KnightofTempest

Interlude: King's Landing (The Flame)

Bronn and his Brute Squad headed through the sewers, accompanied by thirty, hand-picked, men from all of the gangs that owed him fealty. All were equipped in Runic Arsenal Steel, while Bronn had even donned his brace of pistols. Whatever Lord Stark and Lord Stannis had planned, it had gone completely tits up. The Lannister Guards and Gold Cloaks were swarming through the City looking for Stark ...

Chapter 11

I woke up Monday and realized I didn't have to be at Class this early in the morning thanks to my new schedule. Instead, I focused on training. The first order of business today would be to learn the Sonorus Charm for potential modification according to the principles laid out in the Principia Arcana. That, in turn, required a trip to the library as the Charm wasn't a part of the First Year Cu...

Interlude: The Battle of Dunalban

Colonel Lani Wetere wasn't too certain about this. She and Eighth Guards had been pulled off the line to support John Davies and Ninth Guards in taking the former Planetary Capital of Dunalban. They were expecting light resistance, militia, and armed police, but Colonel Wetere had a bad feeling about this in the pit of her stomach. She'd voiced that a number of times only for Colonel Davies to ...

Chapter 72

I kept driving through the night, the desert around Sunnydale giving way to plains, then mountains, before turning back into desert as I passed into the Sonoran and then the Chihuahuan Deserts. I drove for fifteen hours, hitting traffic near LA and again near Phoenix. At the end of that stretch of time, I pulled into Albuquerque in New Mexico for the night. I stayed in a Motel that was remarkab...

Chapter 68

Target One was an underground hidden in a cliffside behind the Akaoni Falls. The Legend, or so it went was that back in the early days of the Warring Clans Era, a Crimson Oni fleeing the collapse of the Obsidian Empress' Realm took up residence on the lake at the top of the cliffs and began extracting tribute from nearby towns until defeated by Fuuma Kotaro, the Progenitor of the Fuuma Clan. Th...

Announcement

So, since my aunt and cousin are in town from Florida this weekend, Chapters are gonna be a bit slow till they leave.

Apologies for any delays this sudden outbreak of family stuff causes. I will still work on chapters, it will just be at a bit of a slower pace.

Chapter 10

It was Sunday and I had absolutely no responsibilities. No looming duels, no extracurricular lessons to give, no classes of my own, nothing. It was the first time I could have said that since I arrived at Hogwarts. I planned to spend the majority of the day training and performing a bit of experimentation with potions. As it turned out, there were a few potions of fairly low complexity in the C...

Interlude: King's Landing (The Spark)

King's Landing was a rowdy place at the best of times, smelling of shite and overcrowded. Unlike the Free Cities, where Urban Planning had taken into account potential expansion, a holdover from the days of Old Valyria, King's Landing had never been intended to hold this many people at once. It was why every Free City comfortably housed over a million people while King's Landing felt crowded an...

Chapter 29

It turned out that just getting into Belgrade required more than just UN Security Clearance. Diplomacy had to be involved, especially given Serbia's recent spate of ethnic cleansing and the whole break they've had with the international community over it. Thor and I were both in favor of just showing up and daring them to do something about it, but Cap and Doctor Strange wanted to do this prope...

Interlude: Battle of Lancardin

General Arne Jorgensen watched from his command post as the various Colonels and troops got into position around the town of Lancardin. The town was smaller than Ciji, but still very much larger than most of the towns on this ball of mud and rivers that people called a planet. Thanks to being in the Dadaocheng Foothills, it could support a lot more people than much of the rest of the area of th...

Chapter 71

The first two weeks of May went by as normal for me up until the second Sunday. I trained mostly, picking up Prismatic Spray, Shadow Walk, and continuing work on training my Sonomantic Magic to affect emotions and bolster allies. Chi-Wise, I managed to get the Denjin Hadouken down, a chargeable version of the regular Hadouken, though with only a single week of training, I was only able to get i...

Chapter 9

I woke up at my usual time, showered, and dressed, before heading to the Great Hall to snag a bit of eggs on toast and some tea. I had until three in the afternoon to do whatever I wanted before I had to make my way to Potion's Club. A full six hours to do whatever I pleased. I chose to train more with Occlumency and Leglimency as well as attempt the exercises to slow my perception of time and ...

Chapter 67

It was a six-day trip to Target One, primarily through friendly territory before we spent the last day and a half of travel in Rice Country. During that time, I got to know a few more members of Platoon Saisu, one of three in Lance Company, not counting the Command Squad of eight shinobi plus Hagane-Sensei, which moved between platoons. At eighty people per platoon, I was never going to get to ...

Interlude: Elsewhere on Olympus (Day One)

Zeus was concerned. The King of Olympus had returned from battle with Ares and Circe last night practically ensconced in a litter. His son and the Goddess of the Dark Arts had somehow managed to convince Dionysos to quit the field of battle and with Dionysos having withdrawn from the Conflict, Pan was also close to withdrawing. If Pan withdrew, the Satyr Militia that Zeus had been bolstering th...

Chapter 15

Shi Hou and evening Rabbit made their way south along the Eastern Bank of the Grey River for six days, traversing the steppelands and then marshlands that ran from Nexus down to Onehill, a small town of perhaps fifteen thousand people. Onehill was named as such because it sat on the slopes of a single, large, hill that jutted out of the marshlands south of the Nexus Steppe. A well-constructed, ...

