No True Pair

Title: Audentia
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Vagrant Story and Kingdom Hearts
Pairing/characters: Sydney/Axel
Rating: Not worksafe
Warnings: A slight liberty taken on the definition of "food." (No, this isn't a zombiefic. Heh.)
Prompt: Sydney/Axel, food kink
Notes: Audentia = A Leá Monde quality sweet wine allowed to age to perfection. (HP up)
Summary: A recruitment does not quite go as planned.

( Axel did try to pay attention during meetings. )

Title: Professional Opinion
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei and Kingdom Hearts II
Pairing/characters: Touda/Riku (implied Touda/Tsuzuki and Riku/???)
Rating: Basically worksafe.
Prompt: Riku and Touda with the title, "Professional Opinion."
Notes: Takes place post-CoM but before Sora wakes in KH2.
Summary: If you want to learn something, ask an expert.

( Later, it would occur to Riku that he really should have been more specific. )

Title: From the Casebooks of Strife and Riot
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Cloud and Ashley (Ashley/Sydney and implied pre-Zack/Aeris/Cloud)
Rating: Worksafe
Warnings: Aeris has clearly watched The Maltese Falcon one too many times.
Prompt: Cloud and Ashley: they fight crime!
Notes: Total AU, really
Summary: They can solve your problems, but you have to get past the secretary first.

( Everybody came to them if the problem was big enough. )

Title: Thrice
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/characters: Zack/Cloud
Rating: Worksafe, possibly not brainsafe
Prompt: Cloud and Zack as the main characters in a fairy tale.
Notes: Um. A bizarre mix of any number of fairy tales, with extra helpings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, from what I can tell...uh, you'll see.
Summary: One is traditional. Two is trouble. Three...?

( part two of two )

Title: Thrice
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/characters: Zack/Cloud
Rating: Worksafe, possibly not brainsafe
Prompt: Cloud and Zack as the main characters in a fairy tale.
Notes: Um. A bizarre mix of any number of fairy tales, with extra helpings of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, from what I can tell...uh, you'll see.
Summary: One is traditional. Two is trouble. Three...?

( part one of two )

Title: Less
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts and Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Axel and Ashley Riot
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Axel and Ashley: "Don't make me come over there."
Summary: Close, but not quite.

( The place was freaky, and that was in the daylight. )

Title: Doppelgänger
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II
Pairing/characters: Sephiroth/Riku/um.
Rating: Not worksafe
Warning: Uh...I'm sort of picturing Riku as 17 here, but it's never stated, so feel free to please yourself. Not part of "Mirrorverse."
Prompt: Sephiroth and Riku, hurt/comfort of any sort.
Notes: Takes place post-KH2
Summary: Riku's darkness levels up. Sephiroth makes that seem sort of okay.

( Riku was supposed to be back on his islands, the doors between the worlds closed. )

Title: Holding the High Ground
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Saiyuki and Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Sanzo & Sydney
Rating: Worksafe
Warnings: Erm. Zombie apocalypse?
Prompt: Sydney and Sanzo with the title, "Holding the High Ground."
Notes: I never turn down an excuse to write zombies.
Summary: Just one of the many hazards of technomagical resurrection.

( The throne room of Gyumaoh's castle was overrun with youkai soldiers. )

Title: Hit the Ground Running
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII/Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Cloud/Sydney (past Zack/Cloud/Aeris, past Sydney/Ashley, and something about Sephiroth)
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Cloud and Sydney with the title, "Hit the Ground Running."
Warning: Oh yeah, baby, Ivalice rocks my world, past to future.
Notes: OMG, Cloud in Ivalice = MUST HAVE! *coff* Uh, other than that, this fic ambushed me in strange ways. I was thinking about the prompt, happened across a Portugal. The Man song that just happened to have "hit the ground running" as part of the lyrics, and this thing came veeeery close to being about snake oil and old-time-relijun revival tents, but...well, Sydney hijacked my brain. As he tends to do. So you get this instead.
Summary: It's sort of like a pilgrimage, but with property damage.

