A Tail of Sparks - Chapter One

Story by IanWolf on SoFurry

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#1 of Sparks Willfly

A Tail of Sparks follows an eclectic Chua named Sparks Willfly as he travels across the universe in search of adventure and fulfillment in life. Will Sparks find what he's looking for or will he be forever disappointed?


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Author's Note: This story demands a quick explanation. Unlike my normal stories I write, this story relies less on correct grammar and more on remaining accurate to my character. The character in this story is a Chua, a character from the MMORPG Wildstar which I've recently gotten into. Due to my love of MMORPGs, I felt it appropriate to write this story to sort of share my love with other fans. Now, although the main character is from the Wildstar universe (which I have altered to aid in my plot so don't get butthurt if the lore isn't 100% accurate for all you MMORPG lore nerds out there - yes, I am myself one so I feel your pain but plot must come first), I'm planning on doing some fun crossing of games. Yay!

Secondly, I was planning on writing this solely for myself so I'm not planning on making it perfect. As is my main character's personality, this story is going to be raw and playful. Also very eclectic. Expect chaos. So much chaos.

Like my other stories, don't expect sex right away. I enjoy setting up the plot and developing character's personalities. I'll get to it. Just be patient. I actually want to make this a sort of half story if you will. Each segment will be a new chapter like in a book, except this book is open and I don't have an ending in mind yet. Yay for laziness! What makes this story fun is I'd love to get involvement from the audience. Please put your comments below on how you would like to do this. I was thinking of letting you all choose fetishes you'd like for me to add in while still retaining the main plot. Or I could do a choose your own adventure sort of thing where I have several options listed and you can vote on them. Or you could tell me to just write if like me you are too lazy for anything more complex than that XD

Let me know your thoughts. :) Well enjoy this piece. I have no idea if it's even readable lol This is 90% accurate to how a Chua would speak and think. I actually did research. I know, shocker lol

Oh, last note, this story is written about the past, then it will catch up to the present, so the first like 3 entries are kind of set in stone. Sorry :( They're like back story. The fun sexy stuff will happen after the second or third entry, which you get to help write. Yay for public involvement! :D

Last, last note, don't get offended by all the 'morons' and 'idiots.' Chua's are notorious for having a God complex and thinking lowly of others. Have fun! :D

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Journal Entry 1:

Sparks. My name it is. Sparks Will Fly! No? I suppose not. Am Chua but unlike Chua don't like Chua things. Well... don't hate but not like either.

Understand?

If not, you moron. Waste of time. Stop reading now. No point. Too dumb.

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Ahem.

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Suppose somewhat Chua-like after all. Nonetheless!

This is story! Mine! All mine! Not yours, you get? This story span two universes. Mine and one I travel to. Exciting, no?

What you say? Wanna know what on about?

Too bad.

You wait... moron.

Why you so demanding? Not satisfied with your life so you wanna know mine? Fine! I get to it! Stop being so impatient! Geez! You like Cassians. Slow yet curious! Wait, you Cassian?

No...

Probably not.

BUT! If you Cassian, know you are moron! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Too funny. You dumb. Take thousand years to get smart. Took Chua less than half you! Pathetic!

Though must admit, fun to prank.

Guess more Chua than thought! HA!

Maybe you wonder what - no, WHO Chua are, is?

We the best, duh.

No, more detail you want, guess... We Chua are great. Come from Bezgalor. Homeworld, yet never stepped paw on it. Sad I suppose, yet new worlds fun too! Like Cassians or humans as you weirdos call them, I curious as well. Just not stupid like you... well, if you human reading this.

Chua like to invent, create life from junk. Junk, if used right can be turned into awesome machine. Only Chua best at creating. Humans okay but not Chua quality. No where else in the universe, universes? Not sure no more, but nonetheless!

We Chua like to invent! You know this now. Problem. Invent needs junk. Junk finite. Bezgalor is small. Tiny in fact. Used up quickly. Less than few centuries.

Need more. Hunger.

Cassians help us get to more! MORE! ALWAYS MORE! Our hunger be big.

Well, Chua hunger be big. My hunger little different. I hunger for adventure. Eclectic yet somewhat organized.

Think Cassian order ruin me! See, I born aboard Dominion vessel heading to Nexus. Our ship fast but takes several decades to reach destination. More than one generation! Thus Sparks was born! Created?

Don't have ma or papa so suppose latter. Clone? Not sure. Don't care. More important things to worry about.

Born on ship. Not many Chua.

Fifty by thousand.... no, that not right. Fifty thousand? That how you say it here? Noneth- you get the point...

