Cherreads

Sanctuary Beyond the Rift

The_Open_Book
28
chs / week
The average realized release rate over the past 30 days is 28 chs / week.
--
NOT RATINGS
2.1k
Views
Synopsis
When sixteen-year-old Anna, Twin sister Annabelle and her 3 cousins fall asleep in her basement after a New Year’s party, they expect to wake up to pancakes and lazy winter mornings. Instead, they open their eyes 200 years in the future, in a world that’s fallen to ruin. Cities are crumbling. Nature has reclaimed concrete. Mutated monsters roam the streets. And civilization? Gone. But something else has changed. Anna discovers she now controls space-based powers, able to shield, transport, and preserve anything she touches. Her twin sister Annabelle can command plants. Gwen moves with superhuman speed. Penelope conjures ice. Arthur, ever the brave heart of the group, unlocks fire. Each of them awakens to elemental gifts—but no instruction manual, no guidance, and no one to save them but themselves. Together, they escape the chaos and find refuge in an abandoned school, which Anna slowly transforms using her spatial abilities. She salvages rugs, beanbags, and stuffed animals from a ruined mall—creating warmth in a cold world. Solar panels power salvaged heaters. Plush toys and chalkboard rules bring laughter back into tired eyes. One room at a time, they build not just a shelter—but a home. Their bond grows with every battle and chore. They clean, repair, and defend their new sanctuary with growing strength. But the world outside remains dangerous—and not all monsters have claws. While scavenging near the forest, Anna finds a starving tiger cub and brings it back to safety. But tragedy follows close behind. A massive, bloodied tiger—its father—emerges from the trees, mourning a mate that lies lifeless nearby. It attacks in grief, unstoppable and wild. In a moment of desperation, Anna does the impossible: she reaches out with her space magic not to fight—but to connect. Through sheer will and empathy, she forms a bond of trust, taming the beast without force. The tiger submits—not as a pet, but as a companion. With their new animal allies and their growing powers, the group becomes stronger. Yet questions remain: What ended the world? Why were they brought forward in time? And why do their powers seem almost... chosen? As they dig deeper into the ruins and the strange rift that seems to echo with dormant energy, they realize this wasn’t just an accident. Something—or someone—pulled them here. And they may be part of something much larger than survival. But for now, they take it one day at a time. One blanket fort, one shared meal, one chalkboard rule at a time. In a world where everything familiar has been stripped away, five teenagers and two unexpected tigers begin to carve out a new kind of future—not just surviving the end of the world, but learning to live in it. Soft in tone. Fierce in battle. Bound by love. This is their sanctuary—beyond the rift.
VIEW MORE

Chapter 1 - Abilities

Anna Space Ability

🛡️ DEFENSE SKILLS (Space-Based)

Dimensional Barrier

Surround yourself with a thin layer of distorted space that bends or redirects all incoming attacks, including energy, bullets, and even spatial tears.

Void Phase

Instantly shift your body partially out of phase with this reality. You become intangible, immune to physical damage and most magic for a few seconds.

Spatial Lockdown

Freeze the space in a wide area around you, stopping projectiles, movement, or even time-like effects within a set range.

Mirror Displacement

Incoming attacks hit a false "you" as you instantly swap positions with an empty pocket of space nearby.

Zero Field

Nullify all movement, explosions, or elemental effects within a small sphere by locking space into absolute stillness.

Event Horizon Wall

Raise a massive curved shield that warps and traps any attack that enters it, sending them to a sub-dimension or disintegrating them over time.

Blink Reflect

When struck, automatically teleport the force of the blow back onto the attacker, swapping their position with your impact point.

Spatial Collapse Dome

Encase yourself in a dome of collapsing space. Any intruder is crushed or ejected violently by gravity spikes and folded air.

Displacement Armor

Damage dealt to you is redirected to random points in space—you feel nothing while the world around you suffers the blow instead.

Graviton Veil

Surround yourself in a field of manipulated gravity and warped dimensions that slows all enemies and projectiles, while speeding up your own reactions.

🌟 ASSIST SKILLS (Space-Based)

Teleportation Matrix

Instantly move yourself (or others) across any visible location. Can place "anchor points" to bounce between locations in battle.

Spatial Inventory

A personal sub-dimension for unlimited item storage. Can access weapons, food, tools, or traps instantlyfrom anywhere.

Warp Beacon

Drop dimensional beacons on allies or zones. You can swap them at will or teleport to them for instant reinforcement or escape.

Gravity Shift

Control the gravity of an area: increase to crush enemies or lower to give your team moon-like agility and jumps.

Spatial Restoration

Rewind the space around an object or person by a few seconds—resetting damage, position, or injuries in a small area.

Folded Path

Create invisible shortcuts in space—walk only 5 feet and arrive miles away. Your group travels faster than anyone else can react.

