Heart of Fire Season One Episode One

By TheCrimsonDM

Three girls fresh out of their magical school are all looking for their place in the world while dealing with the loss of one of their closest friends. Meanwhile an ancient evil is waking up. Can these young heroes deal with the new threat, or will they be devoured by their grief?

A fusion of both western and eastern story telling tropes and structures drawn from both cartoons and video games, this series draws it's inspirations from shows such as Adventure Time, Dragon Ball Z, Steven Universe, and Naruto. Packed with moments of thrilling action, wondrous fantasy, and a healthy dose of comedy, Heart of Fire is sure to keep the reader excited at every twist and turn. Filled with LGBT friendly protagonists and characters, its not just an adventure, but one of the lucky few in the fantasy adventure genera with these focuses in mind.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: TheCrimsonDM
• Release date: Sep 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463608746

TheCrimsonDM

A creator filled with passion and insanity, their love of music, fantasy, anime, sci-fi, and video games has inspired them to create stories filled with wonder and weirdness. If there was one thing TheCrimsonDM wanted more than anything else it would be to spread the joy of creation across the world and to inspire others the same way they were inspired themselves. Also loves puppies and bunnies and long walks on the beach.

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Guardian Hearts

Heart of Fire Episode One

Written by TheCrimsonDM

Heart of Fire

By TheCrimsonDM

Copyright 2018 Coriantumr Pace

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Panic in the Library

Chapter Two: Map and Monster

Chapter Three: Workshop Sleepover

Chapter Four: Crazy Nights

Chapter Five: Hi-Ho-Morning

Chapter Six: Statuesque Nightmare

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Chapter One: Picnic in the Library

If there was one thing about growing up that Rita hated it was the fact that she went from doing monotonous research on random crap in school, to doing monotonous random research for work. Living in Castle Night Thorn might have been a good plus, though she knew she couldn't stay here being Lamont's assistant forever. For now doing research for him and helping out with his missions gave her a place to live, free food, and money to spend on building whatever crazy invention she wanted.

Rita sat cross legged on an old wooden chair in the dim light of a library. In her hands was an open copy of ‘Dark Myths of Silver Glow’. It was not a particularity well written book about several myths which could prove useful to her current research. The wall of books surrounding her table all included similar kinds of books on old folk lore, reports of strange magic, and dark fairy tales taken straight from the Evergreen and Everfrost themselves.

The shoddy lighting in the lamp above her flickered every now and again, and it’s white light cast the books into strange shadows that seemed less trustworthy now than before she'd begun reading. The creaking of the old wood and the sound of shutters flapping about outside of the windows created the kind of atmosphere which made reading these dark stories just that much more difficult. Rita wouldn’t admit it to anyone else, but she was feeling the teeniest, tiniest bit absolutely terrified of being alone in here.

Every page she turned only seem to have darker tales awaiting her. The dark gifts granted by the Wish Coins. The evil genocides committed by Silver's Ghost legion. Finally she thought she might have been onto something with the demonic shadows that stole children in the middle of the night taking them to lands where they could never return.

It wasn't until she chanced upon a passage detailing the Lady of Nightmares and Rita’s heart skipped a beat. She’d been at this search for nearly four hours looking for something along these lines. The image of a shadowy lady with more than perfect curves stood as an artist’s depiction of what this creature could look like.

"The Lady of Nightmares, a creature from our darkest dreams and mistress to the forces of balefire themselves has only left scarce rumors about her. Many people scattered about the kingdom of Silver Glow have mentioned having nightmares of this beautiful creature, and thinking they were in for a treat following her into the darkness of any forest, cave, or ruin that would appear alongside her. Of course these dreams all turn to horror as the Lady would reach out and instead of the pleasing touch most expected, they’d feel dreadful chills running down their body, so cold are her fingers that it's like having ice icicles digging through flesh and scraping against bone. All of these dreams end with the dreamer being engulfed by green flames. In each case reported thus far, these individuals would awake with a terrible fever and chills still running down their spine. A terrible cold generally follows suit afterwards leaving the only conclusion to being that this creature of shadow, the Lady of Nightmares, had caused their illness."

Out of the corner of Rita’s eye she spotted something move in the shadows. With almost instinctual response she drew her revolver and took aim at the shadows. There was a quiet and familiar squeak. Rita growled as she lowered the gun and put it back into the holster at her hip.

Rita went back to her book as she said, Damn it, Lulu, you know you can’t sneak up on me like that.

There was silence for a moment before a young woman, standing at only four foot ten inches, about the same miserable height that Rita founder herself at, came out of the shadows. This was Lucille Wonder Cross, one of Rita’s closest friends and a proud member of the starling race of humans, indicated by the lavender colored star on Wonder’s forehead. Wonder had a fairly unique brand of starling hair comprised of not one of the usual prismatic colors but two colors, sky-blue and silver stripes lined her curly hair. At one point Rita had actually been jealous as she herself had very mundane terran brown hair from her father, and her father wasn't even a terran.

Wonder walked up to the table, her eyes narrowed onto the stack of books. "It’s not my fault that you