Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

Okay, yet again, I'm going to fail my attempt at getting a thousand points for SOLDIER. Work and moving conspire against me. Still, I figure I got at least eighty drabbles out, which is ten better than last time.

Another twenty drabbles all together here.

Title: Flash, Bang, Action, Selection, Separation, Shy, Surprise, Wet, Huffy, Contract
Characters: Various ones
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Band AU
Author's Notes: Ten drabbles for the Alternate universes prompt. And I wrote all of these out by hand first. Counting was fun. Aeris is pervy in Wet, and Cloud has a bit of a boy-crush in Shy.

( Flash )

( Bang )

( Action )

( Selection )

( Separation )

( Shy )

( Surprise )

( Wet )

( Huffy )

( Contract )


Title: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, A Year of Life
Characters: Zack, Cloud
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Zack Fair prompt.
Author's Notes: Five drabbles, focused on the year between labs and Midgar.

( Spring )

( Summer )

( Fall )

( Winter )

( A Year of Life )


Title: Kenshin, Victoria, Angela, Grim, Gatherings
Characters: Various
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Character's Children prompt.
Author's Notes: Five more drabbles.

( Kenshin )

( Victoria )

( Angela )

( Grim )

( Gatherings )

Because this is going to be a -big- post, I'm doing it a bit different. Hopefully it works out, and you don't end up with a nine mile long post.

Title: Tongue Tied, Hunger, Countdown, Mako and Materia, Stranger
Characters: Zack and various others
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Zack Fair set
Author's Notes: Five prompts centered around Zack Fair.

( Tongue Tied )

( Hunger )

( Countdown )

( Mako and Materia )

( Stranger )



Title: Choose Life, Awkward, First Person Narration, Haunted, Remember
Characters: Yuffie and various others
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Yuffie Kisaragi set
Author's Notes: Same as above, only with Yuffie

( Choose Life )

( Awkward )

( First Person Narration )

( Haunted )

( Remember )

Title: Photograph, Bad Habit, Diary, Character's Children, Ghosts
Characters: Tseng and various others
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Tseng set
Author's Notes: Notice the pattern yet?

( Photograph )

( Bad Habit )

( Diary )

( Character's Children )

( Ghosts )


Title: 2 A.M., Blackmail, Cliche, Fireworks, First Kiss
Characters: Tifa and various others
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100 per drabble
Series: Tifa Lockhart set
Author's Notes: I'm having fun. Next five.

( 2 A.M. )

( Blackmail )

( Cliche: #79-Xenobiology Rule )

( Fireworks )

( First Kiss )



*stretches* Okay. Twenty more drabbles. That puts me at....sixty drabbles so far. I plan on doing the last forty this afternoon after a nap. And at the latest get them posted tomorrow morning.

Wish me luck? Or are you all ready for me to stop already?

Title: Rounding Out
Pairings/Characters: Tifa, Cloud
Team: Soldier
Rating: G
Word count: ~100

( Mpreg 1 )



Title: Done the Impossible
Pairings/Characters: Genesis, Lazard
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG-13, Gen has a potty mouth! XD
Word count: ~100

( Mpreg 2 )



Title: Sharing is Caring
Pairings/Characters: Aeris/Tifa, Cloud
Team: Soldier
Rating: R, because Aeris is a bit crude. >.<
Word count: ~100
Note: Um, I liked this one so I intergrated it into my No True Pair Prompt for markings. -.-

( Kinks and fetishes )



Title: New Things
Pairings/Characters: Zack, Cloud
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG
Word count: ~100
Note: Because I've been ignoring my Clack for too long.

( Phone )



Title: Quirks
Pairings/Characters: OCs (...can you guess which one is like me? XD)
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~100
Note: ...I admit to being a tad bit crude this time around. -_-;

( Zack Fair )



Title: The Little Guy
Pairings/Characters: Zack, Angeal
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG
Word count: ~100

( Pets )



Title: In Short
Pairings/Characters: Tifa
Team: Soldier
Rating: PG
Word count: ~100

( Tifa Lockhart )



Title: Defender
Pairings/Characters: Tifa
Team: Soldier
Rating: G
Word count: ~100
Note: Part of an upcoming moresome fic involving ZTCA

( Alternate Universe )

Title: Abusive Motivation
Characters: Zack, OC
Team: Avalanche
Rating: PG, language
Word Count: 100

They called it 'boot camp' because you were lower than the scum on your sarge's boot, and he never let you forget it.

