Chess of Mages
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  • Reads 79,683
  • Votes 23
  • Parts 10
  • Time 1h 2m
Ongoing, First published Jun 25, 2013
Currently, the world holds a dark truth. Mages secretly run the world while humans think that magic is just a fairytale.


Darnell Samuels is ready for summer vacation when his mysterious aunt, who can make dark rain clouds appear at will, invites him to an island in the Philippines for two weeks. Little does he know that normal school life will be a thing of the past and storybook creatures will be a new dangerous reality. 

In an arena set up by mages with innocent lives at stake, Darnell is named the "Human Piece" and the rules are that only three pieces may survive in a competition featuring different magical beings. Darnell's only real hope to stay alive is by finding and making an alliance with the Fairy Piece, an even weaker creature than the human. Why would his own aunt throw him in such a predicament where survival is slim? As the darkness of magic begins to be uncovered, 15 year old Darnell will never be the same.

This is Chess of Mages and the battle between the 20 pieces begins!

*WARNING* some vulgar language and graphic scenes.

"The Hunger Games meets Lord of The Rings with a tad bit of Fate Series!" -I said that. You
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BOOK ONE: Having enough courage to run through the woods and away from the people who convinced me they were saving me was not how I believed I'd spend my day. Yet, there I went escaping from the only place I knew existed in the world. Being held captive was too much for me, especially when these people wouldn't tell me who they were or even who I was. The first moment in my life I recall very clearly. I awoke in a dark room, with recollection of everything that happened in the world except for one thing. I had no memory of myself existing, I didn't know where I was or why these men kept me from leaving. Days after I first woke I asked plenty of questions, and yet none of them were answered. The only thing I learned was that I was not allowed outside because the woods heald the most powerful magic on the planet, the most dangerous magic. It was more than just bad men and curiosity about the forest that got me to leave, it was a pull towards something; towards magic. Once I was in the forest turning back was never an option, so I put it in my head that I'd keep walking until I found a civilization or a nice paved road that would lead to safety. But that never happened because the forest has a force living through it. Believing that the forest held something strange was the easy part but experiencing it myself was something totally different. I didn't expect anything normal but I didn't expect to be completly engulfed into the forest. I was led by an unknown presence that made me truly believe it was a living being, and in fact it is. I was innocent then, but now I know that anything can be hidden under a small platform in the woods with a secret bigger than the world itself. I was given life that day, until it all ended months later; the day I took my last breath.