“The day when thunder clapped and lightning roared over the skies of the royal fire nation military academy was the day that a legend was born. Natsu of the Ancient House of Wu had made history as the youngest ever recorded user of lightning bending, and the first one out of the fire nation royal family in over two centuries.
That kind of feat had sent echoes all over the world, not just within the fire nation. Even in the Earth kingdom it was whispered that the fir...
2023-10-08 11:16:38 +0000 UTC
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Have you ever participated in one of those ridiculous anime versus debates? Where it goes, ‘oh he dodged those lasers, so he has to be lightspeed’? Yeah, those ones. Well, as I flew down, around and sometimes through Hashirama’s forest of wood, I felt like one of those characters. I leaned heavily on my sand and the fact that my body was more sand than flesh to push myself to speeds I didn’t truly know I could reach. And even in spite of that, it wasn’t enough.
The dust ...
2023-10-07 19:19:09 +0000 UTC
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Have you ever done one of those ridiculous anime versus debates? Where it goes, ‘oh he dodged those lasers, so he has to be lightspeed’? Yeah, those ones. Well, as I flew down, around and sometimes through Hashirama’s forest of wood, I felt like one of those characters. I leaned heavily on my sand and the fact that my body was more sand than flesh to push myself to speeds I didn’t truly know I could reach. And even in spite of that, it wasn’t enough.
The dust release fav...
2023-10-04 15:35:54 +0000 UTC
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Zod and Jor-El. The training, wisdom and experiences of both of these pillars had been gifted to me by that machine. No cause to use either of those gifts, I’d let them take the backseat as what I’d been born with had been more than enough to take me as far as I’d gotten. But now? I leaned heavily on Zod’s training. Left on my own, I’d have given in to panic. Left with only Jor-El, I might have wasted away trying to study the remnants of the Chitauri tech that the nuke had left.
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2023-10-01 14:21:58 +0000 UTC
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Zod and Jor-El. The training, wisdom and experiences of both of these pillars had been gifted to me by that machine. No cause to use either of those gifts, I’d let them take the backseat as what I’d been born with had been more than enough to take me as far as I’d gotten. But now? I leaned heavily on Zod’s training. Left on my own, I’d have given in to panic. Left with only Jor-El, I mioght have wasted away trying to study the remnants of the Chitauri tech that the nuke had left.
2023-09-30 17:02:19 +0000 UTC
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“The day when thunder clapped and lightning roared over the skies of the royal fire nation military academy was the day that a legend was born. Natsu of the Ancient House of Wu had made history as the youngest ever recorded user of lightning bending, and the first one out of the fire nation royal family in over two centuries.
That kind of feat had sent echoes all over the world, not just within the fire nation. Even in the Earth kingdom it was whispered that the fir...
2023-09-29 17:02:42 +0000 UTC
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If there was one thing about the finals that I had to say stood out, it was just how much of it we got to see before the stone nin sprung their inevitable ambush. Sasuke and Dosu Kinata had spent ten minutes dancing around the arena in a display of good taijutsu until the Uchiha fell prey to the Sound genin’s device one too many times and ended the fight with a chidori to the chest. I’d wondered if Kakashi would have taught the move without a psychotic jinchuriki present to warrant the ne...
2023-09-28 09:49:09 +0000 UTC
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“Do you know why I have been Kage for over fifty years, boy? Do you know whey in five decades, none has taken this hat from me? Do you know why I have seen three different wars from beginning to end without succumbing while prodigies like yourself fell by the wayside? It is because I, Ōnoki of Iwagakure, is the strongest. Now, be a good boy and die quickly. I have a fight to watch” As he spoke, he weaved visible hand seals for the first time.
Thankfully, I could recognise them from...
2023-09-27 16:28:31 +0000 UTC
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If there was one thing about the finals that I had to say stood out, it was just how much of it we got to see before the stone nin sprung their inevitable ambush. Sasuke and Dosu Kinata had spent ten minutes dancing around the arena in a display of good taijutsu until the Uchiha fell prey to the Sound genin’s device one too many times and ended the fight with a chidori to the chest. I’d wondered if Kakashi would have taught the move without a psychotic jinchuriki present to warrant the ne...
2023-09-26 13:31:40 +0000 UTC
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I stared at the warehouse as my clone placed the final touches on the sealing script that surrounded it. After that experiment a week ago that ended up with a very dead clone, I’d had a clone spending every hour of every day working on the project, and now these were the fruits. We’d already had close to ten demo tests to ensure that everything worked as it ought.
