Karim Sissoko is the author of the book series Lightning. He lives in Florida, is of Haitian descent and is attending college for “a piece of paper that proves I’m smart”. He enjoys his passion of writing, particularly the fantasy genre but he also enjoys science fiction. He plays a lot of video games, watches a variety of anime and enjoys making art. You can find him on social media, but he is most active on his Twitter. 

Before there were humans, there were Astrals. When Storm Hinato is branded an assassin by the queen, his own guardian, his world falls apart. A masked man chases after him, a war god longs to test his strength and he finds himself caught in a war that spans across the worlds. Will he find the strength to press on? Or will he fall to the chaos like those before him?

Lightning

"I can't stand people-who only think of themselves. YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN ASURA," he yelled, the woman staring in surprise. 


"I've lost too much to lose anything else now-I'm saving everyone with or without you, bitch!" He shouted, letting go of her arm and stumbling past her. 


"-But I refuse to stoop to your level-" He fell to the ground, in too much pain to do anything. 


The Astrals were silent, except for the one who was enjoying it the most. He clapped slowly for the boy, impressed. 


"I'm impressed. I've rarely seen a passive War Astral before...or at least a reasonable one. It's a rare occurrence," he said, walking over to the other Astrals. 


"Let's give them a hand, shall we?" he said to them, the other Astrals looking to each other and talking amongst themselves in that language again.


Chapter 47: The Council, Part 4