"Move those asses, maggots! I've seen more hustle at the old folks' home!" Sarge's face was screwed up in a squinty-eyed bawl, like the very presence of the new recruits offended his delicate sensibilities. Zack shouted out his yes sir along with the other guys and fed that look into the slow burn of anger that had powered him long after mere muscle and breath would have failed.

He'd show that asshole he had what it took.






Title: Cockfight 1
Characters: Zack, Sephiroth
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

It would have fallen under the category of 'minor disagreement' until the wild-haired Third had insulted his sword skills to his face, and that was more than even Sephiroth could be expected to bear. Swords leapt and clashed, Sephiroth pushing Zack into a retreat and giving way to his own anger until it blinded him and Zack used the speed he'd kept hidden until just that moment- body-checking his General into his own hastily-erected command tent, sending it collapsing around them both.

By the time Sephiroth cut them both free, Zack was laughing too hard to even lift his sword.






Title: Cockfight 2
Characters: Zack, Cloud, a chocobo
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

"Uh, Zack..." Cloud hedged, eyeing the ruddy chocobo with the broken talon. "I don't think that's a good idea."

Zack waved off his concern with an easy grin. "Relax, the birds love me. Just watch the Choco Whisperer at work." He hopped the fence and approached the big male, movements smooth and slow. "That's right, big fella," he crooned, "come to Uncle Zack n-ow!"

Zack looked so betrayed that it was hard not to laugh, even as the red started chasing him around the pen. Cloud could have told him not to mess with an insecure male during mating season.





Title: Letters Home
Characters: Zack
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Dear Mom, I met a girl today.

Zack chewed the end of his pen, wondering where to start.

I met her in kind of an interesting way...

No, can't tell her that. She'd only worry.

She grows flowers under the Plate...

Except nothing grew under the Plate. Everybody knew that, as hard as Shinra tried to pretend otherwise.

She has this weird healing magic...

No, can't tell her that either. Zack sat back, weighing the few things Aeris had told him about herself against all the things she hadn't said.

Dear Mom; I met a girl today. She's really nice.






Title: Eglantine
Characters: Zack, Sephiroth, Cloud
Team: Avalanche
Rating: PG-13, blood
Word Count: 100
Author's Note: In the Victorian language of flowers, eglantine, or sweetbriar, means "I wound to heal."

Shock was screwing with his vision, but if he turned his head Zack could just about see the jerky-limbed puppet Sephiroth had become, the grip on- Mother- that thing's head the only sure thing about him. Oh gods, Zack thought, feeling his body shudder.

Then- hope, or a twisted mockery of it, Cloud sweating as he dragged Zack's Buster behind him, stained with Sephiroth's blood. He'd gotten the stubborn bastard and was still breathing, and that meant this could still end.

"Cloud," he croaked, startling the boy nearly into dropping the sword. "Kill Sephiroth."

The words alone nearly killed him.





Title: Constant As Your Shadow
Characters: Aeris, Zackwolf
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

In her dreams, she walked beside a green river, and a wolf patiently shadowed her.

Loneliness and weariness stuck in Aeris's heart, sharp as a blade, even though she knew why she had to go on alone. The river would lead her, but it was a cold and distant companion compared to (Cloud) her friends.

Suddenly sick of walking, Aeris threw herself to the ground like a child. The wolf was there in an instant, licking her tear-damp cheek, sitting still as a tame thing when she hugged him close. The wolf's eyes were violet, and his fur was warm.





Title: Never Let Go
Characters: Zack, Sephiroth
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Aeris had her hands full, being the goddess of the Lifestream and all, so it was up to Zack to burn out the little remaining pockets of space bitch and collect the pieces of Seph's soul she left behind.

"Hey," he crooned, curled around the soul too broken to have his own form yet, weaving it together again. "This is a good memory, right? Shh..." He held Sephiroth close as he trembled through the agony of remembrance. "Not letting go," he murmured. "Not until you're whole."

One day, Seph would be whole enough that Zack could say, "I forgive you."

