The Servant watched impassively as his Master left for bed. She couldn’t see him, though he had an inkling that she had an idea that he was watching.
It mattered little.
The moon hung low in the sky, its silver light casting long shadows across the monastery's grounds. And while there were a few people still milling about, it was just about time for them to sleep as well. Even in a world where magic was abundant, it was ingrained in these people that staying out when it was dark...
2024-02-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Does thou have a moment, Lord Emiya?”
Shirou blinked as Adrianne walked up to him in the early morning hours. It was just barely after sunrise, marked by the still on-the-horizon sun.
“Of course, Lady Valliere. What do you need?” He motioned towards the hallway, the implication for privacy clear. The elf shook her head with a small laugh.
“This need not be a private affair. I merely wanted to question, does this not seem like the time to retrieve thou bounty?”
2024-02-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Honningbrew Meadery was not the place that John thought he’d be spending any time in. In fact, when they had first seen it, it hadn’t even crossed his mind to try and ask for a place to stay. It was only through sheer luck that a guard standing outside the meadery spotted them and waved them over.
The guard had taken one look at the shreds that John’s clothes were in and was clearly taken aback. When they had explained that they had been attacked by a bear, and that John had been ...
2024-02-10 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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There was an atmosphere that Lena couldn’t describe.
“Are you ready?” Archer asked Genji, who sat cross legged in the middle of an intricate set of symbols on the floor. By their color, either they were drawn in some red paint, or, with everything else going on, they were more likely drawn in blood.
Lena and the others were standing off to the side, watching the proceedings carefully. Angela was looking on in worry, with Reinhardt standing by just in case she tried to do any...
2024-02-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Determination. It’s similar to motivation, and is close enough that, at times, you could say one and mean the other, and it would still make sense. The difference lies in the subtleties that each one has.
Motivation is the driving spark. It’s a match to fuel, the startup of an engine. It’s the initial push that sends everything driving forward. On the other hand, determination is the grit and stubbornness to see that motivation through.
I’ve always thought of myself as det...
2024-01-27 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The night passed, and soon, morning arose. Shirou had decided that, despite the time sensitive nature of the issue, bringing it to Reines’ attention after waking her up in the middle of the night was not exactly conducive to any amount of goodwill.
Instead, he, Waver and Gray were now waiting to meet her as she made her way towards the cafeteria.
As she had been doing for the past twenty minutes.
The blonde had been slowly making her way towards them this entire t...
2024-01-20 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“That’s not possible.” Those were the words that Morrison spoke when Lena and the others entered the room. The man was standing near a window, peering through it. The light coming through the dusty pane was warm, a dissonant piece when you looked at the practically ancient furniture.
“Hm?” Archer hummed, a single eyebrow raised as he continued to sit.
“This view, at this angle. The only place you would see this is from the top of PCH.”
As Lena approached, she c...
2024-01-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Motivation. It’s at the forefront of human innovation. It is an inevitable truth that without it, progress itself would be stopped. Nothing would continue, because nobody would find the reason to do so.
For the longest time, my motivation was always to put my own best interests above those of others. Or rather, the best outcome, regardless of the consequences. Of course, wouldn’t you say I was nothing more than a hypocrite? That I didn’t take into account those very same consequen...
2024-01-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Somehow, I didn’t expect an audience for this.” Rory stared at the assorted party that Shirou had managed to drag with him. He didn’t pay them any mind. He couldn’t be bothered to.
“Your god. What do they want?”
“Straight to the point, I see?”
Shirou's gaze remained fixed on Rory , “Cut the theatrics and answer the question.”
“Lord Emiya!” The Grand Elder frowned at him, “Mine people respect thee, but still, thou are in the presence of an A...
2023-12-29 12:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The road to Whiterun was quiet. Peaceful. Completely against the hustle and bustle that dominated city life. Even the relatively quiet Riverwood was noisy compared to the untamed nature of Skyrim.
It was relaxing. So much so that John took a breath and rolled his shoulders. He had always been tense. It came with the job.
