Mist of Shadows

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 35

Carol Dallon looked down her nose at Victoria as she handed her the paperwork she’d requested. “This would be easier if your friends were an official team.”

Victoria glanced over at her father that was sitting in his favorite chair, looking rather amused and being no help at all. “If you know a way to avoid the unofficial, yet more or less mandatory power testing required for the registration, they’d probably be interested.”

“Technically speaking, you’re just required to ...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 34

Victoria scowled as she saw former commander Calvert’s face. “Huh, he always was a slimy bastard.”

“Certainly explains how he managed to avoid the PRT,” Richard grumbled.

Kevin took a couple pictures of Coil then put his phone back in his pocket. “Are we still handing him over?”

“As opposed to what?” Victoria asked.

“A long walk off a short pier?” Kevin asked jokingly.

Victoria shook her head, reasonably sure he was joking. “We�...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 33

Victoria felt like laughing as the adrenaline hit and she pushed her flight as fast as she could in her mad ‘dash’ toward the town. As much as she would have liked to hit a couple of the flying capes to test their durability and see what they dropped, she didn’t want to risk them having some bullshit counterattack power or shield like some of the people in the game.

She’d barely crossed the town wall when her mask’s danger sense screamed that she needed to dodge. She...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 32

Taylor looked down at the unconscious villain she’d just shocked half to death because he wouldn’t fall down and she’d decided that his suit was heavily insulated. “What the hell was wrong with him? He wouldn’t go down and he was smirking like he’d won, then he just started screaming and dropped like a rock.”

“No clue, certainly a delayed response,” Gothic replied as she worked on cutting his costume enough that she could touch his skin and put him in a medical coma so that h...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 31

Taylor looked up from sticking her books in her locker as a concerned looking Amy hurried over. “What’s up?”

“Have you checked your phone yet?” Amy asked, keeping track of the various other students that should be too far away to overhear as long as she didn’t shout.

“Not yet. I turned it off to save the battery, why?” Taylor asked as she pulled her gloves on.

“The other Amy sent me a rather vague message about running into a problem that she needed help with.”<...

Hermione Granger and the Watch Part 15

Selena frowned as she looked at Ralph’s half charred skull. “Shouldn’t he have fallen over or woken up? How long does your spell last, anyways?”

“A while, everything will go back to normal when we remove the spell,” Harry explained.

“So we can set him on fire again?” she asked hopefully.

“If we do it right, he’ll even be awake when we do it,” Harry said as he finished packing up her stuff.

“You’re my new favorite wizard,” Selena sa...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 30

Danny stepped through the portal on the cupboard and glanced around the lobby of the movie theater. It was an interesting blend of modern and old fashioned that managed to look tasteful rather than soulless and tactless. He smiled as he caught the scent of freshly popped popcorn and real butter. “That smells good.”

“Just wait until you taste it,” Gothic replied with amusement as she skipped over to the counter. “Two popcorns please.”

“Coming right up,” th...

Hermione and the Watch Part 14

“Neither can live while the other survives,” Hermione mused to herself as they loaded their bags with time turners and various other priceless artifacts from the Hall of Time.

“I love you but give it a rest,” Harry replied with a sigh. “You’ve been playing with the wording for the last twenty minutes.” It was almost enough to wish they hadn’t listened to the stupid prophecy sphere. “It’s not going to change the fact that my parents are dead or that Voldemor...

Hermione and the Watch Part 13

Harry was despite his best intentions a touch ‘impressed’ with the sheer level of corruption in the ministry. It wasn’t so much mustache twirling evil as it was a very well entrenched good old boy network of pureblood shit. Oh, your cousin got caught using obliviate on muggles for personal gain, it’s only muggles, pay a fine or even here’s a job in the obliviation department because he’s obviously good at it. Ex-dark wizard? Sure, we’ll just stick you in creature disposal because w...

Hermione and the Watch Part 12

Harry frowned as he glanced at the frozen portrait on the wall eight feet ‘behind’ where Draco had taken a tumble thanks to his shoelaces ‘spontaneously’ tying themselves together. “I’m a touch surprised Dumbledore hasn’t covered every inch of the castle with his magical spies.”

“I’m fairly sure there are limits, even the purebloods would notice if every surface was covered with portraits,” Hermione replied as she glared at Draco’s frozen face. “Do yo...

