“Thank you, Grandfather” I said again, while wondering where this was going.
“But of all your successes, the one that I am most proud of is the relationship you have built with our Fire Lord. The Wu family will sit on he throne of the Fire Nation, Natsu. Just think of that. My Great Grandsons will be Princes of the fire Nation, and my Great Granddaughters will be princesses. All within the same generation where Azulon spat on our family and my son’s sacrifice. You have made me ...
2025-02-14 21:12:53 +0000 UTC
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The medical staff rushed to collect Fleur even as I summoned her rosewood wand into my grip from where it remained on the floor. It was best if Krum did not get any ideas. The tiny cameras moving around the arena turned to me and I could see myself on the giant screen.. Was that how I looked when I was pissed? I settled into a calmer smile even as I knew that I would make Krum pay. He had been needlessly brutal, and he had dine it to a woman who had just lost her father. That was cruel. Doom ...
2025-02-14 20:52:00 +0000 UTC
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Puppetting her body was much too easy. She should have fought harder, but she wouldn’t. She hadn’t been able to bring herself to do it, but she was letting him. She stood from her position and took her kunai, bringing it to his throat. He wondered if this was the right thing to do only for a second- to leave the one he loved with this kind of pain. But she would be alive. She would be alive and she would be there for Shori, through her eyes, he stabbed his body right in the heart. He left...
2025-02-14 20:33:51 +0000 UTC
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“What if he hasn’t forgiven me?” I asked, looking up from the reports. I had barely been able to make out a word after Maki walked in and began to distract me.
“There’s no chance he hasn’t. You’re his precious grandson and heir. You should see the way he speaks about you to the other generals. He probably doesn’t even remember whatever went wrong with you guys”
“I said some pretty disrespectful things, and while I might not be the type to hold a grudge, my Gra...
2025-02-13 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Fleur took her position opposite Krum on the duelling stage. I’d tried to spend the night with her- not like that. But Maxime had ushered her back to carriage, insisting that Beauxbatons took care of their own. The goblet’s contract meant that she had no choice but to participate in the duels but I’d seen how she looked when she had arrived at the field. The ICW healer attached to checking her for cheating didn’t look too enthused at the fact that she’d be competing so I took that t...
2025-02-13 19:56:45 +0000 UTC
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“You’re a fucking fool” She replied.
“Well, it’s our only shot out of here.”
“Our? You’d be dead. And what good would a mangekyou do for me?” She asked.
“I’d live on in you, obviously. In more ways than you think. And there’s a good chance that one off your mangekyou abilities lets you access enough power to hear yourself. Or even if it doesn’t then it might let you last long enough to survive till help arrives” He argued.
“You’re insan...
2025-02-13 19:21:43 +0000 UTC
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I tried to make 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 ...
2025-02-12 17:54:14 +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 and the more time went passed, the more certain I became that we were going to remain here for longer than anticipated so the city needed to be in go...
2025-02-12 17:50:35 +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 freel...
2025-02-12 17:06:33 +0000 UTC
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Izuku did not feel good. There was a ringing in his head that refused to go away. A ringing that did not get any better by the sound of metal on metal that intruded on his sleep. He wanted to shout at Uzume and her brother to get out of his garden and go bother someone else before he realised he wasn’t napping in his garden. The ground was much too hard, not the rich mineral filled loamy soil that he had imported all the way from the capital. Also, the sound of metal on metal was not ...
2025-02-11 22:32:08 +0000 UTC
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Fleur’s father coughed pointedly and Fudge turned to him with a smile. “I have yet to make Mr. Potter’s acquaintance, Minister Fudge,” the man said.
“Truly? I apologise. I merely assumed that considering your daughter is on his arm, then you would already be acquainted. Please allow me to correct that oversight. Harry, this is Pierre Delacour, the French Representative to the International Confederation of Wizards, and owner of one of France’s most impressive wineries” He ...
2025-02-11 22:04:41 +0000 UTC
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Ships being spotted on the Horizon didn’t mean that the ships were close by. In fact, it would take another few hours for the ships to make it to the port. That meant I had time to put things in order. The first thing I considered was summoning the Generals and revealing what had happened to Ozai to them, but I had hours, and that cantankerous lot would be fine keeping me there with their arguing and debating. Besides, we were technically in rebellion against the throne at present, so there...
