Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 2: My Whole Life Was a Lie
Jasmine's Point of View (14 years later):
I stretched as I awoke from my bed. It was only the early hour of five in the morning. Another boring day in my boring life. My mother and father didn't do much but work on their computers all day, but made lots of money off of it, how, I don't know, but at the same time, I don't care. My parents have been getting more distant since the beginning of the year, what ever was going on, it seamed to take up most of their time, so I was often on my own at every time of the day, except for short moments they had to themselves, which they spent with each other rather then me. I was often lonely, but after a long time, I got used to it, I learned to be independent, I learned to fend for myself. But even with that, it still didn't replace the fact that I was alone, no friends, and my family was always off doing something I knew nothing about.
I walked over from my bed and to my mirror and looked into my reflection. My light brown hair paled in comparison to my bright blue eyes, which had been my father's. I had nothing of my mother in me. I ignored that fact and I moved to get dressed in my normal clothes of a purple sleeveless shirt and a long white skirt. I slipped on my flip-flops and walked out of my room toward the kitchen, which again was empty. I sighed at the fact of my parents' absence and grabbed a small bowl of cereal, which was all I had since my mother last shopping trip was a month ago. I looked away form everything as I grabbed my laptop and hurried out of the house without my parents even noticing.
It was mostly quiet as I walked down the streets of Shuggazoom. Everyone minded their own business and left others alone. It was peaceful as it has been for many years now; they say that there hasn't been one attack on the city in over a decade. It makes it a nice place to write my sorties in peace.
I only had one reason for my laptop, and that was my precious writing. I love to write, most fiction, probably because of my boring life I have here. I only used my laptop for writing and when I had to look something up for my story, like for a background. Since my parents have been so busy, I've had endless ideas running threw my mind. I just had to get them down.
But the hard part at that moment was that the ideas swimming in my head just couldn't reach my fingers to type them down. I sighed and closed my laptop and looked out onto the ocean and across it into the Savage Lands. When I was young, my father often told me that those lands were where the last Great War took place only fourteen years before. Even after the Great War though, my father still believed it was dangerous, and so did many others, but what is really beyond those rocky lands? What is really out their. I've some people talk about a monkey team of sorts, but whenever I ask my family or anyone else, they refuse to tell me anything. My father once yelled at me for asking about it. I never again asked him, but the curiosity still hug in the back of my mind.
Would it really hurt to venture out there? I mean what could really hurt me? Maybe its time to find out. I got up form my spot in the park and I headed for the bridge that led to the Savage Lands. Very few people ever venture out there, so I'd have to trick someone to help me get out there. I'd swim if I could, but with the waters infested with so many violent creatures, it's not safe, I would never dare unless I could protect myself. But then again, people have told me that the dangerous ones only reside on the bottom of the sea floor, which can't even see the top of the water form there. I guess I'm going to find out the hard way.
I pressed one of the buttons on my laptop case and it was instantly covered in a water protection barrier. I placed it back around my neck and made my way down to the shore. It was still very early, people would be getting up, but none would be outside at this hour. I got down the rocks on the shore and I slowly lowered myself into the water, it was so murky that I couldn't see threw the first few feet, but so far it looked to be ok. I lowered myself out the rest of the way and I started to swim out into the middle of the ocean, just below the bridge. I was as quiet and as gentle as possible with my movements, and soon I made it to the other side. I let out a sigh of relief and rung out my clothes, I didn't care if they were ruined, I had extras and I didn't really care about them, only my Mom did.
I then ignored the factor of my clothes and I moved further into the Savage Lands. Beyond the first rocky hill was a wild jungle filled with life, it was just calling me to come toward it. I looked back once at the city, I saw there was a man on the other side, who ever he was, he could see me. I quickly turned away from him and hurried off into the Savage Lands.
Antauri's Point of View:
It had been a few days since the last time we had been in contact with Chiro and Jinmay. The whole team and I all begged and wished that Chiro would come home, but sadly the boy had never gotten past his pride, and now that he's a man, it's even worse.
"Daddy, is there something wrong?" My daughter came up and asked me. She was a lively girl no doubt, just like her mother, but her power and looks had come from me.
