Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 18: Keeper's of the Power Primate

Jasmine's Point of View (A Few Days Later):

The team understood and asked no questions when I explained to them later on what we were turning back around for to head back to Cobi's home world's moon, Darcel. The team was more then ready to see if these people had any answers for us.

I spoke to Annabel at one point and she told me that this planet, Darcel was one of the keepers of the power primate, just as the Veron Mystics had been before it had been courted by Skeleton King nearly twenty years ago. Her father had been one of the last masters to learn there before it collapsed. But this place was still pure.

We had jumped into hyper space a few days ago and now were only a few short hours from reaching Darcel. The team was on edge, waiting impatiently. We all wanted to know desperately what our destiny is.

"Ugg!" Rose shouted. We turned to look at her while we all sat in the command center. Midnight came out from behind my hair when she heard Rose yelling, which woke her from her deep sleep. "Why does this have to take so long? I'm going to kill someone if we don't get there soon!"

"Rose," I said quietly after she had finished her ranting of death threats. "Yelling and threatening your family and teammates is not going to help us get there better. You need to calm down, maybe you should try out some of those new piloting games you got to pass the time, and then before you know it, we'll be landing." Rose sighed and let it drop, heading off to her room to do as I suggested.

"I'm going to go build something and see if the robot is functioning properly or see if anything is broken." Olivia said. I nodded and she ran off.

"I shall go to the meditation room for a while, if anyone needs me, I shall be there." Annabel informed me. I nodded and she walked off too.

"Gab and I are going to head into her lab for a while, so you know where to find us if anything goes wrong or if someone goes nuts." I smiled and nodded at him for that they could go. He grabbed Gabriella by the hand and ran off toward her lab. It was only Cobi, June and I left in the command center.

"June, if you want we can start another art project today." I told her. She happily nodded and pulled me away from the computer. I looked back at Cobi and saw his sad face. I planted my feet and halted June. "Do you want to join us Cobi?" I asked him.

"Maybe I should stay here where I can watch for Darcel." He said sadly, looking away from us. I walked up to him and grabbed his hand, pulling his along with June and I.

"Gab's got another computer that hooked up to this one, so she'll know when we land. Common." I begged him as I pulled his arm. He came forward a few steps before looking away, blushing.

"I'm not really good at drawing or anything art-like." He admitted. I just pulled him hard toward my room.

"So what? I can teach you, I mean, I'm teaching June and its working right? If I can teach her, then I can teach you." I told him firmly. "Now come on!" I pulled him out of the command center toward my room and when we got inside I set him on my bed. Then I handed him and June some paper and placed tables in front of them. "On the table in the back of me are objects that I found around the robot, and that I browed form the others. Take an object that you like and draw it from different angels, then when you're done with that, pick out the two angel drawings you did that you like the best and show them to me, and I'll tell you the next step." I handed them a pencil and a sharpener. Then I moved back for them to grab an object. Cobi grabbed a large, fat button he found on the table and June grabbed a small sea shell I got from Sunni. It was one of those snail shells that curved around in a circle.

"Make sure that you draw pretty big on you page so that you don't have to draw a million copies when you get to the final project." I told them. "I'm doing the project with you guys so you have me to reference off of." The two of them nodded and turned to their work. Midnight jumped off of my shoulders and walked over to my table and slept there while I started to work.

Cobi's Point of View:

Why is it me who has to suffer as so? I love her so much, and yet, she would surly shoot me down if I asked her to be more then friends. She'd probably laugh in my face and humiliate me, but then again, that sounds nothing like Jasmine. Ugg, my ex-mother's words are still cutting threw me deep, that no one will ever want me. As much as I hate her, I know that she's right. I mean, what could Jasmine ever see in me?

I looked over to see her working on her project that was to help guide us in making our own. She had taken one of those shells that sound like ocean if you listen to it when it's quiet. She drew it quickly at two angels that she like best and then got up from her seat to retrieve some sort of thin see threw paper. She turned and saw my gaze at her and I turned away quickly. Damn, I should have been more careful. Now she's going to hate me for sure.

