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Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.57 (Temporary End)

On the mortal plane, Destruction wandered. He did so because he was tired. Utterly exhausted. Fed up, really, with the very concept that made up his being. Destruction was not a kind master. And while he was not so limited to just the act of destroying, it was all he’d come to be associated wit...

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Hello, everyone :]

I suppose I should just get this out of the way. This next chapter is going to be the last Dead End chapter for a while. The story ran much, much longer than I thought it would (it'll likely be almost 420k words after this next chapter). While I still enjoy the sto...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.56

It took quite a bit to calm Didi down from her completely justified rage. Rizevim Lucifer had crossed a line for her, impressively managing to piss off the usually placid Death. Not only had he been responsible for Sean’s demise in that world, but he’d also spat in the face of family. That…...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.55

“It was a brisk day in Hell when I awoke and returned to the world…” I intoned with a heavy voice. “The sky bloomed a bright, alien purple with each day. Darkness under an artificial moon claimed each night. A vast, familiar landscape stretched out before me, a whole other world beneath t...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.54

“So… Cain, huh?” Harley grinned. “Sean ‘Caine’~?”

Hades blinked in confusion, “I’m… sorry…?”

We were returning to the story, it seemed. I was more than fine with that. Hecate still needed a ‘good’ introduction to my special brand of bullshit. ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.53

Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Ophis stared at me, her expression almost a glare. Anyone else would have screamed in terror and run away. Or collapsed right there on the spot. Or burst into a gibbering wreck as their brains leaked out of their ears. The weight of Infinity lurked behind t...

Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 8

“Alright, everyone, settle down,” Clark chided gently, trying to bring order to the Justice League meeting of the day. “Yes, that means you too, John. Focus on the meeting, please.”

“Which one?” Three voices asked in synch.

One was all too serious and rigid. ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 7

David blinked in surprise, “That’s it?”

“Yeah, that’s it,” Cyborg nodded. “Just a little prick. The nanites will do the rest. I don’t really want to put you under the knife if I don’t have to.”

“If you did, you’d at least use the good drugs, right...

Gotham's Dead End Bar INTERLUDE 6

[AN: I’m not going for the standard approach to greek mythology here. Or even the DC canon approach. It’s more of a personal headcanon thing with interpretations I’ve come across and liked and some original ideas all blended together. Hopefully, the end result is relatively functional and m...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.52

“What a night,” I sighed contently, shaking my head.

Kara gave a little smile beside me, “It was certainly something. I had fun though, even with the story that started tonight off.”

“I’m glad,” I returned her expression. “Everyone dealt with Yharnam much...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.51

Long, long before anything of note — when the universe was new — Magic frolicked amongst itself. It was born with Creation, left pure and promising — left to grow. It surrounded the forming Multiverse, filling in the Changing spaces in between. Every new Change brought excitement and novelt...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.50

I shook my head fondly as I eventually convinced Simmy to bring us back down to the Dead End. It was good to see her again. Better than good. I couldn’t easily fit the entirety of my feelings on the matter into mere words.

Simmy was… well, she certainly had a special place in my ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.49

Later on in the night, after my heavy story of Yharnam and watching Damian ‘seduce’ Ciri, everyone was in much better spirits. My story and the Eldritch horror that came with it hadn’t been forgotten. Just pushed to the side. Compartmentalized.

Everyone would eventually find th...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.48

“Welcome. To Yharnam.”

The reactio

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.47

“Hey, Ciri. Who’s the cute goth punk?” The short, blue-skinned girl asked Ciri as Harley, Ivy, Kara, and I came back into the Dead End.

Harley immediately jumped to my defense, playing it up as she usually did, “Hey~! That’s cute goth-BOY to you, Little Miss Gremlin~!” 2024-04-24 00:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.46

Raven bit her lip to muffle a scream. She thought she was ready. She wasn’t. She so wasn’t. Everything she thought she knew — everything she’d been anticipating — paled in comparison to the ‘real’ thing. Pleasure wracked her frame, overtaking her mind — her whole world. Blissful p...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.45

The evacuation of everyone who mattered from the Psion homeworld was a tedious affair. Fortunately, Blackfire had brought more than enough ships to hold all of the former prisoners. And to be fair to her, she didn’t slack off in her assumed duties at all.

If Kori was the figurehead...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.44

The grin on Kori’s face hadn’t left since she was united with her new Cloud Stalker Friend Boy. She was having as much fun as she’d ever had~! It turned out that being imprisoned, enslaved, and experimented on wasn’t so bad when you were turning the tables. And turning the tables, Kori wa...

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Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.43

The area that surrounded the star Vega existed as a complex and vastly diverse system. Its planets numbered in the dozens, races in the hundreds, cultures in the thousands, and sentient beings in the trillions. Truly, it was a place where one could spend the entirety of their life and only see a ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.42

Savage and I were taken before the Queen of Tamaran. And already — in the short trip from our ship to the halls of the royal palace — Savage had the local women swooning over him and eating out of the palm of his hand. A feat made only more impressive by the fact that we were being escorted b...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.41

Endless pinks and reds swirled somewhere in the ether, partially removed from reality. Lust and Passion, fiery Rage and cold Apathy, in that out-of-phase realm, there existed only DESIRE.

Scenes from the ether sprung into being only to fade just as quickly. Ghostly bodies writhed in ...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.40

Back in the Dead End, Cyborg said it best, “Holy. Fucking. Shit.”

Shock and silence reigned. The events they saw unfold before their very eyes, dimensions away in reality, were simply too much. None of the young heroes were used to power of this scale. Nor the violence or the per...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.39

I couldn’t help but feel that tonight would be an eventful one. Whether that’s because every night at the Dead End was eventful in its own right or because something new would be happening tonight, I didn’t quite know. Perhaps both could be true at the same time.

Tonight’s ca...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.38

“Azarath Metrion Zinthos…”

Calm. She was calm. She was the mistress of her emotions. She was in control. NOTHING would take that away from her. From within or from without. Time would pass. The world would change around her. And through it all, Raven would maintain the same hom...

Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.37

Though Damian would never admit it, he missed Gotham when he wasn’t there. The city had grown on him. Slightly. Only enough that he didn’t hate EVERYONE in it like most places he visited. Just most people.

Gotham still had nothing on the city of his birth — ‘Eth Alth’eban. ...