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Thank you for reading And So the Dragons Danced

And So the Dragons Danced is the third fic I’ve ever written to make it from the beginning to the end. I loved this story, and it brings me so much joy to know that she of you did as well. Natsu was a fun character to write, and his forays into warmongering were entertaining beyond my wildest expectations. It would never have been possible without you, so thank you!

This story was a foray into adaptability. I initially built Natsu as a character designed to succeed until he couldn’...

Chapter 35.1- Doom Days

What the actually fuck, I wondered to myself as I entered the arena for the next part of the task. It was red, and boiling. Even with my flame freezing charm, I could feel the heat of the place against my skin. It was a fucking erupting volcano. I slashed my wand to the side, redirecting a spurt of magma to the side, allowing it to roll down the ground to my side. Above the arena, there was a large stone platform that was basically at the centre of the volcano, floating above it. Around the p...

Chapter 54.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- UZUME

In the end, her choice was taken away from her. She spotted some Kumo shinobiheaded towards the Hokage’s slumped over position and body flickered in their direction. The pair, two women, made an attempt to restist her will but the first met her eyes in shock and turned to the side, stabbing her partner with a kunai right in the throat before freezing in the complete motion and allowing Uzume to bury a shuriken into her neck before jumping over to the Hokage.

She ke...

Chapter 34: Doom Days (Teamwork makes the Dreamwork)

Around me, pieces of black cloth fell to the floor. What the hell had that been? I feel myself beginning to tire. That thing had taken my magic. More of it than it had any business taking, and more than I should have given without noticing the drain. I guessed that was the reason for the dream. What a danger our creature? To place one in a dream while feeding on their magic of all things. A deadly creature and one that I had never heard of. With a scowl, I continued my journey into the tunnel...

Chapter 53- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

A seal-master was like a physicist, doctor, and chemist all in one. We had to deal with forces that stretched across all realms of reality to get results. A single storage seal was probably so complex that it would make the average physics phD in my head pull out their hair in frustration. It was not just that chakra magic that broke physics and made it possible for us to do the impossible. No, it was that people here were smarter. The things Uzume could do with Shuriken were only possible be...

Chapter 57- And so the Dragons Danced (Complete)

“Congratulations, Korra. I’ve always known you could do it” Her Principal said, preening to be standing next to her at what had to be one of the biggest parties in the Empire this year. She could see all the who’s who of the Empire walking around. There was Shao Lin, the head of the Dai Li, the Emperor’s Secret Police that were basically an open secret. And he wasn’t the only high-ranking person here, there was Lin Beifong, the Emperor’s Granddaughter, and head of the Empire’s...

Chapter 34.6- Doom Days

I went back and forth at least three times before I stepped back trying to think of another way to approach the problem. That was when I heard the sound of people coming down the stairs I had just used. Someone else had made it through this way, I thought. Faced with no progress on the door, I made my decision quickly, snapping a disillusionment charm over my body and taking a step to the side.

XXXXXXXX- DAPHNE GREENGRASS

She tried not to look to her side, to the empty spot besid...

Chapter. 53.6- One Thousand Hands

Lady Katsuyu acknowledged her summoning with a grunt, moving over so the bulk of her form covered both Jiraiya and orochimaru’s bodies. In many ways, Lady Katsuyu was the perfect summon for someone like Tsunade. Contrary to what her teammates might have thought, Katsuyu was not a natural healer. What she was, was a being perfect for channeling and amplifying chakra channelled through her. That was why she only needed to place a hand against the Slug’s bulk to use a diagnostic jutsu to che...

Chapter 57.6- And so the Dragons Danced

“Good. Very good. That was as good an introduction to the Empire’s high and mighty as any. Now, tell me why you think you’re here today?” He asked, gesturing to the massive office they sat in. If there was any doubt about the Empire’s wealth then it seemed this office was designed to put those doubts to rest. The floor was a gleaming marble that she knew would take only the most skilled earthbenders to affect, and the giant pillars that dotted the massive space were gilded in gold. ...

Chapter 57.5- And so the Dragons Danced

Her eyes calibrated quickly to note that it was a disc made of stone with lava at the core and at the edges, fashioned into the shape of a throwing star. It cut back, clearly under the control of a powerful earth bender— Toph Beifong herself was the only master lava-bender out there and Bolin, the Prodigy of her Academy was the only other person known to possess the ability. Some theorized that to learn lava bending then you needed to have a fire bending father and an earth kingdom mother, ...

