I cannot stay here long. I have stayed too long already. The town has started to know my shape. Her father knows my strength. Marcy knows my silence. Petals knows my face well enough to draw it. That is danger. A smart man leaves before roots form. A weapon does not grow roots at all. "What do people call you?" she asks softly behind me. Subject 249. Asset. Animal. Monster. The Russian word one guard used before I broke his jaw. A memory of a black-haired man snapping something over my shoulder with blood on his hands. Mikhail. Alexei. The name Alexei sits somewhere deep, but it is not reachable. Not fully. It feels like a locked door. It feels like a man who died at twenty-one and left me wearing his bones. I cannot give her that name. Not when I do not know if it is mine. Not when saying it might wake things that should stay asleep. So I choose the one I have used at the docks, the one written on no paper, the one old fishermen can pronounce without questions, the one that feels borrowed enough to abandon. "Nicholas," I say. Her voice is careful. "Nicholas." My hand tightens on the curtain. The name sounds different in her mouth. Less fake. That is dangerous too. "Nicholas," she repeats, softer this time, like she is testing the shape of it, like she is sketching it in the air. I let the curtain fall and turn back toward her. She is watching me with tired eyes, frightened but curious, still in pain, still too cold, still too beautiful for the small room. Every time I look at her, the plan changes. That is the problem. Before the store, I was leaving before deep winter. Before the drawing, I was leaving within a week. Before the snow, I was leaving tomorrow. Now she is here, wrapped in my blanket, her ankle in my bandage, my name in her mouth, and tomorrow feels impossible in a way I do not understand.

The only woman Jacaerys Velaryon ever had room for in his heart was his mother. The day he met Breyna Blackwood his heart grew a bit bigger. Breyna Blackwood is overwhelmed with joy at the birth of her brother, Benjicot Blackwood. The small girl didn't know that the joy and light in Raventree Hall would be short lived and her life would change in a quick instant. Jacaerys Velaryon was Breyna Blackwood's hero and she was his. This story is based on HBO's House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones. I do not own any of the characters, except my own (Breyna, etc.). The story follows the events from House of the Dragon and the books written by George R.R. Martin.

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One mission changes everything. When a mysterious portal tears open during a battle, Lloyd, Nya, Zane, Cole and Jay are pulled into another world. Kai is the only one left behind. In the strange new world, the ninja discover a peaceful civilization with no way home. Their only hope is to wait for the portal to reopen... even if it takes three long years. Back in Ninjago, the world falls apart. A deadly corruption spreads across the land, turning thousands into terrifying zombies. Cities collapse, families disappear, and the few survivors form groups to protect one another. Believing the ninja died on their final mission, hope fades from the world. Kai survives. But surviving isn't living. Three years of loneliness, grief, and endless bloodshed slowly destroy the Master of Fire. The brave, hot-headed hero everyone once knew vanishes, replaced by a silent figure hidden behind a black mask. He no longer fights to save lives-he fights because it's all he has left. Zombies... raiders... murderers... it doesn't matter. Anyone who stands in his way dies. To the survivors, he's become nothing more than a legend. A monster. A ghost. A killer. When the portal finally opens three years later, the ninja return expecting to save Ninjago. Instead, they find a world overrun by the undead... and haunted by a masked killer feared by everyone. They have no idea that the man they're hunting is their own brother. Can the ninja stop the mysterious killer before it's too late... or will they discover that the greatest threat to Ninjago isn't the zombies- It's Kai.

A fallen hero who disappeared days after the war ended. A hardworking civilian with a lost dream. These two people with two very different backstories cross paths one day. The fallen hero finds himself chasing her affection but taking drastic measures in order to do so. She doesn't know the monster she's created of this fallen hero without meaning to. Started - July 18th, 2026 Finished - August 17th, 2026 #18 in dabi - August 3rd, 2026 #184 in bnha - August 16th, 2026

Welcome home Lila. Six years after the death of her best friend, Margot Darling, Lila Lafferty returns to Bernbrooke - the secluded town full of wealthy elites she's tried so desperately to forget. The Darling estate hasn't changed. Neither have the people who call it home. As old friendships and pushed away romances are forced back together, long-buried secrets begin to surface, and the official story surrounding Margot's death and those who went before her starts to unravel. Strange whispers echo through the hedge maze, shadows linger where they shouldn't, and some are determined to keep the past and its secrets buried.

Izuku Midoriya has Divine Dividing Gear, what happens next? Find out on the next episode of My Divided Academia!