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Chapter 37.2- The Seadragon's Roar

“Yes, and his as well” Icarus added.

“I think my head matters a bit more”

“Truly? I think I could live with hearing your voice a bit less. Our captive on the other hand? Let’s just say that without a deal with the Velaryons, I’d be pretty dead.”

“One can only hope this deal is as good as you say it is, then”

“It is.” He assured.

“For now, it is just words. It only matters if the Lordling decides to live up to his end of the agreement.”...

Chapter 70.2- Doom Days

“Nicholas Flamel owes me a debt. The stone is repayment” he said with the kind of confidence that told me he truly believed what he as saying. Of course, that didn’t mean it wasn’t still bullshit being shovelled. Believing the bullshit didn’t make it any better than what it already was.

“If so, take it up with him. I’m sure he’d love to talk about coming up with a repayment plan or whatever. Either way, I’ll be having the necklace and leaving now” I said.

“...

Chapter 90.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- ONE MONTH LATER

“No, not like that” I muttered, turning to the seal that my newest apprentice had been banging her head against for a day now. It was relatively complex, but not so complex that it should have given her any trouble to understand. In fact, if understanding was the issue then I would have ended the apprenticeship immediately and sent Inoken an apology and a bottle of sake.

No, she understood the seal perfectly. She could explain it better than most journe...

Chapter 37.1- The Seadragon's Roar

The body slumped over, hitting the table with a dull thud, and then they began to move with the efficiency of men who had worked together their whole lives. He moved to the side of the room, flipping the books this way and that.

“What’s taking so long?” He heard Yoren’s harsh whisper from behind him as he struggled to find the entrance to the secret passage.

“I only read about the passage, Yoren. I’ve never actually seen it before. The plans say it should be behind t...

Chapter 89- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

I hadn’t actually seen this coming, I thought to myself as I stared down at the letter that had arrived from Kumo. They were bowing out of the war, it seems. And even if their surrender left a lot to be desired. Not least because it did not use the word "surrender" even once, or even the phrase "Greater Military Force," when referring to Konoha. Simply settling for calling us a "Great Military Power."

“Are we going to take it?” Shika asked from her position across from me. This wa...

Chapter 36- The Seadragon's Roar (Treason)

LATE 109 AC

“How does it look to you?” I asked, handing the slab of glass over to Laena for her to examine. It had taken months and months of work. First, it was getting the town built near Bloodstone’s new port. And then it was designing the furnace for the fire. A furnace that I had to situate in a different hamlet that the glassblowers would have to commute to and from on a daily basis to get to work, all in a bid to prevent spies from stealing my hopeful golden goose.

An...

Chapter 70.1- Doom Days

“Who are you?” I asked, not making any movement to check the stone in my pocket or anything like that that would confirm his suspicions.

“A person interested in the philosopher’s stone for his own reasons. I had a real with Russo, and now that you have eliminated him, it falls to you to give me what is mine.”

“Yours? I have no idea what you are even talking abut” I tried, dropping my wand into a ready position and waiting for what I knew would be combat. There was ...

Chapter 89.6- One Thousand Hands

I waved him on to continue, because sure they were two separate jutsu but they worked on more or less he exact same underlying principle, and that was what I wanted to know about.

“So the added weight rock technique is n earth release jutsu that basically pumps the target full with each release chakra to simulate additional weight on them and increased gravity, whatnot.”

“Just earth release chakra?” I asked, finding that difficult to imagine.

“Very precisely. Mu...

Chapter 36.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“I’d drink to that one” he said instantly, tone sober and thick.

“The woman still disturbing you?” He asked.

“Less so now that I’ve had to come here, but she somehow always finds a way to have someone send a message. The boy needs this or that or this or that, a million times. I’ve spent my wages on her every need, and now she still wants more and more” he said. Gerold, years ago, had made the mistake of fathering a bastard on a serving girl, and the Prince ref...

Chapter 36.5- The Seadragon's Roar

They walked forward as one, having left their Sandsteeds some distance away. The rules around entrance into the fortress were old, and every noble son of Dorne learned them early enough. Some did it while held to their mother’s breasts. Others, like he and Yoren, learned it playing at the feet of the Prince of Dorne themselves.

“Who goes you?” The prompt came from the shadows of the mountainous path. The wrong answer would lead to them being filled with more arrows than any man c...

