Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 9: Am I Happy to See You Again?
Jasmine's Point of View:
A large yawn escaped from me as I sat up and stretched in my bed. My sleep last night was more then comfortable, especially with Midnight by my side. I looked over at her, she was still deep in her slumber, I couldn't help but smile at how cute she was. I got out of bed and stretched my body again when I was on my feet, and this time I felt my whole back and shoulders crack, it felt nice, and it relieve some of my drowsiness and it certainly woke me up from the vibration of the cracks and the sound right by my ear.
I hurried over to my closet and I got changed into a normal set of clothes for me to wear, a pair of jeans and a baggy short sleeved shirt. I glance one more time at Midnight, smiling at her, before I grabbed my sketch book and headed for the kitchen, I was starving. Annabel was right in the beginning; you should eat when you wake up, 'cause I'm starving.
I headed over to the fridge and looked inside for what I could make the team for breakfast and grab myself. When I looked inside and saw that there was nothing that I could make for all of us, I sighed when I found that there was nothing. All we really had left was some milk and OJ, along with some yogurt and eggs.
I moved onto the cupboard and saw that we still had some bread and peanut butter. I grabbed the bread from the cupboard and the eggs from the fridge. I guess that today I would be finishing these off and making French toast. I beaded up the few eggs we had in a bowl and I then I pulled out the pan to cook them on, after spraying it with cooking spray, I placed a piece of bread in the beaded eggs and let it soak up the eggs before placing it on the tray to cook.
I sighed as I sat down next to the pan which now had four pieces of bread on it, cooking the French toast. The lack of food was getting to all of us. It didn't bother Annabel that much since we ran out of bacon and sausage because she's a vegetarian, but still, the others are going haywire with not much food to choose from anymore.
"You seam worried, what's wrong Jasmine?" I turned away from the stove and saw Annabel standing in the doorway. I sighed again and she moved into the kitchen.
"Just the problem of food, we're running low on it again. I only have enough ingredients to make a single piece of French toast for everyone, if their still hungry after that, they have to get it from some where else. We really need to stop for more food soon, or else we might just be as I was before I left my Dad and Mom." I explained to her.
"I do agree with you, the urge for food is becoming more and more severe with each passing day. I shall go into the command center and see if there is a planet or a pity stop near by that we can restock on." With that, she ran out of the room, and I was left by myself once more. I couldn't help but sigh again and turn back to my work.
I soon had cooked all the French toast we were going to be able to have and I pulled out some other things for the others to have with their one piece. I quickly grabbed a piece of French toast and a smoothie for Annabel along with my own piece of French toast and a yogurt and headed out to the command center.
Annabel was out there, searching on the computer for anything near us. I smiled at her hard work and walked up to her with breakfast. I saw her sniff the air and she turned around to face me. "Breakfast?" I asked her with a smile, handing it to her. She sighed, but there was a smile on her face.
"Thank you, Jasmine." She replied. "Breakfast does sound nice right now."
"Any luck with locating a place to restock up on supplies?" I asked her, sitting down next to her.
"Yes, but this place is more or less a tourist shop and restaurants. There are only one or two food stores, but there is a place to refuel." She answered.
"Well, how about this Annabel. We go to that pit stop and have Olivia refuel the robot while the rest of us stock up on food and other things for the robot, then once we finish with all of the things we need to do, we can go out to eat in one of the restaurants. Sound ok?" It was probably the only plan that would work; there was no way we could wait for another larger pit stop to come by, unless we want to starve ourselves.
"I believe that would be best. When the others wake, would you tell them? I'm going to meditate; this ordeal has been a little stressful for me." I rolled my eyes, she didn't need to ask.
"There's no need to ask, Annabel. Go on and meditate. I'll make sure the others know what's going on and what we're all doing." Annabel smiled at me and floated out of the room toward her meditation room. I chuckled when she had left and I hurried back to the kitchen. When I got back to there, I saw two golden eyes staring at me and the base of my feet.
"Well, good morning to you Midnight. Did you have a good night sleep?" I asked her. She meowed up to me and I grinned down at her.
"We slept pretty well ourselves, thanks for asking kid." My head shot up and was faced with four sets of eyes on me, ones that were black, pink, blue and white. I scratched the back of my head while trying to keep myself from laughing.
