Hello everyone as you know I'm tiaki123 and this is my very first fan fiction ever so please no flames. I'm sorry for any spelling or grammar errors in this story. I don't own any of the 9 characters only Stardust and other humans. Some of the story will be pre-movie and will be centered around Stardust most of the time, I hope you like the story. I would also like to thank Aerith the Evenstar for permission to use her lyrics for the 9 song release in my story. There not in this chapter but they will be used soon. Thanks again hon!! ;)

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'thoughts'

BOOM!! Machine-gun fire. They say good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people. Boy who ever said that was dead wrong! Stardust gasped as another explosion rumbled through the apartment. Here is where our story begins. It was supposed to be a happy, fun family vacation but thats not how fate wanted it. During the families stay a machine called the Fabricator was introduced to the world. It was supposed to be a machine of peace but not to long after it was brought into the world it turned on man kind and started to make machines that destroy humanity. Now here they are at war with the machines, Star would have laughed if she wasn't the one being shot at 'Oh the irony'. Stardust house was being attacked and right now she was in her mothers room with her 3 younger siblings. Breccia, who was blonde with short hair above the shoulders, greenish blue eyes, and was about 12 going 13 years old. Jasmine who had dark brown hair also above the shoulders, baby blue eyes, and was 15 going on 16. Last but not least little Garret was 4 years old, had blue eyes and short blonde hair.

"Sis w-whats g-going to h-happen to us?" Garret asked stuttered.

"I don't know Gar, but whatever happens it's meant to be." Star said uneasy but serious at the same time.

Star shifted her backpack on her shoulders filled with her favorite things. The Book of the Dragon by Ciruelo, Star loved dragons so she always carried it with her. A Latin spell book, a drawing pad, her pencil box filled with colored pencils and gel pens of all colors. Colored thread and fine needles. Her mp3, Game-Boy Micro, her laptop and charger and a few DVDs she loves to watch. A small blue diamond about a 1/4 inches in diameter and in a bead cut. Lastly she has her most prized possession a little 16cm doll she had been making called a stitchpunk, she doesn't know why she called it that but the name seemed to fit. The frame was made of hollowed titanium to reduce weight for flight, the claws and teeth are carefully and smoothly molded from platinum (the molders were the hardest to make). It was made with a velvet like material and on the inside of it the material attached to the velvet was a water proof material that aloud it to be able to with stand the rain and be able to even swim, if there was any thing to swim in that is and was stitched up from the inside making it look professional as Breccia had once said. It had fine hair dyed blue for her tuft on it's tail and small main. Lastly, it could be able to walk on its hind legs but could move faster on all fours, it also had a feminine figure making it agile, stealthy and a girl stithpunk dragon. The only problem was a power source of some kind, she had made a holder in the chest for the blue diamond she would use as a vessel for the power source her spell book said it needed. The holder closes up in a dome shape and when you unhitch it and flip it over there the diamond to power the stitchpunk dragon. So what would she use?

She had read in an alchemy book that you could transfer your soul into inanimate objects and make them alive therefor you would become that object, but it was dangerous. You should only transfer a piece of your soul and make it independent in a sense but even that could kill you from shock and pain. Star didn't want that, besides if she transferred her whole soul she would become her stitchpunk and that wouldn't be that bad would it? Sure it also said that if one did that there's no telling how long it would take to wake up from the transfer, it could take days, months, or even years. Star was not looking forward to that, but at least she would be alive, right?

Her mother came running in with blood coming from her belly. Star could see that her mother was greatly injured and got up to help her with her wounds but her mother pushed her off. Star was a little confused as to why that is before-

KABOOM!! The wall to the bedroom starts to crumble as machines try to get in.

" Star, take your brother and sisters to basement now!" Cried Stars mother.

"But Mom what about you?!" Star exclaimed back more worried for her mother at the moment.

"Never mind me just get them somewhere safe! Do you hear me?!" her mother yelled.

"Yes! But-"

"Don't but me, you need to promise that if you have to leave the house because you can't get to the basement that you won't fight those things you hear me?! You run and hide, find someplace safe you got that!"

"O-Okay!"

"Then go now or your going to get killed!"

BOOM!!! BANG!!

Star, with tears forming in her eyes, said "O-Okay."Star took her younger siblings and ran as fast as her legs could manage with her sisters in tow. Star looked back only to regret doing so as she saw the machines brake through the wall and gunned down their mother. Stardust held her little brother close to her body as they tried to get to the basement door. Star could hear her younger siblings crying as they ran. 'Oh no' Star though the basement door was blocked by a beam from the wall that meant they had to go into a different room in the apartment or go outside and find a safer place.

"Sis, what are we going to do now?" Her little sister Breccia asked, scared to tears.

BANG!! CRASH!!!

Well, option number one was out of the question, so that meant they had to get out of here and fast if they wanted to live. She started to run with her siblings in tow.

"Star were are we going?!" Jasmine cried .

"Somewhere that isn't here!"She stated as they ran out of the back door.

