(Here we are at the third chapter of my fairy tale parody.)
Chores to Start the Day
The door to the tower opened on the second floor of the chateau and Elitarella stepped out, making her way to the western part of the house; the bedrooms belonging to her step sisters and step father. Everyday, Elitarella would come down to that hallway, and awaken the cat, Soundwave, and have him fed before she left to feed the farm animals and prepare breakfast for the step family. This was just one of over hundreds of choruses that her step father and step sisters ordered her to do, the rest of which included polishing the silver, sweeping and mopping the floors, unclog the chimney, sewing, laundry, plumbing, etc.
Despite having such a huge weight of chores in her head, Elitarella did as she was told, even though she was not fond of doing them. She knew she had to do them, for if she disagreed to do any task, Lord Megatron would beat her with his cane, and he was not afraid to do so.
Elitarella approached the large, decorated door that led to her step father's room, and carefully and quietly opened the door, allowing the light form outside to enter a part of the room where a cat bed layer on a pedestal, and sleeping on it was a blue and white cat bot, Soundwave. The feline instantly snorted and meowed questioningly before realizing that Elitarella was waking him up.
"Here, Kitty, kitty." Elitarella cooed to get the cat to come over, but Soundwave frowned at her and turned himself around, having his rear end and tail directed at Elitarella in disrespect. "Soundwave, come here." Elitarella hissed quietly, and the cat finally got out of his bed and sauntered out, yawning and stretching as he came out. Just like Lord Megatron, Starscream and Nightbird, Soundwave disliked Elitarella to a great extent. The pink femme sighed as she led the feline down the stairs. "I am sorry if I am disrupting your beauty rest. It certainly isn't my idea to have up so early. It's orders." she spoke, but knew that Soundwave would never listen. Out of all the animals she loved, she had no liking to Soundwave but had to be gentle and kind to him for Lord Megatron.
They soon came to the kitchen, but then Soundwave hissed and backed away. Elitarella soon saw the reason why. Hound, the green dog was asleep in the middle of the floor, growling and whimpering in his sleep, dreaming about chasing something. Elitarella chuckled and went over and petted her best friends back, and said his name. But in respond, Hound jumped to his feet, and, while still asleep, attacked the rug he slept on and shook his head violently around, but pretty soon his optics opened and he spat the rug out of his mouth and barked happily at the sight of Elitarella. He had known the femme since she was a youngling, and remembered all the fun times they had together.
Elitarella smiled as she kissed his nose, earning a lick from Hound. "Were you dreaming again?"Hound nodded happily, lolling his long glossa. "Were you dreaming about chasing Soundwave?" Hound nodded again. "Catch him this time?" Hound nodded. "That's bad." Elitarella answered, and the dog made a sound that almost sounded like a 'Huh?', and Soundwave hissed in laughter at the dogs stupidity.
"You know that you cannot have dreams like that, Hound." Elitarella said to her friend as she began to prepare the feeds for the animals outside. "When you dream about chasing cats, you get loud. And we all know that the three sleeping dictators do not want to have their beauty rest ruined. So, if you wish to stay inside and have a warm bed to yourself, you have to get rid of those dreams. You want to know how?
The green robot dog shook his head from side to side, and Elitarella smiled. "Just learn to like cats."
Hound cringed and growled at what Elitarella suggested, unaware that Soundwave slunk up to him, mockingly rubbing his side against the dogs metal surface, and his tail rubbed against Hounds nose. "I mean it, Hound. Soundwave has his good points jus the same as you. For one thing he is..." Elitarella fell quiet for a second, unsure of what Soundwave actually did that made himself useful, her back to them. "He...Um...There was one time where he...He...Huh. There has to be something good about Soundwave."
Soundwave, who was puffing his chess tin pride as he awaited for Elitarella to say something good about him, turned in an angry dissapoiintment, but then heard Hound bark happily in a way that sounded like laughter. Great. Soundwave felt humiliated and was being laughed at by what he believed was the dumbest creature in the entire Chateau. That'a when he got a wicked idea to get back at the dog. Carefully, Soundwave got on his back, lying under Hounds chin and retracted his claws and swiped at Hound, and Hound growled in a vicious manner and Soundwave yowled in despair.
"HOUND!" Elitarella turned and scoped. She saw Soundwave on his back, quivering in fear, with Hound standing over him. Hound was caught off guard and lowered his tail because he knew that when Elitarella yelled at him like that it meant that he was in trouble. "Outside, now." Elitarella said to him, grabbing Hound by the back of collar and led him outside, but then sighed in disappointment and her anger left her face plate. "I am sorry, Hound. But, we have to try and get along with everyone."
