Fabled Webs

Homeless Bunny 10

Homeless Bunny 10

I mixed up a negroni cocktail and slid it over to Roman Torchwick. Pompous asshole made me want to feed him his own hat, but he did have a solid taste in drinks. And hats. Fortuna would approve. It was a pity the man wore more eyeliner than the hyper-competent precog ever did.

"Thanks, and you didn't even shed in i-Oof!" He was cut off from his bitching by Melanie's bladed heel jabbing down on the arch of his foot, making his aura flash brightly....

Homeless Bunny 9

Homeless Bunny 9

"Jiii…" The single most adorable (and weaponless) grim reaper in the world stared me down as I went about making a marinade. Diced pineapple, roasted red peppers, dried tomatoes, and a host of other spices flew through the air, only to be intercepted by the blur of my chef's knife.

Yes, Junior's kitchen had a blender. No, I didn't use it. This was my treasured knife, the engagement gift from Luo Hao. I slew my first world serpent with it and kep...

Homeless Bunny 8

Homeless Bunny 8

"It's just a weapon, brat," I told the silver-eyed brat. I regretted those words the moment they left my lips. The sheer unadulterated grief in her expression couldn't be faked. She didn't look like a huntress who'd lost her primary means of combat; she looked like a mother who'd lost her child, a sight I'd seen far too often in my life.

Then the world crawled to a standstill as my senses accelerated beyond all mortal logic. Something in her eyes ...

Homeless Bunny 7

Homeless Bunny 7

Yang Xiao Long

‘This may have been a mistake,’ I thought as I dodged a claw swipe from the red one.

I knew a fair bit about anger and coping mechanisms; I had to with my Semblance being what it was. Dad and I burned hot, same with the white one. We were all passion and fire and fury. The red one though? She was ice-cold. She reminded me of Uncle Qrow, calculating and dangerous. She was the one that’d make sure I slept ...

Homeless Bunny 6

Homeless Bunny 6

Another three weeks passed and Junior’s club started to take on a reputation for fine dining with an ever-changing menu and nightly entertainment. Most days, the club was just that, a nightclub full of loud music and sweaty bodies. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays however, Junior decided to take advantage of the midweek lull to convert his club into a jazz and cigar lounge, with an expanded menu of course. The dance floor was replaced by a portable stage fo...

Homeless Bunny 5

Homeless Bunny 5

Despite the twins’ grandstanding, they had to wait a few hours for their auras to recharge. On the plus side, I finished making my ice cream. I tasted it, decided to go with the vanilla-ginger recipe, and roped the entire unpowered gang membership into stirring huge bowls of ice cream over ice baths. They could take turns.

Sure, I technically held zero authority in the Xiong Family, but I only needed to give Junior a bowl before he said my word ...

Homeless Bunny 4

Homeless Bunny 4

“Tianyu~” I heard the twins cry out as they jumped down from the second floor. Their auras flared briefly upon landing but they didn’t care in the least. The pair rushed over to take their seats at the bar and stared eagerly at me as I made the finishing touches on a spinach, tomato, and feta frittata. “Morning~”

Junior was already seated at the bar, nursing a large mug of coffee. He had the morning paper loaded up on his scroll and a bi...

Homeless Bunny 3

Homeless Bunny 3

“Suspect is a male, rabbit faunus child with white hair and prominent ears. He assaulted two gate guards and fled into the city before losing them by hopping onto the rooftops. He is thought to be a White Fang agent and possesses a mobility-related Semblance. All citizens are advised to approach with caution. This has been Lisa Lavender for the Vale News Network,” I heard from a TV hung over a cafe patio.

“I’m not a child,” I mu...

Homeless Bunny 2

Homeless Bunny 2

“Oh, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” I moaned, clutching my poor head. My own yelling sent agonizing pangs through my skull, like that fucker Surtr took a club of magically-condensed magma to my head… again…

I took a deep breath and reined in my power. The poor bunny I’d been petting was frozen solid, scared out of its wits. I reached out and filled it with healing wood qi before letting it scamper away. Slowly, the world began t...

Homeless Bunny 1

Preface

Please ignore the next 7 posts as I load up on chapters for this story.

