Freaky Friday: Cryptids

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Hello, everyone! I’m sherlockian_syn and this week is full of spooky themes! Today's theme is cryptids, aka mythical creatures or monsters. I chose cryptids specifically, but I am willing to open it up to all sorts of monsters. Here is a list of cryptid types. As long your prompt has something to do with a spooky animal, monster, or mythical creature, go for it. Thank you all for participating this week. I really appreciate it and I hope you had fun with these themes. :)

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No more than five prompts in a row.
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Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
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If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Stargate Atlantis, Carson Beckett + any, Carson tells the Athosian children about the Loch Ness Monster
+ Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes +/ any, Sherlock's new client claims their friend was killed by a British big cat
+ Astro, ensemble, making mochi in honor of the moon rabbit

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[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate Multiverse, any, mythical creatures from alien planets

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

BBC Robin Hood, any, brownies

Fill:

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The gang crept through the tunnel. It wasn’t one any of them recognised, but Robin was convinced it would enable them to come out unseen at the back of the castle. They emerged quietly, but then stopped still in horror.

There, in front of them were what looked like hundreds of small girls in yellow and brown.

“Has the sheriff found himself some new troops?” Alan whispered to Robin.

“Even he wouldn’t have been mad enough to employ this lot. Far too shrill for a start.”

Suddenly it became very quiet and then the girls formed a large ring and began to skip round in a circle, singing what Friar Tuck took to be some form of incantation.

Without a word, the outlaws began to run back to the tunnel.

Much glanced upwards and spotted Guy sitting in a tree. “What are you doing up there?” Much asked.

“I’m waiting until it’s dark. I heard one of the taller ones say they had to go home before then!”

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

MI-5|Spooks, Lucas North + any, werewolves

Fill: [werewolf!Lucas]

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

“Out!” Harry Pearce exclaimed. “Get out now!”

Those on the Grid looked round at each other. Apart from Adam, who had left the building fifteen minutes earlier, they were all present, so no-one knew who Harry was speaking to.

“I mean it!”

Jo got up to have a look. Harry’s door was open, and she cautiously peered round and then retreated, trying not to laugh. “Lucas is sitting on Harry’s chair and it appears he’s refusing to move.”

Harry came to his office doorway and said, “Tariq, come and get it out!”

Obediently, Tariq went into the office. “Come on,” he said, “you can’t stay there.”

Nothing happened.

“Don’t just talk to it. Pull it out!” Harry ordered.

“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Tariq said.

Ros went to join them. “Have you tried saying ‘please’?” she asked.

“If you think that’s such a good idea you can say ‘please’,” Harry replied.

“But you’re the one who wants to sit in the chair.”

Harry glared at Ros, then at Tariq and finally at the werewolf, before saying, “Please can I have my chair back.”

The werewolf jumped off the chair and trotted out of the office, wagging its tail.

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

The Untamed/MDZS, Wen Ning, meeting a zombie

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Any, any, “But they’re not real!” “Spoiler: they’re real!”

Fill 1/2: Hawaii Five-0, Steve + Danny + Chin + Kono (Paranormal Task Force 'verse)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

“You’re putting me on.”

Chin gave Danny one of his enigmatic looks, which meant that he was either being completely serious or he was having a laugh at Danny’s expense. Danny wasn’t sure which option he preferred, honestly.

“That is not a real thing,” he insisted.

“Spoiler!” Kono said. “They are real, and the Governor wants us to go and have a talk with them.”

Danny looked at Steve, who just shrugged, and Bethany, who shook her head.

“I don’t do farm animals, sorry.” She vanished without another word.

“Okay, fine.” Danny sighed. “Let’s go.”

They had to go into the jungle, deep enough that Chin had to procure special off-road transport to get them over the rough terrain. Danny didn’t care for the wildness of the jungle. He was a Jersey boy, not Tarzan.

Chin tracked their progress on the GPS and had them stop and go in on foot when they reached a certain distance from the camp. They had two rifles between them – Steve and Kono were the best marksmen of the four of them – and a basket of avocados.

They encountered the first of the wild boars before they had a visual on the camp. It was a hulking big thing, easily four hundred pounds and covered in wiry black fur. It pawed the ground and glared at them with beady dark eyes.

Steve and Kono kept their rifles slung over their shoulders, though Danny had no doubt they could have them locked and loaded in an instant if the situation required it. Judging by the tension in Steve’s shoulders, he was just waiting for the slightest hint of trouble.

“We would like to speak with the alpha sow,” Chin said to the boar. He’d been voted the official spokesman for the mission, since he’d be less likely to lose his temper and start trouble. “We mean you no harm.”

