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The Quill of Life  Well, after a dry spell of solo writing, I finally decided to pen down the rest of the parody to Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. For weeks I've had the chorus in my head but only today did I finish putting the rest of the lyrics. If you don't know the original words you can go here and click on the 'view lyrics' link. That's the version I used for this parody. So, in honor of Christmas (or whatever celebration you have.) Here it is, a song parody. ( Sigma Got Run Over by Two Hunters ) Disclaimer. I don't own them, just borrowing them for a bit of torture. Tourniquet belongs to Evanescence. There is heavy warnings on this. Shonen-ai at the least and thoughts/actions of suicide. Yes, this is a very dark fic (but it will have a happy ending, trust me.) And it is a songfic too. Been a long time since I've done one. If you are not into or want to read a suicide fic, especially one dealing with a person going through the act of trying to kill themselves both physically and emotionally then please do not read this. This is the only warning you're getting. If you flame because of what I wrote I will send an enraged Zero after you and you are not going to like where he's going to shove his beam sabre . . . Trust me. Special thanks go out to a very dear friend of mine for suggesting this song and agreeing with me for who/what should basically happen. 7-22-07 Edit/Note: While going through unfinished fics I found this one and was drawn back to it. I never wrote an original copyright date to it so I have no idea when I really started it. The creation date said 3/7/2005 but so did a lot of other files so I'm assuming that's when I copied that folder over (as that is the earliest date I have for any file in my storymaster folder.) However, since I am editing/finishing this over 2 years later, I'm only going to include the current dates as the copyright even though this work was started far longer than that. I'm considering this a diversion/break from translating early X material and something so totally radical from what I normally would write that maybe it'll inspire me to finish other half done or just noted works or rejuvenate me to finish translating. This might not be my best work but it is at least something finished. Anyway, read and enjoy. ( Salvation. ) ( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. ) (Prologue) (Reboot) (Playing God) (A New Dawn) (Consequences) (Fate Part One) ( Chapter Five, Continued ) Master link to the FF.NET account where this fic can be found. Total chapters: 6, Total word count: 50,629. Just big enough for a novella. Chapter Five was interesting. I knew what I wanted and what I wanted was a lot. I wanted to show logically how Zero changed from an Irregular to a Hunter, how X changed from being lost to taking control of his life and how Sigma slowly became an Irregular. Not an easy task and a daunting one at that. However, what broke my 'OMG I CAN'T WRITE IT GOOD >spaz<' was the fact that I had gotten involed in NaNoWriMo, ended up starting late, having two major cases of 'OMG IT SUCKS I CAN'T WRITE I'M DOOMED I'LL NEVER FINISH >major spaz<' and knew on the 27th I had about 12,000 words left and no time to do it in. I also knew the first two story parts I had started (about 10,000 words each) had died on me (10,000 and it dies, start a new one, get to 10,000 and have IT die, mash the two together for about 38,000 have IT die, wait a couple of days, spaz out a few times, decide to quit, decide not to quit because you're so close and sit to Borders for six hours and work on something totally unrelated,) and I needed to wrap it all up. I had give up on my NaNo on being publishable. I was now writing to get word count. Grammar be damned. Then I decided, meh, what the Hell, let's go work on a fanfic instead. I decided to tackle the last chapter of this monster fic. So, banging out about 2000 words an hour, drinking diet soda and running to the bathroom every couple of hours or so, I finished it in one felled swoop. A bit of grammar cheating and I had my word count. To me this is one of the better chapters. But that's just my opinion. I like the way it flowed along and I never thought I'd ever write a detailed fight scene between X and Zero . . . or between Zero and Sigma. I really like this chapter and I hope you do to. And with that said, here is the finale of Genesis. And, as always, read and enjoy. Don't ask why FF.NET got funky with my formatting, they just did . . . (Prologue) (Reboot) (Playing God) (A New Dawn) (Consequences) And since who knew LJ didn't like big files . . . ( 2006-03-19 - Chapter Five - Fate - Part One ) This was actually the first story I had written when I decided to do my pre X1 fic. But then I decided to back it up and thus the current Chapter One was born. Then I decided to back it up again and thus the Prologue came to be. I decided to skip a certain cut scene in a certain game and start after it with reflections on what had happened and hint at what was to come. Naturally, when I wrote this there had been no word of IHX so no influence was found (unlike Chapter Five where I kinda stole a bit from The Day of Sigma . . . bad me.) (Prologue) (Reboot) (Playing God) (A New Dawn) ( 2006-03-19 - Chapter Four - Consequences ) I had started this one right after finishing Chapter Two. However, it died. The original Chapter Three was going to detail out the human/reploid interaction and lead up to X being accepted into society. It never made it to paper (computer or otherwise) and was summed up in the first paragraph of this chapter, originally Chapter Four, now Chapter Three (which meant my original Chapter Five and Chapter Six were now Chapter Four and Chapter Five.) It might be confusing but I finally finished Chapter Three during a craft show. I still think it lacks something but I can't put my figer on it. tikimom49 said it sounded ok and that I might want to add in more interaction between Sigma's waking and his taking control of the Hunters. I have to agree with her but what, I'm not sure. I had a few vague ideas but they didn't seem to want to be written out. So here is Chapter Three as is.(Prologue) (Reboot) (Playing God) ( 2006-03-19 - Chapter Three - A New Dawn ) Chapter Two of Genesis started slow then finished pretty fast once I figured out what the characters wanted to say. It was Chapter Three and Chapter Five that worried me the most, considering what I had to cover for material. It might have been daunting, but I did manage to finish it. And I found a beta who basically went over the last chapters in two fell swoops. All have been uploaded to FF.NET and is awaiting their debut there. (Prologue) (Reboot) ( 2006-03-19 - Chapter Two - Playing God ) Chapter One of Genesis was easy and hard at the same time. When you read it you'll understand. Trying to capture X at his earliest stages, foreshadow the games and keep everything logical and canon is not easy. But, at the same time, it was pretty easy and wrote itself out, for the most part, with little problems. (Prologue) ( 2005-08-07 - Chapter One - Reboot ) Each entry will be tagged with a link to each previous section of this fic. I had planned on 6 chapters then decided to cut out Chapter Three and make it a two line start to what was Chapter Four. The new Chapter Three took me a long time to finish and didn't turn out sounding just right. As of this post, the Prologue and Chapter One have been up on FF.NET since August. The current Chapter Four had been finished way back in '03 when I started this idea. Chapter Five ended up being the tack on to my Nanowrimo to make 50,000 words. Chapter Three I finished at this last craft show. Chapter Two is out >poketh teh_kittykat< for beta'ing and if anyone is interested in beta'ing Ch's 2-5 as well, please reply in this post. I'll send the chapter out one at a time (to one person if you request more) and only to those who are serious about telling me what's wrong, what you think about it and what could be changed or added to make it sound better. Especially CH 3.And with that said, here is Genesis, each finished and FF.NET uploaded chapter added as a new cut with the date posted on FF.NET. This is set WAY before X1 and is my version of how things came to be. This is going to be done as accurately as possible using information from all of the X games. Of course, there will be some liberties taken, especially if the information isn't readily available, but it will be an attempt to follow a logical path as to how events in the X series came to be. And now with the revelations of Irregular Hunter X, I'm considering the games already released to be one canon timeline and the games in the Irregular Hunter X series to be a completely seperate, canon timeline. ( 2005-08-06 - Genesis - Prologue ) |
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