Hey, guys, thanks for taking a look!
It's my first english Fanfiction, so please have mercy, because I know that my grammar's not perfect yet, but I'm trying to get better.
The story is Spitfire-centric; the Flame King finds a homeless girl on the street one day and takes her with him. Soon he recognizes that the girl's past isn't tat different from his own as gravity children. Nue's also getting into the story a bit later. ^^ The story tzakes place a few years before Ikki gets introduced to ATs.
Chapter one – Dirty Streets and Bubbles (Spitfire's POV)
It was a cold evening when I met her for the first time.
A small girl with big round eyes sitting between the dirt in the streets of this big city. Her eyes were red, a warm red like the one of a camp fire, and they were watching me filled with pure curiousity when I stopped right in front of her and looking down at her. She didn't seem to feel bad or trying to make me taking her with me, just wondering why I had stopped.
Nothing happened, people continued passing by without even recognizing us being there while we were just staring at each other.
"You'd like to come with me?"
I don't know why I offered her to take her with me; I mean, of course, it's absolutely natural – I guess – that you like to take those children living on the street with you to offer them a better life, but she didn't seem to have a bad life or the need of the help of a stranger. It just felt so right to do in this moment.
"Why should I go with you?"
A soft smile appeared on my lips.
"Maybe to take a bath or just to warm up a little; it's pretty cold out here, isn't it?"
She sat there on the ground, legs pulled against her chest and her chin resting on her knees.
"I don't want to", she answered without any muscle moving on her face.
"What? But why?"
Back then she really surprised the hell out of me, but now that I think of it, I'd be surprised if she had reacted in another way.
"I don't like bubbles."
She told me that with such a serious expression on her young face that she just seemed to be so much older than she apparently was. An amused giggle escaped my lips.
"You don't like bubbles?"
"Yeah, I'm scared of them. It's nothing to laugh about, I'm sure you're also scared of something, right?!"
I couldn't help but thinking of her as a pretty cute girl when she made an angry face.
"I'm sorry, but I'm sure I can arrange a bath without any bubbles", I told her with an absolute serious look on my face.
"Oh, really?"
The anger disappeared from her face and those fascinating warm red eyes began to shine, but then she became kinda suspicious.
"And you promise that there won't be any bubbles?"
I felt my heart beating faster. What a great personality, I thought with a wide smile on my lips.
"Absolutely no bubbles; I promise."
She stood up and grabbed my hand.
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That's it for the first chapter. It's pretty short, I know, but the second chapter is a bit longer, promised.
So, was it good or bad? I'd also like the readers who didn't like the chapter to maybe write just a short review to let me know why they dislike it.
Thanks for reading! ^^
LG Fye
