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

Storm attached the phone to the bag's strap, the phone on speaker. Everyone was able to hear each other, as though they were all in the same place.


"Angel, c'mon. We're going," Storm said. Angel nodded and headed inside with him. 


The two walked into the temple, seeing nothing in the room. They looked to their right to see the gaping hole they saw earlier. It was a clear room, the stone brick floor broken and in poor condition. Some of the bricks were completely out of place, showing the dirt underneath. 


"This is what we've been fighting to get to?" Storm asked Scion through the phone. 


"Look deeper. There's definitely something here," Scion advised him. 


Storm looked to his left to see that there were stairs that they could climb up. 


"I'm climbing up some stairs, alright?" Storm spoke to the cellphone. 


"We're going down some stairs," Blaze spoke back. Storm looked to Angel, the two nodding and getting ready to go. 


"How long has this been here-?" Storm asked. 


Chapter 44: The Council, Part 1