Alice tried to rise, but Martin flicked his wrist. A shard of wood shot into her throat. Blood gushed as she gasped, choking, clawing at the wound.
"Alice!" Quentin screamed, rushing toward her, but she collapsed in seconds, lifeless in a pool of crimson.
Margo's eyes filled with tears and ra...
2025-09-25 11:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostOne Week Later – New York City, Night
Spider-Man swung across rooftops, the crisp air rushing past him due to the speed he was moving. His in built comm buzzed softly with background NYPD chatter, but his night had been quiet so far. 'Too quiet infact.'
And of course he just had to tempt fa...
2025-09-24 07:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostBack at the cabin, Penny was waiting with the others. "So, how'd it go?" Kai asked.
Penny said, "We got her out. She's pretty banged up, but stable. But uh—we found someone else too."
Kai's expression hardened after that. "Oh? Where is he?"
Alice frowned. "Wait, how did you know the ...
2025-09-23 15:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe abandoned forge was quiet except for the sound of knuckles brushing the dusty floor. Riven balanced on one arm, body taut like a bowstring as he pressed himself upward and downward. Sweat barely clung to him, despite the effort it took to pull off the exercise. His lips moved in steady rhythm.
"...nine hu...
2025-09-23 08:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the Lab
Tony circled the massive machine dominating the chamber to him it looked more like a gleaming gate of steel and quantum coils, humming faintly. His visor scanned across it.
"This thing's no science fair project," Tony muttered. "What the hell are you building here, Stretch?" ...
2025-09-22 20:38:16 +0000 UTC View PostKai moved back a little as he crossed his arms, eyes flickering to the blood on Eliot's palm before he cleaned it with a handkerchief. The blade had drawn him clean, a mark of worthiness.
"Ok, now I'm offended," Kai muttered under his breath. "Didn't expect to be chosen or anything, but still ouch."
Kai told the others plainly that he'd have to stay with the knife-maker for now. The forging process needed oversight, and he could speed things along by helping with the growth of the moonstones. "You all go," he said, his tone final. "I'll get busy here."
As the group turned to leave, Quentin glanced at Jul...
2025-09-21 10:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostThump…
…silence.
Thump… thump…
The rhythm was faint, distant at first like hearing someone else's pulse underwater.
Yet with each beat, it drew closer, louder, until it was no longer simply sound but a pressure reverberating in his chest.
Thump...
2025-09-20 18:04:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Today is not my day, is it?" Johnny muttered, his body streaking fire through the gray sky as he twisted around another pressurized jet of water. "How in the hell did it transition from me getting a hot chick's phone number to… this?!"
The blast passed so close it singed his ear, and Johnny grimaced. Below...
2025-09-20 18:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment he wasn't there, the next he stood before them, blocking their path.
Gasps erupted across the courtyard.
"What the hell, how did he…?!"
"I didn't even see him move!"
"Impossible, he was all the way back there—"
Riven froze, his eyes widening at th...
2025-09-19 15:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostFillory
What started as a massive blob of pure magic floating in the void and because cosmic accidents apparently have hobbies decided one bored Tuesday to go boom. From that delightful conflagration sprouted Fillory: a magical Disney land for people who hate theme-park liability waivers and like their f...
2025-09-19 15:26:40 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later.
The courtyard was quieter, though there was tension in the air. Only nine students remained standing in the center of the yard.
The other thirty-one students, those who had failed, gathered at the sides watching the second part of the second trial about to begin Some whispered...
2025-09-18 12:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostJosh’s so-called lair was little more than a hollowed-out corner of the Neitherlands, shelves patched together from warped wood and junk scavenged from who-knew-where. Kai stepped inside, gave the place a slow once-over, and frowned.
“Well… this looks dull,” he muttered, unimpressed.
...
2025-09-16 15:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe students were split into two groups.
Seventeen stood beneath Borah's shadow, forming a tense line across the starting mark under his glare. The other seventeen assembled across from Corrin, with Leyra poised at his side, her sharp gaze sweeping the young faces like a hawk measuring prey.
...
2025-09-16 13:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been two weeks since Juggernaut’s rampage tore through New York. The city was left bruised and broken after the behemoth’s rampage in the streets, but now the city was beginning to stitch itself back together. Some neighborhoods stood proud again after the reconstruction, their streets freshly paved and some of the...
