Ascending Pride
  • Reads 69
  • Votes 2
  • Parts 81
  • Time 13h 21m
  • Reads 69
  • Votes 2
  • Parts 81
  • Time 13h 21m
Ongoing, First published Feb 10, 2024
Mature
Alphonse had protected them all... his brother, his fiancé,  his people... but it was never enough. Now they wanted his bestial heart... fortunately even after ripping open his chest it wasn't something that could be taken. Still... since they didn't want him, Alphonse would "die".

Ashton doesn't want much, one to leave behind his past as Alphonse. Two not to turn into a mindless beast controlled by instinct. And three, to live out his days free of the demands of greedy, selfish humans. He's a bird, he knows he's a bird. The problem is he's been pretending to be human so long... he doesn't really want to live as a beast... or know how to.

Unfortunately, many people won't just leave well enough alone. Particularly a descendent of an Avarice dragon who wants more than just answers behind Alphonse's death. 
Now, Ashton has to decide what is justice... and what is vengeance as the humans around keep taking his choices. While the empire didn't understand why you should never corner even a tamed beast,  they would learn.
All Rights Reserved
Table of contents
Sign up to add Ascending Pride to your library and receive updates
or
Content Guidelines
You may also like
Alpha's Baby | astera22 by astera22
37 parts Complete
My mum always used to tell me what it's like to see your mate for the first time. She used to say that at that moment, everything around you stopped, that nothing else mattered. And nothing else would matter. If it wasn't for the little girl clinging to my leg right now. That little girl that trusts me with her life, that beautiful little girl that made me hold on and not give up on life. That little girl, whose father is standing in front of me right now. He's my mate. The edges of his lips curve and he looks up and down as if checking me out. "Long time no see." Are the words that first come out of his mouth that break the silence. ~~~~~~~~~~ Lexie is an Alpha's daughter. She faces a hard few days and thinks a night at the club will help her get through this. A few drinks won't hurt, right? At least that's what she thinks. Yet that night will change everything sooner than she would ever imagine. When the next day, her pack gets attacked, everything is chaos. Her mother and father are killed and her world shatters. She's forced to run away and leave everyone that she still has left behind. She thinks she has no one... that's until she finds out about another heartbeat in her body. Raising a baby on your own is hard enough. After a few years she finally meets her mate though and it turns out she knows him after all. How will she confess that her mate is actually her daughter's father? What will happen now? We don't live in a fairy tale where every story has a happy ending though. Real world isn't that easy...if you can call a world full of mystical creatures very real.
Hour Of Darkness by AMS1971
30 parts Complete Mature
At age ten, Clarice Stuart is rescued from a potentially traumatizing experience by a mysterious stranger who seems to appear out of nowhere and then disappear just as suddenly. Fifteen years later, on a cold November night on an icy mountain highway as Clarice is on her way to her parents' home for the holidays, a black clad rider on a black motorcycle deliberately strands her on the highway. While Clarice waits for help to arrive, miles away her parents and brother are brutally murdered in their home. At the funeral, a man approaches her and offers his condolences, claiming to be a friend of her brother's. Clarice has a sense of recognition but can't place where she might know him from. As a precaution, three deputies are assigned to watch over Clarice until it can be determined whether or not her family was a target or simply victims of a random attack. Staying at her deceased brother's home, Clarice soon learns that even police protection can't save her from the evil that took her family. When her family's attacker appears and kills the three deputies who were meant to guard her, Clarice is certain she will die as violently as her parents and brother. But standing face to face with the killer, she is shocked to be staring into the face of her recently dead and buried brother. Before he can take her life as well, the black rider appears and saves her from the fate of her family. It is then that she realizes that the black rider is the man from the cemetery - and her guardian from the past. Suddenly she finds herself and her guardian in a deadly, terrifying game of cat and mouse with a killer who won't stay dead. NOTE: This is a complete story, so it won't be distracting me from my other works-in-progress :)
Back Into Your Arms by whitedandelions001
51 parts Complete Mature
[COMPLETED] #Ranks : #14 on 30/11/18 (category : Ex) #17 on 29/6/19 ( category : adultromance) #57 on 29/6/19 ( category: Suspense) Excerpt : "I can't believe they chose you!", I said. "Oh, so you think I knew about all this? Marrying you was the last thought in my mind ", he spoke coldly. "Look, if we are marrying each other, we have to find a way to stand each other. I can't take any more troubles in my life. So after this whole marriage thing, let's just travel our own paths, not shoving our noses into each others business. Deal? ", I asked hoping he'd say yes. "Deal", he said with a smirk "as long as you truly keep yourself to only yourself. " I narrowed my eyes and said "As if. " and walked away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ashley Payne had the perfect life. A nice family, with a cute sister, loving mother, protective father, a straight A student, and the best boyfriend in town, Liam Anderson. Both the families knew each other very well, going to Sunday brunches and weekend tours together. But everything comes to a stand-still on one night, at a party, when she finds him in bed with another girl. Two years later, after she has made herself earn a secure place in one of the top and finest clothing brand company, locking away the secret and hurt deep inside her heart. But now Liam is back. And this time it's for the worse. Revenge is all they see and all that they want. But when Liam proposes marriage, Ashley is not ready to back out in order to prove herself. The marriage does bring them close, making Ashley question the truth of the past, but with enemies lurking around, how long can they stay together ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N : It's my first book and hence I'm just getting accustomed to all the new things on Wattpad. So please bear with me on this journey <3 Love, Candy ❤️ #thelitawards2019
