To Harry Potter, Fifth Year seemed like the same as any other. Classmates, homework, new dangers, Voldemort risen in the shadows… the usual, even with a Dementor attack kicking things off. But how long can he maintain the illusion that everything is under control? As hope for a normal life slips away through his fingers, will Harry bear the weight of it all... or will it crush him?

Izuku Midoriya doesn't have a quirk. Izuku has a curse. A thing. A horror that burnt his skin, ruined his life and filled his head with monsters. His dream is to master the darkness and become a hero, but can anyone overcome such darkness? Or will he fall to shadow and flame? Well, he is his father's son.

What if Petunia wasn't so poisoned by jealousy her sister's magic, and when her orphaned nephew appeared on her doorstep chose to treat him as family rather than a burden? Sorted into Hufflepuff, how will the Wizarding World react when their saviour finally returns? And is being fair and loyal really as good as people say?

Lelouch thought his life over as the sword stabbed him. Instead, he woke up in a different world without his people, his power, and his money. Turning to the magic of this world to achieve his goals, Lelouch begins a crusade when the people he left behind are threatened. Even if it meant dying over and over again to achieve his goals.

Harry Potter has been banged up for ten years in the hellhole brig of Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit, and his traitorous brother, the not-really-boy-who-lived, has royally messed things up. After meeting Fate and Death, Harry is given a second chance to squash Voldemort, dodge a thousand years in prison, and snatch everything his hated brother holds dear. H/Hr/LL/DG/GW.

Adam Jensen finds himself in a time only dreamed of in vids, humanity is now part of a great galactic community that fears synthetics, and he struggles to find his place within it. Note: Primarily a DX/ME crossover, with elements borrowed and integrated from other Square Enix franchises.

Winter: You want to be a player and not a piece? Start thinking like one. Being mean isn't enough, you have to use your head. You need to fight smart. Art courtesy of CHE3ZY.

The world first saw Harry Bailey in a photo kneeling on a road before the Endbringer the Simurgh. The Simurgh's psychic scream drove entire cities mad. In Harry, it woke something else entirely. He never told the heroes what happened. After all, how could a young boy explain memories he could not possibly have, of a powerful, ancient sorcerer from a universe that preceded his own?

She was a harbinger of darkness, a killer, a monster...and she was happily married to a man who had no idea.

Three words spurned by a caring, loving mother, ultimately sends a boy down an entirely different path on his quest. "Why become a Harem King, when you can be a Harem God?" "Issei-kun, are you ripping off lines from rappers again?" "Damn it Ka-chan, I was having a moment here!" Genius!Issei, Scientist!Issei, ClosetPervert!Issei.

Trained by Bane himself, Harry rises from a boy hiding in a cupboard to an immortal legend. A tale of justice and revenge, idealism and murder, life and death.. Crossover with DC Universe - starts with the first year at Hogwarts, just after The Dark Knight Trilogy. Involves Magical Britain and Gotham. AU.

Hiccup is lost. Elsa is looking for something. A chance encounter between them has far-reaching consequences.

When Jaune woke up back in his house with his sisters and family, all he could do was sigh. Every time he died he was forced to start over again, and this was what... the one thousandth time? More? If it doesn't matter how hard he tries, doesn't matter how much he fights. Then maybe it's time to just kick back and enjoy himself. Fate can find someone else to be its whipping boy.

Speeches, farewells, denials, howls of grief and of rage. Those that knew Shepard in life remember the Commander in death. Shepard's gender and any interpretations of romance are intentionally ambiguous and left up to you. Disclaimer: Reading these shorts whilst listening to "An End for Once and For All" carries with it a heavy risk of tears.

The escape of Peter Pettigrew leaves a deeper mark on his character than anyone expected, then comes the Goblet of Fire and the chance of a quiet year to improve himself, but Harry Potter and the Quiet Revision Year was never going to last long. A more mature, darker Harry, bearing the effects of 11 years of virtual solitude. GoF AU. There will be romance... eventually.

The world is breaking. War and technology push on the edge of the unbelievable as S.H.I.E.L.D. desperately tries to keep the peace. Soldier and scientist no longer hold the line alone, as an ancient fire burns alongside them. The last of all wizards.

During Onyxia's mission in Stormwind, the mercenaries rise and the Black Dragonflight dwindles. After the most devastating losses in Azerothian history, the Flight must claw its way back from the brink of extinction and once again into glory.

Ten years ago, Voldemort created his kingdom. Now a confused young wizard stumbles into it, and carves out a destiny. AU. Nondark Harry. MentorVoldemort. VII Ch.8 In which someone is dead, wounded, or kidnapped in every scene.