( part 2 of 2 )

Title: Hit the Ground Running
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII/Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Cloud/Sydney (past Zack/Cloud/Aeris, past Sydney/Ashley, and something about Sephiroth)
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Cloud and Sydney with the title, "Hit the Ground Running."
Warning: Oh yeah, baby, Ivalice rocks my world, past to future.
Notes: OMG, Cloud in Ivalice = MUST HAVE! *coff* Uh, other than that, this fic ambushed me in strange ways. I was thinking about the prompt, happened across a Portugal. The Man song that just happened to have "hit the ground running" as part of the lyrics, and this thing came veeeery close to being about snake oil and old-time-relijun revival tents, but...well, Sydney hijacked my brain. As he tends to do. So you get this instead.
Summary: It's sort of like a pilgrimage, but with property damage.

( part 1 of 2 )

Title: Supplicant
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII and Vagrant Story
Pairing/characters: Sephiroth and Ashley Riot
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Sephiroth needs help that only Ashley can provide.
Notes: Post-game(s).
Summary: A one-winged angel walks into a bar....

( He was nursing his second pint when the tavern door came open. )

Title: Emptied
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei and Kingdom Hearts II+
Pairing/characters: Tsuzuki and Axel
Rating: Not quite worksafe
Warnings: Angst, implied character deaths (not the listed pair). Horrible, horrible last name, but...er. It was funny at the time?
Prompt: Tsuzuki and Axel: "Things will get better. I promise."
Notes: Takes place post-KH2 and post-manga.
Summary: What goes away comes back again.

( fifty years of loose ends wrapped up neatly )

Title: The Edge of the Map
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei and Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/characters: Cloud & Tsuzuki (implied Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud/Aeris)
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Cloud and Tsuzuki with the title, "The Edge of the Map."
Note: Still not Crisis Core compliant. Sequel to "Guardian."
Summary: Left behind, but catching up fast.

( It was different this time. Something felt off. )

Title: Watch the Fires
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II
Pairing/characters: Axel/Riku (but there's a host of other pairings in here as well)
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Axel and Riku: it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Notes: Takes place post KH2. There are some cameo crossovers in the beginning with a few other Squeenix games (namely Drakengard, Star Ocean 2, and Vagrant Story) but gameplay isn't required. Also not a part of "Inverse."
Summary: In which everyone finds out what happens when you poke a Bomb with a stick.

( They'd been fighting hard, all of them. )

Title: Fides
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts/Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Pairing/characters: Axel/Yuri(Fides)
Rating: Not worksafe
Prompt: The beginning of Axel and Yuri's passionate love affair.
Warning: Mild xeno.
Notes: Has nothing to do with "Fire and Ice." I don't know what my mad love of Axel and Yuri meeting in Russia is all about. "Fides" is a high-level Fire fusion and also translates roughly to "good faith."
Summary: Axel doesn't believe in stacking the deck.

( He came out of the dark portal into more chaos than even he'd expected. )

Title: Guardian
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei and Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/characters: Zack, Tsuzuki (implied Zack/Aeris/Cloud/Sephiroth)
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Tsuzuki and Zack: the memory cannot keep me warm / but it never leaves me cold
Note: Not Crisis Core compliant, despite what you might think.
Summary: A hero's work is never done.

( He was strong and he was stubborn, but the Lifestream was insistent. )

Title: Emissary
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei and Kingdom Hearts II+
Pairing/characters: Tsuzuki/Riku
Rating: Not worksafe
Warnings: Touches vaguely on past trauma
Prompt: Tsuzuki/Riku, first time
Notes: Post KH2 by...hmm...two years?
Summary: You're never weird to a guy who's been to Atlantica.

( Soryuu was going to kill him. )

Title: Break
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Vagrant Story and Kingdom Hearts II+
Pairing/characters: Sydney & Riku
Rating: Worksafe
Prompt: Sydney shares something meaningful (a meal? a secret? ...bodily fluids?) with Riku
Notes: Post KH2. Not part of "Inverse."
Summary: A brief discussion between battles.

( He still wasn't sure if that ought to worry him or not. )

Title: Tempt
Author/Artist: Sleeps With Coyotes
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing/characters: Sephiroth/Zack (implied Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud/Aeris)
Rating: Not entirely worksafe, but close.
Prompt: Zack and Sephiroth: "Go on, make yourself comfortable."
Notes: Not Crisis Core compliant.
Summary: Genetic modification can be fun.

( Sephiroth drummed his fingers on the arm of his chair and fought not to scowl. )