Greetings readers! Here is chapter4.

Now I want to warn you all that there are several foul languages at the end of this chapter and wanted to let you all know beforehand.

Also I noticed that if you change the font from the regular Verdana(I think it's that one) to another one the "Italicized texts with quotes" are easier to read for the sign language parts. "Regular text with quotes" is normal speak by the way.

Besides that there's not much else, other than enjoy the story.

As Caesar slept peacefully through the night he sudden felt pressure upon his chest, followed by several thumps. Cracking open and eye, Caesar was greeted with the smiling face of his youngest child, Cornelius, whom was busy running his little hands on top of his father's chest fur before standing up and jumping once more. With a grunt, Caesar slowly sat up and held Cornelius close towards him while tickling the infant all the while. Smiling, Caesar was rewarded with the small pant laughter from his child as he placed with him. He then let his gaze wander on over towards his mate and found out that she was still wheezing in her sleep. Caesar's features changed to that of worry as he reached on over to feel his mate's head before bending down to kiss her on the cheek.

Caesar then chose to rise out of the bed as quietly as he can so that he would not disrupt Cornelia with Cornelius held within his arms. Staring into little Cornelius' bright curious eyes, Caesar smiled warmly at his baby before he walked away, leaving Cornelia to rest. Padding through their home quietly, Caesar approached Blue Eyes' bedside and stared at his oldest son.

Keeping his gaze upon Blue Eyes, Caesar couldn't help but let a frown form upon his lips. It had only been recent but for the life of him, Caesar couldn't understand why Blue Eyes was acting out against him. Was it something he did wrong? If so he wished dearly that Blue Eyes would explain it to him so that he would understand what was going on through that young apes' mind.

During his thoughts, Caesar's gaze soon fell upon Blue Eyes' wounds. Scars that streaked across the young ape's cheek and torso. Reaching out Caesar gently touched the young chimpanzee's injury and frowned at himself. Caesar had wished that he had been more careful that day and was thankful that Blue Eyes had escaped death. Caesar himself wouldn't know what he would have done if he had lost Blue Eyes. He then moved his hand and placed it gently upon the young chimp's head, smiling warmly as the young ape leaned into his touch. Even if Blue Eyes was stubborn, rebellious, and defiant, Caesar would still love him no matter what. He just wished that Blue Eyes would know that.

Upon waking up Blue Eyes froze up at the sight of his father standing over him with his little brother in the older ape's arm. Recoiling and shoving his father's hand away from his head, Blue Eyes sat up upon his cot and stared up at the older ape.

"What are you doing?" Blue Eyes signed at his father, annoyed.

Caesar frowned at his son's reaction but nonetheless gathered himself before speaking in a quiet voice.

"Get ready. We need to go."

…

Maurice had just exited from his tree home and noticed Koba pacing by the gate's. The orangutan frowned and slowly approached the scarred bonobo. Letting out a few grumbles to make his presence known, Maurice greeted his fellow ape.

"Greetings Koba?" Maurice addressed the scarred ape to which the bonobo merely grunted back in response.

Maurice paused and frown slightly at the gruff reply but he guessed that he was already expecting it, given the circumstances of what had happen yesterday evening. Maurice observed the bonobo a little longer before Koba had abruptly stopped in his tracks and then faced him.

"Do you think what Caesar is doing is right?" Koba signed quickly, his shoulders rising and dropping with each breath he took.

Maurice was quite surprised to see how much the scarred bonobo was fuming, raising his brows a bit. However to hopefully calm down the bonobo, Maurice was careful to not show any forms of agitation on himself.

"I do not know. I however know that what Caesar is doing is trying to prevent both apes and humans from going to a war. He wants only peace Koba. That is all," Maurice tried to explain.

It seemed that the scarred bonobo didn't appreciate his answer and went back to pacing once more. It pained the orangutan to see his friend, or any ape in that matter, to be in such a state like this. Koba had never exhibit such defiant behavior before. Well… Not since they've all first met him those first few days so long ago. He understood fully well that Koba had been hurt by the humans and Maurice had wanted to really help the poor ape but the bonobo mostly kept to himself on that subject of matter.

"I'm going hunting!" Koba barked and before Maurice could say anything the bonobo bounded away.

With a grunting sigh, Maurice deflated himself his green beady eyes watching the bonobo's backside disappearing as he rounded the gates. With a blink, Maurice then let his gaze wander around before he took notice of a particular scarred chimpanzee peering down at him high upon the wooden walls. Looking upwards, Maurice stared into the unnerving eyes of Pope, an ape that he hadn't had much interaction with but knew that like Koba, was also mistreated by the humans. The two of them were locked in a long stare before the scarred chimpanzee got up and silently descended down the other side of the wooden barricade.