2025-02-11 21:54:48 +0000 UTC
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Considering there’s love in the air, and I have the power of the purse over this patreon page (not like we have much of a purse but stillllllll), here’s a special Valentine’s Day gift from me to you.
20% off annual plans- valid till 11:59 on the fourteenth. Knock yourselves out. Get one for you, your friends, your family, your lovers, some people you barely tolerate, your enemies, and your dogs or cats (I don’t judge). The discount code is LOVEINTHEAIR (but I think you can just...
2025-02-11 02:50:59 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the dinner went in that manner- topics came and went but no matter what the topic was, it always came to some sort of argument. At some point, I had to relent and just accept that this group of people just liked arguing with each other. They did it over the most insane of things. Even cauldron bottoms had become a point of contention after Percy Weasley brought them up- how he had ended up on the large table was beyond me, and I did not care enough about the inner workings of Fudg...
2025-02-10 21:43:04 +0000 UTC
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“The past is in the past. There’s nothing we can do about that” Katara cut in smoothly, trying to channel the way her father spoke when he was dealing with the other men in the tribe.
“And so you understand why the war can not end tomorrow. If I make an order like that, lacking the proper backing and placement, there is no chance that I do not end up facing an uprising in days.” He said.
“No. No I don’t. You are the Fire Lord, Zuko. We made you the Fire Lord to do ...
2025-02-10 21:21:10 +0000 UTC
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He felt his wind armour come into being with a snap of displaced air and then he was off. He jumped and dropkicked Piandao back in the direction he’d come from, only noticing in the last second that the man had blocked the attack with the flat of his blade and was only sent skidding back a few feet. He landed on the ground with his hands, and transformed the area around them into mud. The man was fast enough to escape the mud and land on solid ground by jumping backwards but it didn’t mat...
2025-02-10 21:04:07 +0000 UTC
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“The Under Seventeen tournament, really? At your age, that’s an interesting choice” Delacour said.
“A chance to gain valuable experience at the very least” Karpov said, tossing an assessing look my way.
“I hadn’t heard about this, Harry” Fudge said, turning to me. So he also spoke French, interesting.
“I hadn’t announced it really. Just been something I’ve been playing with in my head” I said.
“So that means you don’t have an agent yet...
2025-02-09 19:57:59 +0000 UTC
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_ It was a day and a half before they got to see him again, and he looked much calmer.
“The situation in the city remains tenuous” He told them, silently asking them to leave but not saying it. Oh she wished they could. She hated every part of living in this palace, but she could not. She had to make sure that he kept his promises- the most important being ending the war.
“We’d love to make your life easier by taking off on Appa, but you have to live up to your end ...
2025-02-09 19:12:30 +0000 UTC
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XXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU
He’d known there was no saving Choni the moment he got a good look at her. The Puppeteer’s body was strewn across the floor in bits and pieces from his sand burial rip-off and he wished he had taken more time with the bastard. Shika had turned away from him and was staring into the distance. Inoken on the other hand was wailing into Choni’s body as he tried to do what he could to ease her passing. Medical ninjutsu had always come easy to him- few things didn...
2025-02-09 18:43:17 +0000 UTC
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Her introduction into the argument turned into the match that lit the fire. The three of them began debating each other about the merits and demerits of the various drinks. I was tempted to step in and offer my own opinion, but then remembered that Harry Potter had never had alcohol a day before tonight. He knew nothing of wine, vodka, or sake. He definitely didn’t know that all three lacked a certain charming simplicity of good beer, which the German Prime Minister, Sukovsky, loudly procla...
2025-02-08 19:36:03 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- KATARA
“How the hell did they escape?” Zuko was practically spitting fire as he paced through his office. The prison guard who had come to report the absence of the old men they’d captured during the escape looked like he wanted to be anywhere but in front of the obviously irritated and unstable fire bender. She was never the biggest fan of Zuko’s but she could recognise and empathize with the fact that he had only gotten this bad once he realised that his Grandfather’...
