Chapter 35
They Did What?
“Row-AWRR!” The unmistakable battle cry of a large cat roared, their voice echoed the microphone that just so happened to pick up their sound and blast it across the arena.
“Uh-oh, did you hear that?” Sal the announcer cuts in.
Flash-darkness.
There is an unmistaka...
2025-11-15 12:29:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 380
Fist Punches Metal
You ever have one of those moments, when you realize that the world is trying to force you to change your ways?
Well, I could almost feel the world turning against me, especially once the rules for the first regional match.
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Chapter 34
Rule Three of Pit Club
“Wait me?” I ask, pointing to myself. My mind trying to understand if kicking a deserving contestant was really worth being kicked out of this arena death match for. Only realizing after I spoke that I had broken the number one rule of my position here, that of be seen but don’t speak.
...
2025-11-13 11:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33
War Skills
You ever enter a place, and realize that suddenly the stakes are real. As if everything you have done to this point was the equivalent of just practice, just auditioning for this one chance to shine?
That is how I feel at this moment.
Walking down the long descending ramp that leads to the arena I se...
2025-11-12 22:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32
The Three Rules of Pit Club
I was huddled in my corner, just watching the events unfold. With so many new people all around, one couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated by how there were so many people that suddenly came from out of the wood works.
“Can’t believe they let us use the real arena this time,”...
2025-11-12 12:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31
Rinse And Repeat
Sparkling green motes of light form.
Trash.
Sparkling green motes of light disappear.
Golden Life Ratio Mana Regeneration.
Sparkling green motes of light form.
Trash.
Sparkling green motes of light disappear.
This is how my afternoon went...
2025-11-11 22:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30
Turning Being Awkard Into An Artform
Schools of any age and lifetime apparently suck.
The sad part is that I find myself needing these classes. While it would seem that I would have an easier leg up on most of my contemporaries, I do. But as time goes on that margin of superiority has decreased.
Why? Well simpl...
2025-11-11 14:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29
No One Knows, Right?
I don’t quite know what I expected to happen the next day at school.
Would everyone suddenly know of my identity? Would it somehow be obvious that I was involved in healing contestants for an underground fighting arena?
Would I suddenly stop getting harassed by Mr. Wallace and his stupid ...
2025-11-10 10:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude II
By Other Means
(A Few Hours Ago)
(Leah “the Destroyer” Badiaz)
Everyone was gathered around and talking about their upcoming matches. Despite it being nearly two years since her last professional bout, long enough for her to gain an Apprentice and teach her until she was ready to strike out on her own. 2025-11-09 17:51:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 28
The Fix is In
From the betting odds being offered, to the distinct size and skill matchups it was clear that Leah the Destroyer was not only the known quantity, but a proven commodity.
While Mr. Yi just looked on with the practiced gaze of a seasoned warrior trying to learn new Skills or combinations, Markan by contr...
2025-11-09 13:19:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27
Nectar Of the Gods
Finally, after spending a long time of staring into the deep green eyes of the roguishly handsome guy do I realize that I am being inappropriate.
Yes, only now that the chaos of the moment is over, do I realize that I am now straddling an unknown male and forcing him to stare at me, in what might o...
2025-11-08 15:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26
Running Through The Paces
<WARNING! This Scene has traumatic events that might cause issue with some readers. Discretion is advised. -During the second fight scene.>
“Ready go!” The referee shouted.
Ding-ding.
Simultaneously someone next to the ring rang a giant bell, signifying to the ...
2025-11-08 14:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhen your boss tells you "Bear With Me."
Then you have the idea, hey, if 67 can be a trend why not create a song about acting like a BEAR whenever anyone says "Bear With Me"
So I of course came up with this song. Thought you might enjoy.
Lyrics:
Watch out Now. I'm gonna tell you about a special dance that makes it s...
Chapter 25
The Pit
As it turns out, The Pit is where all of the scum and villainy of the city mingle. I see prominent members of the DiVoratore family present. Mother and Mithanial are both here, clearly representing the DiVoratore family, along with other members that all look familiar.
Worse, they seem to be flaunting their N...
2025-11-07 11:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 379
Fingers Form Fists
I am holding up my hand, ready to save Terra-Ulacrum as I feel I finally have a good enough grasp of what is needed to reach the void realm. To reach her, that I am about ready to cast my spell.
A spell that I absolutely need to cast, knowing that it will be the last step I need to achieve my Demi...
2025-11-06 10:15:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24
Two Birds One Fist
As it turns out, the speed at which Madame Bloom moves is close to the speed of light. As she has already reached out to get my instructors.
