The Servant watched impassively as his Master left for bed. She couldn’t see him, though he had an inkling that she had an idea that he was watching.
It mattered little.
The moon hung low in the sky, its silver light casting long shadows across the monastery's grounds. And while the...
2024-02-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Does thou have a moment, Lord Emiya?”
Shirou blinked as Adrianne walked up to him in the early morning hours. It was just barely after sunrise, marked by the still on-the-horizon sun.
“Of course, Lady Valliere. What do you need?” He motioned towards the hallway, the implicati...
2024-02-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHonningbrew Meadery was not the place that John thought he’d be spending any time in. In fact, when they had first seen it, it hadn’t even crossed his mind to try and ask for a place to stay. It was only through sheer luck that a guard standing outside the meadery spotted them and waved them ...
2024-02-10 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere was an atmosphere that Lena couldn’t describe.
“Are you ready?” Archer asked Genji, who sat cross legged in the middle of an intricate set of symbols on the floor. By their color, either they were drawn in some red paint, or, with everything else going on, they were more likely ...
2024-02-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDetermination. It’s similar to motivation, and is close enough that, at times, you could say one and mean the other, and it would still make sense. The difference lies in the subtleties that each one has.
Motivation is the driving spark. It’s a match to fuel, the startup of an engine. I...
2024-01-27 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe night passed, and soon, morning arose. Shirou had decided that, despite the time sensitive nature of the issue, bringing it to Reines’ attention after waking her up in the middle of the night was not exactly conducive to any amount of goodwill.
Instead, he, Waver and Gray were now wai...
2024-01-20 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s not possible.” Those were the words that Morrison spoke when Lena and the others entered the room. The man was standing near a window, peering through it. The light coming through the dusty pane was warm, a dissonant piece when you looked at the practically ancient furniture.
...
2024-01-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMotivation. It’s at the forefront of human innovation. It is an inevitable truth that without it, progress itself would be stopped. Nothing would continue, because nobody would find the reason to do so.
For the longest time, my motivation was always to put my own best interests above thos...
2024-01-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Somehow, I didn’t expect an audience for this.” Rory stared at the assorted party that Shirou had managed to drag with him. He didn’t pay them any mind. He couldn’t be bothered to.
“Your god. What do they want?”
“Straight to the point, I see?”
Shirou's gaze re...
2023-12-29 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe road to Whiterun was quiet. Peaceful. Completely against the hustle and bustle that dominated city life. Even the relatively quiet Riverwood was noisy compared to the untamed nature of Skyrim.
It was relaxing. So much so that John took a breath and rolled his shoulders. He had always be...
2023-12-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe battlefield lay eerily silent, a stark contrast to the cacophony of death that had reigned mere days ago. The air was thick with the metallic scent of blood, and the ground was littered with the fallen, their lifeless eyes staring blankly at the sky.
Or rather, that was what Byleth thou...
2023-12-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Lena, I think your friend is clinically insane.”
“Yeah, I don’t blame you.”
‘Archer, what the actual fuck.’
“Oh, don’t mind me. I need to have fun somehow.”
‘Were you just screwing with us then?! How much of that was just you ma...
2023-12-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostInspiration. The moment when a person thinks of something that he hadn’t thought of before. In some cases, these ideas are put onto paper, made into reality. They shape the very foundations of the world. The industrial revolution is a good example, where what started as one bit of machinery spa...
2023-12-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs the title says, this week's chapters will have to be delayed. I apologize, and to compensate for this, next week will have the chapter for today, and next week's.
For the reason why I'm delaying it, it's currently finals week at my uni, and my professors have piled on quite a bit o...
2023-12-15 05:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostHe took in the night scene with both a heavy heart, and a sigh of relief. The situation, whatever it had devolved into, had finally been settled. Or, as settled as it could be in the short term.
He had talked to Hazama, convincing the man that, despite what it looked like, Shirou had absolu...
2023-12-08 12:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostLena stared nervously as the ride continued. Normally, she’d be chatting up Angela, talking about whatever little thing came to mind, just to stave off the boredom. Normally.
It wasn’t a normal day, unfortunately.
Archer sat next to her, and across from them, sat almost everyone e...
2023-12-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s not fair.
It’s not fair. It’s not fair. It’s not fair.
It’s not fucking fair!
I won, right?! Everything was going great! Hikigaya stopped Rem from killing me and everything! And he himself wasn’t killed! Everyone lived! The pain and su...
2023-11-24 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe hallways that the JSDF forward operating base had were utilitarian to the extreme. With the possibility of enemy action, it was a necessity. The entire floor plan was made to funnel everyone outward, allowing for the quick deployment of anyone inside it.
It was intuitive, with how the h...
2023-11-17 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“So, you’re one of these…Heroic Spirits?”
“That’s correct.”
“And Heroic Spirits are ghosts of prominent dead individuals that have come back from beyond?”
“Close enough, yes.”
“And you were able to do what you did because magic is real?”
“...
2023-11-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Well? Are you just going to stand there?” Condescending, smug, and all around infuriating. That was what the voice that could be heard over the gurgling bodies sounded like. Byleth felt every bit of that condescension, and she was most definitely not the intended audience.
“You-! To ...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed, and the excitement faded with it. As much as the kidnapping was a source of worry, it was a worry that was all too common for the world that John found himself in.
Soon enough, it was back to work. While the Dragonborn had left the guard contingent, she had also given him an un...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMany things annoyed me from time to time. A person being late to a meeting. Nosy underclassmen poking her head into my business. Bad writing filled with whatever otaku craze was going on.
The normal things.
It was only human nature to be annoyed, after all. To not be annoyed at all wo...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs the title suggests, I've started crossposting over on SpaceBattles. It'll be a while till the stories catch up to the current chapter, but if anyone prefers to read my stories there, they'll be there.
2023-11-03 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostShirou sat as he waited for Waver to finish reading. Considering the pile next to him, he had to guess that the Lord had been here a while. That, or he was even more of a speed reader than Rin. It shouldn’t matter. No matter how little or how much Waver read, Shirou figured he would be pissed e...
2023-10-27 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostArcher stepped to the side as a blow that would’ve taken his head came rushing down. A wave of purple echoed its way outward, pulsing into the rubble behind him. He barely heard the ground sizzle and break down before he was already moving again.
Twenty minutes. It had been twenty minutes...
2023-10-20 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI had thought that by the time I dealt with Natsuki’s problem, I would’ve had time to sit back and properly do my experiments. As with everything in this world, I was completely wrong.
It was the very next day, before even breakfast was served, that Mathers had come back, a sonic boom a...
2023-10-13 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe days passed by quickly. With permission from Yanagida, the elves - with Shirou helping them - began building some rudimentary shelters. They weren’t much, having been built with whatever they could scrounge up. It was also a downgrade from the barracks that they had temporarily stayed in wi...
2023-10-06 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJohn was no stranger to a stiff drink. More often than not, his job would require it. Not for any recreational purposes, mind you. All it did was to numb the pain.
Both literal, and figurative pain that is.
He’d seen more than enough people drink themselves into a stupor, losing all...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a massacre. Nearly fifty enemy soldiers had ambushed them, and had managed to take down a few unfortunate members of their party. They were still moving, thankfully, but from the little that Byleth could see through the fog, they would not last long without immediate help.
Catherine ...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Before you begin, I just want to congratulate the few people that had those gut feelings in the reviews. You’ll see what I mean.
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The ground shook beneath her feet as a terrible ripping sound echoed throughout the building. She could hear rock and metal bang...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post