Lilac's P.O.V.
I wake up in my bed. Funny, I don't remember falling asleep in here. Or even coming in here. I shift a little, and sit up squinting. "What? What time is it?" "Seven fifteen." Someone says. I look over at the chair only a little away from my bed, smiling. "Were you here all night?" "No, just most of it." "I seem to have the unfortunate habit of falling asleep all the time. Hey, what day is it? I don't remember if we have class or not."
"Sadly, we do. It's Friday." "Darn it." "Yeah. Come on. Up you get." I stretch. "Okay, fine. Hey, what are we going to do about your parents? They're probably really mad at us." "Uh, avoid them, maybe?" "Perhaps. That may not work, though." "And we're going to have to be casual around the students. You remember I told you they know about us. Everyone does."
"Okay. Now go wait outside!" "Wait, why?" "Do you expect me to wear my clothes from yesterday?" "No. I'll be outside the door."
I wait until he's out the door and it's closed before getting dressed into white shorts, tank top, and knee-high boots. I wear boots with shorts. It's not weird, it's my style. (A/N, I actually do wear boots and shorts.) I pull my hair into a simple fishtail braid before walking outside. "Let's go!" I say. "You wear boots with shorts?" Lloyd asks. "Yeah, and?" "And nothing."
"Come on. We gotta go." I take of running, and he follows. We get there in about five minutes, because I accidentally turn into the wrong hallways a couple of times. "They all look the same! And I haven't walked though them enough by myself to know all of them!" "Still, it's kind of funny." "Whatever. So what do you want to do for class today?" "I say we do something hard."
"Like what?" "I don't know. Something hard. The three students that told the whole school about us are in this class, and all of this class helped to spread the word. So something hard kind of saying 'You shouldn't have done that'." I think for a couple minutes. Weapons comes to mind, but what weapons specifically?
We've done knife throwing, a bit of swordplay, a little basic archery…. Boomerang knifes. We haven't done boomerang knifes yet. Those are pretty hard, unless you're us." Lloyd thinks for a minute. "Boomerang knifes. Perfect. Where are they?" "Uh, in the small storage closet thing in here that has a thirty six on the door?" "Thanks."
I start to set up targets and ropes and things to aim for while Lloyd gets out the boomerangs. I love boomerang knifes. At first, they're really hard to work with, but I've been training with them for a really long time. "Hey wait, Lloyd? You know how to use these things, right?" "Um, sort of?" "That's fine. I can demonstrate." "I know how to, I just can't. So can I explain how to and you can demonstrate?" "That works."
I look up at the clock in the corner. It says it's almost eight. "Class is about to start."
And then Cole comes bursting in through the door. "Hey! I need some help!" "What is it?" Lloyd asks. "I really need some help before class starts. I've got this student who's an elemental master, and I've got to tell her. Her name is June, and she's got the power of form. But she hates everybody, especially me and Jay and Lilac for some reason. I need help on how to tell her." "Just go up to her and tell her. It can't hurt. Even if she's trying to ignore you, tell her anyway." Lloyd says. "Okay. Thanks."
As soon as Cole leaves, our students come in. Time to kick their butts.
*Time skip to after class, because I really need to get to the more alive part of this chapter.*
Lloyd's P.O.V.
After class is over, Lilac and I almost have a couple of run-ins with my parents, so we decide to go to the garden I took her to on her birthday. During the end of class, it began to snow. A sign of winter.
Once in the garden, we climb up a giant maple tree and sit on a large branch that has a great view of the sunset. Class ended up taking all day. Lilac stretches a little and moves closer to me. I intertwine my fingers with hers. "I wish our lives weren't so complicated and busy. Then we could just have a normal love story, and not one where we can't trust many people we thought we could, or where we almost end up dying a few times." Lilac says.
"Well, if we were just ordinary people, we probably wouldn't have met. And who would save NinjaGo? There seem to be so many people trying to wipe out NinjaGo, and not really anywhere else." "Point made. I'm just still scared that your parents are right, and that I'm going to get you killed. I love you too much to ever even risk getting you hurt."
"Hey, I'm tough. I'll survive. We both will. And when all of this is over, maybe life can just be normal for us." "If there is a normality for us." "You sound like Zane with your big fancy words." "Do not!" "Do too!" "Do not!" "Do too!" "Do not!" She says and playfully slaps my arm. "Fine, fine, I'll agree you don't sound like Zane. On one condition." "Oh? What's that?" Lilac asks, raising an eyebrow.
