DDS Arrivals - HeatAgniHeat/Agni~~~Hurt~~~Heat awoke between the burn of the white cement sidewalk and the broil of a coal black sun. His head was pounding and the constant demon hunger was overwhelmed by thirst. He scraped his nails across the rough surface and shoved himself up to his knees. “What the Hell...”The place around him was extremely clean and glaring white, a dramatic departure from the dreary gray chill of the Junkyard. He’d figured Nirvana was probably warm and dry, but not excessively so. He squinted and waited for his eyes to adjust but they never fully did.As far as he could tell he was in a shopping mall of some s
DDS Arrivals - FredFred~~~~Something Strange~~~~There were a couple really big reasons why Fred did not trust adults.First off, most the adults he ran into now a days were trying to eat him.Second, the ones who didn't have him on a menu were all cowards orlosers. They would run screaming from the Karma society like babies,leaving kids to fall in the way and get snatched up instead. Thereweren't people like his father anymore. Fred's dad had been theleader of the Lokapala and one of the bravest men in the entire world. He'd died two years ago defending his men against an ambush and leftFred in the hands of the new leader, Roland.Ro
DDS Arrivals - RolandRoland~~~Wounded Soldiers~~~It was just amazing how he could throw back the bourbon.Seriously, sometimes he even impressed himself. Just taking it straight one shot after another. His tolerance had built up over the last two years, he used to get that blissful abandonment feeling after only one. He was a lightweight once, anything harder than beer would flush his cheeks and make him glad he didn’t drive.But it’s true what they say about practice. No it doesn’t make you perfect, it conditions. His body was used to the liver abuse by now, it’d gotten to the point where he could finish off a fifth of whiskey
DDS Arrivals - GaleVayuGale//Vayu~~~Path of the Dead~~~The white light faded to black and when he awoke. His hand was empty.Gale surfaced from the rubble of a broken storefront in a sun-baked city he did not recognize. It was the exact opposite of his accustomed environment and while he admitted the Junkyard never really felt like ‘home’, this place was the definition of foreign.Yet... At the same time...He balled his empty hand into a fist and shoved his way out of the splintered wood and drywall, beating dust from his clothes. He took in his surroundings, trying to surmise what he could. Before being an abandoned wreck, this building w
DDS Arrivals - ArgillaPrithiviArgilla/Prithivi~~~Drive~~~Argilla was weak and sore. She stumbled through the filthy streets ofa dark city completely lost. Nothing looked or felt familiar, and shefelt it was beyond her ability to understand why.She'd come from a self-contained world; a place she knew intrinsicallynot matter where she was. She couldn't explain it, and she didn'teven notice it when she was there, but her life in the Junkyard hadbeen subconsciously and intuitively familiar. No matter where she'dgone within those borders she'd retained a sense of peace that nomatter what happened, at the very
DDS Arrivals - CieloDyausCielo/Dyaus~~~Roof on the City~~~“Aw, my head!”Cielo sat up in an overflowing dumpster, tattered paper and trash sticking in his elaborately braided blue hair. He ruffled the dreads to dislodge the refuse and scrambled his way to the edge of the container where he flipped over the lip and flopped backward into another pile of garbage in the middle of a dark dirty street. Cielo groaned and put his head in his hands. “Dis is nasty! Where am I?”The place was dark and closed, the sky shrouded by the walls of the surrounding buildings. The whole place smelled stale like rot and excrement. He wrinkled his nose
DDS Arrivals - AngelHariharaAngel/Harihara~~~Crash~~~“Code green! We’re green across the board! She’s crashing! Director! Director!?!”/’Green.’/“She’s not responding!” the Medico said, checking monitors. From the room below, the EGG let out a terrible howl./’David.’/Muffled voices could be heard through a hazy fog. Jenna Angel, the Chief Technical Director, was flitting between consciousnesses. Part of her was in this room with the frenzied talk, but part of her was suspended in white, floating through digital space with no mooring. She could feel a tingling sensation throughout both mind an
DDS Arrivals - SerphVarnaSerph//Varna~~~Not Nirvana~~~Serph awoke dazed.He was laying face down in a pile of hot dust, the intense heat of thenaked sun beating down on his back. Everything around him was bakedbrown like dried mud and caked in the same heavy dust that now filledhis nose and eyes. Serph shook it out of his silver hair as he roseto his knees.This was not Nirvana, he was certain. He knew what Nirvana looked like.He'd never told anyone the vision he had of Nirvana. All the KarmaTemple had shared with them was the promise of 'paradise' in all itsambiguity, but from the start he'd had an image of what this magicallocation was
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