Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 31: Celebration
Jasmine's Point of View:
It was only yesterday that we had triumphed over the Dark Ones that had entered our world. The world was safe and so was everyone in it. Everyone was happy again; it was a time for celebration.
As soon as the team and I head met up with my father and his team, he started yelling at me as soon as he made sure I was alright about Cobi being my boyfriend. Let's just say that Mom threatened him a lot and Dad eventually gave in. Okay, she threatened that she would take me and leave him high and dry on Shuggazoom for the rest of his life if he ever brought up the subject again. Needless to say, I was laughing my ass off when she was done and my father sulked. Though, I'm sure that the subject will come up again.
Gabriella's doing better now as well. Her foot is not completely healed, but after Annabel and Uncle Gibson looked at it and patched it up, she just needed to be in a cast to help with the tissues that were burned and torn. Rover's been at her beck and call since she got back on her feet, going with her everywhere to make sure she was alright and help if she needed it. Gabriella didn't seem to mind it, and I bet she wouldn't. Let's just say she got a lot of time alone with him. Need I say more?
My mother had planned for us all who fought in the war to have a large party tonight to celebrate our victory, and right now, I was getting ready. I was already in my dark violet dress that didn't cover my shoulders but still had long sleeves connected to the dress. The dress came down to my ankles where I had put on a set of lavender, open toed high heels that were at about two inches high. I didn't need that much extra height as my team had told me, I was already pretty taller then them. My hair had been curled and now I was only looking for my final piece, but somehow it had gone missing.
"Are you looking for this?" Cobi said at my door. I turned around to see my missing accessory in his hand.
"Thanks Cobi." He nodded and came over to me and unclipped the chain and started to put it on. It was his birthday gift to me, a sterling silver locket with the pattern of a butterfly carved into the front of it. No color added, as it should be.
"You left it in my room again." He stated. I rolled my eyes.
"Well it's not like I wanted to go charging into battle and end up losing my most prized possession." He chuckled.
"I know Jazz." He clipped my locket around my neck and then turned me around to face him, giving me a passionate kiss. I giggled at his affection to me. "You know, we match again tonight. Thank God this time it's not where the team was trying to kill us." I giggled at the memory when the team had hooked us up and then looked to see that we were matching again. His shirt was a brighter violet then my dress, and his pants and shoes were both black again. His hair was once again left to its messy nature and his shirt was un-tucked, just how it should be and how I liked it.
"You guys!" The door then raced open and there was June in her long sleeve dark green dress that came down in a 'v' shape to show off the skin under her neck, where she had placed her own golden locket given to her by her parents. "Common, we gotta go! The others are all waiting on you two!" Before we could even place in a single word, she bound out of the room like the devil was chasing her.
"Guess we better get going. You know how much Rose, Olivia and June hate to wait." Cobi grinned at me.
"Yeah, but where's the fun in just going along with it all the time." His words I couldn't help but giggle at. "Just one last kiss before they break down the door."
"I think I can live with that." He captured my lips once more and took his time before finally pulling away, just as Rose, Olivia and June broke down the door.
"Stop making out and come on! We want to go to the party!" Rose snapped, she and Olivia grabbed both of Cobi's hands and led him out first before June dragged me behind herself. I rolled my eyes at them. The girls had led us down to the foot of the robot where the rest of my team were waiting. For the special occasion, we put a dark blue ribbon around Midnight's neck, which she loved to play with since it had cute mini bells hanging off the ends of the ribbon. It jingled as she jumped up onto my shoulders and laid her head on the tip of my shoulder, ready to meet many new people again, eat and sleep.
"Let us get going then, now that we are all here." Annabel said. She headed out first with the energetic three right behind her. Rover helped Gabriella with her cast as they stepped out next, and last left Cobi and I, with Midnight on my shoulder to bring up the rear.
It was a short walk to the building my mother had rented out for the night for the party. Normally any party we would have would be in the robot, but with all of these people, it would be impossible for us all to fit in there for a party, so my Mom checked out this ballroom building with awesome food. I think the only problem might be the reporters outside, wanting to hear the full story and the ones who sneak inside.
Once we made it to the large building and made our way inside, the team instantly broke up to head to separate areas of the party. Olivia instantly ran to the snack table with Rose on her heels. Rover helped Gabriella over to the table we were supposedly sitting at tonight and then went to the two of them drinks. Annabel made her way over to her father and started up a conversation with him. June made her way threw the crowd to find her parents who promised to be here, which left Cobi and I alone with sweet little Midnight purring on my shoulder.
"Do you want to dance?" Cobi asked me.
"Why not?" I took his hand in my and he led me to the dance floor. The soft playing of the string instruments and a piano in the background played over the voices of the many people around us. We were the first ones to dance tonight. It was a slow dance. My hands were around his neck and his arms were around my waist. Our foreheads were touching and Midnight was softly purring on the back of my neck.
