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Magix Ultra

Chapter 17

"Chiara?"

"Yes?" Said fairy answered, quickly covering up that her mind wandered off for a moment.

Contrary to the injuries she sustained, Chiara was thankfully able to recover at a faster rate after receiving treatment. While she was fine physically, she couldn't help the bad feeling that stuck with her. Which grew worse after finding out that Zero had been kidnapped by the darkclopses.

The new generation along with the UFZ took off to find him. Chiara wanted to come with but needed to stay in order to help figure out the current problem they were facing. And that was the stone statue ultras.The ultras that got turned to stone remained in the section of the city where Nera attacked.

The fairy easily determined that magic was at play. She could feel the evil magic in the area the statues were residing in from a mile way. Nera's dark and evil magic. Then, she discovered that a spell had been casted on them. It was a parasitic spell that drained a beings life force and spread to whoever came in contact with the infected.

At the very least, it doesn't completely drain the victims life force which would allow some room for healing. If they can figure out a way to get them back normal first. But it begs the question, why would Nera need so much ultra life force?

However, that could be answered later because now the main focus was to turn the statues back to ultras.

"If magic is involved then what would be the best course of action?" Hikari asked Chiara. Science and magic didn't really mix and all of Silver Cross and Science Bureau efforts had proven to be futile. Now the attention was on Chiara, as she was the only one to possess the literal magic power on their planet.

After wracking her brain, thinking back to all she's learnt and the challenges she faced with the winx, Chiara finally got an idea on how to break the spell. Without wasting anymore time, she stood before statues, at a safe distance, and yelled,

"Magic winx! Enchantix!"

In an instant, she was engulfed in light. Not a second later the light faded and revealed Chiara in her enchantix form. Which consists of a purple halter dress that reached just beneath her knees and dark blue transparent stockings with barefoot sandals that spiralled up her legs.

Her silver hair grew longer and was done in a braided half ponytail with long strands framing her face. The wings on her back were shimmering and had jewels hanging on the edges. Around her neck was a simple white silk choker necklace with a miniature bottle dangling in the middle.

Immediately, Chiara spread her wings and began flying above the statues. She then took off the miniature bottle from her chocker.

Chiara flew high above and spread her fairy dust on the statues. For a very small bottle,the glittering dust it held seemed to he endless.

"It's working." Said Mebius.

And truly, using her fairy dust gave positive results. The statues slowly but surely transformed back into ultras. Not only can the fairy dust break dark spell, it also has healing properties. Which helped replenish their life force all in one go.

After landing and dropping her transformation, Chiara looked over the sea of ultras who were previously stone statues. She was relieved to see that her fairy dust was successful.

"If you don't mind, can I have some of that dust for research?" The Chief Scientist asked her. Magic and science may not go well together but that didn't stop him from studying it.

"Sure. After we bring Zero home." Chiara answered as she once again transformed and said a quick good bye before taking to the skies to find and join the rest of her friends in the search for the missing ultra. ________________________________________

As she was on her way to the last coordinates Geed, Chiara ran into some unexpected trouble. About a dozen darkclopses standing between her and the planet where Geed said they were.

"Looks like I'm at the right place."

Both sides charged at each other at the same time. One fairy of light versus a bunch of darkclopses. All the robots came at her from all directions while she fired spells and swung her saber.

It came to a point where they had her completely surrounded. Knowing what was about to happen,she quickly encased herself in a crystal barrier. A moment later she would've been fried as the darkclopses realised full fire on her.

They continued firing at her while Chiara was trying to think of a way out of it. She closed her eyes to think. But everything suddenly became black...

•~•

Chiara found herself standing in a dark void resembling the dark killer zone. Suddenly, the sound of a familiar beeping noise rang in her ears. She followed the sound and saw Zero not too far away from her.

Straight away she ran over to him. The ultra was on his knees with his head down. There was no light in his erium lamp and eyes. His color lamp beeped rapidly before coming to a stop.

"No..." she muttered when she saw the bodies of her friends around him.Then his color lamped beeped rapidly before finally coming to a stop. And it wasn't lighting up anymore.

"Zero!" The fairy cried with tears in her eyes as the ultra and everyone else started to slowly fade away into golden dust. Chiara fell to her knees and sobbed. Everyone... they can't be...

Though her sadness was short lived when fear all of a sudden filled her heart. Slowly, she lifted her head and in the place where Zero vanished, was Zero. A darker and more frightful version of him than the ones they encountered before.

