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The Forgotten City

Nine: The forgotten Flame

Her voice floats in the dark—slow, distant, cracked at the edges. A memory unraveling itself in ruin. "Oh… and I just died again." A beat. "Didn’t even get the chance to scream this time. Just burned. Like always." "But it doesn’t matter. None of this is real. Not really. It’s just… something stuck on repeat. A scene that loops like it’s written in the marrow of my bones." She inhales. Smokes chokes even the thought. "I think I’ve been trapped here for so long, I started dreaming with my eyes open." "Don’t get confused. I wasn’t always like this. I was a god. A ruler. Born of stars and saltwater. Atlantis was mine to inherit. My name—my legacy—was etched into the stone of the sea before I ever took my first breath." "And then…" her voice tightens "Mortals." "They didn’t worship. They hunted. They slaughtered the gods—burned our temples, tore our wings, shattered our hearts." "And me? They didn’t kill me. They needed me alive. Needed me to scream." "You ever wondered what it feels like—melted gold poured on your skin? Not once. Not twice. A thousand times. They’d stop. Let me heal. Then start again. That’s how I lost my gift. That’s how I lost my healing. That’s how I lost time." "I was just a child when the first war came. Barely 200 years old—barely chosen. By 500, I was ready for the throne. Strong. Steady. Loved." "Then the massacre." "Atlantis died." "And I disappeared into shadow." "Ten thousand years they kept me. Caged. Bound. Tortured. Not enough to die. Just enough to wish I could." "And then I saw my chance. I ran. I fought. I clawed my way out—" "But they found me. Again." "They reversed my age—ripped me backward through time like I was nothing but a thread. Left me a child. A hundred years old again. Powerless." "Then came the final curse: They locked me inside an illusion." "My illusion." "The one I created as a child—the night my village burned. The night I screamed and no one came." "Now I live that night again." "And again." "And again." "I die. I wake. I die. I wake." "Every ending is a beginning wrapped in fire." "And I’m tired." "Tired of bleeding for gods who are gone. Tired of breaking for humans who only know how to destroy." A long pause. "They used me." "Wore me out like a story passed through too many mouths." Then her voice drops—low, steel in it now. A whisper with weight. "But I swear… the next time I rise…" "It won’t be to save them." "It’ll be to end them." "They wanted a hero out of me." "I’ll give them something else." "A god... with nothing left to lose." READER ADVISORY: Everything in this world is handcrafted — from currency to the most basic details. My characters are morally gray, and each one is forged through relentless trials, not born into greatness. If you're hypersensitive, this story isn't for you. This book is brutal, raw, and unapologetically different. But if you’re craving something bold, dark, and unlike anything you’ve read before — step in. Thanks for reading.
FA3zy · 8.1K Views

City Of Angels

Angela Hernandez is a spoiled sixteen year old rich girl who causes chaos everywhere she goes. But this time she’s really done it because now because after a pranked gone wrong that end up killing a student, she has been expelled from the school and now her angry parents are sending her to a Catholic boarding school so they can fix her. On their way to the school they argue in the car and get involved in a huge accident that kills them all, well all except Angela because she has come back to life, but not as a human but as an angel. Angela now lives with her funky Grandmother in a mansion in L.A and doesn’t take her to boarding school but instead to attend a school in L.A, it’s an opportunity for her to have a fresh start. But then she notices some changes in her, she has special abilities that can make her teleport and go through walls, she has even become more flexible than she was and stronger. She puts her powers to the test going around L.A. but then she spots something strange a dark cloud following a woman. When she follows the cloud and the woman she sees a demon doing something bad to her, she tries to stop the demon. But she’s not skilled at fighting demons. That’s until a group of teenagers come out of the shadows to fight off the demons in a skillful effortless way. Wendy, James and Chris tell Angela that they’re nephilims. Half angel, half human hybrids who protect humans from demons. And they tell Angela that a halo has entered her body and she’s now an angel and that the reason why there’s a halo inside her is because someone stole halos from heaven and is putting it in humans to build an army against God. The nephilims show Angela their headquarters and they teach her how to use her abilities. She’s introduced into the supernatural world and she tries to navigate herself as an angel while trying to become a new person as a teenage girl who is still in high school.
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