Xena Fanfic Archives

This is an archive and index containing some of the original fanfiction written for the Xena: Warrior Princess fandom during run of show. These fics are NOT on Ao3 and exist only in hard-to-reach places via the way back machine. This page aims to make the classics from the original fandom accessible again so that they are not lost to time. All fics posted will be from before 2003 (Xena ended in 2001). This page is maintained by Yahoo!Clubs user Warrior_Ona_Quest, the former rp master of Xena: WP RPG, and newsletter writter at Xena .com. Please enjoy.

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Hi! Welcome to the Xena Fanfic Archives.

This page aims to archive and index some of the original fanfiction written by the Xena: Warrior Princess fandom during run of show. These fics are NOT on Ao3 and exist only in hard-to-reach places via the way back machine. This page aims to make the classics from the original fandom accessible again so that they are not lost to time.

All fics posted will be from before 2003 (Xena ended in 2001).

This page is maintained by Yahoo!Clubs user Warrior_Ona_Quest, the former rp master of Xena: WP RPG, and newsletter writter at Xena .com. If you were ever in the rp circles on Yahoo back in the day, please come say hi. If the old webmaster of Xena .com happens to ever run across this page, I am so so sorry, I was like 12 and got grounded from the computer and that was it for me, I hope you forgive me. 🥲

SOME NOTICES:

-I am a shipper and read mostly shipper fics back in the day. As a consequence, I still know where to find many of those but not so much any of the others. I would appreciate if any subbers out there who take an interest in this project could also submit some iconic subber fics to add to this archive. And sure, we'll welcome the Gab/Jox and any other cursed pairings as well, why not lol.

-Please focus on submitting iconic fics that were highly popular in fan circles at the time, not just every single story you can find. Hopefully in the way I do this, others can use the posted stories as a leap pad to find those others even if they don't quite make the cut to appear here.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

If you'd like to submit an og Xena fic to this page, please adhere to the following:

-The story must not be on Ao3 or FF.

-The story must not still be accessible on the live internet. i.e. if I google searched it, and I could still read it in full, do not send it in.

-The story must be from 2003 or earlier.

-You do not need to be the original author to submit the story to this page so long as it is not available via the above mentioned means.

-Story link submitted must contain the ENTIRE story. Please take note!!! The way back machine sometimes did not take full captures of pages. Please ensure that the story is COMPLETE before sending in the link. If the story is incomplete, it will not be accepted and you will need to try again after finding a better, complete link.

-If the story has parts, please submit all parts making sure each part has its complete text. Please mention in the notes what part it is. I do not anticipate any og story being beyond 5 parts, but if you have a truly classic one that somehow is, please dm me first.

-Unfortunately LINKS ONLY are currently accepted. If you have a saved file, since tumblr is not a file host, it is currently unfeasible to share files and I daresay unreasonable to post entire stories to tumblr. But please watch this space should something change.

-Story must be submitted using the following form:

Title: Year: Pairings: Genre: Original Author: Site name found on: Way back machine link: Any notes:

This page assumes all submitted fics will ultimately be via the internet archive, aka Archive.org , through the way back machine. If there is some other secret third thing that has saved webpages, please feel free to dm me to discuss.

ORIGINAL AUTHORS:

This page aims to preserve fanfics from the original Xena fandom. "Xena: Warrior Princess" ran from 1995 to 2001 and has been over for over 20 years. The internet has changed drastically in that time, many gathering places are gone forever, and personal webpages have equally vanished along with all their fanfiction libraries, save for what was salvaged by the way back machine. Many of us who were a part of the original fandom look back on those fics with a great deal of love, admiration, and nostalgia. There is no intention to co-opt anyone's work (which is why whole fics will NOT be posted directly here), but to give some of our more cherished favorites a bit of a modern life buoy on the modern internet for future generations before we all get too old to remember how to even find them anymore.

Should you wish to claim your old fics, I absolutely welcome that and would have no problem tagging you if you desire. Should you wish to use the salvaged links to repost your work to Ao3 or FF, I will be more than happy to accommodate and link to any new posting of classic, unaltered fics (if you wish to heavily re-edit your fics for modern reposting, that is up to you but I'm afraid I will not link to that, Mr. Lucas, sorry). Should you, for some reason, wish to see your fic taken down from this archive, please dm me and let's talk about it.

