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Software-defined radios (SDR) have the potential to bring major innovation in wireless networking design. However, their impact so far has been limited due to complex programming tools. Most of the existing tools are either too slow to achieve the full line speeds of contemporary wireless PHYs or are too complex to master. In this demo we present our novel SDR programming environment called Ziria. Ziria consists of a novel programming language and an optimizing compiler. The compiler is able to synthesize very efficient SDR code from high-level PHY descriptions written in Ziria language. To illustrate its potential, we present the design of an LTE-like PHY layer in Ziria. We run it on the Sora SDR platform and demonstrate on a test-bed that it is able to operate in real-time.
This demo presents a testbed for computer networking education. It leverages hardware virtualization to accommodate 6 PCs and 2 routers on a single testbed host to reduce costs, energy consumption, space requirements, and heat emission. The testbed excels by providing dedicated physical Ethernet and USB interfaces for virtual machines so that students can interconnect them with cables and switches like in a nonvirtualized testbed.
The emergence of portable devices and online social networks (OSNs) has changed the traditional video consumption paradigm by simultaneously providing multi-screen video watching, social networking engagement, etc. One challenge is to design a unified solution to support ever-growing features while guarantee system performance. In this demo, we design and implement a multi-screen technology to provide multi-screen interactions over wide area network (WAN). Furthermore, we incorporate face-detection technology into our system to identify users' bio-features and employ a machine learning based traffic scheduling mechanism to improve the system performance.
With increasing frequency, users raise concerns about data privacy and protection in centralized Online Social Networks (OSNs), in which providers have the unprecedented privilege to access and exploit every user's private data at will. To mitigate these concerns, researchers have suggested to decentralize OSNs and thereby enable users to control and manage access to their data themselves. However, previously proposed decentralization approaches suffer from several drawbacks. To tackle their deficiencies, we introduce the Self-Organized Universe of People (SOUP). In this demonstration, we present a prototype of SOUP and share our experiences from a real-world deployment.
Adaptive bitrate (ABR) technologies are being widely used in today's popular HTTP-based video streaming such as YouTube and Netflix. Such a rate-switching algorithm embedded in a video player is designed to improve video qualityof-experience (QoE) by selecting an appropriate resolution based on the analysis of network conditions while the video is playing. However, a bad viewing experience is often caused by the video player having difficulty estimating transit or client-side network conditions accurately. In order to analyze the ABR streaming performance, we developed YouSlow, a web browser plug-in that can detect and report live buffer stalling events to our analysis tool. Currently, YouSlow has collected more than 20,000 of YouTube video stalling events over 40 countries.
As smartphones and mobile devices are rapidly becoming indispensable for many network users, mobile malware has become a serious threat in the network security and privacy. Especially on the popular Android platform, many malicious apps are hiding in a large number of normal apps, which makes the malware detection more challenging. In this paper, we propose a ML-based method that utilizes more than 200 features extracted from both static analysis and dynamic analysis of Android app for malware detection. The comparison of modeling results demonstrates that the deep learning technique is especially suitable for Android malware detection and can achieve a high level of 96% accuracy with real-world Android application sets.
BGP, the Internet's interdomain routing protocol, is highly vulnerable to routing failures that result from unintentional misconfigurations or deliberate attacks. To defend against these failures, recent years have seen the adoption of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), which currently authorizes 4% of the Internet's routes. The RPKI is a completely new security infrastructure (requiring new servers, caches, and the design of new protocols), a fact that has given rise to some controversy [1]. Thus, an alternative proposal has emerged: Route Origin Verification (ROVER) [4, 7], which leverages the existing reverse DNS (rDNS) and DNSSEC to secure the interdomain routing system. Both RPKI and ROVER rely on a hierarchy of authorities to provide trusted information about the routing system. Recently, however, [2] argued that the misconfigured, faulty or compromised RPKI authorities introduce new vulnerabilities in the routing system, which can take IP prefixes offline. Meanwhile, the designers of ROVER claim that it operates in a "fail-safe" mode, where "[o]ne could completely unplug a router verification application at any time and Internet routing would continue to work just as it does today". There has been debate in Internet community mailing lists [1] about the pros and cons of both approaches. This poster therefore compares the impact of ROVER failures to those of the RPKI, in a threat model that covers misconfigurations, faults or compromises of their trusted authorities.
