November 2025 Drabble Challenge

Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise

Character: Thelen (OC by @indignantlemur)

Rating: Gen

Steel flashes brightly. With bared fangs, Thelen presses his advantage. His strikes are heavy, powerful.

Shral dodges. He weaves, whirls, dancing around the steel line connecting their gauntlets. His blade flicks only by inches. Precise.

Big movements, drawing attention like so many moons. Shral lets himself be drawn and guided, happily. He reacts, reacts, reacts, not even trying to block Thelen's attacks anymore. Hoarding fading reserves.

Thelen strikes big and flashy, and Shral dodges right. Thelen is ready, waiting with the heavy, armoured gauntlet. He swings.

Green eyes flash and Thelen freezes. Shral ducks, drawing Thelen down. They'll both fall.

Here's an overview of our first five drabbles for @thedrabblecollective's challenge! All 100 words, all up on AO3 :3

1- rain [T] Death Note (Mello/Near, post-canon, canon-compliant)

Near sews clothes for Mello.

2- fading [G] Death Note (Mello/Near, post-canon, canon-compliant)

Some dreams are best left forgotten.

3- journal [G] Death Note (Mello/Near, post-canon, canon-compliant)

Not everything is worth putting words on.

4- chilly [G] Death Note (Mello/Near, Wammy's House era)

For them, collaborating on a project requires compromises from the start.

5- costume [T] In Stars and Time (Siffrin, ACT 4, canon-compliant)

Siffrin is not having a good time.

fandom: love & deepspace pairing: xavier x my mc for @thedrabblecollective's challenge

By some miracle, he's awake at the touch of dawn.

The sun licks at the exposed skin along the crinkled sheets, but his pale eyes zero in on the juncture of her neck and shoulder: what was once a brilliant, gnarled blue - a reminder of the deep Philosian oceans left behind - now linger in a greenish hue.

Fading, like a dying star.

His fingers, featherlight, ghost along the warmth of her like if he adds pressure, then they'll fall right through.

A mirage, expired like shared dreams; even now, Xavier worries it'll be just another fairy tale he tells the next.

2. Fading

(Ao3 link)

Lucario snapped up in bed, awoken by the combination of his trainer's cries and the nightmare he just had.

In the dream, Ash been fading, he'd overused his aura and was slowly loosing corporeality. Lucario had been desperately trying to grab Ash's hands and feed aura into him to bring him back, but it didnt work, and just as Ash dissappeared, Lucario woke up.

And so did Ash. Lucario didnt need to ask to know he'd just recieved the feelings from his trainer's nightmare twisted to Lucario's own fears. Soundlessly, Lucario joined Ash and Pikachu in the narrow pokecentre bed.

Fandom: Kannazuki no miko

Relationship: Chikane x Himeko

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Day 2 - Prompt: Fading Fandom: Thunderbolts, MCU Fandom Pairing: John Walker/LiluMcLovin(OC) Word Count: 100 Summary: Recovery from PTSD; in a steady, long-term, loving relationship READ ON AO3 or KEEP READING BELOW

More Good Than Bad

Sometimes, I almost forget. About the time I was a captive, a hostage. And my fiancé turned a gun on himself so he wouldn’t have to obey our captors’ commands for a crappy terrorist video. It’s not just that time has passed. Or that I’ve spent extensive time in post-traumatic stress disorder therapy.

Day Two: Fading - @thedrabblecollective

This, as well as all of the other drabbles I’ll be doing for this challenge, are meant to be (pit of order) parts of a novel I’m working on, so they probably won’t make much sense on their own.