The hill on top of which the Company of Cats had lain their camp was chosen after a lot of thought.
Three sides of the hill were completely barren while the tall grasses on the fourth side had been regularly culled for about 200 meters away from camp so that anyone approaching them could easily be spotted from afar.
And even though the hill wasn't too high, it was still steep enough...
2024-05-06 14:43:08 +0000 UTC
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"I would like to know the same," came the quiet voice of the Headmaster from behind him.
Dumbledore had arrived silently into the room immediately after Harry, but he didn't want to interrupt Harry's moment so he just quietly stood in the corner while watching the reunion with a merry twinkle in his eyes.
"Dumbledore!" Sirius greeted with a serious expression on his face while tryin...
2024-05-02 13:32:53 +0000 UTC
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Headmaster's Office I Hogwarts
"So he only heard . . . ?"
"He heard only the first part, the part foretelling the birth of a boy in July to parents who had thrice defied Voldemort. Consequently, he could not warn his master that to attack you would be to risk transferring power to you — again marking you as his equal. So Voldemort never knew that there might be da...
2024-05-02 13:32:45 +0000 UTC
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A Week Later
It was the time of evening, just an hour before the sun was about to set.
A cool breeze ruffled the flaps of hundreds upon hundreds of tents lying on a large hill in the Disputed lands. This hill came under the land occupied by Tyrosh and on it laid the camp of the sellswords company, Company of the Cat.
The company of the cat, also known as Cats,...
2024-04-29 15:31:07 +0000 UTC
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"—IT WAS ME!! IT WAS ME WHO HELD THIS COMPANY TOGETHER!! YOU WOULD BE NOWHERE WITHOUT ME!! YOU FUCKING BRUTE—"
The infuriated screams of their second in command echoed in the training ground, reaching every single person present there and leaving them shell-shocked as they finally saw the true face of Rickard for the first time.
There was a tense silence for a few moments during...
2024-04-29 15:30:15 +0000 UTC
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"W-What... What is he doing?" Kingsley asked in a bewildered tone, as he watched the youngest Weasley boy jump up and down on top of Sirius's dead body as if he was trying to break all of his chest ribs, "Is he mad?"
"I-I thinb dhad maybe dhe brain thingy is sdill affecding hib..." Neville said hesitatingly before he raised his hand to stop Ron from dancing on Sirius Black's dead body.
2024-04-24 15:23:09 +0000 UTC
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"...T-There's no pulse,"
The words repeatedly echoed inside Harry's mind but he refused to accept them. He could not accept them. Ron has got to be wrong. He must have made a mistake... he must have...
"Harry?" Neville slid down to kneel beside Ron and asked gingerly with a confused look on his face, "Harry... Was dat man — was Sirius Black a — a friend of yours?"
Harry ju...
2024-04-24 15:23:02 +0000 UTC
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'Ah! There they are...' Ron breathed a sigh of relief when he finally caught sight of the two teenagers crawling along the side of the bottom-most bench while trying not to get hit by the red and green flashes of spells flying by.
'Now, to reach them...' Ron quickly scouted everything happening in the room, before deciding that barreling into the fights while screaming his head out like a...
2024-04-24 15:21:38 +0000 UTC
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[Quest Created: Save Sirius]
"Wait! What? What the heck is this?!" Ron's eyes widened dramatically as the absurd situation that he was in became even more ridiculous.
Not only did he get transmigrated into the Harry Potter world but now he could even see one of those infamous system alerts in front of his eyes...
'But is this really a system though...'
"...
2024-04-24 15:21:27 +0000 UTC
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Now, as for who was Sam, and how he came to be in this room in the DOM? Well... to know that we need to go back a few...
Sam was a little-known struggling stand-up comedian in a small city.
He grew up in an orphanage and got a normal 9 to 5 Job after graduating from community college. But he lost that Job soon after, because of COVID and then whilst unemployed he tried his hand at p...
2024-04-24 15:17:50 +0000 UTC
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Inside the DOM:
"It doesn't matter!" said a man's voice. "There are other ways in —WE'VE GOT THEM, THEY'RE HERE!"
Harry spun around. They were back in the Brain Room and, sure enough, there were doors all around the walls. He could hear footsteps in the hall behind them as more Death Eaters came running to join the first.
"Luna — Neville — help me!"
<...
2024-04-24 15:17:40 +0000 UTC
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Summary:
During the Department of Mysteries fiasco, something sets off a space in the crack, and through the crack a modern soul escapes, and coincidently it finds an easy home in the somewhat empty mind of Ron Weasley who was struggling with the Brain tentacles, but there is a twist in the story as the brain contained a mysterious entity from a higher dimension which attaches itself int...
2024-04-24 15:13:40 +0000 UTC
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"So I am not calling you a spy, but... I AM calling you a Traitor!"
Startled gasps rang through the crowd at the unexpected reversal by Jon.
This whole evening had been filled with more ups and downs than these people had seen in their lives, but this one... this one took the crown as even people who were anticipating something like this were shocked.
"A-Are you insane, you ba...
2024-04-22 15:02:58 +0000 UTC
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Rickard has always hated his name more than anything...
Because it had been given to him not by his parents... but by their killer.
So his name was a constant reminder that he was a prisoner... even though there was no jailer.
He had been born to a slaver father and a slave mother, which wasn't too uncommon in most parts of Essos. His father was a cruel heartless man who didn'...
2024-04-22 15:02:48 +0000 UTC
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"The first name is..." He looked down at the list in his hand just for the sake of theatrics since he had already memorised it, "...Ros!!"
There was silence for a few moments before some of the eyes in the crowd turned towards a young naive-looking boy.
"W-What?! M-Me!!" the boy said while pointing at himself with horror-filled eyes.
