This story is co-written by myself and my two friends, Dragonriderwarrior and Devyn1234, we own nothing but our Oc's and we hope you enjoy this, this was inspired at first by the eclipse England had a few weeks ago and I made us think, me mostly, about what where the chances of a 100% eclipse, and then, with the scatter brain I had and the compiling of my two friends, this was created, once again we hope you enjoy!
Chapter 1
It was a late afternoon at the prestigious University of San Francisco, the sounds of the bustling city clear to hear, but in one dorm, it was like a mere whisper on the breeze.
"For the love of Primus! I love it with all my heart but we're not watching it again!" The oldest of the group of three yelled as she made a grab for the TV remote the youngest of the group had lifted high above her head.
"But I missed a bit when I went to the bath room! So we gotta watch it again!" The youngest retorted, the middle aged girl just sighed and rolled her eyes at the two from where she sat on the sofa, the ending credits for Transformers 2007 still on the screen, love these girls she did like sisters, but like all sisters they had a habit of driving her completely batty.
"You could've just re-winded it Ira! Me and Wren would've happily done that!" The older girl yelled at the youngest, gesturing to the blue and black haired girl sitting on the sofa wildly with her hand.
Wren had unfortunately been on the receiving end of her friends prank a few weeks ago. Ira was a born pranker through and through, and so after looking up a picture of a Wren, the small bird being what the British eighteen year old was named after, had decided to give the girl a similar hair colour.
Wren had been born whilst her family had been on holiday in Australia, just as they were going to name her Amy, a small Fairy Wren had landed on the open window, her father had asked what species it was and after the nurse told him, her name was changed to Wren.
Now, having looked up a picture of a male, Ira had talked Kia, the oldest of their small group to help her prank the calmest of their group.
Hence why the crown and fringe of the eighteen year olds head was blue and the rest of it dyed pitch black. Wren may not off been a pranker so to say but the vomit tasting cheese that had somehow made it onto the over girls parts of the pizza that night left no room for judgement as they'd both been fooled and taken bites, she may not of been one to react normally, her endurance like that of granite, but if there was one thing she took pride in it was the fact she didn't do anything to make herself look pretty, and dying her hair was an absolute no go. It was something her family despised and now she wore it, she was a failure.
Unfortunately, Ira had somehow mistaken industrial strength dye for normal hair dye.
Wren was effectively stuck with this hairdo for the next four years at the least. Perfect. Her family might as well of disowned her there and then, something she had made very clear to the two, who'd instantly realised there mistake and tried to remedy it to no avail.
Finally the squabbling of her friends got too much and before the two could start getting physical, Wren stood, her emerald green eyes narrowed as she looked at both. "Ira, we will continue the marathon later, you still have your mechanics assignment, Kia you have your robotics research into the development of titanium reinforced carbon fibre, both of which are incomplete and due in four days, we will continue the marathon once those are complete." Wren's word was law in their dorm, and that law was not to be disobeyed.
Both girls nodded, Ira gently placing the remote in the middle aged girls outward hand, Wren had completed her assignments at her usual pace, which meant it was done about two hours after it had been set. But that was what happened when you had a Rocket scientist for a father with the attitude of Ratchet after being pranked, you behave, follow the rules, and always do as told by your elders.
That didn't mean the eighteen year old wanted to be a rock, her life with her family had whipped the once creative, caring and determined girl into an emotionless rock against that of her own will, constant school work without break or any release would do that to a girl.
However, with the help of her two closest friends, the only ones she had left, she'd slowly been able to shed a few layers of that rock, she could at least smile now. But not much else.
It was about an hour later that Ira suddenly exclaimed. "Guys! We forgot about the Eclipse! We got to get our afts outside!" All three were dedicated Transformers fans, well Kia and Ira where, Wren had been cut off from it by her family and it had been the straw which broke her back, the other two girls had ever since been trying to get the old Wren back, by effectively showing the eighteen year old in transformers and freedom.
But there was one thing which always held all three back, Wren's parents.
They would come for surprise inspections every chance they got, and every morning they would send an email warning Wren not to screw up and fail.
That was the one thing the girl seemed to openly fear, failure.
Failure to live up to her parents astronomical expectations, failure to complete homework to a good enough standard, failure to read those sixty pages of Biology her mother sent her that morning.
It had left the girl in a state of near constant OCD, it was why nothing was out of place, why Wren would smooth every surface she walked or sat on, and doing the same with Ira and Kia.
