Enter the world of Pokémon from a rational perspective. Instead of starting his journey in ignorance, Red has spent his years studying the creatures so central to his world... and he doesn't quite agree with all the information in his books. No time for rookie mistakes here: he's on a quest to discover the true nature of Pokémon, and maybe even find out where they really come from.

A new body. A new prophecy. And worst of all: a new war with an old enemy. As the Dark Lord, the Order, and the ministry form an unlikely alliance to protect Britain, Harry wonders at the difference between Voldemort and Tom Riddle, and why it is that the latter seems infinitely more dangerous than the former. (Body switch fic, fifth year, power dynamics, m/m)

When Harry goes to Hogwarts, he finally understands that having a dæmon is normal. Only, the wizarding world never anticipated that Harry's dæmon would be an 11 year old Tom Riddle. AU Harry Potter inspired by His Dark Materials. Complete first and second year. Third year ongoing.

Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire but no one could have foreseen that written on that same slip of paper was Draco Malfoy. Resented by their houses and forced to participate in the Triwizard Tournament together, the two once rivals form a grudging alliance in their struggle to survive the trials ahead. Rated MA.

In which Harry Potter learns that even an unbroken soul is not immutable, and that everything has a price. The price of love is loss; the price of knowledge is understanding; the price of life is death; and the price of mastering Death...is far more than he ever wanted to pay. A continuation of Harry Potter and the Accidental Horcrux.

The Master of Death is a dangerous title; many would claim to hold a position greater than Death. Harry is pulled to Middle-earth by the Witch King of Angmar in an attempt to bring Morgoth back to Arda. A year later Angmar falls and Harry is freed. What will he do with the eternity granted to him? Story begins 1000 years before LotR. Eventual major canon divergence.

He remembers being Harry Potter. He dreams of it. He dreams of the Great Other too, a beast of ice and death with eyes red as blood and an army of dead things. He is the second son of the king, but his fortunes change when secrets rather left in the dark come to light, and Westeros is torn asunder by treachery and ambition. Winter is coming, but magic is might. Very Abandoned

"I may be Dunmer, but I am the Dragonborn, and I will defend your people whether they like it or not." Expands on Skyrim. Features fleshed out characters, content from earlier games and apocrypha, alternate choices and consequences for actions. WARNING: Contains mature content, including sexual themes, violence, and in-depth examinations of lore.

The Battle of Nurmengard ended in a stalemate. Half a century later, Harry Potter feels adrift in a world teeming with millions of fantastic folk. Armed with a talking wand, he forays single-minded into the noble art and sport of Duelling, until one book leads him on the path to discovering his ill-fated parents' efforts to conceal a most dangerous magical secret.

Sequel to Wastelands! Time has all but run out for Harry Potter. There are no more second chances. No more desperate bids for salvaged redemption. The game has changed, and in the end Harry will learn that the cost of his defiance has never run so high.

Average. Unassuming. Invisible. This is what Harry aspires to, even among witches and wizards. But that's no goal to aim for, is it? With some hard work and dedication—plus a bit of prodding—he'll climb his way up to be the person he never knew he could be. Hufflepuff Harry, from first year on up.

Percy Jackson: once a nobody in a world full of heroes. With courage and grit, he clawed his way up the unknown darkness, conquered himself, and paved the way for a generation of peace and progress. Resting before the final battle, Malcolm tells the story of how it all began, recalling a mysterious boy, his strange powers, and his even stranger habits.

The Plain Doll has never had aspirations to advance, to leave the dream. The Hunter did, yet vowed never to leave her side.

AU. Voldemort kills Dumbledore but is defeated by a child. In the aftermath, Snape becomes the Headmaster and radically changes Hogwarts. Harry Potter of House Slytherin begins his Third Year at Hogwarts Battle School and realizes that friend and foe are too similar for his liking. Competing with allies and enemies, Harry finds there is a cost to winning.

A nameless teenager is heralded as the Champion of the Unova League. However, he's not ready to bear that cross. In order to deal with his inner demons, he absconds to Undella Town - and meets a certain blonde Sinnoh Champion. Verse: B/W Games.

I am not the King. That is a Ranger's Beret on my head, not a crown. So you want to know what happened after the Championships? You want to know my role in the disaster that unfurled when the Brink opened? You want to know if I stepped into the Brink, and how I'm still alive if I did? Well, I'll tell you. But Zane Bastard is starting from the relevant beginning. This is my story...

In his fifth year Tom Riddle discovers his destiny and meets the cold, alarming, and bizarre transfer student Harry Evans. But sometimes things unravel in ways we do not expect. Time Travel.

Barry wants to surpass his father one day. Lucas wants to prove that he's a somebody. Dawn wants to keep her home safe. They all want to be strong in the end, because being strong has many different meanings. And as they grow older and wiser and push at their limits, they'll all get stronger. Just in different ways. Platinum novelization.

