Keystone
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Last published Sat, Jan 9, 2016
***This is a second draft of a story I posted earlier****
Cecil Sebastian has always been a strange kid. Orphaned from birth and cursed with perpetual bad luck, he always assumed that his life was doomed towards mediocrity. Until he meets a Demon-killing girl who possesses incredible powers. Suddenly, Cecil's world, quite literally, changes. Suddenly, everyone wants Cecil Sebastian. Thrust into a world he doesn't fully understand, Cecil and his friends, or in some cases grudging companions, must battle foe after foe to obtain the "Keystone", a mythical object professed to contain indescribable magical power. Cecil must learn to master his magic before he is killed- or worse. Told from four unique points of view, this story describes Cecil's discovery of magical realms that he never knew existed.
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