Hound whimpered and left to the stables where he wold go and sulk, and Elitarella felt bad for punishing heir friend, but she didn't want him to be casted out onto the streets if he were to be caught hurting her step fathers cat. Her sympathy was suddenly replaced by sternness as she felt Soundwave's tail graze her stabilizing servos. She was holding a saucer of energon; Soundwaves Breakfast: and she placed it down hard on the ground. "And that includes you, your majesty."
Soundwave only rolled his optics and laid down, drinking his fuel and watching as Elitarella went to pick up the feed from inside and watched as she left to head to the barnyard.
Up from a crack on the wall, all the mice bots gathered and watched as Elitarella called out to the farm animals. "Breakfast! Come and get it!" From where they watched, the mice bots saw all the chickens, geese, and ducks swarm over to Elitarella as she tossed out seeds and bits of hard energon bites.
"Come everybody! Breakfast!" Jazzy cheered and Swipey and Streakey followed him, while Hidey was trying to figure out what was going on. This was his first time living at the castle and didn't know much of the activities that Jazzy and the other mice bots did. "Come one, Hidey! We are going to grab a bite to eat!" Jazzy called and Hidey soon followed after them after hearing the word 'bite' and 'eat'. Now he knew what breakfast was.
All the little mice bots traveled down the many tunnels and crevasses and secret passages about their size, until they came to the hole that led to the kitchen. Jazzy was the first to run out, but then he came to a halt, feeling Swipey and Streaky bumping into them. But then he felt a massive push and he along with the twin mice were on the ground.
"Hidey." they groaned as the figured out who bump into them.
"Sorry."
Jazzy soon remembered why he had halted and looked up to see Soundwave not to far away. HIs rear end was facing them, but Jazzy knew that they had to hide. Quick as a whip, they ran back into the hole.
"What are we going to do now?" Swipey asked, feeling his stomach rumble.
"If we don't get any of that food, we're going to starve." Streaky replied and all optics looked at Jazzy, who was already trying to plan on what they should do. He smiled and snapped his fingers after this processor came up with an idea. He motioned the rest of the mice bots to huddle around him so he could tell them his plan.
"Listen, one of us is going to have to go out there and get Soundwave's attention. That volunteer will then have the pussy cat chase after him and keep the cat at a corner. Then, when the cat is occupied, the rest of us will sneak out, collect the food, signal to the volunteer, and we will all race bad into the hole, and then breakfast is served."
The mice bots nodded their heads and said that it was a good idea. "Great! Now, we need to see who is going to be victim..I mean, volunteer. Anybody?" Jazzy looked and saw that no one was answering, mostly due to the fact that they will be chased after Soundwave and the consequence of not making it would not be very pleasing to either of them, well except for Soundwave. "Okay, I guess we shall have to use our tails to choose the volunteer. Turn around!"
At the announcement, all the mice bots, followed by Hidey, turned around. "Tails up!" All the mice bots, followed once more by Hidey, stuck their tails up. While keeping his optics covered so as to not see which tail he was going to pick, Jazzy reached behind himself and lightly pinched the tip of one of his friends tails. "Hop away!" he called, and Streaky and Swipey hopped away, happy that their tails were not the chosen ones. Hidey was a bit distracted, but then caught on and hopped away, with his tail safe.
"Uh oh. Looks like the man with the plan is the bait." Swipey spoke, and Jazzy saw that he was, intact, holding his own tail. All the color from his cheek plates turned white. Oh dear. This was not his lucky day.
The three remaining mice bots all saluted Jazzy to show their appreciation, and Jazzy took a deep breath and made his way out in the open room. Being as quiet as...well..a mouse bot, Jazzy tip toed across the room and came behind Soundwave, watching as the robotic cat was lazily slurping his fuel. He then got a crazy idea to get the cat into chasing him, but he needed the 'ok' form the others. He waved over to them, and they watched as he motioned that he was going to sneak up on Soundwave, and kick him in the rear. The mice all nodded, except for Hidey who immediately started laughing hard, but Streaky and Swipey were quick to cover their friends mouth, shushing him.
After seeing that they had agreed, Jazzy shook his foot to get it ready and slowly backed up, counted to 3, and charged at the cat, kicking him right in the rear. The cat, startled out of his laziness, meowed in surprise and turned to see a white a black mouse bot, sticking its glossa at him.
"Nya nya! Come and get me, fatso!" Jazzy taunted and was soon running away as the cat ran after him. The mice bots watched in suspense as Jazzy jumped and ducked from every swipe from Soundwave's claws, and running in zig zag lines to try and out-pace Soundwave. So far, Jazzy was doing very well in keeping himself from becoming breakfast, and was soon running to a corner on the far left side of the room. He saw a hole in the wall, and leapt through it, and Soundwave slammed into the wall, shaking himself after the impact and began clawing at the hole. What Soundwave didn't know was the Jazzy had found a small crack on the upper wall where a broom was held against.
Jazzy smiled as he waved his hands in the air, signaling the others to run out to the farmyard.
