ffvii_100 | Entries tagged with prompt: first lines

The Turks are the kings of spring this week, coming in with 20 points and the trophy! SOLDIER and Avalanche stayed inside with their video games. ;)

This week's prompt is #19 - First Lines

Something different this week:

Choose one book off your bookshelf. The opening line of that book (any genre) will be the first line and the beginning of your drabble. This first line, no matter how long, will not be counted toward your 100 words. If the first line has names listed, I will allow you to change those names to reflect FFVII relevant characters and/or places. Also, please list the book that you took your first line from in your author's notes in case anyone is so intrigued that they want to read it.

So whether the first line is from The Grapes of Wrath, Harry Potter, some random romance novel or a thriller, that first line is your first line and everything after is just 100 words.

white_jenna

Title: Meeting
Characters/Pairings: Most of the Shinra executives
Rating: G
Team: SOLDIER.
Word Count: 120
Series: Crisis Core
Prompt: First Line
Author's Notes: First line is from "Celtic Beauty" by Winifred Phillips. "Leborcham" changed to "Lazard", "king" to "president", and "her" to his".

Lazard could not help watching the president with an undercurrent of contempt in his eyes. Fortunately the room was dark and he knew that his father was too wrapped up in his own pompous blustering and graphs declaring Shinra’s might to monitor the reactions of the executives seated before him. Heiddeger’s snoring would draw unwanted attention, but glares, eye rolls and carefully controlled expressions of disbelief could take place with the president none the wiser.

As Lazard glanced around the table, he noted doodles of weapons schematics and molecular formulas, a haiku written in Old Wutainese, and Sephiroth’s almost completed buzzword bingo sheet. He glanced down at his own card and got back to work.

white_jenna

Title: Eternity
Characters/Pairings: Genesis, Angeal
Team: SOLDIER.
Word Count: 111, including first line.
Series: Crisis Core
Author's Notes: First line is from the short story "Bed of Roses" by Elisabeth Waters. This drabble originated from the comments for "Paddle Faster"

“You do realize, don’t you, that this is entirely your fault.”

“I wanted to go to that spa in Junon, but nooo, you had to trek into the woods with the mud and bugs and don’t we get enough of that on missions, just so you could photograph stupid birds. We could have been enjoying gourmet meals and pedicures, but now we’re dead, Angeal, and I’m stuck with wet, non-artfully tousled hair for eternity and “died in a canoe accident”! What kind of an obituary is that for a hero and a scholar?! This is your fault and... hey! Don’t you dissolve off into the Lifestream while I’m yelling at you!”

yohjideranged

Under-done soup was on the menu for Avalanche last week. That cooking fiasco earned them 10 points and the trophy for a week! ShinRa keeps SOLDIER and the Turks so busy that they only have time for a quick eat-out.

This week's prompt is #112 - First Lines

Something different this week:

Choose one book off your bookshelf. The opening line of that book (any genre) will be the first line and the beginning of your drabble. This first line, no matter how long, will not be counted toward your 100 words. If the first line has names listed, I will allow you to change those names to reflect FFVII relevant characters and/or places. Also, please list the book that you took your first line from in your author's notes in case anyone is so intrigued that they want to read it.

So whether the first line is from The Grapes of Wrath, Harry Potter, some random romance novel or a thriller, that first line is your first line and everything after is just 100 words.

Mod note: Sorry about the non-post yesterday. I was dealing with a sick kitty and a vet appointment. She'll be okay, but she isn't going to like her new medicine.