Across the dry, rocky desert, a lone figure raced, the wind blowing his jet black fur backwards as he ran, his long tail waving back and forth.
He did not know who or what he was, where he was from, or even where he was going, all he knew that he was running, running from something he didn't even know.
Bright blue eyes scanned the landscape, looking for shelter from the coming night. As the onyx veil covered the sky, he found a small cave nestled in a Cliffside. He entered the cave, and curled up to sleep hoping that he would have peaceful dreams, but his dreams were anything but peaceful.
"Monkeys! HELP!" shouted a small boy from the grasp of a skeleton-like figure.
"Chiro! Let him go, Skeleton King!" a black robotic monkey shouted.
"Not likely, for I have plans for the boy." the Skeleton King laughed. The black monkey jumped up, planning to snatch the boy away from the Skeleton king's grip, but it was in vane. The Skeleton King vanished into a portal, making the black monkey fall to the ground.
"No!" he cursed. "I failed him!" the other monkeys walked over to comfort him.
"What ever the Skeleton King has in plan for the kid, he can handle it!" the red monkey said comftingly.
"Yeah," the yellow on added. "Chiro's strong."
'I don't know what the Skeleton King is going to do, but I hope that Chiro can recover from it. Or even survive it!'
Once the monkey team go back to the super robot, Antauri went into Chiro's room. Whenever they couldn't find Chiro, Antauri would go into his(Chiro's) room and would mentally search for him. He climbed up on the bed and began to meditate.
'Chiro?' Antauri questioned. He found Chiro's mental signal, but it was so faint that he had almost missed it. 'Chiro?'
'A-antauri?' Chiro's voice sounded frightened.
'Chiro, what happened?'
'I-it...hurts...'
'Where does it hurt Chiro?' Chiro didn't answer, but Antauri felt where the pain was. 'No, Chiro! He didn't!'
'It hurts Antauri.' Chiro repeated.
There was a flash of dark energy, and the creature sat up, gasping for breath. Looking up, he saw golden shards of light entering the cave. Morning had come to chase away the night's shadows. As the sun rose into the sky, the creature set off once more. He ran for two hours until his reached a small oasis. He looked at himself. Who was he? What was he? Why were pictures of things he does not know run across his eyes? He lowered his head to into the water and drank the fresh cold water. He lifted his head from the water. The cool water rolled off his face. He hoped that this images would roll away too. It worked. None of the images plagued his mind. He shook his head to remove the rest of the water from his face. He walked out into the hot desert air and began running again. He must follow the sun every day, that is all he knows. Someone is waiting for him.
The sun had risen high above the sky when a black skeleton-like figure stood in his path. It swung its sword at him, telling him that it was threatening. He back away, frighten. "LADY TOMAHAWK!" a yellow monkey shouted as the skeleton was pounded into the heated sand. Three other monkeys was standing behind the yellow one. A blue one. A red one. A green one. He took three steps back, his eyes displaying fear. "Chiro?" the yellow one asked. "It's us, Chiro. Nova, Sprx, Otto and Gibson, don't you remember, Chiro?" she asked in a motherly voice.
"No-va..." Chiro sounded like a child just learning a name. The yellow monkey almost broke down and started crying. Images of these monkeys ran across his eyes and mind. Chiro screamed and clutched his head. "...Hurts..." he whispered. Only Nova could make out what he said.
"What happened, Chiro? Where does it hurt, Chiro?" she quickly walked over to him. He jumped back, away from her. Suddenly as the memory came to him, a name came to him.
"Ant...au...ri..." Chiro's voice was filled with confusion, sadness... and pain. "Hurts." he ran past Nova and the rest of the monkeys.
"Chiro!" Nova tried to ran after him, but the red and blue monkeys held her back.
"Let him run off that fear, Nova." the blue monkey said. "We'll look for him tomorrow."
"Yeah, the kid will be fine for another night." Nova sighed and looked back to see only a small black dot that was Chiro. He had ran away so quickly he was probly a mile away by now. They all heard a cough and looked in that direction. They saw a young girl about thirteen or so. They couldn't see much of her figure, because she wore a light brown cloak that covered her body. On her shoulder was a black robotic monkey. They seem not to notice them, yet.
"Master please!" the monkey pleaded. "You drink the rest of our water! You need it more than I do!"
"No." the girl panted. "Later, you will need it." They stopped in front of the monkey team and knelt down.
"Excuse me," the girl asked. "but do you know where we can find a robot named Antauri?"
"He... isn't we us any more..." Gibson answered, looking at the light yellow sand.
The small black monkey gasped. "I'm sorry!"
"Then we are too late." the girl rose from her kneeling position and stood up. But she started coughing violently and fell to her knees.
"Master! Drink the water!" the small black monkey pulled out a black water jug and pushed to the girl. The girl refused and coughed so voilently that she passed out. "Master!" the black monkey shook its master.
Nova stepped forward. "Don't worry," she said. "we'll help her." with that Nova picked the girl up and motioned for the rest of the monkeys to follow. All the monkeys, but the small black one, saw what her eyes said, "If we can't help Chiro, we can help someone else!"
Chiro dove into another oasis he had found. 'Get rid of these memories!' he screamed in his head. 'Take them away!' the water felt like silk, soft and smooth. 'It hurts! Take them away! Please!" All the images that plagued his mind were gone, for the moment. He crawlled out of the water and shook off the rest of the water. Then, he sat there, thinking.
Chiro... a voice echoed threw his head.
'Who's Chiro?' he asked. The voice didn't reply. 'Are you "Antauti"?' The voice didn't reply. Thinking that the voice was just a unidentified memory, he continued on his quest, not know who he was, not knowing why he was on the quest, not knowing what was waiting for him.
The small robotic monkey sat next to the teenaged girl.
"So," Nova began. "what's your name?"
"Antauri." Everyone, exept the small monkey, now known as Antauri, was in shock.
