hawkgirl the maw

Time is not on his side. It's inside him. Nineteen year old Alex Wilder has spent his whole life feeling like he's watching the world through glass — present but untouched, handsome but invisible, alive but completely indifferent. In the crowded hallways of New Lagos High he is nobody. A closed door. A boy too guarded to let the world in and too smart to pretend that doesn't cost him something. Then one rainy evening in the forgotten sub-levels of Chronicle Hall, everything changes. A four hundred year old secret chooses him. A pulse that isn't his own heartbeat takes up residence in his chest. And somewhere at the edge of the universe, something ancient and hungry stirs — a being who was once the greatest guardian of time and is now its most terrifying enemy — and starts moving toward New Lagos. His name is Kronos Maw. He doesn't want to rule time. He wants to unmake it. But Kronos Maw is not the worst thing out there. Before the universe had a name. Before time had a direction. Before the first star burned its first light into the darkness — there was the Chrono Void. A hunger that doesn't roar or rage or announce itself. It simply waits at the edge of everything, patient and absolute, whispering one promise to every crack in reality it finds. Entropy. Silence. Nothingness. For centuries the Temporal Lattice has kept it locked away. But the Lattice is fracturing. And every Rift pulse Kronos Maw unleashes loosens another thread. Every world he destroys opens another crack. He believes he is using the Void as a weapon. He doesn't understand that the Void is using him. Across the multiverse others are stirring. A wind-singer on a floating citadel of crystal spires whose songs travel through cracks in reality. A stone-skinned guardian on a desert world where sand itself is frozen in time. Ancient Weavers watching from a pocket dimension outside of time entirely. Warriors from rift-scarred worlds carrying powers forged from broken timelines. All of them feeling the same fractures. All of them sending the same desperate signal. Hold the line. On Earth Alex's only allies are a sharp-eyed tech genius with fourteen pages of notes, a former bully with a blade forged from broken time, and a four hundred year old guardian who has been waiting specifically for him. Together they are the first defense between New Lagos and oblivion. Between Earth and the unraveling of everything. Two threats. One is coming for him. The other is coming for everything. Some legacies skip generations. Some wait four hundred years. Alex's just arrived. And the question isn't whether he's ready. The question is whether ready even matters anymore. The lattice is fracturing. The tyrant is coming. The Void is whispering. And a boy from New Lagos is all that stands between existence and the hungry silence at the edge of time. The war for time itself begins here. Time is not on his side. It's inside him. Nineteen year old Alex Wilder has spent his whole life feeling like he's watching the world through glass — present but untouched, handsome but invisible, alive but completely indifferent. In the crowded hallways of New Lagos High he is nobody. A closed door. A boy too guarded to let the world in and too smart to pretend that doesn't cost him something. Then one rainy evening in the forgotten sub-levels of Chronicle Hall, everything changes. A four hundred year old secret chooses him. A pulse that isn't his own heartbeat takes up residence in his chest. And somewhere at the edge of the universe, something ancient and hungry stirs — a being who was once the greatest guardian of time and is now its most terrifying enemy — and starts moving toward New Lagos. His name is Kronos Maw. He doesn't want to rule time. He wants to unmake it. But Kronos Maw is not the worst thing out there. Before the universe had a name. Before time had a direction. Before the first star burned its first light into the darkness — there was the Chrono Void. A hunger that doesn't roar or rage

Endless Maw In the forsaken kingdom of Talvia , where cruelty is law and poverty chains the masses, a nameless slave bears only a brand on his back — two words etched in fire: Alpha Omega. With no parents, no past, and no identity beyond that mark, he seizes the name as his own and resolves to carve a fate greater than the dungeon chains that bind his world. This is an age before steel towers and circuits, when mankind seeks power in labyrinths and dungeons. Each descent births more than treasure — it awakens something deeper: classes. Unlike simple skills, these classes are living destinies, shaping every individual into something unique. No two are alike. Some are blessed. Most are cursed. When Alpha steps into his first dungeon, the world answers. Not with mercy — but with Veyra, an ancient, sentient system older than empires. Neither blessing nor curse, Veyra crowns him with a fate both terrible and magnificent: a class bound to shadows themselves. Whispering, evolving, watching. A power that makes him neither master nor slave, but something more dangerous — a being touched by inevitability. But in Talvia, genius is not salvation. The kingdom thrives on despair, grinding brilliance into dust. To rise, Alpha must outwit kings, conquer labyrinths, and bend even shadows to his will. What begins as a struggle for survival may end as something far greater: a war against the very design of fate itself. In a world where every soul is chained to their destiny, Alpha Omega will fight to prove that some chains were made to be broken.