The world was in total chaos, buildings were in ruins and dead bodies of humans and animal alike were all over the place. Bombs, gun fire, molotov cocktails were thrown, smoke and ashes engulfed the land. There was their next door neighbor with his wife trying so hard to get away only to be gunned down by a walker machine. Star was starting to panic, she then saw a house just about four blocks from where they were but there are machines everywhere. Star looked around at the horror that was once a beautiful and peaceful place, now a waste land of torment and pain. She then looked at her brother and sisters terrified faces, she came to a decision, she was in charge of protecting her younger siblings now, and they had to get to that house and fast. A bomb went off close by, showering them in ruble, her siblings screamed as they ran in the direction of the house that was barely intact but had to be much safer than out here in the open. 'Three blocks away to safety' Star was determined to save her younger sibling even of it killed her.

BOOM!! Another bomb went off as they ran.

"Don't worry, we're half way there kids" Star shouted over the war zone. She felt her little brother tremble and shake, crying in her arms.

"Sssshhhh it's going to be okay Garret, it'll all be over soon" Oh how soon her words were about to come true. 'Yes only one more block' Star thought with victory. Her victory was going to be short lived however.

"My legs hurt, I'm tired." Breccia said exhausted.

"Yeah can we rest please?" Jasmine pleaded. 'Oh no no no not now don't give up on me' Star started to panic again.

"We're almost there just a little further-" KABOOM!!!!

They were all knocked off there feet and sent flying through the air landing not to far away from one another. Breccia was about 6ft away to her left, her right leg bent at a sickening angle and a cut down her left arm. Jasmine was 10ft to her right and half covered in ruble and a chunk of concrete on her legs pining her to the ground. Lastly her sweet little brother Garret not even 2ft away against a wall of a building with blood coming from his head. 'Oh no' Star tried to crawl to him but was stopped by a sudden pain on the right side of her torso. She gasped at the gash running down her side blood oozing out all over turning the ground beneath her red. Thundering foot steps interrupted her thoughts as walker robots in the far distance were slowly making there way toward them. Just then, a beast-like machine came running through the black smoke and fire. Star would never forget this beast, it had the body of a dragon with ugly steel teeth, claws, and spikes running down it's back. There was four claws on each fore limb, bat-like wings made from ripped up fabric crudely sown together and titanium wing frames. It's horns were made of bones, it's tail was jagged and was threaded with what looked like barbed wire. The dragon beast was about the size of a Great Dane and was covered in blood. But the one thing she would never forget was that soulless blood red eye filled with hate and loathing. The beast ran toward Jasmine, Star cried out to her fallen sister but it is to late, the monster had its massive jaws around Jasmine's arm and tore it clean off. Blood gushed from the wound and pooled around her body as she struggled to get free but the monster finished her off by bashing her head in. Breccia meanwhile had become conscious and was trying to crawl away, but the monster spotted her feeble attempt at freedom. Star could only watch as the second youngest got torn to pieces, Breccia's screams of bloody murder would haunt her dreams for nights on end. While the monster had Breccia in its jaws of torment, Star crawled to sweet little Garret, Star gasped when she saw a large splinter of wood in his could only stare in horror, she had failed, she failed to save her family. Tears of pain ran down her face, she looked in the monster's direction it seemed to have grown bored of the corpse of her sister and was looking for its next victim. Star was not going to be that next victim, she would not let the death of her family be in vain. Turning to her right she saw the barely standing door just a few feet away from her. She started to crawl to the door, her body weak from the loss of blood. Grunting, she grabbed the bottom of the door that was slightly open already, pulling it open she crawled in and saw a set of stairs. Star took one last look a the monster that killed her siblings, it spotted Garret's body and was now going to investigate, the monster hadn't spotted her yet. 'Come on Star, you can do this just climb up those stairs and your home free' Star started climbing up the stairs. Half way up, she started to see doubles and felt as if she were about to faint but she shook it off and kept going, she would not give up yet.

"Almost there." Star moaned. After what seemed like an eternity Stardust made it to the door. By then though, she was so weak, so close to death, that she could almost make out a white light. Star heard foot steps on the other side of the door. 'I must be hearing things' but as the foot steps continued, she heard cluttering and faint mumbling. Star finally decided to take action with the last of her strength she raised her shaking hand and knocked on the door as hard as she could at least three or four times. She heard something being dropped on the other side and roll across the floor along with a surprised gasp that sounded so faint she didn't know how she picked it up with her ears. It went quiet for a second, a little too quiet for her liking. So she gave two more soft knocks before she couldn't keep her head or hand up any more. Stardust faded in and out of consciousness as the door slowly opened and she saw a pair of shoes. She heard another gasp, this time in shock and horror, and she could barely make out more mumbling as the figure bent over her.

"P-please h-help me" was the last thing she said before falling unconscious.

Ooh! Cliff-Hanger! Didn't see that one coming did you? Alright that was my first chapter I hope you like it. Leave reviews please! Now on to type the 2nd chapter!!! ;)