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  • Naruto: Being a Shinobi with no System by jp777w
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    Transmigrated to a Civilian Shinobi - Check No System - Check Realistic Progression - Check What else do you need. Check this fanfic too ^_~
  • - Black Tarantula - Male Reader x Marvel by minesweeper0
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    [Male Reader x Marvel] Being a hero is a hard task, and not because of tough enemies, or the threat of death, but because it was about making a choice, a choice to take responsibility into one's own hands, and strike out for what they believed was right. In a world filled with far-out aliens and hellish demons, killer androids and super-powered maniacs, being a hero was even harder. From a young age, [Y/N] always had a keen understanding about what he believed was right and wrong, that people who hurt others for money and fame or out of sadistic enjoyment deserved punishment, that justice was necessary, and without it everything would fall apart. The death of his mother by the hands of some rogue gunman only solidified his resentment towards those he considered to be the scum of society. He had always wanted to be a hero, like Captain America or the Human Torch, from the comics he had always read, front to back. Men who held the power to change the world for the better, and weren't afraid to do what was right, despite what obstacles laid ahead of him. However, unlike his heroes, he held no superpower to help him on his path, no super-strength or speed, hardened skin or flaming skull, setting the rookie vigilante up for a bitter struggle. And yet, on a day that would have appeared just like any other, upon the seemingly unimportant bite from a strange, discoloured spider. On a less-than-interesting field trip, he would be granted the powers needed to fight for his convictions. the ability to now truly make those who hurt others pay for their actions. He made a promise as a child that he would make the world a better place, a world where people like his mother wouldn't have had to die, and he intended to follow through on that promise to the very end...
  • Eyes on you [STUD4STUD] by pussyflavoredgeekbar
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    [STUDXSTUD] Idk I was bored, if you feelin a luh frisky igu w this one
  • π”Όπ•’π•£π•Žπ•ͺπ•£π•ž by Bloodmoss-ln
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    Jake Rivers was always a parasite. He just didn't know it could be literal. A forgotten god caught him cheating at carnival games and decided to make the metaphor flesh. Now Jake is microscopic. Blind. Starving. A brain-eating worm in a fantasy world where magic is real and death comes from inside. Every creature he enters dies within weeks, neural pathways consumed one memory at a time. But first, they become legend! Jake takes one ability from each host. They gain all of his. Symbiosis and murder, always together. And he's getting addicted. Simple animal thoughts were bland. Complex minds are intoxicating. Intelligent consciousness tastes like nothing he's ever experienced. Every memory he consumes is better than the last, and the hunger grows stronger with each kill. The locals call it the Whisperer's Blessing. Power and death, arriving as one. Naga serpent-lords take notice of the pattern. But Jake is seeing something they can't: he's been everyone. Both predator and prey. He experiences reality from every angle, and reality is breaking. Magic is corrupting. Concepts are bleeding together. Something eldritch is pushing through the cracks between worlds, and the scattered civilizations of Ouroboros can't see it coming because they've never been anything but themselves. Jake has been everything. Knows languages no single being should speak. Understands magic from perspectives that shouldn't exist. He's becoming something unprecedented. Something necessary. Something monstrous. The god wanted him honest about what he was. Be careful what you wish for. This parasite might be the only thing that can consume an apocalypse. Dark progression fantasy. Visceral body horror. An addict climbs the food chain toward godhood.
  • "Neon Webs: Spider Sisters of Night City" Marvel x Cyberpunk 2077 crossover  by Chris9417
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    In a alternate universe, Gwen Stacy is born as a native of Night City, born as the younger sister of V. Both grow up as Street Kids in the gritty underbelly of Heywood and Watson, navigating gangs like the Valentinos, Maelstrom, and Tyger Claws. Their bond is unbreakable amid the chaos of fixer jobs, ripperdoc visits, and scraping by in a city ruled by megacorps. The story blends Spider-Gwen's agile, web-slinging heroism with Cyberpunk's high-tech, low-life dystopia: chrome implants, netrunning, corporate espionage, and moral gray areas. The sisters gain spider-like powers not from a simple bite, but from a genetically engineered radioactive spider escaped from a secret Arasaka biolab experimenting with animal-hybrid cyberware for enhanced soldiers. As dual vigilantes, they swing through neon-lit skyscrapers, fighting corps, gangs, and cyberpsychos while grappling with the cost of power in a city that devours the weak.
