Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 23: An Ill Awakening
Cobi's Point of View:
I woke up the next day to find myself comfortably next to the girl of my dreams. She slept soundly on her side, facing away from me. Yesterday must have taken a lot out of her from that dream and what not. I'm not surprised.
Yet I can be at the same time. No matter what, Jazz is always the first to wake and get breakfast ready. I guess I'll take over this morning. Jazz deserves some time to rest. I raised myself from the bed and moved toward the dresser that the two of us shared. Most of the team wasn't too keen on this happening, but Jazz and I have proved that there is no need to worry, so they're letting us stay in one room, but on the one condition that if anything goes wrong or against the rules they gave us, then we'd be separated into our own rooms again.
I pulled out a simple pair of blue jeans and a red sleeveless shirt and then headed down to the kitchen once I got them on. I noticed that Jazz had left some more sausage and bacon out to cook, along with fruit and pancake mix. I might not be the best cook like Jazz, but I do alright.
I started getting everything ready, pancakes in one pan, sausage in another, bacon in the oven, and then I grabbed the fruit and started to cut it up into a fruit salad. I had helped Jazz a few times since my joining of the team in the kitchen, she taught me useful tips about certain food like when cooking the bacon, its best to cook it in the oven or on the stove, not the microwave because it dries them and takes out a lot of the flavor.
Most of the food was done after a while and then I placed it on the table when I saw Olivia run into the kitchen. She seamed surprised to see me at the stove, but quickly let the wave of confusion pass by her and ran to the table to garble down her food.
"Mornin 'Liv." I told her.
"Morning Cobi." She said happily. Her face then lost its smile and turned to the side, cocked. "Where's Jazz, she's always the one who makes breakfast? Not that your cooking isn't good, it's a lot like Jazz's."
"It's alright 'Liv, you don't have to explain yourself, and Jazz is sleeping in, she probably needs it after yesterday."
"I guess she does, but it just seams so unlike her." She pondered for a moment. "Even after so many things that have happened to her like facing her father a whole bunch a times and battling SQ, this has never happened."
"Really?" I asked, worried instantly filled my mind. "This has never happened?"
"Never, Jazz is always up before the sun even gets above the horizon line, up before all of us. She's never tired, she's always up to cook breakfast and command the team with the most confidence I've ever seen, especially when we first met her, she was really shy, but she stepped up to the plate and didn't let anything get in her way." I placed down the dishes I had in my hands and walked passed Olivia.
"I'm going to go check on her." I walked out into the hallway, only to hear a 'wait for me' come from Olivia who raced after me to see if her leader was alright as well. When we got up to our room, I opened the door to see exactly how I left her, on her side and sleeping.
But there was one thing different. Midnight was pressing against her to get her attention, something that Midnight always got. When she was refused of this, Midnight got worried and moved around to her face. Midnight then began to meow in a pleading tone, it was just enough finally to get Jazz to move, but only a little, it looked like she was stirring from where Olivia and I stood. I walked over to see and hear Midnight plead again with her, not stopping her cries. I came around to the front of Jazz to see her no longer pale face, but completely red one. She looked to be having a hard time breathing, and when I put my hand to her forehead to check to see if she had a fever, I snapped it back and held it tenderly. Her forehead felt hotter then a million suns!
"Olivia, go get Gabriella, tell her to get anything she has to bring down a fever, a real nasty one. Hurry!" Olivia ran out of their as if her tail was on fire. I ran into the bathroom and grabbed a wash clothes and covered it in cold water and rung it out before I ran back out to Jazz and placed it on her head, hopping it would bring down her fever. I saw her finally opened her eyes when I did so; they were covered in a veil of hazel over the bright blue of her eyes.
"Co-bi?" She wheezed. I shushed her and tried to keep her calm.
