Of Love, Life, and Lies
A Ninjago FanFiction
A/N: This is my first fanfiction, so please, let me know what you like and dislike in a respectful manner. No flames! Sorry if the characters seem a little OOC, but they are but servants to the plot.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago, only Liana and some of the plot!
Chapter One
Long before time had a name, the first spinjitsu masters created Ninjago. Using the five elements, they, brother and sister, kept the peace throughout the land. Eventually, as all things must do, their time passed, and, to make sure that the elements were only commanded by the just and pure of heart, the eldest son of the brother hid them, keeping their location a secret until they could once more be wielded in the fight against the darkness.
Liana's POV
I sighed, making my way over to the blacksmith's shop. Earlier that month, I had asked him to fix the frame on my wagon, and when I had last checked, he still hadn't bothered to fix it yet.
I sighed again. I couldn't stand dealing with Kai. Even though he was drop-dead gorgeous, with his permanently messed up brown hair and blazing ochre eyes, he was also just plain annoying and arrogant. His sister, Nya, was much more enjoyable, not to mention a better fighter. And to think, Kai thought that the martial arts weren't for girls! I could kick his butt with two hands and a foot tied behind my back.
Kai's POV
I glanced out the window to see Liana walking down the street. Shoot! I still hadn't finished mending that wagon frame yet! She's gonna murder me, even if she is best friends with my sister! Actually, scratch that. She'll just look at me and sigh in disappointment, no doubt thinking of how hard it has been for her to be shoved from home to home, worrying about her brother who went to some boarding school, to finally have a place where she wants to stay, and how I was probably ruining it for her, because her foster father had asked her to get the frame fixed, and she had trusted me to do the job right, and I still hadn't finished it, even though she had given it to me nearly a month ago. I cringed at the thought of that sadness entering her beautiful blue eyes, the way her slender shoulders would droop, how her delicate pink lips would stop humming whatever song was playing in her mind…
Argh! I need to focus! I hustled around the shop, finding the wagon frame and hustling to get the forge fire to the right temperature. I started banging the metal frame back into shape as I struggled to keep my mind from wandering back to Liana, with her gently waving strawberry blonde hair, cute little freckles, and tendency to sing any song that came to mind…
Argh! I refocused on the task at hand.
Because there was no way, not in a million years, that I have a crush on Liana Galen
Nya's POV
I walked into the main forge just as Liana walked in. She gave me a smile, before heading straight over to my brother, who was hastily pounding away at her wagon frame. Man, he was in for an earful!
After giving my brother a lecture I couldn't hear because of the banging (such a shame; I'm sure it would have been epic to behold), she came back over to me.
"Wanna hang out? I could use a break!" she shouts to me.
"Sure!" I yell back, and she follows me to the back room, where we can talk.
Liana's POV
The water for hot chocolate (a/n: I don't drink tea or coffee, so any instances where they appear, they will be substituted for by hot chocolate) when we heard raised voices back in the main forge. Kai had stopped his irritating banging.
"And the shop is called For Weapons, not for browsing, so either buy something or get out!" I sighed. How is it possible that he and Nya are related? We head out to see what the problem is, only to find a fuming Kai and no customer in sight. We walked up to Kai.
"What happened?" I asked, partly out of curiosity and partly out of anger that he had yelled at someone who, from what we heard Kai shouting, was probably asking directions or something,
He paused, about to answer, when we heard an enormous vehicle outside. We all rushed to the window and saw skeleton after skeleton pouring out of their monstrous machines.
"Stay here!" Kai told me and Nya, before throwing on some samurai armor and gripping a sword. He sprinted out of the shop.
"How long should we give him?" Nya rolled her eyes.
"How does a minute and a half sound?"
~oOo~
A minute and a half later, Nya and I rushed outside to find Kai surrounded by skeletons. We performed the rare simultaneous eye role before joining him, bashing heads left and right, kicking arms out of their sockets, literally, and knocking them down like bowling pins.
"I thought I told you to stay inside!" Kai yelled.
"Nice of you to admit that you were wrong!" I shot back.
The tide of battle carried us away from each other, until a wave of gold shot through the army, slowing down to show man with a long beard as white as snow. The skeletons looked at him and panicked, calling, "Retreat!"
"Garmadon says take the girl!" one of them called out. Before either of us could react, a mechanical claw shot forward and snatched Nya, taking her to one of the machines before anyone could help her.
"NO!" I screamed, as if it would help her, at the strange vehicles as they drove away. I turned to get a good look at the old man, who was looking amused at the conversation he was having with Kai.
"Couldn't you use your twistitsu, or turnfitsu, or-"
"Spinjitsu." I cut him off. "Ancient martial art using movement and total self-balance that is incredibly hard to master. I you read at all, you would know that." They both looked startled at my interruption. "Anyways, since you showed up just before the skeletons," I guessed, "I'll assume that they followed you hear. I will also assume that you will train Kai and me, since we obviously aren't going to get Nya back by sitting around drinking hot chocolate, will we?" I would've stomped off, but I didn't know where we would be going.
It took a while for grandpa to recover. "Of-of course," he stammered, "that's why I came here in the first place." He recovered a bit more. "If you would follow me, then."
He headed down the street, with me following behind him and Kai bringing up the rear.
So, what did you think? If there are any guy readers, I would like to know what really goes on in your brains, so I'll be able to right the ninja's POVs better. Thanks! R&R!
~Boogalee99
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