•~•

Chiara's eyes snapped opened and she was in her barrier again while the darkclopses still attacking her from the outside. There were tears in her eyes as the thing she saw and felt lingered.

Her friends...were they....?

No! Not on her watch!

She willed herself to collect her magic as fast as she could. Then the barrier came down and she let out a burst of power that took out all the darkclopses around her.

Without wasting anymore time, Chiara made a mad dash towards the planet, hoping that what she saw didn't come true.

'Please be safe' _______________________________________

"You need to snap outta it!" Geed yelled only to get struck with a flying black slugger.

"Oi Zero boy! Yer really gonna let another bad guy possess ya like that? Get a hold of yourself!"

"You once lost your heart to darkness yet you were still able to fight back and save all of us. We know you can do it again...we believe in you, Ultraman Zero!"

Unfortunately, their words didn't get through to him as the dark Zero continued on with his onslaught. They all combined their strengths to fight him but it wasn't enough. It was like he was toying with them.

All of a sudden, the dark ultra blasted them with a wave of dark energy. But before it struck them, a ball of light shot down from above and deflected it.

"Chiara!"

They were all surprised and relieved to see their fairy friend. She however, was shocked to see the dark ultra. He looked like the one she saw in her vision. And what she saw now or rather what she didn't see, made her more distressed than she already was.

Zero...he couldn't be...

The dark Zero suddenly began laughing. It started low and escalated to a howl.

"She was right. It really is you! I'd recognise that wretched light anywhere." Said the dark Zero. Seeing how guarded and confused she looked, he continued,

"After all these eons, don't tell you've forgotten me. I'm...Armadus."

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[kentaromulti]

New TV Series: Ultraman New Generation Stars! Starts broadcasting on January 28, 2023!

Take them back! Bonds of the New Generation!

Introducing the Dimensionizer and a new Zero Dimension Card!

[starry-bi-sky]

tales of the passerine - danny fenton being bruce wayne's first kid

okay okay. so this is like a continuation/elaboration of my oneshot/prompt i wrote about the idea that Danny was the first batkid. We have a lot of aus where he joins the family after the rest of the bats do, right? So hey! Lets shake things up a bit. Danny is the first to be adopted by Bruce Wayne.

Danny's parents and unfortunately Jazz die shortly after the events of TUE -- how so? I was gonna say an ecto-filter explosion, that would call back to the TUE explosion and trauma behind that. But lets do something new! Carbon-monoxide poisoning.

It's not too unexpected for something to break in the Fenton house, especially with the Fenton parents' questionable understanding of proper weapon handling and lab safety. The water heater broke from a stray shot by one of the weapons, and was promptly MacGyver'd incorrectly. Danny went to stay with Tucker for a guys' night, and came back to a dead silent house.

(Danny's neighbors got a very unfortunate shock when he ran to the next house over in hysterics.)

There was a lot of shuffling around with CPS, the police. People had to be called in to handle the equipment in the lab, and the GIW was rumoring to show up in aid to clearing the scene. When Danny heard of that, he immediately went and dismantled the ghost portal to the best of his abilities. He burned the physical blueprints of all his parents' inventions, their blueprints on the ghost portal, and their most dangerous weapons were destroyed beyond recognition. Anything to prevent the GIW from getting their hands on his parents' tech.

It opened up another investigation, but he was not under the list of suspects. He was placed in the care of Vlad Masters, where they then went back to the rebuilt castle mansion in Wisconsin. Danny, terrified of the future that has once passed and may do so again, shuts down in his grief. Inadvertently, he ends up somewhat repressing his ghost half. Something Vlad, who is grieving Madeline but relishing in Jack's demise and his custody of Daniel, is not very happy with.

Vlad's... gone into a bit of a mental health spiral. He's becoming increasingly possessive over Daniel, the final remnants of his friends and a liminal being like him. He doesn't like that Danny's repressing his ghost half -- both out of genuine concern as a ghost, but also because of his desire to control Danny and groom him into the perfect son. If you ever had a phase where you read Dark SBI found family fics, first off; me too bro, and second off; those are the vibes I'm thinking of.

Danny's mentally shut down from grief! And fear. He's dropped into a bad depressive state -- paralyzed with grief and the terror of the inevitable. Clockwork saved his parents because he believes in second chances, but what's the point of that when his family ended up dead anyways? Danny doesn't wanna believe that he's destined to become evil, and he's holding out onto that hope, but it's a thin line, and he feels utterly hopeless and trapped. He hasn't used his powers or ghost form since he trashed the lab, and Vlad has alarms set up to prevent him from trying to escape.

