I use to love writing stories but eventually lost interest and motivation. A close friend of my who is completely hooked on Splatoon at the moment suggested writing a story on her favorite game in the hopes of gaining that interest again. I admit in writing this first chapter I kinda feel excited. Anyway, enjoy guys!

Chapter One – Sucker for Action!

"Where are you Levi!? This isn't funny!" shilled a young 17-year-old purple octoling as she bent down to peer in a large crack in a wall. Her Amber and lilac colored eyes overflowing with panic and fear.

The Octoling stood up straight and brushed her violet colored tentacles out of her face. the tentacle at the back of her head were tied so that they flowed like a ponytail.

"BOO!" squealed a tiny giggly voice as something small and squishy landed on the octoling's head. "Did I scare ya Tela? Huh? Huh?"

Tela snarled as she snatched the small purple Octarian infant off her head and held her out in front of her. The little one's excited face instantly disappeared as she saw the rage on the older Octarian's face.

"That wasn't funny Levi! I was so scared! Don't ever EVER do that again!" hissed Tela, but her scowling slowly faded as Levi burst into gurgling snotty tears which flowed freely from her green and red eyes.

Tela gave a sigh as she hugged the Octarian infant to her chest, Levi in turn tried to hug her tiny eight octopus limbs around Tela's neck as she continued to heave in little sobs.

"Oh Levi..." The older Octoling sank to her knees as the fear and panic ebbed away. "Don't ever do that again. If I had lost you I... I... (deep inhale of breath) Just promise me you won't ever do that again little sister. Please."

Levi looked up at her older sisters begging and nodded her little molecule head. "I promise Tela. I really do!"

Tela hugged her 6 year old sister closer before standing up and making her way out of the ruins she had desperately been searching for her sister in previously.

Levi slipped from her sister's arms and crawled to sit atop of Tela's head. Her little green eyes which were ringed by the color of red looked up at the fake sky, knowing despite the illusion that they were actually underground.

"Tela?" gurgled the little Octarian.

"Yeah?"

Levi gave a little gurgle as she patted her sister's forehead with one of her little tentacle limbs. "Do you think Mommy and Papa are in the sky? I mean the real one?"

Tela slowed her pace slightly as she gave a small shuddering breath. "Of course, little shrimp. Do you really think they would be stuck in this rotten underground with the rest of us? They're in a better place Levi. A happier place."

Silent now enveloped the two Octarians as Tela closed her lilac ringed amber eyes, dark memories and thoughts rushing forwards unbidden.

The Octarians have had nothing but bad luck since being forced underground after losing the The Great Turf War 100 years ago. No one could say the Octarians were weak though... they had suffered but survived everything that had been thrown at them and had managed to create different pockets of space underground to call their homes. Then 90 years later... their power began to run out, and their homes began to fall apart. Floating platforms, systems, communities... without power everything was slowly being swallowed by chaos.

The Octarians wouldn't last much longer if things continued as they were.

4 years later, Tela would experience a great joy in her life. Quickly followed by one of the darkest moments to ever grace her.

12-year-old Tela exited through the hospitals front door, a wide toothy smile adorned her face as she stared down at the little tiny bundle in her arms.

"Ready to be a big sister Tela?" said a female older Octoling, her voice like tinkling glass as she glances with love and adoration at her two daughters.

"Ready? You bet your ink Mom!" laughed Tela with joy, then suddenly she squealed with delight as Levi grabbed her little finger with a tiny tentacle.

"I can't believe you managed to get your transformation under control before your sister's arrival!" laughed a male Octarian as he wrapped one of his thick tentacles around his older daughter's shoulders.

"I thought you were kidding when you said you were going to do it. Most Octarians can't control their forms till at least 14. I'm impress kiddo!"

Tela was about to open her mouth to retort when sudden alarmed cries rang out, making the happy family freeze.

Octarians and Octolings started to rush towards them in panic, some of them almost sending Tela and Levi flying if not for their father who wrapped them and their mother tight with his eight tentacles to protect them.

"What's going on? Why is everyone scared?" their mother whispered in slight panic towards her husband.

CRACK!

