Light vs. Dark Once More
Chapter 14: Recovery & an Update
Jasmine's Point of View:
I felt myself finally coming to after the longest time sleeping in my life. There was a blaring, echoing pain that I felt throughout my entire body, but it seemed strongest in my head and arm. Now that I think about it…
I suddenly opened my eyes. My vision was blurred at first, but soon it settled out and I saw what I remembered. On the last planet I remembered visiting, Sanaraha, I faced off alone against an old guardian by the name of Grim, who was much like a grim reaper (is it possible that he was the reason those stories were passed around?) and he cut off my hand with his scythe. I remembered now, I was able to get the gem, the Peridot Claws, but I lost my hand and Grim lost his life to the bugs of the planet he lived on after I disturbed them.
My arm was casted and attached to my chest. I wonder if they were successful in reattaching my hand? I slowly sat myself up and I looked down inside the cast. Out of the end I saw my hand, it was stick out of the cast with only the tips of my fingers showing and they still looked purple in skin color, just as bad as when they were fried by Sprx a while back. I still had no control over it as I tried to move anything in my arm as was only successful in moving the arm up and down while it still laid in the cast.
Wait a minute… I turned in my bed and looked off to the side. There was Sprx and Otto beside me who lay out on other tables. They were sleeping peacefully, but they looked pale, paler then normal, as if they hadn't seen sunlight for a while or if they were sick. Even their fur had lost a lot of its color and was a quite pale version of itself.
What happened while I was out? Did they run into Skeleton King and Shredder? I could have helped them! I hissed as I suddenly felt my arm, whatever pain medication I was on was starting to ware off now that I was awake. Shit…
"Jasmine! Your awake!" My head turned to the side and I saw Jinmay standing over to the side. The poor girl looked like she'd been here for a while from the stiffness I saw in her body when she moved and the dark rings that were extremely noticeable under her eyes. "Oh thank Shuggazoom you okay!"
"Jinmay?" I questioned the girl as she gave me a soft hug and was quite careful around my arm. "What's been going since I was out? Why are Otto and Sprx in the med lab? They couldn't have been hit in the temple after I forced you all out; I saw them before I blacked out! Jinmay, what did I miss?"
The girl looked sadly down at her hands once I stopped my begging for an answer. "Apparently, while we were in the same system, Sprx found another plant that might have had a Gem of Darkness on it, so he and Otto went to explore and scout it out while the rest of us focused on you and your injury." Her face then took a turn towards a sour road. "Apparently Mandarin and Hun also had found the temple and had taken a whole bunch of Ninja Formless with them as back up. They easily took out Sprx and Otto and they were able to grab the gem, but they also seemed to hit some sort of carbon dioxide chlorophyll poison trap. They two of them were poisoned, and if it hadn't been for the fumes not being enough to kill them and Gibson and Snowy's fast thinking, they wouldn't be here."
"So in other words, my hand was reattached, we lost the next Gem or Darkness and Otto and Sprx are out for who knows how long?" I summed up and she nodded.
"In simpler terms with fewer details, yes, that's what happened."
I sighed. "That's good to hear." I shook my head for a moment to wash away some of my haziness from my sleep and then looked back at Jinmay. "How long was I out?"
"Nearly a week Jasmine." I whipped my head around to the side of the lab and I saw Snowy and Gibson come in with charts in both of their hands. "You've been resting for quite a while, but I bet you're still tired."
"I am Snowy, though I don't know why if I was sleeping for a week. You'd think I'd have sorts of energy instead."
"Normally you would," Gibson replied with a sigh. "But this time, all of your energy was being used to heal your arm and reattach you hand. All of your energy has been at that joint. Raphael and Coral have been hard at healing you and removing any problems of it separating should you wake." He came over and started looked at my arm. "And the medication we gave must have worn off, how much pain are you in?"
"On a scale of one to ten, I'd give it a six." I suddenly felt a wave of pain from my arm and I grunted in pain. "Scratch that, make it a twelve."
"Hmm… the only medicine that we have strong enough to relieve your pain would put you back to sleep. Will that suffice?" Snowy questioned as she looked through the medicine cabinets.
"Can you bring Raph and Sora down here first? The two of them, and probably most of the others, are worried about me. I'd love to put their worries behind them for now at least." Snowy and Gibson smiled softly at my request and nodded. Jinmay then took off out of the room when they looked at her and she understood their unasked question.
In the time that I waited for the two of them to come down here, I tried to sit up. It was honestly harder then you'd think with only one arm, but eventually, I was able to while I saw Gibson and Snowy get the medication ready for me.
