Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Title: Highwind Hopes
Author: hecatesbrat
Characters: Cid and his dad
Rating: meh.
Team: Turks
Word Count: 100.
Series: na
Author's Notes: prompt - 44 Childhood

( Highwind Hopes )


Title: Testing Grounds
Author: hecatesbrat
Characters: Hojo
Rating: meh.
Team: Turks
Word Count: 100.
Series: na
Author's Notes: prompt - 44 Childhood

( Testing Grounds )

Title: He's a Talker
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Rude, OC
Rating: G
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

"...And Mom says she misses the old ways, like how you had to turn a crank to get the lights on and it only lasted like five minutes so you had to keep turning it, so I guess people had really strong arms back then."

"Mhm."

"But I like the new ways better. When Mom was a kid she had all kinds of chores to do but I don't have to do them, so I can go out and play. Do you like baseball?"

"Yes, I like baseball. Turn your head," the barber said when Rude paused to draw breath.





Title: The Gambler
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Chocobo Joe, OC
Rating: G
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

They lived and breathed chocobos, the boy and his father. Every weekend while his father bent over the racing sheets, the boy hung over the railing and watched the birds fly by. He learned how to spot the best ones by the flex of a leg, the sheen of feathers, the fire in the eye.

As the money dwindled every week, the boy swindled a man out of a black jewel of a bird and entered it in the Gold Saucer circuit.

"Bet on me, Dad," he said, and prepared to run his first race.

Joe won. His father lost.

Title: Daredevil
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Cid, OC
Rating: G
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

"All right," the doctor said, hands on his hips. "What was it this time?"

His pint-sized patient only grinned through a livid streak of blood down his face, cradling his busted arm to his chest. "Fell on a rock," he explained.

"Uh-huh. Doing what?"

The child's eyes shifted. "Just playing around."

"Where?"

The boy caved under the doctor's stern glare. "Suicide Hill."

"Suicide Hill-!" The doctor groaned and shook his head. "Never mind. Up on the table, Cid. One of these days I'm going to tether you to the ground. The heavens help us all if you ever sprout wings."



Title: Playmate
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Sephiroth, Aeris
Rating: G
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

Soon after Sephiroth came to Midgar, an infant girl joined him in the labs.

There was no physical comparison - the infant was much too small, and was never exposed to Mako - but the lab techs drew her blood and compared it to Sephiroth's, and made interested noises while Sephiroth lay quietly on the table and the baby fussed bitterly. Once, Sephiroth picked her up, and she quieted immediately - only to start up again when Hojo snatched her out of his hands.

She disappeared one day with her mother, and Hojo was angry for months after. Sephiroth never learned her name.



Title: Midgar Rising
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Reeve, OC
Rating: G
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

"I'm sixteen, sir," Reeve lied.

The foreman squinted at him, but Reeve was tall and broad for thirteen and had brought his own tools. "Fine," he grunted, "grab a hard hat. We're just pouring concrete today, it ain't hard."

"Yes sir," Reeve replied, and dashed into the crowd of workers before the foreman could change his mind.

His family could use the money, admittedly, but Reeve would have come here anyway. People were coming from all over the world to build the most massive, grandest city on the Planet - Midgar! - and Reeve wanted desperately to be a part of it.



Title: Unwanted
Author: raisedbymoogles
Characters: Shera
Rating: PG-13
Team: Avalanche
Word Count: 100

There were already too many kids in the house by the time Shera came along; too many kids and not enough money. Never enough money.

Everything Shera had was handed down: her clothes came from her sisters, her toys were pilfered from her brothers, and every bruise inflicted by her father was passed on down the line to her. That was all she was good for, they told her. She was too little to be any use.

Squinting through her black eyes, Shera stole books from the library and taught herself, so that someday she could be useful to someone.

Title: Coming Home
Characters: Zack, Zack's Mother
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: *wibbles at*

He was an energetic child. Always running, exploring. Seeing what was in that hole or up that tree. Always coming home with some new cut or bruise. Sometimes with a new pet or three. Once he had come home with a birds nest that had fallen on the ground.