Fifty thousand of new generation born. Some frozen but that no fun at all. Also expensive. Only hundred were frozen in stasis. Mostly generals or leaders. Us, we expendable. Expect lose life or limb. Don't mind either but not chosen for combat.

Only thousand Chua born. We new to Cassian teka. Many embryo die.

Too bad, so sad. More for me! Less competition.

Less talk, but don't mind. Quiet, Sparks is.

Probably don't believe me, but compared to others, Sparks a mute!

Us Chua don't live in big group anyway. Thirty to forty at most. My group was on small side. Twenty three adult Chua, 13 apprentice.. Well... 12 after one Chua accidentally blew himself up. HAHAHA!!!!

We Chua laugh for weeks. Make fun of moron. IDIOT wanted drink water, so created 2:1 ratio of Hydrogen with Oxygen. Added electricity. BOOOOOOM!!!! Moron, flooded room with extra O2. Left O2 can on. What dumb idiot! Learn chemistry at like 2 days old. How forget to turn off O2? Stupid, that how!

After that, accidents claimed 5 others. So happy. Chua aren't very careful much. Remember life and limb?

After deaths, I get more attention. Since I last alive not interested in robots or combat, I get even more attention! Hardly had to win over any Chua elder. By Chua elder, mean first generation born 40 years before mine. 40 old for Chua.

First generation even less Chua than mine. No more than 500 born. Almost half mine. Suckers! Get old even before reach Nexus, our destination. Life completely on ship. Boring life.

Spent 10 year on ship. Apprenticed by 3. Start young. No time to waste!

Apprentice name me Sparks. Not because I like to weld either! Says he sees them behind my eyes. Sign of intelligence he says. Sparks thinks old bastard insane! Crazy! Only sparks in eyes are 6 Chua who blew up! Sparks, blood, regret and stupidity. Probably some flames for good measure too! Flames always good addition.

No, Sparks not interested in creating sparks like so many morons think. Sparks don't fight either. Don't like swords, too boring. Guns a little more interesting but get boring after few hour.

Robots? They okay but no, too greasy. Sparks got too much fur - bit more than most Chua - some Chua look like naked rats. Gross!

No, like I said before, I like adventure - did you forget? I already told you this! Morons! Sparks surrounded by MORONS!

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Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe Out.

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MORONS! YOU ALL STUPID MORONS. HOW YOU ALREADY FORGET!

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Ahem.

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For those 'mentally held back,' - COUGH! By that Sparks mean stupid moron. COUGH, COUGH. - Sparks say twice now that he like adventure. Not lame adventure - oh! Look, idiots over there! Oh, idiots over here too! Both idiots speak idiot! So cool! NO! LAME! STUPID!

That idiot adventure. Obviously.

I interested not in idiots but in feeling of discovery and novelty. Sparks been on ship most of life. Sparks only 19 common years old. That's like, the survival rating of a Chua pup!

So what I apprenticed in for 19 years?

While other Chua learn how to be stupid and blow self up, I learn how to stay alive. Clearly this novelty to some Chua but Sparks would like to at least reach 20 years old.

Learn useful stuffs like what can eat. What will kill. How to avoid the things that will kill. To document meanies and systems. Cassians introduce science, biology and other useful thingies. Most Chua not like. Not enough explosions.

This where I differ from most Chua. I see connections other Chua don't. I don't boast but I highly intelligent. Super high above other Chua. Smartest Chua born on this side of galaxy in fact.

You what?

What you say?

You mock me?

Sparks kill you! ... What if Sparks told you reading Sparks words somehow will kill you? Huh? HUH?

What, you don't buy it? Just you wait... kill effect take time. Only 80 years for humans +/- 20 or so years granted those reading this now are already between the ages of 15-25 standard years.

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What, you think Sparks kids?

Well, anyways, where was Sparks? Ah yes, I best! Highly superior! None even come close!

If Chua, you think I like boring things. Well... you stupid then, can't help moron.

You may ask why does any of this matter?

Well, see, after I reach Nexus I became one of best adventurers. I travel and discover lots. I document and record to help other Chua and other idiot species in Dominion.

I pretty cool Chua but after a few years I get bored. Nexus okay but too familiar for Chua. Most idiots are familiar idiots from ship. Very few settlements at time. Few outposts. Hard to travel. Expensive actually.

After my second year I make huge discovery. Awesome cure for boredom I discover soon. See, Nexus rife with ancient teka. I respect ancient teka. Hard to reverse engineer. Sign of teka in need of respect.

