To Fall is to Die
- Reads 205
- Votes 51
- Parts 25
Every year, several teenagers come together to compete in the Cup challenge, an obstacle course in the clouds. While each of their stories are different, all of them are after the same things: fame and fortune. But the origins of the Cup seem to be as solid as the clouds themselves, and one group may have to change the system. How far can they go before one tumbles through the cloud layer and is lost forever?
All Rights Reserved
#178
clouds
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
Toxic Innocence
His beauty was unjustifiable through words. The Intelligence pummeled the greatest of minds. Voice, deeper than the darkest Abyss of sea and emotions a stark absence in his existence. A young man, raised inside the four walls of laboratory. Experimented to rising perfection. A monotone life. A suffocation he never understood, regards to the way he was stripped off from feeling any of them. He doesn't plan the escape into a world he never saw. Has never seen. But it happens. When Althea Davies, a nineteen year old art student runs over a man in ill fitted security uniform. She wasn't prepared to shelter the aftermath of her recklessness, in her apartment. A man so odd, so beautiful. His vocabulary of different fashion and his eyes a screaming blank story. Under the same roof he gravely sat and analysed the kind humans interacted. He learned, he understood but never felt.His eyes saw her every day. The care she rendered on him, he began to look forward to it. Looking forward? He wasn't suppose to. Time lapses. Days pass by. It doesn't take her long to realize that the innocence she had named him with was infact a lethal misunderstanding the day she witnessed that blood was nothing but a stain in his hand for him. He was toxic. she realize's it when he begins to feel. But the problem is he only feels for her. Only. Her. And there was no stoping a man with embedded inhumanity from getting what he wants. •REVIEWS I have just binged read this whole friggin book. Can I say wow.Thank you for writing a book worth reading. -Paintedsilly CHARACTER IS FUCKING ADDICTING AND THE WHOLE ASS BOOK MAN I AM SHOOK!!! -Artsybear18 I never saw that coming. Biggest plot twist in the book. -Fanfictionlove098 • WINNER OF READERS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 TEAM PICK A/N: Not planned as a kpop fiction, but it does have its member for lead cast, Aspire to read this as a fanfiction? No restrictions, Neither from Kim Taehyung himself.
Always on Your Side (NaNoWriMo 2019)
Fresh into her last semester of high school, Len is looking forward to three things: spending time with her recent close-friend-turned-girlfriend, completing a summer road trip with her brother Brendon, and finally, getting the hell out of her hometown, to an out-of-state college where she'll be able to reinvent herself as whoever she would be if her Catholic mom wasn't always breathing down her neck. But then Brendon commits suicide, leaving behind a cell phone with a series of messages meant for Len alone. To unlock the messages, and find whatever Brendon wanted her to find, Len must confront painful memories - and painful truths about herself. *DO NOT READ if you are triggered by suicide or suicidal ideation* (This is a very very very rough draft.)Complete
Jumanji- The Creation
What if curiosity could rewrite a legacy? In the year 2147, five teens-Jace, Ellie, Luna, Leo, and Finn-stumble upon a long-lost video game: Jumanji. But this isn't just any game-it's the very heart of an ancient mystery, laced with danger, riddles, and a wild jungle that breathes. Pulled into a world they never meant to enter, the group finds themselves as game avatars, racing against time to return the mythical Tear of Jumanji to its rightful place before the realm collapses. From thrilling jungle battles to cryptic forest villages and near-death missions, their bond is tested, lives are lost (and regained), and the true meaning of bravery is revealed-not in strength alone, but in unity. Blending the pulse of sci-fi with the soul of adventure, this fan-made story is a love letter to Jumanji and to everyone who ever asked, "What happens next?"Complete
Between Ash and Ember - Book One
Ever thought surviving first period-and facing her best friend's boyfriend, whom she recently kissed-would be the hardest part of her day. She was wrong. The world is ending. Literally. Between dodging awkward hallway interactions with her best friend's boyfriend and dodging the apocalypse, Ever discovers she may be the one person capable of saving mankind. No pressure, right? But just when she's barely wrapping her head around her destiny, a mysterious (and annoyingly handsome) stranger shows up. He drives her crazy, yet somehow feels...familiar. And he just might hold the key to unlocking Ever's forgotten past and to stopping the strange, earth-shattering events unraveling the future. As secrets unfold and loyalties are tested, Ever has to make a choice: walk away from the chaos and pretend the world isn't ending or embrace her destiny and risk everything to save it. After all, being a teenager is hard. Being the savior of humanity? That's a whole new level. *This is book one in a seriesComplete
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
The Death Of Us
Two girls fighting for survival, in a destroyed world. A world where people eat each other and are beyond recognition. Can they trust each other? will they be able to make it to the end together? They WILL survive They CAN survive They SHOULD survive And they do it TOGETHER... or not... a part from the book: I kill one with my ice axe and pull my gun out to shoot another coming close. 1... 2... I pull my ice axe out of the head of the zombie I just killed and put my gun back in, to immediately reach for my knife, and directly throwing at a Z. 3... We continue killing. 4... 5... 6... I hear them all breath heavily. 7... Shit, my arm starts hurting, but I can't stop, or else I get killed. I deepen my ice axe into one zombie, and push another one away with my leg, to hit it afterwards. 8... 9... *Not edited* #3 in virus #10 in Mutation #17 in Zombies #35 in disaster #43 in diseaseComplete![Nothing Super [COMPLETED]](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/204307221-256-k319313.jpg)
Nothing Super [COMPLETED]
