Annalee sighed under her breath and adjusted her coat as she walked the downtrodden path of the city. She, like the others, had a few choice words about this city, but after all was said and said, none of them would ever leave because doing so wou...
2026-01-17 18:36:21 +0000 UTC
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The customer is always right.
All over the world, across and over every dimension, every trader, merchant and Merchant had one or two things to say about that accursed phrase and the sentiments shared were pretty much the same — to hell w...
2026-01-15 23:54:05 +0000 UTC
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She stared and stared, hoping that someone had told reality a joke and she had arrived oblivious at the punchline and they’ve had their laugh at her expense and would now return everything back to normal.
No matter how much or how hard sh...
2026-01-11 18:31:09 +0000 UTC
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The man left the counter and walked into the wider part of the store and she silently followed him as he seemingly went around to gather items that could hypothetically break a soul bind.
She paid half attention to him as he walked around w...
2026-01-09 15:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Cautious steps took her towards the mundane doors and the sign atop told her that this really was the place, not that she needed the sign’s confirmation. There were a number of places in the world that were warded from her prying eyes, but not e...
2026-01-09 15:12:00 +0000 UTC
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‘Isaac’ the Merchant was having a slow day which was pretty normal in this line of business, especially so for Merchants who just moved into a new location. Now Isaac was no newbie when it came to peddling his stock, which was evident in how r...
2026-01-08 15:55:39 +0000 UTC
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Taro’s shoulders slumped even half an hour after that… woman had left him with what was obviously a threat. A very threatening threat.
He wished he could say he was out of his depths, he really wished he could. He wished he could ...
2025-11-07 20:22:18 +0000 UTC
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A sense of normalcy had returned to Taro’s house and the slightly overweight bespectacled man wasted no time in going back to his routine and arrested himself at the counter of his small shop.
He could see that Raven was still havin...
2025-11-07 20:03:23 +0000 UTC
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She stared at him as the incredulousness just bled away into plain stunned silence, meanwhile he just stared at her with a small smile. Like he was telling her a joke and she just wasn’t getting it, because she was the punchline.
Sh...
2025-11-05 13:11:31 +0000 UTC
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Jessica Jones lived in New York. She hated New York. Every single day she lived here, which was pretty much her whole life, served to convince her that this city had it out for her. She could find something new to hate about this city every new da...
2025-11-05 12:57:12 +0000 UTC
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He put as much distance as he could between him and the Superhero HQ in what little daylight he had, but he couldn’t help the nagging feeling at the back of his head that it was still too near. He completely ignored the nagging the more it persi...
2025-11-03 15:48:10 +0000 UTC
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The sky above the Halls of Justice slowly tapered out and the storms receded. The more the seconds went by the more the nightmare a few minutes ago felt like a bad dream.
The dark grey thunderclad storm slowly broke apart for the sun...
2025-10-30 08:21:51 +0000 UTC
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Chains of red and gorged ropes wrapped around her limbs, or at least tried to, but were obliterated when it came in contact with her magic. Phantoms of dark memories played all around her and tried to ensnare her only to falter every time it came ...
2025-09-15 17:30:39 +0000 UTC
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“John, what is happening?” Wonder Woman asked.
“Well, we’ve got a bit of both news.” He said, giving Taro only a passing glance before turning back to the two focus.
“Bad news is that nothing is really changin...
2025-08-26 13:39:49 +0000 UTC
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Peter has been having a blast of a time after finally getting his hands on a new webshooter and with the same high he rode to create WS-1.07, he created his first ever super suit. Well there wasn’t anything super about the suit but those were se...
2025-08-16 22:42:21 +0000 UTC
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Peter Parker froze, or probably felt the world froze – it was slowly becoming a normal feeling to him since his mutation – but this time it was for another reason.
It still felt like a really slow day dream even as the Merchant br...
2025-08-11 11:59:51 +0000 UTC
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Peter Parker. Young, teen, socially awkward — and secretly heroic — Peter Parker trekked along the sidewalk with his mind full of not-so-teenage problems.
And no, it wasn’t because Flash and his cronies were being a dick, like us...
2025-08-07 16:46:16 +0000 UTC
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The first sign they got that something was wrong was the weather going dark on a sunny day. It wasn’t a blatant sign but the forecast did say sunny for the next two days.
Another was the air. It felt cold. Not the type that made you...
2025-07-14 02:00:47 +0000 UTC
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[Hall of Justice]
Ever since their recent adoption there was a veil of, not taut tension, but more wide awareness from the senior heroes who frequented the Halls of Justice.
To them an alien invasion, tho...
2025-07-05 23:40:35 +0000 UTC
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Taro felt lighter after his talk with Talia. Lighter not in the sense that he lost weight – that would be a real tragedy – but in the sense that...okay maybe he didn’t really know what why but that was how he felt.
It felt like talkin...
2025-06-23 10:35:29 +0000 UTC
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The ride to the Hall of Justice was a cold interrogative one where Raven gave clear and concise answers to whatever Batman and Nightwing asked.
She could tell that neither of them fully trusted her, more so Batman than Nightwing. Whil...
2025-06-16 16:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Watching as the group of assassins retreated, Batman’s tension eased up a little. They had been up a creek and Batman was well aware of the unamused stare his first son was giving him.
It might have been controlled impulse that led ...
2025-06-10 17:34:30 +0000 UTC
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Taro walked into the room without any hesitation, with a dreadfully casual flair to his steps, and started looking around.
“You decorated?” He asked, staring specifically at the soft rug that was happily spread over every inch of ...
2025-05-31 19:35:01 +0000 UTC
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The world froze for Taro Sakamoto.
Those words froze Taro Sakamoto.
Unbidden, his mind surged with memories, before they shifted, no longer from his point of view, but from that of the young lady in front of him.
2025-05-31 19:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Taro did not bother picking up any weapon since he wasn’t really out to kill them, and also since he knew just how petty Ra’s al Ghul, so he just made his way through the winding tunnels with the help of Raven.
There was no hiding...
2025-05-31 19:28:19 +0000 UTC
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Taro groggily woke up, his head still riding off a wave of vertigo, and it took him all of two blinks and three seconds to realize that he was tied up in the most discomforting way possible and his joints were all locked up in a way that trying to...
2025-05-31 19:24:11 +0000 UTC
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[An unmarked island, the Northern Sea]
The aura that permeated the dark room was stifling and was only slightly abated by the two candlesticks that stood at the far end and casted down an orange glow that was slowly a...
2025-05-31 19:22:07 +0000 UTC
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