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In an alternate timeline, the Guardians lost to Pitch Black 300 years ago during the Dark Ages. Now the Nightmare King rules unchallenged in absolute darkness.
The gaurdians are shells of themselves, sustained by mere hundreds of believers in a stagnant world. Sandy languishes in a warded cell while his dream sand is harvested and corrupted to fuel Pitch's power. Tooth hangs chained in the dungeons, her mini fairies caged nearby, forced to witness Pitch destroying every child's tooth—every precious memory—melting the capsules to forge his throne, artifacts, and a cursed currency enslaving humanity's hope.
But Pitch preserved one capsule: Jackson Overland's teeth. He knows the Man in the Moon planned 300 years ago for this boy to become Jack Frost, the newest Guardian. Now a neutral spirit quietly disrupting Pitch's empire, Jack has become an unexpected thorn in the Nightmare King's side.
Pitch sees opportunity. With Jack's stolen memories as bait, he'll corrupt the winter spirit and bring him into darkness. After all, what pairs better than cold and dark?
But Pitch may have underestimated a spirit who's spent 300 years alone, and Guardians who refuse to stop believing—even in their darkest hour.
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Months after Pitch’s defeat, Jack Frost senses something wrong in the wind. A whisper of fear. A dream turned dark. Following the trail leads him to a shadow he never expected to see again—weak, wounded, but unmistakably alive. Pitch Black.
Curiosity turns into cautious visits. Arguments turn into banter. And somewhere in the half-light of an abandoned tunnel, Jack begins to question where the line really lies between enemy and something else. Because the Boogeyman might be broken, but he’s not gone—and Jack can’t seem to stay away.
A slow-burning tale of fractured trust, reluctant companionship, and the flicker of something more beneath frost and shadow.
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Their first meeting at an upscale Italian restaurant is a collision of two worlds. Logan, scarred and imposing at 7'4", sees in Bella exactly what he needs—someone desperate enough to be malleable, honest enough to be trustworthy, and inexperienced enough not to complicate his carefully controlled life. Bella sees a lifeline wrapped in expensive suits and dangerous promises.
Over cannoli and uncomfortable truths, they negotiate the terms of her surrender. He'll pay for everything—clothes, apartment, documentation, medical care. She'll be available, discreet, and eventually, his. No falling in love. No emotional entanglement. Just business.
As Bella steps into Logan's world of wealth and expectation, she's forced to confront an impossible question: Can you sell yourself for survival without losing who you are? And when the arrangement inevitably ends, will anything of her remain?
A dark romance about desperation, power, and the price of security when you have nothing left to lose.
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Vera Evergreen has always believed in truth and justice—ideals her journalist mother died chasing, values her father still fights to uphold.
Dante Grimshaw is a name whispered in fear across Baltimore's underworld—a ghost who built an empire on blood, bullets, and silence. For seven years, law enforcement has hunted the phantom crime lord controlling Maryland's illegal weapons and narcotics trade. No one knows his face.
When a routine operation erupts into violence, Vera's world shatters: her father's badge, her boyfriend's betrayal, a shootout that changes everything. The idealistic journalist becomes a pawn in a deadly game between the cop hunting Baltimore's most dangerous criminal and those he's sworn to protect.
As her father makes impossible choices to save her and secrets surface, Vera discovers everyone in Baltimore's underworld wears a mask—some behind badges, others behind bodies.
When masks fall and blood demands payment, Vera learns monsters aren't born—they're made. And sometimes, they're the only ones who understand you.
In a city built on lies, where love is leverage and survival means sacrifice, how do you choose between heart and conscience when both could kill you?
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As winter's grip tightens, Jack Frost—once invisible—now a Guardian, revels in children's belief. Yet, joy turns to dread as nightmares erode his memories, from details to faces from his past. Desperate, he storms Pitch Black's sealed lair, accusing the weakened Nightmare King of the torment.
Pitch denies it, revealing Somnivori—dream-devourers latching onto wounded spirits, feasting on hopes, traumas, and identities until nothing remains. Jack bargains: help banish them for protection from other Guardians.
Delving into dream realms, banter exposes grudges and vulnerabilities. Pitch's knowledge clashes with Jack's impulsiveness, unearthing forgotten lives and horrors blurring enemy lines. As Somnivori manifest, feeding on fears, secrets from millennia past surface—threatening their essence. In frost and shadow, trust fights hunger that could consume them, altering belief and terror.
