Disclaimer: I don't own Medabots or any of the characters but I do own Deacon, Kirsty, Archon, Jordan, Leo and Josh
Chapter 6; Songs
7:20pm, Josh's house
"Oh man… what happened… Where am I?" I said as I sat up and rubbed my head, the room I was in was a pail blue with white curtains fluttering in the wind of the open French doors, books and tools littered the floor around the bed I was led on, the room had a calm serene feeling to it. I looked at the place where the bullet hit me, there was a white bandage around it I didn't understand why but if they thought it would help, looked for the other place on my wing where the bullet penetrated, there was a bandage there as well. I sat on the side of the bed looking out of the window at the airport across the darkening water. The pink sunset flaunted its pink flag above the airport, and the sound of waves was lost in the perpetual droning of the plains. I marvelled at the moving beacons on the runway and watched, until it grew completely dark, the flashing red and green lights that rose and set in the sky like shooting stars. I jumped off the bed being careful not to step on any of the tools or books, I ventured out of the room in to the hall way and in to the lounge where a fire was burning in the fireplace, Josh and this other Medabot was sitting on the couch watching TV. I stood in the doorway watching the TV and not saying that I was here. They were all watching some boring sop opera, I was about to move back out of the room when I felt a hand on my shoulder, this made me jump, I turned to find out who it was
"Metabee!" I shouted
Metabee he gave me a bear hug as soon as I turned round
"Err… Metabee are you ok?" I said, my first reaction was to get him off me but something stopped me from saying 'get off!' instead I hugged him back, then I thought what on earth am I doing?
"Deacon your ok… good" Josh said, I let go of Metabee and he let go of me, one person I didn't expect to see was Kirsty she walked through the door with Jordan, Archon, Ikki, Erika, Brass and Dr.Aki.
"What how did you find us?" I said
"Metabee phoned us up saying where you were, simple as that" Ikki said
"It was so obvious Deacon…" Jordan said as he sat next to Josh
"Cool it, She's been through a lot lately" A different Medabot said, I had seen this Medabot sitting on the couch next to Josh before when I was standing in the door way, this Medabot looked like a Zealot off the game Star Craft that Kirsty's always playing on. And for those of you who don't know what Star Craft is look it up.
"And you're name is?" I asked him
"Fenix" He said back, I knew he would have a name out of Star Craft as well; it was just like Josh to do something like that.
"Uhh… hi, Fenix my names…" Fenix abruptly cut me off
"I know what you name is, Josh has told me all about you"
"Josh where did you get this Medabot from" Kirsty said, Josh didn't say any thing he just lent over the coffee table and picked up a blue sheet of paper and spread it out on the table, all the Meda-fighters crowded round to see what it was, I didn't know what it was because I was to busy talking to Fenix, Brass, Metabee and Archon about what had happened.
"Whoa!!" Erika shouted, she then started to take some pictures but Josh pulled something away so she couldn't.
"It's schematics for a Medabot" Dr.Aki said
"Not just any Medabot, my Medabot, Fenix" Josh said as he rolled the schematics back up and put them under the table.
"Deacon do you agree?" Metabee said
"Hu what?" I said, as I wasn't listening to there conversation.
"Listen would ya? I said that it was wired that there were no other Medabots in Rockwell and when we were there they called the police and you were shot" Metabee explained for the second time.
"Yeah it was like, Medabots were band or some thing," I added
"Well it could have been that there were no other Medabots in that gas station, it doesn't mean that there are no other Medabots in Rockwell though" Fenix said
"Why did the man behind the counter say 'get out' then?" Metabee said as he put his hands behind his head.
"He could have being having an off day," Brass said
"Maybe, but all the people in the shop were staring at us kinda like they hadn't see a Medabot before, weren't they Metabee"
"Yeah and they said we weren't welcome here"
"That's odd" Fenix said as he turned around
"What is?" Metabee said lowering his voice
"Well from what I know or heard rather, Rockwell was the place of the Robattle championships ten years ago"
"Where did you here that from?" I asked
"From some other person but that's not the point, the point is that something happened on that day but I'm not sure what"
"Any thing else?" Dr.Aki said, he made us all jump because we didn't see him standing there.
"Well not that you mention it, yeah they uncovered some old medals about five days ago"
"Medals? Where are they now" Dr.Aki asked as he crouched next to Fenix
"Probably in a museum" Metabee replied out of turn
"Yeah, in the natural history museum" Fenix said pointing out of the window and at an old building supported at the front by eight tall pillars, the building was beige in colour and had a flight of steps leading up to the entrance.
"Wow that was lucky, it's just a few blocks away," I said
"What about showing them those medals Fenix?" Josh said as he walked out the door
"Why not… Where are you going?" Fenix said
"Come on lets go Fenix" Josh said
7:40pm, out side the museum
"Will this place still be open?" Ikki asked as he looked at his medawatch
"It should be, its open till ten" Josh said
"What time is it now?" Brass asked
"Two… forty? Why dose my watch say that when it's dark out?"
