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Chapter Four:

Brainwashing

"Antauri, can I ask you something"

Antauri opened one of his eyes to see Isis standing below with big curious blue eyes. "What is it" He said, lowing himself to the floor.

(Is mediation like their favorite past time here) she thought but shook her head "what's a prophecy?"

The sliver monkey looked at her "what do you mean"

"A prophecy, what is it" She asked

"Well, it's a prediction that can come true without you knowing it or not" he said.

"Hm" Isis thought about what he said.

"Why do you ask me this question" He asked

"Well, I asked Gibson, but he was busy, Otto was just giving me a blank look, I'm not going near the others so I thought I would ask you" she said smiling.

"Sit down and tell me why this is bothering you" Antauri said.

Isis flew over and sat down right across from the Sliver monkey as he cleared his throat "what brought this up in the first place"

"I've been having these weird dreams, not the normal dancing with blueberries dreams" she said

"And what do you see in this dreams" he asked

"That's just it. I don't see anything, but an orange light that telling me about a prophecy. Then it tells me how stupid I was for not knowing what its talking about." Isis said

"Orange light"

She nodded "foul orange"

"Why do you keep saying foul when it comes to orange?"

"On my planet, orange usually the unrested color, where it doesn't stop til it gets what its want. It can be both bad or good, but when it's bad we can sense it so we call it "foul"' She said

"Then what happens next" Antauri asked

"Something bright and blue fly straight into my face then that's when I wake up" Isis said, "so, can you tell me what this all means"

Antauri sighs "Your dream is telling you there is something important you need to know" he said, knowing he couldn't say anything else.

"So I should know something about a prophecy, is that it"

"Yeah, that's it" he said

"Do you know anything about that" She asked.

Antauri looked into her blue eyes "This is something you'll have to figure out, not me"

Isis sighs "Well, thanks anyway, I'll let you get back to your meditation" she said, spreading her little wings and flying out of his room.

She flew around a bit, passing Chiro and Sprx playing video games while Nova watches.

"One more combo and you're dead, Chiro" Sprx said.

Chiro was getting a little nervous as he struggled to beat Sprx in Super Smash Brothers Melee. (A/N: I love that game :P) Isis smiled and with a snap of her fingers, she unplugged Sprx's controller. "What the!" Sprx shouted when he realizes his character wasn't moving.

Chiro kicked Sprx's character off the screen, winning the game. "Yes, pay up Sprx" Chiro said

"That's not fair my controller wasn't working" Sprx shouted as Isis quickly made the controller plug itself back in the game system.

"Quick being a sore loser, Sprx" Nova said.

Sprx tried to come up with another reason but sadly he couldn't, he just sighed and place a five-dollar bill into Chrio's hand. "Alright, double or nothing" he said

"You're on" Chiro said.

Isis shook her head and continued flying from one room to another to find Otto. She enters one that seems to be one of the training rooms since their was a bunch of machines and looked around. The door slammed behind her and she turned around to see Mandarin standing there with a grin on his face.

"Hello, little one, what are you doing here in the training room" He asked, walking over to her.

Isis was scared stiff that she couldn't make her wings move so she slowly fell to the ground without taking her eyes off Mandarin's.

"Nothing, orange monkey" she said, backing away a bit.

"Please, call me Mandarin, I guess my brothers never told you about me"

She shook her head and he sighed "Not surprised" he said, sitting down next to her.

"Are you a zombie or something, cause Otto told me that you were swallowed up by a giant worm" Isis asked

"You could say that, but fate gave me a second chance, I was reborn just like Antauri"

"Yeah, Gibson is still trying to figure out that one too" Isis said, remembering the samples they collected the other day.

"Well, to him, everything must have a "logical explanation"' Mandarin said.

Isis started to get uncomfortable and curse herself for leaving her orb back in Gibson's room or else she would've disappeared already. "Is there something you need or want" she asked

"Nothing, I thought we just sit here and talk"

"Talk? About what" she asked

"Well, where did you come from and why are you staying here" he asked.

"My owner left me here for a while for some reason" Isis said

"So you were abandoned" Mandarin asked

"No, she just wanted me to stay here for a few weeks" Isis said

"So you WERE abandoned"

"No" she said "why do you keep saying that"

"Well, she left you here, did she give you a reason"

Isis frowned "sort of, no, not really"

"Has she contact you lately?"

