I'm soooooooooooo sorry for not updating the past few weeks, I know tomorrow will mark the third week since my last update, but I have no excuse. I was lazy, sorry.

Hope you enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 4

Have you ever been so ticked off at something someone chose to do that you were literally two seconds away from beating their face into the ground? Well, that's where this chapter starts out...

"You didn't teach them how to use their powers?" It wasn't a question, it was a statement. One that was filled with disbelief, disappointment, and anger. The time for the twins' first lesson in shapeshifting had come, only for her to find that the twins didn't know how to use the talents they had possessed since sparkinghood.

Halfmoon stood nervously, prancing slightly in case she needed to make a quick getaway, and by the way things were going, she might have to,"I wanted them to grow up normally, to not have them worrying about training when any normal sparkling would have been playing."

"The point is, they were not normal sparklings, and they are not normal younglings." The venom is Blackshadow's optics died down a bit at Halfmoon's reasoning, but she still held her glare firm,"Now leave my sight before I do something unpleasant to you." Halfmoon rolled her optics to the sky at the Decepticon's threat, but left just the same.

"What now?" Blacklight asked.

Blackshadow turned to her and said,"Now I teach you how to shapeshift, you'll have to learn to use your abilities on your own time." The twins nodded and waited for their new mentor to begin. "Sit down, the first lesson will be learning about shapeshifters." While the two feemes made themselves comfortable, Blackshadow began to pace.

"Have you younglings ever learned the history of the shapeshifters?"Blackshadow asked turning around.

"No," Blacklight answered for them both.

Blackshadow scoffed, then muttered something under her breath along the line of "ignorant fool", and began her lesson."When the universe was created, Primus made mech and femme-"

"We know that,"Blacklight interrupted,"it's basic history..."She trailed off as Blackshadow fixed her with a stern look for interrupting.

"Now, as I was saying, Primus made mech and femme, but he also made many different species too, like humans, as you know, cybercats, cyberhounds, and all manner of creatures to populate Cybotron. Among those he made, he also made Shapeshifters.

"Shapeshifters looked, talked, and walked like any other sentient being on the planet, but they were very different. They all possessed wonderful powers, and the adults could shapeshift. They could look like anything they wished, they could help and heal, they were created to be peaceful beings, but as Primus gives every one a will, the mortals turned away from Primus and the Shifters soon followed.

"When Primus had created everything, it had been perfect, but after his people had rebelled against him, he cursed everything from their immortality, to their planet. The Shifters immediantly argued among themselves about whether of not they should rule over the mortals, after all, back then a single shifter was powerful enough to destroy a whole army of mortals.

"Some argued that they should leave the filthy mortals to their own devices, why should they heal their sick and hurt?

"Others that had repented and gone back to following Primus said that they should still live among them, and try to be what they had been before they had disobeyed their creator.

"The argument divided them so much that they formed two groups the first two groups merged into one called the Shradel, while the third group stood firm in its beliefs and named themselves the Seketion. A fight followed, one which such power clashing had never been seen before, and would never be seen again. The group which followed Primus was much smaller than the one which didn't, but Primus blessed his followers and gave them more power than they had ever had before. They won easily, and without a single death on their side. They banished the other group to the stars, and did not allow them to return to Cybotron for as long as they lived."

Blackshadow paused for a second, letting the youngling soak in the new information before continuing,"After the deaths of all who had been banished, and the banishers, the new generation allowed the Shradel to come back, as long as they agreed to the principles they had forged. The leaders of both parties agreed that they couldn't live among one another, the hatred was too strong, so the Seketion vacated half of Cybotron and allowed the Shradel to possess the other half.

"Over the years, the Shradel and Seketion have had wars, conflicts, and one the Shradel tried to rule over the mortals on their half of the planet, but ever since the beginning of the mortal's war which form the Autobots and Decepticons, we have more or less given each other some slack. Any questions?"

Midlight hesitantly spoke,"Why did the Seketion let the Shradel come back if they hadn't resolved all their differences?"

"Think of the Shradel as the Decepticons, and the Seketion as the Autobots. If the Decepticons wanted peace, even if they might cause some trouble after the war because of their differences to the Autobots, would the Optimus accept?"

"Yes." Midlight said, then looked at the ground while she asked another question,"Are you Seketion or Shradel?"

"Seketion, and so are you both."

"Then why are you with the Decepticons?"

"Because even though I participate in the war, I still have work to do and joining the Decepticons is the best way to get that work done."

"What work?" Blacklight asked.

"Nothing you'd understand at this point, now, lets get on to learning the basics of shapeshifting."

And as the sun sank lower in the sky, for the first time in the two younglings' lives they talked with, and learned from a Decepticon. They learned a bit of shapeshifting, and that not every Decepticon fitted the description of cruel, unjust, and evil. And even-with much pleading and begging-got their teacher to teach them a shifter lullaby. It was a good start to the long mentorship that was to come.

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