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I can't think of anything else for now, so please enjoy the small trickle of work as I get around to it, and battle on.

–War

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Title: "Attention Shoppers" Year: 1999 Pairings: Xena/Ares Genre: Crack, Uber Original Author: Jade Site name found on: em pleh, Jade's personal site Way back machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/20010417054606/http://members.dencity.com/xena/fiction/shoppers.html Any notes: Jade was, in my opinion, the top crack fic writer in the Xena fandom. I couldn't breath while reading her stories, I was laughing so hard. I loved them so much I printed them out, sometimes a few times, in the world's tiniest print to save on ink and paper, and shoved them all in a binder to take with me to read at school like an absolute menace. Sometimes my friends would read them with me and they never had any idea what was going on but they still laughed. Jade is a classic, and her work is too hard to find these days which is criminal. Thank you for all the brilliance, Jade!! <3

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"Does that mean you bought me that rifle like I wanted?"

"If I told you that would ruin the surprise."

"Well it is my three thousandth birthday. You only turn that once, you know."

"Yes, and it's my ..." Xena trailed off, watching as the man before her finally paid for his products.

"Twenty ninth birthday, I know." He smirked.

Xena stuck out her tongue. "Ya only turn it once, ya know. Old man."

"I resent that," Ares replied, stroking his sideburns.

"Maybe I should get you a wheel chair and a box of depends, huh?"

"Funny."

The cashier turned to Xena. "Hi, how are you today?"

"I'm just fine ..." Xena squinted at the young lady's name tag, "Gabrielle. How are you?"

"Great. You know, working here and all." Gabrielle rolled her eyes and looked at Ares. Mmmm, delicious.

Ares, still stroking his sideburns, wondered how Xena got her basket at the checkout so fast after the blue light special.

Xena put her items on the counter, looking at Gabrielle with trepidation. The little shit better not do a price check.

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Hey hey, thanks for the warm welcome so far and thanks for following along.

This won't be a fast process, so thank you in advance for your patience as I dig around ye olde internet for some of our old faves when I have the spare time.

If you remember the name/author of a fic you used to love, feel free to send it in to me and I'll try to keep a look out as I trawl along. If you are a subber and remember the name of any of your fic libraries that are offline now, please also send it in to me to take a look at. Again, if you are a subber, I would appreciate any fic names you remember, especially if they were super popular in subber circles. As a shipper I didn't go to any of those places so I may be relying on you guys for the best recs.

At the moment it seems most reasonable to knock out stories by author where I find them. Jade is up first so there will be a few Jade stories for now.

Thanks for being here guys!

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Title: "Arguing On The Ides" Year: 1999 Pairings: Xena/Gabrielle Genre: Crack Original Author: Jade Site name found on: Unknown, Jade's personal site Way back machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20010429014041/http://www.crosswinds.net/~khindin/fiction/onides.html Any notes: Jade was, in my opinion, the top crack fic writer in the Xena fandom. I couldn't breath while reading her stories, I was laughing so hard. I loved them so much I printed them out, sometimes a few times, in the world's tiniest print to save on ink and paper, and shoved them all in a binder to take with me to read at school like an absolute menace. Sometimes my friends would read them with me and they never had any idea what was going on but they still laughed. Jade is a classic, and her work is too hard to find these days which is criminal. Thank you for all the brilliance, Jade!! <3

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"Oh, so now this is my fault?!"

"Well, I was under the impression that Caesar was your old leg-breaking flame, not mine."

"So it's my fault. That's nice."

Callisto watched them from the ground.

"I think you're right, Gabrielle. It is Xena's fault! I blame her for everything!" she yelled up to them.

"Don't you have to go burn in hell or something?" Xena yelled down to her old nemesis.

"Oddly enough, there's no fire down there."

"Smoke?" Gabrielle wondered. "There has to at least be smoke."

