Mist of Shadows

Replacement Boy that Lived

If waking up in a fucking broom closest hadn't been enough to sell the fact that something was seriously wrong, having a whale of a human tell him to cook breakfast would have been more than enough. To say Myst was unhappy with the situation was an understatement, much like saying the ocean was wet or Death Valley was a bit warm. The only saving grace of the entire mess was the fact that he'd apparently acquired a floating Gamer interface in the process of getting dropped into Harry Potter's ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 2

"What the fuck?" Dean sputtered when he read Vicky's text.

Dennis glanced away from the monitor and looked at his friend that almost never cursed. "What's up?"

"No clue," Dean admitted as he showed Dennis his phone.

'Amy got kidnapped and stuck in the World of Whorecraft game, have you heard of any missing person reports?' Dennis read the text to himself, briefly wondering if Vicky was pulling a prank before realizing that she wouldn't joke about Amy being kidnapped. "I didn...

Reluctant Villainy Part 23

Uber pulled 'his' attention away from the suspiciously familiar starting town and glanced at the  tall, naked and athletic blue haired girl that was lifting her heels and dropping them so that her breasts bounced. "You're having way too much fun with that."

"Probably," Leet admitted with a grin. "Any idea how we're going to get enough cash to grab some basic gear?"

Uber glanced at the jeweled dagger Leet was holding. "We could always kill some monsters or dance around the fou...

Taylor and the Twisted Game

Taylor Hebert jumped and nearly dropped the sheet of cookies she'd just finished taking out of the oven when the doorbell rang. She quickly set the tray on the top of the stove then turned the oven off and headed for the door, grabbing her father's baseball bat on the way on the off chance that it was Emma or one of her friends. 'If this is a prank, I'm going to beat the shit out of you.'

She took a quick peek through the spyhole at the delivery girl then a longer look when she realized...

Reluctant Villainy Part 22

Mist blinked as he went from doing a hundred things with his duplicates to floating in the void with a dark haired stranger and the girl with the umbrella. "Something the matter?" he asked, wondering why he'd gotten yanked out of the world early.

"Other than the fact that you're a horrible villain and Jump Chan is cheating?" the ROB asked sarcastically.

Jump stuck her tongue out at the ROB. "I'm not cheating, he was in a hundred places at once, the hours add up and he was being a ...

Reluctant Villainy Part 21

"This is the day, I finally get my-" Joker's speech was interrupted by what he was fairly sure was a pie in the face.

Batman turned to look at the brown haired girl wearing a kilt and black shirt that was holding another pie, wondering how she'd gotten close without him noticing. "You shouldn't be here, he's dangerous."

"Don't worry, I'm a professional," Myst's duplicate replied as she tossed a pie at Harley who was trying to sneak up on Batman.

Harvey dodged the pie. "Bette...

Rayne and Magic School Part 4

"Work!" Rayne screamed at the plastic ring he'd been trying to imbue with power for the last hour and a half. "Fucking piece of shit!" he cursed as he finished the gestures for the Imbue spell.

"Language…" Yelena trailed off as the plastic ring started glowing with an angry red light. "That shouldn't work."

Derry laughed. "If it works, it works."

"I'll take it," Rayne replied as he looked at the ring. "So, any idea how we're supposed to identify magical items?"

"Not ...

Rayne and Magic School Part 3

Rayne yawned and woke when he heard the bathroom door shut. "What time is it?"

"We have fifteen minutes to get to class," Yelena said as she grabbed her shoes and started putting them on.

"Shit," Rayne grumbled as he crawled out of bed and grabbed his jeans, not particularly concerned about his roommate seeing him in his boxers. "You didn't think to mention it before you got your shower?"

"Was I supposed to?" Yelena asked, not exactly sure how having a roommate worked as she...

Rayne and Magic School Part 2

"Can I help you find something?" Ms. Embris asked as she walked over to where the handsome young man was looking through one of the reference guides, looking a bit lost.

Rayne looked up from the stupidly large book and smiled at the voluptuous librarian dressed in a black and gold one piece swimsuit with a black cape and a witch's hat. "I don't suppose you have a book about the history of the school?"

"This isn't Hogwarts," Embris replied with amusement. "I can't see Ms. Bellafont...

Rayne and Magic School

Rayne stumbled as he went from filling out a stupid Magic Accademy survey on his computer to standing in the entryway of what looked like an expensive old fashioned academy next to a collection of close to twenty movie star quality students looking at the group of ten adults standing in a line ten feet away from the group of teenagers. His gaze swept over the adults, half of them looked vaguely professional while the other half looked like they'd just stepped onto a fantasy porn set, includin...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 7

Richard forced himself to smile rather than curse as the door opened and the director walked into the testing center, wondering if he could convince her to leave before Mystic and Armsmaster got back from testing things with Panacea. "Director."