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Project: Nightmare by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012), Original Work
19 Dec 2025
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When construction crews accidentally unearth Pitch Black's sealed lair in Burgess, Pennsylvania, the Nightmare King's return sparks a series of supernatural disturbances that catch the attention of Dr. Barbara Carmel—a brilliant polymath scientist living in Japan. Armed with cutting-edge equipment designed to detect spiritual energy, Barbara travels to Burgess in 2024, determined to prove the existence of the afterlife and supernatural entities.
After months of research and preparation, she successfully captures Pitch using an electromagnetic shockwave that plunges the town into darkness. Now, in February 2026, the weakened Nightmare King finds himself imprisoned in a reinforced cage, stripped of his shadow-traveling abilities and monitored by Barbara's advanced technology.
What begins as a clinical study of a mythological being evolves into a complex battle of wits. Pitch, still recovering from his previous defeat, attempts to manipulate his captor through psychological warfare. Barbara, haunted by the loss of her fiancé and unborn child in a lab accident, remains analytical and guarded—but their constant debates, philosophical discussions, and intellectual sparring create an unexpected connection.
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A Shadow Beyond The Glen by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Brave (2012), Rise of the Guardians (2012)
18 Dec 2025
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After his defeat at the hands of the Guardians, Pitch Black finds himself flung into another time and place-medieval Scotland, long before the Guardians were even chosen. The world here is older, wilder, and ruled by ancient magics and living myths. There, he discovers a fiery-haired princess named Merida on the cusp of adulthood, her spirit untamed and her nights haunted by nightmares not of his doing. Bored, weakened, but still cunning, Pitch begins training the girl under the guise of a mysterious swordmaster-feeding off the fear in the land while stoking a strange kinship with the young royal who refuses to yield to anyone. As Merida nears her eighteenth year, the shadows grow stronger... and so does her skill. But questions stir in her heart-who is her nightly tutor really, and why does the darkness feel so familiar?
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Shadows of Redemption: The Nightmare King's Lullaby by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012), Original Work
08 Dec 2025
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Days after his devastating defeat, Pitch Black crawls from his sealed lair—broken, unseen, and powerless. His own nightmares have left him battered with shattered ribs, deep gashes, and fractures that refuse to heal. Reduced to a shadow of his former terror, he haunts the dark alleys of Burgess, scraping together fragments of residual fear just to survive.
But everything changes when he stumbles upon an abandoned newborn in a dumpster—a baby girl with a prominent birthmark covering half her face, left to die in the cold. Despite the Fearlings' venomous whispers in his mind and his own disbelief at his actions, Pitch finds himself unable to walk away when the infant's green eyes meet his.
Now, the once-feared Nightmare King must navigate the ways of raising a mortal child. With malevolent voices constantly mocking his choices, Pitch embarks on the most terrifying challenge he's ever faced: raising a child.
As he navigates the impossible task of parenthood while hiding from the Guardians and struggling with his own darkness, Pitch must confront a question he never thought he'd ask: Can a monster learn to love? And can the innocent belief of one tiny human be enough to save them both?
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Christina Barkley has spent seventeen years hiding behind masks—both literal and metaphorical. Born with a cleft lip her family can't afford to fix, she's learned that it's easier to disappear than to be seen. While her twin brother thrives and her classmates whisper, Christina retreats into her art, her dark humor, and the safety of solitude.
But some shadows notice what others overlook.
When fear begins to seep into the cracks of her carefully constructed walls, Christina finds herself caught between the world she's stopped believing in and a darkness that believes in her. Pitch Black, the Nightmare King, has spent six years rebuilding his power in the shadows—and something about the girl who hides her face while exposing her fears in sketch after sketch draws his attention in ways he doesn't yet understand.
In a slow-burning tale of two souls who know what it means to be unseen, Christina will discover that the scariest monsters aren't always the ones under the bed—and that sometimes, being truly seen is more terrifying than any nightmare.
