A/N: There will be one more normal chapter after this one, and then, chapter 28 will be the finale. Like with Lesson in Love, it will probably be the length of 2-3 regular chapters, to make sure everything gets wrapped up properly and to lend a climactic feel.
I will be finishing a Dark Days chapter tonight too. Although when I say tonight, I mean before I go to bed, so it might well be coming out extremely late in the day.
Chapter 26
The Beach Episode
2024-11-25 05:39:19 +0000 UTC
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What should Percy do?
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And the winner is…
Option A: Go after Clarisse alone!
Final Scores:
Option A: Go Alone: 50
Option B: Use Shermann’s group: 18
Option C: Go to Dionysus: 8
Option D: Gather everyone: 3
Chapter 10
A Parent’s Crimes
Perseus caught up with Clarisse just over the border outside of camp. She’d been moving quickly, but i...
2024-11-24 05:34:29 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I've been super busy this week at work, and its made it difficult to find time to write, hence the rate of chapters. I'm off this weekend, though, both days, and I'm going to get Quest for 12 and Curse of Lust chapters out, along with another Dark Days update if I have time.
Chapter 24
The Heat of the Forge
Thalia told me everything. About watching my performance with Pompona. About the way it made her feel. About how Piper wouldn’t leave it alone, ...
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Chapter 8
Smells Like Lavender
Rain poured from the sky, scouring the Burrow’s garden and running muddy channels along the sides of the driveway. Harry stood on the front step beside the Weasley's and Hermione, only Percy Weasley missing, as he had gone into work. It was almost the same scene Harry remembered from the past, only with a couple key differences.
“Are you dry enough, Sir?”
“Hm? Oh, yes. I’m doing totally fine,” he said, flashing a thumbs up to the black-suited...
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A/N: Patreon has been having server trouble for me the last day and a half, but it seems to be back in working order now.
Chapter 9
Lunch
Hinata sat with her legs curled beneath her, resting atop a large rock amid immaculately-raked white sand. The branches of squat trees provided some shade, but still allowed the sun’s warmth to reach her. A paper was balanced upon her knee, and upon that were characters written in black ink.
Almost absently, Hinata sprinkl...
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Chapter 25
Bind the Rigging
I used every ounce of my control over the ocean to put as much distance in between us and the scene of the battle as possible. We didn’t slow down until the moon was out and the stars were visible. Even then, we spent a while looking behind us before deciding it was safe to stop.
Echidna was gone. There was no way anything could survive after turning into the filling on a Charybdis-and-Scylla sandwich. But we couldn’t be sure if the titanic monsters themselve...
2024-11-17 06:11:32 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I really did not remember that Luna wasn't introduced until the fifth book until I was doing research for this chapter. The more you know.
Chapter 7
Good Fortune
With a great crack, nothing appeared inside a mediocrely lit hall inside the Ministry’s bowels.
Technically what appeared was one Harry Potter, his trusty Muggle mask in his hands and an invisibility cloak wrapped around his frame. But owing to the cloak, nothing is what any passing person would have seen, had t...
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What should Percy do?
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The winner is...
Option A: Tell Clarisse!
Final Score:
Option A: Side with Clarisse: 32
Option B: Side with Shermann: 12
Option C: Tattle to Chiron: 6
Chapter 9
Good Cop Bad Cop
Perseus was happy to say that after a shower he felt like a human being again. Rejuvenated, he stepped back into his cabin wearing nothing but a towel… and promptly discovered it ...
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Chapter 4
The Auction
“Good afternoon,” said a blond witch with immaculate posture. “I see you are as punctual as ever.”
Harry yanked his robes, shedding the thin layer of soot that had accumulated there across his Floo trip, and faced the lady of the house. Astoria Greengrass was a proper pureblooded woman— which was to say, as outwardly unexpressive as Harry himself. She smiled politely as she greeted him in her home, but Harry didn’t fool himself with thinking that...
