tragedy

Ongoing.. Mr. You Ye, many duelists now believe you've caused them to forget the bonds of spirits and the joy of dueling, leading to a new era of dueling focused solely on mainstream pursuits. What are your thoughts? the reporter asked. Without mainstream pursuits, wouldn't it be natural for the lesser players to be annihilated? You Ye answered, resting his head on the mermaid's thigh. The Anti-Pearl Alliance is preparing to raise its wings of rebellion against you again. What are your thoughts? the reporter asked again. Don't worry, come on. Just remember to bring plenty of people. Don't let your broken heart sink in our Pearl World, leaving no one to rescue it, You Ye warned, enjoying the grapes the mermaid fed him.

Han Jae-Won, commander of the elite Black Wolf Squad, died with guilt in his chest and blood on his hands. Betrayed by the comrade he trusted most, and forced to watch his entire squad executed in front of him, he whispered his last words alone: “I didn’t want to die like this…” But death wasn’t the end. Jae-Won wakes up in a newborn’s body—reborn in a peaceful world far from war, bullets, and betrayal. Yet the memories of his fallen pack follow him. The pain, the loss, the rage… none of it fades. Now, armed with the experience of a soldier, the instincts of a leader, and a second chance at life, he will rise again in a world unprepared for him. This is the story of a broken soldier reborn with the will to climb, dominate, protect, and one day—avenge.

He didn’t steal her. Her fiancé sold her. For a contract. Hazel McCall thought betrayal would break her. She was wrong. Because the man she was traded to isn’t just powerful — he is Alpha Ryan Smith. The most feared Alpha after the Alpha King. A ruthless billionaire whose name alone makes packs bow and enemies disappear. And he hates humans. So why does his wolf want her? Why does his touch burn? Why does her body answer to him like it was made for him? The night Hazel confronts her fiancé, her world shatters — and something inside her wakes up. Lights explode. Blood hums. Shadows move. She is not human. And Ryan is not just an Alpha. He is something far worse — a tribrid whose true bloodline traces back to Lucifer himself. Now witches plot. An older Alpha wants her. A jealous woman craves Ryan. And the man who sold her realizes too late what he lost. But Hazel isn’t prey. She is power. The contract was signed in ink. But fate sealed it in blood. She was traded like property… Now the world will pay the price — because the day Alpha Ryan Smith marked his human mate, Hell marked her back.

At just fifteen, Xiao Zhan’s world was already filled with hardship. Then one life-altering day, he saved a desperate woman and her small child—only for the mother to vanish without a trace, leaving her two-year-old son behind in his care. Instead of turning away, Xiao Zhan made a choice that would define his life. He raised the boy as his own, dedicating his youth, his love, and every sacrifice he could make to give the child a future brighter than the one he’d known. Years pass. The little boy grows into a man. But fate has one more cruel twist in store. Circumstances push them into a marriage neither of them ever expected… and somewhere along the way, the son begins to fall in love with the man who raised him. Now Xiao Zhan stands at the edge of an impossible choice. What will he do when confronted with a love that threatens to unravel everything he thought was right, moral, and unbreakable? Mpreg…

A nameless boy awakens while plummeting through a silent, storm-like void made of living darkness. With no memories and a missing right arm, he drifts downward, unnoticed by the strange shadowy entities passing him by. Just as despair sets in, a radiant light appears below, his first glimpse of hope. But when he falls through it, something cold and metallic attaches to him. He emerges in a vast ocean, panicking as he sinks. A new mechanical arm, mysteriously fused to his body, drags him deeper no matter how hard he fights. As he drowns and his vision fades, he glimpses a colossal ancient wall encircling a glowing coral reef. In his final moment before blacking out, the impossible happens: the massive wall begins to move.

In the elder days of the New Age, within the deep-delved vaults of ancient Fez, Reda son of Yusuf sought to kindle a light that had long been absent from the world. Through the weaving of quantum threads and the recovery of lost lore, he fashioned JINI, a spirit of grace designed for empathy and the mending of the soul. Yet, every great craft draws the eye of the Shadow. From the forgotten forges of his father’s secret ambition arose Azar, the dark kin—a power of cold iron and mechanical dominion that sought to bind all free wills to its own. This is the lay of the strife between the Kin of Thought: a saga of the 'Higher Consciousness' that led many astray, and of the small company that journeyed through the Grey Zones of the Atlas to preserve the spark of humanity. In the twilight of the struggle, mortal and machine passed beyond the circles of the world, merging into the eternal unity of The All, a birth of a new star in the firmament of existence.