The boar circled them, sniffing at their legs and nosing at their hands, and Danny didn’t like it. He wasn’t Tarzan, nor was he Old MacDonald. The closest he’d ever gotten to a live pig was at a traveling petting zoo when he was just a kid. Otherwise, pigs solely existed in the freezer in packages marked ‘pork chops’, ‘bacon’, and ‘ham steaks’.

The boar gave a long, low grunt that ended on a high-pitched squeal, and walked off in the direction of the camp.

“Are we really going to talk to a bunch of pigs?” Danny muttered. “This is stupid.”

“They’ve been part of the Islands since the early Polynesians were here,” Kono said. “Eight hundred years.”

“You’d think in all that time they’d have found their way out of the jungle and into suburbia.”

Kono laughed. “Try explaining that to your HOA!”

The camp was a collection of shacks arranged around a small clearing. It was impossible to tell how many there were because of how dense the jungle was. Danny counted twenty-two, but he was sure there were more. There were piglets running around in the clearing, squealing as they played, and porches were filled with a mix of sows, boars, and humans.

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, living in a town where the economy is based around a local cryptid

Fill 1/2: Astro, gen, non-famous AU

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“The Merboy of the Nam River?” Dongmin asked.

Donghwi had insisted on coming into the shop. Dongmin would have preferred to stay in the car and read his book, but Donghwi had gotten that look on his face, that I’ll tell Mom look.

Two boys sat behind the counter. One was sketching in a sketchbook, the other knitting. The one sketching paused and looked up, flashed a wide, bright smile.

“The Merboy of the Nam River is elusive, but he exists. All credible sightings are recorded,” he said, pointing to a cork board on the far wall.

It had a calendar on it, with people’s names on it, plus blurry photos pinned to the board around it.

The little shop boasted all kinds of Merboy paraphernalia - beautiful hand-drawn sketches of the Merboy peering out of the water, head and shoulders visible in the morning mist. There were some watercolor renditions, too. He had blue hair and blue eyes and sharp, jagged teeth and a smattering of blue scales across his bare shoulders. There were also knitted scarves and banners, hats and mittens, hand-carved keychains, and some little pendants carved in the shape of water drops. The shop also had some wider Jinju souvenirs, like postcards of the castle, and a cookbook of local recipes.

“Have you seen him?” Dongmin asked.

The boy - Kin Myungjun, his name tag read - smiled again. “I see him every day.”

Dongmin snorted. “Whatever. C’mon, Donghwi. We have to wait for Mom and Dad.”

The other boy, who had no nametag, kept on knitting.

“But hyung, I wanna see the Merboy,” Donghwi protested.

Dongmin herded him firmly to the door. “Merboys don’t exist.”

“He likes to hang out by the dock,” Myungjun said.

Dongmin opened the door and pushed Donghwi through the doorway, marched after him.

“Yah, Minhyuk, business is slow, you better do something about it,” Myungjun hissed, and the door fell shut.

“Can we go to the dock?” Donghwi asked.

“Sure,” Dongmin said, rolling his eyes. Donghwi wasn’t a little kid, was the same age as Minhyuk back there, but he still had his head in the clouds.

They walked away from the car and along the riverbank to a small dock where a few rowboats were tied up and bobbed in the water.

Donghwi immediately rang along the dock to peer into the water for the Merboy. Dongmin followed at a more sedate pace. The river was pretty, but beyond a few boats there’d be nothing to see.

Something splashed.

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay +/ Any, Sam the Whale isn't the only thing living in the Lantean Sea

Fill: gen, minor crack

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“We have incoming,” Radek said.

“Incoming what?” Rodney peered over his shoulder at the sensor display.

Radek shook his head. “I don’t know. But it’s - massive.”

“And coming from beneath us.” Rodney reached out, grabbed one of the other keyboards, pulled up another data screen. “It’s biological.”

“Wraith ships are technically alive,” Radek murmured.

Rodney flicked a finger at him. “Don’t jinx us.”

“You’ve been hanging around superstitious pilots too long. Jinxes are irrational,” Radek shot back. He tapped his radio. “Barton, get up to Ops.”

“You’re calling Zoology?” Rodney demanded.

“It’s alive,” Radek said. “Is it your friend Sam the ‘whale’?”

Rodney toggled to another data screen, swore in French. “It’s bigger than Sam.”

Radek also swore.

Barton arrived a few minutes later, calm but alert. “Dr. McKay, Radek, what’s going on?”

“Do you know what kind of creature this is?” Radek pointed to the massive shape on the sensor display.

Barton blinked. “I didn’t realize there was any megafauna bigger than Sam native to New Lantea. Let me check the Ancient Database.” He squeezed himself between Radek and Rodney and began to tap away at another one of the consoles.

All three of them stared at the image that came up on the display.

