Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 100

O'Malley Penthouse September 30th 2010 3:00 PM EDT

I  slumped down on my couch in exhaustion. Paula, mom, Gojo, Artemis,  Reggie, Kit, and I were all sitting in my living room safely. Well,  mostly safely, and mostly sitting. Paula was standing by the window,  looking through the blinds to see if any more of the plant tendrils were  going to try to get in. Gojo's wards or whatever the fuck he was doing  kept the thing out to this point but ...

Stronger Together chapter 232

I'd had so many preconceptions of Loki at different points of my  life. The Marvel movies made him seem suave and misunderstood, the old  stories made him seem wicked but competent, some books I'd read  portrayed him as a broken psychopath, and I'd even watched an anime that  showed him as the good guy and Odin as a tyrant. Loki had been  considered so many things to so many people over the years, that, like  most legends it was hard to see where the truth lay fr...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 99

O'Malley Penthouse September 30th 2010 1:30 PM EDT

I  was having so much fucking fun. I'd gotten so used to big waves of tiny  annoying creatures or even tanky mid sized boys that I hadn't realized  how fun it was going to be to fight these big fuck off plants. The  mechanics of fighting in my new form were pretty novel, but I was  acclimating fast, and my reflexes made even small slips manageable.  Oddly, the thing I'd been most worried ab...

Stronger Together chapter 231

Graceland was huge. Not as big as some places I'd seen in hell  obviously, but for a modern cemetery the size of it was nuts. Despite  that however, I was surprised by how idyllic this place was. Every blade  of grass was well trimmed and the haphazard architecture of the tombs  somehow flowed together into a harmonious gestalt that didn't come  across shoddy or haphazard. Despite the picturesque landscaping though, I  could see what Harry had meant in the books ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 98

Gotham Academy September 30th 2010 1:00 PM EDT

I  was going out of my fucking mind having to go to school. I had re upped  my point total to the full two fifty at noon, but hadn't been able to  test anything since I had school. I'd skipped during that mess with Zee  and while grades were laughable to me, I knew for a fact Robin was in  this Academy and if I just dropped off the face of the earth I'd have to  deal with him, and then through ...

Stronger Together chapter 230

Coming home was, in point of fact, amazing. I stepped in my door and  felt my stress just melt away. Admittedly some of it comes back as a  tiger cub comes sailing through the open door and slams into my chest,  but I catch Max easily enough and I can't help but smile and snuggle my  little buddy. Kara had called ahead and let Charity know we were on the  way, so she'd brought my kitty back. I snuggled into his warm fur and  gave a happy sigh, enjoying the warmth...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 97

The Clock Tower September 29th 2010 4:30 PM EDT

Once  again, upon waking I felt fucking amazing. Despite all the energy  though my muscles still felt a bit weird and twitchy. Almost  hypersensitive as I stumbled to my feet. The girls caught me on either  side, holding me up as I got my balance, and of course I headed straight  for the mirror, because I am a vain son of a bitch. It took me a few  steps to figure out how to walk, and i couldn...

Stronger Together Chapter 229

I'd expected it to be difficult to get the darklings on the plane so  we could leave, but it really wasn't. When I gave the order they just  went. Mina, Sameul, Bernard, Louise, and Benjamin all filed right onto  the plane at my direction, and with absolutely no argument, though  Louise and Benjamin seemed pretty put out. We locked up the castle  before we left, so if Quincy showed up he would have no reason to stick  around. I considered leaving a note but it wo...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 96

The Clock Tower September 29th 2010 4:00 PM EDT

I  was exhausted. A month. A month of nearly non stop grinding trying  unsuccessfully to use as few of my points as possible. I'd officially  hit level thirty yesterday, with a daily income of a hundred and fifty  points, and I'd dumped the extra fifteen in dexterity, bringing it up to  thirty. We were on level thirteen now, having just entered, and we'd  hit a wall. Hell was, as one might im...

