Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Title: A Breed Apart
Characters: Zack and Cloud
Team: Turks
Word Count: 100
Note: Opening line is from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I changed a word to "Soldier."

The Soldier belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. There was all that augmented strength and speed (so fast and so strong, you could use a sword and win against gunmen), higher pay than you'd get in the regular army and you got more privileges sooner, too. The recruitment officers made damn sure to tell each and every bright-eyed hopeful all about it.

Zack felt sort of stupid because he fell for it.

His strength and speed weren't going to help him or Cloud. His pay and privileges couldn't stop the army from hunting them.

Zack couldn't do anything now except look at the sky. Slowly, his vision faded.

Title: Memoirs of a Ninja
Characters: Yuffie
Team: Turks
Word Count: 100
Note: Opening line is from The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig. Back in my sordid youth, I... sort of used this book as a model when writing about my OC's in Wutai

"The morning it happened--the end of my lovely world--I did not water the lilac bush outside my father's study."

Yuffie had practiced the story over and over. It had to be perfect, absolutely perfect. If she made herself sound too rich, then people would assume being broke and on the road was just what she deserved. If she sounded too poor, then people would be more wary about what they had. Either way, she'd get shit.

She figured she had a good year or two left to milk the little girl lost routine. She'd have to actually (ugh) start saving and think about getting weapons and armor.

Time to get into character: her next payday was walking towards her.

Title: Truth and Consequences
Characters/Pairings: Sephiroth, questionable OC
Team: Turks
Rating: G
Words: 100
Notes: Remember "Until the End of the World"? It's continuation time. Yay for past prompts!

"To serve you always in utmost loyalty, this is my pledge."

To think that he'd refused to climb Mount Hou to avoid... complications like these. Sephiroth had considered himself unfit to be a king. Apparently, he was alone in that assessment.

He thought of the reorganizing he'd have to do. He thought of the countless scrolls he'd have to read. He thought of politics and intrigues.

He thought of the kingdom, in chaos in its interregnum state.

Sephiroth just knew that somewhere in the Yellow Sea, Zack was laughing at him.

"I accept."

The holy beast smiled a kirin-like smile.

Title: First Girl Wins
Prompt: Crossover
Series: Final Fantasy VII/Suikoden III
Characters: Zack, Chris Lightfellow, Sephiroth
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
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Title: Comrades
Prompt: Crossover
Series: Temeraire/Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Laurence, Zack, Cloud
Team: Soldier
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Notes: An attempt at Laurence-voice.
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Title: Reconnaissance
Prompt: Crossover
Series: Temeraire/Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Temeraire and Sephiroth
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Notes: ...an attempt at Temeraire-voice. Goes along with the last drabble.
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Title: At the Speed of Rumor
Characters: Zack and Kunsel
Team: Avalanche
Rating: R (Zack's mouth, as usual)
Word Count: 100
Prompt: 90. Guy in the Street Rule

Zack pulled off the heavy armor and forced himself to slow his breathing. He'd done it. He'd beat that weird woman in white with the fucking annoying bow and arrows. Now he could get out of here and back to Cloud. They'd have a laugh at his shitty sense of direction, and they could be on their way...

His cell beeped. New message.

Ignoring how he still managed to get reception--let alone still have service--Zack checked the text. Kunsel. Kunsel spazzing because Zack had to be the legendary Soldier who defeated a major threat.

What the hell. It just happened!

Title: "Until the End of the World"
Characters/Pairings: Sephiroth, questionable OC (It's really not an OC, but you can't tell that from this bit.)
Team: Turks
Rating: G
Words: 100
Notes: This took too damn long to do, and it shows. But I want to post something. You can sort of tell part of what's been occupying my mind besides FFVII of late.

He had been following his master throughout the world. The call was irresistible; he’d know that even if no one had bothered to tell him. His entire life revolved around his master: waiting for the call, following the call, finding his master, and serving him until death.

Finally, in this northern wasteland, he found who he has been searching for. Finally, he bowed at the feet of his master.

The practiced vow came easily. "To serve you always in utmost loyalty, this is my pledge."

Sephiroth stared down at the kirin. His soldiers were already following the divine beast’s example.