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Chapter 65.2- Doom Days

She hurled herself backwards, barely able to avoid a spell that was the size of her head. What? And then there were another two. She struggled to roll out of the way. Still, he tracked her movements with unnerving accuracy. She bent her head to avoid another thick spell.

And then she tried to backhand one, gathering magic around her hand. She slapped it, and instead of it moving immediately, the intent bore down on her, the sheer power of it. She had to heave, putting all her power b...

Chapter 84.2- One Thousand Hands

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Orochimaru had a bad habit. He was more a scholar than he was a shinobi. Of the three of them, much to Sensei’s disappointment, Jiraiya was the only one built to be a shinobi. Orochimaru was a scholar, just as she was a healer. She would always be better and more suited for putting people back together than taking them apart, and Orochimaru’s boundless curiosity would be the death of him. Case in point, the fact that he was still exchanging sword swings with the most famous ken...

Chapter 84.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXX- TSUNADE SENJU

She ducked to the side into a side alley as more flames flooded down the street. On the other side, she noticed Jiraiya huddled behind an earth wall. An earth wall that was beginning to rapidly disassemble itself from the heat. The same sweltering heat that bore down on her even with the flames passing her. The flames came to a stop and she jumped out of the alley, heading for her opponent. On the other side, Jiraiya did the same. The two of them formed Tactic 78 wit...

Chapter 65.1- Doom Days

This time, instead of just food, the box had been stocked with potions as well. I noticed one that was the familiar amber of a pain relief potion, and I chugged it down in seconds while I turned to the bowl in the center of the room. Next to it was a card with the writing, ‘For your neck’ on it. The pain potion, while fast acting had done nothing to affect the itching sensation I still got so I dipped my hand in the bowl with little waiting and began to lather it over my neck. It was cold...

Chapter 31.1- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXXX- GRAND MAESTER RUNCITER (109 AC)

Valyrian steel would struggle to cut the tension in the room. The Small Council’s meeting room, larger than its name would ordinarily have suggested felt much smaller than it ever had. Perhaps it was because they had essentially divided it into two halves. Perhaps it was because of the woman who sat on the other end of it.

“Shall we begin then?” The woman was the one to break the silence. If the desire was for her to seem the supplican...

Chapter 30- The Seadragon's Roar (The Seadragon's Landing)

XXXX- LAENOR VELARYON— 109 AC (BLOODSTONE)

“So what do we do now? We’ve won,” Laena said, looking around the table. Daemon’s absence was loud now that there was no impending battle to take our minds off of it. A Prince of the Blood had been killed under our watch.

“I shall fly Daemon’s body to King’s Landing on the morrow,” Mother said, looking out the window. I felt Daemon was better off dead than alive as far as my interests were concerned, but I had been the o...

Chapter 64- Doom Days (The Finals)

“It’s been one hell of a ride, hasn’t it?” Russo said, taking the stage as the applause died down. Now that I knew this whole thing had been engineered to get people to feel as many strong emotions as possible, it was all beginning to make perfect sense. All the showmanship, the bits of the tournament that hadn’t made complete sense. What did unique elemental environments have to do with showing who the best duelist was? Very little. The environmental additions had probably ended up...

Chapter 83- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

I looked at the ground beneath me, and then far in the distance. I couldn’t see the end of the trench my jutsu had carved into the ground, so I pushed off, jumping to the end of my range in a matter of seconds, and then I could see it. The Raikage was back on his feet again. He had already wrestled his way out of the mass of rubble my jutsu had smashed against Iwa's walls. From the center of the village to its walls. I hadn’t intended for the jutsu to be that ...

Chapter 83.6- One Thousand Hands

“Can someone shoot that woman down?” I called, even as I picked up a kunai. Every bit of me hurt as I aimed and hurled it with what little strength remained in my body before I fell to my knees again. It didn’t even make it close. None of the kunai people tossed, following my lead, made it any closer to her either.

“At least the Raikage is no longer a problem” I heard Uzume say above me. I growled. That hag had stolen my kill. And even worse, I wasn’t all that certain it ha...

Chapter 64.6- Doom Days

From each of them came a yellowish gas. I scowled, casting a bubble head charm around my head, knowing full well just how the spell would limit me in combat. Still, all that meant was that I had to stop holding back as much.

I allowed the gas to spread as it wished, ignoring it in favour of assaulting her with spell after spell. She dodged the first two before backhanding one away. I swept my wand from left to right, turning the ground around her to mud. She pressed her hands to the ...

