[Eleya]

username - Eleya
name - Julia "Julie"
song guess - (two) Just can't wait to be King - Lion King
prompt - talking lots, clumsy, full of energy, creative, trying to help,

[Ivyscribblez]

username - Ivyscribblez
name - Alana
song guess - two- I just can't wait to be king- the lion king
prompt - confident and feisty, not afraid to try new risky things.

[Choji]

Bump

[EpicratesPictus]

username - Irrylath
name - Astir
song guess - one - Sweet Child
prompt - Cheerful astronomer, hopes extraterrestrial life exists, gardens in free time

[chlorophyll]

username - Leafy.
name - Luna
song guess - 2, just can't wait to be king- the lion king
prompt - scatterbrained, multitasker, quick speaker, easily panicked, stressed easily, very persistent

[lovage]

well, i hope everyone has listened to the song that they guessed because they both are excellent songs. now for the answers, they were sweet child from the little mermaid and i just can’t wait to be king from the lion king.

here’s the list of people who made it through to the next round (aka everyone);

junkratss
shibeboi
potions-master
yuroshi
completechicken
stephaaa
diamonddogg
zailune
nightflame22
eleya
ivyscribblez
irrylath
leafy.


the second round is up on the first post

[Chickpea]

username - CompleteChicken
name - Lex
link to round one post - Fancy link
go crazy but with limits

This is a Whip

[Stephaaa]

username - stephaaa
name - ski
link to round one post - here (I apologize if it doesn't take you to my post directly!)
go crazy but with limits
(swapping 400 words, one art piece)

It was on a admirably bright day when it happened. The light that shone down on us refilled us with hopes and no worries. That's why the beach was our place. We splashed ourselves in the silky waters, then swam further into the depths. Little did I know that the deep blue waters held mysterious figures. Little did I know this would be the last day I would be "normal." Little did I know a monster was coming for me.

A pain shot through me so vividly and rapidly I almost didn't feel it. Then I felt the water rising higher and higher to my eyes. That was the last thing I saw, a glowing figure tangled in strings. That was the last feeling; a feeling of the worst pain I've ever experienced. I guess you could say I was dying. Then it was pitch black.

Slumber ends.
I wake up on something smooth and soft. My eyes blinked tiredly. I'm on the beach shore, and it's more windy than ever before. The moon placed above me still leaks light. Why am I here? The breeze felt like needles up my spine. I balanced myself up, feeling my feet again, which felt oddly unfamiliar. I step over the soothing sand just trying to seek the the answer to my question, or perhaps my million questions that kept popping into my head. I felt a sudden urge. I cannot bear to hang like this. I ran, and ran, and tripped on a a few sharp pebbles. With anger I fell, electrified, and released the most paining sting. I lay there, confused at the flowing lights around me. The sharp pebbles now had holes, and sparks flying out of them, like fast, abrupt, light. And then I saw I did too, like a—

jellyfish.

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Ski has reached an unexpected point in her life. She was stung by one of the most deadly jellyfish. In this situation, she should have been gone, but instead had the sting pass through her into her feet. The kalon now faces the strangest feeling yet— she has an ability to sting when she grows anger and need. It becomes intricate, when she knows that she will have to face the pain of the sting too. And the most difficult aspect: She can't control it.

[Zailune]

Username: Zailune
Name: Aveira Salsk
Link to Round 1 post: Here

Entry:

Aveira looked up to the sky, her eyes glittering in the light of the stars. A mysterious sight graced her view, a shooting star – as she’d been told many times before, a shooting star is meant for a wish – a wish that would surely come true. With little thought and excitement uncontained, Aveira spoke bluntly, “Shooting star, grant me a stairway to the stars!” With a joyful laugh, Aveira then sat and pondered what a sight that would be. She imagined a long and brightly glowing structure, curving as it swept through the cosmos and leading her to a place of unknown.

______________________________

Ten years passed, and Aveira was now a grown Kalon. In the city where she worked in electronic hardware development for a large company, the skies above were clouded with pollution. The lights she frequently saw above her were only those of planes passing by. Her days were busy and structured, and oftentimes she had to stay late – only returning home to sleep and take care of the creatures of her large aquarium. Her residence rested outside of the city where nature showed itself more-so, but the commute alone was taxing, and she felt overwhelmed to the point that she could not have the same appreciation for the simple things as she did when she was a child. Sometimes, however, she would try to take just a moment to look out her bedroom window at the sky. It seemed so different than that above the city she worked in.

With a sigh, Aveira tucked herself under the warm covers of her bed...

Moments before falling asleep, Aveira noticed a bright glow seeping through her window. Her home was somewhat secluded, and she immediately became nervous. Her worries would not stop her curiosity from driving her to investigate, however, and so she rose and looked outside.

“An…egg?”

__________________

A glowing egg laid in her garden, and a note appeared to be strapped to it. Without due caution and driven by a strong sense of wonder, Aveira stepped outside to examine it. The note appeared to have been damaged somehow and was unintelligible. Still, something drove Aveira to take the strange egg inside her home, away from the dangers of the nearby woodlands.

374/400 words

[EpicratesPictus]

username - Irrylath
name - Astir
link to round one post - here

Astir shivered, wishing for warmth. It was the third time this winter the heat had been turned off, only this time they didn’t know if it would be turned back on. The past two times it was only for a day or two because they forgot to pay the heating bill, but they had lost their job since then. This time, they would have to be careful about how they spent their money, and be glad they have a wood burning stove.
Food would be a priority, as would an axe. Warmer clothes would also be a good idea, as they moved here during the summer from a much warmer climate, and still didn’t have winter weight clothes.
They bundled up, putting on as many layers as possible, and headed to the closest food pantry. It would be their best bet to make their money last, and a way to get non-perishable goods. After getting as much food as the people their allowed them to take for a one month period of time, they left and headed to a thrift store close by. There Astir bought a weeks worth of clothes, a thick coat, and some laundry detergent. After being given permission to change clothes in a restroom, they left the store, old clothes and laundry detergent in one bag, food in the other.
They headed home to put away their purchases. Once those were put up, they headed back out to get the axe they needed. Headed for a more pricey store then the others briefly scared them, but the knew that it was more important to get a good axe than a cheap one.

Glad that they already owned a ladder, they walked outside with it and the axe. The axe would allow them to get wood from the nearby forest, however, the forest is on someone else’s private property. The question now was, how desperate are you? Are you desperate enough to trespass and technically destroy their neighbor’s property, or will you only cut off limbs on your property, or will you only collect dead wood?
Walking outside near the fence line, they looked at the ground to determine if there was any fallen wood. Finding that there was, they collected that first, as that meant hurting the trees far less than cutting into them. They collected enough for the fire to run until midday the next day.
They did this all winter, collecting wood off the ground whenever possible, and when it wasn’t, they cut down branches on their property or close to power and phone lines. Thay also visited the food pantry once a month until spring.

Eventually, spring came, and with it, more opportunities for jobs. Astir decided to work at the thrift store, and volunteer at the food pantry. They primarily did this to help others out of similar situations to the one they just left, but also because they knew it would be a way to meet others in their new hometown.
[500 of 500 words, exchanged both art pieces for words]