Callisto sighed. "No, Satan has made Hell a non-smoking environment. I think he has bad lungs and doesn't want to tell anyone. No smoke; no fire; no skinny dipping in the bubbling cauldron of flesh; no feeding Zoso with our mortal enemies; no parties past midnight; and most importantly ..."

"What?" Xena asked, intrigued.

"Absolutely no massaging his horns," Callisto finished.

"Bummer," Xena said softly.

"Hey, Callisto! I know you killed my husband and all, but if I said thanks would you get me down from here? I want to go build a hospice with some chick who's in a coma. I'm sure if I give her a kiss she'll wake up. It worked with Xena."

Xena snorted. "No, you were kissing me when I woke up. I was calling you 'Borias' and you were saying 'Jes, dat ees me, Seena.' I'm still upset with you over that."

Looking at Xena with narrowed eyes, the bard flexed and moved her hand muscles painfully, managing to do what she thought was impossible.

Giving Gabrielle the look, Xena asked, "Are you flipping me off?" Suspicious glare. "You are, aren't you? You're on a cross, your hands are nailed, and you're flipping me off!"

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Title: "Government Cheese" Year: 2000 Pairings: Xena/Ares, Xena/Gabrielle, other misc. Genre: Crack, Uber Original Author: Jade Site name found on: Unknown, Jade's personal site Way back machine link: https://web.archive.org/web/20010908115141/http://www.crosswinds.net/~khindin/fiction/cheese.html Any notes: Jade was, in my opinion, the top crack fic writer in the Xena fandom. I couldn't breath while reading her stories, I was laughing so hard. I loved them so much I printed them out, sometimes a few times, in the world's tiniest print to save on ink and paper, and shoved them all in a binder to take with me to read at school like an absolute menace. Sometimes my friends would read them with me and they never had any idea what was going on but they still laughed. Jade is a classic, and her work is too hard to find these days which is criminal. Thank you for all the brilliance, Jade!! <3

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"A knock on their cheap, wooden, vandalized door woke them from their five day binge of alcohol, drugs and Jerry Springer.

Ares was the first occupant of the house to wake up. Untangling his legs and arms from Xena's, he worked himself free of a satin comforter that one of them had unknowingly covered them up in. Standing up and almost tripping over a vodka bottle, he swore loudly and opened the door.

Oh no. Hera and Zeus? What did he do to deserve a visit from them both?

"What do you two want?" he yelled, not at all happy with them just 'dropping in'.

"We came to visit you, dear. You really should be more appreciative. We don't visit all our kids, you know. Ask Hercules," Hera said. "Not that I consider that little asshole 'ours'," she whispered to Zeus.

Spotting a huddled form on the couch, wrapped up in a blanket like a baked potato on a grill, Hera narrowed her bright green eyes. Grabbing a peacock feather out of her purse, she threw it at Xena.

Ares caught it in his fist. "What did you think you were doing?"

"You're still with her?"

"Shut up, Mother."

"Boy, don't speak to your mother like that!" Zeus bellowed from across the room.

"I just did." Ares said, knowing he was acting nothing more than a petulant child, but he couldn't stop himself when his parents were around.

Xena looked at them from her spot within the blankets. Yawning widely, she said, "Do you think you guys could keep it down? I mean, we didn't go to sleep until eight o'clock this morning and I'm really tired."

"It's five in the afternoon!" Zeus said angrily, trying to quell his urge to throw a lightning bolt at her.

"I work third shift," Xena whined, pulling the covers up over her head.

"You don't have a job!" Zeus said, as he aimed a thunderbolt at the pile of blankets and fired."

