Hey everyone! Ch.10 is up but before I get started lets thank Kapricia for her traffic part in my last chapter. Please clap now…..I said clap……CLAP! Louder…louder! I said LAOUDER! Good …NOW:strikes funny pose: ON WITH THE STORY!

CH.10

I woke up the next day in a nice comfy, blue, silk bed. I woke up with an annoyed ground, scratched my belly and looked around. I was in a large bushy room with the same red dirt floor that was in the hallways. There was another purple silk bed in the room that belonged to Kapricia but it was empty. I wasn't surprised by her absent; Kapricia could never really sleep in while I on the other hand, could sleep all day long if I didn't have normal bodily functions. I once again looked around the open room for Kapricia among the dim beams of light but she wasn't in the room with me. I decided to wonder into the hall to see if I could find my friend. I didn't care for the fact that anyone could see my dressed in just a XL shirt. I kept close as I could to the thorny wall, still not feeling safe being alone with Kapricia's minions.

"Make way; overloaded kitten assistant coming through!"

I turned my head to the voice and saw a servant holding a ridiculous large amount of clay plates and cups. As the servant made its way down the hall he wobbled dangerously from side to side; desperately trying to keep its balance.

"Out of the way!" I could tell by the voice that the servant was a boy of unknown age. "I need to get this load of dishes to the top chef. So get out of the way."

Everyone hurried to get close to the walls making me feel so uncomfortable that my eye twitched. I watched carefully as the slave slowly passed me and trip over a rock he couldn't see. He tip dangerously close to me and the other monkeys next to me fled. But once again, I just stood there like a big stupid head. The stacks of dishes began their descent to the floor for their date with destiny. The only problem was that I was in their way.

I instinctively bent backwards, leaning most of my weight on my tail. I spread out my arms to keep my balance and began to catch the wide plates and cups. The hard clay landed on my stomach, arms and the top of my bent legs painlessly while other dishes crashed into the hard dirt. After the clay rain stopped it was quiet, but only for a brief moment.

"Um, can someone help me? Please?" I ground, struggling to keep myself from crashing into the floor myself from the extra weight.

"Oh, sorry," the servant said and quickly picked the dishes up off of my body one by one. "That was pretty cool. How did you do that?"

I shrugged, "I have no idea what so ever."

"It's about time you woke up," Kapricia said as she walked up to me.

"Mistress! I was uhg…to..and.." the servant stuttered.

"Go to the kitten, come back and clean this mess up," Kapricia ordered.

"Yes, right away Mistress," the servant bowed and rushed out of sight.

"Morning Kapricia," I greeted no longer feeling unconformable.

"Morning," she greeted back.

"Oh! I have another question for you," I pointed out. "When I was running around yesterday, I realized that I'm a lot more fit. Abnormally so."

"Oh, that's because of the mutation. See, your mutation improves your body."

"But then, why didn't it improve my mind too?"

"Well, in my case my mind was improved and not my body because of my medical problem. It made me like super smart and I can finally do Geometry. It's a miracle! Anywho, the mutation improved your body because of your reading disorder. Got it?" Kapricia explained.

She was talking about the disorders we both had. Fibromyalgia (Yes it's a real disease and no I have no idea how you even begin to pronounce it) was a medical illness Kapricia inherited from her parents. Fibromyalgia can be best described as arthritis for the whole body, even the jaw. As for my reading disorder, I got that from my dad who also has the reading disorder. It doesn't really doesn't do any harm like what Kapricia had; I just had a tough time learning to read and I won't be winning any spelling B's nor would Kapricia be getting an A in P.E.

"So the mutation can't effect our genetic problem..things?" I asked.

Kapricia shrugged, "Guess so."

"Mistress! Mistress!" cried a servant with a bow on her head.

"What?" Kapricia asked as her servant ran up to her.

"Zin….Zin," the servant was out of breath from running.

"What about Zin?" Kapricia asked as fear sparked within me.

"Zin is here!" the servant answered.

"What! Where?" My friend asked again.

"Just over the ridge surrounding us," the servant said. "He keeps yelling that he wants to talk to you Mistress."

"There's no way I'm going to talk to him. He'll probably kill me." Kapricia said.

"But Zin threatened that if you don't come out he'll start killing everyone in sight!" the servant said franticly.

"Crap," Kapricia whispered.

"We have to get everyone out, right?" I interrupted. "I mean you're the only person I know that would think up of an escape route."

Kapricia slapped her head. "Duh! I'm so stupid…ow that hurt. Get everyone to the underground pass," she ordered.