He's also unintentionally cut off Sam and Tucker -- both of whom are so scared and concerned for Danny too, and are trying their damndest to reach out to him. He keeps ignoring their texts. Danny basically haunts Vlad's manor. He goes out to eat if he has to, attends parties Vlad drags him to, and stays in his room all day if he can.

At parties, Vlad doesn't allow Danny to leave his side, or really talk to anyone -- not that Danny wants to. A product of Vlad's increasing possessiveness. Well, he almost doesn't let Danny leave his side. Danny has a habit of slipping off to hide somewhere for the parties whenever he can, and Vlad reluctantly allows it so long as he stays alone.

This becomes an advantage when eventually, Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham after missing for years, and holds a bright charity ball to celebrate the return. Vlad has been chomping at the bits to get his hands on Wayne Industries, and with the return of its owner there is no better opportunity to wipe out his rival. He goes, and he as normal, brings Daniel with him.

Vlad thinks Wayne will bleed his little heart out for Daniel's poor orphan sob story -- he's a fellow orphan himself, after all. He's not wrong; Wayne's little heart will bleed, just not in the way that benefits him.

Bruce sees Vlad and Danny approaching before they're even close enough to introduce themselves - and like with many of the children he will soon come to care for, it's like someone set a mirror into the past right in front of him.

Danny Fenton's suit is tailor-made for him, and despite the fact that it's his perfect size, the sag in his shoulders, the ducked down head, and the way he hunches into himself all pictures the image of a child in shoes too big for him. There's a far away, glazed over look in his eyes and grief marble-cut into the lines of his face. There's not enough makeup in the world that will hide the dark circles under his eyes.

("My nephew, Daniel Fenton." Vlad's hands are possessive on Danny's shoulders. Bruce immediately notices the way the boy tenses under his touch. "His parents passed recently, and as his godfather I was designated his guardian.") ("I'm so sorry, the loss must've been terrible.") ("Yes, carbon-monoxide poisoning caused it. Daniel was out with friends, when he came home... they had already passed.") (Bruce immediately dislikes that Vlad shared the details of their death unprompted -- he likes it even less when Danny flinches at the reminder and hunches into himself.)

Danny runs off at some point earlier into the charity. At this point, parties are still being held at Wayne Manor (because iirc google search mentioned that was a thing at first before it was changed), so he disappears and hides in one of the empty rooms nearby. It just so happens to be the same room Bruce Wayne hides in when he needs a break from all of the socialization.

Thus begins a long, long process of trust. Bruce can't reveal his hand as being smarter than he looks, but he can be compassionate. Kindness needs no measure of intelligence. He keeps Danny company for as long as he can before he runs the risk of being found.

Rinse and repeat. Vlad insistently wants Wayne Industries, and he'll go to as many Wayne parties as he can to get his hooks into the man. The problem is that Bruce Wayne is never alone, and getting him alone is impossible. Finding him too. It's like the man never stops moving. Always talking to someone, always circling somewhere. He orbits around the room as if he isn't the sun of the Gotham Elite's solar system.

Danny's had such repetitive behavior that Vlad never thinks to believe that Bruce Wayne is disappearing to go talk to him. That "Vlad's" son is even interacting with him at all. Danny never gives him a reason to think so, and neither does Bruce.

Danny doesn't actually acknowledge Bruce until a handful of parties in, where he hands Bruce a small slip of paper he smuggled in that says; "don't trust Vlad". Danny's face stays carefully blank, but he's so tense that his hands are trembling, and he's purposely looking away from him. Bruce plasters a smile onto his face, slips the paper into his pocket, and tells him "okay".

(he's been busy with his own goals with the mafia, but he sets aside time to investigate Vlad Masters. He was holding off. Until now.)

Danny does eventually start speaking to Bruce, he's starting to really like the guy. He's starting to see a little hope, even as Vlad is starting to get more and more agitated with him the more he refuses to use his powers.

He reaches out to Sam and Tucker again, and starts trying to reconnect with them. Vlad has spyware on his phone, and he limits the amount of times he can talk to them. A weird parental control lock of some sort that leaves a time limit on how long he can talk to them for. 30 minutes. Danny doesn't tell them anything about Mr. Wayne.

Danny, slowly, wants out of here, and he's slowly gathering the motivation to do it. Vlad is genuinely scaring him -- and Danny wonders just how truthful the past-future Vlad was when he told him that Danny wanted his ghost half separate. He starts trying to come up with an escape plan.