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Shadow's In The Wheat by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012), Original Work
19 Nov 2025
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Four months after his defeat by the Guardians, Pitch Black finds himself at his lowest-injured, hunted by his own Nightmares, and stripped of his power. When he collapses in a Pennsylvania wheat field during a storm, he's discovered by Elizabeth Cramer, a 22-year-old farmer who sees him not as the Nightmare King, but as a man in desperate need of help. Color-blind and isolated from the world beyond her family's struggling farm, Elise has no idea who he is or what he's done. As she nurses him back to health, Pitch must confront the humanity he thought he'd lost centuries ago, while Elise begins to see that the world-and the beings in it-are far stranger than she ever imagined. In the quiet spaces between fear and trust, an unlikely bond forms that will challenge everything they thought they knew about monsters, redemption, and what it means to be seen.
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When wealth meets desperation, nothing is simple.
Marcus Masters has built an empire—three, in fact—but what he can’t build is the one thing his wife Grace wants most: a family. With failed attempts behind them and Grace’s infertility putting pressure on their marriage, their last hope lies in finding the perfect surrogate. But Grace isn’t looking for a woman—she’s looking for a mirror of herself.Veronica Lynne is 24, overworked, underpaid, and emotionally exhausted. Trapped in an abusive relationship and watching her world shrink by the day, she stumbles across an ad that promises life-changing money for women willing to carry a child for a desperate couple. It seems like fate—but she has no idea what she’s stepping into.
As these two worlds collide—one polished and powerful, the other cracked and collapsing—boundaries blur, secrets fester, and emotions ignite. The price of wanting may be more than any of them are ready to pay.
Slow-burn. Secrets. Obsession, betrayal, desire. This is not a fairytale—it’s the cost of playing with lives.
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Feral Instincts by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Jun 2025
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Two years after the war, the dust has settled-but not cleanly. The public is disillusioned, heroes are exhausted, and something dark slinks through the underworld. Enter Hazel Night: red-eyed, sharp-tongued, and dangerously persuasive. She's not a villain in the traditional sense-she doesn't leave bodies behind-but money vanishes around her, memories get foggy, and men start breaking without knowing why.
When Hizashi Yamada finds himself slipping into debt with no memory of his reckless spending, Aizawa suspects something more sinister than burnout. And as they pull the thread, they uncover a seductive web spun by someone who knows exactly how to make people obey-and vanish before they realize they were ever being used.
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Where The Light Reaches by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Jun 2025
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After the fallout of a choice made in desperation, Harley returns to a home that doesn't quite feel like hers anymore. Shouta and Hizashi-husbands, heroes, and partners in more ways than one-are left to navigate the fragile terrain of trust, grief, and the quiet ache of love that doesn't know where to land.
Each of them is hurting.
Each of them is holding back.
And none of them are quite sure how to reach for each other without reopening old wounds.
But healing isn't loud. It's quiet. Unfolding in shared silence, soft mornings, burnt toast, and the space between heartbeats where forgiveness might begin to grow again.
A story about what it means to stay. To choose each other again. To ask-not for love-but for the chance to deserve it.
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What happens when Death falls in love with someone already dying?
Casey Dearil has no gods, no faith, and no future. Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer at twenty-four, she quit everything-her job, school, her pretense of hope. She spends her final year doing only what she wants: reading books, solving puzzles, and telling the world to shove it when it tries to pity her.
But when a hauntingly beautiful stranger strikes up a conversation at her favorite used bookstore, something strange unfolds. His name is Damion Moore-but that isn't the whole truth. He's Mors, the first Grim Reaper, born of ancient power before even Hell found its name. He's reaped queens and killers, but never someone like Casey.
She has no belief in Heaven or Hell, yet her soul shines with something raw and defiant. He's only here to witness, to follow the trail of her fading life force. But she keeps making him stay.
And Mors, for the first time in centuries, forgets how to let go.
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Been a year since pitch's defeat, of being a guardian of fun, of new believers, a year of still feeling...incomplete. Jack would still think of pitch, about his offer in Antarctica, about how he looking so hurt when he wasn't believed in no more, how he screamed and struggled from the nightmares dragging him into his now sealed lair. jack felt guilty about what happened to pitch he even had nightmares about it but that soon disappeared ever so slightly as the weeks passed by, until tonight.
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There's always someone to guide you in your darkest time's (pitch x jack) by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
27 Jul 2022
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A few months after the Easter incident with pitch the fairies and other spirits and even a few fae have reported seeing the Boogeyman was back and in such a short amount of time. The fairies grew concerned with this turn of events as pitch didn't just make a few nightmare's but also got rid of them as soon as they were created leaving the nightmares the children gained vanished in thin air as soon as it appeared literally. This behavior was unlike the Dark spirit and more so with the way he seemed...off at the very least. Once the guardians got wind of this they leapt into action but after Everytime they got close enough to the shade he disappeared into the darkness which was expected given his weakened state but what a little unnerving that he didn't seem like himself their was no evil laugh, no traps set In place for them, no back lash of any sort not a single nightmare not even uttering a single word.
