~Snowcrystal of Thunderclan~
I can tell you the title now, it's gonna be released late (I got a surgery done of my shoulder and inhibits my ability to type -_-) but it's titled Halted Destiny, the wild novella anyway and I have a teaser released out on the internet with it. Here's the summary and stuff
Book Title: Halted Destiny
Written By: Caylee Mitsuko
Summary: Kiro is a seventeen-year-old boy with mutated genetics that make him part animal, called a Wild. His life seems to be going perfectly until today of all days. His best friend Yuri has chosen him as her destined partner, but his father is completely against it. Now Kiro has to choose. Reject Yuri and let her eventually die, or face his father to struggle to over power an Alpha command and keep Yuri at his side.
Characters: Kiro James Smith, Yuri Mitsuru Hamilton, Fuuka Yulana Smith, Richard Hamilton, Alexander Smith, Nikita Mala Johnson, and Hiosu Kito Smith.
It's a long process and includes illustrations of my own design in an anime style and is currently 19,426 words while I edit it for the twelfth time I think :P I actually need questions for my Q & A with it XD
I do want to write a werewolf book at some point, and I'm tempted to be one of those writers who publishes a big book of short stories and novellas all crammed together, kinda like WHSS :P
(Chapter 139) Totally! XD I'll be happy to have another person able to say that! :D
(Chapter 140) Maaaybe I will :P
(Chapter 142) She did, Bree loves him a lot, even if in that world he gets under her skin and makes her want to throw a tantrum and cry :P
(Chapter 144) Wow, I totally just realized that I have that pattern, having Hollyleaves while Cynthia's practically dying XD I has a plan for a new Hollyleaves one… And we get to see Holly's temper!
~HHQFandoms~
You're not two years late, for the chapter yeah, but not for the story! :D LeafxCrow is amazing! Even though I find them super hard to write (TT)
~Dutchess Frost~ *Squee!*
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed Bree's character, she's a funky character to write that's for sure XD But everyone seems to love her (for the most part) and I enjoy her name too, even if I sometimes accidentally call her Briley instead XD
Yeah, the spinal injury is something I look back on and cringe at XD I wrote that such a long time ago that it's horrific XD
Thank you for the compliment Dutchess Frost! It means a lot coming from the author of one of the most popular warrior fanfics out there! :D
~briarfeather4fun~
Of course! I have a bunch of one shots of WHSS #2 out actually, and Vividly Beautiful is a wilds collection currently coming out soon (I just want to upload a happy chapter with the heart wrenching one I have written XD) and I'm planning on continuing my rewrite of the Power of Three and Omen of Stars! :D
(Chapter 142) I'm not sure where that one came from, but I'm thrilled you liked it!
~sparks4romthesky~
Probably never XD I enjoy Cynthia's character A lot, soooo XD I'm very ADHD, IRL, so Cynthia's impulsive behavior is easy for me to write and connect with :P
Okay, so I couldn't resist XD I had to write something for WHSS again after a while, even if I'm in a sling and look like a T-rex with my stubby arms due to the sling XD
Ninja Warrior
The first time he met her, Leon met her when he was a kid in the Ninja Warrior competition when he was nine years old.
"Today we have Cynthia Lawson of Vandala facing off against Leonardo Bramble with a football star of his own."
"I'm Leonardo Bramble," The blonde boy grinned at the camera, "and I'm the quarterback for my elementary school's football team!" The video showed a picture of the small boy leaping high over another, much taller, child with a football held under his arm.
"My ninja mentor is my dad, Brad Bramble, the football ninja." The clip switched to one of his father's clips back when he was a ninja warrior, "and he's been training me for five years."
"One of my favorite things of training to be a ninja warrior is the multitude of obstacles that I'm always learning to power through, and it gets you in shape," Leon explained as the video showed the muscular nine-year-old going through some of his training obstacles.
The clip switched to where the nine-year-old boy was shirtless and hanging off a pole anchored to his doorway and he grinned at the camera, "so you can have this," he pointed down to his abs, and his father snorted from where he was the camera man. Before Leon took one of his arms from the pole and flexed with a lopsided grin, "and this!"
He was facing off against this shorter much less fit looking lightly tanned skin girl with bright blue eyes and black hair in a ponytail, and he was a little confused, she looked like she wouldn't make it past the first obstacle, so why was he facing off against her?
The small girl smiled at her competitor and offered him a fist bump, blue eyes rather nervous. "Good luck,"
Leon grinned and gave the girl a fist bump, reluctant to touch the girl and possibly get her cooties. "You too, you can do it too."
The girl grinned back and they both hunkered down into their starting positions.