Vlad has anti-ghost wards everywhere around the mansion, and while they're always on, they boost to full power at sunset. The doors and windows are always locked, all main exits have alarms set on them. The only reason it's not super extensive is because Danny hasn't tried leaving at all yet, so Vlad hasn't had to tighten anything.

At night, Vlad locks the door to his room and puts up an anti-ghost ward around the room. The mansion is on the outside westward side of Madison, more entrenched in rural Wisconsin. The closest town is a four-way stop sign with one house on three corners, and an open bar on the fourth. Not much to go.

He refuses to go to Sam and Tucker; Vlad would look there first. It's too dangerous. Vlad would sound alarm bells and have a manhunt looking for him, Danny can't risk going just anywhere. Too much risk of being found, sold out, or caught. There's really nowhere for him to hide.

Until there is. Bruce is telling Danny about the history of Wayne Manor, and says, as casually as saying the weather; "The manor has dozens of empty rooms, I'm sure Alfred wouldn't mind filling another one if he could." And quietly, hesitantly, Bruce places a careful hand on Danny's shoulder, unrestrictive and gentle; "He wouldn't mind getting one ready for you if you need one."

And there it is. There's his out.

Danny, just as quietly, replies; "I'll keep that in mind."

The ball starts rolling.

Now I've been trying to summarize this au as much as possible for length convenience, but Vlad has been steadily growing more and more controlling. More emotionally manipulative. More agitated at Danny for not using his powers.

He wants Wayne Industries under his thumb but he's been steadily growing more and more concerned with Danny. He's started grabbing him, yanking him around, shaking him; trying to goad him into using his powers. He gets angry when Danny doesn't react, or tells him he doesn't want to use his powers. He hasn't outright attacked him, but he's getting there. This has been happening over the time it takes for Bruce to indirectly offer Danny sanctuary at his home.

It all comes to a head when Vlad stops going to parties at all -- something Danny has to pretend he isn't upset about -- because Vlad doesn't want him around other people anymore. Vlad rarely goes now without him, and only leaves to go to a Wayne function or to handle something at VladCo.

Danny can't wait for Vlad to leave long enough to escape. So he leaves during the night of a big storm. Vlad's locked him in his room, but Danny doesn't bother trying to go for it; he goes to the alarmed window instead. Danny's been repressing his ghost half so long that he can't access his powers immediately anymore -- he can feel it, he knows its there, but he can't quite reach it.

He breaks the lock by hand.

Immediately the alarm goes off through the entire castle, filling the room with red, and he scrambles for the rope the Wisconsin Ghost left for him a few months back. Danny's already out and climbing down the side of the castle before Vlad even reaches his door -- the only good thing about the entire room being ghost-proof is that Vlad can't get in that way.

The rope ends before it reaches the bottom, and he's still twenty feet in the air. It won't kill him if he lands it right. Danny takes his chances, and drops. He breaks his ankle, but he survives.

And he fucking books it to the back garden. He hears Vlad shrieking over the thunder and rain.

I'll save the full experience for a future oneshot, but Danny makes it out into the nearby woods and forcibly experiences what it's like to be in a horror game, trying to hide from the thing that's hunting you. There's only one thing going through his mind; "i'm going to die"

I have this mental image for this scene. Very stereotypical horror imo. Where Danny is hiding behind a tree, with a hand over his mouth, and Vlad is a few feet away from him, glowing ominously red through the trees, trying to search for him.

Danny doesn't get away from this unscathed, but he does get away alive. That's all he could ask for. He gets away by getting his ghost half awakened long enough to transform into Phantom and fly to Gotham.

But he gets to Wayne Manor, he gets to Bruce. Or, at least, Alfred answers the door from his insistent pounding. Danny's just in tears and Alfred gets him in the living room, wrapped in a towel, with ice on his swollen leg before he has to step out and alert Bruce.

Bruce already breaks multiple traffic laws on a nightly basis. And that's just with the sheer existence of the batmobile itself, not including the speeding and military artillery attached. He breaks double the amount trying to speed back to the cave and get out of the suit.

Right off the bat: Bruce will know, at least before Dick enters the picture, about danny's powers. He'll figure out something considering the fact that Danny traveled from Wisconsin to New York in a single night. That'll be a bit of complicated affair, but I've already got something in mind.

Actually it'll probably be very soon after Danny joins the family, because Bruce tries to offer to fight for custody for Danny - the state Danny was in at arrival is clear enough evidence for a trial. But Danny immediately shuts it down, says it's not going to work and then Vlad will know Danny's with him and he won't be safe. He tells him that Vlad cannot know Danny was with Bruce.

