urban fantasy

A Pumpkaboo's Autumn Trick or Treat Party [Pokemon Halloween] One Jaunty Pot's Field I .~{ ` }~. As the sun sank, turning orange and red below the horizon, Mosz began to wake. First she seeped up the roots, filtering herself in from the soil. Filling out and saturating the vines...

Always Forward, Never Backwards! A White Fang Quest Kuo Kuana during the monsoon season is a miserable place to be. Great waves smash into the network of stilt houses, shantytowns and pre-Independence palatial manors that make up the capital of Mengarie, crushing the poorly constructed to...

Who wouldn't love effortless rewards? Forget the whole "enjoy the journey" spiel — how about scoring the "Alchemy of Atlas" through sheer luck, or landing Excalibur just for being on good terms with a top-tier waifu? Sounds like the perfect life, right? Well, almost. The only thing standing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4xsfkhcw-A January, 2004 -- Fuyuki, Japan A monster stirs, slowly reemerging from its years-long hibernation. Its last feast interrupted, tendrils of corruption reach to consume the innocent far ahead of schedule. The wise converge not to slay the beast or...

Amethyst colored eyes opened in obvious glee before the petite girl with four horns jumped out of her bed with uncharacteristic joyous face. "Panpakapan!~♪ Hero Aris has rested well!~♪ HP has fully recovered!~♪" So said the one who was in the body of the Head Prefect. Sorasaki Hina... no...

I punch Edward from behind and he barely notices the hit. He staggers for just a moment before he whirls around to face me and I see the Rage bubble inside him, his sclera turning golden as his beast tries to lash out. But even in his rage Edward was a born warrior and he leashed his rage from...

Spoilers for Lobotomy Corporation, Library of Ruina, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Most of them not right now, but they will come up. No dedicated knowledge of either setting is necessary to participate. The Library shook under the wrath of but one man. A crucible of the City's people, where...

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...

You had begun to give up hope on ever developing magic. Most people came to discover their magic when they were teenagers, around 15 or 16 years of age. That's how it was for your closest friend, that's how it was for your parents, and that's what all the websites online say it is. When your...

The last thing I remember was staring straight at the most terrifying thing I've ever seen, then immediately fainting. I then wake up and sigh with relief to find that it was all just a dream. Only to look ahead, find myself face to face with that very same monster, and learn that this freakin'...

Wingflaps Context: Honkai is evil space radiation that turns people into zombies. It also summons generic monsters sometimes. Sometimes there's a whole lot of Honkai Radiation that appears all at once called a Honkai Eruption. If you're resistant to the radiation, you can become a Valkyrie and...

Arcadia 2010 Danielle Burite - real last name Sharpe - has been summoned back home by her family. The Arcadian will have some explaining to do, and some of the answers for certain questions may not be allowed to be revealed. Part One Port Glacia hadn't changed. The capital of the United...

In the spirit of competition and as a way to get unstuck in my other works, I'm making a "traditional" magical girl Quest full of gags, violence, and all the things humanity loves :V Loading... ... ... Ready? Run! DNK Manufacture Presents: Ai Senshi ~ A Maiden's Heart Is Unbreakable You...

Because I'm the one who gets stuck with the serial killer, aren't I? …Okay, guess I should back up. Long story short, short-ish anyway, I go by Vera Norin, well down here I do. I'm one of the three owners, okay, one of the only three employees of Wyrd Sisters Inc in Stockholm. Says a lot that...

For a brief moment the sound of dripping water was the only noise in the small New York apartment. A one bedroom walkup near Borough Park. But then, like any other night, the quiet moment was swept away by engine noises, and the rattle of a train going by outside. Sasha wiped condensation from...

Settling 1.01 It had been all of seventeen hours since I had landed in Earth Bet, and already I was at the PRT headquarters. 'Adam why?' You may ask, head hung low with my lack of moral flexibility, uncomprehending as to why I would decide not to use my Mc Awesome powers I got I that CYOA I...

Settling 1.01 It had been all of seventeen hours since I had landed in Earth Bet, and already I was at the PRT headquarters. 'Adam why?' You may ask, head hung low with my lack of moral flexibility, uncomprehending as to why I would decide not to use my Mc Awesome powers I got I that CYOA I did...

For three hundred years your people have toiled under the yoke of colonial oppression and corruption but with your colonizers defeat in the great war and the successful revolution of your people, you have been given a seat in the table of victors. While your position was indeed only symbolic and...

AN: Crossposted from SB (Alphard) September 1, 1981. Saturday Morning Steve Harrington woke up to a gentle warmth suffusing his body, a sensation that was both comforting and bewildering. Sunlight streamed through the curtains of his room, casting a golden hue over the familiar surroundings...

John's sour mood had been steadily getting worse for a month, and it looked like it wasn't about to get better any time soon. Each morning, he woke up to a nagging cow of a wife, dragging him out of his blessed four hours of sleep. The kids would already be up, screaming and charging around the...

Chapter 1 The walk to class that day was just like any other. Four blocks to the bus stop, ride seven stops, cross the public park, then two more blocks straight, turn left at the coffee shop and keep going for another three. I was familiar enough with the path to walk it in my sleep, which was...

So, uh, you know how I said I wasn't gonna write any more CF fics? I wasn't lying but I was wrong. Whoops? I didn't quite expect this to be a Peggy Sue when I had the idea originally, but hey, it works, and I get to experiment with writing someone with a metaknowledge roadmap, kinda, in a way...

Okay, so... First thing's first: Welcome, one and all, to this (probably-a-bad-)idea that spawned from the depths of my mind a few years ago, and has since refused to leave said depths. (help me) This is something of an experiment (kind-of sort-of not-really); there will be no dice-rolling in...

Welcome to Art of the Veil! (I'm new to posting here, I hope I'm not making a mess with chapters and threadmarks) IMPORTANT: If you like figuring out the setting as you read, you should skip this chapter. You absolutely don't need to read this to follow the story! The magic system will be...

Call me Kathy. This is my journal. I'm going through a lot right now, so it's hard to get my thoughts in order. I'll just type them up and you can try to get them in order for yourself. So, first thing. My journal is online for a couple reasons. One, I can read and write entries from any old...