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Building An Empire - Chapter 10 - Cracking The Doors
Building An Empire - Chapter 10 - Cracking The DoorsTeam-Ashford - ArcanineBastille - TyranitarDamascus - MachampAbrams - SlowbroMelusine - DragoniteHrunting - ScizorLBBastille, of course, was my first option.It was the obvious choice. Outside of Abrams, he was my tankiest pokemon. Add to that the chance that Karen’s leader pokemon might be threatened against it due to type advantage, it was the...
Building An Empire - Chapter 9 - Forward As One
Building An Empire - Chapter 9Team-Ashford - ArcanineBastille - TyranitarDamascus - MachampAbrams - SlowbroMelusine - DragoniteHrunting - ScizorAlex POVLance stared blankly into the fire, a hollow expression in his eyes.Our talk had been long, stretching across hours. The winter day, short to begin with, had faded from midday, meaning the fire, initially lit for warmth, now also served as our only...
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 9
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 9It was surprisingly easy to end the Maelstrom.Not from a physical standpoint, no, the Bladekisser suit was the pinnacle of enhancement technology taken from Metal Gear, taken up a hundred notches by the exotic space-age materials I’d made it out of.No, it was surprisingly easy on a mental level. Sure, I was a country boy. I’d sat in deer stands all morning t...
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 8
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 8There was an inherent issue with cybernetics.Mechanics were all based around motors, servos, hydraulics, each with a specific amount of power per piece. Clamping force, horsepower, thrust, all limited quantities. A flat increase. Doubly so for power armor.Power armor was as good an augment as the person inside it was weak. It was the equivalent of adding a flat ...
Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 3 - Reintroductions
Chapter 3 - Reintroductions“All magic is logic, conversely, all logic is compatible with mana.”I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as I walked past the gates of the Bael School For Young Devils. The institution that had been so familiar to me for so long now felt like a stranger. Roads I once used to travel daily to get to school now felt foreign.I hadn’t ever stopped to think about how much t...
Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 2 - Infiltrating Home
Chapter 2 - Infiltrating Home“How did I let you talk me into this?”I whispered under my breath, the noise being drowned by the sheer amount of people shuffling into the museum. I’d hoped that because it was a weekday, the Bael museum of devil history would have been empty. I’d been dead fucking wrong.Who even went to museums these days? We had the devil net.“You don’t need to speak to ...
Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 1 - Death and the Tower
Chapter 1 - Death and the TowerA shaky hand struggled to keep the cigarette steady as I watched the smoke drift and form myriad shapes before me. Taking a quick drag offered only slight relief, momentarily easing the trembling. Wisps of smoke still danced in the light cast by the magical flame of the camp.The night watch was a nightmare, but as the only middle-class demon in a corps exclusively co...
Happy New Year + Update
Hey y'alls!So, we're in 2026 now. Honestly I never thought I'd have a patreon, or that people would want to pay to read what I write around this same time last year. Holy shit, sometimes it's still hard to believe. So, I gotta thank you all for seeing enough worth in my writing to want to pay to read it. it means a lot, and I can't thank you guys enough.I know resolutions are ...
Poll Result + Merry Christmas!
So, the results for the poll are out, and a decision has been made.The plan now will be for me to post a 10K word pilot chapter for the new fix, as well as up to three chapters for it on Patreon. These will be posted post the 25th, for very obvious reasons.Merry Christmas, all. Have fun with your families, and I'll make sure there's something fun for y'all to read by the time you come...
Empyrean 22 - Home Away From Home
Empyrean 22 - Home Away From HomeOzpin POVOf all the things that the newest iteration of humanity had invented in their brief time existing on this accursed world, soundproofing was by far his favorite.Ozpin was one of the few people who could claim to have existed before the first jet engine was made. He could claim to be one of the first handful of people who got to travel on the first jet-power...
Empyrean 21 - Life On The Other Side
Empyrean 21 - Life On The Other SideCardin POV“Not that I’m not glad to see you, but what the hell are you doing here, Jaune?”Jaune had fallen into step with them after devouring his breakfast faster than Cardin had ever seen anyone eat anything. He wasn’t saying a word, just following them, always maintaining a three step gap, just… trailing behind them with a satisfied smirk on his fac...
NEW STORY POLL
So, due to the discontinuation of Quixotic, we have one story slot currently open which I have to fill with a new story. As people who have subscribed to the Remembrance tier or higher, you have the power to decide which one of these will become my next story.In the interest of fairness, I will only provide a one-line explanation of each story. The story that will end up being serialized will be t...
Building An Empire - Chapter 8 - Your First
Building An Empire - Chapter 8Team-Ashford - ArcanineBastille - TyranitarDamascus - MachampAbrams - SlowbroMelusine - DragoniteHrunting - ScizorAlex POVThis… this was beautiful.I was sitting in the grandstands, surrounded by a sea of people. The organisers had decided that Karen’s fight with Will would be the last fight of the night, the main attraction before the finals on the weekend. So, af...
Building An Empire - Chapter 7 - The Switch
Building An Empire - Chapter 7Team-Ashford - ArcanineBastille - TyranitarDamascus - MachampAbrams - SlowbroMelusine - DragoniteHrunting - ScizorAlex POV“Easy now, big girl.”Melusine growled under me as I kneaded the musculature between her wings. I’d always wondered how something as heavy as a dragonite, who didn’t have hollow bones like birds did, was able to fly fast enough to use extrem...
