I'm back with a new fanfiction! This one is similar to "Orion and Ariel: Their Story", but I have more ideas on where I want to take this one! Still, if you have any ideas for me, please leave them in the reviews section!
By the way, if you were reading my fanfiction, "The Technoorganics", I took it down because I had no idea where I wanted to go with it, and it just wasn't coming out the way I planned. I might try to rewrite it someday if I get some better ideas for it.
I rated this teen pretty much for violence since...well, it's Transformers, so what do you expect?
Here is the very first chapter of "The Stars Are Falling!" Hope you like it!
The House Was On Fire
The house was on fire. As they stared up at the rising smoke—horror, shining on their faceplates—optics, bright orange like the flames licking at the once-grand walls of their rich home.
Ariel—14 cycles old, Chromia only one cycle younger. And Arcee—just born but not beside her sisters. A mech the same age as Ariel, a very close friend who she had known her whole life, stood beside her, bright blue optics the same flame-color.
"Carrier! Sire! Arcee!" Ariel cried out. She took off without warning, breaking away from the two and running at a mad dash towards the house.
"Ariel, don't!" the mech cried out, his small servo wrapping around hers and pulling her back.
"I can't leave them!"
"Then I'll go."
Neither sister stopped him, for neither of them were brave enough to go after him through the burning house. They stood side-by-side, sparks pounding, optics not moving from the broken doorway Ariel's friend had ran into. Nanokliks ticked by, yet still he did not emerge.
"I'm going in with him," Ariel said under her breath, determination in her voice.
"No, you're not!" Chromia cried. "If you don't come out, then I'm left out here alone!"
"But I can't leave the others—"
The slightly-charred doorframe suddenly collapsed, and with it, the entire top floor of the two-story house. Ariel screamed as the top planks cracked and gave way, crushing everything inside.
"Ariel—" Chromia couldn't even scream as her older sister ran without hesitation into the collapsed house. "I'm alone..." she breathed, stepping slowly away from the house. "I'm parentless, and both my sisters are gone!"
Just as tears started to form in her optics, whose fiery color was fading as the flames moved to devour the fallen lumber, sirens wailed and pulled up to the once-grand home. It was the home that Ariel and Chromia had known their whole lives, even been born in—literally! Their doctors came to their house instead of them going out into the city, so they didn't spend much time downtown. Iacon was a big place, and their home was the most dignified and grand in all the surrounding cities! No one knew how the fire started—alarms had gone off, and emergency crews had been notified. Arcee had just been born earlier that morning, and the doctor was supposed to stay all day—meaning that the doctor had just been lost in the fire as well.
Fire crews broke through the crumbling door frame while police crews followed, no doubt searching for evidence of what could have caused the fire. Ambulances waited outside, although Chromia doubted anyone had survived.
A kind-looking nurse transformed from her ambulance form and dashed over to the crying and shaking form of Chromia. "Are you all right?" she asked in a strong-but-kind voice.
"Physically—no mentally. My parents, my sisters, and my friend are all in there!"
The image of her sister and friend running into the burning house made her knees give in, but the nurse caught her before she could roughly hit the ground.
"I'm going back in—I want to join the others."
Fire crews were still putting out the fire, but the house was so large that the very back was still burning.
The nurse's grip on her waist tightened ever so slightly, and she replied in her stern side of her voice, "No. You'll be killed!"
"That's what I want!" she sobbed, reaching for the air as if she could will herself to fly out of the nurse's arms and into the flames. "I want to die! I have nothing left to live for—not with my family gone! Let me go! Let me go!"
Chromia shrieked loudly, but the nurse did not release her grip. Her sobbing was quick and hysterical, and her screaming for the nurse to let her go just got louder each time.
Unable to firmly hold her down, the nurse called out for assistance, and the remaining two ambulances rushed over, transforming and keeping a powerful grip on her.
I guess they don't believe anyone survived—they're right, Chromia thought to herself. Slowly, her squirming ceased, and she melted in the middle of the three nurses. The original nurse slowly caressed her faceplate, and while Chromia's sobbing had stopped, twice as many tears were falling to make up for it.
The 2 nurses who had just joined sat up jerkingly, transforming and quickly meeting up with the fire crews. Chromia did not look up, not wanting to see the dead bodies of her family and friend.
The nurse quickly shook her on the shoulder. "Dear, look!"
Abruptly, Chromia sat up from the nurse's lap. She gasped and covered her mouth with her servos, but she sat up and ran, tears streaming even faster from her optics, gradually getting faster as the fire crews came closer.
"Ariel!" she sobbed, collapsing in front of her sister as Ariel was escorted out by the fire crew. Ariel clasped her sister around the neck and hugged her tightly.
"I'm okay."
"You're okay! You're...okay."
"And Arcee."
A police officer stepped out from the scorched-out house, cradling a small figure.
"Here's your baby sister," she said warmly, pressing little Arcee into Chromia's arms.
Ariel stepped behind Chromia, and the two gazed lovingly at their baby sister. Her blue optics almost took up her whole face, and there was a tint of violet in them. Her blue-and-pink armor was dusted with ash, yet she seemed alright.
Nearby, the police crews were discussing the potential cause of the fire. "Malfunction in the lighting...energon explosion..." The sisters caught these tidbits of conversation, and their sparks sank in their chests.
"A simple malfunction has left us homeless—without a family," Ariel whispered to Chromia.
"Where will we go?"
Before Ariel could answer, one of the firefighters approached the sisters. "They'd like to examine you three, even though you only have a few scratches."
"But I wasn't in the fire!" Chromia exclaimed.
"It's not my choice." He impatiently gestured to one of the nurses who had transformed into an ambulance, and the three sisters climbed into the back. Before Ariel climbed in, she turned to the firefighter and asked, "Did you find anyone else in there?"
"Looked like your parents and somebot else—looked like the doctor. We were told that your baby sister was born today, and the doctor was supposed to stay all day."
"Was there anybot else?"
"Um—no. Why?"
"I was just wondering. I guess I just wonder what it would be like if the fire hadn't happened—if-if—"
Ariel cut off her sentence as the thought of her parents raced back—her beautiful carrier, her tough-yet-sweet sire—gone. And her friend, who was probably more than just a friend. Considering that they used to play all day and night on weekends and she often went over to his house—plus they had kissed when they were 3, which didn't really count as a first-kiss—yeah, they were definitely more than friends.
"Ariel, let them go," Chromia coaxed softly, pulling her sister into the back of the ambulance as the door closed.
"Never, I never will! I won't allow my spark to hurt anymore—and not just for my parents."
"For So—"
"Don't! Don't say his name—don't say any of their names, even the doctor's!"
"Okay—him. And them."
"Fine."
The ambulance rumbled softly, and Ariel slowly peered through the side window as their house drove out of sight.
"Goodbye, life," she whispered, before kneeling next to Chromia and focusing on the task ahead—caring for their newborn sister and maybe finding a new home.
I hope that everyone enjoyed this first chapter! My computer is very slow, so I don't know how fast updates will come. We are supposed to get a new one soon, though, so then updates will come faster!
Thank you for reading! If you have any ideas or suggestions, please leave a review in the reviews section!
Signing off, theautobotprincess.