Sitting there while waiting for the humans with his father, Blue Eyes and uncles, Ash was bored out of his mind. The young chimpanzee lazily glanced around before he stretched himself while letting out a long yawn. During this though Ash had let out a surprised hoot when he felt something smack his side. Turning to see who the perpetrator was Ash's eyes widen at the sight of his father's shoulder's shacking with quiet laughter. A mischievous look overcame the young ape's features and he reached out to push and nudge at the older ape whom playfully reciprocated the action while Caesar and the others watched.

The father and son's antics were cut short however when a sudden loud explosion had caught all of the ape's attention. With weary glances at each other, Caesar and the others quickly made their way towards the dam's entrance. As they entered the area, they could hear the human's frantic screams further into the dam.

"Rocket," Caesar gestured towards the grey chimpanzee before bounding to where the humans were.

Following the frantic screams Caesar and Rocket came upon a door where the humans could be heard from inside. Before Caesar could reach out to open the door a burly hand stopped him.

"I'll go look," Rocket gestured before turning to glance at both Ash and one of the gorillas that had came with them, "follow," he finished as he opened the door and walked inside.

As soon as he stepped into the room, Rocket was met with the smells of wet metal and dust. Soon enough his son joined his side, followed by one of the gorillas who had volunteered. The three apes looked around slowly before the sounds of more humans crying out had caught their attention. Peering down the dip that lead into the abyss below, Rocket and Ash could see a couple of humans staring back up at them.

With a grunt, Rocket leaped over the bars and nimbly made his way down the ladder and pipes to where the humans were. As he landed with a small splash the grey chimpanzee stared up at the two humans whom back away from him. The younger human then pointed with a shaky finger at the piles of rubble that had fallen, blacking the drain pipe. With a acknowledging nod, Rocket moved on over towards the rubble pile and quickly moved a piece. He was then rewarded with one of the human's face as light shone from behind him down through the hallway. Looking over his shoulder, Rocket nodded at his son whom stood wearily by.

"We need to get the humans out," he simply gestured.

…

It took a while but the apes were able to free up the blockage that had trapped the four humans and freed them. Luckily the humans had only came out with scratch and bruises, sans one of them as he seemed to have accumulated more damage than the others.

Caesar watched as the humans were tending to their wounded and noticed the one that named Malcolm approaching them slowly. As soon as the human stopped he looked at all of the apes before he set his eyes upon Caesar last.

"Thank you. You saved our lives" Malcolm thanked Caesar and his apes before slowly continuing. "We've got a lot of debris to clear now… We might need more time."

"How long?" Caesar asked Malcolm before letting his eyes wander down to the side when he heard Cornelius letting out a small excited squeak.

Blue Eyes watched tentatively as the humans had worked on each other, wrapping their wounds in strange wrappings of some sort. His sky colored eyes then noticed the human covered in the blue coat coming over and thanking them. Listening tentatively to his father and the strange human, Blue Eyes had not expect Cornelius to have suddenly jump out of his arms. With a grunt the young prince tried to grab his younger sibling, only barely missing the infant. With an annoyed sigh, Blue Eyes had quickly got off of his steed and followed his little brother as the young ape bounded away from him.

Blue Eyes froze when he noticed his little brother climbing up upon the female. At first the human was surprised but then that quickly disappeared as her sudden shock was quickly replaced by curiosity, wonder and then joy as the little ape played with her hair. Curious, Blue Eyes had thought to himself as he watched Cornelius interact with the humans. For all that he was taught by Koba, he had assumed that the humans were monsters that had wanted to hurt apes in general.

Here Blue Eyes could see that these humans were nothing like that. Instead, they seemed to enjoy Cornelius' presence as he played with their clothing. That feeling was immediately dashed though, as one of the humans had suddenly stood up while yelling at the young ape before flinging a piece of cloth at him. Screaming, Blue Eye immediately charged in and pushed the human over, away from his little brother. Hearing another human coming up from behind him, Blue Eyes grabbed a hold of the human's hand and threw him down on top of the other one as well. Before the third one could react, Blue Eye stood tall and screamed at him, causing the man to backed down.

"Hey! I'll kill you!" the man behind Blue Eyes shouted as he pointed something right at his face.

The moment the human had pointed the object at his son, Caesar's protective instincts immediately fired off. Running on over, he took a hold of the man's hands and then punched him onto the ground. Anger clouding his vision that someone had threatened his family, Caesar raised the object high above him and was about to bring it down when Malcolm's voice called out to him.

"Don't! Don't! Caesar, no!" Malcolm had begged.

Glaring down at the feeble human and panting hard, Caesar slowly let his eyes wander back up to the object in his hand, turning it over several times, making sure that it was what he had thought it was.

"Said no guns," he grounded out, pointing the end of the barrel at the humans, seeing them recoil in fear.