"Just relax Jazz, Gabs coming with some meds to help you get better." I saw her instantly try to prove me wrong by trying to sit up, but she couldn't even turn over. I flipped her on to her back so she could see everything around her. "Jazz don't bother, we're going to get you back on your feet." It was then that Gabriella cam threw the door with Rover on her heels, carrying the supplies that she could not carry. She pressed a few buttons on a thermometer and then stuck it in Jazz's mouth.
"Great Scott!" She exclaimed. It was a saying her father often used, and Gabriella picked up from him, but she only used it in really bad situation, like her swear. "This temperature is already nearing 110! If we don't bring it down soon- this could prove fatal."
"What can we do to help her Gab?" I asked.
"The best things we can do it make sure the clothes on her head is cold and give her medicine and try to make sure she eats something, not much however, and we can't give her the medicine until she can hold something down. Also, check her temperature every hour to see the difference." She listed off to all of us. "It also would be in her best interest to get her into some lighter clothes to wear. Her shirt is fine, but I think the sweat pants are over board. Cobi, do you know if she has some lighter pajama pants?"
"Yeah, she has some real thin ones for the really hot nights where she can't sleep unless she changes into them, top draw on the right, and their a lavender in color." Gabriella hurried over to her dresser and opened it, pulling out the long, yet thin lavender pajama pants.
"Why am I not surprised?" She asked herself before hurrying back over and having Rover and I leave the room while the girls helped Jasmine change. When Rover and I were once again permitted to enter the room, Jasmine seamed to be sound asleep on her back, softly breathing short breaths.
"So what do we do now?" Olivia asked.
"We wait and stay on high alert, with Jasmine in the condition she's in, it's imperative that we avoid battle to protect her until she is well again." Annabel turned to Rose. "Rose, I want you to get everything on high alert and have everything set and ready incase we need to use the Hyper Space Jump to escape." Rose nodded to her and was just about to leave the room when we felt something hit us hard and shake the entire robot.
"What now?" Rover growled. Gabriella hurried over to Jazz's laptop and pulled up the outer cameras for us to.
"Oh no." She whispered. We all gathered around to see that Jasmine's father, Chiro, had his Super Robot right outside, and just launched some mega missiles at us, hitting our shields.
"There is no way we can out run them!" June said.
"Calm down June!" I sternly said to her. She nodded and took a few deep breaths. "I want you to stay here with Jazz and help her in anyway you can. The rest of us are going to try and hold off Chiro and his team. I'm taking over Jazz's position in the Torso Tank 1, Hyper Force, Go!"
We then ran to the colored tubes and headed to our stations. I took over Jazz's in the Torso Tank and the others went their positions. When we got up and running, Chiro's robot was only a few miles away form ours, already launching the next set of mega missiles at us.
"We can't take to many more critical hits like this!" Gabriella shouted from her post at Fist Rocket 4. "If we obtain too much damage and go into critical-"
"Then Jazz is a goner!" Rose shouted. "Cobi, do something!"
"Hang on!" I shouted at my girlfriend's team and my teammates. "There's an opening, launch mega missiles!" We fought back, our missiles hit their robot. It made little impact though, due to how much damage we've taken. Their robot rushed forward and crashed into ours, sending most of the power offline.
"Everything is down except for the back up power!" Rose shouted.
"That's not the worst of it!" Rover shouted. "Their boarding us!"
"We have little time!" Annabel shouted about the team's cries. "We must protect Jasmine at all costs! She is not yet healed!"
"Rover, come with me and hold them off, the rest of you look after Jazz and keep her safe!" I shouted at the team, we all left our posts and prepared for the worst as they boarded.
Jinmay's Point of View:
We had once again found my daughter's ship, and once again my husband was up to capturing her. I was at the end of my patients with him. I'm afraid he's going to resort to drastic measures to get Jasmine, like kill the rest of the team. It would break the team's hearts and they would leave him, as would I. I don't care what it takes now, when I have my chance, I have to stop him. This fight has to stop, and I want to find the real Chiro I fell in love with.
