Keeper Chapter 1, a transformers fanfic

Author's Note: I don't own anything in this book. The Transformers belong to whoever they belong to and the only thing I own is this plot and my OCs. And no one can use them or copy this story with out my permission. Remember I don't own Transformers. All OCs belong to me. ;D

Enjoy the story and let your imagination run wild!

Chapter 1: Home is called Cedar Hieghts

Keeper101

Prologue: 10,000 years ago

The battle was increasing intensely to a bloody massacre and Steamblast was only looking for one single sentinel being among the fighting, dead, and dieing. The giant metal pillars towered over the battling transformers. Casting dark and brooding shadows over the fighters. Steamblast wasn't afraid of dying; she had come for that purpose after all. She was scared of not reaching him in time to tell him of her prophecy. Her first and most likely last prophecy. She jumped over a charging autobot called Hotshot and kept on running. Ignoring his outraged cries.

And that certain him had always been there for her, always cared for her, and had even tried to protect her from her destiny. At least she had a chance to make up for all the pain she had caused him. The leader of the autobots, her brother's leader, her best friend, her personal guide;

Optimus Prime.

A lazer bolt caught her on the arm and she cried out as she crashed to the ground. The rocks scraped her as she collided with the ground. Her arm felt like it was on fire and was leaking energon like a running facet. Turning over onto her back she was jumped on by the small but quite heavy Jazz.

"Hello Steamblast; ready to join Unicron in the Pit?" He snarled. The blaster's rim glinted, reflecting the lazer bolts light.

"No!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed as she thrashed around. She had to throw this bot off of her. The future of the autobots, decepticons, and her four small jet plane sparklings all depended on her. Even though they didn't know it. She added silently. The prophecy had to be full filled for them to survive.

His blaster glowed with red energy making her cringe from the blaster. In a last attempt she cried out, "Jazz! Don't do this, please." His brow furrowed and he fired his blaster. Her eyes closed immediately waiting for her life to end, instead the weight was suddenly gone and his growl of surprise could be heard to her far right. Steamblast peeked open one optic and quickly stumbled to her feet. Soundwave; Megatron's second-in-command was trying to pin Jazz to the ground and was punching the servos out of him. She had the desire to help him but then again he had tried to kill her.

She took one last look at the fighting mechs and bolted away to find the leader. She didn't want to die but she had to and was, one way or another. The vision had come to her when she had been caring for her sparklings when she saw a flash of light and suddenly she wasn't on Cybertron.

The planet she was on had a light source that could be seen in the middle of the sky. It was round, bright, and yellow. When she tried looking at it it hurt and she had to blink several times. The sky was a soft blue instead of black and star specled. The ground wasn't metal. It felt soft to her feet and was covered in green organic wires. She looked around and saw that towers of organic material that had arms of prickly green wires and a base that was brown and looked rough, were standing all around her. Blasters were firing in the distance and a few shots followed. Steamblast started running in the direction of the noise and stood at the edge of a clearing where a large decepticon she had never seen before was firing at a small minicon that appeared to be firing back. The minicon kept firing and seemed to guarding something behind the organic pillars. Steamblast started to skirting the edges of the clearing and came to a stop when she was directly behind him. She look at the ground and at the base of the pillars where six organic creatures all hiding behind the organic pillars.

One of the organics caught Steamblast's optics. It was a female wearing the fragment around her neck. The organic wires on her head were brown and yellowish like Bumblebee. Placed high on her head so it stuck out in the back, giving off a wave like feature. The organic's optics were jewel blue with a tint of silver at the edges. It was watching the battle fearfully and screaming at the small minicon trying to protect her and the others. "Beat the frick out of him Perceptor. Keep going you're doin' great!"

So the minicon was Perceptor.

He was known on Cybertron as the last minicon and whenever decpticons got a chance to grab him, they tried and usually failed. Steamblast smirked at the small bot's efforts to hold off the bigger threat. A white light caught Steamblast's optics and saw it collide with the tree the creature was covering behind. The creature let out an ear splitting scream and curled into a ball. The tree above her came crashing down. Limbs cracked as they collided with the ground and Steamblast lost sight of the creature as the foliage crashed and engulfed her in a green blanket. The gun firing stopped and the minicon and the UN-known decepticon ceased battling. They stared at the place where the creature had been hiding, then minicon's legs gave out from under and he fell to the ground. Perceptor bowed his head and the rest of the organics started screaming for her, to come back , to come out, and to not be hurt.

While the rest of the organics rushed to the fallen tree a warp field opened across the field from where the organics were. The warp field was a spiraling circle of purple and black.

The decepticon colors. Steamblast realized with a jolt to her spark. Any loose foliage close enough to the warp gate was sucked upped and disappeared into the swirling vortex. As Steamblast watched as the warp gate doubled in size until it was taller than her and then stopped growing. Then a foot emerged from the gate, then legs, then a body, then finally a head. The bot was the largest she had seen and his colors were silver, grey, and black. And dread seeped into her heart and she felt as if she was going to fight her last battle because the bot she recognized was her hated enemy, the reason she was committing suicide to save the future, and the killer of her love one;

Megatron

Tahlia's P.O.V.