We present a control plane architecture to accelerate multicast and incast traffic delivery for data-intensive applications in cluster-computing interconnection networks. The architecture is experimentally examined by enabling physical layer optical multicasting on-demand for the application layer to achieve non-blocking performance.
We present a demonstration of WTF (Where's The Fault?), a system that localizes performance problems in home and access networks. We implement WTF as custom firmware that runs in an off-the-shelf home router. WTF uses timing and buffering information from passively monitored traffic at home routers to detect both access link and wireless network bottlenecks.
One of the limitations of wildcard rules in Software Defined Networks, such as OpenFlow, is losing visibility. FleXam is a flexible sampling extension for OpenFlow that allows the controller to define which packets should be sampled, what parts of each packet should be selected, and where they should be sent. Here, we present an interactive demo showing how FleXam enables the controller to dynamically adjust sampling rates and change the sampling scheme to optimally keep up with a sampling budget in the context of a traffic statistics collection application.
Given that Software-Defined Networking is highly successful in solving many of today's manageability, flexibility, and scalability issues in large-scale networks, in this paper we argue that the concept of SDN can be extended even further. Many applications (esp. stream processing and big-data applications) rely on graph-based inter-process communication patterns that are very similar to those in computer networks. To our mind, this network abstraction spanning over different types of entities is highly suitable for and would benefit from central (SDN-inspired) control for the same reasons classical networks do. In this work, we investigate the commonalities between such intra-host networks and classical computer networking. Based on this, we study the feasibility of a central network controller that manages both network traffic and intra-host communication over a custom bus system.
Crowdtesting is increasingly popular among researchers to carry out subjective assessments of different services. Experimenters can easily assess to a huge pool of human subjects through crowdsourcing platforms. The workers are usually anonymous, and they participate in the experiments independently. Therefore, a fundamental problem threatening the integrity of these platforms is to detect various types of cheating from the workers. In this poster, we propose cheat-detection mechanism based on an analysis of the workers' mouse cursor trajectories. It provides a jQuery-based library to record browser events. We compute a set of metrics from the cursor traces to identify cheaters. We deploy our mechanism to the survey pages for our video quality assessment tasks published on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our results show that cheaters' cursor movement is usually more direct and contains less pauses.
Mininet is a great prototyping tool which combines existing SDN-related software components (e.g., Open vSwitch, OpenFlow controllers, network namespaces, cgroups) into a framework, which can automatically set up and configure customized OpenFlow testbeds scaling up to hundreds of nodes. Standing on the shoulders of Mininet, we implement a similar prototyping system called ESCAPE, which can be used to develop and test various components of the service chaining architecture. Our framework incorporates Click for implementing Virtual Network Functions (VNF), NETCONF for managing Click-based VNFs and POX for taking care of traffic steering. We also add our extensible Orchestrator module, which can accommodate mapping algorithms from abstract service descriptions to deployed and running service chains.
More recently, work towards VMs based on minimalistic or specialized OSes (e.g., OSv [10], ClickOS [8], Mirage [7], Erlang on Xen [3], HalVM [6], etc.) has started pushing the envelope of how reactive or fluid the cloud can be. These VMs' small CPU and memory footprints (as little as a few megabytes) enable a number of scenarios that are not possible with traditional VMs. First, such VMs have the potential be instantiated and suspended in tens of milliseconds. This means that they can be deployed on-the-fly, even as new flows arrive in a network, and can be used to effectively cope with flash crowds. Second, the ability to quickly migrate the VM and its state would allow operators to run their servers at "hotter" load levels without fear of overload, since processing could be near instantaneously moved to a less loaded server. Finally, these VMs' small memory footprints could potentially allow thousands or even more such VMs to run on a single, inexpensive server; this would lead to important investment and operating savings, and would allow for fine granularity, virtualized network processing (e.g., per-customer firewalls or CPEs, to name a couple). Realizing such a super fluid cloud, however, poses a number of important challenges, since the virtualization technologies that these VMs run on (e.g., Xen or KVM) were never designed to run this large number of concurrent VMs. In the case of Xen [2], the system that this demo is based on, attempts to tackle some of the issues such as limited number of event channels or memory grants are under way, but these are still in their infancy and are not necessarily aiming to run the huge number of VMs we are envisioning. In this demo we will demonstrate how to concurrently execute thousands of MiniOS-based guests 1 on a single inexpensive server. We will also show instantiation and migration of such VMs in tens of milliseconds, and transparent, wide area migration of virtualized middleboxes by combining such VMs with the multi-path TCP (MPTCP) protocol.
