(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) William was dumbfounded. That mysterious old foreigner was only here a moment ago, yet now, he had vanished without a trace. It wasn’t like they were in the middle of the moonless night; the late …

(Please note, not edited – much – /checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) The hologram of the woman spoke in English first, before switching to a language Kain didn’t really recognize. It could have been either Japanese or Korean for all he could figure …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) Kain woke from a dreamless sleep with a heavy, groggy head. The darkened room he found himself in was not his. There was very little light entering through the closed windows, leading him to believe …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) While Kain had his hand nearly blown off, his father was waiting in a hallway of the Lomax mansion, slowly pacing up and down the crowded corridor. As promised, he came to see his brother, …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) Damien’s eyes widened in surprise and quickly turned his gaze towards the direction where Jonas had run off to, but thanks to the darkness, not a thing could be seen anymore. What the hell?! Did …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) Damien was led into the study of the massive but foreboding mansion. A deathly hush pervaded throughout his walk, as if there was a prolonged funeral procession taking place. The oppressive atmosphere had seemingly blanketed …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) The commotion inside the lecture hall continued regardless of what Kaleena or Katrina thought, many kids clamoring to speak and if possible, befriend the girl as soon as the lecture ended. A school day was …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) Kain felt somewhat rather strange at this very moment. As he sat on the stone bed inside a room in the Tetamus fort and covered in bandages from head to toe, he felt several conflicting …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or tow. If you spot them, please let me in the comments. Thanks!!) “No, no, no, no. Not like that!! Look, Lil’ Kain, you grip it like this, and swing it just like so. See? Like so!” Emma impatiently swung a branch around in a practiced manner. All Kain …

(Please note, not edited/checked/PR-ed. You may run into a questionable grammar or two. If you spot them, please let me know in the comments. Thanks!!) Kain’s face was the very definition of pale at the moment. It was as if he had not a drop of blood flowing in his body. After a minute or two of total silence, he …