I watched as the team slammed into the kids' robot and then Chiro ordered for us all to prepare for boarding. When we made it to the entrance we were boarding at on the kids robot, we quickly found ourselves within their walls. Once we were inside, the walls seamed to get darker within their halls. When we hit them head on, Chiro had knocked out their power, so they were left in the darkness.
As we came further down the hallway, we came face to face with the boy, Cobi, and Nova and Sprx son, Rover. Chiro ran at them and quickly knocked them out with the lightning fast moves he had and even when they were down. They fought back with all the strength they had, but it still was not enough. Chiro knocked them to the far back wall and created a 'Chiro Spearo' in his hands, but became dark and black like when he raised it above his head to strike.
"Chiro stop!" I yelled at him.
"That's my son!" Nova screamed and raced toward him with her fist enlarged and punched his side and he flew into the wall. "Don't you dare touch my children!"
"Mom.." Rover whispered. His hand raised in the air toward her. We all raced toward him and Cobi. We helped them up on the wall and Sprx rushed over to help Nova with their son.
"Rover, where is everyone?" Sprx asked him. Rover slowly looked up at his father.
"The kid wasn't feeling well, had a fever of almost 110. Gab and the others tried to bring it down, but so far, nothing's changed. Then you guys showed up and attacked us. The others are protecting her, making sure she's okay." I couldn't help but tear up. My daughter was sick and we were attacking them.
When I turned around to see where Chiro was, he was gone from where Nova had knocked him out. All that was left was the imprint in the wall. "He's after Jasmine! Team we have to stop him!"
"You go ahead Jinmay; I'll stay here with them." Nova said.
"No Mom, go with Aunt Jinmay." Rover said. "Cobi and I'll be fine, Rose and the others need you now more then us. Chiro has to be stopped."
I saw Nova tear up at her son, as well as Sprx. "I guess we raised you up good kid." He told his son.
"All of you did with all of us, now go, before he gets any further. And just a tip before you go, be careful around Midnight, the kitten. She may be little, but there is more to her then meets the eye." I nodded to Rover as a thanks for the information and ran off after my husband.
Antauri phased threw the walls to catch up to him faster, but we all were too late. When we made it to the sight of the kids' rooms, Gabriella, Olivia, Annabel, and Rose were all thrown outside, unconscious. We ran to them and just as we started to reactivate them, Chiro was thrown out of what I guess was Jazz's room. Young June stepped out of her room, a double-bladed sword, made of the power primate in her hands, glowing a soft green in color. Her face was filled with rage and her hands were white from the hard grip on her sword.
Chiro's face was now covered in blood, from where I guess the girl punched him or hit him somehow. You go girl! She raced toward him and swung her sword, she missed when he jumped on top of the room opposite of Jasmine's and called upon another spear of lightning to aid him, colored in black and attacked her. She was able to block it and moved away form him as he attacked her with all the force he had behind him, thus hurting his hands in the process.
June noticed his hands and stepped toward him after knocking him down. "A double blade might be more powerful, but if used incorrectly, will hurt the user more then the enemy." She told him. Chiro growled and struggled to his feet and lunged at her. She wasn't as fast as him and she was hit, forced into the back wall of Jazz's bed room. I ran after him as he headed into there, only to see the kitten changed her form into a large feline form with large claws and fangs. She forced Chiro out of the room and gave him quite a few deep cuts before she was thrown off to the side, hitting her head and knocked out for the moment. He moved back into Jazz's room and I couldn't stand still no more. I ran at him from behind, hopping to take him, surprised though, when I saw an energy blast come from Jasmine's room. I turned and saw my daughter in the door way, using its frame to hold her up.
"Stop it Chiro!" I said, standing in front of her, protecting my daughter. "I won't let you hurt her anymore!" The others got their children reactivated and all helped us form a protective barrier around my daughter. June and Midnight had got up and joined us, as well as Rover and Cobi, who finally made their way here.
