The year is 12,090 A.D., and what little is left of humanity has finally crawled out from the ashes of war and destruction. From the darkness of fallout, mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility have spawned. They rule the weak with no remorse. Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed...
The light of the moon was snuffed out. This day—or to be more precise, this evening—was entirely without precedent for the town. Ordinarily, the streets would’ve been filled with merrymakers. Unwinding after a hard day’s work, men with flushed faces would be arguing in bar...
The place was just too huge, and he had no idea where Vera and Dust might be. A vast hall without a single person in it spread before Lourié. A small airfield would easily fit inside it. On all sides of him was stone—but the surprising thing was that there wasn’t a single seam in the walls, floor...
She intended to have him put a stop to the violence once and for all. Scanning her surroundings, she spotted a door off in the distance, and something glittering moving toward it. Only after she set off in pursuit, without really thinking about what she was doing, did she ...
Since it retained the knowledge and outward appearance of its victim, not even family members could see through its trickery. Perhaps Ardoz was not the OSB’s destination or hiding place at all. The Glacierites lived in a town not fifty kilometers away, where it was possibl...
She had transformed. Her eyes became a pair of red slashes beneath her brows. White fangs jutted from her mouth. “Ma—yu—mi—” she growled. The inflection of her voice was completely different, her vocal cords having mutated as well. The carpenter was...
The reason for the search of Toic’s house was obvious enough; the old man was brought in because he was suspected of complicity with him. After all, Toic—a liquid human—had concealed himself in the bottle of champagne the old man brought. “There’s no way I could stuff a gr...
17 - Tyrant's Stars Parts 3 N 4 I It was Sue who noticed something wasn’t right. Waking with the dawn, as had been her habit back on the farm, she peered out the window through the still-open shades and called to the left hand on the floor, “This is strange.” “What is?" “The sun’s to our right, s...
I . After D galloped over a mile in under five minutes, a vast ranch suddenly appeared. Out on the rich pasture there was a herd of meat beasts, several of whom were munching the grass. Seven feet long and easily in excess of fifteen hundred pounds each, the barrel-shaped ...
At the sound of the chiming voice, each had fallen to one knee right where he was. Since the voice had come from behind the trio, only D and Elena could actually see the speaker. As the girl remained slumped against her bike’s handlebars, a gasp of surprise slipped from her. &nb...
A corpse. Do you detect an aura?” The doctor didn’t waver in the slightest. The leader fell silent. The aura detector showed nothing at all. That face was nothing more than a beautiful mask. He’d known it from the start, and was only trying to get back at the doctor for sh...
the elderly man said. The old woman stared at the young man in black with a look in her eyes that suggested she was dreaming.D’s eyes fixed on the boy, who hung his head low.“What’s your name?” D inquired.This was a miraculous occurrence, and it caused another miracle to happen. Though still faci...
the Huntress said. “No, that’s the way a man eats it!” Al replied, and he did the same. With Al at the fore, the trio walked toward the town square. Usually, an image of the village’s patron deity, the focus of the festival, would be set up in the s...
Kikiou said. “This is Doctor Mephisto.” Having introduced the seated doctor, he asked Ryuuki, “What happened to your hand? I can’t imagine you losing it to a mere weapon. As the doctor said, Setsura Aki’s skills cannot be underestimated.” Ryuuki didn’t answer at once. He f...
You’re good!” Worked by her right hand, the whip did not strike her shoulder but danced back through thin air, yet the girl stood rooted to the spot and made no attempt at a second attack. She realized his fighting skills were as high above hers as the heavens were over th...
The Marcus clan’s bus was approaching a section of reddish brown valley, some thirty miles from the bridge. The reason Kyle hadn’t been sent along ahead was that Borgoff had calculated the speed of the carriage and the time left until daybreak, deciding that the bus itself...
Then they gotta be like the hands and feet of whoever controls them,” Clay said, licking his chops. Seeming to sense something in the warrior’s tone, Tae clung tightly to the Hunter’s black coat. “This’ll be fun. I’m gonna give this thing a good lon...
A fog. “Here it comes! Here it comes!” Beatrice shouted, almost singing the words. The motorcycle slowed down. “According to my notebook, they were in this stuff when the first three bought the farm,” the warrior said, raisin...
Apparently quite elated to be back in a human town after five millennia, the baron’s eyes gleamed as he said, “Hmm, things don’t seem to have changed much while I slumbered. Well, the human race reached completion at a fairly low level. Perhaps they don’t really want to change. Oh, that woman ove...