2025-09-16 13:30:55 +0000 UTC View PostPenny sat slumped in the corner of the library, books scattered around him like a storm had passed through. His brow furrowed with his eyes darting over lines of script that refused to either make sense or were just not what he was looking for. He dragged his hand down his face, frustration pouring out of him.
The instant the bands were activated, a low hum filled the courtyard and then came the crushing weight.
Thud. Thud.
Several students grunted at once as their bodies dipped under the doubled gravity. A few staggered sideways, arms flailing to keep balance. Some nearly buckled outright, their k...
2025-09-15 10:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostS.H.I.E.L.D. – Observation Room, Classified Facility
“There is something seriously wrong with that boy,” Nick Fury muttered, leaning back in his chair with his eyes glued to the screen. The flickering footage of Gojo in action against Juggernaut and then the brotherhood made him tighten his jaw.
<...
2025-09-15 10:32:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive courtyard was filled with restless chatter as the forty students stood orderly in rows and columns, awaiting the next trial. Today marked the second stage of the examinations, and tension laced the air like a storm about to break.
Clusters of voices rose along with arguments on what the second tri...
2025-09-14 06:23:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Neitherlands.
Commonly known as the crossroads between worlds, dimensions, and universes. A place of endless fountains, each a gateway, each a trap, each a confusing, magical riddle in stone and water.
For first-timers, it could be overwhelming. But for Quentin… it was just weird.
For hours, he remained unmoving, letting his senses guide him. First came the sense of touch. He could feel the faint graze of the night air brushing across his bare skin, the gritty tickle of dust landing and scattering over his shoulders, the rough texture of earth beneath his form. Then came the sound, the hollow whistle o...
2025-09-12 08:20:18 +0000 UTC View PostKevan and Lynn slipped into the room. After Kevan spoke up, the silence hung for a few beats before Lynn's eyes found him.
Riven stood there, half-dressed, the soft light tracing the cut of his chest and the defined lines of his abdomen. Her gaze lingered longer than she intended, rising slowly until it met h...
2025-09-11 05:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostKai had barely left Kady’s place when he stopped mid-step on the empty street on his way back to brakebills. His hand slipped into his pocket and pulled out a white card. He stared at it in silence, thumb brushing its edges before sighing.
“Ah, what the hell,” he muttered, slipping it back into his pock...
2025-09-10 13:04:41 +0000 UTC View PostLight.
The first thing Riven felt when his eyes opened was how bright the room was. His vision blurred at the edges, his pupils tightening just as a thought flashing unbidden through his head:
'What… where hell am I?'
Voices drifted across the air around him. The voices wer...
2025-09-10 09:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe eastern mines had been sealed off with heavy barricades of steel braces and metallic fences hammered into place to keep the curious out. Inside the mine, the whole sections of the tunnels had collapsed: one fracture inward, swallowing stone and timber. This was caused due to the initial collapse; another fracture outward,...
2025-09-09 12:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe void was absolute.
There was no light, no horizon, no sky above or ground below. There was only a vast black fog stretching farther than Riven's eyes could wander. And yet, somehow, he could see.
That wasn't the most shocking part.
He remembered the Aberrant tearing his ...
2025-09-08 10:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post"You both okay?" Kai's voice softened as he addressed them both carefully, his eyes flicked between Kady and Anya.
Kady was still trembling, shock seeping out of her bones, but she managed a nod. Anya nodded too, only for the dam inside her to finally break. The reality hit her like a tidal wave: everyone els...
2025-09-08 10:12:32 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone screamed.
"Oh my God!" Kitty's voice cracked with horror as she stared at what Gojo had just done to Wanda. The brutality of it left her frozen with her hands trembling.
Mystique roared, surging forward in a blur until she was by Wanda's side. She crouched low, her body shielding the ...
2025-09-07 13:02:17 +0000 UTC View PostRiven saw the deviant's muscles twitch, cords of flesh rolling under its mottled hide. His eyes tracked the subtle movements a heartbeat before the beast threw its head back and unleashed a roar. The sound was so violent, so sharp, that his ears split open in rivulets of blood. He almost fell from his position as his vision b...
2025-09-07 07:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhere had it all gone wrong?
How did it get this bad so fast?
Oh, right. They had summoned a god.
Fuck.
Thirty minutes earlier, none of them could have imagined the carnage that was about to unfold. They stood in a perfect circle, hands joined, hearts pounding with the ...
2025-09-06 17:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post
