Troubled

I stayed awake all night i couldn't sleep not after that disturbing dream... If that really was a memory and I was in a pod flying to earth then where the hell am I from.

I have to talk to someone about thus. I can't tell etim and David about this they wouldn't understand and the queen would just shun me and tell me to make sure it doesn't affect my work.

Which leaves... The girls.

Well they are my best friends so if anyone can understand it has gotta be them.

I freshened up and went down for breakfast before training.

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The girls came down for breakfast and met jewel already there so they sat down and ate in silence.

After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence jewel finally spoke up "girls I wanna tell you something".

They straightened up and rebby said "sure what is it?"

"It's just that...." She was cut off by the sudden opening of the door.

The queen walked in with kady trailing behind her.

The girls all stood up and she said "Good morning girls"

"Good morning your majesty" they chorused.

They all sat down and kept on eating until Cally said "jewel you were gonna say something".

Jewel eyes widened and she quickly said "oh no I will tell you later ".

The girls were all curious as to what jewel wanted to say but couldn't say in front of the queen.

They finished up their meal and went for training with Penelope.

At the training ground,

The girls all filed in to find Penelope already there.

She turned around and said "good morning girls...um Cally , Hailey, D.F, rebby and jewel''.

"Yup hey Penelope" Hailey said.

"Good morning Penelope" D.F greeted .

"Okay no delay now let's start todays training session" she said "today we are going to work on your strength so we are heading to the TARANA"

"Excuse me but what is TARANA" D.F asked puzzled.

"Its the ancient training ground for special warriors" rebby jumped in before Penelope could answer.

"And how exactly do you know that?" Hailey said with raised eyebrows.

"What.... Arthur's been teaching me about lucem" she replied defensively.

"Hmmmn ... Arthur, of course it is" Cally said rolling her eyes.

Penelope chuckled before saying "girls let's go".

They all followed Penelope into the elevator and she said "solitary please"

Jewel was confused so she said "hold on lady, I thought you said we were going to some TARANA or something. So why we going to solitary"

"Patience Jewel"

The doors opened at the solitary room and all the girls could see was nothing for as far as the eye could see.

"Woah so this is solitary" Hailey said while looking around.

"Yeah it's so white..." Rebby said

''... And empty" Cally completed

"I Still don't understand how we are supposed to get to the TARANA from here" D.F said voicing out everyone's thoughts.

"Why would need to go anywhere when we are already here" Penelope said then smiled.

She Turned around and said "TARANA room activate" and all of a sudden the solitary room wasn't empty anymore it had been transformed into a green jungle.

"Woah" the girls chorused.

Even jewel seemed impressed

"Girls welcome to the TARANA"

Penelope shouted spreading her arms "the room you All know as the solitary room is actually the training room for special warriors"

" It can change into any room depending on the type of session you are having"

"Woah so all this while I have been coming to this solitary room I didn't even realise it" Jewel said still looking around.

"Yes but that's because the queen hid it well" She said still smiling "it is a secret room after all".

"Okay enough oooh-ing and aaah-ing lets start with our lesson" she walked on ahead but kept talking as if expecting them to follow "as you can see we are in a jungle, I have brought you here to test your team building ability and so I will leave you here for the day and come back for you at night"

"Wait what..." Jewel started but couldn't finish before Penelope disappeared saying "okay ciao".

"Oh shit" jewel said in a frustrated tone.

"Language jewel" D.F said scared by her sudden outburst.

"Whatever" she said not bothering to apologize "let's just get moving so we can find something to eat".

"Okay that makes sense" rebby shrugged.

"Who knows maybe this is a good thing we could reconnect and get to know what been happening in each others lives while we were gone" D.F said optimistically.

They started walking deeper into the jungle but then they heard a sound coming from some bushes.

"What was that?" Cally jumped.

"Calm down it was probably just the wind" Hailey said trying to seem calm but it was obvious that she was also spooked.

"No that wasn't the wind" D.F said moving closer to the bushes "I can feel something there"

"Then it probably isn't a good idea moving close to it" Jewel said crossing her arms.

"I think I have to agree with jewel on this" Hailey said cautiously.

"Yeah D.F just come back" Cally said.

"I can feel its pain" D.F said "I can't just ignore it".

All of a sudden a wild beast jumped out from behind the bushes and gave a big roar 'ROAAAARRRR'

"Oh no... not again" Hailey said .

"Maybe I can help it with its pain" D.F said still feeling sorry for the beast.

"Does it look like it wants to be helped" jewel said but just then the beast gave out another roar 'ROAAAARRRR'. It was growing impatient and it looked like it would attack at any moment now "okay you guys run that way I'll stall it" jewel said raising a stick.

