NINJAGO: MASTERS OF SPINJITZU

TORNADO OF DESTRUCTION

CHAPTER TWO

JAY

After seeing Kai barge through the group of ninja, Jay stared at the point where he had been for at least a minute. Zane had to tap him on the shoulder to make him move, as Cole had left, not having the nerve to do it himself.

Jay had been lost in his own million thoughts but all of them vanished as soon as Cole's image appeared. And then Nya next to him. And then they were kissing. Jay and Cole hadn't talked ever since Cole and Nya had gotten together. Cole knew what Jay thought about it, and refused to talk to him. That was the only thing Jay liked about his former friend's relationship with his true love.

But Zane startled him, sending him back to reality. With the shock he slapped away the Ninja of Ice's hand. Zane stared at him with a confused expression, but then turned and left. Jay sighed, his shoulders hanging low. Zane, being a Nindroid, didn't understand - or compute, as Zane put it - how Jay felt, so his only true friend was Kai. Especially after all they had been through together. That was why Jay was so shocked by Kai's reaction.

But was Jay acting so differently? Having the same urge to be alone, to fight, to do things the normal Jay wouldn't do. Jay shook his head to release the negative thoughts, like he always did. He had to stay positive. All of the negativity would either lead to another self-suffocation, or at worst another suicide attempt.

If it hadn't been for Kai, Jay would have jumped. He would have looked up to see the Fate's Bounty getting smaller and smaller and the city below the flying ship getting closer and closer until all the pain, all the misery, would vanish. And so would Jay. He would vanish to.

But Jay was vanishing. He wasn't himself anymore. Ever since the start he had always been the positive ninja. Not a care in the world. And now he looks in the mirror and sees the result of a man who ruined his own life by saving a girl who doesn't even appreciate him anymore and then trying to end his own life.

Had Cole been there that night instead of Kai, Jay would have jumped. Not because it was the fact that he despised Cole, but the fact that Cole wouldn't have bothered to stop him. He knew that Cole saw him as competition. Jay didn't know why. Nya obviously loved him.

It took another minute for Jay to walk out of the bedroom corridor and back into the open air of the field. The field was placed in the very middle of the Fate's Bounty, as the only room left to open air. The others were split into the front and back. The front had the cockpit where Sensei Wu would sit staring at a scroll all day, attempting to translate it. There was also a weapons room which had each wall covered in at least 50 weapons, and each wall belonged to a certain ninja. It wouldn't have been that way if Lloyd had been there when they found the Fate's Bounty. He had vanished, but according to Sensei Wu, he had gone on a journey with no return.

The negative Jay believed he was dead. What was left of the positive Jay couldn't be bothered to argue.

In the front of the ship there was another room, which was a medical room installed as soon as Jay was fit enough to leave the hospital after he suffered his first self suffocation. It was there in case anyone got hurt in battle, but Jay knew that as there was no longer anyone to battle, it was there in case Jay went nuts again and his body decided to pack in.

Half of the back of the ship was all bedrooms. There was one for every person on the ship, including one for Lloyd if he ever returned. The door to that room had never been opened. Sensei Wu insisted that the door was only to be opened by Lloyd.

The other half of the back was a training room. The field that Jay stood in now was a good spot to train, but in the training room there were replicas of the training equipment that were at the Dojo Jay and the others first trained in. It was perfect for them to improve their Spinjitzu technique.

Without realizing Jay found himself staring at the city below the flying ship. His hands were holding onto the railings on either side of the field, just in case anyone fell off. Jay sighed, thinking how terrible life had gotten.

He had nothing to do and no bad guys to unleash his anger upon. And he knew what looks of horror he would receive from Nya if he started doing things to Cole which he was so eager to do. He now had a physical condition that couldn't be cured when he was shot, trying to save Nya, which severed his lungs in a way that if he got stressed he would start to suffocate himself. He had tried to jump off the Fate's Bounty in order to kill himself and if Kai hadn't been there it would have happened. Now he had live through the fact that he was at such a low he had once thought it was best to die. Nya was in love with Cole, and there was now no need for ninja in Ninjago.

And also the other thing.

Jay dared not think about it. But couldn't.

Luckily enough, Kai appeared from where he had left, head hung low. Cole and Zane were nowhere to be seen, which was good. Jay could finally ask what was on Kai's mind. He hoped that Kai felt the same friendship that Jay did which differentiated them from the other ninja.

"Kai! How you doing?" Jay asked, leaning his elbow on the railing.

As if he hadn't noticed him, Kai looked up at Jay. "Oh. I'm fine."

"What did Sensei say?" Jay asked.

What Kai said next shocked Jay.

"Nothing! Okay? Nothing was said! Nothing!" Kai yelled.

Jay didn't reply. He let the Ninja of Fire walk past him and into the back part of the ship, probably to his bedroom. Jay didn't know what had gotten into him, but the anger Kai had released was similar to the one Jay was attempting to hold back.

Jay looked down. Now, he wasn't sure if his best friend thought of him in the same way. Zane was a Nindroid Jay could have a proper friend-to-friend conversation, and Cole was... Well, he was Cole. And that was reason enough for Jay not to talk to him.

The dimming light told Jay that it was time to let the strange events of today go and start the adventures of tomorrow. So he walked into the back of the ship and turned to his right to where the bedrooms were. His door was the first to the right, so he opened it, went in, and locked it. He didn't want anyone disturbing him, especially not at night.

He looked at the mirror that hung from the wall. He stared at it for a while, and then got undressed and into his pyjamas. He got into bed, pulled the covers under his chin, and soon dozed off, desperately hoping the horrors wouldn't return.

When he woke up from his nightmare, screaming, all he could remember was the end of it. All he could remember was seeing his brother's face.