Finding John Constantine was a lot easier said than done, I discovered, because after two weeks, there was nothing from Zatanna about him. We didn't even know if he was still alive or not, and if he was, then the impression that I got was that he ...
2022-07-28 14:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostHe was simply unreal, Ciri thought to herself, and not for the first time either. It wasn't the first time she thought it through a very long night, as every monster in a ten league radius was drawn right to them -- drowners, ghouls, a water bag, ...
2022-07-26 14:37:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Pweh?!” Puck sputtered, feeling...something wash over him. It was like the ocean waves, it started off gently, then, before he knew it, the top of a wave came crashing down and dragged him underneath the surface. His skin felt all tingly and ...
2022-07-26 14:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post“What happened to the last owner of the farm?” Havi asked as we entered the border of my farmstead. It was a bit of a mixed bunch, I found. There was some flatland near the river that flowed east towards Alabu, my farmstead located further wes...
2022-07-26 14:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a certain kind of indescribable terror that comes with watching a son charge the enemy with nothing even resembling fear. Eivor charged alone, driven forward by only the gods knew what while the rest of the men formed a shield wall with hi...
2022-07-26 14:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” I cursed, falling to the ground and landing on the soft grass and dirt, my legs giving out from underneath me. There were more than a few laughs at my expense, Father's loudest among them all. Using my axe and shield, I pushed myself u...
2022-07-26 14:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe pace of change was a fickle thing, I learned. It can crash over you like a tidal wave, sweeping you out to sea. Yet, other times, it was slow. Gradual. Glacial. Change was something that you couldn't run from. You couldn't hide from it either....
2022-07-26 14:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a certain kind of indescribable terror that comes with watching a son charge the enemy with nothing even resembling fear. Eivor charged alone, driven forward by only the gods knew what while the rest of the men formed a shield wall with hi...
2022-07-06 14:49:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” I cursed, falling to the ground and landing on the soft grass and dirt, my legs giving out from underneath me. There were more than a few laughs at my expense, Father's loudest among them all. Using my axe and shield, I pushed myself u...
2022-07-06 14:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe pace of change was a fickle thing, I learned. It can crash over you like a tidal wave, sweeping you out to sea. Yet, other times, it was slow. Gradual. Glacial. Like the slow encroaching of a glacier. Change was something that you couldn't run...
2022-07-06 14:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostAnother two years passed without incident, making me twelve years old. Everything returned back to normal after my visit to the Wise Woman. Mother had just embraced me when I returned, and Father had told her what had been said. She had said that ...
2022-07-06 14:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no way that Ada'la could get mad at me for this fight. I didn't start it. Well, I suppose that wasn't true -- I did show up at his completely ineffective prison unannounced, but he was the one that threw the first punch and blatantly ign...
2022-07-04 14:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post"We're not teleporting in?" Kara asked, using her X-Ray vision to sweep through the interior of the ship to see that it was well put together, if very different from the ships she knew on Krypton. Like all members of the house of El, she was raise...
2022-07-04 14:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostI breathed in deeply, holding the air in my lungs, before letting it out slowly after a long minute. Only once my lungs were empty to the point it felt like they were going to collapse did I repeat the process -- taking in a long slow breath, hold...
2022-07-04 14:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe power that surged through me wasn’t an explosion of strength like what I associated with the Wrath State or Super Saiyan transformations. My ki didn’t multiply several fold, granting me impossible strength and speed. It didn’t feel like ...
2022-07-04 14:57:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a pirate fleet brewing in the oceans. Admiral Zhao heard about it in low rumblings and rumors to start with. A prison barge had been intercepted by the Fire Nation defense fleet and while he hadn’t seen it for himself, what he heard wa...
2022-07-02 14:52:51 +0000 UTC View PostNobara was really getting worried about Majima and she wasn't really sure what to do about it. Rin gave her the lowdown – Majima had spoken to King Bumi and Iroh and while Majima got what he wanted, in the days since, a foul mood had taken hold ...
2022-07-02 14:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post"Your first deadly challenge shall be… to beat me in a game of Pai Sho," The King of Omashu declared after a dramatic pause that made everyone else in the room tense. I waited a moment, vaguely familiar with the game on account that Iroh had als...
2022-07-02 14:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostIn a perfect world, we would have a grand fleet of nine ships and freed a total of a thousand prisoners. We wouldn't have taken any losses either. But, my entire existence was a testament that we didn't live in a perfect world. Freeing a thousand ...
2022-07-02 14:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” I cursed, falling to the ground and landing on the soft grass and dirt, my legs giving out from underneath me. There were more than a few laughs at my expense, Father's loudest among them all. Using my axe and shield, I pushed myself u...
2022-06-29 14:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe pace of change was a fickle thing, I learned. It can crash over you like a tidal wave, sweeping you out to sea. Yet, other times, it was slow. Gradual. Glacial. Like the slow encroaching of a glacier. Change was something that you couldn't run...
2022-06-29 14:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostAnother two years passed without incident, making me twelve years old. Everything returned back to normal after my visit to the Wise Woman. Mother had just embraced me when I returned, and Father had told her what had been said. She had said that ...
2022-06-29 14:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostJason Todd looked at me like he barely recognized me, his gaze sweeping over my attire. I cocked an eyebrow right back at him, taking in his ratty red hoodie and cargo shorts. "What are you wearing?" He asked me bluntly, sounding actually disquiet...
2022-06-29 14:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe had to get the helmet off of Zatanna. Whether he intended it or not, Dr. Fate took Zatanna, my girlfriend, hostage. He was using her as a goddamn meat puppet that he was going to make us fight so he couldn’t enslave a child for the rest of hi...
2022-06-28 15:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post"We're not teleporting in?" Kara asked, using her X-Ray vision to sweep through the interior of the ship to see that it was well put together, if very different from the ships she knew on Krypton. Like all members of the house of El, she was raise...
2022-06-27 14:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostI breathed in deeply, holding the air in my lungs, before letting it out slowly after a long minute. Only once my lungs were empty to the point it felt like they were going to collapse did I repeat the process -- taking in a long slow breath, hold...
2022-06-27 14:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe power that surged through me wasn’t an explosion of strength like what I associated with the Wrath State or Super Saiyan transformations. My ki didn’t multiply several fold, granting me impossible strength and speed. It didn’t feel like ...
2022-06-27 14:27:27 +0000 UTC View PostEven as I absorbed the power into myself, I could already feel it fading. Much like a flickering candle in the wind that slowly ran out of wick to burn, but it remained lit with stubborn defiance. With my expanded senses and the ability to feel th...
2022-06-27 14:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostNobara was really getting worried about Majima and she wasn't really sure what to do about it. Rin gave her the lowdown – Majima had spoken to King Bumi and Iroh and while Majima got what he wanted, in the days since, a foul mood had taken hold ...
2022-06-25 14:31:36 +0000 UTC View Post"Your first deadly challenge shall be… to beat me in a game of Pai Sho," The King of Omashu declared after a dramatic pause that made everyone else in the room tense. I waited a moment, vaguely familiar with the game on account that Iroh had als...
2022-06-25 14:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post