"Is everything ok Cobi?" Jasmine asked me. She walked over to my side, I turned away from her.

"Its nothing, it's just a little hard to get the picture right." I told her, holding the fat button in my hand.

"Here, let me help you then." I was surprised by what happened next, she took my hand that held the pencil in it and we drew the out line of my button. Her movements were slow, and I felt the heat rising in my face and body. She noticed this and turned to face me. "Is something wrong?"

"No, it's just that I've never really had someone do this before." I said. She looked away from me, could it be? No, it can't be, she can't be blushing!

"I'm sorry Cobi; I just thought that if you had someone to guide you, it might make it a little easier on you." She explained. I was surprised by the gesture, but it was nice. I enjoyed it, it made me feel as if everything that happened to me when I was young didn't matter anymore, and Jasmine had the power to do that to me, no matter what.

"Its alright, I'll try on my own now, see if I can get it right." I went to move toward the paper when Jasmine stopped me.

"Cobi, the first thing you should know about art that I teach, and most others out there, that there is no wrong answer or a way to do something in art. You learn and get better from what you do, just like in life." She said to me. "Don't worry about making a mistake, just have fun with it and let you expressive side come out." I nodded and did my best, while not letting the idea of 'no wrong answer' get to me. Jazz was right, and I knew my ex-mother had gotten inside of my head, messing with me and my life.

I had finished drawing the first side of the button that I was going to use in my art. It actually didn't come out bad. Jazz let me handle my own work and went back to her own, with that weird thin paper. It wasn't long before I had both sides of my button draw on the paper I had and I took them to Jazz at the same time June took the many ones she drew of her shell.

"Okay, let me see them." Jasmine said. I pulled out my two and placed them in front of her. She looked them over carefully and I worried about what she would think. She looked up at me, giving me a soft smile. "You shouldn't worry about what others think Cobi, not when their judging you or what you do." She said. "Besides these look really good, you worked really hard on them, and that's what art is. Working hard on an idea. If you put no effort into it or rush threw it, not giving it much thought, then it's not art. Get the picture?" I nodded. "These two are good, I'll get you ready for the next stage in a second, I got to look at June's pictures first."

She turned away for me and started talking to my cousin about my drawings. She didn't hate mine? She thought they were good? I couldn't believe it. I looked back over at June and Jasmine and saw that she had approved the ones that June had showed her. She then walked over to another table in her room and grabbed that thin, see-threw paper I saw her grab earlier. She handed two to me and two to June.

"This thin, see-threw like paper is called tracing paper." She explained. "With this paper, you're going to copy over your two drawings. When you do this, on one side of your paper, you're going to have a thin pencil copy of your drawing, which you will retrace on the other side so that you can get the image down on a large piece of paper. You will use both drawings all over the paper as to make a collage on the paper, and your drawings will have to cover most of the paper, to remove most of the negative space, or your background. Make sure that you let some of your drawings overlap and cut off on the edge of the page, this is to make it so that the negative space isn't fluent throughout the piece taking away from the final product. If you need help or don't understand my explanation, then feel free to ask. I've already done part of my drawing on one of my two final products, so you can get a great example for that."

June and I set off to do as Jasmine said. She often showed us her own drawing so that we could see how to do it, and it helped a lot. I now had most of my button pictures copied over to one of the final papers. When I finished with my paper, I sat back and admired it. The large paper was now mostly covered in my button I had drawn, not much negative space was left, but there was still some to see, one large area, and then small little streams. I think I did well.

"Wow, this came out better then I thought it would." Jasmine said behind me. "I mean, I knew it was going to be good, but it came out great! This is a good stopping place for us all since it's nearly been two hours." June and I nodded, we set down out things and headed out to the command center. Midnight headed after us when she saw that we were leaving and quickly ran after Jazz and jumped up onto her shoulders, going back to sleep. There was the rest of the team already waiting in the command center when we got there.

"We're here!" Olivia shouted as we descended onto the jungle like moon before us.

