Gone

Sammy yawned as she woke up in Nya's room. She was so tried and did not feel like getting up. Sammy turned her head to the small window and saw it was still dark outside. She pushed herself out of bed and got changed into a nice pair jeans and a dark purple top. Walking to the kitchen, she found Zane.

"Hello Sammy. Have a nice sleep?"

"Yea. What are you doing up so early?"

"I usually get up early."

"Oh."

The two ate together and Zane asked a few more questions about what it was like being a shadow ninja. Sammy gladly answered. The morning played out slow as everyone else got up and started training. Nya and Sammy stayed inside talking. The whole time, Sammy had something on her mind and it made her nervous. Nervous, sad, scared. She really did not know, but she could not ignore it for much longer.

"Hey Sammy, do you want to train with the rest of us?" Kai asked Sammy.

"I'd love to, but I just need to do something first." Sammy quickly ran off.

"Sammy doesn't wanna train, Kai?" Cole asked walking over with Lloyd, Zane and Jay.

"She said she had to finish something first."

Suddenly, Jay started shoving Lloyd. "You know Lloyd, maybe you should stop playing just-friends and ask the girl out. It's obvious you two like each other, so do what I try to with Mya."

"What!" Lloyd was shocked and blushing.

"Dude, stop. We have to train Lloyd to get him ready to face his father, not give him dating advice." Cole cut in.

"Hey, when this is all over, Lloyd's going to have to have something to fall back on." Jay said trying to state his point.

"It's not like their going to get married or anything."

"Guys! Would you stop it." Lloyd yelled at the two of them. "Personally, I just want to finish training to fight my father and not worry about my relationship with her."

"See! I told you." Cole said with force.

"Aright, guys you heard Lloyd. Training comes first. Now lets start up before I get sick of you guys talking." Kai commanded.

Everyone nodded and the day began for real. They all were so into training that no one realized Sammy never showed up. But training went on, right through lunch to dinner. Nya was just finished setting the dinner table when everyone walked in talking to themselves.

"Nice job you guys. You trained the whole day nonstop." Nya congratulated the ninjas.

"It was a nice surprise. Now I feel that your taking the final battle seriously." Sensei added.

"We were always taking the finally battle seriously Sensei. Hey wait. Where's Sammy?" Lloyd asked, looking around the room.

It was then everyone realized that Sammy never showed up at training. She had not showed up all day after breakfast. Lloyd got worried. Everyone went around looking for her, but she was no where to be found.

Lloyd walked inside one of the indoor training rooms. He looked around and saw the book Sensei brought out about shadow ninjas. Lloyd walked over and saw there was a page book marked. He opened it to a certain page and read what was printed on it.

The specific page mark talked about how shadow ninjas were not allowed to be in contact with other ninjas if there is no battle going on or none about to take place. Then Lloyd knew where she went. Anywhere but here. However, there was a final battle was coming. He ran back to everyone and told him what he found.

They all were confused too. If the final battle was coming soon, Sammy did not have to leave. But Sensei pointed out that it must have been farther away then they thought. If it was sooner, she would have stayed. Everyone ate dinner in quiet. Lloyd did not eat at all. He could not believe that Sammy could just leave him again with out telling him. Nothing seemed to added up or make any sense.

Later that night, Lloyd was tossing and turning around in his bed.

"Nooooo!" He screamed waking up from a nightmare. He looked around, then got up. He went outside to get some cool air. It was a cold night with winds you could hear. It was just like that the other night with Sammy. Lloyd could not get her out of his head. He almost wanted the final battle to come sooner so he could she her again. But who says she will show.

Somewhere off in the desert, a shadow ninja was sitting along feeling so sorry for abandoning her new crush.