Chapter. 53.5- One Thousand Hands

“Who are you?”

“Your worst nightmare” she could hear the laughter in his voice, and that was her confirmation that it was truly him as he pushed against the older man’s weapon somehow managing to briefly overpower him before slamming a kick into his midsection and sending him flying backwards. The kicked body dissolved into water and the water reformed into Hanzo the Salamander standing a few metres away. She felt herself nearly fall to her knees with relief. Help. Finally. S...

Chapter 34.5- Doom Days

I marched towards it, waiting for the next challenge I would face. It was a door. A locked door from which the red light leaked through its edges and bottom. It was obvious that passing through the door was the only way to the next test, and passing the door was easy to see as well. There was some sort of runic puzzle on either end of the door. I tried a basic unlocking charm, far from surprised when the door failed to even budge. Next, I tried a more advanced variation, before unleashing eve...

Chapter 53.4- One Thousand Hands

We weaved seals in unison, forcing the seal to activate— and through that seal, forcing space and time to bend to our will. The kunai, marked with my flying raijin marks glowed a bright gold before disappearing at multiple times the speed of light, moving so quickly that we could not even begin to bother to trace it. It landed right where Tsunade’s coordinates had been a second ago as she was moving at great speeds herself. I reached out to Renoir, simultaneously marking him with my flyin...

Chapter 57.4- And so the Dragons Danced

“And Toph, no funny business” He called off to the side, pointing at the most powerful woman in the world like she was an errant child to be disciplined.

“Got ya, Dad” She replied with a tone almost like she was genuinely warned off.

The two assassins were clearly irritated at being taken so casually. The woman that had sent what Korra now understood to be combustion bending at the emperor stepped forward and shoved her head forward in an obviously telegraphed attack. Sh...

Chapter 34.4- Doom Days

I spun to the side freezing a set that were coming from that angle in their tracks before taking the stones that made up the first statue under my control and transfiguring them into a series of round metal balls, dense as all hell. Levitating them was more draining than expected, even as my imagination, and knowledge did the bulk of the heavy lifting for the transfiguration. It made sense that that was the art Dumbledore focused on so much in his old age. The approaching statues were mowed d...

Chapter 34.3- Doom Days

It was not until I heard the sound of stone cracking and something moving that I flipped my head to the side to find that one of the statues I hadn’t been looking at had begun moving. It had only managed to take half a step before it had com to a decisive stop, but that was a sign of potential. Was there some sort of glitch with the enchantments at play here?

Hearing movement, I returned my gaze to the stars that were previously the focus of my attention only to find the they themsel...

Chapter 53.3- One Thousand Hands

“Show me” I found myself demanding instantly. It said something about the situation that her cane wa not headed straight at my head for the tone I’d taken. I’d even cringed, expecting the hit from her but she reacted like nothing had happened and fished out the seal she was working on. It was complex in the middling sort of way.

Like it was more complicated than a sealing tag or something, but less so than the hiriashin. It didn’t involve dimensional travel. Not truly at leas...

Chapter 57.3- And so the Dragons Danced

“Now what do you really think?” He asked with a smile that was not unkind. She felt pushed to honesty, like she could tell this man anything and that was a dangerous position to be in when the person in question was the Emperor of the United Nations.

“I think that you could do with a few internal plants.” She said, and to her shock, he started to laugh.. It was not a subtle thing. It was a loud boisterous laugh that drew attention to them and their position. Anyone else would h...

Chapter 34.2- Doom Days

I considered my options as I levied my wand. If not for the encounter with the dream stealer, I would have smote this thing where it stood with a bolt of lightning that would have torn through its earthen skin like a hot knife through butter. Now, I would have to take a less magically intensive route, but one no less thorough.

I met eyes with the troll, and ran straight at it. A smarter creature might have flinched at my run and stalled, but this one was too dumb to see my run as anyt...

Chapter 53.2- One Thousand Hands

“Next, we have to figure out how to get you there without a marker” Reiji said, placing a toothpick in his mouth and staring at the seal matrixes before him.

“No. We’ve been thinking about it wrong. We don’t need to get him there without a marker, all we need to focus on is how to get a marker there” Mito said suddenly.

“And how exactly would we do that?” I asked, leaning backwards to stare at my Grandmother. She had a car idea in mind, so I just needed to see wh...