"Right away Mistress," and with that the servant ran off.

"So what do we do now?" I asked.

"I don't know," Kapricia answered.

"What do you mean you don't know? You're the Mistress, you're suppose to know."

"So? You were the Empress of the world so by your own logic, you should know what to do."

"Cha, whatever," I grumbled. "I guess the only thing we can do is see Zin."

"I don't want to," Kapricia whined, "He'll hurt us."

She had a point. By the sound of it this Zin guy could really kick butt. I had never been in a fist fight before and Kapricia couldn't fight because of her disorder. I might not be able to protect my best friend due to my inexperience and I wasn't about to let anything happen to her. But if we did run, Zin would just keep killing innocent lives like ni tomorrow.

"I'll go see Zin while you escape," I said.

"No way am I leaving you behind, you'll just get your butt kicked again," Kapricia said.

"Wow, your confidence in me is overwhelming," I said sarcastically.

Kapricia smiled. "I know, huh?"

I sighed. "Ok, but if you get hurt it's not my fault."

"Whatever."

Without another word we began our journey to where Zin was waiting. Kapricia lead the way as I followed next to her. I hated the awkward silence but could do nothing about it for the time being. When we finally reached the outside of the giant bush, I was not expecting the sight that I beheld. All along the ridge that over looked the bush was an army big enough to rival the Romans of ancient times. The army seemed to form one gigantic gray entity. Only a few stood out of the crowd making their mutated bodies visible.

"Aw crud," I whispered.

"So you finally showed up. It took you long enough. What did you do? Go out for Starbucks?" A black monster stepped out of the gray entity and looked down at us.

"First of all buddy, we hate coffee!" I shouted.

"Oh, Empress. I didn't see you there." I could tell that the blacked furred monkey was smiling even though he was on top of the ridge. "This makes thing a whole lot more interesting."

"What do you want Zin?" Kapricia asked.

"Listen up Mistress, I'll trade you your slave that I've capture for the Empress," Zin shouted back.

Kapricia and I both cursed under our breath.

"What do you want with Taylor bastard!" Kapricia yelled.

Usefully I would tell Kapricia not to curse, being improper n'all, but I was pretty sure this wasn't the time to do that. I kinda thought being proper to the bad guy wasn't the brightness idea ever. Plus I wanted to curse too.

"What else?" Zin asked with a shrug. "To kill her."

"Psh. No way! Why would I give my best friend to you just so she can get killed?" Kapricia interrogated.

"Because if you don't I'll just have to kill all your slaves here," Zin taunted.

"Stupid moron, doesn't he know who I am?"

"Oh, no," I whispered. I felt my own face paling and my body going numb.

"What's wrong?" Kapricia whispered back.

"The voice. It's back."

Kapricia paused, as if she was in deep thought, and played with her bow on her tail.

"Kapricia? Are you ok?" I asked worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I got a plan..er.. the voice in my head dose."

"Oh, boy," I sighed.

"I know, I know but it might help us out," Kapricia reassured.

I sighed for like the 15th time. "Fine, what's the plan?"

"Try asking your voice if she'll help us. She beat Zin before, she can do it again," Kapricia said.

"Ah, now I remember why I made her my second-in-command. She always speaks the truth," the voice gloated.

I sneered at the sound of the voice. "But what if I lose control and kill someone again?"

"Oh, I didn't think of that," Kapricia said.

"I'm growing impatient Mistress. I might have to kill a servant just for fun," Zin called.

"It looks like I have no choice."

"You never did child."

I looked up at Kapricia, not wanting to go away. "Kapricia, after you get the servants back I need you to find the monkey team. If the voice takes over again, they'll have to save Earth."

"I won't leave you behind," Kapricia said.

"You have to." I wanted her to stay no matter what, but… I didn't want her to get hurt. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to protect her; I'd rather lose my sanity than let anything happen to my best friend. "I'll be fine. Just promise me you'll come back for me, ok?"

"I promise." Kapricia said chocking back her tears.

Kapricia hugged me; I felt her warm tears fall on my head and watched my own tears fall on her arm.

"Are we going to do this or what?" Zin yelled annoyed.

We let go of each other and whipped the tears from our cheeks. I turned and faced Zin, took a deep breath and stepped forward.

"FINALLY! Let the prisoners go. I got bigger fish to fry," Zin ordered.

