Mist of Shadows

Reluctant Villainy Part 12

"I'm not sure this was worth the decrease in cost," Amelia grumbled as she finished lengthening the minion's femur of her newly regenerated leg so it matched her other femur. "Do you want me to remove your warts and moles?"

"No thanks, I'd rather terrify the students," the teacher replied with a smirk before shoveling more tuna and noodles down her throat, not bothering to close her mouth all the way while she was chewing.

Myst used his Skill Management power to give his minion so...

Reluctant Villainy Part 11

"You had way too much fun with that," Mione pointed out, hoping the elder wasn't going to cause too much trouble.

"What made you change your mind about the book?" Hermione asked as she worked on drying off.

"I realized that a decent villain would steal it without stealing it so they'd never know," Myst replied with a grin as his duplicate kicked the Source through a portal into the far reaches of space, forty five billion years in the future in a world the Source wouldn't be able ...

Reluctant Villainy Part 10

Piper stared in disbelief when she opened the door to the hallway and saw a deserted tropical beach rather than the hall like she'd been expecting. She stared blankly at the naked red haired woman sprawled on a beach towel that was reading a book. "What the hell?"

"I'm trying to catch some sun without bursting into flames," Myst's duplicate replied with amusement.

Piper closed the door then opened it again to make sure she wasn't just seeing things. "Why is my door connected to a ...

Reluctant Villainy Part 9

Hermione frowned when she noticed Myst wince. "What's wrong?"

Myst glanced between Ginny and Mione, doing his best to ignore the various images he'd seen of them collapsing or exploding from overloading their systems with magic. "There's a limit to the number of powers a witch or wizard can get a time without negative effects which means we're going to have to build up everyone's magic before we go completely nuts."

"How do we do that?" Mione asked, curious if he had a shortcut th...

Reluctant Villainy Part 8

"Shit!" Neville Longbottom cursed as he dove out of the way of the fireball some lunatic had just tossed in his general direction, dropping his ice cream cone in the process.

"Don't worry, you get used to it," Anne Hebert grumbled as she pulled a potion bottle out of her pocket, being careful to stay hidden behind the table she was using for cover.

"How?" Neville sputtered, fairly sure his fellow Gryfindor had lost her marbles.

"You just do," Taylor added as she projected he...

Reluctant Villainy Part 7

"If I wished for a way to easily create money, how would you grant it?" Ginny asked, glancing between Hermione and Myst.

"I'd reach through time to a world where Voldemort acquired the Philosopher's stone and steal it for you," Myst replied with amusement.

"How is that a bad thing?" Sirius asked as Lily walked into the drawing room with Harry.

"She's not an alchemist, she'd have to do actual work to learn to use it," Hermione explained.

"Pretty much," Myst replied with...

Reluctant Villainy Part 6

Harry glanced between Myst and Riley when they reappeared. "That's not my mother."

"No shit," Myst replied with a grin. "This is my friend Riley, one of your mother's charges and a friend of mine."

"Hi," Riley offered then worked on finishing the last of her burger.

"Trouble?" Hermione asked.

Myst held up his thumb and index finger a centimeter apart. "Just a bit, Riley has a demonic bounty on her head because of her powers and Harry's mother can't talk to him or check...

Reluctant Villainy Part 5

"This should do it," Hermione said as she handed Myst the scrap of parchment she'd written her wish on.

"I wish you to give Harry and I a significant boost to our magical powers in a way that doesn't hurt innocents or cause us permanent harm or damage," Myst read the paper, not sure how he was supposed to monkey paw the wish. "Is that your wish?"

"Yes," Hermione said, hoping she wasn't making a mistake.

"Wish granted! Just give me a second to do the ritual," Myst said cheerf...

Reluctant Villainy Part 4

Petwork's clone pulled her attention away from the smoking crater where the church used to be and focused on Myst. "Just a thought, but the next time you kidnap a homicidal lunatic with tinker tech explosives, you should probably leave the explosives behind."

"I wasn't expecting him to have tinkertech," Myst admitted as he reached through time to a couple of seconds before the explosion and teleported the large screen television to the bar. "How long do you think it will take the cops t...

Reluctant Villainy Part 3

Alexandria glanced at Contessa and Kurt as they walked into the conference room. "You're late."

"I'm aware," Contessa replied as she sat down. "I was running a path to make sure the Fallen won't be able to raise the required funds to stop Rainbow Starstrike from destroying another endbringer."

