FIC: Monster Fest, Week One
The first week of Monster Fest has wrapped up over at ushobwri and as per my plan, I wrote a fic for each themed day. Woo! Hoping to keep it going for the whole month, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
All my fics for this month, with one exception, will be in the SGA Unexpected Discoveries 'verse, where John and Rodney work on a reality TV show. Here are this week's fics:
Title: Silver Springs Murder Monkeys
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: pre-John coming to work on the show
Monster Fest Theme: Experiments
Summary: We’re here in Silver Springs, Florida to investigate a colony of rhesus macaque monkeys. Since the late 30s, these wild monkeys have flourished along the Silver River, though their origin is unknown even now. Are they escapees from a Tarzan movie set? Or were they released by a local man to enhance his boat tours? There are those that claim some of these monkeys were released from a lab. Reports of attacks by these genetically altered, highly aggressive monkeys have been increasing in frequency since the early 90s. The Mysterious Unknown team will investigate to see if there is any truth to these stories.
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Title: Malta Mermaid
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McShep
Monster Fest Theme: Sirens & Mermaids
Summary: The MU team is on the beautiful island of Malta, in the Mediterranean, to visit our old friends John and Rodney. They discovered the fabled Lost City of Atlantis not far from here, but that’s not the only amazing thing to be found in these waters. Members of the expedition have reported sightings of a creature that is partially human, and partially aquatic. Is there a mermaid living in the warm waters off the coast of Malta? That’s what we’re here to investigate.
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Title: An American Werewolf in Pennsylvania
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McShep pre-slash
Monster Fest Theme: Shape Shifters
Summary: In this special episode the MU team, in conjunction with Rock Rivers from the popular web series Fear Facers, is in rural Pennsylvania to investigate the tale of a werewolf that dates back to the 1800s. The Paul family were farmers, and their young daughter May would watch over their sheep. She also reportedly caught the eye of an older gentleman, a hermit that everyone in the area was fearful of. As the story goes, wolves would attack the flocks of neighboring farms, but never May’s sheep. A bounty was put out on the wolves, and when a neighbor of the Paul’s saw one lurking around he shot and wounded it, though was unable to track it until the following morning. The trail of blood led him to the body of the hermit, dead from a gunshot wound. He was buried where he died, and that location became known as the Wolfman’s Grave.
Werewolf lore is still abundant here in the countryside, with reports of sightings and attacks as recent as three months ago. Will we find any truth to the tales, or are we all just howling at the moon?
All my fics for this month, with one exception, will be in the SGA Unexpected Discoveries 'verse, where John and Rodney work on a reality TV show. Here are this week's fics:
Title: Silver Springs Murder Monkeys
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: pre-John coming to work on the show
Monster Fest Theme: Experiments
Summary: We’re here in Silver Springs, Florida to investigate a colony of rhesus macaque monkeys. Since the late 30s, these wild monkeys have flourished along the Silver River, though their origin is unknown even now. Are they escapees from a Tarzan movie set? Or were they released by a local man to enhance his boat tours? There are those that claim some of these monkeys were released from a lab. Reports of attacks by these genetically altered, highly aggressive monkeys have been increasing in frequency since the early 90s. The Mysterious Unknown team will investigate to see if there is any truth to these stories.
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Title: Malta Mermaid
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McShep
Monster Fest Theme: Sirens & Mermaids
Summary: The MU team is on the beautiful island of Malta, in the Mediterranean, to visit our old friends John and Rodney. They discovered the fabled Lost City of Atlantis not far from here, but that’s not the only amazing thing to be found in these waters. Members of the expedition have reported sightings of a creature that is partially human, and partially aquatic. Is there a mermaid living in the warm waters off the coast of Malta? That’s what we’re here to investigate.
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Title: An American Werewolf in Pennsylvania
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McShep pre-slash
Monster Fest Theme: Shape Shifters
Summary: In this special episode the MU team, in conjunction with Rock Rivers from the popular web series Fear Facers, is in rural Pennsylvania to investigate the tale of a werewolf that dates back to the 1800s. The Paul family were farmers, and their young daughter May would watch over their sheep. She also reportedly caught the eye of an older gentleman, a hermit that everyone in the area was fearful of. As the story goes, wolves would attack the flocks of neighboring farms, but never May’s sheep. A bounty was put out on the wolves, and when a neighbor of the Paul’s saw one lurking around he shot and wounded it, though was unable to track it until the following morning. The trail of blood led him to the body of the hermit, dead from a gunshot wound. He was buried where he died, and that location became known as the Wolfman’s Grave.
Werewolf lore is still abundant here in the countryside, with reports of sightings and attacks as recent as three months ago. Will we find any truth to the tales, or are we all just howling at the moon?