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Chapter 21.3- The Seadragon's Roar

I finished bandaging the wound with a series of quick movements. One thing my posting here had achieved was that my hands had grown even more nimble. Maester Bernard did not have a forged links in healing— an oversight that I would see him replaced for when I returned to the mainland. What kind of lunacy had possessed the Citadel not to send us a fully competent Maester. Yes, his links in Admiralty, Shipbuilding, Commerce, Governance, History, and Warfare probably made him one of the best i...

Chapter 21.2- The Seadragon's Roar

“Well done, Cousin. You have done a great deed here today” Rhaenys said, sliding down from Meleys’ back to walk towards Borros.

He met her with a wide smile and placed the head at her feet while she leaned in and embraced him. It was a full hug. Uncaring of his armour, his ruff personality, and the audience. The men cheered it even as I watched Borros fold himself into the hug in a way I had never seen him. For the second time in knowing him, Borros Baratheon seemed human. Seemed...

Chapter 74.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXX- CEE

He heard a strange whistling sound, and when he raised his head, it was to see part of the army cast in shadow, looking up revealed a sight that would have made a lesser man sully his breeches. “Scatter” He screamed. He was not the first one to do so, and far from the first one to obey the instruction, but the giant stone construct landed regardless. Cee struggled to put a number to the amount of chakra signatures that disappeared from his senses once the obelisk landed...

Chapter 55.1- Doom Days

I hadn’t paid attention to the duels during the qualification. There was nothing wrong with that: it was probably the wise thing to do considering just how many duelists are had been and how bad most of them were. I’d dueled someone who struggled to cast a shield spell! While it had been the right choice to make, it did mean that I was taken by surprise when the Round of Sixty-Four began with an okay duel and only got better from there.

At this point, I was certain that my duel had...

Chapter 21.1- The Seadragon's Roar

Taking the castle had ended up taking the better part of the day. They had started shortly after dawn, and the sun had begun to set by the time a bloodied Borros Baratheon returned with a head clutched under his armpit in one hand and this trusty hammer in the other. If it as ever a question of whether the man could back up his arrogance and confidence, then I would always be certain the answer would be yes. Because beyond a scratch on his arm, in a gap in his armour’s protection— Borros ...

Chapter Twenty: The Queen of Cities Commits

XXXX- ONE MONTH LATER (Late 108 AC)

It had taken a whole moon to clear the island. Dragons, men, improvised siege engines. It had taken all that and more for us to be sure that every cave on the island that could sustain a sizable force was emptied and cleared. Some of the caves had been harder to take than others, from Daemon’s and Borros’ testimonies. The former participated whenever he was bored, while the latter was at the forefront of every single push. The Stormlanders had lov...

Chapter Seventy-Three: One Thousand Hands

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard you say,” I told her, even as I began to mentally scramble for some way to get out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have a fucking Rinnegan. If I thought it was likely that swapping eyes would lead the both of us to getting Rinnegan, I would even have done it myself already. But it was already proven that the Rinnegan didn’t come from just mixing Uchiha and Senju DNA. You needed to mix Indra’s chakra with Asura’s to create ...

Chapter 54- Doom Days (The Best is the Rest)

In the blink of an eye, everything changed. Her attempt to freeze the shield, and through that, her magic, failed in a heartbeat as things just stopped. His magic stopped yielding to hers, and then the shield was back again, exploding forth in golden radiance. The blizzard around them seemed to cease as his magic stepped into the very environment. She could see it now. Just as she was ice, he was fire.

“That’s an interesting trick,” she heard his voice say, and then she was forced...

Chapter 54.6- Doom Days

“Winner: Álvarez” The referee announced, and then his name and picture were displayed on the screen. Mateo Álvarez. I would remember that name. Something told me he was going to be on my path to victory. Maybe I’d even meet him in the finals. He was definitely at the higher end of what I would expect a participant here to be capable of. Probably good enough to win the whole thing if I wasn’t here.

Of course, the universe would not be the universe if it did not make me eat my ...

Chapter 54.5- Doom Days

His choice of spells was as varied as his choice of shields had been. Bludgeoners, cutters, piercers, blasters, stunners, disarmers, it didn’t matter. If it could be used to incapacitate his opponent, he sent it. And the speed at which he cast the spells never wavered.

