Cryptid Hunters & Match Wishes

Mike and Andrew take a crack at creating two new stories from writing prompts, this time in the Young Adult Fantasy realm. 

Andrew pitches a tale of a father and son on a cross country road trip where Dad reveals that they belong to a line of specialists who hunt cryptids, who themselves are protected by women who have sworn to keep them alive... but is there more to the story than even the boy's own father knows?

Mike introduces the idea of a boy who must use magical matches to figure out what happened to his parents. Magic comes with consequences, but do those consequences have to be bad? What if using Magic requires wisdom and sacrifice!?