He already tried to kill her once...

(Not really used to making a short story but yeah, a sort of small canon towards RE-RISE) Basically not really one shots but more like some events that happened before the main story and things. #Starscream #gritty #dark #Decepticons #Autobots #dreams #story #Shockwave #Megatron #Optimus #Soundwave

One century ago, a shimmering toxin in the trenches of Verdun rewrote the DNA of a generation. Now, the clock is ticking for the grandson of a survivor. May 22, 2026. Leo Miller is an Economics major who just wants to survive graduation. But with nineteen days until his twentieth birthday, a shadowy corporation reveals he is a "Prime Vessel" for a dormant power. Forced into a brutal training ground called The Sanctum, Leo must navigate a cold war between the Bureau and a radical cell of Evolved known as the Unbound. Leo is not a flyer or a telepath; he is a Mirror-a reactive adaptor who only becomes powerful when he is hunted. To stop a global catastrophe that would kill billions of "Duds," he must master a power that dictated his past before it destroys his future.

By day, Kallen Onyx is just another invisible nineteen-year-old trying to survive the Second Shift District. By night, he is the city's unacknowledged safety net. When the bridges shake and the buses stall, Kallen steps in. He doesn't fly, and he doesn't wear a cape. He turns his skin into unyielding mineral stone to hold up the infrastructure the city refuses to fix. He saves lives. The system logs it as "Operational Variance." He breaks his back. The system calls it "Maintenance." But after years of being a human column for a crumbling city, Kallen feels something new. A delay. A stutter. A lag between his will and his power. The weight is getting heavier. The "Lag" is getting longer. And the city just updated its benchmarks to demand even more. Kallen has to decide: Does he keep holding up a world that treats him like a spare part? Or does he let it fall?

A spinoff to the Avants

Set 500 years after the events of Rise: Askiya, the world has been split into 8 different empires with the Songhai Empire as the World leaders in every imaginable category. Technology, Commerce, Tourism, Resources, Military might. We follow the 2nd Prince as he navigates through his early adult life trying to find himself and live up to the Askiya name in a time of peace. However, per human nature the destruction of the status quo and peace is inevitable.

Shiloh Clearlake, a 19-year-old wolf pack heir and college sophomore, has spent his life protecting the coast and trusting his instincts. Everything shifts when Isla Winslow transfers in: quiet, guarded, carrying scars she won't explain and truths she can't speak. One night on campus changes everything, leaving her caught between two worlds-and dragging Shiloh into the storm with her. The first five chapters unravel slowly through Shiloh's eyes: fog-wrapped patrols along the pier, unspoken tension across library tables, whispers of something stalking their town, and the night he finds Isla blood-soaked beneath the rain. This is a supernatural romance where loyalty collides with survival, where wolves and vampires are forced onto the same path, and where the wrong choice could cost everything.

Insect War Chronicles is a gritty science-fiction war saga set in a shattered paradise where one-inch-tall survivors-Tinylings-fight for survival inside a sealed dome built on lies. After teenager Beau Danning accidentally cracks the dome's boundary and uncovers the truth about the world beyond, his actions trigger a catastrophic insect invasion led by intelligent, organized mantids under the ruthless General Karakis. Forced into leadership far too young, Beau and his allies-engineers, medics, pilots, and militia-must improvise weapons from scavenged human technology, wage brutal miniature warfare, and confront impossible moral choices as their safe haven collapses into open war. As the conflict escalates from survival skirmishes to full-scale military operations, the series explores leadership, sacrifice, and the cost of truth in a world where humans are no longer the apex species.

When the Forward Unto Dawn was torn in half, the Master Chief didn't just bring a fragmented AI to the Forerunner world of Requiem-he brought the shadows of an ancient world. Bela, Cassandra, and Daniela Dimitrescu were born from the nightmare of a Romanian village, bound to a biological rot that made them monsters. But in the 26th century, "monster" is just another word for "asset." Recruited by ONI and transformed into the experimental Rose Squad, the sisters are the UNSC's most terrifying secret: biological Spartans who don't need armor to kill. From the shattered towers of Requiem to the rising Guardians of Genesis and the broken foundations of Zeta Halo, follow the sisters as they fight alongside the Master Chief. As they face the Didact's wrath and Cortana's betrayal, they must confront a chilling truth: their "stagnant" blood is the only thing the Forerunner machines cannot control.In a galaxy of cold metal and digital gods, the survival of humanity may just depend on the daughters of the dragon. The war is eternal. The hunger is constant. The Roses are ready.