Stronger Together chapter 228

I was understandably worried about summoning Odin. For once because  he was Odin, and summoning him could be considered kind of pushy and  insulting, and despite the hellfire momentarily frying my brain in hell I  was positive I couldn't take any of the really big players, and  definitely not the god who trained fucking Merlin. Sure, I'd killed  Fenrir, but that was a match of brute force and I'd leaned on my armor  to pull it off. I'd been getting a bit cocky un...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 95

The Clock Tower September 4th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

We'd  done it. We'd found the anvil of fury. In point of fact we'd found the  greater anvil of fury, Zee had been right on the money. Being the first  to hit the level had given us a huge advantage in that it created a much  more powerful version of an item that other people could also get.  Combined with Artemis having access to a master class in forging diablo  style magic items we were sitti...

Stronger Together chapter 227

Standing up was weirdly easy. In fact even the damage from the fall  wasn't nearly what I expected. I felt stronger just from my time in  hell, but more than that the vortex seemed to have refined me even  further. Fifty percent. I was officially half angel. I could feel  without trying that I could even reach the eleventh form of klurkor for a  second if I pushed. I'd become markedly stronger from my journey, and  from what I could see Yang was much more powerfu...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 94

The Clock Tower September 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Kent  had fulfilled his promise to a T, getting a Zeta Tube installed post  haste. There was a linked tube in Gotham already apparently (though he  forbid Zee from telling us where) and she was able to come over pretty  much daily. Kent came with her, but since he helped actually make the  repairs on the wards him knowing where the tower was located was kind of  moot at this point. On the upsid...

Stronger Together chapter 226

Parsing the subtext of this conversation was way beyond my level, but  I had to do my best anyway. There were a few important elements even I  got. Firstly, Lucifer had acknowledged he was leading the armies out to  battle to try to profit off the clash between the two sides, which meant  there was going to actually BE a clash to profit off, presumably more  than the usual skirmishes. The Outsiders were planning a concentrated  push at the gates. Second of all he...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 93

The Clock Tower August 29th 8:30 AM EDT

That  statement did not go over well. With pretty much anyone. Sadly Giovanni  decided to try to back it uip and thrust out a hand, snarling "gnirb reh ot em" a  massive magican hand lashed out at Zee, trying to grab her, I readied  myself to pour some points into my shadow construct but before I even  got a chance Jim just...appeared in front of us. He rapped his cane on  the ground ...

Stronger Together chapter 225

The aftermath of the tournament was surprisingly private. For all the  watching crowds we were invited into the depths under the arena to  speak to the big cheese himself. Malachi didn't come with us this time,  though to my surprise he didn't seem upset. I assumed he was just so  terrified of Lucifer that he didn't dare to question his decisions,  which, since we were standing in a skull the size of a middling mountain  range presumably belonging to an elder dem...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 92

The Clock Tower August 29th 2010 8:00 AM EDT

I  skipped school the next day. Zee stayed in my room with me, but we just  slept and cuddled, I wasn't enough of a bastard to try something when  she was in an emotional state like that. We woke up around the same  time, though I suspected she woke up first and woke me with her  movements. Still it was...nice. Being in bed like this, not for any  sexual reason just the closeness. Judging by aura...

Stronger Together chapter 224

Once again I managed to get back to my tunnel under my own power.  Alleshara had been strong as hell, no pun intended, and I'd had a tough  time beating her, but now all that was left was the finals. My current  plan was to win the finals, and once I was in a position to effect the  war effort, use that power to get info on how to go home, and then find a  way to sabotage the army. Of course I had no clue how I would possibly  manage that, there were missions of ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 91

Shadowcrest August 28th 2010 7:00 PM EDT

It  was going to be a bad night. I knew this for a fact, because I was  about to try to break into my girlfriends house for the second time. I'd  lost contact with her again after our dungeon delve a few nights ago,  and I had the unfortunate sinking suspicion that it was because she got  caught. It had seemed weird to me that Zatara was watching her for days  then just buzzed off, and I'd been right...

