Before Rovia: The Story of Bird Island
A story by Justin Rubin, from an RP with SecretProdigyHeart on DA
An Angry Birds Movie-based story, starring Justin and Scarlett
RATING:
PG-13+, for coarse language, violence, torture, blood/gore, and may contain scenes not suitable for younger audiences
Viewer/Reader discretion is advised.
Prologue:
It was nighttime at Bird Island. Talks over a unioned country were spreading like wildfire as they heard the news of a country named Rovia. Three islands were already part of the country, but they had no idea that it already included one of the most popular islands, Golden Island. Also, Piggy Island became part of the country, under a special administrative area, because of the dictatorship, ruled by their king. But of course, that was about to change. For this time, Bird Island is the last to be joining the country, and by that time, it'll be all set.
"Ah, yes. It's only a matter of time before I'll settle this conflict..."
For that certain someone is a gryphon named Justin, who is the current president of the country. But in order to make it work, he'll have to look undercover, and be in first person. As he sees Bird Island in the distance, he honks the horn.
"Red, I'm coming, buddy..."
Chapter 1: The Arrival
Walking down the sandy beaches was a young red feathered female bird with plume of feathers on her head curled to the right and brown eyes named Scarlett. She looked out at the islands and sighed. "Won't be long before a war comes...I can feel it...but no one will listen to me..."
HONK goes a ship horn, as Justin spots someone on the beach, lonely. He knows that she might need some company, so he comes near, and docks his boat just in front of her sight. "Hello, ma'am... You need any company to be with, perhaps?"
The female bird turns around and shrugged. "Sure, do whatever you want, who's stopping you?"
The door on the side hisses, releasing pressure as the door slides open. And, it then reveals another fellow bird...
She rolls her eyes in sarcasm. "Oh, brother, more scary sliding door nonsense..."
"No, it ain't scary...
I know your attitude, and how you've felt it in the past..."
Scarlett was confused… "Uhh...how did you know that? Are you psychic?"
Finally, the doors open, and it reveals Justin, in his full self. "...because I had that same issue too."
Scarlet blushed a little, which wasn't easy to spot because of her already red feathers. "Uhh...hi?"
Justin came down from the stairs, and came over to greet her. "Hello there! You feeling alone, perhaps?"
Scarlett answered, "Um...yeah, I guess you could say that...who are you?"
Then, he replied, "Well, good thing you asked! My name is Justin. I've heard the news at the village, about a unionized country. What's yours?"
She then replied to him with, "I'm Scarlett." Then, Justin happily replies. "Well, nice to meet you too!" He reaches out a hand for her to shake with. She shakes his feathered hand slowly.
"Don't worry. I'm not here to hurt you, I just wanted to see if we could be able to be friends eventually. I mean, dunno if anyone hasn't noticed the news as such spreading like wildfire." Then, a little jolt of electricity shocks her a bit, as to not hurt her. "...oops. ^^;"
"Yeah, well let me tell you, I know those overgrown sasuage links are up to something."
Justin lets out a sigh. "Believe me, Scarlett. It was HARD to even come up with a plan to even have them as a special administrative region...
Such dictatorship can go quite far for that..."
"I know if those hogs come anywhere near me I won't hesitate to give them what for."
Then, another shock goes to Scarlett. "Oops." She jumps back from the jolt. "Ah! What the heck?"
"Sorry... It's just my Spark powers..."
"Spark powers? What are you the walking energy bomb?"
Justin then is getting something out of his bag to show her. "Well... Not exactly..." He gets out a digital tablet, with some information about it.
She was impressed over what she read over. "That's quite the impressive power you got there, bud."
Suddenly, Justin feels an emotion moment that overtakes his control. "Scarlett...
sniff
I feel...
pain...
suffering...
agony..."
He falls onto his knees in front of her, going emotional that he feels regret.
"Hold me..."
Scarlet gasped in emotional shock. "Oh, my God... She freaked out, and holds him slowly. "What happened to you...?"
"If we can be best friends, I could have been feeling better...
If..." He was trying to speak, trying to get some words out, but he was so overwhelmed by his emotions…
"I think I can do that..."
Justin stops for a moment. "...wait... You will?" She nods. "Well...
