Hey everyone! I realize it's been awhile, but I've been working on other stories. Right now I'm babysitting my niece for the weekend while my sister and brother in law are out of town, and she's sleeping, so I figured why not spend some time working on this at last? No promises, but I may update some other stories during Hannah's naptimes (I also have to clean the house, babies are messy. I don't know how Margo can handle this all the time), so bear with me. Enough rambling here, enjoy this very overdue chapter!
Skylor Chan: Thanks so much for the support. I'm glad you're excited about this.
Guest: sorry, I like cliff hangers. This is roughly inspired off of an episode of Grimm (more so the first story than this one), and the show had a lot of dramatic cliff hangers before commercial breaks, so I'm doing the same at the end of each chapter as a sort of tribute to Grimm. Thanks for reading, and im glad you're enthusiastic about how this story is going to go.
The woman tended to her husband and the woman who'd shown up with care. She fed them soup and made them remedies until one day her toddler came up to her.
"Mama, why are your fingers scabbing over?"
The woman looked down at her hands and gasped. She'd tried hard to conceal the scabs marking the disease from her son, but now that the disease had spread to her, there was no hiding it.
"I'm sorry. Mama's really sick."
She took a deep breath. The scabs sealed her fate. There wasn't much time left.
"Nya?"
"Are you alright?"
"What even happened?"
"Do you think she's okay?"
Nya opened her eyes to find all of her team mates staring down at her. The fuzziness left her mind, and it all came back to her. Suddenly not everything seemed fine anymore.
"Nya, do you feel okay?"
Nya sat up, "Cole, I need to see your fairytale book!"
"Uh, okay?" Cole replied. He got up and left to go find it.
"What's going on Nya?" Jay asked. He pulled her to her feet and looked her in the eyes.
"I wish I knew," Nya replied, "Melina stopped by my window earlier and..."
"Wait, Melina was let out of prison?" Kai interrupted.
"More like she let herself out... Anyway, she has come down with some disease, she said it was spread by kissing, and we might have it."
"How bad is it?" Lloyd asked.
"For you guys, if I understood correctly, you'll survive," Nya answered.
Jay tightened his grip on Nya's hands, "and what about you?"
Nya shook her head.
"Is there a cure?"
"Melina thinks so, but I, I don't know if I believe her," Nya responded.
"If it true, we'll find it. I promise Nya, we'll find it."
(Time skip)
Melina clicked through web pages on her laptop as she sat underneath layers of blankets in her basement. She knew there had to be a cure out there, she just wasn't sure where. After hours of research, she had found nothing.
A knock at her door brought her back to the real world. Her house hardly received visitors, and the ignorant guards at Kryptarium Prison had yet to realize she'd escaped, so she figured it could only be Nya here to take back what she'd said and accept her offer.
It wasn't Nya. It was her brother.
"Kai," Melina greeted coolly, "how good to see you. I haven't seen you since your sister had me arrested on the hospital rooftop."
"Save the pleasantries. I've got questions, and I need answers!" Kai snapped. He barged inside.
"Of course you do. Ask away."
"What do you know about the cure?"
"It's closer to home than you'd think," Melina replied.
"Gee, that's helpful," Kai retorted.
"That's all I know, honest! In one version of the legend, the husband finds the cure after his wife dies and says the cure was closer to home than he would have thought," Melina held both hands in the air, "if I knew more I'd tell you."
Kai pulled out a slip of paper with his number, "Fine. I believe you. But if you find out anything else, you will tell me right away otherwise you will wish you did."
(Time skip)
Kai flung open the door to the temple to find the other ninja, Wu, and Misako gathered around the kitchen table with at least twenty books open to random pages.
"Kai! There you are! Where'd you go?" Lloyd greeted.
"I needed to clear my head," he replied.
"So you disappeared for eight hours? Look, I know it's a lot to take in, but going off on your own doesn't help anybody," Nya frowned at him. She locked eyes with him, and Kai turned away.
"I don't want to get into it right now Nya," Kai exited to the back patio refusing to look back, knowing that if he did, he'd never forgive himself for the hurt he caused Nya.
Sorry. I love to end these stories with cliffies. Next chapter you can expect more answers, and of course more questions. I'll try to update soon. Fortunately it is summer, so there won't be a six month gap between chapters again. Thanks for reading!
#God's Not Dead!