"And I was making sure none of their members could access their funds," The Number Man said as he set his laptop on the table, sat down in his seat and got back to work, wanting to make sure...

Reluctant Villainy Part 2

Myst was walking by one of the labs when he heard someone say, "Come on, let me play with your pussy." He stopped and turned to look through the door at the scrawny man wearing a Megaman costume that was holding a screwdriver and the teenage girl wearing a blue hoodie, a cloth mask over the bottom part of her face and a dark visor that was holding an orange cat protectively.

"Go to hell," the girl replied sarcastically. "I'm not losing another cat because you have yet another awesome id...

Reluctant Villainy

Myst pulled his attention away from the featureless void and glanced between the smug bastard wearing a trench coat that reminded him a bit too much of the various actors that he disliked and the umbrella carrying black haired girl that reminded him of Wednesday Addams. "Let me get this straight, this ROB," he pointed at the trench coat wearing asshole, "has a ticket for a jumpchain and wants to send a soulless demon on the ride but you managed to talk him into sending someone on a hellish ni...

Dragon King Part 11

"You'd better have a good reason for stealing Path," the man that looked a fair bit like a certain actor growled as he stalked over with a blonde girl about Jean's age that was holding a glowing magical blade.

Myst glanced between the girl's sword and Logan's adamantium claws that were dripping a green substance he was fairly sure was alien blood then focused on Logan's face. "I didn't mean to steal her, my ability summoned a box, she was in it."

"Relax, I'm fine," Jean assured Lo...

Dragon King Part 10

Myst wasted no time prying the magic box open, despite the enchantment on the box that should maintain the air quality, being trapped in a box couldn't be pleasant. He helped the red haired child climb out of the box, barely noticing her short green dress, green eyes or her half mask thanks to reading her name on his upgrade page. 'Jean Grey?' His gaze jumped down to the talents and powers section, not sure if he should be surprised or not that she had empathy, telepathy and telekinesis at a ...

Dragon King Part 9

Myst wasn't sure how to feel as he sat down on the annoyingly uncomfortable throne and looked at the group of assembled nobles that were waiting for him to say something about the Ironborn. He was fairly sure he could thank the timing of the Ironborn's rebellion and Lyanna's survival for the fact that his coronation had gone off without any real trouble beyond some mostly harmless glares by lords on opposing sides of the rebellion. "I'll try to keep this brief, I know most of you have better ...

Copy Cat Part 1

Myst wasn't sure which god he'd pissed off to get stuffed into the locker from hell in Taylor's place, nor the name of the bastard he'd heard walking down the hallway with shitty music playing when he'd been banging on the door like a deranged lunatic or even the identity of the team of goons that had hauled him out of the hospital while he'd been drugged out of his mind but they were going on his list of people that needed to die.

Of course, he hadn't known that he was stuck in Worm un...

Dragon King Part 8

Myst glanced away from where Lyanna and Laurena were sparring when he heard the door to the tower open and focused on his silver haired grandmother and seven year old uncle as they walked out of the tower with Barristan Selmy. 'Hopefully this doesn't explode in my face. I don't want to have to kill him on the off chance that he ends up halfway reasonable but he's unstable enough that he'd make a horrible king.' He smiled at his grandmother. "Welcome back to King's Landing."

"Thank you,"...

Dragon King Part 7

"You can't be seen with whores or creatures your grace," the newly elected High Septum argued, looking down his nose at the future king and ignoring Varys shaking his head behind the child.

Myst's forced smile slipped from his face as he glared at the overweight priest that had interrupted his dinner after he'd already had a frustrating day practicing his lines for the coronation, working out the details of what everyone in the royal party was wearing with his mother and where his grand...

Dragon King Part 6

Myst jumped back when his artifact of doom wheel stopped spinning and a familiar looking sword fell to the courtyard, covered in frost. He scowled when he checked it up with his upgrade ability and saw the name of the sword, confirming his guess. "Not quite what I was expecting but that certainly counts as an artifact of doom."

"Is that Frostmourne?" Dawn asked warily, having seen the distinctive blade on the screen more than a few times when the Lich King killed her raid group because ...

Dragon King Part 5

Myst yawned as he woke up, wishing he could go back to sleep as he wasn't sure how well Elia was actually taking things. It had taken a few hours and a knife to prove that he wasn't some shape changing monster that had stolen her son's body after he'd admitted to having more knowledge than he should. Things had been more than a little tense after that and finding out that he'd basically read a 'history' of how things might have gone hadn't really helped, especially when he'd admitted that the...