However, along with teka, Chua explorers find crazy awesome other things.

Dominion familiar with magic - what we Chua suspect is no more than the manipulation of physics, chemistry and space-time... still working on that theory though.

But on Nexus, TON of magic! So much magic! Magic cool. Cause people face melt off! Awesome! But magic Sparks interested in not in face melty magic but teleporty magic. Dominion quickly realized Nexus too big to travel cross easily. Search for solution. Find one quickly. Teleporters everywhere on Nexus! Just gotta find em'. And find them Sparks did. Sparks and meat heads help search every corner of the tamed areas of Nexus. Find several dozen. Many buried but salvageable. Take longer time to figure how to activate but figure we did.

Sparks don't take credit for activating but suppose Sparks contributed a mere 99.9999999% to effort. Of course that is just an estimate. Sparks aware of percent error, maybe +/- 0.0000001%. Probably plus.

What you say?

Sparks have God complex?

Well, tough cookies. When you as intelligent as Sparks only comparison is God... duh.

BACK TO STORY! STOP TRYING TO DERAIL SPARKS!

At first portals relatively boring. Bring idiots from one region to next. Sometimes as close as a short walk. Not sure why Eldan couldn't walk 10 minutes. Suppose perfection breeds laziness.

But soon enough, find portals where we didn't have other end. Send many meat heads through as sacrifice. Most not return in one piece. Much fun Sparks had.

Several linked to space. Pulled back purple suffocated meat heads. Great meals that night. Many Chua bellies happy.

Some portals link under water. Not sure why to be honest. Again, pulled out drowned meat heads after 15 minutes. Why 15 minutes and not one? Well, then they would have a higher chance of survival, no? What logic do you go by? The only good meat head is a dead meat head. Besides, Dominion create many meat head. Fodder really. Expendable.

And so on and so on. We spent many months experimenting. Some meat heads came back alive. More disappoint to be honest. Sparks then go through with more meat heads. Sparks taught how use magic when young so can protect self but like said, Sparks like to reach 20. Unfortunately, only one Sparks. Can't take too many risk.

After we go through, we appear in strange new lands. Oh how exciting! We scout new territory, then report back to base. Dominion then goes through and exploits the land! How marvelous!

I do this many times but Sparks grows boring. Not of Nexus. Nexus still sort of neat. But of company. Other Chua okay but most dumb as meat heads. Can prank other Chua as much as humans sometimes.

But Sparks chugs on. For several year. Sparks 15 at this point. Chua grow up fast. Considered adult by 12 or so. In human years I like 30 or something.

I use life well so far but question if life is as monotonous as it appears. I get rich but money buys me no happiness. Can afford to eat well. Get fat. Chua dream: round belly, cozy home full of half completed experiments, many children to use as test subjects, maybe a mate.

Sparks don't have home or children to experiment on but at least Sparks got belly and portals. Good enough for me.

What Sparks does want is adventure! Adventure on Nexus winding down. Retire to bed sooner and sooner. Start to feel more lonely. Sparks' bed too big. Start to think about mate but no one else worthy. Too stupid. Other Chua too ugly. Naked ears. Too immature. Still like to blow things up and laugh bout it. Come on! That's so 2 years ago.

Unlike other Chua, Sparks no have other Chua friends. Too smart for them Sparks suppose. Others might be too scared to approach Sparks. So Sparks try be a bit more approachable. Sparks get desperate. Sparks try fit in. Laugh at explosions. Laugh at pranks. Others grow suspicious and retreat even further. Sparks give up. Not worth looking like an idiot. No reward. Just humility.

Sparks stop going to see meat heads pulled out from new portals.

Sleep most of day.

Be like this for several months. Finally Sparks had enough. Sparks leave in middle of night. At this point, Sparks lead expedition in search of portal to last continent on planet. Sparks team in middle of mountains surrounded by untouched forest. Not brightest idea to leave in middle of night but Sparks was tired of thinking. Sparks wanted to shut brain off. Thinks maybe how meat heads always seem to be happy. No extra thinking. No extra mean no thinking of what don't have. Satisfied with little. Sparks never satisfied. Want more and more...

So Sparks walk.

Walk through night, careful not to disturb sleepy animals.

Sparks walk till sun rise. Sparks sit on ledge and look out at vast forest which covers region from horizon to horizon. Stunning yet boring at same time. Monotony of green.

Sparks question point of everything. Sparks Chua but never see Chua planet. Sparks Chua but don't like Chua things. Sparks avoided by other Chua despite Sparks vast intelligence. Only Sparks teacher like Sparks but teacher died in Exile attack. Shame.