Danny's biggest regret was not telling his parents he was a halfa, and while he doesn't want to tell mister wayne (yet), he does tell him about Vlad being one. He needs to know why Danny can't be seen with Bruce. So he tells him, and Danny's current plan is to just hide out from Vlad until he turns 18. That way, he has no more legal jurisdiction over him. After that? He's not sure.

And to wrap this up, since this has already gotten very long and I can make more posts about this au later; I've thought about it, and I'm going to say that Danny does become a vigilante before Dick enters the scene. He goes by, as you probably guessed; Nightingale. "Gale" for short.

[heybiji]

sketching a ttrpg npc that has yet to show up on screen yet. i'm well.

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay so I saw this post about dark percy (really him reaching his Limit and fighting full strength with everything he had) and I was imagining the potential fallout of that. Pretty bad, as you can guess.

The thing is a lot of percys strongest moments happen out of view of the olympians, especially in hoo. The hurricane atop the glacier in alaska, the poison scene in tartarus, bending the depression river and the one in the palace of nyx.

Stuff like the St Helens eruption got him washed up on an inescapable island literally removed from reality until calypso gave him the OK, the achillies curse he got tricked into losing by hera. Smaller moments, the minotaur, fighting ares, the stolen pirate ship, walking on water vs hyperion, freshwater sources, him knowing both Latin and Greek, they're more easily brushed off or at least mostly due to cunning, sword skills and sheer luck and grit.

But basically the olympians don't actually know the full extent of percys strength and divine power. They have hints - percy standing on the throne, winning against ares, his many victories - but what they aren't willing to brush aside in the heat of (an important) battle there have been pretty strong consequences for.

Heck, just look at Frank, he's no prodigy with weapons, he's polite and respectful, but his distant relation to two olympians letting him inherit shapeshifting earned him direct divine meddling and his life force tied to a hunk of half toasted firewood. Man is a honey bear with lactose intolerance and he was punished with a mythical death curse for being too strong.

If Percy's true strength came out, he would risk losing everything. His freedom, most certainly. If he wasn't straight up executed he might wind up in a Greek myth style imprisonment, the way of atlas, prometheus, calypso, or something like the myriad of ways Greek heroes met their end. Good scenario he survives a dozen curses and gets on with life with a dozen new disabilities, best case scenario he's stripped of every inch of divine power and dropped back to the mortal world, not even clear sighted. Total separation from the Greeks and Romans. Oh, annabeth would marry him either way, and his friends would hardly abandon him despite the gods wishes, but they'd hardly be able to see him, and no long range contact without the ability to IM him or vice versa.

All of that to say Percy is hiding his true strength from the gods themselves - maybe not consciously, and it's not even power he particularly wants - but if they ever find out?

It's game over.

But why is he so strong? I don't know. What I do know is that the half bloods of the books are so much stronger than the ones of myth. Used to be that divine blood would get you divine favour and a great fate whether you liked it or not. Maybe some cunning and bow skills. A spot of spell casting if you were really lucky. Achillies got his curse after he was born, Perseus had a dozen magic artifacts, orpheus had something going on but hercules is to my knowledge an outlier. Now? Everyone in camp has some special power. Flight, fire, necromancy, hypnotism, dream walking etc. However it's happening, half bloods are slowly but surely getting a lot, lot stronger every century that passes. Meta? I mean I guess. But.

What no one has done before is something that their godly parent couldn't.

Except.

Except Percy.

Except Percy, in tartarus, at his mental, emotional and physical limit, controlling poison with his mind, overpowering the goddess of poison in her home, making misery choke on misery. Feeling something in his chest crack. Doing something poseidon could not, and doing it better than the person who could.

Down there, hidden away from the gods, he evolved. For that brief moment, he did something, was something new.

And that was how the gods overthrew the titans.

And that's why they must never find out.

[mabelmidnight-takeover]

just a reminder that the pjotv is gonna be the first contact of many kids to the percy jackson world and probably will influence a lot of them to pick up books for the first time so everyone please be nice and tag tlt spoilers. let kids (and adults) feel the same enjoyment you did while finding out about the pjo world for the first time

[enbyandevil]

ill be real this is kinda what i feared would happen with the constant child imagery being brought up when talking about "saving" villains

it feels as if by the end horikoshi turns to the audience and says "all of these hurt people who were shunned by society had to die. there was no way for them to live on. but dont worry! some abused kids might get saved now!" and it rings so hollow. what about adult villains still out there? if anything, the previous chapter gave me the impression that heroes are only going to get tougher on crime now. it feels like bnha is saying that if you dont get saved as a child you are a lost cause and it sucks especially with toga. because she was a child still. she was 17 when she died. but apparently thats too old for horikoshi to imagine her having a life worth saving.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Abso-fucking-lutely vibing with World's Finest: Teen Titans' addition of Karen as one of the founding members.

