Nya

Nya was in a mood.

Her boyfriend was in some kind of come, which nobody knew anything about, except for Morro, who wasn't exactly a friend and couldn't be trusted.

And all Morro said anyway was that they couldn't cover his face, because he'd want to see what was going on.

That was pretty much all that happened yesterday, along with the chasing and the falling.

Oh, and then there was the whole thing where nobody could touch Jay anymore after he fell down several times, because he started generating more and more electricity and it was getting dangerous.

Much to her (vicious) regret, only the two ghosts could touch Jay without rubber gloves and rubber boots to avoid getting shocked and thrown across the room.

When morning came, she hoped that the previous day's events were nothing but a dream, but she was proven to be wrong when she walked down into the dining hall to find Jay still on the table and Kai attempting to move him while wearing a pair of rubber gloves, in order to avoid getting shocked and thrown into a wall , which was how they found out that Jay was generating more electricity than normally and which was how they got that nifty Cole-shaped hole in the one wall, the Zane-shaped dent in the fridge and the Lloyd-shaped burn on the floor.

Lloyd was, thankfully, completely fine and just absorbed some of the electricity and singed his hair.

Cole was practically a rock, so he was fine.

And Zane, being a Nindroid, was just as fine.

Cole took Lloyd to Ninjago City to get their hair fixed and to get away from the temple, which was, according to him, full of sad, quiet people who acted like they were at a funeral.

Not that she blamed them for leaving. In fact, she was just about to go out to Ninjago City to get Cyrus Borg to come in and see what could be done. And maybe get her and Kai's parents to come in and see as well, just in case this had something to do with his Elemental Powers.

It might, considering.

She was in Jay's room for a while before she left, looking for something that might explain how to help him. There was a box filled with action figures, old costumes and an entire series of pirate movies.

Under the bed, there was a fancy bag with an old shoe in it, as well as a note that said "Dear losers, did you really think I would hide it under my bed?" but nothing about what caused Jay to get all zappy like that.

She had no idea who the losers were that Jay left the note for, and she had no idea what "it" was, but apparently Jay found it important enough to hide.

But it was Jay, so it could be anything and anyone from Cole and pudding cups, to Lloyd and a cool invention Jay wanted to show later.

Jay would be soo happy when he could show the others one of his inventions for the first time and watch their faces when he explained in excruciating detail how exactly it worked.

But now he was gone and there was a piece of paper stuck on Nya's foot.

It was an article from a celebrity magazine from a few weeks back, carefully ripped out. Nya picked it up and put it in her pocket before leaving, promising herself to read it later.

She got in her car, deciding not to summon her dragon, as it would attract too much attention, and because, unlike the boys, she didn't care for it much.

She looked through her glove compartment for her wig so she wouldn't be recognised by people on the streets, because despite the fact that she wasn't one of the most popular ninjas (that was Kai), she was still fairly recognisable on the streets.

Suddenly, she heard voices talking behind the door.

"It's just you and me now." That was Zane. "We have the whole temple to ourselves."

"Unless you count Jay and Morro." That sounded like Kai.

"Morro is in Jay's room right now, trying to clean up the mess from yesterday."

"Well, what if the others come back early?" Kai sounded worried. "Or Morro finishes cleaning?"

"There's no need to worry, Kai. Morro's hands keep going through the things he tries to pick up and if you worry about the others, I'll check for them on the security feed."

Nya turned on her car, which was, thankfully, very quiet. Kai's voice spoke again. "So what do we tell the others we've been doing all day?"

"Perhaps we can tell them that we've been doing laundry." Zane's voice got sad. "It's such a shame that we can't do anything to help our brother wake up."

Nay pushed the button that opened the garage door and reversed out of there, wondering what the heck her brother and Zane were doing that they didn't want her or the others finding out.

Not that it mattered, because she was now in Ninjago City, heading straight for Borg Industries.

She got out of her car, wearing her fake glasses and her blonde wig, and walked in through the doors, straight to the receptionist's desk.

"Hi, I'm Natasha Romanov, I have an appointment with Mr Borg."

It was a fake name Nya used a lot. She didn't know where it came from, but she thought it sounded cool. Almost like she was a top-secret spy sent to kill a man.

