Anthology of Love
By: CrystallicSky
Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown, or any of the characters in it, so...don't say I didn't tell you that they weren't.
Warning(s):Ok, cursing, malexmale relationship, strong references to sex, but no actual sex scenes, and...probably general stupidity, corniness, or idiocy aside from that.
Notes: Well, lately I've been seeing a good deal of those one-word prompts for short/one-sentence stories, and so I figured I'd give it a try. I did a few, and found something out about myself: I really like them! XD So this would be the result.
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361. Invasion-
Chase gave a deep, amused laugh as he idly toyed with the thin, spindly antennae that sprouted from his lover's skull, the bases of which were hidden by the pathetic, easily-dominated creature's red-orange hair.
"You must be the worst invader ever, Jack," he decided.
"Nuh-uh," the young alien boy protested vehemently, red, pupil-less eyes (four, two on each side) glaring at the human man in offense, "what about that Zim-guy? He's pretty suckish..."
362. Fumes-
Chase shifted Jack's dead-weight form in his arms, thinking only of how blatantly corrupt this school was.
One of the students, here because of obscenely rich parents, had mixed two wrong chemicals together in the science lab and caused a minor explosion, the fumes of which had knocked Jack, here on a scholarship because of mental prowess alone, out cold.
The rich student had gotten off scot-free, and here Chase was, carrying Jack to the nurse, after which the goth would be suffering two weeks of detention for, quite obviously, nothing.
It was just plain stupid.
A soft moan tore Chase from his reverie, and he looked down to see red eyes foggy and hazed, but nonetheless open. "...Chase?" The older teen nodded, and Jack smiled drowsily before slurring, "Love you...so much..." before promptly falling back into unconsciousness.
Golden eyes widened at the 'out-of-it' statement in mild shock.
Well.
Now, that was interesting.
Looking the youth over carefully, Chase tried to gauge how he felt about Jack: the pale, paraffin complexion, the thin, wiry body now cuddled up against his own, the bright red hair and eyes, and of course, who could forget that sharp, clever mind of his?
Chase then came to a realization: when Jack came to and was given a clean bill of health, he would most definitely be making use of the younger's attraction to him.
363. Hackers-
General Young sighed as he walked away from the tech lab of his military base, his lover's, "01001001 01101100011011110111011001100101 011110010110111101110101 00100001" still echoing in the halls.
Damned hackers.
Couldn't they just say, "I love you!" like everyone else?
364. Infiltrate-
"And then the evil demon platypi will infiltrate the temple once gravity is restored, and-"
"I've heard enough," Chase interrupted, "that is the single most convoluted, absolutely insane scheme I've ever heard in all my years."
Jack blinked slowly, eyes wide and owlish. "Sooo...you don't like it?"
"Are you mad, Spicer?!" the warlord demanded with stern expression before a wicked grin took his face. "I love it; they'll never see it coming."
365. Helpless-
The black leopard gave a rough growl at the young, white stag in front of him, causing the easily-frightened creature, quivering and backing away slowly, to give a soft snort of terror.
Chase couldn't help but feel how scared his prey was, far moreso than any other creature he'd hunted; hell, it was palpable!
There was something about this animal that made Chase forget entirely about hunting...
Really, though, nothing should be that helpless!
Making up his mind, the big cat pounced, tackling the stag to the ground before locking his jaws dominantly around his neck and dragging him to his hooves.
Giving a rough nudge to the creature's flank to get him moving where he wanted him to, Chase figured it'd be a long time in teaching the timid, young creature some semblance of confidence, but until then, he would protect the deer from everything else.
366. Experimentally-
"Well, it's totally experimental, so I don't...exactly know what'll happen, but...you know, by all means, give it a shot, sir."
Chase gave the rifle in his hands a considering look before test-firing it, pleased to see the projectile clea seven miles and explode, destroying everything in a five-mile radius. "Good work, Spicer," the lieutenant commended, patting the young weapon's developer on the shoulder, "you will go very far in this business. I honestly wasn't expecting someone as green as yourself to take so well to such a field as war."
Jack's eyes lit up despite the discomfort of the uniform he was wearing, and he smiled up at the older man. "Thank you, sir, I'll do my best to give you only perfection, I promise!"
With a smirk, Chase spoke, "I would accept nothing less."
367. Villain-
"You know what I like about us, Chase?"
"Hmm?" the warlord prompted, utterly content to just lie in bed with his lover as dawn broke, pleasantly warm and still tired, but with absolutely no pressure to wake up.
"There's none of that 'Romeo and Juliet' crap, or 'forbidden love' hibbety-jibbety; we're both on the same side, you know? Both villains; we can be together without people questioning how or why and junk."
Chase was tempted to point out that Jack was a lousy villain anyways, but it was far too early to endure one of his mate's hissy fits, and so he simply snuggled closer to the goth, allowing the youth to fall back asleep to the gentle stroking of his hand along his back before the everlord himself rejoined his lover in slumber.
368. Deadlock-
They had been in a deadlock for days, endless torturous hours, painful minutes, and agonizing seconds when Chase finally cracked.
"Fine," he snarled at long last, "if it will end this, I'll say it: Dave the Barbarian is the best television show that ever was and ever will be!"
Jack's eyes brightened, and he soundly kissed his lover before teasing, "Now, was that so hard?"
369. Wolf-
Jack gave a soft whine as his mate mounted him, causing the large alpha to pause, demanding, "What's wrong, lover?"