Home and business network operators have limited network statistics available over which management decisions can be made. Similarly, there are few triggered behaviors, such as usage or bandwidths cap for individual users, that are available. By looking at sources of traffic, based on Domain Name System (DNS) cues for content of particular web addresses or source Autonomous System (AS) of the traffic, network operators could create new and interesting rules for their network. NetAssay is a Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based, network-wide monitoring and reaction framework. By integrating information from Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and the Domain Name System, NetAssay is able to integrate formerly disparate sources of control information, and use it to provide better monitoring, more useful triggered events, and security benefits for network operators.
Online social networks (OSNs) are an important source of information for scientists in different fields such as computer science, sociology, economics, etc. However, it is hard to study OSNs as they are very large. For instance, Facebook has 1.28 billion active users in March 2014 and Twitter claims 255 million active users in April 2014. Also, companies take measures to prevent crawls of their OSNs and refrain from sharing their data with the research community. For these reasons, we argue that sampling techniques will be the best technique to study OSNs in the future. In this work, we take an experimental approach to study the characteristics of well-known sampling techniques on a full social graph of Twitter crawled in 2012 [2]. Our contribution is to evaluate the behavior of these techniques on a real directed graph by considering two sampling scenarios: (a) obtaining most popular users (b) obtaining an unbiased sample of users, and to find the most suitable sampling techniques for each scenario.
In recent years, with the rapid development of satellite technology including On Board Processing (OBP) and Inter Satellite Link (ISL), satellite network devices such as space IP routers have been experimentally carried in space. However, there are many difficulties to build a future satellite network with current terrestrial Internet technologies due to the distinguished space features, such as the severely limited resources, remote hardware/software upgrade in space. In this paper, we propose OpenSAN, a novel architecture of software-defined satellite network. By decoupling the data plane and control plane, OpenSAN provides satellite network with high efficiency, finegrained control, as well as flexibility to support future advanced network technology. Furthermore, we also discuss some practical challenges in the deployment of OpenSAN.
This demo presents a measurement toolkit, Mahimahi, that records websites and replays them under emulated network conditions. Mahimahi is structured as a set of arbitrarily composable UNIX shells. It includes two shells to record and replay Web pages, RecordShell and ReplayShell, as well as two shells for network emulation, DelayShell and LinkShell. In addition, Mahimahi includes a corpus of recorded websites along with benchmark results and link traces (https://github.com/ravinet/sites). Mahimahi improves on prior record-and-replay frameworks in three ways. First, it preserves the multi-origin nature of Web pages, present in approximately 98% of the Alexa U.S. Top 500, when replaying. Second, Mahimahi isolates its own network traffic, allowing multiple instances to run concurrently with no impact on the host machine and collected measurements. Finally, Mahimahi is not inherently tied to browsers and can be used to evaluate many different applications. A demo of Mahimahi recording and replaying a Web page over an emulated link can be found at http://youtu.be/vytwDKBA-8s. The source code and instructions to use Mahimahi are available at http://mahimahi.mit.edu/.
After more than two decades of evolution, TCP and its end host based modifications can still suffer from severely degraded performance under real-world challenging network conditions. The reason, as we observe, is due to TCP family's fundamental architectural deficiency, which hardwires packet-level events to control responses and ignores emprical performance. Jumping out of TCP lineage's architectural deficiency, we propose Performanceoriented Congestion Control (PCC), a new congestion control architecture in which each sender controls its sending strategy based on empirically observed performance metrics. We show through preliminary experimental results that PCC achieves consistently high performance under various challenging network conditions.