"Just about Chiro and how stubborn he is, there is nothing to worry about Annabel." I told her. My daughter seamed to doubt me, no, she knew that it was the truth, but my ties to Chiro made the pain ever more painful, she felt it as she always has since she learn much about the power primate from myself and my brothers and sisters, and the love of my life.
"What ever you say Daddy." I sighed as she ran off to be with the others of our children. Her cousins, or her brother and sisters as she puts it.
Its quiet surprising to see how much our children are so much like us and yet so different. I noticed that Otto's daughter Olivia has the same personality as him, gentle but very trusting; she also has a passion for mechanics as her father does. She often helps him with the repairs and work in the robot, and in her free time, she takes some of our spare parts and is off building something big, but she refuses to let anyone see it until the finishing product is done. Gabriella, Gibson's daughter has a love for science as her father does, and is very logical when it comes to things, but at the same time, she unlike her father, does believe in magic and anything that is related to it that makes sense. Rose and Rover, Nova and Sprx set of twins are just like the two of them all over again. The two of them bicker like there's no tomorrow and have the same personality as their parents too. Rose is hot and fiery with her temper, just as Nova is. Rover like his father is a comedian, but can actually tell better jokes then his father. But when it comes to combat and piloting, the two of them are at an even fifty-fifty. Both are highly skilled at what they do, just like Nova and Sprx, but it's a blend.
I quickly turned my head to the others when I heard the alarm go off, the flash of red moved along the walls as I ran toward the others.
"The proximity alarm went off, there is someone near by." Gibson said worriedly. He quickly switched it over to another camera and watched as a human girl climbed over the heavy tree branches and looked iodole at the Super Robot.
"What is a girl doing our here in the Savage Lands?" Nova questioned as the rest of the team showed up.
"Well, who ever she is, we better see what she's doing here." Sprx said, heading for the door.
"Wait Sprx! We might scare the girl if we just show up; people have not seen us in over a decade. We should watch her from a distance and the make sure she gets back to the city safely." Gibson said.
"Agreed." I said. "We should prepare for.."
"Daddy wait! Can me and my sisters and brothers investigate this one, please Daddy." My daughter begged.
"I'm sorry Annabel, but we can't risk this human's life. Your sisters and brother will remain here and we'll take care of this. Monkey's Mobilize!" I said. I watched my daughter's depressed face as I ran off with the team. I'm sorry Annabel.
Jasmine's Point of View:
It looked to be quite peaceful here, and now I see what some people would mention behind my back, the Super Robot was huge, and from my guess only on limited knowledge, the robotic monkey I hoped lived there. But it probably would be best not to disturb them. I walked around the forest some more until I heard something far off in the sky. And that was where I saw eight figures in the sky, landing in the filed before me. I jumped back further into the woods and watched as they landed. Did I get too close?
"Come out child, we mean you no harm." I saw the silver one say, he turned and looked directly at me before he pointed toward me and the others moved forward slowly. I backed away some more until I heard a snap under my foot. I felt the blood drain form my face and I turned and ran.
"Child wait!" I heard the blue one say.
"We aren't going to hurt you!" The green one said.
"We just want to help get ya home kid." The red one said. At that moment, I ran even faster. I had no desire to go home.
"Apparently she doesn't want to go home, from the way she's running." The yellow one said.
"We have no choice then; we must catch her and bring her to the robot before we can take her back to the city, before she hurts herself. Hyper Force Go!" The silver one called. I ran even faster in the forest as I heard them come up behind me. I closed my eyes to pray that they didn't get me when I felt something happen inside me, like a power. I don't know what it was, but I saw behind me, I saw everything before I happened. I saw from behind me that the silver one reached out to grab me. And I don't know how I did it, but I flipped in the air and kicked him hard in the face, which sent him flying back into a tree. Before I could even stop to see the damage I had done I ran toward the Super Robot.
"Hurry and get her, she's become a possible threat!" The red one called.
"No Sprx! She's only a child who is scared beyond belief; let's see what happens when we give her space." I heard the silver one say, and then all their voices died off as I approached the robot. I placed my hands and my forehead against it and breathed heavily. But as much as I calmed my breathing, my heart refused to turn down a notch. As if something in my heart was responding to the robot itself. The door opened where my hands and head had been. I heard the monkeys gasping behind me across the field and running toward me. Fully knowing that I would be in dangerous territory for a while now, I slipped inside the Super Robot.