Stronger Together chapter 223

Yang was laughing at me. Which hurt, but not nearly as much as my  skull currently did. I glared at my cackling girlfriend in reproach but  that just seemed to set her off even more, and she slumped against the  wall of the tunnel, literally unable to stand from laughter. "Oh gods,  that jumping headbutt where you grabbed his horns. You looked so  stupid." Her mockery was hurtful, and also not helping my splitting  headache. Luckily it wasn't a visible injury, I'...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 90

The Caves August 24th 2010 7:00 PM EDT

I  stared at my girlfriend with a raised eyebrow. "He still hasn't said  anything?" I was shocked she was here. I'd been planning to break into  her house later tonight to check on her. I hadn't talked to her in a  while. She looked fine to me, happy to see me and Artemis both and  clearly having been starved for attention. Or maybe the opposite, she  might have been smothered based on not being able t...

Stronger Together chapter 222

The rest of the night was a blur mostly. The crowd ate up my win and  Lucifer proclaimed me a talent for the ages, showering me with hell  liquor (seriously that stuff was nuts) and just generally naming me the  life of the party. Despite my advantages even MY head hurt. I'd done my  best to stay on my guard but I was still hungover the next morning and  Yang wasn't much better. Fallen angels really knew how to party from  what I could remember. But now it was a ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 89

O'Malley Penthouse August 23rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Artemis  was glaring at me. "This is your fault!" I raised a skeptical eyebrow  at my fuming bestie. She narrowed her eyes. "It is! If you had just told  him to buzz off and kept your nosy....nose, out of things, I never  would have known about any of this. Now I'm scared for him and I miss  him and I was trying not to think about him and you ruined it! You know  having shadow powers doesn't m...

Stronger Together chapter 221

The banquet itself was a fairly dull affair. Not in the sense that  nothing happened, it was a room full of fallen angels after all, but in  the sense that I just didn't care what they were doing. I mostly talked  to Yang while keeping an eye on the other champions, but once they  introduced us we sort of become inconsequential. It was like all the  lords had carted out their prized horses to show off before the big  race, but you didn't talk to the horses after ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 88

Gotham Academy August 23rd 2010 7:00 AM EDT

The  few days after out visit to Kent's tower had been pretty average for  the most part. We'd going back into the dungeon, and my new power had  not been the coup down there I had expected. Because of all the lava  there was plenty of shadows, but the lack of mobility meant my oil slick  was out, and the demons were made of magma mostly. The toad spitters I  could just spike with and I could stil...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 87

Tower of Fate August 19th 2010 8:30 PM EDT

Despite  my initial hesitation Zee assured me that a magical oath was plenty  safe for us. Kent didn't really care us much about the whole hero vs.  thief thing either. When your main job is defeating eldritch entities  and stopping hordes of monsters, petty larceny just isn't a priority. In  the end it was my aura sense that sealed it. I could tell they both  genuinely believed this oath would mak...

Stronger Together chapter 220

The room below was intimidating as shit. Wall to wall fallen, some of  whom had more presence in their little fingers than these lordlings did  in their whole body. I'd been expecting the princes to be lined up at a  table of in thrones or something but actually they were standing  around. It was easy to tell who was who though, because those eight  people were surrounded by crowds of retainers, and the boss? The big bad  himself? Well, that cheese stood alone. 2022-02-06 23:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Sell you a Bridge chapter 86

Tower of Fate August 19th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Getting  everyone back down to the study seemed to take no time at all. With  potions (which the justice bros had almost as many of as we did) most of  them were back on their feet quickly. The only issue was that Artemis  had to stay with Kid Flash. Apparently his enhanced metabolism burned  through the potions too quickly for the magic to take hold. I wasn't  sure how that even worked but Artemis...

Stronger Together chapter 219

From the stable (the actual holding pens were out back apparently) we  headed to an inn, where Malachi had us get ready for and then  subsequently head to a welcome dinner held in honor of the tournament  participants. They had clothes ready for us, in our sized even, and I  could only assume the staff at the Prideful Prince had given them our  measurements, or that they could just eyeball them I suppose. Still the  stuff fit relatively well, so at least there wa...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 85

Tower of Fate August 19th 2010 7:00 PM

The  deluge of holy lightning my girlfriend poured down on that weird kid  was, in all honesty, terrifying. Despite that however, he turned to meet  it was a casual disdain that made my heart sink pretty quickly. I  focused on his feet and tried to shift his shadow into an oil slick and  he just drifted up a few inches until he was standing on air before  turning to grin maliciously at all of us, holdi...