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Title: "The Great Wall" Year: 1999 Pairings: Xena/Ares, Xena/Gabrielle, other misc. Genre: Crack Original Author: Jade Site name found on: em pleh (Jade's personal site) Way Back Machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/20010123170800/http://members.dencity.com/xena/fiction/wall.html Any notes: Jade was, in my opinion, the top crack fic writer in the Xena fandom. I couldn't breath while reading her stories, I was laughing so hard. I loved them so much I printed them out, sometimes a few times, in the world's tiniest print to save on ink and paper, and shoved them all in a binder to take with me to read at school like an absolute menace. Sometimes my friends would read them with me and they never had any idea what was going on but they still laughed. Jade is a classic, and her work is too hard to find these days which is criminal. Thank you for all the brilliance, Jade!! <3

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"Mumbling incoherently while under Morpheus' spell, Xena continued having her nightmare, actually wishing that the bard she sometimes called, "friend" would wake her up for once instead of letting her suffer through it. Ever since Gabrielle had taken up Eli's teachings, she let Xena suffer through each and every one of her nightmares. "Serves you right for being so evil" were the bards exact words. A frown appeared on Xena's face. Even in her nightmarish slumber, the thought was enough to piss her off.

Waking up drenched in a cold sweat, the warrior frantically tried to recall the nightmare she just had. Dancing ... dancing, evil dancing, like that jack-ass Istafan had tried to stop. Should've let that bondage-loving-bastard stop that dancing. The Widow Twankey would've been horrified. Green clothes, that sometimes turned yellowish in color; the color of corn once eaten and then rejected by its host into a chamber pot.... Not that I've puked corn after a night of drinking mead with the Gamma boys or anything. A miasma of color. What was it called? A rainbow? I'm not an Amazon, nor do I keep up with Sappho's works! What's with the furken Sappho's pride flag showing up in my dreams!?! The warrior thought with exasperation. This has got to be Gabrielle's fault. I told her I didn't want to go to Lesbos. I also told her I didn't want her touching me, 'that way' in the middle of the night. She never listened, and you liked it when she touched you, didn't you Xena? She sighed, angry with herself. Get back to the dream, Xena! The dancing had to be the key! Nope, wait ... That damn Sappho's pride flag again. Wait, there's a pot of ... dinars at the bottom of it? What's that about?

"Xena, are you okay?" the bard questioned, feeling her friends forehead with the back of her mendhi painted hand.

Oh sure, now you want to know if I'm okay. Like it would've killed you to wake me up ... Xena smirked in the early morning light. Bitch, bitch, bitch. I'm sure glad she can't hear my thoughts.

Gabrielle narrowed her eyes and looked into Xena's blue orbs, ignoring the predatory glare her friend tried to use to get her to look away. "You really should be more respectful Xena, some of us psychic peace loving hippies can read minds."

Grabbing her sword and getting up to leave, Xena said, "Godsdamn it, Gabrielle! Can't I have just one thing to myself? My thoughts would be kind of nice, you know? Butt out of them!" And with that the warrior stalked off into the nearby woods to find her beloved horse Argo, who despite feeling neglected, would always love her if she had an apple. Swiping at the tears threatening to fall from her eyes, she squared her shoulders, and searched for her horse. There's no use being such a crybaby, Xena, she told herself. It really doesn't become you, anyway. If you whine anymore this year you might as well dye your hair and sniff flowers.

A thin light appeared, bright blue through the fog of the morning. Oh man, Ares again! What's with him?

"What's with me? What's with me, Xena?" The god of war asked, thoroughly irked. "I'll tell you what's with me, I-I..." Ares took a deep breath, almost sneezing when a mosquito flew into his left nostril. Rubbing his nose inconspicuously, he finished, "I think I love you."

He thinks he loves me? Oh that's a new one. Biting her lip to keep from laughing as she noticed a mosquito that flew up his nose, she answered with a laugh, "I don't think you love me at all. I think you love my leather. And what's with bothering me all the time? I could've been out here taking a dump for all you knew. Then poof, here comes Ares with his unoriginal spiel of love, while all I want is a newsscroll and one of Gabrielle's scrolls to wipe myself with."

Uh-oh, did I say that out loud?

"As lovely as that visual image is, my dear, it's not a spiel. It's the truth."

"You've got morning dew on your beard. Sucking on some grass, again? Or did you just drool a lot last night?"

Ares held a hand to his heart. (or where one used to be.) "If I had a heart, you'd be breaking it, Xena! I admire that!"

"Look, if you don't mind, I'd like to bribe my horse with an apple and wonder at the visual meanings of my dreams. Take a hike, stud boy."

Ares scowled. "Fine, but I'll be back."

She waved him off. "Get lost." "

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