The younger wolf squirmed out from underneath the heavy body on top of his, dropping to lay on his belly, paws over his eyes. "I don't deserve this," he whimpered. "You should be mating with your alpha-female, having pups with her, not a worthless omega..."
A dominating growl made Jack look up, only for a yelp to escape his throat as the scruff of his neck was caught in his pack leader's jaws, bitten at harshly to demand his complete and utter submission. "You aren't the omega anymore, Jack," Chase snarled, "you are my alpha-female, and if the moon should bless us, it will be you with whom I have pups! I'm sick of this spinelessness that's been instilled in you, lover. You no longer eat last, your authority is only second to mine, and no one but me is allowed to attack or dominate you on pain of death! You are my mate now, Jack; do you understand that?"
A shivery feeling took hold of the white wolf as he looked into his dark-furred lover's golden eyes, and even though all of this was still weird to him, he brushed his muzzle against Chase's neck affectionately, answering, "Yeah, Chase: I'm your mate, now."
370. Nauseous-
"Nnh...Chase..." Jack gave a pleased sigh as the pathetic whine of the name reaped a fruitful harvest, the albino feeling the claws of a scaly hand raking soothingly through his hair, and he decided he was lucky to have such a supportive lover.
Anyone else would have gotten fed up with these (minimally) twice-a-week migraines, his sensitivity to light and sound, pained moaning, groaning, and whining, and the fact that he often got nauseous because of the wicked, demon-headaches, but Chase sat in the dark with him, whispered soft words of consolation while he massaged his lover's throbbing temples, and even carried him to the bathroom when he felt like he'd be sick.
The older mutant said it was only fair for the way that Jack loved him openly despite his freakish reptilian appendages, but the young seer was nonetheless grateful.
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A/N: Invasion- Ok, I love Invader Zim as much as the next guy...girl...whatever, but, I mean, come on: he's not very good at what he does. Jack's determined to be at least some kind of decimal amount of an ounce better than him, so he's admitted his deep-running feelings for a human, unlike certain Irken invaders I could mention... T.T You know what I mean, right? :wink, wink, nudge, nudge: XD
Fumes- Jack plus weird-chemical-reaction equals very loose lips, my friends: he will say whatever the hell he wants. He's like a child or a drunk person...or a drunk child-person. XD But, in this case, loose lips do not sink ships; they allow long-term relationships to become possible. :D
Hackers- ...Like I've said on many occasions before: I'm a sucker for accuracy.
'010010010110110001101111011101100110010101111001011011110111010100100001' actually does mean 'I love you!'
You may ridicule me now for my insanity. -.-
Infiltrate- ...I'm insane; this is the only answer for even the tidbit of plan I invented for Jack to say, and I'm even more insane for making Chase think its a good idea. -.-"
Helpless- No comment. -.-
Experimentally- Soldier!chack, a relatively new idea for me. I'm not sure if this is centered in any factual wars, but if anything, it'd probably be a cross between World War I and World War II, because that's what I'm learning about in my history class right now, and I don't put being subconsciously inspired by that past myself.
Villain- Now, I'm not saying anything bad about the 'forbidden love' concept, because I myself have a few examples of it in my yaoi arsenal(Alucard/Anderson of Hellsing, Kurt/Todd of X-Men Evolution, Francis/Richie of Static Shock, etc.) but these days, it's getting a little tired, namely in mary-sue fics. As I can personally say I know what its like to be a mary-sue writer and not realizing it, I know how tempting it is to have a good girl fall in love with a bad boy and then angst about, idk, betraying her family or her friends by liking him or whatever and I can't totally fault the people who do it constantly save for this fact: while I thought about it often, I never did it. It can be resisted. Although there are some 'forbidden love' fics that are actually quite well-written. :) Anyways, though, that's enough rambling on my part, but in case you're wondering, even when I wrote mary-sue stuff, I didn't use the typical spelling short-cuts (things such as 'wat' in place of 'what') I never used stuff like, "OMG" or "OMIGAWD" etc, and I always spell-checked everything, as if that makes it any better. XD
Deadlock- I've re-fallen in love with Dave the Barbarian in case you can't tell. I have all of the episodes taped (supposedly 22 episodes, but I'm 99.999 percent sure one of them was never aired, so 21) and I've been watching 'em lately. :D If you've never seen it (which seems somewhat impossible with the way I've been pushing it on you guys) they still show reruns on Toon Disney at 4:00 AM if you want to stay up and watch it. :)
Wolf- I've always found pack-structure among wolves interesting, but that's a bit besides the point right now; all I'm going to say is that 'alpha' refers to the higest status within the pack, and 'omega' refers to the lowest, and omega wolves are forced to eat last and are often harrassed by other members of the pack because they're at the bottom-wrung of the social ladder.
Nauseous- This is a continuation of Oracle from Chapter 12, because let's face it: it needed one. :D Damn, though, I wish I had someone like Chase around when I used to get those kinds of migraines. ;.; They really sucked, and I knew I was going to have one about an hour or half-an-hour before I would because whenever I would look at words, random parts of the letters would be blurred out by light (the splotchy kind you get in your eye when you stare at a bright light for a little while), and I couldn't read anything, so I would just go, "Aw, dammit." and without fail, anywhere from 30-60 minutes later, BAM! Nightmarish migraine. -.- Thankfully, I haven't gotten one in about a year, now, so I'm hoping it'll stay that way. :)
And that's Chapter 37 of Anthology of Love, so thanks for reading! :D