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For hundreds of years, Hunter has served as the Golden Guard: the Right Hand of the Emperor and the Sword and Shield of the Boiling Isles. His duty is first to serve and obey his Emperor and second to guard and protect the citizens of the Boiling Isles. Those were the oaths he swore when accepting the mantle of Golden Guard and he has strove faithfully to uphold them ever since.
For hundreds of years, Hunter has watched his uncle lose himself more and more to a dark and deadly curse. He swore no oath to stop it and Uncle would never ask him to. But then, he never needed to. Hunter decided long ago he would find a way to free his uncle, no matter the cost.
And if that means working part time for the most notorious criminal on the Boiling Isles and being dragged on idiotic adventures by a human who is way too enamored with wild magic? Then Hunter can manage to swallow his pride and suffer their chaotic shenanigans.
After all, it's just until he finds a way to break the curse.
Right?
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Jack wasn’t planning to stay.
Not with them. Not anywhere.
The Central Talivarian Bazaar is supposed to be just another stop—a place to find what he needs, fix his vortex manipulator, and move on before anyone starts asking the wrong questions.
But things in the market aren’t holding. Objects flicker. People go missing. And the longer it continues, the harder it becomes to tell what’s still there—and what’s already gone.
Leaving should be simple.
It isn’t.
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Deceit's plan may have begun with Thomas's conflict over honesty, but it certainly didn't end just because he decided to do the right thing. Life was an endless stream of choices, after all, and making the right decision once didn't automatically guarantee that you'd be able to do it again. In fact, in Virgil's experience, it usually meant you were setting yourself up for an even bigger fall.
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When Roman and Remus get the idea for a tickle war, Virgil adamantly refuses to get involved. He knows his famILY thinks it's fun and playful, but for him, it's nothing less than sheer torture. Unfortunately, when those you love don't understand your point of view, sometimes boundaries can get a little muddled. And when that happens, Virgil discovers that certain memories of his past aren't as far behind him as he'd like to think.
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All Virgil wanted to do was find enough to eat to go to bed with a full stomach--or at least a slightly less empty one. Having to deal with an annoying little kit wasn't part of the plan. But when the brat asks him to teach him how to fight, Virgil can't help but agree against his better judgement. Everyone should know how to defend themselves, after all.
(Especially when the world tries to tell you you can't.)
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- Part 1 of You Teach Me (And I'll Teach You)
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Roman's been giving Virgil the silent treatment for three days and, to be honest, Virgil's a little tired of it. Ok, a lot tired of it. He's already sick, fighting with one of his best friends is an added strain his body doesn't need. Especially since the reason for their fight is so incredibly stupid.
If only he could get Roman to see that.
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Virgil wanted to kill a man. That in itself wasn't too unusual--it was literally his job, most days. No, the unusual part was that this man had spelled a naive woman into falling in love with him for power, had bought Janus's father's silence with a devastating curse that drove Janus from his home, and sold a child into the hands of a monster. And yet, Janus refused to tell him who he was or where to find him. Well. That was fine. Virgil was an assassin; he knew how to be patient, how to bide his time waiting for just the right moment to strike.
And strike he would. He didn't know when and he didn't know how; that curse made things more complicated than it should be. Magic always did. But, damn it all, he would *find* a way, whether Janus was willing to help him or not.
Nobody hurt his family and got away with it.
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Until the Full Moon Rises (Resurgent) by Compass_Rose
Fandoms: Sanders Sides (Web Series)
26 Dec 2023
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Virgil Knight was eleven years old when he saw his people murdered in front of him. He was thirteen when he invaded the human lands to avenge the innocent lives lost that day. He was almost fourteen when he fucked up and got placed in human 'foster care'.
After four years of hiding who and what he is, Virgil has learned to blend in with idiot humans pretty well. But he is Wolf still and as a Wolf, he has the responsibility to avenge the lives of his pack. Fortunately, social services prove useful for once in his life when they place him with a retired Hunter--the same bastard Virgil confronted the day his world crumbled to pieces all around him. 'Mr. Sanders' is a mild-mannered man who runs a very successful potion shop and plays adopted father to three other mages-in-the-making. He is a gentle, compassionate person willing to give a foster brat the chance at a better life.