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This is something a bit different, but its an idea I've been kicking around for the last week or so. I've noticed a lot of other authors run regular polls for different one-shots their audience wants to see as part of their Patreon, and it looks like a lot of fun. So I wanted to put it to a vote and see if that was something people would be interested in.
How it would work
One poll a month, with the top two options getting written.
Double Shopping Bag members would get to propose one option per month, to be voted ...
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Chapter 24
Between The Original Rock and Hard Place
A lot of people seem to think, on account of all the things I’ve faced in my fairly short life, that nothing scares me anymore. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Every duel with a Titan, every legendary monster faced and vengeful god escaped from, doesn’t make the fear go away. You just get better at ignoring it. And sometimes, you end up in a situation so screwed up that even all that practice can’t distract you from the way your...
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A/N: Longest chapter of this story yet, and I think the second longest one I've written for any story. It took almost two full days, but its finally done. If you spot any typos feel free to point them out. I was a little bit fried when doing the final edits.
CHAPTER 6
Boning
Death, quite frankly, did not know how it ended up here.
Oh, sure, it knew how it arrived in the land of the living. How could it forget? One teeny, tiny, half-second of miscalculation was ...
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A/N: Definitely a short chapter by this story's standards, but it was quite self-contained, so I thought I would split it up this way. Chapter 4 will definitely be longer. In the meantime, enjoy some creepy Voldemort.
Chapter 3
A Great Tragedy
Harry Potter appeared with a distinct pop upon an expanse of dead grass.
It was a lawn, or it had been once. Now, something had caused the greenery to dry out and wither. The day was cloudy, and not even the...
2024-11-08 07:15:50 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I've come down with a minor cold that's slowing me down this week. I wanted this chapter up yesterday, so that I could move on to the next Dark Days update, but I'm not moving at quite my normal pace. Hopefully it passes quickly.
Chapter 23
Feeling Sparks
“That’s charmspeak she’s using!” Piper whispered.
Thalia didn’t need anyone to tell her that, so she decided to believe it was for Aubrey’s benefit. The mortal’s head was right above ...
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CHAPTER 5
[Hero Enters Stage Left]
Nymphadora Tonks’s life's was not turning out the way she expected.
Ever since she was a girl she had been full of big ideas. Easily distracted, her mother called it. And that was true, but only because her head was so stuffed with dreams.
She practically lived off the old fairytales her father used to tell. They were stories he’d learned when he was her age, muggle tales full of dragons, knights, and great heroic kings. Tonks listened wit...
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The first chapter of a new story not yet posted anywhere else. Chapter 2 is already available to paid members, and I'll be adding two additional chapters over the next seven days. Hope you enjoy!
Dark Days
(Currently one chapter ahead for paid members)
A morally gray Harry raised as Voldemort's lieutenant navigates sex slaves and politics in a post-war wizarding world, all while his master grows increasingly paranoid.
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A/N: Finally, finally, I'm giving this story the attention it deserves. The first chapter went up all the way back in early September, but it didn't do well in the polls for a long time and I dragged my feet with plotting it out properly. But it's here now, and will see more updates this coming week, getting it ready for public release. Enjoy!
Chapter 2
House Call
Harry Potter was pure evil.
He didn’t know quite what that meant. What was evil? He’d...
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QUCK NOTE: I think that I'm going to post two chapters of this to my public sites over the next few days, shrinking the number of chapters that the Patreon is ahead by 1. I don't like lessening the benefits subscribers get, and in general I never do it, but I want to make my stories uniform. Curse of Lust will go from 6 chapters ahead down to 5, making it the same as In Pursuit of Power and Fifty Shades of Gennin.
It's just a bit confusing having it ahead of the others by such a slim margin. With this, all my s...
2024-11-02 07:51:56 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Fleur is the best Harry Potter girl, and I will brook no disagreement.
Chapter 4
To Charm a Veela
“The view’s just great isn’t it?”
Fleur quirked a blond eyebrow at him. The VIP box was at the highest point in the stadium, looking down on every row of seats filled to bursting with color and noise from wizards of every continent. Veela danced far below, Leprechauns had taken to the skies raining down false gold, and the night sky seemed aligh...
