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Threadmarks: Chapter 1: The Child in the Valley of the End
Konoha, Land of Fire, July, Year 04
It was yet another sunny, beautiful morning in Konoha, and villagers were getting up from their beds to start a new day.
Ninjas, shopkeepers, and many other civilians were getting dressed. Some were getting ready to exercise, and others were opening their...
Threadmarks: Arc 1: Chapter 1 - Welcome to the Pokémon World - Now with 10% more Dragons! (Free Existencial Crisis inside)
Cover art by Pinkmomo on Vgen.
The car trudged on the asphalt, the wheels turning endlessly on the road to the life humans had built, the civilization they had borne with their hands… Fine, maybe not so poetic, but Dylan was bored out of his mind; he had a three-hour trip to a warehouse because...
Prologue
The dead were gone.
Will lay on his belly at the lip of the hollow and stared down at the place where they had been, and his mind refused to take it in.
An hour ago there had been twelve. He had counted them twice, pressed flat in this same snow with his heart knocking against the...
CHAPTER ONE
"Wh… where am I…?" I felt incredibly disoriented and my short-term memories were unhelpfully muddled and ambiguous.
I was in some sort of metal-plated laboratory with a busted-in window along one wall, a row of robotization tubes containing captured subjects along another wall...
Threadmarks: Year 1 – Chapter 1: The Room of Requirement
The following is a fan-based work of fiction. Harry Potter is the intellectual property of J. K. Rowling. Please support the official release.
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I need a place that will teach me Occlumency and Legilimency.
Step, step. Reach the end of the hall and turn around. Step, step.
I need a place...
Because I apparently can't just not drop an idea once I have it, even if it is similar to previous story ideas...
SALLY not SALLY
Chapter 1
A broken SI fic by Tangent
> Primary systems online.
> Optics... OK.
> Audio receptors... OK.
> Haptic feedback system… OK.
> Locomotion servos... OK...
STEP 0.1
I still vividly remember the most profound thought I had after I had woken up in this new life.
The question wasn't what to steal.
The question was what to steal first.
Now, that wasn't my first thought when I woke up. No, that had been a mixture of 'why the hell does everything...
[You Are Dead]
I was catatonic. Not because I was in shock - ok, I was a little bit in shock - or because I was dead - well, that was just a lie - or because of how I had died - that had been the least surprising things of all - but because I had a game-like screen floating in front of my face...
Threadmarks: Chapter 1: "The Death of a Fan, The Birth of a CEO"
Part 1: The End
The apartment was a disaster.
Not in the "I should probably clean this weekend" sense. In the "this is a monument to obsession and poor life choices" sense. Every surface was covered in something. The desk had three monitors, two of which were displaying spreadsheets full of...
The first blade left its sheath beneath the Tower of Joy before Eddard Stark knew whether Lyanna still drew breath. Steel whispered all along the shelf of red stone. Beside him, Lord Willam Dustin raised his shield. The other northmen spread out along the narrow approach, crowding their horses...
Celestial Sandstorm
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Chapter 1: A Stranger in the Desert
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A dry, relentless heat that sucks moisture from lungs with every breath. It was the second thing I noticed. The first...
Disclaimer: I do not own Hunter × Hunter or any of its original characters. They belong to Yoshihiro Togashi and their respective rights holders. This is a non-commercial fan work.
Content Disclaimer:
Purely fiction for fun. I do not endorse or glorify the deceitful behaviors in this story...
3634 ATC
Coruscant, Jedi Temple
Ewan Kensei
"Certain you are, yes? Reversible this is not." The ancient Jedi Master said, his gnarled green fingers tapping against his gimer stick. I nodded slowly, my gaze sweeping across the Council Chambers one final time.
The circular room felt suffocating...
Once more, seeking all the criticism!
Standard disclaimers apply.
Beta read by my good friend EternalSword.
To call this place empty would be inaccurate, for emptiness implies absence, a something to fill the nothing this plane exists beyond.
Time and space are meaningless, light and dark...
Carvahall
Deep breaths.
In
Out
In
Out
He repeated the motion, filling himself with lungs full of air before exhaling. Once his heart had steadied and he felt the exhaustion fading away from the mount's climb, Tavin finally opened his eyes and embraced the darkness.
The others would...
Chapter 1: Second Death, First Breath
SUMMARY
Noah died a hit man and woke a newborn in a world where beings with god-like powers walked among men.
His mother was a mutant who could absorb learned skills through touch: languages, combat, hacking, anything trained rather than innate. A rogue...
The cold didn't arrive all at once. It worked its way up from the ground, a slow, invasive chill that settled into my chest before I even managed to open my eyes. My first thought was that I'd left the window open. My second was that the bedding felt off, smelling like dirt?
I tried to push...
With prereading, editing assistance, and occasional input by Brain Power!
I couldn't really tell you exactly when I became what I am, as I'm fairly certain that the merger was retroactive in nature and the actual incident might actually not have happened yet. There was no way that I should be...
AN - a weird amount of Metal Gear solid talk considering I've only played the one with Venom snake, but I like the comment and I think MGS2 is a better thrown out reference than a Space Odyssey, The Matrix, or Terminator.
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June 10th 1924
18 years before Termina
Valland
'You are the bearer...