But Virgil knows better. He's seen that mild-mannered man slaughter children in cold blood. He's had that gentle, compassionate person turn a gun on *him* once before. He knows exactly what Mr. Sanders really is.
And he'll stop at nothing to see the blood debt between them finally repaid. No matter who has to get hurt in the process.
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- Part 2 of From the Ashes You Must Rise
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It was an accident. Virgil never meant to hurt anyone--especially not his brother. He didn't even know he could hurt someone. Not like that. Not with *fire*. But it doesn't matter because he didn't just hurt anyone, he *burned* the crown prince. Attacking any member of the royal family was against the law, in a *big* way, and Virgil had no idea what the king would do to him if he found him. So, he was going to make sure no one could find him. He was going to run somewhere where he couldn't hurt anyone ever again.
Now if only this pesky guard would quit trying to help...
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Janus is a dragon, which means he doesn't naturally speak English--or any other human or supernatural language for that matter. Luckily, he has Logan to help him learn how to communicate with the people around him, but that doesn't mean the lessons are always easy. When Janus's skills begin to plateau, he begins to wonder if he should even bother continuing to learn--after all, he's clearly not making much progress. Why bother trying? But with Logan's help, he just might discover he has more to learn, and to teach, than he originally thought.
"Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." - Amy Chua
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- Part 2 of Not Your Ordinary Family
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Virgil, Janus, Logan, Roman, Remus, and Patton might have shared a house, but they were all adults with their own responsibilities and schedules to keep up with. Still, they had to make *some* time to spend together and a weekly movie night with snacks and drinks and people he didn't *completely* hate was, in Virgil's opinion, as good of a distraction as any.
Especially since they had a rather unusual way of determining who got to pick the movie.
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- Part 1 of Not Your Ordinary Family
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Virgil Knight isn't interested in finding a 'forever family' or whatever kind of garbage the newest social worker likes to prattle at him. All he really wants to do is survive his last year in the system and make life a little extra difficult for all the greedy, penny-pinching wastrels who look at him and see a nice, fat government check.
But, when the system decides to place him with a 'Mr. Sanders', retired government employee and adopted father to three other former foster kids, he doesn't think much of it at first. After all, retired government employee could mean anything, probably the guy worked for the IRS or someth--
Oh. Mr. Sanders was a former Hunter, a member of the special ops division employed for the sole purpose of tracking down and killing werewolves?
Well, isn't that interesting. Because Virgil Knight just so happens to be a Wolf.
So much for surviving his last year.
NB: This story's now on permanent Hiatus. I've rewritten many aspects of it into a new story tagged with (Resurgent). You can find it by going to the series containing this story.
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- Part 1 of From the Ashes You Must Rise
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Virgil wasn't dead, to begin with, though everyone thought he was. Even his brothers. That was the reason Roman showed up to his grave every Tuesday with a handful of flowers. It was a nice gesture, but probably more than Virgil deserved. He had technically 'died' a villain, not a hero, and a traitor to boot. Oh, and he was currently tricking the entire city into believing he was dead.
Liar. Villain. Traitor--it was quite the list of sins attached to his memory. To his identity.
But at least he'd gotten his chance to shine in the sun. For one glorious moment, he'd stood as an equal among his brothers and the people he'd always strove to protect finally looked at him with something more than indifference. So that made it all worth it in the end.
Right?
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All Virgil wanted was to get home before sunset. It shouldn't have been that hard. All he had to do was drop his cousins off at their parents' place to sleep off an evening of celebration and 'fun'. Easy. Simple. Practically done already except for the actual doing of it.
Or so he thinks.
But then Janus makes an...inconvenient deal with him to avoid going home and suddenly their lives get a lot more dangerous. Because what Jan doesn't know is that there's a reason Virgil is so desperate to beat the clock. And that failure to do so just might come with a higher price than either of them are willing to pay.
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- Part 1 of Come Together at the Start of Time
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Nothing I Couldn't Do with You by My Side by Compass_Rose
Fandoms: Sanders Sides (Web Series)
27 Feb 2022
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In the past six years, there were certain things Virgil had come to expect during his summer visits to the Broken Wheel Ranch. Waking up at sunrise and helping his father tend the horses, for example, were tasks he was very accustomed to doing. Riding through Adder's Hunt and fishing down at the old stream was another job that usually fell to him in the summer. Fixing gate posts, watering the garden, helping with the cleaning and cooking--all chores he was expected to help with during his three month stay at the ranch.
