Reluctanthero Stories

Scarlet is a girl more comfortable in magic libraries and museums than the mall or the sports field. Her dream is to become a scholar, but right now she's having a hard enough time passing eighth grade Remedial Math 2A. When her mentor dies in her arms, he leaves her two things: a lifetime of notes, and his high-level membership in the prestigious Antiquarian Society. But to keep it, she's going to need help. Who would have thought that turning to an immortal sorceress, living deep in the cold wastes, could be so dangerous? Now she's got to contend with dark wizards, evil dragons, and a lost necropolis teaming with undead. Follow the misadventures of a disaffected middle school student as she navigates the relatable pitfalls of teen-hood, set against the backdrop of occasionally having to slay a dragon.

The war Nora Callahan tried to stop has arrived anyway. Neighbors are dying. Bodies vanish without funerals. A killer brags about it over whiskey and walks free. In a valley where "guilty" and "innocent" have stopped meaning anything, Nora's strange gift for sensing danger doesn't save anyone anymore. It just allows her to see it coming. She can't stop the war. She can only decide what she'll carry through it: the truth that everyone else wants to forget. Based on Arizona's real, blood-soaked Pleasant Valley War. For readers who want their heroes tested, not safe.

Being the tale of Mackenna the king, who may fail to save the world by making the worst choice possible in nearly every scene. FFS, not all heroes are perfect!

An Atmospheric Dark Fantasy of Language, Memory, and Becoming In a fortress carved from ancient bone and built to contain the un-containable, a boy named Thom is marked by the curse feared above all others: the Mouth. He arrives at the Bastion-a place where wolf-blooded are broken, remade, or buried-expecting training, exile, maybe death. But what he finds is worse. The Bastion doesn't just hold danger. It repeats it. The same names. The same rites. The same patterns. And somewhere beneath the stone and marrow lies a voice older than god or monster: unfinished, recursive, hungry. As the bones beneath the fortress begin to stir, and the glyphs start rewriting themselves, Thom must decide whether he will become the vessel the Bastion demands... or the sentence that ends it. A lyrical and slow-burning dark fantasy told in breath and fracture, Wolfsbane in Winter explores language as prison, ritual as recursion, and silence as liberation. Some stories are not told. They are remembered. And some should never be spoken twice.

The Protector of Dragons and the Slayer of Dragons once met in the ruins, each devoted to their own gods, bound by faith and fueled by the conflicting ideals of their deities. Their hatred for each other burned as fiercely as the flames of the dragons they fought for-or against. Yet, as fate wove their paths together, that hatred slowly transformed into something neither of them had anticipated. Despite the deep divide between them, their connection grew undeniable. But the world was not kind to their love. Their clans, sworn enemies for generations, rejected their union, seeing it as a betrayal of their sacred duties. Refusing to bow to the constraints of tradition, they made a bold choice-to carve out a new path, a sanctuary where warriors of any lineage could love freely, without fear of war or exile. Together, they built a new clan, a realm where devotion was not a chain but a choice, where love could flourish despite the shadows of the past. And in that place, under the watchful eyes of gods who once opposed them, their legacy began.

The grass tickled his spine. The moon was full. His mind was blank. Marcus doesn't know how he got to the forest. He doesn't remember the facility. He doesn't remember the ritual. All he knows is his name and a voice screaming in his head to run. The men chasing him call him a successful test. The only thing more dangerous than the voice in your head is the silence when it stops talking.

Quod Aegre 'The Reluctant' She is a 'human' striped from her identity and memory. No one will believe her but one. She can Summon anytime and make swords also she has powers that she doesn't fully understand yet but it has something to do with the water... the voice of her actions make the ones she loves forget her... He mermaid voice *hint hint* was a legend to be remembered, but is cursed by the failures of love. Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is. The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most! I smile not for that I am happy, but sometimes I smile to hide sadness. At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life. I'm afraid of being forgotten. Because it seems everyone I get close to, ends up forgetting me.

It started with a museum gala. It ended with- well....we don't know. 🔎Aaron's Version (The Overthinker/Academic twin) So, here's the deal: Our dad vanished after some shady museum stuff involving ancient temples, secret maps, and-yeah-actual monsters. Now it's up to me and my sister Violet to figure out what's going on, using his weird notebooks, a cursed key, and some very questionable cash. We're definitely not prepared. We barely know what's real anymore. But hey-if saving Dad means cracking ancient codes and dodging death, I'm in. Just... please no more explosions. 🧨Violet's Version (The Chaotic/Fun twin) Okay, so: Our dad got kidnapped by some dusty old gods, and now me and Aaron have to go to Egypt with fake passports and weird keys. Our only help? A crazy tea lady, a retired spy, a girl with a strange obsession with taking stuff that aren't hers and her cousin. We fight monsters, survive airports, eat a suspicious amount of gummy worms and meet chaotic people. It's a mess. It's wild. But it's our mess. And honestly? Wish us luck. Or waffles. We'll need both.🧇🛕🪔🗝 ~I don't own any of the art!! Credit to the owner~

In any country, when one is drafted, it's up to the government to place them in roles, but this is not condusive to the nature of peaceful kids, and it takes away healing from the military. If a country mandates a draft, then we should mandate that peace-loving kids' nature is taken into account, creating a new path in the military, allowing for kids to choose to become healers within war. While the government has always mandated a draft we, as a free country, have the right to determine what is best for our children while still supporting the government. I propose a new section of the military, which utilizes AI, VR, and healing as an option should one be drafted. This short writing explains a little bit about the US' history on the draft, and suggests a new path created for empathetic kids whose conscious minds inherently abhor violence. Mark Picasso, MPA 4/20/2026 Mark Picasso, MPA 4/20/2026

When Axel's favourite game, Oath of Eternum, glitches mid-battle, he's pulled into its world, not as the hero he's mastered, but as the game's feared villain. With years of gameplay knowledge but trapped in the villain's armour, Axel must survive encounters with the legendary hero while resisting the role the world demands he play. Every choice twists the game's reality, and the line between scripted enemies and living, breathing people is fuzzy. But the deeper Axel fights against the game, the more the world itself begins to tear apart. And when a hooded figure steps out of the shadows claiming to be himself, but older, crueler, and long lost to the game, Axel realises escape might come at the cost of becoming the very monster he swore he wasn't.

