Light vs. Dark Once More
Chapter 9: Claws and Memory of Her Sister
Sora's Point Of View:
I started having this awful headache right after we left Mizuno. Aww man, it felt like an earthquake and it didn't seem to let go. Some flashes also started appear just making this harder for me even to stand.
"You okay?" Mikey, with concern, asked me, when Jazz left to wash off.
"I just…have a headache…I think I'll…take a nap." I try to walk to the room, but it looks like I can't. I can barely stand now. It hurts! I felt two hands helping me walk to the room with the bed. I think it was Mikey, because I saw something orange and The-Boy-Who-Shouldn't-Be-Mentioned is not here. When I hit the bed, I quickly fell asleep.
I saw different flashes of me and Jazz:
How we met:
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm Jasmine, but you can call me Jazz." She introduced herself.
Looked for a job:
"Maybe this one?" I suggested and pointed at one article in the paper.
"Let's." She agreed.
Talked:
"You're kidding." I replied to something.
"If I am, this is a fake." She shows a gem.
Had fun:
"You asked for it Girly." She started to tickle me.
And this flash: (Flashback time)
A quite day and both of us were having some small lunch that Jazz cooked up.
"Not my best, but certainly good." She evaluates it.
"You're right, Nee-chan." I say.
"Nee-chan?" She raises an eyebrow.
"Eh…well it means 'big sister' and you pretty much are one for me, so…I thought I would call you Nee-chan." I say and looked slightly away, thinking she may not like it.
"I like it." Jazz grins.
"Really?"
"Yeah, about time you made a nickname for me." Jazz nods.
"Well there was a hard time thinking what would suit you best." I say.
"Oh? Care to tell?" Jazz asks.
"No way. My thoughts for nicknames stay mine." I told her.
"Oh come on, I wanna know the other choices." She pouted at me.
"Not gonna work. We, little sisters, know how to ignore pouting." I tell her.
"But you don't know how to avoid tickling." She pounced at me and started tickling.
(Flashback time Ends)
Jasmine, my Nee-chan, I forgot her. I can't believe I did. I couldn't, I couldn't. No way. I started to feel cold and hot tears started to leak out of my eyes. I didn't want to forget my Nee-chan. I don't want to.
Suddenly I feel someone pulling me closer to them and I grab around their waist, and gaped for some air.
"You're okay Sora, its all okay. It was just a bad dream." Jazz. I looked up to her and I now remember her fully.
"Nee-chan?" I questioned. I saw look at me in shock for a moment.
"Sora?" I saw a tear fall from her eye. "Do you remember me?"
I cried a more tears then before and held onto her tightly. "Jazzy… Nee-chan… I'm sorry."
"For what Sora?"
"For forgetting you."
"Don't be, it wasn't your fault." She continued to say.
"But I forgot you." I replay.
"You didn't mean to. It just happened." Jazz answers. For a while I just sobbed and she just held me. When it all went out, I sat up straight and wiped the tear stains away.
"You dajovu?" Jazz asked, with a mistake.
"It's daijobu." I corrected her.
Jazz hit her forehead, "I can understand an Ancient Language by reading the thing, yet I can't even repeat a word I heard enough times." I giggled a bit at that.
"You two okay over there?" Raph asked through the door.
"Fine!" Jazz replied.
"Are you decent?" Mikey asked.
"Mikey!" Raph and Jazz exclaimed.
"What? You wanna go in a room and get a red face similarly to the time I went in the bathroom, not hearing someone is there already and ended up with a half red face?" Mikey asked. "No thank you."
"Will you ever shut up?" Raph asked.
"Maybe." Mikey said, after a pause.
"Oh boy." Jazz sighed.
"Can we go?" Water Lilly called from the other side of the door. Guess they want to see the new team soon.
"Alright, alright. I'm coming." Jazz got up and left for the ships controls. I wonder what they will say about Coral and Water Lilly.
Jasmine's Point Of View:
Okay, another introduction. The last time wasn't bad; maybe this one won't be too bad either.
