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Ghost Of The Slopes

At 15, Takeshi Morin was the future of alpine skiing. 16 Now, he’s just a ghost, a shell of his former self, can he make a swift return to the competitive scene. Born in the heart of the French Alps to a Japanese mother and French father, Takeshi Laurent Morin was raised on snow and speed. A prodigy in alpine skiing—slalom, giant slalom, downhill—he was ranked number one in the world for his age. His destiny was carved into the mountain itself. But when his mother, a world champion skier, dies in a tragic training accident, everything unravels. Days later, his father takes his own life, leaving Takeshi behind in a silence too heavy to bear. Stricken with grief and guilt, he withdraws from competition. What once felt like freedom on skis becomes suffocating. He drops from the national circuit, isolates himself in the mountains, and devotes himself to caring for his grandmother, the last remaining piece of his fractured family. But even that slips away when a heated outburst leads to her sudden death—another loss he believes he caused. Takeshi quits skiing for good. Though he remains one of the most gifted alpine racers on the planet, the sport has become a graveyard of memories he can’t outrun. When he’s sent to live in Japan with his aunt—a stern but kind headmistress of an elite international school for winter athletes—Takeshi is thrown into a new world of rigid schedules, elite training, and old rivals. The school operates across five countries, with each branch competing every year. Takeshi is to enrol in the Japanese branch, with its winter campus nestled in the mountains of Nagano. It's built to shape champions in alpine and freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and more. It’s everything he once wanted—except now, he wants nothing to do with it. Forced into competition, Takeshi is haunted by the very mountains he must conquer. As the international interschool alpine circuit approaches, hosted by the French branch in the very region where he grew up and classmates from his past reappear on rival teams, he must confront the trauma, guilt, and pressure. They have buried his love of skiing. To heal, he’ll have to descend into the past—before he can climb back toward the future. Set against the icy precision and breakneck speed of elite alpine skiing, Ghost of the Slopes is a powerful coming-of-age story about loss, survival, and rediscovering who you are when everything you loved is gone.
FateLikeNoneOther · 1.8k Views

Shadow Slave | Sleepless Dreamer

Set in the Shadow Slave world...a time before Sunny was born...this story follows a simple soldier who must survive in a dystopian, apocalyptic landscape where magic and gun warfare collide. In a far-off Quadrant known as North America, a young soldier named Hope is 16 years old when he gets infected by the Nightmare Spell. He passed! But...he feels a bit scammed...? A flaw that makes him fade from people's memories... A cursed attribute that makes him remember everything endlessly in eternal wakefulness... It's as if the Spell is twisting his future and existence into an almost improbable one. All he has ever known his purpose to be was to serve as a simple soldier. Not too powerful. But not so weak either. And maybe, just maybe like some others, become an Awakened. Although he never dreamt of being one. Now that his whole life is compromised after his First Nightmare, his first objective is to survive on his own. But as he tries to escape his fate, his actions seem to lead him further from his goal. He struggles against obstacles that slowly grow bigger and out of proportion. Maybe the Dream Realm and the Real World aren't so different than one may think. Hope's journey involves uncovering secrets and gaining knowledge about his true nature and his new role in the world. Is he fit to be a hero? Could he redefine it? *** Please read the READER DISCLAIMER in Volume 0. This is my spin-off novel of "Shadow Slave" by Guiltythree. But please don't expect the same writing style, setting, and characters, especially the main character. This story reveals more about how people/cities/governments operate after the Spell’s arrival. I always find it interesting how maybe one country handles it fairly, but how others handle it with desperation to the point that you question humanity. There will be easter eggs pointing to the original novel either intentional for the plot or unrelated to it, but all for fun. I am a new author so props to all who bear with me and helps me improve my writing. If it is not for you, please don't leave outright hate comments. Eat wassabi instead if you want pain. Critique and advice would be great too. Cover Art: @ellieaedon I will be posting on RoyalRoad.com and on AO3 for some people's preferences.
MonoSilence · 298.4k Views

M no Monogatari

This is my story, going from worlds to worlds, making friends in each one of them, I don't know what all this will prepare for me, I didn't choose this path, but... since this happened to me *sigh* Why not make the most of it? What am I in this life? My mind has been going round and round for as long as I can remember, I've been happy in many moments, I've been sad in many moments, I've lived a normal life, I want to think so, I'm happy with everything I've lived for, I'm content, I didn't ask for anything more than to always have what I had, so why are they taking it all away from me? I want them to stop destroying my world and my dreams, I can't take it anymore, huh? what? a chance? do I have a chance? me? If I can rebuild my life, then I will finally become everything I never was, you who reached out to me Do you want to join me? 『Then are you willing to take the proposal I made to you? I've watched you for a long time and in all this from reboot to reboot, I'm going to say that I came to sympathize with you rather than pity you, but yes, I won't hide that I felt sorry for you *smiles* 』-『I'm sorry I have to involve you in all this, but this will also be my good deed of at least being able to help someone, so when we meet at the end of it all, destroy it with your own hands with everyone's help, I was born without any purpose, the task I have now is totally different from what I had before, that of living quietly, continuing to watch them made me happy, but if he is willing to destroy them, my duty is to protect and take care of what I love the most in my life』-『From now on, your real story begins』. Here we are starting something that I did it out of curiosity....well, not really, since I discovered this I swore to myself to finish it completely, always on such days I will continue this routine, ah! Regarding what I think of my story, well what can I say, I hope,I go and finish them as a great job and a great story!!!! Yes!.....Even if it's crap, garbage on many occasions and you think it's nothing worthwhile, for me it will be at the top......After all, who is going to believe in you if you are not yourself? I don't own the characters from Anime,games or manga that will appear in the story.
Shin0bu · 1.2m Views

VALERIA: Last Flame Rising

VALERIA: Last Flame Rising In a world where peace is a privilege paid for in blood, one boy rises from the ashes of powerlessness to defy fate itself. Two hundred years ago, the Varnok descended — primal horrors immune to blade and bullet. Humanity teetered on the edge of extinction until the Origins appeared, beings of unfathomable might who gifted the world Essence Magic and drove the monsters back. Now, the last bastion of mankind survives on a single continent: Valeria. In this new age, adventurers climb the ranks of power known as the Flame Ascension, battling monsters, exploring ancient ruins, and defending peace bought with centuries of sacrifice. Kael Fael never wanted to fight. With a loving family, a heroic older brother, and dreams of a quiet life, war was never meant for him. But when a Varnok horde attacked his village and left his brother broken and near death, Kael tasted the bitterness of helplessness—and it changed him forever. Years later, Kael stands at the bottom of the path his brother once walked. With only average talent but an indomitable will, he throws himself into training, determined to climb through pain, loss, and fear to reach a strength few dare dream of. But as Kael rises, something stirs in the shadows. Forgotten rituals resurface. The Varnok grow bolder. And the truth behind the Origins’ arrival may be far darker than anyone knows. When the last flame rises, will it be salvation… or the world’s end?
BAAAPDLE · 13.5k Views