Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 6: A Second Citadel of Bone?
Jasmine's Point of View:
I had woken up a couple hours before the rest of the team, who were still deep in slumber. The reason why? I wanted to look again at the picture I had made of Cobi, and to draw some more. His soft, dark black hair, his hard, hazel eyes, his muscular build up, I couldn't get the thought of all of them out of my mind, so I decided to draw more pictures of him. I drew him as I remembered him back in the cave when he had arrived back into the caves with food for the people he was protecting, and I still couldn't understand why he had saved those snotty men. They were so cruel and I wanted to rip them to shreds so badly, but I guess that what really made him a savoir for them; he took care of even the ones who he could have just killed for being so annoying.
I drew a few more pictures of Cobi before I flipped back threw the pages of my sketch book and looked back at the few I drew of Gabriella and Rover, when they were dancing and talking. I felt kinda bad for drawing pictures of them that could have been used against them, but at the same time I wanted to create a memory for them threw my drawings that they could remember when they finally get together. I do really think that they like each other; they just don't want to admit it, like Rover's parents.
Looking further back in my book I found the drawings I had made during the party, some more of my team. Olivia had gone all out crazy during the party. I swear the girl never even sat down once, not even to eat. She ran around the others for quite a while, until Rose lost her temper with her and chased her around the entire city for an hour or two. I'm pretty sure that the two of them are sleeping in today, and if not, they're going to be really tired. Annabel had really been the only one left to her own thoughts, being as quiet as she sometimes is. The one thing she had really done last night, besides talking with us was break up Olivia and Rose once they finally caught up with each other. These pictures of them turned out amazing; I couldn't even believe that it was me who drew them.
I got up from my spot on my bed and got dressed quickly before I hurried out of my room and out into the hallway. I headed over to the command center and pulled up the monitor and looked out into the open space. It looked so beautiful; it's hard to believe that only a moment or two out there with no protection would kill me. I pulled out my sketch book and drew the image of outer space. The sparkling starts in its dark space, the shined so brightly, it stunned me with the beauty of this place.
"Ah Jasmine, your awake." Annabel said, walking into the room. "I didn't think you'd be up so soon after that large banquet last night."
"I'm always up this early; I just never came out of my room until a couple hours later." I told her. She smiled and came over to my side.
"Would you like to look at the pictures from last night?" I asked her.
"No thank you, I was hoping to come out here and find you so that we could begin a bit more of your training, and I never did complement you on completing your hyper form. I did not expect that you would have, but it was great to say the least. You did well."
"Thanks Annabel, but what kind of training are we going to work on?"
"I was hoping to work on some more powerful attacks that are linked with the power primate, like a few attacks that your father had, some consisted of 'Monkey Fu', 'Monkey Mind Scream', "Lightning Kick', 'Thunder Punch', and a few others. I'm going to see how many of them I can teach you before the others wake up and take you for their training for you."
"Great, where do we start?"
"First I'll take you to the training room, and then we'll continue from there." She said, leading me out of the command center. Heading into the training room, Annabel closed us off from the outside, but not before she took my sketch pad from me and placed it back out on the table in the outer room, putting it in a safe place for me. "Now we will start with some abilities."
"Don't I have to know about the power primate first before I can use it?" I asked.
"Usually this would be the case, but in the way of the power primate, there is not much history to go by, but I will tell you what I know. The power primate is a living energy that lives inside us, not all people have the power primate, actually only a few still do, like our families. But in the few of us it lives in, it's very strong, and often has its own will, like when it showed you your father to aid you in your training. Others also have this power, but it is corrupted by the darkness we once knew as Skeleton King. My father said that because of the people that protected this power were corrupted by Skeleton King; the power was corrupted too, because they tented it. I didn't think anyone outside of our families still had the pure power primate, but now I have been proven wrong."
"Who has it, was it Cobi?" Annabel nodded her head.
"Cobi has a lesser ability of the power primate then you, but he seams to have been taught in the ways of the old power primate, where the energy of it was made into swords and other weapons. But that way was lost long ago, and even your father and my father weren't able to harness that kind of power, and I still try, but my efforts have been useless. He is skilled in what we have forgotten, and we are skilled in what he might not know about. But we should move on from that subject and begin with this bit of training. First I think we'll start with attacks that are more common of use, a burst of electrical energy at the end of your fist for Thunder Punch, and the same but in your leg for Lightning Kick." She told me. I nodded and looked into myself for this power as I always had, it was there, but how to reach it was what stumped me.
Easier said then done Annabel. I thought.
It was a long time in the making, but after those few hours of time I had before the rest of the team woke up, I had at the very least gotten down the moves that Annabel had thought me. Looking threw my power primate inside of me helped me, but its becoming harder and harder for me to reach it, maybe its telling me now that I have to start looking for answers somewhere else. But whatever the reason, I passed my first lesson with Annabel.