Hermione and the Watch Part 11

Ginny froze as she woke up in an unfamiliar bed next to an naked girl. She relaxed as glanced up and saw Hermione’s smiling face. “Please tell me this is going to be a thing.”

Hermione smiled as she looked at the naked redhead. “I certainly hope so.”

Ginny glanced at Hermione’s breasts as she sat up then pulled her attention to the rather thick book her friend was reading. “What are you reading?”

“An occlumency book that Sirius had, I’d rather n...

Hermione and the Watch Part 10

“How much more do I have to read before I’m influenced enough to molest Ginny?” Hermione asked as she looked up from the Occlumency book and over at Harry who walking back from the bathroom.

Harry shrugged. “You’ve been reading it for a good thirty minutes, you should be fine though I’m kicking myself for not asking the same question.”

“Considering she gave you permission to strip and eat her, I’m pretty sure groping was implied and encouraged.”

Hermione and the Watch Part 9

Hermione pushed the button then twitched as the sounds of the common room came back with a vengeance after the quiet and she ‘woke’ up from being slightly out of it. She blushed slightly as she glanced over at Ginny who was moving her chess piece like nothing had happened. ‘I can’t believe I groped her without permission, what the hell was I thinking?’ She turned to look at Harry and blurted the first thing that came to her mind, “Do you want to help me with my patrol?�...

Hermione and the Watch Part 8

Hermione smiled at Luna as she walked into the Great Hall with Harry and found the blond witch standing next to the Gryffindor table waiting for them. “Hopefully this clears up some of the confusion.”

“Sure, let’s go with that,” Harry replied in a whisper as they walked over to the Gryffindor table to talk with Luna. He wasn’t sure how he was supposed to feel, on the one hand Fudge had dragged his name through the mud, on the other the whole mess had at least showe...

Hermione and the Watch Part 7

Ron glared at Harry’s rather cheerful expression, the least he could do if they had to be awake this early was look upset about it. “It’s too early to be awake.”

“It’s not my fault Seamus woke you up by shouting before storming out,” Harry pointed out with a bit of amusement. They’d ended up spending most of the night reading their history books and sharing stories in an attempt to fall asleep, sadly or not they’d been far too wired and actually got a decent ...

Hermione and the Watch Part 6

Harry watched the beetle they’d set on the watch when Hermione unpaused then paused time as it walked around on the table. “That part of the seems to have worked.” He reached out and smashed the beetle. “Sorry, it’s for science.”

Hermione frowned as she glanced between the watch and the squashed bug remains. “It’s not respawning.”

“Give it a couple seconds?” Harry asked hopefully.

“1, 2, 3, 4, 5?” Hermione waited a couple seconds then reac...

Hermione and the Watch Part 5

Harry yawned as he woke up curled up with Hermione, his first thought ‘Oh shit, we’re late!’ then he realized it was still dark outside. “We never restarted time, did we?” 

Hermione yawned as she woke up. “What did you say?”

“I asked if we’d restarted time?” Harry asked as he ran his eyes over Hermione’s naked body, enjoying the fact that for one glorious moment or a chain of moments, his life didn’t suck.

“We sort of forgot about tha...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 29

Richard frowned as he studied the strange box like machine with several different colored hoppers on the top that Kevin had spent half the morning working on. “Now that you’re finished are you going to tell me what you’ve been working on?”

Kevin finished closing the safety panel on the side of his latest creation then took a step back as he glanced at the power switch on the side of the machine. “Sure.”

“Okay, what is it?”

“No idea,” Kevin admit...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 28

Taylor twisted slightly as she brought her left sword up and deflected the fake Emma’s punch then brought the nasty dungeon glass sword in her right hand down on the fake’s elbow, severing the limb and doing a fair amount of damage to her health bar. She ignored the thing’s screams as she kicked the bitch’s knee. She ignored the little voice in the back of her head screaming about heroic behavior as she proceeded to viciously kick her ex-friend’s fallen doppelganger until she turned in...

Hermione and the Watch Part 4

Hermione hugged Harry to her chest as she stared at down at the city filled with the lights of motionless cars as they flew toward Sirius’s house, it was really quite beautiful if a bit nerve wracking everytime Harry made an unexpected altitude change or leaned too far one way or another, thankfully it hadn’t taken him long to adjust to having a second person on his broom, otherwise it would have been a worse flight and she wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the sights. “We’...