"I'm Cynthia Lawson," the black haired girl smiled brightly at the camera, "I'm the center field soccer player at my school and a gymnast with first place in the state competition." The video showed a few clips of the small and rather lanky girl twisting through the air in a triple back flip and kicking a soccer ball with a focused expression on her face.
"My ninja mentor is Atol Hirst, the Hawklike Ninja."
"One of my favorite things in ninja is proving I'm not as weak as I look, my mom says I'm lanky? I don't understand what the word means, but I'm not taken seriously in athletics. Giving me an edge." The clip showed thin girl racing through a monkey bar course without hesitating once before she pulled herself up with a spin at the end and ended up on the top before jumping down, hitting the ground running.
"Cynthia's known for her speed and jump distance, while Leon's known for his grip strength and upper body strength. So today it'll be a test of speed against strength."
The starting buzzer sounded and Leon got a shock, the girl shot forward like lightning, moving fast and light on her feet as she easily bounced along the first obstacle, her feet barely touching the ground before her next step.
Leon gritted his teeth and leaped, completely ignoring the ropes in the the Sonic Swing and nearly falling as he tried to keep up with the lightning fast girl he was competing against. Even with the skipping of the ropes, when he looked back after clearing the tick tock, the girl was right on his heels, swinging on the tick tock.
"Oh! And she's still in the course! Her mere hieght saving her from skimming the water! Giving Leon an obstacle lead."
Leon shot forward, racing through the I-beam, his arms straining with each movement as he raced through it without hesitating for even a second. Yet when his feet hit the mat after the Spin Cycle, the obstacle before the wall, he heard her feet land hardly half a second later. He didn't dare look back as he raced forward toward the wall, and yet to his utter shock and surprise a bit of black hair nearly whipped him in the face as the girl raced ahead of him and up the wall, clearing the whole thing, all thirteen feet without grabbing onto either of the ledge holds. No you don't! Leon ran faster, catching up to her and heaving himself up without much problem and striking the button barely a quarter of a second faster than the girl.
"Good job!" The girl smiled at him, and offered him a handshake, breathing hard, "that was awesome!"
There was just something about his first companion for the semi finals in his ninja warrior career that he couldn't forget, it was something that he always strived to beat, and never have a race as close as that one. He hadn't actually had a race that close since, even after he had become an actual ninja warrior, he hadn't forgotten facing off against her that fateful day. However, he hadn't expected to see her sixteen years later. And she had changed. He would never forget her name, as the first person to nearly beat him in his ninja warrior career, and she was breathtaking.
"Can Cynthia beat it and become one of the few women to beat the obstacle?!"
Leon's eyes widened, and he stared at the woman standing there, looking at the fifteen foot wall in front of her on the tv screen his sister had dragged him over to see.
The woman was wearing a light blue tank-top with her name, 'Lightning Lawson,' written on it in white letters across her front, and black shorts that fit close to her body to avoid any extra resistant, black shoes on her feet, had freckles spread over her skin, blue eyes he had seen as a child that were currently glowing with a determined fire to run up the fifteen foot wall to get to the second half of the course rarely attempted and even rarer completed.
"Leon, so you remember going against her?" Holly breathed, watching as the woman took a few deep breaths and readied herself to start running up the wall, "this is that girl who you've been wanted to face off against again. You're already a national warrior Leon, but… this is her."
"She became a warrior too?" Leon breathed, watching as the woman started to run, racing at her height of five-ten to make it all the way up the fifteen-foot wall. He held his breath and watched in shock as instead of simply running up it, the gymnast twisted mid air and caught the ledge backwards, swinging her legs up and rolling backward onto the ledge and slamming her hands down on the buzzer as she finished the second stage and took a break for a second, leaning forward on her knees and taking a few smiling breaths. "I've got to find her again." He said, watching her as she jumped up onto the Salmon Ladder and quickly jumped up two of the craddles, arms shaking.
"Today Cynthia's competing for her little brother, as always the rookie's fighting to finish for her little brother."
The video on the tv switched briefly as she finished the Shelf Grab and breathed for a few moments to Cynthia sitting in front of the camera with silver earrings in her ears and a bright smile on her face. "Miles is my little brother," it switched to a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in a wheelchair with a bright smile on his face, "who's paralyzed because of a car accident that paralyzed him and messed up my leg for six years, and he's the reason I do ninja warrior. Ever since he was a little kid he always tried to mimic my abilities in the ninja warrior juniors and my gymnastics, and he's the reason I came back after ten years of training and made it to the semi finals last year. On top of my little brother is that when I was a kid I faced off against the champion Flex Bramble, and narrowly lost," Cynthia smiled widely, "so I'm also competing to show myself and others that if he could do it then so can I."