Jasmine's Point of View:

The jungle like moon soon came before us and we landed as close as we could the temple that Cobi told us of. We soon all got off the ship and I noticed as we walked at Gabriella hung back and was a little wobbly in her step. I told Annabel to take the team forward while I talked to her. The team went ton ahead, not even noticing when Gab and I left the group. Midnight still slept on my shoulders even with all the movement.

"Everything ok Gab? You seem a bit out of balance." I told her.

"I'm alright Jasmine. It's just that I used most of my strength during the time I was in the lab." She said, deeply blushing. I caught on right away that something important happened.

"What did you and Rover do in you lab?" I interrogated her.

"Now Jasmine, what on earth would I be doing with Rover in my lab besides talking?" She asked. "Well that and maybe a little lip locking." She whispered to herself, but my ears picked up on it.

"You kissed him!" I yelled. She ran over to me and shoved a hand over my mouth. Midnight, startled by the noise, came out of her napping spot and looked to see what was going on.

"Be quiet Jasmine!" She whispered harshly at me. "Do you want everyone in the universe to hear this?"

I pulled her hand away form my mouth. "You have to tell me about the kiss." I told her. She blushed madly and turned her face from me.

"It was very… powerful." She started to say. "He didn't hold back that was for sure. I swear that I was so lost into his lips that I don't remember much beyond the fact that I was making out with him."

"It must have been a long one to last two hours." I smirked at her. She blushed deeply and walked with me to catch up with the others.

"Says the person that has a crush on Cobi." She retorted back. I looked over at her surprised, she just rolled her eyes. "You don't really think that we had no knowledge of your emotions for Cobi and how he feels back?" Gabriella seamed to instantly regret her words once she said them. Her words put a halt on my feet and she and Midnight looked at my shocked face.

"What?" I asked her softly.

"Never mind Jasmine." She said to me. "Its best if we keep up with the others. Let us quicken our pace." I nodded slowly and ran with her to catch up with the others, but Gabriella's words hung deeply in my mind. How he feels back? What could he really see in me?

"What took you guys so long?" Rose shouted as she and the others waited at the bottom of what seamed to be a large, old looking temple, much like the ones that were built in the Veron Mystics that Annabel had showed me. Its entire structure was surrounded by crystals. We climbed the stairs to the temple and our ears were instantly filled with yelling.

We hurried up their stairs further to see an angry mob in front of the temple, and a man in a black robe trying to calm them. I recognized these people, they were from Qunner 9, and right at the front of the crowd was Cobi's ex-parents. Cobi saw them the same time I did and lowered his head. I grabbed his hand in mine to reassure him. June grabbed his other hand and we kept walking up to the temple.

"Caleb?" I heard his ex-mother say. The rest of the crowd quieted down and looked at the scene about to unfold. "What are you doing here?" Cobi ignored her and walked with us toward the master at the door. "Cobi!" His ex-mother shouted. "Get over here right now!" It was then that I saw Cobi shake with such rage I never thought I'd see in him.

"Would you just shut the hell up?" Cobi screamed at the top of his lungs. All the pretests around us stopped to turn to the scene before us. "You think you have the right to tell me what to do when I haven't seen in mouths and you both abandoned me?" He yelled at his once parents. They were about to say something when they backed away in fear when his eyes glowed a bright green, I had to hold on him to keep him from charging forward. "Just leave me the hell alone and die in you little perfect, no powers, no me paradise!" June and I quickly turned him then so that he wouldn't start a fight and urged him toward the master at the front of the temple, who quickly got us inside while the people outside stood stunned.

Once we were inside of the temple and away from the people outside, June let go of Cobi's hand and quickly moved over to Rose and Olivia's sides. I didn't let go, in fear that he would go back to finish the job, and Cobi needed help now, and he wasn't going to get it if I left him be. So I held on to him, rubbing my thumb over his hand, trying my best to silently calm him down.

"Please forgive us for the trouble that happened." The master said. "Those people have been here for the passed mouth, camped outside the temple, blaming us yet again for their own sins."