Chapter 36.4- The Seadragon's Roar

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He stared down at his hands, they were clean as always. He prided himself own having clean hands, a clean body, a clean mind. It was one thing his Grandmother had always stressed in his childhood. He scoffed to himself. One thing? His Grandmother had stressed so many things that picking one of them felt disrespectful. Punctuality, cleanliness, pragmatism, respect for ones elders, generosity towards ones lessers, and morality. What would she think looking down on him from the heaven...

Chapter 89.5- One Thousand Hands

“She’s the daughter of Mu” He said.

“The Null man?”

“Yup. The Second Tsuchikage himself. She was the one supposed to be in the running to become the third. But then one day her father sees a young Onoki perfectly executing his jutsu. You see Onoki had initially been far from the running for the position. Sure, Ishikawa was his Grandfather, but Ishikawa had very much fully intended Mu to be his legacy. Ishikawa had been able to use the jutsu from what I could tell, b...

Chapter 89.4- One Thousand Hands

“It’s fine, I waved them on in” I said, taking the blame.

“No, no. They shouldn’t have been able to get inside at all. There’s a lock seal on the door” He said. Looked over at the door, and looked and behold, there was a seal tag on it that should have kept the door locked, but someone had scribbled a few kanji over it. I wasn’t all that familiar with the sealing language— it was probably the Konoha basic, but I could see that the seal had bypassed the lock by confus...

Section 89.3- One Thousand Hands

“Hokage-sama” He said with a bow that was far better than what any child his age should be managing. Of course, shinobi training meant that natural clumsiness of childhood was beaten out of them, and beaten out early. Sometimes, even literally. It had never happened to me, but I’d heard what the trainers in the Hyuga did to children who lagged behind in learning the gentle fist. It wasn’t pretty by any means.

“Yes, little one?” I asked, looking down at him. And then realisi...

Chapter 26.3- The Seadragon's Roar

“I said I must see to Quentyn’s death. I misspoke, if you would. You will be the one to kill the boy, Icarus. Make it clean, please.” He said, pouring another drink and taking a long swig of the rich Dornish red.

“You would have me kill a child, Yoren? A child you raised as yours? What in the seven hells is wrong with you?”

“I am a heartbroken man. Because now that you have opened my eyes to the truth, I can not unsee it. And I would be damned before I see a Martell ...

Chapter 36.2- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXXXX- ICARUS JORDAYNE

“This might be the worst idea you’ve ever come to me with, Icarus” His friend said with a sigh.

“Is it? I think stealing into the shadow city in disguise to see if we could win some extra gold at the tables was a worse idea by some margin” He said back, smiling broadly. He knew he had him. Because if there was one thing about Yoren that he knew for sure, it was that his friend hated their Prince more than anything else. Where Icarus had accepted ...

Chapter 89.2- One Thousand Hands

“Now, moving on, is that all? Just a quiet acquiescence?” I asked.

“As the winning party, we can either elect to have them send one of theirs here to sign a treaty, or we can go to their village to do it there. Do you have a preference?” Shika asked. Considering when Kumo came into the village in canon, they had tried to kidnap the Hyuga hieress,it was probably a good idea not to have them anywhere close to here. But then on the other hand, having them make the journey would ma...

Chapter 89.1- One Thousand Hands

I hadn’t actually seen this coming, I thought to myself as I stared down at the letter that had arrived from Kumo. They were bowing out of the war, it seems. And even if their surrender left a lot to be desired. Not least because it did not use the word surrender even once, or even the phrase Greater Military Force, when referring to Konoha. Simply settling for call us a Great Military Power.

“Are we going to take it?” Shika asked from her position across from me. This wasn’t a...

Chapter 70.1- Doom Days

“If— And that’s a big if— I knew anything about a stone, then I would also know who the real owner is, and I could tell you most assuredly that you do not want to get on the wrong side of that man’s mood” I said.

“Nicholas Flamel? What is that old fossil going to do? And if it is a matter of being in his bad graces, then I can settle your fears by telling you that I have been on his…how do you English say? Naughty list? Yes, I have been on his naughty list for longer th...

Chapter 36.1- The Seadragon's Roar

LATE 109 AC

“How does it look to you?” I asked, handing the slab of glass over to Laena for her to examine. It had taken months and months of work. First it was getting the town built near Bloodstone’s new port. And then it was designing the furnace for the fire. A furnace that I had to situate in a different hamlet that the glassblowers would have to commute to and from on a daily basis to get to work, all in a bid to prevent spies from stealing my hopeful golden goose.

