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    In 1991, the wizarding world celebrates the start of a new school year at Hogwarts. Harry Potter—the Boy Who Lived—is about to begin his first year, and every eye is fixed on him.

    But an unexpected announcement shakes the entire magical world: the discovery of two long-hidden heirs—Rigel Black-Potter and Alaric Prince-Malfoy.

    With pasts wrapped in secrecy and futures heavy with mystery, Rigel and Alaric arrive at Hogwarts—skipping straight into their third year—stunning both students and professors alike. Yet what draws the most attention isn’t just their sudden appearance, but their bloodlines: Rigel, son of Regulus Black and James Potter; and Alaric, son of Severus Prince and Lucius Malfoy.
    They carry secrets powerful enough to change everything.

    How will Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy react when they find out they have half-brothers?
    What dark prophecy binds these four boys together?

    In a Hogwarts where loyalties will be tested and the ghosts of the past refuse to rest, two worlds are about to collide—and their shared destiny is only beginning to unfold.

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    Kim Hajin is a failure. There's no two ways to look at that objective truth. It's a truth that resonates through how others look at and ridicule him. It's a truth that echoes infinitely inside his head, compounding and doubling down on his inadequacies. It's a truth, despite the unconditional love of two parents that soothe but cannot dispel those haunting doubts.

    Kim Suho is simply perfection. The desperate vessel and ideal of Hajin's "ifs" and wishes. Because Kim Suho, the protagonist of Hajin's novel, is everything Hajin wants to be for his parents and more. But, that story falls apart at the seams the same way Hajin has lost faith in himself.

    Yet, as the common narrative dictates, everything begins anew with an innocuous email requesting to remake Hajin's novel.

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    Alternatively, the extremes of Korean culture break Kim Hajin into someone who feels much more acutely, and everything shifts to the left.

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    (Sequel to Lose Those Chains)

    After learning the truth of Adam's tragic past and her parents' roles in it, Charlie decides to help him reunite with his long-lost family. Together they'll go on a life-changing journey and learn that the road to redemption isn't so straightforward. But a long, winding one with unexpected twists and turns filled with literal and figurative demons.

    And maybe discover paradise isn't truly lost forever.

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    A malfunctioning space bridge causes Whirl, and his definitely-totally-arch-nemesis Cyclonus, to land on a planet outside of the charted universe. A planet far away from the war, whose inhabitants seem to be dead set on forcing the two of them to learn how to (ugh) live normal, healthy lives, where they talk about their feeeeelings and make friends with weird, organic little slime blobs. Ugh.

    Whirl would rather die, thanks.


    Or, in which Tailgate is a Slime Rancher, and gets a couple of emotionally stunted, war-hardened idiots dropped on his lawn.

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    V's had enough of J. She stages a mutiny with N.

     

    "Oh, that's J. We kind of just keep her around?" N explained, noticing her line of sight.

    It was hard to tell past the yellow acid surrounding it and grayish spit coughed down its front, but Uzi was pretty sure that was a murder drone chained to the pod's wall. It was lying on the floor, steaming slightly from the puddle of its acid, but its visor was glitching so badly Uzi wasn't even sure it was aware.

     

    ((Summary quote will be found in currently unwritten chapters.))

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    You survived. Somehow. Everyone else is gone—swallowed up in the final battle against Sephiroth—and the only one left standing beside you is Cloud. Not because you chose each other, not because you want to. But because grief is cruel, and fate is crueler.

    You’re stuck together, bound not by affection but by loss. You fight, you hate, you tear each other open because it’s easier than facing what’s missing. And yet, somewhere in the ashes of what you both destroyed, something else begins to take shape. Not tenderness, not forgiveness—but something just as dangerous.

    “I love it when you threaten to kill me. Because every time you don’t just tells me how much you don’t want to.”

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    Tyler spends his days behind the counter of the local bargain store, surrounded by cast-off items that find their home. At dusk, he drowns his sorrows in bottles and card games, where he catches up on the latest gossip going around town.

    He wants more—a deputy’s badge, a life worth living, the will to make it count—but the mistakes he makes—and the burdens he can’t shake—keep dragging him back onto the same old path.

    That fall, the change he’d been waiting for finds him—at a cost he never imagined.

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    Stories that were in draft. Some short, some long. Trying to improve for oneself. The number of total chapters is subject to change. Previous chapter may be rewritten.

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    The sun always finds its moon, even when the sky forgets why. Iuno and Augusta move through their days like celestial bodies caught in an orbit neither can explain—drawn together by instinct rather than memory, by warmth rather than history. These are the moments between prophecy and fate: shared laughter over nothing important, hands that reach without thinking, and the quiet discovery that some things don't need remembering to feel like coming home. A collection of days when falling in love again feels less like repetition and more like grace.

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    | WATTPAD CREATORS PROGRAM · REWRITE OF THE VERY FIRST STORY I WROTE IN 4TH GRADE!|

    A chance encounter with Top Ranger Kellyn whisks Ash and his friends away on a new adventure to the Almia Region, where they must uncover the mystery of the Rainbow Birds and protect them from nefarious outside forces.

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    Sixteen-year-old Kellyn, still a new Top Pokémon Ranger, has been stationed in the Sinnoh Region for a while, clearing mission after mission. However, when he's unexpectedly called back to Almia with concerns about the Rainbow Bird Pokémon, Parity and Blue-Bird, he never expects to run into Ash, Brock, and Dawn again, who ask to go with him.

    Although reluctant, Kellyn agrees they can come, as long as they keep their distance and let him complete his mission himself, but that proves difficult with Ash's clumsiness, curiosity, and love for Pokémon--and when the mission turns out to be more dangerous than Kellyn thought.

    When nefarious forces rise, the Pokémon team must work together before it's too late for not only them, but also all of Almia and Sinnoh.

