The Struggling Life II: Old Bonds Return
Chapter 12: Guided Messenger III
Jasmine's Point of View:
A long time has passed since the time when I was out of commission due to stress and since I got together with Cobi. It's been quiet since then; rare sightings of the Skeleton King have been spotted, but are long gone before we get there. It was frustrating to think about what possibly could happen next.
We know that my father is to be the next one that's transformed into a demon by those dark items that Skeleton King is using to turn them evil. As far as we know, my Dad is the last prisoner on board, which makes things hard on him since he's the only one left there now and most of Skeleton King's attention would be on him (now that Gabe and Lyra were safe and sound with us.)
"Sissy! Tell us another story!" Robby called out to me as I entered the room. It was late again at night and the boys had both crawled into the bed in Spencer's room to hear a story from me tonight. Every since I met the monkey team, I'd finished the last story I'd heard about them the night before I met the team, so I had to come up with stories on my own to tell them, and that actually wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
"Alright then you two, do either of your two know about three demons of the other world?" Both boys awed at my question and shook their heads no. I grinned as I settled into telling them a story of three demons, and a sole hero who defeated them and saved the universe.
The boys cheered as I told them the story I had previously made up and soon were to sleep. It was late, and I should have been in bed myself at the hour of midnight. I'm actually surprised the boys got away with staying up so long (it might have been the fact that Cobi had me trapped in his room for a while, well… maybe not trapped…)
Anyway, the boys soon feel asleep after I told them the story for the night and I wrapped the covers around them before I headed out of the room. Most of the others were now in bed (with it being as late as it was) and I probably should be heading to bed as well.
With the hallways dark, I left my little brother's room and headed back to my own. I found Cobi standing in front of my door with a soft smile settled on his face. I smiled and walked over to him and he gave me a soft kiss on the forehead, nose and then my lips.
"Good night, my Chosen One." He whispered to me.
"Good night, my warrior." He grinned at me and took off for his own bedroom down the hall and I stepped into my own. I quickly had changed into some night attire and crawled into my bed. Warmth easily surrounded me and m y breathing soon evened out until I fell into the back of my mind and slept.
Jasmine's Dream (Still Her Point of View):
Smoke and fog, a bog or haze, something I couldn't see through was all around me. It was so dense, what was this place? In the distance I saw that dull lights were glaring and reflecting in the haze around me, and they slightly blinded me in the dense air around me.
I felt like I was floating here, but the area felt dead. There was no life to it, and I felt my Power Primate anger myself here, my abilities were telling me this was no longer a good place.
I finally made it out of the dense fog around me and ended up landing on a platform that led to a fallen building. From the back of it looked as if there was Power Primate energy escaping the back of it, but it looked… tainted. It was mixed with some sort of purple and black power from where I was standing. Maybe this was what my Power Primate was responding to earlier?
I felt and saw the air darken even more and I quickly turned and looked around in all directions. Nothing was in sight, what was happening? With my only choices being to head back into the dense fog or heading toward the crushed building with the infected Power Primate, I made the sad choice of walking toward the crumbs of the building.
As I approached the building more though, I saw there was a creature down there, by a pool that the infected Power Primate energy was coming from. I saw it was ghost like in appearance and I saw it turn back suddenly to look at me.
It was my father, the ghost my father had been turned into. He was the same as I had seen him in this form last, except there was one of those pendant things around his neck. It glowed nearly an evil pink color (which I'm surprised that was even possible) and I saw the single eye like image in the small sphere. It widened at the sight of me and my father turned around and faced me. He then vanished and I looked around me in a hurry to find him.
He jumped form spot to spot into this form so that I couldn't find him, not until I saw he was right in front of me. I jumped back ward, but then he just disappeared again and reappeared behind me. Eventually he caught me and screeched at me before I saw him open his chest and form some kind of mouth and swallowed me whole.
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"My lightning child, are you alright?" I groaned as I saw up. I felt like I had just been run over, even though the last thing I had remembered was being eaten by Dad as a ghost.
I suddenly gasped and jumped from my spot. I was on the ground and I apparently was in the area where my old house was. It and my parent's meditation shine hadn't been burned down yet, nor was the landscape covered in weeds. My garden was still intact and vegetables were growing and had bright colors on most of them. It looked just as it had before the fire, before Skeleton King came. What was going on?
"Over here my lightning child." I quickly turned and saw that a ghostly white hand was extended out to me and led me into my home. It was just the same as I remembered it, our four small rooms for the seven of us, our small living room and our tiny kitchen that somehow we were all able to work around.
I saw the same white had lead me toward the boys' old room where we had kept Spencer and Robby in back when they were infants. I quickly followed after it and it led me to the hidden door in the wall. The ghost like hand led me down in the tunnel and then out again in the back yard, hidden from view of the open area from around.
The white hand led me through the forest until we reached the sewer line that led into the Shuggazoom sewers. I then saw the white had again, it turned into a figure and waited for me at the bottom of the steps that led me into the area that became my home for five years when our family was first separated.
