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CE 100

Toge gauged the distance. Even with the loss of Mezu, Usami didn't seem bothered, but now Toge knew why. Usami Kato was a name spoken alongside Mei Mei and Atsuya Kusakabe. They were generally regarded as the strongest First Grade sorcerers of their generation, but where Mei Mei and Kusakabe had been more popular, owing to taking more public-facing missions, Usami was different.

Everything about him was tied to rumors and stories. He was the person the elders sent to do their dirty work...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 35

Valyria was a strange land in Isaac's eyes. He had traveled extensively in his past world, explored its lands, seen its cultures and civilizations nearly as much as Master Dracula had, and when he came to this world, he had assumed they were inferior.

The North was barbaric, filled with primitive men and women trapped in the Stone ages. Hector was doing an impressive job at speed running their development, but it remained to be seen if they could keep up the progression when they eventu...

Vibranium and Chrome 3 (MCU/Cyberpunk 2077)

The pants were a tight fit, Bucky noted as he clasped the button above the zipper. It was a dark black material of some kind of synthetic fabric with more silver buckles than it reasonably needed. He had ripped them out, and they lay discarded to the side.

He turned away from Victor's body and to the brute. Unlike Victor who was just shy of five feet eleven, the brute was a much bigger specimen of augment and muscle. Even lacking his head, he still seemed to be more than six feet. With ...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 34

The sound of waves crashing against sand drew my attention, and I turned to the distance. If we had landed a bit further south, we would have landed on what looked like a beach, or the remnants of one. The lava lakes that crisscrossed the entire land like a delta found their ends at the sea.

The combination of magma and seawater resulted in the creation of blackish rocks that dotted the shoreline. I narrowed my eyes and peered further and saw the outlines of ships. Not one, or two, or e...

Vibranium and Chrome 2 (MCU/Cyberpunk 2077)

The brute came at him with all the grace of an avalanche and the skill of an amateur boxer. His cybernetic fists were massive, each one the size of Bucky's head, and they swung with the kind of momentum that would shatter bone and concrete alike. Could he match strength with the brute? Probably, but Bucky didn't try to match the power. Instead, he slipped to the side.

The first punch sailed past his shoulder, the wind from its passage making his long hair whip back. He pivoted on his ba...

Vibranium and Chrome (MCU/Cyberpunk 2077)

The first thing he felt was cold. It was not the cold of winter; this one was different. More familiar. It settled on his skin and bit into his bones. James Buchanan Barnes had been in this situation too many times not to know what was happening, so instead of panicking, he remained still. He took in a calm breath, held it for two seconds, then let it out.

His eyes were still closed; however, he could feel the chill receding, and with the slow, steady disappearance of the cold came feel...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 33

The preparation had taken three days.

I stood in the central chamber of Castlevania, watching as Isaac made his final checks. Across from him, Archmaester Marwyn adjusted the chains on his neck, the bronze links of his collar catching the torchlight. The archmaester had been fascinated when I’d extended the invitation, his thirst for knowledge and childlike wonder clear in his character.

We stood in the heart of Castlevania, and it took the other man everything he had not to dro...

CE 99

The afternoon sun that shone across the Tokyo Jujutsu High courtyard would have been scorching if Jiki had never experienced the fiery dunes of Suna. As he had, he only mildly noted its inconvenience as he rounded the corner of the main building.

He paused mid-step when he spotted Toge Inumaki sitting alone on a wooden bench, methodically checking and rechecking his throat medication bottles. He stood in the shadow of the main building for a few seconds with the odd feeling that there w...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 32

I sat alone in my study once more, slowly leafing through a page on interspatial transference. Dracula's study was a trove of hidden knowledge, and as Alucard had said earlier, he had forgotten more than some civilizations ever learned.

As I leafed through the pages, I felt there was some truth to the familiarity within. I was familiar enough with interspatial transference already, very familiar with space, travel, and such workings. I had to be when I redesigned Castlevania's ability t...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 31

Marwyn stepped into the study with the kind of awe he tried and failed to suppress. His eyes darted to the pit, to the glint of broken mirrors still lingering on the floor from my earlier work, to the vaulted ceiling that seemed higher than when he first entered. Castlevania enjoyed playing tricks on new guests.

"Sit," I said, lowering myself into the high-backed chair near the mirror pit and gesturing to the much smaller chair beside me. Marwyn obeyed, though he perched on the edge of ...

CE 98

Sukuna walked into the clearing, but this time his smile had reduced a fair bit, and Toji was certain it had something to do with the corpse at his feet. Sukuna came to a stop and stood unmoving, eyes narrowed, lips curled with slow-flowing blood in the corner, and focused on Toji, his smile just as thin.