"Sorry guys, I saw the golden eyes first, they captured me." The team laughed with me as I walked over and set down their food in front of them. I sighed when I saw most of them complain over the lack of food.
"I don't mean to press problems onto you Jasmine, but we need more food, or soon we will be without any." Gabriella said sadly. It was then that I jumped, along with Gabriella when we heard the others scream next to us. Rover and Rose fell over in their chairs and no matter how many times we called out to them, they didn't move an inch. Olivia, however, was beyond the point of just falling over. After she fell out of her chair, she ran around the kitchen scream about no more food. I left Gabriella with Rose and Rover and ran after Olivia. Olivia then pulled a fast one on me in her crazed state and ran out of the kitchen as I jumped to catch her.
"Contact Annabel and see if she can help me Gabriella!" I shouted as I ran after Olivia. I saw Gabriella sigh before I lost sight of her and continued my chase after Olivia. When I caught up to her in the command center, she was crying hysterically, making endless rivers of tears run down her face as she worried about no more food.
I chased after her again until she rose up into the air and continued to run, not even noticing that her feet had left the ground. I sighed and walked over to Annabel, who slowly brought Olivia down and set her in front of us when she stopped running.
"Calm down Olivia." Annabel said in a soothing voice. Olivia took a deep breath and let it out slowly, Annabel smiled at it. "Good, now tell me what is bothering you."
"Food… no more food…" Olivia whispered as she cried. Annabel and I both looked at each other before we consulted this.
"You didn't tell them of the station?" Annabel questioned.
"I was going to, but before I could, Olivia, Rover and Rose had all gone crazy and put the thought in their heads that there was going to be no more food." I explained to her. We both sighed out of instinct there and looked back to Olivia, who was sniffling, her eyes were red and her cheeks were stained from her tears.
"Now Olivia, I want you to listen to me, alright?" Annabel said to her. Olivia nodded and Annabel smiled at her. "First, you need to calm yourself, and second, you're overeating over the factor of food, I was going to have Jasmine tell you, but I guess I will." Olivia stopped crying and looked at us both. "We found a station near by which we are going to refuel the robot and restock the food supply we have, and we also plan to go out for lunch too after we're done with all that work."
"So, we're not going to run out of food?" She asked Annabel. Annabel shook her head.
"But where did you get the idea that we were going to run out of food?" Annabel questioned her.
"From Gabriella." Olivia put simply.
"I didn't think this would happen though." The three of us turned to see Rose, Rover and Gabriella walking into the command room. "I thought that I should just bring up the concern, but next time I will be sure that some people are not around when I ask that question." She said.
"So now you tell us that there's a station, took you long enough." Rover growled, rolling his eyes. "I was about to have a heart attack!"
"Shut up Rover," I snapped at him. "And I was going to tell you, but Gabriella's question had come up first and then you guys went crazy. So I didn't have the chance too."
"I guess we did get a little crazy back there, didn't we?" Rose asked. Annabel nodded to her.
"A little doesn't begin to describe that ordeal." Gabriella muttered.
"Sorry kid, we went too far." Rover said. I sighed.
"Just keep it in control Rover, besides we're going for more food today anyway." I told them. The team cheered besides Annabel and Gabriella, who just smiled at my sides.
"Rose, set a course for the station." Annabel ordered.
"And we better all pray they got food, or else we'll have to deal with this all over again." The team laughed at my statement and hurried back to the kitchen to eat their small breakfast, Annabel went back to her room to meditate and I went back to my room to get ready for today.
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Upon landing at the station, the team and I were already at the door, just waiting to get off. Once Annabel opened it, most of the team just off the ship right there and then, running to the stores. Annabel, Gabriella and I laughed as we watched them run. Midnight, now awake due to us moving the ship, was lying on my shoulders, curled around my neck. She purred wildly, and her tail swayed gently on the edge of my shoulder as we walked after the others.
"Gabriella, can you watch after the ship and make sure it gets refilled while we watch the others?" I asked.
"Sure Jasmine, I'll meet up with you guys in front of the restaurants after I'm done." Satisfied with that answer, Annabel and I hurried after the others, who we notice had already gotten out of our sights. "Great, we lost them."
"Do not worry Jasmine." Annabel said calmly. "I can sense that they are near, we will find then soon, along with all the food that we require." She floated up mid air next to me and moved forward toward the first store. She raised her hand, and I felt the others threw her.