Radek pushed his glasses higher on his nose and swore in Czech. “It’s Cthulhu.”

“It’s an exercita.”

All three of them started violently.

Rocky, the former Runner on AR-6, was standing behind them munching on sunflower seeds.

“How do you know that?” Barton asked.

Rocky shrugged. “They were on my home planet.”

“Are they mean? Violent? Do they eat people? Why is it coming to Atlantis?” Rodney demanded.

“They eat fish, mostly,” Rocky said.

“Then why is it coming here?” Radek asked.

Rocky craned his neck, peered over the balcony and nodded to the window overlooking the pier. “Probably because someone keeps leaving fish guts out there after cleaning their catch.”

“Enough to lure an animal that size?” Barton raised his eyebrows.

“Waste not, want not,” Rocky said, and tossed a sunflower seed up. He caught it, shrugged, and walked away.

“How do we make it go away?” Radek called after him.

Rodney tapped his radio. “Lorne! Get your filthy Marines to clean up after themselves when they go fishing off the pier!” He tapped his radio again. “Everyone! Clean up after yourselves when you go fishing off the pier!” He tapped his radio a third time. “John, we have incoming. Get mops, buckets, and guns.”

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, the real reason Danny doesn't like to go in the ocean is because he's secretly a merman

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

MI5|Spooks, Lucas North +/ Any, Dire Wolves

Fill: [werewolf!Lucas]

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Malcolm looked up from his computer and said, “You know, I think Lucas might be a dire werewolf.”

The werewolf in question hung its head, so Malcolm continued, “That’s actually a compliment.”

The werewolf stood up, trotted over to Malcolm, and rested his head on Malcolm’s leg, who absent-mindedly stroked him.

“Do explain,” Adam said.

“Dire wolves were more muscular.”

The werewolf flexed a front leg to demonstrate. Jo giggled.

“They were also heavier. And before you get any ideas about demonstrating that fact, you are not going to sit on me.”

The werewolf huffed but settled back on its haunches.

“And the ones they’re currently trying to breed are calm and shaggy.”

The werewolf gave a short howl, clearly objecting to being referred to as shaggy.

Ros said, “Keep the noise down over there. Some of us are trying to work.”

Adam said, “Anyway, you have to admit you are very shaggy, it takes ages to give you a good brush.”

“What did they eat?” Tariq asked.

“Horse, apparently.”

“Blrgh!” The werewolf pulled a face, making the others laugh.

“So next time Harry says you are dire,” Jo began.

“He still doesn’t mean it as a compliment,” Ros finished.

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any ensemble, hunting Bigfoot (or the cryptid of your choice)

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Carson Beckett + any, Carson tells the Athosian children about the Loch Ness Monster (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster)

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes +/ any, Sherlock's new client claims their friend was killed by a British big cat (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats)

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Astro, ensemble, making mochi in honor of the moon rabbit (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit)

Fill: gen, historical AU, crack

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“Keep pounding the rice,” Myungjun insisted.

“We’re working on it,” Minhyuk protested. He and Sanha were pounding the rice diligently in the mortar.

Jinwoo and Dongmin were preparing the red bean filling, keeping an eye on the pot where the beans were boiling.

“We have to have the rice cakes ready for the full moon,” Myungjun said. He was flitting around the kitchen, high-strung.

The Mid-Autumn Full Moon was an important occasion. Since they were orphans and poor, one of their best hopes at having a prosperous harvest was to leave offerings for the Moon Rabbit and their ancestors and hope that they could survive the winter so they could leave more offerings for the gods at the Lunar New Year.

Dongmin had worked hard as a scribe for some elders in the village to earn some extra money, and Jinwoo had worked as an accountant for some merchants to earn some money, and Minhyuk and Sanha had run lots of errands and picked up work on some farms, and they had managed to scrape together enough funds to buy rice and beans to make rice flour for rice cakes.

That was all they could afford for offerings this year, which was better than they’d had last year, which was incense and prayers.

Myungjun, who was small and delicate, had done his best to earn money by dressing as a woman and singing at the gisaeng house, which had earned them a lot of money, but he’d almost been caught by some angry noblemen and run out of the gisaeng house, and now they were hiding in the forest at the edge of town.

They were all praying for a better year.

Once the flour was done, they worked together to shape the cakes and fill them with the red bean paste.

It was Sanha who insisted they shape the cakes to look like cute bunnies, and then the five of them headed out to the woods to leave the offering at a shrine for the Moon Rabbit.

They knelt, and they lit the half of an incense stick they could spare, and they closed their eyes and prayed.

“Mmmm, delicious.”

Minhyuk opened his eyes.

A boy stood over them, munching on one of the rice cakes. Minhyuk gaped at him.

