“So Yaorashi what do you need?” I asked while stepping out of the room and leaving the door ajar so Momo could slip out after me. His eyes flashed between us, but he said nothing. Good. At least he wasn’t a complete motormouth like the anime made him seem like.
“I am from Hero Class 1B, and we were told to move into these dorms during the week and weekend but I went home and got all my things and come today and I was told to see you about getting a room and figuring out how thi...
2024-11-01 18:15:22 +0000 UTC
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When I said there was only one species of Hellhound that didn’t have a conventional weakness that could be taken advantage of, I had meant this one. Fuck. I jinxed myself, didn’t I? Fuck me. Cŵn Annwn. The drawings were a ferocious thing already, and Riddle actually had memories of seeing a painting on one in the Macnair manor when he had been able to get an invite to one of the balls the family held. Unlike the muggle myths, the real Cŵn Annwn did not hunt in packs. They had the power ...
2024-11-01 17:52:36 +0000 UTC
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“Enough about that. How does the metal feel?” I asked.
“Still dead. Metal bending is impossible, Natsu. I know you think there’s something there but I can tell you there isn’t.” She said in reply. I just nodded. It had come to me while I bathed at the stream earlier today that the reason Toph was having difficulty with the metal itself was because she hadn’t started out with metal in canon. She’d started with the space rock. That got her sensitivity to smaller particles...
2024-11-01 16:37:59 +0000 UTC
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“Shori, what happened to you?” Tobirama asked as I finally finished crossing the distance between us.
“The Raikage put in much more of a fight than we saw coming but Kagami-san and I handled it” I turned to the older Uchiha who gave me a wink with his single open eye.
He nodded but kept his eyes on my knee.
“I assume that the reason you haven’t healed it is because the injury is one that resists quick resolution” he said, and I nodded at his words.
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2024-11-01 16:03:10 +0000 UTC
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By the time we had finished the very last of the tests, the sun had already begun to set. It hit me then that we’d spent the whole first day on this assessment. Physical tests of all sorts had taken their toll on all of us. We all stared at the empty screens with soulless, tired, anticipatory eyes. I included even myself in that count. I was tired. The Institute had prepared both Momo and I for hero work but not much focus had been placed on endurance over and above all other considerations...
2024-10-31 18:59:45 +0000 UTC
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“I see. The others will be pissed when they figure it out” He said.
“I’m sure they will find it in their hearts to forgive me” I replied sarcastically.
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In the end, only a few members of the planning team had even bothered to make their dissatisfaction with my deception known. The rest had just moved on. It was clear to even the most unexposed of infantry members that we were taking a different route than they would have initially expected when they got the...
2024-10-31 18:51:33 +0000 UTC
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I regretted forgetting to come along with a soldier pill or two. I never used them in training sessions and it had been so long since I went on a mission that it turned out my load out was somewhat lacking in some respects. I still had about a quarter of my reserves left, but that definitely wasn’t to the level of being able to do much in the fights unfolding around me. My chakra sensing was shit at distance, but only an idiot would not be able to feel the strong essences of three tailed be...
2024-10-31 15:10:44 +0000 UTC
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“Ahem.” He said, coughing to gather himself and get everyone’s attention. His eyes darted from place to place as he switched his hat from one hand to another and shifted his weight from one foot to the other.
“So the original plan for this task had been dragons. We had already secured three dragons from a Romanian reserve before the naming of the champions. With a sudden fourth champion, we had to make changes. The Reserve did not have any extra dragons that did not take the le...
2024-10-31 14:22:09 +0000 UTC
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“So Ba Sing Se, huh?” Toji asked as we rode next to each other. Toph was to my other side, having a uniquely terrible time. I’d told her she couldn’t just walk the distance because it would slow us down and being on a horse meant she had no way of ‘seeing’ her surroundings. It was a unique weakness that I was doing my best to eliminate.
“Indeed. The big one. The one we’ve all been waiting for.” I said.
“So how are we getting there? I know most of this lot have...
2024-10-30 17:35:11 +0000 UTC
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“Enough Potter” Mcgonagall hissed harshly, and while that brought some clarity to me it did nothing to stop the laughter. I’d fucked up. I’d completely and utterly fucked up. Now I was going to pay for it. I could see all the hints I’d ignored now that I knew what was coming. I hadn’t found dragons in the forest because there had been none in the first place. When Firenze said the creature of fire was in the forest, I hadn’t asked any other questions- thinking he was talking abo...
