Behind the Reflection Chapter 3
I do not own Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! or any of its characters
*This story is AU and Selene is an OC
Chiro seemed to have bounced back from his reoccurring nightmares; he was in a good mood in the morning. After Antauri helped him out last night he managed to get some of a good night's rest, he woke up with the black simian by his side and that made him happy. He enjoyed breakfast along with the Monkey Team and even volunteered the wash the dishes. Something that was out of the ordinary for him. After breakfast the team went to their daily activities, right now Chiro had his lessons with Nova.
Antauri went to his room to do some meditating as well as thinking. While Antauri was glad to see Chiro in a better mood than he had been last night the lingering thought of those nightmares began to worry him. Chiro hadn't gone into detail about what his nightmares were about but if it was enough to make the boy sweat and reduce him to a pile of fear and sorrow then it was something serious. His decision to talk to the team tonight didn't change, his choice was final.
"Antauri," a voice interrupted his thoughts.
Antauri didn't have to open his eyes to see that it was Gibson, the blue monkey stood in front of him with a worried expression on his face. Antauri opened his eyes and immediately felt that something was wrong.
"Gibson something is troubling you," Antauri stated.
"Yes indeed," Gibson replied. "It's Chiro."
Antauri stopped floating and landed on the ground quickly, his face mimicked Gibson's worried look. Gibson took notice of this and began to wonder if he made the right decision. It was too late to turn back though, Antauri saw his worry and felt the storm running inside him.
"Chiro?" Antauri questioned.
"Yes, there's something I thought you should know… something I want to share with the rest of the team tonight… after Chiro goes to bed."
Antauri was shocked to hear that Gibson thought of the same plan as him, he was going to make an announcement about Chiro's nightmares. But now that Gibson was about to bring something else up for tonight it startled him. Antauri held out a hand toward Gibson as signal for him to wait a moment. Antauri levitated his tea set over to them, a teapot was ready with some hot tea and there were cups next to it. He poured tea into two cups and handed one to Gibson. Gibson accepted it and sat down on one of the pillows that surrounded Antauri's room.
"Now what is it that you wanted to talk about? Something concerning Chiro."
"Well it started about several weeks ago… when you all were kidnapped by the Skeleton King," Gibson recalled uncomfortably.
Antauri felt himself flinch as soon as Gibson said that, he recalled the pain he was forced to go through. Along with Sprx, Nova and Otto.
"Yes… and I appreciate you and Chiro coming all that way to save us," Antauri replied.
"You're welcome and I thank you all for not losing hope in us," Gibson said as he took a sip of tea. "Anyway, while we were on the ship Chiro and I found something…"
"Something?"
"Something very disturbing and interesting I guess you could say."
Gibson started to shake; his nerves were getting the best of him. Antauri placed a hand on his shoulder and gave him the strength he needed to carry on.
"Thank you," Gibson said. "At first I didn't think anything of it but that's when Chiro explained what it was. Antauri, on Skeleton King's ship there was a room filled with a child's toys and clothes."
"What? Why would the Skeleton King have items such as those?"
"That's what I thought but like I said before Chiro's explanation baffled me. He said that those items belonged to him… from a very long time ago."
Antauri felt his grip on his cup loosen but he was too much in shock to feel the hot tea spill on his hand. Gibson didn't make eye contact with him; he just let Antauri absorb all of this new information. After a few second Antauri regained his composure and fixed his grip on the cup, the tea cup was half empty and there was tea on the floor now. He couldn't be bothered with it at the moment though especially with what Gibson had just told him.
"The Skeleton King had Chiro's childhood items on his ship?'
Gibson nodded his head but he still didn't make eye contact with him. Antauri stood up from his pillow and placed his tea cup down, he walked to another side of his room. He let out a low sigh and he seemed to be staring off into space. Gibson watched him and took another sip of his tea.
"Gibson," Antauri finally spoke.
Gibson flinched once he heard his name called and he turned his head to the second-in-command of the Hyperforce. He placed the empty cup down next to the teapot.
"Yes Antauri?"
"Thank you for telling me this… I think we should have this discussion for tonight as well. With the rest of the team of course. There's something I was meaning to tell everyone tonight as well. Hopefully Chiro will be able to get some sleep tonight, the boy needs his rest."
"You wanted to have a discussion tonight even before I brought this up?" Gibson asked.
"Yes. I was meaning to tell everyone about the nightmares Chiro has been having lately. However, the only problem is that he hasn't told anyone what his nightmares are about. Not even me."
"He's been having nightmares?" Gibson asked.
"Yes and these nightmares are causing him to lose sleep, every time he wakes up he's covered with sweat and his eyes are full of tears."
"That's horrible" Gibson said.
"Yes it is."
"Then it's settled, tonight we'll have a discussion about these two topics," Gibson stated as he stood up. "After Chiro goes to bed that is."
Antauri nodded and walked over to Gibson, he placed a hand over his shoulder again. A serious look spread across Antauri's face.
"Don't tell anyone else about what we talked about right now, we'll wait until Nova comes out from training Chiro to make the announcement. Do you understand Gibson?"
"Yes Antauri, I do."
With that the robotic monkeys departed their ways, Gibson left to return to his laboratory. His mind and spirit now felt lighter since he told someone else about his findings. Antauri stayed in his room and clean up the small puddle of tea he caused. After he was done cleaning, he went back to his meditative state although he found it more difficult to enter it than he did before. All these emotions were running through him, questions with no answers filled in mind.
"Chiro… is there something you're not telling us? Is there something you're running from? If that's the case we will be with you every step of the way."
Antauri made a promise to himself that he would protect the boy who made this team complete. Without Chiro there would be no leader… no joy… no smiles… just darkness and a void.
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