Cursed Alpha by lulugreg69
29 parts Complete Mature
The curse states that :All the females that marry into the Westin family all meet a untimely demise. The brides always die barren after three days after the receiving their cursed Mating mark. It's a race against time for,Jack Westin, the second cursed lycan prince. To save the only woman who has set his heart ablaze all those years ago. When once again Elsbeth Primrose comes into his life after ten years. Jack has no other choice but to patiently protect her; even if it's from herself. Elsbeth on the other hand has deadly secrets of her own.She will stop at nothing to protect her family's secret and the man who has stolen her heart. Their world's collide when someone close is taking his family's curse seriously. Jack is trying everything to keep the fair hair "she devil" out of the killer's clutches. That and keep his ever growing feeling at bay .To buy them enough time to survive the next three days. This proves to extremely difficult with danger around every turn. Unlocking the secrets of the past will unleash havoc to not only his pack? but family? and what happened to late Luna's? Will Elsbeth become the next Luna to succumb to the " Westin Curse"? Can Jack save her and end the curse in time? Excerpt: --- The moment resembled something out of an old school cult classic horror flick. My skin felt like liquid fire it burned and itched I didn't know if I should scratch or rub. "Elsbeth what is happening?"Jack screamed in horror My blood runs cold as the uninitiated mate mark forms . "We didn't consummate our mating why is this happening?"I screeched as everyone in the room turn pale while. upon my shoulder the dark ink spread like I intentionally dropped a bottle of ink upon my skin. ---- End of excerpt
Sun's Shadow (Dusk Series - Book 3.5 Standalone - MxM) by AmeliaCrossGE
41 parts Complete Mature
Obsession is the height of passion, but what does one do when they find themselves enthralled with their enemy. Talamayas Sol loses his mother when he stumbles upon a mage in the deserts of his territory, and he is plunged into a despair he's never known. Stricken with grief, he imprisons the murderer and wipes out every last mage of the Song-a human supremacist mage family that had murdered his kind for nothing more than the joy of their extinction. Through his pain, Talamayas finds himself leaning on the man in his dungeons, be it only to torture him for the relief it grants. It was anger at first, but as he learns more about the circumstances of his mother's death and the terrors that fill Wren Song's nightmares, he is inescapably tethered to the man in his dungeons. Why can't he just kill Wren Song and move on with his life? What keeps him close to the mage and anxious when he leaves his side? Is there more to it than obsession and a need to crush the enemy of his past? If there is, what does that mean for him and his people? Take a step back to the start and follow Talamayas Sol and Wren song through their struggle in the deserts of the east. Learn just where their animosity began and how working together changes and shapes the hearts and minds of men grown in a time when violence was the only way forward. (This book is Standalone, but does reference events of the Dusk Trilogy) (Starts at the beginning of Dusk Trilogy, and Ends after it's completion)
You may also like
Slide 1 of 9
Alpha's Baby | astera22 cover
Death Cannot Part Us (5SOS Fanfic) Completed cover
The Chaos Dragon cover
Hour Of Darkness cover
The Phoenix Thief cover
Back Into Your Arms cover
The Daring Love cover
Cursed Alpha cover
Sun's Shadow (Dusk Series - Book 3.5 Standalone - MxM) cover

Alpha's Baby | astera22

37 parts Complete

My mum always used to tell me what it's like to see your mate for the first time. She used to say that at that moment, everything around you stopped, that nothing else mattered. And nothing else would matter. If it wasn't for the little girl clinging to my leg right now. That little girl that trusts me with her life, that beautiful little girl that made me hold on and not give up on life. That little girl, whose father is standing in front of me right now. He's my mate. The edges of his lips curve and he looks up and down as if checking me out. "Long time no see." Are the words that first come out of his mouth that break the silence. ~~~~~~~~~~ Lexie is an Alpha's daughter. She faces a hard few days and thinks a night at the club will help her get through this. A few drinks won't hurt, right? At least that's what she thinks. Yet that night will change everything sooner than she would ever imagine. When the next day, her pack gets attacked, everything is chaos. Her mother and father are killed and her world shatters. She's forced to run away and leave everyone that she still has left behind. She thinks she has no one... that's until she finds out about another heartbeat in her body. Raising a baby on your own is hard enough. After a few years she finally meets her mate though and it turns out she knows him after all. How will she confess that her mate is actually her daughter's father? What will happen now? We don't live in a fairy tale where every story has a happy ending though. Real world isn't that easy...if you can call a world full of mystical creatures very real.