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Thanks! I'm not sure if you mean finishing the whole thing before reading or just the first part though. Either way is fine. Hehe.

Hey Lisa, I feel flattered that you've been checking an update for this story. Thank you! I actually lost a lot of the story back on my old computer when the hard drive gave out. I had to re-write most of them out of necessity. The only ones that "survived" were rough drafts of the earlier chapters because I had some copies on my laptop. They should mostly be the same. I hope anyway. I'll be posting the chapters weekly on Tuesdays to give myself time to edit them.

Actually, the obnoxious Derek hasn't appeared quite yet. Hehe. But it will get tones down eventually. As for the waist, it's being told from the perspective of a very vain and self-centered character. Expect to get more comments like this. As for the hopping, that was actually originally run I think (I had lost with my old computer the original manuscript of the one I posted and just had drafts). I just didn't want her running with the coffee cup in her hand (though I suppose hopping didn't make much sense either haha). The other word I would have used was "bounced" given she was balancing something while trying to get to them as fast as possible. And thank you for reading again. I hope you enjoy the rest of the story.

Thanks!

I just hate it when everything is perfect and suddenly someone just has to drop one tiny little snag that just doesn’t quite fit into my world. All the sexy girls can’t get enough of me. All the envious boys want to be me. All the teachers just absolutely adore me. My world and my life are simply perfect just like my sleek and sexy 1996 Camaro V6 3800 Series 2 – well oiled, well maintained, and just the perfect, perfect, PERFECT vehicle to make love in. That car is sex on wheels. But just lik

A Message from the Author What you are about to read is the result of my desire to read something different. Yes, this story was actually born because I wanted something fresh, something with a theme or plot I hadn’t read before. When I couldn’t find that story I was looking for, I decided to write it. That desire to read gave birth to my writing Charlie. This is not an out of this world story (though you may encounter some out of this world characters – and no, I don’t mean extra-terrestr

Derek is the perfect boy. His school is perfect. His family is perfect. Everything in his life is perfect. Everything except Charlie.

Thanks! I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it. I'm even more pleased to hear I made sense *wink*. I hope you also like the next story coming up.

Hi jazziebabe, no, Jacob is not dead. The amulet in Ch 40 showed that. Now for why Adam screamed, it was because the two events in the last two paragraphs of the epilogue are connected as they occurred at the same time. As to how? I'll just have to discuss that in the sequel if it hasn't been figured out yet. Thanks for reading the story and I hope you enjoy the new story I'm releasing while you wait for the sequel of this one.

I'm sorry to hear that Laz. I really am. But this story was written with the intention of writing a sequel (well a trilogy, since a sequel won't fit everything I intend to happen). Perhaps you can help me by sending in a form of a personal message what you think is the bottom line of the current story line and why it was unresolved. Several things are left hanging yes but those were mostly intended. In the meantime, all I can do is hope that some day you may change your mind.

Well thank you for that 500th review. Yes, there were several things left open in this story. I realized that many things remain unresolved. Some were done intentionally like what happened to Jacob. Some on the other hand were unintentional like what happened to Thomas - don't remember him? . I'll be posting another story next week which will not last as long as this one. I already have the chapters mapped out and I'm expecting it to be 25-30 chapters long unless I find that I can't squeeze them into fewer chapters. Still a long way but I don't dedicate too much time to writing. I don't actually intend to publish any works. I'm doing this mostly as a hobby.

Hi daddydavek, thanks for the comment and I'll keep that in mind for my future works. I know it doesn't close some of the questions though that was my intention anyway for this particular series. Thank you for reading though.

EPILOGUE Victor Cross stared at the green flames rising high into the air before him. He watched as they slithered across the floor of that one massive room in the ancient castle, reserved for one purpose – a purpose that was, at that moment, being fulfilled. Three pale, almost skeletal mages danced around a massive rune on the ground with wooden staves in their hands. The bright green rune itself seemed to be generating the violent flames that erupted from the stone floor. With each wave of t

