I'd really like to be able to think of something witty or funny to say right now, but I really can't think of anything. So on to the greatly disappointing stuff.

A bit of background for you:

I started writing To Shatter Fate (started writing in general) after a day of total boredom and the sudden thought of "Why the hell not?" after being inspired by other Bleach and RWBY Crossovers I'd spent around a year being a fan of.

See, I had a thing for Bleach where I was a fan of Ichigo as a more relatable and human protagonist, so that's where my mind went as a good base character for interesting crossovers, not to mention similarities between Bleach and RWBY I could bend to my advantage.

This same habit for ideas crossing other stories with Bleach is what eventually happened after I'd blitzed through the Percy Jackson books and was halfway through Heroes of Olympus, leading to the birth of A Protector Until The End, another story born of a dry patch in writing To Shatter Fate and a thought of "Why the hell not?" upon realising I had little interest in any of the existing PJO-Bleach crossovers.

If I'm honest, I'm not sure I've much interest any more in continuing A Protector Until The End, and it's probably because my interest regarding books has moved on to other series and left me pondering why I started another story – I'm not saying I regret doing it, and I like the direction I was taking, I just have little inspiration to continue it.

Back to To Shatter Fate – it was my first story starting off on this site, and those of you that've read since the start will know I uploaded seven chapters in seven days – a sort of passionate, inspired feeling upon realising people existed that thought my writing was actually anything passable. This led to something I'd come to refer to as 'that thing we don't talk about' where I'd had a character present in the story and somewhat established who was then used as a disposable plot device in a shoddily written scene and when I realised what people thought I too realised it was dumb and took it down, declaring the story on hiatus – for all of two days. And then I was back with newfound inspiration and took it in a completely different direction – Ichigo would no longer regain memories of his original life as I'd planned, and other ideas came in and spanned off from it. Except, and in my honest opinion, this led to me creating an Ichigo who vaguely held semblances of what he was in Bleach, but with the occasional pointless extra power thrown in because I thought it sounded cool at the time – and after looking through Bleach and various analyses I realised I wasn't entirely happy with this.

Problem is by this point I'd found myself in the rut in which I currently remain – my life moves onwards through school and other such things and between life and school what free time I do find myself with I find myself uninspired to continue or thinking of things I might've done differently should I go back with what I know now.

So yes, after all the clichéd 'I don't want to be like other writers who just abruptly cancel their stories or stick them on indefinite hiatus' that's probably likely to happen. I'd love to say I'll get right on whatever I want to do next but that won't happen, because I'm unsure if I'd simply like to get myself out of this rut and continue, rewrite To Shatter Fate from the ground up, or discontinue it alongside A Protector Until The End and start something new altogether.

I am deeply sorry to all of you who've invested time in reading my stories and given your criticisms and support and I can only hope that, should I return to writing, that I do so with more commitment and something you can enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing.

Thank you all, it's been a tremendous honour writing stories you've taken the time to read.

TL:DR – To Shatter Fate and A Protector Until The End should be considered as Discontinued/ Indefinite Hiatus. I may consider deleting them from the site altogether so as to not disappoint more people who take the time to read them. This update will go onto both stories.

Endless apologies to you all.

See ya next time…?