I guess that you can't call me normal. Nobody would if they found out who or what I was. One day I was just another average girl trying to "fit in" and "stay cool". The next I'm something else, let's just leave it at that. Like every other 15 year old girl I had crushes, friends, and enemies. But unlike the average teenager I had a secret life. It involved a couple of huge (and I do mean huge) alien robots. And bearing the responsibility of being one of the sources that caused their war. Every day I face challenges that would have normally killed me if it hadn't been for those guys I have now come to recognize as my family. Every life is complicated but mine could blow you away and my question to you is…

"Are you ready?"

"Come on, come on, move it." I whispered as I raced down the depressing hall. My long copper brown hair was flying out from the back of my high pony-tail as I took a sharp turn left.

This was the last day of being stuck in these halls and I wanted to be out of here as fast as I could. And In order to do that I had to be there before the crowd. And that place happened to be my locker on the other side of the building.

My necklace bounced on my chest as I jogged down the hall. My necklace's chain was silver and at the end hooked by the little clasp was a diamond. My diamond. It was as big as a small golf ball and it was just as wide. It was also shaped like a teardrop The thing had been in my family for centuries and it had been my great, great, great grandmother's, then my great, great grandmother's, then my great grandmother's, then my grandma's, then my mother's, and then finally mine.

My mother's, I thought and in return my heart suddenly felt as if it was made of ice.

Well that's what you get from thinking of her.

I let out a half hearted smile at the thought of the woman I could barely remember and started to day dream of what could have been. I turned left into the halway that held my locker. I woke from the dream to the ringing of the bell and of the people filling the halls. I had been so close.

"Ah, crap." And I picked up speed.

The people next to my locker were the people I had known and trusted throughout the school year. Megs or Megan, the class brain, had her back to me. Her corn silk hair tumbled down her back and soft hazel eyes seemed to glow in the darkest hall way. She had also been my closest friend I had all year. But I knew I would never see her again after today. Her family was moving to Phoenix Arizona and I would be stuck in old, rainy, Cedar Heights; Washington.

I took a step toward her and lightly tapped on the shoulder.

She turned around and gave a warm smile when she realized it was me. "I thought you were going to be the first one here Tahl'," she shook her head and looked me up and down.

"I guess old habits die hard huh?" I smiled back at her remark, shook my head, and started unlocking my locker. She turned to her locker to haul her backpack out and I heard a sigh emerge from the locker. "I can't believe this is the last time we see each other." A frown immediately formed on my face.

"Don't remind me Meggs." My locker door swung open and Meggs poked her head from her locker with her stuff.

"Why not?"

"I hate goodbyes."

"Ah."

I caught sight of my reflection in the mirror attached to the locker door and my frown deepened into a scowled. Meggs saw that look and followed my eyes. Her face fell, "You don't like the parting gift I gave you?" It was more like a statement than a question. I turned to her, "No Meggs, I love the mirror it's my reflection I hate," I turned back to the mirror, "I look too much like her."

"Your Mother." She whispered and I nodded.

Look at me

You think you see who I really am

But you'll never know me

And it was true as I looked back into the mirror. I had a high pony tail pinned up in the back of my head making my dirt brown hair look straight and dull. The end of the hair ended just below my shoulder blades.

Every day it's as if I play a part

Now I see if I wear a mask I can fool the world

But I cannot fool my heart

I had a button nose, my cheeks were pink, and my lips were a deep pink making me look even more pale than I was. But I think it was my eyes that hurt to have the most. My eyes were fairly large and were accompanied by long eyelashes. The color was jewel blue and if you look into them it was like looking into the deepest and coldest sea you could ever imagine. Just like hers.

Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me

When will my reflection show who I am inside

I am now in a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in

But somehow I will show the world what's inside my heart

And be loved for who I am

It always hurt to look into a mirror and see I looked just like my mother. Meggs was the only one I had told of my past and she was going away. "She was my mother. . .not anymore." Meggs nodded. She would always understand me.

Who is that girl I see

Staring straight back at me

"I'll miss you Megan." And I hugged her when I had finally fished out my backpack from the trash in my locker.

"And I you." And she returned the hug. I gathered my stuff and bolted down the hall and out the rusted doors. Leaving my friend forever.

I was welcomed by rain hitting my face. "Raining," I grumbled, "great, just what I need."

The boy's elementary School was half way across town and I had to walk in this. The rain was falling so fast it looked like it was raining drops of liquidized crystal. Then land in the muddy puddles making it swirl like a hot mocha from Starbucks that had been added with creamy milk, creating a tan swirl within the puddles. The ground was covered in puddles and I could see my reflection in all of them.

This is going to be a long walk.

Why is my reflection someone I don't know

Must I pretend that I'm someone else for all time

When will my reflection show

Who I am inside

My head was already completely soaked and I had forgotten my navy blue hoodie at home, so I would have to deal with being wet until I got home and finished the laundry. My reflection appeared in each of the puddles then disappeared as I walk past them only to reappear in the ones in front. I gritted my teeth as I watched my dancing reflections appear and disappear as if they were ghosts taunting me. And resisted the urge to step on them. I knew that if I did the only thing that would happen would be my pants and shoes getting wet. Sometimes I loved the rain because it calmed me; other times I absolutely couldn't stand it. Like right now.

there's a heart that must be free to fly

that burns with a need to know the reason why

why must we all conceal feel

and how we feel

I had gotten two blocks from the school when a black suburban pulled up and parked a few feet from where I was. I stopped and waited for a person to step out and braced myself for self-defense. The driver's side door popped open and in return I twitched my right arm. The driver apparently had seen the movement from his mirror because his hands appeared a second after I had made the move.