…

As morning pressed on, Caesar, Rocket, and Maurice had gathered many of the apes and traverse the forest trail to where the humans had camped at. Before they left, Caesar had ordered Luca and many of the other gorillas of the Gorilla Guard to stay back and protect the colony while they were gone. Luca gave a grunting nod and pounded his chest once in response to their king.

Making their approach to the human campsite Caesar was quite pleased to hear from his scouts that Malcolm and his group of humans had kept to their word and stayed put during the night. Once they had arrived the apes were surprised to see that the humans were still just rousing from their slumber. Caesar mused to himself as he could recall that most humans needed something called "coffee" to get themselves up in the morning, a long time ago. Shaking the thought away, Caesar hardened his face as he awaited for Malcolm's crew.

Guiding the humans back to the dam had been easy enough and Caesar soon stood by the water's edge with his horse, along with Rocket and Maurice. Hearing someone coming up behind him he turned and saw that it was just Blue Eyes whom was holding onto his little brother. Green and gold speckled eyes darting from the two young apes, to behind them and finally upon Rocket and Maurice the chimpanzee king noticed that someone else was missing from their group.

"Where is Koba?" Caesar questioned, knowing that the bonobo was usually not far behind, wherever they'd go.

After a few moments of glancing around and seeing that the scarred bonobo was nowhere in sight, it was Maurice who turned towards Caesar and answered him.

"He still angry. Said that he was going to go hunting…" he explained.

Upon hearing this, Caesar's heart started to pound within his chest as he cast his eyes out towards the forest that stood in front of him. Oh, Koba… What are you doing? Caesar thought silently to himself.

…

"Look, there are humans below," Koba signed quickly as he stood atop of the Golden Gate Bridge.

"What is that sound?" Stone questioned as he could hear popping noises in the distance.

All the chimpanzee got though was a grunt from the scarred bonobo whom quickly descended the arcing truss of the bridge. Turning toward his companion Grey for clues, the brown haired chimpanzee merely gestured the sign for "gun" before following after Koba.

Swinging through the bridge the three apes finally settled down beside one of the buildings. The three apes looked on silently before Grey turned up towards Koba.

"Why are we here?" he had asked.

"Caesar trusts the humans… I do not," Koba answered back with a scowl on his face.

Hearing a thumb behind them the three apes turned around and was quite surprised to see that Pope had followed them.

"This does not look like hunting?" Pope questioned as he eyed the three apes in front of him before his gaze wandered on down to where the humans were and then back up at them again. "Unless… You three are hunting humans," he joked with a smile, getting weary looks from both Grey and Stone while Koba merely scowled at him for his jest.

Before anymore could be said the four apes turned their heads when they heard gunfire. Following the noise, the four apes found themselves within a long stretched hallway. Beckoning to the pipes overhead, Koba silently grabbed onto them and started to swing himself towards the two unsuspecting humans below. Following the scarred bonobo the three other apes stopped when Koba had paused and signed for them to wait.

Watching Koba leave and hanging there with both Grey and Stone, Pope huffed quietly as he swung in front of the other two chimps and stared at them.

"We need to keep an eye out for any danger, you two go to the other end of the hallway. I'll keep watch here," Pope gestured with one free arm.

"Why do we need to go back there? You were the one that followed us. You should keep an eye out," Stone shot back with a frown.

The bottom part of Pope's left eye twitched once as he stared at Stone before he closed his eyes slowly and nodded a couple of times.

"Of course…" he signed back as he slowly swung away, a scowl set upon his face.

Once he reached the end of the hallway and looked around momentarily, Pope's dark eyes gazed back at both Grey and Stone as the two chimpanzees looked around. With a silent growl, Pope rounded the corner and quickly swung through the other side of the building.

As Koba entered the storage space the scarred bonobo was greeted with piles upon piles of different kinds of firearms. Hopping down the ledge he let his good eye wander around letting out small heaves as he took in all the sight. With the sound of gunfire blasting behind him Koba had been afraid to confirm his suspicions. The humans were prepping themselves to go to war with the apes and if Caesar were to give them power, then what would stop the humans from attacking the ape colony and wiping them out? He needed to inform Caesar and the rest of the apes about this.

If there was one thing that Pope hated, it was something did not go his way or if another had talked back to him. Glaring at Stone from off to the side, Pope held a piece of broken cinder block within his hand. Holding the object, Pope aimed carefully and tossed it towards the humans below. With a clank and thudding noise made by the pipes the object fell onto, Pope immediately left his spot and watched from his new hiding area.