We propose a new software-defined security service – SENSS – that enables a victim network to request services from remote ISPs for traffic that carries source IPs or destination IPs from this network's address space. These services range from statistics gathering, to filtering or quality of service guarantees, to route reports or modifications. The SENSS service has very simple, yet powerful, interfaces. This enables it to handle a variety of data plane and control plane attacks, while being easily implementable in today's ISP. Through extensive evaluations on realistic traffic traces and Internet topology, we show how SENSS can be used to quickly, safely and effectively mitigate a variety of large-scale attacks that are largely unhandled today.
WhatsApp, the new giant in instant multimedia messaging in mobile networks is rapidly increasing its popularity, taking over the traditional SMS/MMS messaging. In this paper we present the first large-scale characterization of WhatsApp, useful among others to ISPs willing to understand the impacts of this and similar applications on their networks. Through the combined analysis of passive measurements at the core of a national mobile network, worldwide geo-distributed active measurements, and tra c analysis at end devices, we show that: (i) the WhatsApp hosting architecture is highly centralized and exclusively located in the US; (ii) video sharing covers almost 40% of the total WhatsApp tra c volume; (iii) flow characteristics depend on the OS of the end device; (iv) despite the big latencies to US servers, download throughputs are as high as 1.5 Mbps; (v) users react immediately and negatively to service outages through social networks feedbacks.
Data center operators face extreme challenges in simultaneously providing low latency for short flows, high throughput for long flows, and high burst tolerance. We propose a buffer management strategy that addresses these challenges by isolating short and long flows into separate buffers, sizing these buffers based on flow requirements, and scheduling packets to meet different flow-level objectives. Our design provides new opportunities for performance improvements that complement transport layer optimizations.
The increasing demand to provide new network services in a timely and efficient manner is driving the need to design, test and deploy networks quickly and consistently. Testing and verifying at scale is a challenge: network equipment is expensive, requires space, power and cooling, and there is never enough test equipment for everyone who wants to use it! Network virtualization technologies enable a flexible environment for educators, researchers, and operators to create functional models of current, planned, or theoretical networks. This demonstration will show VIRL — the Virtual Internet Routing Lab — a platform that can be used for network change validation, training, education, research, or networkaware applications development. The platform combines network virtualization technologies with virtual machines (VMs) running open-source and commercial operating systems; VM orchestration capabilities; a context-aware configuration engine; and an extensible data-collection framework. The system simplifies the process to create both simple and complex environments, run simulations, and collect measurement data.


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"All Done~."
In front of you what was once a white canvas is now an explosion of blues. The waves fool the eye, making it look like it is moving. The fish underneath the ocean's surface are filled with colors that mix perfectly with the blue colors. You start to begin to clean up. A
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You start to hazily wake up from your long sleep. You hear the hum of the limo. It sounded like a humming bird flying to his nest.
"Owe…My head."
"Oh, my lady, are you awake?"
"Ah" All the memories come back to you.
"Yes…I remember a man coming out of the woods…then a guy with glasses saving me?"
"Alfred, he is the man with the glasses that you saw. What else did you see?"
You think hard trying to remember.
"Nothing…My head got foggy and I think I fainted."
You can see Arthur nod from the backseat.
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"Y-You're V-V-V-Vampires!!"
"Yes, my brother, Allistor, is the leader of our clan. We need him to purify human blood for us to drink because other wise it's poisonous for us. We use your artwork, which he is obsessed with to buy blood. We are low on supplies and he demanded a picture of the Bran's castle. That is why we needed you to come down here. Your safety is insured, of course. We need you to survive."
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"A-Arthur?! What are you doing here?"
I see a blush on his face as well.
"T-There is no time to waist. Clan leader, Allistor, has announced a ball for all noble vampires. He wishes for you to join him as his special guest. He is really excited to finally met you…"
"A ball?! I-I've never been to a ball! W-Why do you look down?"
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19 years ago, a powerful family of vampires moved to a small village just outside of London, quickly calming power over the villagers. They never asked for anything, but always gave. The villagers never question there motivates, for fear that they would take everything away. But then, Camellia, the head vampire, asked for each girl the age of 18 to not leave there house, so that her son could visit them and choose a bride. The villager's happily agreed, knowing that if their daughter was chosen, it would lead them to a good life. Now, 18 years later, it's Arthur's turn to choose, the second youngest.
