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Chapter 75- Doom Days (Bones of the Father)

She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high-pitched sound was coming from the walls of her room itself. She slid her wand out from under her pillow and pointed it straight ahead before she rolled backward off the bed and onto the floor. No spells came. The ringing from the wall continued. Was this one of her aunt’s tests? she wondered. Usually, the attacking would have started by now, and she would be expected to duel her way to the floo room in order to win th...

Chapter 42.6- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXXX- SIX WEEKS LATER

“A visitor for you, my lord” One of the dozens of serving boys that now called Bloodstone home said, walking into my solar.

“What flag did they fly?” I asked, watching as the boy turned to the side, trying to remember.

“Don’t worry about it, Sam. Just make sure you take note of it next time” I said, rising from my seat. I tossed him a silver sickle for his good work and watched him scamper off. A proper messenger would probably arrive s...

Chapter 75.6- Doom Days

“I would rather die, and so would Susan” her aunt spat back, and Susan found herself nodding along. She could never imagine working for someone so evil. So cruel. It hut evil and cruel, but the man on whose orders her parents had been killed. The man that had seen her made into an orphan in the first place. Even if none of the first things mattered to her, that would always be a hangup she would have.

“I believe you. Sadly for you, I do truly believe you” Voldemort said, and th...

Chapter 95.6- One Thousand Hands

To Kushina’s credit, her chains were already moving to wrap around me the second I’d tossed Minato away, but that was still far too little, and far too late. I reached for one of said chains, grabbed a hold of it and felt it try to suppress my chakra. You’re a decade too young to stand a chance, girl, I said mentally before I used it as a flail and dragged, pulling her off the ground. I spun— once, twice, and then launched her off into the distance.

Mikoto was on me like white ...

Chapter. 75.5- Doom Days

He tore through the next two creatures that assaulted him so quickly that Susan hadn’t even been able to tell what they were. And then he went for her aunt. He smashed through the cover she hid behind, but she wasn’t there. She had moved already. Good. But that didn’t seem to bother him all that much. He flared his magic around him, and then thrust out with his wand. A black ball of magic shot out of his wand that he began directing about the room like a conductor. Every where it went, ...

Chapter 42.5- The Seadragon's Roar

Just like him, they didn’t believe me when I said they were free. None of them moved forward to attack Declan. They probably saw it as a test of the loyalty or something equally inane. If only I could just shove the thought in their head. You are free men. Well, free men still bound to work for me, but free men nonetheless. If one or two of them wanted to exercise that freedom by not working for me, I would permit it even. All of them though? Well, that would be inconvenient.

Thankf...

Chapter 95.5- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXX- THREE MONTHS SINCE THE ATTACK ON KONOHA

We had finally broken ground on the new tower. It had taken a while to secure all right families and their reallocations, but that had not been the real delay. The real delay had come from the fact that more or less every single shinobi under my aegis considered it to be a terrible idea. Some felt then wise course of action would be increasing the security around the tower to prevent an attack like Chiyo’s from happening again. So it w...

Chapter 95.4- One Thousand Hands

And then he felt the pull at his soul as the teapot began to eject him. He landed on the ground, crouched, feeling aches all over..

But he was an abbot of the Wind Temple. Pain was an old fiend of his. He rose to his full height, not paying much if any attention to the creaks and pops that came from his bones as he did so. He rose and walked out into the village proper. With every step he took, he felt his friend begin to stir.

“Control yourself, Shukaku” he said, and thankf...

Chapter 42.4- The Seadragon's Roar

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“Is everyone here?” I asked Declan. He nodded. I turned to the line of former slaves. The people whose freedom I had purchased only for them to be enslaved by my man. As far as they were concerned, I had bought them, freed them, and then enslaved them again. I must have seemed so cruel to them. The kind of cruel that people wrote books about and told their children to fear. That was the worst part of it.

“Good day” I said to them, speaking in high Valyrian before ...

Chapter 75.4- Doom Days

She watched as he admired the various statues and paintings that dotted Bones Manor. He was taking his time, enjoying himself like he was an invited guest on a tour and not an intruder who deserved to die. Her nails bit so deeply into her skin that they drew blood as she saw red. This man. This abomination. He wanted them dead, and he didn’t even have the decency to act like it was going to cause him any trouble. And then he turned, almost like he was looking straight at her.

Susan f...

