Starlights, chapter 3

Before you continue reading, I would very much appreciate it if you read the first two chapters first. If you have already read them, then you're good to go. If not, just scroll all the way down for a link to the folder I set up for the full story.

The next day, Flare and Orion wake up in their bedroom to the alarm clock sounding off at 9 A.M. Flare turns it off and says to Orion, “Morning, Orion.”

“Ah, good morning, Flare,” Orion replies, stretching.

They both get up from their bed and walk to the kitchen to get breakfast. As they walk over there, they see the Starlights watching TV. “Hey kids,” they both say.

“Hey mom, hey dad,” the Starlights reply.

“Feeling any better now, Solar?” Flare asks Solar.

“Well, a little bit,” Solar says.

“That’s good to hear,” Flare replies.

“Feeling better about what?” Star asks Solar.

“Well...” Solar started.

“Well... what?” Nite asks.

“Well, I got quite scared yesterday,” Solar says.

“Yes, and?” Star says.

“Well, after my walk yesterday, mom told me about her time in the war against Overlord Nebula,” Solar says.

“Oh yeah, that story,” Nite replies. “Yeah, we kinda figured you’d be scared by something like that.”

“Yeah, in fact, when mom told us this story, we were scared too, because we don’t want mom to die like her parents did during that war,” Star says to Solar.

“Mm-hmm,” Solar replies, nodding.

“It’s even scarier when you realize that there is a possibility that he may come back,” Nite says. “We should be keeping our eyes out for when the day he comes back finally comes.”

“R-right,” Solar replies, stuttering from fear. She and her brothers return to watching TV to calm themselves down.

Later that day, the Starlights are all in their rooms. Star is playing a game, Nite is reading a novel, and Solar is watching a movie. Suddenly, they all hear loud knocks on the door and their parents screaming in the living room. The Starlights stop what they're doing and run to the living room. “WHAT!? WHAT!?” the Starlights all scream.

“Th-th-th.. Th-” Flare tried speaking.

“WHAT IS IT!?” the Starlights shout.

“H-he’s-” Orion, also trying to speak, was interrupted by loud knocks on the door, which scares everyone.

“Yoo-hoo! Hello! Anyone in here!?” A mysterious voice shouts.

“Wh-wha-what is that!?” Star says, panicking.

“Yoo-hoo! I've got a special delivery, and it has you’re names on it!” the voice shouts.

“W-well, w-we never asked for anything, you got the wrong house!” Solar says.

“Oh, is that so!?” the voice replies. “Well, then I guess I’ll send it to someone who did order this package... as a present for you!” His three white-furred servants barged the front door open and shot lasers from their plasma guns, breaking everything that they aimed their guns at. The Starlights and their parents hide quickly behind a couch before the servants did start shooting.

As soon as the servants stop shooting, they see that the Starlights are nowhere in sight. “Um, uh, Nebula, th-there’s nobody here,” says one of Nebula's servants named Orbo, the servant with glasses.

“Yeah, why did you take us to a house obviously no one lives in!?” says East, the one with a black rose.

“Yeah, I want my time and my ammo back!” says Ray, the one with the baseball cap.

“Enough!” Nebula shouts, shutting his servants up. “Obviously, none of you heard the little voices in this house! Now, go searching around and find those damn kids!”

Behind the couch, Solar quietly gasps, but closes her own mouth to try to keep herself silent.

“What do we do!?” Star whispers to Flare.

“Well, while Nebula isn’t looking-” Flare, whispering her plan so quietly that Nebula couldn't have heard it, gets interrupted by Nebula moving the couch.

“You were saying?” Star says to Flare.

“Well look at that, could this have been any easier to find!?” Nebula shouts.

“Well, you're about to lose us after we’re through with you!” Orion shouts, standing up.

“That’s right!” Flare replies.

“Oh, but it’s not you I'm looking for,” Nebula says. “I’ve come for them!” He was about to grab the Starlights, but then the Starlights ran away.

As they tried to outrun him, though, they get captured by his servants. East captures Star, Orbo captures Nite, and Ray captures Solar. “Dang it!” the Starlights shouts.

“No!” Flare and Orion shout. As they tried to rescue the Starlights, however, Nebula grabs them with two whips he brought over. They get captured by their feet, causing them to gasp and fall to the ground. “Y-you won’t get away with this!” they shout.

“Oh, you think so?” Nebula says. “My transportation device says otherwise!” He pulls out a blaster and shoots a portal out of it. “Servants, push the Starlights into the portal! Now!”

“Yes sir!” East, Orbo, and Ray reply, moving the Starlights towards the portal.

“No! Let us go now! Please!” the Starlights shout, trying to escape.

Flare and Orion gasp and try to move out of Nebula's whips to rescue their children. Before they could though, Nebula’s servants push the Starlights into the portal, which disappears as soon as the Starlights are thrown inside. “Noooooooo!” they both shout.

Overlord Nebula laughs as he sees that the Starlights are sent to another place in this dimension where it seems like it will take them forever to come back. “Yes! I've done it!”

“You monster!” Flare shouts, crying.

“You will pay for this!” Orion shouts, also crying.

“Oh, we’ll see about that!” Nebula replies. As Flare and Orion try to escape Nebula’s whips, his servants grab them by the arms with their own whips, causing them to feel pain. “Now that the Starlights are gone, nothing will come by to stop me!”

To be continued in the fourth chapter...