"This is it. Let's get inside." I opened the hatch for us to get out of Hell's Fire and onto the Robot.
"Where were you guys?" Nova asked when we got off the ship.
"Mizuno." I replied.
"Mizuno? And the gem?" Nova asked.
"Emerald Lock is with us, along with two extras." I point at Coral and Water Lilly.
"Hello. I'm Water Lilly and this is my sister Coral." Water Lilly introduces them.
"What's your name?" Coral asked.
"I'm Nova, the team's fighter. Nice to meet you. Let me guess, you two were the guardians of this gem." Nova took a guess.
"That's right." Coral nods.
"Let's meet the others, kay?" I interrupted them to have this party started.
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The reaction of meeting the two was similar to when they met Tiffany, Snowy and Violet. Except this time it wasn't three monkeys having small hot's for the girls. Oh no, it's the turtle-bachelors. I get a feeling there will be a side bet for the bet. I'll put mine on Don and Coral, cuz I think he has a bit better chance at getting together with Coral, then Leo and Water Lilly.
How do I know it? Simple. When the girls introduced themselves you could see few signs that say: crush-that-may-turn-into-love. Boys are so simple to understand.
While you girls are a serious puzzle. Raphie commented.
Hardy har-har. I replied.
That's the truth. He defended.
"So, where to next?" Sprx asked when they finished introducing themselves.
"Let us see." I said, while trying to read the next riddle with Raphie.
I think I heard Chiro snort, someone hitting something and him exclaiming: "Who hit me?" I bet it was Sora. After all, she is standing not far behind him.
"The jeopardous…jungle…" I started.
"…feeds and…hides the…wars…" Raphie continued.
"…that once…battles there…and devours…"
"…any who…try to…unravel its…past…"
"…beasts of…great speed…and power…"
"…and blood lust…patrol the…surface…"
"…of the planets exterior…they guard the…"
"…claws that…gives them…power…"
"…they guard the gem that feeds their madness." We both finished. Everyone was pretty much surprised or looked a bit creped out.
"Did you two watch Castle or something?" Mikey asked. Castle? Oh, that show about the author and detective duo in NY. Why would… oh right they finished each other's sentences a lot.
"No, we haven't." Raphie replied to that.
"They read the same thing, Mikey." Don points out.
"I told you he can read it." I turned towards Chiro, who did look a bit surprised about it. I noticed that Tiffany, Violet, Snowy, Water Lilly and Coral were talking about something, probably about the riddle's planet.
"Navecus." Tiffany said.
"Navecus?" Otto asked her.
"A jungle planet. The Garnet Claws should be there." Coral explained.
"In that case, let's set course for Navecus." Antauri said.
"I got a little thing to do first." I cracked my knuckles and walked closer to Chiro. Seeing me walking closer, he started to run away.
"Hold your horses! I'll get you!" I started to follow him.
"So…we got the cat-mouse duo, coyote-roadrunner duo, the cat-bird duo and now the hot head girl-over confident boy duo. What's next?" I heard Mikey ask, someone hitting something and him going, "OW! Raph!"
I saw Sora opening a door for him, when he ran in she slammed it locked.
"Now he won't get away from you." She smiled at me. A trap. How sneaky of her.
"Thanks. Care to join in?" I asked.
"Nah. Enjoy yourself Nee-chan." She opened the door and I went in.
"Crap." Chiro muttered before the door closed.
Sora's Point Of View:
The door is locked, they can't get out and I can hear them fine.
"I told you Raph can read it!" Jazz yelled at him, threw the door.
"Well, maybe you two rehearsed it before!" Chiro yells back. It sounds like they are next to me. How big are their lungs?
"How the hell did we do that? We just read it!"
"On Hell's Fire maybe!"
"Then Coral and Water Lilly would have already told us the next direction before we got on the robot!"
"Maybe they agreed to think about it later!"
"You are really asking for few good hits below the belt!"
"Like to see you try!"
"Gladly I will, if I didn't want to smudge my hands with you!"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You know what I mean!"
