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Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

Summer's a time for swapping stories around the campfire. With that in mind, this round draws inspiration from the stories humanity have told each other over the centuries.

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on August 4 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

This round does not have prompts. Instead, we ask you to draw inspiration from the wide pool of mythology, fantasy, folklore, and fable. An urban fantasy or supernatural AU? A re-imagining of your favorite folk tale? Characters swapping ghost stories or playing D&D? As long as your fill in some way incorporates the fantastical and/or supernatural, it's welcome here.
Your fill still has to be about a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. What ships you create work for is up to you, though.
To submit your fill, simply leave it as a comment as a reply to this post.
Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

FORMAT

Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.

Required Work Minimums:

400 words (prose)
400px by 400px (art)
14 lines (poetry)

There is no max work cap.

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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]

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Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.

SCORING

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many fills as you want!

For fills:

First 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points each

All scored content must be created new for this round.

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I'M SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT :D! I love Hakogaku shenanigans! (and any time I write humor I completely forget what's funny by the end of it so I'm relieved that you liked the dumb jokes haha)

Oh my god, this was Hilarious!!! I love their banter throughout, I like good mid-sex banter. :D

AND THE END. I had to clamp my hand down over my mouth to keep from laughing very loudly in the middle of an office. <3<3<3

Matsuoka Rin/Nanase Haruka Free!
main character death, mentions of rape

24 line poem

Do not follow the path to the woods, do not trust its ways
For there, beneath the tree shadows, is where the boy’s ghost lays.
The ghost of the ol’ lord’s son, who drowned him the lake
For he would not obey his wish to marry Lady Blake.
One night his father’s guards barged into his room
They knocked him out and kidnapped him under the light of the moon.
They took him to the woods and tied up all his limbs
To his young innocent body they did despicable things.

Do not follow the path to the woods, do not trust its ways
For there, beneath the water, is where the raven haired boy lays.
The ghost of the ol’ lord’s son, who loved that very lake
For that is where he’d meet the one for whom his heart would ache.
Together they would laugh and kiss but mostly they would swim
The love of the young lord only belonged to him.
The two young men were happy and they met there every day
Not caring if the sun would shine or if the clouds were grey.

Do not follow the path to the woods, do not trust its ways
For there, beneath pain and anger, is where the boy’s ghost lays.
Still tied up and broken he cannot from the lake rise
So he screams and he shouts and cries and cries and cries.
He’s been calling for his lover, calling out the name
Of he who after that night waited for him but the young lord never came.
Haru is waiting too, waiting to be saved
But Rin will never come because he thinks he was betrayed.

Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi Haikyuu
no tags 486 words

“And the Crows win the semifinals!”

Suga cheers loudly with the crowd from the front row, having friends in the pro-bending industry was definitely worth it.

“I can’t believe we lost!” Oikawa throws his arms in the air, tears are pooling in his eyes “After me and Iwa-chan pulled off that awesome combo, too!”

Iwaizumi grunts “We did our best” he says, but he’s clearly upset too.

Matsukawa is frowning in a corner, probably thinking about what he could have done to change the outcome of the match. His boyfriend is sitting next to him, patting his back.

“Come on guys, stop being so gloomy!” Suga punches Oikawa’s arm “You still have next year”

“Shut up you traitor, I saw you cheering for the Crows” Tooru looks furious, ready to set him on fire almost.

“I’m sorry, but you know I’m a fan of them!” Suga knows he’s digging his own grave.

Matsukawa glares at him “More like a fan of their earthbender’s thighs”

Iwaizumi nods and Koushi blushes bright red.

“I’ll be in the hall if you need me!” he sprints out of the room only to collide with someone.

Koushi uses airbending to break his fall and looks up, ready to apologize.

“Are you okay?”

Right in front of him stands Sawamura Daichi, the Crows’ captain.

“I-I’m fine, yeah, sorry so sorry” is all Suga can manage to say, he then uses airbending to lift himself up from the ground “I should have watched where I was going”

Daichi just smiles at him “No problem, I wasn’t paying attention either”

Silence falls between them, Suga clears his throat “Congratulations on winning! I’m a big fan”

“Really? Because I’m pretty sure I just saw you come out of the Wolves’s changing room” Daichi’s tone is playful.

“I know the members, we went to highschool together” Suga smiles “I was actually running from them, apparently I don’t look sad enough”

Daichi smiles back at him, but before he can reply, the intimidating firebender from his team interrupts

“Daichi-san! The finals are starting!” He shouts from where he’s standing behind Koushi and, just like that, he’s running back in the direction he came from.

“Come see us in the finals?” The look in his eyes can only be described as hopeful.

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world” Suga replies.

-
To: Tooru
Sorry, can’t come home with you. I got a date.

From: Tooru
Uuuuh ;) with who?

To: Tooru
Sawamura Daichi.

From: Tooru
HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US LIKE THAT

From: Tooru
TRAITOR!!! DAMN AIRBENDERS AND THEIR PEACEFUL WAYS!!!!

From: Tooru
SIDING WITH THE ENEMY LIKE THAT

From: Tooru
IDGAF YOU’RE THE AVATAR. YOU SHALL PAY FOR THIS.

From: Iwaizumi
What the hell man, what did you tell Tooru?

From: Matsukawa
Oikawa just accidentally set his hair on fire lmao

To: Matsukawa
Then shouldn’t you be putting the fire out?! What are you doing texting me?!

IM SCREAMIN I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T SEE THIS!!!!!!!! this is a really cool concept!!

"there was something otherworldly about intimacy with the Seer" this is suuuuuuuuch a good line i love it so much, i'm a huge sucker for AUs where makishima isn't quite of this world and kinjou just revels in it

i love seer makishima with all my heart AND glowy makishima aaaah oh my god, you're so good ❤❤❤

I ONLY JUST NOW GOT AROUND TO READING THIS???? I'M SCREECHING!!!! KAIDOU GIVING UP HIS SLAYER DESTINY TO BE WITH INUI?? I'M

Poor Momo, getting brushed off. Momo, please don't kill Kaidou, though, he did it for ~true love~, and PROM!

~~And then Fuji murders him.~~

I know Rumpelstiltskin should probably be an ugly goblin, but I'm just imagining Fuji dressed like David Bowie from Labyrinth. Anyway, I love Mizuki fucking up by talking too big of a game ~~while fighting with Inui~~. I hope he eats shit when this deal inevitably goes south.