Now Sparks alone, sitting on ledge, feeling smaller than Sparks 2 and a half foot frame.

Sparks look down at paws crossed over belly. Realize belly getting smaller than before. Sparks withdraws deeper into mind. Try to not think, like meat heads. Really hard. Sparks try for hours as the suns rise above the horizon, one after the other.

Sparks shocked out of daze at wet drip on crossed paw. Take long moment to realize Sparks was leaking from eyes.

Stood abruptly. Feeling very strange. Tingly all over. Sparks don't like feeling, run away from ledge into forest without thinking. Sparks run while eyes still leaking. Sparks not sure what leaking means. Never happened before.

Trillions of feelings, thoughts and regrets overwhelm Sparks as Sparks runs, sometimes falling to four feet then standing back up again. Sparks clothes get ripped and tattered as Sparks runs. Sparks not happy about this later on but not paying attention at moment. Too much information. Overwhelms Sparks.

Sparks runs for hours and hours further into mountains. Finally exhaustion makes Sparks stop. Middle of Summer. Incredibly hot and humid, even in mountains.

Sparks collapses into ball of fur.

More lacrimal fluid seeps from face, over small muzzle and onto dry dirt below. Sparks filthy now. Never filthy before. Always put together. Sparks look at self, don't recognize Sparks anymore. Imagine look like feral cousins from several centuries before back on untamed Bezgalor.

Sparks in shock. Not know what happened to Sparks to get to this point.

Suddenly, Sparks shoot to feat. Even weirder feeling shoots through body than feelings. Like electricity, a wave of tingles spreads through the air. Sparks alert. Ears scanning for any noise but hear crackly sound from every direction. Very confusing.

Just as all air crackles, so does air tingle. All air tingles. Sparks recognize feeling but can't place.

Sparks scans area. Small clearing. Forest on three sides. Cliff on other side. Sparks walks slowly to cliff, climb up to get better perspective.

At top Sparks closes eyes. Something very bright up ahead.

Sparks forced to walk forward with eyes closed. Tingles get stronger. Sparks forget about past night. Excitement grows stronger and stronger. Sparks can now place tingles as magic. Extremely strong magic! Stronger than Sparks has ever felt! Crazy strong!

Sparks forces eyes open after several seconds. Sparks wanna see magic, not just feel!

Sparks eyes sizzle with energy. Not in a gross way like melty magic, but in a funny way like tingles through the skull.

Although the light is still bright, the more Sparks walks, the less bright gets. Eventually no longer painful.

And just as quickly as it came, the tingles left.

Sparks look behind me and see the bright light. Appears I had walked through... whatever Sparks walked through.

Sparks is still exhausted from having no sleep but energized from what just happened.

Sparks walks further away from the light and almost immediately realized the fauna had changed drastically. No longer was Sparks in a coniferous forest, but a deciduous forest filled mostly with unfamiliar white skinny trees with small, delicate green leaves.

Sparks, in my ragged clothes, walk up to forest edge. Leaves new to Sparks. Strange. Not know species. And Sparks know all species so that's really weird.

Sparks look around again and suddenly feel dizzy. Realize hadn't eaten or slept in over day. Sparks starving! Look around but don't recognize anything. Sparks panic, run into woods in search of something, anything to eat.

Sparks search like a mad human for almost hour. Find berries and mushrooms but don't recognize species. Don't know if poisonous. Although Chua good at digesting poison, Sparks don't wanna take chance. Could be SUPER poison.

So, Sparks resigns, sits down in shade, nibbles on gross leaves. Leaves aren't usually poisonous. Assume safe. But not very filling. Sparks grow dizzier and dizzier.

Sparks lean against cool rock, provide some shade but notice climate less hot. Maybe found portal to new continent? Possible.

Thought crosses mind - could go back through. Sparks stand up but realize mind too cloudy to remember location of portal. Sparks stray slightly.

Sparks try to come up with plan but eye-site begin blurring. Sparks panic but nothing Spark can do.

Spark pass out as large shadow comes from forest.

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Oh, Spark-plugs...

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I've never been more unsure of how the audience will react to this piece, it's so outside my comfort zone lol If you'd like me to write a little bit more out of character, I can do that. Also, if you would like me to narrate more instead of doing 1st person point of view the whole time, I can do that too. Just let me know! :D Only way I can improve. :) Don't forget to comment about your thoughts on involvement! Though I'll only do it if I get at least like 4 or 5 people interested.

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