Mist of Shadows

Traveling Magic Shop Part 2

Myst glanced at the door when the bell rang, letting him know that another child had found his way to the shop. 'Two dozen children in less than an hour, there's no way word should be spreading this fast, especially since I don't think anyone has actually left. Two dozen kids with muddy boots, at least half of which are leaving trash on the tables, expecting people to clean up after them. I'm starting to see why the old shopkeeper hated kids.'

"Can I get a tin of breath mints," one of t...

Traveling Magic Shop

Myst closed the door on the mailbox then started walking back up the driveway as he sorted through the junkmail. 'Ads for shit I don't need and shit I don't want…" he trailed off when he saw a postcard, "Choose your own adventure! Magical Shopkeeper?"

He glanced at the back, wondering if it had a return address so he could return the favor to whichever friend had sent it as a prank. "Limited time offer, become the magical shopkeeper that you always wanted to be, sign up now and get Up...

Broken Soul Part 19

"Read ‘em and weep," the purple skinned demon girl said as she placed three kings face up on the table.

"Shit," Mikron complained as he tossed his hand on the table.

Jinx pulled her attention off the jock that was busy fucking a demon girl on stage and looked at Mikron, causing her pink hair to almost hit Zatanna in the face. "This is why I folded, she was way too smug."

"This would be easier with my goggles," Mikron grumbled, wishing they hadn't insisted he take off his '...

Broken Soul part 18

Myst pulled his attention away from the television when he heard someone knock on the door of the hotel room. "I've got it."

"Cool," Selena called out from the bathroom.

"Thanks," Ron said, not looking up from the handheld computer game he was playing.

Myst walked over and opened the door, figuring it was someone with the hotel or someone that had the wrong door. He glanced between Kara and Clark then focused on the stranger that was dressed in slacks and a white dress shirt...

Broken Soul Part 17

Myst watched the portal close then turned his attention back to the suspiciously normal looking forest. "Can anyone sense anything?" he asked the group as he pulled his enchanted compass out of his pocket, wondering if Peter or Gwen were picking anything up as his spider sense had stopped tingling once the portal closed.

"I'm not sensing anything dangerous in the area," Peter replied as he glanced around, not seeing anything that jumped out at him as being strange or out of place for a ...

Broken Soul Part 16

"Jack?" Myst's avatar blurted when the pirate that he'd been sneaking up on turned to look at him and he recognized him.

"That depends, does this Jack owe you money?" Jack asked as he studied the man in front of him that was holding a bag filled with bottles and hats of various types in one hand and a staff in the other.

"No," Myst replied, half tempted to say yes.

"Do you want to kill or capture him?" Jack asked.

"No," Myst replied, not seeing a reason to try to kill ...

Broken Soul Part 15

"This is going to be awesome!" Ron exclaimed as he created a shadow clone, causing his shadow to vanish and a clone to appear wearing his shorts.

"Zoom!" Ron's shadow clone shouted then flew up into the air.

Myst tilted his head back and watched the shadow clone as it accelerated, going straight up. "Is there a reason your clone took off like a bat out of hell?"

"I was thinking about reaching orbit, you know, being the first man in space under his own power," Ron mused.

Broken Soul Part 14

"How are you feeling?" Myst asked Amy as he walked over to where she was sitting with Selena by the campfire cooking breakfast.

"Like there's a stranger looking back at me in the mirror," Amy admitted after a couple of seconds of thought. "I spent half the night torturing myself and I feel fine, pretty sure I should be in a psych ward and I actually feel good, it's disconcerting? Strange? Weird?"

"I'd be doing the same if I had your talent," Myst replied as he knelt down on the sa...

Broken Soul Part 13

Akari studied the chair that Myst was cutting apart as she walked over with a hotdog for him. "Is there a reason you're abusing that poor chair?"

Myst glanced up at Akari, rather happy that she hadn't gotten dressed after she'd hopped in the shower with Ron. "I'm trying to figure out the best way to make a shelter that doesn't involve using a bunch of leaves that we have to keep replacing."

Akari handed him the hotdog. "Have you considered summoning chairs that you can stack, like...

Broken Soul Part 12

"Do you think we should give her some rum to help her forget everything?" Akari asked thoughtfully as she watched Amy flirt with Taylor.

"Pretty sure it doesn't work that way, it's more likely that she'll do something she regrets but remember it anyway," Selena pointed out.

Myst pulled his attention off where Akari was sprawled out on a lawn chair in the coconut bikini top and nothing else and glanced over at where Amy was leaning over one of the conjured lawn chairs, giving every...

