The Magician's Horses
- Reads 101,502
- Votes 874
- Parts 4
Complete Wed, Jul 15, 202014m
Dave's agreement with Doc and Sally is to help the two adventurous scientists disappear into the future.
But being left behind by the closest people Dave has to family isn't the bargain the eighteen-year-old expected.
When Dave follows after his mentors, calibration issues place him centuries past his target date. Countless years and miles of wilderness separate him from Doc and Sally.
Dave must survive in a primitive new world that has been waiting for him for a very . . . long . . . time . . .
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
Atemporal
When Ryan and Emily discover a powerful artifact that manipulates time, they must navigate a treacherous web of secrets, lies, and rival treasure hunters to unlock its secrets. As they race against time, they uncover a hidden legacy that threatens to destroy the fabric of time itself. Can they harness the artifact's power to create a new future, or will they succumb to its deadly consequences?Complete
The fairy tale part one
. In a world where magic lurks beneath the surface of society, Bella has always believed her life was ordinary-until the man she trusted most, Arian, reveals a shocking truth. The man she loved, her husband, the father of her son, has been hiding a dangerous secret: he is not who he seems. And now, their lives are unraveling faster than they can keep up. Arian, a man of mystery and darkness, has been living a double life, bound to an ancient and dangerous order known only as *The Covenant*. When Bella's son begins to display extraordinary powers, Bella realizes that her family is at the heart of a centuries-old battle for control over an ancient magic that could tip the balance between light and dark. As secrets unfold, Bella discovers that her son is the key to unlocking a magical source-one so powerful that it could change the world. With Arian's true allegiance now clear, Bella finds herself torn between love and survival, trust and betrayal. She must fight not only for her son's safety but for her own sanity as she learns that her family is part of a much darker plot than she could ever have imagined. The stakes are higher than ever, and every choice Bella makes leads her deeper into a world of lies, deception, and ancient forces she doesn't fully understand. With the weight of the world on her shoulders, Bella and Arian must navigate treacherous alliances, escape deadly enemies, and uncover the truth behind her son's powers before it's too late. As the forces of magic converge and the battle for control of the world intensifies, Bella faces the hardest decision of her life: will she let her son keep the power that could destroy them all, or sever the connection that links him to a force older than time itself The truth is more dangerous than she ever feared. The clock is ticking, and Bella's world is about to change forever.Complete
SWARM
Two college friends from Berkeley named David and Nathan meet up with Nathan's cousin Raymond in Michigan for duck hunting. Then they got onto a portal towards the distant future, where the world is extremely warm, flooded with only a few islands, and a swarm of giant hybrid animals covers the planet. The surviving humans can only live underwater, and only the hybrid humans live on the ocean's surface with man-made islands. The rest of the journey is the story of how the world came to be, foretold by an elite soldier from the Underwater City to the Duck Hunters. David was the designer of their City, and he was sent back to his time to change the design because their City is near destruction.Complete
Rewrite Redemption
She’s sixteen. He’s seventeen. They don’t know each other…at least not yet. She has a secret and her whole life revolves around keeping it. Every few months and with little warning, she simply disappears, pulled into the past for hours or even days. She’s terrified it will happen in front of someone, changing her life forever. So far, the only witnesses have been her parents, and that didn’t end well. She has no control over it and no idea why it happens to her. She wants answers. He has answers—at least he understands what’s going on. He has a secret, too. He’s part of an organization that goes back in time to rewrite reality. But he also has a problem. He broke the organization’s number-one rule by altering his own timeline. As punishment, he’s been blocked from time travel, which is most unfortunate. Because the changes he made to his timeline, accidentally resulted in disaster for his family. A disaster he’s now prevented from repairing. No one can travel beneath the organization’s radar except a Shadow. But they’re rare, so rare he’s never even met one. Then he moves to her town. This is sci-fi/fantasy. Lite on the sci-fi, big on romance.Complete
Until Midnight
"I have until midnight. I have until midnight before my world inevitably changes, me along with it." For Kate Strata, time is of the essence. In exactly seventeen hours, Kate will transform into the very thing her family has hunted for years: a vampire. Torn between fear and love, she must come to terms with her future as well as reconnect with those closest to her before midnight. While juggling those problems, another one arises when her high school crush, Derek, finally decides to kiss her. Of all the days to strike up a relationship, he chooses the one where on midnight Kate turns into a monster. Then surfaces the question Kate has been neglecting to answer: When the unstoppable time comes to change, will she stay in her comfortable Colorado town, or leave forever, leaving a family and newfound love behind? Kate will find out when the clock strikes twelve. [I penned this when I had been, like, thirteen. So bare in that mind when reading this].Complete
A Song of Dreams and Secrets
" I was standing on the edge, my feet barely touching the ground. The rocky cliffside was below me. My vision was blurry and the ground was shaking below me. I looked down just then I lost my balance, but I didn't fall, I flew." -Odie **Romance** **Fantasy** *More then meets the Eye** This is a romantasy following our main character Odie. After a freak car accident leads to Odie losing some of her memories she must live life as normal when it is anything but that. Her once loving twin brother no longer speaks to her. Her mom seems overly protective. And everything in her life seems to keep going wrong. When Odie is located to a new school she doesn't know what it is but everyone seems different. As if they are all in on some big secret. Will Odie be able to fix her family feud? Will things go back to normal? And will she find love in unlikely circumstances? Read: "A Song Of Dreams and Secrets" By: Bloody Violetzz