"I'm quite surprised that you were able to make it this far in your training in so little time, you really do have the power of your parents." Annabel complemented. I nodded to her and she walked with me out of the training room and headed back into the command center and met up with Gabriella and Rover in the kitchen.
"Morning you two." Rover said.
"Good morning two as well. Is Olivia and Rose both still not up" Annabel questioned.
"The two of them used up so much of their energy yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if the two of them slept for the rest of the day, or at least until the afternoon or if the alarm goes off. But I highly doubt that we'll be seeing them any time soon." Gabriella smiled, grabbing some of the pancakes that had been made on the table.
"Hey, is there any more of those pancakes?' I asked. Rover laughed and placed two more plates in front of me and Annabel.
"Dig in kid. I made plenty for us all." Rover grinned. I happily took him up on his offer and snagged the plate in front of me and started to wolf it all down.
"Slow down Jasmine!" Gabriella gasped when she watched me wolf down the food. "You might choke!"
I swallowed the hard lump of quickly swallowed pancakes in my throat and swallowed along with it a glass of water that Rover rushed to me. I sighed as I breathed in the air that I needed and looked at her, grinning. "Sorry, I forgot to eat when I got up and I've been training with Annabel for a couple hours. So when I got here and I finally get a bite to eat, I'm starving." I grabbed another large piece of my pancake and hardly chewed it before swallowing it.
"You didn't have anything to eat when you got up?" Annabel asked.
"No, it was only about five in the morning. Remember what I said Annabel? I'm always up now; I just don't come out of my room until a couple hours later." I replied. "It's normal for me to wait a couple hours after I get up to eat."
"I understand that, but it's not exactly healthy to be eating so late after waking up. And if I had known that you hadn't eaten, then I would have waited until you had eaten something before taking you to the training room." Annabel said worriedly.
"It's alright with me." I said. "I'm kind use to it since I got so little food when my Mom forgot to go out and buy more." Annabel sighed, but let it slide about my poor eating habits and joined us at the table for breakfast.
"So Jazz," Rover said. "I heard that you have some pictures that Gab and I might want to hide before Rose gets her hands on them."
I pretended to think about it before I looked back and him, grinning, and nodding my head. "Yeah, you might want to. These were good pictures, but I don't think you want your sister to get a hold of them." I told him, sliding over my sketch book. He opened it up and almost spat out his drink at the sight of it.
"Uh… yeah. I'm just going to hold onto these couple pictures." He said, reaching for the pictures that I drew of him and Gabriella last night. I pulled away the book before he could.
"Relax Rover, I'll keep these pictures safe, I have a place to hide them from your sister. I wasn't planning on showing her anyway." I said as I pulled my sketch pad back to my side, where it would be safe from Rover ripping up pages and destroying my wonderful work.
"Jazz, please, just let me take those few pictures. I'm begging you."
"Rover the pictures will be fine, just relax and believe in me. Alright?"
"Fine kid, but I don't want to ever see that picture again or anyone with it." He stated. I looked over at Gabriella who looked ready to tear up.
"I will say one thing then before I get going with Gabriella for some history lessons. I agree with your sister, you area an ass." I said harshly at him before I walked off toward Gabriella's lab with her at my side, tears streaming down her face now that she was away form Rover.
"Why does he hate me Jazz? What did I do to deserve his cold shoulder?" She asked me in not much more then a whisper. I couldn't help but sigh.
"I don't know Gab, I don't know. Maybe he's scared to except the fact that he may have feelings for you. But over all, he needs to get over himself before anything will change." I explained.
"You're probably right," She said. "But I can't help but feel so much pain when I see him and all he does is hurt me after I get to close." Her tears began to further come and I quickly stopped and dropped down next to her and brought her into my arms.
"He'll realize it one day Gabriella, we just have to wait and see. I know that hurts but its all we can do for the moment." I assured her.
"I know." She whispered to me. I carried her back to her lab and set her down next to her stacks of books. She whipped away her tears while I grabbed a book on Shuggazoom's history and opened it to the first page and started to read it. "Wait Jasmine, I can start you history lesson now, I just need a moment." I shook my head and helped her sit back down.
"Gab, I can read the first chapter or two on my own, you take it easy right now, take your time. We'll talk about my lesson tomorrow, ok?"
"Thank you Jasmine." She whispered; a small smile I barely saw on her face, it wasn't much, but it was a start. Now all I needed was to get Rover off that damn high stool of his and get him back down to the ground before Gabriella gets hurt further.