One thing his parents could always count on, though, was Zack coming home.

It was the only think that kept his mother from worrying too much when she’d see him tearing off into the woods with his friends. That he’d come home. Always.

She would always count on that.

Title: Dark Nation
Challenge: Childhood
Characters: Rufus Shinra, Tseng
Team: Turks
Word count: 100



“Hold him gently, young sir. His kind is quite rare.”

The tow-headed boy stared in wonder at the armload of ebony fur that had just begun to purr in his embrace. “He’s amazing!”

Tseng knelt and put his hands on the boy’s shoulders. “If he bonds with you, he will guard you with his very life.”

Rufus nodded solemnly. “What should I name him?”

Tseng considered a moment, and only a moment. “He and I share the same homeland, a place that will undoubtedly soon lose its freedom. Perhaps his name should reflect that, if I may be so bold?”

Title: Pack
Characters: Angeal Clone
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Crisis Core spoiling

( ”Pack” )


Title: Snow
Characters: Sephiroth, Cloud
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

( ”Snow” )


Title: Materia
Characters: Yuffie, mentions of Zack
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author’s Warning: More Crisis Core mentions. Mostly of the Yuffie related missions.

( ”Materia” )


Title: Sky
Characters: Aeris
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author’s Note: Can we say more Crisis Core?

( ”Sky” )


Title: Odd
Characters: Tifa, mentions of Cloud
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

( ”Odd” )

Title: Little Mercies
Challenge: Childhood
Characters: Cloud
Team: Avalanche
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

During nights, an old stray dog scratched at the doors.

"It's been with wild animals," his mother said, cradling her forehead. She had been having migraine and was very tired. "Don't go near it."

But when Cloud opened the door, it wagged its tail and walked over to sniff his hands, smelling of dirt and sickness. Cloud looked at his mother, who was sleeping her ache away. He offered the dog a bowl of water.

Next day, his mother gave up and left to the pharmacy for new medicine, and villagers wondered about the dead stray on the town square.

Title: Below
Author: Freezing_Rayne
Team: Turks
Characters: Reno
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100


Reno sits on the roof. He looks up, imagining the plate isn't there--that the slums are open to the sky. He visualizes the sunset, a tinted pallete of red and gold, blue creeping in on the edges.

It's not a sight someone like him is entitled to.

Below him, something breaks inside the house. Someone curses in a voice so slurred it's impossible to distinguish one word from the other.

Reno hugs his knees to his chest, fingers tracing the bruises still fresh from the day before. His dad hadn't even been drunk then.

It will be a long night.

First bunch. *coughs*


Title: Last of His Kind
Characters: Nanaki
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: This is part of my crack, where humans and Nanaki's species produce cubs, not human babies.

( Last of His Kind )


Title: Summertime
Characters: Barret, Dyne
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Look, I'm being friendly!

( Summertime )


Title: Dabs
Characters: Cid
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: I shouldn't like this one so much.

( Dabs )


Title: Introductions
Characters: Genesis, Angeal
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Fear the pair.

( Introductions )


Title: Routine
Characters: Sephiroth
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: Got this to 100 on the first try!

( Routine )

SOLDIER didn't take kindly to Avalanche stealing their trophy, so this week they pulled out all the stops.  They defied the pretense of gender for 130 points.  The Turks came back from their lazy days to dress it up a bit for ShinRa.  They came in second with 70 points.  Avalanche didn't even have a chance with their measly 10 points.

This week's prompt is #44 - Childhood

What were the characters like as children?  Do they have fond memories of dodge ball and hopscotch?

Was Genesis really the hellion he seems to have been?  Did Aerith eat paste in kindergarten?  Was Rufus the school yard geek or the bully?  How many science fair medals did Hojo win?  Was Angeal always brining home stray animals and asking if he could keep them?  Was Reno a bed-wetter?  Did  Cid play with toy rockets? Did Cloud have a chocobo stuffy? Could Rude go to sleep without a bedtime story? Did they have sleep-overs, birthday parties, school field trips?

Let's explore the joys and wonders of childhood, but only in 100 words.