Hasbro owns Transformers and the name Xanthium, Lego owns Bionicle and the names Jaller,and Ketongu, and Galem owns Tali, Ava, Amber, Iris, Diego, Alyan, Adhira, Valera, and Kasar.
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Chapter 28: Nightmares
'I wonder if Green is okay. He has to be okay, we haven't heard any calls from him for a while.' Adhira thought as she waited at the front gate of the zoo. A few minutes later, Adhira looked up to see Green finally running back to her. She smiled, happy to see him okay, only for it to falter as she noticed his left arm was not moving as well as his right. She tensed as her senses screamed danger. 'Makutacons!' She snarled to herself. The stench was all over him and radiated the most from his stiff shoulder.
'They must have done something to him. But what?' Replacing the relieved smile on her face, she greeted the Le-Matoran. "Green!" Then allowed herself to frown in concern when she saw the fear in his mask. 'Something is wrong. Where is Angela and the others?' "Is something wrong?" She asked, keeping her voice in clueless concern.
Green was about to shrug it off, before then hearing a static-like voice in his head whisper: "Go ahead, tell her. Edward is long gone and there's nothing you or her can do".
Green let out a sad sigh before telling her: "The Makutacons were already there, waiting for me. They had Angela, Golden and Ketongu hostage. Edward threatened to kill them if I didn't do as they asked. Alyan was there too. He's gone REALLY rouge. Rouge to the point where he actually believes in Edward's lies".
As Green had continued to speak about this, he continued to grow more and more angry. Sure, he had tried to be nice to the traitor, and even tried to give him the benefit of the doubt when he had seen Alyan's worried looks. 'But he didn't do anything'! Green thought. Even if Alyan had, he was still surely determined to have his revenge against his dad once the Makutacons were finished laying waste top the planet, rather then let Jesus's sacrifice inspire him to let it go and forgive him, so as to be free from a plague of life-ruining hate. 'After all of the times the Makutacons had lost, you'd think he would've learned by now that their lifestyle was not the right one to live by'. Green thought. 'Seriously, they're willing to commit genocide against both guilty and innocent people over something that happened too long ago! How could Alyan willing be a part of that'?!
"Don't give up hope on Alyan, Green." Adhira said, seeing his body tense with increasing anger. "He can still be saved. As for Ketongu and the others, what is it they want you to do?" She glanced over at his shoulder with another slight glare.
Green looked down. "They want me to watch as the Toabots leave. Again, if I don't, they'll kill my family". Green looked sadly up at Adhira. "They'll kill ANGELA".
Though Green was too saddened by this fact to truly notice, he was sure that he had heard the Makutacon telepathically laughing at his pain. 'Why would they do this'? Green thought. 'Why would they willingly threaten the people we loved for results, rather than negotiate? They've seen the Toabots and Bionicles and Transformers working together. They've seen the peace that God has forged between us. Why must they remain so blind and continue to work so hard to rid the earth of us? Yeah, what we did was wrong, but we're sorry. Why can't that be enough'?
At this, Adhira gritted her teeth, her lips turned up into a vicious snarl that revealed her deadly fangs. Without flinching, she rammed her fist into the nearby wall as a growl rumbled from the depths of her chest, taking on a feral pitch. "Looks like we have our hands tied." Her gaze locked solely on the hidden Makutacon on Green's shoulder, her pupils narrowing into thin slits as she purred venomously. "For now." Revealed claws accepted just how serious she was before she retracted her claws and fangs, and her eyes returned to, well, as close as normal as she could make it.
Though Green had noticed all of these odd features in his friend, he decided not to mention it. If she had kept something like this secret from him, Green was certain that this was for a very good reason. Plus, considering the pickle they were in, that wasn't really important at the moment.
"We're gonna have to do what they ask". Then looking aside in fear. "I'm not gonna let my nightmares come true".