Kia bolted for the door to their dorm, dragging Wren by the wrist as Ira ran around the room and collected their three back packs, stuffing all their transformers movies, transformer series DVD's and the stuffed G1 Optimus that Kia couldn't seem to sleep without.
Why?
Because Ira believed that Transformers was real, and that whenever she got the chance she prepared herself and her two friends for the jump between their worlds, hopefully being able to bring the stuff to prove that they were from a different world. Wren would of course object about the fact she now had to once again fix everything, but deep down she couldn't help but wish for it too, not only to meet the ones who'd kept her sane for a good portion of her life, but also to get away from her family, to be free of the shackles they had binding her. And to finally be able to show emotion again.
Ira practically ripped her back pack apart in her frantic process of trying to find the eclipse sunglasses she'd bought the day before. Wren rolled her eyes and reached into her own bag, pulling out the aforementioned sunglasses and handing them to the other two girls.
Ira raised an eyebrow, since when had Wren had them?
"You left them on the table last night." It was a simple statement but it had Ira feeling guilty, Wren was actually afraid of messes, afraid her parents would open the door, see the tiny imperfection and begin screaming at her about how she was a failure.
Leaving those glasses out probably really spooked the girl, at least, it seemed, it wasn't as bad as when they'd dyed her hair.
They'd never heard such horrific things from her parents before.
And a large portion of their hard work had been destroyed then.
Ira shook her head, Wren had actually broken down after that, people from all over campus had come to find out what the screaming wails had been about.
Kia took the her glasses, popping them on as the other two girls did the same, the half Mexican nineteen year old looked to Wren, all she wanted was to have her old online friend back, sure Wren had been a workaholic even then, but the machine she'd become, it hurt her to see one of her closest friends a shell of her former self.
They looked up once they were all ready. This was something which wouldn't happen again in their live time, a full 100% coverage of the sun by the moon, sending their part of the world into pitch darkness.
As the moon began to blot out the sun, Ira spoke up. "When the sun first emerges, make the wish."
Kia was first to nod, Wren soon following by example. They would wish for freedom, they would wish for happiness and they would wish to see those who kept them sane in a world that called them freaks behind their backs.
Finally, the world around them was plunged into temporary darkness, only the solar flares flickering out from behind the moon.
"Get ready." Kia almost hummed, excitement was radiating off the two friends, Wren tried to put out the excitement she felt. She looked to her two friends.
Ira was from Virginia, her once wild orange hair had long since been dyed black and straightened, her fringe was made up of two clumps of hair, both styled so they looked like points, and dyed a light grey. It was because she wanted to look like her favourite type of bird. The Peregrine Falcon, Wren had actually introduced the girl to the species before she broke, and the girl had fallen in love with the speedy bird, thus prompting the other two to divulge in their favourite birds. For Kia it was the Golden Eagle, and for Wren, it was the infamous Harpagornis, also known as the Haast's Eagle, one of the largest flying predatory bird to ever live, the bird had since become extinct, but the born Palaeontologist within the girl never wanted to drop her love for the powerful bird.
Kia's own hair had once been pitch black, however, during the dying frenzy the two seemed to go into, the girl had purposefully dyed her own hair golden brown with industrial dye, soon followed by Ira, now all three of them were stuck with the hair colour, not the brightest of moves in some aspects as Wren still looked like an male Fairy Wren, but it was the thought that counted.
Finally the moon began to move away from its position, and as they intended they each made the wish.
All three had closed their eyes during their wish, wanting to feel the light on their body's before once again seeing the bright light which was the burning ball of gas which gave their planet life.
That is until a sound similar to a falling WW2 bomb was heard.
Wren's eyes were the first to snap open, and in truth she wasn't sure what to believe, her mind went blank as the beam of white light shot towards them, at least until she heard Ira scream.
Wren acted fast, pulling both into her embrace and turning to face away from the beam, if she took it, they may just survive, it was too large to push them out of the way, they would still get hit.
Besides they had a chance to live happily, she'd always be chained, she knew a wish like the one she made couldn't come true.
And then, when it seemed like the world had turned white, they felt no more.
The beam struck the ground, the force of it carving a massive crater into the small mound of grass the girls had been standing on, thankfully everyone else had gone elsewhere to see the eclipse.
Meaning no one saw the three girls disintegrate, the pieces of them being pulled upwards, up the beam of light, and never to be seen again.
No one's ever wished on an eclipse before so why not?! Once again we hope you all enjoyed. Not sure when the next chapter will be up so until then, bye!
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