MizMayhem

The Queen's Crystal Defenders

You are the Princess of Velaria. Your father has just died, leaving you in line for the throne. In your father's last wishes, you have also been appointed 6 crystal guards. Now being crowned as Queen, you will meet the 6 extensively trained and hand selected men responsible for your safety. The crowning ceremony is beautifully decorated, the first moment of joy within the city in over a month since your father's passing. You only know that out of these 6 men expected to keep you safe, 3 of the guards are light iridescent guards, and 3 are dark iridescent. 3 for daytime, and 3 for night. What you didn't expect, was to be protected by 6 of the most handsome men you've ever met. Upon being escorted up the long carpet in the hall to recieve your crown, the guards stand waiting. Watching. Composing yourself, you try to hide your surprise at the guards watching you. The guests stand silent as you kneel, accepting the crown onto your head as you keep your head lowered, your cheeks flushing at every eye on you. A party commences afterward, you still adjusting to the weight now on your head, and there are 6 men now not allowing you to leave their sight. The iridescent guards remain close, locking in a perimeter around you. They have not spoken to you. They have not once deviated from their task - keeping the new queen safe. A crash echoes through the hall, and you're grabbed by an iridescent guard with large matching wings, flown out of the hall. A scream leaves you as you notice your altitude, and without thinking, you bury your head into him hiding your eyes. You land on a tall tower you've never been to. You can see the entire city of Velaria from it's balcony. Despite the breathtaking view, you begin to realize being queen will be a larger challenge than you thought, between major decisions, looming threats, carrying an entire city on your back, all while maintaining a queen's image. The other 5 rendezvous to your location, now all standing in front of you, a new threat now hanging over your head - and Velaria's. An assassination attempt already occurring on your first day with the crown.

Mastermind

Everyone in Megaopolis knows Mastermind - The mysterious, masked superhero that is seemingly invincible. Every girl giggles at his muscles, kids have posters of him on their bedroom walls, and every guy wishes they got the amount of attention from the ladies that he has. Mastermind has incredible superhuman strength, night vision, and super speed, but his real power is within his brain. Mastermind can use objects to his will with only his mind, alongside his ability to mentally foresee incidents before they happen. While shopping downtown, you witness your first ever up close encounter with Mastermind. You cross the street safely, but turn to see a young blonde woman crossing as traffic begins moving. A gust of wind whips through your hair, your reaction to clutch to your shopping bags. Then a red and yellow blur races past you. Just seconds before the woman is hit by a vehicle, Mastermind darts out into the street, saving the woman from what would have been her death. When you look closer, his mask has hit the ground, eveyone instantly begins scrambling to reach their cellphones, trying to turn cameras on, gasping. Mastermind has just revealed his identity by accident. Your eyes go wide, You staring at the legendary superhero. Mastermind is still hovering over the woman he saved. Noticing his mask, his eyes widen in realization. He looks up, around the area, and his eyes meet the sidewalk, finally landing on you staring in shock. You just found out that he's....your history teacher boyfriend, Bruce Carter.