Broken Soul Part 11

"I was sort of hoping we'd find a resort," Akari admitted as she glanced around the abandoned campsite that had seen better days.

"Is it really camping if you're staying in a resort?" Selena teased as she pulled her attention away from the bamboo framework of a 'cabin' that had fallen apart over the years.

"At least we're in the tropics," Myst said as he tried to figure out the best way to get started clearing the area so they could use it. "I don't suppose you have a tent in your...

Broken Soul Part 10

"Did you even sleep?" Selena asked as she walked out of her room and saw Myst sitting on the couch looking through a large pile of technique scrolls that hadn't been there when she'd gone to bed.

"I snagged about four hours, maybe five," Myst replied with a yawn, not actually sure how much sleep he'd gotten since he didn't have a watch. "I would have kept draining the lake of sludge until it was empty, but we noticed our sense of smell was coming back and decided to make a run for the n...

Broken Soul Part 9

"Cheerful place," Myst muttered as he glanced between the rusty circular disk that should have been covering the shaft that provided access to the sewer, the sludge piled up near the shit stained walls and the dead rats scattered around the dead end alley.

"Try disgusting," Taylor complained, having second thoughts about helping now that she was actually here rather than looking through the eyes of a spirit beast.

"Were you expecting rainbows and puppies?" Myst asked as he used hi...

Broken Soul Part 8

'Fucking goblins!' Myst's avatar complained mentally as he crawled away from where the goblin warlock had dropped a barrier of blades that had nearly ripped him in half, mostly because he didn't want to get hit by the fireballs that the goblins were tossing like it was the Fourth of July.

"Death to the human!" one of the goblins shouted as he continued tossing spells in his general direction, unwilling to admit that he'd lost track of where he was.

He summoned a chicken of doom fu...

Broken Soul Part 7

"You're insane," Amy grumbled as she checked Myst's health.

"Any changes?" Myst asked as he absently watched Ron dancing around Taylor, Gwen, and Akari as they tried unsuccessfully to land a hit on him.

"It's hard to say," Amy admitted. "Some of the changes are probably mystical, but I don't think you're getting more resistant to electricity considering there haven't been any changes in the last hour."

"And my poison resistance?" Myst asked.

"The changes have slowed do...

Broken Soul Part 6

"You'd think they'd use more durable material or set up wards," Selena mused as they walked past a partially demolished shop that looked like someone had hit the side of it with a wrecking ball.

"I'm guessing it's a combination of price and the fact that the sect doesn't seem to care about their outer sect members," Myst replied thoughtfully as he continued walking towards the water tower he could see in the distance.

"Or they don't consider it worth the expense," Akari suggested ...

Broken Soul Part 5

"You're trying to get stabbed, aren't you?" Ron asked as he stared at the collection of women's underwear spread out on one of Selena's chairs.

"It's not my fault that some of the goblin warlocks drop suspiciously designed gear," Myst argued, not looking up from the alchemy book he was reading.

Peter shook his head. "I can't see any of the girls wearing them."

"Neat!" Selena exclaimed when she used her magnifying glass to check the next set of naughty panties in the collecti...

Broken Soul Part 4

"Any progress?" Akari asked as she sat down next to Myst on Selena's couch, having noticed that he'd used four spirit stones in the last couple of minutes while they were trying to decompress from dealing with a bunch of asshole disciples.

"I'm still popping spirit stones like candy but at least I've cleared the hallway," Myst replied as he finished draining another spirit stone.

"That's it? I thought your Purified Pool of Sludge technique was supposed to increase your mana pool?"...

Broken Soul Part 3

"Shouldn't you be working on making a combat pet?" Akari asked when Taylor finished using the ki from one of the spirit stones to create a cat sized green pig with short twisted tusks that curled sideways, making them practically worthless.

"I'm working on it, I just have to merge a couple of beasts," Taylor replied as she glanced over the pig's stats, slightly disappointed that the pig's vitality was on the low end of the range her interface had listed for the green pigs. 'I guess it d...

Broken Soul Part 2

Myst walked over to the silver chest the boss had been guarding and poked it with his pitchfork, wanting to make sure it wasn't a mimic. 'Okay, now you're just being paranoid, but better paranoid than dead,' he reminded himself as he walked around to the side of the chest then reached down and poked it with his finger, ready to pull it back if something tried to kill him. He stared at the information window that appeared in front of him. 'Silver Chest:157, this indestructible boss chest requi...

