Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Title: Intro to Advent
Challenge: Bulwer-Lytton
Characters: the shinentai
Team: SOLDIER
Word count: 100


The approaching rumble heralded not thunder but the roaring engines of three high-tech motorcycles ridden by leather-clad beings that were each more and less than human, a portent that would bring in due time a storm far more destructive than any humble thing of nature – which, though humble in that nature holds no arrogance or malice in its destructive power, is mighty nonetheless – or any recognized weapon of man’s imagination, unless that man were of demented foresight and extreme cruelty, which might be the case considering that this whole mess began – and one might presume would eventually end – with Hojo.

Title: Alibi
Challenge: Bulwer-Lytton
Characters: Yuffie
Team: SOLDIER
Word count: 100


“See, I COULDN’T have stolen YOUR materia, I was busy trying to find a safe place to hide the OTHER materia – NOT that I stole that materia either, I found it, lying out in plain sight where ANYONE could have taken it – or tripped right over it – and while I did take THAT materia, I didn’t actually STEAL it, but I DID pick it up, so that’s where I was this morning, when – oh, you lost YOUR materia last night, next to the park … that’s funny, that’s where that other guy left his lying around waiting to trip somebody…”

 

Title: One Hot Day
Characters: Reeve
Team: Turks
Challenge: Bulwer-Lytton
Word Count: 100

It was a hot, abysmal day where salt-laden sweat clung to my upper lip, beading into little droplets that slid from my face to the bathroom floor and having long since cast off my typical robe so that I could lie naked on the cool tiles to revel in the barest hint of relief that I received, I closed my eyes to will Cait Sith to work faster on the air conditioning unit and though I was fortunate for his size to be able to fix the device, the fact that this was his fault did not slip my mind.

Trick or Treat! Well, the Turks tricked and Soldier treated, but in the end Avalanche came away with the candy haul. They win the trophy this week with 10 points.

This week's prompt is #121 - Bulwer-Lytton

This week, you may write any type of drabble you like, but there is a twist. You must write it in the style of Bulwer-Lytton!

So, throw together your best dramatic flair, your redundancies, your confusing sentences and run-on sentences, you know, the ones that don't make sense in one reading but hit you like a freight train in the middle of the night when you are trying to sleep but can't because of how much caffeine that you had in the early hours before the chiming of the clock at the strike of twelve.

Write us a dark and stormy night at the Seventh Heaven or ShinRa headquarters or the strange little spaces that the Turks call home but don't admit to for all the cockroaches running in the walls like mice on a quest for peanut butter. Or hit us with a battle between foes so vengeful that you wouldn't think their feud would even make it to the battlefield.

Regardless of the scene that you paint, not with oils and acrylics that tend to dry out before you get off your lazy ass to use them, but with the words well crafted like that of a frenzied fan fiction writer that has had too much Mountain Dew, write us a drabble in the manner of Bulwer-Lytton. Give us your worst (and by happenstance, your best) in just 100 words.

And here is a link to those unfamiliar to Bulwer-Lytton: Wikipedia ahoy!

Mod note: for those that like to play on LJ as well, we now have the community there - here is the profile! Basically, all new prompts will be posted here whereas past prompts will be copied and pasted from here to there in the order that they were assigned. Does that even make sense? ><