Novels by Dwinda

The walls of the Forbidden City weren't just closing in; they were chewing.The sound of grinding bones and rubbing wet flesh filled Je's ears. The once-majestic marble floor had now turned into a giant undulating tongue, pushing them backward—back into the darkness of the intestines."We're being pushed in!" Guntur yelled, firing lasers from his robotic hand at a giant uvula trying to snare his neck. "I don't want to die as dragon shit, Je!""Sinta! Find a way out!" Je ordered, slashing at acid tentacles trying to grab Rara's legs.Sinta ran while looking at her tablet. "The structure is shifting randomly! But there's airflow up there! That's the esophagus! It's trying to swallow us into the stomach, but the path is two-way!"Je looked up. On the ceiling of the chest cavity, there was a sphincter hole pulsing shut. That was the way to the dragon's mouth... the exit.But the hole was fifty meters up, and the surrounding walls were slippery with slime."We have to climb while it tries

"TURN THEM TO DUST!"The Dragon Emperor's command boomed. Thousands of jade-armored Imperial Guards charged forward. Their heavy footsteps made the flesh floor of the Forbidden City shake like a local earthquake."Guntur! Open a path!" Je yelled."On it, Boss! Plasma Cutter: Wide Mode!"Guntur aimed his robotic arm. The slit in his palm widened.VWWOOOOM!A horizontal wave of plasma swept through the front line of the jade army. The heat reached 5,000 degrees Celsius. The green jade armor didn't shatter, but melted into hot liquid glass, burning the corpse flesh inside."Smells like burnt ceramics!" Guntur laughed, spinning his body, slashing the neck of a soldier who escaped the plasma with the chainsaw in his left hand (which he temporarily attached).Sinta ran behind Guntur, planting C4 explosives on the bone pillars of the palace. "I'll bring the roof down! Give me 3 minutes!"Amidst the chaos, Je and Rara shot straight toward the Emperor.Emperor Qin Shi Huang didn't move from hi

SPLAAASH!They landed in waist-deep slime. The fluid was warm, sticky, and yellow-green. It smelled like a mix of sulfur and meat fermented for a thousand years."Pah! It got in my mouth!" Guntur spat repeatedly, his face turning green. He shook his robotic hand, now covered in slime. "Je, are you sure this is the way to Beijing? This looks like the way to a septic tank!""Every road to power goes through shit, Gun," Je answered flatly. He pulled Rara out of the fluid.Rara looked delighted. She licked the slime on her arm."Acidic," Rara commented, her eyes sparkling. "But there is a taste... of history. I can taste the blood of forced laborers in this fluid."Sinta turned on the flashlight on her combat helmet. The light pierced the darkness of the organic cave.They were inside a giant tunnel with walls made of ancient bricks that "breathed." Between the cement, blood seeped out. Flesh stalactites hung from the ceiling, dripping digestive enzymes."This isn't a normal intestine," S

"Drop us on top of that gate, Bara!"Je pointed toward the giant gateway structure in the middle of the Wall of Flesh. The gateway, Shanhaiguan, was no longer made of gray bricks. It had mutated into giant cartilage resembling the open lower jaw of a dragon.On top of the pulsating wall, thousands of warrior statues were lined up.Terracotta Warriors.However, they were not still. The clay encasing their bodies was cracked, revealing rotting red muscle underneath. Their eyes glowed jade green."Hold on! I can't land smoothly! That wall is trying to swat us like mosquitoes!" Bara yelled.The Wall of Flesh was alive. A giant hand formed from a clump of corpses on the wall face shot out, trying to grab the Red Corsair.SWOOOSH!Bara performed a crazy maneuver, rotating the ship 90 degrees vertically. The giant hand missed, only grazing the tip of the ship's wing."NOW!"Je, Rara, Guntur, and Sinta jumped out of the cargo hatch.They free-fell toward the ranks of Terracotta."Sinta! Shiel

"That cloud ahead looks like a drunkard's vomit."Guntur leaned his forehead against the cockpit glass of the Red Corsair. The space pirate ship vibrated violently, its anti-gravity engine roaring against the strong headwind. Below them, the South China Sea looked turbulent, its black waves crashing against the remnants of offshore oil rigs that had become sea monster nests."That's no ordinary cloud, Stumpy," Captain Bara blew smoke from her electronic cigar. She sat in the pilot's seat with her feet up on the console. "That's an Acid Monsoon. The rain there has a pH of 1. Enough to make your skin blister in five seconds.""And we're going through that?" Sinta asked, her finger tapping the glitchy hologram map. "The detour route via the Philippines is safer, Captain.""Safe is slow," Bara grinned, showing her gold teeth. "And we're low on fuel. We punch through. Unless the Big Boss has objections."Bara glanced at the captain's cabin door behind the cockpit. The door had been shut ti

The Command Tower loomed in the center of the city square, made of a combination of warship bridges and satellite junk. At its peak stood Captain Dredd.He wasn't just a giant. He was a walking fortress.His body was four meters tall, encased in thick, rusty ancient Power Armor, reinforced with crudely welded steel plates. His helmet was a metal skull with a single glowing red eye in the center (Cyclops).In his right hand, he held a Gravity Hammer a giant hammer whose head spun and hummed with gravitational energy."LITTLE RATS..."Dredd's voice boomed from the speakers in his helmet. His voice was heavy, the bass vibrating the glass windows around the square."I SAW YOU ON THE SCREEN. YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL MY HEART?"Je and Rara stood in the middle of the square, beneath the shadow of the Glass Vessel containing the Leviathan Heart."We aren't stealing," Je yelled, twirling his Claymore. "We just want to take out the trash.""INSOLENT!"Dredd jumped from the twenty-meter tower.BO