Chapter 42.3- The Seadragon's Roar

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Perhaps I should have made him suffer more before I killed him, I thought to myself as I looked at the stack of communications that had been exchanged between one of my most trusted Captains and a certain Ravandyr Morello of the Stepstones. Of course, they hadn’t figured out cement. They hadn’t even been close to managing it. But if they had.

Fuck, if they had. That would be one of my greatest advantages given over to the enemy, and all of it happening under my nose. I ...

Chapter 95.3- One Thousand Hands

And so he continued his investigation. He moved his eye from street to street, and when he reached the hospital, it took a large amount of willpower for him to continue. In the sand outside the hospital, they lay in their dozens, each one sick as the last. He went inside, finding that even the medical shinobi were no exception. They laid at their desks, coughing and moaning just as surely as their compatriots laid on the ground outside. This was some kind of attack, but not a kind of attack t...

Chapter 95.2- One Thousand Hands

“Blindspots?” I asked.

“The other villages: Suna, Kusa, Ame, Kiri, Kumo, Taki. With some preliminary training, they will be able to act as competent spies. Some will begin lives as civilians while others will seek to enroll as shinobi. In a matter of years, we could have deeply embedded spies into each enemy village, just waiting to be used when the time comes” he explained. I nodded at his words.

He had a good plan at least. One that addressed a pressing need the villag...

Chapter 42.2- The Seadragon's Roar

Because if he thought mocking me about Corlys, a man whose death I had gotten over a long time ago was going to give him the chance to take the advantage here, then he had another thing coming.

I took my stance and waited for him to come forward.

“I’ve been killing men since before you were born, boy”

“And now I will kill you. Are you coming or not? Or are you going to turn and run outside? Igneel really hopes you choose that option. He wonders what you taste like...

Chapter 75.3- Doom Days

“Susan, I need you to listen to me carefully.” Her aunt said, drawing her closer and grabbing her head by both hands.

“This will be the last time we ever speak—“

“No”

“Yes. That man— that thing coming here will never allow me survive tonight. But you have a chance. I need you to hide in the saferoom. It has kept children of Bones blood safe for generations. It will do the same with you.”

“Let’s hide there together” She said, pulling at her a...

Chapter 75.2- Doom Days.

“That’s impossible” She heard her aunt say before her eyes could even adjust to the sudden darkness. The light fixtures had gone off in the earthquake.

“Auntie?” She called, seeing the woman she had grown up seeing as unflappable on the verge of panic.There was fear in her aunt’s eyes for the first time ever, and Susan did not know what she could possibly do about it.

Instead of answering her call, her aunt stepped over, grabbed a hold of her and then closed hr eyes....

Chapter 95.1- One Thousand Hands

Where Toshiro had seemed to stroll into the room, comfortable in his skin, Shiba seemed to lumber. Every step he took seemed to weigh more than the last. Not with a physical weight, but a metaphysical one. This was a man with a burden on his shoulders, and he wore it on his extra long sleeves for the world to see.

“Are you well, my friend?” I found myself asking, bot. Out of concern for him, for he had always been this way, but to break the silence that stretched between us like a ...

Chapter 42.1- The Seadragon's Roar

The one to my left, Declan, attacked first. He had a pug face, nose clearly broken one too many times to heal right, and a sneer on his face. He swung his blade at me. I ducked underneath it, and stomped at his foot. He managed to snatch it back in time, and as I moved to take advantage of his imbalance, I heard the steps of the other one approaching.

I swung my stolen blade in his direction, and he blocked. I took a step back, keeping both men in my view. All three of them, I meant. S...

Chapter 75.1- Doom Days

She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high pitched sound coming from the walls of her room themselves. She slid her wand out from underneath her pillow, and pointed it straight ahead before she rolled backwards off the bed and onto the floor. No spells came. The ringing from the wall continued. Was this one of her aunt’s tests? She wondered. Usually the attacking would have started by now, and she would be expected to duel her way to the floo room in order to ...

Chapter 94- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

XXXXXX- THE THIEF

“Did you get it?” his benefactor asked as he walked into the cave.

“I still don’t see why we have to keep meeting in caves. You have the gold to pay me. Surely you could find something better than… this,” he said, gesturing to their surroundings. He did not bother looking around again. He had already scanned it upon entry. It was just like every other cave he and his benefactor had met in. Cold, damp, and altogether unremarkable.