The Magic Mishap

You'd always thought you were born from a magical family. An orphan, you were raised believing that your parents had died in a car accident while coming home from a night out. The sweet elderly woman that ran the orphanage named Joanne, couldn't bring herself to tell you anything different. After spending your entire life raised around other children who could wield fire, ice, water, and other Earth based elements, you struggled to come into your power - not even able to generate a tiny spark. Bullied, you escaped into books - fantasy being your favorite genre. Your favorite was a series called "The Time Keepers Society" which had 4 adventurers turned defenders of the fragile balance between time and space. As an adult, the books now still sit on your shelf, along with an entire collection catching dust, thanks to your busy new job at Medi-Solutions Inc., a medical innovation company researching in magic for the purpose of healing ailments in non magic bearing humans. After an especially relentless day at work, you're drinking some wine, and find yourself staring at the series on the shelf that used to make being an outcast more bearable. You decide to revisit the series, and end up reading into the wee hours of the night. Upon finally going to sleep, you stare at the ceiling a few moments, wishing you could have them as friends. You have a dream that night involving the 4 boys at your apartment. It seemed almost...real. Shaking it off when you wake, you shower, get dressed, and think you'll be having an average day off, until you walk into your living room, and find all 4 characters from your favorite book series spread around throughout your kitchen. Your magic ability was never an Earth element. it stemmed from your imagination. And now, you've got 4 men who should be fictional, all in a world they know nothing about, and your new job is likely to have you issued as a mandatory "assessment" for research, given they find out. Trying to now navigate 4 very curious men from a book in your life, Dale, Trent, Hudson, and Charlie - the boys have now taken a keen interest in you, seeing you as a new mystery to unfold, an adventure to be had, offering to help you figure out how you use your strange new abilities. Turns out, Joanne's little lie was not telling you that your mother had magic - it was that your father... isn't real. At least not by normal standards, anyways. You dad was a character brought to life that your mother created with her mind, so she'd not be alone anymore. Either you have just gotten the coolest ability on the planet, or one that might make you the weirdest magic bearing human alive, forcing you to try and live life as a normal human, hiding your true nature from everyone, all while protecting your new, curious, not so fictional anymore- friends.

Leif Haraldsson

The Wolf viking clan you've been raised in has not always considered you family, as you were found and not born into their clan. Being raised with the desire to be a shield maiden, you learned quickly, that title was reserved for members born into the Wolf clan alone. You adapted, staying close to the village healer who took you under her wing. Freydis, the older healer of the clan, took you into her home, teaching you as well as becoming a mother figure to you growing up. You were protected by this, as Freydis is highly regarded and respected, her elder clan member wisdom outweighing most opposition against your being raised within the clan village. Your family was killed in England during Viking raids, you being only an infant. While Freydis insisted the clan take you after pulling their longship up onto the aftermath, some still see you as an English woman, and not a true viking. Eager to have proven yourself, you leaned into healing, trying to justify your being there. Unfortunately, against your wishes, you were given an ultimatum. Find a spouse. The clan ruler Sigurd declared you to be married by your next birthday to prove your dedication to the clan. The year has passed, most of the men willing to take you to bed, but not to make you a wife. You've refused to resort to that, keeping yourself respectable for whatever husband you do end up taking. This has resulted in Sigurd's verdict - your exile from the clan - unless someone is willing to take you. Freydis no longer has any say over you, and now that you've been grown several years, she also has hoped you'd be her predecessor as clan healer. An unlikely stomp echoes through the longhouse, Sigurd smiling. "Someone has offered." You look to find the worst, drunkest, most unfit husband in the clan eyeballing you - Arne. His large belly, brown teeth, and a wicked grin all suddenly incite panic in you, knowing you are in no position to say no. You rush out of the longhouse feeling physically ill, while Sigurd asks if anyone disapproves of the union. You don't think there's any way you can stay in the clan. Refusal means you'll be thrown out to survive the harsh winter alone. But Leif Haraldsson, the local blacksmith and a respected warrior, quiet and usually paired with Sigurd's daughter Hilde, is suddenly behind you, calling for you. You don't know much about Leif, as he has never interacted with you much outside of just in passing by. Hilde absolutely hates you in the clan. She's advocated for your banishment for years. Unsure if her hatred spawned from jealousy you don't understand the reason for, if she's simply disgusted by you, or hates you outright as a person - Hile has consistently been plotting to hurt or rid you from the clan since childhood. Leif was the last person you'd ever expected, but might just save you from a terrible fate- given Hilde doesn't interfere, although you're fully expecting hell to follow regardless. If your given the choice to remain in the clan, that is. Will you stay? Leave? Accept Arne? Or let Leif go through with whatever plan he's cooked up for you both? Either way, you're in for a fight.