"Oh goddess, or god, of time, please please make me one year younger." You opened one of your eyes, sighing when you felt no change. 'OK, so now I'm stuck here, just waiting for my impending doom, wonderful.' You thought, jumping onto the hard bed, cringing. Today was doom's day. OK not really, but to you it was.
RQ: Vampire! England x Reader: Cold Embrace-You've been living in your new home for quite some time now. Many people tend to feel nervous or excited about moving or starting with a new life. You on the other hand felt a different feeling.RQ: Vampire! England x Reader: Cold Embrace3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
-You had a strange feeling like this was where you belonged. Not only that but you had some neighbors tell you some rumors and legends that interested you. They were legends of a monster who lived in the back woods of your new home. They said that it would walk the area at night looking for a certain thing, maybe something lost....or something it's been waiting for.
-You sat quietly looking out your window into the endless array of trees and plants. Living out in the country meant more wildlife and quietness.
-With the thought of the monster rumors flowing through your head something was telling you that it was time for an adventure. What the rumors were true? You could be the first one to prove them true.
-Grabbing your jacket and flash light you headed out into t
Vampire!EnglandXReader: Forever and always pt.1Vampire!EnglandXReader: Forever and always pt.13 years ago in Romance More Like This
You yawned slightly and rubbed the back of your neck as you sat hunched over a book. You had been busy with studying for your examines for these past few weeks you had not slept hardly at all, and fatigue was finally starting to set in on you as you kept up at reading. The night was so calm, so peaceful, you were outside in your gazebo to study, and it had long since gotten dark, but this was of no concern to your, bad things did not happen in your neighborhood for a reason. Too many police officers for crime to survive decently in your area, so you were very relaxed out here in the cool night air and the soft sounds of crickets chirping.
You did not hear the sound of the gazebo door being slowly opened, nor did you see the shadow creeping over you as you continued to gaze down at the book in your lap.
"Hello love, don't you know it is not safe to stay out so late at night, alone?"
Pirate!England X Slave ReaderAuthor's Note:Pirate!England X Slave Reader3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
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Chapter 1:
Pirate!England POV~
Captain Kirkland and his crew just lands on the island to resupply. As he and his first mate are heading to the market. The captain is going through the list of items he needs to get.
I need more corn, flour, ropes, chains, and I could also use a new sword, he thinks.
The market is full of vendors. They yell out great deal on this and a bargain on that.
"Here, go and get the rations I have on that list. Meet me back at the ship at two o'clock sharp. There will be consequences if you are late," Captain Kirkland orders him first mate and gives him a list of food items.
"Yes, Captain," The
Vampire!England X Reader- Burning in RedVampire!England X Reader- Burning in Red3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
"I walked in the abyss of loneliness, until I was saved,
I wish you were here from the beginning,
This sweet dream that got real,
The darkness no longer catching on my skin,
I forget about everything that was,
I was saved by you and I wanna thank you~"
You were in the library, after school, again, like always. Books are like your best friends, always capturing and telling you a new story, that would melt your heart in enjoyment and happiness. You didn't had friends, because you were to shy to talk to someone or to make a decent conversation with people. They really didn't understand you, of course you were this kind of eccentric people, with the old clothing style and your polite attitude and kindness, you were very hard to understand. Most people into your school were always rude, never showing respect for the others around them. You were raised by your grandmother, since your parents have died when you were little. You loved your grandmother very much, she rai
Vampire!Arthur x Reader: Part IVampire!Arthur x Reader: Part I3 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
Part I
"My love is just waiting, to turn your tears to roses." Skillet
The sun slowly came down from the sky down into the ocean. I stayed outside of the community church with my ax at my side. I lit up my cigarette, waiting for my partner, Romano Vargas, to come out of his confession with the priest. Traditionally, a hunter should be very religious. However, I was different from the rest of the hunters. My partner for example, he was really religious, always praying in the morning, before he ate, and at night. He always seemed to be too dependent on the miracles of Holy Water and a silver cross.