Homeless Bunny 1

I groaned pitifully. I hadn’t been in this much pain since I got the bright idea to turn the Bull of Heaven into tartare. Definitely a case of my eyes being too big for my stomach there… Long story short, Luo Hao bailed me out and we killed it together. Inanna still had it out for me even in the Netherworld.

Maybe she�...

Homeless Bunny 23

Homeless Bunny 23

Weiss Schnee

My brother was the greatest!

Not my little brother; Whitley was… problematic.

Well, kind of my little brother. Tianyu was so little even though he was older than me. Little-big brother?

Yes, that sounded right.

I wasn’t usually prone to bouts of silliness, years of etiquette classes saw to that, but I couldn’t help myself. I was in a cuddle puddle of bunnies. An entire fluffle of bunnies...

Troll: 17. Daphne the Drug Dealer

Chapter 17: Daphne the Drug Dealer

Blaise Zabini

Hogwarts, Great Britain

“I have good news and bad news,” Madam Pomfrey said. We were in her office in the hospital wing, sharing a box of her favorite scones. Most students didn’t make a habit of visiting the hospital wing; I’d managed five visits in as many weeks. I doubted I was setting a new record or anything, but I was now a familiar figure to the old matron. “W...

Apocalypse: 1.13 Liftoff

Liftoff 1.13

June 2015

A crustle. A motherfucking crustle. Just when I thought things were settling down into a pattern, it turned out our food thief was a goddamn tank on stilts. How the hell had it gotten there?

No, that was the wrong question. It probably evolved down there, like a crab molting. That would explain all the food they’d been stealing; it likely needed a lot of food to get through the evolution. Maybe the other dwebble line...

Monthly Poll: April 2024

Edit: Sorry, for those who are new, the monthly poll is your chance to influence what I write. The winner is guaranteed two chapters from me (updated Fridays).

I almost forgot to put this up. Question for you all: How would you feel about a policy to remove the last month's poll winner from the running? This would hopefully let more stories occupy my time.

Also, here's everything that was published in February:

3: PWP: 4.12
7: Troll: 15
9: Spoon: 4.11<...

Spoon: 4.12 Fish

Aaron’s Pokemon

- Artoria (Kirlia)
- Jeanne (Flaaffy)
- Durvasa (Mankey)
- Over Easy (Egg)

Fish 4.12

Artoria

Petalburg Woods

I teleported with my sister’s ball in hand and appeared next to Durvasa on the treetops. I released Jeanne at the juncture of the branches where the leaves were thickest so the light of the pokeball would be obscured as much as possible. Thankf...

Troll: 16. Boris

Preface

Here's the first of three Troll chapters owed this month.  Also, I've decided to run a flash live of A Colorful Life, mostly so I can figure out how that last scene is going to go and what I need to do with the interludes. If you don't read that one, don't worry about it.

Chapter 16: Boris

Blaise Zabini

Hogwarts, Great Britain

“Yes, the first Hogsmeade weekend will...

THG: 2.4 Spit of Spite

Spit of Spite 2.4

John Soprano

*Thwack*

The meaty sound of my shinai meeting Missy's forehead echoed in my back lot. Usually, this lot behind a restaurant was reserved for the dumpster and employee parking, but I shoved the dumpsters out into a nearby alley when I bought the place. With the Gate of Skye, it wasn’t as though I needed them. And seeing how I lived above my restaurant and was faster than a car, I didn’t exactly need the park...

LT: 8.5 Respite

Respite 8.5

2005, July 9: Nameless Village, Babylon

The farm boy was named Joseph. He liked hunting with his da’ and wished there wasn’t so much to harvest so he’d have more time to play with his brothers. He also asked a lot of questions.

“What are the witch-lords like? What do they do with all the stone-wood they make us harvest? How many are there? Do you know any magic? Can you show me?” he babbled on.

I hadn’t expected...

PWP: 4.13 Seal

Seal 4.13

Bryce Kiley

2010, November 29: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I tried not to think about it. Damascus. Behemoth. Arsalan. Lily. Everything. It was just easier, less overwhelming, to shelve everything in a little box in my mind, putting it aside until I felt like I could open it all up again.