Because good fucking god, before this the team was two demigods, two billionaire teens and a Normal Kid™ in neon yellow BUT NOW?! Now it's two demigods, two billionaire teens and TWO Normal Kids™ in neon yellow!

No but seriously though Wally is the only one who has to like... mow the lawn and watch his neighbor's cat when they go away for the long weekend. He's the only one who knows how to mail a letter at the post office and how much pencils cost at a book fair. He's got superpowers and terrible parents and yet somehow he is the MOST NORMAL ONE THERE.

Which speaks volumes about the rest of them tbh.

But now!!! Karen and Wally get to be nerds ✨together✨ and they get free tickets to watch the trainwrecks that the other Teen Titans call life

Seriously though I think these two are aggressively trying to be friends with each other while also roleplaying their 'cool guy' hero personas, which is extremely funny to me. These two are absolute nerds with no friends in school and they are DESPERATE for a friend and they've just met but they've both decided "Yeah that one. That one is friend shaped"

Wally: you move too slow

Karen: learn how to fly dumbass

Anyway I love them

[alfieeespams]

Some biro sketches from a few months back! (I very specifically remember knocking over half a can of soda onto carpeted floor while getting the pen to draw this)

[mizzskelter]

Dungeons of Lewdity AU Part 2

As an all powerful lich I bring this back from the grave of my files

< Part 1 [Pure Sydney, Corrupt Sydney, Erin and Bailey]

Part 3 [Eden, Alex, Avery] >

Robin the Human Fighter

Robin's well known as the guardian of sorts for orphans in the town. Ever since his childhood friend was abducted before his eyes and he was too afraid to intervene, he made a promise to save the others from similar fates. When that same first friend waltzes back into his life, he doesn’t hesitate working with her towards their similar money-based goals: Every week he pays off freaks to leave the orphans alone. If he can’t pay or Erin can’t spare whatever she earns then he has to extract value from all he has. His body, for example, never fails to amass quite the bidders.

Whitney the Half-Elf Barbarian (Wolf Heart/Totem)

Whitney is one of his tribe’s strongest (or rather popular) fighters. Though when he earned his claw-like scars for true warriors and adulthood, he took his most trusted friends and left to make a name for themselves, ending up as skilled bounty hunters within the notorious town. Shame he despises all the scum there. Even if he and Erin weren’t rivals in their line of work, he refuses to speak about his actual home. For all anyone knows his arrogance is from a place of prestige, or his desire for something greater came from humbler origins. Give him a good laugh guessing.

Kylar the Tiefling Rogue

Forsaken by all save for his long time familiar, Kylar is used to passerby looking down at him like guttertrash. So what other choice did he have besides becoming another run-of-the-mill thief in the town’s underbelly, stealing what he needs to survive? A vast array of reagents for fatal brews is, apparently, a definite must. For a thief though his clothes are suspiciously similar to nobles wear. It’s difficult to tell from the damage collected over the years, or maybe it’s also because he looks no better than a child playing in their parent’s clothes.

[redsnerdden]

Ultraman Zero Celebrates 15th Anniversary With A Brand-New Project

Ultraman Zero Celebrates 15th Anniversary With A Brand-New Project #ウルトラマンゼロ #Ultraman #Tokusatsu #UltramanZero

The son of the legendary hero, Ultraseven, prepares to celebrate his 15th anniversary according to a brand-new announcement from Tsuburaya Productions, the anniversary theme is To The Future. That hero’s name is Ultraman Zero! The hero who links bonds! The celebration has officially begun. Tsuburaya Productions has announced several global events that have been planned to accompany the…

[inky2556]

Magix Ultra

Chapter 6

Chiara along Zero were currently on their way to a planet named Kirax after receiving a distress signal or distress signals from said planet. About a dozen distress signals were sent to the space garrison. When they tried contacting them all they got was radio silence. Initially Orb, Geed, X and Z were sent to investigate but what came back was an SOS in the form of an ultra sign.

As the two were flying in space, Chiara remembered something she was curious about.

"Hey Zero."

"Hm"

"Why were you so angry at Zett?" She asked. Zero flinched remembering the outlandish claim he told Ace that ended up getting to Taro and then to Mebius and then him.

