A Dragon Age Song Meme
promisetruth just reminded me of this meme, and I thought what the heck? I haven’t tried anything like this before. I tweaked the rules a bit so that I could skip when podcasts and audio books came up in my shuffle. Having six hours to write a story while an audio book plays isn’t exactly in the spirit of this meme. lol
Song Meme:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
1. Get Along - Slayers soundtrack
The Quanari invasion caught everyone by surprise.
Solona in desperation was about to use a spell she and her group of adventures had found in an ancient Tevinter ruin. Alistair desperately tried to get as many soldiers as possible back behind cover as the sky began to began to be streaked with blood. An unseen wind whipped the scenery around.
Whatever the hell the spell did, it was powerful.
From somewhere, as if speaking directly into their souls he began to hear Solona chanting.
“Crimson beyond blood that flows…”
Leaves and debris were being drawn to Solona like a giant tornado.
“Buried in the stream of time is where your power grows….”
The air crackled with energy.
“I pledge myself to conquer, all the foes to stand before the mighty gift bestowed upon my unworthy hand… Let the fool who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess!”
The world seemed to pause.
“DRAGON SLAVE!”
When the dust cleared, the Quanari invasion was…. Gone. Although the soldiers of said army were laying about, seemingly alive for some reason. He didn’t know how the hell that worked.
The chantry was going to have kittens.
2. Bring me to Life - Evanessence
The Crows weren’t going to take him away.
Tabris ripped through another dark clothed assassin as if their skin were made of butter. She was tired of the world taking things away from her. Her fiancée by racist pigs, Alistair by the chains of duty, and now the cold hand of death was going to take away the only friend she had left in the world.
To hell with that.
She’d make a bridge of dead crows all the way to Antiva if she had to.
How dare Zev leave her like this! He had to take care of the Crows while she was at Amaranthine he’d written. You don’t understand what subtly means he’d written. She’d show him.
Tabris ripped through 10 more crows, painting the inn wall with blood.
3. Here we go… - Digimon Soundtrack (Yes, I’m total dork)
Solona ran with Zevran and Alistair quick on her heels, a bag full of treasure on her back, and a ringing laugh in her soul.
There was also the angry island villagers chasing them with blow guns and spears, but you can’t have everything in life.
Alistair scowled and ducked under a tree limb. “Why did you have to take that jewl?!”
“It was magical. And dangerous. It was for their own good.”
“Rrright.” A tree branch smacked Alistair in the face.
Zevran snorted. “And it had nothing to do with it being shiny?”
“That was a bonus.”
4. Retsu no mataki - Air Master Soundtrack
Rinna was a master of the skies and nothing could touch her save the wind.
She leaped at the last edge of the Anitva roof and sailed over the distant lights below. Her feet landed softly with the grace of an alley cat on the far roof and picked up speed once again, dodging weather vanes and chimney pipes.
Far below, the city twinkled with a thousand lights. Satinalia had transformed the city in a midnight hive of fireflies. Antiva city buzzed with drunken revelers.
Distantly, she could hear the pad of Zevran’s bare feet on the tin roofs behind her.
While she hadn’t stole Zevran’s clothes and made him chase her naked through the Antivan rooftops before now she had no idea.
5. Angels fall first - Nightwish
Alistair thought he could grow to like Rivanni.
Dancing girls swirled all around him. Colored silks flew about him like tainted rainbows. The air was thick with blue sweet smelling incense. Alistair watched as flashes of dark skin were glimpsed between the silks.
A dancing girl glided to him and sat in his lap. He ran his calloused hands over her curves, quelling the annoying Templar whispers that still plagued the edge of his consciousness.
This was hardly the darkest thing he’d done since Elissa had betrayed him.
His lips caressed the woman’s neck, and his mind did its best to burn the shy Templar from his soul.
6. Through the Dark - K.T. Tunstall
Elissa walked slowly through the tunnels of a lost dwarven city. Her footsteps echoed in the empty stone halls. She ran her hand along the slimy walls and felt like she was shedding a long scaly skin as she walked.
Bits of her life were falling behind her. Her family’s death. The two years of a blight that felt it would never end. Everyone she was leaving behind. Lelliana’s parting tears. Zevran’s strong gripping hug. The weight of her dragonscale armor. All of these fell behind her. Her shoulders became lighter with every step as she marched to the heart of the deep roads.
And in front of her, her kind hearted Templar awaited.
7. Family - One Piece Soundtrack
Oghren’s pants really had been stolen by the dog. He drunkenly scrambled about camp, yelling curses at the mabari.
Alistair was making a show of covering his eyes and bemoaning his fragile Templar virtue being forever stained.
Morrigan had a few choice words to say about Templar virtue.
Zevran was yelling at encouraging advice at the dog that it may or may not be heeding. It was hard to tell.
The mabari bounded over Wynne’s shoulder, scattering the healing poultices she’d been preparing into the fire.
Sten munched his cookies and stared.
Lelliana laughed and improvised a quirky ‘steal Ogrhen’s pants song’.
Surana thought it felt like family.
A really dysfunctional one.
8. Ghost Riders in the Sky - Ghost Rider Soundtrack
There were skeleton Griffons ridden by undead skeleton Wardens in the sky. Thousands were filled in the air. Light glinted off of their golden and tarnished silver armor. Long forgotten Thedas dialects screamed war cries in ghostly echoing voices.
They descended upon the darkspawn hoard like the maker’s wrath made tangible. Darkspawn limbs flew off with a flurry, blood fountains erupted in their wake. The living wardens stared in awe as their time forgotten brethren cut a swath threw the tainted hoard.
In an hour, the darkspawn all lay dead on a red coated battle field. A distant flash of light lit up the sky and the living wardens knew.
The last blight was over.
9. I’m a Believer - Smashmouth
Solona and Alistair swirled in the center of the ballroom in their version of a Fereldan waltz.
I.e. they were making it up and carousing around like two fools.
Alistair swirled Solona around and nearly dropped her.
In response Solona swirled Alistair around and nearly dropped him.
They must be, Wynne mused, extremely extremely drunk.
Somehow, Solona had managed to keep Alistair from becoming King, keep them all alive, and defeat the arch demon. The two had gotten what must be a dangerous level of intoxicated in the post battle celebration.
Wynne stately sipped her wine and watched as Solona put a centerpiece flower in Alistair’s mouth and tried to dip him.
The two fell to the floor in a fit of giggles.
She’d have to get Shale to roll the two to their rooms afterwards.
Alistair and Solona were sorely disappointed the next day to find out Wynne wasn’t providing any hangover cures.
10. Take me There - Rugrats the movie soundtrack
Elissa looked down in horror at the crawling and crying babies around her feet.
Damn Anders and his experimenting. She’d stuff his robes up his backside and make him march a hundred times around the keep.
Once she figured out how to turn all of her wardens back from being babies…
Baby Sigrun crawled towards baby Nathaniel and pulled his hair. Baby Nathaniel burst into tears. Baby Sigrun burst into tears after Nathaniel bursting into tears scared her.
Oghren was wandering off, probably to pick up something sharp and dangerous or something.
Anders sucked his thumb and looked around serenely. He was an oddly happy baby.
The spell hadn’t worked on Justice. Thank the maker.
She didn’t think she could deal with an undead zombie baby.