2024-10-30 17:08:45 +0000 UTC
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“Confringo” I cast silently, and then chained it into the less dark variant of the spell, ‘bombarda’, and then ‘diffindo’ and then a half dozen other spells in seconds. The right against the acrromantula had exposed quite a few of my weaknesses. It was why I now stood in the Room of Requirements, almost soakd to the bone with sweat but smiling as I cast spell after spell and makdesure to avoid the return elements being sent at me. I moved to the side to avoid a tennis ball sent at...
2024-10-30 17:02:30 +0000 UTC
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Izanagi, my mind wasted no time in supplying an explanation as I stared at the living breathing visage of a man I’d just watched die. That was really jarring, I told myself. To have watched the life fade from his body, certain that it had happened and to have it just unmade from reality. Casting a genjutsu on reality itself as I’d heard the fanbase describe it as in my first life certainly didn’t do justice to how absolutely broken the jutsu was.
“How is Granduncle?” I asked,...
2024-10-30 16:24:46 +0000 UTC
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He swam to the surface in a second while feeling at his chakra and converting it to the spiritual energy that allowed him to knit the tears across his muscles and the tiny fractures along his ribcage. If he hadn’t prepared in time, that hit would have caved in his chest, but instead now he just had to make sure he hadn’t left Kagami in too much of a fucked situation. One foot after the other, he pulled himself up to the water’s surface and took stock of what was going on. Water walking ...
2024-10-30 16:22:44 +0000 UTC
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“Well, that was tense” Momo said as we walked off to the dorms together. The others had been given the first week to come to terms with their acceptance into UA and move into the dorms. The fact that there was not going to be any break in the schedule to let them do so was harsh, but nothing harsher than what had already happened.
“You could say that again. Nothing we ever saw from outside painted UA as being this…. Competitive”
“Competitive? It’s...
2024-10-30 15:45:06 +0000 UTC
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He stared out from the balcony as he watched his men move in unison and then execute each step of the complex Kata flawlessly. It was the work of days of effort aimed at a single goal — Getting his men ready for what was coming. Against all odds, Kinvara had managed to send one message out before my arrival in this city. The fact that I only found out about it when I ordered his things searched after ordering his execution gnawed at me. Without that order, it was more than likely that I wou...
2024-10-30 14:29:40 +0000 UTC
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It was different, taking part in a battle from this angle. That of the commander. Instead of being at the very front, taking the brunt of the enemy attention and cutting a clean swathe through them, I was instead relegated to the centre of the formation, giving orders for men to swap out over time as I noticed frustration or tiredness begin to build. For both sides, the fight had turned into something of a a slog. They pushed on us from all sides and we pushed back. But annoyingl...
2024-10-29 19:10:55 +0000 UTC
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“Well, everything is as it should be. Magical purity of 97%, nothing beyond the pale” He said and I noticed that the parchment that had previously followed the other woman around now floated near his head and was taking note of his words.
“97%?” I found myself asking.
“No one has a complete 100% magical purity. You breathe air, drink water, and eat food do you not? All those things have some sort of effect on our magic so it never gets to 100%. To be completely honest...
2024-10-29 14:16:23 +0000 UTC
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It hit nothing but air but it was enough to achieve my first goal- Keep Kagami in the fight. Another breath and two more arrows flew through the air, forcing the Raikage to dodge away from them. I took a hold of the next arrow and allowed my chakra for through it with a breath.. When I fired, the wind release enhanced arrow cut through the air like a missile and forced the Raikage to take another path as he tried to get at Kagami. With my distraction in place, the Uchiha had taken out another...
2024-10-29 11:36:11 +0000 UTC
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This time, when he moved, it was all I could do to get out of the way, he was somehow even faster now. Hisarms lashed out in a series of punches that I just barely managed to remain ahead of. Kagami’s attempts to separate us failed as they all was he against his armour to no effect. Even the wind release jutsu were avoided without a second’s hesitation as he was just simply too fast for anything Kagami sent. That meant I was the only one with any hope of competing with him and while my ar...
2024-10-28 16:56:12 +0000 UTC
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I walked in with some amount of trepidation and waved my wand twice to cast my own set of privacy spells once I took a good look at the bathroom area. Once I did, I took out the cup and did my business while trying hard not to imagine the thousand different methods that could have been pu in place to spy on me while I carried out the business. The good news is that I managed to get the cup too halfway full when I found myself unable to go any further with the fear of being spied upon rising t...
