Cole

They were watching a movie about a band of pirates fighting another band of pirates for treasure abandoned by another band of pirates. It was really dumb movie.

Thankfully, Yang interrupted them in the middle of it.

Or not.

"Promise not to attack, and I'll show you something I can bet you've never seen before."

Cole, Lloyd and Nya all promised, so the old ghost led them to Jay's room.

Did Jay manage to drag Yang, of all people, into one of his little pranks? Cole sighed. "Yang, you know you don't have to help Jay if you don't want to, right?"

Yang folded his arms. "Okay, wise guy, tell me what you think is on the other side of the door."

"If this is one of Jay's little pranks, there's going to be a corpse," Nya told him.

"Ding-ding-ding!" Yang pointed at Nya like some kind of game show host. "We have a winner!" Yang opened the door, revealing Jay face-down on the floor, all limp, with Morro (!) desperately trying to wake him up. "There's a dead body in the room!"

Morro shot a gust of wind at the old ghost. "No there's not! He's still alive!"

Yang put his hands on his hips. "Well, excuse me for making things more exciting around here."

Nya pointed her hand at Morro. "I swear, if you hurt him…"

Morro raised his hands in surrender. "I swear, I would never…"

"So, if he's not dead, then what exactly is he?" Yang asked, hovering closer to Jay. Morro waved his hand through him.

"I don't know, but he's not dead." Morro turned Jay around, revealing a pair of blank, glowing blue eyes paired with a blank, emotionless face, just staring at nothing. "See? A corpse won't do that."

Cole shuddered. "What's wrong with him?"

"Beats me. He just yelled to stay away, made a mess, and five minutes later, he was on the floor, not doing anything." Morro made a motion to pick Jay up, but his hands went right through. "I swear, I didn't do this to him. It was one of the ghosts after me. Somehow, they knew I was here and attacked…"

Lloyd was hyperventilating in the hallway.

Nya went out to try and calm him down while Cole had to (very gently) pick up his friend and carry him to the dining hall, where he was put down on the table.

It was creepy, the way Jay's eyes watched him.

Dead.

Unfeeling.

There wasn't even a twitch.

He had to do something about that…

In a box, in the garage, there was a bright pink sleep mask Dareth would wear when he stayed in the temple for a time. Dareth wouldn't mind if he used it to cover Jay's face, right? Besides, the Brown Ninja wasn't even there.

It took him a while, but he found the sleep mask.

When he was back in the kitchen, he thought for a moment that Jay woke up, but it turned out to be Morro who was moving him to make him more comfortable.

The ghost gave him the most evil glare possible when he saw what Cole was doing. "Don't do that. He wants to see."

"No he doesn't! He's doesn't want anything! Look at him!" Cole put on the sleep mask, receiving a couple of light shocks for his efforts (but that was to be expected) and could finally breathe when Jay wasn't staring at him anymore.

Morro angrily removed the mask. "He wants to see!"

Cole tried to get the mask back from Morro, but he vanished into the floor, taking the mask with him. "Come back with that! I don't want him staring at me like that!"

Lloyd came into the kitchen to find Cole screaming at the floor like a panicked loon. "What's going on?"

"Jay's eyes are creepy like that, so I tried covering them up, but then Morro came and uncovered them and went into the floor."

Lloyd looked over at the table, where Jay was lying, just…

Staring…

"He's dead."

Cole grabbed Lloyd by the shoulders, firm, but gentle. "He's not dead, he's just…" Cole wasn't sure what he was. "Not dead…"

Nya came running in from the hallway. "What happened?! He's okay, right?!"

Cole had to run over to calm Nya down. "He's okay, Nya. He's okay, okay?"

Lloyd started shaking Jay. "Jay! Wake up!"

He wasn't really being gentle, but nothing happened.

"Lloyd! You have super-strength! You'll make things worse!" Cole ran over to get Lloyd off Jay as he said that. "Let him go!"

"His eyes are creepy…" Lloyd whispered.

Cole grabbed the next best thing to cover Jay's face, which was a tablecloth.

It covered Jay entirely, which made Nya start crying.

"He's not a corpse and this isn't a morgue! Take that off!"

The tablecloth was pulled off and Jay was thrown off the table, much to the annoyance of Morro, who just came back in and started screaming at them for dropping him.

Lloyd was shaking Jay again and Nya started threatening Morro, demanding that he explain.