It was then that the alarm went off and Gabriella and I raced toward the command center. We there saw Annabel and Rover, looking at the screen, Rover was looking deadly at it, like he was deep into his mind. It was after that I noticed that I heard Rose and Olivia arrive from their colored tubes behind us and race to the computers as well.
"What's going on?" I asked Annabel.
"Apparently we come into contact with a hostile vessel; we're bringing up visual footage now." Annabel said. She worked on the computer along with the help of Gabriella and up came the image of a large ship which seamed to be made of bone. It was shape like that I had seen in my text books about the Citadel of Bone that was ruled by Skeleton King. But it was still not the same as his, this one was even darker then either of his two Citadels.
"Is that the Citadel of Bone?" I gasped.
"There is no possible way that there could be the Citadel of Bone that Skeleton King used, it was destroyed by your father and our parents. This must be another Citadel of Bone, created by, possibly our newest enemy, that is part of our destiny that we have to defeat." Gabriella exclaimed as she examined the ship from here.
"What should we do then? It hasn't doesn't anything yet, should we attack or not?" Rose asked, doing the best she could to hide the fact that she was still deeply tired from not getting a lot of sleep.
"We'll wait for the moment, if it attacks, we'll fight back, and if not then we'll let it be. If it means no harm, then we should abide by that and give it no second thoughts." I commanded. The team nodded and we watched as it came closer to us, this Citadel of Bone.
It approached us at what seamed to be a snails pace. Just as it showed up on our close range scanners, it blasted past us, but not before I saw large pods launched at us, and a woman that looked like a female version of the Skeleton King on top of the ship, grinning evilly at us, before her ship disappeared in the dark space behind us. The pods she launched at us stuck to the robot and opened to show a new kind of formless, they turned into the black ooze and slipped their way into the robot.
The alarm went off as the ooze showed up all around us, ready to attack. The formless that showed us were like that of Skeleton King's first kind of formless he had, but these were much darker, like that of that skeleton woman's ship, these formless were a deadly black with a sickly green to outline certain features, like the ends of their claws and spikes on mallets they had on the ends of their hands.
"Let get rid of these guys." I said confidently. "Hyper Force, Go!" My team leaped into action toward the formless at my command. Rover and Rose were both the first to enter into combat. They both transformed their hands into the larger set of hands and magnets they had for weapons, charging in and beating ever formless in sight, much like how they always fought with each other. Rover grabbed three formless by their legs and twisted them around and threw them into the wall. Rose knocked a few more with her right hook, using the side of her magnet. It was so much like the first fight I saw them get into.
I was knocked out of my memories when I saw formless rushing toward me, ready to attack. I leapt into the air and attacked them with of large blast of my 'Monkey Fu'. The formless all looked at my power and all raced toward me and away from my team.
"They're after Jasmine!" Annabel yelled. "We have to hurry and get them before there's too many for her to fight!" The team nodded to her and leaped toward me, blocking the formless from getting to close to me. They spread out from there and took down the formless in front of them, not allowing any to pass or get anywhere near me. I can live with them helping me, but not them keeping me out of the fight. I leapt over my team and used my 'Lightning Kick' in mid air and knocked a lot of the formless out of the team's way. After that I went strait into action by attacking the formless that were surrounding my team, the few that were left after that backed away from me. I watched them moved to different areas, trying to now get at my team.
"Rose and Rover, hit the ones up on your right. Olivia and Gabriella, get the ones on the left. Annabel, help me out and let's get these few in front." I told my team. They nodded and raced toward their assigned battle. I dove down under my foes and hit them with a 'Monkey Fu', while from above us; Annabel attacked them from the air with those deadly claws of her's. The formless turned back into just a pile of ooze and slithered back out side of the robot and into their pods and blasted back toward the ship. I looked around at my team to see if any of them needed any help, but I saw that they all seamed to be alright and all the formless were gone, and all the pods we could had blasted back out into space.
"Is everyone alright?" I asked.
"It would appear so." Annabel said. The rest of the team turned their hands back to normal and looked back and forth between each other to see if anyone of them had been injured, and there seamed to be none.
"Who was that though?" Olivia asked.
"Well, this woman who was atop of that ship had many physical features that are similar to that of Skeleton King. Maybe she is related to him, or has been taken over by the same time of darkness." Gabriella said.
"Wait! I know what we should call her!" Olivia called out to get our attention. "We should call her Skeleton Queen! I mean, that really fits, doesn't it?"
"I have to agree with Olivia." I said. "That woman was so much a look alike to Skeleton King, besides the female part, that I wouldn't be surprised it that really was her real name, and until we know it, we'll call her that, Skeleton Queen."
"Hey, if that's what you want to call her kid, I'm all for it." Rover said.