But here, he had no need of tension. The times he had to fight were few and far between, and none of them had been particularly difficult. Certainly not as diffic...
2023-12-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The battlefield lay eerily silent, a stark contrast to the cacophony of death that had reigned mere days ago. The air was thick with the metallic scent of blood, and the ground was littered with the fallen, their lifeless eyes staring blankly at the sky.
Or rather, that was what Byleth thought it looked like.
They had left the battlefield a while back, leaving behind all the bodies that had been strewn about. They didn’t have the resources nor the will to go back and carry them,...
2023-12-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Lena, I think your friend is clinically insane.”
“Yeah, I don’t blame you.”
‘Archer, what the actual fuck.’
“Oh, don’t mind me. I need to have fun somehow.”
‘Were you just screwing with us then?! How much of that was just you making shit up?!’
“If you’ll believe me? None of it.” There was a seriousness that fought against the laughter she heard just earlier, “It’s funny when I say it out l...
2023-12-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Inspiration. The moment when a person thinks of something that he hadn’t thought of before. In some cases, these ideas are put onto paper, made into reality. They shape the very foundations of the world. The industrial revolution is a good example, where what started as one bit of machinery sparked the modern world as I knew it.
In most cases, however, the ideas are forgotten. They are laid to the wayside as more important things take precedence.
I was familiar with both ends of...
2023-12-22 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As the title says, this week's chapters will have to be delayed. I apologize, and to compensate for this, next week will have the chapter for today, and next week's.
For the reason why I'm delaying it, it's currently finals week at my uni, and my professors have piled on quite a bit of work. Quite a bit of heavy work at that, with some of the projects valued over 40% of our total grade. That's not including the written exams being also worth the same, and which started yesterday, ...
2023-12-15 05:29:08 +0000 UTC
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He took in the night scene with both a heavy heart, and a sigh of relief. The situation, whatever it had devolved into, had finally been settled. Or, as settled as it could be in the short term.
He had talked to Hazama, convincing the man that, despite what it looked like, Shirou had absolutely no idea what was going on. That he didn’t know anything about why a god of this world was interested in him - or at least, that’s what he told himself.
In reality, he had the inkling th...
2023-12-08 12:08:20 +0000 UTC
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Lena stared nervously as the ride continued. Normally, she’d be chatting up Angela, talking about whatever little thing came to mind, just to stave off the boredom. Normally.
It wasn’t a normal day, unfortunately.
Archer sat next to her, and across from them, sat almost everyone else. Almost everyone, since Winston had to take another transport, Reyes and Reinhardt joining him. All that was left were Genji, Angela and Commander Morrison.
Morrison stared at Archer as if h...
2023-12-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC
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It’s not fair.
It’s not fair. It’s not fair. It’s not fair.
It’s not fucking fair!
I won, right?! Everything was going great! Hikigaya stopped Rem from killing me and everything! And he himself wasn’t killed! Everyone lived! The pain and suffering that I’ve been through should have been enough.
No, no - it was enough!
I lived. I fucking lived.
I’d broken free of this fresh hell that my da...
2023-11-24 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The hallways that the JSDF forward operating base had were utilitarian to the extreme. With the possibility of enemy action, it was a necessity. The entire floor plan was made to funnel everyone outward, allowing for the quick deployment of anyone inside it.
It was intuitive, with how the hallways always pointed to the exit.
It was both a blessing and a curse. The former because it allowed the three of them to navigate the place without Shirou having to guide the other two. The la...
2023-11-17 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“So, you’re one of these…Heroic Spirits?”
“That’s correct.”
“And Heroic Spirits are ghosts of prominent dead individuals that have come back from beyond?”
“Close enough, yes.”
“And you were able to do what you did because magic is real?”
“Shocking, I know.”
“What a load of horseshit!” Reyes threw up his hands as he yelled. Behind the one-way mirror, Lena flinched as the man’s anger came through.
They had been here f...
2023-11-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Well? Are you just going to stand there?” Condescending, smug, and all around infuriating. That was what the voice that could be heard over the gurgling bodies sounded like. Byleth felt every bit of that condescension, and she was most definitely not the intended audience.