The video ended and it switched back to Cynthia who leaped up and grasped the pole preceding the Rolling Thunder, working hard. "It's rare to women to even reach this obstacle! Proving that this rookie is determined to beat it! With the completion of the second Salmon Ladder and second Shelf Grab will she make it to Vegas for the finals?!"
"Next up is the Step Grab," Leon pointed out softly and looked at the woman with a smile, "it's a tricky one."
After nearly a month he had finally tracker her down, tracked her down to a ninja gym in Vandala where he found the beautiful woman practicing against the thing she had failed at, the brand new Step Grab.
"Hey," Leon said to the person running the gym, "do you mind if I step inside for a few moments even without a membership? I gotta talk to her," he pointed to Cynthia with a polite smile, "for a few minutes."
The man looked a little wary, "alright, but be careful, she may have earbuds in."
Leon nodded and entered the main area of the gym, walking toward Cynthia, his amber eyes wandering over the woman's near perfect form as she went along the Step Grab, jaw clenched, the muscles in her back, shoulders, and arms all clenched as she worked on the thing she had failed at. She was even more beautiful up close, and her form was perfect, clearly she was skilled, proven by how she slipped, grabbed the steps on both sides of her and caught the pole between her feet with a hiss of annoyance.
"Hey! Quit looking at my sister!" A protective voice snapped at Leon and Leon looked over at the source of the voice to smile at the sight of the boy he knew to be her brother and other people who he didn't know.
"Hush Miles, that's Leon Bramble, he's an even better champion than your sister," the older woman hushed the teen, "she's capable of handling herself."
Leon smiled at them and dipped his head before he jumped up and seized the end of the particular step on step grab that Cynthia was going toward who had somehow got ahold of the pole and put it in the right position before he looked back. A moment later he grinned at how she was suddenly looking at him with wide eyes once she realized who he was, "sup."
Cynthia blinked a few times, "erm, hi?" She said tentatively, easily holding herself up on the Step Grab without so much as shaking. "H-How come you're h-here?"
Leon smiled, so she was a little shy, he loved it. "To see you," he responded and watched as a soft pink blush spread over her cheeks, "I saw your performance on tv and wanted to finally track my old competitor down and say she's done a great job."
"Th-thanks," Cynthia said and avoided his eyes in a shy fashion, her face and ears going a darker pink at the compliment. "You're p-pretty g-good too."
"Yeah, but I've been competing every year since I was nine," Leon pointed out, "You took a break after that car crash fifteen-years-ago and just competed in gymnastics right? You came back two years ago and you're already at my skill level. You just need some pointers and a trainer specific for ninja warrior stuff."
Cynthia tilted her head slightly, despite how pink her face was at the compliments, "like who?"
"Me," Leon responded with a lopsided grin and noticed how her breath hitched for a few moments when he did so, "I'd gladly give you specific training for ninja warrior stuff and see for myself how much my competitor's improved."
Cynthia looked taken aback and blushed before she smirked, "oh yeah? Well how about I teach you in return how to get some of those ones that need more than just muscle? You're not very flexible and it affects your skill in being a Ninja Warrior." As if to demonstrate her point Leon felt her ankles wrap around his before she slipped the pole from the step and swung backward, beneath him. A moment later he heard the pole being reconnected with the Step Grab and twisted his head to see her continuing down the Step Grab like nothing had happened, black ponytail swishing across her open shoulder blades and shoulders from her tank-top.
Leon grinned, switching sides and looking at her, she's brilliantly beautiful. No doubt about that. "Okay deal, except you have to come with me to a movie date first."
Cynthia's concentration broke and she faltered, the pole slipping from her hands before she fell the nine feet beneath her, sprawled on her back. Only to have the pole land square on her ribs and knock the wind out of her.
"Come on, it's just a harmless date," Leon grinned as he dropped down and leaned over her slightly, offering a hand to her. "I promise I'm the perfect gentleman, and it's just a movie, your choice."
Cynthia's face from her ears down to her neck, was flushed an embarrassed red, rather shocked and in surprise at her fortune and misfortune at the same time. So she licked her lips nervously, took his offered hand, and the twenty-five-year-old got to her feet. "Okay," she said quietly in a rather nervous tone, "but you pick the movie, I don't really know what a guy like you'd like to watch."
Leon grinned at her, taking her breath away, "Me? I've always been that action and thriller type of person."
TEASER FOR HALTED DESTINY (My wilds Novella I'm publishing) IS RELEASED AND CAN BE FOUND ON MY DEVIANTART TIGERCRYROCKS!