I never did. I loved to get into the physical contact with the mystical being. I inhaled the nicotine, looking up at my partner who came out of the church. He sat in front of me, his cheeks bulging out in a pout. I gave him an annoyed look as he pulled the cigarette out of my mouth. I inhaled the last of it as he pulled it away. He stepped on it, standing up fro
Vampire! England x Reader -HeartBeat Vampire You were running for your life from a vampire.Vampire! England x Reader -HeartBeat Vampire3 years ago in Settings More Like This
This is how it happen....
Your parnets had dropped you off at your least favorite place. Your aunt's house. It was around noon when you got there. Your aunt made lunch and you started to mow the lawn. Because your aunt told you too. This wasn't a small yard either she has 5 acres of land that she owns. It was good you didn't have to just the a push lawmower becuase that would take all day for you. Your aunt thankful had one you could sit on. She kept the push one so if you got in trouble that you had to mow the lawn with that. And you hated it so tried your best to stay on her good side.
It was seven o'clock at night when you finally done with the lawn. You turned the lawnmower and lended back into the chair. You were tried from sitting on it but your arms were like noodles. You saw a star and close your eyes "Pleas
Be Mine! Demon EnglandXReaderBe Mine! Demon EnglandXReader3 years ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
Be Mine!Demon EnglandXReader
Disclaimer: WE DO NOT OWE HETALIA! IT BELONGS TO Hidekazu Himaruya SO DO NOT SUE US! I'M BEGGING YOU!
In the Land of Daimon, there lived a Clan whose have descended from the Dragon Deity. This clan has been protecting Daimon for centuries. In this clan a man rules by the name of Tobias. Tobias is ranked as the most powerful dragon among the Clan.
King Tobias had been ruling and protecting the land of Daimon since it had been created by the unknown creator. However, his time in Daimon is coming to its end due to his age. Therefore, before he passes on to the afterlife he had named Arthur as his successor and ordered Azarias to aid his nephew. However, Azarias was not at all happy to this engagement, since he had been living behind the shadows of his brother.
In rage, Azarias poisoned King Tobias without anyone knowing. This causes King Tobias's condition to worsen. Losing hope for his father, Arthur seeks the ancient oracle
Vampire!England X Reader: WonderlandYour hands gripped tightly to the white and blue vintage dress, clapping your black high heels together, as you saw him walk in. He closes the door behind him, and you can see his back reflected in the glass, effectively surrounding you in a hall of mirrors.Vampire!England X Reader: Wonderland3 years ago in Romance More Like This
He wears a tall black hat, deep purple ribbon rapped around it, matching the pin-stripes of varying purple and blue of his pants and jacket, chest left teasingly bare, green eyes capturing.
Five months ago, a new residence had made home in your town. He did not leave his house much, but whenever he did- he seemed to be around you. He came from England, and when you spoke to him the accent that proudly showed through made you weak in the knees.
You spoke of literature and fine dining- something your father had trained you in. He wanted you to marry some high-in-society, well mannered, rich male. But, truthfully, though you never told your father, if you ever had to have your hand grasped by a man as horridly conce
Vampire!Arthur x readerIt was an ordinary Sunday afternoon. You and your parents had dropped off your great uncle at his house after eating Sunday dinner at yours, he needed help with his new microwave so you stayed longer then planned.Vampire!Arthur x reader4 years ago in Sci-Fi More Like This
You were completely bored and had no idea what to do. You wondered around the bungalow, you looked over at the glass door and seen a cute little black and white kitty meowing at the door. You walked over and was about to open the door to pet it.
"_______, can you take these bottles to the car, please?" your mother asked, handing you a brown bag full of empty beer bottles. You nodded and waved bye to the kitty, walked over to your mother and took the bag. Your great uncle sure did like his alcohol, he would often give you the empty bottles to bring them to the bottle bank for him because he was too old to do it himself.