The moment I got home, I checked in with mom and Sierra to reassure them that I was fine. As far as they were concerned, I bough...

Apocalypse: 1.12 Liftoff

Liftoff 1.12

June 2015

The morning after, I followed Sabrina and Austin towards the caverns. Our very own Professor Kush had decided to join us after all, Spade the drilbur waddling at her heels like the most adorable murder-mole in the state. It caught me off guard a bit, Sabrina wasn’t an outdoorsy kinda gal by her own admission.

“You could have stayed behind,” I pointed out, tapping a disposable camera. “We would’ve come back wi...

ACL is live.

Probably going to be short but I'd like to get something on the page this month.

PWP: 4.12.5 Sabah Azimi

Preface

Here’s your second poll winning chapter. Pretty much a “Meanwhile…”

Interlude 4.12.5: Sabah Azimi

Sabah Azimi

2010, November 26: Brockton Bay, NH, USA

I checked New Wave’s official site for the fourth time, just to be sure. I’d checked last night of course. And the day before that. And for about a week solid if I was being honest. I let out a sigh of relief wh...

Homeless Bunny 22

Homeless Bunny 22

Tianyu Yue

“We have time for one more,” Glynda said, rolling the dice once more. On the monitor, the faces of those who’d already fought were crossed out; they couldn’t be rolled but could be challenged on a voluntary basis. In that light, both mine and Amber’s portraits were some of the few who had yet to be called. “Cardin Winchester, to the field.”

Cardin swaggered onto the stage. He was a beefy, auburn-hai...

Spoon: 4.11 Fish

Aaron’s Pokemon

- Artoria (Kirlia)
- Jeanne (Flaaffy)
- Durvasa (Mankey)
- Unnamed (Egg)

Fish 4.11

Aaron Fulan

Petalburg Woods

I’d missed out on the evacuation notice. Now that I opened it up, I could see through a series of white lines in the glass that there was indeed a white, bell-shaped indicator in the top right corner of my screen. The speakers died so I hadn�...

Troll: 15. The Foundation

Chapter 15: The Foundation

Blaise Zabini

Hogwarts, Great Britain

I was so caught up in answering Mr. Weasley’s famous question in art club that I missed the scheduled broom race. It was apparently three laps around the Black Lake, with obstacle courses in the form of floating rings set out to make things interesting. Still, there were more clubs to see so I took my time roaming the grounds.

I was greatly disappointed...

Monthly Poll: March 2024

As always, here's where you get to decide on two of my posts. And here's what all I published last month:

3: LT 8.4

5: Spoon 4.10

8: Homeless Bunny 21

9: ACL live & Holy Grill 2.1

10: ACL live

13: ACL live

15: Troll 14

19: Apocalypse 1.11

20: ACL live

23: ACL live

26: Grill 2.2

31: Grill 2.3

As you can see, a lot of lives for quests. This was because ACL won the weekly poll and two commissioner...

PWP: 4.12 Seal

Seal 4.12

Bryce Kiley

2010, November 27: Damascus, Syria

The battlefield fell eerily silent. Men who’d been screaming for this or that were now quiet, shocked at the rapid conclusion of this mess. Villains and heroes, civilians and rebels, all eyes turned as one towards the one responsible: me.

I stood, frozen with the weight of what I’d done. I held the literal smoking gun and took in the bloody mist that had once...

THG: 2.3 Spit of Spite

Preface

I had lots of wings and wings make me happy so have a free chapter lol.

Spit of Spite 2.3

John Soprano

I ran out of the Rig like a bat out of hell, sprinting along the edge of Ig-Alima.

‘You could have handled that better,’ Shirou said.

‘Oh? Is there a magecraft that lets you find someone’s location from just a name? Maybe by the way they dress?’

THG: 2.2 Spit of Spite

Preface

I'm technically done with my commissions for the month, but I don't feel right not posting anything on a Friday. So, in the words of Rin Tohsaka, "100% MAXIMUM NO-CHILL!"

Spit of Spite 2.2

John Soprano

I wiped down the glass and groaned in frustration. I looked outside but found no hint of the delivery driver, just like the last four times.

‘Your bounded field would warn you if they...