Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 19: Only One Choice

Jasmine's Point of View:

When we had left Darcel with not help in finding our destiny, I looked toward the evidence that would lead to what out only lead would come from or whom in this case. We had gone to masters, who still had no idea of what our destiny was, but I had an idea. One that I would talk about soon with Annabel about, but first came our classes for the day.

Today I had combat lessons with Rover in about an hour, history lessons with Gabriella after lunch, and power primate lessons with Annabel an hour or two before dinner. It would be tonight that I would talk to Annabel of my thoughts of this matter.

During the time I had before my classes, I was working on my art project that I was doing with Cobi and June. They were in my room with me, working on their work as well. The two of them last night got their two papers with their drawings all over them. Now that the two of them were done, I told them to choose a color to paint them with. Each piece had to be one color, but both pieces could be the same color if they wanted. June choose pine green and hot pink. Yuck! She can have the pink paint; I use it only if I need it, not if I want to. Emphasis on the 'need'! Cobi choose to use a dark blue and a deep red color. Now those were colors that were better! And I choose to use to purple and a bright yellow.

The object of using these colors on the page was to fill in the negative space or background on one painting, leaving the objects white, and on the second one, paint the positive space or the objects a color. The two of them were also supposed to use white paint and water, to help blend and lighten up the color so that it would shade in areas from dark color to lighter color, in random spaces on the page or like a river so that one side of the page is dark and then it bright as it goes to the other side until its wither really bright color or white.

My first one that I was doing was my sea shell one that was going to be where I filled in the negative space with purple. It turned out fairly well it I do say so myself. The shading of purple I had starting at its darkest shade at the top of the picture, and then I had it slowly get brighter until it looked a lot like a lavender color at the bottom of my paper. I was proud of it and took a sharpie to our shapes in the portrait to give it that finished feeling.

Once I was done with that, I set my painting on the drying rack I had in the back of my room, then moved back to my table and started in on the second one where I was coloring the shapes a positive yellow, still using the dark to light technique I used last time, just inside the shapers instead of outside them.

While I worked on my own, I occasionally looked at my friends to see how they were coming along. June had done most of her painting with pink paint and painting the negative space, but her transitions were a little weak. When I looked over at Cobi's work, I saw that he was only half way done with his, but his transitions were amazing, the blue looked great on it; I think he chose very well.

I moved back to my own work and finished it quickly as well, out lining the shapes again with a sharpie and then placing it on the drying rack. June had then just finished hers and she brought it over to me. "How does it look Jazz?" She asked as I looked it over again.

"Your transitions are a little weak, so just touch them up a bit and then come back to me, but other then that, it looks good." I told her. She smiled at that went back to her work desk while I pulled out my laptop and looked at one of the recent short stories I was writing. When I came up for a blank for it, I put it down into my tool bar and brought up the story of my team, everything that had happened to us since the beginning. To tell our story. It's been my major project as well.

I got down a few more sentences before I looked at the time and noticed we had little more before our morning classes. "Alright you guys, start packing up, it's almost time for the morning classes. Or of you want you can just clean up the paint and come back after your classes to work on them some more." Cobi and June nodded and got to work. I put my laptop to sleep and set it back on the desk and headed out to the training room. When I got there, Rover was already there, doing reps while Gabriella spotted him. I laughed and walked to into the room. Rover apparently heard my laugher, because he set the bar back in where it belonged. He then looked up and smiled at me, as did Gabriella.

"You ready for a good work out kid?" He asked. I nodded threw my laughed and he brought out his giant fists. I transformed into Hyper Mode and brought my fists close to me, clenched and ready for a long sparing.

"Go!" Gabriella yelled and jumped back toward the back of the room. Rover came at with the first punch; I easily defended myself by throwing my arms in the way, using the force of his punch to push myself back so I could throw a punch of my own at him. He quickly blocked it with his hand pushing it in another directions and me flying passed him. He jumped as I watched in slow-mo Rover get ready to punch me while I was in a bad position. I only had enough time to be able to change my footing and push myself away from Rover's fist as it came at my face.

"You did well on that Jazz, I can see that you read your opponent's attacks better now, but you still faltered when I pulled a fast one on you." He instructed me, running at me to throw a kick in my direction. I turned in a circle with much grace and grabbed his foot while spinning, tossing him around by the end of his foot, and then throwing him at the wall, as he had done to his sister the first day I met him.

"No ones perfect Rover." I told him as he got to his feet. "You still make mistakes now and then, like how you hurt Gab before the two of you got together." This agitated him and he lunged at me. I was able to easily move out of the way before he could hurt me.

"Rover! Stop letting her get into your head! She's trying to physic you out!" Gabriella yelled from the side lines. Rover then hit his head and then looked at me seriously, now the real fight began.

We fought for a long time, with small breaks in between. Rover held up quite a hard fight, but in the end, we let it settle in a draw. We both sat down on the wall, out of breath, but grins were on both of our faces.

"You did great kid." Rover said. "I'm just going to rest here a bit and then I'll be down for lunch later." I laughed and nodded, getting up from my spot and hurrying down to the kitchen to make a quick lunch for everyone. I placed out everything that the others would need for their sandwich in the middle of the table so they could grab it, including bread, cheese, ham, turkey, pepperoni, and so on. Except for Annabel, I made a salad for her. The others soon piled in and took mountains of food, I just grabbed enough to make me a turkey and pepperoni sandwich and some chips. We always ate in silence, until someone started up a conversation, and then we'd all talk forever. Then Rose started an argument with Gabriella again. The two of them got made and I saw where this was going, grabbed Cobi, him being the closet and the guy I love and we hid behind the counter as the ham was thrown at Gabriella's face. Then the food fight broke out. June joined in with the others, but Annabel moved over where we were behind the counter and hid with us there.