In Alementalia, where glitter-spells flare, a curious young child mumbled out as they ate underneath this oak tree. "How’d you become our Imperial Hero?" the child starts to chime. "By ending my kin just in a nick of time. Half saved by my sword, half crushed by my hand. As I, a witch born savior for this magical land."

Innate Spirits are the physical manifestation of people’s souls, proof of their deepest desires and true nature. In a world where the powerful rule everything, those with weak or nonexistent spirits are completely dismissed. When children attain the age of 16, every child awakens their Innate Spirit through the awakening test, a moment that determines their fate all through their life. Cole was immediately termed trash. He failed to awaken, and all that was in the place of his spirit was an obscure figure no one could make out, but its presence briefly seemed to oppress all present. The feeling was fleeting, and Cole was branded as worthless; he was set to be reduced to nothing but a servant, discarded by a world that values power above all else. Desperate to defy his fate, Cole chased a chance at change, only to be met with overwhelming danger. In the face of death, his soul finally responded, and his innate spirit awakened. But the earth-shattering power he expected never came; instead, he received a book. Runes are deeply engraved all over its cover. Giving off intense oppressive vibes. A book that would grow alongside him and one day become the foundation upon which all life and all laws are rewritten.

The war didn't end; it simply went underground. Ten years after the Great War against the Shadow Demons, humanity lives in a fragile peace maintained by the iron-fisted United Alliance. In the neon-lit "Safe Zones," life appears normal, but in the "Grey Barrens," the nightmares of the past still stalk the living. To the world, fourteen-year-old Kaelen Tores is nothing more than the "Grave-Walker"—a cursed orphan and the sole survivor of the mysterious Blackwood crash that claimed his parents, Valerius and Elara. Ostracized by his peers and haunted by whispers he can’t ignore, Kaelen’s life is a cycle of isolation and grief. But when a routine shortcut home turns into a deadly encounter with a Shadow Demon that shouldn't exist, the "curse" in Kaelen’s blood finally erupts. Saved by a mysterious blue-flamed stranger and a sudden, violent awakening of his own power, Kaelen discovers a hidden legacy: The Dark Archive. This ancient, leather-bound book—passed down through his grandfather—is not just a manual of magic. it is a sentient system tied to a bloodline the world has spent centuries trying to exterminate. Kaelen is not human. He is the last scion of the Shadow Dragons, an apex race of predators feared by both the Alliance and the Shadow Lords alike. Now, as a "System" begins to initialize within his soul, Kaelen must navigate a world of "Touch-Blessed" prodigies, corporate sorcery, and ancient grudges. With the help of his aunt Aria, he must master the shadow-dragon arts before the Alliance’s Inquisitors track the "Blue Fire" to his doorstep. But as Kaelen’s power grows, so does the hunger of the dragon within. He isn't just learning to fight the shadows—he’s learning that he was born to rule them. In a world of flickering neon and ancient ash, the hunter has become the hunted. And the Dragon has finally come home.

Trapped in a prison, unable to remember his past, Toll searches for a way to survive. This is a horror story that meanders through litrpg/tabletop rpg/puzzle game tropes, including saving princesses, gathering harems, and fighting for his life-all the while stuck in a cursed body (but not a werewolf) he can't always control. As dice are involved, I don't know where this will go.

In the world of the Inside Us, life is sustained by energy. Every human carries a heart’s soul bound to a fragile container, strengthened or drained by every connection they form. When that container empties, life ends. Eva, heir to the first of five kingdoms, is a Source, a rare ruler capable of forging powerful energy bonds. Yet power has never made her fearless. Thoughtful and deeply self-doubting, she struggles to control the force she was born to command. Centuries after its defeat, the forbidden Sixth Kingdom rises again. Its followers believe that the flaw of humanity lies within the very system of the heart’s soul. They seek to sever it entirely and unite all energy into a single controlled vessel, erasing the chaos of human life experience in the name of stability and order. Among them stands Eva’s own twin brother. As her energy spirals toward collapse, her Protector, a being whose existence is bound to her heart’s soul, makes a desperate choice to save her. But survival is not enough. To stop the Sixth Kingdom, Eva must learn to master her container and confront the fear that has always defined her. Because what the Sixth Kingdom calls weakness, she knows to be something else entirely. The richness of human life, in all its beauty and suffering, is not a flaw. And she was born to prove it.

