Happy Wednesday, everybody! I was in such a good mood that I finished this chapter! Yay!
ForeverDream12, yeah, it was alright if you skipped the last part. I don't even know why I even added that. I was obviously bored and in a romantic mood...but yeah, it was fine if you skipped it. It wasn't important anyways.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago
(Kai's POV)
Lloyd stumbled out of the Kunoichis's room. His shirt was buttoned lopsidedly, and his hair was messed up. He stumbled into the walls, staggering back and forth. I couldn't help but wonder, Is he drunk?
"Hey, Lloyd, are you drunk?" I voiced my thoughts. He looked at me, his emerald green eyes sliding in and out of focus.
"No," he slurred, taking a few more unsteady steps forward.
"Dude, did you somehow manage to break into Zane's cabinet where he stores the different types of wine for cooking with?"
Lloyd shook his head, almost loosing his balance and face-planting into the floor. I leaped forward, wrapping my arms securely around his waist. I started dragging him back to the room that I shared with the other guys. I slammed my foot hard against the door three times.
"Enter," Cole said lazily. I hissed through my teeth.
"I'm carrying a drunk Ultimate Spinjitzu Master," I yelled.
"I is not drunk," Lloyd protested, slumping further against me. I staggered backwards, air hissing through my tightly clenched teeth. Just then, the door opened, revealing a shirtless Cole and a grease-stained Jay. They looked at me, looked at the sagging Lloyd, and then back to me. Cole arched a bushy eyebrow at me while Jay bit down on his lip, trying to smother a smile, yet failing horribly.
"He's not getting any lighter," I wheezed, "I think he magically gained thirty pounds." I squawked as Lloyd slipped to the ground in my arms, dragging me down with him. Jay started laughing his head off. Cole rolled his eyes while Josh and Zane were peering over Cole's broad shoulders, obviously interested in what Jay was laughing about.
"Help!" I croaked from underneath Lloyd. Cole just towered over me, a smirk on his mouth, his arms crossed over his chest.
After accepting the fact that I was going to have to figure this out on my own, I grasped Lloyd's shoulders, lifting his chest off mine. I slid one knee under his stomach, raising it up enough for me to be able to slide my hips out from underneath him. Once I had managed that part, I pushed Lloyd away from me. He flopped back onto me. Barely holding back a long stream of curses, I gritted my teeth.
"Cole," I began, the air hissing out of my teeth as I spoke, "would you care to help me with this green-clad deadweight, please?"
"Well," Cole said, pretending to consider, "since you said please."
He bent down and wrapped his arms around Lloyd's waist. Cole straightened up with ease, Lloyd looking like Emily in his arms. I rolled onto my stomach, pushing myself up onto my feet.
"I'm good," I said coolly, readjusting my spikes. Jay snickered, but I didn't pay him any attention as I walked past him and into the room.
"Zane, is Lloyd drunk?" Cole asked the nindroid. Zane cocked his head to the left for a few brief moments before shaking his head.
"Although, his heart rate is up higher than normal," Zane said, "but that could be because he and Rachel were together."
"Yeah, we all know what happens to Lloyd whenever he's near Rachel," Josh said lazily. He was laying flat on his back, his hands behind his head, staring up at the ceiling. His left knee was bent at a ninety degree angle while his other leg was straight.
"You should have seen the way she looked at me," Lloyd said dreamily.
"You mean with disgust?" Jay inquired. Lloyd glared emerald green daggers at the Lightning Ninja.
"No," the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master retorted. "I mean with…" He hugged himself, clearly lost for words. I exchanged glances with Jay and Cole. Okay, there was something wrong with this kid, but what…duh. I face-palmed.
"You and Rachel made out, didn't you?" I caught him off guard. Lloyd's emerald green eyes were wide with shock as he stared at me. I crossed arms over my chest, smirking.
"Lloyd and Rachel, sittin' in a tree," Jay teased him in a sing-song voice, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, second comes marriage, third comes Lloyd with the baby carriage!"
Josh started cackling with laughter as Jay grinned broadly. Cole rolled his eyes up to the ceiling, but even he couldn't help but smile. I couldn't help but grin myself. Lloyd's face immediately turned a deep, embarrassed red. He hid his head under his pillow, mumbling something to himself.