Title: Dreams
Characters: Zack
Rating: G
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Hours )


Title: Happy Place
Characters: Zack
Rating: G
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Days )


Title: Lucky Boy
Characters: Zack
Rating: PG-13
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Weeks )


Title: Marking Time
Characters: Zack
Rating: PG
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Months )


Title: Confidence
Characters: Zack
Rating: G
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Years )

Title: Collector
Characters: Zack
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100
Author’s Note: This one pounced and was written before I quite knew what happened.

Zack collected people, the same way that other people might collect paintings that they liked. There wasn’t anything methodical about it; they just seemed to end up in his sphere without a single clue of how they’d arrived there, and generally ended up with absolutely no problems with the situation.

But more than the fact that people knew him, it was the way that he knew everyone back that made it so that the people he picked up stayed. Even when they questioned themselves, daily, as to just what had happened when the SOLDIER appeared in their lives.

Title: Unscrupulous
Characters: Genesis, mentions of Zack and Angeal
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: *cackles like mad*

( Unscrupulous )


Title: Bohemian
Characters: Zack
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: This Zack gets why Seph burned down a village.

( Bohemian )


I've very disappointed with myself so far, given the fact I've not written more. But I like having warm fingers, and we are in some -cold- weather right now. Makes my little fingers all tingly and cold.

And that sucks.






*points above* Though these guys give me ideas of Zack with a newly hatched dragon egg. Where the dragon imprinted on -him-

Something I've been wanting to try for a while and this prompt seemed like a good chance to start.

Title: Prophecy
Characters: The Powers That Be and Zack
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Team: SOLDIER

( In the beginning... )

Title: Inspiration
Characters: Zack
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Team: SOLDIER

( Middles )

Title: Development
Characters: Zack
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Team: SOLDIER

( Ends, of the very best kind. )

Title: Ambition
Characters: Zack, Mr. Fair.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Team: SOLDIER

( It's what's inside that counts. )


Title: Escape
Characters: Zack, Mrs. Fair, The One.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Team: SOLDIER

( Going outside )

Title: Turk Friend
Team: Turks
Character: Reno, Zack
Rating: PG for language
Warning: Character death
Word count: 100

( Cut for angst )

Title: Undone
Prompt: Zack Fair
Characters: Tifa, indirectly Cloud
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Time for denial comes to an end. Set during the team's visit to Gongaga.

A soldier named Zack existed. Feeling like a knot, Tifa followed Aerith outside.

She had wanted to believe. Oh, so much. She had wanted nothing more than to remember how the boy next had come home a soldier, even if for a while. Cloud's faith in that was so absolute, and Tifa had always been fickle. Wasn't it only natural that she had to be wrong?

But now Aerith was in tears, and back in the house two people missed their son, and no matter how hard she tried, the man smiling in her memory was dark instead of fair.

Title: "Zack is Awesome"
Author: freezing_rayne
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Zack/Cloud
Team: Turks
Prompt: Zack Fair


Zack is awesome.

He can lift the Buster Sword with one hand without even breaking a sweat. He can lift Cloud too--pick him up, throw him over his shoulder, deposit him wherever he wants.

He can make a bomb out of a beer bottle and a rag, and he can school Cloud's ass at video games every time. And he can do a backflip.

Cloud's in awe of him, even now that they're fucking regularly and he's seen every inch of him naked and sweaty and shaking.

And how does he even get his hair to stick up like that?

Apparently, the men of SOLDIER are really busy with the touching... They swept last week's competition with 30 points, while the shy members of Avalanche and those antisocial Turks all kept their hands to themselves.

This week's prompt is #83 - Zack Fair

That's right, this week we take an in-depth look at everyone's favorite black-haired SOLDIER.

Well, maybe not everyone's favorite... Why DID Genesis trip him, instead of just belting him in the chops, anyway?

Come to think of it, was Angeal really that fond of his "puppy", or did the kid tend to piddle when excited? Does Zack have avoidance issues - with Hojo, most likely, but what about his buddy, Kunsel? Does Cloud hold Zack up on a pedestal, or does he think of the guy as a big brother type?

Does Aerith kiss and tell?

Does Cissnei?

Whether it's told from Zack's point of view, said about him behind his back, or leaked to the press flailed over by his fan club in Midgar, give us 100 words of your Fairest fic.

[And a special shout-out from your friendly co-mod: May yohjideranged get some relief from the massive pwnage endured this weekend! I've got your back, babe.]