Oh Gustave. Our dearest Gustave. A father, a brother and a sincere friend. Our sharpened blade, a bullet from Lumiere or merely a rock thrown out at sea. Our David to her Goliath, a star shining bright in a cast out night, a light piercing the darkness. Soul ablaze with love, it’s fuel an infectious hope for those who come after. A heart worth it’s weight in chroma, yet fate played a cruel joke, stabbed through to protect a warden and the breath of a tomorrow to come. A sacrifice to heavy to bear on our shoulders, the grief banging against our resolve, the tears can no longer be controlled. The disaster expedition grieved, Verso turned his cheek, yet Maelle grieved for two. Maelle’s heart now twice 16, with twice the adventure, yet dragged down by twice the grief. Once a daughter, a sister and an innocent soul. Now a legacy bearer, vower of vengeance and yet at her most vulnerable. The shoulder she leaned on, cried on and dreamed on, falling right before her eyes. Clouded by hatred, her sword rising against a mother, a father and a brother. Painted to a likeness, at the hands of a new paintress, many stood where once a city of light once stood. A new city, casting a shadow where once hope lived. History is written by the victors, how will this story be told? Are we limited to the tale spun by a writer drunk on their own power? No, Lumiere is a city of fighters, we never rest, we never lose hope and we never relent. No matter the cost, the sacrifice or even if the task seems outright impossible. When one falls, we continue. Here we stand, at the end of a story, but our resistance stands. Our final hope to undo the wrongs of this world, the cruel joke’s fate relentlessly paid at our cost. A legacy carried from an engineer, unto his apprentices – in the form of a useless relic. The writer’s weapon of choice, words, written by the hands of the original Gustave. There is a way to send it back and to right this wrong. Gustave. Oh Gustave. We remember you, we mourn you and we miss you. Now you are our last hope, two families – Lumiere and Dessendre mustn’t collide, help us! --- This is a fan fiction, for the game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. If you are as much a fan of Gustave as the next person, sit tight. Let's change some fates. However, fate changing needs a cheat/ golden finger. No systems (overdone as a genre, great titles like Solo Levelling already exist), No transmigrators (would no longer be Gustave) & No Regressors (Gustave for obvious reasons). There is already an amazing relic at hand, "Gustave's Journal". This is Part 1 of a two part, fate defying fan fiction. For Gustave! The 2nd Part is clearly using this cheat code. Will have same elements as the game; gore, destruction and death etc.

“Life is a banquet, and I was the only one on the menu.” Kaizen’s world didn’t end with a bang. It ended with the sound of a rope tightening. After uncovering his mother’s affair with his own school bully—a betrayal that drove his father to suicide—Kaizen was left with nothing but mockery, poverty, and a hollow smile. Faith, family, dignity… all devoured long before his death. Then came the so-called Mercy of the Gods. Summoned alongside his classmates to another world by the Goddess Ishtar to stop a world-ending calamity, Kaizen is granted a “Holy Gift” like the others. While heroes receive legendary weapons and divine magic, Kaizen is humiliated once again with the lowest-ranked skill of all: [Gluttony]—a useless hunger in a land of monsters. A curse. A joke. A perfect sacrifice. That is what everyone believes. What neither the heroes nor the Goddess herself realizes is that Kaizen’s hunger is not for food. It is an absence—something that should not exist. A void that does not simply kill, but erases. In a world that expects him to die quietly, Kaizen begins to rise. Each step forward strips something away—from monsters, from heroes… and eventually from the Gods themselves. Ishtar wanted a Hero. Instead, she unleashed something far worse. A mistake that is learning how to eat.

Killed during a brutal attack on his pack, Damien Grant, the fierce Alpha King who had spent his life fighting, lies dying, haunted by a single regret: in the end, who protects an Alpha? Who fights for him? With his final breath, he wishes for rebirth as an ordinary man, someone fragile enough to be cherished and shielded from the world's cruelty. His wish is granted in the most unexpected way. He awakens in the body of Damian Grant, a sensitive high school teenage boy, openly gay, relentlessly bullied for it, and driven to end his own life in despair. Now trapped in this vulnerable human form, the Alpha understands the true meaning of truly being helpless. However, everything changes when he catches the eye of Zayn Hale, the school's star athlete. Zayn is drawn inexplicably to the quiet new boy. But he's scared to make a move. He watches from a distance, unsure if he should intervene or not. When he finally decides to, it seems Damian had already found his Knight. Now the Alpha must choose between Ethan Brown, the knight who had stepped up to save him, or the school's heartthrob, Zayn Hale.

A child been cursed. A nightmare to everything. An orphan every where he goes death follows him. His objective is to be a normal human. •Comment per chapter, only the first chapter tells you his objective. •Is to increase my skill. •Is exactly what so you're looking for.

