The Face In The Clock
- Reads 91
- Votes 0
- Parts 1
15 year old orphan, Raven, wants to start a new life. After being abandoned from a wealthy family, she has found refuge in a clock tower next to a quaint cafe. After having her usual breakfast from the cafe, she stumbles upon a dismantled clock next to a bench. There, she gets out her tools and begins fixing the broken clock. A mysterious man approaches her and observes her impressive clockwork skills. He then prompts her to become his apprentice. Once she begins her apprenticeship at the man's house, she realizes she is being used. This man isn't what he seems to be like. He has plans of creating a war between the spirit world and Earth. With the help of her friend and a trapped soul, Raven races to end an underground battle between two universes.
All Rights Reserved
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Unleash
"I see Mr O'Cain has tried to help you, I guess that's how you've conquered your paranoia." Everyone worries about Audrey Williams. She wishes that this wasn't the case. Six months ago, her brother drowned. She tries to get back to normal, she wants to go back to normal, well as normal as it can get. But when her and her friends go on a museum trip and a somewhat familiar statue is seen from a childhood book, Peter decides it would be funny if he "unleashed" the curse. What happens? Let's say that someone turns into a statue, chaos unleashes and Audrey and her friends need to get Peter back (with a little help of course).Complete
... WHISPER BENEATH THE MIST...
There is a town where no sound exists. And something is listening. When investigative journalist Tamara Anderson stumbles upon an isolated town shrouded in an unnatural, suffocating silence, they think it's just another strange mystery waiting to be uncovered. But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes-anyone who makes a sound vanishes into the mist, their voices returning as whispers in the night. The townspeople refuse to explain. They only warn: never speak, never break the silence. But the Tamara refuses to obey. As the fog thickens, they begin to hear voices-voices of those who are supposed to be dead. Something ancient and hungry is stirring beneath the mist, and the silence is the only thing keeping it contained. With time running out, they risk everything to escape. They break the silence. They flee. They survive. Or so they think. As they step into the world beyond the town, ready to scream for help, a chilling realization hits them like a death sentence- The world outside has gone silent too. --- Now marked by the very thing she came to expose, Tamara must unravel the town's terrifying secrets before she becomes the next to vanish. But in BLACKWATER , some truths are better left buried. Because once the fog knows your name... It never lets you go. ---Complete
Those Crimson Eyes- Denial
Joi thought she was losing her mind. After a strange and violent night in the woods, nothing felt real anymore. The shadows moved wrong. The dreams bled into her days. And the thing she saw-the thing that saved her-couldn't have been real. Everyone told her it was trauma. Hallucinations. Her own brain turning against her. But deep down, Joi knew something was watching. Something real. As her grip on reality slips, she finds herself pulled back to the woods, drawn to the impossible. And the more she searches for answers, the more she begins to wonder: What if madness isn't the lie? What if it's the only truth left?Complete
The CERN Revelation
The CERN* Laboratory, near Geneva, runs the Large Hadron Collider**: the greatest scientific instrument ever built by man. There are many questions and concerns as to what will be discovered. And now inexplicable things are occurring at CERN. Three researchers are missing: disappeared without a trace. Men of sound mind have seen apparitions. The Collider has brought forth an entity from another dimension that offers answers to the great remaining scientific questions...in exchange for a soul. Word has spread that something diabolical has invaded CERN, which coincides with cataclysmic events taking place in the world. Protagonist Paul Decker teams up with Natasha - a particle physicist, a la Lizbeth Salander*** - to fight the legions of darkness. This may be the ultimate battle of Good vs. Evil, Science vs. God. My story combines physics, the Papacy, the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist, espionage and computers in a way not seen before. *CERN: French: Council European for Research Nuclear ** Hadrons are created by colliding protons or nuclei of heavy elements. ***Girl with the Dragon TattooComplete
Kill Your Heroes
Mara Pines' life changed forever when her brother, Hamaron, was taken away from her. She witnessed the crime happen, tried to stop it, and ended up getting herself mixed into a very dangerous situation. Her world is turned upside down as she struggles to comprehend one thing: magic. And you thought it was difficult being a teenager. Try being one with hunters, werewolves, a giant, and death itself. As Mara races to find her lost brother, who has been taken away into a dark and horrible place, she might find that just more than her life hangs in the balance. And when she does finally find her brother, Mara realizes he's changed. For the worse. * * * Hamaron Pines was leading a normal life before he was kidnapped. He was planning to become a doctor, get married, and raise a family. His dreams are ruined after he's whisked away into a new world, where darkness awaits to consume his heart. Everything begins to become a blur as he begins to become used to his new life where Dark Magic exists. One day, he wakes up to find himself in a hospital bed. Everything is suddenly clear again. Except things have altered dramatically. His sister is there with him, and his heart's not exactly right where it should be. The only question is: What has happened, and what is going to happen?Complete
The Four Kingdoms : The Monsters Reaper
Raven, who has always lived a simple life with her sister, narrowly escapes death at the hands of a man who was searching for her. Or so she thought, until she wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Having to pretend to be dead to protect her family, she finds herself thrust into a war she knows nothing about, pitting humans, monsters, and individuals with powers called hybrids. A chance for her to discover the truth about who she is and where she comes from, but for this, she must sacrifice her memory, which will be erased forever. She will discover many secrets about her past and that of her sister, as well as about the war she has always been involved in. The truth will make her see the world in a new way.Complete
Raven go to The Owl House
You know how Raven got to the house but what if this time she got there but by different means and during the time Luz gets there for the first time what will happen then. Essentially this is a what-if story I feel like it'll be fun to do. Raven is messing with a Time spell that accidentally goes into the portal smell sending her back in time when the owl house first started. Now Raven gets to help Luz on her Journey and learn more about herself and more magic cuz like Raven is. She loves magic as much as she loves protecting her friends.
MISFIT
A young girl wanders into a mysterious land and finds herself among an ancient civilization advanced in more ways than technology. She learns about a soulstone but what she doesn't know is that her destiny is tied to it. After being chosen to wield it, she walks through time. Completely blind yet backed with all the forces and Spirits of nature. Hundreds of years later she finds herself in the advanced city of Geeces (a completely new Ghana) with a husband and son whom she has to protect from a truly evil force. Little does she know she has to travel back in time to our present(now) to face the same demons that she chose to ran away from.Complete
"I see Mr O'Cain has tried to help you, I guess that's how you've conquered your paranoia." Everyone worries about Audrey Williams. She wishes that this wasn't the case. Six months ago, her brother drowned. She tries to get back to normal, she wants to go back to normal, well as normal as it can get. But when her and her friends go on a museum trip and a somewhat familiar statue is seen from a childhood book, Peter decides it would be funny if he "unleashed" the curse. What happens? Let's say that someone turns into a statue, chaos unleashes and Audrey and her friends need to get Peter back (with a little help of course).
More detailsContent Guidelines