Rose wasn't here
•ROMANCE• FICTION• DRAMA• How could you get out of a world where you don't even realize how you got there? That's the question that plagues Rose. Curious by nature, Rosalie embarks with her friends on an adventure that turns her life upside down. A small object, at first glance insignificant, transfers her to years she can meet only through history books. Completely lost, at a time when she cannot adapt, she desperately searches for ways to return to her present, even if her heart takes root in the past. Rose is bold, mature, with her goals in life well arranged. She never imagined that attraction would be what would hold her back the longest. Now that dark thoughts and strong feelings do not give her peace, the girl must become even more aware of what she has to do and take on all the things that try to bring her down. Nothing will hold her captive in the past. Eduard is determined, imposing and knows exactly what he wants: her. He wants her for himself, forever and cannot bear the thought that she cannot be his. Rose has become the obsession and wound in his soul and is determined to keep her by his side, even if it means stopping her from returning home. "Even though I am your past, you will remain my present forever. You are my sweet secret memory that I will carry with me every minute. "Complete
Escaping Elysia
A dystopian young adult novel involving romance, secret experiments on human subjects, and a group of teenagers' will to survive. Reader Comments: "I'm gonna gush about your book real quick...all the technology has a purpose and is beautifully explained so I can picture it in my mind...the whole concept of the book is completely original...*moment of silence for your beautiful arch of character development* everything your characters do is strictly them but they develop enough to show more about themselves without you straight up telling the reader about them" -Vairl9023 "Ahh!!! This is so good!! I will be anxiously awaiting the next Chapter!!" -CrystalBagot "Brilliant...ohh, this is very catchy, good work" -IndeeMaynard "I love this so far" -BrianneMorris "You've done a great job at creating a mysterious mood" -poisonedpen *** All Evita Creedy, 17, wants is to finish her degree and be accepted for a prestigious job with the city's Department of Energy. On the way to take her placement test she sees a man take a gun out of his bag. Panicked, she reaches into her purse for her phone to call 911. Instead she takes out a gun. She doesn't know where it came from or how it got there, but when the man turns his gun on her she shoots him. It would be easy for Evita to forget about where the gun came from and let her life return to normal, but its mysterious appearance won't stop nagging at her. When Evita starts asking questions Evelyn Sheer, the head of the city's Department of Energy, takes her captive and places her in a secret, underground research facility. Evelyn Sheer and the researchers are trying to create a genetic modification that enables humans to photosynthesize. Once in the facility, Evita is tagged as a test subject and loses all say over what happens to her body. She has to escape. By the time she comes up with a plan there is only one problem. Evita isn't ready to leave.Complete
Elyra: Legend Reborn
There is a force older than time itself, flowing unseen through the land, the skies, and the souls of those who walk this world. Some call it magic. Others, destiny. But in Elyra, power is not merely taken-it is earned, stolen, fought for, and sometimes... cursed upon the unworthy. The continent stretches endlessly, its lands carved by ancient wars and civilizations lost to history. Ruined cities stand as silent witnesses to battles long forgotten, their stone walls whispering secrets only the daring seek to uncover. Deep within the mountains, martial artists forge their bodies into weapons beyond human comprehension, their strikes capable of shattering steel. In the grand halls of scholars, mages bend the laws of reality, weaving spells that twist the very fabric of existence. Some claim magic is boundless, limitless in potential... but those who reach too far often find themselves consumed by forces they cannot control. But for every force that builds, another seeks to destroy. Beneath the surface, fire rages in an endless inferno, a realm where even the bravest fear to tread. High above, unseen hands pull at the strings of fate, shifting the balance of the world with every whisper. And hidden within sealed chambers, beings older than the stars slumber, their names long erased from mortal tongues. Legends speak of a kingdom that once ruled everything, a kingdom that no longer exists. Some say it was consumed by its own greed, others whisper of a power too great for the world to bear. Yet remnants remain-artifacts, symbols, fractured pieces of a puzzle scattered across the land, waiting for those foolish or ambitious enough to seek them. The air is shifting. The world stirs. Something is waking up. And when it does, Elyra will never be the same.
The Time Warden's Son
David, an orphan, abandoned on the doorstep of a stranger, has always dreamed of one day meeting his father. When the evil scientist Lagabey finds a long hidden time machine and uses it to travel into the past, David is called upon to track him down and stop him before he finds the key to the future. To David, this is not just a chance to save the world, but a chance to finally meet his father. Can he stop Lagabey and see his father face to face too, or will facing his father be even more terrifying than contending with a murderous scientist?Complete
When Ryan and Emily discover a powerful artifact that manipulates time, they must navigate a treacherous web of secrets, lies, and rival treasure hunters to unlock its secrets. As they race against time, they uncover a hidden legacy that threatens to destroy the fabric of time itself. Can they harness the artifact's power to create a new future, or will they succumb to its deadly consequences?
More detailsContent Guidelines