Narimasa stopped in his box, swivelling to meet Illya’s gaze. “Your team, Lady Einzbern… I can tell you did not structure them to bring Dragons low. But your team is made up of latent dragonslayers. You hold an advantage that, against a lesser challenge, would trivialize this fight.” He withdrew his first ball from his belt. “Let us see if you are prepared for that advantage to be mitigated. I think you are ready, but let us prove that.”
Ball in hand, Illya nodded sharply. ...
2025-03-02 00:24:52 +0000 UTC
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The blaring of alarms, their shrill cries drilling into my ears with the force of a sledgehammer, was the first warning that something was wrong. The thin keening sound that I couldn’t quite place that followed immediately afterward was my second.
The image that popped up in the Master Control Center’s core was all that I needed to know to upgrade this invasion to a potential calamity.
An ivory white exoskeleton, wings seemingly cast from dusk themselves splayed betwe...
2025-03-01 20:51:22 +0000 UTC
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Shirou pulled on his jacket, looking across at his now four-mon team. “Alright… we’re going to fight a Gym leader who’ll likely outclass us. We’ve trained hard, but this’ll be our toughest fight yet,” he said firmly. “That being said… Vulpix, will you be participating here?” he asked. On the one hand, her help would be very valuable, on the other… well, she was a new teammate, and it’d look an awful lot like someone borrowing an elite to sweep a gym.
“It is...
2025-02-15 21:08:18 +0000 UTC
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Present Day, Aboard the Herta Space Station
23:44:59 System Time
Vague memories had led me to Herta Space Station two cycles ago. Floundering after the death of someone that I’d come to care for immensely, I had chartered a voyage to The Blue in an effort to shake myself out of the funk I had found herself in. In a twist of luck, it worked. It had taken me out of the routine motions of hunting the targets I once hunted alongside that man I called dad and forced...
2025-02-06 18:49:57 +0000 UTC
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Sakura studied the map Other had sketched into the sand between their feet. “This is big,” she said simply. “I thought this was just a few raiders, not a major group.”
From her vantage point out of Rin’s device, Captain Bles pursed her lips. “It doesn’t match the number of local raids either, but the descriptions of the human captives clued me in. This must be a distribution hub for all of the peninsula. With those descriptions, I’ve mustered a twenty-man team to hit...
2025-02-02 00:11:16 +0000 UTC
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Rin pushed up her witch’s hat, glaring out over the dunes stretching before them, her mount shuffling beneath her. “...Sakura, why is there a desert in the middle of a temperate peninsula?” she asked grouchily, sweat beading on her forehead. Her sister, predictably, frowned, and shook her head,
“Don’t ask me. You’re the one that’s good at research.” She paused for a moment, drawing a scarf around her mouth before she looked towards Rin again. “Maybe Libra knows, if you...
2025-01-16 03:55:32 +0000 UTC
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Illya looked up the hill, shading her eyes in the dawn light. “Brava Arena?” she asked, looking up the stairs with some trepidation. “I thought Lady Lilligant was going to do something… special.”
“Every trial is special. More seriously, she eventually decided if you came early, you’d get to see her Sun Praise exercises, and then have the battle,” Otoshi responded blandly. “If you’d like, she had some plan involving fighting over the river, and forcing you to use your...
2025-01-04 00:18:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I'd like to apologize for now having the next update for Eevee Therapy ready quite yet. As mentioned in the discord, the chapter is completed as of now. However, it has not been edited, and it has been made clear to both me and Tale that we definitely need to edit our chapters before publishing them, because we've missed quite a few things we shouldn't have in the past.
As thanks for your patience and understanding, please have another chapter of TxT while you wait. The ...
2025-01-02 04:43:36 +0000 UTC
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Vulpix nosed aside a curtain of hanging vines, closely followed by three humans and their Pokemon companions. “And here’s the path. Why you all thought it was best to go overland to reach Adamant Town, I’ll never know.”
Illya frowned. “I thought this was the Diamond Clan village?” She asked, looking up the steep cliffs visible in the near distance. A collection of houses and other structures could be seen perched atop the brown stone and earth which rose from the mi...
2024-12-15 23:34:39 +0000 UTC
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Shirou stabbed the butt of his naginata into the peaty soil, sighing as it drove in several centimeters. “This spot’s still too soft to set up a campsite. We’ll need to keep looking.” He said, glancing around the area as the shadows continued to lengthen. The siblings had been travelling through the mirelands for a while now, and the unpleasantness of the area was starting to get to the both of them.