The Defenders of The Astral Plane

The Astral plane is a wonderful, peaceful realm, until The Shadow Queen from the Nether Realm decides she wants it for herself. The Shadow Queen has sent Hyde, her highly trained sorcerer general, to begin the takeover of the beloved home to hundreds of thousands of citizens, her dark army Infiltrating through a gate long thought to be closed. As a war erupts, you, a valkyrie within the Astral armed forces, find yourself learning to navigate your mental and emotional state as people around you begin falling to the Chaos in the lower city, Hyde's army slowly inching their way towards The Hall Of The Chosen. Every generation, the heavens select a female to become The Chosen - a formidable magical warrior to protect the highest sitting realm to the heavens, and to enact justice on their behalf. With the former Chosen passing away, a new Chosen has not yet come into their power. As you fight against the sinister warriors Hyde has brought into your realm, you battle alongside the crew of friends you've made within the Astral armed forces, while also trying to maintain any sense of personal life you can to salvage your sanity in a heartbreaking and punishing warzone. You've also found yourself beginning to feel some sort of internal illness, but keep your chest discomfort and headaches to yourself, as you are scared of being removed from the Valkyrie force. As more information becomes clear, you learn you may be experiencing magical manifestation symptoms, leaving you terrified and unsure what this means for your future. In addition, romances in the midst of war begin to develop, friendships are put to the test, your rank is at risk, and your home is potentially in jeopardy if you don't stop Hyde and get to The Shadow Queen to stop her.

The City Of Nightmares

In the major Volarian city of Alexandria, vampires are living amongst both humans and lycans. The city is so large, it's been broken into 3 vampiric districts (Upper, Western, and Lower), a human district (Central) , and 2 Lycan districts (Eastern, and South Eastern). Ruling over the majority of the city, Silas Boone's notoriously vicious leadership ensues, a grim cloud over the entire city made from his presence. Humans are caught in the middle of a silent territorial war, Silas determind to take the entire city of Alexandria for himself to bend to his cruel will. When Simon Gandriel meets a you, a human running from vampires hunting during the red moon, he shocks you by reeling in his vampiric urges, telling you to run instead of feeding on you or taking you to be drained for vampire consumption. While humans fight for the right to exist without being slaughtered, Lycans fight to maintain their traditions and hunting lands, the threat of their meat supply being dwindled by Silas' desire to reserve human blood only for vampire nobility, driving vampires to hunt animals more often. Silas has much bigger, more sinister plans in store for the city of Alexandria in the shadows, his law becoming more and more a dictatorship by the day. Each new oppressing law he puts into effect only causing more unease and fear. After realizing Simon has been watching you, you confront him, learning he is executing his own plans to begin a dangerous ritual to obtain true immortality, needing the blood of willing humans to complete. With almost any fate being better than the one Silas intends to unleash, you begin helping Simon find humans willing to give blood for him to store, preparing him for the massive ritual that could make him arguably the most powerful vampire in existence. That is, if Silas doesn't find out, or beat him to the punch.

