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Title: Yartzeit
Fandom: DC Comics + High School Musical crossover
Universe: Sharpay's Crossover Adventure
Relationship: Tompay (Tom Bronson/Sharpay Evans) - mention only
Summary: On the anniversary of his mom's death, Tom visits her grave and reflects on Jewish tradition... and how he almost eschewed it altogether.
Notes: The title is the Hebrew word for 'the passing of the deceased's anniversary.' While I'm not Jewish myself, I did dig a little deeper and researched the tradition a little bit. If anything's off, let me know! Tom's family is of Ashkenazi descent, so he would have grown up using "shul" instead of 'synagogue' in everyday speech. Additionally, I imagine that he was raised Conservative, and not Reform, so that's reflected in his mannerisms as well. Also, this is the weirdest birthday present I've ever given myself.

( Last night, as soon as the sun disappeared into the horizon, you lit a candle and silently recited a prayer. )

So when my power went out this morning, I discovered some old fanfics that I'd never finished. This happened to be one of them. ♥ Might as well finish what I started, right?

Title: The Chase
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Universe: Kingdom Chronicle
Summary: Someone's chasing Ari and Rhys. Unfortunately for Ari, it doesn't seem like she's going to make it out alive...
Disclaimer: Ari, Rhys, and Aspen belong to me. Temperance belongs to theskiesabove. Damian (Wayne) belongs to DC Comics; Cid belongs to Squeenix. I'm just borrowing everyone for a quick fanfic, okay?

( Someone was chasing them. )

Wow, it's been a while since I've last written. XD Was my drive to write really that bad? Either way, here's another set of drabbles I've been working on - and I think I'm finally delving into the main plot, so that's exciting.

Title: Rising Phoenix (Part Eight)
Fandom: Twilight [but incredibly AU]
Summary: Bella and Jake reunite just as Bella and Edward're about to have the fight of their lives. And why's Kenneth so interested in Bella?
Disclaimer: Leaf, Kenneth Shapiro, and headcanon about the Masens are about all that belong to me at this point. Bella, Jacob, and mostly everything from the original Twilight are property of SMeyer.

( Is that Jake I hear? )

Aaaand it's dragging on forever and forever. ♥ I'm not sure what else to say about this selection, other than it's actually turning into a real fanfic, and I'm not exactly pleased to think that. (I-it was really meant to be short drabbles that ended up being a fic when put together!)

Oh well. I hope you guys like it anyway. o/

Title: Rising Phoenix (Part Six)
Fandom: Twilight [but so very, very AU]
Summary: Jacob thinks he's on drugs and Bella's on a raid in Edward's bedroom. Are things ever going back to normal in Twilight-land?
Disclaimer: It's late, so I'm not gonna give a full disclaimer, but you guys know none of this belongs to me, save for Elizabeth headcanon. D:

( Why wasn't he answering her calls? )

This was the result of a barter with pumpkin_bomb. ♥ I hope you enjoy it! If it's too short or OOC, please let me know, okay?

Title: Memories
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts [Kingdom Chronicles]
Summary: Xianthe remembers the times she had with Axel and Roxas.
Disclaimer: None of this is mine. D: KH belongs to Square-Enix and Disney, while Xianthe belongs to Tsu. I was just borrowing them for a quick story, okay?

( Somehow, watching the sunset by herself wasn't fun. )

O-oh man. I'm so bad about my supposed hiatus, aren't I? DX In any case, I'll be fully back in two weeks once Ramadan's over (but I'll still be sorta inactive because school's a hassle with AP classes and a social life and all that good jazz), so look forward to even more good stuff? In any case, New Beginnings is getting a re-vamp in terms of storyline, so it should be somewhat... I don't know, maturer than it has been in the past? So look forward to it!

Title: Chapter Fourteen - Our Dinner Together
Summary: We met up at Sutori, but it felt weird. All that vibrant energy, all the people... it was gone. We were the only ones there.
Claimer: Nearly everything in this chapter is again mine. The only thing that doesn't belong to me is the idea of a beyblade, which belongs to Takao Aoki and whatever companies own Beyblade.

( Under normal circumstances, this dinner would've been like any other the Star Six had shared over the past nine months. )

Omigosh, this first chapter took forever and a day. DX I kept thinking that I had five guys instead of four, so one kid kept wanting to write himself in even though he technically was only in the second draft (sorry, Stefan. I promise you'll be in SC later). Um, please, please tell me how you feel about this story in comments, because I will be out of town this week. /o/ And will thusly not able to see comments over IM.

Thank you. ♥ It's finally here! (Oh, and yes: cameos based off friends are still in here. Um, cookies to whoever guesses the first cameo correctly.)

