Tasty Tales of Transformation

  It was a calm, breezy evening at the Officer’s Academy, an elite facility that trained students in the ways of weapons and magic. Located within a giant Monastery, the royalty and nobility of several great factions sent their heirs to the academy in order to learn the art of warfare. It was all to build up the next generation of rulers. So needless to say, much pressure resided on the students and those who taught them. On this particular evening, after a rigorous course in magical defense, one of the academy’s prodigies of magic, Lysithea, isolated herself against a large stone wall not too far from the teacher’s office. She twiddled her thumbs, lost in turmoil over how to proceed. Feelings had been stirring in her for quite some time, and now she was contemplating whether to take the next step in revealing them to the one she had become smitten with. That person was her teacher. Come now Lysithea, you’ve got this, the beautiful, silver-haired woman thought to herself. It’ll ha...

 Artwork - Yuzuyu010     This story was in collaboration with Cretax “So, I assume you are here for the interview for bodyguard of Ms. Yao?” A well dressed man in a suit addressed the rather shabbily dressed individual who had entered the stale white board room. The suited man looked exhausted, burned out from a day of conducting far too many interviews. His latest applicant simply nodded to his question, yet he was not convinced. “Are you sure you have any experience in the field? Ms. Yao is quite the handful and is a valuable asset to the company as one of the most popular performers in the city. We can't just hire anyone you see.” The one benign interviewed, Chet, began to rattle his own nerves trying to think of something to say. The only reason he had taken a chance on this job was for a chance to meet Astra Yao, the famous musician of New Eridu City. For a city so constantly at threat from apocalyptic outside forces as well as ones from within, stars like her who in...

  Artwork - Ema (Emaura) This story is a sequel to A Dominating Cosplay Caspian Inc. the ever present symbol of oppression that loomed over the lives of all in Silicon Shores. In the high tech future, all who did not bend to the whims of the tech barons were left to fester within the dredges of this mega city. Even still, working for such corrupt forces hardly guaranteed one a better life. For most, it was either living in squalor or eking by. Rachael, was one of those eking by, living paycheck to paycheck, hating that she worked for the very corporation which oppressed her. But what else was she to do? It wasn’t like she had the power to change anything, not even a profession she could feel proud of. The depressed woman certainly dreamed of greener pastures, thinking she could find solace perhaps in creative or performative fields of work. Seeing the many eye-catching neon signs and billboards advertising performers made her long for such a liberating lifestyle. She wasn’t naive t...