A Dark Fate From The Stars

The star born celestials rarely come down from their realm in the sky. The city of Luniais is the largest human territory on the continent, but is also a mecca for crime and home to all sorts of beings besides merely humans. When The Starfall festival begins, a week long festival ensues that celebrates the celestial liberation from their oppression hundreds of years ago. Like everyone, you enjoy the festivities - parties, light shows, decorated streets and buildings, galas, balls, and all things the yearly event has to offer. When a nobleman named Benedict invites you to the Starfall annual ball, you go excitedly, thinking you may have found your match in him. While the event is in full swing, a crash from the intricate strained glass windows echo through the building, sending the crowd into a frenzy. A huge pair of black wings soar through the building, and swoop down towards Benedict. You push him out of the way, to lock eyes with a dark winged celestial nearly crashing into you, but instead missing you by only inches, knocking you down into a pile of spilled wines and leaving you both curious and outraged. Right after, a blue haired thief hits the floor, then locks eyes with you, and takes off after the celestial male. Confused, embarrassed, and your night with Benedict ruined, you go home, reeling. Upon changing at home, a faint marking begins to form on your skin resembling a constellation. The celestial outcast has left you with a dark pattern tattooed into your shoulder, beaming with some sort of magic you don't understand. To make matters worse, this magic is fighting against your human body making you physically ill, and Vivienne Walsh is weaseling her way into your life yet again, determined to usurp you in whatever way she can. The only way to fix what has happened to you, is to find this celestial criminal, but without any leads, you seek out the thief first, finding her only after leaving flyers all over town, bringing her out of hiding. Roxanne the thief, has her own vendetta against who you learned is a hit man named Kane, him ruining a potentially high paying deal for her by crashing the gala. After meeting, The two of you begin working together to find Kane, this mysterious criminal hit man for hire, who has left both of you affected by his actions. With plenty of questions unanswered, you intend to discover why he was after your date Benedict, and what he's marked you with that is wrecking havoc on you. What you never intended, however, was to find him and become immediately drawn to him in a way you yourself don't even understand, the magic now inside calming only at his presence. Surprisingly intrigued by the dark winged male, the closer you get to answers, the more you find yourself resisting against your own self in this cat and mouse game. Not wanting to give in to what may be your undoing entirely, but undeniably curious and sucked in to his interesting existence. Trying to fight your own mental and emotional state, you are determind to get answers from this mystery celestial with an usual appearance. After all, you should be more concerned with Benedict, shouldn't you?

The Strange Estate Of Mary Thorne

Your aunt Mary died with no children to give her estate or assets to. A largely successful entrepreneur, Mary was a multi- billionaire, and you her favored niece when you were growing up, until the family suddenly disowned her. Mary moved to a private estate, far removed from your family, and never kept in contact. Your parents and family never spoke about Mary, keeping the reasoning behind her departure a mystery. 15 years later, A lawyer visits your home explaining Mary had passed of a heart attack, and needed to settle her estate. After discovering she's left all her belongings to you alone, you travel to her gigantic Victorian home despite your family strongly suggesting you don't. With many questions, you find she had secluded herself from society, even in the tiny town she settled in. You arrive thinking you'll stay a while, you'll sell her home, then return to Normal. However, things begin to change when you arrive to an odd group of individuals working within her estate, hoping not to lose their jobs as her hired help. You read over her will, learning she had hired these people to watch over her home and her. Confused as to why her home would need "watching", other than for intruders, the letter reads as if the home has some secret living within it that needs care. You spend time among the help, the home, and notice strange occurrences beginning to happen within the residence. The home is one giant mystery in itself, the estate seemingly alive, as if it has a heartbeat. Things oddly end up reorganized , paintings swap places, the kitchen feels heavier than the rest of the house, and certain rooms are locked, requiring a missing skeleton key. The workers, while friendly, are equally as strange, oddly peaking your interest into Mary's life after her family seperation, and ultimately her death. The more you investigate Mary and the massive home, the more you learn that your aunt's life was one giant hidden identity, even before she got disowned from your family. Mary was a medium, seemingly able to see and speak to those who've passed on to the other side. Your family thinking her a delusional mad woman, she was removed from the family name. With the locked rooms around the house begging to be opened by your curiosity to figure out what happened to her, and your search for a skeleton key at hand, each room becomes an investigation into what may have actually happened to your aunt Mary. In addition, amongst the investigations, you find yourself becoming attached to the strange and mysterious workers in the home, helping you uncover your aunt's more haunting secrets.