"There in this store, probably destroying it by now." I said. Annabel chuckled at me, nodding to me and set herself on her feet and we walked into the store. Surprisingly the store was spick and span, besides the fact of my team, taking every possible food item and paying for it, surprising the clerk by a long shot. After paying for the food they bought, they ran out of the store without even giving us a second glance.
"Forgive our friends," Annabel said to the clerk. "We ran low on food and they all were worried that we'd starve, so the decided to grab a lot more." The clerk nodded slowly and turned back to the mostly empty rows of food he once had.
"I think we got enough food Annabel." I told her, chuckling.
"I believe you are right." She smiled. "Now we best get back to the robot and see how the others are coming and Gabriella with refueling the robot." We quickly headed back to the robot and saw that everything was put into its rightful place and the others were just bouncing to go out to eat. Gabriella though was no at the robot, so she must have already moved toward the restaurant.
"Alright, whoever is ready to eat, move out and find Gabriella. She's standing outside of the place we're going to eat at." Olivia, Rover, and Rose took off into the station again, Annabel and I sighed, we had to chase after them again.
"Let us hope that they do not hurt Gabriella in the process of finding her." I laughed and followed her out, back into the station and toward the restaurants. Upon getting around the corner to where the restaurants were at, we heard Rose and Rover yelling.
"WHAT IS TAKING THEM SO LONG?" Annabel and I both rolled our eyes and came around the corner, only to be tackled by the others, except Rover and Gabriella.
"What took you so long?" Olivia made a puppy dog face at my as she hug off the front of my shirt. "Gabby wouldn't let us go in and eat until you came, and I'm sooo hungry!"
I chuckled. "Well, Gabriella was being nice and having you wait for us because that a nice thing to do, and you don't have to wait anymore Olivia, go in and get seated." She squealed and jumped off of me, and ran with the others inside. I walked in after them with Annabel, but stopped when I saw my team all frozen in their tracks in front of me. "What's wrong?"
"I believe that might be the problem." Gabriella whispered, pointing over to a table in front of them, and I froze in place myself. There was my mother and Nova, sitting at a table, paying for there meal.
"Team, back out of the restaurant." Annabel whispered. Just as we were about to, Nova looked over our way and we all froze, including herself. She then quickly turned to my mother and she looked this way too. My mother quickly got to her feet and ran toward us, Nova at her side.
"Team, back to the robot!" I yelled. My team took off like a bullet out of the restaurant and toward our robot with my mother and Nova on our heels.
"Jasmine!" My mother yelled. "Please stop! I just want to talk to you!" I ignored my mother's cries and looked around frantically for my father's robot; I know that if my mother is here, then he has to be too. But then why didn't I see him or the rest of his Hyper Force?
"JASMINE, YOUR FATHER ISN'T HERE AND I DON'T WANT TO TAKE YOU BACK!" It was after that that I slowed down to a stop and turned back to my mother, surprise at what she said. She didn't want to take me back? But then why still come after me?
My mother and Nova caught up with us and took a few deep breaths before she stood up and put some space between us. "Jasmine," She said softly. "I know that you think I was going to take you back, but I know that can't and won't do that, and I just want you to hear me out, that's all I ask, I don't want you to have to run away from me anymore." I stared at her, letting her words sink in. My mother was never one really for action, but more talking then anything.
"Why don't we go back to the restaurant and get you all something to eat and we can talk there?" Nova suggested. Rose and Rover didn't look their mother in the eyes. Gabriella and Olivia were looking out behind Rover and Rose, and Annabel floated at my side.
"We'll hear you out," I told them. "But you have to pay for the entire meal."
"Deal." My mother said and led us back to the restaurant that we were all at before and sat at a larger table for all eight of us.
When we got their and ordered, the team was so hungry, they ordered a large dish that had a bit of every appetizer on it so that even Annabel could get something off of there that she liked. Then everyone ordered their dishes. Olivia got the steak, Rover got the BBQ ribs, Rose got the haddock, Gabriella got the lobster, Annabel got the salad and soup, and I got a larger piece of salmon, because I knew that Midnight was going to want some.
"I think its best to get the worst over with first then move on from there." Nova said as we were eating bits of the appetizers.
