Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 25: Guardian of the Six Elements
Olivia's Point of View (In Olivia's Workshop):
My Daddy and I were all alone in my workshop, looking over some of my stuff that I built while he was away. I love my Daddy, and I missed him so much after we left, but we did it for Jazz! Besides, Daddy might no like it when I leave home, but I'm sure it's not going to kill him if I left him for a few mouths.
"So what is this one Olivia?" My Daddy asked, pointing to my newest project that I made with June's help into weapons for all of us.
"These weapons are from crystals that June collected while we all were on that ice planet Glacia. She wanted to make weapons out of them for all of us, and they all turned out really nicely. We have two swords for Cobi, Rover and I. Gabriella has a spear, Annabel has these awesome claws that fit over her hands. June, Jazz and Rose all have double blades." I told him.
"They look like they came out nice!" He said. "I'm so proud of you!" He then grabbed me by the waist like when I was little and twirled me in the air. I squealed.
It was so nice to be with my Daddy again, I missed him, and I know he missed me.
Gabriella's Point of View (In Gabriella's Lab):
I was in the lab with my father, looking over the newest things I had been doing since I left, thankfully I cleaned this place before he came. I know that his lab was just as bad off as mine had been before I cleaned it, but I think it had a positive impact on my father, like that he didn't need to worry about me as much anymore.
"Father? Why is it that you look so grave about you?" I asked him as I looked at his hard face. His expression softened when his eyes drifted up to me.
"Forgive me Gabriella; I just am consulting my fears on the inside." He said. I raised my eyebrow at him.
"What fears Father?"
"Fear of becoming a father-in-law with Sprx." Was his reply. I blushed madly at the thought of my father thinking that Rover and I were ready for that kind of step.
"That's not going to happen for a few more years Father." I stuttered. "Rover and I only began our relationship a few months ago; we have not even had out half year anniversary, let alone a marriage anniversary!"
"Yes, but think my dear girl. You are fifteen now, almost sixteen. In two years you are eligible to be a bride. And I knew that Rover and you were close in your friendship, but never did I see that it would blossom into something like this."
"Father," I sighed. "There is nothing you need to fear about. Rover and I are both not ready for marriage, we still need time to be teens in love and have fun. Is that too much to ask while saving the universe?"
"No, its not, but time will come faster upon you then you will expect. I will drop the subject for now, and let us get back to more civil matters. Now, what mostly have you been working on since my absence?" I rolled my eyes.
Typical of Father, drop one subject and then start another.
Rose's Point of View (In Rose's Room)
I was just sitting around my room as I cleaned my wonderful magnets to a gleaming shine, the perfect weapon for a sassy, girl like me. I blew on my magnets once again to get out a spot that refused to shine, and that was when my father walked into the room, grinning at my cleaning of my weapon.
"Looks like you got a hold of that well." He told me. I grinned.
"I did learn from the best." He laughed and took a seat next to me, pulling out his own magnets and cleaning them.
"So Rosie, where is everyone?" My father asked me. I glared at him.
"Don't call me that Dad, unless you want to be in a lot of pain. As for the others, their all doing their own thing, Mom and Rover are in the training room, Annabel and Uncle Antauri are in the meditation room, Olivia and Uncle Otto are in the workshop, Brainiac Jr. is with Brainiac Sr. in the lab, and Jazz is in her room with Aunt Jinmay, Cobi and June."
My father smiled at me, like a real smile, one you don't see often. "Rose, I just wanted to say that I happy that- no I mean I…" I stopped him.
"Dad, you're rambling again." He sighed and nodded. "Just spit it out, it can be any better then three years ago when I smashed Gabs face into a meat pie." At this he and I laughed, that was more of the connection between my father and I, our looks and pranks.
"I so proud of you Rose, I was so worried when you left with the others that you would break down, since you had a powerful connection with your mother and I. I didn't know if you'd react well to a new situation. Always on the go, always fighting, I didn't think that you'd do well with that because you and your brother both are a lot like me, lazy, but you two are better about that, and don't tell your mother I admitted that." He paused for a moment. "I can see now though Rose that you did better then anyone could have guessed, I'm so proud of you, and I'm proud to call you my daughter." It was then that I rushed into my father's arms. He had never been so emotional with me, or even Rover and Mom, it was a side that was sweet to see.
"I love you Daddy, and I'm proud to call you my father." I whispered to him. I felt him nod.