"No we won't leave you" D.F said.

"We have to do this as a team" Hailey said.

"That is what Penelope meant" rebby said.

"Okay but what do you want us to do, you guys can't fight yet" the beast launched forward and would have devoured them but then there was an ear splitting noise and silence.

It was when the girls opened their eyes that they realised what had happened. Rebby had used her sonic scream. She was standing in front of them breathless.

"I did it. I unlocked my powers" Rebby jumped around overjoyed.

"But a little heads up next time would be nice" said Hailey whose ears were still ringing from the high pitched scream earlier.

"But how did you know that would work" D.F said walking over to see the beast passed out on the floor.

"I don't know something inside me just clicked and told me to step up and it would be okay" Rebby said in a daze.

"Is it still breathing?" Cally said referring to the beast on the ground.

"It's just unconscious but it's wounded" Cally said moving her hands over the beast.

"It's called a GIGA" Jewel said.

"Wait was it me... Did I wound it" rebby said with concern in her voice, she moved closer to it and rubbed it.

"No it was wounded before" D.F said quickly and Rebby huffed a sigh of relief "it is in so much pain"

"Can you help it Dee?" Cally moved close to it calling her by her nickname.

"Yeah maybe you can find out the source of its pain" Hailey said also moving close to it.

"Am I the only one who remembers that this thing tried to kill us just now" jewel said. It was obvious she didn't care in the least about the GIGA.

"That was because it was in pain and confused" D.F said with hurt in her voice "It doesn't deserve to die" she almost screamed at jewel and then the tears fell from her eyes onto the beast.

"Wait something is happening " Cally said referring to the GIGA.

A bright light was engulfing it and then it stopped.

"What just happened" a shocked Hailey said.

"Wait I can't feel any pain anymore it's healed" D.F said in joy.

"It was your tears...they healed it" Cally said staring at D.F said in disbelief.

"Well that makes sense" Rebby said as if coming to terms with the fact that anything is possible on lucem

"Wait it's waking up"

The girls moved away from the GIGA but when it sat up it didn't attack it seemed calm.

"Hi there" D.F said moving closer to it with her hand stretched out.

"I don't think you should do that considering what just happened" jewel said in her usual unencouraging tone.

D.F ignored her and kept moving closer to the GIGA. It let out a big yawn and looked bored. She touched its tummy and it looked at her with curious eyes. she rubbed its tummy and it let out a low growl.

"Hi baby what's your name" D.F said still rubbing its tummy.

She heard it say 'mokini'.

"Well hi mokini" she said smiling still rubbing its stomach "I'm D.F, do you wanna be my Friend?"

And it said 'friend'

"Yes friend"

'D.F...Friend'

"Yes D.F is your friend" Mokini had warmed up to her and was now making cooing noises.

"Awwwwn she likes you" Cally cooed.

"Yes she does" D.F said laughing as mokini played with her hand "where are your parents mokini"

'no' mokini said and D.F could feel her hurt.

"Okay baby ... Dee will take care of you" she said still petting it.

"What's her name?" Rebby said gaining confidence to move near it since it seemed friendly.

"Mokini and I think she lost her parents. Can we keep her ... please please please" she begged jewel.

"Absolutely not" Jewel said folding her arm.

"Why not? I will take good care of her. I promise" she sounded like a 5-year-old begging her parents for a puppy.

"No it's a wild animal not a stray kitten" jewel said stressing the it.

"So..."

"So it's dangerous"

"I will train her"

"No way"

"I think we should let D.F keep her" Hailey said stepping towards mokini.

"She seems harmless enough" Rebby said standing in front of mokini.

"And she's just a baby how much trouble can she cause" Cally said and the beast made a cute noise.

"Awwwwn" they chorused "please"

Seeing that she had been defeated she finally gave in and said "fine".

"Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you"

she jumped around overjoyed and pulled jewel into an awkward hug before jumping back to Mokini "you hear that baby you are coming with us" and Mokini let out something which sounded like a laugh.

Jewel had a very tiny smile on her at the sight of how happy her friend was but she quickly hid it as fast as she could.

Just then Penelope appeared and said "good job girls you kept your cool in the in a time of fear and triumphed and even made a friend"

she said turning to Mokini "hey there mokini aren't you cute" she said and let its head then turned to Rebby "and you finally did it you unlocked your powers... I always believed in you" Rebby smiled.

"Now girls let's get going shall we" Penelope said but was cut of by D.F suddenly shouting "wait what about mokini"

"Oh don't worry we'll take him too" Penelope said beaming them back to the solitary room where etim, David and dodo were waiting.