...why though? Did you have a dark past...?
Feeling the same pain I did...?"
"Not like that..."
"Ah..."
She hugs her deeply, like it's the start of a good relationship.
"Alright, Justin...why don't we go back to my place to have a mug of hot chocolate and some cookies?"
"Sure thing-"
Then, his tablet's AI activates.
Nolia: Justin? You okay...?
Yes, Nolia... It's just...
Scarlett here needs to read the backstory.
Nolia: The Sparks' Origin?
Exactly. Put up a link for her to click, so that she can read it.
Nolia: Will do.
Nolia: Scarlett? Mind coming over here? I'm on the sand, if you can't tell.
"Uhh...okay..." She walks to the boat, wondering where the voice is coming from.
Nolia: On the sand, right in front of your feet...
She looks down, and sees the tablet. "Uh...what am I supposed to be looking at?"
Nolia: I'm Justin's AI, Nolia. What I'm going to provide you is a link to the origin of his powers. Are you ready to read it?
Chapter 2: The Past
Scarlett asks, "How about a brief descrption?"
Nolia: That isn't the case. But, he was used as a guinea pig... A link pops up with the story to it, and everything shows up.
"Bear with me..." Justin was trying to recover as the story was being read, word by word, in my voice. The story just so happened to read as follows:
It all started back at home, when I was alone.
I was just minding my own business. Everything seemed normal at first.
...until suddenly, some people bagged me, and sent me to a lab.
I was on a chair, with machines all over.
When they unbagged me, I was struggling to understand what was going on.
I was on THAT chair, which kept me in place.
When I looked at the window in front of me, I noticed the doctors looking at me.
That told me one thing.
Apparently, they developed a poison which can cause a person to permanently die from within.
They wanted to test it on someone, so they captured me as their subject.
As I watch them evaluate, one of the head doctors comes over and presses the button.
Soon enough, I hear the injector come closer.
I see the black fluid inside the needle coming closer to my arm.
As soon as the needle pokes through my arm, it starts to inject the black fluid.
They watch as it goes into my system.
After all was inside me, thick, black gas came out through me, covering the room.
After a while, I was in some sort of daze.
They didn't know what just happened, so they sent someone inside the room I'm in to check.
When he poked me with a stick, it faded away.
But when he touched me, he was soon rotting away, fast.
I heard him saying of a burning feeling...
Soon enough, he was gone.
When they were shocked at what they saw, they issued in a Code Red, and I soon woke up.
While the mania was going on in the other side, I looked at the screen to see the horrific replay.
I was quite in shock too at what I saw. So, they sent me off back.
When I arrived back at my home island, there was a friend that came along with me.
We had fun together and such, until...
He dared me to stand on a box, and he told me that he'll catch me when I fall on my back.
Little did HE know that he was stupid enough to die.
When I fell back, he made contact with me, and he too started to rot away.
When he was gone, everyone also saw the horror of what happened.
I knew that shit is about to hit the fan, so I fled.
When I landed, I found an empty island that was unoccupied.
I soon took claim of the island, which became my new home.
Years passed, and in those times, I learned to control my corruptive power.
I learned new powers along the way to add to my Spark collection, with the Black Spark being the last resort.
Many people joined along with me, and they too understood my horrible dark side.
And yet, as of this day, that presence could be noticed, lurking around within me, to come back to haunt my passions and dreams.
And yet, I feel like I'm not myself anymore.
My life has changed ever since, but I seriously cannot bear to witness another situation like it again.
Because that situation changed my whole entire perspective, which has never become the same again...
That, I'd hope to understand who I really am.
After reading through the entire story, Scarlett's eyes went wide with horror as she backed up slowly. "Thanks, Nolia..." He gets up, back to normal, coming over to Scarlett.
She was absolutely terrified, shuddering in fear, as Justin was coming over. "What are you?"
"I was once a normal bird, Scarlett...
You're lucky that the original revision wasn't there, because..."
She holds up her wing to stop him. "What is it...?"
"That hot chocolate isn't going to drink itself and the cookies are newly bought so I've been waiting to eat them."
"Oh! Right." He picks up the tablet and put it in his infinity bag. "Lead the way, Scarlett!"