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Shattered 29

Instead of making the return trip to the meeting room he had left, Vader decided to return to his ship for communicators as it was far closer.

He was unsurprised to see several bodies around the ship, those killed by the Noghri. The bodies had long grown cold on the floor. Several of the assassins stood guard outside, kneeling at his arrival as he entered the large ship.

However, he...

Shattered 28

Vader made the trip that led near to the same hanger he had landed in. As he neared the cantina, he was unsurprised to find it littered with stormtrooper bodies, some older than others.

He did, however, find it a bit unexpected that the most recent victims were only unconscious instead of dead. Just like Farmile implied.

Speaking of whom, Vader felt the boy's presence in the cafeter...

Ninetail 38

"I'm not sure if this is a sword or some kind of flat club someone put spikes on the side of," Anko remarked as she examined the weapon Sakura had found. She held it experimentally. "Feels like it's sturdy and has good balance though. But if you had just shown me this anywhere else, I'd think it was some kind of kinky paddle."

"I kind of had that same thought the moment you held it, Anko-...

Blood Gulchers 34

"Well, you've done it now, Sigma," Omega said with something between resignation, acceptance, and satisfaction.

"Indeed. The Alpha is beginning to comprehend his true nature," Sigma said as they watched Church clutching his head, hunching over with a shuddering form. "He is already affecting the time dilation between here and the real world."

"Sigma, I'm scared," Eta said softly. "W...

Hate 37

"You're saying giant bats are hunting Eren? And they were driven off by a giant....angelic.....moth?" Hange said slowly, eyes wide with fascination.

"Trust me, there isn't a better word for it," Levi said with a sigh. "Damn thing had wings as big as the walls are tall."

Connie whistled. "That's big."

"That would make the wing span twice the size of the colossal titan," Armin r...

Eldritch 42

"You came to fight an Eldritch God....because of a dream?" Rias summarized slowly.

"You find that hard to believe?" Vali countered calmly. “This would seem almost typical for them, by the stories at least.”

"He has a point," Azazel pointed out before looking down at the hybrid. "You're lucky you didn't piss off the wrong people with this stunt though."

The Fallen leader ha...

Eldritch 41

When Rias arrived at the shoreline, she had to admit.....

It kind of did look like Godzilla?

There was a giant, wingless, draconic creature that was coming out of the waters. Thankfully far offshore still. Granted, it was bigger than any version of Godzilla she recalled, standing at thousands of feet tall as it lurked out in the water. But it had the wrong shape for the head, a diff...

Hate 36

It had taken a lot of talking and tearing down her defenses, but Ymir found that her relationship with Historia was finally moving in a positive direction. Though...

"Be honest with me. You didn't forgive me just because I got an expiration date and you feel bad for me, did you? "Ymir asked, feigning idleness to hide her concern.

"No," Historia answered as they walked through Trost....

Gate 33

The stare-down with Maine was rather intense. And the brute shot being aimed in his general direction was only part of it. Because it was easy for Church to see that the Freelancer was in the midst of something like a panic attack. But a panic attack where someone's fight-or-flight reflex had been set to "fight" with such force that it might as well be set to "kill" instead.

"This can onl...

Ninetails 37

"Wait, wait, wait! So, it's fine for us to go off to the beach for a day on a mission!?" Ino asked in disbelief.

Naruto chuckled in amusement as he walked with the four kunoichi riding on his back. Obviously, Anko noticed that her genin were still on his back when he finally decided to take his leave. Which he had only done after Anko had bid farewell to the caravan and finished....dispos...

Shattered 27

"Lord Vader," Tanda Pyrl addressed as she spoke to the Dark Lord via holocom. "I have received word. Most of Ozzel's forces have heeded the surrender and ceased fighting."

"Most," Vader repeated, looking to the closest thing Ozzel had to a second-in-command. "Commander Cecius."

The man stepped forward rigidly. "Their locations, Admiral?"

Pyrl gave him a level look before answe...

Eldritch 40

The days passed peacefully for the King and Queen of the Eldritch. With things quieting down, to their perspective at least, their behavior could be mistaken for a couple in the honeymoon phase. Every day felt like a date of its own. It was not just them, of course. Be it the other Eldritch or the local devils, they found friendly company a plenty.

And as the days turned into weeks, one m...

God of Hate 35

It was the day they would arrive at Krolva.

Levi, naturally, thought it best to ride ahead with his team, to make sure the people on the walls didn't try aiming a cannon at Grice.

"Let me get this straight, Captain," the local garrison commander said with a frown. "There is a giant monster that is going to climb up the wall. And you want us to spread the word to keep calm and NOT sh...

Blood Gulchers 32

Omega was scared.

At least, he thought he was. He was not too familiar with fear. What was the upper limit of uneasy and the lower limit of terror? Because he wasn't terrified. But he certainly didn't relish the idea of being right next to Church, who was very likely to figure out that he was really the Alpha.

This must be what it was like transporting a bomb with uncertain safety p...

Friendly Ninetails 36

Destruction and disaster were much like wounds. And like wounds, they were prone to opportunistic infections if not treated properly.

Sometimes it might be corruption in the government, or thieves looting the homes of the victims.

And other times, it was something even simpler.