“You-! To think, Rhea would stoop to using a monster like you!” An old man on a horse, graying hair and all. A furious look on his face, mirrored by the recognition on Ashe’s.
“Lonato!” Byleth had...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Time passed, and the excitement faded with it. As much as the kidnapping was a source of worry, it was a worry that was all too common for the world that John found himself in.
Soon enough, it was back to work. While the Dragonborn had left the guard contingent, she had also given him an unspoken request to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. Thankfully, nothing had happened, and by the time that John figured it was alright to relax for a while, it had already been a month.
T...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Many things annoyed me from time to time. A person being late to a meeting. Nosy underclassmen poking her head into my business. Bad writing filled with whatever otaku craze was going on.
The normal things.
It was only human nature to be annoyed, after all. To not be annoyed at all would mean that you’ve achieved a sense of peace that exceeded that of humanity. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, would be able to live life without being annoyed once.
Even the staunchest,...
2023-11-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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As the title suggests, I've started crossposting over on SpaceBattles. It'll be a while till the stories catch up to the current chapter, but if anyone prefers to read my stories there, they'll be there.
2023-11-03 11:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Shirou sat as he waited for Waver to finish reading. Considering the pile next to him, he had to guess that the Lord had been here a while. That, or he was even more of a speed reader than Rin. It shouldn’t matter. No matter how little or how much Waver read, Shirou figured he would be pissed either way.
“Mister Shirou?” He heard Gray before he saw her come closer. Mentally, Shirou added another tally to her. The girl could be sneaky when she wanted to, and this wasn’t the first...
2023-10-27 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Archer stepped to the side as a blow that would’ve taken his head came rushing down. A wave of purple echoed its way outward, pulsing into the rubble behind him. He barely heard the ground sizzle and break down before he was already moving again.
Twenty minutes. It had been twenty minutes since Oxton and the others had managed to slip by. Frankly, it was an eternity.
Kanshou was shoved into the Omnic, only for the blade to shatter almost immediately. Archer wasn’t phased. It h...
2023-10-20 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I had thought that by the time I dealt with Natsuki’s problem, I would’ve had time to sit back and properly do my experiments. As with everything in this world, I was completely wrong.
It was the very next day, before even breakfast was served, that Mathers had come back, a sonic boom announcing his arrival. At an unknown signal, I watched as Ram left to go and meet with him, even as we had been waiting for her to serve us some food, which were thankfully not just potatoes this time...
2023-10-13 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The days passed by quickly. With permission from Yanagida, the elves - with Shirou helping them - began building some rudimentary shelters. They weren’t much, having been built with whatever they could scrounge up. It was also a downgrade from the barracks that they had temporarily stayed in within the JSDF base.
Regardless, not a single elf complained. Rather, it looked as if they were happy to be doing something other than sit around. Shirou could understand the feeling of just movi...
2023-10-06 12:00:07 +0000 UTC
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John was no stranger to a stiff drink. More often than not, his job would require it. Not for any recreational purposes, mind you. All it did was to numb the pain.
Both literal, and figurative pain that is.
He’d seen more than enough people drink themselves into a stupor, losing all form of motor abilities from just a couple of sips. He’d also seen someone hold their liquor, despite the amount most likely being enough to down a man through sheer volume.
In those times, h...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It was a massacre. Nearly fifty enemy soldiers had ambushed them, and had managed to take down a few unfortunate members of their party. They were still moving, thankfully, but from the little that Byleth could see through the fog, they would not last long without immediate help.
Catherine bolted to action, calling out for everyone to form ranks. It didn’t work. The panic that gripped the initial attack was too much, and more than one person was running around with no direction. At th...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Before you begin, I just want to congratulate the few people that had those gut feelings in the reviews. You’ll see what I mean.
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The ground shook beneath her feet as a terrible ripping sound echoed throughout the building. She could hear rock and metal bang against the blast doors, alongside the screams of everyone in the room.
Then, nothing.
As if by a switch, it was silent.
Another beat, before clangs could be heard. Metal hitting me...
2023-09-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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