Chapter 57.2- And so the Dragons Danced

“Your royal highness” her principal said, dropping down to his knees once it became clear that they were the ones the Emperor was walking towards. She did not need him to look at hr to know that she should be. Mirroring his movements, but she felt frozen. To have those black eyes focused on her the way they were was something else.. it took her more time than it should’ve to rip her gaze from his and drop into a deep curtsy just like her mother had taught her.

“Please rise, I c...

Chapter 34.1- Doom Days

Around me, pieces of black cloth fell to the floor. What the hell had that been? I feel myself beginning to tire. That thing had taken my magic. More of it than it had any business taking, and more than I should have given without noticing the drain. I guessed that was the reason for the dream. What a danger our creature? To place one in a dream while feeding on their magic of all things. A deadly creature and one that I had never heard of. With a scowl, I continued my journey into the tunnel...

Chapter 53.1- One Thousand Hands

A seal-master was like a physicist, doctor, and chemist all in one. We had to deal with forces that stretched across all realms of reality to get results. A single storage seal was probably so complex that it would make the average physics phD in my head pull out their hair in frustration. It was not just that chakra magic that broke physics and made it possible for us to do the impossible. No, it was that people here were smarter. The things Uzume could do with Shuriken were only possible be...

Chapter 57.1- And so the Dragons Danced

“Congratulations, Korra. I’ve always known you could do it,” Her Principal said in her ear, preening to be standing next to her at what had to be one of the biggest parties in the Empire this year. She could see all the who’s who of the Empire walking around. There was Shao Lin, the head of the Dai Li, the Emperor’s Secret Police that were basically an open secret. And he wasn’t the only high ranking person here, there was Lin Beifong, the Emperor’s Granddaughter, and head of th...

Chapter 56- And so the Dragons Danced

What? What the fuck did he just call me? No, he had to be fucking tweaking.

“I assure you, I am not ‘fucking tweaking’” The first Avatar said with a sly smile on his face.

“Then you have to be permanently insane because I’m no Avatar.” I said with a scowl. What was this waste of my time? I needed to get back to my body, to arrest that cupbearer and reap vengeance on those who would shake my hand with their right whilst daggers lay behind their backs in their left. ...

Chapter 52- One Thousand Hands

The golem struck with more force and speed than Sakumo would ever have expected from a creature this size. The Raikage stared at the approaching attack, and then the number of fingers stretched in his hand went down to on. The tore through the golem’s hand, coming flying right out of the next side. Uzume created a firestorm that bore down on the Raikage’s position and achieved nothing. The man landed on the golem’s head a second later, and Sakumo met him in blistering taijutsu. He dodge...

Chapter 33: The Weight of a Dream- Doom Days

The approaching Dragon was wasting no time in covering what little distance existed between us, and I sighed before opening the cage and flying out to the side. I expected the Dragon to continue on towards its egg but the opposite happened. It banked sharply, chasing me through the air. And it was fucking fast. Feeling the heat from behind, I dove with the broom, barely managing to avoid the fire that flooded the area I’d just been standing. I turned and fired a piercing curse, but it clatt...

Chapter 52.6- One Thousand Hands

“You dare?”

“I dare, Danzo. You intended to use me as bait to accomplish your other war ends, and now our men are dead. Those men did not die because I failed them. They died because you did not care enough to stop yourself from playing with their lives” I said, stepping forward.

“Watch yourself, Shorirama Senju”

“I prefer to go by Uzumaki these days” I lied, seeing the fury rise in his eyes. Danzo was an oh so predictable piece of shit, and that made it e...

Chapter 52.5- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

I entered the office, but I did not kneel. Danzo might have been left temporarily in charge, but he wasn’t my Kage. Hiruzen could barely even claim that position himself after all the shit that he’d gotten up to. I delivered my report with a dispassionate tone, explaining that we’d routed Iwa with little difficulty, I’d killed Han, helped secure Taki, and had then been ambushed by Chiyo on the way to the village. By the gods, was that woman thorough and pe...

Chapter 56.6- And so the Dragons Danced

XXXXXX- 85 YEARS ABE (After the Birth of the Empire)- KORRA

She dodged to the side of the blast of flames, running along the arena’s walls as she felt herself move like the element she controlled. More flames shot in her direction. She pushed off against the wall into a backflip that sent her right above the fire. She felt for the water in the air that surrounded her, coalesced it into a ball and sent the mass at her opponent. Mako of the Fire Islands skirted to the side and retaliate...