“So your threat is that we have to negotiate with you or we won’t be able to beat you? But if we couldn’t beat you then you wouldn’t even be here negotiating in the first place” Sokka said. I took another sip of my tea.
“What if I am just as tired of the war as you are? I have fought in this war since I was a teenager. I have fought in this war, lost friends and allies. And just when it was over, you now add the possibility of having to fight in my own homeland then I guess...
2025-02-25 18:16:01 +0000 UTC
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XX- 31st December, 1994
The portkey to Geneva was scheduled to leave on the First of January at around noon so I had time to kill. Or better yet, time to fuck around and find out. Various potion ingredients had been purchased and stockpiled in the aftermath of the Ball. With the ministry in a tizzy over what had happened during the Yule Ball and the Aurors generally being sent this way and that so the ministry could be seen doing something, the illegal market in Knockturne was thriving....
2025-02-24 19:35:48 +0000 UTC
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“What are you working on?” Uzume asked as she strolled in. I wondered if it was a result of having Izuku in her but Uzume sought out my presence more often these days than she ever had prior to this.
“My granduncle’s jutsu. The flying thunder god” She hummed and walked forward,, ignoring my clones who were bent over their notes not even registering her presence to come to the desk I sat crouched atop.
“The one that he could teleport with?” She asked.
“That ...
2025-02-24 19:33:01 +0000 UTC
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I could see the shock on their faces. I could see the anger appear on Katara’s while Sokka placed a hand on his sword. I just stop from my desk and began to arrange the teacups and prepare them to pour the tea.
“No tea. Lift up your arms now. We’ll be tying you up and taking you with us” Sokka said. I gave the boy a look.
“You would try. Like I said, we will discuss the terms of my surrender and if you don’t want to discuss then I will be resisting this silly attem...
2025-02-24 18:34:29 +0000 UTC
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“You’re mistaken then. The Headmaster and I remain as close as I ever” I replied with a scoff. My wand remained in my hand. I had no idea what this man wanted, and I was starting to get the vibe that I would not like it much.
“Indeed I am. That must be why he did not even spare you a second glance at the Yule ball. That must also be why he has been subtly making enquiries into blocking your participation in the Under 17 duelling tournament taking place next year.” He said, an...
2025-02-23 19:45:10 +0000 UTC
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The Flying thunder god jutsu was a jutsu used in conjunction with the Hiriashin seal to travel to pre-marked locations at instantaneous speeds, I reminded myself again as I stared at gibberish. Gibberish was honestly being generous. One thing I had managed to find from days of looking through the old man’s notes was the thunder god jutsu was absolute bullshit. It should not have worked. Tobirama never came out and acknowledged this in his writings, but he did hint at pretty heavi...
2025-02-23 19:41:41 +0000 UTC
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I heard the sound of drums and noted that the process of evacuation had begun in earnest. We had a complex system of sounds and symbols to be used for different parts of the process while I sat in my office and waited for what would happen when the Avatar arrived. I arranged the kettles and cups over and over again before taking a set of herbs from the top drawer in my office, mixing them in hot water, straining it and then gulping it down in one swig. It tasted rank, but it would work. I set...
2025-02-23 19:39:57 +0000 UTC
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It took weeks for the promised day to come. I was forced to keep Azula busy with daily spars to run out her energy. Or at least, that had bene their purpose at first, until it turned out that she was even more of a prodigy than I’d expected. She learned so quickly that she went from being someone I had to hold back against to someone it took actual effort to defeat all in a matter of weeks. Of course, if it was a fight to the death, then it was a very different matter.
When the trump...
2025-02-22 21:05:44 +0000 UTC
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Croaker’s office was dark. Dark like everything else in this damn floor. I had been placed in front of the famous spinning Dias and the Unspeakable had taken one seemingly at random after the doors spun like they were ought to. The door took us to a hallway that I was certain hadn’t been in the books, so it was definitely protected by more than just the spinning door. We walked down a hallway where each step I took seemed to echo over and over again until the sound of my steps began to ma...
2025-02-22 19:36:26 +0000 UTC
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“It’s stasis, immovability, all that stuff at once. The world could end around me and I wouldn’t feel it”
“How’s the chakra drain?” I wondered, giving her a once over. She’d seen a healthy dip.
“Severe. I can use it maybe eight times in a day without dying of chakra exhaustion. Realistically, I’d only be able to use six Times while still having enough to use other techniques and be useful in combat.” She said.
