I woke up in the morning, chugged down the blue potion, ignoring the fact that it tasted like raw eggs and seemed to fight going down my throat for all its life. And I felt myself sharpen instantly. The normal haze that came from just having woken up disappeared almost instantly. It was like I had taken two shots of extra strength espresso back to back.
Cleaning and dressing with a single wave of my wand, I headed down to the beach to meet Nicholas.
He himself was already dresse...
2025-10-23 07:59:09 +0000 UTC
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The Tower had collapsed in the explosion. That was problem number one, because that tower had Kushina in it, and there was no one more important in that village. Other than perhaps Mito. I teleported to the marker I had on her, not too shocked to find myself underground after going in. Underground might have been the wrong way to put it. The best way to put it was to say that she was buried under a non-trivial amount of rubble. I reached out to the rubble with my earth release, lifti...
2025-10-23 07:13:02 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX-EARLY 110 AC
“You can’t pretend like you don’t know what’s going on forever,” Laeana said, walking into the room in Bloodstone I had converted into a full-time study. So much progress in so little time, and most of it stood to be undone thanks to one fool.
“Pretending? I’m just thinking,” I said.
“Thinking. That’s why you’re hiding here and you’ve refused to see either Uncle or Bernard all day.”
“They both have advice they want to give...
2025-10-23 07:09:25 +0000 UTC
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“The first thing you need to understand is that Ojin was, in many ways, the brightest apprentice I ever had, and will most likely ever have,” Flamel began the conversation with, a smile on his face, looking surprisingly proud. I gave him the most doubtful look my face could contort itself into, because this man had trained Dumbledore. And by Ojin’s own admission, he was scared of the Headmaster.
“Albus? Yes, that is a common misconception. Albus Dumbledore is a genius. Easily a ...
2025-10-23 06:54:15 +0000 UTC
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The potions were arranged in order, twelve of each, and each demarcated by a small barrier in the tray that separated them from the others.
“This is the cocktail of potions I have Nicholas use whenever he decides to embark on a similarly foolish jaunt through time. Of course, he dos it so he can study time itself, not out if a foolhardy desire for power”
“Yeah, yeah, you don’t like my priorities. Gimme” I said, making a grabbing motion with my hands. She sighed. I noti...
2025-10-23 06:30:45 +0000 UTC
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“The ritual you did. Let’s just say that you somehow managed to botch it, but instead of your skin turning inside out and your bones turning to dust, it seems magic itself stepped in and allowed you get away with it”
“What?”
“You think adding so many creatures into the ritual while your magic remained in a state of flux would have ended well in a usual situation?” She asked.
“Now I wonder how you could have managed to put your magical system in such a pers...
2025-10-23 06:15:24 +0000 UTC
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“It’s only due to what I can only describe as a stupendous amount of dumb luck that you are still alive, Harry” She said as she examined the spectral avatar she had conjured from my body after she had me lay down on the conjure examination slab.
It was unlike any diagnostic charm I had ever seen. I could see a completely translucent version of myself floating above my body. She could see inside my bones, and muscles, and even my magic, swapping between them with waves o...
2025-10-22 22:54:32 +0000 UTC
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“Now, you Kysaro. I will hear the evidence against you” I said, turning to the other man.
“Tell me what happened Allan?”I said directing the question to the other man.
“My Lord, he came to me on my ship. Just barged in all rude-like. And he just attacked me like a savage animal. He was lucky he caught me by surprise, though. Else, I would have dealt with hum as I ought to. He jumped on me and kept punching and punching.” He said.
“And can anyone corroborate ...
2025-10-22 19:20:25 +0000 UTC
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He turned to Vaemond who whispered in his ear. Whatever Vaemond said seemed to be something he did not like because he shook his head abruptly.
“Nay, I’m no liar. I fucked the girl, yes. But that is what whores are for” He said, and I could see Vaemond take a visible and very meaningful step back, basically retreating and declaring he wasn’t involved in this. I resisted the urge to facepalm. I didn’t know whether what I felt was rage or wonder. Rage at the words I had just he...
2025-10-22 18:45:54 +0000 UTC
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And then came the shape manipulation. I formed three pillars first— each at different sides of a mental triangle, reaching straight to the sky. Perhaps one hundred and fifty feet straight upwards. And then I began to spread the mud, forming the curved exterior of the tower. I could hear Uzume’s gasp behind me but I didn’t have the time to focus on that.
The mud followed my will so quickly that any second of misattention could lead to it forming strange features. Like the picture ...