You stepped outside the door, the wind hitting against your face. The cold, night breeze blow your (h/c) hair, you sighed and looked up into the cl
Vampire!EnglandxReader: H-help me...?"Oh man! Why me?!" I ran helplessly through alleyways and streets. 'Losing this guy is harder than finding him! Man, I wish I hadn't gotten myself into this mess! I'm such an idiot!'Vampire!EnglandxReader: H-help me...?3 years ago in Introductions & Chapters More Like This
Well, if you're just tuning in, I'm currently being pursued by a blood sucking leech! My names (y/n) (l/n), and let me tell you, I'm in some deep trouble. This creature is none other than a vampire, and a very hungry one at that... What happened to get him to chase me, you ask? Well, that's easy, I just decided to take a stroll at 10:00pm, that's how! I sound kinda stupid right now, right? Well, how would you act if you had a blood sucker on your trail? Very similar, I could imagine.
"Shit!" I yelled, this is it. I ran, not even looking were I sped off to. Now, I'm stuck in an alley with a dead end... Like I said, why do I have no common sense!!!
"Well, well... What do we have here? A little late night snack?" His eyes glowed with something mighty and wicked. If it were day, I'm sure one could still see th
Demon!Englandxreader Cruel fairy taleDemon!Englandxreader Cruel fairy tale2 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
Demon!Englandxreader Cruel fairy tale
"Come on honey we have to hurry so we won't be late!" your mom called downstairs.
Tonight was an important dinner for your parents and they forced you to come with them. You didn't look forward to it. I mean it will just be a huge dinner with a lot of diplomats and business men and also there will be a ball later on.
You looked at your reflection in the mirror. There you stand in a light blue dress that reached to your knees, with a thin metal belt around your waist and had your hair in (favourite hairstyle) you sighed and walked downstairs to meet your parents.
"You look so cute honey" your mom said
"No I look stupid" you mumbled
"Come my ladies we have to go" your dad said and you three walked out and get into the car.
When tonight comes to pass
you appear and wake me up
that which have fallen drop by drop
you lightly tread upon my tears
when that door opens, once again
that light will reach me
Afterwards, for all enternity
we'll live happily eve
Naga!England x Runaway!Reader (Commission)Author's Note:Naga!England x Runaway!Reader (Commission)3 years ago in Romance More Like This
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Reader POV~
"Dang it! Not now! Come on don't die on me now!"
You scream at your slowing car. The gas gauge is pointed at 'E', and finally, after a lot of yelling, your car comes to a stop on a dirt road in the middle of a swamp. The car just had to die now huh? You wipe your wet and red eyes as you get out of the mud covered black jeep. You get your backpack from the passenger seat next to you and start walking. The air is muggy, the trees are a dark green color, a fog is setting in, and everything is just slimy. You shiver at the environment. It reminds you of an old horror movie you watched, and no one survived. You shake your
Vampire!England X Reader: Vampire RomanceYou transferred at Hetalia Gakuen with your brother, You were submitted in Class 2-1. In your class, there were lots of unfamiliar faces, they stared at you strangely.Vampire!England X Reader: Vampire Romance4 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
"So, can you introduce yourself?" Ludwig-sensei, His full name is Ludwig Beilschimdt a German, some rumors said that he was a hunter (hunter of what? You'll find that out later! ^.^)
"Im ____ ____" you introduced yourself
"Sit next to Arthur Kirkland there" Professor Ludwig said, pointing his finger at the boy with a messy blond hair and emerald green eyes and He's good-looking too! you walked forward and sat beside him at the middle left.
"Hello there, I'm ____" you lend your hand to him but he totally ignored you. 'What a guy! he's rude!' you thought to yourself. A girl patted your shoulder, she has a long, light brown hair and green eyes
"He don't pay attention to the newcomers but, he's a good person" the girl reassured you
"By the way, Im Elizabeta Héderváry, nice to meet you ___!" she gave you a f
Pirate!Vampire!EnglandxReaderPirate!Vampire!EnglandxReader4 years ago in Profiles More Like This
-note: I have no clue how this will go down! I am just writing and letting my mind take over, so forgive
me for what comes up! Oh and if any OC'ness comes up, I AM TRULY SORRY!
Well, going to the market for her mother seemed like a normal, harmless thing, right? WRONG! It is
dangerous when there are pirates around town. (Name) really didn't know that, nor did she notice that
she passed one on her way there. Weird, because other girls her age did. Oh DID they notice him, but he
noticed (Name) and that she never saw him as she happily skipped down the street. The Captain of the
ship couldn't help but grin and follow the clueless girl.
