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The Descendants #10 - All Saints and Sinners: The Descendants Main Series, #10
The Descendants #10 - All Saints and Sinners: The Descendants Main Series, #10
The Descendants #10 - All Saints and Sinners: The Descendants Main Series, #10
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Monsters are attacking Mayfield's citizens, but it's not Lifesaver's Inc that saves the day? Who is Occult and what exactly is going on? Laurel turns to the Book of Reason to find out and brings Kareem, Alexis and Ian along for the ride.

Includes Descendants Special #1

They are heroes. They are people. This is their story.

Styled after works from the Bronze Age of Comic Books, The Descendants is presented in a unique manner: as an all-prose comic book complete with issues, specials and annuals, each telling a complete story that ties into the overall tale of the titular superheroes.

It is also written as a throwback and love letter to an earlier age of superheroes, to a time before everything was grim and gritty and when comic books were fun.

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Release dateJan 15, 2017
ISBN9781386347651
The Descendants #10 - All Saints and Sinners: The Descendants Main Series, #10
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Landon Porter

Landon Porter is a billionaire industrialist who fights crime with the aid of his magic sword and faithful companion, Distraction Lad whenever he's not dating supermodels or fighting evil robot bears from the future. On a completely unrelated note, he makes up fanciful stories for a living. An avid fan of superhero comics and roleplaying games, he blends tropes from both into his works along with themes of family, hope and redemption alongside a fervent rejection of cynicism and darkness.

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    The Descendants #10 - All Saints and Sinners - Landon Porter

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    All Saints and Spirits (The Descendants, #10)

    by Landon Porter

    All Saints and Spirits (The Descendants, #10)

    © 2016 Landon Porter

    A compilation reprinting:

    The Descendants #10 and Descendants Special #1: Goblins, Witches and Superheroes from www.descendantsserial.com

    Copyright © 2007 by Landon Porter

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the Author. Your support of author’s rights is appreciated.

    All characters in this compilation are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

    Cover made using Hero Machine v3 (http://www.heromachine.com)

    Preface

    The past will always hold sway over the future. It was because of the actions and atrocities of the twentieth century that in the twenty-first century, mankind came to learn that it had birthed a new breed of homo sapiens. Erroneously dubbed psionics, these young men and women bore within them new genetic potentials imprinted upon their bloodlines generations before; potentials to achieve what had been relegated to fiction and fancy before their coming.

    As all humans do, psionics soon found themselves in a position to make moral choices about their capabilities. Many, especially those with benign powers, chose the middling path; simply living normal, average lives with a minor perk or two. Those who chose to employ their abilities for the good of their community were dubbed ‘prelates’ by the media. Those who chose to seek personal gain at the expense of others were dubbed ‘rogues’ by the world’s governments.

    In the United States, it was decided that the best way to prevent rogues from becoming a threat was to train and encourage the proper use of psionic powers. To this end, the privately controlled, but government funded Psionics Training and Application Academy was founded. The Academy provided general education, training and ultimately referred young psionics to jobs in the public service sector. To combat the rogues that would still inevitably arise, a private force of psionics called the Enforcer Corps was founded on the Academy grounds in Langley, VA and given special police powers from the office of the President himself.

    For over two decades, the Academy and the Corps grew into well known institutions in the US, helping to stem the fears regular citizens harbored for psionics.

    It would not last.

    Not because of a flaw in the system, but because ultimately, both organizations had been founded with far less altruistic intentions for the young psionics within their walls.

    What follows is an account of a handful of individuals who were among the first to uncover the truth behind the Academy. Forced into hiding by the deadly Enforcer Corps, they will come together, be torn apart, and transformed into more than just themselves. They will become family and through their actions, a chain of events will unfold that will change the world...

    All Saints and Spirits (Part 1)

    Alexis sat on one of the stone benches in front of Freeland House, taking in the cool of the late October breezes. She was reading with intensity the documentation Laurel had arranged to be sent to her from the Brunswick Boarding School, one of England’s private schools for young descendants.

    Most of what it revealed were things she already knew from her teaching days at the Academy; power control though focus techniques linked to martial arts, overcoming fear of one’s own powers, and many other basic curricula for teaching young descendants about their powers. What interested her; however, were the concepts of ‘power exploration’ and ‘power creativity’.

    The focus when it came to descendants in The UK was based on ensuring there were no ‘accidents’ with undiscovered powers manifesting and harming people. This was opposed to the goal of the Academy's system that focused on putting descendants’ powers to work for the good of society. The difference was that the Academy never put much emphasis on exploring a descendant’s full potential.

    In the UK and several other European nations, this exploration came in the form of stress tests called ‘power exploration’ and learning games called ‘power creativity’. Exploration was based around putting descendants in situations that pushed their powers to the brink; for example, asking a water controller to empty an Olympic sized swimming pool in as little time as possible. Creativity was goal oriented, confronting the descendant with a standard problem and asking them to solve it using only their powers.

    It hadn’t been long ago, after convincing Life Savers, Inc to divulge their exploits, that Alexis had learned that Warrick’s power to convert elemental metals had been discovered in a ‘real world’ exploration scenario. At the very least, there was evidence that the Brunswick School’s proscribed techniques would aid in training Freeland House’s residents; both younger and older.

    The overly loud protest of an engine from the parking lot made Alexis glance over. A

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