urban fantasy

Ever since you were a young child you had the ability to control the elements themselves. You know not from where this power comes from, or even if you had inherited it from your parents, since as far as you are aware your biological parents are dead. You ended up hopping from foster family to...

It happens again, just like it has for more days than you can remember. As it feels like it has for every night for a year or more. Your dreams are filled with fleeting images that can't possibly be real. People of varying ages, in varying time periods, transforming violently with muscle spasms...

The date is July 1, 1940 and a war on a scale not seen in modern history is beginning to unfold across the world. For centuries, the magi of the Sea of Estray have looked upon the Association with jealousy and hatred for usurping the role of governing magical studies that has belonged to them...

"I love these walks with you, don't you, James?" A bubbly voice says from beside you, and you force a smile on your face to reassure her. 'These need to stop...' "Of course, I love spending time with you." You lie through your teeth. Amelia's your little sister, and a part of you wouldn't...

Prologue/Pilot Like many dates in Kuoh Town, the final destination was the Kuoh Park known for its gardens and sculptures, as well the various events from park musicians to food festivals. Yet today there was no such even taking place and only by Yuuma Amano’s insistence that Issei Hyoudou...

AN: Well this is a story that's been on Hiatus for a while. I'm posting it here to see if I can get the inspiration to boot it up again and continue for the last five or six chapters required to complete it. For those of you who don't know, this is crossed over with Demon's Souls, not Dark...

Even in this modern world it seems that Adventuring has never gone out of style. Fact is that these gates to other worlds known as Dungeons continue to appear and disappear time to time. Even as bows are switched with guns and palantirs replaced by cellphones Dungeons have been a part of life...

You are Adam. Not someone named Adam. You are the Adam. The first man as told by genesis. You have had failings, the worst being your failure as a father and husband. You loved Lilith but you desire to protect her drove her from you and into the hand of Samael and from them came the Devils...

It wasn’t a good day for a funeral. A dry cough interrupted the soft murmurs of the crowd around her. She lifted her gaze to look at the priest, taking in the haggard lines around his face, the shaking of his arthritic limbs as he shuffled his way to the podium that had been placed there and...

You wake up slowly, eyes blinking out the hazy dreams and their non-sense as the loud buzzing of your accursed alarm clock fill your ears. Your curses are muffled by your deliciously soft pillow as your arms flails about to smack the off button. When your hand and fingers fail to touch the hard...

Nothing serious just for the hell of it. Humans were a bad enemy to fight - which also made them a good enemy, for orks made little distinction between the two concepts. No matter how many humans were killed, there were always more to take their place, shiploads of them brimming with a...

I noticed SV doesn't a thread for Buffy & Angel related talkies so I made one! It should be obvious that we'd use this thread to recommend interesting fanfics, just discuss the intricacies of the Buffy-verse and talk about why the Watcher's Council are such ginormous dicks. First topic: Who...

Sooooooooooooo there's no thread on Shadowrun, arguable the most influential sci-fi franchise in the world, so I decided to make one! This will be the place to talk about all things Shadowrun, from the tabletop games to the new PC games and what have you. To kick this off: HOLY SHIT SHADOWRUN...

Didn't find one, so decided to start one with a relatively old idea I posted on SB (plus some modifications) after seeing this SM fanart and watching Bubblegum Crisis (and pictures of contrasts of Japanese Shrines and graveyards located practically next door to fancy new skyscrapers)...

. . . but the honest traveler is wary, even in well-lit and populous places, for there are hungry things that stalk the streets at night in search of good and honest men. Not just vampires and were-creatures, but the Mists that have warped them, made them, are a much greater danger to the...

WELCOME, SIR, TO THE ARCHIVES. I AM UNIT GEORGIA, YOUR ALL PURPOSE DATA RETRIEVAL AND ARCHIVAL AI. WHAT SHALL YOU BE LOOKING UP TODAY? _ _ _ _ VERY GOOD SIR, RETRIEVING DATA 'END LOG 11' BY JONATHAN ALPHONS Hello. My name is Jonathan Alphons. I am, for lack of a better word, a...

(Or would modern fantasy be an appropriate name?) I'm not talking about urban fantasy here (real life only that legends and myths were real, hidden all along, yadda yadda), but about how your typical medieval high fantasy would look like in its own contemporary era. For this new period, a...

Your name is Samantha Mieville, and you are a mage of the hermetic order. Like most children in 21st century Britain, you spent your childhood reading Harry Potter, you never really thought it would happen to you, but you always dreamed it would. That didn't make it less surprising when it...

You walk into town with dust on your boots, your jeans, and your shirt. Your hat, such as it is, is clutched desperately in one hand. You're ignored by the people walking back and forth between buildings, but the few leaning against walls in the deep shade take notice. They glance you up and...

I was born with a strange gift. The ability to see what no human being had ever seen before. It’s all mixed up in my head… The images, the sounds, the smells. I need to remember. Remember who I am. I need to put things in order, right up to this moment. If I had to say how it all...

Wizardry ho!

Index of the SB-era threads... The Forgotten Sixth The Fifth Timeline The Fourth Episode The Third GRIMDARK The Second Season The First Thread The Snippet Index

Brockton Bay. A slowly rotting, fog-wreathed city in a decaying world where things lurk in the shadows. And that's what I thought it was even before my powers opened my eyes. I wish I could ignore what I see. I wish I could forget. I wish I could escape. But I can't. The Other Place is always...

Scraped from here. THIS IS THE ARCHIVE. PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THE ARCHIVEPROLOGUE - Enter the dreams: 1, 2, 3, 4,First Phase - The boy who ran though Dreams: 5, 6, 7,OmakeOmake List: Grouped By Author. (Thanks to LightMage)Kinglugia's Omake: DarkSouls!Tsukune and Andre. In Youkai...

Scraped from here. PROLOGUE - Enter the dreams: 1, 2, 3, 4First Phase - The boy who ran though Dreams: 5, 6, 7,ARCHIVE AND CHARACTER SHEETHe awakes... and there are drums in the distance and they speak to him.“Young boy. Your destiny awaits for you to come.Young boy, Your fire will scorch the...