"No, it's been a month and I haven't heard a word from her"

"It sounds like she's not coming back so she abandoned you" Mandarin said. "Plain and simple"

"No, she wouldn't do that, she loves me, she will never abandoned me" Isis said

"Suit yourself, you're just hurting yourself by believing those lies" he said, getting up and walking around to he can hide the grin on his face. He stared at Isis, her smiled disappeared and was now in deep thought. "Yeah, doesn't it stink that you live in a world where nobody wants you to exist"

"Now, I know you're wrong about that, I still have Gibson to look out for me and for me to look out for" she said

"Are you just saying that or did Gibson really tell you he'll look out for you?"

Isis was about to say something but stopped when he realizes he has a point. Gibson hasn't told her anything but:

"I don't have time, Isis"

"Isis, leave me alone I have work to do"

"What did I tell about going into my lab?"

"Go play with Otto so I can work in peace"

"I don't see how Gibson would waste his time on you, he doesn't like anything that deals with Magic" Mandarin said.

"Gibson does like me, magic or not" Isis said.

"Did he tell you that or are you just assuming again?"

Isis was about to talk back, but she had nothing to say which Mandarin smiled as he walked up to her. "You know you and I have a lot of common, being abandoned and hated by all"

"He doesn't hate me" Isis said.

"The whole team hates you" Mandarin said, backing her up against the wall. "From the reactions I've seen from my brothers and the hairless monkey, you're nothing but a burden and they'll just do what they did to me"

Isis was shaking and had to ask "what is that"

Mandarin's face darken as he whispered "exile"

Isis's eyes widened "no, it's not true, I can understand the crazy monkey and the temper one not liking me because I'm don't like them either. Chiro and Antuari are ok and Otto is the greatest and Gibson . . . "

"He hates you the most" Mandarin said

"NO! He loves me just like my owner does, and I'll prove it to you" Isis shouted in Mandarin's face.

"Why must you believe in such lies, I thought my team care about me, but look what happened, they couldn't take the fact that I was the leader and much stronger then they were so they got rid of me" He lied. He can tell that his lies were sinking into the little dragon's brain by the way tears were forming in her eyes.

"They must had a good reason" she said

"How would you know, you weren't there" Mandarin said.

Again he has a point and maybe this would explain why none of monkeys or Chiro told her anything about the orange monkey.

(No, I will not believe in this, he's lying, I know he is) Isis thought.

"That power I sense inside of you, why waste it on the blue monkey when he clearly doesn't want you around. You have the power to do whatever you want, why not use it for something big beside granting ridicules wishes for the team"

Isis kept her head down, she didn't want to Mandarin to look at her when she's about to cry.

"You can use that power to get back at that owner of yours for abandoning you or to the team for hating you"

"He does not hate me" Isis whispered.

"Yes, he does and if you want I can help you out by showing you how to use that power" he said.

Isis was too lost in deep thought that she didn't see Mandarin's hand glowing a tainted purple color. The tips of his fingers form into sharp claws (one pierce through the back of her head and I can control her to be my mindless puppet) Mandarin said.

He flew his hand down to strike but misses when Isis flew up into the air and landed behind him.

"Leave me alone, you Foul orange monkey" Isis said, then ran to the door.

Mandarin blocked her from exiting. "Do you actually think I'm going to let you leave?"

Isis growled but was powerless without her orb. "Whatever you were trying to do, I'm telling Gibson and you'll find yourself out of here"

"You poor little dragon, I'm just trying to help you" he said, activating his blue sword "even if it means using force"

Isis backed away as the tip of the blue sword was pointing right between her eyes. "I can't believe you're going to run to the monkey, who hates you the most" He said, raising his sword and ready to strike her when they heard Otto.

"Isis, where are you, it's time for lunch"

"Dammit" Mandarin growled to himself and turned his blue sword back into his hand.

Isis took this chance to run past him but she only took three steps when Mandarin's metal hand struck her across her face as hard as he could. The sound of the smack echo in the training room and cause Isis to hit the wall. The little dragon was out cold.

"I hope that would knock some sense into you" Mandarin laughed as he picked her up and headed to the door.

He exits the room and was spotted by Otto "Hey Mandarin, what happened to Isis" he asked, worried.

"She was training but I guess she got knocked out by one of the machines because I just found her on the ground" he lied.

Otto took Isis from Mandarin "I better take her to the Med.

Bay to check on that bruise on her cheek." he said, walking off "Thanks for finding her Mandarin"

"No problem" Mandarin said, grinning.

(Soon, I'll have my revenge) he thought.

Soon . . .


Chapter Five: Fed up: A great misunderstanding by Gibson cause Isis to run away.