I heard the door close behind me, but it soon reopened and the monkeys hurried in after me. I ran faster and hid within the walls. I heard the monkeys coming after me, but stopped short when I heard them in a group talking.
"How is it possible that she got inside, only someone with the access code or the power primate could get inside?" The red one, Sprx I believe I herd his name was, said.
"There is only one answer Sprx, we know that no one besides Jinmay know the codes, and the rest of us have the primate. This girl, she must be Chiro's daughter." The silver one said.
"Antauri, you can be serious. Why would Chiro's daughter come out here, plus her father never wanted her to find out about us?" The blue one asked.
"Because Gibson, the power primate flows threw her just as Chiro is in her, like father like daughter. She is the daughter of our chosen one, and now has become another chosen one." I turned out then. My father and my mother lied to me? All theses years, and I'm some sort of chosen one, and the daughter of the last?
I moved away from my hiding spot as there team just kept talking with each other. The monkeys seamed to be surprised about me coming out of hiding or that I had been so close by. "You know my father." I stated. "And he grew up here, and lied to me. Why?"
The silver monkey, Antauri sighed. "Child, your father thought it was in the best interest of yourself if he did not let you life in this kind of life. He did not want you to fight the evil as he had. He wanted you to have a normal life."
"But I don't want a normal life!" I cried. "My parents don't even pay me a second glance anymore; they left me all alone to fend for myself. I hardly even have food on the table anymore because my father and mother are always working on their computers; they even forgot my birthday last year and will again this year."
The team looked surprise, how could their leader have changed so much in theses past few years? Antauri looked sadly at his team before he turned back to me.
"Nova, would you and the girls kindly get this young girl something to eat. I have to make a phone call to Chiro." Nova nodded and she and the girls gently pulled me into another room and I watched as the silver monkey walked off with his brothers at his side.
Antauri's Point of View:
Chiro had much explaining to do not only to us, but now he had to explain to his daughter how he had lied to her for years. How could he neglect his daughter to the point of where it was her job to find food on her own, and only at the age of what she looked to be thirteen, maybe fourteen? I patched threw the communicator and we hooked up a transmission with Chiro.
"Chiro." I called firmly. "We need to talk." I watched as our former leader and our friend looked back at us.
"Antauri?' He said surprised. "I thought you guys weren't going to call for another day or two."
"Well we ran into a little problem. It turns out your daughter crossed the ocean and into the Savage Lands here and found us. And now she knows that you lied to her, and she knows you have the power primate and that she does too."
"What!" He screamed. I watched as Jinmay shot up next to him and looked at me sadly.
"Is she ok?" She asked worriedly.
"Yes, but she is very lonely, and we found the child has been practically staved. When is the last time you two have spent time with her?"
"Last night. We were off work and spent some time with her." He said. I could sadly see right threw his lie.
I sighed. "Chiro, why must you two lie to me?"
"I'm not lying to you Antauri!"
"Yes you are. Now why did you abandon the child, and leave her to fend for herself?"
"Because.. because the power primate is more powerful when I'm around her. I thought that if I distance myself form her, she'd never notice, besides, she was always on her own, it was the way she liked it."
"No Chiro, she has noticed, more then you will know. When is the last time you bought her fresh food to eat?"
"I did at the beginning of the mouth, only a week ago." Jinmay said.
"Are you sure Jinmay? The girl has been telling us that she has so little food, that she had practically nothing to eat this morning." I could tell that Jinmay was not lying, but neither was the girl.
"Yes it was the beginning of September."
"Jinmay, it's the middle of October, you last bought food over a month ago." I said sadly. She had forgot what the date was, how could a mother do that to her child.
"What? But that's not possible." She stammered.
"You both have been so into your work, you have neglected you daughter. Maybe it would be best for her to stay with us for a while."
"No!" Chiro yelled. "My daughter will come strait home. We're coming to get her. Keep her there until we get there." It was then that the connection as cut, Chiro and Jinmay were coming to get their daughter, who would never learn about her destiny.
