The True Sixth Monkey

Chapter 3

The atmosphere in the super robot was anything but calm. Otto and  Gibson were both trying to figure out how to create a machine that would  open a portal of their own in hopes of bringing Chiro back, Nova was  almost always in the training room venting out her frustration and  anger, and Jinmay was trying to keep Sparks from beating himself up as  he felt it was his fault they were in this situation in the first place  with his involvement with the Skeleton King's return. Antauri was the  only one that appeared remotely calm. Antauri was alway seen meditating  in hopes of making contact with Chiro through the Power Primate.

Skeleton  King hadn't made any attacks since he sent Chiro through the portal and  that in itself worried the rest of the team and their allies. The team  though used this small break from fighting to use their energy in  finding their missing leader while their allies kept a watch on Skeleton  King's fortress.

"Any luck Antauri?"

Antauri opened his eyes to see Nova looking at him with worry and hope.

"Not yet, but we don't know where Chiro is exactly so it will still take some time. How are the others doing?"

"As well as they can be. Sparks seems to be the one taking it the worst."

Antauri sighed.

"I will go speak with him."

Nova nodded as she watched Antauri head towards Sparks' room.

Sparks  punched the wall of his room, not caring that pain ran up his arm and a  small dent appeared in the wall. Jinmay had left a couple of minutes  ago to give him some time alone, which Sparks was grateful for. He  couldn't stand to see the pain in her eyes, whether it was because Chiro  was gone or him beating himself up about it he didn't know.

A knock on the door caused him to look at it as it opened to show Antauri. Sparks quickly looked away.

"Go away Antauri, I don't want to talk about it."

"I  disagree Sparks." Antauri said as he walked over to him. "You are  beating yourself up for something that you could not control. We are all  worried about Chiro and want to bring him home, but we are also worried  about you."

"I couldn't control the situation?" Sparks growled as  he turned to the silver monkey with a glare. "I could have listened to  Gibson when he said to be careful around the Fire of Hate! I could have  waited until we had a better way of containing the evil that it gave  off! But instead I chose to grab it and helped bring Skeleton King back  to life! BEcause I was an idiot Chiro is missing and we don't even know  if we will ever find him and it's all my fault!"

Antauri was taken aback from Sparks' outburst.

"Sparks,  no one could have expected things to go the way they did, but right now  all we can do is work to stop Skeleton King and work on finding Chiro."

Antauri turned and headed back out of the room, turning his head to look at Sparks one last time.

"We must all work together and support one another, not beat ourselves down."

With that Antauri turned and left Sparks alone.