Two of the guardians noticed more them anyone of the way he looked especially his eyes. Bunny saw that look before the look of hopelessness and as for jack he saw that look many many times especially in himself the cold life less look in pitch's eyes was the look of emptiness and if not mistaken depression as well.
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Banished doesn't mean forever gone (pitch/jack) by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
27 Mar 2022
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20 year's after pitch killed Jack Frost instead of sandy, 20 year's of being trapped in his own lair being mauled and fearful of his own nightmare's, 20 years of rage and revenge building up. After pitch was about to take out sandy jack got their in time before it hit sandy though it hit him using his body to shield sandy from the attack. Jack's last act was sending a large attack back at pitch and his sand to make sure sandy could get away. After that the darkness took over Jack's he never woke up again, he just vanished without any believers in him he was just a regular spirit and a attack from another more powerful one straight to the heart will kill any spirit especially jack. Jack Frost died that night but with his sacrifice the guardians turned the tide on pitch and he was sealed away weakened, unbelieve, and afraid. Until 20 years later he's set free, summoned by a human after all this time someone knew of him enough to summon him.
______Jackson crawl a 17 year old boy with brown hair and heterochromia eyes loved the winter, he also loves to play pranks especially on his friend Jamie Bennett sure the he's older then Jack being 28 and all but he's still fun to be around.
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Corrupted beyond repair (Steven mpreg) by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
27 Mar 2022
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Events of my own creation after the series steven universe future.
Steven goes out into the county to help whoever he can, attend school, and focus on getting himself together with the help of his family, friend's, and new therapist. He begins his road trip through the country but eventually he stops at one city to attend school and whenever he got breaks he'd visit Connie other going to her school in Providence Island or she'll go to him with lion to his school. Sometimes they'll meet up together when they both have breaks that lined up with each other to go to Beach city to be with their family.
Everything was going great. Stevens in school, getting video sessions of therapy twice a week to help him through his PTSD, he gets to travel around the country although it does get lonely he does however call his friends and family once a day but with school and upcoming deadlines he's been busy. Everything seemed wonderful a dream come true until months later it all turns into a nightmare that he can't wake up from.
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Am i worthy of love? (Pitch black x reader) by Winter_mayhem
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012)
13 Mar 2022
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It's been over a year since the battle of good and evil, over a year of regaining belief in the guardians has grown stronger then ever some think to strong to good. after a year the balance tips to far to the good side kid's are starting to get hurt more frequently, adults not paying enough attention to their children and the guardians don't know what's wrong. more lights go out but not because the children stopped believing but because they have died much to earlier in their lives. North is going to hold a meeting at the next full moon to talk to the man in the moon to figure out what to do but sadly that's a months time from now. a full month they will have to wait but until then their going to try and figure it out by themselves until then they can do nothing about it which lays heavily on their hearts especially a certain guardian of fun.
After over a year he finally gets out he's finally free from his own nightmare's and he'll get his revenge on the guardians but he can barely sense the fear in the world where did it all go? this has never happened before not while he was gone, he needs to regain his strength cause fear to the world and he smirks knowing just who to start with first.
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(begins during IT movie 2)
After 27 years long rest IT surfaces once again to feast on the town's people's fears and flesh. IT'S first meal in year's wasn't filling enough, not fearful enough and was a little older then what it particular likes. So it ventures out once again after its first almost filling meal of a young man that was beaten and thrown into the river over derry's bridge. IT decided to venture out into the carnival for a more 'proper' meal, He sniffed around searching for a worthy tasteful meal this time around. Hiding among the crowd of people passing by going along with the flow of the carnival onlookers. None could see him though, he made sure of that he looked around seeing the different carnival games, foods, play house's and other attractions. Seeing all the children run around having fun without a care in the world, not knowing what's literally lurking around the danger just beyond their reach if IT got close enough. Then IT suddenly stopped, smelling the scent of blood and fear in the air, the blood and fear from a child was coming from one direction of the carnival and those was another fear across from it which got closer and closer in his direction.