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Chapter 22
From Where the Harvest Grows
“Come on lad, grab hold!”
Alastor jabbed a long pole tipped by a hook out over the lava pool. Eventually, after a few seconds of floundering, the last Telekhine managed to get his fingers around it. Alastor dragged him back toward solid ground, where he crawled from the lava and lay shuddering on all fours. Alastor mopped his brow.
“Nothing will change without my pack,” he’d told us up above. “I can’t do everything by my lon...
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A/N: I did originally want this chapter to cover much more, but I had a bit too much fun with the Viewer's box scene and dragged it on. Next chapter we'll finally get to the second half of the title, even if we didn't make it that far in this way. As always, hope you enjoy!
Chapter 3
Love and Death
The early morning was very dark, quite cold, and a tad wet as five drowsy teens and a drowsy man staggered up a grassy green hillock. There was another boy with them, but ...
2024-10-29 06:30:32 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I really wanted to get a chapter of Curse of Lust out today too, but this chapter ended up over a thousand words longer than expected, which put my schedule off. I'll have COL's next chapter soon, I swear. Probably tomorrow.
Chapter 9
Demonstration
“No, not like that! Come on, it’s simple. I’ll go over it one more time.”
Hinata stared at Naruto, bemused, holding a brush in her hand. A half-dozen sheets of paper were spread across the desk in front of her, each cove...
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I've noticed a good amount of Free Members joining over time, especially over the last day (which I'm guessing is a result of Voivode's extremely generous recommendation). I truly appreciate the sign of support, and I've wondered for a while what I could post to give them some small benefit. Unfortunately, Patreon is very picky with NSFW creators' public posts because they're visible to everyone, limiting what I can do.
But then I realized I have a completely safe for work first chapter for a story that isn't posted anywhere els...
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Chapter 21
What it Means to be Free
The ravine ended at a cave. That much I expected. What I didn’t count on was the smell.
It was like a mix between rotten eggs, dank mud, and dog poop. Clearly the Telekhines had used this tunnel for a while, and they weren’t potty-trained. The whole place was wet (with water, I hoped) and pitch black. Our footsteps squelched. Thalia walked in front, sparks crackling above her palm to light our way.
In the glow of the lightning we coul...
2024-10-26 06:57:44 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Did I waste two hours triangulating the exact calendar date of the start of Goblet of Fire for the sake of one line in this chapter? Yes. Was it smart? Not at all. Would I do it again?
Unfortunately.
I'm trying a couple of new things in this story. Longer chapters, for one thing, more like Quest for 12. But the main one is a wordier voice: when I write Percy Jackson, I use a lot of short sentences because that's how Riordan writes. Rowling uses more run-on sentences and much whimsier...
2024-10-25 09:02:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 8
A New Path
“Put it back.”
“Er, Hey there Hinata, " Naruto said. “You sure are forward today.”
“Put it back!”
“Okay, okay.” Naruto held his hands up between them. “I’m listening. So you might want to, you know, take a teeny step back?”
For the first time, Hinata became cognizant of their surroundings. Across the upscale restaurant meals had been paused, patrons watching them incredulously. Hinata looked at Naruto, squished up aga...
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Chapter 22
Submission
“You’re naked,” I said.
As you can tell, I have a real talent for catching the little details most people would miss.
Artemis looked away, not meeting my eyes. Two arms wrapped around the ruffled t-shirt I’d slept in from behind.
“Like I said,” Valentina whispered, her breath hot against my neck. “Much more important things.”
I gulped. “Who’s on guard duty?”
Vaelentina’s fingers slipped under my shirt, stro...
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Chapter 20
Sweet Dreams
“My geography was never too great, but I’m pretty sure that’s new,” I said.
It wasn’t like I’d ever been to Northern Texas before. The closest I got was Geryon’s ranch, half the state away. But when I thought of the Lone Star State, active towering volcanoes weren’t the first thing that came to mind.
But that was what was in front of us— a dark peak soaring thousands of feet above the dry lowlands behind us. The sun wa...
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