Broken Soul Part 1

Myst blinked as he went from sitting at his computer, editing his latest chapter to standing in a stone chamber with twenty six people, ranging in age from a sleepy looking teenage girl wearing a black-shirt to a man wearing overalls and work boots that looked in his late fifties. 'What the fuck!?'

"Congratulations, you've been summoned to help deal with a demon army," a man announced, drawing everyone's attention to the people standing outside of the shiny silver circle set into the po...

Dungeon Myst Part 36

'Mat was right, she looks like an older Hermione,' Vivian mused as the Aes Sedai carefully made her way through the crowd of naked or half dressed girls and over to her table with a tall man that was most likely Lan trailing behind her. "Is there something I can help you with?"

"I've heard some strange stories about you," Moiraine replied. "Do you mind if I sit?"

"Help yourself," Vivian replied as she gestured toward the other chair. "What type of stories have you heard?"

Mo...

Harry Potter and Death

An: My muse was being weird... so have a chapter. Happy Holidays to everyone.


Harry Potter sighed as he felt a familiar presence behind him. "No."

"I haven't said anything yet," Death complained as she slipped past Harry and took the seat across the table at the café.

Harry glanced at the girl in a yellow polka dot bikini that was wearing Hermione's face then cut another bite of his cheesecake with his fork. "You don't have to, it's always the same, you show up, steal...

Dungeon Myst Part 35

Ginny pulled her attention away from Harry's naked behind when the teacher started cackling maniacally. "Should we start running?" she asked warily, not sure if cackling was normal for the enthusiastic teacher or a cause for grave concern as she seemed unhinged.

"We'd never make it," Luna pointed out, not seeing a problem with the teacher being happy about the results of her experiment.

"She hasn't grabbed a wand, I'm sure it's fine," Michelle Rosenberg assured them, only reasonab...

Dungeon Myst Part 34

"Can I help you?" Xenophilius Lovegood asked as he opened the front door and saw the red haired young woman standing in front of the door holding an ornately carved wooden door in its own frame.

Michelle Rosenberg forced herself to smile at the blond man that was wearing eye searing yellow robes, fairly sure that grabbing a random journalist or newspaper editor would have been easier. "My name is Michelle Rosenberg, I represent a magical school that is trying to start a newspaper. Consi...

Dungeon Myst Part 33

"What do you want?" Petunia asked as she opened the door and glared at Sirius Black, a man she hadn't seen since Lily and James' wedding.

"I didn't kill Pettigrew and I didn't betray Lily, I was tossed into prison without a trial," Sirius explained.

"I'm aware," Petunia replied as she studied the teenage girl standing next to Sirius, glad that Myst had given her a heads up about Sirius showing up. "Does she know?"

"About magic, yeah. Where's Harry?" Sirius asked, not in the ...

Dungeon Myst Part 32

Egwene pulled her attention off the card game where Mat was fleecing some merchant guards out of their money and glanced at Myst, doing her best not to look at the pair of channelers that were sitting at a table watching them. "We should just walk over there and ask."

"If you insist," Myst replied as he pushed his chair back and got to his feet. He studied the women that were wearing red belts over their rather conservative dresses as they made their way through the moderately crowded t...

Cardmaster Worm Part 2

"This would be easier if I had an MRI or Amy's power," Myst muttered as he studied Sophia's card, looking for signs of wear and tear from repeatedly harvesting her power over the last twenty minutes. 'If it's damaged, I can't tell the difference,' he admitted as he let her card fade back into his deck and headed for the exit of the warehouse he'd borrowed. 'At least Alabaster's power seems to reset the damage it built up from repeated triggers. Probably just as well, I don't need the PRT comp...

Dungeon Myst Part 31

"Two grams of ground up shadow drake scales," Lorelai Snape stated as she added exactly two grams of ground up shadow drake scale to her cauldron. She stirred the contents of her cauldron five times counterclockwise then flipped the minute sandglass over. "Five counter stirs, one minute."

"Five and one," Morana Snape agreed as she finished making a note in the lab book. She glanced over at the door when someone knocked on the doorframe. "Come in, we don't bite."

"Unless you want u...

Cardmaster Worm

Myst blinked a couple of times when he found himself standing in the middle of a school hallway with a collection of large, graffiti covered lockers that seemed like they belonged to a bygone era, mostly because he could barely remember a time when they had lockers you could actually stuff a person in that weren't in a locker room. "What the fuck?!" he sputtered when the stench hit him, making him realize that he wasn't dreaming, not that he'd really expected to fall asleep while he'd been gr...