Toji stared back at him, his grin all teeth. If neither of them was going to attack first, then he would take the breather for what it was. He forced his body into control, tightening ...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 30

I had just concluded the meeting with the freefolk and the Watch a few minutes ago, and now I sat in the castle, thinking and calculating my next steps. Given my position, it all circled back to the Others, or more precisely, the Great Other. I had no desire to wipe out their entire species. Such genocide was unwarranted, even if they intended the same for us.

With my warnings of vermin and the manpower the Night’s Watch now held, far stronger than the weary rangers who had sallied to...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 29

The silence stretched, long enough for their nerves to fray. Coughs were swallowed, boots shifted on the stone. Only the heartbeat thrum of Castlevania’s vast engines filled the air. The sight of the interior of Castlevania had sealed their mouths shut. Even Jeor Mormont, who I was certain was more used to luxury owing to his status as a previous lord, could barely hide his astonishment.

The interior decor of Castlevania with its dark stone, gold-gilded statues, decorative armor plate...

CE 97

"You will not deny me my joy of combat against such an opponent, Kenjaku," Sukuna grunted out, eyes narrowing.

"Unfortunately, I shall." Kenjaku replied with a thin smile. "When you return to full power, I'm certain to pay for this defiance and transgression, but till then, Toji Fushiguro is too dangerous to let you face him alone. It's not a risk I'm ready to take." He finished with an innocent shrug.

Sukuna looked at Kenjaku, judgment heavy in his eyes. "You'll pay for this." Th...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 28

I walked past Isaac, the still-struggling Other dangling from my grip like an animal awaiting slaughter. Its taloned hands clawed weakly at my arm, but the effort was wasted. A curiosity more than a threat now.

My gaze swept across the ruin. The wall still smoldered from fire and broken ice, the great wooden gate reduced to splinters by the wight-giant’s assault. Yet the settlement within, the houses, the crude defenses, the flickering torches, still stood. Mortals had bled and died h...

Allfather 4

Ser Garrow had served Lord Edgar Morne for almost a decade now, and in that long service, he had seen storms. He had ridden through sleet that cut the skin raw, trudged through mud that swallowed horse and man alike, and endured nights when thunder rattled the very marrow of his bones. But nothing, nothing, lingered in memory like the storm that began the day the Elden Ring shattered.

They said the whole of the Lands Between had felt it, and Garrow believed the claims. After all, he...

AllFather 3

We climbed out of the pit and made our way back to Odin's Study, and I fell into the well-carved throne with a huff.

"This is a working greater than any that has been done in multiple generations. We can't do it alone," Freya started, her feet taking her as she paced the study, deep in thought.

"Tell me what you need, and it shall be granted," I replied as I leaned into the seat.

"Everyone." Mimir was the one to reply. "Every single person, God, Giant, Elf, Spirits. As long ...

A Fantastic Child (FF/Worm)

Agent Miller had seen her share of bad days in the PRT. Gang wars, parahuman skirmishes, and protests that turned bloody. But nothing, absolutely nothing, matched the storm that swallowed Brockton Bay that morning.

An Endbringer's attack was never something you got used to. It was the worst-case scenario, a moment that nobody would wish on their enemies, a moment whereby the whole world waited with bated breath, waiting for the unfortunate city to be hit, praying it wouldn't be theirs, ...

CE 96

Toji let out an annoyed sigh, cracking his neck to the side. Sukuna stood twenty feet away, arms crossed and wearing Itadori’s face like a well-fitting mask. The King of Curses bled malevolence into the air, so heavy it pressed against the world itself. Toji couldn’t sense cursed energy, but even he felt the weight of it as plainly as the sunlight on his skin.

“So this is the rat squirming in my presence,” Sukuna rumbled, his voice low and cavernous, as if it came from the earth...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 27

Tormund

"AHHHHHHHH"

Fresh screams rang out ahead and Tormund shifted his focus from the strange man to the spectacle ahead of him and he saw that in the space of a few seconds, when he turned to look at where the sound came from then to Hector, the entire front line of crows had been massacred.

Their bodies cut through, their steel plate proving useless as a giant blade cleaved through three men in one blow, the backswing of the giant blade almost c...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 26

Ygritte

The wights came as a horde, unceasing and relentless. They trudged through the snow, hurling their dead bodies towards the wall and the gates, and it wasn't just humans. There were dire wolves with blue eyes that moved faster than the humans, but the true danger lay in the trudging form that was hidden behind, its bulky physique a dark, huge shadow in the distance. A giant, and not a young one like they had behind them, but a full-grown one.

A hundred fur-...

I, Dracula (Castlevania/Multicross) 25

Hector looked at the two groups, a clear divide between the black-cloaked men and the fur-clad men and women, and let out a sigh while pinching the bridge of his nose. He could already feel a headache coming.

"You caused this. Do not forget that," a voice called out behind him. He didn't need to turn to tell it was his fellow forgemaster.

"When I helped, I didn't assume anything like this was going to happen," he replied with another sigh, casting a last glance at the divide befor...