"You're right Nova." My mother said. "Jasmine, I know that right now you're on a journey, just as your father and I were when we were your age. Protecting others, making new friends around the cosmos, if you would have actually obeyed your father, I would have been worried. But as you can see, I'm not. I'm happy that your happy sweetheart and I wish that your father would realize it too, but being as stubborn as he is, I don't know if he will until it's too late."
"Why don't you want to take me back? Why aren't you will Dad anymore? And why did you only come after me to talk to me?" I shot several questions her way; she laughed placed her hand over mine.
"Jazz, I came here to talk to you because I wanted to set things right. Nova and I won't follow him if it's to capture you, as I'm sure you've noticed, your father is not in his right state of mind. As to what's causing it, I could only guess that a evil that has as much power as the Skeleton King did, would be the only one able to posses him and leave no trace that even Antauri couldn't trace." She explained.
"What about Skeleton Queen?" Olivia asked. "Doesn't she have that kind of power?"
"Wait a second, Skeleton Queen?" Nova questioned in a demanding tone. It was at that moment that the team started telling my mother and Nova about how we encountered the Skeleton Queen a mouth or so ago. My mother and Nova listen closely and at the end of our story sighed at the amount of information. The others and myself had finished threw most of our main meals by now and Midnight was the only one who still had to finish her food, in a small dish next to me on the table.
"This might just make sense for what made us separate ourselves from you Jazz. This woman, Skeleton Queen, probably got into both our heads. The power primate is strong in your father, but after tying to leave it behind for so long, it's caused him to become weak in what he once knew, now his mind is unprotected, it would explain most things, but not the 'why' part." My mother said.
"We'll ask her the next time we run into her, but you never answered my question of why you and Nova aren't with Dad and the others." I mentioned to her. My mother sighed.
"Jazz, I left your father for the time being because I knew that you would never listen to me if he came with me. As for the question of why take you back, it would be no help, because you'll leave, time and time again. It has to be up to you and you alone that you want to go back before we can get you home, and that is why we aren't trying to take you home." I sat back amazed at my mother, and I couldn't believe that nearly an hour ago, I was running from her, thinking that she was going to take me back to my father.
"Thanks Mom." I said. She smiled at me longingly and I rushed forward to hug her. "I missed this when you were gone." I whispered.
"I did too honey." My mother said, wrapping her arms around me.
"There is one this I would like to ask of you, Auntie Nova, Jinmay, do either of you two know of the destiny that is for us to fulfill?" Gabriella asked. My mother released me from her arms and looked at the blue monkey.
"I don't know, none of us do, not even Chiro. Only Antauri might be the one with an idea of what your destiny might be. But even he doesn't know much." Nova said.
"Well, that helps a lot." Rover said sarcastically.
"I'm sorry we couldn't be more useful to you." My mother said. "We don't know anything, we only knew our destiny."
"Maybe there is a clue in what we have faced so far." Annabel said. "Most of the battles we have faced have been with the soldiers of the Skeleton Queen, which means we are being watched by her, and her intent with us is not to be captured, but destroyed."
"But what does that have to do with our destiny?" Olivia asked.
"It means that she's trying to stop us from fulfilling it, she wants us dead so we don't complete our destiny. She's apart of whatever is our destiny." I answered. My mother smiled at me, and I smiled back.
"You're a great leader Jasmine." She told me. "And I can't wait until the next time we meet to see how much you've grown."
"What do you mean by that Mom?" I asked worriedly.
"Sweetheart, if Nova and I stay here much longer with you, it could give your father a way of finding us, he might have bugged us before we left, fully knowing that Nova and I left to find you. It's too dangerous for us to be together right now, we have to go back to your father for the time being. But know this honey, no matter what happens, we're never help your father capture you, no matter what." My mother said. I smiled as a few tears fell from my eyes and I hugged her again.
"Thanks Mom."
"Your welcome Jazz, now let Nova and I walk you all out to the Super Robot." The team and I got up from the table and headed for the door while my mother paid for our food. Midnight sat back on my shoulder again, licking her paws before she fell into another of her naps.
When we got back to the Super Robot, I saw that my mother and Nova stopped in front of the door; we turned around there and began to say our good byes. "Bye Mom, by Nova." I said.
"Please Jasmine, call me Auntie Nova like the others do, I always wanted to be your Auntie, but that stubborn father of yours…" We laughed at this and my mother came up to me, hugging me tightly.
