The Serpent in the Shadows
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  • Parts 6
  • Time 3h 28m
Ongoing, First published Oct 02, 2020
Mature
Analese Williams; 
After just 3 years attending her local Junior college in Rosemount Minnesota, in the field of Applied Physics; she was recently accepted into the illustrious and rather prestigious college of Dartmouth, located Central New Hampshire, to achieve her lifelong dream of being an advanced molecular materials scientist. However, no sooner did she transfer, and move to the city, than things go seemingly off the rails. Within her first few weeks of school everything seems to be getting more and more "otherworldly" in ways that no "sane" person would expect. 

For starters; orientation went in a direction she never expected. She somehow was given a crash course into a realm of adult sexual chemistry she never dreamed of. Now she's finding herself repeatedly being exposed to a strange seemingly "supernatural" under belly of society that has somehow permeated all aspects of her life; including her own field of "Applied Physics". But weirder yet, she's not entirely sure if it's real, a fantasy world that a large group bored college students made up, some drug induced psychosis or something far darker and more profound that has some how influenced her cognitive thinking and tainted her ability to discern reality from self induced fiction. 

All she knows is that she's finding herself questioning her very sanity at every turn and wondering if she's lost her damn mind, been given some sort of hallucinogenic drug, or just stumbled across a thick underlining current within mainstream reality that society carefully overlooks. All she knows it that what ever the hell "this" is; the common consensus of the modern mainstream realms of "Science" and society refuses to acknowledge it, nor seem to even want to discuss it's existence, Which means that whats ever the hell this is; it's more clandestine than she can possible imagine, or is all completely in her head and she really is "batshit" crazy. 

But first she needs a shower, a bowl of ramen, and sleep....
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49 parts Complete

Rose knew she isn't normal. And neither was her family. Like which family force their daughter to live alone and change her house every single fucking year, definitely not a normal one. She wanted to find answers to all the hidden secrets kept by her family and she got the chance when one day, during her 'annual ritual' of shifting houses, a group of zombies attacked her........ and she met him. ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ "Creature?" "Well, it implies to all kinds collectively. Both of bright land and dark land. The world is roughly segregated into three categories. First where humans reside alongside hunters, second Bright land, where all the mermaids, fairies, Pegasus, etc. creatures of the day live and on the contrary, third, the dark land where creatures of the night like vampires, werewolves, zombies, dragons, etc. live." ------------------------------------But what she didn't know was she has inherited the curse which had destroyed her mother's life before and is about to do the same with her. ------------------------------------ "So I am not a human? I am half dark and half bright land's creature?" "And that's what makes you human. How do you think the first human was born? Humans are hybrids of creatures of dark and light. But the firstborn humans had superpowers. Power no one can control. But with evolution, most humans lost their powers. Some are still left, those are known as hunters, but their powers are nowhere as strong as the firstborns." "So if Damon found out that I am a half-half hybrid, he will kill me?" "Without a doubt." First I couldn't be with my mate because he is a vampire prince and I belongs to a family of werewolves and now this. Fuck my life....... ------------------------------------