I halted when I saw the figure. "Mom?" The said figure moved toward me and laced one of its cold icy fingers against my check and it flowed into my hair. I saw that as she petted me, this figure turned more and more into my mother.
"My lightning child, I finally can speak with you." She whispered.
"Mom!" I hugged her harshly and she held me to cry in her arms. "How are you here? How can I see you?"
"I entered your dream when I saw you were having a vision of the monster that Skeleton King turned your father into." She sighed. "Oh my poor husband, my poor children, I wish I had protected you all better."
"What are you talking about Mom?" I felt tears weld up in my eyes and she brushed them away. "We should be saying that about you! We're all alive, but you're the only one who died that night."
"That may be true, but as a warrior, I should have fought harder to protect those that are precious to me, time and lack of constant training due to taking care of my five beautiful children really changed me. I was slow, inaccurate and most definitely too weak. If I had been stronger-"
"Don't even start with that Mom." I growled and she looked at me startled. "We had to help you out everyday because you over worked yourself, if you worked any harder, we wouldn't have been as good off as we had because we'd be constantly taking care of you and taking you to the hospital and what not. So don't say that." I breathed and placed a hand over my pain filled heart. "You were very strong Mom, just… not enough to take down Skeleton King at that time, especially on your own and with all of us captured or hidden. You can't always be a one woman army you know."
"No, I guess your right." She kissed my forehead and hugged me once more. "I'm sorry my daughter, but I must separate us soon, saying here for too long may damage your mind beyond repair."
"I don't want you to go Mom." I whispered. She pulled me close to her.
"I know you don't, but if I wish for you to succeed in your plan to save us all, I must let you go. The main reason I came here was to let you know where you father was so you could free him. Skeleton King has placed him off on an area known as the Veron Mystics. Ask you instructor, Antauri, where that is. He will know the location." She then suddenly pulled her hand away from me and she faded into the darkness of the sewers, her white aura suddenly disappearing in the tunnels. "Good-bye my daughter."
"Mom! Don't go!" I tried to reach out for her when I was suddenly thrown out of my dream, and into darkness.
Third Person Point of View (Citadel of Bone):
In the thrown room of the load of the dead, also know as the Skeleton King, was erringly quiet and extremely dark. A single thrown sat in the room and three pedestals in the center, the thrown though was empty and the two pedestals of the three had an object on top of them.
One the first was a eerie fire that grinned with pure hatred and anger, its ferocious small blaze proved that whenever a dumb Formless minion walked toward it and tried to touch it. It would explode on impact. The second was a ice crystal that was greedy for vengeance against anyone who stood in its way. When a desired minion would get to close, the body of the creature would freeze entirely and shatter upon the lightest of touches.
The third pedestal was empty at the moment, and had once been home to an item know as the Soul of Evil. The master of this vessel, Skeleton King, and his minion, Mandarin, were the only two who really knew where it was, for Skeleton King had removed it himself and placed it around the neck of poor Sean, the warrior of spirit, Skeleton King's final prisoner onboard his ship.
The form of Sean had changed to that of a ghost colored purple, gray and black with blood red eyes and a hidden mouth in the center of his body. His arms and legs were no longer seen, and the ghost of the former man was quite hard to control and keep in one place on the vessel.
Formless were not able to catch this one, only Skeleton King could get beyond its powers and catch it in his grasp. It annoyed the skeleton, but he put that aside for the time being and watched as the last mystical came into sight.
Below the ship now was known as the Veron Mystics. A beautiful space area entirely made of crystals and clouds. It was also a temple for where the Power Primate was guarded and kept pure. If the ghost got into this energy, it would not only be power for Skeleton King, it would also mean that his mission was nearly complete. His Soul of Evil will have gathered enough dark energy to finally complete what he had been waiting for, for many centuries. This time he planned to win, and the monkey team and their human leader and friends would not stop him either.
"We are here my lord." Mandarin told his master. Skeleton King nodded and led the ghoul over to where the Citadel of Bone opened and he released the creature out into the world below.
"Gather the rest of the energy I need, pet. Once I am done with you, you can join your family again… in death." Melodic laughter echoed the halls of the black bone made citadel. The creature, once a human and known as Sean, was so far gone into the Soul of Evil, before he hit the ground…
He swallowed someone whole.
Witch's Note:
Whoa… what about that chapter huh? Pretty awesome! Like I said, it was short, but it got across what I wanted you guys to know! Now I better move on to the next one.
Oh, and for those of you who read this and were a fan of Black/White Saga I: The White Ninja, the first chapter for Black/White Saga II: The Black Ninja is coming out this Sunday! Everyone mark your calendars and be ready for the new contests!
Question of the Chapter: What did you guys thing of Jasmine meeting up with her Mom?
See you all soon and please review and send in Questions for me! I have some, but not a lot!
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