My internet has been down for a whole day and I feel lost and lonely without checking my stories to see if I have picked up any new readers. I hope everyone is enjoying my writing. I have enjoyed writing it for you. I wish I could pick up a few more readers but oh well, maybe I will later. I find it interesting that a lot of my readers like the same stories that I read.
This next chapter is going to be difficult to write because I will be having to describe lots of things that are not a part of the transformers world but I will reference materials such as the Allspark or cube as the humans called it and I may go back to the reference of the original thirteen. I don't have a lot of research materials on them and like I said my internet has been down so I hope that I get it right. Also I have a masonic background so I will use the points of direction as north, south, east, and west with the east being the position of the highest office. The east is considered the position of power since the sun rises in the east.
Please take a moment to leave a review because they are very important to me. I love to read them over and over. Enjoy!
They were dressed in their white dresses standing at the entrance into the ceremonial chamber. Chelsea was inside doing her ritualistic opening prayer to ready them and the oracle for the merging that would occur with it. Allie always had nervous butterflies in her tank when they had to open a ceremony. There were too many scars from the early years of feeling trapped in the beginning before many had resigned themselves to this life and they ran deep.
"I'm sure that we will have a pleasant ceremony" Shalon told her quietly. Shalon would be representing her mother by standing in the west for her. Aura stood in the south as the guard of arms and Mia stood in the north as the bearer of the law. Kiki stood below the dais in the northeast as the bearer of the coat of arms or standard bearer while Chelsea stood on one side as their priestess or chaplain and Raynie on the other as the marshal in the east. Raynie's partner stood in the southwest as marshal in the west who was Stargazer.
Allie had four officers to stand around the alter in a square and then other stood in a six point star on an outer circle around the square. The rest of the femmes stood in the southeast or the northwest with a warder standing near the chamber doors and a warder's assistant at the anti-chamber door on the other side of the west. The femmes enter from the southwest or northwest in two lines with the bearer of the standard standing over and the marshals leading. They were set to go in. Allie would go in through the anti-room with Shalon going through the main door. Both were last in line because they would take their place after all the other officers marched in.
Allie heard the drums, she heard the rhythm that would start their march in, and Allie could feel it deep within her spark. She closed down the bond she held with her mate and sparklings and felt the others do the same and shivered as the line began to move inside the ceremonial chamber. The room was large and one could see where the lines were etched deep in the floor. Allie waited at the entrance as the others did their ceremonial march around the alter and the circle where the oracle would appear once they had finished the opening ceremony. Once the officers had circled twice and weaved through each other both in the east and west of the chambers Allie and Shalon walked in synch together as they met in the west after marching in a half square and then coming together to walk to the alter. Allie would do a half square around the alter while Shalon would make a long rectangle around the inner femmes and go back to the west. It was nothing unusual and it was how they always started the ceremony.
Once each femme was on their dais everyone would sync together to place their crystals around their necks and then stand on their square to alert the oracle that they were ready. Chelsea would then come to the center in front of the alter and offer a prayer of thanks and then Allie would start the ceremonial dances of swords that Aura performed and then would leave at the base of the alter and then Mia would place the book of law on the center of the alter. The marshals would stand guard on the eastern side of the alter while all of this was being performed and the standard bearer would stand in front of the eastern dais while holding the standard flag. The femmes in the inner square and on the six point star would face the alter with the marshals and the standard bearer and Allie would oversee it by bringing down the scepter of leadership that signified her position as Leator.
After Chelsea ended the prayer the beat of the drums would change and the femmes would hear a telepathic music as Aura began the dance of the swords. To many of the femmes this was one of the most beautiful parts of the ceremony and it signified the hum that would begin throughout the temple as the inner circle within the square on the floor in front of the alter would open and a heat would fill the chamber as Aura would dance around in the west, the drums beating faster and their sparks pulsing erratically to the hypnotic music that filled their processors.