If most people were the equivalent of pistols, the average professional duelist was an assault rifle. This guy? He was a fucking gatling gun.The shields had been interesting as a strategic tool and made it so I noted ...

Chapter 54.4- Doom Days

What would it matter in the end though? I would win. I would rise above them all. By the end of the week, only one man would remain in this room— me. The next match was called, and the wheel landed on water again. I watched as one of the contestants took control of the water that surrounded them from the very beginning. The other— his opponent— was good with shields. Excellent even. That was the only thing that prevented him from being washed off the platform in the firs exchange of the...

Chapter 54.3- Doom Days

We were told, more or less in those exact words, to get off the pitch in short order, and we did so. I tried to shake hands with Kuznetsova, maybe strike up a conversation about how it felt to have been under the influence of my new type of illusion, but she gave me a wide berth, kept her eyes trained on the ground so I could get no eye contact for legilimency and walked out of the gate so quickly one might have assumed she had the hounds of hell at her feet. Disappointing.

I’d proba...

Chapter 20.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“Yes, yes there is” he found himself saying immediately after. Especially when the two additional dragons being spoken of were Meleys and Vhagar. One of them was old enough to have participated in the famed Conquest of Westeros and it had the size to prove it. The other, the other was old and experienced as well, ridden by a woman who his spies said rode like she had been born on a saddle. Without the two of them on the table to worry about, things were going to be simpler. Laenor Velaryo...

Chapter 20.5- The Seadragon's Roar

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I sat on Igneel’s back, waiting for the signal. I’d promised that we could get rid of the gates with one blow, and I’d be damned if I didn’t deliver. The army waited behind me, Borros in front of me with a bloodthirsty smile on his face and his hammer twitching in his hand. In another man=, I might have assumed the latter as a sign of nervousness. With Borros, it was obviously excitement. Vhagar and Meleys flew off to the sides, waiting to incinerate anyone that tried to ...

Chapter 73.6- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXXX- CEE

“Landmines” He heard someone shout for what felt like the ninety-ninth time today as another cluster of shinobi blew sky high. The Iwa strategy was a shockingly competent one. Landmines buried so deep that they activated seconds, or sometimes minutes after being tripped off. It was literally impossible to tell where the landmines where until they exploded. A different village would have taken the losses and turned about. They were Kumo, though. And one thing they were ...

Chapter 73.5- One Thousand Hands

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Once the matter of getting rid of Hiruzen had concluded itself, getting myself appointed as Hokage proud to be shockingly simple. We called for nominations, Uzume nominated me. Kagami Saratobi nominated Orochimaru, and I won by a landslide. Might have even felt sorry for Orochimaru if he wasn’t so obviously being used as a pawn by those who would rather I failed.

“So what do we do now?” Uzume asked, looking around the office.

“It feels different, you know?�...

Chapter 73.4- One Thousand Hands

Uzume prepared to reply so I just cut in, “So you mean to convince them to vote our way, we had to convince them that we didn’t need their votes?” I asked, incredulously.

“The Clan heads are a complicated bunch. If they felt you needed them then they would either have held out to extract concessions or withdrawn support to extract concessions from Hiruzen instead.” She said.

“They would have backed him as Kage? Even with that report?” Uzume wasn’t the only one sho...

Chapter 20.4- The Seadragon's Roar

“A siege would be less bloody” I said, tossing in my two cents as I looked at the figure that depicted the castle. I knew there was only one option we would pick. Mother and I had run through the strategy yesterday already. A storm was inevitable, but this theatre was necessary.

“I’ve never known you to be one to fear blood, Cousin” Borros said to me. I shrugged. Good, he was taking the bait.

“Better to wait them out than waste men and supplies. They are pirates. They...

Chapter 54.2- Doom Days

“What? What happened?” She asked, not sure what was going on. Where had all the fire gone?

“Winner: Potter” She heard the referee say. She had lost, her wand was in his possession and she could not even tell what had happened. One second she was in a firestorm, and now she was here. What was going on?

“A simple illusion, my darling Kuznetsova” He sounded impossibly smug. Could that have been an illusion? How? It had all felt so real. No, she knew illusions. Grandma N...

Chapter 73.3- One Thousand Hands

My clone walked towards her and now I covered them both in fire. I felt my clone pop a few seconds after the fire touched him and I took note of the memories as they came to me.