    Nonetheless, Kellyn is not too eager to ask for help.

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    Note: This story will be updated on Mondays and Thursdays.

    Fuji/Pirilika-centric.

    With the Empathy Killer curse finally gone, Fuji faces the challenge of understanding his own emotions after fifteen human years of numbness.

    Beside him, Pirilika begins questioning where home and heart truly meet.

    As their bond shifts—slowly, awkwardly, and in ways neither expects—Fuji strives to prove himself worthy of Higan and the title of Zesshosai. Together, they must navigate the complexities of love, loyalty, and self-discovery.

    A story of swords, stubbornness, and the paths they choose to follow.

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    !!! new updates daily or every other day !!!

    Do you know that feeling, as if the world suddenly begins to sway and fate plays its daily game with us?
    The finely tuned balance that has so far kept our lives in equilibrium is shaken. Teetering on a narrow ridge, fate stands on the verge of tipping.
    Only a small company of chosen ones holds the power to drive back the darkness and restore the light. Middle-earth faces ruin, and a band of companions sets out on the stony, uncertain road eastwards, where dread awaits them.

    Discover the tale of the half-elf Lithil, a warrior of Mirkwood and companion-to-be. Become part of her adventurous story, woven with battle, friendship, past and love.

    Fate has turned, but will the companions be able to save Middle-earth from destruction?

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    Jimin is the golden boy of the school — class monitor, straight-A student, the one who never breaks a rule. Jungkook is everything he’s not: late to class, leather-clad, always in detention. Their worlds never collided — until now. Forced to work together after school, they clash, argue, and challenge each other in ways neither expected. But maybe the line between hate and something more is thinner than they think. And maybe, just maybe, rules are meant to be broken.

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    Hi peeps! So I added a LOT to this story... enriched chapters throughout, added a big new chunk in the middle, and actually finished it. But I'm gonna be reposting it all under a new work because it'd be too confusing to edit/add here. So if you enjoyed it and would like to experience the re-release, haha, feel free to go subscribe here: https://archiveofourown.to/works/73750351/chapters/192310371

    Howzer stole our hearts when he appeared in TBB S1 E12, and I wanted to write a bit of a backstory for him. It begins with his newbie days during The Clone Wars and stretches to where we last see him in The Bad Batch. Enjoy his character arc and some heartwarming romance, yearning, angst, and growth.

    PG-13 action + adventure + romance
    Content/Trigger Warnings for Entire Work (individual chapters aren't tagged): wartime peril, injury, and death; pregnancy, birthing trauma, and infant loss; sexual assault up to kissing; relationship passion up to making out and heavy petting; sexual relationship alluded to but not described (no smut).

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    He’s built for battle and driven by conviction. She's too ordinary to matter, or so she thinks. Drawn together by the spark of a kindred spirit, Howzer and Aurelia start to see in each other what they can’t find in themselves. A tumultuous galaxy keeps driving them apart, but somehow they keep finding their way back. This is a slow-burn story of friendship becoming love, of purpose discovered in the midst of chaos, and of two people finding their home in each other. Through battles and banter, longing and loss, their story weaves humor, yearning, adventure, and delight in a warm and fuzzy adventure.

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    Shadows clung to the edges of the bath as the lantern flickered, its trembling light dancing across your skin. You felt it then...a strange, intoxicating intimacy in being observed. Each drop of water, each quiet sigh, turning into a secret shared with something that refused to reveal itself.

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    Starscream's life could be described as a long series of mistakes and failures, if one were to ask him, not for his own fault. After millennia of war, a last failure seems to bring an end to the Seeker, a last fight ending with him caught in a space bridge explosion. Once he realizes what has truly happened, Starscream would almost prefer it to what was actually the case. Living his life once had been pits, and back in his first frame, Starscream is set to change his life and the fate of the universe…for better or for worse. An endeavour only complicated by an invisible guest.

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    The gods are busy. Loki is bored, and she, named by Him Astrid—the wolf-girl dragged from the forest—has no idea she's about to become his favorite pet.
    Raised by wolves in 10th-century Norway, Astrid understands pack law, the honesty of fangs, and the language of the hunt. But when Viking hunters capture her, she's thrust into a world of lies, fire-tamed and full of strange rituals. She cannot speak their tongue. She cannot bear their touch. And she certainly cannot understand why the old völva looks at her with knowing eyes and calls her "child of destiny."
    But Loki—trickster, schemer, the god who plays with mortal lives like chess pieces—sees potential. In this feral girl who bites the hand that feeds her, he sees chaos. And chaos, properly guided, can reshape the world.
    A literary historical fantasy where wolves, Vikings, and Norse gods collide—and a girl who was never meant to be human learns that civilization's greatest lie is that wildness can be tamed.

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    It's the year 2040. The arms race for weaponizable, automated combat unit was one by the Global Defense Authority. The Helix Project innovated human cybernetic augmentation, artificial intelligence, and trailblazed in humanoid robots. Their flagship line, now completely autonomous, efficient, and unnervingly human makes its for foray into military use in a more meaningful way. Now the team has to cope with their new teammate, come hell or high water.

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    When upbeat happy go lucky dwarf Gloriran Merryhelm meets gruff rugged handsome Yulgar Boulderbeard at Anvil & Buns in the Hearthstone plaza anything can happen as they bond over their love for mining and metal work and shared interests at the plaza. When Yulgar gruffly and bluntly asks if she would like to be his mate. She eagerly and happily agrees as they spend time together.

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    long-form left 4 dead series closely following the four survivors from the beginning, through both expanded classic chapters and brand new settings. told primarily from nick's POV. heavy on the horror, humor and character development, with a slowburn nellis of some kind unfolding along the way.

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