“Combat”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

Asymmetric combat
poison in the waters
thinning of the air
Balloons adrift
in atmospheres
Wooden dummies
lighting flares
Qilin fights
for our side too
Come on,
take our dare#SciFanSat #combat #BrknShards #water#vss365 #qilin #Poetry pic.twitter.com/vwmq75K4w7

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) February 11, 2023

A high, thin cry pierced the roar of the crowd. The qilin reared, delicate hooves pawing the air to drive back the chimera.
His stomach wrenched at the sight. Busting illegal combat rings was nothing new, but seeing rare creatures forced to fight was sickening.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— R.S.Bass is querying (@RebBassWrites) February 11, 2023

#SciFanSat
He never doubted the #qilin's force behind him.
Surrounded by the throes of dying during #combat, when defeat stared at him & his men, an intense light bounced off his pierced shield, the energy it beamed outwards incinerated all in front of them.#vss365#2WordPrompt

— aran (@AranPotente) February 11, 2023

"Who bests the #qilin in #combat," he read aloud, "will earn a #circlet of heart-gold, and a #pierced #shield."

"I hate riddles," she sighed. "What d'you think it means?"

Behind them, the tomb wall flexed as it extruded teeth and claws.#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer 🇺🇦 (@ThatBurntWriter) February 11, 2023

He dismounted his horse. The shield-maidens fought to the last in combat to protect those fleeing the city… Why did this one lay pierced with arrows, holding her shield to the side?

Lifting her adamantine disk, the king finds an infant girl unharmed.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) February 11, 2023

we need a revolution
to combat all this hate
we're standing at ground zero
between now and too late#micropoetry #mywords #scifansat pic.twitter.com/zK4TP3Z22q

— (Quiet) Storm ☽✪☾ (@MadQueenStorm) February 10, 2023

Of course, we don't have actual combat. War would be too messy. Our two worlds fight with AI, like your game of chess. And I am just a pawn, what can I do? Now if you will excuse me, I have my duty. I will be recycled.#SciFanSat #combat

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) February 11, 2023

He was the last man standing
Blood coats his armour
Bodies broken before him
His #shield heavy
He may have won
Yet this #combat would not be the last
Evil lurked
Possessed souls taken down
Hurt
Each one #pierced his heart
Burdening his own soul#2WordPrompt#SciFanSat

— Amanda 🖤☠️🥀 (@AmandaJK_) February 11, 2023

The combat ended. The shadow receded, and with it the magic. Gone we’re the dragon and the qilin, the wizard, the witch, and the mage.

In the future, their descendants would say, “May you live in interesting times.”

How little they remembered.#vss365 #SciFanSat #Satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) February 11, 2023

All the mystical animals gather @ midnight on the 1st Thurs of each month for mortal #combat. Well, not rly. Actually it's a sudden-death dance contest. The jackalope is best @ waltzes & the #qilin excels @ breakdancing, tho the dragon's awkward @ everything.#SciFanSat #vss365

— Danielle Ste. Just (@DanielleSteJust) February 11, 2023

The #Qilin strolling across a rummage of habitat in search for the hero to be. He may have found a sage & warrior in one to #combat the algorithm vs mind, machine vs muscle warfare. A battle that mankind has been losing. What’s left is only hope and belief.#vss365 #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/vyycXzZlvA

— Mindset Evolution (@justpasit0) February 11, 2023

Pluck your sword from the stars if you must; I will not fight you.

For centuries, have I been the Sage of the Galaxy and written philosophy with the ink of the spaces inbetween light.

Now you say a #quilin has been seen on Earth.

So be it. #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K – in the gutter, looking at the stars (@poeticnihilist) February 11, 2023

A huge colorful qilin in the square amid the gathered troops began to breathe & flex its tail. Two diverse, fractured, armed militias stared at each other, anticipating deadly combat. Who would the chimerical creature ordain as the leader? #BraveWrite #satsplat #vss365 #SciFanSat

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) February 11, 2023

I don't believe in gods or #magic, but in #combat, I'll take any advantage I can get. We pick up a stranger on the last leg of our trip. "Stay back."
The alien who claims he is a deity raises his hands. The entire enemy squadron is reduced to a liquid mush.#satsplat #SciFanSat

— Maria A. Perez (@MariaAPerez1) February 11, 2023

The estranged daughter arrived at her father's palace in combat slacks and a mythical #qilin-designed t-shirt. Catching shadows, a presence followed, more smoke and haze than form; it slipped inside as she was stopped.
Until the alarm sounded, she said nothing.#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) February 11, 2023

At the terminus of our world, she ended the combat with a last spell to save us.

Eons later, the egg opened. We emerged from Gaia's stone ribs to a new planet, her last breath a new sky above. Fields of red roses blossomed from her blood. #Satsplat #Scifansat #Vssdaily #vsspic pic.twitter.com/r7DkoLsJVG

— A.L. MacDonald (@A_L_MacDonald) February 11, 2023

My son, there’s much that I wish I had time and wisdom to teach you. That real love—love that lasts into the Endless—means giving yourself up. That there are many forms of combat—martial, magical, moral. That the last requires the most courage and skill.#SatSplat #SciFanSat pic.twitter.com/Y8Hg6iffvp

— Armond Boudreaux (@armondboudreaux) February 11, 2023

Her vision — pure love
Our nonpareil Fairy Queen
No combat — ever!#Fantaiku #queen#HaikuChallenge #nonpareil#Rise365 27 #vision#SciFanSat #combat#Haiku#Fantasy#Poetry#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
🖼 Pixabay | Hansuan_Fabregas pic.twitter.com/u5LofvqryY

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) February 11, 2023

Welp, Spike's no longer bored. Our shadow creature's aggro nature finds peace in the arena. I watch from our cage. Armed combat on an alien world. Spike's opponent? A three-armed swordsman atop a beast resembling a qilin. That swordsman is screwed.#scifansat #bravewrite #vss365

— Occam Razor (aka the Truant Memphis nerd) (@BeKindHumans) February 11, 2023

In a world of railguns and pyrokinesis, Gentle Hands had always trained for hand-to-hand combat, because the first two options killed. The last one gave someone a second chance.

–Mercy Rising: An Exile War Novel#SciFanSat #SciFiSat pic.twitter.com/1pLX1AEX7B

— Bowen Greenwood (@bowengreenwood) February 11, 2023