“Call up the reserves. Reduce the age of Graduation for the Academy from twelve to eight. Every child above the age of eight within the academy shall be effective immediately be made a genin and drafted into the Konoha military. They are to assemble within this very building by 0600 hours tomorrow, so I may address them. Every able-bodied jounin is to be returned to the village. Halt all missions— even the sensitive ones Hiruzen had approved beforehand. Cancel all contracts. We will eat t...
2025-06-04 01:02:15 +0000 UTC
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Was Corlys pleased when we returned two months later than we were supposed to? No. Was he less pissed when he saw Vhagar for the first time? Also, no. Must have been a result of the two of us trying to scare him with the dragon and pranking him that she had gone out of control and begun to rampage. Still, there were few regrets on my end, and on Laena’s end, there were none. Should I have let her convince me to spend time on the unnamed islands teaching her to fly and helping h...
2025-06-04 01:00:00 +0000 UTC
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The first spell to cross the space between them was a grey cutting curse that seemed to cleave through space itself as it made its way across the space. Grand Abbott Rudra stared at the coming spell for a second, and then his mind supplied him with the right reply. He spun his wand in a tight circle and then pushed it out. It formed a tight golden shield of magical energy that kept the cutting curse at bay, blocking it and allowing him to send it into the ceiling. His magic rose to the forefr...
2025-06-04 00:57:26 +0000 UTC
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“We are gathered here today to pay our last respects to King Jaehaerys Targaryen, the First of his Name, the Conciliator, rider of Vermithor, husband to the Good Queen Alyssane, father to…” I tuned him out as the High Septon continued to drone on and on. This was the price of the Old King’s close relationship to the faith, boredom at his funeral. His body would still be cremated by a dragon procession in Valyrian fashion, but it was still clear that this was an Andal funera...
2025-06-02 05:18:43 +0000 UTC
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“Well, this feels like an ambush” I said as I walked into a room that did not have one occupant like I expected. Instead, it had eight. Every surviving member of my graduating class sat around the table, clearly waiting for me to arrive.
“Just a meeting Shori” Uzume said, appearing at my side and leading me over to my seat.
“Look at me thinking this was a date or something” I said to Uraume, and the second I did so, I felt Uzume’s grip on my arm tighten t...
2025-06-02 04:55:52 +0000 UTC
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“Victory: Krum” the referee proclaimed and the Durmstrang section grown smaller say by ay erupted into applause. At this point, even I was unsure of victory. There was just something about staves that made them less than ideal for complicated pieces of magic, and it was only whn that was denied to me that I realised just how much of my arsenal relied on either complex curses, charms, elemental conjuration, or just transfiguration of the bog standard variety. Still, it would be my duty to ...
2025-06-02 04:40:39 +0000 UTC
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Part of him screamed to act, but it was like he could not tear his eyes away from what he was seeing. He never even noticed the woman who erupted from the shadows behind him with mouth open and singing her will to the heavens. Enthralled, he watched as Matsuhito walked until he was right in front of him and then placed one hand on either side of his head.
“Rest easy, Rudra” He said, and then he felt his mind snap into wakefulness as pain began to course into him. ‘There is no pai...
2025-06-01 11:15:03 +0000 UTC
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From the skies, King’s Landing was a jewel of a city. It made Driftmark look drab in comparison with its ills, its massive walls, its multiple gates, and at the very center of it the behemoth of red stone— the Red keep. It was a massive castle that put most others to shame. In my opinion, High Tide was more beautiful but there might have been some bias there. In the harbour, we could see the ships bearing the Velaryon sails and how they put all the others next to them to shame. Meleys’ ...
2025-06-01 11:14:00 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, so that could work. Then maybe some obfuscation seals for the rods themselves to make them harder to find” I suggested.
“No, no, no. It would clash conceptually. The obfuscation seals work on the concept of not being found, you can’t pair that with chakra sensing seals that work with the concept of finding other things. You can’t blow hot and cold at the same time, Shori”
“I was thinking of the rods not having any identification matrixes at all. Give that fu...
2025-06-01 00:08:08 +0000 UTC
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It was like the ball of the dense black liquid began to boil as it bubbled and vibrated in the air. A second later, he slashed his wand straight to the ground and the venom exploded outwards, raining down on the entire hall. It did nothing to inanimate objects, but everything with a single drop of magic within it began to burn. Some of the Japanese wizards tried hiding behind transfigured shields but those were dissolved and their flesh followed soon after.
It was a symphony— an ugly...
