Honestly the first part of this should've been added to the end of last chapter... Anyways here it chapter 3.

The trek through the woods was a long silent one as Koba followed Caesar and the rest of the apes. Glancing up every now and then he could see Caesar and Maurice converse with each other.

"What if the humans need something?" the orangutan asked.

"I've already told the humans to stay where they are. They should not be coming back into the forest," Caesar would answer back.

"But what would you do if they do come back? The humans only ever come into the forest if they need something," Maurice countered to which Caesar took in a deep breath and thought about it.

Koba tilted his head at the two apes, it was faint but he could hear Caesar's answer.

"I don't know…"

…

Sharpening yet another spear, Koba checked his handiwork within his home that was built with wood and leaves. The pitter patter of rain made a soothing rhythmic ambient sound for him as he worked away. Today unfortunately there was not a lot going on due to the rain. The males couldn't go hunt, the females couldn't go foraging within the woods and the little ones had to stay close by with their parents as the teaching grounds was bombarded with by the drizzle. So in the meantime, Koba did what he did best and made some spears to replace the ones that were broken that he had used.

The bonobo stopped when he heard Luca's warning cry that echoed all around them. Emerging from his homestead, Koba was greeted by the many confused faces of the other apes as they too heard the gorilla's loud bellow. Hefting his spear, Koba made his way on over towards the entrance and was quite surprised to see the Gorilla Guard dragging one of the humans into the colony. The human was tossed into the mud and then quickly got up with his hands raised into the air. He then approached the man and looked him over once before Luca started to push the human towards the stone platforms where Caesar was now standing.

It was quite amusing for Koba when he saw the human groveling as Luca had pushed the man down into the mud but the bonobo didn't let that show on his face. When Blue Eyes came up next to him, Koba gestured to the young prince to not get too close to the human as he started sputtering nonsense to their leader. As the human stood up, Luca then knocked the man back down whom quickly apologized before turning towards Caesar once more.

"I need to show you something. Its not far," the man wheezed.

"Human! Lies!" Koba shouted, gaining the approving hoots from all of the apes around the man.

"No. I swear. If I can just show you, then you'll understand. Please," the man begged.

The man then turned around and flinched when he saw the giant spear pointed right at him. Quickly turning back to look up at Caesar the man looked on with pleading eyes, hoping that the ape would not order his death for breaking the rules. Suddenly to the human's surprise the chimpanzee held up his left hand and all was silent.

"Show. Me." Caesar said simply to which the human closed his eyes as relief filled his being.

…

"Where do you think the human is taking us?" Ash asked as he followed close behind his father and uncles.

"Don't know. Don't care," Blue Eyes gestured back, annoyed.

"But you must want to know and do care to find out. Is that not why you came along?" Ash signed back earning a scowl from the blue eyed chimp.

Eventually the apes were lead to a giant river expanse that flowed gently but steadily towards a man made structure of some sort that had broken trees piling up to one side of it. As the human lead them on he showed the apes a way into the structure and excitedly started to explain his purpose to them. Going off to one side of the room, touching some machinery here and there and finally turning back to look at them with a wide grin on his face.

"What do you think he is saying?" Ash asked, tapping Blue Eyes on the shoulder who grunted at him to keep quiet.

"Is… Any of this making any sense to you?" the man asked.

"The… Lights," Caesar responded to which the human's face lit up with happiness.

"Yes the lights," the human beamed before his face changed and he looked at all of them. "This is your home… And I don't want to take it from you, I promise. But if you let us do our work here-"

"You brought others?" Koba growled, taking a step towards the human who backed away quickly.

Caesar raised his hand up, stopping Koba's advancement and simply stared at the human, waiting for his answer.

"Just a few. I'm not a threat. And if I am… I guess you can kill me," the man finally finished.

The apes watched as Caesar stared down the human for a long while before he spoke.

"Humans stay. And work. But. No guns." Caesar stated simply.

"Okay. Okay… No guns," the man huffed out with a happy sigh.

…

Traveling back down the mountainside Koba watched as the human walked on over towards the vehicles and talked with his people. Glancing back at Caesar, Koba wondered why he was allowing the humans to do whatever it is they are doing. Now he didn't understand what the human was blabbing about when they were by the waterfalls but he knew that it would give the energy and power. Power for them to use as a resource to turn on the apes. Hearing the vehicle doors opening, Koba set his sights back upon the humans as they discarded their weaponry into one pile and nervously looked to where they were at. Rocket and Luca were the ones to approach the humans and seize their weapons and take it away. The humans could do nothing but watch nervously as they unloaded their belongings from the vehicles and looked at the apes for directions.

