From Now Until Eternity
It’s Friday Fictioneers time! Our lovely host Rochelle is back at the helm, and this week’s photo has been contributed by Claire Fuller. Thanks, Claire!
To read this week’s other contributions, click on Bracken, the blue froggy, below.
Copyright Claire Fuller
Prince Ionus smiled to himself as the little band of adventurers crested the hill and crossed the plain. Excellent, he thought. It has been an age since I made new friends!
He watched as they approached the cave. Their triumphant yells became screams of terror as Medusa, emerging from the darkness, froze their limbs with her terrible gaze. Their screams now echoed only within the depths of his mind.
Ionus projected his thoughts outwards. Calm yourselves, my new friends. Learn to accept your situation. Soon we will exchange stories, but there is no rush. We have from now until eternity!
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draliman on life 
I like it. For all eternity. Wait, wasn’t there a movie? From Here to Eternity? Oh, right. No Medusa in THAT one.
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Nope, no Medusa, just an impressive cast.
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Well, going to the museum should be really interesting next time. I wonder what the statues are thinking about me…
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They’re lonely and looking for new friends! All they need is a handy Medusa…
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I love your crazy brain! You create the most interesting stories from the simplest of pictures/prompts. 🙂
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Me and my crazy brain 🙂
I had an idea for the story yesterday but had to let it ferment until today to get an actual story to emerge.
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I raise a glass to ‘crazy brains’ everywhere! (it only has water in it – I’m at work, but apparently it’s the thought that counts… right?)
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Indeed it is that thought that counts, thanks!
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Run little band of people! Run! Great take on the prompt.
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Thanks! I fear their running days are over 😦
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I like prince Lonus.. though he might could use a little bit of a scrub.. he’s a cool dude!
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Maybe Medusa will come out of her cave one day and wash him off 🙂
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Well, that’s certainly a different take 🙂 Myspoken got it right…”you and your crazy brain”…may they be around Blogdom for a long time!
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I hope so 🙂
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Dear Ali,
I want to know how they’re going to exchange stories. Strange little story but at least the prince won’t be alone in stony silence.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
As soon as the new arrivals calm down they will be able to project their thoughts just as Ionus has learned to do.
Ali
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Dear Draliman, You nail it every time – good story! Nan 🙂
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
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Al, Good and well-written story as usual. Poor Ionus and troop. All they wanted was to make firends. 😥 Maybe some friendly wizard will come along and set things right. They need to find a bag for Medusa’s head. She’s a terror. Well done. 🙂 —Susan
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Where’s Perseus when you need him 🙂 ?
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Creepy, very insightful. I’ve often looked at these and wondered what wonderful story’s they could tell.
You do have a an awesome mind.
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Thanks!
They’ve seen so much through the ages. I’d like to hear the stories of ancient trees as well.
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Brilliant! I love it, the idea that all those statues are going to get together for a chinwag 😀
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It’s nice that they have something to pass the time 🙂
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Reminds me of that old 80’s movie, The Clash of the Titans. 🙂
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The guy in the picture certainly looks fairly Titan-ic 🙂
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Well done. I wonder if Medusa has a statue garden that Prince Ionus missed on his way in? Eternity is a long time to wait to be set free. Poor guy. Well, maybe when he head is cut off her spell will be broken.
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He probably thought “cool statues, very lifelike, now where’s that nasty creature I’ve come to kill?”
Decapitation is the recommended method of Medusan dispatch, I believe 🙂
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hilarious! if only i don’t feel so sorry for him… god i can’t imagine that kind of agony. 🙂 🙂
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That’s a long time to be bored 😦
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I suppose it is all what you get used to.
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I don’t suppose he has any choice 😦
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Yes, I was just thinking how horrible it would be but you adapt, I suppose or go crazy.
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I love your creepiness, you do dark so well 😉
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I like the dark (bwahahaha) 🙂
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What a creative story! I love the way the King projects his thoughts into their frozen minds, and gains so much satisfaction from their petrification — “From now until eternity” indeed!
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Thanks! It actually has some parallels with your story featuring lonely Circe. Ionus in my story may not be turning people to stone himself, but he’s perfectly happy when it happens, as he’s lonely too.
All he has to do is teach them how to project their thoughts back, but he has plenty of time!
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Yes, when I read it today, I thought, “That’s a little like my Circe story!” I guess there are only so many variations one can have on this photograph! I saw that someone had a brilliant Medusa story, too.
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I can’t find the blue froggy, Draliman, so I search further…the story? COOL 😀 Pawkisses 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
The “blue froggy” is the thing with the big eyes where it says “Links in collection…”
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I have absolutely never trusted that Medusa – and even less now!
Ellespeth
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She certainly wouldn’t make the best roomie, the nasty madam 🙂
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What a scary thought. Bit like the weeping angels in Dr Who. Eternity in stone, shudder.
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As a kid the Daleks were top of my list of “things to be afraid of”, but the weeping angels are definitely there now.
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Delightful! Medusa, now I just love that woman…or should I say, gorgon. And yay for the little prince, he must have been lonely…..I wonder what a number of frozen kids can lay though, hehe 😀
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Some new friends for him at last. Good for him, not so great for them 🙂
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I like the note you ended with on this one, Alistair. I guess all they have is time now. Nice one!
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Hopefully (?) someone else will come along later and add to the little band of petrified adventurers. You can only hear the same stories so many times.
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as they say, the more the merrier! once they learn how to communicate with each other, Medusa may find them devising ways to irritate her while they wallow in boredom. 😛
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Hah, yes, I didn’t think of that. Maybe she’ll get fed up and turn them all back so they can go away and leave her alone!
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