“A failure then” Uzume said with a shrug.

“Not so quick. My clone only dispelled a few seconds after the fire reached him. If the fire did sit ought then it should have dispelled much earlier. No, I think you can project your ability, but you just need to get a bit better at it”

“Does th...

Chapter 20.3- The Seadragon's Roar

“I knew you did not hate me, Ser Borros. If you hated me, I would have climbed my Dragon, and I would have returned to my home. I am— was the heir to House Velaryon. I took your cruelty both because I knew you did not intend it so, and because I knew in some ways it would make me stronger. It had made me a stronger man” I said, sliding my blade against his hammer’s handle, and then twisting myself at the last moment so said blade was resting against his neck. I’d beaten him. It woul...

Chapter 20.2- The Seadragon's Roar

“Yes, Ser Borros?” I finally addressed him when it became clear that hen was perfectly fine standing at the entryway and not saying anything.

“Let’s spar” the man offered after a few seconds of silence.

“I am no longer your squire, I do believe that Mother clarified it and obtained your consent for my discharge.” I asked, looking from him back to my drawings.

“Then we spar as equals. Lords in our own rights.” He said.

“I’m a lord and you’r...

Chapter 73.2- One Thousand Hands

“It wouldn’t be borrowed power” She said, but I just tilted my head at her. Ev en she knew that that was a particularly weak rebuttal. Taking her eyes to activate the rinnegan would be borrowed power.

“Fine. But after the Raikage, we look into this .We do it together” She said. Sure, I had to push it back further then.

“Speaking of the Raikage, there’s something I wanted to test” I told her. She looked at me. I walked over, tapped her on the shoulder, and the sec...

Chapter 73.1- One Thousand Hands

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard you say” I told her, even as I began to mentally scramble for some way to get out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’df love to have a fucking Rinnegan. If I thought it was likely that swapping eyes would d lead the both of us to getting rinnegan, I would even have done it myself already. But it was already proven that the rinnegan didn’t come from just mixing Uchiha and Senju dna. You needed to mx Indra’s chakra with Asura’s to create...

Chapter 20.1- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXXX- ONE MONTH LATER (Late 108 AC)

It had taken a whole moon to clear the island. Dragons, men , improvised siege engines. It had taken all that and ore for us to be sure that every cave in the island that could sustain a sizable force was emptied and cleared. Some of the caves had been hard to take than others from Daemon’s and Borros’ testimonies. The former participated whenever he was bored, while the latter was at the forefront of every single push. The Stormlanders had loved...

Chapter 54.1- Doom Days

In the blink of an eye, everything changed. Her attempt top freeze the shield, and through that is magic failed in a heartbeat ads things just stopped. His magic stopped ielding to hers and then the shield was back again, exploding forth in golden radiance. The blizzard around them seemed to cease as his magic stepped into the very environment. She could see it now. Just as she was ice, he was fire.

“That’s an interesting trick” She heard his voice say, and then she was forced on...

Chapter 53- Doom Days (Ice Age)

The rest of my qualification duels passed without note, and I took note of the Leaderboards as the second day wore on. At the beginning of the day, there were several of us on perfect 4/4 records. By the end of it, only about eleven of us out of the chosen sixty-four had perfect 9/9 records. That didn’t mean they were all on my level, though. It also didn’t mean that those with less-than-perfect records were very far off. Several of them were on 8/9. In fact, only three out of the chosen ...

Chapter 19- The Seadragon's Roar (The Fall of Bloodstone)

“There’s been a change of plans,” Mother said, spreading out a map of Bloodstone in Daemon’s command tent. He hadn’t even begrudged her taking control. I guess even the infuriating and mercurial man-child could see that pissing my mother off in this situation would be even more brain-dead than his usual behaviour.

“What do you have in mind, Cousin?” he said, stepping closer to look at the map as well.

“My husband’s plans, while brilliant, were overly generous to ...

Chapter 72- One Thousand Hands

I watched her as she completed the examination. In the end, she did not need to change anything in the report apart from some notes about the scar tissue in his legs. Then she passed the report over to me. I nodded, knowing what I had to do. The new Clan Council meeting was scheduled to take place in two days. I’d have Uraume do the rounds with this and then bring it up during the meeting. Kagame seemed willing to witness it in person, so that would make things even better. She could tell t...

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