Writing Prompt

Jasper stood stock still, not reacting to the short, red faced man that was my father.

Dad had walked in on a training session earlier, and he had blown up. That was who he was though. He had a terrible temper, and was an even worse parent.

The few times that I did see my dad, our convrrsations were short and lacked emotion. He was the kind of guy who thought women should be housewives who cou...

Master Kang

Said to the little warrior

I will train you

And your training will protect you

Kiyap...

Chapter 1 : The Weight of Legacy

In the dimly light hall of the Blood Ravens guild, two voices could be heard echoing loudly though the hallway, the male voices belong to the leader of the guild Kuthal and his brother-in-law Ninthalor.

“ Ninthalor, i said my anwer is no, she is not ready yet to start training with the others “ Kuthal said to Ninthalor sternly his arms cross over his chest.

“...

I ask you to protect her

Not train her!

Her training will protect her !

That is what my father said

I didn’t think 10 years later

It would come in handy

As I watched the police car

Take away the guy now with a black eye…...

I ran from the pack of wolves. This was the fifth straight week of wolf attacks. This felt different somehow, something was wrong. Then I realized, the ground was wet. My heart pounded in my chest. It had rained last night. That meant the river was roaring. Which meant my way back to the cabin was blocked. The wolves were getting closer now. I had to think quick, but I new there was little hope. M...

“I asked you to protect her! Not train her!”

“Her training will protect her!”

“She’s just learned to walk, and she’s infected already it doesn’t make sense to help her defend herself.”

“There are people everywhere trying to hunt infected people down to test them or just kill them”

Bub giggled and waddled over to Carlos, poking him in the leg with a cardboard knife. He scooped her up and brushed he...

She liked to play hide and seek. Under a banyan, she hid inside the convoluted air roots. Oftentimes she stayed there until dusk. Nobody found her, and she went home.

She never talked quite much. In classes, in girl’s circle. No one talked a lot in school. In tedious summer daylight, the teacher lectured on and on into a infinite black hole. She faced sleepiness, emptied inside out, like a worm h...

All the sudden, a knife was at his throat.

“Exactly. And right now you seem like a danger the way you are speaking.”

The knife disappeared and the royal assistant turned to find the crown princess. Her brunette hair sat in waves as d was pulled into a bunch at the top of her head. Her tan skin contrasted her bright blue eyes so much that it gave her a look of a queen.

And it was quite frightening...

"I asked you to protect her, not train her!"

"Yeah, but that's not me and you know it. Why would you have brought her here if yih wanted her safe. A christian atmosphere this is not."

Throughing his hands in the air, the priest stomped over to me. "All right monk, do whatever you want but she's your now. I'm reporting her dead to the capital. This is not the princess we wanted."

"OK." They shrugg...

Pop! Plaster showered the studio as a massive crack ripped across the ceiling. Floor beams groaned. Up and down the street car alarms blared. In the midst of the chaos sat Tisiphone. The other kids called her Tizzie or Phony or that weirdo. Or at least they used to.

Somewhere maybe below her the girl could hear her parents arguing. Again. Tisiphone couldn’t make out the words. Suddenly their tho...