That was fine. Virgil didn't actually mind helping out and he'd take the Broken Wheel Ranch with it's clear blue skies, wide open spaces, and absolute lack of mandatory human interaction over dealing with his self-centered classmates or working part-time in some greasy fast food chain any day of the week.
What he didn't expect was that he would end up being attacked by some rando out in the forest.
He didn't plan on having to fight for his life.
And he never imagined just how much winning would change him.
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Logan never meant for any of this to happen. Yes, he had tried to alter the very nature of humanity at the biological level, but only in an attempt to correct the humiliating oversight that nature itself had seen fit to levy against 40% of the population.
He was not an afterthought merely because he hadn't been born with supernatural abilities. Roman, contrary to what their family, friends, and society at large seemed to think, did not make the sun rise and set merely because he had.
All he wanted was to erase the divide between the ordinary and the extraordinary. People weren't supposed to get hurt. Kids weren't supposed to die.
Logan was supposed to be the brilliant mind who had brought power to powerless and hope to the forgotten. Instead he had become just another base villain, worthy society's scorn and hate. Now his time had finally run out. There was nothing he could do to escape the consequences of his actions.
Virgil, however, seemed to disagree.
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Two infants, both tightly swaddled in thick blankets to fend off the night chill, lay side by side at the bottom of the basket. They were waxen and pale. One still slept fitfully while the other, the one who had cried out, stared up at the sky with glassy, dim eyes. Even the sound of their breathing was weak and labored, and it didn’t take a healer or a village wise woman to know the two were not long for this world.
Thomas replaced the cover. “They’re why I need to find a faerie ring. Or one of the Fae themselves."
The stranger smiled and held himself straighter. “I am the king of the Seelie Court, if it should mean anything to you. What would you have me do, little servant?”
“Heal them. Heal them and I will pay whatever you ask of me. I will do anything you ask. I swear it by—” Thomas ransacked his memories, searching for anything that would hold meaning to one of the Elder Race.
“I swear it by my Name.”
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Virgil Wilson was a detective for the Plainfield PD. He was also the masked guardian Aegeus, who protected the city alongside his friends and teammates. It wasn't unusual for those two responsibilities to overlap, but the detective had to draw the line when the actions of one resulted in the need for the other. Children weren't supposed get caught in the crossfire.
Roman Burgess was a fashion designer at Regal Couture, a company that produced only the most elegant designs for society's most elite consumers. He was also the valiant champion Nikos, who defeated evil with the help of the brother he had chosen and the friends he had found. But when his half-brother reappears and throws his entire world into disarray, Roman is forced to reconsider what it means to be family.
Patton Foster was an assistant to Roman Burgess. He was also the virtuous hero Arete, who showed bad guys the error of their ways and helped them return to the path of good. But when good and bad turn out to be less black and white than he thought, Patton struggles to accept that no one is perfect-not even a hero.
Logan Powell was an RD scientist. He was also the super genius Pythagoras, the one who had all the answers. Or so he thought.
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When Remus Bugg, one the 'popular' kids, catches sight of Roman doodling during a particularly boring detention session, he pesters the strange newcomer into telling him the story behind the drawing. Reluctantly, Roman concedes, spinning what seems at first glance to be a fairy-tale--a story about a child who came too close to death, and a monster who agreed to save him, if only to repay a debt that was owed.
But every storyteller will choose to leave bits and pieces of the tale unspoken, if only to invoke an air of mystery about the legend they create.
And Roman?
Well, he sees no reason Remus ever has to know that this story was real.
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Patton and his sixteen-year-old son, Roman, didn't come into this world in the usual way. They weren't born into it; they fell. Into a portal from another realm, a realm where monarchies are the primary form of government, indoor plumbing has yet to be invented, and magic is as real as the air we breathe.
That was seven months ago.
Nowadays, Patton just tries to blend in. He runs a bakery in the small town of Lockevale and does his best to forget about a world he no longer has anything to do with. A world he shouldn't have anything to do with. But when one of Roman's friends discovers an artifact Patton had hidden away, the baker finds that the past is only ever as far away as your memories allow--and that a lie can be the most dangerous thing of all.
...Because only a lie has the power to destroy trust.
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