The reason why Madame Voyou stopped me, and part of why she seemed so frustrated with me, was that she was hired to be my direct mentor for Music Resonanc...
2025-11-05 09:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23
A Skald-ing Reception
By the time I got to Music class it wasn’t late, but rather than seeming excited as she normally did, Madame Voyou seemed downright hostile.
I could tell as the tissue around her pristine left eye were tense as if trying to angrily stare through me. I even saw the moment a trail of blue energy...
2025-11-04 21:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22
So, I’m a Bully
After class today, I would have to classify Mr. Zion as sycophancy at its finest.
What I mean by that, is that the note he received during homeroom did indeed speak of my being chosen by Madame Bloom to be her Apprentice. A fact that I managed to prove when I made a particularly wide arc around the ...
2025-11-04 16:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
Changes In Perceptions
Strength, it can’t be given.
Rather strength is earned, forged under pressure and perseverance. People always ask for strength, when really they should be asking for a world where strength is not needed.
Unfortunately, this world, this new world with magic and political machinati...
2025-11-04 04:15:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20
A Classy Lassie
(The Next Day)
I was still trying to understand what exactly happened yesterday.
Going from a standard day where you get in a fight with a thug in school. To cleaning up trash at your favorite restaurant, to nearly dying in the woods while trying to gather a branch you can imbue with Mana and us...
2025-11-03 20:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
Option Three
“Option three?” Madame Bloom asks.
“Yes, Option three. You take me on as your Apprentice. I begin learning your class, transferring my two current Life affinity Skills to this class that will improve the synergy. I even begin learning the two specialized Mana Skills you are required to teach me, wh...
2025-11-02 21:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18
Apprenticeship
“First, let’s put your new Skill Rejuvenating Healing to work, before you bleed out everywhere,” Madame Bloom pauses her explanation.
I pause, staring at her, I just stare, knowing that most of my injuries have been healed and I just need to clean up a few recently scraped spots on my le...
2025-11-02 17:24:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17
A Foolish Little Girl Searching For Sticks
Pain.
My mind awoke to the experience of pain. Worse, I could feel my Mana Extraction Skill fully engaged. As a paralytic type magic was being introduced into my body. Magic that almost certainly had to be related to both the outside pain, and the fact that...
2025-11-01 17:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning everyone,
First, I want to thank you all for staying with me for yet another month. Once again, we are within the WRITATHON, during which time I will showcase the new series Trash as my submission.
As always, during November as part of my thanks to you all, I will suspend my Patreo...
2025-11-01 12:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
When You Realize Your Mistake Too Late
“Wait, mother no!” Were the last words I cried out, before I saw literal death coming for me.
In that instant, time seemed to slow down to a crawl, as my mind took in everything. The left-handed use of casting a Necrotic Fireball. The way frame of the person I had m...
2025-10-31 10:08:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41
Twenty-Nine (Part II)
“CA-CAW!”
The cry of a mighty war bird spreading its magical releasing wings wide open, before it begins to charge forward.
As it moves, sparkling flakes, that remind me of bad noticeable dandruff fall out. Generally a sign of poor skin care, or lack of exfoliation, but this a...
2025-10-30 10:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
Unrequited Love
Pfft-pfft-pfft.
Just when I am wondering if the monsters have managed to respawn, I am given a preemptive warning that at least one pine spitting spirit has managed to reform. The fact that they are targeting me from so far away speaks of either desperation, or worse, the idea that they remem...
2025-10-29 11:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 378
A Greater Plan
(Pirate-Ulacrum) (A Simulacrums Side-Story)
(Two Weeks Ago)
Space the final frontier, some people merely occupy it, while two curious pixies explore it.
“Are you monologuing in your mind again?” Ship-Ulacrum calls out mentally, all but ruining Pirate-Ulacrum’s mojo as she explores th...
2025-10-29 04:37:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14
A Meal, A Deal, and A Seal
Once classes were over, I went back to see my favorite pastry chef. True to form Ronaldo was right there, ready to talk terms and conditions.
This was simple economics, he had a problem that I provided a unique, unintrusive response to, and only wanted minimal compensation. While there were...
2025-10-27 10:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 377
A System Wide Conspiracy
“Sweep the leg Jhonny! Sweep the leg!” I scream, my voice amplified by the various tubes and transistors within Raygunnr that help amplify and project my voice across the Regional qualifying match.
I can’t even see Jhonny, as I am still in update purgatory, trying to select and make up...
2025-10-26 15:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post