Dragon King Part 4

"Watching?" Rhaenys asked her brother, wanting to make sure he didn't miss the fun.

Myst spent the mana to improve Rhaenys' training aura from 4% a minute to 5% then focused on his sister and her toy dragon. "Ready."

Rhaenys giggled when she let her toy dragon go and it jumped out of her hands and smashed into the block castle her brother had just finished building. "Dragon."

Myst laughed as he watched the toy dragon demolish the last ten minutes of work to the delight of hi...

Dragon King Part 3

Myst pulled his attention away from the spinning translucent gacha wheel hovering in front of him and looked at the door as it opened. "Dinner?" he asked innocently, trying to pretend that there was nothing wrong.

"Yes…" Elia trailed off when she spotted the dragon shaped stuffed toy that her daughter was chasing around the room. "Where did you get that?"

Myst glanced at the stuffed dragon that was flying around the room, narrowly avoiding getting caught by his sister. "Same pla...

Dragon King Part 2

Myst was more than happy to leave Varys and Elia to deal with the details of ending the war with the occasional question tossed in, mostly because his younger self hadn't caught most of the details so his memories weren't as much help as he'd like. He carefully fed threads of the death tainted magic covering the city into a Tome gacha wheel and let it spin while he listened to Varys and Elia discuss the war in the other room. 'Short term goals, survive the next couple of days. Slightly longer...

Dragon King Part 1

Rhaenys Targaryen knew they were going to die, she could hear the dying and broken screams of their guards, the pounding of iron on the heavy wooden door and the groaning of iron as the hinges failed under the monstrous strength striking it. She felt a shiver as she watched her terrified older brother go from shaking like a leaf as he watched the door barely able to keep his 'dagger' steady to standing tall or at least as tall as a five year old could.

Myst wasn't sure who or what the h...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls part 8

"It's like a train wreck," Hermione muttered as she watched the naked girls Harry had summoned share a kiss on Harry's bed. "I should be hitting you with a newspaper."

"It's a bit distracting," Harry admitted, not looking up from writing the runes for their transformation rings on a scrap of parchment. 'You'll have plenty of time to look and mess around later, just focus on getting the runes done.'

One of the girls stopped kissing her 'twin' long enough to ask, "Do you want us to ...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls Part 7

'This would be so much easier with Hermione's help,' Neville mused as he walked down the aisle of books, looking for interesting covers while he worked his way towards the fantasy section, figuring they'd have the best loot. 'Romance, not exactly useful.'

He stopped when he noticed a book that showed a teenager walking down a street with girls wearing strangely transparent clothes on the cover. 'Melvin and the Magic Glasses?' he mused as he glanced around to make sure no one was watchin...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls Part 6

Neville's mind skipped a couple of tracks, causing him to almost drop the two wrapped up firebolts he was carrying towards the owl post office when he saw a girl on a blindingly pink bicycle ride out of the wall of a shop in front of him, spin the muggle bike around and come to a stop a couple of feet in front of him. "What the hell?" he blurted as he looked at the ten or eleven year old girl in shorts and a t-shirt that rode like Harry flew.

"Are you Neville Longbottom?" the girl asked...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls Part 5

"What?" Harry asked as he woke up enough to realize someone was knocking on the door.

"Breakfast is going to be ready in ten minutes. I have a couple of questions about summoning, are you decent?" Hermione asked.

Harry turned his head to look at the sleepy blue haired girl that had 'possession' of his arm. "More or less."

"More or less?" Hermione asked as she opened the door and stared at the two naked girls on the bed with the covers only partially covering them. 'I need a ...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls part 4

"What do you think you're doing!" Molly demanded, staring at Harry's wand and the almost sparklingly clean bathroom in disbelief. "You can't use magic outside of school!"

"No, it's just against the rules," Harry said sarcastically as he waved his wand at the sink. "Scourgify."

"If you can't follow the rules, give me your wand!" Molly snapped as she held out her hand.

"No," Harry replied as he turned and looked at the red faced witch. "You wanted the rooms cleaned, they're cl...

Harry Potter and the Magical Girls part 3

Harry glanced around the dark and creepy library, surprised that someone had cleaned the table but left the books and shelves alone. "Is there a reason you haven't cleaned everything?"

"Sirius wanted to make sure none of the books would try to eat me or melt my brain," Hermione explained as she sat down in front of her stack of textbooks.

"Considering his family, that makes a disturbing amount of sense," Harry said as he walked over and sat down next to Hermione. "Can I borrow you...