Welcome to CoLu Week 2018!

Dragonshost is hosting Cobra/Lucy Week for the fourth year running! I know it's a bit later than I normally post this, but I wanted all of you to know that it was happening and that, yes, I will of course be participating this year!

I've decided to give you guys my titles for the prompts that will appear in this collection, as well as approximate word counts. That way, you can return to this page to find which chapter you're looking for, should you decide to re-read any of them.

Dates: June 17th - 24th

Prompts:

Day 1: Defect
"This Isn't the Musketeers!"
Word Count: 4,200

Day 2: Water
"From Water to Wine"
Word Count: 7,400

Day 3:Invite
"Night's New Mistress"
Word Count: 20,200

Day 4: Pyramid
"The Serpent and the Angel"
Word Count: 9,700

Day 5: Delirious (This will be posted in Who Says Fairy Tales Are Normal?)
"Until the End"
Word Count: 18,300

Day 6: Pilot
"Just Wing It"
Word Count: 4,800

Day 7: Staff *
"For You, My Queen"
Word Count: 18,900

Bonus Day: Dance **
"You're Still the One"
Word Count: 13,900

* This is your only warning. This prompt is dark, and could be triggering. I won't remind you when that prompt gets posted.

** Day 8's prompt will not appear in this collection. It's going to be in its own story on my page, so keep an eye out for it. The only reason I'm doing this one this way, is because it has multiple chapters.

This week will obviously be rated M (it's me, we're talking about... Of course that's the rating…). I'm laying down the blanket disclaimer here:

Please be aware that this is M for a reason.

I don't do trigger warnings at the beginnings of chapters, so be aware that some of the entries for this year may be triggering to individuals. If you feel uncomfortable while reading my work, please stop reading it and find your happy place.

If you do want to continue reading it, but you're unsure if it's something that you can handle, I'm more than willing to answer messages concerning the stories. So, you do have the option of messaging me and saying, "I'm concerned that this story might be too much for me. Can you tell me if [insert triggering thing] is in there?" It doesn't have to be super specific, but if... let's say, mentions of rape... are triggering to you, then just ask me. I'm more than happy to let you know what is and isn't in a story that's already been posted. Yeah, it's a couple extra steps on both ends, but that's the only way I see this being feasible without a tagging system in place like on AO3.

If you'd like to read this on AO3 instead, you can find these stories as separate entries (instead of grouped together like they are here on FFnet) with their own tags. Just search for my same penname on Archive of Our Own.

I can't wait to see what the rest of you decide to do for this. I'll be posting notes on my stories as a reminder when it gets closer to the event, and you'll see updates on my other social media doodlies as well as my profile. If you'd like to let me know you're working on something, or want to send me a link to a CoLu Week entry from FFnet, post it as a review on this chapter or to my facebook page. I'll most likely put those links on my Tumblr with the proper tags so others can see them as well.

From the mods running it: "As always, please only use your own original content."

If you'd like your artwork or fanfics to be featured on the CoLu Week page on Tumblr, please go here: colu-coalition . tumblr . com

I can't wait to see what you all do. I'm so excited to write for this!

One last important note!

This week will be full of AUs. I wanted to try branching out a bit from the canon universe. Broaden my horizons and all that. Plus I finally (binge)watched all of Game of Thrones with my husband. It took us about a week to get through all seven seasons. While watching it, I got super inspired to write. So several prompts will be fantasy themed, and you might even see some similarities with the show. Maybe a scene I enjoyed, or character relationships I wanted to explore with Fairy Tail characters instead. As it stands right now, there are five Modern AUs (with different variations on top of them being Modern Setting), two Fantasy AUs, and one canon universe. Each story is set in a separate universe, and none of them are connected in any way (excluding Day 5, which is obviously part of the Who Says Fairy Tales Are Normal? universe).

I may decide to eventually continue some of these stories (maybe), but if that does happen, I'll be using whatever's in here and expanding on it. So instead of them being removed from CoLu Week 2018, they'll be the "original short stories" that longer works are based off of.

As of 6/15/18, two of the prompts are marked to eventually be made into longer works when I have the time... maybe when I don't have so many ongoing stories. There is also one prompt that has the potential to be a longer work, but that'll depend on the feedback for it.

As of 6/15/18, I have one more prompt to write. The last prompt for CoLu Week may be a little late. Then again, maybe not. I was able to write 13k for Day 7 in a single day so... who knows?

Keep writing, reading, reviewing, following, and favoriting!

~~GemNika.