"Let's go!" Swipey led the charge, and he, his brother, and Hidey, all ran out into the open, making their way to where all the chickens, ducks, and geese were gathered.
They soon caught sight of Elitarella, feeding some energon carrots to her old horse, Ratchet. He, like Hound, was a favorite pet of Elitarella when she was a youngling. The horse nickered warmly and accepted the carrots from Elitarella's hands and ate them as the femme stroked his neck tenderly.
"Elitarella! Over here! Yoo hoo!" all the small voices of the mice bots came to Elitarella's audio receptors and she looked down to see her little buddies.
"There you are. I thought that you would be late." she cooed as she knelt down and reached into her bag of feed, showing a handful to the mice bots. "Here you are." she grinned.
"Thank you!" they thanked as they each grabbed a heap full of food and ran back to the open door of the kitchen, only to stop when they saw that Soundwave was still around.
Jazzy peaked from the hole in the upper part of the wall and went right back to work in keeping the cats attention on him. He did this by wagging his tail out from the bottom hole after he ran down to it. Soundwave saw the tail and charged at the hole, scratching and clawing at it again. Jazzy quickly ran back up to the upper hole and signaled for the others to return to the hole and report back to the tower.
Swipey, Streaky, and Hidey all ran across the room to the hole, all except for Hidey who had dropped one small piece of food and went to pick it up. Hidey then saw that he had a problem; his hands were full and that there was one last crumb that he needed. How could he get it with his hands full. He then figured he could try and pick it up, but as he did it, all the food bursted out of his grip, hitting the floor.
Soundwave heard the scatter of food and turned around, much to Jazzy's shock and Hidey's unknown knowledge. Jazzy tried his best to distract Soundwave, but the cat was fixed on one thing, and that was a big, fat, red mouse bot. He crouched on all fours and slowly stalked his unsuspecting prey, who was trying to pick up all of his meal of hard energon and seeds. He managed to finally keep it in place by using his teeth to hold the stack in place, but as he turned around, his nose touched a much bigger nose.
A loud, menacing meow came from Soundwave, but to Hidey it sounded like the roar of a lion. "AHHHHH! HELP!" Hidey screamed in terror as he tried to run away, but his tail was held down by Soundwave as the cat was about ready to strike,when Jazzy pushed the broom and the broom hit Soundwave squarely on the head. Soundwave was knocked out, and his grip on Hidey's tail loosened.
Hidey ran away from the cat, and Jazzy was about to join him, when a bell from the entrance to the kitchen rang loudly, which was followed by a shrill cry. "ELITARELLA!" it was the step sister, Starscream.
"I'm coming. I'm coming." Elitarella raced back inside the kitchen and soon began preparing her step sisters breakfast. "Every time it's the same. Morning, noon, and night, it's the same thing." she mumbled quietly. As she was preparing the breakfast, Jazzy ran after Hidey, who was climbing up a tablecloth to hide somewhere on the table. He soon found one hiding place that could work; an upside down teacup.
"Hidey! Get out of there! We have to go."
"No! That cats out there!"
The mice continued arguing, both of them not knowing that Soundwave had awoken and was now making his way to them. But before he could make the attack, a second bell began ringing, which was followed by another voice. "ELITARELLA!" It was the second step sister, Nightbird.
"I'm coming!" Elitarella called and soon started making her next step sisters meal, and as she dashed about, Soundwave kept missing his chance every time the femme would walk pass the table where the teacups were. That's when the final bell started ringing, but no voice followed. That bell was from Lord Megatron, and Elitarella was quick to see that she had to make three meals now and began to dash about the room, quickly preparing the food and tea.
After a few minutes, Elitarella was finally ready. She placed the plates that each had her family's meals onto three trays with one teacup on each, one of them had both Jazzy and Hidey in one of them. Soundwave watched in anguish as his meal was being taken away, but then thought up a plan that might work. All he had to do was follow Elitarella and wait for his moment.
After making her way up the stairs, at the same time carrying three trays, Elitarella returned to the hallway of where her family slept. The first one she entered was Starscreams, since she was the one who first rang for breakfast. The red, white, and blue femme was in her bed and still in her nightgown. She had a look of impatience as Elitarella entered. "Good Morning, Starscream. Did you sleep well?" Elitarella asked, even though she knew she would not get a positive answer.
"Ha! As if you would care, you scullery maid." Starscream hissed as she tossed a bag of her clothing to Elitarella after she head laid the tray on the table next to the bed. "Take those to be washed, and remember that these are to be washed with Herbal Essence instead of the softener. Herbal Essence, you go that?"
"Yes, Starsceam."
"Good. Now get out of my room!" the step sister snapped and Elitarella left, carrying two trays and one bag of laundry. Soundwave, who had been hiding, saw his moment and almost charged into Starscream's room when the door closed, and he slammed into it. He rubbed at his nose, since it was the one that was more hurt than the rest, he saw Elitarella enter the next bedroom and closed the door.
