Prologue: Author's Note
Bit of information first; this is a song-fic, in a sense. It was inspired by one song in particular. If I could animate it, this would be an animation on YouTube instead, but I have no talent with the brush. So, instead I turned it into a short fic. There's more detail and dialogue than would be in an animation, obviously, so it's not exactly what the video in my head looks like.
I'm breaking down chapters like this: each segment of lyrics has a certain scene associated with it. Each chapter will cover one segment of lyrics. The lyrics associated with the scene will be at the top of each chapter. I would suggest listening to the song that inspired this fic for the full experience.
The very last chapter will be my original idea: the video. It'll just be written out like a movie transcript instead of a fic. I figured I would include that, so you could see where the plot of this fic stemmed from. The "video" is really a bunch of stills that tells a story, like a comic, so 'animation' is the incorrect word, but I'm being lazy about my terminology right now.
The song in question is "Forest Fires" by Lauren Aquilina. Obviously, it is also the title of this fic.
Further, this fic is only three chapters, but I'll try to make each chapter a fair length. It is already complete. I will be posting one chapter every day.