2024-10-28 15:02:30 +0000 UTC
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“Mr. Potter, it’s a pleasure to meet you” the strange man was the first to speak. I raised an eyebrow at the man before taking his outstretched hand and whispering “Likewise” to his greeting. His nametag marked him as Healer D’artagan. His accent marked him as French. Very French.
“I was told to come here to see Professor Mcgonagall about the task” I said as I walked deeper into what had once been my Head of House office. Now, the space had been magically...
2024-10-27 21:04:23 +0000 UTC
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“The rankings I am about to unveil do not just reflect your positions in this test, for those of you who get to continue in Class IA, but will also reflect your class rankings. These rankings will determine your access to specialised training materials, meals, and resources. They will change based on not just your physical attributes when measured in tests like this one, but also based on your performance in hero classes, rescue missions, and general academic coursework. A similar list will...
2024-10-27 21:03:06 +0000 UTC
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I rode my ostrich horse with my head held high at the very front of a long line of fire nation soldiers. They marched in unison, one and all. I had put my helmet away and instead of having Toji next to me as usual, I had a standard bearer. The Fire nation insignia proudly waved in the air above me as we left the gates of Gaoling. The goal here was simple. Draw as much attention as possible to this segment of the army. Under the cover of darkness last night, both Toji and Maki ha...
2024-10-27 12:18:10 +0000 UTC
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I flew backwards and crashed through a few rocks before I managed to bring my movement to a stop by dragging tymhands along the ground. I stared up at the raikage. His armour had intensified its presence and now he shone like the sun to my eyes. I blinked for a second and rushed at him again. This time, I saw the attack coming and managed to dodge out of the way of the first punch but the second moved too quickly and managed to clip me on my side. Once again, I was sent flying from the force....
2024-10-27 11:16:12 +0000 UTC
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Still inaccurate, but at least less inaccurate than the tales that the reason my wand had chosen to bond so strongly to me was because of me being a descendant of Merlin as one of the Greek papers, The Oracle, had claimed.
I turned away from the news articles to the feedback I’d gotten from the castle itself. The wide berth that had come soon after the choosing of the champions had disappeared over time. Getting kicked out of the house had turned out to have done wonders for my popul...
2024-10-26 23:43:52 +0000 UTC
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Overwhelming victory or evasion were two ways to achieve that goal. Evasion had been the option that most of my council had leaned towards, but Toji had been patently against the idea, and so had Maki. Perhaps for different reasons. Toji disdained the thought of running from earth benders. Maki feared being chased from behind and then being hemmed against the walls of Ba Sing Se. Needless to say, once she spoke of that possibility most of those recommending evasion were quick to change their ...
2024-10-26 23:11:37 +0000 UTC
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Our chakra clashed before our bodies. I lashed out with a palm slap aimed for his head but his arm moved in time to knock my wrist away and send the attack away from his target. My other palm came up but met naught but air as he moved to the left to avoid it. His knee met mine for a second and we both snarled at each other until a swarm of shurinken fell down on our position. I did not move to dodge, trusting Kagami’s accuracy even as my opponent grit his teeth and enhanced his output. The ...
2024-10-26 09:17:50 +0000 UTC
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“Confringo” I cast silently, and then chained it into the less dark variant of the spell, ‘bombarda’, and then ‘diffindo’ and then a half dozen other spells in seconds. The right against the acrromantula had exposed quite a few of my weaknesses. It was why I now stood in the Room of Requirements, almost soakd to the bone with sweat but smiling as I cast spell after spell and makdesure to avoid the return elements being sent at me. I moved to the side to avoid a tennis ball sent at...
2024-10-25 18:03:17 +0000 UTC
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Harry Potter would have frozen and then been saved by a fantastically unlikely sequence of events a la Ford Anglia appearing in the middle of the Forest to rescue him from the Acromantula two years ago. Tom Riddle would have turned his wand upon the Centuars that dared to threaten him and then ultimately lost because these were not creatures easily faced in such numbers. Victor Von Doom, phD, would have opened his mouth and weaved a tale that would have so thoroughly confused the waiting Cent...
2024-10-25 17:56:22 +0000 UTC
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By the time we had finished the very last of the tests, the sun had already begun to set. It hit me then that we’d spent the whole first day on this assessment. Physical tests of all sorts had taken their toll on all of us. We all stared at the empty screens with soulless, tired, anticipatory eyes. I included even myself in that count. I was tired. The Institute had prepared both Momo and I for hero work but not much focus had been placed on endurance over and above all other considerations...
2024-10-25 17:50:16 +0000 UTC
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