Return to the Mountains

Prophecy of Unicron

Summary: The continuation of Dragoon Galaxy's Blooming Mountain Love. Coby and Lori's parents don't take the news of their new relationship too well. To escape the tension, the couple leave for the mountains again, only to find out that Coby being absorbed into the Matrix carries a price.

Chapter 5: The Second Sign

Optimus Prime entered the base looking rather down. No one talked to him as he walked through the corridors to his own quarters. When he reached them, he was surprised to see Vector Prime waiting for him outside the door.

"Primus didn't say anything," the time keeper said.

"No, he didn't," Prime answered, shaking his head. "I couldn't contact him at all, and I don't know why either. Primus is the only one who would know what's happening to Coby." Sighing, Optimus shook his head. "I need a recharge," he muttered before entering his room and locking the door.

Vector Prime slowly shook his head. You're wrong, Optimus. I know what is happening to Coby. The sad thing is that I can say nothing, or we are all doomed to complete destruction. The First Sign has shown itself, and the First Trial has been overcome. Five more Signs and Five more trials remain.

"Wow," Lori sighed into her lover's neck. They had hiked back to the waterfall where they had shared their first kiss. True to the thoughts they had last time, it was a rather excellent place for skinny dipping, among… other things.

"You too," Coby said, just as flushed with pleasure as she was. Their most recent session of love making had felt a great deal different than the previous times. The previous times had been filled with heated passion and a physical need for each other. This time, it had felt like all physical need had been long since satisfied, and they were able to enjoy it in a much different way. Of course, trying to make love while swimming had proved to be quite amusing. Whether they liked it or not, sex was an acquired skill, one that they had yet to acquire.

Lori broke away, kissing Coby quickly, "I'm going to climb back up and jump again." She climbed out of the water and instantly began climbing to the top of the falls.

"Should I catch you?" Coby jokingly asked. She laughed and continued climbing, aware of his eyes on her as she did so. Lori grinned to herself as she thought that he probably had most of his attention on her butt, as he couldn't see much of anything else. She liked how she could almost command him with a single motion; any flirtatious move made his eyes turn squarely on her. Sure, a lot of boys at school ogled her, but Coby was different. She could tell by the look in their eyes. Other boys just wanted her for one night for their own pleasure. Coby, on the other hand, wanted her forever for both of them to benefit. He had even asked her how many kids she would want earlier this morning. Lori had told him that if she could, she would carry a thousand for him, and then some. Were it not for the fact that her mother asked her not to and gave her the pills she was taking, Lori wouldn't mind conceiving their first child now.

Unfortunately, as she stepped to the edge to jump, she remembered all to late how slippery the rocks were. She slipped and fell over the wrong direction. She was too scared to even scream as the ground rushed to meet her. There was a blinding flash of pain as she struck the ground, and she instantly knew her skull was cracked and her neck was broken.

The last thing she felt was an immense sadness that she would never live a fulfilled life with Coby, and then the darkness claimed her.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Coby's cry sent birds for miles around scattering. Red Alert was barreling through the woods in 0.01 seconds to where he knew they were. When he got there, he found Coby cradling Lori's bruised body, sobbing. Her eyes were staring vacantly, blood flowed from a crack that ran across the crown of her head, and her neck was hanging at a sickening angle, definitely broken. She was dead.

Cursing inwardly that he hadn't watched them more closely, Red Alert was about to contact the base when his sensors detected something unusual. Quickly, he focused all his scanners on Coby.

"No! Not now!" he was whispering between shaky breaths. "Now is not your time! I need you! Don't leave me! Live! Live! Live!"

The last time he spoke 'Live!', it was hardly auditable, but it was filled with so much power that the ground shook, and for a brief moment Red Alert was scared. An overwhelming amount of data began pouring through his sensors as he detected multiple energy signatures radiating from Coby's body. He began to glow with light, a light that flowed away from him and wrapped around Lori. In a single instant, several things happened at once. Lori's neck snapped back into place, completely healed. The blood from her head wound began flowing in reverse until there was no sign that she even hit her head. The bruises on her vanished, and she gasped, breathing again.

"Coby?" she asked.

"Lori, thank Primus," he smiled, and then they both passed out.

The scientist stopped typing at his keypad and stared at his arm. He lifted it up and flexed it, wiggling his fingers. He didn't understand what had happened. For a moment there, his arm felt strange. For a short amount of time, it felt like it no longer existed; nothingness.

How strange.