Okay, so I just finished the story today. First off, thanks for writing it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Although I'm typically not interested in soccer or martial arts, I found myself enjoying the theme nonetheless. That's definitely a good thing to get me interested in topics I normally aren't interested in. Second, I liked the way you made your character's feeling evident without resorting to several paragraphs of self-reflection. Other stories that did that make me go "okay, I get it... now what?" Yours had a good balance of it in my opinion. Third, I loved the conflicts and the relationships between the characters. I remember saying a long time before (back in efiction) that Dean was my favorite character and I like how you developed that further. Wendy too. I could just imaging how Jason interacted with each of the different characters and it was great. Lastly (and here's where it gets a little negative), I felt the sudden shift in Chapter 45 was a bit off. I realize that the post-traumatic experience is still a relevant aspect of the things Peter has experienced. However, it felt like the entire story before that was building up to the moment when he would recover. I guess it just seemed a little anti-climatic that he recovered and suddenly he has a whole new set of problems. I dunno, maybe it's just me. Anyway, that's it. Thanks for writing the story and sorry it took so long to get a review like this in. Looking forward to your next one. From what I remember you saying, you have a four part fantasy on the way so I'm hoping that's next in line.

As seen from this chapter, the existence of spirits were not confirmed. If anything, it was doubted. After the High Mage Lord's testimony though, things may be different and Adam might be more open to discuss such matters with Magister Aenhol. He did actually once try to mention it to Magister Aenhol as they were leaving the city to go to the village (Chapter 3) but the older man brushed it off. Perhaps that wasn't the best time discuss such things. Perhaps things have changed by the end of the book. I guarantee that the epilogue will not kill off a sequel. It will actually lay the grounds for what will happen in the next book.

The sequel I intend to write is a continuation of this story, yes. It should pick up very soon after this one ends. And no, I do not intend to leave you hanging (if I did, I did not intend for it to happen). Hehe. The epilogue will make things clearer, if anything.

Okay, fine, that's a bit of an exaggeration hehe. I logged in early yesterday to spend an hour checking recent forum post updates and just to find out what everyone else has been up to. I did this only to find that GA was in Offline Mode due to some hard drive failure. *Awww... oh well.* I checked anyway when it would be up again. According to the estimate it would be about 12 hours later which was still plenty of time to check the forums later on and update my story. Fifteen hours later, I log in to find the forums working *hooray!* but as I posted my latest chapter update I discovered it wouldn't update the story. It simply sent me back to the Forums page again. *Awww... oh well... again*. It made me realize how easily things could disappear with the simple malfunctioning of a piece of equipment probably smaller than my printed financial records at work. How all this *waves hands around at the whole GA website* could just one day disappear like all of civilization in a zombie apocalypse. All it would take is one virus, one tiny little explosion away in some lab (or in this case, Myr's house?), and everything could be gone. It would leave us in the dark unable to reconnect with those we're already familiar with and the place we've grown accustomed to. Where would that leave me? Where would that leave everyone else who finds comfort and fun in sites like this? I suppose it's not said enough but thank you to everyone who's been keeping this site running, making sure it works, and ensuring that the zombies receive a swift bullet to the head. You are our Mila Jovoviches and Woody Harrelsons. Thank you for GA and making sure that the world we have here is safe and operational.

CHAPTER 40: Survivors An entire human army. Over five thousand mages. Over a hundred and fifty gryphons. One demon-possessed chicken. Phillip. Jacob. These were the casualties of war, a war that has only just begun yet has already cost us so much. It will be written down in history as a victory by magic. But we who lived the fight knew it was far from a true victory. Hundreds of homes were left in ruins across the city. Thousands were dead or missing. Business had virtually ceased across

The chapters leading to this one are so tear jerking and no one even died!

Like what some people have suggested above, stay in the dark. The light can confuse your body to think it's time to wake up. There's something else I would suggest that others have alluded to but I won't. I'll let your imaginations run wild.

I could always do with a cup of coffee. Hehe. Thanks for leaving a review!

That is odd... maybe because it's not the primary language?

"You gained weight but it looks good on you." Yeah right.

No idea about the year but it might have been around the time of Starcraft.

I too do not even want to think about having to survive my one true love and although there are many stories like that here on GA, I don't think I could be so cruel... The sequel though is one thing I can't give quite yet. Haha. Although it should be obvious by now that some concerns in the story won't be addressed in a chapter + epilogue, I'm still thinking of working on two more stories at least before I get back to this. Just pray my other stories are shorter.