Hey, I'm back! I'm gonna try and write every week, or every other week, if my schedule is jammed, 'kay? And with that, our next chapter begins! Woooooooooooo ooooooooooo!
As Cole had expected from the house, the attic was full of dust and worse, rats. Crawling on his knees to avoid getting hit by support beams, Cole could see now why his dad had strictly forbidden him from coming up here. Finally though, he could see a window and near it, a small shadow.
'This is it.' Cole thought to himself quietly. 'I'll meet the person who lives in this house for real! All the noises and chills, this is the person behind it all! I think.'
Grabbing out his small hand to reach for the person in the window, Cole closes his fist and...
He grabs nothing.
"Wha-!?" Cole starts before he is grabbed by the hand of the person in front of him and he is pushed back.
"Hey, don't do that to me! It kinda tickles and hurts at the same time!"
Cole stands up, but realizes that the support beams are there. He didn't feel them as he was pushed back and he comes to realize, that, to his horror, he's floating a few feet off the ground.
"Ah! H-h-how is this even possible? I'm DEAD!"
Cole looks at his hands and sees through them to see his unconscious body on the ground. He touches his chest with his hands only for them to pass through.
" AHHHHH!"
"Wha-?" The boy turns towards him, his strawberry-blonde hair gleaming in the moon.
"Oh my Ninjago! What are you DOING here?" He looked at Cole, eyes wide.
"Okay, first off, calm down. Stop flailing your arms, and get over here!"
Floating near the ground,Cole glares at the boy in front of him.
"Who are you?" He demands. "And how am I FLIPPING DEAD?"
The boy in front of him waves his hand at him.
"I'm Jay, and you aren't technically dead, but you aren't exactly alive, either. Now I'm going to ask you the same thing, without the part of how I'm dead, but WHY you wanted to come up here in the first place?"
"You sent me a note right?" Cole floated over to Jay, holding out his hand. "I'm Cole, pleased to meet you, I guess."
"Yeah, me too." Jay chuckled softly.
"You said I'm not dead or alive right, so what AM I?" Cole asked.
"When you reached out to grab me, you kinda touched a plasma stink bomb I've been working on. It was going to be a prank I'd pull when you came up. When you touched it though,you reached MiddleGround, which is kind of just the world of in between. I think all we have to do is rub all the plasma off you, and you can return to your body, safe and happy! We won't see each other again, though. Hey, it was still nice meeting you, right? It does really get lonely with no one to talk to."
"I'll come up often then and you and I can hang out." Cole told Jay as he brushed off the plasma on his chest.
"You won't be able to see or hear me." Jay sighed. "I wanted to share a bunch of jokes with you too!"
"Why don't you tell me some now before I go?" Cole asked. "You're probably a great joke-teller!"
Jay looked at the moon and then Cole. Then the moon again before looking down at the ground.
"I'm too sad to think of any..."
"Maybe next time, Jay. I'll see you! Cole went into his body before sitting up And hitting his head on the support beam.
"Gah! Jay how can you..." Jay trailed off and looked up at Jay, his eyes wide.
"Cole? Why are you looking at me like that? It's really creeping me out. It's not like you can hear me though, right?"
"I-I-I can see you, Jay! Oh Ninjago, I can see you! Do you know what this means?"
Jay's eyes lit up.
"I can crack all the jokes I want?"
"That." Cole replied, yawning and turning around.
"We're friends?" Jay questions as Cole crawls some more.
"That too. It means that tomorrow, we need to talk."
"What kind of talk?"
Cole looked down through the door to make sure his parents were both asleep.
"A lot of things, Jay. Like how I can still see you, even though I'm alive and how come you live up here."
"Like in a mystery book?" Jay asked his eyes wide.
"Yup. Just like a mystery book."
The end of the prologue! Wow! So now, I have to say, I hope you like it! R and R!