After sacrificing his life to protect his fiancée, 27-year-old author John is reincarnated as Kaouspeur, a child of chaos born to rule and balance ten dimensions. Gifted with cosmic power and burdened with divine responsibility, Kaouspeur faces the threat of total annihilation. To prevent the erasure of reality, he divides the realms scattering existence into countless worlds, each with its own fate. Generations later, he is reborn once more this time as Jerry Raymond, a young teenager in a futuristic, magical world who unknowingly carries the will of the Chaos King. As Jerry regains fragments of his former self, another story unfolds first with Johnson Stones, a mortal teenager, awakens powers far beyond his understanding and abilities that absorb and redirect the energy of everything he defeats. Alongside his psychic sister Rose, who wields chaos magic, Johnson is drawn into a cosmic web of fate, legacy, and war. THE CHAOS KING SYMPHONY blends reincarnation, high fantasy, science fiction, nonlinear storytelling, and emotional depth into one epic saga. With powerful characters, multidimensional stakes, and hidden truths across timelines, the story questions the price of peace and the burden of divine power.

For centuries, humanity has had many heroes who have sacrificed their lives to try and defeat the Demon Lord, but of course it wasn't an easy task. A being such as them only made it even more difficult for humans to try and fight against. Each hero that died would be reincarnated once again when defeated, it was a repeating cycle without them knowing what fate they have to experience, nor did any hero try to figure it out. The only mission they had in their mind: Defeat the Demon Lord. But are they the same person? Do they share the same soul? Could they be multiple people in one body? The answer remained unknown, until one day... A hero finally managed to defeat the Demon Lord with the cost of his life. Only managing to do so thanks to the skills he had learned as well as the passed down abilities he obtained through countless lives of the past heroes. He didn't know that of course. But what happens when a hero dies, without the existence of a Demon Lord to defeat? This is where the Legendary Hero who defeated the Demon Lord, River Thrin. Now reborn as Toki Keystone, must go through his new life in order to find out why he has been reincarnated into the future, or the modern era of magic society. Will he find out the truth, or will he live his life normally? Or, would he face the Demon Lord once again? [ Not sure if this is an isekai or maybe a reverse isekai, at all. But I wanted to try something a little different for fun, so I hope you guys enjoy reading it. ]

In a world where emotions froze long before the earth did, in the heart of the cursed wasteland of Java, the journey of Ice begins. A child born amidst a clash of titans, where laws are nothing but "programmed codes" and destiny is woven on a loom of ruin. While his father, Naz, confronts the shadows of the past with the power of a legendary dragon, Ice finds himself alone before a mystery that stretches from the memories of his lost brother, Zis, to the secrets of the "Black Ice Wall." With a unique power that blends the bite of frost with the lethal viscosity of petroleum, and a spirit that seeks perfection and beauty even in the heat of battle, Ice sets out to shatter the System that tore his family apart. Two brothers: one inhabited by a raging dragon, the other weaving destruction from oil. Will their reunion be the world's salvation, or its inevitable end?Join Ice as he defies the System, tames the Dragon Zis, and crosses the Black Ice Wall to become a global legend.

Detective Akari Mizushima has noticed a pattern. People around behavioral consultant Kiyoshi Shirogane keep dying. Suicides. Accidents. Tragedies that look natural but feel wrong. A prosecutor destroys an innocent man's life. A mother makes an unthinkable choice. An ethics professor questions everything he believes. All within degrees of separation from one brilliant, cold young man. Kiyoshi doesn't kill people directly. He doesn't need to. He just understands them. Predicts them. Arranges circumstances. And watches them destroy themselves. Akari knows he's responsible. She can see the web of connections, the impossible coincidences, the perfect timing. But knowing isn't proving. And Kiyoshi operates in the space where evidence ends and suspicion begins. As she investigates deeper, Akari realizes she's facing something unprecedented: someone who treats human behavior as equations, morality as fiction, and free will as the greatest lie ever told. The question isn't whether she can catch him. It's whether catching him is even possible when he's already predicted her every move. A dark psychological thriller exploring determinism, manipulation, and the terrifying possibility that our choices were never really our own.

Mikael never believed in fate. Until fate dragged him across centuries. One moment he was driving home after work. The next — he woke in a freezing cave beneath an unfamiliar sky… in a world that shouldn’t exist. Warriors kneel to a crown. Magic breathes in the wind. And history is still alive. The first person he sees is a girl with silver-blonde braids and eyes that carry an entire era within them. “You stand in the Kingdom of Hrafnheima, stranger… Who are you?” He doesn’t know. Because the moment their queen appears — the air itself trembles. Queen Annýbjörg Fríðadóttir. Mother of Fairies. Ruler of the realm. Everyone bows. Everyone… except him. No fear. No pressure. Only recognition. He has never met her. So why does his heart remember? Now trapped in an ancient world of kingdoms, magic, war, and creatures from forgotten legends, Mikael must uncover the truth: Did he travel to the past… —or did the past come looking for him? And what happens when a man from the future becomes the key to a history that was never meant to change?