2025-10-22 07:35:19 +0000 UTC
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I felt my body become filled with strength beyond my wildest dreams.
“I can fight the world” I said, not even sure where the worlds had come from. I heard Kurama laughing in my head at that.
“That’s just a fraction of my power, boy. Don’t go getting ahead of yourself” He said, and I looked down again, not even sure when my head had turned straight ward.
There was a golden chakra armour surrounding my body. It flowed around my body, wrapped around my armour, mol...
2025-10-22 06:45:21 +0000 UTC
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“So what do you want to do now?”
“Now? I want to take a hot shower and go to bed. But life isn’t about what I want. We need to have a meeting. And to do that, we need a hokage tower” I said.
“You really want to wait that long?” She asked, eyes panning across the room.
“You could probably fit everyone in here” She said.
“No. Because it sends to wrong message. We want the message to be that we were hit, but we’re back to business as usual”
2025-10-22 05:51:20 +0000 UTC
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“Not guilty with cause” he said next, amending his earlier statement. I nodded like it was completely normal for two members of my family to be so obviously advising two opposing parties in a dispute.
“And what is that cause?” I asked. He made to speak, but Laena ’s mouth was at his ear again. Did she have to stand so close? It wasn’t like Vaemond was going to be listening in to try to sus out her strategy or anything like that.
“Aggravation, my Lord” Kysaro said...
2025-10-21 21:14:56 +0000 UTC
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“Good. Now the first thing we need to do is get you ready.”
“Get me ready?” I asked, wondering what he was talking about.
He turned to me, his eyes half lidded.
“The last time you faced Ojin, you didn’t even last more than a few seconds according to your own admissions. I need to get you to the level where you would manage to escape from him with some effort” He said.
“Escape? Escape? What use is that? I want to beat him” I said, clenching my fist....
2025-10-21 20:13:47 +0000 UTC
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“Not guilty with cause” he said next, amending his earlier statement. I nodded like it was completely normal for two members of my family to be so obviously advising two opposing parties in a dispute.
“And what is that cause?” I asked. He made to speak, but Laena ’s mouth was at his ear again. Did she have to stand so close? It wasn’t;’t like Vaemond was going to be listening in to try to sus out her strategy or anything like that.
“Aggravation, my Lord” Kysaro...
2025-10-21 16:01:37 +0000 UTC
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—
I sat on the throne, and it clearly did not take long for word to spread in this place. Even before the prisoners were brought from the cell, people had already begun to troop into the throne room— most of them Captains who had quarters in the castle proper while other lodgings were still being built in the port town.
I did not say any words to them. They would hear my will when the man, Allan, arrived. And when the boy who had struck him appeared as well. In the end, it to...
2025-10-21 15:26:32 +0000 UTC
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“Did you do it?” I asked, not looking up from the seal I had decided to busy myself with as she walked into the room. I’d spotted her even before she entered the clan compound and had been bale to figure out her intended direction relatively easily.
“Fuinjutsu, puppets, poison, and perhaps passable wind release. He was no true challenge” She said. I nodded, not saying anything about the state of her clothing, or even the freshly healed cut on her cheek that was somewhat obvio...
2025-10-20 20:34:57 +0000 UTC
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First of all was rescues. Hiraishin markers flew all over the place as hundreds of my clones began to dig through rubbles and previously inflamed buildings, searching for survivors. Another group— the smallest one— moved to the hospital. Having a tiered security apparatus for the village might just have saved everything. Because somehow the Hospital was still intact. What Chiyo had done hadn’t made it that far, thankfully.
That set of clones were working with the doctors to prepa...
2025-10-20 07:46:01 +0000 UTC
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“And if they decide they don’t like that? Stop working? It doesn’t matter how much we want to be good or that we want the world to be better, we have to live in the world that exists. And in this world, worse things have happened without consequence. If he was a Lord and the girl had been his smallfolk, it would have been distasteful, but not even the King could call it a crime, and the Captains, for good or ill, have begun to see themselves as Lords.”
“Good thing you are the...
2025-10-20 07:44:07 +0000 UTC
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“So we can expect him to have a horde of halfbreeds at his defense when we go for him. What else?”
“What else, indeed” Nicholas chuckled before continuing.
“He will be expecting us. In fact, by now he should be aware of the fact that I am aware of his theft. If he has any wisdom, he would have gone to ground in Japan where I will not be able to touch him”
“You will not be able to touch him there? I thought you said we were going to Japan?”
“We are...