"He...said something stupid." He didn't know why but he regretted calling it stupid.

When they arrived, what seemed to be remnants of a war greeted them. The structures were all on fire and crumbling. From their initial research, planet Kirax was similar to planet Juran. Both monsters and humans coexists with one another in harmony while being surrounded by thriving nature.

But what lay before the two ultras was a complete wasteland and massacre. Bodies of monsters were laying around after being brutally murdered. The lush greens of nature they saw from reports were reduced to ash and smoke. There weren't any signs of its human inhabitants anywhere.

Did they get here too late?

Out of nowhere a dark beam was fired their way. Chiara managed to put up a shield in front of them in time. Unfortunately for her the beam kept going and there seemed to be no end. The beam was powerful and she could feel the evil dark energy from it. Thankfully Zero took the opportunity to fly up and shot his ultra beam at whatever it was that's attacking them.

"Are you alright Chiara?" Zero asked as he landed beside her.

"I'm fine. I could do this all day." she assured him but truthfully if that kept going on for any longer her shield would've broke. Suddenly a dark laugh echoed around them. From the black smoke a figure familiar to Zero emerged.

"Ultra Dark Killer...DID YOU DO ALL THIS?!" Zero yelled angrily as he pointed at him.

"I merely used the lives of these lower life forms for a greater cause." he answered cooly, not at all phased by Zero's rage.

"Greater cause my foot! What could be worth innocent lives!?" now it was Chiara's turn to get angry. The air around them reeked of death. Seeing all the destruction and massacre made her blood boil.

"You'll find out in due time. That is, if you can survive this." Instantaneously another dark beam was shot from right behind them and they disappeared into the darkness. _________________________________________

Somewhere within the galaxy, a large planet sized ship floated in space. A woman decked in gold and blood red regal armour sat leisurely on her throne while she studied the holographic screen floating above the palm of her hand.

Just then a darkclops Zero entered the room. He walked up before stopping to bow before his master.

"Rise." The woman said boredly.

"My lady, Ultra Dark Killer has succeeded in trapping Ultraman Zero in the dark killer zone." the robot informed her. Hearing that she curved her lips into a smile that revealed a row of white and sharp teeth.

"Really now? And here I thought it might've taken a few tries before they sent him. Who else came with him?" She questioned.

"An Ultrawoman that goes by the name Chiara arrived with him."

"An Ultra...woman?" She said the word like it disgusted her. A large holographic screen materialized in the room and displayed the image of Zero standing close to Chiara asking if she was alright.

"Ultrawoman Chiara now was it?" She hummed while tapping her manicured claws on her throne. The more she looked at Chiara the more agitated she felt.

"Tell Ultra dark killer to proceed as plan and suck the light out of those ultras. But bring Zero to me alive." She ordered him. The Darkclops bowed before being dismissed. The alien woman turned her attention back to the holographic screen on her hand. She gazed at the image on it as she smiled again.

"Just wait a little longer darling and we'll finally be reunited..."

"And I found just the perfect host for you." _________________________________________

One moment they were on planet Kirax facing off against Ultra dark killer and the next they find themselves in a place filled with dark energy. The dark killer zone.

"Zero! Chiara!" They were surprised and relieved to see Orb, Geed, X and Z coming towards them.

"You guys! You've been here all this time? What happened?"

"When we arrived the planet was already in ruins. The next thing we knew, we were ambushed by Ultra dark killer and he sent us here." Orb informed them. Suddenly, several figures manifested from the dark void. Chiara darkness, Orb darkness, Geed darkness, X darkness, Z darkness.

"Not these guys again!"

They didn't have time to react as lunged at them at lightning speed. Each of them ended up disappearing into the darkness as only Zero was left untouched and alone. Just then Ultra dark killer appeared.

"You! What did you do to them?! Where are they?!" Zero growled as he watched Ultra dark killer walk around him in a circle mockingly.

"I simply sent them to different parts of the dark killer zone." On cue five holes tore into the void and showed Chiara, Orb, Geed, X and Z. Each of them were alone by themselves.

"I admit, you ultras a strong. Stronger when you're together. So that is why I'll make sure each of you perish alone in this darkness!"

Zero darkness emerged and attacked Zero. The others were in the same predicament. Each ultra was fighting dark versions of themselves and the fact that the dark killer zone was sucking away their energy only made things worse.

"It's still 20000 years too early for a cheap copy to beat me!" Zero shouted before landing another kick to Zero darkness. Out of nowhere, four more Zero darkness showed up and attacked him all at once. His color timer started flashing red as so did the others.

