
When Shahly met RalligorWhen Shahly met Ralligor by ~Brawrloxoss
Mountains of tan stone streaked with orange and red stood ahead of her. Snow capped only the highest peaks. No trees grew on their slopes; they were just bare stone.
Untold hours had passed when Shahly stopped and looked around her. Nearly all cover was gone; only round clumps of brush, many different cacti and boulders dotted the landscape. The ground, which was very soft beneath her hooves, was tan and red sand, speckled by red, pink, gray and black pebbles. The air was very dry and the sun was already uncomfortably hot.
Traveling on the breeze were the faint smells of nectars, some sweet and others bitterly unpleasant. Even in this

HOPE, LAST YEAR'S MODEL, Ch. 1, 2HOPE, LAST YEAR'S MODEL, Ch. 1, 2 by ~Brawrloxoss
CHAPTER 1
Awakening
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" a teenage girl's voice demanded from behind.
Doctor Amanda Evans was considered something of a rogue in her field, a robotics genius with an eccentric flair that had most of her colleagues scoffing at her. Only about five foot six, she wore her hair short and manageable, hair that had gone white when she was not even twenty. She was not quite forty and had given up trying to color it, instead just keeping it snow white and short atop her head and wearing it proudly as a badge of her hard w

THE RISE OF GOLDEN ANGEL, Chapter 6THE RISE OF GOLDEN ANGEL, Chapter 6 by ~Brawrloxoss
Normally, four heavily armed men would not be much of an issue. The corridor they strode down was rather wide, poorly lit and obviously underground. Three men could comfortably walk abreast, but the four soldiers in black body armor were content to walk behind him. The arched, stone or concrete ceiling was nine feet high and Bane glanced up a couple of times, tempted by something from a lingering boyhood to reach up and bat at one of the lights that hung from the conduit that ran along the peak of the ceiling. Still dressed in the orange jumpsuit of the maximum security prison facility he was destined for, he still had the size of the mer

THE RISE OF GOLDEN ANGEL, Chapter 5THE RISE OF GOLDEN ANGEL, Chapter 5 by ~Brawrloxoss
Late morning brought a new day and new possibilities. While sleep had been elusive, she had finally drifted off and slept soundly through the rest of the night. The sun was climbing high and shining through her window, making bright ribbons of white and yellow light through a gap between the curtains.
Having forced herself to forget about the most recent fight between her parents, she sat up and a little smile found her lips as she stretched. Slipping from beneath the blankets, she stretched more, this time falling into more of an athlete's regiment as she fell into a daily routine of stretching each muscle group to prepare it for the com