When the cinder block landed on the ground next to the long haired human man turned his head to the right. Pope observed as the human slowly got up, check his gun and then proceeded on over to where he thought he had heard the loud noise. This stupid human had indeed angered Pope as well. If the man had turned around and looked up, he would've spotted the form of both Grey and Stone and shot them down. But know the human had to veer towards his right and made his way towards the weapons storage room.

"Hey!" the man shouted when he spotted an ape looking around the storage area. "Don't you move! Don't move, do you understand me? Huh! Terry!" he continued shouting.

Now this was a different outcome. Pope thought to himself as he hid behind a wall, not expecting this to happen. Rubbing his chin, Pope narrowed his eyes as he observed the human's interaction with Koba, now that he's been found. What are you going to do Koba? Pope mused, taking noticed of both Grey and Stone as the two apes now appeared up in the rafters with worried looks as the man called out to his other companion.

Koba on the other hand was glaring up at the screaming human as he called for his companion. So many things were firing off within him mind right now. As his thoughts raced through his mind, Koba noticed the human's friend suddenly entering into the room as well, gun held up and pointed right at him.

"Holy shit!"

"What do we do? What do we do?"

"Where did he come from?"

"Should we shoot him?"

"Maybe? I-I don't know?"

Koba watched the two humans bicker back and forth as he eyed them, deciding on how to deal with the situation that he's in.

"You are one ugly son of a bitch, aren't you?" the human that had less hair mocked Koba.

Koba didn't know what that meant but he was pretty sure it was something humans would say about the appearances of others. He wanted to bare his fangs at the dumb human but what he felt didn't matter right now. All that matters was how he was going to get out of this situation that he was in, alive. Breathing haggardly, nothing was coming to mind for him. He needed something, anything to distract the minds of these two buffoons.

Wait a minute? Acting like a buffoon. Something that humans highly enjoy at the expense of others. Dreaded memories suddenly hit Koba like a flash bang, memories he had wished that he had forgotten, but there they were. He honestly did not want to go through with what he was about to do but in dire situations called for dire actions. Even if they did bring back painful and awful memories. Taking in a deep breath and clearing his mind momentarily, Koba allowed those painful memories to flush back into his mind, about a time when he was but a young ape and had starred in a show… What was it called?… "Monkey of the House…"

Exhaling, Koba had suddenly blew out a raspberry at the two humans, causing them to freeze on the spot with stunned faces. Opening his mouth to what the humans would call a smile, Koba threw up his arms and teeter danced around just like how he was taught in the old days, via harsh whippings, courtesy from his cruel human owner - Tommy. Pounding his chest and letting out small pant hoots, Koba approached the two humans whom were still quite astonished by his act.

"Wha-whoa, man" one of the humans say wearily with their guns pointed at Koba as he approached them.

Koba then pointed to his mouth and then pointed at the long haired human as he panted and did the gesture several more times, confusing the two.

"Dude… I think he's hungry."

"He must have gotten separated from the others… You lost? Trying to get home?"

When the human had asked him a question Koba, frowned, showing the two humans that he was indeed lost.

"Go on! Get out of here, stupid monkey! The short haired man yelled at Koba while the scarred bonobo whimpered and ducked his head.

"Go on. You heard him. Go!" the long haired man chimed in as they ushered the scarred ape out of the room.

Looking back several times, Koba had put on an innocent face as he left the two humans but as soon as he was out of sight, his frowning and scared features were immediately replaced by a scowl.

During all this, Pope had watched fervently at the interaction between Koba and the two humans. He for sure that the bonobo would have been killed on the spot but to his surprise he was not expecting Koba to suddenly change like that. There was much more to the bonobo than meets the eye so it would seem. As soon as Koba left, Pope quickly swung back towards the end of the hallway and swung towards the three apes that now stood on the ground.

"I checked. No humans coming... What happened?" Pope feigned ignorance as he looked at the three apes in front of him, acting as if he did not know what had just happened.

Both Grey and Stone turned to one another worriedly before turning back towards Pope.

"Did you not see? Koba almost got shot by humans," Grey gestured.

"What? How?" Pope questioned, worry written all over his face.

Before anything else could be said more, Koba cut their conversation short as he jumped back in.

"No time to explain. Enough guns here to kill every ape… Must warn Caesar," Koba signed quickly as he looked behind him once before facing the others again. "Who knows what the humans are really doing up there," he finished by pointing up towards the dam and then leading them away.

Both Stone and Grey nodded and glanced at Pope before they followed the scarred bonobo up towards the pipe and onto the bridge. The scarred chimpanzee turned back around and eyed the many human weapons once over, lifting up his head when he heard the humans on the other side.

"That was kinda cute yeah? What the monkey did."

"Dude… Yeah... still an ugly son of a bitch though."

And the room was filled with chuckles and laughter as Pope huffed out and quietly followed the other three apes.