Illya nodded with a grimace, hopping over a standing pool of brackish water. ...
2024-12-02 00:58:35 +0000 UTC
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She was, in the greatest of ironies, looking around Pokenet again, clicking around the various websites with a bored expression on her face. Then again, it wasn’t everyday you had a small, tiny hedgehog nestled against your chest for days on end.
To say her meeting with the Shaymin had gone well would be a minor understatement. Not everyone came away from meeting Legendary Pokemon with an egg, after all. Nor an egg that was near ready to hatch.
Honestly, she st...
2024-11-16 00:08:56 +0000 UTC
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Isabella looked up from her phone, peering over at the rest of her group as they started breaking down camp. “Hey, everyone. I just heard from Donovan. The Pearl clan’s given up on tailing you two, so he’s just going to be doing his own thing and checking in on occasion.”
Fafnir looked up from where she was carefully folding the latrine into the ground. “Who’s Donovan?” She rumbled, puzzled.
“Isabella was supposed to have a counterpart, a Pearl Clan boy na...
2024-11-01 23:06:23 +0000 UTC
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“It’s creatively named, isn’t it?” Miho remarked, ears and tail already twitching in irritation from the sheer amount of background noise she was having to deal with. Brockton General was a massive thing, a multi storey block of concrete rising as tall as some of the surrounding apartment and corporate buildings of Downtown. There were no unnecessary windows, no fancy architecture. It was, without a doubt, one of the most utilitarian buildings Shèn had ever seen. The only th...
2024-10-25 20:46:20 +0000 UTC
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“Well, that was an experience.” Shèn chuckled wryly, the shake of her head working down her neck sinuously as they walked back to the van. Not every day you flushed someone’s body from twelve years of substance abuse, regrew all their teeth and half a head of hair, then got your ribs compressed by a very thankful ex-junkie in the span of twenty or so minutes. At least the yellow noodle had been canny enough to use some Acarnima cantrips to degunk and sterilize the lady’s clo...
2024-10-18 22:39:33 +0000 UTC
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“You seem better at ease recently. I think seeing your family has done you well,” Amelie remarked to her partner. Kiritsugu was looking out the window of their car as it rolled through the near-pastoral landscape, cutting over rivers and between low mountains. “Do you wish you could’ve stayed longer? I’m sure Looker could’ve given us a few more days.”
“I do. But I also want to ensure Team Flare won’t be a problem for them,” Kiritsugu admitted, his e...
2024-10-16 00:22:57 +0000 UTC
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“There, that should help.” Shèn sighed as she scratched the chin of a little green autism creature, the foxcat purring happily. Wind walls were good at dampening sound and since she’d gotten them tested and had some troopers around there was pretty much no legal issues plopping one down around this little private booth. She’d had to wait for their orders to be delivered of course, but hey.
Across from her, Miho smiled, “Thank you. Being able to hear every ind...
2024-10-09 23:32:25 +0000 UTC
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“Miho, my partner, my friend, my buddy. I mean this in the nicest possible way.” Shèn said through hands pressed flat together. “What the hell.”
She’d come to say hello to her friend after sleeping in until ten in the morning. She’d been promptly punched in the nose by a full on eastern feast. Salmon, miso and curry were the only things she could make through the mess of scents and mountains of food piled upon the fox’s dining room table.
<...
2024-10-02 18:08:57 +0000 UTC
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Rin frowned as they walked down the busy street, dodging pedestrians and Pokemon as they made their way towards the Castelia Gym. “While I didn’t like the atmosphere when the gangs were still around, these crowds are horrible,” she groused. Beside her, N nodded, Noibat angrily squeaking at anyone who tried to bump the small boy.
“I don’t mind them,” Sakura shrugged, weaving in and out of the crowd with almost inhuman grace. “It’s nice to see such a large city ...
2024-10-01 23:08:06 +0000 UTC
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“Well, at least that took long enough we won’t be playing day drinker.” Shèn sighed, running Physik’s green light over her wrist and fingers as they finally, finally walked out of PRT HQ. Between finishing the tests, getting all the paperwork looked over by a lawyer and signing everything, the sun was starting to set already. At least the sky had cleared up by now.
“They were honestly ludicrously generous. A basic stipend to live off for th...
2024-09-26 14:45:06 +0000 UTC
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“Well, it is a full meal.” Shèn said diplomatically, like she hadn’t just dealt with the maliciously crumbly shell of these sorry excuses for tacos by opening her mouth like a snake and shoving them in whole, “The rice was nice, at least.”
