Ficool

sliceoflife

Primordial of the Abyssal Flame

I've been sick ever since I can remember. My dad's a drunk prick, and he doesn't treat my mom very well. My girlfriend cheated on me with my best friend, because she figures I'm going to die soon anyways. They all do. Hell, they're probably right. I've been to countless doctors, and they can't figure out what is wrong with me aside from the fact that my body is slowly shutting down. I don't have any friends anymore. My dad doesn't allow me home anymore, and apparently, I'm not even their real son. That was a real kick in the teeth. Only my mom tries to talk to me still, but there's always hell to pay if my dad catches her. At this point, I've accepted my end, and I wish it would just hurry up. At least, that's what I told myself, until I came across a new fuzzy little friend that would change my entire life. My name is Elias Crosse, and my tale is about get crazy. Notes: This story features an OP MC, so power development and growth isn't really present for him, although there is some. A lot of the growth mainly comes from other characters, and features a focus on said characters. Elias is also not someone who puts up with other character's bullshit, and routinely puts them in their place. I am tired of the trope of characters hiding their powers, or letting other characters walk all over them and theirs because they are not strong enough to do anything. I don't exactly know how to describe my story in terms of a genre. It has action, it has slice of life, and it has romance. There is no fade to black, and I can be very descriptive. This is also a HAREM story. If you don't like that kind of thing, you will not upset me by not reading it. I'd prefer you didn't, honestly. I have been fixing, updating, and changing somethings for consistency, to improve the story, the grammar and errors, and for things to make more sense. Some things may change, as this is a work in progress. The more I write, the better I feel I am becoming. I just write, and I have the ideas of where I am going in my head, but other than that, I just write the story as I see fit. As such, I forget some things, I miss somethings, and most often, some ideas in my head get jumbled together and it ends up not making sense some times. I am working to correct that as best as I can.
D_G_Harbinger · 170.4k Views

Her Last Rain

Neo-Veridian is a city of impossible perfection—a "mathematical paradise" built on the ashes of a long-forgotten war. Here, the “Bio-Synth” AIs look just like us—think, feel, and even bleed like humans. They study in our schools, work beside us, and mimic our tears. Most have forgotten the war that shaped them, but Kael hasn’t. Haunted by the trauma of a horrific event from ten years ago—the taste of copper and salt still lingering in his mouth—Kael lives a life trapped between the living and the dead. He works two grueling shifts, hides in the shadows, and abides by one iron-clad rule: Never touch the machines. But then comes the rain. Lilith is broken, discarded, and bleeding “human” blood on the riverbank. She’s a “Free AI”—a malfunctioned relic of the system, discarded like trash. Kael should walk away, just like everyone else. His instincts scream to leave her to rot, and his memories of a family lost to the war demand he walk away. But instead, he carries her home. What follows is a suffocating “slow burn” through the neon-lit grime of the Sump. Between the sterile shifts at a luxury restaurant and the flickering lights of his 20x20 apartment, Kael is forced to confront a terrifying intimacy with the very thing he’s always feared. As Lilith heals, the walls between human and machine begin to crumble, and Kael must face a question he can no longer avoid: Can he love the very monster that embodies his greatest nightmare? Or is the hunger inside him finally ready to consume them both?
Eryxoo · 4.6k Views

House of Ainsworth

Diamond O’vera lived an ordinary life. Ordinary job. Ordinary routine. Ordinary death. She died quietly in her sleep. No pain. No warning. No meaning. Then she woke up. Not in heaven. But in the body of a blind child. — Reborn as Mordred Svyatopolovich Ainsworth. A fallen noble in 19th century Russia. A family destroyed by betrayal. A father drowning in pride. A household rotting in poverty beneath the streets of Saint Petersburg. No money. No power. No future. — Eight years later, at seventeen— The truth is clear. No one is coming to save them. — But Mordred is not helpless. Not normal. Not kind. — Armed with a sharp mind, a detached personality, and a terrifying ability to read people beyond sight, he begins to think. To plan. To rebuild. — From ruin to power. From slums to control. From nothing… to something far worse. — This is a dark, grounded story of survival, manipulation, and ambition in a world where weakness is punished and mercy is a luxury. — Will he save his family? Or use them as the foundation for something greater? — And when he rises— Will there be anything human left? ----------------------------------------- Author Note: This is a spin-off of my other story (I Became Beyonce’s Half Sister) and is apart of the I.C.T.M.H universe. WARNING WARNING ⚠️⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ Content Warning: Throughout this story, there are scenes involving strong language, physical and emotional abuse, sexual situations, violence, and other mature or disturbing themes. Please read with discretion.
BOOKBRINGER · 135k Views