"Agent Smith," Emily replied as she glanced between the destroyed targets scattered around the room and the lab tech that was standing a foot off the ground and holding what looked suspiciously like a magic wand. "Any problems with the new cape?...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 6

Dave glanced at the PRT agent. "Do you want him?"

Richard pulled his attention away from the young lady that was floating three inches off the ground talking to Dave's partner and glanced at the perp that was in the back of the squad car. "No thanks, he's obviously high as a kite which means we'd probably just send him to the psych ward for evaluation."

"I'll let you know if anything useful turns up," Dave offered.

"Thanks, I'm a bit curious why he thought mugging an obvious...

ROBs and Sidekicks Part 5

"Run from it, destiny arrives all the same," Thanos said as he walked towards his crew and Loki on the alien world.

Myst smiled as he snapped his fingers and opened a portal under Thanos, dropping him into a version of one of his stories right before Lanfear started her rampage with a dark god's power then quickly closed the portal before Thanos could pull off some last minute trick to save himself. "Ashes to ashes and dust to dust."

"You're going with ashes to ashes?" Hermione as...

ROBs and Sidekicks Part 4

Dawn kept one hand on the wall of the 'secret' tunnel as she gazed down at the large pool of 'lava' that filled the bottom of the large cavern. "I'd feel worse about cheating if the dungeon wasn't filled with nasty traps and monsters."

"Same," Myst replied as he studied the guidebook he'd borrowed from one of the guards on the fifth level. "The floating platforms shift, move and drop into the lava if you jump on the wrong one."

"Any reason we can't just fly across?" Beth asked as ...

ROBs and Sidekicks Part 3

Myst used his Save and Load ability to create another 'save game' then stepped through the portal into a dusty workshop that looked like it had been recently looted. He pulled his flashlight out of his pocket and examined the metal door that had runes carved into it as the girls followed him through the door. "Could be worse."

"Where are we?" Dawn asked as she glanced around the room, glad that her gear let her see in the dark.

"If I'm not mistaken, we're under Tara's dungeon in a...

ROBs and Sidekicks Part 2

"This is going to ruin the story," Hermione complained as Myst walked over and grabbed the bronze lamp sitting on a pedestal.

"I'll put it back," Myst replied as he rubbed the lamp, trying not to think of all of the traps that were scattered around the cave that he'd asked Hermione to take them to.

"Nearly phenomenal cosmic power!" a familiar voice said cheerfully as a cloud of blue mist poured out of the end of the lamp and formed into a blue genie.

"You have…" Genie trai...

ROBs and Sidekicks

An: Holiday events screwed up my schedule and I got person napped by family friends... 

Myst nearly knocked his glass of raspberry cider on the floor when he heard a knock on the door to his room. 'What the hell?' He walked over and opened the door and stared in shock as an unfamiliar pink haired girl wearing pajamas with ducks covering them was standing in the hallway rubbing sleep out of her eyes.

"What?" Myst sputtered as the girl sort of stumbled past him into ...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 5

Taylor pulled her attention away from where Beth was kneeling on the mossy ground picking an herb and spun around when she heard a twig snap behind her. She glanced between the five scruffy looking men on the trail holding weapons and the man in expensive looking robes holding a glowing staff.

"Your gold or your lives," the mage said cheerfully.

"Sure, whatever," Taylor replied as she grabbed her coin purse and tossed it to the man with the staff, glad that she'd given all of her ...

Taylor Shard Keeper 4

Annette paused as she went to avoid the suspect step that she needed to fix and realized that it had been replaced. "When did you fix the step?"

"I never got around to it," Danny admitted, knowing he should have made the time once it got to the point it wasn't safe.

"Taylor?" Annette asked thoughtfully.

"Probably," Danny replied as he walked over and opened the door. "We're back."

Taylor pulled her attention away from the computer screen and turned to look at her paren...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 3

Taylor glanced at the line in front of the leatherworker's booth and headed over to the booth with various rock samples and cut gems scattered around on the counter. 'So much for it being like a computer game you never have to wait in line.' She pulled her pack off and grabbed the tokens then walked up to the counter.

"What do you need?" the man behind the counter asked without looking up from the crystal he was working on.

"I have tokens for gem cutting and mining," Taylor said.<...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 2

Danny shook his head. "There's no way they're going to believe you."