Bandits.

The Nobikazu Bandits made it a point to not have much of a reputation. That was how l...

Shattered 26

"Out of my way, out of my way! What are you doing here, this is my....!" an Albingi security officer barged through into the crime scene, only to stop as he saw the back of the grieving counselor. "Brother?"

"Carnon," the Counselor turned, eyes wide with grief and rage. "Carnon, why is my son here? Why is he dead?"

Carnon looked at the corpse numbly. "Little Stripes? But...He wasn't...

Eldritch 39

"Alright, so, what did you both want to see me about?" Issei asked curiously.

He and the church duo sat in a cabin that Yad had brought them to last night. It was a rather cozy setting, even if it felt a little out of place somehow. 

Irina scratched her head nervously. "Well...."

"Right, yeah, stupid question," Issei acknowledged. "Is this anything to do with the Church b...

Hate 34

"How do your horses run that fast!?"

Levi wasn't sure what he expected to hear from Grice on the first night they stopped to camp and rest the horses.

That certainly wasn't it.

"They've been bred and trained to run faster and longer. It's the only way we've been able to out-maneuver the Titans out in the open," Levi remarked thoughtfully.

"Trained my tail! I've seen hors...

Blood Gulchers 31

'I'm good, I'm good," Church insisted as they stalked through the metal halls.

It didn't matter that Maine hadn't said a word, Church could feel him staring at him ever since they left the room with the sarcophagus.

Damn AIs fucking with his head again. He couldn't wait to be done with that. Hopefully, Sigma was the last of the troublesome ones.

"So....The Mother of Invention?...

Ninetail 35

The days passed pretty quickly for Naruto. His training became much more energetic and inventive as he tested various ways to mold his chakra.

Saiken had kept away for now, unsurprising given the incident with the Kiri Anbu.

The Octopus......

Naruto decided to take it as a win that it only sometimes tried to attack him. More often than not, it didn't mess with him anymore.

Shattered 25

"Attention all crews of the Liberator, Emancipator, and Thunderflare! This is Admiral Pyrl. The situation is as follows: Admiral Ozzel has attempted to go rogue with the Executor but has been opposed by Captain Piett. Lord Vader has already boarded the Executor and secured the Hyperdrive Generator to prevent it from leaving the system.

The Executor itself is significantly damaged and both...

Dragon Eldritch 38

"So you're sure that girl isn't going to be sacrificed in my name or anything?" Issei asked in concern as they prepared to use the portal and returned to Japan.

"It won't be unwilling if she is," Yad remarked in her own form of assurance.

"That's about the best I can get at the moment, isn't it?" Issei said with a sigh.

"She'll most likely just become a priestess in your honor...

God of Hate 33

Still near the sealed breach, Eren caught sight of the pair before they got close.

Rico was no surprise by now, but Hannes?

Eren's three heads turned to scrutinize the older man, catching the attention of his friends.

"Hannes?" Armin said in surprise.

"Whose that?" Jean asked curiously.

"Someone we knew in Shiganshina. He helped Eren and I," Mikasa remarked, her vo...

Blood Gulchers 30

If Church had to summarize the place he was in, it was a wreck.

He was in some kind of building. Not a military one by the looks of it. It almost looked like some kind of museum or display room, with tables filled with various weapons and other objects.

But most of them were broken, and the room itself looked like there had been a warzone in here long ago, bullet holes and signs of ...

Friendly Ninetails 34

"A goose flew up your nose, and helped you later by turning into a phoenix," Seiken summarized slowly as Naruto stood there awkwardly. "Yeah, that sounds perfectly normal!"

Naruto was taken aback by that. "It is? Really?"

"Really! Animals that absorb bijuu chakra can end up adapting to it. That happened a lot with us," Saiken answered with a chuckle.

Naruto squinted his...

Shattered 24

As Vader descended into the bowel of the Executor, he was acutely aware of the echoing blaster fire ringing through the halls.

"Sir!" a stormtrooper greeted loudly over the noise, standing with another to guard this hall.

"Is that enemy enemy fire or turret fire, trooper?" Vader asked curtly.

"Turrets, Sir! Damn things shoot anything that enters the hall leading to the Hyperdr...

Merry Christmas

And happy holidays! I originally planned on having the updates ready for today, but...it's been a rough month. More than one person was in the hospital, and I've been too worried to write much. But things seem to be turning out okay now and I should have it done before news years.

Hope this season is going more smoothly for all of you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Gate RvB 29

"Looks like the cavalry has arrived!" Sarge said as the Freelancer and UNSC soldiers began to emerge from the gate. "Shame, I was about to have Grif act as a sacrificial decoy to secure our escape."

"I wasn't even here!" Grif protested.

"Yes, I should have expected you'd be tardy to your own self-sacrifice," Sarge agreed to his own sense of things.

"That's it, I'm switching to...

God of Hate 32

"What do you mean, what is a monkey?" Grice asked in legitimate surprise, looking around the humans in bewilderment, a mood matched by Boris and Ellie.

"Something we don't have on this island, obviously," Jean answered in annoyance.

"Are they very common in the outside world?" Hange asked curiously.

Grice paused before shaking his head. "No, it's just one of those creatures ev...