The sound of violence was almost primal in its intensity.
In the box with the other VIP's, I watched on intently at the opening matches below, but my mind was on anything but. Instead, I was thinking on two things, and everything was a distant fourth or fifth in my mind. Namely, where was ...
"This is your plan?"
Cinder frowned, sensing something laden in those words as she glared in suspicion at the doll. For one of Salem's pet beasts, it was far wordier than expected and she ignored the use of its name as she spoke. "Of course. Her majesty demands the removal of Beacon and so...
Every channel it was the same. The same clip of magic unleashed, of alien creatures, of a dragon going mano-a-mano with an elder grimm and the visions of the dead. All but buried beneath these stories would be tales of the police and fire department, the hunters and huntresses, fluff pieces that ...
2024-04-09 15:20:15 +0000 UTC View PostVale was burning and Ruby could see it from here.
On the ship, the other students would be murmuring, eyes wide or grimly narrowed and preparing themselves in various ways. It would be the new Academies trial by fire, as the first generation of Quadling Hunters and Huntresses prepared to h...
Panic surged over the city of Vale, expanding like a wildfire and urged on by its dark heralds. Such an invasion was rare, the great cities normally all but protected heavily but now? With a pipeline of sorts deep within the heart of the city, it was as if Vale had been bitten by a snake.
...
Branderscar Prison was a memory now, but they were still in chains.
Nobody breaks out monsters, just out of the goodness of their heart and if that smiling bitch was human, C'gorath was an octopus. He was a psionic after all and she offered a number of captives and slaves for his consumpti...
I had told Taiyang once that if I put my mind to it, I could raze the four kingdoms in a day.
Now I was exerting this on a single, legion of Eladrin and what chance did they have?
Absolutely none.
Time stopped at my command; the arrows frozen in midair as I exerted my influen...
Slowly, my project I had started from the beginning was taking form. It was a semblance of what it could had been of course, but it didn't need to be perfect. It just needed to work, and if it could work it meant I could do it again and again.
Prohibitively expensive though it was and dema...
Waterdeep: City of Splendors.
Despite invasion, despite cultists, demons, Blackcloak himself and more, the city had always survived and in no small way due to their own efforts. Oh certainly, the rest of the factions had always had their vested interest in Waterdeep and its survival, but w...
"You must understand, this is incredibly unprecedented."
Introductions had been made, hands had been shaken and now I was currently entertaining General Ironwood and Headmaster Ozpin in the office I used to impress people, as I raised an eyebrow in turn. I do believe I threw him off, thoug...
As the airship docked, General Ironwood would be watching with a cautious eye.
Aliens? Dragons, things of legend suddenly returned and moreover in positions of what appeared to be perfectly mundane jobs which threw him off his rhythm. Something that Ozpin knew very well, the bastard as he ...
Yang paused. Slowly, she slipped off her shades, folding them neatly as she handed them to a shocked Blake, who already looked like she was regretting everything. And stepping onto the stage, ignoring the calls and the laughs she turned to her opponent, looking up... And up, into the guttural fea...
2024-04-09 07:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostThere was an Atlas airship approaching.
This was expected. I had honestly been prepared for the worst possible timeline, but it seemed like Ozpin had been able to run interference or at least, a stay of execution. Even so, I was stressing out like crazy as I floated from one side of my off...
"Hmph. Again."
Jaune's newest teacher was a relentless man. He slammed the hunter through all manner of exercises, forcing him to take a heavy backpack filled with weights for example and begin jogging. And much later, other things as well. He would be expected to carry it when climbing, w...
"Morning Mrs. W."
"Morning ma'am."
"Morning Aunty Em!"
One after another, the various children woke up and came to the breakfast table, set outside on the lawn due to the unusually large number of people we had. Pyrrha Nikos with her new, red dragon wyrmling and wasn't th...
The more things changed, the more they stayed the same Salem mused to herself.
