Kit Sun Cheah

Category: Fiction

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 6

    The Church taught that the Creator granted to the people the use of aether to work wonders in his name, and to do battle against the forces of the Void. But the Voidspawn adapted, learning to take on human form. To detect and defeat them, the Church granted to a select few who kept the…

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 5

    Back in his hotel, Beringer indulged himself in a long, hot shower. He scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed but could not wash off the taint of the Void. At least he didn’t hear the voices any more. He staggered out, just in time for the sunrise. Blinked. Blinked again. Yawned, shuffled back into the bathroom…

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 4

    Voidguards are all the same. Kentaris stepped back, snapping her knife up. “What do you mean, exactly?” The Voidguard’s face was a solemn mask. “By the Covenant of the Church of Creation, within the Holy City of Amarantopolis I cannot permit a witch to live.” He pressed his lips together. “Leave now, and I shall…

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 3

    Beringer blinked. The demon zipped to the next target and fired a black spike, smashing clean through her chest. The spike retracted just as fast, creating a vortex of soul energy that disappeared into the Void. The third witch spun around, popping off rounds at it. The demon laughed, appeared next to him and spiked…

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 2

    Modern technology was a wonderful thing. During the daylight hours Beringer planted tiny glasses around the necropolis, rigging them to alert him when they spotted motion. As the necropolis closed, he hid himself away inside an unused mausoleum and waited for nightfall. The taint of the Void was upon this place. Flowers lay scattered on…

  • A Blade for Monsters Part 1

    Alan Beringer had learned the hard way never to assume he had seen everything. It was perhaps the only reason he managed to hang on to his breakfast. The bodies, or what was left of them, were scattered across the hall. In the middle of the aisle was a heavily-gnawed arm, the flesh only mostly…