"I don't get how anyone even wants to be with you!" Oooh, I think it counts a hit below the waist.
"Why you freaking god dammed son of…!"
"Listen to yourself!"
"You are so dead!" Next thing I hear are muffled cries for help and lots of beating.
"Hey Sora! Did you see where the kid and Jasmine went?" Sprx called out.
"Not really." I lied. With nothing from me, he left to look someplace else. No one around, able to listen what is going on.
"Get off of me!"
"Hell no black head!"
"Hey, I at least got normal hair!"
"Well soon you won't have any eyes!" That's brutal. He deserves it.
"What is all this yelling about?" Gibson came in asking. "What are you doing at that door?"
"Uhhh, nothing." I lie.
"It does not look like nothing." He crosses his hands and moved to open the door.
"I wouldn't advise that." I tell him, but he ignored it and opens the door. "Don't say I didn't warn you." Jazz was sitting on Chiro's back ready to hit it, when the door opened.
"Mind coming in later?" Jazz asks us.
"I would come later, but he insisted of coming in now." I told her and point at the blue monkey.
"Just wanted to say that the racket is too loud for some of us to concentrate and that we are approaching Navecus." Gibson tells us.
"Nothing else?" Jazz asks and gets a shake from the blue monkey. "Great. I'll torture you later." She tells Chiro and leaves the room.
"Too bad you got interrupted." I tell Jazz.
"Yeah, but we got a job to do." Jazz shrugged and we walked to the command center.
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Finally we landed on Navecus. Man the planet looks like a really tangled giant jungle. The trees looked about two or three sizes bigger then the robot, those swamps around were looking deadly, the few birds we saw, looked ready to kill their own and I think I just saw a GIANT version of a flytrap. I'd hate to see the fly that should get caught there.
"Anyone else feels like we're being watched?" Otto looks around.
"Maybe the plants are watching." Tiffany guesses.
"Oh great. Stalker-plants." Sprx comments them.
"Better stalkers then killers." Nova says and, as if on cue, a big plant with a mouth chopped down a panther-tiger-cheetah mix.
"Let's stay away from them." Leo says and we try not to step on anything that could make these vicious killer plants want to eat us. For a while walking threw the deadly jungle, we found the temple. It looked made from old rocks, like the others, but this one was almost covered with green plants and moss, making it hard to read a word in the language. The inside looked pretty much the same as the outside: all rocks and weeds, and living plant guards looking at us.
"Spears, lava walks, mazes, plants. How much you wanna bet the next place we go has giant bugs?" Mikey asks, making Raph and Gibson shiver in disgust. Bug haters, no surprise.
"Just stay quite and they might not notice us." Leo tells us. I don't know. Judging by those ripped apart skeletons, it looks like they were eaten. And I think I saw one of those things linking their lips in hunger. I grabbed a bit stronger hold on Jazz, when I saw some of them following me with their eyeless gaze.
"Relax; they won't attack us, if we won't attack them." She told me.
"They look a lot creepier then it was told in those tales about Navecus." Water Lilly comments.
"This planet has plants as predators here too, it should be creepy." Tiffany says her thoughts.
"Vegetation vs. meat. Who would win?" Otto asked.
"The ones that will get the last thing to eat on this planet." Raph comments and we finally reached the room with the Garnet Claws. Like the other chambers with their gem, the gem was on the pedestal, with the ten end star behind it, the Garnet Claw symbol shining at one of its ends; this place also had a lot of weeds and plants around the room. Is it just me or are those vines on the ground moving like snakes?
"Are those snakes?" Don asked.
"Let's better not touch them. I don't want to know what they are." Jazz steps over them trying to get closer to the gem, just as the wall blows up.
"I told you we could use the entrance!" Someone yelled. It sounded weirdly high pitched, but it did sound male.
"Shut up you freak! We have to get this gem!" A ruff male voice yelled back. When the smoke cleared, I could see a weird orange monkey about the size of the monkey team, with some weird white and black armor and that the other yeller was a really big guy with his blond hair braided in a pony tail, he also had a scar on his face and he was wearing black clothes.