I'm glad I got to have this moment with my father, because I know that there will be few after it, and I am so telling Mom what he admitted. But as to where her sources came from, my lips are sealed.
Rover's Point of View (In Rover's Training Room)
In the training room with Mom, it felt like nothing that had happened that separated us had happed. Just like before we left, my Mom and I were sparing, much like the kid and I do from time to time, nothing like when Rose and I try to tear each other apart.
My Mom was a caring person, but most of the time, she'd rather duke it out them talk it out. My Mom is more for 'actions speak louder then words' then anything else. I guess that's how I am too; a lot of us are, except for Gab, Annabel, the kid, Uncle Antauri and Uncle Gibson.
So basically we were doing that now. My mother was judging my attacks at her, how my life has been over the passed three/fourths of the year. I threw violent punches, symbolizing out hard times, and my quick movements to avoid her attacks were my way of symbolizing our victories. It was at least an hour or more before she even offered to let us break.
"So it's been up and down all the time." She said, responding to my actions as we sat down, drinking so ice cold water. "What do you think was the worst?"
"When SQ captured us and I was almost made a play toy for Mandy." I shivered. "That girl is beyond the point of no return now, she so crazy, it freaks me out every time I think about that. Other then her, it's been pretty mild around here."
"And the best?" My mother questioned me.
Now that was not something I wanted to tell her. My best moment out of everything and anything was when Gab first kissed me, and what it turned into on our way to Darcel. Those feelings we both felt, and just beginning close to each other, it brought so much heat to the surface of my face, I almost thought I was going threw that time again, locked inside her lab.
"From the red in your fur, I think I already know the answer to that question." My mother laughed, bringing me back to reality.
I sighed. I sure missed you Mom, but now, can I hope that you'll keep quiet about this?
Annabel's Point of View (In Annabel's Meditation Room):
It was calm and quiet in the meditation room. Nothing to hear besides the soft water moving and the breathing of my father meditating next to me. As we have been for the past few hours. We've shared our memories with each other up to the points where we've been together.
There was still guilt in me though, for what I did to my father back of Glacia, when I shoved my claw into his mind and stole information from him. I felt like it was tearing me apart.
"I sense something is deeply troubling you Annabel." My father told me calmly, not breaking his meditation.
"Yes Daddy." I responded to him. "I feel- guilty."
"Why?"
"Because of when I hurt you on Glacia to get that information we needed. When I reached into your mind and stole information from you. I mostly feel guilty because I hurt you, my father, and that I thought you would never forgive me for something like that." I opened my eyes from my meditation and looked to see if my father's face had changed. His eyes were now open and looking at me sadly, blue looking into blue; his normally calm façade was replaced with extreme worry.
"Annabel, I never thought that you hated me. I knew that you did what you had to, under the orders of your leader. I don't hate you and you have no reason to feel guilty, because I forgive you." Both of us set ourselves on the floor, out of our meditative state and I run into my father's reassuring embrace.
It brings peace to my mind that I no longer have to carry that guilt any longer.
Jasmine's Point of View (In Jasmine's Room):
"I have no idea how you do this and it comes out so well!" My mother complemented me. She was looking at the work that we did a few months ago, the item drawings with paint in the positive and negative space, on two separate drawings. She also was surprised by the drawings we had done in some extra sketch books I had, bottle drawings, and in my sketch book alone (which was already almost filled) was also drawings of the team I had done during the times we had been together, as well as moments of battle that I remember from my memory.
"You could try to do something simple and see how it comes out Mom." I suggested. Midnight meowed in agreement from my shoulder. "Cobi only did a button and June and I did different sea shells. You're just making it harder then it looks."
"I guess I am." She replied, looking threw my work we did on shading of bottles. "I still can't believe how blind I was to see your talent of writing and your artistic skills. How could I not see?"
"Skeleton Queen can do that to a person who she wants to control." June said. "Nasty woman, I'm glad I didn't have to face her. From the way Jazz drew her, I felt my skin crawl."
"There's a picture of her and her formless toward the front of the book." I told my mother as she searched threw my sketch book until she found the picture, almost dropping my book in her hands.
"Holy Shuggazoom!" My mother exclaimed. "And I though Skeleton King looked bad!"
"You'd be surprised." Cobi said. "These always something or someone who can beat anyone or anything by a mile, in this case, the evil, ugly people." Us girls giggled at that joke and Cobi chuckled.
