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January 4th, 2008
Well Journal, It seems that I didn't have to fight the Unicronians this time of round. Oh well, I wanted to help, but I rather not upset my grandmother. Hell, even Kyouji and Lori wanted in on the action as well. We all feel the need to protect our home. Dang, I guess that everyone felt that way when nine eleven happened. Though, this is happening on the international stage. There were five Unicronian scouts that have entered our home and lets just say that we've made sure that they received a warm welcome. Anyways, lets go to before the arrival of the unwanted guests.
Christmas was all right, just the usual day, except that most of my presents were fireworks for New Years Eve. Kyouji had to explain what they were to our guests while I was busy with Alex and Mikaela in helping out with their project. On December 28th, I took Mikaela to O'ahu and did a grand tour of Kamehameha Schools with its history and the legacy that is my schools mission, the walk into 'Iolani Palace and saying that it's the only palace in the United States and I told about the Overthrow and the different points of view and Mikaela told me that she strongly believes that the United States shouldn't have done that to the Kingdom of Hawaii and I told her that what's done is done and we Hawaiians are trying to cope with what's in front of us and trying to keep our culture alive. I next took Mikaela to many sacred sites and reservations, also having to follow Hawaiian traditions of oli kaheas (Hawaiian chants that are used to grant entrance to places) and such. The field trip took about two days and we stayed at the Royal Hawaiian overnight, thanks to my friend Tyler who has connections to the Sheraton Hotels. Sam and Mikaela took one room, while Miles and I took another and we stayed in the Old side, which is the more luxurious side of the Hotel. By the end of the fieldtrip, Mikaela had many video recordings of her tour that she is going to video edit to do for her project. Alex decided to do the subject of hulas and chants. Showing the true side to the ancient art. Also doing the History of the Hawaiian Islands, starting all the way to the beginning till the arrival of Captain Cook. By the third day, we were exhausted with all of the interviewing and shooting and a good thing that it's the evening before New Years Eve. We returned back home via warp gate and man, how all three were excited in finally using the warp gate. Also, it's a good thing I gave one of the "special" camcorders to Tyler in a way to pay back for our stay at the hotel and such.
New Years Eve rolled around and Grandpa waked all of us kids, including our friends, in saying that it's time to wake up and to start preparing the house for the New Years. Like I've explained to Sam, Mikaela, and Miles is that it's tradition to clean our house before the New Years, in saying that our New Year will have a clean and fruitful year, also to bring us a lot of luck, though it doesn't work for when a family member goes to Vegas. We all cleaned the base from top to bottom, along with cleaning the outside. We finished everything at around three in the afternoon and I went with Kyouji into town to pick up some supplies for the party that we usually hold. We always call out to friends and family to come over and enjoy the New Years with us. A lot of people come and it's one crazy Hawaiian Luau. When Kyouji, Goliath and I returned with all of the supplies, I was placed to do the preparation of the poi and the Kalua Pig. Sam, Mikaela, Miles, Jazz, Uncle Cade, Uncle Starscream, and Bumblebee had the rest of the day relaxing and as usual, they went down to the beach and it seems that Uncle Cade and Bee are behaving today and I hope that they do from now on. Kyouji and Lori went down with them to monitor them, while Alex and mom where in the kitchen, making Squid Luau, Chicken Long Rice, Lomilomi salmon, moms special poke (po-kay), sliced pineapple, sweet potatoes, haupia, and as a special delivery from Aunt Jenna, Kaua'i Kulolo and a whole bunch at that. I couldn't wait to get my hands on some Kulolo. At around 6:45, everything was prepared and the guests were starting to arrive. I took a good shower and prepared myself for a lot of fun with fire and I got the strong na'au feeling that Sonic and Stitch are going to ask me to perform. After eating and satisfying myself with some Kulolo, my na'au feeling was right, Sonic and Stitch called me up to the stage at around 7:50, while everyone is still eating, but had their attention at me. I just gave those two the icy glare and picked up the guitar that they had for me. I went up to the microphone and stool and I began to sing a few Hawaiian songs. While I was singing, I thought that I shouldn't be the only one up here. After singing Hanauma, I called up my mother up to the stage. Everyone was now staring at my mother while she was glaring at me. I tried my best to hold back my snickering, but it slightly slipped between my lips. When Mom got up, I made a list of songs that Mom and I could perform together. Sonic and Stitch brought up the songs and we danced. A few couples danced together as well to the Hawaiian music. At a special request, I asked if my mom and I could dance one more song. The song was titled 'Maunaleo' by Keali'i Reichel. (Lyrics below)