"Who are they?" I ask.
"Trouble." Raph takes out his sais, just as the others get ready for a fight. Then the two notice us.
"What? How did you get here? No matter, Formless Ninja! Attack them and get the gem!" The orange monkey screech out his order and some weird human mud like, black and white things appear, ready to fight us.
"Just what we need, more trouble." Sprx sarcastically says.
"What's going on?" I ask Jazz, who came right in front of me.
"A big fight, that's what. You better hide. Trust me." Jazz tells me. Having no better idea, I hid behind some pillars.
"What is this? Is that little girl scared to face us?" The blond guy asks, with a mocking tone. I don't know him, but he really makes me wanna hit him right in his face.
"Like you care." Nova got her fists ready.
"Well soon, we won't. Attack!" The monkey screeched and those mud-human-bone things charged at my friends.
"Lady Tomahawk!" Nova smashed them into…I'm not sure what. Jazz just smashed right threw them with her lightning powers, along with Raph. When one of those tried to get the gem, Otto cut them in half, but when one tried to hit him from behind, Don hit them away. Antauri hit them back with that mind scream, as Leo slashed right threw them. Is it me or are the guys weapons having a sort of a glow matching their headbands?
"Go get the gem!" That monkey yelled out. I looked at them to see them arguing who should go and get it. They probably think its booby trapped. Although I think it is, no way those plants are for show. Suddenly the plants also attacked both groups. Yikes, I jinxed it.
"Look what you did!" The blond guy yelled.
"What I did? You didn't take the gem!" It screeched back.
When I looked around, I saw that the others were busy fighting the mud/human/bone things and the plants and that duo were arguing like some old married couple. I felt like such dead weight now. And I hate that feeling. But what can I do? How about… maybe. Not wasting any time, I quickly go in to get the gem, before anyone noticed little ol' me.
By the pillars, behind the rocks, onto the pedestal and almost got the gem!
"Oh no you don't!" That screeching monkey screeched (I think I'll call him Screecher for now) and shot some energy right at me. I felt a wall hitting me behind and darkness overtook my vision.
Jasmine's Point Of View:
Our luck is really bad, in a way. When we are just about to get the Garnet Claws, suddenly Mandarin and Hun with the Formless Ninja cavalry barge right in threw the wall and try to fight us away to get the gem. And we also have to fight against these plant-guards, who are really bad at their job, I can tell that. They just try to swallow us, but they can be easily cut threw from the inside too. How I know this? Chiro got swollen, but made it out soon after. Too bad he didn't stay.
Other then that, everything seemed fine. Until I heard someone hitting a wall. Sora. When I turned I saw Sora against the wall, knocked out; Mandarin aiming at her for the kill and Hun looking for the gem. I felt my blood boil. With a roar I jumped right at Mandarin and hit him away from Sora and, before Hun could react, I attacked with a fire blast at him, also throwing him away. I looked at Sora and saw Snowy already doing a check over her vitals and everything.
"She'll live, but she's out cold." Snowy reported. I saw Mikey gently taking Sora in his arms. Well, she is his girlfriend, he has the rights.
"Has anyone seen the Garnet Claws?" Don called out. I quickly turned to see that the gem is missing and that the evil gang is running away from the temple. They got the gem. Darn it!
"Plants are gone." Otto turns off his saws. I forgot about those completely.
"What now Fearless?" Raph asks.
"Don't call me that." Leo says back.
"Dudes and dudettes, I don't think we got much to worry about." Mikey calls out.
"Those two got the gem. How are we not supposed to worry?" Sprx asked.
"Then they got a fake." Mikey showed us the Garnet Claws.
"Where did you get it?" Tiffany asked.
"From Sora's clutched hand. She must've got it before she flew away." Now that I think of it, her hand did seem clutched.
"You know what?" Sprx asked us.
"What?" Nova turned to him.
"I would really hate to be in their shoes now." He points at the direction they left. Ho-ho, he's got a point.
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