On the outside just above the anti-chamber there was a glassed in balcony. Optimus, Megatron and several other mechs stood there watching the ceremony below. Wheeljack was taking energy reading every few minutes as Aura danced noticing how it was building in the temple and recording his findings. Optimus looked on fascinated with their steps and the marches. It reminded him of the ceremonial parties and tributes to Primus and the original thirteen in the temple on Cybertron and it made him nostalgic for his home planet. Megatron also noted the similarities although he had very little memories of ceremonies because he never had a need for them since it was the senate and the priests that preferred the traditions that had been passed from generation to generation.
Soundwave found the music hypnotic as he listened fascinated that it could be heard by the mind when there was no visible musicians of instrument. He wanted to investigate since this was his first time in the temple. Cassie looked beautiful standing as in the lead square representing the truth of the femmes. The cassettes had wanted to come but he insisted that they stay with the sparklings. Isis was already fretting for her mother and Shadow and Firefox clung tightly to each other. Ravage had circled his body around little Isis as she would soon be ready for her first upgrade.
Prowl kept watching Tia as she moved on the floor to one of the points of the star. He was concerned for her health as she took her place in sync with the others. He knew that she could be strong one minute and then break the next and he felt helpless that he was not standing with her. They were not bonded so he couldn't send her waves of comfort or support through a bond. He stood there hoping that she would be okay but then he realized that he must feel the same as the others because their bonds had been closed down and they didn't know what their mates were feeling.
Optimus saw Aura place the swords in two slots on the alter as she moved back reverently with her face pointed upward to the ceiling and her arms raised in praise and gratitude. As the swords lid in to the hilt the temple trembled and the mechs became alarmed as the air instantly filled with an energetic glow that reverberated off the walls of the temple and Hall. Aura backed away from the alter and walked back to her spot in the south. She nodded to Allie and Allie nodded back. Tia then brought the book of law to the alter and placed it on the center as steamed oozed up from the circle and a strange light began to glow from the floor. The glass over the balcony began to slowly darken but before they lost sight of the femmes below Optimus saw six cubes rise up from the floor. He took at picture of them quickly before the glass completely closed out their view and analyzed what he just witnessed. On Cybertron they only had the one but here he knew he saw six! Six Allspark cubes and they had only thought there was the one that Primus had given them. He looked over to Megatron and Megatron returned his gaze with shock and disbelief.
"Did I just imagine that or did you see it too?" Optimus hoarsely asked him.
"No I saw it. All this time that we had battled and here they held six of them!" He said in shock as static overcame his vocals.
Optimus wondered if Megatron would break the peace because of this and he feared that they may have just lost the only tendril of hope that had blossomed between the different factions. He knew that he would not recharge peacefully tonight and that he would not be comfortable until he was holding Allie in his arms. All the mechs filed out of the balcony slowly as Optimus Prime did not say a word for fear of his spark breaking. He refused to voice his concerns to anyone, not even Ironhide who had been with him since the beginning of when he became Prime.
Megatron knew what Prime was thinking and it was so tempting. He could pretend to want this peace and then strike by taking one of the cubes and raising his own army. He would finally be able to rule the universe and wreak revenge on those simpering humans that threaten to take his Decepticons as prisoners of war and make them stand trial for things that some of them didn't even do. He could have everything that he ever wanted but then he remembered Shalon and his little Storm. She would hate him and he knew it. Yes, she liked being mated to a powerful mech and it was what first attracted her to him, but he knew that she also loved Allie and the other femmes as much as she loved him and he would probably lose her to the spark ache that he would undoubtedly do just to have ultimate power. Would it be worth it? Could he give up his new found friendship with Optimus just to appease his dark spark that yearned to wreak havoc and destruction and how would that affect his little Storm who was clearly so happy and healthy. War was not a place for sparklings and they would undoubtedly suffer for his selfish desires to control and have power.
He couldn't do that but he would not say anything to Prime. He was after all a con at heart and it was amusing to let Prime brood with his insecurities. No, he would tease him a little just to see how much faith Prime placed in their new found friendship. It was sadistic but hell he couldn't completely change in less than a year.
