Wicked_Fiction

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #100

The door creaked open with a familiar ting of the bell, soft jazz humming low from the jukebox in the corner. Shakky’s Rip-Off Bar looked the same as always—dim lighting, walls stained with years of cigarette smoke and pirate stories,...

Lastlight's Revenant #9

The air crackled with residual magic, the scent of sulfur and scorched ozone thick in the banquet hall. Garran’s sword still glowed with the sorceress’s golden light, its edge humming as if alive.

Across from them, the Hollow King stood ...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #99

It was well past midnight, and the bar was quiet in that comfortable way only truly old buildings could manage—like it had exhaled after a long day and finally let its bones creak.

The only sound was the occasional rustle of paper and the ...

Lastlight's Revenant #8

The banquet hall had descended into chaos. Nobles scrambled over overturned tables, their screams blending into a single, mindless cacophony of terror. Servants bolted for the doors, only to find them sealed by some unseen force. The air reeked of...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #98

Gale walked alone through the shadow-cloaked remains of what was once a commercial hub, but now looked more like a post-apocalyptic playground for organized crime. He’d already dropped off Peterman halfway back—literally dropped him off.

Lastlight's Revenant #7

The banquet hall was a symphony of clinking crystal and hollow laughter, a grotesque pantomime of normalcy while the Maw gnawed at the edges of the world. Garran stood in the shadow of a marble pillar, his back to the wall, fingers curled around t...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #97

The atmosphere in the ruined building shifted instantly—like someone had knocked over a beehive and left the door open. Dust particles hovered in the stale air like tiny spectators, caught between fleeing or grabbing popcorn.

The gang lead...

Lastlight's Revenant #6

Garran's gaze tracked between the woman's tapered ears and the glowing runes snaking across her exposed collarbone. His hand hovered near his sword. "An elf sorceress. In the Duke's library." The words came out flat, sharp as a whetstone...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #96

The alley was quiet now, save for the soft groans and twitches of the would-be kidnappers scattered around Gale’s boots like trash after a festival.

They were in varying states of unconsciousness—one had his face buried...

Lastlight's Revenant #5

The walls of Vaeldrith rose like the bones of some ancient beast, their weathered stone etched with centuries of wind and war.

Yet where time had gnawed at other cities, leaving them crumbling and weary, Vaeldrith stood defiant—its ...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #95

The Sabaody Archipelago looked like something out of a fever dream—if that fever dream was sponsored by a coral reef and a tourist board with no safety regulations.

It wasn’t made of traditional islands, but rather giant, sky-scraping m...

Lastlight's Revenant #4

Garran sat in the dirt, his hands limp at his sides, watching the pillar of sickly light claw at the sky.

It was a mockery. A desecration.

Lastlight had been named for two truths:

Figuratively, it was the final torch he...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #94

The ship graveyard behind Marineford was quiet—eerily so.

It was a place most marines avoided. Maybe it was the towering carcasses of shattered warships, rusting anchors the size of houses, or the broken figureheads jutting from the soil l...

Lastlight's Revenant #3

The forest clung to life in patches.

Here, a stand of oaks stood vibrant, their leaves rustling in the twilight breeze. There, a dozen yards closer to the Maw’s influence, the trees twisted into skeletal hands, bark sloughing off like dead...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #93

The air in Fleet Admiral Sengoku’s office was so thick with silence you could spread it on toast.

Heavy sunlight poured in through the high windows behind the desk, casting long golden beams across the floor, but none of it seemed to reach...

Lastlight's Revenant #2

Garran’s blade arced in a silver flash, deflecting the projectile midair. The impact sent a jolt up his arm—too strong for something so thin—but he was already moving.

Three seconds.

That’s how long the Duskhound’s hollow arm...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #92

The salty breeze off the Vashiri coast tousled Gale’s already-messy hair as he stood on the pier, watching the marines scramble like half-motivated ants.

Crates clattered, ropes were tied and re-tied for the third time, and the battleship ...

Lastlight's Revenant #1

Moon-pale candles crowned the inner sanctum, their flames shivering in the hush. Garran Dornblade stood at the center of the circular dais, linen tunic clinging to muscle and sweat.

The six acolytes—faces hidden beneath ivory hoods—appro...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #91

The grass was warm. Not “scorched earth” warm like midday summer in the open, but “perfect nap fuel” warm—the kind that made you melt into the earth like butter on toast.

Gale lay on his back beneath the shade of a wide tree at the...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #90

Gale’s first conscious thought was: Wow, heaven has really nice thread count.

He lay blinking at an ornate velvet canopy, mind still rebooting. Everything felt… off. For starters, his pillow was suspiciously fluffier than t...

Original Draft

Those of you who've followed me for a while know I've threatened to write an original story approximately ten thousand times. Well—today’s the day I actually do it.

Consider this snippet a dark fantasy appetizer: raw, unrefined,...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #89

The six Blight clones circled him like wolves with too much theatrical flair. Mist coiled and hissed beneath their boots, and their glowing green eyes watched Gale with the same smugness you'd expect from a professor who just handed out a surprise...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #88

The fight raged on like a fever dream wrapped in cotton.

Gale weaved between twisting tendrils and heavy fog swipes, the edge of his rapier gleaming under the swirling gray like a stubborn candle trying not to go out in a storm. He dashed in...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #87

It was like a dam had burst.

Not just a crack. Not just a leak.

A total collapse—the kind that sweeps villages away and leaves only stunned silence in its wake. That was what it felt like when Gale finally stopped thinking a...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #86

Steel clanged through the fog like a dinner bell for lunatics.

Gale spun, blade in hand, knocking away a curved saber that came out of nowhere—only for a second attacker to sweep in from behind and nearly clip his shoulder. He pivoted, twi...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #85

The air was cold. Damp. Tense.

Gale stood atop the capital’s outer wall, one hand resting lazily on the hilt of his sheathed sword, the other stuffed into the pocket of his coat, thumb absently rubbing the lip of a small hip flask he hadn�...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #84

Gale let out a slow breath, his rapier angled lazily toward the ground, its tip still slick with the tension of the last exchange. His stance was loose, casual even—but his eyes didn’t blink, and his shoulders didn’t twitch. He was dialed in...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #83

The palace garden was stunning, really. Gleaming white stone paths wound through hedges carved into swans, flowers bloomed in deliberate patterns that spelled out royal mottos, and ornate lanterns floated on koi ponds like someone had spilled star...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #82

The salt air of the capital’s harbor carried the familiar stench of gunpowder, scorched wood, and damp cannonballs. Gale stood at the edge of the docks with his arms crossed and a neutral expression that, if you squinted hard enough, could almos...

One Piece: As Heavy as a Gale #81

Gale stood in the captain’s quarters, arms folded and jaw tense as he stared down at the battered map of the Vashiri Archipelago spread across the table. The edges were curled, ink smudged in places from sea spray, blood, or maybe one of Poqin�...