Zero felt weak from having his light diminish and in that moment the five Zero darkness managed to restrain him and pushed him down on his knees. He tried fighting back but it was no use.

"Unlike your comrades, my master has other plans for you." Ultra dark killer said.

"Master? Hah, ya can't do things by yourself so now you need someone else pulling your leash." The ultra mocked and got a kick to the gut as punishment.

"Let's see of you'll laugh once you see the death of your friends." Ultra dark killer spoke as one Zero darkness grabbed the Zero's head and forced him to look up.

To his horror Orb, Geed, X and Z had succumbed to the darkness and turned to stone. Only Chiara remained as she kept fighting off not only Chiara darkness but also Orb darkness, Geed darkness, X darkness and Z darkness. But weirdly enough, her color timer wasn't flashing red even after fighting for so long and in the dark killer zone nonetheless.

Although that didn't matter because the next thing he knew, all five darkness clones simultaneously fired their dark ultra beams at her. He immediately stood up but was jerked back down. Even in his weakened state Zero continued to struggle against their hold as Chiara's painful cries filled his ears. _________________________________________

All by herself in the dark killer zone surrounded by dark copies of herself and her friends, Chiara collapsed from the pain and exhaustion of battling all five dark ultras. The final nail on the coffin was being hit with their dark ultra beams all at once.

She held her screams in when Chiara darkness pierced her gut with a dark saber. Since Ultras bleed light the blood that was spilling from her wound became the only source of light in this dark abyss.

Chiara darkness raised her saber once again ready to strike.

"Any last words?"

Chiara didn't hear what she said. All she could think about were the others.

"I can't give up...I can't give up..." she chanted in her mind.

"Orb, Geed, X, Z....Zero..."

Chiara thought about how the others might still be fighting while she was already down. Unfortunately for her, she was unaware of her friends demise.

Before Chiara darkness brought her saber down to strike, Chiara mumbled something she couldn't quite catch.

"What was that?" She questioned.

"I...can't..." suddenly Chiara's color lamp began to glow brightly making the darkness clones back away. Even with blood spilling out of her gut she still gathered all her strength to stand up.

With determination and power radiating off her, she clenched her fist and placed it over her color lamp as she yelled,

"I...I WON'T GIVE UP!!!"

Then a golden light burst throughout the dark killer zone and spread all while turning the darkness clones to dust. Not only that, the sudden wave of light recharged Zero and revived Orb, Geed,X and Z. The walls separating them were gone and they could finally see each other.

"Master!!!" Z tackled Zero as the others hugged each other in relief.

"Hey! Get off of me kid! Get! Off!" Zero kept swatting his back but Z wouldn't budge. And honestly after what happened, he couldn't bring himself to outright shove him away.

"But what is all this?" X said as he looked around him. The dark killer zone was no longer dark. It was just light all around. Light that felt oddly familiar to them.

"Wait, where's Chiara?" Geed asked after noticing they were short one ultra. Suddenly all five ultramans caught sight of something that shone brightly not so far away from them.

"That's..."

Slowly the light started dimming. It faded and revealed Chiara fist still on her color lamp. She swayed from side to side before falling to her knees.

"Chiara!" Zero rushed to her followed by the rest. Hearing her name Chiara looked up and saw Zero running towards her.

"Ze...ro..." she uttered as her vision became blurry. The red and blue ultra caught her just in time before she collapsed.

She felt a warm hand press against her still bleeding gut, probably to stop the bleeding. Even with her blurred vision and ringing in her ears she could still make out everyone's figures and voices while they frantically called out to her.

"She's bleeding too much!"

"We need to get her to Ultra Mother!"

"Chiara can you hear us? Chiara!"

Knowing that everyone was safe, complete happiness and relief washed over her. Her vision began to darken as darkness, not the evil kind, took over.

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[kentaromulti]

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[swordmaid]

i am wide awake thinking about that post canon jb au again when I should be sleeping …!!! such is the nature of the jbrainrot…

[t4tails]

i do keep things lighthearted while talking about them but it actually is really frustrating how so many of batmans villains have explicit, real world disorders and illnesses that no matter how well their symptoms are portrayed or how sympathetic theyre shown, theyre still villains who go to a fucking asylum when theyre caught. its not realistic to say dc should retire them all as characters and they definitely shouldnt just be rewritten as neurotypical but it does make it feel like so much rogue centered content (canon and fanmade) is covered in this inescapable ableist shroud