Now that the seal was set up, the clone turned to me and winked before dispelling itself. I walked forwards on my own, i...
2023-09-23 18:07:40 +0000 UTC
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The first difference one had to notice between how Konoha and Suna appeared from the outside looking in was that Konoha had all the appearance of a sprawling metropolis. It was more city than village, at this point, and the Hokage did not seem to be shy of this fact.
My best guess was that he was well aware of the conditions of Suna and this little show right here was as much a show of force as it was an attempt to cow me into submission before negotiations even began. I’d sent a requ...
2023-09-22 18:28:18 +0000 UTC
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“Do you know what this means?” Grandfather asked for what felt like the seventeenth time as he stared at me. My display of lightning bending had placed the man in a state of simultaneous shock and amazement as he both tried to figure out what to say and tried to think of a way to express what he felt. I mean, I could understand where he was coming from. Lightning bending was pretty much limited to the royal family almost exclusively.
“When you display this talent, the royal family...
2023-09-19 18:07:54 +0000 UTC
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Agni Kai. Agni’s sacred combat. The one way firebenders have settled their conflicts since time immemorial. It was so entrenched in our culture that for centuries, to refuse a challenge was to surrender oneself to exile from whatever civilization one had been a member of. Agni Kai’s were still, to this day, used as a form of trial by combat in most of the fire courts. The only person immune to a challenge was the fire lord himself, and even he could not lightly turn one down. Onl...
2023-09-18 19:58:59 +0000 UTC
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Of course no one had accepted peace, not at first. Not even Indigo had taken the deal at the end of the day. Oak had called my intentions admirable but my execution flawed. When the time came for me to carry out my threats, Sabrina had stared me down and essentially forced me to look for a better way. And then I did.
I couldn’t force them, but I could approach things from a different angle. I registered as a trainer in Hoenn the very next day. Not a single gym had made me use mo...
2023-09-16 17:44:41 +0000 UTC
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I stared at the warehouse as my clone placed the final touches on the sealing script that surrounded it. After that experiment a week ago that ended up with a very dead clone, I’d had a clone spending every hour of every day working on the project, and now these were the fruits. We’d already had close to ten demo tests to ensure that everything worked as it ought.
Now that the seal was set up, the clone turned to me and winked before dispelling itself. I walked forwards on my own, i...
2023-09-16 16:42:05 +0000 UTC
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“We will need to draw a strategy for a possible invasion and counteroffensive of the Hidden Stone village. If we make a push, how far could we get? What challenges will we face? What would a preemptive strike look like? Is there any key infrastructure we can damage in a blitzkrieg attack?” I asked my impromptu war council as I sat behind the Kage desk. Iwa had recently made themselves more urgent enemies with their actions at the chunin exams. Speaking to the genin after the festival had ...
2023-09-14 19:30:24 +0000 UTC
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Apart from planning a war, most of my time was spent in this very place. The Kazekage’s private library. It seemed that all the past kage had left some things of use here for their successors. The most useful by far, were the Third’s writings on magnet release. While I wasn’t going to go through the effort of learning to weild iron sand when my regular sand was already magnitudes more dangerous, he did include a lot of tips and tricks for defeating enemies from a distance with said iron...
2023-09-12 19:56:25 +0000 UTC
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Over a hundred people! When I first started this page around this time last year, I would have considered myself lucky if even 10 people joined. I just thought it would be a fun little experience while never allowing myself to dream of being in the big leagues. While I'm nowhere near that yet- still a small fish in a very large ocean- I can no longer call myself a tadpole. it's all because of you guys. Thank you so much for believing in me, taking a chance reading my work, enjoying my work, a...
2023-09-11 16:40:05 +0000 UTC
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“Do you know what this means?” Grandfather asked for what felt like the seventeenth time as he stared at me. My display of lightning bending had placed the man in a state of simultaneous shock and amazement as he both tried to figure out what to say and tried to think of a way to express what he felt. I mean, I could understand where he was coming from. Lightning bending was pretty much limited to the royal family almost exclusively.
“When you display this talent, the royal family...
2023-09-11 16:30:54 +0000 UTC
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Zod and Jor-El. The training, wisdom and experiences of both of these pillars had been gifted to me by that machine. No cause to use either of those gifts, I’d let them take the backseat as what I’d been born with had been more than enough to take me as far as I’d gotten. But now? I leaned heavily on Zod’s training. Left on my own, I’d have given in to panic. Left with only Jor-El, I mioght have wasted away trying to study the remnants of the Chitauri tech that the nuke had left.
