A part of me had changed, that I was sure of now, at the end of another’s life, I felt nothing, just relief, just satisfaction.
My father and I stood together at the ministry's entrance, hi...
2025-11-10 20:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostAzula was not happy.
As she lazed about in the warm afternoon sun, her eyes half closed, her chin cocked back as she let her head rest on a pillow, resting after her morning training, she was...
2025-11-01 00:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Given the feedback from the first poll and how both options as they stand are currently close enough in totals to not give the clearest answer I'm releasing this updated poll giving a...
2025-10-29 20:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! We're at the end of the First Arc of A Student of Black Magic finishing so I figure I would do a poll here asking how far ahead people would like for the Time Skip to be.
As I curren...
2025-10-29 04:42:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy limbs tingled unpleasantly as I woke the next day, the lingering effects from the cruciatus curse showing their effect.
I gingerly got out of the hospital bed, feeling a tingle across my t...
2025-10-27 04:05:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Ares, are you all right?” Neville’s voice interrupted my thoughts with all the grace of a boulder thrown into a puddle.
I looked away from the window of the common room, blinking rapid...
2025-10-12 22:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe returning students swept into the castle like locusts a day before Classes were to begin again, leaving me to deal with two things at once.
Catching up with Hermione and Neville and track...
2025-09-30 02:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! I'm posting this poll to see what final chapter people would like for this month, I'll probably just leave it open for the rest of today.
2025-09-22 16:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post“I really don’t know if you should have given me your sweater,” Iris said softly as she lay curled up on the common room couch.
Despite her words, the girl had shrunken entirely within ...
2025-09-21 20:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostYue had listened quietly through my entire explanation, not saying a single word as I explained my story.
The only indication that she was internalizing my words was the occasional shaking of...
2025-09-13 19:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostDefense Against the Dark Arts for all the time that I spent in the class, had yielded little reward.
Professor Quirrell would stutter through his lessons so badly at times that he was almost ...
2025-08-31 02:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostNight had fallen, and so had the mist that clouded my perceptions once again.
I was once again in the room I had been given to sleep in, and I found myself uncomfortable, not because of my cr...
2025-08-14 20:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up after the midnight astronomy lesson wasn’t pleasant by any sense of the word, but I still managed to roll out of bed with reasonable alacrity.
The day of our first flying lesson h...
2025-08-09 22:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostFrom this distance, the Foggy Swamp looked like a great cloud of mist taking up the entirety of the coastline, with only the faint traces of branches and leaves peaking out from the mist to give a ...
2025-08-06 03:47:58 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was he doing?
James stood uncertainly in front of Ana’s door.
There was no reason to be acting this way; there was no reason to be hesitating.
Except for the fact that he k...
2025-08-01 02:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostI startled awake in an entirely too soft bed, the opposite of my own at the orphanage, shooting up, taking deep, gasping breaths that ripped through my lungs. My body instinctively reached fight or...
2025-07-29 03:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a bad idea.
Yue’s hot, wet lips pressed against mine, salty from her tears, and I would have liked nothing better than to respond, yet I couldn’t shake the knowledge that this wa...
2025-07-20 21:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post“And redirect,” I said sharply, letting a wave of water split around me in a cascading flow that crashed down onto the ice. I spun just as Master Pakku had demonstrated earlier to me as I direc...
2025-07-20 01:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy fire bending was coming easier to me.
It was that notion that disturbed my thoughts as I practiced my sword forms across the ice of the training grounds. My body swept in rapid motions, jo...
2025-07-20 01:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe chill throughout the North Pole was pervasive. I understood now why it was exactly that Fire benders, even before the war, did not travel here often. More than the cold, the chi of the place wa...
2025-07-20 01:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostFirebending came from the breath.
That at least had always been clear to me.
Was it innate knowledge? Something else? The niggling strange thoughts at the back of my mind that never tru...
2025-07-20 01:40:50 +0000 UTC View PostMagic came from the Soul.
If there was much that I was sure of in this world, it was this: it was not knowledge gained from study, or information obtained from experience of prior life.
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A lazy dinner followed by more research was the course for James’s evening until the knock on his door came.
He groaned rising from his bed idly scratching his stomach as he walked to the d...
2025-06-30 03:55:42 +0000 UTC View Post“That’ll be $5.25,” the woman manning the ice cream stand said, smiling the plastic smile of customer service.
James tapped a phone on the kiosk and took his cone from the woman, contem...
2025-06-01 04:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostA full month had passed since the incident, which James took as a sign that there wasn’t going to be a sniper bullet attempting to lodge in his head for now, though a part of him wondered if such...
2025-04-29 15:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time James heard the voices, he believed he was going insane.
This class is so-
Did I bomb that-
Damn she’ got a nice-
It was a deluge...
2025-04-01 02:19:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, if you're reading this, you likely have an idea why you're here. Dirty Doug is focused on creating not only pieces of fanfiction but
Hi all, if you're reading this, you likely have an...
2025-03-31 20:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post