"Why not?" Annette asked with amusement, taking another sip of her tea. "My prints are in the system."

"They're in the system?" Taylor asked in surprise, fairly sure her mother had never mentioned actually getting arrested before.

Annette laughed. "I could tell you stories but honestly, everyone that works for the college has to pass a background test which means fingerprints."

"That makes more sense,...

Taylor Shard Keeper Part 1

Taylor blinked when she went from being stuck in her locker filled with a nightmarish collection of biohazard material to floating in space looking at a spiral of stars and a cloaked figure holding a scythe. "What the hell?"

"Perhaps the next time you ask for help you shouldn't include the 'anyone or anything' part of that but you have my attention," the cloaked figure replied in a pleasant sounding feminine voice that sent a shiver down Taylor's spine.

"Are you a villain?" Taylor...

Reluctant Villainy Part 20

"Dungeon of Tears?" Siuan asked warily.

"It's basically a ter'angreal that creates a simulation filled with monsters to fight. By fighting the monsters you can gain strength," Myst explained. "Of course, you could also die so it's a bit of a risk."

"Except you weren't in a dungeon, you were just sitting here," Verin pointed out.

"It also takes a bit for the boost to sink in," Myst replied with a shrug. "I'm still working on finding a combination of ter'angreal that would kee...

Reluctant Villainy Part 19

'You're wrong Anakin, they're smart enough to understand, they just don't care,' Myst's duplicate mused as he walked over to the group of Tusken Raiders that were sneaking towards a moisture farm. "Which makes it worse," he muttered as he started tossing stunning spells at the raiders.

"What do you think you'll accomplish hunting the natives?" Revan asked as she watched the last of the thirteen raiders fall to the ground.

"Considering they were planning on killing any males they f...

Reluctant Villainy Part 18

Myst's sort of disconnected duplicate scowled as he looked down at the collection of 'ant-sized' people running around the Whitecloak courtyard, trying to figure out how their vault had vanished along with every bit of gold in the complex. 'For an organization that is supposed to be dedicated to destroying darkfriends, you're horrible at recognizing actual darkfriends.'

He didn't have an exact count of the number of darkfriends in the Whitecloaks, mostly because he hadn't been keeping t...

Reluctant Villainy Part 17

"Fucking Gotham!" Raven snapped as she dodged yet another blast of dark fire from the lunatic in robes that was floating over the city tossing shadow bolts at her friends and any innocent bystanders he saw.

"Scutum ferunt ex auctoritate Innocentii!" Clark chanted as he raised his hands, a glowing shield of golden energy taking form over the subway entrance that the lunatic had been trying to collapse.

Beast Boy set a woman down on the 'safe' side of the shield then changed from hi...

Reluctant Villainy Part 16

Myst glanced up from his surprisingly delicious soup when he felt another magic user walk into the inn. He studied the weary looking woman as she walked over, her unbound hair and expensive looking blue dress and cloak at odds with the local villager's clothes and braids. "Something on your mind?"

"You're not from around here, are you?" Moiraine asked as she studied the dark haired woman in strange clothes a man might wear but were of a make that she'd never seen before, trying to wrap ...

Reluctant Villainy Part 15

Myst had a brief second of feeling like he was being hurled by an angry god before he ended up in the void between worlds. "That was unpleasant."

The girl with the umbrella snickered. "That's what happens when a couple of angry angels open a portal through time to a fraction of a second before you're set to leave and don't anchor it to the world."

"In other words, I fell through the portal and you grabbed me?" Myst asked thoughtfully, wondering if his immunity to time travel faile...

Reluctant Villainy Part 14

Myst pulled his attention away from his hoard of duplicates that were looting and demolishing the various vaults and businesses that the Death Eaters from Ivy's world owned and focused on the teenage waitress walking out of the kitchen with someone's fish and chips. 'How many magical bindings do you need on a fourteen year old?' he mused as he used his Kingmaker ability to give her the Power Hub ability then unlocked his magic immunity.

Ivy shivered and turned to look at the short haire...

Reluctant Villainy Part 13

"Do you know what time it is?" Caleb demanded as he opened the door to his hotel so he could stab the person that was knocking on his door at three in the morning. He blinked when he saw the short blonde teenage girl dressed like a naughty Girl Scout holding a basket of Girl Scout cookies. "Does your mother know where you are?"

"Nope!" the girl replied cheerfully as she looked at the man that bore a passing resemblance to a certain actor. "I'm selling Girl Scout nookie, are you interest...