Apparently Caesar had already picked out a spot in the forest from where the humans could stay. It was also so that the apes could keep a close eye on them as well, to make sure that they wouldn't harm the apes. Following a small trail, Caesar had lead the humans to a spot that was just over the ridge to where the dam was at and had several flat areas to which the humans could set up camp. With his hand raised up, Caesar had turned around with his horse and stared down at the humans.

"Camp here?" the man had asked to which Caesar did not respond, "okay…" he finished, setting the giant contraption that he was lugging around onto the ground.

Koba then narrowed his eyes as he watched the human walked towards Caesar, readying himself if the human had suddenly for some reason to attack their king.

"Uh, thank you…" the man thanked before placing a hand over his chest, "Malcolm," he announced before saying his name once more.

"Caesar," Caesar grunted simply before turning his horse around and trotted off.

…

Back at the colony Koba and the other apes sat around a big fire as Rocket could be heard smashing the human weapons into bits and pieces while his son, Ash sat by. The scarred bonobo looked around at his fellow brothers and spotted Pope from among them, sitting just across from him. The scarred chimpanzee was looking off to the side at Rocket breaking apart the firearms before taking notice of Koba staring at him. The two scarred apes eyed each other for a long while before the chimpanzee relaxed his posture and slowly brought his hands up, making sure that it was just Koba that could see.

"Humans. Power. Guns. Kill... Cage," Pope gestured and tilted his head up to where Caesar was sitting, noticing the scarred bonobo's fur bristling slightly.

Koba narrowed his eyes at Pope who signed to him and bared his fangs slightly. However the chimpanzee was right, Caesar's compassion was going to get them all killed and it was up to him to set his friend straight. The bonobo suddenly got up, confusing Grey whom was sitting next to him, and stomped off towards Caesar.

"If the humans get power, they'll be more dangerous! Why help them?" Koba huffed and puffed while signing to his friend.

"What did you say to him?" Rex asked, tapping Pope on the shoulder.

Pope smiled up at the gorilla and turned back to see Caesar signing back to Koba.

"Motivation," Pope finally answered.

"Let them," Koba uttered towards Caesar. "We'll destroy them while they are weak."

"And how many apes will die?" Caesar countered to which Koba didn't have a response to. "We have one chance for peace… Let them do their human work. Then they'll go," Caesar finished.

At this Koba couldn't help but scoff as he looked down and scratched at his neck.

"Human work?" Koba asked staring straight into Caesar's eyes, confusing the king slightly. "Human work." Koba said a little bit louder, pointing and showing Caesar the scar behind his left ear. "Human work." he continued by this time pointing to the scar on his right arm. "Human work!" Koba now practically shouted as he drew his hand down the left scar and blind eye on his face, gaining the attention of all the apes within the vicinity.

After a brief moment, Caesar slowly stood up and glared down at Koba whom blinked a couple of times before he suddenly knew that what he did was wrong. Heaving out a breath, Koba quickly squatted down and raised his palm up towards Caesar to ask for forgiveness for his sudden outburst.

Feeling Caesar's hand swipe over his own, Koba slowly stood back up and eyed his friend whom was still glaring down at him. After a brief pause the scarred bonobo turned around and slowly walked away stopping momentarily he noticed Pope. The chimpanzee seemed to be giving him a pitying look and shook his head slowly from side to side as if he were disappointed. Taking in a deep breath Koba avoided making eye contact with the fellow scarred ape and continued on with his head hung low.

After seeing his uncle turned away like that Blue Eyes suddenly stood in front of his father.

"Koba says that apes should hate humans. That they-" Blue Eyes tried to defend his uncle but was stopped by a grunt from his father.

"Enough! From humans Koba only learned hate. But nothing else," Caesar explained to his son as he kept his eyes on the retreating scarred bonobo.

Blue Eyes on the other hand merely huffed and followed his father's gaze to where the Bonobo was. Standing there, contemplating on what to do, Blue Eyes glared back up at his father before he too stomped away from the rest of them, ignoring the small hoots from Ash who tried to call out to him.

Pope observed with amusement as Caesar was losing the battle to maintain control on both his son and friend. As both scarred bonobo and young prince left the vicinity, the scarred chimpanzee too stood up and made his way on over to where the Gorilla Guards stood by. Nodding a greeting at some of them, Pope's eyes scanned around until he finally found the two apes he was looking for. Approaching the two he had let out a low hoot to announce his presence.

"What brings you here?" Rex signed at the scarred chimpanzee while Red merely stared silently.

"How goes your end? Any progress on your parts?" Pope had asked.

