Chapter VII
Icefire stood outside the cave entrance, staring at the stars, thinking of how her mom and dad must be feeling right now. They certainly couldn't forget their children, right? But it had been at least a full day and…Oh, right, the police made people wait twenty-four hours before they send a search party. Stupid human government.
Wait, did she just think that? Crap, the machinery mind was getting to her!
"Ith-fire!" the all to familiar voice sounded. Icefire turned a bit, but the monkey was already on her shoulder. "I tired…"
"I can tell."
"What-cha thinking 'bout?"
"About Mommy and Daddy."
Biba started to sniff. "I want Mommy…I wanna go home."
"So do I, Biba," Icefire sighed. She brought her claw over and wiped the tears from the monkey's eyes. "But, hey, we'll find a way. Okay?"
"O…kay…" Biba climbed down from Icefire's shoulder's and stopped at the rock below. She stared at the sky, too, and started humming. It wasn't a song kind of humming, just like a ninja meditation hum.
"Biba?"
"Hmmmmmm……"
"Biba, are you okay?"
The monkey didn't answer. Icefire bent down to look at her cousin. Her chest started glowing and something took shape in the middle of it. A symbol, a white symbol. It looked like a wolf's head. Biba got out of her trance, looked at the symbol, and smiled. She turned to the dragon. "You want one?"
"Huh?"
"Math-imal th-ymbol. Wannit?"
"Uh…sure! Go ahead."
Biba motioned for Icefire to turn around. The dragon obeyed and spun around. She felt the monkey place her paw on her back and hummed. She could tell her back was glowing, but it was in a bit of pain. It took only ten seconds for Biba to be done and the pain stopped and her back stopped glowing.
"Ah done!" she said. "You gotta blue one!"
Icefire turned dumbly; then thought that she couldn't see it from over there. She remembered to be polite and said thank you to her.
"Look what I can do!" the monkey screeched. She put her fists out straight in front of her and her eyes looked intense. She moved her right arm so it was beside her waist and lifted her foot. She brought it down hard and a large piece of the rock split from the bottom and hovered over where it was. Biba ran forward and kicked the rock so far that it went towards a tree and knocked the tree down! Icefire was unaware that her mouth was open and stared at the fallen tree.
"How…?"
"You gonna catch flies," Biba said, and ran up Icefire to close the leader's mouth. She climbed back down and skipped inside the cave singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Icefire's eyes followed the little brown monkey as she trotted inside. Once she was out of view, Goldwing walked out.
"What's with her?" he said.
"Biba's got earth powers," Icefire whispered.
"Seriously?!" the bird squawked. "That's not fair! Tigress has got a power, Panthora's got one, and even you have one! How come Darkjaw, Nightfang and I don't have one?"
Icefire glared at him. "Have you even tried?"
"Uh…" he said sheepishly. "No…not-not really…"
"Go ahead."
"Huh?"
"Show me something! Maybe you have a power somewhere inside that body."
"Okay…" Goldwing braced himself. He closed his eyes and thought deeply. Apparently he thought a little too deep and his mind formed crooked shapes. With each shape that came he could hear a loud cracking sound coming from it. He knew this shape. He opened his eyes and looked at his hands; they were emerging the same thing he had seen in his mind and were sparkling all over the place. Scared he was going to hurt something, he closed his palms and looked at Icefire. She started to clap.
"Lightning!" she said. "That's pretty sweet!"
"It's lightning?"
"Well, it could be electricity all together, but we'll find out later. Hey, bring Darkjaw out here. I wanna see if he has one."
"Oh, he's sleeping, so…I wouldn't wake up a shark while it's sleeping."
"Good point." She patted Goldwing on the back. "We'll train ourselves tomorrow. 'Night."
"'Night." Goldwing stretched, almost hitting Icefire with his wings, and dragged himself back over to into the cave. Icefire went back to as she was five minutes ago; staring at the bright stars. For a second she thought of how far the barrier of space was. Each time she got to the end, she kept thinking to herself "No! Keep going, it's still further out" and never seemed to get to the end. Then she got to thinking of where that diamond sphere came from. It was obviously alien, now that they were transformed by it. But where was it from exactly? Was it here on purpose or by accident?
She threw that thought away into the metaphorical "look at later" folder in her head when her mind came on to full alert like it had done when the fire started. But this was a little more serious than that. It wasn't really one of the five senses that got her mind going, it was just really her mind. She tipped -toed back inside, just feeling like a mom. She saw gray glowing eyes in the darkest part of the cave and almost panicked until she realized who it really was.
"Can't sleep?" Panthora whispered.
"You too, huh? Is your panther senses tingling?" Icefire teased.
"A bit," Panthora said as if the joke wasn't intended. "There's something coming. It's big, it's dark…and it's scary."
That's her true power. Icefire thought. She's a psychic. I wonder if she can control minds or let her spirit into other bodies? Oh, well, we'll see.
"How powerful is it?" the dragon whispered.
"Just as powerful as us, but maybe stronger. I don't know, it's still too far off."
"We'll just have to deal with it. Now get some sleep. We're going to train ourselves tomorrow; we have to be ready."
Panthora nodded and went back to sleep. Icefire found herself a little area under Nightfang's rock that was like a shelf sticking out, and curled up to sleep. Tomorrow was going to kill her.
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Author's Note: If there's anything wrong, tell me. I like being corrected in my stories. So, Ithought this chapter might've continued on, but I didn't want to bring the Decepticons in just yet; that would make the story a bit too short in my case. With the powers, it wasn't too hard to think about it. It just how all our minds work: creativity lives on! ;3 So, here are the powers: Icefire-ice, Tigress-fire, Biba (that's pronounced BEE-bah)-earth, Panthora-psychic, Goldwing-electricity, Nightfang-dreams and strength, Darkjaw-water and speed.
Any questions? Feel free to ask!
