Bonus Round 5: Myth & Lore

[referees]

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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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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Comments

FILL: TEAM Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun, G

[sawakise]

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, haikyuu!!

minor injury
507 words.

“Oikawa,” Iwaizumi says as he knocks on the door. “You’re going to make us late.”

“Come in, Iwa-chan!” Oikawa calls out. “I’ve got exciting news to tell!”

Iwaizumi thinks about it. Either he could get it over with now or be forced to listen to it as they walk to school.

He enters and stares at Oikawa, who’s all dressed up and ready to go, but still sitting on his bed underneath the covers. Oikawa looks up at him and grins.

“I had a dream last night,” is what he says.

“Okay,” is what Iwaizumi says, because honestly, what else could anyone in their right mind say to that?

“And now, I’ve got the healing kiss,” Oikawa says and waggles his eyebrows. He’s playing music in his room out loud, as usual, and soon the eyebrow waggling is to the beat of the song.

Iwaizumi reminds himself to count to ten. He clenches his fists. Unclenches them. Reminds himself to count to ten.

“That means,” Oikawa smiles, “if you’ve got a boo-boo, stop by your handsomest childhood friend to get it fixed.”

Iwaizumi looks around for something to throw at the other. Thankfully, because they’re both obsessed with volleyball, he’s able to pick one off the ground and hold it high above his head. Oikawa cowers and lifts his blanket up over his head. Iwaizumi throws it anyways.

**

“Aw man,” Hanamaki says a bit too loudly after Oikawa informed him of the healing kiss, “looks like Iwaizumi scraped his knee!”

They both turn to look at Iwaizumi. Iwaizumi looks down at his knee, which is covered by his school uniform pants. Iwaizumi looks back up, barely able to resist rolling his eyes. Hanamaki grins deviously. Matsukawa shrugs and goes back to reading his magazine.

Oikawa looks vaguely disappointed. Iwaizumi tries not to read too much into that.

**

And because fate is a cruel mistress, Iwaizumi stumbles, falls, and scrapes his hand.

Oikawa looks delighted at the fact that he’s hurt which is a situation that shouldn’t be taken out of context.

“Iwa-chan,” Oikawa purrs and gets down on one knee next to Iwaizumi, taking his hand in his own in the most delicate of fashions. Then, very gently and ignoring all the potential health risks, Oikawa kisses his hand.

Iwaizumi can actually feel his wound healing up, so that’s pretty cool.

“Huh,” he says and examines his hand, which looks good as new, “you really do have the healing kiss.”

Oikawa puffs his chest with pride. Iwaizumi is about to remind the other than having a healing kiss is not really something to be that proud of, but Oikawa gives a gasp and leans in close to his face.

“Iwa-chan!” He shouts and Iwaizumi furrows his brow; he can feel the other’s breath on his lips. “You’ve got a cut on your lip.”

“Oh my god,” Iwaizumi huffs and rolls his eyes.

“Guess I’ll have to smooch it better,” Oikawa says with a devious smirk.

“Go ahead,” Iwaizumi groans.

Regardless, he smiles when they kiss.