AtO with Zombies, of a sort.

Happy end of September.

As if. Who can be happy at how quickly the time has passed?

I can't be happy because I'm so behind on all things fanfiction related. All my organized plans and to-do lists have been completely useless in keeping me on track with updates.

But I have shiny new plans and better to-do lists.

Which means, October is going to be interesting. Either I kick my procrastination in the butt and put some updates online, or I fail miserably and get nothing done.

In the spirit of getting stuff online, here's something fun I've had on my computer for a while. This plot bunny was inspired by a review I got for AtO's Chapter 14.

Warnings: Not as edited as I'd like it to be. Not part of AtO.

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Cramming down the last of his seaweed snack, Harry gathered his magic for a reparo spell and aimed at the crack still visible on the newly repaired doll's neck. His magic washed out onto the doll, the hairline crack glowed but remained after the magic vanished.

Frowning, Harry aimed another reparo spell at the crack. 

The persistent crack remained even after another five reparo spells. 

Gritting his teeth in frustration, Harry tugged his wand out of its holster and gathered a chunk of magic. “Reparo!”

His fingers tingled, his wand buzzed with warmth and a wave of magic shot out to his target. 

The crack glowed, rippled and smoothed out. 

His magic lingered around the doll as a visible glow before it dissipated through the doll and into the air with an audible shock-wave.

The doll's smooth surface rippled, bulged and shifted into a dark leathery surface. The leathery transformation continued until the entire doll had rough leathery skin. 

Within seconds, under a ripple of his magic, every doll in the room changed to have dark leathery skin as a thick smell of rot filled the room. 

Wary, Harry kept a tight grip on his wand as the last of his lingering magic sank down into the lifeless dolls. 

To Harry’s horror, the glassy eyes darkened with life and swivelled around in their sockets until all the dolls- no, the humanoid creatures now- blinked and turned to stare at Harry as one. 

Things that have been eating up my spare time!

1. Getting tons of Vitamin D by being out in the sun. Alas, also getting some nasty insect bites.

2. Eating far too many ice creams and smoothies.

3. Waiting for Sakura to kick ass and save the world in the manga. Having to settle for very elaborate imagination scenarios instead.

4. Writing a lot of nonsensical things that I'll need to edit in the future without going mad.

5. Watching way too much football and cursing at the television.

6. Reading some interesting things that were recommended to me.
Here are two of them

• Worm - A web serial that sounded like something I would never be interested in. But it sucked me in completely till the end. 
• Heartstone - A Pride and Prejudice fanfiction set in an alternate fantasy universe with dragons. Again, not something I would have looked at on my own but it kept my interest till the end.

Things I should be doing but haven't been doing at all:
1. Editing and revising. It's amazing how I suddenly find so many other things to do instead of editing and revising my writing. 

Anyway, I hope you're all doing fine.
Polar

Answering some questions.

Just some answers to questions from this blog's 'Ask Me' page.

Some of these answers are rather spoilerific with recent Naruto chapters. 

1. Have you caught up you are to recent Naruto chapters? What do you think about the history of the ninja world. And what do you think of Kaguya?

I have caught up and I have mixed feelings about both those things to be honest.

The history is fascinating but part of me goes- where did all this come from? Some of it just feels so sudden. Another part of me is disappointed at the lack of Uzumaki history. With all the Hashirama and Madara history, all I could think of was... where's Mito? Shouldn't there be something about her in all this? I'm hoping that some Uzumaki history and information comes up in future chapters instead of us having to see Sasuke as an ass all the time.

As for Kaguya. First of all, yay for female villain who's powerful. Not so much yay for her current reasons of villianry. I hope there's more to her character than just 'I want to rule the world blah blah'. I want to see more of her past explaining why she's like that. Am I too crazy to hope for some sort of direct connection between her and the Uzumaki clan? Probably.

2. Against the odds is not on your update list. Is it on another hiatus?

I got a similar PM on FFnet about this and I'll tell you the same thing I told the other person.

The short answer is no, I'm not updating AtO anytime soon. That doesn't mean I'm not working on the next chapter. I'm just concentrating more on the other story ideas because they're less of a hassle.

3.  Did you ever consider making Karin the first living Uzumaki that Harry met?