"Now that we have name issues out of the way," Annabel said. "We need to discuses how we'll deal with this situation. Does anyone have any ideas?"
"I do, leave the ship be for now and continue on." I said. "I'm still just tapping into my powers that I never knew about until a few days ago. So at my current state, if we went after her like this, we would surly be beaten, and we a bit of a hard time with her formless that she sent our way, or at least, I did. Anyway, we can't do anything about her until we get stronger, and control our powers better."
"And how are we supposed to do that?" Rose snapped, still not over the fact that she had been waken from her deep sleep.
"Rose, control your temper! In fact, you and Olivia should head back to bed and get some more sleep, since you two are still very tired." Gabriella said.
"Works for me." Rose said grouchily, heading back toward her room.
"I'll stay up." Olivia said. "I'm going to repair what's been broken and then I'll head back to bed, by then I'll be tired."
"Gabriella and I will work on a set of plans of how we can all train further and become stronger, as you said Jasmine, we all need to become stronger to overcome her." Annabel said.
"And I'm going to head back to my room, I'm kind beat, and I want to draw a few pictures of what that woman looked like to me and her formless, even enemies deserve a picture in history, and I'm going to make it." I told them before walking off back toward my room.
I was almost at my room when I heard someone calling me from behind me. "Kid, slow down a minute! I need a word!" I heard Rover call. I turned around and watched as he ran around the corner and leaned over, breathing heavily after his run form the command center to my room. "Thanks." He gasped.
"What do you want?" I asked his bitterly, still angry of how he hurt Gabriella this morning.
"Look, I know I was an ass this morning, but I want to apologize. My temper and pride get the best of me at times, and I lose it. I was worried that my sister would get her hands on that pictures and torture poor Gab. I couldn't allow her to get her hands on it."
"Why should I believe this Rover? The way you talked this morning, it sounded as if you never wanted to see Gabriella again."
"Aw Jeeze, did I really make it sound like that?" I nodded. "Aw man! I didn't mean that!"
"Then what did you mean?" I question, maybe I'm getting somewhere after all.
"Look kid, I don't want you to ever repeat this." He took a deep breath. "I-I care about Gab, a lot. I know it didn't look like it this morning, but I was so worried that Rose would get her hands on those pictures, and I didn't want Gab to humiliated by them, or have Rose torture her with them for the next year or so. You understand, don't ya kid?" I sighed.
"I'll only forgive you if you apologize to Gabriella and she accepts it, and you better make it believable, after what you did to her this morning."
"What did I do?" I felt like hitting him, was he really this dense?
"Did you see her face when she left the kitchen with me this morning?" I watched him think about it before, it hit him head on and he shamefully looked down at his feet.
"I really messed up, didn't I kid?" I nodded.
"Now go fix it!" I yelled at him.
"How? The only thing it looks like I can do is mess things up, not fix them!" He groaned.
"Get her some flowers or a gift and give it to her before you give her a small speech about how sorry you are, you don't have to tell her you like her, if you're not ready, just let her know that you're sorry and want to repair the damage you made."
"Small problem there kid, we got no flowers on board and I don't have a present for her, and the next stop could be days from now, and I have a feeling that I don't want to wait that long."
"Ok, hold on a sec." I left him out in the hallway and ran into my room, against my inner artist, I carefully pulled out the picture of Gab and Rover when they were dancing last night and ran back out of my room and gave it to him. "Give this to her and tell her you're really sorry, and give a bit of a speech. And you owe me big time Rover, if this wasn't a special case, I would have never given up a picture I drew."
"Don't worry kid, I'll get you something nice and now I'm going to say I'm sorry to Gab. Thanks kid!" He yelled as he ran off.
I sighed and walked back into my room. I flopped onto my bed and opened my sketch book to a new page and drew some of the enemies we fought today, and that woman, Skeleton Queen, who was atop of that ship. She looked so scary, even if it was just a drawing. Her red eyes stood out the most, and her skeleton like body stood out after that, along with the mechanic eye that was placed just above the center of her chest. And her formless, if it was possible they were blacker then the night, and uglier then anything I could imagine.
I sighed once again and closed my sketch book and changed into a set of sweat pants and a baggy shirt and crawled into bed, snuggling under the covers and drifted off into a deep slumber.
Witch's Note:
Finally, honestly people, I got stuck a few times when I was writing this chapter, but now it's done! Please review you guys, I only have like 4 reviews!
Question of the Chapter: What was your favorite, or in your opinion, the best Villain of SRMTHFG?
Answer to the Question: I know it's a weird question, but I just have to ask, and my answer is Mandarin. As much as he was annoying and I hated him, he was a powerful and stubborn villain, and it made him stand out. Especially his clone, Mandarin 2.
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