Loomlines: The House of Threads

In the coastal town of Kannur, where monsoon winds rattle ancestral roofs and sacred Theyyam flames burn against the dark, the Raman family has woven cloth for generations. Their loom has outlived storms, political uprisings, and shifting governments. It has survived hunger. It has survived pride. But it may not survive change. As the 1990s usher in liberalization, Gulf migration, and the slow collapse of the handloom economy, the threads that once held the Raman household together begin to strain. Raman, a traditional weaver bound to land and ritual, believes inheritance is duty. Fathima, a schoolteacher who understands silence too well, knows survival requires flexibility. Sameer, restless and ambitious, leaves for the Gulf — trading sea breeze for desert heat and family for remittance. Devika, brilliant and defiant, dreams of a life beyond inherited expectation. Money begins to flow. Authority begins to shift. Faith begins to fracture. Political tensions simmer in Kannur’s streets. Ritual becomes spectacle. Migration becomes identity. The ancestral house, once unshakable, becomes contested ground. Across two decades of monsoon seasons, departures, funerals, betrayals, and reluctant reconciliations, The House of Threads traces how a family’s private fractures mirror a region in transformation. Because inheritance is not land. It is memory. It is silence. It is the tension that holds — until it doesn’t. In this sweeping first installment of the Loomlines saga, Vishnu Prasad crafts an intimate, unflinching portrait of a coastal family standing at the edge of modern India — where every choice pulls a thread, and every thread reshapes the pattern.
K_Vishnu_Prasad · 8.7k Views

Lord Of The Mysteries: The Witch's Fate

Above the Sefirah Castle, within the Divine Kingdom,. A divine war that determined the fate of the entire world quietly drew to a close. The last victor — a truly great existence worthy of the name — the "Fool," Klein, raised his head toward the dark teal gate of light that represented the Sefirah Castle itself, where transparent "cocoons" hung suspended one by one. Each cocoon contained a life forcibly frozen in time, just as his own once had been. After a brief moment of connection, Klein closed his fingers. All the cocoons shattered at once. Those wrapped inside dissolved into points of light and flew out of the Sefirah Castle, falling toward people who had just died in the real world, beginning their thoroughly transformed lives anew. But Klein, plagued by the awakening will of the Celestial Worthy, had no energy to notice the joke fate had played — some people's lives were better off not continuing… PS1: All worldbuilding and settings in this story originate from Lord of the Mysteries by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving. Readers interested in those settings are welcome to check out that completed work. Those who haven't read it need not worry — neither has the protagonist. I promise to explain everything clearly. PS2: Gender-bender element appears after the opening, not at the beginning. No solo content in later chapters. Read at your own discretion. Ps mc name is Xue Gang change it to Ryan later on in the story he will have a female name Title: Mysteries: The Witch's Fate Author: 当年月照彼时人 raw link;https://wenku.read.qq.com/detail/1056841936?source=m_jump Ten chapters a week until we catch up to the raw novel. Any chapters added during that week will be included in the following week’s batch.
KUMOsgusjj · 3.3k Views

