KnightofTempest

Chapter 12

They ran for a while, taking the twists and turns of the tunnels seemingly at random, doubling back around a number of times, and just generally attempting to lose their attacker. By the time that Shi Hou and Evening Rabbit stopped to recover essence and attempt to heal damage, they had managed to lose their pursuit, though now they found themselves hopelessly lost in the ancient tunnels of the...

Chapter 44

The day of the Wedding began with the Proteleia, a sacrifice to the gods to bless the impending marriage. I had arranged for twelve cockerels, twelve goats, and twelve fattened calves to be the sacrifices here with the help of Antiokos. Each god would get three animals sacrificed in their name in the hopes that such a bounty would induce them to bless the marriage with good fortune. The statues...

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Chapter 5

Jackie's eyes adjusted to the gloom of the Ganymede Tunnels just as soon as he and Princess Diana got past the initial tunnel. That was mostly 'cause of the blue glowing mushrooms that started cropping up every couple yards. They marked shit out like some sorta dim, underground, street lamps. As they walked, Jackie had to keep his mind occupied, since he figured if he started dwelling on the fa...

Interlude: The Dragonpit Raid

Bronn had finally managed to talk down Anguy and Likely Luke from trying to storm the fucking Red Keep to break Lord Seawynd out of Custody. That wouldn't've ended well for anyone, least of all Lord Seawynd, who could handle his own business without their help. It was all thanks to Ser Roger Groves and Ser Loras Lothston adding to his own words of caution on the matter. That tipped the scales i...

Chapter 14

Kenzo the Rocket charged at Bikki, the trail of flame fanning out behind him acting as a boost to his momentum. Bikki snapped off a shot from his Bow as Kenzo charged in, but the Pirate Firebender swung his tetsubo out in a short arc that swatted the arrow out of the air. Bikki was forced to tuck and roll out of the path of the charge to avoid being smashed aside, rolling away and coming up in ...

Chapter 66

Two days later, I got a call from Buffy. Her group had tracked Angelus's group as it was staking out the Sunnydale Freight Yard for some reason. Buffy wanted me and my group for backup in case things got out of control. Amy and I made our way over to the Sunnydale Freight Yard, swinging by Xander's place to pick him up, as it was on the way. While we did that, we also stopped and grabbed a bunc...

Chapter 64

Immediately, I began the fight with an attempt to put my Doppelganger on the backfoot. I presumably had very few jutsu that he didn't, and what ones I had were likely to have been gained after the Chunin Exams. Accordingly, two of my hands flashed through the hand seals for the Taiyōken (Solar Flare) even as my other pair parried a heavy punch that seemed to be using the Kōton: Kotetsu n...

Chapter 25

The Three Broomsticks, where I was currently going to be staying, turned out to be a large Country Pub in the exact center of Hogsmeade. I say Country Pub, because even though Hogsmeade was a large town by the standards of Wizarding Britain, the town still only had around twenty thousand people living in it. From what I've been told, that isn't even that unusual. The Magical Population in the B...

Interlude: Battle of Placida

Task Force White Field had been comprised of the most recently raised regiments of the Grand Ducal Guards. They were well-drilled, and well-equipped but unblooded, which might have posed a problem had the enemy had anything more powerful than Militia formations, Armed Police, and a couple of training battalions on Placida.

Similarly, Juliusz Mickiewicz and his Third Flotilla of the Grand ...

Chapter 63

The attack on the Otogakure Forward Operating Base began with Ino hitting the two guards at the entrance to the cave with the Nehan Shōja no Jutsu (Temple of Nirvana Technique). Neither of them dispelled it fast enough to avoid being knocked unconscious and we entered the caverns moments later, pausing only to stab the now unconscious pair of Oto Guards in the throat with kunai, ensuring they ...

Chapter 11

It had happened fast. One moment, Shi Hou and Evening Rabbit had been making their way through one of the old, disused, pulley car tunnels having not had to deal with anything more serious than the odd Marsh Strider that had made their lair in the Undercity, the next moment they were under attack. A flashing, Moonsilver, spear struck out of the darkness that Shi Hou just barely dodged enough to...

Chapter 13

Bukda Neungbo sat atop a steep cliff overlooking the sea on one side and the Port Town of Woncheon on the southern shore of Seom Yosae, where the Waegu Pirates had made their capital. It was known as the Red Bastion for a reason, as the single layer of walls was made entirely out of red stone. The wall had a few bastions on it, each with a ballista mounted on it that could fire down from the cl...

Chapter 85

I was marched to the Tower of the Hand and made to wait for an hour while the Maesters worked feverishly on the Mountain. Lord Stark left me in his office under guard while he conferred with the Maesters and King Robert, effectively leaving me to sweat it out. Eventually, however, Lord Stark returned, a look of weariness on his face as he slumped into the leather chair behind his desk.

"Y...

Chapter 65

I was feeling pretty good about myself for about a week after first sleeping with Cordy. Not only were Cordy and I completely compatible in the bedroom, but also I finally had time to myself to train without having to train anyone else, now that Xander, Amy, and Sheila had reached the level of competency that they didn't need me anymore at. I could finally begin to really push myself once again...