“Does it matter the scale or size of th...
2025-02-22 19:08:17 +0000 UTC
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“Peeta Mellark” those were the first words he heard on arrival to this world. This dystopian marvel of a reality. This abomination of a universe created in the depths of Suzanne Collins’ imagination. Here he was now. When he said Peeta Mellark deserved much more before going to bed, he wasn’t inviting extra-terrestrial creatures to take him and snap him in this body.
“Peeta Mellark” the woman called again. Evie, he knew her name to be. She would only call his name one more ...
2025-02-21 21:36:59 +0000 UTC
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With a single handseal, the ground around me turned into mud that wrapped around my body. The first time, I’d tried this, only UzuSenju healing prevented me from spending the better part of a month in the hospital even with Tsunade’s healing. It started in the core. Lightning release was one of the more interesting elements because using more chakra didn’t have to mean more lightning. When you overpowered a fireball jutsu, you almost always got a bigger fireball and nothing else. Maybe ...
2025-02-21 08:03:50 +0000 UTC
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Reaching out with my medical chakra and activating my byakugan, I could tell that the eyes behind the bangs had healed fully.
“Okay, we can take these things off now” I said.
“Now?. And they were only just beginning to stop itching, you know?"
“Sure, I can leave them on if you want me to”
“Shorirama Senju”
“Fine, fine. I’m as curious to see what these things can do as you are” I said, unwrapping the bandages and cutting them as I proceede...
2025-02-21 08:02:42 +0000 UTC
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__30th December, 1994
I walked into the ministry wearing my own face. It was the first time I was walking out of Hogwarts without some form of disguise, and even with how busy the ministry seemed to be, I still struggled to fly below the radar. Several people turned as I passed them, staring at my scar. I kept it exposed, wearing it proudly instead of hiding it like Potter would have preferred.
“ Harry Potter here for the Department of Ministries. I have an appointment” I sai...
2025-02-21 07:58:19 +0000 UTC
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“I guess when you put it that way, it does kind of make sense” I relented.
“Beyond that, I got it” I said.
“You got it? Where?”
“Well, I don’t have it right now. But I did get Fudge to weigh on the Department of Mysteries to return it. I just have to pick it up tomorrow” I said.
“I’m surprised those cagey fucks are going to let it go”
“Well, it is mine in the first place. I did invoke the rights of the Hunter back during the task”...
2025-02-21 07:55:45 +0000 UTC
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“I forfeit. My magic is running low and I am still far from fully healed from my earlier duels,” She said the moment the referee blew the whistle to begin the duel, taking a step back and off the platform. I breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. She was right, off course. I doubted that Fleur would give me a good fight even if she had been at 100% but in her present state, it would be laughably easy for me to take her down. That meant I’d won all three of my duels and secured another th...
2025-02-19 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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“And you are sure these things are loud enough?” I asked the man in front of me.
“I could always have them give it a good blow for you to check, General” the man replied glibly. Earth Kingdomers and sarcasm. I gave the very large trumpet a look. Considering this thing was allegedly loud enough to reach the second gate from here, I would go deaf if it was played next to me.
“I’ll take your word for it” I said with a shake of my head as I was led by Long Feng over to...
2025-02-19 13:01:17 +0000 UTC
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It took weeks for word to return from Konoha. That was, in reality, not a long time. Messenger hawks flew slowly and we had sent this one weighed down with three bodies- Omoikane, Inukuro, and Choni, and with news of our victory and the losses we had incurred in claiming such victory. Izuku’s body remained in Uzume’s possession. She refused to hand it over, and none of us had been willing to force it from her. Even with her eyes covered by a thick layer of bandages and gauze, she had one ...
2025-02-19 12:38:48 +0000 UTC
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I made a show of stretching as I stood at the edge of the quidditch pitch. It had once again been transformed, but this time into a massive duelling platform for the Triwizard duels. Duels that were surprisingly still going to be taking place considering what had happened last night. Fleur was standing next to me, and even though we were competitors in the competition, it seemed to matter little to her right now. She just wanted someone by her side. Last night, during the Tragedy of the Yule ...
2025-02-18 08:53:44 +0000 UTC
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“You’ve been avoiding your grandfather” Maki said on walking into my office.
“I surely doubt that he spoke to you and told you that himself” I replied, not looking up from the reports I was reading through. Ba Sing Se remained a massive city and without a firelord to appoint a new administrator, I remained the one in charge here. The more time went past, the more certain I became that we were going to remain here for longer than anticipated, so the city needed to be in good sh...
