What's this? Another update, wait, TWO? Huh, guess I was able to find some place with internet :) I'll stop talking, here we go! Hope you enjoy.

I do not own Transformers: Prime...Only my OC's and the Realm of Cybres

Chapter 2

Maybe It's Just A Dream?

Amber POV

I heard the Autaris all cry out from outside the castle walls. I ran out of the room, Dr. Williams tried to stop me but she couldn't catch me.

I could see Ben and Jack's (both of them) and Michael's heads coming slowly through the crowd.

I pushed my way through the group of people and 'Taris. Ben looked weighed down by something, he was moving a lot slower than usual.

Sirius bounded up behind me, eager to see Jack and Ben and Dusk…

Speaking of Dusk…where was she?

"Ben!" I shouted, pushing through the last wall of people…

I stopped as I saw what Ben had in his arms.

Dusk.

Oh dear God it was Dusk.

"No," I breathed, "No oh God NO!"

I ran forwards and put a hand to Dusk's ice cold wrists. I hoped to find a pulse even though I knew I wouldn't find one.

I heard Sirius whine from below me and he reared up to see Dusk's still form. The dog gave a weak woof and whined again.

When Dusk didn't respond he started licking her, trying to get her to wake up.

"She won't wake up," I replied brokenly.

Sirius started to howl incessantly.

"You promised me," I wept, "You promised me we'd grow old together and when we were old, wrinkled, blue-haired prunes we'd have matching rocking chairs and sit on the porch laughing at the whippersnappers whining about how their cell phones weren't new enough or something! You promised me!"

I put my head in my hands.

"YOU PROMISED ME!" I wailed, sinking to my knees.

But shouting wouldn't wake her.

She was gone.

Ben POV

The funeral was beautiful…but I left halfway through it.

Once they lay Dusk on the stone platform, with blue and silver flowers woven in her hair, her circlet shining on her forehead, her bow beside her, her sword laying clasped in her hands…

I couldn't bear it.

Hours later, I found myself asleep.

"Benjamin," a voice called.

I looked around, I was not in my room…

I was at Omega's Well.

"Benjamin Castora," the voice called again.

I turned around to see a tall, slender woman who I swear could have been Silver's twin except for a few minor differences.

"Who are you," I demanded.

The woman's electric blue eyes softened in sadness as her molten silver wings twitched slightly.

"My name is Prima," she answered, "I am Cybres itself,"

"You're the one Dusk woke up," I whispered, the light clicking on, "You're the reason she's dead!"

I clenched my fists.

"If it wasn't for you…then she'd still be alive!" I snapped.

"Benjamin,"

"Don't you Benjamin me," I snarled, "You killed my Dusk!"

"I did no such thing," Prima said, "If you would listen to me for a moment…"

"Save it!" I growled, turning away, "I don't want to talk to you,"

"Not even if I bring you the chance to bring her back?"

I froze and turned back around.

"What?" I demanded, "Why didn't you say you knew how to get her back!?"

"You would not allow me to speak," Prima replied tersely, "Now, are you willing to listen to me?"

"I guess,"

"You recall the place Michael once told you about, the Circle of Stars?"

"Something about the Evenstar being put there and that its where the Maker made your universe."

"It is also the place where you and two others are to bring the Phoenix Ivorra back to life from her ashes,"

"Two others?"

"Before she died, Dusk chose three champions, you being one of them Benjamin,"

"And the other two?"

"They are marked, just as you are," Prima replied, holding her hand palm up.

What looked like a circle materialized in the air above it. Close inspection revealed a crescent moon on the right side, a phoenix on the other, a sun in the center of the circle and a tiny eight-point star inside the sun's circle.

"It is upon your neck, just as theirs are,"

"So I'm supposed to look at peoples necks?" I asked skeptically, "They're going to think I'm part vampire or something,"

Prima laughed, a silvery soprano.

"The others will search for you as well," she finished, "Once you have reunited, Benjamin, you must take Dusk's body to Darksphere,"

"Isn't that the planet with stuff engineered to kill first as questions later?"

"We did not want just anyone to find the portal into the Infinite White, in which the Circle of Stars resides,"

"So…when I get there…what am I supposed to do?" I asked.

"The reason why Dusk did not resurrect when Cybres was reborn is because her spark had been shattered into seven pieces and scattered in the Infinite. You must find each Soul Shard and reunite them at the Circle of Stars,"

"Find shards, put 'em back together…save Dusk, sounds easy,"

"Be warned young one" Prima started, "The path will not be easy, you shall find many things are not as they seem,"

"Got it,"

"And one last piece," Prima added, "Once you have found the other two Champions…you shall have seven days to find the Infinite, rescue each shard, and piece them together again."

"That short?!" I demanded.

"The Maker created our universe in seven days…you are not creating a universe, Benjamin, you are finding seven shards."

I sighed, "Alright, I accept."

Prima smiled warmly at me.

"Benjamin, you know…I sense great things about you. I sense each of the Seven Pillars of which the Ivorras stand by within you. Perhaps you are an Ivorra, the first from Second Earth,"

"I don't want to be an Ivorra," I mumbled.

"It is not something we choose, Benjamin, it chooses us," she said, "But…is time for you to wake,"

"What?"

"Wake up, Benjamin,"

"Wait! What did you mean by things are not as they seem?"

"Wake up,"

"But you're not answering my questions!"

She opened her mouth but instead of her lilting soprano…I heard Jack yelling at me.

"WAKE UP!"

I opened my eyes and saw Jack leaning over me.

"Phew, good, you're still alive," he nodded.

"Of course I am," I growled, getting up, "What is it?"

"You kicked me awake," Jack replied dryly.

I looked around the room.

Huh, must have fallen asleep in his room and not mine.

"Sorry about that," I said.

"Yeah, no problem," he replied, scratching his neck.

"What's wrong with your neck?" I asked.

"Hmm this?" he asked, turning it towards him, "Don't know…it showed up last night. Itches like crazy though."

It was the same symbol that was on my neck.

"Hey," Jack started, "You've got the same mark too!"

"There's one more of us," I said.

"What?"

"I'll explain later…but we have to find the other person with the same mark on his/her neck."

"Why?"

"Because it'll save Dusk,"

Jack's eyes lit up…and he bolted out of the room.

…

Hours later, we finally rejoined in the burial room. Dusk still lay on her bier, Sirius faithfully standing guard beside it…he hadn't moved since we put Dusk there. Not to eat, not to drink, not even when we rubbed his ears (he growled at the one doing it, as if they were disturbing his duties) but other than that…he just sat there, so still you thought he was a statue.

But today, there was also someone kneeling beside it.

Jack and I came closer and I spotted the mark on the man's neck.

The man stood up and faced us, freezing as he did.

I blinked…it was all I could do.

The man before us was Michael.

Dusk had chosen those from the worlds she knew best.

Second Earth: Me, Cybertron: Jack, Cybres: Michael.

We were her Champions.

And we were her only hope of living again.

Bet none of you were expecting it to be her did you? I did get some good guesses. Michael, Silver, Tomosal, Gabriella...but Prima was who I had planned. I'll get the third chapter up as soon as I can!

Song in title: Monster by Skillet

Anyway, hope you liked it. If you did, please R&R! :)

Qui vállë tóquetë, ván tecë (If no review comes from y'all; no story comes from me)

Máriessë ar mára tecië

Farewell and fair writing

Elhini Prime signing off.