Snowy put some pills in my hand with a glass of water for me that I took in the same hand and placed on the table with the medication. Once I was sure that they weren't going to roll off the table next to me, I looked back at the door and waited for my boyfriend and little sister to barge in with worried looks on their faces and about ready to jump me.
"JASMINE!" I my eyes watered slightly as I watched my boyfriend, who had the faster speed then my little sister, entered the lab first and his eyes locked with mine. I braved though my pain and gave him a small smile. I saw his composer collapse then and he rushed over to me and hugged me gently in his arms. He kissed every inch of my skin he could reach before he reached my lips and let it last for so long, dragging it out to make the effect last longer, and it worked.
"Don't you ever pull that shit ever again, ya got that?" He nearly hissed at me through his tears. "I almost thought I'd lost you again…"
"I know Raphie; sadly, this problem comes with our territory. It could have very well been anyone else in my position or even you or Sora." I heard his throat rumble at that and before he could say another word, I kissed him softly on the lips. "Hush Raphie, love, I'm okay now." He nodded and lowered his head against my shoulder and snuggled into the soft tissue of the side of my breast though the thin clothing that one of the girls much have found for me.
"Nee-chan!" I looked back over at the door and I saw Sora rush in with tears in her eyes and a worried Mikey tailing behind her. She came over to my other side that Raph hadn't preoccupied and took a look at my arm before she looked over at me. "How are you feeling?"
"Happy to see all of you, annoyed that my arm still hurts like a bitch." I hissed as I felt another wave of pain hit me from my arm. Raph looked up from where he had rested his head and saw the pills and water next to him.
"These drugs for you Jazz?" He lifted the pills into his hands and showed them to me, the ones I had put of to the side.
"Yeah, I wanted the two of you to see me awake first before I took them so you could breathe a little easier." I took the pills from him and easily swallowed them and then grabbed the water next to me to help push them down my throat. "They're apparently supposed to put me back to sleep and take away my pain."
"You're gonna need more rest Nee-chan, but I'm glad you waited so we could see you." Sora told me softly. "Thanks Nee-chan."
"Of course Sora." I looked over to Mikey behind her. "You haven't said much Mikey."
"Well, these two needed to talk to you more then me." He chuckled lightly before his face went back to a soft worried face. "I am glad you're okay though."
I gave him a snicker under my breath before I felt myself yawn again. Raph rolled his eyes and helped me back under the covers and pulled them up to my chest.
"You need more rest Jazzy; we'll just wait here until you're awake again." I smiled and nodded to his words and curled against the warmth of his arm when he allowed me to have it as a pillow. I gladly gave back into the world of darkness and happily felt my pain dissolve from my arm.
Third Person Point of View:
Within the walls of the Citadel of Bone, two servants that had just returned from a strange planet of technology and plants mixed together brought back a large eye made purely of Amethyst and infused with extreme dark power. The walls of the very citadel shivered with excitement as the eye wandered further into the ship.
The two servants entered the thrown room and faced there two masters. The Skeleton King stood at his thrown with his hand outstretched, the claws ready to retract as soon as the gem was to be placed in the center of his outstretched hand. The Shredder, Skeleton King's partner (for the time being so long as he and Skeleton King wanted the power of Chaos (and didn't know that he was a being)) sat in his own thrown next to the king made of bone.
Mandarin, the servant of the Skeleton King and the brother that betrayed the hyper force, sat on top of Hun's (the servant of the Shredder who was a large and bulky man much large then he should be) shoulder and handed the gem to the outstretched hand before him.
"This… is a true Gem of Darkness…" The boney king rasped.
"Are you sure that this one is real this time? Not another fake or another incorrect gem these imbeciles brought back?" Shredder questioned as his harsh gaze glared down upon the two servants. The two servants shielded their eyes by looking down at their feet. The Shredder rose from his thrown and walked toward the two with a whip made of the same bone as the ship was.
"Calm yourself Shredder." Skeleton King stated in a relaxed tone. "This is the true Amethyst Eye, but it is truth that you seek…" He quickly turned to his minion and barked out "Mandarin! Retrieve the Opal Ring!"
"At once my lord." Mandarin jumped from the shoulder of Hun to the ground and raced off to the other room to fetch the ring. When he returned, he held it out for his master and Skeleton King places the two gems next to each other. They both glowed and dark energy filled the room. It swirled around like an angry black ghost that raced around the four before it burst into nothingness.
Skeleton King's grin could be seen widely spread across his face. He turned back to face the Shredder. "Is this enough proof for you, partner?"
"Hm… I believe so." He released the whip in his hand and a large crack echoed in the air. Mandarin, stricken in fear from the whip, raced toward Hun and climbed on his shoulders while the Shredder retracted the whip. "It's about time another Gem of Darkness was in our hands."
