CHAPTER 3: The Song
Michiko stood there frozen and keeping distance from Lapis as she heard the blue female monkey sing in a wonderful voice. Lapis stopped singing for a minute and turned around to see Michiko behind her. Lapis smiled.
"Oh, hello Michiko. I didn't see you there" Lapis said with her hand up. Michiko walked up to her and sat next to her. She smiled at her.
"Lapis? What song was that? I really like it" Michiko said and Lapis stared at her for a second.
"Oh. That song was a certain song that I usually liked to sing whenever I'm alone. My mother taught me it since me and Lazuli were still together. Lazuli couldn't sing it because she wasn't proper unlike me" Lapis explained and Michiko stared up at her. She didn't know what Lapis meant by 'proper' and she didn't feel like asking her either so she just sat next to her.
"Hey Lapis? How long were you stuck in that ice which uncle Gibson told me about?" Michiko asked and Lapis got up and crossed her arms (but she's not angry).
"I-I don't know little one. That is something I may have to find out on my own" Lapis said. Michiko looked at her.
"Oh! That reminds me. Do you have any weapons or special abilties?" Michiko asked and Lapis got up.
"I do but I don't think you might want to know about them. But I may show you some of it" Lapis said and faced down the edge and stared at the water. She put her hand up and moved her fingers around and suddenly a big string of water came up in front of both of them. Lapis moved the string around with her arms and hands and formed a big loop out of it. Michiko was impressed. Lapis set her hands down and the loop of water now disappeared back into the sea.
"WHOA! That was cool! What is that?" Michiko asked in excitement and Lapis looked at her.
"Well. That technique I used is called waterbending (Yep! Like in Avatar last Airbender!)" Lapis said. Michiko however was confused.
"W-W-Waterbending?" Michiko asked.
"Yes. In my world, the world is divided into 4 nations named after 4 elements. Water, Earth, Fire and Air. Monkeys in separate nations learn to control that element they are nationed by and call it bending. Waterbending, Earthbending, Firebending and Airbending. It's a very important symbol for my world. Yet...I miss my world already. I would love to go back but sadly...I don't know where it is" Lapis said and Michiko was amazed yet stunned by the explanation.
"Wow. I wish I could bend one of those someday" Michiko said until Lapis got up and looked at her.
"No offense but you'll never be able to bend any of the elements. You are not a part of my world. Only Lazuli and I are. It's okay though" Lapis said and felt like going back in the Robot. It was sunset already and Michiko felt like going back too so she followed Lapis back to the robot and felt like going to bed.
A day passed and it was now breakfast time. Nova was busy feeding Michiko and Chiro and the rest of the team were getting breakfast ready. Shinju was having waffles, Yuri was having buttered waffles, Gibson and Lapis were both having pancakes with syrup but Gibson's pancake had a strawberry on it and Lapis's pancake had a few blueberries on hers. Antauri was having buttered toast, Chiro was having some cereal, Sparks was having some yogurt and was watching Nova feed her daughter. He looked jealous but didn't want to make Nova mad so he kept on eating. Otto was having waffles with syrup and was eating so fast like he hadn't had any waffles in ages and Lazuli wasn't having breakfast at all. She already ate and was busy performing her tricks in the main room. Nova finished feeding the baby and now went to get her own breakfast. She was getting herself cereal. She didn't want to sit next to Sparks feeling afraid that he might flirt with her so she sat next to Antauri. Sparks kinda got mad and shoved his breakfast down his throat in one dash and stomped over to Antauri and Nova.
"HEY! What are you doing sitting next to-" Sparks almost yelled but didn't realize his mouth was full and started to choke. Nova got out her robo fist and punched him in the stomach shooting the waffles straight out of his mouth but the waffles ended up on Michiko. She started to cry and Nova turned her fists back to normal and ran to her baby. She picked her up and hugs her.
"Awww. Now now it's okay little guy. I'll clean you up as long as Sparks doesn't shove his food in his big face all down his throat whenever he sees me with someone I'm trying to hang with" Nova said and teased Sparks and walked to the bathroom to clean her up.
Sparks now became red hot in angry and his ears started to steam up until Antauri poured water on him. Lapis was amazed at how Nova managed to get him safe like that so she looked at Gibson.
"Does Nova always do that to him?" Lapis asked.
"When she gets severely annoyed by Sparks, I'd have to say that's a big yes" Gibson said and continued eating. Now Nova was in the bathroom cleaning up Michiko from the mess that Sparks made on her. Nova did know that it was actually her but Sparks shot out the waffle at her so she felt like believing herself for it. She was washing Michiko's face now.
"Don't worry. When all that yucky saliva is all gone, you'll be nice and squeaky clean!" Nova said as she smiled at the light purple baby.Michiko looked up at her looking sad.
"Me no like Sparks. He a big meanie" Michiko said. Nova was now done cleaning up Michiko and cradled the baby in her (Nova's) arms.
"Yeah me too. He's been trying to hit on me since he and the whole team, even me, were created. Now let's get back to the room" Nova said and took Michiko to the main room. Gibson ran up to her.
"Hello Nova. I see Michiko's all clean now from Sparks's choking incident?" Gibson said.
"Yeah. I'm gonna leave her in your room so she can play with Lapis. OK? She won't hurt any of your experiments" Nova said and gave Michiko to Gibson.
"Alright then" Gibson said and he and Lapis took the baby to Gibson's room. Michiko couldn't help but think about the song she heard Lapis sing yesterday.
Author's Note: I'm done chapter 3! I'll have chapter 4 up pretty soon! I don't really have much to talk about except for the fact that my mom wants me to watch a certain DVD I have but I kept telling her I was too nervous to watch it and she thought I wanted to but I kept trying to tell her I never said that I wanted to watch it. I wish I'd just lie to her and said that I did. I can't tell her that I download episodes of the series or she'll kill me. I better go now. see ya in next chapter! Bye bye! Please review! NO flames!