"Oh hi!" the girl would smile and wave at the others on the streets. Many guys would do anything for a
chance with (Name) but she would laugh it off and ignore their requests. Once she got to the market,
(Name) wondered around with her basket on her arm.
"Aw, those don't look as good as the ones from yesterday," (Name) was loo
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You sat there in the restaurant with those words going thru your head. -Tonight your going to be mine. be MINE.- your eyes widen. You shot up out of your chair and ran out the restaurant. Arthur laughed "That girl is going to be surprised tonight." he watched you scurry down the street. You ran the other half home and didn't stop for nothing. You slammed the door open. Your aunt was making dinner already. "___________. Why are you home this early? And why is Mr. Kirkland?" you didn't answer and went into your room. You went in your room and you saw Twilight was on your Tv playing. Your eye twitched at that than you turned the Tv off. You found your book Breaking Dawn and Vampire Diaries (Don't hate me but I like Vampire Diaries but not Twilight.) you threw the book and movie out of the window. you had nothing to do with them now.
~~That Afternoon~~
You heard the doorbell ring. You ran up the stair while your Aunt answered the door. It was Arthur. "He
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You had to admit that saying you were nervous was a gross understatement. You leaned against the wall like it was your life support. You watched couples dancing together and having a wonderful time. You were dateless and didn't even know why you were here. You sighed but then chuckled to yourself as you thought about what brought you here.
You had received an invitation from the infamous Arthur Kirkland. You had been invited a ball he was holding at his home. You couldn't believe it when you first read the letter. You had come anyway, mostly due to curiosity in what the man wanted with you.
Suddenly the music and noise had stopped and the huge room was silent. You looked towards the door as everyone else was doing and saw him. Arthur Kirkland. His blonde hair that looked softer then most, emerald eyes that sparked with their own internal fires, and of course one cou
Vampire!RomanoxReader Part 1(Name) sat her empty plate of pasta on the coffee table and leaned back on the couch rubbing her stomach, "Man Feli how do you do it? Your pasta is out of this world."Vampire!RomanoxReader Part 12 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
Feliciano got up from under Ludwig's arm and took (Name)'s plate and headed for the kitchen, "It's a secret (Name), family rule is to never tell."
"Come on Feli, we've known you guys since forever I just gotta know," Gilbert, Ludwig's older, brother snickered.
"Nope," Feliciano smiled and looked to the clock, "It's getting late we should go to bed now."
Ludwig smiled softly and stood up he went over to Feliciano and gave him a kiss goodnight, "Don't take too long and don't forget to turn off the light again."
"Okay. Gilbert?"
"Yeah I'm gonna take the guest room, see ya guys tomorrow," Gilbert yawned. He stretched and head up stairs after his brother. Antonio who had already
Vampire!EnglandxReader: CherishYour phone beeped, signaling an incoming text message. Groggily opening one (e/c) eye, you reached out to grab the mobile device, squinting at the tiny letters on the too-bright LCD screen. It was a text from your British boyfriend, Arthur Kirkland.Vampire!EnglandxReader: Cherish3 years ago in Romance More Like This
"What the hell it's midnight " You mumbled sleepily, sliding open the phone to type a message in reply. Now that I think about it, Arthur always texts me at night. I hardly ever hear from him in the day
You yawned loudly and rolled over, wanting to fall back asleep. Another beep made you growl in frustration and pick up your phone once more. Why doesn't Arthur just contact me in the daytime rather than keeping me awake at night? You were slightly annoyed by this. You had work the next morning, and needed a good night's rest to be fully functional.
Heaving a great sigh, you shut off your cell and turned over drowsily, pulling the soft, warm blankets over your head in an effort to return to dreamland.
The next da
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The hotel was clean, they actually allowed my family to check in early(for a fee), and it had an ok breakfast. It was easy to get to Central Lat Phrao, MRT, Chaktuchak Park(about 45 baht by taxi). The downside of the hotel is they have no pool of gym so probably not so great for long stays. My cab ride... More
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