"You forgot to change your watch because of the time difference Erika" Ikki said
"Oh and I suppose you didn't"
"Nope"
"Man, what a now it all" Metabee said as he sighed, after Ikki and Erika had cooled down a bit we proceeded up the steps to the entrance, at the entrance Josh checked the prices for us as the rest of us went in, I'd never been in a museum before so I didn't know what it was for.
"Uhhh… Kirsty what's a museum for?"
"Yeah" Metabee asked as well
"Umm, well its for storing information from the past" Kirsty explained
"Grate… this is going to be boring" Metabee said as he yawned, when we came to the ticket office Josh had to pay as he was the only one with money, after waiting ages for him to pay because he couldn't find the right change, we came to a sign post saying the directions of the all the exhibits.
"Ok so where now?" Jordan asked
"Hold on… Ah this way" Josh lead us all through different exhibits just to get to one.
"Way, cool!" Metabee shouted at the top of his voice, I stopped and looked at Metabee and noticed he was looking up so I looked up as well and I saw what he was so impressed at; there was a giant black and white killer whale suspended under the ceiling. "That things not sill alive is it and what is it any way?"
"It's a killer whale and no… it was long dead before they put it up there" I said lowering my head so I couldn't see it, this made me feel horrible in side.
"What's wrong Deacon?" Metabee said razing hand and putting it on my shoulder, I looked up at him then back down again.
"It's just, one time when I went on holiday once with Kirsty, we went to sea world and they had three killer whales and they made them do allsorts of tricks and stunts, after the show when all the crowds were clearing out, one came up to the edge of the glass tank, so I went to greet it but when I touched the glass I felt this inexplicable sorrow, pain and longing for freedom, I know how they felt"
"Wow, do you think it could have had something to do with that Bio-metal of yours?"
"Maybe its also like a connection to all living things?" I said with haste because I noticed that the others had gone already. "Ah, Now look we've lost them!"
"Don't worry, lets just go and find what we cane to find, ok?"
"Right lets go… this way," I decided to go through the Stone Age exhibit so Metabee followed me.
"Cool what's that!" Metabee said pointing at a big lizard looking thing "Look at the size of the teeth on that thing!" Metabee was right the teeth on it were massif; I'd never seen anything like it.
"Lets check it out" I said, we walked to its feet and looked up at its gaping mouth looking down at us, It all of a sudden lunged its head forward and snapped its mouth closed right I front of our faces. "AHH!!" I yelled as I jumped in to Metabee's arms and berried my head in his chest.
"Deacon, it's admatronic," Metabee said groaning, I looked up and this time the giant beast lunged again and pulled it's head back up to the same position it started off in, then a voice of a person came from the loud speaker next to the display telling us about the giant. "See, it's called a dinosaur and they were extinct thousands and thousands of years ago"
I let go of Metabee "Well I didn't know that, did I, now come on lets go"
"Yes master" Metabee said sarcastically, the next room we came to was filled with armour, swords and shields, the room was made to look like an old castle, we didn't stay to look around in this room, the next room had two red banners across the wall and a glass case in the middle of the room, on the wall behind the case there was an inscription on a rusted bronze sheet, it read:
In life no peace
In de… no r……
The rest of it was missing but I already knew what it said. "Metabee look at that writing on the wall, I think this is the room were looking for"
"How do you know that? And what about the writing?" Metabee said as he put his hands on his hips.
"Because, I have the same writing" I move my bandanna from around my neck to show Metabee the medallion I carry with me. I flipped it over to reveal the inscription on the under side, it read exactly the same as on the bronze sheet on the wall:
In life no peace
In death no release
"What where did you get that from?"
"I dunno, I've just had it since I was activated" Metabee moved up to the glass case to see what was in it, then I moved up as well. "Medals… fore Medals" Each Medal was sat on red velvet cover, one Medal had a salamander on it, another had a polar bear, another a shark and the last one had an eagle, A sudden feeling that there is no end to any thing washed over me, like I had seen thesis Medals before. I collapsed on to one knee, shaking I tried to stand but the thought of the Medals kept me down.
"Deacon, what's wrong?" Metabee asked, the perpetual songs of once lost Medals filled the air, I fell down to both my knees and I covered my head with my hands to try and stop the songs but I didn't help.
"C-can't… you hear them… they sound so… sad" I then dropped my self down on to my elbows, I tried every thing to stop the songs, nothing worked.
"Hear what? I can't hear any thing!" Metabee said trying to pull me to my feet. I tried to ignore to horrible waling, I pulled my self to my feet with some help. "Now lets get you out of here" Metabee started pulling me towards the door, trembling under my own weight I managed to move out of the room away from the sounds and sat down against the wall, I was shaking all over.
"I'll be f-fine"
"What on Earth was all that about?" Metabee said as he sat in front of me.
"Horrible, all the songs of lost Medals were in that room," I said
"Deacon, are you all right!" Kirsty shouted down the corridor while running to wards us.
"I'm fine…"
"But you're shaking…" Kirsty said as she crouched next to me and put here hand on my knee. I couldn't tell her what I heard, she wouldn't under stand but then nether did Metabee.
"She said she heard, some song of lost Medals…" Metabee explained
"Songs of lost Medals?" Ikki sounded surprised, every one went in to the room where we had just been in, Archon Brass and Fenix stayed with Metabee and me.