  • Ashes of Forgotten Kingdom Book 1: The Scarred Mandate by bungenlee
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    He was studying for a chemistry test. Then he was thrown into a war. Kevin Ho is an anxious, pacifist high school student whose only escape is fantasy novels. But when a fatal car accident tears him from his world, he awakens in the midst of a brutal siege-a world where warriors channel the power of Qi and survival is measured in blood. Marked as an outsider and useless in a society that values only martial strength, Kevin's only advantage is a mysterious system known as the Mandate, which allows him to see patterns in the chaos. Forced to become the strategist for a desperate fortress, he must use his wits to outmaneuver an overwhelming enemy, earning the wary respect of the fortress's deadly champion, a young woman named Xiao Li. But the Mandate is a double-edged sword, its power fueled by his own mind and spirit. To survive, Kevin must abandon his pacifist ideals and navigate a world of political intrigue, brutal combat, and a slow-burning connection that defies the boundaries of their two worlds. The path to victory will scar him, and the path back home is a distant, seemingly impossible dream. Can a pacifist survive in a world built on violence? And if he wins the war, will there be anything left of him to save?
  • GUILD & KINGDOM: THE BEGINNING by JunlandFantasy
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    ⚠️ WARNING : EXPLICIT AND ADULT SCENE PICTURE πŸ”žπŸ“· ⚠️TIPS: FOR BETTER VIEWING OF SENSITIVE CONTENT, PLEASE TURN UP YOUR PHONE'S SCREEN BRIGHTNESS‼️ In the frozen pine forests of Ardenvell, silence is not a sign of peace-it is a warning. What begins as a routine patrol for the Red Pegasus turns into the first echo of catastrophe when Rendald Stammer, a seasoned Nightwatcher, leads three young Guardians into a mountain trail stripped of all life. What they discover is not merely death, but something that refuses to remain dead. Soldiers, lumberjacks, and forest rangers stand frozen in their final moments of terror-only to rise again as undead puppets, driven by an unseen and unnatural will. Steel proves useless, and fear becomes as lethal as the cold itself. Behind this awakening stands a hooded figure-an emissary of the void, one of the Whispered Triune, beings known only through forbidden legends and the hushed fears of Nightwatchers. Its presence marks the return of an ancient threat long believed to be buried by time. When escape becomes the only option, Rendald makes a choice that will echo through Ardenvell's history: to hold back the darkness alone, buying the next generation a chance to live-and to warn the world. His sacrifice is not the end, but the beginning. The truth carried back to Rockroot shakes the Red Pegasus and sends tremors through neighboring kingdoms. A name once spoken only in dread is whispered again: Deathwhispers. And far to the north, beneath iron-gray skies and endless snow, an undead army begins to stir. The darkness has awakened. And the world is not ready.
  • Through the Doors  by Pennlov
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    In a vast, war-scarred hall of shifting gateways, survival is decided in the space between intent and action. When a dying man's hope is cut short by an unseen hand, two operatives-one sharp-tongued and smiling, the other silent and watchful-find themselves drawn into a confrontation that was never meant to be fair.
  • Critical Radius  by ShelbyTrenell
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    "In a building designed to bury the truth, the only way out is up." Elias Thorne was a man who lived in the shadows of Oakhaven, a "fixer" for a police department that had long ago lost its way. But when a routine raid on the high-rise fortress known as The Warrens turns into a sanctioned massacre, Thorne realizes he wasn't sent there to make an arrest. He was sent there to die. Abandoned by his team and hunted by an elite mercenary unit led by the cold-blooded Silas Vane, Thorne stumbles upon the one thing he wasn't supposed to find: Leo. The ten-year-old boy is the only witness to a conspiracy that reaches the highest offices in the city. He is the "Asset." He is a loose end. And he is Thorne's only shot at redemption. With the building literally collapsing around them and a "ghost" dispatcher named Sarah as his only lifeline, Thorne must navigate a forty-story gauntlet of fire, flooded basements, and narrow ledges. One burned operative. One innocent witness. Forty floors of hell. In the dead zone of Oakhaven, the radius is closing in. And Elias Thorne is about to show the city what happens when you leave a dead man with nothing to lose. β€’ #Action-Thriller β€’ #Survival β€’ #Gritty β€’ #Conspiracy β€’ #Bodyguard β€’ #Protector β€’ #Redemption β€’ #UrbanDystopia
  • π“π‘π€πˆπ‹ππ‹π€π™π„π‘: 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐒 π“πŽ π„πŒππ„π‘ by Dreamfulwriter1
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    Dax never asked to be a hero. Between his night shifts, a sick mom, and raising his little brother, he can barely hold his life together-let alone fight crime in a stitched-up hoodie and duct tape gloves. But Aureon City doesn't wait. Its streets are a maze of neon skylines and shadowed alleys, where heroes rise and vanish, and villains carve their legends into the concrete. Posters of Olympian the gold standard of heroism hang over every block like reminders of a world Dax doesn't belong to. Especially since his just a kid from the Wards. That changes when the legend herself stands before him He finds himself reluctantly allied with an outcast armed with tech and runes. Together, the two are dragged into a fight that exposes secrets, awakens powers, and puts them in the crosshairs of something far bigger than themselves. The storm is coming, threatening to turn the Wards to dust. Olympian believes Dax is the answer, the ember who can start a new wildfire against evil. Olympian sees something in him. His idol expects him to blaze a path forward. The problem? Dax doesn't even believe he belongs on the road. And in the dark, someone else has started to notice him too... for reasons far less noble. Ashes will rise. Embers will burn. A new hero will ignite. Copyright Β© 2025 by Dreamfulwriter1. All Rights Reserved.