2023-09-10 20:15:51 +0000 UTC
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“We will need to draw a strategy for a possible invasion and counteroffensive of the Hidden Stone village. If we make a push, how far could we get? What challenges will we face? What would a preemptive strike look like? Is there any key infrastructure we can damage in a blitzkrieg attack?” I asked my impromptu war council as I sat behind the Kage desk. Iwa had recently made themselves more urgent enemies with their actions at the chunin exams. Speaking to the genin after the festival had ...
2023-09-09 21:32:01 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- TEMARI POV
After Gaara’s sendoff, the rest of the trip to Konohagakure had been relatively simple and straightforward. Like everyone had seen coming, Kankuro was already complaining about his face feeling itchy on the second day of the trip. Idiot that he was, he didn’t take Gaara’s suggestion of waiting till he arrived in Konoha to apply the war paint, or even my own suggestion of forgoing the paint entirely. Sure, it had been hip seventy years ago, but now it just looked ...
2023-09-07 06:31:04 +0000 UTC
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“Tell me about the team” I asked Hiroshi after we’d finished our bouts of mutual panic and rush to sanitise both of our phones, reinstall all the security measures we could and then placed both devices on ice to be sent back to the commission for analysis. What had happened was an egregious breach, the kind of which had never happened before, and considering the way Hiroshi had been fuming, was unlikely to happen again.
“Once again, I apologise for the…”
“Save it, Hi...
2023-09-04 21:00:23 +0000 UTC
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I searched the skies of New York with my eyes as I watched the movements by the various actors in what was to come in a short while. Loki flew with the aid of his spectre as he travelled to the top of Stark Tower. The Ancient one and a few of her disciples floated above their sanctum as they cast spells over the place in preparation for the inevitable invasion. It honestly shocked me how they still needed additional protection. Was the sanctum not supposed to be one of the most well protected...
2023-09-04 20:16:43 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- TEMARI POV
After Gaara’s sendoff, the rest of the trip to Konohagakure had been relatively simple and straightforward. Like everyone had seen coming, Kankuro was already complaining about his face feeling itchy on the second day of the trip. Idiot that he was, he didn’t take Gaara’s suggestion of waiting till he arrived in Konoha to apply the war paint, or even my own suggestion of forgoing the paint entirely. Sure, it had been hip seventy years ago, but now it just looked ...
2023-09-03 15:32:56 +0000 UTC
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Yeah, its going to be a day late. I'm doing a Temari POV and writing that from her headspace is taking way more time than I expected. I hope that's fine with everyone. See you guys tomorrow.
2023-09-02 18:14:45 +0000 UTC
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What does it mean to be strong? Truly strong? That was the question Grandfather had asked me before I left the home for my first semester, and as I prepared myself to return back to the manor, I bothered myself with thinking it through. Was I any stronger than I was six months ago when I’d gotten in here? Well, my body was much stronger, at least. If Hiroshi had any talent, it was in strengthening bodies. I hadn’t even gone above and beyond, just sticking to the regimen h...
2023-09-01 06:55:52 +0000 UTC
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The first villain I ever fought after becoming a professional hero was an idiot. He’d fumbled his weapons, used his quirk stupidly and allowed the hostages to get away. In as much as it was my first time, it was also his. And unlike me, he didn’t have the benefit of years of training at hero school to remedy the lack of experience. That was what actually got me thinking about villain school in a completely ironic manner. Luckily, we didn’t have any threats of something like that coming ...
2023-08-31 19:46:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
I hope none of your days are going as shitty as mine.
I'll just be as straight to the point as I can. My laptop sucks. It was manageable with the rest of its faults, but the battery has gotten so bad it doesn't last long enough for a single writing session anymore. To run the risk of doxxing myself, I live in a country where power supply is not guaranteed so most of the time, when I write, I have to do it on battery power.
You can see the problem. To spa...
2023-08-31 19:43:41 +0000 UTC
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I stood in front of the teams we’d be sending to Konoha with a smile on my face. The smile brightened as my siblings caught it and sent theirs in return. Well, Temari did. Kankuro was careful not to do anything with his face that might distort the war paint he’d spent the better part of the morning putting on painstakingly. The fact that Temari had refused to help because she thought it was stupid, and my clone had been little help because he’d ruined it on his first three attempts and ...
2023-08-31 05:37:52 +0000 UTC
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