"Those wings your had us put on when we got the weapon of lightning. That was the finished product wasn't it?" Kai asked.
"Anything but finished, Kai, though now that we have dragons to ride, I guess I don't need them to fly. Still I want to see if I can do it. If anything just to say that I did," Jay told him.
"Jay did get pretty far with them during that time though, but he was never satisfied," Zane said, "Which turned out to be a problem."
"Wasn't entirely his fault though," Cole added, "he was just trying to do his best at what he likes to do. Just his approach was wrong."
"Who's telling this story?" Jay asked.
"Sorry go on," said Cole quieting.
Three days later Sensei wu still had not yet returned. Jay crept into the the Dojo's collection of writings. He looked through them vigorously looking for anything that could keep his invention off the ground. He had taken great strides in controlling its glide. But he could not keep in in the air for more than a few seconds.
"So that's what an Oni looks like."
Jay turned to the sound of Zane's voice and saw him and Cole doing some research themselves.
"Cole! Zane! I didn't hear you two come in...Of course we are ninjas," Jay stammered.
"We figured we should prepare ourselves incase the oni comes here," said Zane, "Oni's are not something to be taken lightly. For one thing they can possess people."
Jay suddenly realized both his friends had a concerned look on their face.
"What?" he asked.
"The best way to protect yourself from possession is to have low levels of stress. Jay we've ben watching you work with your dragons wings, and your pushing yourself too hard," said Zane.
"Zane's right," Cole agreed "Jay take it from an expert. It's okay to push your limits and do your best. but it needs to be in baby steps. If you give it too much at once you don't get anywhere and you can really hurt yourself."
"That may work with physical strength, but inventing s completely different. Inventing is taking an idea on testing out every possible way to make that idea work. Physical strength just requires a lot of moving around and heavy weights," Jay said, "Thanks for the concern, you two but I'm alright."
Jay then left the room. In truth he wasn't sure what to think. Cole knew a lot about pushing limits, but nothing about inventing. There was a difference right. Alright...he had been pretty tired lately. In just the days he had taken his invention from a loopy glide to a strait line that lasted 10 seconds. A huge jump but it left him a bit tired out.
Jay knew he couldn't hide it either. Cole and Zane must have noticed how hard it had been for him to wake up each morning. His reaction time was slowed immensely when training on their own. If Sensei Wu were with them, Jay'd never beat the time limit. And at time's he'd just feel dizzy and have to sit down for a moment.
It was no wonder Cole and Zane were concerned. For the second day now they had urged him to slow down.
"But I'm not flying!" Jay told himself firmly. "I need to be able to fly! Then I'll do what they ask. Is waiting that long so unreasonable?"
Jay found himself wandering back to his room. He took out his latest design in wings and looked over them carefully. Perhaps the material among the frame was to stretched. A slightly looser design may give the pair something to push on to help hold it up.
Jay took off the material stretched across and stretched across more of the some kind. He carefully attached it so the same amount off looseness was between each "Rib" as he called it.
It was late when Jay finished, too late to test it. With a sigh he gave up for the night, Lay down on his sleeping pallet,
and blew out the candle.