Chapter 30.6- The Seadragon's Roar

I closed my eyes and breathed in the air of the skies. The fresh air, untouched by humans. It smelt of the sea, almost paradoxically. The sky was darkened by what had to be rain clouds gathering. This was a pure realm in a lot of ways— this sky we flew through. Only birds and dragons could come here— well, and us.. A special privilege we shared with our mounts. I had no idea if the city would smell as bad as it was famed to by the time canon rolled around. I didn’t think it likely, cons...

Chapter 83.5- One Thousand Hands

Uraume, beyond a brief look out wide did nothing to change her approach ask she reached the older woman. Chiyo stepped backwards as frames fingers reached for her brain. Sharp footwork had my cousin advancing into the space that the puppeteer had just vacated, aiming to burst hr hart with the next attack. This one Chiyo slapped to the side with a forearm motion. Then her fingers twisted again and the ground beneath Uraume began to open up.

She jumped backwards, avoiding the trap, but i...

Chapter 30.5- The Seadragon's Roar

“We can’t”

“Just as we can’t tell anything from Igneel and I. We’re basically the same age and spent all of that time being inseparable. If we wanted a way to check, we would have an adult bond a dragon and then watch how their personality changes afterwards” I said.

“So what you are saying is that we can’t find out”

“Not every question gets answered. That’s just how the world works sometimes, Sister” I said. She nodded and we turned to find that...

Chapter 64.5- Doom Days

“Round two: Begin” This time, she managed to strike first. Her snapped fingers created a spark that travelled across the space between us. It was realatively slow moving, and I was tempted to just ignore it and focus on pressing the attack. The only issue with that was that I could feel just how much magic was in that spark. Ignoring it would be stupid, so I slashed my wand to the side, creating a massive golden shield that caught the spark just as it got into range, and like I expected, ...

Chapter 30.4- The Seadragon's Roar

“Good point” I said.

“But urgh. I can’t believe he claimed her Father’s dragon. What an arsehole” She said.

“In Daemon’s defence, mother claimed his own mother’s dragon” I replied.

“So it was revenge?”

“Or it could have just been family tradition. Not like Valyrians leave dragons within individual bloodlines all that often. Taking a dragon from another Freehold House would have been a big no no, but it was less the case with people from the sa...

Chapter 64.4- Doom Days

The blue flames caught the approaching arrows and in a matter of seconds had turned them into naught bit cinders, and then I shaped the flames into a fireball I fired right at my opponent. She slapped her hands together in a clap, and the ground beneath her erupted, water streaming up to fight the fire with its elemental superior.

This was no ordinary fire though, and it managed to boil a good portion of the water into steam. Still, she kept at out, calling upon more and kore ground wa...

Chapter 83.4- One Thousand Hands

“Chiyo of Sunagakure. If you know what’s good for you, you will step back, surrender yourself into custody, and maybe you will live to see the end of this day” Uraume threatened, stepping fully in front of me. I glanced around, feeling the urge to activate my byakugan, but holding off on damaging my coils any further. What I could see told me that there were several Konoha shinobi dead. That meant Chiyo’s life was forfeit no matter what Uraume promised.

“Bring me her head” ...

Chapter 83.3- One Thousand Hands

“I told him it was possible. If I die here, tell Uncle Tajima he can suck my—“ Her fingers covered my mouth as Uzume appeared next to us.

“You are not dying here, you fool. And I am not telling Uncle Tajima anything. I might be the Clan Head, but even I have the common sense to know not to piss off a veteran of the first war and one of the clan’s most powerful jounin.” What she left unspoken of course was th fact that she thought I didn’t have that common sense. I tried l...

Chapter 30.3- The Seadragon's Roar

“Tell me about it” She said, tone suspicious, and I began the tale of how exactly I had threatened our Maester into subservience.

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Funeral rites could be fascinating things, I thought. They said a lot about what a culture valued. This was not the first time I was thinking about it. House Velaryon’s funerals were supposed to signify that we were sailors first and foremost. We had salt and sea in our blood even more than the dreaded Ironborn did. We just didn’t make as ...

Chapter 64.3- Doom Days

I went tried and true, using a spell that I hadn’t used all that much in this tournament but I had practiced to perfection all the same. A flick of my wrist, and a thick bolt go red light wide as a galleon left my wand, aimed centre-mass. She stepped back, backhanding the spell into the wards, and ceding the initiative to me, to allow me begin to work my magic. Of course, I accepted the advantage.

