I have a poll on my profile page asking a question I really want to have answered. I'm trying to get as many answers as I can, and very few people visit my profile. I've gotten literally one answer in a week, and that's sad. Please answer, and be honest about it.

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DARKNESS RISING PART ONE

My name is Sheyenne, and I am seventeen years old. I have blue-gray eyes and long dirty blonde hair, which I usually wear in a braid with bangs to hide my secret. I am a master airbender, but what's more, I am the avatar. I know what I need to do, find a master of each of the other three elements and learn to bend them, but with all benders in hiding for the last two thousand years, it's not going to be easy.

I shrug and reach into my closet, glancing at the picture I had found of my avatar ancestor, Aang, as I do. I cling to a family heirloom—a pale blue-gray star shaped stone—and flash back to the day I got my arrows, on my birthday at the age of thirteen.

'"You're sure you want to do this? It will be harder to hide the fact that you are a bender."

I look up at my mother, determination on my face. "I don't care. Aang would tell me to wear my arrow proudly, and I have to try."

She sighs and crosses the room to the tattoo supplies and picks up the light blue ink after shaving my head. "Your father and I are very proud of you."

"I know." I say.

"And your connection with our ancestor has more weight to it than you think. You, Sheyenne, are the Avatar."

I look up at her. "Then Aang would want me to be the best Avatar I can be. I can't do that by being afraid of being caught. I know about my brother Gyatso being captured, but I can't let that can't stop me."'

I shudder and pull out a pair of blue jeans and a yellow t-shirt, grabbing an orange hoodie that covers the backs of my hands out of the closet as a precaution, knowing I can't use my bending in school and that I am stuck next to the air vent in practically every class. It's been four years since I mastered airbending, and I still have yet to find a waterbender to teach me. 'Sometimes I wish Katara was immortal.' I fake a smile for the world and walk out the door.

After parking my yellow Beetle in the school lot, I pull on the orange hoodie, making sure my arrows are well hidden. I walk into the school and look around. 'All the corruption… this world needs an avatar. I need to get a team together, like Aang did thousands of years ago. The world has changed since Aang was around, but that doesn't mean we've had to change. My values are still just as strong as Aang's were. I can do this.'

My best friend, Miko, a foreign exchange student, runs over dragging our young friend Raf, a twelve year old prodigy. "Sheyenne, what's going on? You've been in a daze since you walked in!"

"I'm fine, Miko. How's it going, Raf?"

"Pretty good." Raf straightens his sweater vest. "Have you seen Jack yet?"

Miko points off to the left. "Oh, he's over there. I think he's trying to get Sierra to go out with him again."

I roll my eyes, trying to hide the sadness in them.

"Why don't you just tell Jack you like him?" Miko asks.

"I can't. For reasons I can't admit for your safety, I can't."

Miko and Raf share a confused look as Jack joins us. "What's going on over here?"

The bell rings, causing Jack and I to be left alone, being in the same class. We're juniors this year.

"So, what have you been doing? I haven't seen you after school in weeks."

"I got a job at the KO Drive-in. I'm trying to save up enough money to buy myself a motorcycle."

I smile weakly. "Mom and Dad bought my car. I've had my beetle for a year now."

"Things aren't as easy when your father isn't around. Mom can't buy me everything your parents can."

"I know. Hey, why don't I catch you after you get off work, and we'll talk then."

Jack simply nods as we enter the class room.

"Hi, Jack!" I wave at him from the other side of the drive-in.

"Hey, Sheyenne!" Jack smiles. "I'll be off in a few minutes. Some jerks stole some food."

"It'll be okay, Jack. Money isn't everything, and you don't need gas."

Jack shrugs. "I guess you're right. You haven't found a job yet?"

"I haven't felt ready yet." I shrug.

While the two of us talk, a blue and pink motorcycle pulls into the lot behind me, puts down a kickstand, and the rider disappears into thin air.

Jack walks out the door, and his phone rings. "Hey, Mom. I just got off. No, I'm not going to the dance. Experience suggests I should never cut a rug… unless I'm installing carpet."

