Brath jumped on Furi. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” he shouted. “All right, guys, you know what time it is!” He anchored himself and pulled up, causing the dragon to climb to his feet and start flapping his wings.
Alex ran over to Brath, waving her hands to get his attention. “No, Brath, hold on. We need to see what is going on!”
Either Brath didn’t hear Alex, or he chose to pretend he didn’t. He took off. Roy came up behind Alex, clicking his tongue. “Looks like your squad doesn’t care for orders either,” he jabbed.
Furi and Brath raced toward the swarm of dark creatures. Something flew in front of him faster than he could see. There was only a blur, and when Brath looked down at his chest, he was bleeding.
Alex focused on Brath and saw him falling from Furi’s back. “Brath!” she shouted as she ran toward Chine.
Up above, more creatures poured out of the meteor. There were too many to name, even if Alex had known their names. The sky grew dark as the creatures swarmed, blocking out the sun. The mech and dragonriders stared up at the meteor as the sky went black.
The true danger of the meteor was yet to be known.
To be continued
The Dark One’s deadly meteor is about to land on Middang3ard. But Alex has a plan that just might save everyone. Everyone but her… Find out what it is in Sacrifices!
Author Notes Ramy Vance
February 13, 2020
As many of you know, I also write in a universe called the GoneGod World. For the uninitiated, here’s the premise:
The gods are gone. All of them. And with their departure, they closed their heavens and hells, exiling their denizens onto Earth. Now mythical creatures of all kinds live among us.
Basically, in the GoneGod World, it is conceivable that Medusa is your neighbor (and depending on where you live, she is!).
Recently I’ve been writing articles for a fictional magazine in the GoneGod World that, oddly, fit in Middang3ard. In an earlier release, I wrote about the 9 Reasons to Marry an Ogre and They Might Be a Gnome.
In this one I’m exploring Badass Jobs Mythical Creatures are Better at than Humans…
The job market is changing in the GoneGod World, and with an influx of a new and different kind of worker, I’d like to explore six badass jobs that mythical creatures would be better at than their human counterparts.
Now it’s easy for this article to digress to the low-hanging fruit ... lazy ideas like a centaur as a carriage driver (they can pull the carriage and engage in interesting banter) or a hecatoncheires as a fruit picker (after all, they’re giants with a hundred arms).
But such observations are cruel and do not remotely give these amazing creatures their due.
So here are six badass jobs that mythical creatures would be better at than humans:
1 - Deep Sea Explorers: Myraids - or sea-jinni - are the lions of the sea. Fast, strong and vicious, they hunt white sharks bare-handed, can traverse the English Channel in less than eight minutes and can swim to depths that human technology has yet to manage. And with over seventy percent of the world’s oceans yet to be chartered, why not use them to help us better understand our world? Who knows what we’ll find down there? Other Others? Aliens? Lost civilizations? Resources beyond our imagination? Whatever it is, we can’t afford NOT to do it.
Want to see a myraid in action? Azzah appears at the beginning of Keep Evolving (click here: ).
2 - Detective: Gorgon
The GoneGod World’s favorite gorgon is Medusa, and she’s a policewoman in the Keep Evolving Series (click here: ).
3 - Houris: Prosecutors
Seleema is the GoneGod World’s resident houri, and stars in a short story in the House of the GoneGod Damned (click here: ). She’ll also star in her own series coming out in 2020.
4 - Enoch’s Angels or the Twice Fallen: Archivists
Probably the most famous Twice Fallen is Penemue … the angel who taught humanity how to read and write. He stars alongside Jean in the Keep Evolving Series.
5 - Dark Elves: Ballet Dancers
I’m just going to say it … ballet dancers are badass. Their physical prowess rivals a marine, their endurance would put most marathon runners to shame and their muscle control is the envy of Kung-Fu masters. Think I’m exaggerating? Check out Russian Ballet to see the kind of training they go through. But despite all that, they’re still just humans and there are limits to what the homo sapien body can do. But a dark elf? Now that’s a different story. Dark elves have incredible dexterity, are able to contort their bodies into shapes that no one with a spine should be able to do, treadmills break before dark elves get tired and if a human ballet dancer is as strong as a bull, then a dark elf is as strong as a minotaur.
Author Notes Michael Anderle
March 5, 2020
THANK YOU for reading our story! We have a few of these planned, but we don’t know if we should continue writing and publishing without your input. Options include leaving a review, reaching out on Facebook to let us know, and smoke signals.
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I have NO idea where Ramy came up with the mythical creatures would be better than humans at <insert job here> concept.
So, just to play along with him, I’ll choose firefighter as the occupation. BUT we have a problem (or challenge.) I’m not going to use obviously magical constructs (Ifrit or demon). I’m going to use something…not human.
A Salamander.
But, no magic. I’m going to use the mythical quality of the fire salamander that exudes a liquid that provides fire retardant (protective) qualities to whatever it is applied to. Say, the clothes of the firefighters.
So technically, this choice doesn’t work better than a human