"Do not worry of that matter." Annabel told him. "We knew that not all would be right when we got here, I suspected we might run into protesters from Qunner 9 because of the power primate."

"Yeah." Rose said. "Besides, its no your fault that those people are idiots." The man laughed at this as we walked deeper into the temple. We came face with a circle of people, easily men and women from many different ages, all wise and powerful. I squeezed Cobi's hand and he squeezed mine back, looking back down at me.

"You are here for a council, yes?" An older woman asked us. I nodded and stepped forward, bringing Cobi with me.

"Yes, I am the second Chosen One, daughter of the first, Chrio and Jinmay, my name is Jasmine." Whispered were already arising after only that introduction. "My team and I are here in hopes of learning what our destiny is. For a long time now, we only know bits of pieces, Skeleton Queen has been trying to kill us for a long time, she messed with my father so the he's making his team chase after ours and forced everyone he loved away from him." The whispers were no more, elders and other masters were talking loudly with each other

"Silence!" Rang an elderly voice overhead. The room instantly turned back into whispers and then silence. In front of us a man rose from his seat. He looked to be the oldest of them all, but also the wisest. "Thank you. My dear Chosen One, I'm afraid that we ourselves have no knowledge of your destiny." My heart crumbled at the thought. "However, there maybe records of something that may help you in our archives, if you will give us some time, we will consult with the master primate and threw our history and see what we can find. When we find anything, we will send for you at once." I nodded to him and he then sent away his other elders and masters to what I guessed to be the archives room.

"I do warn you though," The man said. "We most likely will not find anything related to your destiny, so don't get your hopes up." I nodded with the team and stood back with Cobi and June, still holding his hand. I looked up at his face to see what his expression was to get some sort of clue on what he was feeling. No such luck, his face held no emotion.

"Cobi, are you alright?" I asked him. He turned to me, a smile on his face, but a sad vibe echo in his eyes, almost as if I could feel it run threw my hand and body.

"It hurts to see them here." He whispered, sighing. "But I would have had to face them sooner or later. I'm just glad to have gotten the pain I felt from them off my chest, and now I feel like a huge pain is gone from my heart. It still aches, but it's not as heavy or unbearable as before."

"I'm glad; it's good that you don't feel a lot of pain now." I told him. He smiled and I felt him squeezed my hand in his. I looked over at the two love birds of our group and saw Rover give his hand to Gabriella. She took it with out a thought and kissed his lips. The whole team gasped and I just laughed.

"You kissed my brother?" Rose yelled at her. Gabriella and Rover laughed, nodding to her. "Oh my god, how far have you two gone in your relationship?" The two of them almost toppled over at her question.

"Rose!" Rover yelled at his sister. "That is not a question you should be asking nor will I be answering!"

"I'm just being the good big sister to you and making sure that you're not doing anything you shouldn't do until a certain age is reached." She retorted back at him. I could help but double over in laughter. Cobi caught me in his arms though before I hit the floor.

"I never get tired of this." I commented as the rest of the team besides the twins laughed with me. It wasn't long after that moment that the elders and master came back out and sat in their respective seats, the head elder came out last, a grim look on his face.

"I am sorry Hyper Force." He said. "There was nothing that we could find to help you along on your journey. If there is anything else we can do for you, we'd be happy to be of service."

"No thank you." I told them. "You've done more then enough. We'll just have to find someone else that can help us find out what we have to do. Thank you, elders and masters of Darcel." They all said their good-byes to us as we passed by them, back out the front gates that were no longer hounded by an angry mob. We quietly got back onto the robot and blasted off into space.

We have to find another way to find our destiny. But where to look? I think I might have the answer.

Witch's Note:

Oh boy, no destiny info, but its makes up fro it with these moments with Gab and Rover, and Cobi and Jazz. Don't ya just love 'em? I know I do.

Question of the Chapter: Who do you think might be the on to finally give them a clue as to what their destiny is?

My Answer to the Question: Can't tell, but its fun to see you guys try, you know, sometimes, when you answer these questions, you guys are right, when it refers to my story.

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