Ch.11: Haunted Dreams

Sparks had again confined himself to his room after defeating the Demon of Water. By nightfall he was fast asleep. That's when terror struck in.

"Sparks...Sparks"

"Who's there?" said Sparks. His eyes opened to a dark void where no light seemed to penetrate, until a sudden red light flashed through it. Sparks quickly dodged the flash and red light hit an unseen wall behind him making an all to familar crackling on contact.

Looking in the direction of the blast Sparks could see a window. Walking up to it all he could was his reflection, but the reflection seemed different somehow. Almost all the metal and fur on his body were completely black, the ones that weren't black were red. Even the irises on his eyes had turned red. The only thing that remianed white was his mouth. Put this look into a dark room, and you got a very scary monkey.

"What is this?" said Sparks " some sort of joke,"

"You couldn't make good jokes anyway," said Sparks reflection.

The red monkey backed up in surprise, his reflection didn't flinch.

"You talk?" said Sparks in surprise.

"I do indeed" said the reflection " I am the shadow of your darkest fear. Everything you've ever done, I've been there,"

Taking a quick breath the reflection continued " Don't you remember what Skeleton King did to you? How that red light wrapped itself around your body? He was releasing me! I am the darkness, I am your shadow, I am your fear,"

Sparks was still to stunned to speak so the reflection went on "We are the keys to destruction. Together we will unlock the doors and rain terror on this world. And you are to blame for it all Sparks. You ressurected Skeleton King, you betrayed the Hyperforce, you even once killed the love of your life, Nova,"

Sparks yelled in pain, trying to forget everything the dark part of him had said, telling himself it was lies, but he knew it was true. Sparks reflection smiled, knowing he had won.

"Why couldn't they let me die!" yelled Sparks as he woke up from his nightmare. Nova had heard Sparks cry and imedately ran into his room, but backed up from shock at the sight before her.

"Who are you?" she gasped "what have you done with Sparks?"

Sparks looked at her like she was crazy and laughed saying "I am Sparks,"

That statement made Nova back up even more, what was wrong with her? Sparks slowly approached Nova but she ran away from his grasp, Sparks followed after her. The rest of the team were meeting in the main room when Nova ran in and hid behind Chiro. Curious to what frightened her, Chiro turned around and gasped when he saw Sparks come in.

"What's wrong?" asked Sparks seeing his teammates shocked faces " what's everyone staring at?"

"You may want to look in the mirror," said Gibson. Sparks did and yelled in shock, he looked exactly like the black monkey in his dream.

"How could this happen!" he yelled.

"My guess would be that your demonic blood has amplified in strentgh by absorbing that other demon's powers thus leading to your appearence," said Gibson.

"Thanks Gibson" said Sparks sarcastically "I can always count on you to relay the 'good news',"

Before Gibson could retort the sound of the monster alert blasted through the Super Robot. Otto imedatelly went up to the screen to see what the trouble was.

"Looks like we got triple the trouble!" he said.

Antauri took a look for himself and said "The other three demons...they've awakened,"

"But how?" asked Chiro.

"Skeleton King must have found a way to unlock the doors without the use of Sparks, we have to stop those demons before they do any harm to the city," said Antauri.

Chiro nodded and called out his signature cry "Let's go team, Hyperforce Go!"

While most of the team went to there stations Sparks lagged behind, looking back at the desruction the demons were causing, then looked at himself. Shaking his head like his mind was made up, Sparks headed to his station to fight what could be his last.