"Good morning, Nightbird."
"It's about time, you wretch! I've been waiting for hours!" scolded the black, grey, and purple femme.
"It's only been about 10 minutes."
"That doesn't matter." Nightbird reached down and after Elitarella laid the tray on the table, she tossed her bag of dirty clothes at her. "Take these to be washed, and have them washed with softener, no Herbal Essence like you did last time!"
"Yes, Nightbird."
Soundwave watched as Elitarella exited, and was close to getting inside when Elitarella close the door, unknown to her that Soundwave slammed his face against the door again. Elitarella soon came to her step fathers door, but knocked it a couple times to let him know she was outside. She never went in without him saying she could. "Come in." Lord Megatron ordered, and Elitarella entered.
"Good morning, step father."
Lord Megatron, just the same as his daughters, waited for Elitarella to lay down the tray on the table next to the bed and tossed Elitarella his bag of clothing. "Take out the laundry, and get on with your duties."
Elitarella nodded and left, closing the door once more, and Soundwave once again missed his chance to get inside his masters room and his face slammed into the door. Soundwave growled in frustration as his paced the floor, feeling very upset about his next meal being taken away.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
A shrill, high-pitched scream coming from Starscream's room and the doors flew open and Jazzy and Hidey ran out. Soundwave got his one last chance and ran after the mice bots, that is until he felt Elitarella's hand grasp him by the back of the neck. Before she could scold Soundwave for trying to harm her little friends, Starscream ran out of her room, screaming loudly and panicking. Starscream then saw Elitarella and immediately pointed her finger at her and blamed her for the mice bots being in her teacup. As the cowardly femme ran to her fathers room, she was joined by Nightbird, who also blamed Elitarella.
Elitarella sighed and looked at Soundwave. "Look, there are some things you can eat, my friends are not one of them. If I catch you chasing after them again, I will personally have you..."
"ELITARELLA!" Lord Megatron's voice roared through the room, and Elitarella dropped Soundwave form shock, but the cat managed to land on his four feet and returned to the room belonging to his master. Elitarella soon followed, but not as fast as Soundwave, and she saw her two step sisters standing at the doors.
"Are you going to get it." the sisters taunted, and they watched Elitarella until the doors closed behind her.
The room of her step father was vaguely lit, and the Lord was still in his bed, with Soundwave in his arms, and he stroked the feline robot as he watched Elitarella come forward to the foot of the bed. "It is only a.."
"Hold your glossa!" Megatron interrupted, his voice stern and serious. Elitarella kept quiet and watched as the silver mech get up from his bed and he walked over to her, grabbing his cane as he did so. "Thinking it is the perfect to mock your sisters so early again, are we?" he spoke.
"But, I would never put.."
"Silence!" Megatron hissed at Elitarella. He had no intention of listening to her insipid words, because it had reminded him of her mother. Oh, why didn't he poison her along with her mother. The reason why was because he only had a small amount that was specifically meant for the mother. "Now, as far as we all know, such ideas of mockery against my daughters will not be tolerated. Now, there is a marble statue in the garden...Clean it!. There is also the window in the drawing room...Wash them! And then there is the silver in the kitchen..."
"But, I already polished them yesterday." Elitarella interrupted, but then she felt a sharp impact on her side and cringed in pain. It was Megatron's cane; the Lord had struck her.
"Do not interrupt me! I do not care if you have done the silver yesterday, do them again!" Megatron yelled at her once more and struck her once more. He then noticed a look in her optics that he knew all too well. The way they were slightly closed and filled with building tears. "I know what you are thinking of, Elitarella. You are thinking of running away again. Well, we all know that it is never a good idea. I have my family to keep in line, and you must obey to me and my girls, and any idea of trying to leave from your bondage will do nothing but bring you a broken servo."
Elitarella stood still and listened to this monsters cruel and torturous words. She knew that even if she tried to run away, she would be caught and be severely beaten. This type of abuse would have traumatized anyone, but Elitarella was strong. She wasn't just going to let this cruel bot get the better of her. Because someday, she'll have the last laugh and leave her herd behind, except her animal friends. All because she keeps a beautiful dream in her spark.
"Now then, along with polishing the silver again, you are to unstuffy the chimney, sweep the floors from every room, dust the attic, do the laundry, iron all my suits, make all the beds, cook lunch, beat the rugs..." Lord Megatron then looked at Soundwave and added. "...Ah, yes. One more thing. Make sure Soundwave gets his bath."
Soundwave gasped and sped out of the room, but was soon caught by Elitarella a few hours later and was given his bath, much to his disappointment.
*Authors Note*
(Okey dokey! Here you all go. Now, I must be off to work on the fourth chapter. Sparkling Lover out,)