He aloha nö o Maunaleo
I lohia e ke kilihuna
Kohu ahuao no ka uka
He kamalani kamaehu kau i ka hanoë
He kamalei, kamahiwa pä i ka lani ë
Beloved indeed in Maunaleo
Sparkling in the light, wind-blown rain
A finely woven cloak for the highlands
A cherished one, respected for power and strength
Esteemed, treasured, touched by heaven
Poohina i ka ohu kolo
Kahiko no ka poli olu
Apo ia e nä kualono
He hiina, hialo, alohaë
Hiipoli, hiilei, hiilanië
Capped by the silver of the rolling mists
An adornment for that gentle heart
Embraced by the surrounding ridges
One to hold close, to hold near, to love
One dear to the heart, precious, exalted
Eia kuu lei aloha
No Maunleo i ka nani
Ohuohu i ka Mälie
He kamalani kamaehu kau i ka hanoë
He kamalei, hamahiwa pä i ka lani e
This is my garland of affection
For Maunaleo in its beauty
Glorified by the Mälie breeze
A cherished one, respected for power and strength
Esteemed, treasured, touched by heaven
No Maunaleo ke aloha kü i ka lai e
Aloha ë, alohaë
For Mauanleo is the serenity of deep love
Beloved are you, beloved indeed
By the end of the song, I was done performing for the rest of the night. Anyway, that song was used for Mom and Dads love song. I remember Dad telling me that he and mom loved the song and decided to learn how to dance to this song. Then, both mom and dad decided to teach me the hula to this song. From time to time, both mom and dad will dance to this song with me right along side of them. Now, it's just me and my mom dancing to the mele, doing it in honor of the man that loved me as his son.
The rest of the night, everyone and I mean everyone was out by the open airstrip area lighting up fireworks. Sam, Mikaela, and Miles were playing with the sparklers, but Alex and Kyouji encouraged them to try the flowers, crackling balls, the more advanced novelty stuff. Sonic and Stitch were filming the event, which was good, considering that Sam, Mikaela, and Miles are going to be wanting to remember this New Years Celebration. At around 9:30, all of the Novelty went down to the younger kids while us teens and adults went up to bring out the real toys, the aerials. This year, we went over the top in stocking up. Goliath brought with him two full loads from China this year. Everyone had fun lighting the aerials up and watching the displays of lights and colors, including Uncle Cade, Uncle Frenzy most definitely, Uncle Star, Bee, and most importantly Jazz. Jazz and Frenzy were having such a blast with it; they tried doing a chain reaction in lighting up the suckers. When 11 rolled around, I started to set up the midnight stands. With Goliath having to do four trips to China have brought one flight load full of the red strings for the midnight celebration. While I was setting up the stand with the help of Rodan, Goliath brought out the crates full of reds while Alex was explaining the tradition of the red strings to our friends and to the guardians. Normally, the red strings represent the year and to light one is supposed to bring you luck and that the evil spirits are not supposed to touch you. Along with that, the red strings are also to bless a house or building that the red string is attached to. Mom warped back home at Tranquility to light 10 strings when midnight rolled around on that part of the planet. At 11:20, most of our guests took home a lot of fireworks, mostly the aerials, and went on home to go bless their house for the year. At 11:56, everything was set and the first ones to light the first wave of strings were of course the adults. Mom was back in time to light one string here. Once the New Year hour struck, all of the adults light their string. The next wave to light the strings was my cybertronian cousins. The next wave of strings were for Sam, Mikaela, Miles, Alex, Kyouji, Lori, myself, along with Uncle Cade, Uncle Frenzy, Uncle Star, Bee, and Jazz. The strings were at the length of 900K; which is unheard of before, but I guess Goliath put in a special request this year, considering that he has connections in China. In to length, I could compare it to be longer then Optimus' height, around 70 ft. tall in length.
Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Uncle Keoki, Aunt Azalea, and the rest of the human adults went back inside. Everyone else, the guardians included decided to stay outside. Also, Kyouji dared me again to go up the stand and to light one of the shorter strings on myself. I took on the bet, considering that I've done it before, I thought that I can do it again. With that train of concentration, I won that bet; now Kyouji owes me twenty bucks. Everyone light up everything except for a few crates of reds and aerials. Goliath took those into his room and stored it for later on.