"Be careful." June says on the other end.

"Be careful? Seriously? This is Jasper." Jack finally notices the motorcycle and stops, staring at it.

"Jack?" I wave my hand in front of his face comically.

"I love you." Jack says to the bike, before realizing where he is, "Yeah, I love you too mom, gotta run."

Jack hangs up the phone and approaches the motorcycle. "Hello, Beautiful." Jack approaches the motorcycle. "Where have you been all my life?" Jack runs his fingers gently down the seat.

I swear it shivered, but I ignore it.

Jack walks over and sits on the bike, admiring it.

I walk over and lean against the bike.

"It may take a few KO paychecks, Shey, but I am going to own a ride like this someday." Jack says.

"She is beautiful, but I prefer more than two wheels—just my luck I'd dump her on the first ride. And I'd hate to mess up that paint job."

Suddenly there's a bright light from which I have to shield my eyes. I look to the source and see two purple-black cars facing directly towards Jack and I. They rev their engines, when I realize; they're going to run us over! Before Jack could do anything, the motorcycle roars to life, doing a wheelie and driving off with Jack still on. He pulls me onto it before clutching onto the handles for dear life and screaming. The bike drives straight between the two cars and away.

"Do not let go." we hear a voice say.

"Who said that?" Jack yells. The bike then turned a corner into an abandoned alleyway. When it stops Jack and I jump off. "What. Are you?" Jack asks, still shaken by the whole situation.

"I don't exist. Tell anyone about me, and I'll hunt you down." The motorcycle growled.

Jack nods dumbly as it drives off. We run around a corner, hoping to get out of this mess.

Jack and I are standing behind a massive blue robot and two purple-black robots are standing in front of us, weapons drawn.

"Hop on!" The thing says as it transforms into a motorcycle. I assume that it is a female, from of the tone of her voice. Ironically, she had turned into the same motorcycle, in fact, that Jack and I had been riding.

I gawp before scrambling on, gripping Jack's shirt tight.

The motorcycle drives off and I realize that the other two had transformed and are coming after us.

"So, what's your name?" I ask as we ride frantically.

"The names Arcee." She says, proudly.

Just then Jack decides to ruin the, somewhat peaceful moment. "Why are those guys shooting at us?" Jack frantically asks.

'Oh Jack.'

"There's no us kid, and they aren't guys." She flatly replies. We are now riding on a highway. The robot cars are getting closer to us, when a yellow Camaro Urbana with black stripes comes and knocks them out of the way.

"Friend?" I ask.

"Family." Arcee says.

The Camaro Urbana is now driving in front of the other two cars. I can't help but grin at the sight. Just then one of them goes into another lane and speeds past him. I gasp when the car smashes into the car and sends him spinning in circles. By now the highway was completely empty, thank God.

Jack and I scream. We are coming to a gap inside the motorway where it had been destroyed. Arcee flies over the gap and drives down the hill. She then jumps the twelve foot gap and lands gracefully while coming to a stop. Jack takes the hint and climbs off, and I follow close behind.

"Woah." Raf drops the remote for his car in surprise.

"Hey, Raf." I wave.

"You have no idea." Jack says, sounding out of breath.

The boy runs up to us just as the two vehicles come speeding down the hill, transforming in mid-air.

Arcee transforms behind us and we run off to the wall. "This ends here cons." She says before running up to them. She jumps up and kicks one of them down. Arcee dodges a shot from the other one and kicks him in the face.

"What are they?" Raf asks.

"Talking cars that turn into robots. Or the other way around." Jack says, sounding slightly confused.

We are still staring at the battle right in front of us.

Arcee is whooping their butts, continually kicking and punching them. They then start shooting at her as she flips backwards. After a moment one of the shots hits her in the chest and she flies back.

I gasp, my hand over my mouth.

Jack and Raf stand there with wide eyes.

Arcee is lying on the ground, not stirring.