2025-02-08 19:09:34 +0000 UTC
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Uraume was the first to react this time, diving in her way and forcing her to change her routes from where she had almost stormed into Shiba. Kikaichu buzzed angrily as they swarmed about their fighting forms. Uraume saw the chakra of Toshiro’s genjutsu as it took a hold of the woman and she took adbvantage to land two strike at her chest, each aimed at her heart. She broke the genjutsu and kept on fighting. Sheating her fingers in chakra to protect them from the steam meant that the chakra...
2025-02-08 18:04:28 +0000 UTC
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When the ships were spotted, they were like spots in the distance. Scouts had only been able to see their flags with a telescope. By the time everything is put together for Azula and I to arrive at the docks, we can see them with our naked eyes. They are about an hour out from making dock. But ahead of that, we have some men begin beating drums in a signal the any Son of Agni would recognise. It was a request for dialogue- a call to converse. From us, it was as much a trap as a question.
...
2025-02-07 18:35:14 +0000 UTC
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She looked familiar, Uraume thought to herself for second. Uraume did not get the chance to assess her further before she shot at her again. The Hyuga heir barely managed to spin out of her way this time, turning the spin into the first spin of the Eight Trigrams: Rotation as the woman turned around and shot a water bullet in her direction. When she came to a stop, it was to see the woman being beset upon from all sides, and still managing to fight her way through.
Shiba’s kikaichu s...
2025-02-07 09:49:34 +0000 UTC
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“It is magnificent” I complimented before turning to said father, “The wine is lovely, Monsieur Delacour” I said, and the man looked at me before grunting deep in his throat.
“Not one of our best vintages but it is passable” He said, and I nodded, taking the dig at my taste with good humor. After all, what did I really know about magical wine. If he said it wasn’t one of the best, then I would take his word for it even if that essentially meant that a mediocre wine here w...
2025-02-07 09:48:16 +0000 UTC
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“Of course. I merely meant that they would see it as Fire Lord Ozai having two heirs. The rightful one, the Princess Azula who has proven to be attached to you. And the Heir Presumptive, Prince Zuko who has been on exile from the Fire Nation for years and will be more open to being influenced. In that case, they might choose to submit to him with the hopes of having a Fire Lord they can easily control.”
“And assuming Prince Zuko got it in his head to end the war?” I asked, while...
2025-02-06 09:06:33 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- THE HYUGA HEIRESS
This was supposed to be an easy mission. Just go deal with the reserves and move on. First there was izuku, Uzume, and Kuro going off on their own. She decided in her heart that she was finally going to confront Kuro about the testoterone. She knew they’d gone spoiling for a fight and silently trusted Izuku to keep their heads in the game. Still, she was confident that the rest of them could do what was necessary. It had all began perfectly as well.
Kiz...
2025-02-06 09:05:39 +0000 UTC
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“Are you ready for tomorrow’s duels?” I asked, changing the topic and ignoring the way she made my heart twinge as she pulled back.
“No business tonight, Monsieur Potter”, She said in French and then turned to Dumbledore as the old man hit his glass with a spoon.
“It warms my heart to see us all gathered here tonight, friends, family, allies. This is what the triwizard tournament is about- international cooperation between schools that have long been rivals, but have ...
2025-02-06 09:04:36 +0000 UTC
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He stared at the beast almost two kilometers ahead of him and resisted the urge to chuckle. Every part of this process was being monitored, he reminded himself. They wouldn’t admit someone as fucked up in the head as he was if they had any choice about it. Still, the Voidborn was amusing to say the least. It was at least 15-feet tall and had a pair of horns that extended upwards another three feet. Those horns had already proven their sharpness when they gored a would-be classmate in one go...
2025-02-05 19:51:17 +0000 UTC
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Fleur’s father coughed pointedly and Fudge turned to him with a smile. “I have yet to make Mr. Potter’s acquaintance, Minister Fudge,” the man said.
“Truly? I apologise. I merely assumed that considering your daughter is on his arm, then you would already be acquainted. Please allow me to correct that oversight. Harry, this is Pierre Delacour, the French Representative to the International Confederation of Wizards, and owner of one of France’s most impressive wineries” He ...
2025-02-05 19:16:42 +0000 UTC
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