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He looked around, and noted that he had been one of the first to finish with his opponents but that meant little as the others were equally rounding up. The attackers had been passable wizards, but barely above average in truth. They’d used the dark arts liberally but beyond that there was little finesse or skill to their assault. Just the sheer weight of their numbers and the fact that they had used hostages to keep Dumbledore occupied had kept them in the fight...
2025-07-23 12:40:11 +0000 UTC
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After a long afternoon, we made landfall at what remained of the Pirate’s castle. Castle was a strong word. It was a building made of wood, bigger than the others in what passed for a capital city on this island, but not much so, and mostly by virtue off the other buildings being little better than hovels.
“Well done, my son” Corlys said, clapping me on the shoulder while I walked over to the flash on the desk tat he sat ion front and poured myself a healthy gulp. So mu...
2025-07-23 11:36:52 +0000 UTC
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We unleashed the full wrath of our flames on the first line of buildings. One of them had to bee a tavern of some sort as men and women spilled from it like water from an overfull bucket as our flames washed over it. I amended that assessment as I noticed the state of dress of those spilling out— whorehouse was more appropriated. We turned sharply to the left. The town was not a well-built one, more like a collection of buildings that just happened to be close to each other. This meant it h...
2025-07-23 11:19:16 +0000 UTC
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“What do you think would happen if we fought here?” He asked, unknowingly echoing the question I’d been wondering about earlier.
“One of us would die. Both of our dragons would probably be too injured to continue this war. Whoever wins would probably be exiled— either to the Wall or to Esso’s” I said simply, staring him down. I wasn’t completely certain that I didn’t just want to risk it regardless. Something about this man’s face, his bearing, his whole existence g...
2025-07-23 10:58:56 +0000 UTC
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“Laenor Velaryon” he shouted over the winds roaring in our ears. I looked at him— really looked at him. It was only my second time seeing Daemon Targaryen, and I found myself far from impressed. This was the man that was going to contribute at least a third of the factors that led to the eventual Targaryen downfall. His influence over Rhaenyra, his cantankerous personality, his temper. All things that could cost us in the future. It would be so easy now. With how close we were, and all ...
2025-07-23 00:08:28 +0000 UTC
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“Genjutsu can do that?” Minato asked, his blue eyes sharp as icicles as he broke down every word I said. It was frightening just how much intelligence lurked behind those eyes.
“Genjutsu can do whatever you need it to do if you have the power, control, and will to accomplish it. In this situation, the only reason I was able to do that was because of the vast difference between us— both in terms of chakra potency, reserves, and control.” I listed all three of the factors out. ...
2025-07-22 23:53:16 +0000 UTC
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I was on the floor. I was in pain, may hands were spasming out of control, and it was all I could do token focused enough to cast magic, but that was enough. I deflected his disarming charm. My aim was off. Instead of hitting him, it flew over his shoulder but the was enough. I rolled to the side to avoid a blasting curse, and I countered with a second of focus and a large black spell, a flesh eating necrosis curse that forced even Voldemort to move to the side. I looked down at the wand in m...
2025-07-22 23:23:10 +0000 UTC
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“Crucio” And once again, I felt pain beyond pain. Pain that made me feel like a knife was being taken to all my delicate bits even as I was drowned in a vat of acid while being electrocuted at the same time. Needless to say, even if I did already say it, it was a fuck top one pain and an experience I would be loathe to repeat. Still, i did not want to give in. Voldemort would not be beating me today. Focusing on that thought did not allow me to just ignore the cruciatus but it gave me som...
2025-07-22 23:06:25 +0000 UTC
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“So someone like me shouldn’t’t even bother with learning genjutsu?” Minato asked, looking at me with narrowed eyes, focused on every word that dropped from my lips. I had noticed it now. Where before my students had listened to me and taken my words as valuable advice, now it seemed they were hanging on to every word that dropped from my lips and keen to take them as gospel. That could be problematic, and was probably going to cause me some trouble in the long term. Still, what was t...
2025-07-21 21:41:01 +0000 UTC
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“I said you beat him” She said.
“Yes, yes I did. The Tsuchikage didn’t stand much of a chance, did he?” I said, bragging and boasting before my little sister even as Kurama did his best job of reminding me just how close that had come to ending very differently for us.
“But beyond that, Minato was saying something Kushina, and it’s rude to interrupt” I lightly scolded.
She nodded from her position atop my shoulder, I could feel it from the way her body mov...