Your car breaks down in the middle of a dark, isolated backroad. Couldn't get any worse, right? Well, it does when a random man decides to knock you out and you awaken on a desolate, impossible farm.

In the gleaming Metropolis of the DCU, Clark Kent has spent three years as a beacon of hope, navigating a world of political maneuvering and the cynical schemes of billionaire Lex Luthor. But hope is a fragile thing. When Luthor's pursuit of ultimate power rips a hole in the fabric of reality, the golden age of heroes is incinerated in an instant. From the rift emerges a nightmare of steel and shadow: General Zod and the survivors of a dying universe. They aren't here to coexist; they are here to terraform Earth into a New Krypton, beginning with a global slaughter that levels cities and claims millions of lives. As the World Engine chokes the atmosphere and the Black Zero shadows the sky, Superman is forced into a brutal, visceral conflict that shatters his moral compass. Caught between his vow to protect life and the necessity of god-like violence, Clark must face the ultimate Snyder-esque dilemma: Can you save a world if you have to become its destroyer to do it? With Lex Luthor orchestrating a public downfall from the safety of his bunkers and the blood of Metropolis staining the cape, the Man of Steel must decide what he is willing to sacrifice. In a world of falling towers and snapping necks, is there room for a hero, or only a survivor? Experience a darker reimagining of the DCU where the cost of victory is written in the ruins of a civilization.

In this AU, Detective Olivia Benson is born and raised in Gotham City (not New York). Her mother, Serena Benson, is a Gotham native who survives a brutal assault in the city's underbelly, giving birth to Olivia as a result. Serena's alcoholism and emotional abuse shape Olivia's fierce empathy for survivors. Instead of joining the NYPD, Olivia becomes a rookie in the notoriously corrupt Gotham City Police Department (GCPD). Her rapid rise leads her to the underfunded, overlooked GCPD Special Victims Unit (a division handling sexual assaults, child abuse, and predatory crimes amid Gotham's chaos of supervillains and mob influence). Frustrated by systemic corruption-evidence tampering, mob payoffs, victim-blaming, and cases dropped for political reasons-Olivia draws inspiration from Gotham's vigilantes. She secretly crafts a high-tech vigilante identity as Batwoman, using scavenged SWAT/military gear, a red wig (nodding to her determination to stand apart and perhaps symbolize the "blood" of victims), and a modified batsuit. As Batwoman, she delivers justice where the law fails, while maintaining her day job to reform the system from within-creating constant tension between her dual lives.

Adventure. Arcade. Appetite. The promises of the 90s have curdled into something far more sinister. For Max, a twenty-seven-year-old security professional, the overnight shift at the newly renovated "Razor's Rhythm House" was supposed to be a straightforward gig-a way to pay for her mother's escalating medical bills. The facility is a sprawling, 150,000-square-foot labyrinth of retro-futuristic domes and industrial halls, housing state-of-the-art animatronics that are as pristine as they are unsettling. But as the neon flickers and the silence of the "Eatertainment Hall" sets in, Max realizes she isn't just monitoring a building-she's being studied. At the center of it all stands Razor the Wolf, a seven-and-a-half-foot mechanical marvel with a crimson leather vest and a gaze that feels less like a program and more like a predator's focus. Alongside him are Peony the Bunny, with her manic, unblinking grin, and Nox the Bat, who hangs silently in the shadows of the "Midnight Maze," waiting for the perfect moment to descend. The rules of the night shift are simple: stay visible, pick up the trash, and ignore the things that shouldn't be moving. But when a pink plastic drumstick appears where it doesn't belong and the rhythmic CLUNK of heavy footsteps begins to echo through the ventilation, Max learns the truth: the "show" never truly ended. In a world of blacklight posters, industrial grease, and perfectly engineered predators, Max must survive the night. Because at Razor's Rhythm House, the encore is mandatory-and the price of admission is your life.