"Hmm... No, Not you, the other one... Where...
2024-04-15 12:29:16 +0000 UTC
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It was the time just before evening... when the bright red sun was almost horizontal to the eyes and was slowly sinking into the sea of earth.
Normally this would be the time when all the sellswords would finish up with their evening training and wind down their muscles before dragging their heavily exhausted bodies towards dinner.
But today it was different...
Today, not only...
2024-04-15 12:28:59 +0000 UTC
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"What?!" Bran and Gared cried simultaneously with a shocked look on their face, as they wouldn't have thought of poison in a hundred years, but there was someone there who sported a completely unchanged look as if he had expected it.
"From the book we got from Oberyn, right." Jon stated, rather than asking, and when Sam nodded his head in confirmation, his eyes narrowed as he murmured, "I...
2024-04-10 12:30:55 +0000 UTC
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A few minutes later, Jon and Sam were finished with their food and then all of them quickly went towards the healer's tent.
The only company healer, a 50-something-year-old man was not inside the tent at the moment so they were the only ones there.
The tent wasn't too fancy with only three beds laid on the ground, and a small wooden worktable nearby stocked with about a half-dozen v...
2024-04-10 12:30:22 +0000 UTC
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"What?!" Both of the men inside barked while turning to look at the guard with an incredulous look on their faces as if he had just told them that the sun was falling from the sky.
"Y-Yes, Bran!! He is standing right outside the tent with—"
"Are you drunk, Karr? How can Bran—" But Gared didn't wait for Rickard's sceptical interrogation and immediately dashed outside, almost ripp...
2024-04-03 15:09:27 +0000 UTC
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The Company of the Rose had set up their camps on a small hill in one of the regions of the Disputed Lands that was occupied by Myr. Long lines of trenches and latrines had been dug in an orderly manner and even a wooden fence had been built to mark the perimeter, turning the campsite into a semi-permanent one, where they had been stationed for a considerable amount of time.
The dilapidat...
2024-04-03 15:09:18 +0000 UTC
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Bran could still remember how his Father always lectured him when he was just a 5-year-old lad, about how he should always introduce himself as a Northerner and how he should take pride in his heritage and that he came from a Noble family of Hornwood.
But Bran never understood what it meant... About what it meant to be a 'Hornwood'.
Did his ancestors have some kind of horns on their...
2024-03-16 14:36:45 +0000 UTC
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"...I just want to know who you are and where you're from?"
Jon's voice immediately made the boy freeze in his tracks. He gulped while slowly turning his head with a look of dread on his face as if he was about to be punished for trying to sneak away. Bran had hoped to get away from here while the two of them were distracted but it seemed that he was just too unlucky and the boy named Jon...
2024-03-16 14:36:39 +0000 UTC
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"Hmm... seems the target training was useful..." Jon commented casually as he finally stood up from his seat while picking a sword with his left hand, but instead of the usual bastard sword, he decided to use another weapon this time. This new weapon was also technically a sword but it was much thinner with a pointed tip making it much more suited for stabbing rather than slashing.
The se...
2024-03-05 13:30:12 +0000 UTC
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"No...It's humans." Jon replied nonchalantly while slurping the soup remaining in his bowl, but his words had the immediate effect of freezing Sam as all the excitement drained from his body.
Sam gathered himself a few seconds later and then hastened to tie the knots on his armour as fast as he could. He fumbled a few times but a minute later he was strapped and secure in the sturdy armou...
2024-03-05 13:29:53 +0000 UTC
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In a prime location near the ever-crowded port of Braavos where people fought with their lives for even the smallest parcel of land, there lay a sanctuary, a luxurious villa with a massive open space filled with a garden of foreign flowers. In the middle of congested shops, residences and inns this symbol of pure vanity stood out like a sore thumb.
Everything in this house, from the expen...
2024-02-18 14:11:48 +0000 UTC
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The summer was at its peak and the citizens of Kings Landing felt that no one could feel the heat more than them (Humph! Who cares about Dorne...). The scorching light of the sun shimmered off the streets to create a hazy atmosphere and made the already unbreathable shitty air even more noxious, to the point of being life-threatening. But the small folk in this city weren't bothered by it like ...
2024-02-18 14:10:28 +0000 UTC
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What poor Sam didn't know was that his friend, Jon was somewhat dealing with the same thing that he was.
He too had been surrounded by a group of eager Merchants who after getting hold of their goods wanted to quickly jump on the bandwagon and buy a slot for the next trip. And safe to say they were also very disappointed after learning that there would not be another trip for a while.
...
2024-02-12 15:13:45 +0000 UTC
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"So you don't want to give up, huh," Jon murmured to himself with an amused look on his face. He shook his head while taking his eyes off the pirate after giving him a small scare. Jon wouldn't even call him a pirate as he looked too... refined to be one, and almost seemed more like a scholar.
Anyway coming back to this pesky problem at hand, Jon wasn't quite sure how to handle this bunch...
2024-02-12 15:13:37 +0000 UTC
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"Ah! When the hell is he goin' to come..." Captain Jack sighed listlessly. He was once again on a deserted coast, lying on a hammock in the shade of some trees to hide from the sun, doing nothing but... waiting.
All around him, pirates were scattered here and there doing something to pass the time, some were in groups while others sat alone, some were drinking and laughing at crude jokes,...
2024-02-06 13:20:57 +0000 UTC
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'Huu...I am tired,' Jon sighed as he fell onto the small bed in his cabin like a piece of dead tree.
It had only been about an hour since they passed the Stepstones so it was still dark outside and while he wasn't sure, he knew that if he had a mechanical watch then it would show something around 3 or 4 a.m. It wouldn't amount much to a normal modern person to be staying awake this l...
2024-02-06 13:20:29 +0000 UTC
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