When all hope seems lost the yellow Camaro Urbana comes, transforms, and punches the nearest bot right in the jaw. By now Arcee is trying to stand up, holding her head and groaning. When the yellow robot has managed to push one of the bad guys onto the floor he steps back, only to smash Raf's car.

I can't help but feel sorry for him.

"I'm sorry."He says.

All you should be able to hear are whirs and clicks, but I can understand him. 'I-I can understand him… maybe it's some kind of avatar thing, I mean, Aang could understand Appa and Momo…'

Raf must have understood as well. "No problem."

I then notice the bot getting up and charging his gun up. "LOOK OUT!" I scream, but it's too late.

He's shot right in the chest and, like Arcee, he soars backwards. When he tries to get up the other robot stands on his head, effectively pinning him. He then lifts his foot up and the poor bot turns around to have two blasters charging up in his face, aiming at him.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Raf shouts.

The two robots look up at us, and move their guns towards us.

Raf's eyes grow wide. "Please."

Jack places his hand onto Raf's shoulder. "Bad call."

The less injured one starts walking towards us. We then run around the corner and to a large pipe. The robot still following us.

"Scrap, scrap, scrap." I mutter under my breath as I run.

We jump into the sewer pipe and are just about to be grabbed when the evil bot gets dragged out and we hear a punching noise. We exchange looks as the yellow bot gets to his knees and looks right at us through the hole. "Run."

"Thank you." I gasp, tired out.

"You're Welcome."He gets up and walks off.

"Don't look back." Jack grabs Raf by his hand.

'Jack, always the serious, responsible one.'

"What did we just see?" Raf asks.

"No idea." I say, shrugging.

"And I do not want to find out." Jack states.

When I walk in the door after returning my bike to the garage, I act like nothing happened, but something did. Something major. I sigh softly and sit on the bed to take off my shoes.

'I wonder what Aang would do? There's so much corruption in the world, just as there was when Aang came out of the iceberg.'

I smile as a thought comes to mind, and I know it came from Aang. 'Work with them. They need you, and you need them.'

"I will, Avatar Aang." I say under my breath before pulling on a pair of Air Nomad symbol printed pajamas my mother had sewn. "I am an airbender, and I am the Avatar!" I pull out a stuffed Sky Bison I had named after Aang's and look over at the picture of me with my mother, father, and missing-for-ten-years little brother as I drift off to sleep.

I pull on a pair of jeans with a wide brown belt and a yellow polo with white tennis shoes and yellow socks before pulling on a yellow hoodie to hide my arrows. I grab my purse, my lunch box, and my school bag. "Mom, I'm leaving for school!" I then walk out the door. I chose to walk today, it being a beautiful day, and head toward the school, which is about a half a mile away.

"Be careful out there." Mom says as I walk past her.

"Seriously? We live in Jasper, Mom. I'm safe anywhere I go."

The bell rings, but Jack and I are kept behind for a couple of minutes due to our talking.

"Have you finished your science project yet?" Jack walks up to me after school.

"Honestly… I've been too focused on other things. But I plan to get started tonight, honest."

"Don't worry about it. I haven't done mine either. So what's yours about?"

"Alternative energy sources. Wind, solar, water…"

Jack nods. "I'm trying to make a motorcycle." Jack says.

"Cool. So what are you doing tonight, besides your science project?"

"I'll probably just watch TV. Order takeout."

"You could come over to my house for supper. Mom's making lasagna." I say.

"Yeah, vegetarian lasagna." Jack says.

"It's still better than organic tofu." I shrug.

"You're a vegetarian. That's all you eat." Jack says.

"Just because I eat it, doesn't mean I like it." I cross my arms. 'It's still better than stewed sea prunes, even I have to admit that.'

We walk out together.

I notice Miko is sitting on the half wall connected to the side of the school's front entrance and stairs. She's too busy drawing to notice me. I giggle and creep up, effectively scaring her. She screams and nearly falls of the wall. "SHEYENNE!"

I'm about to respond with a snappy comeback when I see Jack walking away from the school and Raf gesturing me to get into the same yellow Camaro Urbana whom we had met yesterday.