Inversion Zone

Create a field that flips gravity, position, or orientation of enemies or attacks. Make enemies fall sideways, upside down, or toward the sky.

Dimension Blink

A chained multi-dash teleport—blink across the battlefield, dodging with near-omniscience and reappearing instantly behind cover or allies.

Spatial Stabilization

Prevent terrain from breaking, prevent weather effects, stop poison clouds or energy from spreading by locking the battlefield state in a suspended snapshot.

Time-Space Anchor

Stop time from flowing erratically in a zone—nullifies time loops, speed bursts, or slow zones from enemies.

Omni-Perception

View all layers of space at once. See behind walls, through illusions, or even across parallel versions of the battlefield.

Dimensional Echo

Briefly clone yourself into parallel versions (non-combat), allowing you to scout, distract, or complete complex multi-position tasks at once.

Ally Recall

Instantly pull an ally to your location from any distance—rescue skill for saving someone from near-death or traps.

Distortion Field

Surround your team with warped air that bends light and sound. Grants temporary invisibility, silence, and radar evasion.

Void Shelter

Open a pocket dimension to hide yourself and allies in stasis for several minutes—completely safe and untouched, like a hidden bunker.

 BONUS

"Spatial Sovereign": Can sense and alter space within a 5km radius subconsciously. Walking battlefield radar and trap master.

"Dimensional Core": Immune to spatial or teleportation interference. Cannot be sealed or dislocated by enemies.

"Multiverse Awareness": See multiple outcomes and adjust actions accordingly—a kind of precognitive dodge system.

 

Annabelle Plant Ability

⚔️ Attack Skills (Plant-Based)

Thorn Barrage

Launch high-speed thorns or spikes from vines, roots, or your body like bullets.

Venom Bloom

Summon toxic flowers that release paralyzing or corrosive pollen clouds in a wide area.

Whip Vines

Control fast-moving vines that lash enemies with crushing force—can disarm or knock back foes.

Spore Burst

Trigger an explosion of spores from the ground or summoned mushrooms, causing blindness, dizziness, or hallucinations.

Seed Grenade

Throw seeds that rapidly sprout into entangling, spiky plants or explode into shrapnel-like petals.

Root Lance

Spike roots up from the ground to impale enemies from below or trap their feet before attack.

Cannibal Bloom

Grow a large predatory plant that bites or devours anything that gets too close. Think Venus flytrap on steroids.

Needle Rain

From tree leaves or flower petals, unleash a rain of hardened needles over a wide area.

Chlorophyll Flame

Rare offensive ability where you ignite highly flammable plant oils in a controlled burst—used only in desperate situations due to environmental risk.

Sap Trap

Coat an area with fast-hardening, sticky sap to trap enemies in place—perfect for leaving them exposed to your next attack.

🛡️ Defense Skills (Plant-Based)

Living Wall

Instantly grow a thick wall of trees, brambles, or vines between you and a threat.

Armor Bark

Cover your body (or allies') in bark-like armor that resists physical and elemental damage.

Thorn Shield

Summon a swirling shield of razor-sharp vines and brambles that injures anyone who comes close.

Burrow Roots

Dive underground quickly using roots to pull you down and hide you beneath the surface or move through soil unseen.

Bloom Dome

A massive flower or canopy rapidly blooms to enclose and protect you—absorbs impact or attacks before wilting away.

Reactive Vines

Vines act as an automatic counter-defense—whipping out to block or trap any enemy that comes too close.

Poison Mist Field

Surround yourself with toxic plant fumes as a shield—approaching enemies suffer side effects before they can land a hit.

Seed Armor

Coat yourself in hard, shell-like seed pods that break off and regrow. Each break absorbs a hit like body armor.

Photosynthesis Burst

Under sunlight or UV, trigger a sudden defensive boost—harder bark, faster reaction vines, and improved plant speed.

Entangling Counter

Any enemy that hits you is automatically wrapped by hidden vines around your body or the terrain—good for close-range brawls.

Gwen Speed Ability

⚔️ Attack Skills (Speed-Based)

Phantom Strikes

Deliver dozens of hits in the blink of an eye, so fast they land before the enemy even reacts. The classic speedster flurry.

Sonic Blade

Slash or punch at such speed it creates cutting shockwaves or blades of compressed air.

Velocity Crush

Build momentum and slam into enemies at top speed, causing massive impact damage (like a human missile).

Whirlwind Barrage

Spin or circle around the enemy rapidly, creating a vortex that slices or disorients them with pure wind and pressure.

Afterimage Blitz

Leave behind visual afterimages that confuse enemies—attack while they strike at the wrong one.

Flashstep Fangs

Appear behind your target without warning and unleash a strike with devastating precision.