"Real mature," Zane said quietly. Josh shut up and Jay's grin fell off his face. If his mouth wasn't attached to his face, I'm pretty sure it would have fallen to the floor with a splat. My own smile drooped, too.
Frosty still looked shaken after receiving Kryptor's Binary Code hate-note. I honestly thought that he would short-circuit any moment now.
Cole filled his cheeks with air before pursing his lips and exhaling. His Do-not-mess-with-me-right-now-I-am-in-deep-thought-at-the-current-time-being look crossed his face: his eyebrows were drawn low over his eyes, which were narrowed, and a frown. But, now that I think about it, doesn't it seem that he always frowns? Or is that just because of his genes? I honestly don't know.
"Why, in all of Ninjago, would Kryptor send Zane a hate-note? Zane has no enemies," I said. Cole scoffed.
"Unless you count all the things that we've fought over the years," he offered. I gave him with my Seriously? look.
"We've either killed them all, banished them all, or we managed to convince them that we're not bloodthirsty killers who possess terrifying powers," I snapped at him, "so what's your point?" Cole looked at me, lost for words. "My point exactly," I finished my sentence.
While Cole was giving me a deer-in-the-headlights look, Lloyd suddenly sat up, whacking his head solidly on the wooden frame. Cole, Zane, Jay, Josh, and I looked at Lloyd as he rubbed his forehead.
"First things first," Lloyd said, glaring at the wood, "we really need to buy some sort of foam, because one of us will get a concussion from just waking up." We looked at him. I felt my nicked eyebrow rise.
"And secondly," he continued on, still rubbing his forehead, "what if Kryptor's note isn't hateful? What if it's actually a warning?"
Josh, Zane, Cole, Jay, and I exchanged looks. The kid's got a point.
"The grasshopper's got a point," Josh said, almost as if he was reading my mind. "It does make sense, right?"
"Probably about as much sense as Jordan actually saying something intelligent for once in her life," Jay randomly threw in. If only Yin was here, I'm pretty sure that Yang would be fighting his arch-element to bring Jay back from the grave.
"If Jordan was here, she probably would be hacking you to bits with her chains," Josh warned Jay, "I speak from personal experience that those chains hurt. Then again, with me being Yang and she being Yin…" Josh's voice died off as he continued to think about what he was saying. I gave him a questioning look.
"Never mind." Josh shook his head. "Anyways, I was just thinking about her…" A horrified look crossed his face. I exchanged gleeful glances with Cole and Jay. I wanted to sing Maroon 5's 'Love Somebody'. And mind you, I've got a good voice, no matter what the others say. I never thought I would live to see the day whenever Josh finally would admit his feelings for his arch-element! Jordan, look out!
"Does Jordan know?" Jay blurted out. He looked like an excited puppy. Josh scoffed.
"Of course she doesn't," he snapped, "she thinks romance is contagious." Now it was my turn to scoff.
"This is going to sound weird coming from me," I began, "but love is a beautiful thing. Yin doesn't know what she's missing out on, Yang. Besides," I added, "I like to think of you two as polar and non-polar forces; negative and positive; and my personal favorite: Jordan is, on the pH scale, a zero and you are a fourteen. For some reason, a lot of people think that the pH scale only goes up to thirteen as the highest base, but it's actually fourteen. If fourteen is the highest possible base, then that makes zero the most acidic. But what do you get whenever you combine the highest base with the lowest acid?" I looked at Josh, bouncing my eyebrows up and down twice, grinning a cocky grin. Josh looked at me with a deer-in-the-headlights look before shaking his head.
"What was that, Inferno?" he asked. My right palm met my forehead.
"I frankly don't feel like repeating what I just said," I said tartly, "but my question was: What happens whenever you combine the highest base with the lowest acid?"
"It becomes neutral," he answered smoothly, "Because on the pH scale, seven is the middle number: the number for neutralization." I beamed.
"Now let's go neutralize your soon-to-be girl!" Cole exclaimed with a cocky and very broad grin. Josh looked at him in alarm.
"Say what now?" But Cole had already crossed the room and dragged Life off his bunk. Josh hung on tightly. After a few minutes to no avail, Cole eventually gave up. Josh looked relieved, until Cole pounced on him. Josh let out a startled squawk, but he was brutally shoved off his bunk and onto the floor. As he scrambled to his feet, Cole slid to the ground, placing one foot firmly on Josh's back, right in between the shoulder blades.
