Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Title: Winning
Characters: Cloud, Zack
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: I had hoped to write more, but moving houses took priority.

( Winning )


Title: Announcement
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

( Announcement )


I'm going to have to do more of this world. Damnit.

Title: Ex-Soldier, S Class
Pairing/Characters: Barret, Sephiroth
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: Inspired by a YouTube vid that I can't find anymore.

The train rocked to a shuddering, screeching halt, and the troopers approached at a bored jog to check the passengers' IDs as they disembarked. They never saw the terrorists coming until it was too late.

Barret waved to their fifth member, perched at the train's roof hatch. "C'mon, newcomer- follow me." As he left the station, the newest Avalanche member leaped from the train and landed hard on the walkway alongside. Two more faceless troopers moved in and skidded to a halt when they spotted the silver spectre before them.

Ex-General Sephiroth lifted his sword: time to go to work.

Title: Snow Leopard
Pairing/Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris, Cloud
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: All three follow this fic.

If you wanted to escape Shinra, the place to be was the northern continent. There was no Mako here, nothing to exploit. The environment was too harsh for most people, the solitude all-encompassing.

It suited Sephiroth down to the ground. He'd go out early, wearing only his leathers (no matter how much Aeris fussed), and return hours later encrusted in ice and snow. He claimed he didn't feel the cold, but he never protested when Cloud wrapped him in chocobo-down blankets and cuddled him warm, occasionally stroking the fine fuzz beginning to grow in on the shell of his ear.




Title: Paradise Deferred
Pairing/Characters: Aeris
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Aeris stood on the front step, thick tail wrapped around her in a vain attempt to keep off the cold. The sun was just rising, and with its light came a call that rang distant-sweet in her mind. Aeris's ancestors- her family- was waiting for her to the sunlit east, to welcome her forever to her own Promised Land.

But her other family was waiting for her too. Her boys, and her dear girl- they still needed her, with a precious urgency that the dead couldn't match.

"Just a little longer," she told the voices, and firmly shut the door.





Title: Cannot Be Caged
Pairing/Characters: Tseng, Rude, Sephiroth, Aeris
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Tseng lashed his tail at himself, annoyed and worried. He hadn't thought much beyond finding their quarry in this snowswept wasteland; even with Reno and Rude with him, Tseng knew he'd never force the lost General to go with them. Just find him first.

Rude nudged him, prompting Tseng to look up. For a moment he didn't recognize the figure he saw, though his companion was clearly Aer- the Ancient. Only the General had hair like that, but there was a new wildness in his eyes, in the set of his furred ears and the lash of his spotted tail.

Title: Pilgrimage
Author: jlsigman
Team: Avalanche
Word count: 100

“Aerith shouldn't have to die!” Yuffie yelled.

“I'm not gonna let her die,” Cloud yelled back. “I'll save her, and we'll defeat Sephiroth without the Final Summoning.”

“Uh, how we gon' do that, ya?” Barrett asked.

Yuffie turned to Vincent, who was leaning against the wall and hiding his face behind his collar. “You know something, tell us!”

“Some things you have to discover for yourselves,” he intoned.

“Fine!” Cloud turned to the older pilot. “Cid, take us to where Aerith is.”

The old Al Behd grinned and smoked the whole way.

( Six drabbles under the cut. )

Last week, the Turks lurked in the shadows and snatched the trophy away from SOLDIER with their 10 points! When it comes to working in the shadows, no one can compete with the Turks.

This week's prompt is #102 - Alternate Universe

In celebration of our 2nd anniversary, we have decided to take the runner up from the poll that we had a while back and offer it up like booze and cake. Can you all believe this asylum has been rolling out the drabbles for two full years?

Here is your prompt:

Put the characters smack dab on a different world! Who would they be if they ended up as desert nomads? How about in a casino in Las Vegas? Or stuck in a spaceship, lived at the circus, were underground cave dwellers?

Give them special powers to get rid of all that materia stuff! Is Genesis a telepathic? Is Sephiroth a Turk? Are any of them superheroes?

What if Reeve was robotic and Cait Sith built him to be a butler? Suppose the women were the members of SOLDIER - would Scarlet be akin to Sephiroth? Would Cloud be tending the bar while Tifa saves the world?

This week, take reality and shift it to the left, give it a vigorous shake of the imagination and see what alternate universe you can come up with for the characters! But remember to write it in just 100 words.