The New Years Day was all right and that everything was peaceful, well, besides the fact that our unwanted guests came just after christmas, as in when the Unicronians have arrived and I thought that they weren't supposed to arrive till a few more days. I guess they picked up speed and arrived a bit early. One group arrived in Moscow area of Russia while another was near Paris, France. One Unicronian veered off course and landed in a mountain region of China. Radon was assigned to take care of the one in Russia, while Rodan took care of the group in France. Zenith went after the one Unicronian in China with my help, but I didn't get to fight the monster, oh well. Zenith did a quick job on our unwanted guest and surely did one hell of a banged up job on the invader as well. After the short battle, Zenith and I warped back towards home while Rodan and Radon went to pick up Titan.
Titan was back up and running in a short time, even being able to take up on one of the Unicronians that landed near the Autobot base. Once I arrived back home, I decided to warp back home to Tranquility and that I should pay a visit to Uncle Tom and the adult Cybertronians, while I also greet Titan back home. I went to my new Nissan GT-R and went over to the Autobot Base. While I was getting close, I heard the Deceptibot Conk call. Next thing I knew it, Rodan and Radon were there. I gained speed and Titan saw me coming. As I approached Titan at really high speeds, I saw everyone except for Uncle Tom and Titan having looks of fright, but all I did was do some drift doughnuts around Titan who was laughing. After a about 10 doughnuts, I slipped out of my car and ran up to him, giving him one big hug.
All I could say was "Time to go home, Tai."
After letting me go, I watched at Tai went on to catch a ride with Rodan and warped back home. With them gone, I turned back to Uncle Tom and rest of the Autobots. I went back to my car and parked it in the human parking lot of the base. I took my backpack that held my laptop that can connect back to Aunt Nanobite. I then turned back to Uncle Tom.
"Hey Uncle Tom, did you debriefed them of our family yet?" I asked
"Well, only to the medical team. Other then that, no, not to everyone." Uncle Tom said.
"Well, now that they know, should we tell them of us Deceptibots?"
"Sure, I believe that the both Autobots and Decepticons should be briefed of your family."
With that I was lead to the command center and I attached my laptop to the main computer and introduced the family with visual displays and such, including the guardians. A lot of the Decepticons wanted Uncle Star back. It was understandable, but Uncle Tom told them that Uncle Star might return to them, only when Uncle Star feels that he's ready. I then stepped in saying that being a leader takes time and Uncle Star is trying to mentally prepare himself of what kind of leadership that he wants to show. I also explained that Uncle Star is with my family to learn of how is it that both Autobots and Decepticons are able to live together, to work together as one, saying that by our example, that is what he wanted his leading wanted to be like, for all to be united as equals, as one, to be able to live by example of and as Primus' children. Including of being able to work together seamlessly to thrive against the threat of Unicron. After explaining things to both Autobots and Decepticons, I was given a tour of the Autobot base. While the tour went to their training rooms, I watched how they trained and I saw a few beast bots trying to imitate Titan. I was watching, snickering at the attempts of the Autobots trying to do Martial Arts. The Autobots and the Decepticons that were in the Training area saw me snickering and dared me to go through their toughest training level by myself. I said whatever and I took out two of my swords that I have in one of my subspace pockets. I also took out a blindfold and placed that in one of my pants pockets.
I entered the training room and stood in the center. The training program began and I did a really quick work with just my hands and feet, no swords yet. With that done, I then had to go again, this time I played with the solid program with my swords. After that, I asked if that is all they got. My answer was yes and man what a disappointment. I walked back to the observation room and they replayed my fun time in the training room. Everyone besides the medical team, Sunny, and Sides were stunned into what I was able to do and I told them that this is what my entire family can do. After that, I just left the base and went to take my car back home and I warped back to Moloka'i.
As I arrived back home in Hawaii, I saw the twins heading towards their room, while Skeeter and Scrappy started their game of Halo 3. I joined in the cell phone duo in their game, while the guardians were reading the mail that they received from their factions. The funniest comment from them came from Uncle Frenzy.