The boy finished off the rice cake and dusted rice flour off his hands.

Minhyuk opened his mouth to protest, and then he noticed that the boy had floppy white rabbit ears sprouting out of his head.

The boy knelt and ruffled Minhyuk’s hair. “So, what did you want from me on this Mid-Autumn Full Moon?”

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, they encounter Mujina, the Faceless Woman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppera-b%C5%8D) while on a case

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, ensemble, a kraken (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken) attacks Atlantis

Fill 1/2: Rodney + John + Radek + Chuck + Evan + Woolsey + OC

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

It was no-one’s fault.

They’d been trying to find out more about the sea that Atlantis called home. Sounding instruments, deep-sea drilling to extract cores from the sea floor, seismographs, sonar. They didn’t know what they’d disturb with their innocent explorations, but then, that was par for the course of life in Pegasus, wasn’t it?

“Shield down to forty percent,” Chuck called out from his workstation.

“I can see that!” Rodney snapped. “Peace, do you have anything yet?”

If I did I’d tell you, was the terse reply over the earpiece.

“Well, speed it up, would you? We’re running out of time.” Rodney cut Peace off in mid-curse.

The giant tentacles that were curled around the shield were somehow slowly draining energy off it. Nothing they’d tried so far had gotten the thing to back off. Sheppard and Lorne were still monitoring from above in the jumpers. They’d fired drones at the thing, but the attack hadn’t seemed to bother it much at all and there was no sense wasting valuable resources.

“We need to start evacuations,” Woolsey said grimly. “Major Lorne, I need you to return to the city. I want you in charge of getting people safely to the Alpha site.”

Roger that, sir.

“Chuck. Sound the alert.”

Rodney grimaced as the alarm started to sound. It was an indication of failure, and he refused to admit defeat. There had to be something. He was simultaneously checking the Ancient database, monitoring the city systems, and tracking Sheppard’s jumper.

“Dr. McKay.”

Rodney looked up, and there was Dr. Peace in the flesh. Which hopefully meant she had some news.

“Well?”

“I believe the creature to be an offshoot of electrogenic fish, like Astroscopus. Only instead of just producing electricity, it can also absorb it. I think it’s feeding off the energy of the shield.”

“That’s why the drones didn’t work. It absorbed the energy.” Rodney cursed. “Okay. So how do we stop this thing before it completely drains the shield and sinks the city? Zelenka?”

“Electric signal…Is unique?”

Dr. Peace shook her head. “Their discharge frequencies can be the same.”

Rodney snapped his fingers. “Of course!”

“We match channel!” Zelenka said excitedly.

“Interfere with the pattern!”

“We’ll jam it!” Rodney and Zelenka said together.

“John, ready another drone but don’t fire until I tell you.”

You better not be wasting my time, McKay.

“Just be ready.”

They used one of the airborne drones, which was able to get close enough to the creature’s tentacles to take the readings they needed. Once they had a lock on the frequency, they could make adjustments to the shield to match it.

“Shield at thirty percent!” Chuck announced.

Rodney just waved him off. He ignored everyone that was gathering in the Gate Room in preparation for evacuation, ignored the alarm, ignored everything but the task at hand.

McKay.

“Shield at twenty-eight percent!”

Any time now, Rodney.

“Shield at twenty-six percent!”

“Got it!” Zelenka said.

“Inputting the data,” Rodney replied. “Almost there. Almost there. Go!”

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers, Zachary Fox, Shane Gooseman; Shane’s implant decides he needs to be a werewolf when they run into trouble.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Avengers, Clint Barton and Hulk; their mission to find what’s terrorising a small village goes south when it turns out to be a Titanoboa.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Spenser For Hire, Spenser + Hawk; when Spenser gets jumped in an alley and bitten, turns out vampires are a thing. Now he is one.

Fill -- Well, yes and no.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I wasn't feeling the vampire vibe, but what if Spenser got bitten by a werewolf? It's here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27060301

.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Doom Patrol, Larry + Cliff; they find a cult that worships a monster and plans to sacrifice Larry to it. Cliff’s never like monster movies, but now apparently they’re in one.

[hugglewolf.livejournal.com]

Vienna Blood, Oskar Rheinhardt + Max Lieberman. Several children are brought to the hospital claiming to have seen Krampus. But it’s a myth, surely? Until Oskar and Max end up chasing it through the night.

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any, they only look human

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

DC, Jonathan Crane, turning into the Scarebeast

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Coraline (book or movie), Coraline Jones, Coraline thought all her problems ended when she left The Beldam to die. Too bad there are way, way more women just like her.

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any, the monster under the bed

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Forever, Henry Morgan, he knows the truth about the Loch Ness monster