Vibration Punch

Accelerate your punches at a micro-level so fast that they vibrate through armor, stunning or damaging internals.

Speed Rip

Run circles around enemies so quickly that you tear up the ground and create a cutting wind tunnel that shreds everything inside.

Supersonic Snap

Clap, snap, or stomp so fast it creates a sonic boom to damage or disorient enemies at mid-range.

Lightning Lane

Dash straight through the enemy line, cutting or burning through them with speed-induced heat/friction.

🛡️ Defense Skills (Speed-Based)

Flash Dodge

Dodge attacks instinctively with hyperspeed reflexes, almost like teleportation.

Time Skip Reflex

Perceive the world in slow motion for brief moments, allowing you to evade even surprise attacks perfectly.

Cyclone Shield

Spin or run in a tight circle to generate a wind barrier that deflects projectiles or slows down enemies.

Speed Clone

Leave behind a "clone" made of wind and momentum that takes the hit in your place.

Momentum Slip

When hit, redirect the force using your speed instead of resisting—like fluidly bending with the blow and countering instantly.

Acceleration Guard

Vibrate your body at high frequencies to weaken physical impacts, making attacks bounce off or pass through with minimal damage.

Rebound Run

Bounce off surfaces and terrain to make yourself a hard-to-hit moving target, even in confined spaces.

Hyper Reposition

Instantly reposition yourself around an attack to avoid it completely—perfect for ambushes or ranged threats.

Windstep Trail

Your movement generates a tailwind that knocks enemies back or throws off aim, making it hard to target you mid-run.

Ghost Frame

In moments of extreme focus, you can enter a high-speed state where physical attacks pass through you as if you're intangible—like flickering between frames of time.

Arthur Fire Ability

⚔️ Attack Skills (Fire-Based)

Flame Burst

A sudden, explosive release of fire in a wide radius—perfect for close-range crowd control.

Inferno Fist

Coat your fists or weapons in concentrated flames to deal burning impact damage with each strike.

Blazing Wave

Send a horizontal wave of fire rushing forward along the ground like a flaming tsunami.

Fire Lance

Launch a long, concentrated stream of fire like a spear to pierce through enemies at mid-range.

Volcanic Eruption

Slam the ground to erupt geysers of molten lava or flame beneath enemies.

Combustion Touch

Anything you touch can be set on fire—clothes, weapons, or even the air around the enemy.

Firestorm Barrage

Call down a rain of fireballs over a large area, each one exploding on impact.

Ignition Dash

Dash forward surrounded by fire, setting fire to anything you pass through and causing trail damage.

Flash Flare

Release a sudden, blinding burst of intense flame that disorients enemies while scorching their skin.

Hellfire Chains

Summon chains of searing flame that lash out, bind, and burn targets on contact.

🛡️ Defense Skills (Fire-Based)

Flame Armor

Cloak yourself in fire that burns anything that touches you while reducing impact damage through intense heat repulsion.

Heat Mirage

Create shimmering heat distortions around your body that confuse visual targeting, making it harder to hit you accurately.

Fire Wall

Erect a wall of roaring flame to block enemies, projectiles, or divide the battlefield.

Explosion Counter

If hit, you can trigger a burst of flame in retaliation that knocks back and scorches nearby enemies.

Smoke Cloak

Instantly ignite a fiery burst that creates thick, black smoke—used to blind enemies and escape or reposition.

Ash Skin

Temporarily harden your outer body with smoldering ash that absorbs some damage and sets attackers on fire when they hit you.

Flame Redirect

Absorb incoming fire attacks and re-channel them outward as a defense explosion or a redirection wave.

Molten Ground

Ignite the ground around you with fire or lava, making it dangerous for enemies to approach or remain close.

Fire Ring Barrier

Summon a ring of fire around yourself that spins rapidly, deflecting ranged attacks and scorching anything that gets near.

Thermal Shockwave

Emit a pulse of superheated air that knocks back enemies and projectiles like a heat-based force field.

Penelope Ice Ability

⚔️ Attack Skills (Ice-Based)

Frost Fang

Form razor-sharp ice blades on your arms or weapons that slice and freeze on contact.

Glacial Spike

Summon large ice spikes from the ground or air to impale enemies—great for surprise mid-battle strikes.

Icicle Barrage

Launch a rapid-fire volley of icicles like arrows or bullets with freezing effects.

Cold Snap

Instantly lower the temperature in a wide area, flash-freezing water, air, or even blood (slowing or immobilizing enemies).

Frozen Impact

Charge an attack with freezing energy—upon contact, the impact freezes the target and surroundings in solid ice.

Shatter Punch

Strike an already frozen enemy or surface to cause an explosion of sharp ice shards, damaging nearby foes.

Frostbite Trail

As you move or dash, leave behind a path of jagged ice that erupts or traps anyone who follows too closely.

