Cat Fever

Cat Fever

            Snow fell, dulcet and fluffy, and stacked outside the wooden windowsill outside of Bernadetta’s room. Alone and lit only by candles, more than usual, she found herself hating the world outside. Supposedly, this academy rarely actually got any snow but here it was, snowing. Classes weren’t cancelled for obvious reasons. Most students didn’t mind just putting some boots on and trudging over to their classes but Bernie wasn’t most students. She was quiet in her room, isolated and happy. The second she left all that security she was seeping in would vanish.

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Bimbocobo Ranch

            There is a rumor going around about a special ranch where the happiest Chocobo come from. Nestled betwixt the Rurror Hillsides and right before Malov’s Crescent lies a hamlet not too far from the forests that the more elusive Chocobo adore and with plenty of fields for them to frolick and chase and grow big and strong.

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UNSTABLE TECH

            This fucking guy was huffing fumes like a god damn truck. A real honest to god mouth breather, he was leaning over the bar perched like a chromed out hyena. Not quite a metalhead, but the guy was chromed to the nines and had more in common with the rear end of a big rig than your typical person. Lucy could barely tear her eyes away from him, not sure what to make of him. He seemed shaky, ready to crack any moment and become another cyberpsycho splattered all over the evening news and he was hinging it all on if he could get the bartender’s attention soon enough to medicate his condition with pretty neon bottles decorating the wall.

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Gwen’s Gaiden

            Fanfare blasted from the exotic instruments onstage! The crowd exploded into clapping and cheering. The man on stage cleared his throat and tried to calm the audience like someone swimming against the current of a wave. He was a strange man with smooth aquatic skin the color of sapphire and with two long slug-like antenna atop his head and curled back. He wore wise robes and brass adornments across his wrists and fingers. He was a touch portly and gave a joyous smile, overwhelmed but pleased. The audience formed a calm tide for him.

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Cat Call

Walls of sound emerged from the bouncing neon speakers. The hall was filled with willing, sweaty bodies swaying to the mythic rhythms emerging from the walls. Bodies rubbed and touched, danced and jumped, and spilled tiny blue glasses of thin pink liquid and trip over heels into willing hunk’s arms. Dylan watched it all from his seat at the bar with his arm around his date. His glasses reflected the glare of the rave lights pink and cyan and his blonde hair was short cut and well kept. His date was a bombshell blonde turned bombshell pastel goth. She looked like she belonged here with her candy green hair and piercing bubbly blue eyes. Layla was her name.

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Halloween Vibes

Halloween Vibes

A blistering spark of flames leapt from its containment to a book. Brought to life and suddenly aware of what it was capable of, the winged toad instantaneously burst into a furious green flame and emerged with the zest of a being well aware of the short wick of its existence. She had been looking away when the confluence betwixt the summon’s world and our own emerged. By the time Beth had lifted her head out of her other book the toad had already accomplished its first leap and set fire to the curtains. “H-hey!” Beth shot straight up to her feet and raised her hands in defiance. Her ability to defy went further than others, past physical grasp as her gestures grew beyond whims and became magical hands that hurriedly squeezed the leaping meteor toad before it spread the flames to the god damn laundry basket.

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