"Hold it Kid! I come in peace," the voice blurted out, "no need to do the twitch!"

My eyes narrowed then opened as I recognized the deep and smooth voice. I dropped my stance and walked up to the window. To see my employer holding up his hands in the sign of surrender.

"Cody? What are you doing here?!" I asked trying to calm my beating heart.

He rolled his eyes. "Well, I was driving to the club to get ready for tonight when I saw you walking in this damn rain, and I don't want my star employee catching a cold," for a 29 year old dude he was always trying to act like a high schooler, "so I was going to offer you a ride and well..." he trailed off and his brown eyes slid to my right arm.

I shrugged, "Well maybe you shouldn't scare me like that." I retorted, "I almost got it out."

His eyebrows rose and I cracked a crooked grin. Cody grinned; catching our private inside joke and motioned me to get in. I opened the suburbans door and jumped in then shut the door behind me. And we took off on the small asphalt road.

The first thing I thought when I got in was, "This burb' is so new"; it had all leather interior, no mud stains, didn't smell like farm, and had an actual G.P.S. above the radio! A G.P.S people!

The radio was playing a song that seemed a little too Disney for Cody. But personally I didn't mind because I thought that it reflected my present mood.

must there be a secret me

I'm forced to hide

I won't pretend that I'm someone else for all time

when will my reflection show who I am inside

I looked out the window as we past some of the local farms. The largest one was the Leaverson's farm that had sheep, cattle, and horses that were grazing in their over sized pasture.

(who I am inside)

when will my reflection show who I am

who I am inside

who I am ohhh

I sighed when the song got to its final verse.

ooohhh who I am

Rain splattered on the windshield only to wiped away with the wipers. I could feel the heater on full blast making an artificial heat wave and turned the vents to Cody making his cowboy hat fall off. He kept his gaze on the road but I could tell he wanted the heat off.

"Do ya mind?" he asked stiffly

"No."

He turned to me and tried to put on his tough face. I just smirked; that face never worked on me and plus I had already turned around and was looking out watching the trees fly by. The wind shield had hundreds of water droplets and I watch as the drops flew past the others creating smaller drops too small to be moved by the window.

Ten minutes passed by and not another word was said until we arrived at a small rundown town. There were very few stores. Only a gas station, police station, a grocery store, post office, town hall, bar, auction building, and last but not lease Club Cody. The rest of the small town was made up of farms and small housing developments. Cody whizzed past the buildings toward a giant run down building at the end of the street. Its parking lot was full of cars, parents trying to find their kids, kids trying to find their parents, and it was still raining. The lot was an area of mass confusion and searches . Tahlia watched as the people called out to each other and started searching for her brothers.

Then she spotted them.

They were at the end of the school borders, leaning on a fence, looking around for something.

Most likely me

Cody had spotted them too.

The brand new suburban turned and weaved its way through the traffic and pulled up to the curb. I opened the door and jumped out.

"HEY! Kid," I turned back to Cody; the door still in my hands. He lowered his cowboy hat at me,"Do ya need a ride home?"

I looked at the boys leaning against the wet chain linked fence and shook my head.

"I think we'll be alright."

Cody looked at me like I was crazy. I looked at the burb and started calculating the mass of the car against the size of the narrow wooded path and tried to see anyway to get the hunk of high tec metal even to fit on the path. I searched all the possibilities and they ended with the same result.

No possible way.

"Cody we'll be fine." I sighed

He nodded his dirty blond head at me and boys.

"Fine, but if you need a ride to the Club, don't hesitate to ask okay. Oh and tell your dad I said hi."

Then he drove away in his fancy new burban.

I walked over to the boys leaning against the fence and saw that they both had their hoodies. Lucky kids.

"Hey guys." I greeted them with as much cheerfulness I had left. Which, by the way, was not a whole lot.

The tallest one raised his head. "You're late." He stated.

That's it?! No "hi Tah'l" or "why are you wet"?

I rolled my eyes at him. "I know Jared. How long have you been here guys?"

"Half an hour." Markus piped in a high and extremely quiet voice.

I looked at them both. They had the same hair color and both of them were prank partners in crime. The difference between them were age, humor, hair style, eye color, weight, and height. But mostly weight. Jared was 12 while Markus was 9. Jared liked whoopee cushion jokes while Markus loved to use stink bombs (much to my dislike). Jared's hair was long and was like he was wearing a coconut on this head and the ends stuck out while Markus's hair was short and in the front there was a Blondie spot that looked like a lightning bolt. Jared's eyes were a pine green while Markus's eyes were a baby blue. Jared weighed 100 pounds while Markus, no matter how much junk food I stuff him with he is strangely skinny and weighed only 60. Jared was tall for his age towering at a 5.3 feet while Markus was 4.5 feet tall. One thing I found quite funny was that my dad, mom, and my brothers looked like movie stars while I didn't. Funny huh?

"Mmm. Well we can go now."