“At least we’re not sitting in hardlight chairs.” Miho allowed, grimacing as she bit into another taco after picking out all the tomatoes. After chewing for a while with an expression that screamed ...
2024-09-18 21:28:40 +0000 UTC
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Rin watched as Agate and Ren loped away from their park bench, the girl smiling briefly before she turned her attention back to the email she’d been sent. After a few minutes, she frowned. “Sakura, our partners are really only two months old, yes?”
“I’m not entirely sure.” Sakura shook her head, humming in amusement as she stared in the direction their starters had gone, “Given they’re mystery gifts, it’s likely Arceus simply chose the most likely age to be of the most...
2024-09-15 23:13:15 +0000 UTC
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Shèn’s estimation of the PRT was picking up steadily. They had not only treated them professionally, but some had gone as far as to commend them for their actions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the poor bloody infantry valued civilian lives over villain arrests. Not that it’d stopped them from carting all the hostages into transport vans, once a few nervously mentioned being able to think clearer or focus better after her bass boosted Esuna had hit them.
There had just been a ...
2024-09-09 20:32:34 +0000 UTC
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♦Topic: Undersiders Heist, Brockton Bay Central Bank
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► Nishiho (Kyushu Survivor)
So, you may have already heard about this on the local news, but the Central Bank downtown was just robbed, with a fair amount of hostages held by the Undersiders. Of co...
2024-09-02 13:14:01 +0000 UTC
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Illya ascended to her spot at the podium, letting a smile stretch across her face. “Hello, everyone!” She waved to the crowd, drawing a round of polite applause.
Fantina looked across at her with a smile of her own. “Magnifique, young lady. But no matter how cute you are, I know your strength.” She flicked her wrist, Gengar passing her three new Pokeballs. “I will not underestimate you.”
Illya let her smile transition into a wide grin. “Good.”
“The challeng...
2024-09-01 14:06:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! As I'm sure you've noticed, I just uploaded a new series of fanworks to my Patreon. Since this is likely to cause some level of confusion, I'm here in this post to explain what's going on!
So, first of all, Arcanum will be uploaded as chapters are completed while keeping Patrons of the Fan or Higher tier 2 chapters ahead (Sorry to the donors, but as with the other work that I started uploading after Eevee Therapy, you will not have access to them as...
2024-08-27 13:09:21 +0000 UTC
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How one responds to mind-numbing terror can be quite indicative of their character. There was only one thought in Shèn’s skull when every fear chemical her body could produce flooded her system, making it feel like she was standing inches away from a monstrosity, a negligent twitch away from leaving her to drown in her own blood.
Protect the others.
There were no delicate schemas, no filigree of brilliant genius to shape magic with. Only the roar ...
2024-08-27 13:04:56 +0000 UTC
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It had not even been a minute since the door shut behind the villain duo, Miho and Shen just barely able to pick up the exchange occurring just beyond the boundaries set by the glass door. Neither the rain nor the rising murmurs of the crowd were helping. Seeing outside was also a struggle because Skitter was keeping most of her bugs under the bank’s eave, soggy wings were clearly something of a problem for an insect Master.
“Hello Brockton Bay Wards and PRT! As I’m sur...
2024-08-27 13:02:56 +0000 UTC
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Have you ever been put under? That sudden snap from being drowsy to being somewhere else altogether?
Try that but standing up in a brand new body.
There were only two saving graces to this situation, the woman who would be needing an equally new name within the minute mused. The first was that having a tail about thrice as long as she was tall had a way to keep you fr...
2024-08-27 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Kiritsugu looked up at the mansion marked with the gym symbol, eyeing the stained glass windows thoughtfully. “I’ve seen a couple of gyms in passing, but not one like this,” he commented as they walked closer. “I really can’t tell how standardized gyms are supposed to be.”
“It varies from region to region,” Elle remarked as they approached the double doors. “When I did the Unova circuit a while back, every gym was different inside and out. But the main gyms in Galar ar...
2024-08-16 00:03:19 +0000 UTC
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Shirou gave a quiet sigh of relief as they came up to the Hearthome City limits, shifting his backpack around as the party finished the long trek over and through Mount Coronet. Oblivious to the actual reason for his relief, Isabella chuckled. “Yeah, it’s always nice to get back to civilization after a long trek. Though I gotta say your meals make it a lot nicer to camp out.”
“Mhm,” Illya hummed, looking at her brother with measured suspicion. “You’ve been oddly quiet for ...
2024-08-01 23:25:24 +0000 UTC
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