Deae Luna Chapter 1 Forvirki’s bright blue eyes blinked open. Her ears rang and her stomach hurt. Every individual cell in her body seemed to burn; against all logic, even her Grace ached. She remembered chains of slate grey explosions blasting either side of her, the obsidian walls of a ravine tumbling down and pulverised basalt rolling as thick as fog … but everything else was a grey haze. ...

The Ultimate Cat – Part 2 by Rick Powers (a.k.a. The Power Company) Felicia Hardy had worked for years to develop an extraordinary body to aid her in her burglary schemes. She could scale walls with ease, run along the narrowest of ledges, pull herself up a rope hand over hand as fast as some people walk up stairs, even leap from building to building like an olympic long jumper. She was proud of ...

The Ultimate Cat – Part 4 by Rick Powers (a.k.a. The Power Company) “Quite an impressive fighter, eh Cat?” Kingpin gloated as he hefted his bulk up to a standing position, still covering his broken rib. “My team has been working on her for the last four years.” As if in response to the Kingpin’s gloats, Defender blocked one more punch and seeing an opening, slammed her open palm into Cat’s chest ...

The Unexpected Companion, Part One By Shadar An Aurora Universe story set in the late Companion era of Velorian Culture. It starts on a developing world on the outer rim of Terran populated space, and draws inspiration from beyond the AU, including a little touch of Dune culture. The planet Ostremity, in Dispersed Sector Theta. Part of the Independent Outer Rim federation. Christmas was over and ...

The Unexpected Companion, Part Two By Shadar (Part One ended with Win and Miki traveling on a MagLev train at .8 Mach, approaching a range of mountains with a tunnel beneath them. Miki believes the tunnel is probably rigged to blow up the train — Arion privateers are chasing her and they will stop at nothing, regardless of collateral damage. While Miki could just fly away with Winston to save ...