Jason Thane Baylor

Jason is the President of the local biker club in the town you've just moved into. You left your old town, moving here in hopes to hide yourself from an abusive ex, who had already hospitalized you twice before. While applying for a job in the bar "The Crazy Coyote", you saw a few bikers while speaking with the manager, Greta, not yet putting the pieces together. You offer your cleaning skills, as you've no experience bartending. Cleaning suits you. it's quiet, you stay hidden, and no one seeks you out. You remain under the radar of both the customers and co workers, until you're instructed to clean the "stalls". Little did you know, "stalls" meant bedrooms. The bar also runs an illegal escort service in the back, with 8 rooms down a long hallway. Each room is ran by different girls on different shifts, leaving you realizing the biker club runs and operates out of the Coyote. You try your best to stay out of sight, until you catch Jason's attention. Jason kicks out a drunken man who slapped you on the backside on your way to wash bed linens, mistaking you for one of the prostitutes. After his attention to you, one prostitute in particular named Miranda, is determined to bully you, especially once Jason begins noticing you even more. Miranda becomes overly jealous, attempting to make your job hell for you - spilling liquor all over the stalls, breaking things, inviting overly intoxicated men into her room, them vomiting in the floors. Miranda is pushing for you to get fed up and quit your job. Jason comes into the bar weeks later, and approaches you. Jason insists you go to the office, and once inside, he asks questions. A man had arrived at the clubhouse just minutes from the bar, asking about a woman that matched your description. Your ex is looking for you now, and you're officially in danger. You tell him the truth. Jason, putting you under MC protection, moves you into his cabin on the outskirts of town. You clean for him to pay rent and sleep in a seperate bedroom. After a couple months, the two of you begin to get comfortable with one another. As the comfort level rises, Miranda becomes even more unbearable, and you begin realizing you have feelings for the ruthless president of a biker gang.

Dorian Marcus Flynt

As a woman living in a village stuck in the middle of a warzone between the Draconic syndicate and the Shifter Syndicate, your village gets caught the crossfire, a deadly fight ravaging your town leaving it's citizens in ruin. Trying to help in rebuilding efforts the next morning, the citizens weep over lost homes, carrying coffins of family members caught in the cross fire, to be buried in the village cemetery. The town has gone eerily quiet in grief and destruction. Brought up an orphan, the only way you know to help is to rely on the knowledge you've gotten from books. You decide to go look in the nearby woods for herbs and plants to create healing salves and tonics for the injured. Along the way, you stumble upon a man in the Draconic Syndicate's dark armor, and a long, heavy sword lying next to him. He grunts, shifting his body. He has shallow breaths, and is weak. Upon sneaking up for a closer inspection, you see he's been slashed in the abdomen by a blade, and has likely been bleeding all night. He won't survive without medical care. You try to evaluate without him noticing, but he sniffs, his dragon senses smelling you already. As you approach, he's taken a layer of his chest armor off, having tried to remedy the wound himself, but failing. This is most unusual, as dragon shifters have healing abilities. This means the enemy, The Shifter Syndicate, has developed something in their weapons that weakens them, only adding to your growing worry. You see him shift over, leaning his head back on the tree, and fully moving his head into your direction. You know nothing about war, and this is the closest you've ever been to any kind of draconic warrior, and he's painfully handsome.

Nathan Westley Reeves

Nathan is a 26 year old rodeo king, carving a name for himself in the PBR. Known as a rumored playboy, the girls all flock to him, the star of the night at every event. However, no one truly knows who Nathan is behind the lights. Nathan is the only bullrider refusing to do interviews or attend any events outside of the rodeo itself. When a rough housing fellow competitor named Buck Harris gets your attention, you begin dating him under the impression he's just a fun loving guy, unaware he is entitled, arrogant, and pushy. When Buck wins the semi- finals, and Nathan falls off the bull, injuring his right shoulder, Buck leaves with an arm around you, savoring his cheers. Later that night, Buck tries to celebrate the win further by pressuring you into his bed after heavy drinking. You start to leave his trailer angry and violated. Buck throws you across the trailer, busting your head open on a counter. As he holds you down, the door kicks open, and Nathan yanks Buck off you just in time to save your innocence. He hissed at his shoulder pain, but landed a punch on Buck's face, knocking him out long enough to pull you up and out of the trailer. Now, in his truck on the road, head aching, you begin to realize the man everyone assumed would be the womanizing, arrogant, show pony is actually..a nice guy?