Centuries had passed and she was still in a tower, albeit of her own choice now. Her heart was cold, the sensation of humanity all but gone, in no small part due to her curse. It colored everything from her inte...
C'gorath burned with rage.
Talingarde had been an utter failure, the paladins and inquisitors of this place far more adept than he had imagined. His little spot for research had been discovered, his books and works plundered and he himself captured and brought in the most humiliating manne...
"Gentlemen. Ladies. Thank you all for coming."
I smiled, leaning back in my seat as Artemis Entreri stood by my side, shades on and quite at ease in the room of what would have certainly been a mass of criminals Toril and most spheres as a whole would happily mass-meteor struck if they kne...
There was a part of me that was already regretting the steps I had made to change this world. For the better, I told myself but really, just looking at my actions now spoke of a far greater struggle than any number of words. I liked power, a bit too much perhaps and nowhere was that more evident ...
2024-04-09 07:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostRoman Torchwick was a simple man, with simple wants. Namely, that of having people to rob blind, to become filthy rich and perhaps to be around to enjoy all of it? Oh, and Neo too of course, that went without saying. His little partner in crime might had been more fucked up than an entire hospita...
2024-04-09 06:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post"That's the last of em!"
The bullhead door was closed and slapped once, the air vehicle taking off and flying off into the skies. Off to the side, Yang observed their neighbor with a contemplative air. She knew what he... Or she really was, it was never a big deal even when the truth came ...
It was one thing to have a goal, another to immediately do it. Wizard though I was, even I had limits and I had much to do first. Money was no problem there thankfully, my hidden stores of plunder and petty cash safe right where I put it. Stored with Leomund's Secret Chest, out in the ethereal pl...
2024-04-09 06:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post"Esme?"
"Yes?" I ask, as we're led into the cavern by our escort party. The Drow are cautious, but after a messenger was sent, apparently, we were intriguing enough to actually be brought in. With my knowledge of the Drow, I could see various traps and a few ballistae set up, but my attent...
I was somewhat surprised by the reception. Then again, this had been my first time with a large, faunus group and it blew all my expectations out of the water. Not every faunus was White Fang or a sympathizer and mostly they were like anyone else. They wanted no trouble; they came as far out as t...
2024-04-09 06:49:33 +0000 UTC View PostI make the announcement a few days after Ruby and Yang are gone. I fix any final problems, tidy up my tower and set up my defenses. As far as anyone now knows, Dr. Rincewind left due to an emergency and his assistant, Nurse Weatherwax was just dealing with the aftermath. It goes more or less as e...
2024-04-09 06:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post"I did it!"
The cry of excitement broke the quiet of my tower like a thunderclap, a comparison not half wrong as rose petals scattered about my study and a Ruby Rose appeared. I lowered my books I was examining, curious as I regarded my sometime student. Out of both sisters, Ruby was the m...
That little meeting with Ruby changed everything.
Yang soon followed suit, her only reaction being to ask me if I pooped and then I found the courage to show myself to Taiyang. At first, he had been alarmed but seeing the utter lack of fear on the part of his girls, he had been embarrassed...
I loved to cook.
Well, I did, and it was something of a joke for Hannibal at the table as well, and with a calmer mind then I had for ages I started in on my preparations. My knife flashed, chopping up the cow brain I had cleaned and prepped into six chunks. Then taking the spices, I coate...
Taiyang Xiao Long was utterly terrifying. Oh, not in the way he could fight, I've seen and experienced worst. But rather in the sheer, relentless manner he earnestly tried to be friends with me despite everything I did to reject it. And what was worse was the fact he meant every moment of it, com...
2024-04-09 06:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostYang Xiao Long blinked.
Like she'd seen on tv, she began to rub her eyes and then peered outward again. Nope, it was still there. There was still a giant tower that hadn't been there before. That by itself would have been confusing all on its own, she'd hiked far enough that she would have ...
2024-04-09 06:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post