Making his way closer towards the edge of the water, Caesar pointed the gun at all the humans in case they made a move towards him, his children or any of his fellow apes. Lastly Caesar turned his attention towards Malcolm one more time. He had trusted the human that stood in front of him but he should have known that humans could never be trusted. With a grunt, he then tossed the offending weapon far into the air straight into the river behind him. Hearing the resounding splash, Caesar then turned back around and glared accusingly at Malcolm.

"I didn't know," the man breathed.

"Humans! Leave! Now!" Caesar bellowed at Malcolm's as he picked up Cornelius and walked away.

Glaring around at the humans Blue Eyes waited for them to do something or anything to provoke them. After a few moments and the humans still stood still did Blue Eyes allow himself to follow his father.

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The ride back towards their home was a silent one with none of the apes signing nor speaking with each other. The humans had their chance to set themselves right but as Caesar could tell, they couldn't be trusted, no matter what they promised. They never change. Caesar thought to himself frustratingly as he rode into the open grounds of their home. Getting off of his horse he was then greeted by a frantic chimpanzee, Sparrow, whom landed upon one of the stone plateaus and called out for him. His face scrunched up in confusion and then worry as he saw the female ape's hand signs.

Not a moment too soon did Caesar then scale up the spiraling wooden steps towards their tree home. Blue Eyes, noticing his father leaving quickly, followed after, wondering what was wrong. As soon as both Caesar and Blue Eyes rounded the corner with Cornelius in his arms did the father and sons were greeted with the sight of the midwives huddled around a wheezing Cornelia. Approaching the females slowly Caesar held his breath while Tinker had noticed them.

"Caesar? Blue Eyes? Come!" she gestured worriedly to the two males.

Slowly approaching, Caesar knelt down beside the cot and placed a gently hand upon Cornelia's head.

"Cornelia?" he whispered, voice full of emotion as his vision started to go blurry at the sight of his mate.

Caesar could only watch as Cornelia closed her eyes and trembled as her sickness got worse. Caesar looked up and watched as Blue Eyes, with Cornelius in his arms, sat behind their mother. The young chimp then reached out and stroke the fur on his mother's arm, hoping that that gesture would relax her. Blue Eyes then had looked up towards him, hoping that he would know some way of curing Cornelia. Not having an answer for his eldest, Caesar resorted to going back to stroking Cornelia's face with a finger as emotions wracked him from the inside. As Caesar tried to comfort his ill mate and mother of their children a commotion could be heard behind him, causing him to take I a deep breath to compose himself, nor lashing out at whomever had come in to disturb them.

"I'm sorry. That was all my fault. But I will make him leave-" Malcolm's voice could be heard from behind.

"This! My home. You should not be here!" Caesar grounded out, still not turning to face the human.

"I understand," Malcolm replied, disappointment laced within his voice.

There was a pause as Caesar could hear the two humans talked among themselves.

"She's sick," the man had said aloud.

Annoyed by the fact that the humans were not abiding by his wishes he was about to turn around and tell them to leave when the human female, the one he's heard called Ellie, suddenly spoke up in a soft voice.

"How long has she been this way?" Ellie had asked, causing Caesar to turned slowly towards her with red puffy eyes.

As Caesar stared at the human woman she had a soft worried look upon her features, as she glanced at Cornelia and then back at him.

"I have medicine. Antibiotics," she pleaded, placing a hand over her heart.

"Maybe she could help," Malcolm spoke up just as quietly causing Caesar to look at him.

"Do not. Trust you," Caesar responded his mind clashing with itself before he glanced down at his ill mate again.

"I don't blame you. But please believe me. We are not like him… Please," Malcolm pleaded.

"Let us help you… Let us help her," Ellie chimed in.

Quietly Caesar debated with himself if he should allow the humans to stay as he stared down at his family. Blue Eyes had his hand upon Cornelia's arm still as if he were offering his strength to her to help her cope with the illness. Cornelius could only stare at everyone with wide green eyes, not knowing what was going on. While he himself was having trouble trusting these humans… Maybe… just maybe these two humans could be different. Maybe they could remedy this situation since he did not know what else to do. Sitting up straight, Caesar stepped aside slowly and kept his eyes upon the human woman waiting for her to come assist his Cornelia while a single tear slowly ran down the side of his cheek. Tentatively Ellie approached them and knelt down beside both Caesar and Cornelia as she started to pull out various things from her bag.

"One day…" Caesar offered in a low voice, "you stay one day."

"Father, no…!" Blue Eyes signed worriedly.

"We might need more time-"

"One day!" Caesar shouted, silencing Malcolm as he glared at the man. "Apes will help…" he finally finished as turned towards his eldest son, gaining a scowl from the young chimp.

"I will not help," Blue Eyes defiantly signed towards his father, utterly displeased by the older ape's decision.

Caesar only watched as Blue Eyes had not agree with him yet again with what he had chose.

Sensing the tension between both father and son, Tinker lightly tapped Blue Eyes' shoulder.

"Blue Eyes, let me take care of your brother," she offered to which the young prince hesitated for a moment before finally relenting his younger sibling to the more experienced female.

