Okay. I just want to clear something up in advance. There is nothing 'going on' between Nya and Lloyd. It's just a fun scene between an adopted brother and sister sorta picking on each other. I don't wanna hear anyone saying that they saw some fluff, because that's definitely not what's going on.
Nya crossed her arms and looked at Pixal. "I'm still a little confused. What happened?"
Pixal looked at Lloyd and snickered. "Zane can show you the footage later."
Lloyd gave Pixal a high five and they started cleaning up the supplies.
Jay and Cole left the room quickly, obviously having thought of something better to do now that this one bit of fun was over. Pixal soon followed them with an armload of the boys laundry. She seemed to love chores.
Lloyd handed Nya her makeup bag. "Thanks."
She took it with an annoyed eye roll. "Don't do that again, please." Her eyes took on a mischievous glint. "Not without me. And by the way. I'd love to try that prank on one of the guys." She whispered.
Lloyd nodded. "Jay?"
Nya hook her head. "Naw. Too predictable. He wouldn't have a funny reaction." She was silent a moment. "Zane would be a fun one." She said slowly, looking at Lloyd for approval.
Lloyd thought about that and nodded slowly. "It might work." He whispered back. "Okay. Next time, definitely. I'll come and get you."
Nya smiled. "Thanks, Lloyd."
"No problem." Lloyd opened the door for her and they walked out.
"So." Nya said as they mounted the stairs to the deck. "When are your parents coming again?"
Lloyd shrugged. "They decided to stay at the monastery until tomorrow. They'll be here sometime around dinnertime tomorrow, I guess."
Nya nodded. "Yea. Jay's parents decided they would wait until tomorrow as well. Which is strange, since they usually jump into the Jalopy the first chance they get to see their little baby boy." She mimicked Edna's voice when she said the last part. This made Lloyd laugh. It wasn't hard to see where Jay got his flamboyant and very unique personality from. Jay's mother was quite the character.
Nya chuckled. "I knew you would think that was funny."
Lloyd nodded. "Uh huh. Cuz I'm just that predictable." He said sarcastically.
Nya nodded. "Yes, as a matter of fact, you are."
Lloyd raised an eyebrow and gave her a sidelong glance. "What makes you think that?" He asked mischievously.
Nya punched his arm. "You're only thirteen years old, after all." She said.
Lloyd pretended to be hurt. "Only?" He stood up at his full length and flexed his muscles, purposely looking ridiculous. "That tomorrow's tea must have been good for something, Nya. Just look at all this."
Nya giggled awkwardly as Lloyd put his hands on his hips and looked over his shoulder into the distance, as if very seriously thinking about something. "Stuff like this doesn't just happen in a matter of minutes!" He said comically, relaxing his arms and looking at her again.
"But it did!" Nya said.
"Yeah. Because you came through that door with the tea."
"Actually, it was Wu who had the tea."
Lloyd rolled his eyes at her. "Come on, Nya. Don't you wanna take a little credit?"
"Nope."
"Whatever." Lloyd sighed. He rested his elbows on the railing. Nya did the same, and they looked over the edge together.
Lloyd stole a glance at Nya and chuckled. "Too predictable, eh?" He said, making Nya look at him.
He leaned on one elbow and put the other on his hip. "Well." He said, tucking a loose strand of hair behind his ear. He looked over the edge again and pretended to be lost in thought. He suddenly leaned over and took her hand, kissing it gently.
"Bet you didn't expect that." He said, letting go of her petite fingers.
Nya touched her hand gently, a slightly confused look on her face. "No."
"Well then." Lloyd smiled triumphantly. "Merry Christmas."
Nya blushed deeply. "Merry Christmas to you too, Lloyd. But you must know by now. My heart is set on Jay."
Lloyd nodded. "Yeah." He smiled. "But no one said it was wrong for a boyfriend's best friend to kiss the best friend's girlfriend on the hand in a gentlemanly fashion." He joked.
Nya looked very confused for a moment. She looked over the edge as she tried to puzzle it out. A moment later, she gave him a quick, light hug. "Well then." She stood back and watched his reaction. "I suppose it's okay then for the best friend's girlfriend to give a little Christmas gift to the girlfriend's sibling's best friend."