"If you keep heading toward that star collection off in the distance, you'll reach a planet named Sunni, on this planet, you'll run into a resort, just tell them you're parents are friends with the protectors there and you'll get in there for a free vacation, and it looks like you all need it." My mother told me. I stepped out of her embrace and looked at her questioningly.
"Who are these friends of yours Mom?" She smiled.
"You'll meet them when you get there." She grinned. I scowled at her and she laughed along with Auntie Nova. Soon the rest of the team laughed with them and I pushed away the scowl and laughed it off with them.
"Bye everyone!" Auntie Nova called as we went back onto our ship.
"We'll see you soon!" My mother called. The door to our robot then shut and we all headed up to the command center. The team gathered around the computer as the engines started up and we decided where to go.
"Team, I think we're in need of a bit of a vacation, set a course for Sunni." The team erupted in cheers and raced to pug in the coordinates and we raced to get to Sunni.
Nova's Point of View:
After the kids left, it was in there own safety that we left too, we couldn't wait for the team to find us. We knew that Chiro had place a bug on Jinmay and myself, and we knew that they were coming after us.
"What do we do if they find us Jinmay?" I asked my friend.
"We go back; we did what we desperately wanted to do. We act as if we are mad at them, which we kinda are, and refuse to tell them anything, until the information we could give them is too late to deal with because the kids will already be long gone." She told me. The alarm in our little ship went off and we looked out into the window ahead of us and saw the Super Robot, the one that belong to Chrio and the others.
The others caught us in their tractor beam and pulled us in to the loading dock, there they were all waiting for us. Chiro, Antauri, Gibson, Sprx and Otto, all standing in a line, waiting for us to return.
"Jinmay!" Chiro called. "Where have you been? We've been worried sick!" It was then that I heard a loud 'smack' and looked to see that Jinmay had slapped Chrio across the face, hard.
"Oh like you don't know where we've been! You're the one who put the tracker on me! You're the one who is keeping my daughter from me!" She screamed at him before she ran off. Chrio stood their, surprised at his wife's outburst and looked over at me.
"Nova, what happened?" Sprx asked me. I looked at my husband and my brothers before I looked at Chiro, I glared at him harshly.
"It's because of you that the children won't come home." I said quietly, but as harsh as I could muster. "Get off your damn high pedestal and look at reality, you're nothing like the good friend I once had. I hate you!" I ran off to the room I shared with Sprx and curled up on my bed, crying at the things I said to Chrio, and thinking how right they were. Chrio was now a shadow of what he once was, and it scared me, just as much as losing my courage.
"Nova?" I heard my husband call out to me. "Are you ok?"
"Does it look like it Sprx?" I whispered. I heard him hurry over to me and he pulled my hands away from my face.
"Nova, what happened?" Sprx said as softly to me as possible. I curled into his chest and a few tears fell.
"The kids ran from us Sprx, and its all because of Chiro, or whoever that is now." I said into his chest.
"You know more then you're letting on Nova, what's going on?" I looked up at my husband. I promised Jinmay that I wouldn't utter a word of what happened earlier today. I can't break my promise to the kids, not while they still have the chance to be free, and while we can do some research on the Skeleton Queen.
"I can't tell you Sprx, I can't break my promise, and I can't let Chrio find out about the children. I'm going to protect them, even if it means disobeying him and getting in his way." My husband sighed and pulled me up so I could face him.
"We're going to gather everyone together to talk about this, everyone, but Chiro." I smiled at him. "Common, we gotta get things set up." I got up from the bed and too his hand. He led me out of our room and in the dangerous territory of the halls of the Super Robot.
Witch's Note:
Will Nova and Jinmay tell? Who are the friends of Chrio and Jinmay's that live on Sunni? All questions will be answered, when the next chapter is up! Review People!
Question of the Chapter: Where is your favorite place you like to go? Just the place that feels the most comfortable to you.
Answer to the Question: My favorite place to be is on a boat or on the beach in Searsport. I like to be on the boat so I can feel the waves and the wind his me strait on. As un-relaxing as this sounds, it is quite relaxing. And I love to be on the beach in Searsport because I love the smell of the sea air and I like to look for shells, rocks, and sea glass on the beach, like a treasure hunt!
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