Accepting the child, Tinker held Cornelius close to her bosom as if he were her own before turning towards Caesar.

"While Cornelia is being taken care of by the humans, Cornelius will be staying with me for the time being," she offered.

"Thank you," Caesar thanked his good friend to which Tinker merely nodded before taking her leave.

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Watching his father, uncles, friends and the rest of the apes as well as the humans taking their leave from the safety of their home, Blue Eyes defiantly sat down by one of the bonfires. As he watched them all go, Blue Eyes had caught Ash solemnly looking at him with a forlorn expression. Blue Eyes on the other hand glared back at his friend and brother.

"Go on! Go with them! Leave!" Blue Eyes signed angrily at the other chimpanzee.

Blue Eyes could see his friend flinch at his furious gestures but did not care at the moment. How could his father trust the humans so quickly like that? They had broken their promise and had almost killed him yet his father was still allowing them to to do their work? Just because the humans thought that they could help his mother? What could they do? They bring nothing but pain. Not was he only mad at his Father and the humans, Ash was abandoning him as well, siding with his father and all that. Some great friend he is.

Before Ash finally left he gave Blue Eyes one last look before exiting the colony gates, finally leaving the sky eyed chimp all alone with the children, females, and few Gorilla Guards. Fuming with anger, Blue Eyes reached out and took one of the long wooden poles and decided to fashion himself a spear in the meantime while he was there. Growling to himself the did not hear the soft approach of footsteps that closed in on him. Hearing a small hoot, Blue Eyes' head shot up and glared at whomever had disturbed his peace. Standing there just a few feet away from him was Lake, her evergreen glowing eyes staring back at him with worry.

"What is it?" he snapped at the female who backed slightly at the sudden outburst.

Glaring at Lake, Blue Eyes observed as the female chimpanzee closing her eyes, took in a deep breath before approaching him once more. Once she was just a few feet away from him, she silently sat down and stared straight into his eyes, her challenging.

"What has gotten into you?" she asked.

"I don't know what you are talking about," Blue Eyes replied, his gaze narrowing at the female that sat beside him.

"You are scaring the little ones, Blue Eyes. You are usually not like this," Lake accused.

At this Blue Eyes didn't have an answer for Lake, instead he glanced away from her and resumed working on the spear. She was right about him, he had been acting out of normal but that wasn't his fault was it? With the recent ongoings around him he did not know how to answer her. There was so many things within him that he was just… So mad about. His failed hunt where he got attacked by that bear, Ash getting wounded by that human, his father allowing the humans into their territory, his younger brother being attacked by said humans and now his mother was very ill, and finally Ash had abandoned him to side with his father. So he couldn't help being irked and livid at the moment, feeling betrayed by his family and friends.

Blue Eyes also hated that he could never live up to the expectations of his father, except being a mere shadow of what the king is. What could he do to even be on the same level as his father? The great Caesar? Other apes were free to live out their lives as they please but not him, he was expected to walk in the same footsteps as his father. He didn't even want to lead their people but yet here he was the king's eldest son and heir to the colony. Lake would never understand any of the feelings he's going through and probably never will. That was why he was mostly angry at everything, he realized that he would never get the freedom that many of the other apes his age would have.

The two young chimpanzees sat quietly with each other for a long while. The sounds of little apes playing around them and crackle of the bonfire to fill in the silence between the two. Feeling a soft hand upon his shoulder, Blue Eyes turned his attention towards Lake whom seemed to be giving him a remorseful look.

"I know you have been going through a lot recently and I do not know what most of them are but I wanted you to know that I am here for you. Not just me but your uncles, friends and father. Do not let this anger take control of your actions Blue Eyes. I just want you to know that," Lake explained with a gentle smile upon her features.

Blue Eyes stared into Lake's serene glowing eyes for a long while before he heaved out a tired breath and slowly nodded at her, feeling suddenly a little bit better. Satisfied with his answer, Lake offered Blue Eyes and warm smile and gave him a quick hug before she stood up and quietly left him to work on his weapon. Watching the female go, Blue Eyes was quite confused as to why out of everyone Lake had come on over to comfort him. Thinking upon Lake's words Blue Eyes mentally shook his head and went back to making his spear.

A while later Blue Eyes was on his second spear when he heard horses entering through the gates. Looking up from his weapon the young prince noticed his uncle Koba as he the scarred bonobo quickly got over his horse, looked around and spotted him by the bonfire.

"Just came from the human city. Humans very dangerous! Where is Caesar?" the bonobo asked frantically as he bounded over to where the young prince sat.

"With the humans," Blue Eyes slowly signed back to his uncle, a frown set upon his lips, noticing the scarred bonobo's shoulder dip a little.

Hello everyone! Here is chapter 5. For some reason I was not quite satisfied with this chapter but hope you all enjoy it nonetheless.

Now introducing...

Lake, who is making a cameo from the WFTPOTA movie and Revelations book.

Thank you all for reading and if you enjoy my story please leave a comment as they give me quite the inspiration to keep on writing for you all. Thanks again!