Octarians everywhere began to scream even more as Tela and her family now saw what was causing the uproar. One the floating platforms high above which housed an estate began to fall, it's power now gone.

"RUN!" The father yelled as he pushed his family in the opposite direction to try and avoiding the colossal platform which were now falling at an increase pace.

Tela held onto her baby sister as tightly as she could, crying tears of fear as the area around them drew darker from the platforms shadow. They weren't going to make it. The platform was too big to out run.

Tela watched as the other Octarians desperately sprayed the ground with their purple ink and then diving into it in their Octopus forms to try and outswim instead.

Their mother clung onto their father and whispered something in his ear as she pointed to the cave wall, a look of desperation but also determination. The male Octarian nodded his head in grim acceptance. With brute strength, he wrapped a tentacle around a sobbing Tela and gurgling Levi, then pulled them over towards the cave wall which housed a small crack. Only big enough for a child to slip through.

"Tela" shouted the male Octarian gaining his daughters attention. "I need you to know that your mother and I love you and Levi, no matter what. Promise me you will take care of your sister Tela!"

Tela shuddered with fear as ink tears flowed down her face. Her father grabbed her shoulders and shook her slightly.

"Tela! I need you to promise!"

"I-I (choke) pr-promise!" sobbed Tela as her mother made her way towards her and wrapped her daughter in her arms. She then kissed Tela and Levi's forehead before stepping back.

"Love you both my special babies."

With that both parents pushed their daughters into the crack and watched as they fell into the darkness, landing on the hard ground a few inches down.

"MOM! DAD!"

The light flitting down the entrance from which her parents stood disappeared as the ground and cave shook violently, the noise so defending that Tela clutched at her pointed ears in pain and screwed her eyes closed. Little Levi screamed in almighty fear and panic.

When the noise and shaking subsided, Tela slowly opened her eyes and clutched the distressed Levi to her chest tightly and attempted to calm her down with little coos and whispers.

Finally, the young Octoling looked up and gasped, ink tears streaming down her face again as she stared at the entrance. It was now blocked by the edge of the platform that had fallen, and underneath... dripped purple ink.

"Tela?"

Said Octoling shook her head slightly at the sound of her sister's voice. "Don't get your tentacles in a twist Levi I'm fine. Just thinking about stuff."

The young Octoling could still remember being stuck in that crack in the wall until she finally had the sense to look around, and managed to find a small passage that led back to cavern.

Ever since then she had to scrap together what she could and scavenge what she needed for the last 6 years in order for her and her sister's survival. The rest of the Octarians didn't have the time or the patience for two little orphan girls.

"Tela?" asked Levi again. "Do you think, that we'll be able to see the real sky too one day? Would the Inklings let us?"

Tela suddenly scowled at the mention of the Inklings. No good spoiled little rotten squids! She knew all about them from history lessons from her father. She knew how they, the Octarians lost to the Inklings in the Great Turf War.

She knew how they all lived on the surface, feeling the sun and open sky as they went about their spoiled little lives being lazy, obsessing over fashions and playing their silly little turf war games.

Did they not care that a whole civilization of Octarians lived right under their feet!? Denied sunshine and real sky's as their worlds collapsed. Tela hated them.

Tela really REALLY hated them!

"Don't worry Levi, I promise I'll take you to see the real sky one day."

Little Levi began to slap her tentacles in excitement as her body wobbled and jiggled. Tela laughed as she reached up and pluck her sister from her head with a little 'plop!' sound.

Yeah... Tela meant it when she made that promise. It had been such a long time ago since she saw the real sky herself when father took her above ground.

DIG IT MY OCTARIANS! LISTEN UP!

Tela stopped walking as she and Levi turned towards the source of the booming voice that seem to echo around the whole massive cave space.

THIS IS DJ OCTAVIO MAKING AN ANNOCEMENT!

Levi gurgled with excitement and began to bounce as multiple screens around the area lit up to revel DJ Octavio, the leader of the Octarians.

AS EVERYONE IS AWARE, OUR SITUATION AT THE MOMENT AS BEEN PRETTY SCRITCH SCRATCH ROUGH. OUR POWER SOURCE IS RUNNING OUT, BUT DON'T FRET YOUR LITTLE SUCKERS.