My brothers stood up and started flanking me as I started walking away. "So, what did you guys do for the last day of school?"

There was a sudden tension in the air, like they were about to decide between life and death. "Nothing." they blurted out.

I moaned and rubbed my temple. "What did you guys do this time?" I groaned as we left the school boundaries and entered the tree covered path.

" What was it now? Whoopee cushions, fake emails, garbage filled lunch, bomb threat, profanity, borrowing, or stink bombs?"

"Stink Bombs!!!" Markus shouted and he hit the air like his favorite soccer team was going to the championship. I clenched my teeth but kept walking.

I heard a whap! and then "Shut up! Do you want to get us killed?!"

"You picked the bathroom!" I heard Markus whine.

"YOU provided the explosives!" Jared snarled and tackled his brother. My patience then flew south for the summer.

"And there goes my patience." I whispered, then I gritted my teeth and stopped walking.

My brothers were a couple yards away and both were trying to kill each other. I split my legs so they were in front and in back of me. I made my chest start to curve in a little and started holding my breath to build up pressure. Finally the pressure was just right.

I took a huge breath in and let it out with as much force as I could. "YOU BLEW UP A FRICKIN BATHROOM?!" I heard my voice ring through the trees and I even saw a couple of birds take off flying away twittering in complete shock, and my brothers had stopped fighting. Score! I sang in my head.

My brother's eyes were about the size of dinner plates from the sonic boom and the position that they were in made me want to laugh. Jared was lying on the ground covered in mud with Markus's hand in his mouth. While Markus was on his brothers stomach with a fistful of mud poised above his head ready to be dumped. I crossed my arms.

"Well?" With eyebrows raised I stared at them in their eyes. They turned their heads away from me and got off of each other then started brushing off the mud and grime.

"Are you guys even going to talk to me?" I snapped at them. They looked at each other and then back at me. They both shook their heads at me. I turned sharply on my dirty sneakers and started walking up the steep, tree-covered path. "Good choice." I called over my shoulder and proceeded to the house that was about a mile and a half up the mountain.

"Well . . . this summer's off to a good start." Jared muttered sarcastically as we picked our way through the forest.

"At least we didn't get caught."

Five hours later

"Hey boys? What time is it?" I called from inside my room. I had just changed into my work uniform and I didn't want to be late for the grand re-opening of the summer dance club. Club Cody was never open during the school year, not even during the week ends because he just didn't make enough money since the kids were either at home, doing homework, or sleeping to prepare for the up coming Monday. They opened during winter and spring break, they even opened for Halloween night but we would never open during school. Summer time wasn't my favorite time of the year but it was for the boys so I tried not to kill it for them. To me the boys should have the best summer every summer and I tried every summer to make them be happy with the little money I had earned.

I slipped my jacket over my arm and walked out of my room and into the hall. If you turned to the right sharply the bathroom door was right in front of you but when you turned to the left the short hall connected to the living room and kitchen (we don't have a dining room). The kitchen took up 1/4 of the living room and it was separated by a island and tile. The living room had short haired carpet and it was white. The front door was on the left side of the living room and was mostly covered in windows that provided a view of the outside. In the middle of the room was a huge leather couch and a beat up coffee table. The wall closet to me had the TV on the side leaning against the wall on a cabinet. The boys were sitting on the couch eating the dinner I had cooked for them and watching AFV by the sounds of the host's voice. I walked passed them, tossed the jacket on Jared's head, and walked into the kitchen. I heard my brother say "Thanks for the dinner Tah'l."

"Welcome." I said from the kitchen.

The kitchen had a fridge, microwave, pantry, sink, cabinets on the walls, and a stove. The stove was from the 90s and was about the same age as me, but it cooked all our meals so I can't complain. I walked over to the sink to wash the rest of the dishes.

"Hey Tahlia, when's dad coming home?" Markus asked through his mouth stuffed with Lazonia, so it sounded more like this "Ey mumphm wefs dudm conermfer gom?"

"Around 9:15, why?" I had stopped washing the dishes. he swallowed.

"Because I just wanted to know that he has 20 minutes till he has to be home."

I swerved my head around and looked at the clock on the stove. The re-opening was at 9:00, the clock said it was 8:55.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH! I'm going to be late!" I screamed and tore out of the kitchen and into the living room. I stopped by the couch and kissed their heads, grabbed my jacket, said goodbye, put on my shoes in record time, and bolted out the door. I slammed the door and heard the door connect with the frame and heard a second noise, but I ignored it. I raced to the tree path and raced down it. The ground was slick from the rain even though it had stopped about two hours ago and I tripped and slipped all the way down. The clouds hadn't cleared from the sky so I couldn't see where the heck I was going so I just relied on my ears to find the way. Even when I couldn't see the trees I could hear them whooshing by very abnormally fast, but I was late so I pushed the thought out of my head.

The good thing about being late was that I could work less with the same pay, the bad thing was I could get fired and I couldn't afford that right now.

Later

I finally reached the end of the path as the clouds started to disappear from the sky and I started to see more clearly. The town had all its lights on and even though I just wanted to collapse right then and there, I started running toward the Club.

The building had horde of people near the door and they were all screaming and shouting.

Is the Club overcrowded? I wondered as snuck into the back of the building.