The solders did as they were told and untied the servants. Kapricia's slaves ran right past me as I slowly walked on the dusty ground, not even bothering giving me a second glace. Zin ordered me to hurry up while Kapricia and her slave got away.

The voice laughed slow and deep, basking in all her pride. "It's show time."

As I walked I began to hear a distant scream that quickly grew louder. I clutched my head as if to keep it from splitting apart. I grind my teeth out of pain but seemed to just make things worse. I dropped to my knees, the pain was overwhelming. I could feel my body shift and grow. Loud cracking sounds of my bones seemed endless. My vision began to blur as I watched my hands rapidly grow silver hair and to deform. But that wasn't the worst of it. Even through the immense pain I felt something tugging on my heart. I felt it tug harder and harder as if it was pulling at my very existence; my soul.

I felt the tugging pulling me deeper and deeper into myself, as if trying to make way for something…or…someone. The tugging stopped and I felt myself fall into a deep, black void. I opened my mouth to scream but no sound came out. Then I suddenly hit something; ending my decent. At first I just laid there, paralyzed, wishing my life would just end. With shaky arms I sat up, discovering that I couldn't move my legs, no, something was preventing me from moving them.

"It's not like I have anywhere to go," I thought miserably.

I could see nothing my darkness surrounding me. I was clod, alone, scared and without hope. I felt like I was five again, helpless and useless without the guides of my family. Then I realized I've become the thing I despised the most. A damsel in distress.

A girl who's whole purpose in life was to be weak and let the prince save her because she couldn't and wouldn't. But there was no prince to save me now, I knew that; he wasn't coming, not now or ever. The only thing I could do was to figure out where I was and how to get out, if I could get out that is.

"Watch how an empress take cares of nuance like Zin and your pathetic Monkey Team," the voice echoed.

Two circles appeared before me and in them an image of Zin snarling as he slid his foot to one side. Then it hit me.

"I'm in my spiritual heart, aren't I?" I asked the voice.

"Yes, and that is where you will stay."

"We'll see about that." I looked at the two circles closely, letting me see the outside world through the voice's eyes.

"So you show your true colors, eh, Empress?" Zin said.

"Soon you won't be seeing anything," the voice threatened.

I gasped! The voice was the evil Empress. So obvious yet so unexpected at the same time! The two monsters began to fight; yowling and blood mixed into one. I knew Zin had landed some powerful blows on my body but I felt no pain. This numbness gave my mind a chance to wonder how to get free. As I thought Zin came to mind. Was he just like me? His good side trapped within the bad? Or was this he true self? I shook my head and erased the black mutant from my mind.

"I can't think about that now. I have to get out. The last time I was here Antauri went through a star to get back to our bodies but there's no stars now. I know. Maybe I have to be calm and focus."

I took a deep breath and close my eyes, hoping to achieve inner peace I felt with Antauri, but the on going fight was too distracting.

"What would the Hyper Force do?" I chuckled, "Not kill their teammates that's for sure."

I turned my attention back to the Empress's eyes. I could fell my pupils shrink at the sight of Zin's body twitching on the dust covered ground that now filled Empress's eyes. His face drizzled with his own blood as he gasped for air. I didn't think Zin realized that his stomach was cut deep enough that one could see his internal organs, but the cut was small. Zin would most likely survive if he got to a doctor soon enough, but I ain't no expert on this kind of stuff.

"Now to finish what I've started." My darker self proclaimed. I could feel the Empress lift up one of her monkey arm for the finishing blow.

"STOP!" I screamed. "I won't let you! Not again!"

My body began to glow pure white and lighting the gloom that surrounded me. Hope return to me and freed me from Empress's grasp. I shaped the light into two angelic wings and took to reclaim my body. As I flew upwards I heard someone singing and laugh and as I got higher and higher the singing grew louder until it seemed to be swimming inside my mind; leaving nothing else to be heard. I closed my eyes letting the sound flow threw me until it stopped abruptly. I opened my eyes. I was back in the real world and back in my own non-mutated, monkey tailed body, through it felt like I had something slimy on my lower jaw and hands. I lifted my hand to inspect what it was. To my disgusted horror, think, crimson blood dripped from my hand. I looked at Zin, who was still gasping for air, the look of fear and shock plastered on his face.

"No…my vision……in my heart…it………it… came true……"

Man I mean to my OC, Oh-Well! La-la-la-la! What I got planed for the last chapter will make up for it. But don't worry the next chapter isn't the last chapter but it will come. I can't have a never ending story, now can I? Oh and before I forget, thanks everyone for the wonderful reviews! Until next time!