From the moment he could walk, Liam knew he wasn't wanted. Growing up in a neglected orphanage, he watched every other child get chosen while he was left behind. At eighteen, he aged out with nothing but a small apartment, odd jobs, and a stubborn will to survive. When a sudden act of courage ends in tragedy, Liam awakens in a world where strength is measured in levels and monsters roam the land. Gifted with a mysterious System only he can see, the boy no one ever chose is given a second chance - to carve his own path, build his own power, and decide his own worth. In a land where destiny favors the strong, Liam will prove that even the unchosen can rise to be the world's strongest.

Bram is just a serf who wanted a steady job. Instead, he got assigned to the most dysfunctional workplace in the kingdom: a castle where dragons conduct performance reviews, undead clerks still work through lunch, and the suggestion box is literally cursed. His first day? His name was already crossed off the roster. His first performance review? Nearly ended in incineration. His brilliant suggestion to improve efficiency? Made the castle tremble and a hallway start whispering his name. Now everyone's calling him "Your Lowliness" and gifting him paper crowns as a joke. But when a prophetic raven starts addressing him in dead languages and mysterious paperwork keeps piling up on his wandering desk, Bram realizes this bureaucratic nightmare might be more than just bad management. Sometimes the most unlikely people end up exactly where they're supposed to be-even if that place is buried under an avalanche of magical red tape. A fantasy-comedy about finding your place in the world's most absurd corporate hierarchy, where the real magic happens in triplicate.

A man who lost half of his face in a terror attack faces the same horror while trying to get a grip on life in his own way.

One kingdom fell, leaving two embers behind. Ten years later, Nova is the kind of girl who chases butterflies in the sun and believes the world is full of kindness. Growing up in an ordinary family, her biggest worry is math class, and her greatest joy is playing the Electone. Lyra, on the other hand, is a rebel through and through. Every time she hears Elara's long-winded lectures and tedious magic training, she can't help but roll her eyes: "Please, all these stories about magic blood and evil usurpers sound like a tired Hollywood script from the last century. Elara must be delusional to think any of this magic stuff is real." But when the Magic Blood calls, these two ten-year-olds are about to discover that the script of revenge is far more chaotic-and far more thrilling-than any movie.

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The prophesied cataclysm known as The End is here, but the heroes aren't. So what am I supposed to do? Forget I'm a reclusive historian who owns an antique shop, and find a way to help those stuck here with me survive? As if I know what I'm doing?! ...Oh. Oh, no. You're kidding, right? - (spoilers: no one was kidding) Season 1 of What The Heroes Don't Know Returning in August 4, 2025!

Legend has it, if you stand in front of a mirror, shuffling an enchanted deck of cards, you can open a doorway between dimensions. *** Prince Teodric of Springport remembers the promise he made his father: to *not* try to reenact the legend of dimensions. At sixteen, he laughed at his father's claims that there were ways of traveling through portals to other realms; but five years later, as sole heir to his recently deceased father's kingdom, the eerie tale somehow re-enters his mind, and with it a curious desire to break his promise. To see if, as his father said, other dimensions existed, and one traveled to them via cards and mirrors. But Teo gets more than he ever dreamed he would, and soon wakes in a realm of the imaginary, the insane, and the impossible... only to find he switched places with a knave named Jack of Spades.

Everett Tornhill died three years ago. Living with it has been... complicated. Ever since that night, he's had a foot in two worlds, and a silent companion that refuses to let go. When darkness takes shape in people's lives-whispers, shadows, things that crawl out of emptiness-Everett finds himself drawn in, whether he wants to be or not. But as he delves into his cases, he finds himself wrestling not just with strange entities, but with questions that linger far too close to his own fractured soul

"This world doesn't need saving. It needs to burn." Rael Kurosawa is done with pretending. Tired of faking smiles. Sick of chasing purpose in a world that chews up the lonely and spits out silence. One step off a rooftop should've ended it all... Instead, he awakens in a different realm - cursed lands, kingdoms of magic, and beasts that hunger for blood. But he isn't just reborn. He's been rebooted. With NULLCORE, a mysterious system that absorbs, erases, and rewrites magic itself, Rael is labeled an anomaly - feared, hunted, and wanted by kings, mages, and monsters alike. He didn't ask to be here. He didn't ask to be special. All he ever wanted was peace. But in a world built on power and prophecy, peace is a lie. And if the world won't give him a reason to live... He'll become the reason it trembles.

Nathaniel "Nat" Reyes is an introverted graphic designer living an unremarkable life in Quezon City, until his knack for analysis leads him to uncover strategic vulnerabilities in the West Philippine Sea. With no military training or government connections, Nat devises an unconventional defense plan, rallying ordinary Filipinos to protect their nation. As his ideas gain traction, he faces his fears and steps into the spotlight, proving that even the quietest voices can make the loudest impact.