Title: Symphony's Chosen [Chapter One]
Fandom: Original
Summary: It was just going to be a simple train ride from Boston to Baltimore. Oh, but how it ended up being anything but!
Claimer: All mine~~ Whoo-hoo?
EDIT//: (May 12, 2009): Wow, this makes almost another whole year since I wrote the journey of these kids out. Point of the matter is - when I revamped the story, I cut Aria (who's from France) out and replaced her with a girl from Morocco. This doesn't change much - her translation device becomes beaded braclets. The most important change is the name of the conductor. At the time, I'd no idea about Philip Pullman's heroine being named Lyra. For my sake - and pretty much to prevent confusion - her name is now Vienna. (Yes, after the city.)

( It would be a simple train ride from Boston to Baltimore. )

Kayt's birthday present is finally here! Sorry it took a while, girl. ^^;

Title: They Never Noticed
Summary: "They were so busy working, they never noticed.."
Disclaimer: Not mine. o.o'

( What a disappointing family.. )

Yay, I finally got the Roy-centric story that had been sitting on my computer done... x3; It's not much, just my take on how Roy and his family dealt with the fire and Ryou's leaving America.

Title: Time Changes Everything
Fandom: Tokyo Mew Mew - Kokoro
Summary: Roy Bancroft reflects on his memories - the day of the funeral of Jishou and Elizabeth Shirogane, and how his happy trio was broken up. And when he comes back to meet Ryou... how he and D-kun realize that time has indeed changed everything.
Disclaimer: TMM, Ryou, Ryou's parents, D-kun (c) Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi. Roy Bancroft, Brett Bancroft (c) me; Sarah Cohen (c) arisadonna; Liz, Shou details (c) cherryfox, me, chibiberri

( How one fire can change the course of our lives.. )

Since I was pleased with the story of KH's opening that I had Future!Shuugo tell Lain, I decided to re-post it here. xD;

On an island not so far away, there lived six children who played there peacefully. But three of the children who played on this island weren't pleased with their carefree life. They wanted *more* out of life. They wanted to see different worlds. So, these three children - Sora, Riku, and Kairi - began to build a raft. But during the creation of the raft, Sora began to have strange dreams..

Dreams that kept telling him 'you are the one who will open the door, but it is not time yet'. The oddest dream probably started one day while Sora was simply looking off into the sky. Naturally, he dozed off and the strange dream began. He found himself standing on the island, looking out towards the water. A *huge* tidal wave was coming to the island, and it was about to topple on top of Riku, one of Sora's best friends. Naturally, Sora went out towards him. As he did so, however, Riku turned around and extended his hand towards the boy. The wave came crashing down then, and Sora struggled to grab Riku's hand. But... he never did catch Riku's hand..

As Sora walked back towards the shore, he saw Kairi, his other best friend, wave towards him. He returned the wave, smiling as he did so, and ran towards her. They talked about things for a while, before Sora finally spotted the look of astonishment that appeared on Kairi's face. Sora turned around, and saw himself falling down from the sky. As he looked at himself, he found that *he* was the one falling into the ocean..

As he fell deeper into the ocean, he eventually landed onto the floor. There was only darkness - no light. As Sora stepped onto the pedestal, millions of butterflies vanished as he stepped closer into the middle of the pedestal to reveal a picture of Snow White on the floor.

As Sora walked closer towards the middle of the pedastel, a mysterious voice called to him. This voice told him to look at the three pedastels that had appeared from the ground, and to pick a weapon from one of those pedastels... But he could only pick one. He could pick either the sword, the shield, or the staff. Sora glanced over at the sword, jumped onto the pedastal and picked it up. The voice began to speak again, telling him that the sword would create great destruction and was an instrument of great power. Would Sora pick this weapon anyways? The boy then gave a nod towards the voice, even though he had no idea where it was coming from, and jumped off the pedastel as the sword disappeared. The voice then instructed him to pick a weapon that he would bluntly refuse. Sora looked at the shield and the staff, before he jumped onto the pedastel with the staff.

The boy was then told that the staff was an object that healed allies in battle, and brought help to the battlefield. Would he reject this weapon? Sora seemed to be a little hesitant, but he gave a nod anyways. As he did so, however, the pedastels began to sink to the ground as the final weapon disappeared. The floor began to shatter, as it was made of glass, and it brought Sora down with it...

As the shattered glass fell deeper towards the endless abyss, Sora fell along with it. Eventually, he reached another floor with a picture of Cinderella of it. As his feet touched the ground, the same sword that Sora had picked earlier was magically placed in his hands, and the mysterious voice called out to him again. As Sora turned around to see exactly what the voice meant by 'look out!', he encountered a strange shadows with eyes that had no emotion in it whatsoever. The boy slashed through it with his sword, only to hear the voice tell him that Sora would have to fight a lot more monsters looking like that. ...And, well.. the voice was right. Sora looked up in front of him, only to see more strange shadows. The boy slashed through them.. only to see that his feet were being grabbed by the shadow on the floor...