Author's note: Hello again! Here's chapter 1, which is considerably longer than the prologue. Here we're introduced to the main character, Ember, and we find out who the character in the prologue was. So read on!
I woke up. Great start, huh?
My name is Ember. I'm a Sparky, But not a normal one. Firstly, I'm white and red instead of the normal green and yellow. Also, I shoot fire instead of electricity. See, I was born with an odd genetic mutation which caused that. Of course, everyone in my village thought I was a total freak, but they let me stay. I assume it's because they didn't want to kick a girl out. That is, until the night I burned a house down. It was an accident, and nobody was hurt, but they kicked me out anyway.
So since then, I've been living in this cabin in Whispy Woods. It's a nice place, but it's so secluded, I never see anybody!
Anyway, I woke up one seemingly normal day, and walked outside to get some apples from a nearby tree. It was a beautiful, if slightly soggy, morning with mist still hanging in the air from last night's rain storm. I hopped through the woods, closer to the tree, my hops making squishing noises as I sank into the mud a bit... When I saw it. A biospark laying facedown in a mud puddle. I look around. "Hello?" I yell. No answer. I step forward to investigate. By all means, it should be dead. There's a gash in its side that was bleeding pretty badly, and of course, it was laying facedown in a puddle, so it should have drowned.
But it was definitely alive. Its body moved up and down very slowly, so it was breathing somehow. I readied my fire and got closer. I poked it. It didn't move. "Dude! Wake up!" I yelled. It stirred a little, but stayed there. "Hmm... well, I gotta get it into the cabin," I said, thinking out loud, "But I don't have hands." A few seconds went by, then I finally got an idea. "Ah-HAH!" I yelled.
I hopped quickly back to the cabin and activated my communicator. "Hello? Kody?" I said into it. A pause.
"Hey Ember!" He finally replied. "What's going on?"
"I need your help. How soon can you get here?"
"I can be there in about an hour. What happened?"
"I'll explain when you get here. Hurry!"
"Okay, I'll be there soon."
The line went dead, and I turned off the communicator.
See, Kody is a medic friend of mine. He works in the Arena, which is really cool. He's a black kirby and wears green shoes. We met by chance one day when I fell down in a pit by accident. I got scraped up pretty bad, but he helped me out and even set up a communicator line between his office and my cabin in case I got injured again.
I hopped back outside and over to the apple tree, balancing a basket on my head, and managed to knock some apples down from the branches like I did every morning. Then I hopped back inside and ate a few while waiting for Kody.
By the time he showed up, the mist was gone, and it was looking like a pretty nice day. I hopped outside when I saw him. "Hi Kody!" I yelled, as he was still a fair distance off. He grinned and yelled, "Hi Ember!" When he got close enough, I said "Follow me!" And hopped off toward the mysterious Biospark. I stopped hopping when I got there and let Kody catch up. When he did, he said, "What happened to it?"
"I dunno," I replied, "When I went out to get some apples this morning, I found it like this." He knelt down to examine it. "Hey Kody?" I said.
"Hmm?" He replied, not looking up from examining the wound.
"How is it alive if it's facedown in a puddle?" He chuckled.
"Because it's a Biospark, which is a Ninja. And Ninjas have their methods." That didn't make much sense, but I got the feeling he didn't feel like explaining, so I let it go.
After a bit of waiting, Kody finally said, "Let's get it inside."
"I was going to do that, but I don't have hands, so..." he laughed.
"It's okay. Get the door, will ya? I'll drag it inside."
"Sure!"
Once we got it inside, he got a few things out of his medical bag to clean the wound up. He had to remove the Biospark's Ninja garb to do this. Oddly, Biosparks just look like black kirbies under the Ninja garb, so I wondered why they wore it. Kody held something up. "By the way, Ember. This is how he was breathing." I looked at the object. It was a reed.
"Huh?"
"Ya see, Biosparks take a lot of safety precautions. This reed wraps around their heads so that they can breathe if they ever need to lay facedown in water."
"Oh... That's really cool!" I said, "But why would they ever need to lay facedown in water?"
"In case they need to fake being dead for any reason." Well, that makes sense...
"So why do they wear the Ninja garb?" I asked after a few more minutes of silence. Instead of replying, he simply gestured to the table beside him. On it was a rather large pile of things. The reed, about twenty Ninja stars, and a small bag. I guess they need it to carry around their arsenal. "Oh."
Finally, Kody finished the examination. "Well?" I asked when he stood up.
"It's odd," he started, "It seems he passed out from exhaustion."
"So... he was tired." He smirked.
"I suspect he was running from someone. Or something." Gee, that's not creepy at all.
End of Chapter 1
-Nashew
Thanks again for reading!
Chapter 3 hasn't been written yet, but is in progress.