"So you're all betraying me?" Chiro demanded of us. I glared at his hard stare.
"No, we're protecting our children, I'm protecting my daughter. Something you should have been doing from the start, but then you started chasing her and hunting her down as if to kill her. I can't stand by and watch this anymore Chiro, I love you, but the man I once knew is long gone, all that's left of him is his memories in us." I said, pointing to the team. "Skeleton Queen won't win! We'll help the kids and free you!"
To the teams' surprise, he laughed. "My Mistress will end all life, and no one can stop her. Not even this feeble new Hyper Force. The girl will die at her hands or by the hands of her own father. She will not succeed." He laughed once more before he turned on his heels and ran for the docking area of the kid's Super Robot. I hurried after him to end this game he's playing, but he managed to grab a ship and fly off into space. I growled in frustration.
"Aww! He took one of my ships!" Olivia cried, sadly looking down at her feet. Her father patted her shoulder.
"Don't worry 'Liv, I bet you'll build another one just like it, but even better then that one." He told her.
She grinned. "Its ok, I made three others last week." The other laughed at her before my attention turned back to my sick daughter. I ran back to her room to find that Cobi had already placed her back in bed and received a new cold cloth for her forehead.
"Her fever is still there, but it's not as bad as it was. It's down to 104." He told me while tending to her.
"Thank goodness." I whispered. A sigh of relief left me, and I felt the tension in the air finally leave around me. I could breathe easily once more. I looked over at the boy tending to my daughter, the look in his eyes; it was the same look in Chiro's eyes when we were that age. "You love my daughter, don't you Cobi?" He stood up at the question, frozen as he turned to face me. "Don't worry, I'm not mad." He breathed out a sigh of relief. "I was exactly the same way you two were when I was your age. Chiro and I were in love before the war with Skeleton King, and we married a couple years after the war was over, and the monkey team followed us the same way."
"Thank you Jinmay." He said. "Your daughter may not be awake, but I can sense her happiness, she is very happy that you're here now."
I smiled. "I can feel it too. I'm so glad to see her again. I believe now that my possessed husband is gone; we'll be joining you on your way to Renelle. We can't bear to leave our children again."
"I understand. I have to say, I've never met a girl or any person like your daughter, she is one of a kind, an amazing person that I've come to love, even after the sorrow I've face. I fell like your daughter has healed me in a way no one could." I walked over and let my hands trail down the face of my daughter, moving a strand of hair out of the way of her eyes.
"She always had that feeling about her; it's just her natural gift." I said. I then got up and headed for the door. "Its best I get the team ready to go, we'll head over to our robot and follow you guys on your way to Renelle. And one more thing Cobi," he let his eyes flow up to mine, listening completely. "Don't call me Jinmay, call me Mom, I know that my daughter and you are meant to be, just by the look in your eyes. Take care of her for me." I then turned on my heel and left, only to hear him respond to me in a whisper so quiet; you would think only the dead could hear it.
"Thank you, Mom."
Witch's Note:
Wow, that took me a while! Sorry people that it took me so long to get this chapter up and for the later update, I was busy with homework and a couple projects, but now I think I can get back up to speed, if not, except a chapter in the next week or so. And guess what! There are three questions at the end of this chapter!
Question 1 of the Chapter: What relationship do you like the best out of this story? Gabriella/Rover or Jasmine/Cobi?
My Answer to Question 1: I honestly don't have the heart to chose between them, because their both so cute!
Question 2 of the Chapter: How do you think Cobi responded to Jinmay having him call her Mom from now on?
My Answer to Question 2: I don't really want to spoil that, so I'll just let you pick with that!
Question 3 of the Chapter: What did you think of Chiro? Has he finally lost his marbles?
My Answer to Question 3: I think I will answer this one, yes, he's lost his mind, Jinmay and the others had the right idea separating from him.
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