"Yes, very, those pathetic Hyper Force and their allies have greatly been a thorn in our sides for too long." The dark king laughed and cackled before he raised his scepter in his hands and a pool of ooze appeared before them. On it showed the Super Robot, the fortress for the Hyper Force and their allies that were also enemies of the Shredder. "With even one Gem of Darkness in our possession, those buffoons will have no hope to stop us unless they allow the Gems of Darkness in their possession to be placed into the statue, and there, we'll stop them there, take the power of Chaos and become rulers of the universe!" His scepter came crashing down onto the ground of his thrown room and he roared with laughter. Shredder soon joined him and the two servants that were nearly stuck more then once laughed quietly, but were more concerned to keep on the good side of their masters.
"Get back to work finding the next Gem of Darkness!" Shredder suddenly shouted and the two servants took off likes bullets through fire. Shredder then went back to laughing with the Skeleton King and the two howled with dark laughed that seemed to echo for miles on end in the universe.
Sora's Point of View:
It had been a while since I had seen Jazz Nee-chan go back to sleep after we saw her after she woke up for the first time in the week after he hand had been cut off by the Grim guy on Sanaraha. It still freaked me out, but at least now I could get some good rest knowing my sister was safe.
The weird thing was though, for some strange reason. I kept having strange heat flashes whenever I was around Mikey. I honestly was a little freaked out by this and was almost tempted to ask someone, but I decided against it and kept it to myself.
So now I was dreaming again, and for some strange reason, I was back in the world of my mind, in that strange space where the seven doors floated before me. Four unlocked, three locked. But this time, something was different.
I looked over at the next door to be opened. I saw it was the door labeled with Mikey-kun memories. I flew toward it and grasped the doorknob. I tried to pull against it, but it still wouldn't budge, chains were still wrapped in thick layers around it. I hissed under my breath and kicked the door before I turned away from it.
It was only after that that I heard the chains move. I slowly turned around and I saw the chains had been loosened around the door. I pulled against them and soon I saw them fall below me into the swirling world I was in. The door was now unlocked, and I was free to go in.
I passed through the door easily and I found myself in a world full of colors before I found myself in the lair of the turtles again. I floated through the lair and soon found my younger self in the kitchen. She was apparently making chocolates from the smell of the rich deep smell of the dark and milk chocolate smell that waved throughout the lair. I saw that she was making them into the shapes of hearts. It then made me glance at the calendar when I saw that.
I felt my eyes widened when I saw and started to remember this memory, it was Valentine's Day. I was… making them for Mikey since… I had a crush on him…
Things were still fuzzy, but I watched my memory. I watched as I made those chocolates and prepared for my night out with Mikey. This night he planned to take me out after I had been cooped up in the lair for a long time, and because I had feelings for him and it was Valentine's Day, I was making him chocolates in hopes that he would return the feelings I had for him.
I had apparently finished the heart shaped chocolates after a short while and Mikey came to get me for our night in the town. I packed away the chocolates in a rush and my younger self rushed off with him toward the outside of the lair.
It was then that the time and area switched due to the fact that I saw Mikey and my younger self over on top of one of the buildings near the pier. Mikey had brought a dinner for the two of us to eat. We watched everything from above over a small Valentine themed market below. Everyone seemed to be having a really fun time, and that was when I looked over at Mikey and handed him my chocolates. He nearly chocked on his snack when my younger self in this memory showed him that.
It took him a moment to digest the thought behind the gift before he took it from my younger self. When he saw the shape of them, his eyes widened even more then before. He had finally caught on to what was happening.
What I had apparently done was given him the Japanese version of Valentine's Day. A girl makes the chocolates for a guy she likes and on Valentine's Day, she gives them to him. A month later, he's supposed to give the girl back a white chocolate, which is why that day is called White Day.
I couldn't make out what I said to him, but at the end of whatever I said, Mikey was smiling and took me back to the lair. I remember I didn't sleep all that well that night due to the stress I had on me that I was worried that Mikey would reject me and not give me any white chocolate in month.
Boy did I get a surprise though when the next morning came. He gave me a slightly dis-formed, white, heart shaped chocolate. It was only after that moment that I finally remember that when he handed me that chocolate, I confessed my feelings for him, and he confessed his own for me.
He loved me, he still does…
It was then that I was thrown out of the door and I was back in the room with all seven doors, now only two remained chained and inaccessible.
It wouldn't be much longer until all my memories were regained and I would remember everything.
I suddenly felt myself wake and I slowly looked around. I was in the Super Robot's med bay, and I was still by my sister. She and Raph were fast asleep, but I saw Mikey was no where to be seen. I jumped from my seat and ran out to find him.
