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Heavy is the Heart. ACOTAR FANFIC Bat Boys 𝔁 Fem!oc 2024 © rosie

You were going to see Luz to have a normal fun day together....but as you find a magical portal that leads to a demon realm....your lives change forever....

Second place in the Fantasmical Story Competition. Alaina, a semi-reclusive elf with questionable fire magic, joins a mysterious stranger. Together, they must travel through twelve fantastical realms, defeating dangerous monsters in order to save her sister. Alaina grew up in the small village of Koh-i-noor with her parents and two sisters. Her oldest sister was the village beauty, and even though her family wasn't wealthy or connected, rumors of her elegance and grace traveled the countryside. She married a prince and moved to the capital. Then there's her younger sister, gifted in both earth and water magic; she's one of the most talented magic users in over a century. And Alaina? She's nothing like either of her sisters. She's got fire magic, but she's more likely to burn the house down than to light the hearth. But that doesn't bother Alaina - she's perfectly fine, even with unreliable magic. She lives in the small cottage her parents left her, along with her loyal, if somewhat yippy fox, Cinna, tending her garden and selling the sweetest strawberries that Koh-i-noor has ever seen. But when her sister sends a cryptic word that something's wrong at the Trida Academy, Alaina must abandon her solitary life to save her sister. Cover image by AndreasAux from Pixabay

[ONC 2025 Shortlister] An apprentice silversmith, haunted by his reflection. A wealthy family, falling to ruin. A patron spirit, searching for a pact. Five games will decide their fate. After acquiring great wealth from a boom in silver trade, the Blackwood family moves into a mansion that was mysteriously abandoned by its previous owners. The property has everything a family of established silversmiths could need: prime trade location, a smithing workshop, and a large mirror that was left behind. To Kyren Blackwood, the promises of a new life and the riches that come with it are more than enough to overshadow the eerie tale. But the mirror watches. Reflections are not what they seem. Driven to the brink of insanity, Kyren must uncover the mirror's secrets before his family loses everything. In a desperate attempt to free himself, he agrees to play five games with the spectre in the mirror. If he can win three, the curse will end. Lose, and he surrenders his soul to the silver spirit. ~An ONC novella, inspired by prompts 13 and 55. ~Set in the same world as Buried in the Sea but can be read completely independently (with no spoilers to one or the other).

𝐑𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 : ̗̀➛ In 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 the younger twin of Feyre Archeron has to fight through the thorns of roses just to survive. 〔Azriel x oc〕 ╰┈˚ · ° . slowburn! ˏˋ°•*First book in the *•° ˊˎ 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 series ----------------------

In this crossover between The Boys and Stranger Things, After a battle with a powerful supervillain known as Time Controller, Homelander is thrown into a temporal rift and stranded in Hawkins, Indiana-circa the 1980s. Confused and increasingly frustrated by the town's eerie atmosphere, he soon discovers that Hawkins is far from an ordinary small town. Strange government experiments, interdimensional creatures, and a group of kids who refuse to back down from danger stand in his way. As Homelander struggles to assert dominance in this unfamiliar world, he crosses paths with Eleven, a girl with powers that rival his own. But just as tensions rise between them, a new threat emerges from the Upside Down-one unlike anything Hawkins has ever faced. Forced into an uneasy alliance, Homelander and the kids must fight to stop the monstrous invasion before it consumes everything. However, things take an unexpected turn when an old enemy of Homelander's appears: Billy Butcher, who has somehow found his way into Hawkins as well. With secrets unraveling, alliances shifting, and a collision of two dark worlds, the battle for Hawkins has only just begun. Will Homelander rule this strange town, or will Hawkins prove to be more than even he can handle?

In an age of Gods and Dragons, when man is merely a pawn of the deities, A drifter of mysterious origin searches for where he belongs. A quest to unravel the mystery of what he is, who he will become, and his part in an ancient prophesy. Hero, or villain, Adrian Michael Greggarious embarks on a path few dare to travel, with the balance of power in the ancient world resting on the tip of his sword, and the choice of which side he would lead to victory. Along the way, he meets many friends, foes: A fearless Dwarf, A peasant girl with unnatural gifts, and a suit of armor who only wants to love. He faces mythical obstacles as he slowly learns who he is, and that destiny is what you make of it, not what the prophets decide of you. Join the quest as he hunts for revenge, glory, answers, and his own personal growth as a warrior, to find out if you can truly slay a god, or if we are all nothing more then their slaves.

Fear the dark. Bar the doors. Don't breathe a word. Wait for the Hooded Men to save you. The people of Nictaven live in fear of the night; governed by magic no one save a few can control, in a land plagued by demons and cannibal tribes, and isolated from all other worlds for centuries, they're right to. Only the Unspoken, a secretive guild of warriors linked with the land and its magic, provide any safety when darkness falls. For centuries, it has stayed like this. But in an abandoned crypt worlds away, Jordan Haverford is about to change that. It wasn't quite the holiday he had been hoping for. Plunged into a world where who you are and what you believe can kill you, a world of demons and knives in the dark and wars fought from behind the doors of the rich, Jordan's gentle Oxford upbringing isn't quite sufficient preparation. Instantly a pawn in a deadly game, separated from his sister and watched from the shadows by an assassin with a vendetta, he finds himself in the company of an Unspoken who has an uncanny knack for finding the Gifted - and Jordan can't seem to get rid of him. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © SEHarrison/Elinor Harrison *This book has previously been partly stolen and published on Amazon without my permission. I only post my work on Wattpad - please notify me if you find it anywhere else! Thank you.* The gorgeous cover is by Acacia H. - Caysaaaa on Wattpad!

Aled is a gay man in a soldier's uniform. Unhappy with the turn his country is taking, Aled seizes the opportunity to enter a mysterious portal into the strange, primitive world of Thera. Finding himself trapped there, Aled discovers Marius, a man left to wander blindly in the wilderness. Surrounded by intrigue, Aled and Marius must find a way to trust each other, to save both themselves and Thera's Lady. 2022 AMBY AWARDS Winner for Alternate Universe stories. Finalist for the Open Novella Contest 2017/8. Sci-Fi and LGBT ♥ **Edited version now available on Amazon etc with the title PORTAL**