"We haven't spoke with all of them yet but a few of us agree that Caesar is becoming weak," Rex answered.

"And you?" Red asked, piercing green eyes glaring down at the scarred chimpanzee whom nonchalantly sat on top one of the logs.

"Nothing much yet. Like you two I've only spoken to a few apes as well. Like us they think Caesar is growing soft on the humans," Pope gestured to which Red and Rex merely glanced at one another.

"Who was that? Who yelled earlier?" Red questioned the scarred chimpanzee who's face lit up with a smile.

"An ally," Pope responded.

Once Koba was out of sight and alone, he couldn't help but tremble slightly as he wrapped his arms around himself. What had just happened? All he remembered was that he was trying to tell Caesar that they shouldn't help the humans. But then Caesar had told him that the humans just needed to do their work and that was when he suddenly lost himself, seeing the colors red. The next thing he knew, Caesar was glaring down at him and he had quickly asked for forgiveness.

Breathing heavily, Koba closed his eyes and slowly calmed down his shaking nerves. After quite some time Koba could feel himself returning to normalcy, slowly opened his eyes and stared down at his body. Slowly bringing his arm up, Koba stared at the deep white scar that stood out from underneath his dark colored fur.

Koba knows that Caesar would never know what atrocities he's been through. Never know what the humans were capable of doing. Why couldn't his friend understand all of this? But there was another ape that did understand him quite well. One just like him. Used by the humans. Tortured by them. One whose experimented the same pain like he did - Pope.

The memory of Pope warning him about Caesar not attacking the humans will bring nothing but ruin and destruction upon their kind. At first Koba didn't want to believe what the scarred chimpanzee had warned him about but now he wasn't so sure. He was afraid that maybe, just maybe the other chimp was right and that due to Caesar's love for the humans will get both him and the rest of the apes all killed. Lowering his arm Koba stared up at the dark night sky. He'll have to go back to the human city to see if the humans were planning to attack them.

As he stared up at the stars like many a nights since he's been free. Koba's hand slowly reached up and touched the left side of his face, where his scar ran down it, painful memories suddenly flooding his mind.

"Human work…"

…

Later that evening Caesar walked into his home and noticed Cornelia wheezing as she slept upon their bed. Seeing her like that worried him and he slowly approached, slipping into the bed hopefully not to wake her. Unfortunately his presence had caused his mate to wake but she didn't seem to mind as she rounded herself to face him, a smile upon her features. Caesar himself couldn't help but return the smile as his eyes darted to the little sleeping one sleeping stop of Cornelia before he turned his sights back upon her lovingly.

"You sound sick… You okay?" Caesar asked worriedly before placing his hand atop of the sleeping Cornelius.

"Just need rest," Cornelia had responded as she wheezed slightly.

Cornelia could see the troubled look upon Caesar's face and she offered a small smile towards him.

"You worry about the humans?" she had asked, confirming her suspicions as her mate nodded at her.

Cornelia then took a hold of her mate's head and brought them in close together, placing their forehead upon each other to help ease his mind. At this Caesar had relaxed but his mind was still troubled by what had happened just earlier. He had wanted to inform to Cornelia that he was also worried about their son and Koba but he didn't need for her to worry, given her condition.

So instead to help ease his mate, Caesar slowly lifted Cornelius off from Cornelia and held onto the little one so that she can properly sleep. Cornelia stared at him lovingly, thanking him with a kiss before she closed her eyes and within moments, fell back into a deep slumber. Watching his mate and child sleep, Caesar's worry ebbed away a bit before he lifted his head as he heard someone approaching their home. Soon enough Caesar could see the sky blue colors of his son's eyes staring at him.

As Blue Eyes entered their home for the evening the young ape could see that both his parents were already at their bedside, his father still up as the older male turned towards him. Blue Eyes narrowed his eyes at his father momentarily before the wheezing noise coming from his mother had caught his attention. Glancing over towards his sleeping mother, Blue Eyes approached his parent's bedside, his angry features slowly melting away to that of confusion and worry.

"What is wrong with mother?" Blue Eyes signed towards his father.

"Your mother is a little sick," Caesar answered back slowly, careful to not disturb Cornelius.

Letting his gaze wander on back towards his mother, Blue Eyes' shoulders dropped a little at the sight of her.

"Is she going to be okay?" Blue Eyes asked.

"She will be after some rest. Go to sleep son," Caesar answered.

Nodding once at his father, Blue Eyes backed away slowly from his parents, silently knuckle-walked to the other side of their home where his own little cot was at. Climbing into it quietly, Blue Eyes laid his head upon the moss bedding and closed his eyes, hoping that nothing bad will happen to his mother.

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