2025-07-21 08:09:30 +0000 UTC
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In the end, it took us close to a month to ensure that all the pirates were contained to their respective Islands and would not be in position to contest Daemon’s arrival. Once we had done so, we sent word to the fleet that they could move in, and so that is what led us to our present position, patrolling and policing the corridor that covered the straightest route between Tarth and Bloodstone.
Like expected, it was busy work, and not very productive busywork at tat. We had gotten ri...
2025-07-21 07:54:46 +0000 UTC
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“So I am sure that you find yourself wondering just how you have gotten here, and just how I have returned to my full glory” He said, beginning what I could sense would be a villainous monologue of epic proportions. Normally, I would cut in here with a bit of sarcasm and wit, but the lack of my wand and the present situation meant that pissing off this creature— for that was what Tom Marvolo Riddle had turned himself into— would be far from wise.
“Most assuredly” The sharp ...
2025-07-21 07:34:47 +0000 UTC
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“We won” I heard Kushina scream into my ears the second I teleport back to the office. Somehow, she had managed to convince my secretary to allow her and the rest of my genin team wait here for me to return. I would have judged the woman for it if I had not fallen prey to Kushina’s pout of doom more than a few times myself. Instead I just shook my head in her direction while I hoisted the red-haired missile that had attached itself to me upon arrival on to my shoulders. I looked at my o...
2025-07-20 21:21:32 +0000 UTC
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As I stared down the metaphorical barrel of a gun, I felt my options count down until there was only one remaining. Teleport back home and let Tsunade and Mito deal with this. I could already think of a basic ritual to flush my chakra system that had a good chance of working. Between the two of them, they’d come up with something guaranteed to work for sure. But that felt too much like giving up, like throwing in the towel, and the very thought of it was making me want to retch. Against Han...
2025-07-20 21:19:16 +0000 UTC
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I woke up chained to a statue. My wand was nowhere near me. I would feel it with my magic if it were close. Enough to summon. Close enough to summon- being anywhere within a few inches of any part of my body. Once I had ascertained that much, I began thinking about my surroundings. They were not hard to recognise. It a a graveyard. A familiar graveyard, and I stood chained to a familiar grave. Tom Riddle, Son of Thomas and Mary Riddle, 1905-1943. Well, that answered the question of who hired ...
2025-07-20 21:07:29 +0000 UTC
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It was a chess game, I realized when I walked closer and leaned over it. The pieces were not clearly demarcated. Instead, they were the same dozens used for each piece, but the board was definitely a chessboard, and the position that was presently upon it was one that was easily reachable in a chess game. In fact, it was move seven of the mainline theory of the London System. How ironic. I only knew so much chess theory because Tom Riddle had seen chess as one more way to lord his intellect o...
2025-07-20 21:05:41 +0000 UTC
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We felt the wind. Whip against us as we folded our body into as small a profile as possible, cutting through the air like a ship cut through the sea and enjoying every second of it. Even our smaller boy, the one that held on the saddle with all its might was having a tremendous time as we approached our target. They had seen us coming, but these ones did not have any weapons that could threaten us. They did not even try. By the time we spread our wings, catching the wind at the very last seco...
2025-07-20 20:48:25 +0000 UTC
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The plan was to bleed Tyrosh, but not to capture it. The writ we had received from Viserys to wage war in the Stepstones had been very specific—granting us authority to do whatever necessary to secure peace in the region, but prohibiting us from attacks, even reprisals, on powers within mainland Essos. All we were going to do, then, was attack Tyrosh’s fleet and argue that that was not an attack on Tyrosh itself. Besides, if we were being completely honest, we had no chance of taking the ...
2025-07-20 20:45:20 +0000 UTC
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And so I began. I began to jump up and down, exciting a perfect jumping jack and making sure to do it with my mouth open and breathing heavily so I could run out of air as quickly and possible and so need to breath in more air to keep going In short,. The goal was to make my oxygen consumption as efficient as possibly, while making the utilization as inefficient as possible. It took me a mere minute to begin to feel lightheaded.. I knew this would be far from cmfortable or painless but it was...
2025-07-20 16:48:25 +0000 UTC
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We were going to be facing one of the first Pirate ships on our radar today. The pirate known as Bloodwail, famous for cutting off the tongues of his victims before tiorturing them into releasing screams that were barely held back by the blood pooling in their thoughts. Fromthere, his enemies and friends alike had taken to calling him Bloodwail. And impressively enough, he was one of the more reasonable pirate Kings that called this place home. He ruled his stretch of the sea from a...
