Leah blinked hearing muttered curse's recognizing Dusk's voice the young girl slipping a bookmark into her place and getting out of bed looking into his room blinking seeing him muttering angrily to his self and kicking the wall yelping and growling tossing his mask off onto the bed. She knocked on the door Dusk blinking looking surprised.
"Didn't hear you come in…." he winced a little rubbing the back of his neck "sorry you saw that." Leah shrugged and sat on the bed looking up at him. "….It was those ninja! They'd already got me angry at them for how they treated Lloyd but they really rubbed me the wrong way." The young girl raised a eyebrow. "…Well no the Red one was more worried about his sister and the White just stared at me for a minute and stayed quite the whole time, Nya-the sister was friendly enough. It was the other two! The Black hated me from the get go and Blue judged me by my costume and my powers!" Leah folded her arms "…Ok yes I made the mask and have the leather to deliberately scare people but it's to frighten criminals! And I wasn't even using my shadow creatures just hiding us and I shadow travelled away!" Leah blinked as her brotherly figure sat down heavily on the bed glaring still at a mirror.
"They judged me….they treated me like a monster…" Leah winced and sat next to him patting his back, his anger made a bit more sense now that she had that context. After a moment Dusk turned and hugged her tight the child letting him aware the elder needed the reassurance more than she did at the moment.
After a few moments he let go "Sorry Leah, I know you dislike contact like th-" he blinked surprised as she hugged him smiling softly and cuddled her glad he had her and the other kids.
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"I can't believe you!" Cole groaned rubbing his forehead a nagging headache making his brain feel like it was going to explode.
"Nya please stop."
"No I won't stop!" She hissed "Wolf was just trying to help! He's friendly and a nice person-"
"How do you know that?!" He snapped.
"He's the one who fixed our shop, for nothing not even asking for a thanks." Kai replied giving him a unimpressed look.
"You where hardly trying to defend him." Nya glared at her brother.
"I was worried the Serpentine would jump us!"
"They couldn't see us!" the other ninja stared at her funny before realizing that while in the ally the Serpentine seemed to ignore them.
"….I senced he had no ill will towards us." The Ninja turned to Zane who'd been completely silent until then "This Wolf didn't consider us a threat or enemy, if anything he probably thought of us as friends." Cole snorted.
"We are NOT friends with crooks!" he insisted wincing holding his head the yelling making him want to scream from the agony in his head.
"Brother? Are you alright?" Zane asked worried putting a hand on Cole's shoulder the other shrugging him off.
"I'm fine, just need some asprin." He muttered pushing past them to the bathroom to get said pills and probably curl up in a dark corner till the world stopped making his brain feel like it was going into melt down."
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Skales scoffed at the two bickering children as they went back and forth on blaming their defeat on each other, Slitheraa and some brat named 'Lloyd' who according to them 'Set them up as revenge' revenge for what he didn't know nor care about. He just wanted them gone.
"Why are you sssssstill bowing to Sssssslitheraa'sssss command'sssss? You know he issssss controlled by the bratsssss, you are sssssecond in command, you ssssshould be doing ssssssomething!" Mezmo hissed Skales glaring.
"Now issss not the time, the other'ssss are ssssstill partly loyal to him and by defalt the children. I jussssst need to wait till moral and loyalty are at their lowesssssst then sssssstrike."
"Oh? And what of the Ninja?" Skales eyes glowed, miles away Cole froze after splashing his face with water to try and help him get his head together eye's glowing as well. As one the pair smirked.
"Now then, would I be a ssssssnake with out a ace in the hole? I have a sssssurefire way to dessssstory them, I just need to wait for the peicesssss to fall into place and then, The bratssss will be no more, the Ninja dead or enssssslaved and Sssssliteraa'ssss staff will be mine. Weather it comesssss ssssstained in hissss blood will depend."
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In the dark of the night a young boy slipped out of his bed tiptoeing past the rooms of the other Moon Children, the glanced into Dusk's room smiling a little seeing Claire passed out on the other's chest a forgotten book of fairytales clasped in the elders hand. Part of Lloyd wanted to creep in and cuddle up to the male that had raised him for so long. Reluctantly he slipped away picking his way down the stair's so as not to let them creak and alert anyone he was awake. He looked into the game room seeing the great black and grey bulk of Joey the dragon's tail twiting lightly.
"….Knock it off we both know your not sleeping." Joey cracked open a blindingly white eye and sat up looking down at the child.
"And just what are you doing up so late?"
"….I want answers."
"Oh by all means use me as a sound bored if you need to talk at som-"
"Cut it out you know I can understand you." Joey sighed.
"It was worth a shot, what do you want kid?" Lloyd frowned and sat down infront of the beast.
"….How come I can understand you? I can't any of the other shadows." Joey hummed looking down at his claws.
"….I can think of two reasons, one is that like Dusk you are a shadow elemental." Lloyd blinked mulling it over, that didn't sound bad, in fact it sounded awesome! He'd be just like his big brother, his hero. He'd be able to show people that just because he was the son of Garmadon he wasn't evil….
"Wait…..You said two…." Joey frowned looking away. "What's the second?" Joey frowned and laydown closing his eyes.
"I shouldn't have said anything, put it out your mind what I speak of is a great and terrible thing that innocent children like your self should know nothing about." Lloyd glared.
"I'm not just a little kid!"
"Yes you are, you are little more then a hatchling who doesn't know what he is trying to get involved in. Drop it."
"No!"
"Then until you do I will not speak, of this or any other subject. Forget it child." He closed his eyes ignoring him till Lloyd angry and frustrated returned to his bed. Joey sighed covering his eyes.
"Spirits forgive me, I should have held my tongue, he is to young to know of the tragedy of the War or to feel the weight of the world upon his back…" the old dragon sighed angry at his self for his slip up. "At lest he gave up trying to get the answer, the later we can save telling him what the gods have planned for his future the better, let him live a little while longer…."
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Hey hey XD Said the next chapter would be sooner (and this is helping keep my mind away from my massive phobia of dentists and my appointment in the morning…so it's good for everyone!) and…Ya I pretty much cut out the whole episode, Why? Because it would have gone exactly the same way it did in the cartoon with the tiny change of it being two kids instead of one. I didn't really consider that interesting enough to warrant writing about so….Ya there's that.
More talk of the past from Joey X3 some more cutes and something I want to know. I have this story planed out beginning from Raise of the Snakes to Raise of the Spinjizu master and as you know a third season is coming very soon (I sqeed so hard seeing this trailer watch?v=HPPeOnTemCY ) Ninjago: Rebooted now I don't know when The Man in the Wolf Mask will finish but once it does, I have plans for a sequel based around Rebooted called Ninjago: Viral It will have Dusk, the Moon Children, the Ninja, everything you like from this story. If I do this sequel, will you people read it?
Leave reviews saying what you like about the story, share if you like the idea of Viral, don't be afraid to talk :3 I don't bite!