"Oh you guys were awesome" David said .

"Yes especially you Rebby, you were bad ass. The GIGA was all like 'ROAAAARRRR' but you were all like 'ahhhhh' and boom, sonic scream so awesome" Etim said while making gestures with his hand.

"Actually her name is mokini" D.F said petting her.

"Oh yeah you brought her here" David said as he moved near Mokini and she sniffed him curiously.

"Well mokini welcome to the team" etim said petting her and she licked him covering him in slime.

"I think she likes you" D.F said as they all burst out laughing.

"Eeew now I have to go take a shower" etim said trying to shake of the slime.

"Actually GIGA slime is good for the skin" Dodo chimed in.

"Doesn't make it any less irritating" and with that he stormed off to his room.

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I sat in my room staring at the ceiling whilst thinking about the things that happened today, thinking about mokini , thinking about my friends and how far apart we had grown when I was interrupted a knock on the door.

I wondered who it was seeing as I never got visitors when D.F popped her head through the door and said "may we come in?"

I sat up before answering "yeah sure"

She came in closely followed by mokini and sat awkwardly at the arm of my chair "we just wanted to say thank you for today"

"What did I do?"

"You gave mokini a chance at A life with me"

"Well you guys didn't exactly give me much of a choice did you"

D.F let out a light chuckle and said "well anyways thank you"

"You're welcome Dee" I said in a hushed voice.

"So..."

"So..."

The atmosphere had gotten awkward again when suddenly.

"Hi hi hi" Cally said as she walked in with rebby and Hailey.

"We come bearing soda" Rebby said with a fake deep voice.

"And chips" Hailey said waving the bags in the air.

"What's happening?" I said seeing my friend all sitting around my room.

"It's a sleep over like we use to have on earth" Cally said in her usual peppy voice.

"No no no ...I didn't approve of this" I said Standing up.

"You're right it was a surprise" Hailey said still enthusiastic about the sleepover.

"Oh relax jewel it will be fun" rebby said pushing jewel back on her seat "we'll play games, talk about boys, have pillow fights, do makeovers..."

"No" I said

"Fine no makeovers then" rebby said pouting

"Please jewel" D.F said

I looked around the room and all my friends were giving me the sad eyes (even mokini) and so I gave in "fine"

"Yes"

"Thanks jewel"

"You are gonna love it"

"Mind if we join you" I snapped my attention to where the voice came from and saw a now clean etim sticking his head through the door and before I could turn them down D.F said "sure"

I face palmed and etim walked in and said "thanks" he was followed by David, kady and even Zack.

"Even you Zack" jewel said in disbelief.

"I would never turn down a good old sleep over" he said and sat opposite Cally and winked at her.

More like a good opportunity to see Cally I think I’m gonna barf.

"So who's up for a good old game of truth or dare" D.F said

"Oh me" Cally said raising her hand.

"Count me in" Hailey said and sat on the floor

"I never turn down a good old fashioned game of truth or dare" rebby said also sitting on the floor

"Okay jewel?" Cally said looking over at me.

"Whatever" I said. It couldn't get much worse than this.

"Cool so the rules are simple we spin a bottle and whoever it lands on has to pick someone else to ask truth or dare" etim explained.

"And if you chicken out you have to kiss mokini" D.F said and pretended to drop a mic.

"Oooh" they all said and I rolled my eyes "are we gonna play or not?"

We were all sitting in a circle on the floor now and kady who hadn't said a thing all night said in her shy voice "can I spin the bottle?"

"Sure" Hailey said handing her the bottle.

She place it in the center and spun it and it landed on rebby so she said "okay jewel truth or dare"

"Fine truth"

"Okay then do you have a crush on David?"

"Oooh" they all said while David averted my eyes I said calmly "No" .

And Cally said "really cause I can sense some chemistry between you two"

"I said no" and then I looked at David and saw the hurt in his eyes. I kinda felt bad for him but I shook that off.

"Right that means i'm spinning" I took the bottle and spun it still avoiding David's gaze.

It landed on Hailey and she said okay "etim truth or dare"

"Dare"

"Okay I dare you to kiss kady"

Etim and Kady's cheeks but turned a light shade of pink.

"No I can't do that"

"You better, cause it's either her or mokini" Zack said laughing as mokini licked her lips.

"But but..."

"It's fine Etim" kady Said staring at her fingers.

"Really" etim said and she nodded.

He leaned in and planted a small kiss on her lips.

"Awwwwn you guys are so cute" D.F said.

"Yeah whatever" Etim said trying to conceal his excitement but he wasn't doing a very good job.

He took the bottle and spun it.

And it landed on me there was So simple

But it can't.