The Amazing Pavitra Prabhakar - SpiderMan India

The sound of heavy monsoon rain beating against the corrugated tin roofs of Mumbai blends with the low, ominous hum of a city that never truly sleeps. High above the flooded streets, in a spotless, pitch-black penthouse, a deep, rasping voice cuts through the silence. "Decades ago, when the first skyscrapers pierced this city's skyline, an old politician said something that has stuck in my mind." A match is struck in the dark. The sudden flare of a cigar illuminates a heavily scarred face, casting twisted shadows against the glass. "Bleed Mumbai with a thousand cuts," the Kingpin murmurs, exhaling a thick cloud of smoke. "Exactly like the tiny, festering wounds we’ve carved into the slums, the ports, the police force... I will make the condition of this city worse than hell itself. But today begins with this." Miles away, at the edge of the city, the atomic research facility shakes violently. The heavy steel containment doors blow inwards with a deafening crack. Lethal, blinding radiation floods the chamber. Inside, Ranga falls to his knees as his jaw unhinges and his skin hardens into a glowing black carapace. His screams morph into a horrifying, guttural roar of pure, mutated rage — the birth of the Cockroach. But Mumbai is not just a city of monsters. Perched high on a stone gargoyle overlooking the neon-lit skyline is Pavitr Prabhakar, watching the city breathe. Instead of shadows and ash, he wears a vibrant red and blue suit, the bright spider emblem on his chest gleaming under the city lights. The wind howls around him, snapping at the fabric. "People say powerful people come from powerful places," Pavitr thinks, his internal voice calm and unwavering as he carries the weight of the city. "Wrong. Powerful people make places powerful. And this is my city." Meanwhile, corruption in the city rages on. Police officers accept bribes in dark alleys, and men like Kailash’s uncle shake hands with armed gangsters. But Pavitr is already on the move. He drops from the rooftop, diving towards the streets with terrifying speed before a bright web line snaps out and launches him forward. Through a stolen frequency in his earpiece, the terrified voice of an underworld boss crackles to life over a thug's radio. "Who is he?! He’s not a cop! He moves like a blur! If he comes for us—" Pavitr taps the comms unit in his mask, patching his own voice directly into their network. His tone is cheerful yet carries an edge of absolute confidence. "When I come for you," Pavitr interrupts smoothly, "I won't just web you up. I'll dismantle everything you've ever built before you hit the ground." He is a blur of motion. A web snaps an assault rifle from a thug's hands. A casual two-finger push sends the schoolyard bully, Kailash, flying into the dust. He is a force of bright, unstoppable momentum. Finally, deep inside a dimly lit, abandoned warehouse, five heavily armed thugs stand trembling. The air is thick with smoke and their guns are completely empty. They have shot at the rafters, hitting nothing at all. Then, a soft, bright chuckle echoes from above. Pavitr drops right into the centre of the men, landing in a perfect crouch. He slowly stands up and cracks his neck, the large, expressive white lenses of his mask narrowing in amusement. "If you boys are done with your firecrackers..." He raises a fist, flexing his arm as the natural webs under his wrists twitch, ready to shoot. "Shall I start the explosion?" He lunges forward in a vibrant flash of colour and power, shattering the tension in the room in an instant. "Yo, my father raised me a winner, If i kill for my people, it don’t make me a sinner" Pavitr whispers to himself as he soars through the air, a defiant smile hidden beneath his mask. "From the coast to the plains, Everybody knows the name, I’m coming for em..." I ain't own Spider-Man or any associated Marvel characters and locations. All rights belong to Marvel Entertainment.I only claim my original character.
Zaraki_01 · 1.7k Views

Rent A Girlfriend: Speedrun Any%

After an unexpected accident, a top-tier streamer known for speedrunning games wakes up in the body of Kazuya Kinoshita, the hopeless protagonist of a romance anime he instantly labels as “absolute trash.” Armed with nothing but a sharp tongue, quick wit, and a strategist’s mindset, he decides there’s only one logical move: Speedrun the entire story and get out as fast as possible. Instead of following the painfully slow, misunderstanding-filled canon of Rent-A-Girlfriend, this new “Kazuya” breaks every rule. He refuses to simp, calls people out to their faces, and dismantles forced relationships with brutal honesty. His words cut deep - often intentionally - leaving emotional fallout in his wake. From confronting his manipulative ex Mami Nanami, to rejecting artificial connections and exposing uncomfortable truths, he treats reality like a game: skipping “cutscenes,” triggering key events, and optimizing every interaction for the fastest possible ending. But not everything can be speedrun. As he grows closer to Chizuru Mizuhara, a girl hiding her true self behind a perfect façade, he begins to realize that real emotions don’t follow scripts - and that his own past has made him more broken than he thought. What starts as a cynical attempt to “clear a bad story” turns into something far more personal: A journey about honesty, consequences, and learning when to stop treating life like a game. In a world built on fake relationships, can someone who only knows how to break things learn how to truly connect?
Phi_Long_Gaming · 13k Views

Before The First Word

Disclaimer: [Slow Burn], [Prose Heavy] Before God spoke the first word, something else was already there. Before the angels were made, before the Heavenly Host drew their first breath, before the seventy-two were bound and the wars were fought and the prayers were written -- there was something sleeping in the bedrock of the world. Something that had culled the primordial chaos down to silence, that had cleared the void so completely that when God arrived, He built His entire creation in the space it left behind. It did not know this. It was asleep. It has been asleep for longer than history has words for. Until an archaeologist with a family secret she'd rather not think about falls through the wrong floor in the Negev desert -- and something that predates the concept of morning opens its eyes. His name is Vothanael, Elkaius in some translations, and in some, He is the Primordial Extinction. He has no language, no framework, no model of what he is. He does not know that the stone wall beside his resting place holds layers of pre-language scripture, the deepest of which contains a message from God Himself -- a confession, a grief, and an instruction nobody has carried out yet. He does not know that the Heavenly Host and the Seventy-Two Demons have been at war for centuries in the world above him. He does not know that both sides are about to find out he exists. What he knows is this: there is a woman with stone dust on her hands who gave him the word for sun on the first morning, and a house that is becoming something he does not have a word for yet, and a wall full of things written for him before writing existed. He is learning the words. One by one. Carefully. *The war above him is about to become very inconsequential in the grand scheme of things*
KaI_AlistaiR · 17.7k Views