The final battle was lost. Man and beast were separated, just as the boy had always dreamed. But, at what cost? As the years went by, the world grew darker and darker. But her heart was still beating. Can the White Princess and the Puppet King save the world they helped create? I wish I could tell you, but the towers are rising. All I know is that the world still needs a hero.

The people of the city love gold and silver; they love silks and fine jewels. But they love secrets best of all. PottGrass, Venetian AU.

Pull a thread and the tapestry unravels. A song of ice and fire from the very first note. All the difference a drunk, a dwarf and a dragonbone dagger might have made in the right order. An audacious attempt to weave something new from the same web G R R Martin has spun. Likely to be epic length, and to contain aspects of all genres. Will be written faster than Winds of Winter!

Albus Dumbledore was too late. Someone else managed to defeat Gellert, leaving chaos and too many questions behind. Tom Riddle, who recently graduated from Hogwarts, was fully committed to become the greatest Dark Lord of all time, chasing immortality and surpassing Grindelwald's legacy. It's too bad that Unspeakable Harry Potter had something to say about that. HP/TR. Time travel

The addition of Ash Ketchum and Zinnia into May's life was disastrous. With their interference, what started out as a simple quest to become the strongest trainer became a headlong crash into the struggle for Hoenn's survival—one where May would have to choose between saving the world, destroying it, or watching everything burn. Warning: AU, anime/game mix, OOCness. Some shipping.

Ash was going to make this Magikarp a champion or die trying. (Flying-Specialist!Fem!Ash. Kanto/Johto.)

The sins of the hunters brought about her death, and Gehrman was never the same. As she sought the nightmare of her own will, so too will Gehrman, Laurence, and their associates seek the dream to stand against the scourge of beasts. But no matter how sympathetic the spirit, the gifts of the Great Ones are never in the form one expects.

Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why.

On the other side of the veil is a night without end. Under a blood moon, the Hunt starts anew. Gothic/cosmic horror, no romance, sporadic updates. [Readers do not need to be familiar with Bloodborne.]

Having a deranged dark wizard after you is not too great. Having something you cannot quite explain after you in a strange world where the kindest fate is to find yourself on the wrong end of a sword makes that first thing seem like child's play. Geralt/Yennefer, Harry/? Rated M. Because there's no other way to write a Witcher story.

What if Professor Oak was a reasonable man who didn't send Red out into the world, alone, at age ten? What if Pokémon didn't automatically obey the first person to slap them in a ball, fire-breathing lizards were considered a public safety hazard, and even a weak Thundershock of sufficient amperage could induce lethal ventricular fibrillation?

Gen/No Slash. Harry goes back to the past to change history by stopping Tom Riddle from becoming Lord Voldemort.

In which Harry goes to Beauxbâtons instead of Hogwarts. Butterfly effects ensue, with Voldemort reviving without opposition from Harry, Dumbledore trying to save the situation and Fudge making everything worse. Meanwhile, Harry learns French. (Twist on the cliché and a slow-going Independent!Harry)

Ethan, aka Gold, a shy 16 year old, has the strangest dream of his life the day before he unknowingly receives his first Pokemon and ventures forth into Johto. Joining him is his best, and pretty much his only friend, Lyra. Retelling of Pokemon Soul Silver/Heart Gold. Contains HeartSoulshipping and SpecialJewelshipping.

One life as the Boy-Who-Lived. A second life as the cursed Stark of Winterfell. How does one measure the achievements of a life? Through glory or through failure? Through magic or through swords? Although the players of the game have shifted, the rules remain the same. And when you play the Game of Thrones, you win... or you die.

A hunter awakes in the darkness, a doll awakens in a dream, a paleblood sky looms over the old city. My first attempt at narrative storytelling. Rated T for now.

There is a reason the Champion of Ash keeps coming back to Firelink Shrine (and it's not just the level-ups). He is deeply in love with the Fire Keeper, but she seems devoted only to her duty. (Rated M because we all know where this is going, smut later on).

'Anger started to suddenly bloom inside of him like a malevolent weed, and he was about to push the bundle of heartache back into the girl's arms when Daenerys smiled at him, her eyes lighting up and dimples forming in her cheeks, pudgy fingers raised towards him expectantly.' (Rated M for language, violence, and sexual situations.) -Work in Progress- *Over 80,000 views!*

In an untamed world filled with monsters and beasts, four young people discover that true horror lies not between gnashing jaws, but within the hearts of men and women just like them. [Realistic Pokemon AU] [Mangaverse w/ some anime and game influences]

There are some who believe the world would be safer without trainers, without Pokemon. There are some who believe that the world has grown stagnant, against nature. One side craves order. The other, chaos. When these views clash on the grandest stage only despair can follow. This is a tale of Champions, former and current, and how they must band together to protect what they love.

Magic is a wonderful, terrible thing - the more you use it, the more you miss it when it's dead and gone. And while it can be used to perform wonderful feats, it may also be used to execute horrible misdeeds - such as resurrect a Dark Lord. And the Boy-Who-Lived finds himself at the centre of it all. Slightly AU. Fourth Year at Hogwarts and beyond.