"You'll have to wait a minute," the receptionist said with a bored, apathetic tone of voice, gesturing to the nearby couch, where a great, big, blonde man was loudly talking to the tiny, nervously shaking man sitting next to him, trying to calm him down.

Nya sat down as far from them as she could, ignoring the angry glare she got from an elderly janitor with the name "Stan" written on his nametag.

Her appointment was in an hour, so Nya would have to wait a while next to the boisterous blond who was excited about how great the coffee in the building was, while his tiny friend was trying to get him to calm down.

Just about when Nya started to get bored, she remembered the article in her pocket and brought it out to read it.

Famous actress, Julia Libber, just returned to her native Ninjago for unknown reasons.

After the death of her husband and their two children, who were nine and one respectively, Julia Libber left Ninjago and became a theatre actress in Metalonia, a profession she describes as being far more deserving of her skills than TV-acting. She said that she thought that she'd never return to Ninjago after the attack that killed her family, but something brought her back.

She refuses to say what it is, but many believe that it may have something to do with her deceased family and their murders. Others believe that she became a spy for the Metalonian government while there and simply wishes to gather up Ninjagoan secrets to sell for profit.

Underneath the article, there was a photo of a fifty-something woman next to a photo of a much younger blonde with a man and two children. They were the same woman, apparently, but the older woman seemed very bitter about something.

The article had more, but the next page wasn't there.

"Friend Banner, I have the feeling that we are in the wrong realm," the giant blond man suddenly announced, bringing out a giant hammer and vanishing into thin air, taking his tiny friend with him and startling everybody, including Nya.

The receptionist called out Nya's face name, telling her that Mr Borg was ready to see her now.

She went up the lift, all the way to Borg's office, and found the man waiting for her and smiling kindly.

"Nya, what a lovely surprise, my dear."

If Nya noticed that Borg's eyes were of a slightly different colour than usual, then maybe things would've been different. Maybe she could've helped him. Maybe she would've stopped talking. Maybe she would've noticed the out of character way that he moved and talked.

"It's Jay," Nya told him. "We found him unconscious in his room, eyes all glowing and he now, we can't even tough him anymore, because he's generating enough electricity to throw Cole though the wall and now, we have to handle him with gloves."

Borg nodded quietly, clearly thinking. "Well, I should probably come and see it personally so I can better know how to help."

Nya gave him a grateful smile. "Thank you."

If Nya paid just a little more attention, she could've avoided what happened next.

A ghost floated out of Borg's body, resulting him screaming (and screaming some more), and dodged Nya's blasts of water.

The ghost looked to be a young woman, about twenty, twenty-one, with long, flowing green-hued black hair.

She wore many robes, like the ones that were fashionable thousands of years ago, along with jade beads around her neck in many layers. Nya kept shooting blasts of water at the ghost, but the woman was too fast.

"You're going to have to do better than that, my dear." The ghost lovingly ran her fingers through Nya's wig, pulling it off with a gentle smile. "I used to be a Shogun, you know. I used to rule Ninjago. And I don't do well being the one to do the serving."

Nya shot another blast of water at the ghost, who dodged again and just looked disappointed.

"I was hoping that you would be of use to me, but if you can't even aim your power, then what's the use?"

The ghost vanished in a green mist, leaving Nya puzzled until she noticed the horrified way Borg was looking at her.

"She went into you," Borg gasped. "That's bad, so very, very bad…"

Nya tried to speak, but she couldn't open her mouth.

"As I said, Cyrus Borg," Nya heard herself speak, "I don't do well serving others. This girl was of great use to me, getting rid of the Preeminent."

Borg tried to wheel himself out of the office, but Nya felt herself leaping forward, grabbing the inventor and lifting him off the wheelchair. "The other ghosts, they are a threat to me and my interests." Now her voice was changing to be like the ghostly woman's. "I won't let them get to me again. Not like with the Preeminent. And not like before."

"What do I have to do with this? I never…"

Nya could feel herself being forced to smile, something she didn't want to do. "You were of use to me by aiding the ninjas. Now, you will be of use to me by aiding them again."

Borg made a confused sound. "Why do you need me to help…?"

