Challenge #02, 03, 23, 29
"You want me to go where?" Buffy asked Giles. She could practically hear him cleaning his glasses over the phone.
"It’s only a short trip, Buffy. You are the closest Council operative to his location and his assistance will be essential with the coming apocalypse."
"But…vacation!" She glanced at the faxed photo of the funny little professor she was supposed to meet. She couldn't fathom how he could help them.
"It's not even a one hour flight, Buffy! But that is beside the point, this professor Balthazar has an absolutely uncanny ability to invent just about anything - he could be of great help to us if we manage to bring him aboard."
Buffy sighed, flipping through his file. She frowned when she saw the name of the town where Balthazar resided.
"Giles, why does this guy have a city named after him and where in the hell is it?"
"I believe it is somewhere in Croatia, but the actual location is quite elusive. It’s part of what led us to him…"
"So you have no idea."
"None whatsoever, but you must understand the seriousness of this-"
Buffy sighed and interrupted Giles.
"Fine! But there better be some cute guys there!"
Title: Baked Goods
Author: Carnen (
wnnb_darklord)
Word Count: 200
Fandom: Harry Potter
Challenge: #003 Cookies
Notes: Don't own it.
Snape growled when his quill broke from the force he had been exerting upon it. He yanked open his desk drawer and slammed it shut when he saw that it was filled to the brim with cookies.
Cookies tumbled off from the top of his desk and Snape resisted the urge to bash his head against the table. Potions disaster or no potions disaster, this was getting ridiculous! He was going to strangle that little pixie very slowly.
First she had managed to blow up his classroom with a combination of ingredients that even he hadn't thought to be volatile and now she was trying to drown him in cookies!
His door suddenly opened and Willow spilled into his office, the tray of cookies that she was carrying flying out of her hands. More cookies joined the ones already on his floor. Willow froze and let out a squeak of distress.
"I'll make more!" She fled his office before he could stop her. Snape balefully eyed one of the cookies sitting innocently on his table. Perhaps she would stop making them if he actually ate some? He glared harder, dismissing the thought. Now, where had he put his spare quill?
Title: Where no Slayer has gone before...
Author: Carnen (
wnnb_darklord)
Word Count: 200
Fandom: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Challenge: #023 Rubber Duckies
Notes: Don't own it.
Buffy hadn't been sure of what to expect when Dawn had said 'I wish you would just take a hike!' in anger, but it sure hadn't been this.
The room looked like something out of Star Trek, but for the glaringly large bathtub in the center of it. Standing beside it were three men, one in a uniform doing a remarkable impression of having a stick up his rear end, one, bizarrely enough, in a bathrobe and a third who seemed to have no need to blink.
"Splendid, Number One! Fetch another jynnan tonnyx for our guest, would you?"
Buffy gaped, staring at the man in the bathtub. He was playing with a rubber ducky. She had the sinking feeling that he was in charge of this place. She was going to kill Dawn when she got back!
Suddenly, the unblinking fellow appeared at her side, waving something in her face. It was a book with 'Don't panic!' written on the cover in large, friendly letters.
"Wha-?"
"Keep looking at the book!"
She turned around in a daze when she felt the tap on her shoulder.
"Your drink, ma'am."
Buffy gratefully grabbed it. It tasted surprisingly like whiskey and soda.
Title: Blast from the past
Author: Carnen (
wnnb_darklord)
Word Count: 200
Fandom: Heroes
Challenge: #029 Legends
Notes: Don't own it.
"Hey G, watcha readin'?"
Giles started, spilling papers everywhere. He cast a disapproving glance at Faith. She only smirked.
"I'm attempting to research the legend of Takezo Kensei."
Faith blinked.
"The what now?"
"It’s a popular legend in Japanese mythology about a master swordsman and the trials he went through." He showed her the picture in the book he had been reading.
"Cool, G, but that doesn’t have much to do with our line of work, if you catch my drift."
"Yes, well, I was more interested in the tales of the legendary sword that he possessed. It was said to have some mystical properties that would be worth investigating."
Faith's eyes lit up at the mention of a sword.
"Sweet. Can I have first dibs on it if I help with the research?"
Giles rolled his eyes and pointed to a book nearby. Grinning, Faith sat down and started flipping through it.
She frowned when she came upon another drawing of Kensei and what seemed to be two of his companions - a pretty woman and a smallish Asian dude. Faith blinked and studied the picture more closely.
"Hey, wasn't this guy on the bus with me last week?!"