Of Love, Life, and Lies
A Ninjago FanFiction
Lia: Hello awesome people! Once again, I have beaten Boogalee to her author's not-
Me: um, I typed the title before you shut down the computer. Does that count as "beaten"?
Kai: Yeah, yeah, you're both pretty. Now, can we please move onto the thank yous?
Me: *blushes* Um, okay. Thank you to the 6 people who reviewed chapter 6. Interesting how that number played out, isn't it?
Kai and Lia: GET ON WITH IT!
Me: Sorry, I'm distracted, finals and all. So, people, don't get offended if I don't respond to you. You are awesome, I'm just super busy. That being said, 8zBL, I meant for that kiss to seem a little premature. You'll see why. KatStorm, even though I am the author, Jay's responses crack me up too, probably more than they should. I love writing from his POV! Especially with how suspicious it is!
Zane: Should you not get on with the story? You seem to be rambling.
Me: You're right, Zane. Like always.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago, only Liana and some of the plot!
Cole's POV
I.
Am.
Totally.
Confused.
One minute, I happen to be having a fantastic first kiss, the next we break apart and all the boys are staring awkwardly at us. Oh, and one more thing.
There's a dragon behind me.
Out of all the possible things that could have been hidden behind curtain number one, it was a dragon. And a particularly scary one at that.
Lia took one look at my face and her anxiety turned to full-fledged fear. My face must have looked horrible. I tried to see myself from her point of view. I was probably pale and weak and shaking…
Why was I even thinking about this? There is a freaking dragon behind me and all I can worry about is how I look to a girl! Mind you, she is a very pretty girl and I had just kissed her. I shook my head to try to get back on track. I started looking for an escape route. When the dragon had initially risen, it had caused an avalanche that had blocked the cavern entrance.
We were officially trapped.
Jay's POV
I just knew that there was something wrong with Liana. Sure, she had helped us get the Scythe and everything, but as soon as the kissing starts, bad things happen.
Hmm, maybe that should be a proverb…
Dang it! I hate my ADHD! (No offense to anyone with ADHD. Jay is so distracted that I thought he must have it. Also, I have it rather severely myself, so I can recognize a fellow spirit ;) I looked around. Of course, the stupid magical dragon has to go and block the entrance, leaving us trapped with said stupid magical being.
Did I mention that I hate dragons?
All Liana's fault… All Liana's fault… I kept repeating that mantra in my mind as the ninja and I tried to find a way out.
Kai's POV
There was absolutely, positively no way out of this mess.
Unless…
The others are gonna hate me.
I quickly unstrapped the Scythe from my back. Knowing what I was planning, Zane yelled out, "That is not a logical solution! Sensei told us not to use the weapon!" I guess it goes without saying that I ignored him.
"Kai!" Cole tried. "This is madness! That could just bring the rest of the cave down on top of us?"
"Then what have we got to lose?" And with that, I brought the Scythe down over head.
Liana's POV
I am gonna kill Kai.
That is, if the mountain doesn't do it first. Seems like I will have to wait in line to get my crack at him.
After he struck the ground, with the Scythe of Quakes no less, the cavern started to rumble as chunks of the rocking ceiling began pouring down on us. Fortunately, Zane came up with the first intelligent idea that I had heard all day. "Our spinjitsu! We can use it to escape the cave!"
We all quickly followed his example and in no time at all, we landed in a heap at Sensei's feet. While the boys were all prematurely celebrating, I was the only one who noticed Sensei.
And he looked extremely mad.
Sensei's POV
To say I was mad would be an understatement.
I was positively furious.
And while the male ninja were off belly-bumping and high-fiving and doing things for suited for a football game, Liana was the only one who was truly aware of her surroundings. She already looked like a deer caught in the headlights. I'll make a fine ninja out of her yet.
Soon, the boys became aware that Liana wasn't celebrating, and when they looked to see why, silence spread like butter on toast.
"I told you not to use the golden weapon." They all looked shame-facedly at the ground.
"But Sensei-" Cole began. I knew it wasn't his choice to use the weapon. He's too much of a rule follower, cares too much for suspicion.
"I told you not to use the weapon in any circumstances." Again, more shuffling and murmurs.
This time Kai stepped forward. "Using it was my only choice, Sensei."
"And what makes you think that you are more important than the team?"
Then, deathly quiet, "They took my sister."
To everyone's surprise, Lia spoke up. "Kai, Nya is the closest thing I have ever had to a real family. You got to grow up with her. Imagine how I feel. I never trusted anyone with my feelings, never got too close, until I met your sister. Imagine how it feels to have that one person in the whole world that you trust ripped away from you." She said all of this in an oddly quiet and vulnerable voice. I looked closer and realized that I had made her cry. Oh gosh, I can't do anything right! Hurting her was like slugging myself in the nuts!
She turned and walked away, going probably 50 yards before stopping with her back to us and sitting down Indian style, her shoulders heaving wit unheard sobs, her hood on the ground at my feet where she had let it drop after our dramatic exit. Cole walked over to comfort her, and, as I picked up the small piece of cloth, I couldn't help that the rest of my heart was walking away with him.
Cole's POV
I hadn't realized how difficult it was to trust someone, never broken someone's trust or had someone break my trust.
But, then again, I wasn't Lia.
I didn't know much about her life, but from the way she talked and acted, I could tell that she had always been alone. She had only truly trusted one person, and then that single person had been ripped from her right in front of her eyes.
No wonder she was sobbing.
I quietly walked up and stood behind her, unsure of what to do from here.
What do you say to a girl who you just kissed, survived a dragon attack with, and learned the truth depth of her suffering?
"If you're here to comfort me," she said, startling me out of my revelry, "You can go away. Nothing can help me right now." She was right. She didn't need comfort. She just needed a shoulder to cry on.
I went and sat next to her. "I'm not here to comfort you. I'm here to keep you company." With that, I put my arm around her shoulder, and soon she was full out sobbing into my chest. I simply held her and rocked her back and forth, letting her cry herself out.
When she was all out of tears to cry, she pulled out of my embrace and gave me a teary eyed smile. "Sorry." I looked down to see a tear stain on my gi.
"Don't worry about it." I sat back and looked up at the sky. "You know, I've been a loner too. My mom died in childbirth and my dad… well, we don't exactly see eye to eye." That was something that Lia could relate well with. "I've been running all over the place, trying to find where I belong. And now, Lia, I've found that place, and you've found it too, believe it or not. We belong here, among the ninja."
She looked at me and smiled a true smile that almost reached her eyes. "Thank you, Cole." She too turned to look at the sky. "I think that you are right."
Now that I got that out of the way, there was something else that we needed to talk about. "On a totally unrelated note, I'm sorry for the kiss."
I expected a lot of reactions from her. Sarcasm, disgust, contempt, maybe even a joke. But not surprise.
"Why would you apologize for that?"
"Well, to be honest, you hardly know me, and I hadn't even asked you on a date yet."
She laughed. "You are silly, you know that right?"
I blushed. "So," I began, "after this whole golden-weapon fiasco is done, would like to go out with me?"
She grinned. "Of course."
So, satisfied? Oh, and just a warning, I probably won't update till Friday night.
Lia: Really? You can stand me away from me that long?
Jay: It's probably better for her health. After all, you are trying to totally annihilate us all to clear the way for your evil, masochistic father to take over all of Ninjago.
Lia: Um, who said he was masochistic?
Jay: So, you admit that he's evil!