2025-05-31 06:42:57 +0000 UTC
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“You should probably stop doing that” I heard Mom’s voice before I saw her. And when I did, I felt my breath be knocked away by the sight. Corlys had commissioned new riding leathers for all of us but while Laena and I were children who looked cute in ours, Rhaenys’ made her look breathtaking. It was like she was dressed for war— to be queen of the skies.
“Vhagar’s all talk” I said, before turning fully in her direction, ignoring Igneel’s growl at losing g my attentio...
2025-05-31 05:58:51 +0000 UTC
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“What idea has wormed its way into your fooled that you can’t figure out on your own?” She asked.
“Who said I had an idea?”
“That smirk on your face. Now talk before I lose my patience and get to whacking” She picked up her cane, showing that she had every intention of backing through threat up with violence.
“Remember when we needed to rescue Tsunade and needed to get her precise coordinates to send a hiraishin marker to her location?” I asked.
...
2025-05-31 05:57:19 +0000 UTC
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“And if he does not? You would give up a certainty for a probability?”
“I would give up the world to see my children safe, Corlys.” She said, staring him down. And for perhaps the first time in his life, the Sea Snake yielded. He took the no for what it was and nodded before turning to leave the room. As he did so, Rhaenys turned around, tears beginning to build in her eyes before she walked up to us and enclosed us in her grasp.
I understood what she was giving up for o...
2025-05-30 05:00:36 +0000 UTC
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It stopped moving a few seconds later, and she stood, bloodied but alive, as the collection of stones that made up the lion collapsed to the floor. The werewolves hammered on the lion, raining down claws, fists, fangs, everything they ha while the creature lurched this way and that to escape their grasp.
The Grand Abott sighed at the situation before firing another salvo of spells in the Japanese Prince’s direction. Once again, the woman moved to stand between his spells and his targ...
2025-05-30 04:40:47 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you. I thought I was going to die there. I thought we were going to die there. I owe you, Shori.” She said, and it might have taken me a second, and lots of enthusiastic encouragement from Grandma behind Tsunade’s back but I did wrap my arms around her to enclose her in a hug as well, while trying not to think about the way her mammary glands squished themselves against my chest. Gods, those things felt like pillows.
No, bad Shori. That’s your cousin, I warned myself off...
2025-05-30 04:39:13 +0000 UTC
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. Lightning struck the dense ball of mass as it gathered more mass towards itself and it felt like the world stood still for a breath. And then the ball exploded, sending stone, blood, tiles, sand, all of it, everywhere. Rudra slashed his wand through the air, forming a golding shield that the collection of matter struck and bounced off from, even as he forced his feet to adhere to the ground with a snap of his fingers.
Few others were so lucky. Nepalese defenders, Japanese invaders, a...
2025-05-29 10:02:35 +0000 UTC
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“You would have us rebel. Have us become traitors not just to who we are but to everything we stand for. Have me betray, and definitely even slay my own kin. Kingslayer, Kinslayer, usurper, those words they would call us across the realm” She parried his attempt to push with grace that I would not hesitate to call Queenly, and I knew Corlys could see it.
“They are the betrayers and usurpers. The throne is yours by law and by right. All you would be doing is pressing your right wi...
2025-05-29 05:35:13 +0000 UTC
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I titled my head at my new Secretary as she silently scrawled all my orders down. She was a recommendation from Uraume, a Hyuga branch family member that she swore by and who I was mostly certain would be Tallinn my cousin every single thing I got up to. But that was better than the alternative— having Danzo’s spy at the centre of my operation. That was why I had sacked her predecessor in minutes after taking the job. Uraume’s cousin was the lesser of all evils. At least with her, I cou...
2025-05-29 05:18:35 +0000 UTC
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“Call up the reserves. Reduce the age of Graduation for the Academy from twelve to eight. Every child above the age of eight within the academy shall be effective immediately be made a genin and drafted into the Konoha military. They are to assemble within this very building by 0600 hours tomorrow so I may address them. Every able bodied jounin is to be returned to the village. Halt all missions— even the sensitive ones Hiruzen had approved beforehand. Cancel all contracts. We will eat th...
2025-05-28 21:27:37 +0000 UTC
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The first spell to cross the space between them was a grey cutting curse that seemed to cleave through space itself as it made its way across the space. Grand Abbott Rudra stared at the coming spell for a second and then his mind supplied him with the right reply. He spun his wand in a tight circle and then pushed it out. It formed a tight golden shield of magical energy that kept the cutting curse at bay, blocking it and allowing him send it into the ceiling. His magic rose to the forefront ...