I'm so glad to have my Mom back, before she was controlled, she wasn't half bad, and she treated me like a real person and a daughter. I wish my father could have been like that. I wish I could have known the real side of him. It was then that we heard the alarm and everyone ran up to the command center.
At the command center, everyone was gathered in front of the computer that Gabriella was messing around with. On screen was a very lush and green planet, long rivers were on its surface that seamed to lead on for miles until they ended up in large bodies of water.
"We've made it team," Gabriella said. "We're here, this is Renelle."
We had both robots land on the surface near the temple we assumed we had to journey to, in a wide open field. We hit solid ground and left the robots and headed off into the jungle. Annabel, Gabriella, Uncle Antauri and Uncle Gibson were at the front of our group to sense or detect anything as to protect the group.
Midnight seamed wide awake on my shoulder, but at the same time, she was at ease. That was not normal. If Midnight was wide awake, then she would be angry or annoyed. If she was at ease, it would be right before or after her nap, but this was too weird to believe.
"Is everything alright girl?" I whispered to her, keeping my voice down as to not worry the team with my own worries. Midnight rubbed her body against the back of my neck to assure me that everything was fine, but I still had my doubts.
Not one word was spoken other then my hidden conversation with Midnight. The silence was starting to get to a select few, Olivia and Uncle Otto. "So what is this temple that we're heading to again?" Olivia said, breaking the silence. Uncle Gibson cleared his throat.
"This temple is that of the Six Elements. Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Spirit, and Lightning. These elements are what made us in the beginning and end us when its time. These elements are normally protected by a guardian, rarely more then one. And even rarer is when the elements chose a warrior to wield it in battle. This occurs only if-"
"If the universe it coming to an end and they have to stop it." I finished.
"Um, yes. But how did you know?" Gibson asked.
"Father, we ran into a problem with this before, finding out that we the ones that are the warriors or the elements and Cobi and June are our guardians." Gabriella explained. "As for who portrays each element, we don't know other then Jasmine, who we know is associated with Lightning."
"Interesting.." Her father muttered before he almost went face first into the stairs from tripping over them, but Antauri's power of objects and people around him stopped Gibson from falling halfway to the stairs. "Thank you my friend."
"Awe, Antauri you should have let him fall, it would have made my day!" Sprx whined. Everyone gave him a sour look before we stepped up the stairs to the entrance to the temple and walked inside its stone walls.
It was then that those same feelings of desire filled my body, trying to make me rush forward passed the others. I took a few deep breaths as I walked and my mother turned to face me, looking at me worried like.
"What's wrong Jazz?" She asked quietly as to not alarm the others as she knew I would hate.
"The desire, it's trying to make me run toward it. I think it's the elements." I whispered to her. Her eyes widened before they turned to a sad look. She placed one of her arms on my shoulder to try and comfort me. Not helping much, I wanted to run at it, and it was noticeable on my face of the pain I felt threw it. My mother no longer waited for it to stop.
"Gibson, Antauri, Annabel, Gabriella, clear the path!" My mother yelled to them. They did as they were told.
"What's going on Jinmay?" Nova asked from behind us. My mother looked back at her nervously before looking back at me.
"Go Jasmine." She whispered, letting go of me. I felt like I was going to fall forward when my feet sprang before me and I ran off into the temple. "After her!" My mother yelled. "But don't stop her!" I heard my team and my mother's chase after me. They were in close pursuit, but I was too fast for them to catch up with. All they could do was follow.
When I reached the end of the temple, the walls spread out into a large stone room, a hole in the ceiling, allowing the light of the sun and its specks of dust to float down to the mossy floor below. I slowed to a stop and felt the desire calm itself now that it was where it wanted to be.
"You finally made it." My eyes trailed from the stream of light in the center of the room to a woman who stood next to the door I emerged from. Her long dress was as white as snow, as was her long, thick, strait hair. Her eyes glowed a bright white in color, and her skin was pale in color, stating out as the only other color against her clothes, hair and eyes. She was tall, extremely tall for a human woman. "It's good to see that you no longer have to worry about getting here."
"You're Ronnie." I whispered. She nodded.
"There is little time, Chosen One. I have little time to explain so you and your friends must hear me out, no interruptions." I nodded and saw the teams come to a stop behind me finally, out of breath. I placed a finger to my lips and everyone tried to calm their breathing while turning to Ronnie.