Now it was Lloyd's turn to be confused. He scratched the back of his head and gave her an awkward smile. "You totally stole that from my playbook."
Nya laughed evilly. "And what are you going to do about it?" She ran across the deck and made a beeline for the door inside.
Lloyd scooped up a ball of snow. He threw it at her back as she ran.
"Ahh!" She stopped short as the cold snowball made impact and exploded down her shirt. She fell into the snow face first and didn't get back up.
Lloyd panicked. "Nya?" He shouted as he ran. "Are you ok?" He rolled her gently onto her side and got a face full of snow in return. He spluttered indignantly as he wiped the stuff from his cheeks. "Hey!" He shouted.
Nya giggled and tackled him to the ground, but she was quickly overpowered by the muscular golden ninja.
She let out a squeal as she landed in the snow underneath Lloyd and started just scooping the snow into his face. He fell backward with surprise and gave in comically, letting her sit on his chest triumphantly and let the white snow pile onto his face. "Hey, careful!" His voice was muffled by the steadily increasing pile. "I might need my face later."
"Naw." Nya shouted with surprise as Zane suddenly mounted the steps and threw a snowball at her face. She fell backward with a laugh.
Jay and Cole came up the steps right behind Zane.
Lloyd brushed the snow off his face and moaned. A snowball fight with Cole. He considered making a beeline for the door, but decided it would be better if he stayed. A ninja never quits, after all.
He threw a large snowball, about the size of a bowling ball, at Zane's back. The white ninja stumbled forward in surprise, then Lloyd found himself getting pummeled by a volley of smaller snowballs that were very hard to dodge.
Jay and Nya instantly formed an alliance. Lloyd was too late to get onto Cole's team, as Zane had taken that place as soon as he possibly could. Lloyd moaned again. This was typical. He was usually teamed up with Kai, but he was probably still in the shower. He was a loner in this battle.
Cole let out an evil laugh as he began rolling up large balls of snow. They couldn't even really be called 'snowballs' because they were so large. The were more like 'snowman bodies'. Zane stood in front of his companion and guarded him from the snowballs that Nya had started throwing their way by tossing smaller snowballs at the ones that she threw, making them both explode in midair. Lloyd formed small balls of snow by using his powers, like Zane had taught him a while back. He looked for a target and shot the small orb of snow straight at Zane's face. The Nindroid fell backwards from the impact and fell into Cole's snowball in the works, making it explode underneath him.
"Zane!" Cole exclaimed.
Zane pointed his fingers at Lloyd. "Don't look at me!"
Cole glared at Lloyd and held out his hand. Zane instantly formed a snowball in his palm and dropped it in Cole's.
Cole wound up and shot it, making it explode on Lloyd's chest, resulting in a fall backwards onto the deck. He wheezed and choked on the ground as he tried to get a breath in. The impact of the snowball had knocked him windless. After about fifteen seconds of this, Zane stopped throwing ball of snow at his helpless body and went over to him. "Lloyd, are you all right?" He got on his knees next to the fallen ninja.
Zane looked genuinely concerned. Lloyd's face was turning blue.
Lloyd's lungs suddenly released and he let in a long, loud breath. He glared at the ninja standing over him and threw a hand full of snow in his face. He turned over onto his stomach in the deep snow and took deep breaths of air.
Zane laughed and got to his feet. "Is that a yes, then?" He asked. He formed a large snowball in his hand and wound up to throw at Lloyd's head.
Then he turned and threw it at a very unsuspecting Jay.
The blue ninja shouted in surprise as it flew toward his chest. He ducked, but didn't get low enough, resulting in a hard hit in the face. Nya couldn't help but laugh as she grabbed his hand to keep him from falling over.
Jay spluttered and coughed as he wiped the snow from his eyes. "Zane!"
The robot laughed. "Yes?"
Jay reached down and grabbed a handful of snow. "Don't 'what' me!" He threw it at Zane's face, but he ducked, making it land in Cole's face instead.
The black ninja laughed and began rolling large snowballs once again. "You're all dead!" He shouted as he lifted one of his larger-than-life snowballs over his head and ran across the deck.