2025-10-20 07:41:51 +0000 UTC
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“The first thing you need to understand is that Ojin was, in many ways, the brightest apprentice I ever, and will most likely ever have” Flamel began the conversation with, smile on his face looking surprisingly proud. I gave him the most doubtful look my face could contort itself into. Because this man had trained Dumbledore. And by Ojin’s own admission, he was scared of the Headmaster.
“Albus? Yes, that is a common misconception. Albus Dumbledore is a genius. Easily a once i...
2025-10-20 07:24:17 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX-EARLY 110 AC
“You can’t pretend like you don’t know what’s going on forever” Laena said, walking into the room in Bloodstone I had converted into a full time study. So much progress in so little time, and most of it stood to be undone thanks to one fool.
“Pretending? I’m just thinking” I said.
“Thinking. That’s why you’re hiding here and you’ve refused to see either Uncle or Bernard all day”
“They both have advice they want to give...
2025-10-20 04:50:07 +0000 UTC
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The Tower had collapsed in the explosion. That was problem number one, because that tower had Kushina in it, and there was no one more important in that village. Other than perhaps Mito. I teleported to the marker I had on her, not too shocked to find myself underground after good g on. Underground might have been the wrong way to put it. The best was to say that she was buried under a non-trivial amount of rubble. I reached out to the rubble with my earth release, lifting it all with a wave ...
2025-10-20 03:25:19 +0000 UTC
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“Prince Qoren, how good of you to make the long journey,” were the first words the Dragonlord greeted them with as they disembarked their ship. The Velaryon Lord had not changed much since they had last met. A few inches taller and wider, but that was it. The youthful face, yet to see its first bits of facial hair, still remained. If he did not know better, he would have assumed him to be a boy and little more, but he had been dealing with him for long enough to know that he was one of th...
2025-10-20 03:24:03 +0000 UTC
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“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I whispered as I reached down to my wand with my right hand. I felt the familiar warmth and thanked every god I knew. If its loyalties had switched after that, I would be capital-F fucked. The yew burned against my hand, seemingly affronted at the idea that it would switch its loyalties so easily. I said none of my thoughts, casting a diagnostic charm on my left hand. It fizzled out at first, the wand movement coming out clumsily. Fuck.
I took another deep breath...
2025-10-20 03:23:02 +0000 UTC
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— Nara Shikahime —
“He’s been waiting for about five minutes now,” she said, trying to convince her fool cousin to finally get moving. They stood atop Konoha’s walls watching the canopy that had been constructed as Uzume and the Kazekage sat across from each other while his guards remained around him and a bundle of cloth lay near his feet.
“Is everything ready?” he asked.
“It’s all been ready since the last time you asked about it, and even after that. C...
2025-10-20 03:21:12 +0000 UTC
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One of them had an aura around his body. A form of chakra armour that gave him strength and speed on a level that approached the Raikage. That made him the first to reach me by some margin. Unfortunately for him, approaching the Raikage was still short of me. I watched the punch he sent as it approached. I stepped inside his guard, gliding past his attempt to cause me pain and then increasing my mass by an order of magnitude right before I struck. My hand punched straight through his chest, d...
2025-10-20 02:15:06 +0000 UTC
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“And that piece of shit Julian Russo stole it from you when he kidnapped you with that portkey?”
“No, that could not have been Julian. Julian died before that, I’m afraid” Nicholas cut in.
“Wait, What? Russo’s dead? How? How do you even know that?”
“I killed him. He knows because he asked me to do it.”
“Wait. Hold up. You did—“ He stopped short of completing the sentence, looking between Nicholas and I. Sirius had a good sense for when he ...
2025-10-18 17:43:34 +0000 UTC
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I closed my eyes, slipping from my mind into Igneel’s with far more ease than before the poisoning. It was quicker and easier than breathing sometimes. I did it by accident more often than not. But now it was intentional. We fused, and I beheld the sprawling castle with razor sharp clarity.
Vhagar was behind us. With better hearing, I could hear her scales cut through the wind as she shot at the ground spy qwuick;y I suspected she was going more crashing than landing it would be best...
2025-10-18 17:12:29 +0000 UTC
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Sunspear was a beautiful settlement from above. It was not a castle in truth, but I could see why it was called one. It was more like a small village encircled in walls than anything else. The three ringed walls were especially intimidating.. those would scare down many an invading force. Looking from above, I couldn’t imagine how I would take the settlement by anything less than an extremely prolonged siege. The only way to defeat those within would be to starve the out for sure.
We...
2025-10-18 14:10:11 +0000 UTC
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