  • Dragon Age: Tears Of Ferelden by chrissrr2108
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    Set against the backdrop of the Sixth Blight and the dark upheaval shaking southern Thedas during the events of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Ferelden's fate hangs by a thread. Queen Elissa Theirin - the Hero of Ferelden - faces a kingdom ravaged by relentless darkspawn attacks and a fractured court, with only her husband and a handful of loyal allies at her side. As the the world unravels, a cryptic letter from Regalia Lavellen, the Inquisitor without an order, signals a desperate plea for alliance. With the Veil weakening and threats rising from beyond, Elissa must hold her people together against overwhelming odds - or watch Ferelden fall to ruin.
  • DRANK by wychhazle1
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    DRANK Dark Comedy By Wych Hazle Copyright 2021 Katasha, a newly "woke" sister comes back to her hood just in time for a block party at Momma Moe's where her childhood crush, a bugged out, artistic brother named Cosmo will be making an appearance. It awakens a longing for the intimacy they once shared. At the same time, Momma Moe has a new shady, live-in 'boyfriend' who decides to spike her infamous ' Jungle Juice' with L. S. D. for his own amusement. The party morphs into a fiasco slowly. Cosmo and Katasha pick up where they left off easily, finding out they have more in common than they thought on many levels, still. After finding some privacy, sipping slowly at Momma Moe's 'drank' the two effortlessly melt into a passion soaked sexual adventure neither of them expected, or will ever forget. Outside the bubble they create around themselves with their intimacy, chaos ensues as some of the unrefined guests start to get a little too free. What was a beautiful night of partying and reuniting becomes a senseless violent uprising that they must stick together through to survive.
  • I Loved The Wrong One First by jenniferdare
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    I was the preacher's daughter. Meant to be good. Meant to marry the sheriff's son. Beau Carter was everything I was supposed to want-steady hands, clean boots, a heart full of promises. But then Weston Clay rode into town. Older. Wilder. Wanted. He didn't ask permission. He didn't need saving. And he sure as hell didn't care who I belonged to. One of them held my hand in church. The other pressed me against the barn wall. Now I'm caught between the life I was raised for... and the fire I can't put out. Entered into (TheAmbysAward 2025) Also if you like this one check out No Longer Carver currently climbing the ranks for Old WestπŸ₯°
  • Flowers from All Fields by mrexavius
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    A servant's son. A cursed gift. A love that could shatter a kingdom. In a world teetering on the brink of war, Loyn, a servant's son with fragile ice magic, dares to dream of knighthood. His gift is seen as a curse, his bloodline a barrier, and his heart is filled with doubt. Yet, guided by his mother's faith and a knight whose praise is harder to earn than any victory, he presses on. Amidst the gathering storm, he finds an unlikely beacon: Princess Eila, radiant as dawn, whose kindness disarms more surely than any sword. But in a kingdom where shadows of betrayal lengthen and empires clash, their bond becomes a dangerous folly. When war consumes everything, Loyn is forced to make an impossible choice between his heart, his honor, and the fate of the very kingdom he swore to protect. ✨ Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Romantasy ✨ Themes: Slow Burn Romance, Forbidden Love, Magic, War, Knights, Royalty, Coming of Age ✨ Updates: Regularly (1 page = 1 day) πŸ“– A poetic fantasy confession about childhood and the dream to rise above it.
  • HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL - THE CHAOTIC TEENAGERS by JunlandFantasy
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    ⚠️ WARNING : EXPLICIT AND ADULT SCENE PICTURE πŸ”žπŸ“· ⚠️TIPS: FOR BETTER VIEWING OF SENSITIVE CONTENT, PLEASE TURN UP YOUR PHONE'S SCREEN BRIGHTNESS, START FROM CHAPTER 2‼️ In the city of Ravenhill, high school life is already a total mess-full of friend drama, school BS, street gangs fighting over turf, and parental expectations breathing down your neck. But for Quinella and Oliver Turner? That's all kid stuff compared to their real problem: keeping their incestuous relationship a secret from the entire world. Quinella-the perfect student council VP, gorgeous, mature, and total role model for everyone-has to maintain her flawless image while dealing with her SUPER annoying little brother every single day. Oliver-the short sophomore punk who's obsessed with street racing, smoking, and stirring up trouble-has to put up with his SUPER naggy, bossy sister... but hey, he kinda likes it too. Their dynamic? Total chaos. Every morning's packed with yelling, nagging, and activities that'd give the school counselor nightmares. Every day overflows with dark comedy, absurd situations, and those twisted wholesome moments. They bicker nonstop. They drive each other nuts. But at the end of the day, they're still siblings who care about each other-in a very, VERY unconventional way. Plus, they've got friends with their own baggage, rivals from other schools, and they gotta survive in a city crawling with teen gangs ready to throw down anytime. **Adult slice-of-life comedy. Relatable teen drama. A unique sibling bond. And school gang action as the perfect spice.** Welcome to Ravenhill-where teen life is never normal, and the Turner family is the ultimate definition of "dysfunctional but somehow it works."
  • "Embiggened Dreams in the Rain" A Marvel x BladeRunner Crossover  by Chris9417
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    Kamala Khan is a long way from Jersey City. Torn from her reality by a malfunctioning Kree artifact, Ms. Marvel finds herself stranded in the neon-drenched, acid-rain-soaked dystopia of Los Angeles, November 2019. This is a world of corporate gods, flying cars, and "replicants"-artificial humans engineered for slavery and cursed with a four-year lifespan. When Kamala crosses paths with the fugitive Roy Batty and his desperate band of exiles, she is forced to confront a question her superhero training never prepared her for: What does it mean to be human in a world that treats life as property? Amidst the shadows of the Tyrell Corporation and the lethal pursuit of the Blade Runner Rick Deckard, Kamala must decide if her light is enough to save those whom the world has already forgotten.
  • "Heretic's Heart: A Tale of Faith, Madness, and Love" A Warhammer x DC Comics  by Chris9417
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    She was forged for holy war, armored in faith, and sworn to burn heresy from the stars. She was chaos incarnate-laughing, broken, and finally free. When Sister Superior Miriya of the Adepta Sororitas is torn from the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium and cast into modern-day Gotham City, she finds a world without the Emperor's light-only crime, corruption, and one dangerously unhinged woman in red and black who refuses to fear her. Harley Quinn thinks the seven-foot-tall chainsword-wielding "murder nun" is adorable. Miriya thinks Harley is a test sent to damn her soul. As warp-tainted forces follow Miriya into Gotham, faith clashes with madness, devotion with desire. Between rooftop battles, whispered prayers, and blood-soaked confessions, two broken women form a bond that neither salvation nor damnation can easily sever. This is a grimdark lesbian romance of impossible love-where falling for someone might be the greatest heresy of all, and choosing love may cost a saint her soul.
  • Mistress Of London by pensnprose
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    In the ruthless underbelly of Victorian London, Delilah is a name etched in both fear and admiration. Branded a runaway, a criminal, and a defiant disgrace to her noble family, she built her own empire. An underground network that shelters the poor, the unwanted, and the broken. Delilah meets a charming man, Christopher Danvers. An earnest scholar haunted by his parents' murder. Their worlds collide with distrust, sharp tempers, and dangerous misunderstandings. As assassins, rival syndicates, and corrupt officials close in, Delilah must fight not only for her people, but for the city that would gladly see her hang. And Christopher must choose whether to stand with a woman the world calls a criminal, or walk away from the only person who ever made him question everything. Victorian London is unforgiving. So is she. Power, peril, and a woman who refuses to bow.
  • Valiant  by MichealArmstrong
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