"Well, I have extremely powerful ghosts under my command." Nya watched as the ghost moved Borg closer to her face against her will. She tried to fight back, but apparently this ghost was more powerful than Morro and she was weaker than Lloyd. "I have plans for Ninjago. Plans I don't want to get ruined like the Preeminent had her plans ruined. And for that, my soldiers need living bodies to stay unaffected by water. I think those ninjas would make pretty good hosts for them, wouldn't you agree?"

Borg glared at Nya. Or the ghost in Nya. "And what if I won't help?"

The ghost laughed as she left Nya's body. "Oh, my poor, innocent little bag of flesh!"

Nya gently helped Borg back into his wheelchair.

"I don't even need your consent!" The ghost pulled out a necklace with a strange pendant on it from her pocket. The pendant had a gem in the middle of it, which looked like the golden eye of a black cat. "All I need is to put this pretty little trinket around your neck, and you'll be possessed by the greatest, most brilliant, most genius PAIN IN THE GHOSTLY NECK EVER KNOWN TO NINJAGO!"

Nya created some water in her hands.

"It doesn't even have to be you. It can be anybody. From Nya here, to her boyfriend sitting in a coma back home, to even the homeless man digging through your junk for food." The ghost snuck closer. "I only need him in this whole mess, and he only serves me."

Nya shot a blast of water at the ghostly lady. This time, she didn't miss.

The amulet was dropped on the floor as the ghost vanished, this time not coming back.

"Thank goodness for water," Borg joked, but Nya could see he was still shaky from his recent encounter with the strange ghost. "So, you said you need my help with something, right?"

"It's okay if you don't want…"

"That ghost's been in my body since three months ago, hiding from something, pulling me along like a puppet on strings." Borg looked down at the amulet on his floor. "I need to get out of here, even if it's just for a little while."

Nya picked up the amulet as if she was picking up a bomb. "So what do we do with this?"

"Burn it, break it, I don't care, just keep it away from me." Borg wheeled himself to the elevator and waited for Nya to come along, putting the amulet in her pocket, just in case. Misako might know something about it and the ghost connected to it.

But now, she had another question for Borg, one that involved another kind of ghost.

"What do you know about Julia Libber?" she asked.

Borg froze a little, then he turned bright pink. "She was my first crush as a teenager."

Okay, so that made some weird mental images. "Gross."

Borg looked so insulted, that Nya couldn't help but laugh a little. "Sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that."

"Anyway, seventeen years ago, she left Ninjago because someone killed her family. Her husband, her two sons, she needed to get away." The elevator dinged to a stop in the lobby. "They never found the killers, but her sons' bodies were never found either, and sometimes, somebody comes out of nowhere and claim that they're one of her missing kids."

"That's pretty cruel, claiming to be some poor woman's dead kid," Nya whispered. "Why would someone do something like that?"

"Money, I guess." Borg allowed Nya to push him out of the doors and to her car. "Some people will do anything to get a lot of money for very little work, and pretending to be a mourning, very wealthy woman's long-lost son, well, that would be just the kind of work some people would be willing to do for that kind of money."

Nya helped Borg into the passenger side of her car and folded up his wheelchair to put in the back when she was done.

"It's still pretty cruel."

Borg nodded. "I know, Nya. The world just works that way sometimes."

"I heard she's back in Ninjago," Nya told the older man, who made the exact sound girls would make when her brother walked into the room.

"We should go see her!"

"Wait, Borg, no!" Nya tried to think of a good reason not to go. "We don't even know where she's staying!"

"Ninjago Luxury Holiday Inn!" Borg exclaimed, looking up from his BorgWatch. "Step on it!"

Well, the guy could use some cheering up, and it's not like Jay was going anywhere.

And truth be told, so could Nya.

Why not?


While writing this chapter, I discovered that my hair was finally long enough to be tied back again, so yay!

Also, we're going to meet Jay's birth mom pretty soon. Please comment! :)! (that's a loud smiley face, I'm smiling very loudly)

I'll also be starting another Ninjafo Fanfic very soon, which is an Element Swap AU, where all of the ninjas are more like real-life ninjas were (hiding in the shadows and stuff like that) and have very different elemental powers.