An...

Chapter 88- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

“And so I call this first meeting of the Hokage’s advisory council in order,” I said, feeling the robes as they weighed me down as well as the comforting weight of the hat as I rose from my seat.

We were in one of the many meeting rooms that dotted the Hokage tower. Having it rearranged into a semi-permanent meeting space for this council of mine had been the first thing I’d tasked myself with this morning. In some ways, you could call it my first po...

Chapter 35- The Seadragon's Roar (Work in Progress)

“This is a terrible idea. I must state my objections to this.”

“Yes, you have stated your objections, Uncle. Seven times at this point, if I’m counting right.”

“Eight,” Laena corrected by my side.

“Eight times,” I amended.

“And yet you insist on going forward with this... this... this foolishness.”

“And yet I insist,” I agreed.

“Please, Nephew.”

“Your pleas are noted, as are your objections. Both are unfortunately disre...

Chapter 69- Doom Days (Foiled Escape)

I should probably have kept the fiendfyre for long enough to destroy these wards at least, it seemed, I thought to myself as I stood before the door. My rationale had been the fact that with the size the fiendfyre had reached, there was no chance I was going to manage that much without basically announcing myself to the rest of this place. And to be honest, I just wanted to get out of here.

I wanted nothing to do with whatever weirdos had decided reviving an old Grindelwald base to run ...

Chapter 69.6- Doom Days

“Yes” he said.

“What else is behind this door, Gellert?” I asked, feeling a bad feeling begin to creep up.

“The Chinaman has taken to wearing my receptacle around his neck. If you need to remove his head to get it, then feel free to do so”

“The whole point of this was to escape without being noticed, Gellert. What the fuck?”

“That’s silly. They’ve been watching you since you arrived.”

“What?”

“Surely you did not think they woul...

Chapter 88.6- One Thousand Hands

—

“How are things looking for him?” I asked, staring down at the body of the last of my cousin’s surviving teammates.

He’ll live. And somehow without permanent damage. The healing he was able to receive on site was nothing less than miraculous.” Kagame said, running her hands over his body. And wasn’t that the kicker. Having looked through the site of the attack and tried to place things together, both Uraume and Shika were in agreement that Orochimaru had been the ...

Chapter 35.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“Allow you pay our surveyors more than we do? Do I look like a fool to you? You’ll pay them just as much as we do, and pay us two dragons per surveyor as a facilitation fee” He said. Of course the prospect of giving more money to his people was the kind of thing that a Westerosi noble would be opposed to. He probably just didn’t want me paying more than them so I couldn’t poach them after the period ended…which admittedly was my plan.

“That is acceptable to me” I said. ...

Chapter 88.5- One Thousand Hands

“That seems unnaturally generous” Kagame pointed out, speaking for the first time since she’d given her name.

“In ten years, I’ll see to it that they pay the price of their actions when we can actually punish them. For now, we will say we cede the right to vengeance when in truth we can’t do anything either way” I said.

“So your terms of peace as to tell them we will not be doing something which we couldn’t even do if we wanted to?” She clarified.

“Pr...

Chapter 35.5- The Seadragon's Roar

—

“Well met, Ser Lancel” I said, walking forwards, and stretching my arm out to clasp it with his.

“And you, Ser Laenor. It is a pleasure to meet the youngest Knight in all the realm” he said in turn. I smiled at the compliment before he continued.

“Let’s hope it goes better than it did the last time a dragon rider was the youngest knight in all the realm, ey?” He asked with a chuckle. Was this some sort of jokester? Or was he mocking me? Trying to piss me...

Chapter 69.5- Doom Days

The draugr, reanimated from a corpse that had not been long gone still had a good portion of its magic left in it. That meant the wards that were to keep whoever was locked within still within would recognise him as being keyed to them. And since he was pulling me through, then I should be able to pass easily with no problems. And it worked exactly as planned. The body pulled me through and then I was on the other side.

“What’s the way out?” I asked Gellert, turning to him and kno...

Chapter 88.4- One Thousand Hands

“I say we kick it further down the road. We can worry about what they do next, all we won’t. But we won’t know what they do until they do it. And by the time they move, we will have strengthened ourselves to the point where it will not matter” Shika said almost immediately after. Uzume made a noise of disagreement.

“I say we crush them now. Give them the same treatment we gave Iwa. Destroy the village and salt the earth that remains” She said, smile sharp as a dagger.