2025-02-18 08:33:27 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- IZUKU
He stared at her. She had managed to stand and pull his body to a tree until he was prepped up against it, and now she sat across from him, leaning on a tree of her own.
“Can you-“ he tried to gesture with his hands to her wound, only to come face to face with the stump, and drop the hand again. She’d stemmed the bleeding a fair bit, but he knew it had taken a lot out of her to do so.
“Not enough chakra” She said. Both their wounds were weeping free...
2025-02-18 08:22:47 +0000 UTC
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My wand was held to my side, not even pointed at him, but when the whistle sounded, I was the first to move. The ground around him lifted in a hand of pure stone that tried to grab a hold of him. He jumped backwards, shattering it with a blasting curse that ended up being the only offensive spell he would successfully set off. The scattered rocks rose from the ground under my control as I spun them in a cycle, transfiguring them into foam with a twirl of my wand and then shooting them off at ...
2025-02-18 07:57:42 +0000 UTC
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“He needs to die” They had coalesced in the office after Zuko had gotten the chance to vent his anger. Now instead of white hot rage, his anger had become a cooler, more insidious thing. Aang looked visibly uncomfortable at the mention of death, but he remained silent. She thanked Kyoshi for that fact.
“And how will that happen?” Bato asked.
“Not from us doing nothing for sure. We need to make sure he is taken care off before Sozin’s Comet” Zuko said...
2025-02-17 21:33:52 +0000 UTC
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“Because you’re siblings?”
“Most likely. We don’t know what abilities Madara and Izuna had, but they were probably similar.” She said. I nodded, gesturing for her to continue.
“Our ability is- was- Yūgō (fusion). I could take a persons skills and abilities as my own by fusing with them, while Izuku could take a person’s memories and essence. It’s supposed to be a temporary upgrade on the Sharingan’s existing copying ability but somehow with both of us using...
2025-02-17 20:51:12 +0000 UTC
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2025-02-16 22:46:27 +0000 UTC
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“They knew they had a beautiful daughter, and that the Fire Lord’s wife was dead. To put two and two together, an Uncle of hers, a contemptuous little man with more cunning than honor approached the Head of the Guard with a portrait of hers, and the plot was set to put her in the Fire lord’s way and allow his baser desires come to light. They hoped to gain benefits to their family from that. Maybe even a marriage. She would never have birthed the next Fire Lord, but being the Fire Lord...
2025-02-16 21:42:43 +0000 UTC
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And then there were eight, I thought but did not say. From twelve graduates in our class now to eight. Well, more like eight and a half, I thought, thinking about Uzume’s jutsu. She still hadn’t explained the barebones of it to me, but we had time. We would have time. Suna was broken. Their Commander was dead. Their Chunin backbone was either dead or scattered. Their reserves were battered and bleeding. We had struck a powerful blow against them, but like an animal trapped in...
2025-02-16 21:35:08 +0000 UTC
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She batted the spell to the side with a flick of her wrist and returned fire with two dazzling pink bolts that forced him to hastily backtrack to dodge them. They fell like meteors, landing on the ground he had been standing on precious few seconds ago and seemingly doing nothing. He turned to her, at this level he was surely too smart to assume that she had failed her spell, but he struck regardless. There was an agression in his movements.
Blasting curses flowed from him like water f...
2025-02-16 21:33:41 +0000 UTC
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The woman tried to break through the mud with a renewed bout of vigor and I thickened the mud even further before piling more of it atop her. Piandao pushed against the air he was standing atop and I was forced to dodge to the side as his blade stabbed into the mud near my feet. He moved back, taking his stance. He was standing only a few inches above the mud that I had turned our entire battlefield into and he did not look pleased.
“You have caused more harm than you will ever know,...
2025-02-15 21:40:57 +0000 UTC
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She didn’t walk out. She limped. Her knee was still unhealed. With some guilt, I realized that dealing with Cedric so quickly hadn’t worked out in her favour at all as she had to fight barely healed. I walked up to meet her halfway to the stage.
“You still have your magic. Diggory is an average duelist at best. You won’t have your mobility but-“
“Harry.” She called, stopping me mid-tangent.
“I am not some delicate flower for you to protect. Allow me to figh...
2025-02-15 21:37:32 +0000 UTC
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