I twirled my wand, each spin ending in a bludgeoner curse. She backed away further, op...

Chapter 30.2- The Seadragon's Roar

“Then it’s settled, I guess” I said, wanting the meeting to be over so I could get about plotting in my own ways. The Capital. I wasn’t ashamed to say that I was wary. It was a den of snakes that ate even royalty alive if they weren’t careful. And I wasn’t royalty. I was someone who had aimed for the king, and I had missed. Now his brother was dead, and we were going to tell him that it had happened under or watch but we weren’t responsible.

Needless to say, I would have...

Chapter 64.2- Doom Days

“Whew, is it hot in here? Those sisters sure know how to bring the heat, don’t they? If you enjoyed that, then just wait to see what we have for you in the firs half time show. It’s going to be a doozy” he said to the applause of the crowd.

“Now, we can welcome the finalists to the stage for what is sure to be the duel of the century.” He called out. I turned my neck from side to side, working out any stiffness or soreness. This was it. The big one. The one we’d all been w...

Chapter 83.2-One Thousand hands

We danced around the trench, me trying and failing to land a hit while he also dealt with a failure of his own— his inability to mount any sort of offensive. The second he turned his attention away from dodging and avoiding my attacks, I would pounce with all the force of a thousand stars, and since I had proven able to bypass his armour, he was now less than keen to allow me as many openings as he did earlier.

So we continued in our stalemate, neither of us managing to harm the other...

Chapter 83.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

I looked at the ground beneath me, and then far in the distance. I couldn’t see the end of the trench my jutsu had carved into the ground, so I pushed off, jumping to the end of my range in a matter of seconds, and then I could see it. The Raikage was back on his feet again. He had already wrestled his way out of the mass of rubble my jutsu had smashed against Iwa’s walls. From the centre of the village to its walls. I hadn’t intended for the jutsu to be th...

Chapter 30.1- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXX- LAENOR VELARYON— 109 AC (BLOODSTONE)

“So what do we do now? We’ve won” Laena said, looking around the table. Daemon’s absence was loud now that there was np impending battle to take our minds off of it. A Prince of the Blood had been killed under our watch.

“I shall fly Daemon’s body to King’s Landing on the Morrow” Mother said, looking out the window. I felt Daemon was better off dead than alive as far as my interests were concerned, but I had been the on...

Chapter 64.1- Doom Days

“It’s been one hell of a ride, hasn’t it?” Russo said, taking the stage as the applause died down. Now that I knew this whole thing had been engineered to get people to eel as many strong emotions as possible, but was all beginning to make perfect sense. All the showmanship, the bits of the tournament that hadn’t made complete sense.

What did unique elemental environments have to do with showing who the best duelist was? Very little. The environmental additions had probably e...

Chapter 82- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

Changing plans to sealing him meant we had to weaken him as much as possible. Part of me wished I hadn’t agreed to Grandmother’s terms of not bringing the Uzumaki to war. If we had five or six sealing masters on hand, this would be much easier. Of course, there was a chance that I’d manage to get all six of them killed, and in that case, I’d have lost six people who could have otherwise been able to save thousands of lives in the long term with their seals and inventions. Uzume moved ...

Chapter 29- The Seadragon's Roar (Seabattles)

House Velaryon had the best sailors in the world. This was a piece of information that I had grown up taking for granted, but now I could see it clear as day. The disparity in the way they efficiently got their ships in order, completing a perfect retreat in good order that led the Triarchy’s fleet by the nose into one of the few natural chokepoints in the Stepstones. Two large islands so close together that there was only a narrow corridor between them. Not so narrow that ships could not p...

Chapter 63- Doom Days (The Alchemist's Truth)

“So Perenelle will be the binder?” I asked, leaning forward now.

“You can’t bind your own unbreakable vows by yourself? I would have expected you to have reached that level by now,” he said, something lurking behind his eyes.

“That’s impossible,” I retorted instantly. Because it was. Magic did not like being bound, and no one wanted to die. Your own intent to not die would prevent the vow from taking hold. It was like asking someone to cast the killing curse on the...

Chapter 29.6- the Seadragon's Roar

“What was that? Was that Caraxes?” The fear in his brother’s voice almost made him chuckle.

“The Red Queen, most likely. The Blood Wyrm is said to be more lithe and slight” He said. He had consumed every piece of information House Martell had gathered on the dragons of House Targaryen once this stupid war had turned from a possibility into a certainty. It was not something many would expect, that House Martell would have deep and extensive accounts of every dragon in the poss...