Empyrean 20 - Breathe
Empyrean 20 - BreatheJaune POVHe could see the enemy.The jellyfish Grimm had killed itself, its red dome cracking and releasing an eerie red mist. The creature itself died, its tentacles falling limp under it as it eerily continued to float. Yet the mist had a life of its own, as it coalesced into an image of her.His first observation was just how… human she looked. No one had ever described Sal...
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 7
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 7I could taste the air.No, that was not a metaphor. The acrid smell of burnt trash, layered with tones of motor oil, was like poison compared to the crisp, cold autumn air of my town. It felt like I’d traded a warm cup of tea and a blanket for a toxic cloud.I knew it was toxic. My enhancements were most commonly administered to drop troopers going into intergal...
Update - Good News!
So the government documentation process that I'd been stuck in is finally over, for better or worse. My flight home is for friday night, so expect new updates this weekend!Also to make up for the lost updates, I'll be posting more frequently for the rest of this week as well as the first week of December to make up for it.-Cold Daylight
Delay Notice - IRL blocker
Hey guys,So, as I mentioned in the last chapter of the dimensional workshop, I mentioned that there may be a delay because i'm away from home. Basically, due to some paperwork bullshit, I had to travel home, halfway across the country. I'd originally assumed this to be a 2-4 day kind of deal, but here I am, a week later, still making daily trips to the local court and bank in order to get ...
Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 6
Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 6Lacrima was an interesting material.I’d wanted to get my hands on it from the moment the door to the workshop opened in Earthland, but since the whole situation was kicked off by Natsu, I’d come to the realisation that Earthland was not yet safe for me.I wasn’t Kakashi, I was enhanced, sure, but this wasn’t a small fry universe like Cyberpunk. Being enhanced...
Empyrean 19 - Hindsight
Empyrean 19 - HindsightIronwood POVJaune could no longer be considered human.He knew that there was nothing illuminating about that realization. He had a general idea of what Jaune was capable of. He’d seen the video, he’d heard the story of what happened in Phalanx. He had beheld the man himself. To some extent, he liked to believe he understood the man.Well, that was a fucking lie, wasn’t ...
Empyrean 18 - What Is A God?
Empyrean 18 - What Is A God?WIllow Schnee POVThey came for her, as she’d predicted.She’d known of Jacques’ hidden army as long as it’d existed. She’d helped train them when it was still a grassroots operation, back when a job for Atlas was more desirable than serving the Schnee.Then, as word of how well they were paid spread, suddenly, trainers became easy to obtain. WIth good trainers c...
Empyrean 17 - Crumbling Bricks
Empyrean 17 - Crumbling BricksJacques POVHe didn’t like to get blood on his suit.Even as a Gele, he’d always preferred shades of white. There was a certain purity to the colour he’d always admired. Just being draped in white made people trust him more. After all, how could a man like him be untrustworthy?It was a silly notion, but humans ran on preconceptions. Even the most jaded of men coul...
Empyrean 16 - The Plans Of Mice And Men
Empyrean 16 - The Plans Of Mice And MenEmerald POVWalking into the den of the beast never felt this safe, nor this easy.Back when she’d started out with Cinder, before Mercury had joined them, one of the easier ways to make a buck was robbing houses. It was easy. Cast an illusion to make them believe they locked the door when they in fact did not. An open window was just as useful for getting ar...
Building an Empire - Chapter 6 - Lorelei and Karen
Someone requested for a glossary of all the pokemon in Alessandro’s possession, so I’ll be posting this before every chapter from now.Ashford - ArcanineBastille - TyranitarDamascus - MachampAbrams - SlowbroMelusine - DragoniteHrunting - ScizorAlso, this chapter is slightly on the shorter side. I wanted to expand a bit on the mental processes of Lorelei and Karen, considering I dropped them int...
Building an Empire - Chapter 5 - The First Brick
Building an Empire - Chapter 5 - The First BrickThe Indigo plateau… was definitely done dirty by the games.To be fair, the first few games just treated the victory road as a real spectacle, as compared to the League. I mean, sure, the tall building that served as the headquarters for the league was still there, its glass exterior shining in the summer sun.What the games didn’t cover was the en...
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 5
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 5Erza did arrive eventually.Apparently, my shop had opened up in the outskirts of Magnolia’s commercial district. For one, I didn’t even know that Magnolia had a commercial district. The whole place looked too small to have ‘districts’ in the anime.Then again, the source material wasn’t exactly the best when it came to fleshing out the world. What it ex...
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 4
The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 4I lay on the ground, blood trickling down from a gash in my head onto my cheek. Dazed, my vision swimming, I gazed up at his face, or what little of it I could see.He stood there, stoic, unamused. One eye visible, the other hidden behind his headband. Kakashi looked bored, and considering how little effort it had taken him to demolish me, I could understand why....
Delay Notice - Dimensional Workshop
Hey guys. I caught the flu over the weekend and haven't been able to complete chapter 4 and 5 for the Dimensional Workshop. I will endeavour to have these chapters posted by Wednesday at the latest. My sincerest apologies.
Empyrean 15 - Enaction
Empyrean 15 - EnactionJaune POVHis mind was filled with static.He’d expected Winter to be happy. After all, she’d been hounding her mother to snap out of her inaction for years. He’d expected her to be thankful, but not… that.He could still feel the softness on her lips, still feel that faint taste of cherry lingering on his lips. He could still feel her warmth pressed into his body, and i...
Empyrean 14 - Filial Piety
Winter POVThere was something troubling Jaune.They’d decided to spend the rest of the day covering up loose ends, or, well, that was the militaristic term to use. What it actually translated to was something far less grandiose.They were just taking it easy. Sitting in a cafe that the student base of Atlas loved to frequent. Close enough to the school to be visited for lunch, it was the perfect p...