Jasmine's Point of View:
The yellow monkey named Nova had pulled me into another room while Antauri and his brothers had gone to talk to my father. And I knew that it would not end well. I watched as the yellowed monkey moved around the kitchen before she handed me a bowl of spaghetti. I took a single bit before I couldn't help but wolf it down. I had been so hungry since my mother had last bought food over a mouth or two ago. Nova looked at me sadly as I hate hungrily.
She soon saw her lover come threw the door and motion her to come with him. She looked back at me once before I nodded to her and she went off with her lover to her brothers and sisters. From the look on the red one's face, my father was coming here, and I wasn't going to be able to come back. I had to get out of here and fast. I placed down the empty bowl of food on the counter and slowly moved toward the other door. I passed threw it and was met face to face with five other robotic monkeys. My first instinct was to run but one grabbed my arm.
"Wait, please!" She said, she was a dark black colored monkey with bright blue eyes like the one called Antauri, she must be his daughter. "I know that you are upset right now, and we overheard that you're Mom and Dad came here to get you and keep you locked away in the city. We all think that its wrong, but our parents will only listen to your father, and obey him. But if you want, we have a way for all six of us to get out of here, and only come back when we're ready. Do you want to come?" I eagerly nodded. The black monkey then pulled on my arm toward the end of the hallway, which was a wall and turned a bright green color that swirled around her. Her brother and sisters held on to her and she phased us threw the wall, out of the side of the robot.
"I hope you guys have everything you want to bring, because we're not coming back." The yellow one said, the only male of the group here. His sisters nodded to him and we flew off into the deeper woods and threw the ground to a under ground cavern, where what looked to be a second Super Robot was standing tall, powered up, and ready to go.
"Olivia's father Otto showed her the blue prints of the original Super Robot and she built an exact replica of it, we we're only waiting for you before we left."
"Why did you have to wait for me?" I asked.
"Because you're our leader, just as your father was for our parents. We waited until you came here, because without you, we would never be a team, or be as one." The black monkey said.
"That and without the sixth seat filled, it's a little hard to fly the robot." The red monkey said, smiling.
"Then let's do it." I said. "The faster we get off of this planet, the more time we have before they come chasing after us." My team nodded to me and we fled to the side of the second Super Robot. It looked so much alike the other Super Robot, it was hard to believe.
"Get power online! We only have about another minute!" The blue monkey shouted.
"We're working on it as fast as we can Gab!" The red monkey yelled at her.
"Guys don't fight!" I pleased with them. "We'll never get out of here if you argue like this. Let's get this done now and then worry about hurting each other later." The two of the looked extremely angry at each other, but set it aside and got right back to work.
"There is no way we can power up in time!" The red one yelled.
"Yes there is." The black one called. "Everyone keep working, I'll see what I can do to power the robot." The black monkey then floated over to me, grasped my hands and pulled me toward a wire. "This wire will help us get out power on quickly, but we need your power to help us."
"How can I help?" I asked, ready to just get off this planet already.
"There is a power within you, called the power primate. Call upon it and use it to power the ship." She said.
"I'll try." I tried to feel it within myself, that power I felt when I got inside the first robot, that living energy. And I did feel it, but could I control it? I felt myself drift deeper into my body and I reached out to touch it, a bright light that was before me. As soon as I reached it, I felt the power swell threw me. I felt myself be brought out of my body and the power raced threw the wire like a light in the dark. Green light brightly glowed throughout the robot and the system charged up.
"Power levels are full!" The green monkey called.
"Rose, get us out of here!" The yellow monkey yelled. The red monkey nodded and hurried to the front of the command room and took to the pilot system. She easily maneuvered out of the cave and flew out into the sky of the Savage Lands. And there I saw watching form below was my father and mother and all the other robot monkeys, who all looked surprised at us as we flew off into the sky and off the planet.
Bye Mom, Dad. I'll see you in time. I thought to myself as we flew off.
Witch's Note:
Oh boy, now this is going to kill Chiro, will it not? How angry do you think he'll get, what is going to happen, and will this new hyper force last? Find out in the next chapter! Review!
Question of the Chapter: What's your favorite color or colors?
Answer to Question: Purple and Black, don't you dare judge me! I'm not Goth or Emo and if you do think so, sleep with one eye open.
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