"Good thinking Jasmine." Annabel said.

"Thanks. Do you know how long this fight is going to last? The last one lasted only a few minutes, but before that one it lasted an hour." I asked her.

"I don't believe it will be that long, seeing as they don't have much food left to throw, but they might grab the food that has already been thrown so it's covered with some kind of toping that's been plastered on the walls." She replied.

"Jazz," Cobi said. "Why did you save me from the food fight? I'm thankful; I just want to know why."

"Well I didn't know yet if you really liked being in the middle of a food fight, but just for safety reasons I thought I'd help you. There was no way to save Gab because she was on the other side of the table. That and it was probably going to happen soon anyway."

"I guess you're right, Gab and Rose always get into big fights, Rover takes Gabby's side, and 'Liv takes Rose's."

"And June just likes to be in a good fight, on her own team I guess, hitting both of the other teams." I said laughing. We all laughed, even Annabel.

The food fight was over when I check around the counter of the counter. The others were laughing in fits. "Alright," I told them. "Get this mess cleaned up. Gab I'll met you in your lab for the test today, I'll just go over my notes a few more times."

"Okay Jasmine, I'll be there in a bit." She replied, then turned back to fix her work with the others. I hurried over to her lab and started looking over the notes for my test today that Gabby was giving me on the latest units we've gone over, so the whole time I'm with her is only for this test, then I'm free to go.

It wasn't long before Gabby came in with Rover behind her. I swear the two are never apart, even when it comes to sleeping, they sleep together. I put away my notes and Gabriella smiled. "Thank you Jasmine. This test should take you about most of the time your in here with me, so take you time, if you get done early, you are welcome to leave and do as you wish. After I find out how well you do on the test, you might have some free time from my class for a while." I nodded and Gabriella handed me the test.

Nearly five pages long, but most were multiple choice, but there were also some short answer questions, and an essay at the back. It honestly took a lot less time then I thought it would be; only lasting about half an hour. I triple checked my answers and handed my test to Gabriella. "I think I did pretty well Gab." I told her.

"Good, well when I get a free moment, I'll grade this and let you know how you did. You're free to go where ever you like now." She told me. I nodded and began to walk out of the room when saw her out of the corner of my eyes set down my packet and grab Rover, pulling him into the smaller secluded room of her lab that had a lock. I couldn't help but giggle at them and headed over to the meditation room, where I knew that Annabel would be. When I got there, I saw her and Cobi working on the old power primate. It was fairly easy for me to get the hang of it, and I can make a sword out of it, like Cobi, but it doesn't last to long, but Annabel seams to be having the worst time, she still can make anything come into her hand, she can't make a weapon or anything, and its really getting to her.

She breathed heavily and stepped back from Cobi. "I think we need a break." She panted. "I'll just take a quick rest and we'll get back to work."

"Annabel," I said to her. "I need to talk to you about something, and also, you need to give you body a rest. You're working too hard, your body's suffering. You need to stop for today and rest, no more training. Understood?" I asked her and Cobi.

"I understand Jazz, and you're right." Cobi said. "Annabel, you will get this one day, but if you keep over working yourself like this, you'll never get this right. Well try again tomorrow." He said.

"And I'm also postponing my lesson with you," I told her. She wanted to protest, but I held up my hand to stop her. "Annabel you need to rest. And once I'm done talking with you about certain matters, I want you to go strait to bed; I'll bring you supper when it comes time. Cobi, I'll train with you tonight to get a better hold on the sword and we'll get June so she can finish mastering her power primate double blade." He nodded and moved over to the corner in the room and sat down to rest and drink some of the tea Annabel had set in here.

"What is it that you need to talk about Jasmine?" Annabel asked tiredly, sitting on the floor.

"Annabel, I need to know what you think of this. I've been thinking about the only person who probably knows about our destiny. I think it's your father." I told her.

"I would not be surprised; my father knew about your father's destiny for a long time, he might also know ours or at least a hint of maybe where we must go. Are you suggesting something Jasmine?" She said.

"Yes, I want to let my father catch up with us and get that information that we need." I told her as she looked at me surprised. "We have no other leads; this is the only way that we can be sure without getting it out of Skeleton Queen who would never give us that information." Cobi looked at me surprised with what I had said. Annabel sighed and good up from her spot and went over to the intercom.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." She said to herself. She pressed the button and spoke into the Microphone. "Attention Hyper Force, this is Annabel. By order of the first in command, stop all engines other then to keep the robot running. We are going to wait out our parents and find out our destiny from them."

You could have heard a pen drop.

Witch's Note:

Did anyone expect that? I can't say that you did. This was a good chapter right? If you think other wise, it was mostly a setting chapter to get ready for the big chapter that coming up next. It involves a lot of snow, cold, family quarrels, and breaching of the minds! Sound good, to get it you gotta read it, should be up soon!

Also people, a good friend of my Mikki the Superior Assassin made a story request for me called Altering Two Lives! I made up the plot, characters, setting and all that, and she made a story out of it. You should defiantly read it; I have already nearly between 10 and 20 times already!

Question of the Chapter: If you have read the story request Mikki did for me, what did you think of it, and if you didn't read it, are you going to?

My Answer to the Question: I loved it. I honestly can't wait for the chapter so badly, I'm making up weird endings for her story in my head! Oh I can't wait!

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