Gabriella's Point of View:
In all honestly, I loved the attention I was getting from Rover as he helped me around, and I also loved the extra kisses I would get here and there, but what bothered me was that my father was being over protective of me. He checked on my just as much as Rover, even when he knew that Rover had taken good care of me, it was starting to get on my nerves.
And tonight was no exception. As soon as Rover left to get me a drink, my father was all over me in an instant, claming that he was going to watch over me until Rover got back. He did as he said, but after Rover got back, my father practically glared at us the whole time, just watching over us and not giving us a moment to do anything.
"Rover," I asked my love. "Could you get my mother for me?" I was sick of having my father looming over Rover and my backs. My lover nodded to me and stood up, kissing my forehead before walking off. My father stared at me questioningly.
I glared at him. "Are you planning on doing this for the rest of my life Father?"
He was taken aback by the question. "What do you mean Gabriella?"
I could just feel the edges of my temper beginning to snap. "Don't play dumb with me Father. I know that you're worried about me but you need to stop this. I can't stand this anymore; you need to give Rover and I some space."
"Gabriella, I'm only watching out for your well being." My father argued.
"Then explain to me why your on my back 24-7, whether I'm well or not?"
"I just don't want to see your heart broken." The answer caught me off-guard.
"That still doesn't give you the right to do as you have been doing. You can't stop bad things from happening to me Father, no matter how hard you try. Its just life." It was then that my mother and Rover came back to our table. One look at my face was all my mother needed to know what was going on.
"Come on dear." My mother told my father. "Lets leave the children be."
"But Snowy…" My mother cut him off.
"No buts, lets go now before I drag you out there." My father sighed but obeyed my mother and stood up with her and walked off, but not before glancing my way another time or two. I groaned let my head fall to the table.
"You okay Gab?" My lover asked me.
"I will be once Father stops looming over my every moment in life." I felt a hand gently settle on my shoulder. I lifted my head and saw Auntie Nova and Uncle Sprx.
"I know its annoying to you that your father looms over you most of the time," Auntie Nova said to me sweetly. "But you have to understand, he does it out of love and concern. He hasn't see you for most of a year, excluding certain moments when we ran into you or you needed information from us on your journey. We were all worried crazy over the six of you because you kept running from us."
Uncle Sprx chuckled. "I don't think you have to worry about to much anymore Gab, it looks like your Mom is taking care of your Dad right now." I looked over in the direction my Uncle was pointing out and saw that he was right, my mother was yelling at my father in the middle of a crowd, toward the back of the party. "We'll leave ya be now though. Gotta go check on Rose and Olivia to make sure the buffet is still there for everyone else." Uncle Sprx then walked off, and Auntie Nova leaned down by my ear.
"Your father isn't the only one who does it. You know how over protective Uncle Chiro was before Auntie Jinmay stepped in, same thing with your Uncle Sprx, he always looking out for Rose. It's a natural instinct in any father for their little girl." She smiled and leaned back. "Enjoy the night you two." She then went off to find my uncle.
I turned back to Rover. "Your parents are awesome." He rolled his eyes.
"Yeah there great when their fighting too, its keeps you up all night and you can never get to sleep." He kissed my forehead. "Let's put this conversation away for now."
"I think I can live with that." I said, pulling him for a long kiss. I got to my feet after he pulled away and moved toward the dance floor. "Let's dance."
"Are you sure about that with your foot?" I kissed him to shut him up.
"Slow dancing love." He smiled and helped me out to the dance floor. He had me stand on his feet and we slow danced next to the other couples, one of them happened to be Jasmine and Cobi.
Jasmine's Point of View:
Cobi and I had danced out on the floor for nearly a hour or so now, and Gabriella and Rover had joined us about half that amount of time ago. Though it was getting closer to where no more people were dancing and they mostly were seated at their tables.
"We'd better get to our seats." I told the three of them. We all nodded and quickly headed over to our table, sitting down with the rest of my team. June and Cobi were on either side of my, Midnight on my shoulder, and the rest of the team sitting around the table. Rover next to Gabriella across from us, Annabel between Rover and Cobi, and Rose and Olivia between Gabriella and June.
"Thank you all for coming here tonight!" I saw the mayor of the city say into the microphone that stood on the stage in front of the dance floor and the tables behind that. "We are gathered here today on this wonderful evening because of the savors of our city, which have once again triumphed over evil." Everyone around us clapped. "Now I don't want my speech to last to long, so I'm going to pass the mic on to one of the savors of our city and the one who organized this party for us tonight. Mrs. Chiro Neil or as we all know her, Jinmay Neil!" The crowd went wild as my mother went up to the stage and the mayor sat down behind her.