“Do I look li...

Chapter 74- Doom Days (Happy Birthday)

The day the seventh month died began like any other. I woke up and stretched, preparing myself to head out to begin the day’s first duelling session. After weeks of training—more like months with all the time that we had passed in the time turner—I’d managed to get Nicholas to begin moving. But if I had thought that getting him to move would make things easier for me, then I was very wrong.

But still, I could feel it with every training session. I was getting that tiny bit sharp...

Chapter 41- The Seadragon's Roar (Traitors in the Tower)

“Arghhh,” I screamed as I felt the wood of his lance shatter against my shield as mine failed to make contact. I kept riding, turning at the last moment to see that my opponent had done the same.

I gestured to the boy who had taken the role of page for me, and accepted another of the special lances. “Hya,” I roared, spurring my horse into motion. Right as we were about to clash, I pulled on that link Igneel and I shared. This time, I felt my eyes sharpen and it seemed the world ...

Chapter 41.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“My Lord? The meaning of this is that you shall surrender yourself into our custody now that you have delivered yourself into our hands”

“You would betray guest rights?”I asked. I didn’t truly care all that much for the concept of guests rights in the first place— beyond their use in giving me an additional defence for if things had the potential to get dicey.

“Things like that are for little lordlings like you, my lord. The gods don’t care what we sailors do, do ...

Chapter 74.6- Doom Days

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“Now what do you think is the most important part of a spell?” Nicholas began our spell learning session of the day with a question.

“Intent” I said instantly, it was based into us from a young age.

“That is the most important thing for casting the spell, yes, but does the intent constitute part of the spell?” He asked.

“What do you mean by parts of a spell?” I asked, trying to find what he was driving at.

“That is a better question. ...

Chapter 94.6- One Thousand Hands

“Most of them managed to make it to the general genin corps. But from there, their fates diverge widely. Some of them manage to make it onto chunin squads and die in their second or third C-rank. Others group up together, go on D-ranks for a year, and then die on their first C-rank. And perhaps the worst is the category that are talented enough to make it to jounin squads with clan genin”

“Those like you” I added, as I flipped through the file, each document told the same story...

Chapter 95.5- One Thousand Hands

“But then I got the position, and the clearance level to see numbers that I’m sure everyone who’s held this chair before you would rather remain hidden”

“Hmm? A scandal of some sort? One Granduncle and Grandfather would both want to see hidden. Colour me curious”

“Do you know that I am one of only two jounin from a fully civilian background in the village” What?

“That can’t be true” I said instantly.

“I can show it to you. The other is a Toku...

Chapter 95.4- One Thousand Hands

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It only took twenty minutes after Shika had left for my next appointment to be at the door. I had Retsu bring hum in while I waited patiently behind my desk. While the meeting with Shika had been about bringing her around to my way of thinking on an issue, this meeting was about the opposite. The civilian catastrophe, while tragic, had left me with an unexpected windfall.

Orphans. A lot of them. And two men were going to try to convince me to allocate the majority of th...

Chapter 94.3- One Thousand Hands

“It’s not just about making them like me, Shika. It’s more than that. What do you think the civilian to shinobi population split is?”

“Accounting for casualties?” She asked.

“Of course”

“Two to one?” She tried.

“More like three to one. The census data is over there if you want to check it out” I said, pointing towards my file cabinet.

“You want to tap the civilian children to replenish our numbers.” She said.

“I knew you�...

Chapter 74.5- Doom Days

I flicked my wand, creating the sound of clapping thunder to draw his attention. Is head snapped to me, the expression of shock on his face, comical.

“What’d you do that for?” He asked, picking at his ears.

“You weren’t paying attention to me” I said.

“What?”

“I was trying to tell you that I am fine, and you can’t do anything about any of that stuff you’re worrying about so what’s the point of worrying” He turned his head to me, looking ...

Chapter 41.5- The Seadragon's Roar

I waited for the bread and salt, thinking things through as I did so. Was he the thief? Probably. But I had no proof or evidence, and beyond that, I wasn’t sure enough to push on regardless. Would I torture a man for my suspicions? Possibly, but not one sworn to me and having advanced so high as to become a captain. I was keen on giving my people some rights and having a better setup than the average Westerosi Lord. It was part of my plan of luring more and more of the smallfolk over from t...