"Sorry Miko, I have to go, it's urgent. You can yell at me tomorrow." I run and jump into the yellow car. I'm sitting in the driver's seat as the door closes.

"Hello again."

"If you don't mind me asking, what is your name and where are we going?"

"My name is Bumblebee and I have been ordered by our leader Optimus Prime to take you to our base."

I nod in understanding.

"Oh and by the way I'm Raf and that's Sheyenne." Raf gestures to me.

"Nice to meet you two."

"And you too." I beam.

While Bumblebee is driving through a desert area I notice that Arcee is behind us with Jack. We then get to a T road as there is a massive cliff-like mountain, but Bumblebee just drove straight forward. We're going to crash!

I try to keep cool for Raf as he panics slightly but as we get closer to the cliff face it opens. I sigh with relief. Bumblebee drives in and there is a long, metal road before we come to this massive room, big enough for Bumblebee to transform in with ease.

He slows down considerably and I see a red and white robot looking at us and a green one, they were both bigger than Bumblebee, as well as bulkier, especially the green one. Bumblebee eventually stops and opens his doors while undoing our seatbelts.

I step out to see a red and blue robot standing in front of us.

He is even bigger than the green one. He gives off an aura of leadership, so I'm guessing that he is their leader.

"Optimus Prime?" Raf asks him.

He nods.

Seemingly ignoring me, Miko runs over to Raf and stands next to him.

"I thought there were three?" The red and white one asks Arcee.

"Haven't you heard, humans multiply." She replies.

Miko snickers and he glares at her. She just glares back.

"I'm Raf." Raf says.

"I'm Miko." Miko goes up to the giant green one. "Who are you?"

"Bulkhead." The green bot replies.

Miko gasps. "Are you a car? I bet you're a truck, a monster truck! Do you like heavy metal? How much do you weigh? Ever use a wrecking ball for a punching bag?" She doesn't even wait for a response.

Bulkhead just stands there confused.

I laugh and shake my head, getting the bots attention. "She's obsessed."

Miko mopes but then sticks her tongue out at me.

"What'd I do?" I ask. "And who might you be?" The red and white one asks.

I look up at him. "Sheyenne." I say timidly.

Miko gives the red and white robot a questioning look, and he seems to catch on. "My designation is Ratchet." He says.

I nod and look back up at Optimus. He just looks amused.

"So, if you guys are robots, who made you?" Raf asks.

Ratchet scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Ugh! Puh-leez…"

"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron…" All four of us look up to Optimus. "…Also known as Autobots."

Jack walks up closer to him. "Why are you here?"

"To protect your planet, from the decepticons." Optimus says.

"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night." Arcee puts her hands on her hips.

"Why are they here?" Jack asks, referring to the decepticons.

Optimus goes down onto one knee. "A fair question Jack. In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable, ravaged by centuries of civil war." Optimus answers. Raf, Miko, and I move forward to stand next to Jack.

"Why were you fighting a war?"

"Foremost, over the control of our world's supply of energon, the fuel and life blood of all Autobots, and Decepticons alike. The combat was fierce, and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom I considered a brother, but in war ideals can be corrupted. And it was thus, that Megatron lost his way." Optimus finishes.

Miko is twirling her hair. She sighs. "Is there gonna be a quiz?"

I slap Miko across the back of the head. "Owww. What was that for?" Miko rubs the back of her head. "I thought you were a pacifist!"

"For being inconsiderate."

Jack glares up at the Prime. "So what has Megatron, or any of this, have to do with us?"

'Good question.'

"Megatron has not been seen nor heard from in some time, but if his return is immanent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic." Optimus says.

I nod my head, and so does Raf. Miko has her arms crossed and I'm guessing that she didn't listen to half of what he had said to us. Jack just stood there.

'Oh my God, we just met super cool alien robots! I feel bad for them about their war, though. Living in hiding in a world they're not familiar with? Reminds me of my ancestors… and myself. I wish I could tell Jack what I am, but I'm afraid he may turn tail and run.'