CHAPTER 10: OUR EXISTENCE
Chiro was out walking through the town. He was amazed at everyone. No monsters, no black ooze covering the buildings, not even a fat man with a sign signaling the end. All happy, all naive.
He walked to town's hall. No statue of him or the rest of the monkeys. He walked to the park. No runway, no giant robot. No colorful robotical monkeys walking about or fighting monsters. Not even a slight sign of them.
Chiro was actually starting to believe it to all have been a dream. In the outskirts of the city, there was no abandoned robot. There wasn't even a wasted lands. No sign of a Skeleton King either.
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Everybody looked at each other as their bodies faded in and out of existence. They gasped.
"We're losing him! Wherever the kid is, he's forgetting us!" Sprx pointed out.
"We need to do something to make him remember us. At least long enough to give us more time to think this through. But...What can we do?" Gibson asked.
"I think I know..." Antauri sat in a lotus position and started to meditate. He glowed a fiery green. After a while, he got back to his feet and looked at everyone.
"Hopefully I got through to him. For now, we must try to find a way to break through that barrier."
The others nodded in agreement.
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Suddenly, Chiro's chest glowed green. He looked down at it in astonishment, and then smiled.
"I knew it! I knew they were real!" he cheered. Everybody around him stared at him uneasily. He smiled sheepishly at them and walked out of site. "Now how do I get out of here?"
A voice appeared. "No! You weren't supposed to figure it out! So soon as well...I will have to keep you stalled until their disappearances..."
Chiro was warped to a big, dark, empty, room.
"What's going on here?!" he demanded.
"You will never figure it out, Chiro. Never..."
Chiro once again woke up not knowing where he was. But this time, instead of his original room, he was in a hospital bed.
"What the...?"
A doctor walked in as Chiro started to get up. He walked up beside his bed.
"You're awake! Are you okay? What exactly was that thing you drank moments ago?" the doctor asked him curiously. Chiro eyes him.
"What are you talking about?"
"The stuff you drank! In front of the town! Your eyes turned colors, then you fainted. What was the stuff that you drank? I'm not getting any signs of it."
Chiro was about to question the doctor again, then he remembered, He remembered standing in front of the town moments ago, drinking a liquid that he remembered making, then fainting.
"Oh...Right..."
Wait a second...Wasn't it the Naturalist that drank the potion in front of everyone? Chiro thought. The monkey team...I remember them too...But, who are they exactly?
He shook his head in confusion, then jumped out of his bed and ran out the hospital. He gathered the townspeople and, not even knowing what he was doing, showed them what he could do.
His eyes turned blue as he thought of water (well, dark blue) and he made a small ring of water go around the townsfolk from the fountain without even touching it. He did earth (green), then air (super light blue).
But as he was about to show them fire, his eyes turned red, but instantly faded and turned their normal shade. Instead of fire, green Power Primate erupted from his fists. He remembered.
He ended up in the dark room again.
"No, not again! How do you figure it out? How?!" the lady/voice yelled.
Chiro smirked in the darkness. "Guess you'll never know. Never."
The voice yelled and Chiro was plunged into pure and exact darkness.
"You want to play games, boy? How about you play games when you don't even exist!"
Chiro yelled as he plummeted into an eternal realm of darkness. This, he knew, was the nonexistent plane that Antauri had mentioned a few times. A place for lost souls. A place where nothing—yet anything—is possible.
A place of utter darkness and total chaos and confusion.
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Ah-ha-ha! Not telling you anymore until the next chapter!! Remember the Naturalist thing? From chapter 3 of Elemental Legends? Anyway, thought I'd throw that in. Couldn't think of anything else for that choice.
Keep reading to find out what happens!!