Hey, another boring author's note. Just for some of you trivia fans, this would be the first time that Cole would try to kill somebody. In the show they just disabled their enemies. Have fun! Please tell me why you love or hate it.

Illuminate : Chapter 4

Cole's POV

After we briefly explained to Sensei why in Ninjago I was holding a high school girl with a bleeding wound, I took her to a spare room and laid her on the bed. Soon after, Nya came in and bound up her head. All that was left was to wait until she woke up. Nya had left, so it was just me with her. As I watched her still face and saw the sheets moving up and down slightly with every breath that she took, my memory flickered back to when my mother was on her deathbed. I heard someone open and walk through the door. It was Sensei Wu. I stood up to offer him my chair, but he stopped me.

"There is no need," he said. We, well I sat, he stood, in silence for a while, and the memories started to come back. I couldn't take it any longer.

"Is she going to die?" I asked, half afraid of the answer. Sensei seemed surprised.

"Why would you think that?" I remained silent for a moment, but then I decided to answer.

"My mother got sick when I was younger, and she looked like this right before, well…" There was so much more to the story, so much more I could tell, and I think that Sensei could tell, but for some reason I just couldn't go on. I turned to my mentor to see his expression and he opened his mouth as if he was going to speak, but then I heard something from the bed. The girl's left hand moved up to touch her bandaged head and her eyelids fluttered open.

"Where, oh, my head, where am I?"

Gabriele's POV

For a split second I thought that I was dead, but that thought caused a wave of pain course through my head.

Being dead wouldn't hurt this much. I reached up to touch my head and felt bandages underneath my fingertips. I slowly realized that I was lying in a bed, and it wasn't mine.

"Where, where am I?" I asked as I opened my eyes. Two heads came into view. I gasped as my brain identified these two people.

"Sensei Wu? And Cole, ninja of earth?" Cole stared at me like I was crazy for a second, but then he nodded. I struggled to sit up, causing more pain to shoot through me.

"Then I must be on Destiny's Bounty. The Destiny's Bounty!" I'm sure that I had the sappiest fan-girl expression on my face. Cole was staring at me again. He finally said something. If I hadn't been so worried that he thought of me as completely crazy, I would have enjoyed hearing his strong voice; it was the voice of a leader.

"How do you know who we are? And where we live?" he asked. Now it was my turn to stare, but I was completely shocked.

"You're kidding, right? You're just messing with me." As his expression remained completely puzzled I guessed that he had no idea what I was talking about. "You seriously didn't know that you, Zane, Jay, Kai, Nya, and Sensei Wu are the most famous evil-fighting team in Ninjago history? Well, not as many people know about Sensei Wu and Nya, but still! You guys are in every history textbook, every newspaper, every website; you even are having books written about you. You guys are the most loved people in Ninjago!" I concluded. I don't think it would be possible for Cole to be more surprised. Sensei Wu looked shocked as well, but he recovered more quickly.

"That is unexpected," he said. "I must go meditate on what to do about this knowledge, among other things." He seemed to disappear. It was kind of awkward with just the two of us in there. I was basking in the glory of being in the same room as my hero, but I had expected the first time that we met he would be fighting along side me, and he would invite me to join the team. This was the exact opposite. Cole was sitting in a small wooden chair in the mostly empty room. He was slumped against the back of chair, and he was staring at the floor. His thick black hair fell over his blue-gray eyes. Everyone that I had talked had assumed that Cole's eyes were green because that seemed to be the natural pairing, but when he had looked over me I had seen that his irises were gray at the edges and gradually faded to blue in the middle. It was a really unusual eye color; I thought that it was fascinating. I had always wanted for my eyes to be something to be something, anything other than brown, but brown they stayed. To tell the truth, I was jealous of Cole's eyes. His hair was covering those amazing eyes because his hood was off, and that drew my attention to his metal shoulder guard which appeared to be broken. Suddenly, I asked

"How did that happen?" He jumped slightly at the sound of my voice and looked up from the floor. I pointed at his shoulder to clarify, and he relaxed slightly.

"Oh, that. One of your attackers cut it off."

"All right, two more questions. First, whoever it was cut through metal like butter? And second, my attackers?" Cole replied

"Yeah. Don't you remember one of those things pinning you against the wall and knocking you out?"

"No. Why would they want to pin me against a wall? It's not like I could have done anything to hurt them. Were they Serpentine?"

"No, they were covered in black armor and when I looked into one of their eyes, I couldn't feel, see, or hear anything. It was all black, but then I heard you scream and I punched the thing in the face. I ran towards you but the creature had just hit you over the head and I saw you fell to the ground. I swung my scythe and chopped off the guy's head but then he completely dissolved. The guys ran up and told me that the others had done that same thing. Then I noticed that you were bleeding, so we couldn't leave you behind. I brought you on board, Nya fixed you up, and here we are. I was in awe.

"You saved me. Again."