I am getting really pumped about this story... so here's another chapter!
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Chapter 2: Anger and Forgiveness
Cole's POV:
Ugh, this stinks. All we wanted was food, which we never got. Nya was in the process of performing surgery on the girl aboard The Destiny's Bounty and no one was allowed inside. When Hilda and Edgar, the girl's adoptive parents, found out what had happened, well... the room we were waiting in got severely awkward with all the death stares I was getting. What do people not get about an accident? After around an hour of Jay using the same bad jokes that Zane didn't understand, Nya emerged from the ship's cabin. Everyone jumped up and ran past Nya to the Cabin. Inside, the blonde girl looked up groggily and peered at everyone's faces in confusion.
"Oh we're so glad you're okay!" Hilda said while squeezing the girl to death. Edgar grunted in assent. The girl then roughly pushed Hilda off her body.
"Who in the Ninjago Underworld are you?" she interrogated.
Edgar began to shake, "You mean, you don't remember who we are?" The girl shook her head.
"Do you know your own name?" the mom asked. Another shake.
"You're Tara and we're you're parents who adopted you. Don't you remember?" she questioned.
"You are not my parents," Tara sated with an emotionless, icy stare. That was around when Hilda and Edgar ran off the ship crying, cursing the Ninjas, and their child for that matter. I guess in the desert in you forget your parents names once and it is out the door with you!
"What do you remember?" Sensei Wu asked cautiously.
"I remember he [points accusatory finger at moi] tried to murder Eddie and hit me instead," she explained, "and I remember how you said something about a morally right decision and he [looks at Zane] knew that it would be wrong to chop down Eddie. So, obviously he [points finger at me again] is clearly wicked and he [see second bracket] is trying to protect all good things."
"Well this is going to take awhile," Jay groaned as Kai, Nya, and Sensei left the room to talk.
"Look, Tara, I really didn't mean to hurt you and I'm sorry, but we were really hungry and needed some food and that tree wouldn't give up his darn grunkleberries!" I told her.
"Ed's not supposed to give fruit when I'm away, it's his job. Plus, did you really think killing him was the only answer?" Tara asked as she nodded her head, agreeing with herself. Silence...
"I may not have thought my actions through, but I was trying to keep my family alive, that's my job. So I'm sorry that I hurt you and your tree's feelings trying to save the world and all. I should of never worried about you. To think I was scared of how things would turn out," I said while an angry blush formed on my cheeks as I stormed out of the room in anger. Who does she think she is? We can't just bow to everyone's wishes at every turn. Jay followed me out of room.
"I thought you were only scared of things not from this world, Cole," he teased.
"Well, when I first saw her, her golden mop of curly hair and eyes that could tell or hide anything, I thought she might be out of this world," I replied.
Zane's POV
The new girl, Tara, was now looking at her bed sheets with slumped shoulders and whitening fists clutching bundles of fabric.
"Are you alrigh-" I began.
She cut me off, "Y-y-yeah, yeah, I'm fine." She looked up to me and smiled. Tears began to fall from between her eyelashes, making dark marks on the fabric. She started to shudder and shake in a fit of tears. I had never dealt with something like this before. How do you deal with water that pours out of one's eyes? Did you plug it up with cork? It was most unusual. I suddenly got the impulse that this was not something to fix physically, but emotionally.
"What's your name?" she asked quietly once she was able to speak through some of the tears.
"Zane," I replied.
"Zane, how would you feel if you could not remember anything and was lost in the world? All I knew is that one boy, I think you called him Cole, was trying to destroy the thing I loved most and in some way, you were trying to protect it. Don't I deserve to be mad at him for what he has done to the little life that I can still remember and hold close to my heart?" Tara asked with big trusting eyes. Immediately a flash of images appeared in my head, all incoherent, all jumbled.
"I don't remember much of my life either, I don't recall ever having parents, but recently I have been seeing a place in my dreams, I believe it shall lead me to my past. As for deserving to be mad, anger is never the solution. If anger must be used, it should be used hand in hand with its brother, forgiveness," I told Tara. Her eyes were still red and watery, but she had stopped shaking and her mood was improving. I felt as if I had just performed a miracle.
"Thanks for the advice Zane," she said as a little tint of color appeared on her face, "we may have more in common than I could of imagined." She looked up and her eyes sparkled in a happy manner and I was taken aback. What was this strange feeling, it was unlike anything I had experienced before. It made me nervous and giddy at the same time.
"Would you like me to help you with the brother of anger?" I asked while bowing graciously.
Tara laughed causing that strange feeling again, "Wouldn't be happier!"
"Was it something I said that was funny?" I asked we left the room.
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