That wasn't hard to do though, I easily found him in the Hell's Fire watching some old videos on the TV in there, where he and I were watching movies every now and then if I remember correctly. I took a deep breath and walked over to him.
"Hey Mikey." He jumped as soon as he heard me and slowly turned to face me.
"Oh, hey Sora." He gave me a soft, forced smile and I leaned down to his level on the ground to speak with him better.
"Is something wrong?" I questioned.
"Naw, its nothing." He brushed it off like it was nothing. "You don't need to worry about it."
"It sure seems like something though Mikey." I whispered to him and took one of his hands. "Tell me what's wrong."
"I can't…" he finally whispered. "I can't tell you what's wrong."
I took a step back, unaware how to reply back to him in the moment. I suddenly found my voice, "why not?"
"Because you don't remember." He whispered. "Because you don't remember, I can't tell you what's wrong with me."
Is it… me? He's… upset that I still don't remember that I love him? That has to be it! What else could it be? Now that I remember more, I remember that Mikey's world nearly consisted around me, and with me gone…
That's what hurt him since day one and why he's always in pain.
I nearly sobbed when I remember that and Mikey looked up at me worriedly. "Sora? What is it? What' wron-" before he could finish his sentence, I'd jumped on him and kissed him on the lips. My heart felt like it was dipped in lava and from the heat of the sudden passion I felt, I wanted to push myself closer to him and kiss him forever, to make up for the lost time while I didn't remember him or how I loved him. But I pulled back and gave him a moment to digest the situation.
"…Sora?" He whispered.
"Yeah Mikey?"
"Do you… remember us?" His eyes turned dark when he asked that question and waited for an answer.
I smiled and I sat down next to him. "Zutto mae kara kimatte ita you na Mienai sen no ue o tadoru you ni Senaka-awase no hikari to kage no you ni Mimimoto de sasayaki yobu koe ni furimukeba Sukoshi no guuzen to hitsuzen o tsunagu you ni
Tooi mukashi kara wakatteta you na
Michibikare deai kousasuru Saison
Tsuyoku hikareru Mystification
Kizukanu uchi hirakarete ita tobira
Ugokihajimeta futatsu no Histoire Ah"
I saw Mikey's eyes nearly pop out of his head when he heard me sing softly our song. The one that I now remembered was Destin Histoire, and I apparently was humming it earlier on.
I gave him another soft kiss and continued on with my song. "Kioku no ito o taguriyoseru you ni Kataritsugareru unmei ni mo nita Hitotsu hitotsu no setsuna ni kizamareta Temanekisareru you ni chikazukeba mieru nazo Mada shiranai sekai atarashiku mekuru tabi ni Itsuka mita yume no oku de Mimimoto de sasayaki yobu koe ni furimukeba Sukoshi no guuzen to hitsuzen o tsunagu you ni Zutto hatenaku tsuzuite yuku"
Pazuru no sukima o umeteku you ni
Nagai michinori no saki ni aru Maintenant
Yuragu koto nai La clef a verite
Shirazu shirazu ni makikomarete yuku
Tokiakasareru tashika na Histoire Ah
Itsumo kanjite ita Reposer
Dokoka hakanaku natsukashii koe
Kizukanu uchi hirakarete ita tobira
Ugokihajimeta futatsu no Histoire Ah
In the instant that I stop singing the song when I had completed it and I looked up at Mikey, he was softly crying and trying to hold himself together. I don't think he knew what to say, but I did.
"Mikey-kun, I'm sorry for all the pain I put you through since I couldn't remember. Its still a bit fuzzy as I remember our relationship got better and better, but I remember the chocolates, that day on Valentine's Day you took me out and I gave you my dark chocolate heart, and then the next day you gave me a white one." I felt a tear drop from my eye and I raced over into his arms and my own wrapped tightly around his neck while I cried in his shoulder. "I remember that I love you, and I always will, so long as you'll have me."
For a moment, he didn't respond, but after a minute or two, I finally felt his leathery arms circle around me and return my embrace. "I'm so glad you remember." I heard him sob.
"So am I Mikey, I promise I won't forget, ever again." I felt him nod in my shoulder and there we stayed for the rest of the afternoon, happily just being with each other again (and making up for the time when I couldn't remember.)
Witch's Note:
Ah ha! I did it! Man that was quite fun to write! So now you guys all see that Jasmine is okay and Sora remembers that she loved Mikey! Isn't it wonderful? Now on to the next chapter! (And we promise there will be some stuff with the Gems of Darkness in that one, but we thought we'd give the guys a chapter to take a break.)
Now remember to send in lots of questions still! I may have over thirteen pages of questions for me and Greka, but don't let that stop you! We still have three more Gems of Darkness to find and get and what not!
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