Darkest Shadows Series

By Toni-Nicolle · Sep 7, 2014 ·
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  1. Hi, writers and those who know what it is like to stay up nights so that you can write down an idea before sleep can take it from you. Those who have struggled with a word, phase, or name. Those who constantly go back to revise, rewrite and reedit until you are sick. I just wanted to share with you a little exert of my first book of my first series and see how you like it. Constructive criticisms is always welcome:



    Have you ever had that moment when you thought your entire world had crumbled around you? Think to yourself the feeling you had as you saw your whole world collapsing around you. Did you feel powerless, hollow, helpless, angry even? Do you remember that moment when the world froze and stopped spinning; that feeling of panic when everything you had planned for went up in flames and fell to your feet in a pile of ash?

    And then, just for a moment, you felt complete freedom hidden behind the panic. You were no longer tethered to the world at all; you had no ties, nothing to do, no where to be and you felt yourself float. Then you remembered that the earth was still spinning. There were people that needed and depended on you, that you could not just float into oblivion. The chains of your life catch you before you can fly because you are meant for this world, not the other.

    Our story is like that. We had a life before this hell that we were living. We went to school, worked, lived each day to further ourselves, but even as we lived these mundane lives, we were never truly meant for the roles we played. Nothing we strived for, even if we achieved it, brought us any feeling of accomplishment or pride. All happiness we felt was empty and fleeting. We were bound when we were destined to fly.


    Have you ever had a secret that was so twisted that you thought that truly acknowledging the truth would change you entity forever? Had a revelation that was so astronomical that it changed shook any idea that you ever believed in?

    Those feelings, for most people, are just them living in the moment and reacting to the situation they are in. They eventually break out of that dark cloud and find a silver lining that carries them forward and gives them the drive to continue onward.

    But not for us. We are cut from a different cloth entirely and our internal struggle still wages within us. And as we struggle with our emotions and our powers, there is a constant battle that is waged and that we fight.


















    These are the histories of our lives; past and present and glimpses of our futures. Stories about love and devotion, hate and distrust. They are about loyalty, reliance, and honor. They are about a group of friends that have lost everything. A group of friends that become family in lieu of their lost ones. Their families, friends, homes and security are lost to them in a world wide war and of an aftermath of which was devastating to behold.

    These people were lost until, by fate, they came across each other again. They banded together to fight the monstrosities that now plagued their Earth and that now had complete control of their once beautiful world. Sticking together for them now was not just a means of survival, but was also a balm for the pain of their losses and was a form of stability that maintained their sanity.

    This story is about a double betrayal of those that they once held dear. It is about an ancient revolution that was sabotaged and a chance of redemption and a chance to return to their former glory. It is about valor and sacrifice and of terrible losses. The loss of not just millions upon millions of lives, but of a loss of peace, innocence and of their childhoods and expected futures.

    These young adults, who once banded together against the cruelty of the world, now had to come together to fight for the world that once scorned them. They had been told all their lives that the monsters that they dreamt of and the creatures of the dark that they could only see, did not exist. That those fairy tale creature that they knew were true, were only just bedtime stories, mitos e narodna predaja.

    They were told that they were nothing exceptional and not worthy of compassion or understanding that was deemed upon their other peers. By their peers they were meaningless and inconsequential, and by their elders they were to be placated but never understood. And yet they were the ones that remained. They survived, born into a time they didn’t belong to and a world that wouldn’t understand them. In a period of utter chaos and uncertainty they endured all the hardships that were thrown at them. And now they faced an unsure future. A dark, forbidden destiny and a lifetime of death, destruction on and devastation.

    The year is two thousand and seventeen in post-apocalyptic Honduras, five years after the fabled apocalypse was foretold to happen, and which had befallen on the Earth. It was also foretold that with the destruction of the world would arise a kingdom, more powerful than any before it. Little did the augurs and soothsayers know that twenty twelve prophecy marked the end of the human race and the beginning of a new race entirely.

    Some people, mostly religious radicals and zealots, thought that the rise of these demons and creatures was caused by the evil residence the Earth has become. Needless to say those people also believed that some blue light would suck them into the sky if they were good enough and that wasn’t true either. In truth, the creatures that took dominance over the world were already lying in wait for their chance to strike and they knew that no human could stop them. Humans would have thought that this was the last epic battle for good and evil. Those of us who actually have to fight in it just think the Ascension is a pain in the culo.

    In the beginning they learned that they were from a distant lineage of a history well forgotten from human history. They were all from two kingdoms that were constantly at war with one another. They were the children of Gods and Angels and creatures of myth themselves.

    They had found out that there is only one person who can save us all. One foretold women that will either bring an amazing period of peace and prosperity or a terrible Darkness that will bring upon the total destruction of the world and that would corrupt the people that were to help bring upon that peace. One moody, self obsessed, arrogant, cold, stubborn, know it all girl who also happens to be my older sister. It is her destiny. Our destinies on the other hand, is to protect and defend her with our lives. Our fates are intertwined with hers and if she fails.. Well it wouldn’t be good for any of us. She is the key, the only person who can save us and claim our birthrights… Dios save us all…..
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