"I LOVED IT" - Clumsy_weirdo_353 "So your sister likes to get drunk and beat up guys twice her size," Taylor said, her eyes closed. "Yup." A beat. "So you can teleport." "Yup." Another slice of silence. "So you really can fight," she said. "Yup." A single heartbeat. "So you can teleport." "Yup." "Cool. Cool, cool, cool." Taylor squinted at him, his outward calm mystifying. "You're taking this a lot better than I imagined," she said. He shrugged, but like a bomb, he exploded. "Holy- You can teleport!" Taylor nodded once with the inevitable. "Yeah, that was more like what I was expecting." Taylor's life has been thrown into tailspin. Since discovering she could teleport six months ago she's been trying to juggle being a high school student by day, and a vigilante by night with failing results. Unable to stay awake in classes from her late nights, her grades are dropping fast, and to top it off her exhaustion has she left friendless. When saving late night employees from a burning building puts Taylor in the path of a dangerous criminal, she ends up in an altercation that forces her to realize she needs help. Help comes from two unlikely people: Clint and Dominic who bring their own complications. As the problems keep building, Taylor is quickly learning that having an ability doesn't mean she knows how to protect the city, let alone herself. "It was amazing!!! And really realistic for a superhero book, you even found an explanation for why she has her powers. It also shows that even though she has powers she still is human" - gui_iris "OMG I LOVE THIS BOOK WITH ALL MY HEART" - _cooloreo_ "I laughed, I cried, I screamed out in frustration, but that's what makes this book so amazing, along with the amazing character growth and plot twists that still got me reeling to this day 😂" - Theaxbank "This is a delightful action packed read that'll keep you at the edge of your seat. Would recommend." MiathesmallComplete
The Numbered
Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.Complete
The Juggernaut (Juggernaut #1)
Tales from the Juggernaut #1. Complete. Wattys 2018 shortlist. WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE JUGGERNAUT? *PRAISE FOR THE JUGGERNAUT* *** Good story, great setting, and well fleshed characters. *** Gripping from the beginning...cannot wait for the next one... *** ...a hint of John Scalzi... *** I really enjoyed this book *** I love the characters *** ...brilliantly captures my curiosity. *** captures your imagination right from the start *** Unique and really drags you in.... I can't wait to see what comes next. *** A great, exciting, fast paced read *** Can't wait for the second installment! *** The Juggernaut A city in space built from the twisted wreck of a thousand ships, in a decaying orbit around a dying star. The last refuge of the dispossessed. The place Tila Vasquez now calls home. When a distant colony of stars lost contact with earth, they descended into the fires of a civil war. From the ashes rose the Commonwealth - Eleven systems struggling to survive the aftermath and rebuild civilisation with the remnants of the technology they once had. The mission to colonise Baru was to be the first step forward in a hundred years. Three colony ships set out to discover a new star and build the first hyperspace beacon in three generations. But the mission failed. The Far Horizon vanished through the unstable wormhole. The Rising Star and New Dawn were destroyed. Tila's parents were among the thousands lost. Now she has joined the ranks of the dispossessed. So when Tila finds the impossible - a shuttle from the Far Horizon buried deep within the Juggernaut - she sets out with her friends Ellie and Malachi to uncover the truth behind the colony mission. But some things are buried for a reason, and some secrets should never be revealed... **The Juggernaut is part one of an exciting space action-adventure mystery series.**Complete
Apocalypse
There was a major war that happened and now the government is trying a new experiment on the city. The main character, Alex, and her best friends who are twins are seeing that something isn't right. They're seniors in high school but because of the war, they've been separated on government orders. No one is allowed outside because the government is making people to believe its toxic. They believe that if the parents believe it, the kids will too. But it doesn't stop Alex. She and her best friends decide that they are going to try and stop this. But how? They have no clue. But the first step, going outside. Is it truely toxic out there ? They're about to find out.Complete
His beauty was unjustifiable through words. The Intelligence pummeled the greatest of minds. Voice, deeper than the darkest Abyss of sea and emotions a stark absence in his existence. A young man, raised inside the four walls of laboratory. Experimented to rising perfection. A monotone life. A suffocation he never understood, regards to the way he was stripped off from feeling any of them. He doesn't plan the escape into a world he never saw. Has never seen. But it happens. When Althea Davies, a nineteen year old art student runs over a man in ill fitted security uniform. She wasn't prepared to shelter the aftermath of her recklessness, in her apartment. A man so odd, so beautiful. His vocabulary of different fashion and his eyes a screaming blank story. Under the same roof he gravely sat and analysed the kind humans interacted. He learned, he understood but never felt.His eyes saw her every day. The care she rendered on him, he began to look forward to it. Looking forward? He wasn't suppose to. Time lapses. Days pass by. It doesn't take her long to realize that the innocence she had named him with was infact a lethal misunderstanding the day she witnessed that blood was nothing but a stain in his hand for him. He was toxic. she realize's it when he begins to feel. But the problem is he only feels for her. Only. Her. And there was no stoping a man with embedded inhumanity from getting what he wants. •REVIEWS I have just binged read this whole friggin book. Can I say wow.Thank you for writing a book worth reading. -Paintedsilly CHARACTER IS FUCKING ADDICTING AND THE WHOLE ASS BOOK MAN I AM SHOOK!!! -Artsybear18 I never saw that coming. Biggest plot twist in the book. -Fanfictionlove098 • WINNER OF READERS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 TEAM PICK A/N: Not planned as a kpop fiction, but it does have its member for lead cast, Aspire to read this as a fanfiction? No restrictions, Neither from Kim Taehyung himself.
More detailsContent Guidelines