I DJ OCTAVIO HAS COME UP WITH A PLAN TO BRING US BACK ON TOP OF THE MOLECUSE CHAIN!

WE'RE GOING TO STEAL ALL THE ZAPFISH FROM THOSE ROTTEN INKLINGS, INCLUDING THE GREAT ZAPFISH!

"Steal the great zapfish?" muttered Tela with a frown. Was that even possible?

WITH THE ZAPFISH FINALLY IN OUR TENTACUES, WE'LL HAVE ALL THE POWER WE COULD POSSIBLY NEED!

THOSE ROTTEN UNFAIR INKLINGS WILL FINALLY KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SUFFER! TIME TO FLIP THE TABLES MY LITTLE OCTARIANS!

IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BRING JUSTICE TO THOSE PATHETIC INKLINGS THEN JOIN MY ARMY!

CROSS OUT FADE TO BLACK YO!

The screens flicked before fading to black. The booming words of DJ Octavio still fresh in Tela's ear as she stared upwards in wonderment.

"Tela?" asked Levi as she looks up at the frozen form of her sister. "Are you ok?"

A massive grin split across the older octolings face. "Ok? I'm better then ok Levi. Things are going to start picking up for us little shrimp. I can feel it."

With that, Tela turned around and began to head in the direction towards a certain kettle.

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Tela pushed open the door to her room and fell to the floor with groan, she sluggishly lifted her foot and half-heartily kicked the door closed. A little Octarian child stopped her activity of drawing on the small crooked brown bed, and jumped off when she saw the state of her older sister.

"Tela! Tela you ok?" Levi bubbled in concern as she slapped her front tentacles on the battered tired face of the older octoling.

Tela gave a hiss of pain and gently pushed her worried sister away. "Stop it Levi I'm fine. Training was just… a little rough today."

Levi puffed her little purple cheeks out in annoyance before suddenly giving a start, her little green and red ringed eyes widening as she wriggled over to the picture she had been drawing.

"Look Tela! I drew a picture of us!"

Tela who had been in the sluggish process of taking her Octoling goggles and armor off looked up at the sheet of paper being held up. Her heart gave a jump as her eyes went wide.

The picture was of Levi and Tela holding hands looking up at the sky. The faces of their parents looking down at them and smiling.

"I can't wait to say hello to Mommy and Papa." Little Levi hugged the picture to her form and closed her eyes, a contented smile blooming on her cute little face.

"It's amazing little shrimp, a work of art like that has to put up for show!" grinned Tela as she unhooked her inktank, placing it and her Octoshot weapon down against the wall. She carefully took the picture and pinned it on the wall above her bed.

"Much better."

Tela sat on the bed, leaning her back against the head board and then pulled Levi onto her lap. She was wearing nothing but her underwear, not that it bothered her or her sister.

The young Octoling closed her eyes as Levi snuggled into her midriff, thinking back on what had transpired in the last month since the announcement from DJ Octavio.

It almost seems like a dream. She remembered headed to the army base to join in the fight against the Inklings. DJ Octavio merely casted her a bored look before nodding his head, accepting her.

They outfitted her with the Octo armor, supplied her with one of their weapons and also gave her a room to call her own in the base. True the room was small, damp, and smelly but… it was hers.

Then the harsh training began. All new recruits were being brutally trained in order to protect and keep secure the Great zapfish and all the other mini zapfish that had within weeks of Tela joining the army, been stolen off the Inklings by DJ Octavio himself and his elite soldiers.

Tela nearly laughed herself to death when she found out the Inklings didn't even know their power source was missing till hours later in the day. Such lazy squids.

Life for Octarians, thanks to the Zapfish grew better every day. Things were finally starting to look up for them.

Levi gave a little snore, the noise pulling Tela out of her thoughts as she smiled down at her sister. Yes… things were finally getting better.

Tela shuffled down into the covers of her bed and moved around until she was comfortable with Levi in her arms. Slowly she fell into a deep sleep with a smile on her face.

Unaware of the events that would soon put a damper to her happy ending. Through the intervention of an old grizzly Inkling Captain and a young but skilled Inkboy.