Tauria: Okay, this is just a collection of pairings and one-shots that I started while at my Dad's. I will take requests, just tell me the pairing and if you have any specific way you would like me to do it, or any certain part of the series you want the pairing/one-shot to be. Anyway this will always say complete because it is just something to work on when I am suffering from writers block on the other stories, or story. This one will be of Chiro and Antauri and their father/son relationship.

Nightmare

It was a bright, Saturday morning. It was the type of morning that most kids got up early on, even though the rest of the week it took all of their parent's patience to get them up.

They hyper force were conducting their usual Saturday morning routine; with Sprx and Otto playing video games, Nova and Gibson setting the table, and Antauri in the kitchen. Normally a certain raven-haired, blue eyed teen was helping with one of these things, but he had not even came downstairs this morning.

None of them were too worried. After all, he was a teenager and teenagers were prone to sleeping in, besides he never got to sleep in considering Shuggazoom was always being attacked. It was a constant thing, so any time for him to sleep in was welcomed by the monkey team. If he took it was another story. . .

So, by the time they ate, they had convinced themselves he would be down by breakfast. He never slept through breakfast. Usually, he would come down, apologizing that he hadn't got up to help and they would tell him it was fine, it was normal for him to sleep in and that he should dig in.

However, Chiro was not down by breakfast. They began to eat, sure that he would be down before breakfast was over, or even halfway through. Halfway through breakfast, Otto had syrup dripping down his chin and was working on his fourth pancake. Sprx had tried to be a little neater and to use more manners so he could impress Nova. Gibson and Nova were eating considerably neater then both the green and red monkeys. Antauri was not eating. He no longer required sustenance such as food, although his body still could turn it into energy. He drank tea and waited for Chiro, but as over protective as he could be, he too, was getting worried.

Antauri stood. "If you will please excuse me, I am going to check on Chiro."

"Okay!" Otto said, half chewed pancake flying over and onto Gibson.

"Otto!" Gibson said, his voice a mix of disgust and annoyance.

Antauri left the room just as Gibson had launched into a lecture about how Otto needed to not talk with his mouth full.

Antauri knocked on Chiro's door and when he did not hear a reply, he entered his room. Chiro was tossing and turning. He had look of fear and pain on his face. Antauri tried to wake him from his nightmare.

"Chiro," he said.

Chiro did not respond, instead he sobbed, "No, not them! You can't take them from me! They're my family! Please, take me instead! Take my life. I'm the Chosen One! Just, don't take them, please, please don't take them. . ."

Seeing Chiro like this brought a pang to Antauri's chest. Antauri would not stand by as he saw Chiro like this. He couldn't.

'I will help you, my son.' Antauri only hesitated a bit before entering Chiro's dream. Ever since Chiro had moved in, he had felt more fatherly towards the boy, but now was not the time to think about that. For now, he needed to help Chiro.

He entered a meditative state and entered Chiro's consciousness. He was blocked by a dark presence. 'Skeleton King,' Antauri thought, 'I should have known! I will not let him stand in the way of me helping my son!' There was that word again, but Antauri did not consider it. He knew Skeleton King was more powerful then he, but he was determined to get to Chiro and to help him through whatever dark visions the evil bag of bones was showing him.

After who knows how long of mental fighting they continued before Antauri finally triumphed. He was dropped into a startling scene. He was in the Citadel of Bone, but the walls were being covered in crystal, to match it's master's new skull. Antauri was in the Skeleton King's throne room. Chiro's dream versions of the hyper force were chained to the wall of the Citadel.

Skeleton King was laughing as he shocked the hyper force over and over again. Chiro was on his knees sobbing, "Don't hurt them! Stop!"

Skeleton King cackled. "Let me show you how easily life can end, boy!"

He took the dream version of Antauri and used his dark energy to kill him.

"ANTAURI!" Chiro yelled. He turned to Skeleton King."YOU KILLED MY DAD!" He didn't think as he launched himself at Skeleton King. Skeleton King laughed as he killed Chiro with a mere wave of his hand.

The dream disappeared and it was just Antauri and Chiro standing on a white plain. Chiro was on his knees sobbing. Antauri went over to the young teen and placed his hand on his shoulder. "It's alright, Chiro."

Chiro looked up and recognition went through his eyes. He immediately threw his arms around Antauri. Antauri tensed in surprise, but then relaxed and hugged Chiro back. "We should get out of here, now," Antauri said.

"How do we get out?" Chiro asked.

"I will exit by awakening from my meditation and you need to try to wake up. If you aren't awake within ten minutes I will be back to help you awaken," Antauri told him.

Chiro nodded, a determined look on his face. Antauri exited his meditation and waited for five minutes before Chiro woke up.

The others had entered the room while we had been inside Chiro's dream. They all crowded us into a hug.

"Don't scare us like that again!" Nova said after we had explained what happened. "Either of you! And Antauri?"

"Yeah Nova?"

"WARN US NEXT TIME!"

"Okay, Nova. Please calm down."

For the rest of the morning until training the team was treated to a show of Nova yelling at Antauri and Antauri actually having no clue what to say to get her to quit.

Tauria: I like how that turned out. . . Especially the ending. Poor Antauri.