Even before the Le-Matoran had mentioned it, he remembered the fearful experience of those dreams. Watching the ones he loved being in danger. Being too powerless and slow to stop it. That was just the icing on the cake however. Actually seeing it happen was what made it far worse. To see the flash of light from the gun. To see Angela collapse with blood oozing slowly from the hole between her fearful eyes. Though Green had hidden it as best as he could from his Toabot friends(They were worried enough about him after he had been kidnapped so he figured he may as well not burden them with anything else wrong with him. Especially not with everything that was happening now), this dream had haunted him since the day it started. For that dream to be a possibility now, didn't exactly help either.
"And I...am not going to let mine come true either." Adhira said, nodding in understanding. She didn't want to talk about it but many times, she did suffer nightmares of everything and everyone dying in front of her, and she being unable to stop it.
Green blinked rapidly, almost shocked that she had had bad dreams like this as well. Sure, Green guessed it was normal to have nightmares every once in a while, but Adhira was a Guardian Toa, a Toa who was more in tune to their element than most Toa, and because of this she could actually harm the Makutacons with said elemental powers. Green however, without any firearms or any other form of weaponry, was but a simple Matoran. Surely she would've had a better chance of protecting her friends than he did, so why would she fear failure?
"Yours"? Green asked. "What are yours about"?
Adhira looked down sadly. "Losing my family and friends to the darkness that was foretold long ago. Of failing in my duties as a Guardian of this world. Nearly every night, I close my eyes and...I see their bodies, lying in a field of blood and fire before I am destroyed." Tears dripped from her chin as the scenes replayed themselves in her memory, unbidden. It pained her to remember them and she prayed in her heart that these were merely bad dreams and not visions.
Green closed his eyes tightly in pain as the memory of his own nightmare returned to his mind as he decided to share his own nightmare. "I see someone pointing a gun at her. I try to stop the shooter but I am moving in slow motion while everything else happens at a regular pace. Then I hear the gun fire and..." Tears fell from his eyes and he ignored the Makutacon's mental laughter as he forced himself to continue. "Everything is red. Then I wake up screaming and I look to her, just to make sure she's OK".
"I promise you, Green, I will do everything in my power to prevent that from happening." Adhira promised, kneeling down in front of him so that she was at his level. She had figured that he would have had some bad dreams from all the battles he had gotten involved in, but she never knew they were this bad. It worried her that he was going through such turmoil without any of them knowing. It made her concerned for his physical and mental well being. Hence was why she would keep a closer watch on the young Le-Matoran and ensure that said nightmares would not become a reality.
Green smiled a bit, feeling a bit more reassured than he had been before now that he had been reminded that he had good friends who watched not only his back, but also the backs of those he loved. Green made a quiet prayer for a moment, thanking The Lord for placing such people in his life before looking back at the Guardian Toa of Lightning. "Thank you". Green said. Then pulling the Guardian Toa into a hug: "But at the same time, why don't we all try protecting each other"? With all that had already happened, Green couldn't afford to lose anyone else in his life.
"Agreed." Adhira nodded, smiling.
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Biomarvel740: Sorry for the shortness of the chapter. Hopefully the next one will be longer. Also, I'd like your opinion on something. Fans of the IDW Transformers Comics will know of the Sparkeaters. What would those of you think if a Sparkeaters horror video game or film was made?
Galem: (Shudders) personally, I'm avoiding those.
Biomarvel740: (chuckles) I've actually tried to contact Matt Tieger, who directed Transformers War For Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron about this idea.
Galem: O.O really?!
Biomarvel740: Totally!
Galem: cool!
Biomarvel740: (Smiles) Yeah. (Looks to the readers) So what did you all think of the chapter?
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Biomarvel740 and Galem: Have a God-blessed day! XD :)
Also, on a side note, that battle I was talking about before is becoming a real struggle for me so I ask all of my brothers and sisters in Christ to pray for me, that I would find a way out and be forgiven. Thank you all in advance and have a God-blessed day!
