It seems in the fifth and sixth chapter, it gets scarier and scarier. I don't know why though.
Zaintar: I could explain.
Sprnten: Zaintar, don't make up somethin' please, man.
Zaintar: I'm not. It's the truth.
Sprnten: Really...
Zaintar: It is!
Sprnten: Like the cookie inccedent...you blamed it on me!
Zaintar: DID NOT!
Me: Enough! Just let the people read this chapter peacefully without you two ruining it.
A week after the dream, Zaintar seemed like nothing had happened. She worked on Sprnten and helped the monkey team with their patrolling and chores. She usually woke early in the mornings to see the sunrise. One day, Nova and Zaintar were walking to the music store, when suddenly, a guy ran out of a computer store, holding a very expensive item. Zaintar went zooming after him.
"ZAINTAR! COME BACK!" But her words were just a faint thought in Zaintar's mind.
This guy's stealing, and I'm going to do something about it. Zaintar thought to herself. She chased the guy through alleys, crammed streets and finally til a dead end in a huge alley. Zaintar had a machine gun aimed at him, for defense, just in case this guy decided to do something funny.
"Sir, I really don't want to hurt you, but your going to have to come over nice and quietly and hand me the item," she ordered calmly. The man looked nervously around, but then pulled out the item. Before the item touched her hands, he pulled out a gun. He loaded it. He licked his lips nervously, his eye twitched uncontrollably.
"I'm goin' to kill you, bring you to the manager, and tell him you had the item and you attacked me, so I killed you for self defense," he said triumphantly.
"Nobody's going to believe that lie," Zaintar snarled. He forced out a laugh.
"Really," the man replied. "How are they going to know when your dead?" He was going to shoot, when the a shadow like arm grabbed him and pulled him inside the brickwall. He screamed then was gone. Zaintar made a face of horror and she walked uneasily out of the alley. She found Nova in front of the music store, looking at a black, red and white electric guitar. Nova glanced at her, then walked in, with Zaintar following. There were microphones, amps, drums, and other instruments. Zaintar picked a microphone, an amp, and then grabbed the electric guitar in the window. The clerk looked oddly at her, but then scanned the items. Zaintar picked a guitar case, put the guitar in there, and paid without the guy telling her the amount. He counted the money, and it was right. Before he said anything, the two girls were out of the store. Zaintar was silent the whole way to the Super Robot. Chiro and Otto were playing vidoe games, Antari and Gibson were no where to be found, and Sprx was sleeping in his chair. Zaintar didn't pay attention to the stares, and flew up to her room with her items. Chiro looked up in the rafters, then at Nova.
"What's up with her?" He asked. Nova shrugged.
"Don't know. She wasn't acting like this til she went after that guy stealing something from a computer store. It looked like she saw a ghost." They heard a faint sound of a guitar playing "Holiday" from Green Day. Sprx woke up.
"Maybe she saw somethin' and is tryin' to forget about it. Oh, I have to tell ya, that monkey's up." Suddenly, Zaintar zoomed from the rafters and into the lab. Everyone shrugged and went back to their things.
Zaintar was beside the metal table, holding the golden monkey's hand. He seemed to have changed color, though, from that rusty, golden color, into a fine, shiny golden. His eyes weren't murky as they were when she battled him. He raised his head weakly and gave a small smile.
"Zaintar, I'm so glad to see you," he said in a small voice. She looked at him oddly.
"How do you know me?"
"We used to be team members..." he sighed. "I missed ya so much. That was a stupid idea to split up after...oh, never mind...how you doin'? How did the monkey team come out of their tubes? How did Antari turn into a silver monkey?" He sat up. Zaintar still held his hand and answered his unending questions. Then it was Zaintar's turn to ask questions, but maybe a few, because she wanted him to get some more rest, just in case.
"Sprnten? Was that you that told me and Antari that there was a war comin'?" Zaintar held her breath. Sprnten coughed and looked at the items on the table near his lying place. Then he sighed a sigh of sadness and turned his weak eyes to Zaintar.
"I...I really don't want you to get all jumpy and stuff...all he, Skeleton King, told me that if I didn't bring you back...there was goin' to be a heck of a war raging between evil and good. So...I guess I was the one that told you and Antari that one night." He lied back down and shut his eyes.
"Sprnten?"
"Hmm..."
"What if you couldn't get me...I mean if your first plan of getting me didn't work?" A long, uneasy silence followed.
"Well...I only remember a couple of things SK told me to do. One: He told me to knock you out and make sure the Super Robot Monkey Team didn't follow, which that was a failure. Two: He told me to kill the team and make you get all angry and stuff, which also failed. Three: I think he said to 'give' you a little gift...that I believe was a virus that I would stick in you with...oh. Did you take out a gear that looked like..." He stopped when he saw the gear on the tools table. Zaintar eyes widened and fear covered her face.
Oh crap. Smart Zaintar, you 'had' to ignore that little stick by that stupid gear, Zaintar thoughts snarled angirly at her. Then more scared thoughts came rushing in.
It's in your system! That virus is attached to every cell! But you don't feel anything wrong, but we see it! They screamed at her. Zaintar waved at thin air, though in her mind, she was waving away the thoughts that were invading her head. Then she shook her head and her vision cleared. She saw Sprnten was back asleep and she slowly walked out, trying to be as quiet as possible. When she walked out, Chiro was blocking her way. Zaintar gave him a half laugh.
"Alright Chiro, I really don't have time to play 20 questions. I have some things to do. So please mo..." She tried to get past him, but he stepped in front of her.
"Zaintar, we know something's wrong..."
"Chiro," Zaintar growled his name out. "I'm really not in the mood."
"We aren't either," said Nova, turning around a corner, arms crossed acrossed her chest. The others joined them.
"What happened today?" Nova asked.
"What did Sprnten say?" Antari also asked.
"Why are you so stressed?" Gibson asked after Antari in a caring way. Zaintar glanced at all of them and her eyes started watering. She put her face in her claws and ran past them out of the robot. Antari suddenly started chasing after her. Something was really wrong with her and, since she probably didn't want to explain the questions asked to her, he felt torn apart.
