Challenge #3 Due Wed. Aug 5 11:59 PM EST

[The Muse]

Greetings SlayAlive Scribes! Ready for the next challenge? I'm sure you'll find this one exciting.

Prompt: Illustrate a battle scene from within the Whedonverse (BtVS, AtS, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible).

Format: Prose. Word count: 500-1000 words.

Deadline: All submissions must be submitted to me, The Muse, by 11:59 pm on Wednesday August 5^th.




Please fill out this form to attach with your submission (using all areas that apply):[/u]

• Title: (the title of the work)
  
• Author: (SlayAlive username)
  
• Challenge: (e.g. #1 Favorite Character/Ship, #2 Villain's POV)
  
• Fandom: (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse)
  
• Pairing/Characters: (List either ships e.g. Buffy/Angel or characters here)
  
• Summary: (short summary - One to three lines of what the work is about)
  
• Rating: (G - General, PG - Parental Guidance recommended, PG-13 - not suitable for under 13, R - recommended for mature audiences, NC-17 - not recommended for under 17, please err on the side of caution)
  
• Warnings: (sexual situations, violence, blood, etc, anything that may be of concern to the reader)
  
• Disclaimer: (statement e.g. "I don't own the characters. All bow to Whedon.")
  
• Word Count: (final word count of the piece)
  
• Author's Note: (thanking anyone who helped you with the work, anything else you might like the reader to know)

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[hitnrun017]

Bwahaha! That picture is hilarious! This is a cool idea, but a couple questions:

- Does it have to be a "battle", like with a lot of people? Or can it just Character A vs. Character B?

- And does it have to follow continuity? Or can it be an Alternate Universe type of thing? For example... what if we wanted a crazy character choice like.... Cordelia and Fred go totally insane and just start beating the crap out of each other.

[Emmie]

I'll interpret for The Muse here.

- The battle can be large or just between two people.

- It doesn't have to strictly follow continuity. In fact, I'd imagine that going AU and being creative would make for an even better story. You could even make it be a crossover battle between Dr. Horrible and Buffy - it's still in the Whedonverse, after all.

[hitnrun017]

Such a great interpreter, thanks! All kinds of cool, crazy ideas.

[Rebecca]

I have to say that A) Battle scenes pretty much bore me in any medium with exception to comics and B) Writing, especially prose, scares the begezus out of me. But I will enjoy reading these. Perhaps I'll participate in one of these sometime.

[Emmie]

I'm looking forward to a showdown between Bad Horse and Illyria, personally.

I cannot imagine such a battle ever being boring!

Oooo or Dr. Horrible could face off against Warren - a freeze ray battle to the death!

[The Night Lord]

Oooh, fight scene. Should be fun!!

[Hellbound Hyperion]

You mentioned Dr. Horrible and suddenly I realized there's perfectly good Hammer/Horrible material there.

Holy carp and tuna.

I will ecstatically pound out another fic for this challenge.

[Secret Scoobie]

Hmmm, this will be a tough one! I'm dry for ideas right now but I will bash some out eventually...

Also: I love how the Muse listens to the people. *hugs Emmie... I mean, the Muse...*

[Skytteflickan88]

Damn. This will be hard. Let's see; punch, kick, round-house kick(what is that?), back-flip(is that a real word?), strangeling, chocking, hitting...

I don't know many more words that can describe fighting-moves.

I can see it now.

"Buffy did this cool hook thing with her arm, and Spike went flying and landed on his back, then he like, did this flippy thing with his legs and he was up on his feet again."

I don't think I'll get many votes this time.

[Secret Scoobie]

Oh lol! I didn't even think of the 'battle' as an actual battle with fighting and stuff... my mind automatically went to a 'word' battle...argument/confrontation/verbal fight!

It will be interesting to see what people come up with for sure! There is a lot of possibilities and the content will really challenge our imaginations.

[Skytteflickan88]

Well, mine will have some verbal battles too. But I think the muse meant physical battle.

[Secret Scoobie]

Yeah I think you're probably right! I must of been misled by my thoughts and the discussion in the prompts thread...

Hmm, tougher than I thought!

[Skytteflickan88]

I hope we don't have to have too much violence. My fic includes chipped Spike, so he mostly just ducks while the other person throws things.

Not really a epic battle, just a "disagreement". Probably not what The Muse had in mind.

The Muse, can we have a silly fight scenes? Something similar to the Harmony/Xander fight-scene perhaps?

[Secret Scoobie]

Well to me that sounds like it fits the theme, and I'd probably go down a similar road...

Up to the holy Muse though

[Midnight Butterfly]

YAY People liked my idea

*runs off to start writing*

[VampSlayer]

Im in!

[The Night Lord]

Sky, a roundhouse is an attack where a person does a small spin, before unleashing a head-high kick, striking with the heel. Or they can aim at the chest or stomach. One of my favourite moves to do and you see Buffy do a fair few of them as well

[Emmie]

Hey guys! Here's some useful links:

Becky's Writing Blog: Writing Fight Scenes

Fight Scenes 101

How to Write a Fight Scene

Creative Writing: How to Write a Fight Scene

Fiction Press: How to Write a Fight Scene

[The Night Lord]

I sent mine in, but then I realized that it doesn't really showcase my ability to write a fight scene and it's quite small too. I want to change my entry, but I have two other fight scenes, however, one is over a thousand words and the other is over two thousand words. Hmm, dilemmas...