The back was really stinky since that was were all the garbage went. I headed toward the door and started banging on it. I waited for Leaverson (a co-worker) to open the door, instead I heard his snickers from behind the door.

"Leaverson open this door now or I swear to god above that I will kill you! Open this door!" I shouted from the top of my lungs.

"What's the password, La Finger." He joked behind the safety of the door.

"We don't have a frickin password now let me in." I snarled. I was terribly tired from running a mile and a half but it didn't mean I wouldn't break down the door.

"Oh well. No password, no entrance." I rammed the door and it swung open and I fell to the grimy ground.

"WTF." I growled through clench teeth,"First I'm late to work now my uniforms all dirty; ugh!" I hit the ground in frustration and the light above me flickered and sputtered out. I didn't feel as tired as before but I was still tired.

"Late?" I heard Leaverson ask in a confused voice. Growling I looked up to see him standing right in front of me with his head cocked to the side like a curious child. He offered his hand to help me up. I ignored it and pushed myself off the floor and the light flicked into life.

"La Finger, your not late you're early," He glanced at his wrist watch, "it's 8:55 . . . oh 8:56."

The corners of my eyes started twitching. "What?"

He rolled his eyes at me. "You know La Finger, for a middle schooler with a 4.7 average, you sure are dense,*sigh*, you are early not late."

Wait how can I be 4 minutes early? I left at 8:5- wait a second! I had just remembered something that made me want to kill someone. This morning I had been getting up to get ready for the final day of school. It was around 4:00 am so I was pretty much half asleep. I had walked into the kitchen to make the boys and me breakfast. The kitchen was dimly lit by the microwave light and the window above the sink gave me a view of the stars half hidden by the sharp tree tops and clouds. I had walked over to the sink when I noticed Jared messing with the stove clock. Well I started growling at him to set it back the way it was. When he had finally set it he went back into his room. I looked at the clock and noticed it was five minutes fast but I had ignored it. But that still didn't make sense. It took at least thirty minutes running to get to town.

"OIY, La finger? Earth to La finger." Leaverson was waving his hand in front of my face.

"Huh? What?!" I snapped.

He drew his hand back from my face in fear that I would probably bite it. He had good reason to too, I had bit it once before. "You were spacing out a second ago."

"I think my brothers pulled a prank on me." And I told him about the morning and the sound I heard when I had closed the door before I left.

"Yep, (snickers), that really sounds like your brothers. I like this one, they really out did themselves huh?"

"If you mean out did themselves as to they over stepped the boundary line then yes. They reallyoutdid themselves." Ireplied in a sickly sweet voice.

"Come on La Finger, they are just little kids having fun and your not their-" He cut his sentence off when the light started flicking off and on then finally sputtering out. I looked up at the bulb and waited for it to come on until Leaverson finally sighed and went to the shelf to get a new bulb. I turned my attention back to the dead bulb. It seemed strange that the bulbs would always flicker and die whenever I walked into the Club.

I imagined the bulb full of the electricity and the bulb flicked to life. A shock followed, but it wasn't a shock of seeing the light agian but one you get when you suddenly feel so tired that you want to colapse. Then the light disappeared just as fast as it had appeared.

"Well, that was weird."

I turned my head towards the shelf and Leaverson re-appeared with a new light bulb. He seemed to be examining it as he rolled in between his hands.

"Back so soon?" I questioned.

"Yep." He had grabbed a ladder on his way to the light and set it up. He started climbing and reached the top in just 6 steps. Once he reached the top he began unscrewing the other bulb.

"Hey, did you know this is the third light bulb I had to change this week?"

I glanced from the dark bulb to his face. "Third?"

He nodded, finished the final twist, and the light filled with blinding light. "Yeah, it's like every time you get near here you suck the electricity out." He descended from the ladder and stepped back on solid, firm ground.

I looked back at the bulb and just concluded it as an incident.

Music was beginning to play behind the door that led to the dance/restaurant room.

"Well sounds like your on." He stated looking over my shoulder to the door. I turned around to look at the door, instead I saw Cody. The door was open with the stage in view. A small flight of stairs lead onto the stage where it was hidden by some old velvet curtains Cody had bought from a movie theater that had been going out of business. The wooden floor creaked and really needed to be replaced with new planks. And to the back of the stage was my stereo and a rack of CDs I could play for the dances. That was my second favorite thing about my job. I picked the songs.

"Hi Code." We always called Cody by his nickname. Just like everyone else, he had a nick name. Mine, if you already forgot, is La Finger (you'll will find out why), Brandon Leaverson is Leaverson, his sister, Amme Leaverson was Nova because of her temper, Veria the waiter and assistant cook was known as Flow, and David the janiter was Moe from WallE because he was a neat freak.

"Well you're up." He nodded at me then to the curtains to the stage.

"La Finger! La Finger! La Finger!" The crowd started cheering. And I confess, I couldn't help it; I smiled. The sound of the applauding crowd always sent adrenaline through my system. My heart beat increased to a fast paced tempo and my legs started shaking from the dose. But I like the Fight or Flight response my body was giving me - it gave me a challenge.

Still smiling my feet carried me to the stage, past Cody, and to the microphone stand that was right beside the part where the two curtians joined to hide the stage.