Blizzard Blast

Expel a concentrated gust of freezing wind and snow that cuts visibility and deals frost damage in a wide cone.

Cryo Claws

Grow claws of ultra-cold ice that slice and burn with freezing energy—excellent for melee.

Absolute Zero

A high-level finisher: momentarily drop the temperature to near absolute zero in a small area, causing everything to freeze solid—including air moisture, weapons, or even flame-based attacks.

🛡️ Defense Skills (Ice-Based)

Ice Shield

Instantly generate a wall or dome of solid ice to block attacks—thick, heavy, and regenerating if powered.

Mirror Ice

Create a reflective ice barrier that can deflect light-based or elemental energy attacks back at enemies.

Cryo Skin

Coat your body in a thin layer of frost that hardens like armor, reducing damage and freezing anything that touches you.

Frozen Terrain

Freeze the ground around you to make footing unstable for enemies while enhancing your own mobility.

Mist Veil

Release a burst of freezing fog or frost mist, hiding your movements while freezing attackers who enter it.

Ice Clone

When struck, shatter into ice while your real self dodges away—great for misleading enemies and avoiding killing blows.

Permafrost Barrier

A thick, nearly indestructible ice wall that emerges instantly to tank heavy-hitting attacks.

Frost Pulse

Emit a pulse of cold energy that slows down or weakens incoming projectiles, reducing damage or stopping them mid-air.

Glacier Form

Temporarily become a living glacier with immense resistance to physical and elemental attacks—heavy, slow, but unbreakable.

Encasement Counter

When attacked, reactively coat yourself in a cocoon of ice to absorb the hit and trap attackers who get too close.

Charles Ability Skills

⚔️ ATTACK SKILLS (Lightning)Thunder

Spear

Summon and throw lightning javelins that explode with a shockwave on impact.

Volt Slash

Channel electricity into your blade or hands—each swing sends out an arc of slicing lightning.

Chain Lightning

Strike one enemy and let lightning leap to up to 10 others nearby, intensifying with each jump.

Lightning Burst

Emit a sphere of crackling energy that zaps everything within range.

Thunder Cannon

Concentrate electricity into your palm and fire it like a railgun blast—instantaneous and armor-piercing.

Skybreaker Lance

Summon a giant bolt from the sky, skewering enemies from above with divine-level power.

Magnetize Impact

Charge the enemy or terrain with electric polarity—pull or push enemies into traps or attacks.

Overload Shot

Overcharge a lightning orb and fire it. It detonates in a huge EMP-style pulse that fries magic, machines, or even skills.

Shockstep Blitz

Every step sends out a lightning discharge, damaging the ground and enemies around you.

Wrath Tempest

Surround yourself with rotating lightning blades and rush into battle like a living storm.

Nerve Spike

Directly zap an enemy's nervous system, causing spasms, temporary blindness, or paralysis.

Stormcall Field

Create a storm above a wide battlefield and rain down relentless lightning strikes at random intervals.

Judgement Arc

A high-tier finisher: call down divine, purifying lightning from the heavens to obliterate everything in a straight line.

🛡️ DEFENSE SKILLS (Lightning)Static

Armor

Surround your body in crackling electricity that shocks enemies on contact and deflects projectiles.

Flashstep Evade

Instantly shift a few meters in a blur of lightning—perfect dodge skill with a cooldown.

Lightning Cloak

Temporarily increase your speed and reflexes to dodge and deflect attacks in a streak of blue light.

Electromagnetic Shield

Summon a circular magnetic shield that repels physical and metallic objects.

Conductive Rebound

Reflect enemy elemental or energy-based attacks back at them using lightning conduction.

Discharge Barrier

Create an invisible field of ionized energy that zaps and paralyzes any ranged attack that enters it.

EMP Shock Zone

Disable magical or technological abilities near you for several seconds by releasing a suppressive lightning pulse.

Polarity Trap

Reverse electric flow mid-battle to repel incoming attacks and push enemies back violently.

Thunder Counter

If struck, unleash an automatic retaliatory burst of electricity toward the attacker.

Stunning Halo

Release a low-range field of current that stuns or slows anyone entering it.

⚡🔥 BONUS

Enter a transcendent state where you become a living lightning storm—enhanced reflexes, flight, near-invulnerability, and lightning attacks have no cooldown.

Thunderheart Resurrection

If fatally wounded, your body explodes into lightning and reforms at full power after a delay (limited to once per day).

Sky Rend

Split the sky open and summon a storm vortex that strikes continuously for a full minute, damaging everything in the area.

Quantum Flash

Move so fast using electricity that time appears to freeze for everyone else for a few seconds. Can use this to attack or reposition.

Lightning Avatar Clone

Create a clone made of pure lightning that fights alongside you, acting autonomously and damaging anything it touches.