If you haven't already, please read and review my original Jeanette series. Starting with Mistress Of Wind, Ghosts, Skybound, Time And Space, Sons Of Garmadon, and Shadows In The Dark.
I was gonna wait until tomorrow to post this. But I had so much fun at the end of this one, that I couldn't wait!
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Jeanette looked around a corner, she had just came from sneaking around in Clouse's room. "Gotta find the guys." She whispered to herself as she quickly hurried down a hallway. She slid to a stop when she saw some guards came walking down the same hall, but from the other side. Jeanette quickly hid behind a big create, and watched as they walked down the hall.
Coming out from around the create, Jeanette hurried on her way.
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Sighing heavily as she got back into the main room of the palace, Jeanette looked around. But frowned when she saw all the Element Masters, minus the Ninja standing in front of the bracket board. She walked over to them.
"What's going on?" She asked, and Griffin turned to her.
"Your friends." He pointed to the brackets, and she saw Cove vs Jay. Jeanette gasped.
"No!"
"Sorry sister. Your friends have to face each other." Griffin told her, before he and the others walked away, and Jeanette turned back to the board.
"Not happening!" She cried, just as the Ninja walked over from behind her.
"What's going on?" Jay asked.
"Did one of them hurt you?" Kai asked, but Jeanette shook her head.
"Look!" She pointed to the board, and the Ninja gasped.
"No! He can't do this!" Cole exclaimed.
"He already did." Lloyd growled.
"We gotta fight each other." Cole said turning to look at Jay.
"Ah, but why does it say I have to fight Cole? It didn't say that before. It was suppose to be my day off." Jay complained.
"I tried to warn you, but you never listen. Talk? Yes. Listen? Not so much!" Cole told him, folding his arms.
"Is there a problem, Ninja?" Clouse asked as he walked up, and Jeanette jumped startled.
"You snake!" She rounded on him, and would've decked him, if Lloyd hadn't grabbed her waist and pulled her back.
"You cheated!" Cole accused, pointing at him. "You changed the brackets!"
"Oopsie." Clouse said, turning around and walking off.
"What do we do?" Lloyd asked as his father walks over to them, he still held an angry Jeanette in his arms, but her arms were folded as she glares at Clouse's back. "They can't fight each other. We came here to become whole, not fall further apart."
"You can't undo what's already been done." Garmadon told them. "My advise is to be at peace with it."
"Peace?!" Jay cried, starting to panic. "He has super strength! What do I have? QUICK, TELL ME! WHAT DO I HAVE?!"
"A loud and moter mouth!" Jeanette hissed, and both Cole and Kai laughed. "This isn't fair!"
"Don't listen to my dad." Lloyd said, finally letting go of her. "We find Zane, then none of us will have to battle! Your fight isn't till tonight, so we still have time to figure out what Chen is up to and stop this."
"I think I know just the person to help." Kai said. "And I think he already knows."
"Neuro?" Jeanette asked him.
"Yep." Kai confirmed with a nod.
She shook her head. "Sorry guys, I'm out for that conversation." She started to walk away, and the boys watched her leave.
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That night, Jeanette stood with Lloyd as the two watched Cole fight a punching bag with a picture of Jay tapped to it. Cole kicked it hard and it flew back, he turned and puffed out his chest with a smile, before the punching bag came back and slammed into Cole, who flew into the bars.
"Ouch." Jeanette winced, as Cole let out a yell and used his spinjitzu on the bag, it crumbled to the floor - along with the picture of Jay. "Why are you two fighting?" She asked him. "You're friends! Good friends!"
"Not anymore." Cole said with shake of his head. "We're enemies now."
"But." She started, then trailed off when Lloyd put a hand on her shoulder.
"You don't have to say it." Cole told Lloyd, when the blonde turned to face him. "It was inevitable we were going have to fight each other. Might as well be Jay, this fight's been a long time coming."
"We'll I'm not at peace with this." Lloyd said. "But that doesn't mean you can't still find peace with each other. We don't have control when we fght, but we do have control over how we fight. Jay's not your enemy. Chen is! Remember that."
"You guys look so happy, and I can see a strong friendship that you all have." Jeanette added. "I don't have any friends, because of my past. And it hurts to see you guys fighting like this."
"Wu once said to defeat your enemy, is to make them your friend." Cole told the two. "But how are you suppose to defeat your friend?"
Before Jeanette and Lloyd could answer, the bars slid down as music started, and the two started to back up.
"See reason." Jeanette told the black Ninja. "Look back on the past at your friendship." She soon followed Lloyd.
"Are you ok?" He asks her in concern as they stood on the catwalk to watch.
Jeanette wipes her eyes. "I never had any friends till you guys showed up. Now because of this tournement, it's tearing a good friendship apart." She tried to wipe another tear away.
"You still have our friendship!" Lloyd told her, facing her completely. "Jay, and Cole just have their boxers in a twist, because they're fighting over Kai's sister." He tried to reassure her.
"All of that?" She points down at the arena, where the two are fighting with their Elemental Powers on each other. "Is because of a girl?"
Lloyd nodded. "Yeah. If you ask me, it's stupid!"
"I think it's sweet." Jeanette smiled a little, and Lloyd looked at her confused.
"Sweet? How is this sweet?"
"If there was a guy that I liked, I would want him to fight for my affections." She smiled softly as she looked off in the distance. "And of course he'd have to earn the key to my heart first."
Lloyd rubbed the back of his head. "I'm glad I haven't found anyone like that yet."
Jeanette blinked, and she turned to face him. "Maybe you will."
Lloyd quickly blushed. "What are you saying? I don't have those feelings towards you!" He paused as his blush brightened. "Uhh, I mean." He cleared his throat. "What I mean is, is." He trailed off when she looked at him with a playful smirk.
"So if I was in trouble, you would come for me? But only as a true friend?" She was enjoying this, maybe a little too much as he sqirmed. "Nothing deeper?"
"Maybe once we get to know each other more." Lloyd rubbed his left arm with his right hand. "I, I. I think?" He was so confused now, and she giggled at him.
"Winner!" Chen's voice announced, and both jumped startled at Chen's voice. "Loser! Master Of Lightning moves on!"
The two Ninja turn to the arena, just as the floor brick under Cole disappears, and he drops with a scream.
"COLE!" Jeanette cried, her tears returning as she moves her hands to her face. Lloyd pulls her into a hug.
"He'll be ok." He tried to reassure her gently.
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Later, Jeanette was walking towards her room, when Clouse and two guards walked up to her.
"I'm afraid you're going to have to come with me." Clouse told her, and she stiffened.
"I'm not going anywhere with you!" She hissed, only for Clouse snapped his fingers. The two guards quickly grabbed her and restrained her.
"Clouse!" Garmadon yelled, running over to them. "Let her go!"
"I'm afraid I have no choice." Clouse told him in a board voice. "She broke a rule, so she's out."
Garmadon growled, narrowing his eyes on Clouse. "Or is this one of you're tricks?" He pointed at Clouse.
"It's true." Jeanette told Garmadon, and he looked at her. "I really wanted to help the Ninja find Zane. I should've listened to Kai."
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Cole looked up from the noodle machine when the doors of the factory opened and Jeanette was thrown in.
"Ow!" She cried when her elbow got scrapped.
"Jeanette!" Cole ran over to her, and she looked up.
"Cole!" She jumped up and tackled him into a tight hug. "You're ok!" She smiled.
"Yeah." He grinned, then frowned when she pulled away. "What are you doing here?"
"I broke a rule." She admitted. "I wanted to help you guys at finding Zane, but I guess I got carried away."
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How's that for a nice twist? :)
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