The Mirror of Erised is supposed to show your heart's desire - so why does Harry Potter see only vague, blurry darkness? Aberforth is Headmaster, Ariana is alive, Albus is in exile, and Harry must uncover his past if he's to survive his future.

AU. Instead of receiving a Pikachu as his starter, Ash Ketchum is only given an empty pokeball and a sheepish grin from Professor Oak. Anger and spite clouding his soul, he sets out only to find a ray of hope in the form of a small, injured Bagon. It's funny how a tiny twist of fate can change one's destiny forever. Dark, smarter Ash – various shippings included.

Extreme measures are taken to distract Molly long enough for Bill to both neutralize a love potion and ask Harry to help make his engagement to Fleur possible. A kinder, smuttier alternative to Book Six's "An Excess of Phlegm" chapter. H/Hr, Bill/Fleur.

Having spent over fifty years as a notebook the fragment of soul who still refers to himself as Tom Riddle regains influence over the mortal plane and finds reality to be an ephemeral thing while Harry Potter, a young boy of eight, discovers that things both are and are not what they seem. AU

Tom Marvolo Riddle is reaped. The Capitol doesn't stand a chance.

R'hllor replaces Joffrey Baratheon with the soul that WOULD have been Peter Wiggin. Westerosi politics take a turn for the bizarre as Cersei applies her dysfunctional "parenting" talents to an even creepier child.

On the night of Halloween 1981, Harry Potter vanished for eight years, reappearing at a Muggle orphanage with no recollection of his past. The deck stacked heavily against him, Harry arrives at Hogwarts, his past the key to the present’s brewing storm.

Response to the Veritaserum Challenge. Starts PreHogwarts. Harry cannot lie, how does this affect him? And what happens when he meets an escapee from Azkaban?

A child of destruction gifted with a spirit of balance, Azula has always been torn between pleasing her father and denying herself. When ignoring her destiny becomes impossible, an unlikely player is thrown into the middle of a war for peace. Forced to embrace an unwanted calling, Azula struggles to determine what it means to have something worth fighting for... Avatar Azula.

Rather than turned into a pine tree, Thalia is saved by Zeus and lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. But when none other than Percy Jackson steals her father's master bolt, she is ordered to keep an eye on the boy and retrieve the stolen weapon in time for the Solstice. Perlia. AU.

Merope survives to raise her son, Tom Riddle. AU.

After Red's descent from Mt. Silver, Leaf leads him, Green, and a rather unexpected tagalong on a road trip through Unova. Red is aimless, Ethan wants what he can't have, Leaf hopes for the best, and Green doesn't know where he stands anymore. Written by Kuruk and Windsong for Pokémon Big Bang 2012.

Corruption is a slow-burning game. Zuko/Azula

Well, Green thinks to himself, that's all great and whatever, but Red's stupid choice is affecting other people, too, and they have a right to know why. They have a right to Red, too, don't they?

The Courier returns to the Divide in search of Ulysses with a final message.

Death. War. Destruction. The world of the future lies in ruins. I got the chance to go back and stop it from ever happening, only to discover that I was the cause. This is how I destroyed the world.

For some people, training isn't easy. For some people, training is beyond easy. Unfortunately, for me, training is beyond hard. Double weaknesses, attacked by wild Pokemon, mistrust of trainers, and much more. I just CAN'T catch a break, can I?

An accident on Mount Silver leaves Red looking for something he doesn't know the name for. Green decides the best person to care for him is none other than the powerful Gym Leader in Saffron City. A late filled request for FFA.

Green/Red/Leaf OT3. Immediately after Green loses the championship to Red, he returns to Pallet Town and the memories of his past.

A supermutant ambush leaves Sentinel Sarah Lyons stranded in the middle of the Capital Wasteland with no supplies of any kind, and only one way home: Work alongside the enigmatic Lone Wanderer, who has his own agenda.

1957 A tree in Albania, she said. Straightforward enough, right? Not if someone else got there first. Tom's journey in acquiring the vessel for his fifth Horcrux just got that much trickier. An exploration of White Magic. Canon-compliant. Longshot. OC

The boy who cried wolf: You know, there's only so much that a boy hero can take. After becoming the wizarding world's scapegoat during the summer after the Triwizard Tournament, Harry decides that enough is enough—and flips Britain the bird. He transfers.

Fifty years ago, Grindelwald won the duel that shaped the world. In a land overwhelmed by darkness, a hero emerges: a young wizard with the power, influence and opportunity to restore the light. Harry Potter, caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse, must decide what he truly believes. Does this world deserve redemption? Or, more importantly, does he?

DLP Challenge. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." The Dark Lord enacted a brilliant scheme to destroy his foes. Follow Harry and Dumbledore as they fight against Death Eaters, the Ministry of Magic, and fate.