"I still find it funny that in the Yin-Yang symbol, Yin is the color for femininity and death, while Yang stands for masculinity and life," Lloyd snickered as he looked at the grouchy-looking Life Ninja.
"It would correspond perfectly with the symbol if your color was white instead of a light red," Jay added.
"Shut up," Josh said grouchily.
(Jen's POV)
A soft knock at the door made our heads look up. Sighing, I got to my feet, hopping on one foot over to the door.
"Oh, hi Zane," I said, a little surprised. He gave me an embarrassed, yet very weak, smile. Behind him were Jay and Kai, both grinning like madmen. Whenever those two grinned like that, it usually meant that something bad was going to happen, and it would have been their fault.
"Jay and Kai came up with an idea," Zane said in a small voice. "It is technically a present for Jordan."
"Is it the X-BOX One?" Jordan appeared by my side, an eager look on her face. Zane shook his head, causing Jordan to look crestfallen with disappointment.
"It's actually from Josh," Jay said, peering over Zane's shoulder to look at her. Yin's eyebrows shot straight up so fast I thought that she would loose them in outer space.
He and Kai walked up, bearing their gift equally, obviously careful not to crush it. Jordan's right eyebrow came back down to Ninjago, although her left one stayed up in outer space.
"Open it," Kai urged, his almond brown eyes gleaming with excitement. I grew suspicious. Jordan, also suspicious, carefully unzipped the zipper that was on the front. She pulled out of the package…
"A dress?" Jordan said loudly with disgust.
It was made of the finest black silk with a silver dragon image stitched onto the back. Around the waist was a four-inch wide sash that was made of woven silver silk. The hem of the dress stopped about mid-shin. The top was slightly low-cut and had three-inch wide straps criss-crossing across the back, something that did not please Jordan.
"Jordan, it is gorgeous!" Rachel gushed, reaching a hand out to touch it.
"Anyone who wants it can have it," Jordan said snobbishly. I sighed, clenching my teeth and rolling my eyes.
"Josh had it custom-made!" Jay exclaimed, clearly desperate to save the silk dress. "I don't know how he got the measurements, but he did." Jay's big, deep blue eyes pleaded with Jordan. After a few minutes, she sighed.
"Why did he make me a dress, first of all?" she growled. Her pure black eyes were narrowed as she glared at the Lightning Ninja.
"Put it on first, and then ask him that question," Zane advised. "Jen, Rachel, Sam, you three are in charge of Jordan's makeover." I exchanged grins with the other two named Kunoichi.
"Our pleasure," Sam said. And with that, the door shut.
"So, girls," Rachel began coolly, looking at Jordan. "Who wants to have the honors of performing the first waxing?"
Well, Kai's POV was certainly entertaining, wasn't it?
And about Yin-Yang and the pH scale, that's all true. (This is about Yin-Yang:) I just find it ironically hilarious about Jordan being a girl, death, and her color is black, and Josh being a guy and life, but do you think I should change his color from a light red that isn't so light that it's pink to a silvery-white? (If you think so, please say so in the reviews, or PM me. If you want me to keep his color the same, please say so in the reviews, or PM .)
Okay, I know I didn't really talk about Kryptor's little hate-note/warning, but I will get to that later.
Now, concerning a little Jordan-Josh stuff: if it isn't clear already, Jordan hates being girly-girl (hence her reaction to the dress). I wont' go into much detail, so you'll just have to wait, although I do have a question: What do you think will happen in the next chapter containing 1) Zane, and 2) Jordan and Josh? Tell me in the reviews!
And until next time, peace, have a good rest of the week, and have a good day/night!
(P.S.: I dare you guys to listen to Caramelldansen. It's a very good song, very catchy, and I have a feeling that if Jay was listening it to it, he would be bouncing around the entire Bounty. I'm serious, it is that peppy. If you've heard it, it's catchy, isn't it? If you haven't already listened to it, do so. The reason why I bring this up is because I wrote practically the entire chapter while listening to it. And I'm doing the 10 hour version. But you don't have to listen to it if you don't want to.) ;)
