A/N: Vacation begins today, posting a few things before I go, should be back by Sunday.
Having a few friends look after the house for me in the meantime, as a favor. They're good lads.
I'll be taking my computer with me, so I'll try to post if possible, but I can make no promises. October really messed up my update schedule with all those crises happening one after the other, I'm hoping the next few months will be better. I am TRYING to catch up in November, but everything is all over the place.
Alas, it seems site notifications are busted at the moment.
Folks get them in the app, but not on the web browser, which is becoming a proper pain for some of us. Hopefully they'll fix it soon...though it has been almost a month days with no response about the emails...
If this chapter gets a ton of feedback as well-hopefully!-then I'll do my best to ensure a weekly update again. If not...I don't know. I really don't.
Amazing what a bit of feedback can do. Really spurs me to write faster.
In other news depression's starting to hit real hard these days. I've been writing here for fifteen years and yet sometimes I wonder why I do anything at all. I can't claim to understand what's going wrong with my head. I don't even know why! One moment I'm fine, then my mood craters for a few hours, then I'm back again for a bit, and the cycle repeats. Its rather annoying; as though I've become a prisoner in my own mind sometimes. Sure, what's one more mental problem on the pile. Not like I don't have enough, what with already being this old. Feels like every day is a battle sometimes. My doctor is of no help at all. Can't find a proper therapist to save my life.
Trying to find a decent an AFFORDABLE one is absolute hell, and its driving me bonkers. *siiiigh* Don't mind the rambling of this geezer...
No questions this time. Someone complained. Ah, well. I think I've kept you waiting long enough already, dear reader.
As ever, I own no quotes, references, themes, or memes. Not a wit or a one!
They're tributes to legends far greater than little old me.
Here we go. Spoiler for a certain story.
"FACE ME!"
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WARRIOR
...you fight well, Tarnished."
Naruto twitched as he climbed to his feet. He absolutely twitched.
Well, Godfrey had said. Those stomps of his were bullshit! They covered the entire arena! How was that fighting well?!
The behemoth before him nevertheless levered himself upright beneath the Erdtree, wasted and gasping for air. "I would have your name.
And yet he couldn't help but give it.
...Naruto Uzumaki."
"Very well, he who calls himself Uzumaki. No longer do I stand as Godfrey. Now I fight as Hoarah Loux. Warrior!" the lion upon the massive man's back faded away as he tore off his armor, exposing a broad, scarred chest as he cast his axe aside. "Come! Let us fight! As one warrior to another...and see who becomes Elden Lord!"
Kurama scoffed. "Ignore him. You've got him beat. Just finish him-
Naruto tore off his shirt. "Bring it on!"
"Seriously?! He's worse than Gai! At least that one kept his clothes on!"
Rennala flung up her arms. "By the moon, You are such BOYS!
And if Ranni and Mlicent and Greyroll-among others-just happened to drool a little...
...well. It was the end of the world, the end of an age. There was hardly anyone to take them to task for it now, was there?
A/N: And scene.
Hope this little tidbit of a teaser made you smile!
As ever, reviews are the fuel that sustain me. Without them I cannot write a single word. Simple as that. Working nearly all hours of the day keep me absurdly busy, as such, I can't bring myself to write something folks don't like.
Aaaand there we go. As ever, reviews keep me alive. Without them, I cannot write.
So...in the Immortal Words of Atlas...Review...Would You Kindly?
Only a few previews here. Sorry. In a lot of pain.
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EDIT: Hope you enjoyed this, and may your day be filled with lots of luck!
Warm regards,
~Nz.