CHAPTER 14: TIME TO CHOOSE
"Chiro...I was curious...How do you know this place?" Antauri asked.
Chiro visibly winced, then sighed. "I used to live here."
"I'm sorry Chiro. But, remember, this is just a dream. This place is not actually like this in real life and I'm sure the people who live here are okay,"
Chiro winced again. "No...In real life, this house is destroyed; actually, it's much more destroyed than it is here. You can still enter this house, the actual one is totally gone. The people here are—were—not okay..."
Antauri was about to ask another question, but before he could, a blast of fire was shot between him and Chiro. They both looked behind themselves to see Damon.
Damon's eyes turned blue and he shot dozens of water crystals at them. A few hit Chiro in the arm and he started to bleed. None hit Antauri.
"Chiro! Are you okay?" Antauri asked.
"I'm fine..." Chiro answered and covered it with his scarf.
Antauri jumped at Damon. "Mega Monkey Paw!" He swirled down, but missed.
"You can not defeat me, monkey. I control this world..." His eyes turned green and a boulder shot out at Antauri, it missed, but the force of the blow knocked him back.
"Lightning Kick!" Chiro shot a foot out at Damon. Just in time, Damon grabbed his foot and knocked him into Antauri.
"Time to finish you and bring you back to the real world..." Damon made another flame sword and brought it at Chiro as his eyes turned redder.
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"Gibson...How much time does Chiro actually have left now? I mean he only had an hour, and it's been while so..." Otto asked.
"Hmmm...This is not good. According to my calculations...Chiro only has about maybe five minutes..."
"This isn't good...We gotta hurry!" Nova exclaimed.
"Wait...I see them! They're in trouble!" Otto said.
"Spin Shocker!" Damon was electrocuted in the back, he fell.
All of a sudden, Nova, Otto, and Gibson came and helped Antauri and Chiro.
"How did you guys get here?" Chiro asked.
"Just a little trick I found in my studies and calculations..." Gibson said.
"Thank you." Antauri said.
Nova noticed Chiro's arm. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine,"
"I have a strong feeling that Chiro's Inner Power is in this house..." Antauri figured.
They started heading towards the house...
Damon grabbed at Chiro from behind. Chiro expected this, turned around, and threw him across the fielded wasted land. They all watched as Damon's body faded out of this place.
"Good job," Otto said.
Chiro kneeled down, all of a sudden, and gasped in pain.
"What's wrong?!"
"Oh, no...It seems as if the war of the powers inside of him is quickly coming to an end—for the worst...We must get to that house—now." Gibson said.
Chiro winced and stood up. "I'll be okay...For a little while at least."
Gibson, Nova, and Otto looked worriedly and knowingly at each other.
They entered the house.
There was an altar in the center of the room, a staircase leading up to it. There was an orb emitting a faint green light and a multi-colored light on it. The rest of the room was pitch black.
The monkeys stayed in place as Chiro walked up to it. He peered inside the orb. Antauri came up beside him and did the same.
"What now?" Chiro asked.
"The voice said that I would know what to do from here..." Antauri said.
Then, his eyes widened. "Chiro...Take the orb and smash it—releasing the energy,"
Chiro nodded and picked it up. He brought it down fast. As soon as he did, everything went black.
Chiro looked around. Antauri and the rest of the monkeys weren't there. He wasn't in the house either. It was pitch black all around him.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"You are in your memories and past." Said a voice out of nowhere.
"Who are you?!"
"My identity is not to be known, I am merely here to answer your questions."
"What did you mean by I'm in my memories and past?"
"You broke the orb containing your Power Primate and Elemental Powers. In doing so, you have been brought here to make a choice,"
"A choice? What kind of choice?"
"One that will change everything,"
"So what are they?"
"You can both keep the Elemental Powers and change your whole—or at least up to finding your team—past, changing your future. Or keep the Power Primate, your team, your past, your future, and something terrible. Or you can give everything up, and sacrifice your life so you would have never had such memories of your past—in other words: make it so you never existed."
"Those are my choices?"
"Yes. You must choose one,"
"Of course I'm going to keep my original Power Primate and my team and my pa-..." he stopped once he got there.
"Remember, in doing so, you must also expect something terrible to befall you soon."
"Like what?"
"That I can not reveal,"
"What did you mean by keep my Elemental Powers and change everything?"
"The only way you would be able to keep your Elemental Powers, you will not have found your monkey team and Power Primate because you can not contain two powers. Therefore, you must change your whole future and destiny."
"Why would I want to make it so I never existed?"
"Your past was so terrible, I would understand if you did and never wanted to actually live through that,"
"But if I never existed...Then what would happen to the monkey team?"
"Destiny would choose someone else to take your place."
Chiro pondered them all. Finally, he came up with an answer.
"I want to keep the Power Primate. I'll take the risk of whatever is to come."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
The whole room he was in lit up in a green light. Then, as he started coming to in the real world, the green energy absorbed itself inside of Chiro.
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Chiro opened his eyes. The monkeys were watching him worriedly.
"Chiro, what happened?" Antauri asked.
"I..." Chiro remembered everything. "I'm okay. A voice gave me a choice, and I chose the one that I'd choose every time,"
"Which one is that?"
"To stay with you guys and keep the Power Primate. By the way, what happened to Damon?"
"He has just become the newest inmate of the off-world prison." Gibson said.
Chiro nodded and smiled. "So everything's over now? Back to the way it was?"
"Yes, thankfully." Antauri said.
Sprx yawned. "Well, since that's over, I'm tired and going to bed..." He walked out.
"Me too," Nova yawned and left the room.
"Same here..." Otto walked out after her.
"I am quite tired myself. Goodnight Chiro and Antauri." Gibson left.
"I am also tired. Are you going to be okay Chiro?" Antauri asked.
Chiro nodded and smiled again. "Yeah, I'm fine. And thanks Antauri. Goodnight." Antauri left.
As soon as Antauri left, Chiro's smile faded as he remembered what the voice had said about this choice...
Remember, in doing so, you must also expect something terrible to befall you soon...
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