"Thank you everyone, but in truth, it wasn't really me or my team who stopped the Dark Ones that entered this world. It was our children who rose up and took them down. If it wasn't for everything they did, it's most likely that none of us would be here today. So here, we will congratulate them personally. First up, the weapons master on board, June Bell!" I nudged June and she made her way up to my mother. She shook my mother's hand and the mayor got up from his seat and gave June a medal that hung around her neck. She then made her way back to our table. "Next is the master of the old Power Primate, Cobi Bell!" I clapped loudly as my boyfriend made his way up to the stage and received his own medal, shaking my mother's hand and then coming back down to sit with us. "Next we'll have the head mechanic of the team, Olivia. Daughter of Otto, head mechanic of the 1st Hyper Force and his wife Tiffany." I saw Uncle Otto and Tiffany cheer loudly as their daughter went up and received her medal from the mayor and Mom before jumping off the stage and running back to the table. "Next is the top pilot of the team, Rose. Daughter of Sprx, head pilot of the 1st Hyper Force and his wife Nova, head in combat and third in command of the 1st Hyper Force." Rose proudly went up there and grabbed her medal, showing it to the crowd in her hands before walking back down to her seat. "Next were going to call two people at once since one is in slight need of help because of her wound from the fight against the Dark Ones. Chief of science on the 2nd Hyper Force, Gabriella. Daughter of Gibson, chief of science of the 1st Hyper Force and his wife Snowy. And escorting her is another of the team, head combat and third in command of the 2nd Hyper Force, Rover. Son of Sprx, head pilot of the 1st Hyper Force and his wife Nova, head in combat and third in command of the 1st Hyper Force." The two of them slowly made their way up to the stage and received their medals before Rover stopped leading her and just picked her up and carried her the rest of the way back to her seat. The crowed awed at him.
"You go son!" Uncle Sprx called out, a loud smack and an "Ouch!" followed his comment, given by Auntie Nova.
"Continuing on," My mother announced. "The master of the regular Power Primate, Guru and second in command to the team, Annabel. Daughter of Antauri, master of the regular Power Primate, Guru and second in command of the 1st Hyper Force and his wife Violet." The crowd clapped and stared in awe as Annabel used her Power Primate to float her way up to the stage and levitate the medal out of the mayor's hand and into her own. She then meditated her way back and closed her eyes when above her chair. "And last but no least, the leader of this wonderful new and powerful team, Jasmine Neil. Daughter of Chiro Neil, leader of the 1st Hyper Force and myself, Jinmay Neil." I was the last to stand and make my way to the front. As I made my way up the short few steps of the stage, I saw people in the audience rise to clap their hands in my recognition. Some of them were the friends I had made, The Sun Riders and June's parents, others who fought along side us in the war. I made it up to my mother and shook her hand. "Good-job Jasmine, we're both proud of you." My head instinctively turned to look at my father, at his own table with his team, a smile on his face, standing and clapping loudly for me. So were my aunts and uncles next to him. I smiled and took the medal that was in the mayor's hands and put it around my neck and then head back to the table with the others. "Now with no further delay, let the feast begin!"
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The party had lasted some few hours after that. It was pitch black on our way home. Our only light was the flashlights in our team's robot monkey's heads. The others and I went our way back to the robot when my father stopped us.
"Jasmine, may I talk to you?" He asked. The others and I stared at him. "Alone?"
"Go on guys, I'll meet you back at the robot." I said shooing them off.
"How will you find your way back?" Cobi asked.
"Good point." I thought about it for a moment. "Annabel, would be kind enough to stay a little longer until my father says what he needs to?"
"Of course." She said. "I will wait here." I nodded to her and the rest of the team walked off, but nor before Cobi turned back to look at me one more time. I blew him a kiss, and he caught it in his fist before he ran after the team, who had almost left him in the dust of the night. I walked over with my father to a fair distance from Annabel and stood before him.
"What's the matter Dad?" He sighed and looked at me sadly.
"I was so proud of you tonight, I wanted to say that to your face, but I never got the chance to during the party since you mother kept me from you. I also wanted to apologize for all the pain I had put you threw in the past. Tonight made me realize how much I really did miss out on as you were growing up, like I was never there. As good as you turned out; I still wish I could have been there for you when you needed me." Tears welded up in his eyes and he turned away so that I wouldn't see them.
I pulled him back around. "Dad, you were there, in little moments when I was growing up, I saw the real you. My goal in life back then was to try and find you again, but I became hard with all the times that you shut me out and then we I left with the team, there was no way after that. But Dad, you have to stop blaming yourself. Mom told you to get over it, so did your team, and now I am. Please Dad, let this go, you shouldn't have anything to feel guilty for." Her nodded and pulled me into his arms.
"Thank you Jasmine." He smiled, his tears gone and a grin on his face. He turned to head back when he stopped and faced me again. "Also Jazz, I think that Cobi kid is alright, just don't move too fast." I laughed and nodded and he walked off toward his own team that was waiting in the distance. Both my parents looked back at me and waved, I waved back and hurried back over to Annabel, who was waiting patiently for me.
"Lets go home Annabel."
Witch's Note:
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