Hermione and the Watch Part 3

“He’s always going to choose his stomach, isn’t he?” Harry asked with a bit of amusement as they headed back toward the common room, sans Ron because he wanted to keep stuffing his face, something he was actually thankful for, for once.

“You should be used to it,” Hermione pointed out.

“If I hadn’t seen Mrs. Weasley’s cooking, I’d swear she starved him.”

Hermione opened her mouth then closed it as she saw a group of Hufflepuffs turn and hurry ...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 27

Taylor followed the group into the office then closed and locked the door. “At least the food is good.”

“That’s not going to stop Lung from burning it to the ground,” Kevin pointed out as he walked over to the desk and picked up one of the night vision visors.

“I’m aware,” Taylor acknowledged with a touch of annoyance as she thought about what one of the police officers had said when he’d thought she couldn’t hear, ‘There goes another group of independent heroes.’...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 26

“I got it,” Gothic called as she jumped up and ran over to the door. She opened the door then blinked and took a step back as she came face to face with Darth Vader. Her hands were half way up to blast him with lightning before she noticed the shopping bag he was holding and changed plans. She let lightning crackle over her hands as she exclaimed, “You’ll never take me alive Imperial Scum!”

Kevin quickly held up his hands as he glanced warily at the lightning dancing...

Hermione and the Watch Part 2

Hermione flicked and swished her wand as she carefully pronounced the words the book had shown her after figuring out the last half dozen counterspells in the annoyingly complex book. She smiled in relief as the red text that was making the green text so damned hard to read vanished. “Finally!”

Harry snorted. “Finally we’re done or finally this gives us another part of the spell to copy books or finally another spell to figure out something on one of the other pages by ani...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 25

Amy yawned as she closed her math book. “Done, let’s beat up some ninjas before we figure out what we’re going to grab for dinner.”

“I’m game,” Gothic agreed as she opened the menu for the ninja game she’d been playing for the last hour so she could save her game, “assuming Taylor can make the dungeon.” 

“Let’s find out,” Taylor replied as she dropped her costume on her equipment doll, quickly getting dressed for dungeon running.

“That’s so cheati...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 24

Amy smiled as she sat down next to Taylor at the lunch table. “How’s your first day?”

Taylor glanced around the cafeteria warily. “I keep expecting people to start harassing me or have someone come in with a note that says there was a mistake and I have to go back to Winslow,” Taylor admitted softly.

Amy opened her sack lunch and pulled out her sandwich. “Worst case, you drop out and take the G.E.D.”

Taylor shook her head. “Is that supposed to be reassuring?”

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 23

Danny sighed in relief as Taylor walked back up the stairs, looking none the worse for wear from her scouting. “Anything?”

“Nothing good,” Taylor complained as she made her way over to the group. “There are a couple dozen hell knights and blue succubi just in the first large chamber.”

“Great,” Kevin muttered sarcastically.

“Blue? Like the mini boss?” Vicky asked warily.

Taylor sighed. “Pretty much. I tossed a rock at a stalagmite on the other side of the...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 22

Armsmaster frowned as he studied the five unknown capes that were explaining their version of events to Battery. He’d have dismissed them as idiots for thinking leather armor would keep them safe except their boots, cloaks and masks were obviously tinkertech which meant that their armor might be more durable than it looked. “Where did you get your tinkertech from?”

“Neverland, she’s the best,” Gothic replied with amusement.

Armsmaster glanced between the girl that had just sp...

Hermione and the Watch

An: Random free chapter because the actually story chapter got delayed at the beta.  

Harry Potter yawned as he woke up feeling like he’d overslept. He pulled the curtains back and checked the old fashioned clock on the wall. “Six twenty seven…” he trailed off as he realized that none of the hands of the clock were moving. ‘Shit, I’m late.’ He jumped out of bed, ready to get changed and rush off to bed when he glanced at the window and realized that i...

Taylor Hebert Dungeon Girl Part 21

Sherrel scowled as she stepped out of her current workshop and glanced around at the unwashed drugged out idiots sprawled over the sad excuses for furniture they’d assembled in the old garage. ‘Mike… Frank? Maybe Frank…’ she wasn’t sure, she normally just called him hey fucker, or hey you. She glanced at a skinny waste of a woman being fucked from behind by a guy she was fairly sure was one of Skid’s muscle or at least had been before Hookwolf had murdered Skids. She could already ...