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Arrival 1.1 I woke up falling from several thousand feet in the air and on fire. That was a new one. Adrenaline surged and I jerked out of my stupor in a flailing tangle of limbs. My mind raced as I desperately tried to understand what was going on, how I had wound up like this, and most...

Hiccup groaned, sliding into a chair as his exhaustion finally set in. "How in Thor's name did dad handle this job? I swear, Loki must have invaded the minds of everyone on this island!" He grunted, barely lifting his hand before something cold, damp and rectangular was placed in it. "Thanks...

Magic Gloves are not for Luna Throughout the ages, many heroes sought to end a darkness, for there was always some would-be tyrant to put down. From Arthur and Mordred, to Albus and Gellert, a hero and villain rose together. To aid them in their duels, these heroes sought out the Potters, a...

Chapter 1: Horizon Human lands meant death. The supposed truism echoed in the Gardevoir's mind as she woke up from the haze of unconsciousness, one discarded dream and half-formed thought at a time. She wasn't sure how much she'd slept—or how restful the sleep she had clawed out had been—but...

What is Timeslip? To put it simply, it's a slow burn AU fanfic about Professor Sada and Turo from the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games, that changes a singular but drastic thing about them and is now having fun exploring all the possible ramifications of it. And feels. Lots of feels. And time...

We diverge from the NGE timeline in Episode 15 Kisses: One Spectacular Failure, One Spectacular Success (not posted here because they are still underage, you don't need to read it but you might want to) which results in Hikari and Asuka dating. After the Third Impact, Asuka and Hikari are...

None Deserve to Starve In a world as advanced as that of Cyberpunk, who knew that starvation was still a thing. That it even could be a thing, That was the reality that he woke up to as he curled up in his own little corner of Night City. There, under the harsh neon lights of tall futuristic...

Prologue There was something to be said about graveyards. They were horribly sad and melancholic. If the wind blew the right way, the smell of candlesticks burning and of fresh grave-flowers would fill someone's nostrils with the cloyingly sweet scent that could make someone regret a...

It is a placid day/night cycle. The vastness of space cannot be bzzt. unconsidered. Unconsidered? Undenied? bzzt. Denied. Access Denied. Insert Username and Password. Wrong Username and Password. Do you wish to reset your username and/or password? "Please work-" audio feeds capture...

Prologue It was the baggage handler. Nobody would ever link it to him. Nobody would ever know that the source of all that would happen...would be the fault of a baggage handler. A Faunus, one of the low, mistreated workers that eked a living out of carrying baggage through the freezing...

Cover By Fragnostic. Prologue A ripple. A pebble. A butterfly who fluttered to the right and not the left. Choices define who we are, when we are confronted with choices, the options we pick determine our destiny. Sometimes, we make the choices ourselves. Sometimes, they are thrust...

Fate/Kaleid Ouroboros - Prologue Time is a river. It is a river, because you can never step twice into it. It is impossible to do so. Time proceeds in one direction, and one direction alone. To accelerate the flow of time to its utmost limit, and reach the very edge of the end of the...

A Heart of Ice and Coffee - Prologue They say nothing is colder than ice. I have, unfortunately, discovered that it isn't true. A lot of things are colder than ice. Atlas in the middle of winter, for example, could be colder than the ice that covered it. My father's office was another; and...

The Idea You are going to be in charge of deciding the everyday activities of a D&D 5E mercenary company, from its birth as a ragtag group of adventurers to its inevitable rise as either the army the world needs to fight off the great big bad, or as the army of said big bad. Or anything in...

Umbrus Shade, The Incredibly Annoyed Ravenclaw [Harry Potter/SI] Prologue It all began with a dark room, a hooting owl, and a letter in front of me. The room had no features I could parse. The owl was motley brown. The letter looked handwritten in a really difficult cursive. My room was...

Prologue The water of the river was cold. The wooden bucket dripped precious drops of the water on the ground. My arms strained from the effort of holding on to the weight, my inwards feeling about the lack of a village well doing nothing to aid me in the task ahead of me. The bucket creaked...

Numenera Quest. I Swear I did not Touch the Yellow Button. Also Known As The Apocalypse is Totally Not My Fault Character Sheet: You are an (Adjective) (Noun) who (Verbs). In order to expedite things along, the first character will be generated most democratically in the most democratic of...

Prologue "Looking Back on High School Life" by Hikigaya Hachiman, section 2-F Society is but a lie, an evil. Those enthralled by it are constantly deceiving both themselves and those around them. They immerse themselves within the crowd of sheep, and wallow in the affirmation of their work...

Prologue Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you ashes. The smell of burning wood filled my nostrils, pushing through my lungs as I breathed it in deeply. This wasn't a barbecue; there was no meat burning on the grill. The crackling of the flames was near enough that I...

Welcome to Anime, Try Avoiding Cliché Take Two (Development Hell Is Real in the Anime Industry!) Welcome Junior Narrators and Lead Designers! Welcome to a new Shadenight123 Studio Production that definitely won't be halted after barely a couple of hours! (right, yeah, let's just say the...

Prologue - Chapter One/Two/Three If you could save anyone, but only once, who would you save? If, after having saved them, they were to die again, what would you say? Would you believe yourself cheated? Would you think fate an unending, eternal chain of obligations without leeway? At the...

Prologue The huffing and puffing of the train sped across a misty pallor of light blue and cerulean, the velvet omnipresent in a carriage tinted of the same blue colors as the outside. Blue was the color of tranquility and peace, of calmness and ease. The train huffed and puffed, running along...

Prologue Sleep was nice. The waters were still. The ripples on the sea surface null and void. It was a pleasant place. The warmth of the air blew on my skin, and a smile formed on my lips as I let the currents gingerly guide me. My teeth gritted, and my eyebrows scrunched up slightly, though I...

Prologue My teeth were chattering. I was thumping my feet against what felt like wood in an effort to shake my legs and keep them awake. This was worthy of hypothermia. Since when did my room turn into a frigging fridge? Did someone douse me in cold water? Was that it? Was the sound of...

Prologue - (Fuuka) People change. People change all the time. The man you knew a month ago might, in the month that follows, become a completely different person. When the laws of time and space are slippery as lube and as easy to twist as the act of twitching your fingertips, then it might...