2025-05-28 21:26:02 +0000 UTC
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103 AC
Was Corlys pleased when we returned two months later than we were supposed to? No. Was he less pissed when he saw Vhagar for the first time? Also, no. Must have been a result of the two of us trying to g to scare him with the dragon and pranking him that she had gone out of control and begun to rampage. Still, there were few regrets on my end, and on Laena’s end, there were none. Should I have let her convince me to spend time on the unnamed islands teaching her to fly and help...
2025-05-28 21:24:03 +0000 UTC
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“So what are you going to call this one?” Laena asked as we watched my latest invention come off the assembly line. The assembly line itself was one of my inventions. It allowed the shipyards of Driftmark produce ships just as quickly as the famed Arsenal of Bravos. House Velaryon ruled then waves and I would not see our dominance contested by a city of merchants and bankers. Losing my bid for the throne had actually been a boon in a lot of ways. For one, it had shown Father ...
2025-05-28 21:21:43 +0000 UTC
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“Tell me what happened” I asked her as we stood side by side outside the operating room. Tsunade was huddled ver the Hokage’s body, pumping it with chakra and trying her best to put his organs back together. It said something about the situation he was in that even a healer ofTsunade’s skill was struggling to just keep him alive. Half his chest was gone, his heart had lost a good chunk of its mass and then there was hi lung— singular. The other one was just completely gone. So no, H...
2025-05-28 21:20:04 +0000 UTC
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Nepal falls, the newspapers read the day after the task. I’d used the time turner immediately after leaving the venue and apparated back to Greece to spend time with Sirius and work off some of my anger. Instead, he’d humiliated me with an 11-1 defeat and then had us spend the rest of the night tryin to drink each other under the table. None of my personalities were particularly heavy drinkers but Sirius had a talent for getting you to do things that you never foresaw yourself doing. And ...
2025-05-28 21:11:29 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- THE FALL OF NEPAL
The ministry of magic was a large building. The largest in Kathmandu, Nepal’s magical community. It was built into a mountain that stood at the centre of the village and took up much of the mountain’s interior. For such a small community, they needed a lot of administration. So when Japan’s attack began, it was no wonder that it took the Minister at the top— known as the Grand Abbott close to an hour to find out that some of the lower levels of his build...
2025-05-28 09:35:24 +0000 UTC
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“My name is Danzo Shimura. I am the one the Sandaime put his trust in to lead this village in his absence. I am a student of the Second Hokage, and a powerful shinobi in my own right. I might not have a long kill count to list, but I do have one thing that Shorirama does not. The Sandaime wanted me in power, while he himself decreed that Shorirama Senju should never be given the position of Kage in my presence.” He said before taking his own seat.
Whispers spread across the room at...
2025-05-28 09:07:02 +0000 UTC
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Danzo stiffly stood up from the seat at the head of the table and moved off to the side, to the left of the room— the same side as the Senju clan and moved close to the end of the table taking a seat next to the Izuno Clan head and opposite the Fuma Clan head on the other side of the room.
“Now, we can move on to the first bit of business— choosing a head of this council”
“A true coup then” Danzo snidely remarked but the entire room ignored him.
“Does anyone...
2025-05-28 09:06:14 +0000 UTC
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“You spent twelve years in Azkaban and the first thing you did when you got out was try to find me. He had no excuse for his absence” I said, even as I recognised that it was probably mean and unfair to say. If he’d come even within feet of me, he’d probably have been sent to the dementors faster than I could say expecto patronum.
“Exactly what I thought” He said, but said no further. I wondered if their fight had anything to do with me. It probably did.
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Sir...
2025-05-28 09:03:12 +0000 UTC
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“Alright then.” I said, tossing the paper in his direction as he kept trying to steal glances at it over my shoulder. He caught it and began reading, flipping the page and letting out a hum.
“Well that wasn’t very nice of you” He said, even as I could tell he was trying to swallow down a chuckle. The second page had a wide spread moving picture of me turning an unconscious Ronald Weasley into a rat and pocketing him. It was funny— I certainly thought it was. The reporter ma...
2025-05-28 09:00:59 +0000 UTC
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I stared at him while he kept his smile in place. He wanted me to ask. He really wanted me to ask. So I put down the newspaper, picked up a banana and began to unpeel it.
“Really?” He scoffed.
I looked up to meet his eyes before I placed the banana on the table and began to chop it into smaller pieces.
“Fine, I’ll tell you” I didn’t ask, I wanted to say, but I let him keep some of his aura.
“Cursed objects have little inherent value in this day and ag...
2025-05-28 07:08:41 +0000 UTC
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