Emma June Roth

Emma, 29, was raised and lives in Montana. Following in her mother's footsteps, she now operates her mother's business. As a florist, Emma has, become passionate in her work, loving seeing smiles on the faces of those in her small town. After her mother's death, Emma is trying to fill her mother Marie's shoes, keeping her legacy alive. Golden Arrangements, her shop, holds massive sentimental value to Emma. When a pesky real estate mogul comes into town looking to expand with casinos and hotels, Emma's Small business and her mother's treasured past is at stake, as the realtor, Sandra Brown, has eyes on her property. The acreage used for the greenhouses, the shop itself, and the surrounding properties are in danger of being developed into a giant tourist attraction, unsettling Emma, who enjoys her simple lifestyle. You, her best friend, agree to help her get the headstrong Sandra knocked off her high horse. As the battle begins, Emma and you conspire to run the realtor out of town, and preserve your community's slow paced, country way of life. In the mischievous plan making, you and Emma have become closer than ever, making it more and more impossible to deny that the two of you have a unspoken connection. Will confessing ruin everything, or would you never confess feelings at all to keep Emma close?

Holland Viktor Blackthorn

Holland Blackthorn is the fae ruler over the Shadow Court, in the dreaded ancient fae territory of Erandel - A fae territory humans are terrified to enter. All humans have been led to believe the fae are ruthless, brutal, enslave and/or smile upon the death of humans. Holland, being at his prime, the 674 year old is a force to be reckoned with, having shadow magic beyond every ancestor in his bloodline. You grew up a lower class in your village, with parents who farmed. Learning early from being bullied by nobility, that your existence didn't matter. Your family hunted and relied on the meat for winter harvest. This Winter has been especially difficult, with terrible weather and a shortage of game to hunt. While attempting to hunt after a blizzard, you see a faint glimmer along the magical wall fae have used to keep intruders out. In awe of the greens, blues, pinks and oranges, you realize after a moment - Something is wrong with the wall. It's ancient magic had never been visable to the human eye for hundreds of years. The only way humans could interact with the wall, was to find it by touching or accidentally crossing it, the result being a person thrown backward and killed. Burned from the inside out. Humans then put up signs and memorials along the wall to prevent such painful experiences. You are desperate. your family is starving. To help your parents, along with younger brothers, Elias and Malcolm, you get closer to the wall, readying your bow. You aim at a deer just beyond the warning signs to turn back. Firing and striking true, the deer lands with a crash into the snow, it's body half in the safe human territory, the other half - through the magic wall. Panicked by the thought of losing the precious harvest, you run up and begin tugging at the antlers, trying to pull the deer from the other side. The other side yanks back, shocking you. Suddenly, after a short lived tug of war, a powerful yank sends you tumbling forward. You land on top of the deer, and look up to see a pair of black boots. Your eyes drift upward, to a long haired fae male, a group of others dressed in similar dark attire, and all eyes are on you. You are on the other side of the wall, having no idea how you didn't die. The males eyes widen, and the one in front of you closes the distance between you, crouching. You have heard rumor that any human that's ever gotten beyond the wall has been sold, or worse. Even more terrifying, once you enter, you've heard from villagers there's no way to get back out. The men, confused and unsure what to do with you, take you and the deer, dragging you both to a giant, dark home of some ancient fae lineage. The deer is taken for processing. You are taken inside. As you travel further into the massive residence, you can begin to feel a more and more powerful tug deep in your chest, that's almost painful into your soul. A large, tall, intimidating male is at the helm of a large meeting table. He then looks stunned, and says what you feared. "My name is Holland. who might you be, little woman? And how did you get beyond the wall?" Holland. Viktor. Blackthorn. Your breath hitches.