"I'm a fugitive from some bad ghosts and I was here since he came back from his parents!" Morro yelled, pointing at Jay to explain the "he" he was talking about. "He knew! I asked him to help and he did! And now, one of them got their hands on him and now he's like that!"

Nya lunged at him.

Lloyd caught her and held her back, giving the ghost a chance to escape, which he used to pick Jay up and put him back on the table instead of fleeing.

"Guys, I'm calling Zane," Cole told them. If anybody knew what to do, it would be him.

Morro nodded as he tried to rearrange Jay to be more comfortable. "He's the robot, right? He'll know what to do about this…"

Lloyd was still trying to hold Nya back by the time Cole found his phone and called Zane.

"Hello, Cole. We have just found something interesting."

Cole didn't have the time for this. "I don't care! It's about Jay!" Morro seemed to be important in all of this too. "And Morro too, I guess, but mostly Jay!"

"What is it?" Zane sounded very concerned. "Is Jay okay? And what's the thing about Morro?"

"I don't know! Apparently he's been here since Jay came home from his parents' and someone's after him and we were just watching movies when Yang appeared in the living room, said he had something to show us…"

Cole knew he was ranting, but what else could he do?

Lloyd was shaking Jay again. Nya was sobbing on the floor. Morro looked like he'd rather be anywhere else at the moment. Cole was in a mixed state of all three.

Yang didn't seem too worried about what was happening.

"Lloyd! Stop shaking him! It didn't work before, and it's not going to work now!"

"He's dead!" Lloyd cried. "He's dead, he's dead, he's dead!"

Cole didn't want to think about it, but he couldn't calm Lloyd down very well either. "I know, but…" Cole shoved his phone to Lloyd. "Here. Talk to Zane."

Lloyd wasted no time in telling Zane that Jay was dead.

Nya wasted no time in protesting.

And Morro, the source of all the drama, was on the floor, picking up things that were tossed around while Cole was on the phone.

Why was Morro, of all people, so concerned with Jay?

Wait.

Apparently, Jay had an older brother (who he didn't want to talk about) and Morro had a younger brother who was between seventeen and twenty.

Jay was between seventeen and twenty.

And if Morro didn't die, he would've been twenty-seven, which is the right age for the baby in the magazine.

Did Jay know? Did Morro know? Judging by Jay's reaction earlier, before, it would seem that Jay did, in fact, know.

Was that why Jay helped Morro hide for two days, even though they were enemies?

But it wouldn't explain why Jay didn't tell the others.

Lloyd was hyperventilating because Morro absentmindedly went through him, as if he wasn't even there, to pick up a spoon.

Nevermind. Cole could see why Jay didn't tell anyone.

And since he was his friend, Cole wouldn't tell anyone either. That was up to Jay.

Well, not Cole knew why exactly Jay was so furious when Kai messed with his shampoo and dyed his hair black for a week. And the "lying old man" thing made sense too, if Sensei knew.

Who was he kidding, Sensei would definitely know. He knew everything, and in his book, Sensei said he knew. Or something like that.

That's why Jay tore out the pages.

Speaking of Jay, Lloyd was checking his pulse and crying at the same time.

Morro started making sandwiches, which is pretty hard to do if you're a ghost, Cole remembered. Everything was hard if you couldn't touch anything without an incredible amount of focus.

Nya was getting ready to attack the ghost again, leading to Cole having to hold her back and get her to calm down before she does something she might regret.

"Kai and Zane are on their way," Lloyd announced. He was poking around Jay again. "Are you sure he's not dead?"

The piece of cheese Morro was working with fell through his hands behind the Green Ninja. "He's not dead. You felt his heartbeat. Dead people don't have those."

Okay. Now that Cole saw it, he couldn't unsee it. Morro and Jay had the same light spray of freckles on their faces and their eyes were of a similar shape. He couldn't be sure if their eyes were the same colour, because Morro was covered in the same sickly green shade which all ghosts were covered with and Jay was still doing his impression of the world's creepiest lamp, but he was willing to bet that if Morro was still alive, then their eyes would be the same colour.

By the time Kai and Zane came in, everything had escalated.

Jay fell down two more times (once when Lloyd was freaking out again and once when Morro was being chased by Nya).

Unfortunately, nobody knew what to do next.

Don't worry, Jay isn't dead.