"We're all listening Ronnie." I told her. She nodded.
"I have your destiny here; this is where it really begins." She started out. "Jasmine, you and your five monkey friends are to be warriors of the elements by their decree. Your other three members, the two humans and the kitten are to become guardians to protect you as a guardian does the elements, as I did. Jasmine, you are the warrior of Lightning, as I'm sure you've already noticed. Annabel, you are the warrior of Spirit, powerful over the inner being and mind of yourself and others. Rose, you are the warrior of air. Gabriella, you are the warrior of water and ice. Olivia, you are the warrior of earth and nature. Rover, you lastly are the warrior of fire. Each one of you stand on the symbol on the ground that has a similar symbol that represents the element you are to portray, guardians June, Cobi and Midnight, come to the center of them and stand on the symbol of the sword."
Doing as she said. We arrived in the places that she told us to stand on. Once there, a bright light the resembled our element swirled around us. I was surrounded by a yellow light, Annabel was surrounded by purple, Rose was white, Olivia was green, Gabriella was blue, Rover was red, and June, Cobi and Midnight were a mixture of all the colors.
When the lights faded, we were all different on the outside, and felt it on the inside. When I looked at myself in a crystal that was next to me, I saw that there were yellow tattoos on the side of my face, the left side I think, that were in the pattern of zigzags, or long lightning bolts. These same tattoos were also on my hands and arms, and I don't think they stopped their.
I looked over at my other team members and saw that they had tattoos as well as I did, but they were different of course. Annabel had the 'Ying and Yang' symbol on the side of her face in purple, with bold lines extending from it, slightly curved, also on her arms and hands. Rose's white tattoos looked to be like swirls of wind that glittered on her face, hands and arms. Gabriella's light blue tattoos were shaped in the form of waves with a crescent moon hanging over them that sat just below that outer corner of her left eye. Olivia's face, hands and arms were covered in thin curvy bright green lines that turned out to look a lot like thorn covered vines, circling around her eyes and crossing over each other. Rover's face had a flame tattoo that in a way circled around his eye and spread in a fiery design that spread all over his face, hands and arms in a red color. When I looked over at the guardians, June now had tattoos on the right side of her face that showed each element in a circle and two rings in the center. Her ring, the one close to the inside was glittery. The same with Cobi, but the outer ring was glittering on the right side of his face. Midnight had no tattoos that we could see on her body, possibly covered by her fur.
"Wow." I whispered. The others nodded in agreement. We moved away from our spots and turned to face Ronnie. "What do we do now? What is it that we have to do?"
"Now you must fulfill your destiny. Go back to where all of this started; your home world and end it with the Second Great War. To truly bring about peace for a long time, you must end Skeleton Queen, my once master. From their, I would advise you to gather your forces to end her and anyone that stands with her." She said.
"What about you?" My mother asked from the back of the room. "What will you do?"
Ronnie smiled. "I am no longer the guardian of the elements, which means I am no longer immortal. I am going to enjoy my life now that I am free, and life it peacefully, maybe I will come to Shuggazoom in later years, once this next war is over." She then turned and disappeared down a dark hallway. There was no way for us to find her now.
"We'd best get back to our ships and rest, then later on we'll find out what we can do with our powers and try to control them over the couple month journey back to Shuggazoom." I told my team. They nodded and so did my mother's team from behind me. Midnight jumped back onto my shoulder and we headed back down to the robots and blasted off. We were quick to bed.
Who knew that being given power by the elements was going to tire you out? I thought as I fell to the darkness of sleep, Cobi joining right after me.
Witch's Note:
Hi people! It's so good to get another chapter up! I feel so proud of myself! The next one is going to be a 'gasp'. So be prepared.
Question of the Chapter: I know I asked you guys this already, but I want to know now what you think of the team and the bad guys. Jasmine, Cobi, June, Annabel, Rose, Rover, Gabriella, Olivia, Mandy, and SQ. I want you guys to take at least one and tell me all you want to about this character that you like or dislike. You are also allowed to scream and swear at the bad guys and beat them up, but you can't kill them because the 2nd Hyper Force has to do that!
My Answer to the Question: Jasmine is my favorite of this new era of heroes. And Jazz/Cobi is my favorite couple along with Gab/Rover. When I made Jasmine, many things happened that I would have never thought of when I started this story, like I never thought I'd add in June or make her Jazz's best friend, and its hard to have life without her.
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