"Hey I got a letter from a femme…oh wait it is from my sister Laserbeak,"
Man I just had to laugh at that comment. Well, the peace didn't last very long. Uncle Cade and Bee got into another fight and I sensed on where Grandma was and how fast that she was coming. I raised my left hand into the air and counted down till Grandma arrives. While I was counting down, I told Skeeter and Scrappy that it was getting late and that they should recharge, hinting to the scuffle behind us. They nodded and saved their game, heading towards their room that they share with Sonic and Stitch, considering their small sizes, they decided to share the room together. I followed them to the entrance to their room and then I returned back to the living room, just in time of when Grandma was starting to wind down.
"You must learn to work together and put aside your differences. Starscream, Frenzy and Jazz have done so and in order for you to be complete you two will have to under go that training. And then when you are done you all will have to fight," said Grandma
"But we already know how to fight," said Jazz
"You fight with weapons true, but you must learn how to fight like we do in order to defeat the army. My grandchildren have already killed a number of them and they are only sparklings babies in your case. They have not reached a Cybertronian Vorn yet and they have already mastered the arts of fighting. Already have they killed and fought in something that they believe in. These children believe that Earth is their home and so they fight to protect it. They fight to protect the family that has nurtured and cared for them since the day they are sparked, and they fight for the hope that others like them don't have to suffer the same fate that they had when their creators transported them here." Said Grandma.
To me, I thought 'Yes, we fight for those that we love and want to protect.'
After that thought, I saw Uncle Star looking towards the twins rooms and I knew right then and there that Uncle Star will do anything to protect the twins, considering that they are his creations, his children. Jazz and Uncle Frenzy saw the look on Uncle Stars face and seemed to the trio have agreed upon something. I had the sense of knowing that they would do anything to protect us, us Deceptibots, especially for the sparklings. Well, the same couldn't be said to Uncle Cade and Bee.
After that short scuffle, I walked up to Uncle Star and I asked if I could talk to him in private. Uncle Star nodded and I followed him to his quarters. Once inside, he closed and locked the door.
"I know that you would do anything for Rodan and Radon, considering that they are your children." I started.
"Yes, you are correct, but I detect that there is something more to this."
"Well, I was thinking, are you willing to protect all of us, the Deceptibots, the Pakele family, the Earth?"
" I would protect those that I care about, so to answer it more clearly, I would protect this planet and all of that lives here."
"If that is your purpose to fight, what is the reason to choose to protect Earth."
"Why do you want to know young one?"
"I'm just curious as to what made you to come to that decision."
"Well, this planet has brought me hope and life. I would protect the life that is here."
"To fight for those that give hope to keep hope alive. To keep hope alive is the means to keep the future alive and the will to forgive those. Let me ask you something, have you ever forgiven yourself?"
"No, I haven't, I could never forgive myself for ever losing my love and to have my sparklings to be brought into this world without knowing who their creators were."
"If you never forgive yourself, then how can you truly forgive others?"
"What are you getting at Kekoa?"
"If you can never forgive yourself, then how can you believe in hope? To never forgive yourself, you won't feel like you are a beacon of hope to others. The Decepticons see you as their hope, their redemption, their savior of whatever the past has thrown at them and you. To be a great example of a leader, the leader must learn to forgive themselves as well as others."
" I see, to forgive myself, I will be able to forgive others, to not make the same mistake twice."
"Exactly."
" I know that I can't make up to my children for what I've done in the past, but now, I can make a difference for the future."
"Well, there's more to this conversation."
"What is it?"
"Well, considering that all of the sparklings were raised by us Pekeles, are you willing to take Rodan and Radon…"
"Stop, I know what you are about to ask and my answer is No, I will not take them away from the ones who have raised them, instead, I will do the opposite."
"What do you mean?" I asked
"What I mean is that, I will join this family, that way, the twins will be able to have both their creator and the family that they were raised with."
"Really?"
"Yes, and for the others, if we do find their creators, I would persuade them to join the family, to have a win-win outcome."
"Well, with that being said, Welcome to the family Uncle Starscream."
"Thank you, nephew."
"Do I have to call you Lord Starscream though?"
"No, you don't."
"Well, its getting late, good night Uncle Star."
"Good night Kekoa."
With that I left and head straight for my room and crashed. When I woke up, I washed up, trained for a few hours and now I'm writing in you journal. It seems that our family will only get bigger. I wonder how the twins will react that one of their creators were here with us for a few months and is the one that we saved from joining the Matrix permanently. Well, I'll write in you later Journal.
Kekoa Hitachi
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