I sideways glanced Cody and he winked at me. "Knock them dead Tahlia." Chuckling he started to pull the curtains apart.

"Don't I always." I rolled my eyes at him and turned my attention to the widening gap in the curtains.

And OMG! The crowd was frickin huge. Apparently the whole entire town decided to come to the opening. And I don't mean to brag but when they saw me they started to cheer like crazy. Most of the crowd were teenagers with dates. I saw a few adults that were all at the restaurant side of the room.

I bowed my head and closed my eyes. I had gone through the same routine for about two years now.

10 seconds later the cheering had subsided to murmuring. That was when the music started.

If you wanted to be good girl get yourself a bad boy, bad boy, bad boy.
(Egyptian music starts playing)

I jumped off of the stage and onto the floor where the peolpe had started dancing to the music.

Yeah I like this

huh!

Yeah

Oh Yeah

I grabbed the closest single boy near me and started dancing. He started doing these almost cool moves on me. I didn't even know what was going on around me. The boy was quit cute with curly brown hair, hazel eyes, and a rocking body. I guess I picked the perfect dance partner for this round.

Come on

I like this Yay

If you wanted to be wild got to know just who to dial baby

and that's me

If you really like it hot get someone who hits the spot honey

oh yes

and if you want to get it done babe you got to get the one

the one that's got it going on

If you want to make it last

got to know just who to ask

babe he's got to be the best

and that's me

Spin, spin, step, stop, keep moving! I repeated that for half the song under my breath until my body went automatic and seemed to do the moves for me.

If you wanted to be good girl get yourself a bad boy

If you really want it good girl. Get. Yourself. A. Bad boy

get it like it could be, would be

Yeah like it should be

If you wanted to be good girl get yourself a bad boy

oh yes

Spin, Spin, and rest, and step.

If you like it invented better get someone creative honey

yes

and if you want it to be jam'in got to get somebody slam'in baby

oh yeah

and if you want to get it done babe

you got to get the one the one that's got it going on

oh and if you want it to make it last

baby he has to be the best

and that's me

The lights dimmed and the party-show-lights came on. Blue, red, yellow, purple, green, and pink light showered the crowd and me.

if you wanted to be good girl get yourself a bad boy

if you really want it good girl get yourself a bad boy

get it like it could be would be get it like it should be

if you want it to be good girl get yourself a bad boy

yeah and listen there's a fine that would should really know

there's a fined and I really want to show

there's a fine and I really want to show

so will you let me show you right now

oh baby

and if wanted to be good girl get yourself a bad boy

you got to get yourself the one who's got ti going on

oh if you want to make it last got to know just who to ask

babe he's got to be the best

and that's me, me, me!

And If you want to be good girl got to get a,

bad boy

The song ended with a burst of the show lights and I made my way towards the stage. It was easier said than done. The crowd was packed with bodies and they all seemed to have song requests. Hands grabbed at me until I thought my clothes would be ripped off and this was my favorite shirt, it was a green and black tank top. The part that covered my chest was green and so were the straps. The bottom that covered my stomach and partially my back was black. My tan jean shorts only came down to my finger tips next to my legs and the sides were ovally so the pants stuck out form my hips and legs. "Excuse me -, Oh I loved the song she pla- hungry. I'll grab some snac-" My ears homed in on peoples conversations and then homed out again when they didn't say anything I wanted, "Metallica rocks du-," OK dude first thing, Metallica is a poor song for a dance club. Second, and I don't have any Cd's for it -- Moron. I thought angrily in my head. I went back to voice surfing. "Hey have you heard Cascada's new song," hmm Cascada, I have her Cds. Not only that I loved her songs. Bingo! I kept listening to the two girls. "Nah. What's it called."

"Miricale."

I reached the stage and hurried over to the "C" section on the rack. C-Span no, Chris Handson no, C W Mcall no, Chris Brown heck no, Zac Effron, I need to reorganize! Cascada yes! I went to her album Evertime We Touch and fingered down the list. And Miricale was there. I quickly put the Cd into the boombox and turned up the volume.

Boy meets girl

you were my dream my world

but I was blind

you cheated on me from behind

I smiled at the "you cheated on me" part. It reminded me of my previous relationship.

Flash Back.

"But baby I was just talking to her. Nothing happened!" That angelic face of his was pleading with me to listen to him. Yay right.

"You had her in a lip-lock!" I was holding the door and I was in my Sponge Bob pjs that said squeeze me. I also had got out the shower so my hair was rapped in a black towel turban on top of my head. It was a Monday night and as always it was pouring outside but that didn't mean I was about to let him in.

I leaned agianst the peeling door frame.

His mouth dropped. "No I didn't!" He gasped

I threw venomous look at him. "I work at the club Jake. I also know when guys lie to me." I snarled. The guys I date always thought I was dumb until they get too cocky, decide to cheat, and get caught.

His brown eyes went wide. " You do?!"

"Yep. And do you know something else?" I softly inquired. He was now officially soak form head to toe.

"What?" His lit up as if he thought I had forgotten about his lip-lock with my mortal enemy. Alexa Carter.

"We're over!" and I slammed the door in his face. It took a while before he finally got it.

"Don't you dare walk away from me you b***h! Do you know who you just dumped!?" He screeched as I walked back to my bedroom.