Chapter 4

Erlang Shen was the first God to speak up. He had a great booming fucking voice as he called the various Gods to listen up and pay attention to him. Jackie didn't need to be told twice to listen up, but it seemed like some of the Gods present ain't as savvy. Xihe was too busy making eyes at Aeolus of Olympus to pay much attention to war planning. She ain't even paying attention to her three-leg...

Chapter 43

"If Bolgios is going to attack into Macedon, he'll have to go through Thrace first. If the Thracians get invaded, it's likely that they'll lose everything North of Pantelimon before any response can even be mustered. I think we may have to get the Thracians to agree to withdraw south of the Istros River to Seuthopolis. If my Cousin can muster a force there, they may be able to hold out until I ...

Interlude: Voldemort's Inner Circle Meeting

The meeting had been called at an unusual hour, Lucius had to admit. It wasn't one of their regular meetings, that was scheduled for tomorrow, which meant that the Dark Lord had something of an emergency. Lucius couldn't help but wonder what his master would consider to be an emergency. He did not believe that fear was an emotion the Dark Lord could feel. Certainly not enough to call for an eme...

Chapter 34

Onyx City was home to over one-hundred-thousand people and was the largest settlement on Blackstone. It was here that all the complex manufacturing was done, wool cloth turned into clothing, tallow turned into candles and glue, metals turned into various items, including electronics and spare parts for various vehicles and mechs. Factories producing weapons, munitions, chemicals, you name it. I...

Chapter 62

Two days later, I was woken up by the arrival of a Spider-Masked Anbu appearing at the Akimichi Clan Compound with a summons for me from the Hokage. Thankfully, I was easily able to dress and equip myself. I'd long since set up a system of organized and itemized storage scrolls for quick deployment. I was hastily directed to head to the Hokage tower by the Anbu as quickly as I could go there. W...

Interlude: The Trio

Warren Mears, Andrew Wells, and Jonothan Levinson had their fortunes drastically changed since Halloween when all three of them had purchased Supervillain Costumes from that new Costume Shop that had popped up the week before Halloween. For a lot of folks, buying a costume from Ethan's would have turned out to be a bad mistake, but for the self-named Trio? It had been the best decision of their...

Chapter 12

The Dragonhawk anchored off a small island with a single fishing village named Eohang on it. Taking the Village wasn't exactly hard, they only had a single, square, watchtower which was garrisoned with just one group of sixty Non-Benders led by a one-eyed Firebender. Said Firebender was easily dispatched by General Iroh, who had insisted on striking first blood against the Pirates as a...

Chapter 10

As it turned out, Shi Hou's contact with the Guild's less-than-legal side was a smuggler from Mantaville in the Coral Archipelago, far to the West of the Scavenger Lands. Captain Desmond Grellthorpe had been a pirate and a smuggler for a decade before the Guild had come calling, looking to recruit talented people. He'd immediately signed on, as the Coral Archipelago was getting progressively mo...

Chapter 3

Lady Meifeng and Sun Wukong led Jackie up through the upper terraces of Mount Meru towards the peak of the Mountain. Jackie was nervous as shit, he ain't never been in the presence of a God that ain't either related to him by blood or serving as one of his tutors. Now he was gonna be shoved into a whole hall of 'em, all crowded around the head of a Pantheon to boot. What if he said or did some ...

Chapter 24

I let Dumbledore know how the excursion to the Horcrux Cave went, along with the events of the following duel with Antonin Dolohov. He listened intently as I recounted the story of the trip and following fight, nodding at various parts and seemingly frowning in thought at others. When I'd finished telling him my story, he insisted on checking me over for various potential lingering effects of m...

Chapter 33

Copperfield was a town whose main source of income came from the mines in the hills around the town. There were rich seams of Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite, and Chalcocite, which were mined in the hills and carted into Copperfield for refining into Iron, Antimony, Sulfur, and above all, Copper. The refined metals were then shipped north through the Gritstone hills on a maglev line, where it would ...

Chapter 84

Ser Roger rode out in his full plate of Arsenal Steel. It was Valyrian Style, of the kind in fashion in Lys, Tyrosh, Myr, and Volantis. That was to say that it resembled Milanese Plate Armor as opposed to the more Maximilian-style plate favored by places such as Norvos or Qohor, or the Composite Scale and Chain favored in areas like Braavos, Lys, or Lorath. It was also a far cry from the Lorica...

Chapter 61

I was summoned to the Hokage's Office the day after arriving back in Konoha. This would be my last meeting with Lord Third, and even then, only thanks to his being the reason that I had been sent to the Fire Temple to begin with, as Lady Tsunade was now officially the Hokage. In essence, Lord Third was there officially only in an advisory capacity, as he had been the issuer of the mission, and ...

Chapter 9

Senior Clerk Jerek Sokindo was dead, that much was evident, but what was more evident was that the deed had been done recently, as the body was still warm. Shi Hou immediately began scanning the shadows for potential assassins, readying himself to leap into action should an attack present itself. Meanwhile, Evening Rabbit began to take in the scene of the murder, eyes already glowing faintly wi...

Interlude: The Whirlwind

Spike had been pretty bloody pleased with himself for a while. He'd managed to get Dru back to her old self and had only gotten a broken leg as a tradeoff. The Jamaican Bint had fucked off back to Jamaica shortly afterward and Spike had decided that he and Dru would lay low for a tick until his leg healed up. It'd taken a few weeks for that to happen, though. Apparently, there'd been more damag...