2025-07-20 16:09:31 +0000 UTC
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The blade was only a useful shield for a second but it gave her comrade the time and space to reorient himself and turn in my direction with his flingers splayed apart for a jutsu. With my byakugan, I could see tiny bits of chakra spread from his hands and attach to various things all around me, and I shot at him even as my entire surroundings exploded in one fell swoop. he tried to turn into my path with outstretched fists but I could see a million flaws in his form in a second even while hi...
2025-07-20 15:53:26 +0000 UTC
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With the four of them gone, it seemed that there was some sort of unspoken signal that went off its the Iwa nin fell into two categories. Those who saw their death and ran in the opposite direction, fleeing the Land of Fire with all they could, and those who saw their death and decided to run right at it.
The former— the former I enjoyed killing immensely. It was like a dance from my earliest gentle fist lessons as weaved through their clumsy attempts at taijutsu. Every hit I landed...
2025-07-18 21:29:43 +0000 UTC
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So in the end it was decided. When the meeting ends, the fleet would plot a course to clear out the pirates at three of the Islands closest to Bloodstone, and then after that would begin a blockage in the middle of the stepstones, cutting the Islands into two strict zones and patrolling each zone with he goal of making the pirates so scared that they confine themselves to the land where they would be dr easiest to face. These pirates were just that, pirates. Basically small folk who got the i...
2025-07-18 21:14:22 +0000 UTC
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So what could I do? Fuck all. There was not a single thing I could think of that would have any effect on my situation. Looking at it, it was a perfect trap. I already tried to apparate twice and it ad failed, Hogwarts’ wards as airtight as they had always been. And then there was the fact that the portkey was inert. Touching the cup again did nothing. Instead of a two-way protkey like the one that had been used in the Goblet of Fire, it was clear that these agents of Voldemort were more co...
2025-07-18 20:55:00 +0000 UTC
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I looked at it, really looked at it. Yes, the thing had gotten brighter since eI sent the killing curse, ut it was also getting brighter regardless. It took me the same amount of time to conclude that yes, there was no new air coming into the dome so I would keep recycling the air over and over again until I ran out. At least for the second there was a solution. With a twist of my wand, I cast a bubble head charm. The charm had the natural ability to filter and reuse oxygen even in places whe...
2025-07-18 06:14:03 +0000 UTC
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The Kunai landed amongst them and from their position watching the fight, they had surely been able to figure out just what my kunai could do at this pint so I wasn’t surprised to note that they were all umping away before the kunai had even fully landed. Still, it was too late. The kunai were a mere distraction. With how fast I was right now, there was no need to teleport. Not when facing foes like this, at least.
I pushed off the ground, and then I was in their midst. The first man...
2025-07-18 05:54:03 +0000 UTC
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The entire room seemed to straighten up after he spoke. The celebratory mood that. Had entered the room with my arrival had left just as quickly. Which was fair, to be honest. We weren’t in the ame situation that we would have been if the pirates had never attacked— we were in a worse on. We’d just managed t gt ourselves close to our intended starting point. There was nothing to celebrate about that. Not when every step we took after this one would be much harder.
“Daemon and t...
2025-07-18 05:31:22 +0000 UTC
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If I had expected the Tyroshi ships to present much of a challenge to capture, then I was sorely disappointed. Corlys on his flagship and me flying Igneel had led our own fleet right to them where they had gathered themselves a few miles off the coast and we had parlayed. Rather, Corlys had dictated terms on threat of dragon fire or scorpion bolts and they had accepted them. The men of Tyrosh would leave the ships they crewed and swim to shore. In exchange, we were not going to kill...
2025-07-17 19:33:41 +0000 UTC
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The cup was here, right here and it was mine. The others were out of the fight. Fleur’s wand had flown from her grip and Cedric was moaning in pain while the chain ran their course. Krum? We ‘d los him much earlier, This was it. It was my win. Then why did it feel so empty. It felt like I had come first in a race, but one where I had been the only one running. There had been nothing competitive about this, and it showed. I’d dispatched the two of them in no time at all. Fleur had been g...
2025-07-17 19:13:50 +0000 UTC
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Missing one leg, the golem suddenly our he’d forward, teetering over and about to smash into the ground. I looked up at it as it fell and pressed my feet against the ground before I pushed up with all my strength. I created a crater behind but it did not matter as I punched through the golem’s chest and just like with the leg, its entire midsection was gone in a single punch. Onoki began to float away from the head as it fell to the ground, and I tossed several kunai into the air before I...
2025-07-17 18:36:34 +0000 UTC
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