"Yep, a loser that had no chance with me." A chuckle escaped from my lips.

I rounded hall to my room when I heard this from the living room; "Wow you really ticked him off this time Tahl'." I stopped and raced back to the room to find Markus staring out the window. He had his back to the window now but I could see what Jake had in his hand.

"Get away from that window!" I screeched.

Too late, Jake had hurled the object at my little brother. It crashed through the window and struck him on the cheek. The object landed on the floor right next to me. It was a rock with a smear of blood where the thing had struck my brother. Markus by now was on the ground holding his cheek with his hands as blood leaked through his hands. I was over there in an instant carrying him away from the window as three more rocks sailed through the window. We entered the kitchen and we took cover behind the island.

"Let me see." I whispered to him and gently wrapped my hand around his hands covering is cheek. He flinched away from me and kept his hands on his bleeding cheek, sobbing. There was another crash.

"Markus let me look at it. I want to see if it did any serious damage." Another crash.

He let out another sob and let me remove his hands. The rock hadn't done any serious damage, there was only a cut and I knew from experience that head wounds bled a lot but it made my blood boil realizing Jake had hurt my brother. Especially the baby of the family.

"Tahl' what's going on?" I turned my head to see Jared standing in the hall way watching the rocks fly by.

Before I knew it he ran over to us and was kneeling next to me. "What happen to you?" He questioned Markus. His face was full of anger and concern. I had to smile at this.

He looked up at me and I got an idea. "Jared? How much do you hate Jake?" Confusion appeared on his face then was replaced by fury.

"A lot." He said through clenched teeth. A rock sailed over us and knocked my towel turban off.

I nodded. "Excellent, where are your skating gloves?"

He held up his hand with the metal gloves clinging onto his skin.

Did he wear them to bed every night?

I motion for him to give them to me and he did. I slipped them on, stood up, and jogged to the door. I opened it and spotted Jake about to throw another rock. He never got a chance. My fist connected with his jaw and he fell back onto the ground. Holding his bleeding jaw he looked up at me in shock.

"What? Thought I couldn't hit?" I snarled. My towel was in the house and my hair hung from my head in clumps that looked more like dread locks. I probably looked like one of the predators from the Alien vs. Predator movies. Lightning flashed lighting up Jake's terrified face and bloody chin.

He got up and swung at me with his fist while holding his chin with his other hand. I moved but he caught me in the shoulder forcing me to back up. Every thing seemed to be moving in slow motion besides me. I advanced toward Jake pulled back my hand and let it go with as much force as I could. When my fist connected with Jake's it felt like I had released some static and when he hit the ground he didn't move. Not until a minute later that is.

"Uhh," he groaned. "What do you have in your hand. A tazer?"

I made a face and walked over to him. "Listen you no good loser," I growled, I had him by the neck of shirt. "If I ever see you near this house or my brothers." His face had a look of pure terror on it. I had that kind of effect on people when I was ticked. "I. Will. Kill. You. Got that?" I shot the bird right in his face. Literally.

I threw him back to the ground and walked back into the house never to see him again and slammed the door behind me. The rain water dripped onto the carpet as I walked over to the boys in the kitchen. I stepped onto the tile and slipped. Falling right in front of the boys. They looked at each other then looked at me.

Then we bursted into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

So much for a simple break up. Go figure.

1:33 am at the club

"Look Nova! I'm tired, I was supposed to be home an hour ago, I have work tomorrow, and my cousins are coming over in the afternoon. I need to go home!"

"No, you look! The club doesn't close until 1:40 so you don't leave until 1:40. Get it!" Me and Nova were having our usual argument of when I got off work. She was jealous that I got off at twelve and she got off at three. But the difference was that I spent an extra hour to help them get rid of the rest of the guests. We were in the restaurant area of the club and I was sitting at a table eating an apple. Natural sugar tended to make me hyper... and cranky.

I let out an impatient sigh. "Why am even talking to you? I'm out of here." I got up to leave when she grabbed my pony tail.

Now normally it have been my clothes and I would have been OK with that but grabbing my pony tail was a big no no. Slowly I turned my head and glared down at her. She only came up to my mid chest but that didn't stop her from being herself.

"Brave move Nova but very dumb too." I reached for her throat.

"Okay kids, break it up. Break it up!" Cody had seen us about to rip each others throats and decided to intervene. He had my pony-tail in his fist in order to keep me from her. And he had a lock of her hair in his hand to keep her from me.

"Now what are you ladies fighting about this time?" His grip was tightening on our hair. I folded my arms across my chest.

"The usual," I growled at Cody then I saw the look on his face and respectfully added, " boss."

He smiled at the last part then looked at Nova. Frowning.

"How many times-,"

"Do I have to tell you that she gets off at 12:00." Nova sneered at me. We had had this talk so many times that it was probabily burned into her brain just waiting to be used.

"I have half the mind to fire you, you know." Cody reminded her with a glare.

Her sneer was replaced with a sweet innocent smile. "Boss." she added.

"Better." He congratulated her. " She does get off at 12," he reminded her. I stuck out my tongue in a childish way.

"But!" He turned his attention towards me. "You haven't done your finale." He raised his eyebrows at me.

My eyes grew to about the size of dinner plates. I locked gazes with Cody.