A historian, Ethan, along with two sisters—geologist Chloe and photojournalist Maya—explore a mysterious sinkhole in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula known as the Cenote Sagrado. They discover a vast subterranean world built by an ancient, intelligent civilization and uncover a terrifying, millennia-spanning secret that threatens the very survival of humankind.(I will be posting this story on RoyaRoad as well)

In a world where oaths carry power and betrayal is survival, Jorren awakens in the Maw, an ancient labyrinth built on the bones of forgotten gods. Weak, injured, and hunted by shadowy horrors, he discovers a mysterious force known as the Echo — a power that grants glimpses of the future, but at a devastating cost: memory, flesh, or soul. Every step deeper into the labyrinth tests his mind, body, and morality. To survive, he must navigate deadly creatures, ancient sigils, and the cruel bargains of the Covenant system, all while uncovering secrets that could shatter the world itself. Bound by blood, driven by loss, and haunted by the weight of his past, Jorren faces impossible choices: sacrifice himself, betray those he loves, or risk becoming another name etched forever in the Maw. I’m a new writer, and your support means the world! Likes, follows, and Power Stones help me keep building the world of Echo of the Maw.

No one left The City. Rife with tension between the two races that inhabited it — Humans and Monsters — it seemed like it'd boil over sooner than later. That wasn't an issue for Kodeko. Not until he and his family died to those Monsters. However, he's given a second chance: His life and new powers in exchange for killing The City's ruler, The Tsar.

The apocalypse is here. The earth has entered the path of evolution with the coming of the system and the awakening of its energy ushering all of its inhabitants into a new ear of growth. The law of jungle prevails with every being, animal, plant or humans rushing to stand at the top of the food chain. Orian a young man suffering from an eating disorder finds himself in a string of misfortunate events changing his life forever, rushing towards the top with his new found powers battling different species and other superhumans aiming to be the predator who stands above them all.

In the ever vast realm that is the multiverse, the cosmic court is governed by the corrupt embodiments of the three most important abstract parts of reality. However their rule is threatened by the return of elvaris maw, the supreme being and creator of the multiverse, who attempts to stamp out the corruption that litters the cosmic court through peaceful means. Yet due to the horror and trepidation that maw suffered in the confines of creation he becomes that of what the the cosmic beings and the gods see the abstracts as and falls into a decent of madness.

While doing his normal daily routine, Oliver comes across an interesting gossip. He decides to investigate the matter, but little did he know that the eyes above had a different fortune for him. His life changed drastically after he ended up in a cursed library of a forgotten God, and starts his new career as a librarian.

Good news: You've awakened. Bad news: You're the villainess. Renee Jennings accidentally obtains a system, allowing her to break free from the plot's control by completing missions. Renee Jennings: "Wait a minute, what's with all the animal dictionaries as a reward?" System: [They can give you an affinity with animals.] Renee Jennings: "Why?" System: [Because a villainess has no affinity with people.] Renee Jennings: "…" This joke is not that funny... * After unlocking animal languages, Renee Jennings embarks on a path of no return— Leading dogs to save a blind woman being stalked by a pervert. Reporting an evil old man who murdered his wife and hid her body, thanks to rats. Helping a kitten catch the murderer who killed its owner and buried the body. Finding tens of millions in stolen goods based on intel from birds. * While others are petting cats, Renee Jennings is riding a tiger. While others are falling in love, Renee Jennings is solving crimes. While others are getting married, Renee Jennings is rescuing endangered animals. While others are having kids, Renee Jennings is serving her country.

On the verge of death from illness, Yu Zhizhi transmigrates to the Beast World Planet, becoming the lowest-ranking plaything for slaughter. Her destiny was supposed to be a direct slaughter by powerful figures gone Berserk in their beast forms. Fortunately, she awakened the Childbirth System, and the style of the story suddenly changed— The maddened and fallen monster (Wolf): "I'll give you a choice, love me, or be bitten to death by me?" The evil Duke (Snake): "Beautiful maiden, please fall into the abyss of desire with me." The tyrannical Imperial Marshal (Shark): "I command you, you are only permitted to love me!" The wildly arrogant Crown Prince (Tiger): "I will kill all the males who covet you!!" (The list of Beast Husbands is expanding—) As the lowest-ranking female, Yu Zhizhi is doted on wildly by the powerful figures, undergoing Evolution all the way to the top-tier Rare grade and becoming the most noble existence in the Beast World Empire!