Chapter 70

April was lighter on the Whirlwind Plots than March had been, allowing me to delve further into training than I had before. With my full attention given to training and my various training tools multiplying the effectiveness of that training, my capabilities grew even further over the course of April. I wasn't exactly a Ninth Circle Badass or a Grandmaster Chi Adept, but I was closing in on tho...

Chapter 46

As the fall campaign season opened, I gathered my army to me. There were no speeches this time, no grand whipping up of the troops into a frenzy. I didn't have anything to whip them up with, as this was a pure land grab on the part of my allies and I. I think the men knew that, but they honestly didn't care so much as long as I could bring them another victory. Morale was high simply because th...

Chapter 88

We sailed two weeks out from King's Landing to get to Bloodstone. Calm Seas bereft of pirates meant that the trip was fairly uneventful. We of course had to drop off Ser Loras, Ser Roger, and Saalhador Saan, while Jalhabar Xho was taking a refit Swan Ship back to Red Flower Vale from Bloodstone Port. Honestly, by the time we got back to Bloodstone Port and finished off-loading everything, I was...

Chapter 8

Friday morning I woke up, showered, and dressed as normal, then headed nipped down to the Great Hall for breakfast with just a half an hour to spare till they stopped serving food. The fact that Potions was a late afternoon class that began at three and went until six helped with that. Surprisingly, I wasn't the only one taking advantage of that fact. Over at the Gryffindor Table, Harry Potter ...

Chapter 38

The Area around Dadaocheng was a Grassy Plateau. The Dao Sing Plains jutted up from the Dao Sing Highlands that surrounded them, itself a relatively dry patch of land amidst the everpresent wetlands that seemed to form the bulk of the landmass of Oberon Six. Much of the area of the Plain was given over to agriculture, though the Highlands themselves were dotted with various mining sites, all of...

Chapter 17

Five and a half hours. That's how long it took the Wolfporpoise to sail from Woncheon to Gimi Port. Unfortunately, as a Panokseon, even with all their capabilities, the Tamna Island could still get only around ten and a half knots out of the ship. It wasn't even that far to travel, a few dozen nautical miles, about the distance from Icewater Port to Cipya Harbor, the main shi...

Chapter 28

Avenger's Mansion was just as swanky as I thought it would be. You wouldn't know it to look at it, with the twelve-foot high fence of solid Omnium Steel that separated Fifth Avenue in New York City from the Mansion Grounds. Fortunately, getting in wasn't an issue if you were invited. All I had to do was ring the buzzer and stand still for a facial recognition scan that was better than anything ...

Chapter 8

The first hint that Jackie'd gotten that the Rebel Demigods'd shown up was the door to the Warehouse being burned up, apparently, using his own goddamned Dragonfire pills. The wooden door was shut and barred one moment, then on fire the next thanks to the familiar-feeling flames. Maurice's Guys shifted at that as the weakened door then exploded offa its hinges. Almost immediately, a buncha Lion...

Poll for a Public Release

I'm thinking of posting some of the chapters to Of Fate and Luck to SB in an attempt to get more eyes on the story.

I know I said it'd be exclusive, so I'm asking if you all would be ok with that?

To clarify, everyone here would still have access to every chapter with no change of membership or anything. Spacebattles would be permanently a chapter behind here just like with my othe...

Chapter 69

I slept the sleep of the dead for the next two days, only waking up to eat or go to the bathroom. I was woken up by Cordy sometime Friday evening of the first week of March so Amy could shove a Potion of Health into my hands. Apparently, she, Sheila, and Xander had one left each that hadn't been used during the Oxnard Operation. I didn't question it when I was told to drink up, I just did, all ...

Chapter 7

The next morning, I was groggily awoken by my alarm clock blaring and demanding I wake up after only five and a half hours of sleep. I showered, changed, and headed straight for History of Magic, after informing Terence that I was spending my current stock of Silver Points on reserving a ritual chamber for the night tonight. He looked over at me to ask if I was sure I wouldn't rather sleep inst...

Chapter 66

Briefing Room Four was an auditorium situation in one of the buildings adjacent to the Hokage Tower, not in the tower itself, but in the same administrative complex. I arrived there and found myself the first of my team to arrive, though not the first of my age group. Neji and Shino were already there, as was Lee. Lee waved me over, only for Neji to grimace. I shrugged and pointed out that Neji...

A Note on Various Worlds Part I

Some of you may have noticed a theme going on with various regiments and worlds in terms of cultural things. Here I am going to be explaining some of the stuff that hasn't been outright stated about certain worlds that I am using in this fic, where Canon is ambiguous or silent.

Koskenkorva: Settled by Greek Immigrants, Koskenkorva had a society that was heavily inspired b...

Interlude: Other Battles on Titania and Puck

Colonel Tomas Kadlec had a fairly easy time of things, all things considered. The fighting on Blackstone had Savaged his Regiment, so he'd been sent to deal with the base that housed the Enemy Regiment that was least likely to put up much of a fight before surrendering. The Ichmandu Guards hadn't had to deal with anything more pressing than the odd Pirate Raid, as their world was situated in th...

Chapter 6

Today was one of two days that we had two classes, though our second class wasn't until nighttime, owing to the subject matter being Astronomy. Our first class of the day was Double Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, while Astronomy would be combined with all forty-three first-year students in the Astronomy Tower. I wasn't sure how forty-three kids, plus telescopes and a teacher would fit in a sin...