"Oh no, oooh no.You're not going to make me dance to Honky tonk badonkydonk agian. Are you?" I groaned as I palmed my face. Nova was snickering in the back ground.

"No," he stated as he let go of our hair. "I'm letting you choose the song."

Nova's jaw dropped and I smirked.

"I know just the one." And I walked onto the stage. I stared out at the almost emptied dance floor where twenty couples were still slow dancing to "Can you feel the love tonight."

"Alright everyone," I said as I interrupted the song, they turned their heads to me looking slightly annoyed that I had interrupted the sweet moment. " We're going to finish the night with one last fast song." I was rewarded with groans of protest. I shrugged.

" Sorry." I stated before switching Cd's and pressing play. "Your going to need a dance partner." I warned before the music started. Tapping my feet to the tempo agianst the wood, I started singing.

I'm going through the same day, same place, same where I always do

everyday

then I saw you from the corner of my eye

and it hit me like a ton of bricks

and I can't lie

oh you got to me

I moved my body back and forth to the beat of the song.

my life was all right

living in black and white

but you changed my point of view

show me your colors

cause with out you I'm blue

I'm blue

hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

I glanced at the back door to see Leaverson nodding his head to the music with his sister glowering.

show me your colors

save me

I have to have control of myself, my thoughts, my mind

cause the way it's going down in my life

I feel like a prisoner

in a lie

are you feeling me

Couples were breaking it down on the dance floor. Trying to impress the others while Moe, Flow, and Cody shut down the restruant.

cause the way you make me feel is my break

my shake

my walls around me

I feel like I'm breaking out

show me your colors

cause with out you I'm blue

I'm blue

hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

The lights dimmed.

hurry up and save me

save me

hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

my window is opened up

tonight I'm crawling out

to be with you are you waiting

will you be there

will you save me

will someone please save me

save me

oh yeah

you can save me

I know you can save me

so just save me

with out you I'm blue

hurry up and save me

I just wat to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

I'm blue

hurry up and save me

I just want to be alive and I am when I'm with you

save me

hurry up and save me

save me

hurry up and save me

save me hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

save me

hurry up and save me

save me

hurry up and save me

I just want to feel alive and I do when I'm with you

save me

save me!

The song ended, the couples cheered, and left the building after they had collected their stuff. Cody locked the doors behind them. And shooed us out the back door.

"Well, this is just the begining." Leaverson reminded himself as Nova, Leaverson and I walked till we came to the path that would lead me home.

"Yeah and the begining of many torturous days of sore feet." Nova growled as she continued down the road when me and Leaverson stopped.

He turned to me. "Nice song." He complement me. This was our usual way of saying goodbye. I just simply nodded and watched as he jogged to catch up with his sister. I turned to the dark path and sighed.

"I hate walking alone."

My eyes bulged and I froze. The voice was coming from behind me. My breaths came out in gasps.

"Especially in the dark." It finished. I twitched my arm when I heard it come closer. An object slide down my sleeve and landed in my hand.

A knife.

"Don't you?" It asked manically. I spun around and switched out the blade from the wood and pointed it at the throat.

"Mr. Jay!" I gasped. He smiled a pearly white smile. Mr. Jay was a 22 year old African-American runaway that happen to like the rain. He also looked like he could be a sports model, with his bulging muscels and strong will power.

"Got you." He laughed at me as I lowered the blade from his neck.

"You big idiot!" I hissed as I started walking up the path. The laughter followed me up the path for five minutes.

I stopped when I thought this was just ridiculous. The fool was still laughing!

"If you want to get some food keep coming but if your here to chat. Go. Away." I sighed as I turned back to look at him. He was leaning agianst a tree with his arms folded across his chest. Still laughing.

"You should have seen your face." He chuckled. He started walking up to me. I glared back.

"I could have killed you!" I hissed at him.

"Sure, sure. Whatever." He waved his hand as he caught up with me.

"I don't have much at the house." I warned him as I sat down on the ground. His face suddenly turned serious.

"I'm not here to beg for meager scrapes. I here to deliver a mesage . . . uh, warning." He stated.

"Oh really? Ok, but first off. Is it a warning or a mesage?" I questioned, glanceing at him then to the stars.

"Warning."

"Hmmmm. Continue."

"Something is coming," He snarled. "For you. A war will land on this planet like no other that we have seen. Your family will be your closest allies not from this planet."

I glanced back at him. I don't like where this is going.

But he still continued. "Five sisters will appear. One will die a horrible death. Another will come to you and will fall for your most hated enemy. The others will always stand beside you. The hair on your head will turn white. You are the cause of this great war and there is no running away from it. Tomorrow it will all start." I glared at him as he disapeared into the darkness.

Was he on drugs or something?

"Don't try to find me," he warned. "I will come to you." And he left with his last warning.

I stood up after staring at the spot where he disappeared for a minute.

Great I"m getting futureistic warning from a hobo on steriods.

I turned to where the house would be if I finnished walking.

Shrugging I started my treck back to the house in the dark.

Tomorrow huh?

My necklace bounced off and on my chest.

Whatever it is I hope I'm ready. I thought as the dark of night engulfed me in it's cold embrace.

Yea! It's finally done!!! Please R&R. :D

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