"That I get to kiss you." "Fine." She says, smiling just a little. And so we kiss. And then we fall out of the tree. Then I summon my dragon, but it's gold again instead of green. "What? But I don't have the golden power anymore!" I exclaim. "What your parents said must have been true! That being around me has reawoken your golden power!" Lilac exclaims.
"Awesome! Now, hold on!" "To what?!" "Me!" I pull on the reins, and the dragon flies upward extremely fast. Lilac freaks out a little bit and wraps her arms tightly around me from behind. She doesn't let go even a little, and I can tell she squeezes her eyes shut. "You can open your eyes now." I say when we get up to high altitude. She opens them, and looks at me sternly and says, "Do not EVER do that again without telling me. EVER." "Okay. Sorry." "It's fine. I am just not a surprise-loving person."
"Hey, Lilac?" I ask. "Yeah?" She says. "I need to show you something." "Okay." "First, we have to land. Can you enchant a cloud?" "Yes." She enchants a cloud, we land, and the two of us dismount. "This might be awkward." I say. I turn from facing her, and pull my shirt over my head. Lilac gasps. "How did this happen?! I thought only I had wings!"
"Well, not anymore." My wings are slightly smaller than hers, less angelic, and white gold. More, what's the word, male? I suppose?
"What do you think happened?" "I don't know. I think it might be that on the first night I met you, when you flew off, one of your feathers fell. I picked it up and have kept it ever since. When I got back to my room the night of your birthday, after being in the garden with you, it was glowing white gold. I picked it up, and was walking around my room when I tripped and fell. The feather fell on my back, and the next morning I woke up and I had wings."
"You mean to tell me," Lilac starts. "That you have had wings for over three weeks and haven't told me?" "I'm telling you now, aren't I?" "Can you fly?" "Yes."
She thinks for a second before getting an idea. "Do you want to go flying?" "Sure!" I answer. Lilac snaps and she's in her silver backless top, jumping off the cloud with her wings spread. I grab my shirt and follow her suit.
Crystal's P.O.V.
Being a school organizer is a hell of a lot more challenging than you'd think. I keep having to file different things and write this and than and blah blah blah. So after I'm done with everything, I go back to my room and go to bed early. The next morning I remember it's Saturday, so I sleep way in.
When I get up, I find Kai and everyone else in the kitchen. Zane has made a super awesome breakfast in our tiny kitchen area, consisting of bacon, omlets, scrambled eggs, sausage, muffins, coffee cake, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and heart-shaped pancakes. HEART-SHAPED PANCAKES?!
"What's got Zane so happy?" I ask Kai, watching Zane almost prancing around the kitchen still making stuff. "Pixal's coming today. He hasn't seen her in about a month." "Cool." I reply, munching on a muffin.
"Uh, what time is it? What day is it?" Asks Lilac. She, like me and everyone else other than Zane, didn't bother to get out of her pj's. "It's like seven-fourty or something. And it's Saturday." I say. "Oh, meh- OOOOO! COFFEE CAKE!" Lilac exclaims.
I laugh. Nothing can wake my best friend up like coffee cake, and maybe also muffins, pancakes, and hot chocolate. Everyone else comes and starts to eat everything, Zane still all smiley. After all of us finally get dressed around eight-thirty and are just hanging around in the bottom floor living room area, Zane walks back into the room with a girl. She has silver hair, white skin with purple markings, electric green eyes, and a kind smile.
"Everyone, this is Pixal. She is my friend, and she is also a nindriod." "Hello. I am Pixal, Cyrus's Primary Interactive Xternal Assistant Lifeform. It is nice to see all of you again." She talks more robotically than Zane, most likely because she isn't made with the same technology and programing.
She looks at each ninja in turn, most likely scanning and analyzing them. "Hello Kai. How are you?" "I'm pretty good." "Jay, how is your new android coming along?" "Oh it's great! It should be done soon." "Cole, how is breaking that record going?" "I'm so close! Most cakes eaten in five hours! I'm trying again tomorrow." "Nya, are your repairs on the samurai suit going well?" "Yeah. Just a couple more days and she'll be as good as new!" "Lloyd, are you regaining control over your powers?" "Yes, more and more every day."
Pixal turns to me. "You are Crystal. You were known as Skylar. You have ice powers and like white chocolate so much that you stole all of the white chocolate that Cole was going to use in his cake frosting." "Hey!" Cole says, obviously annoyed. "Well, it's nice to meet you Pixal." I say, holding out my hand. She shakes it after a second of hesitation.
She then turns to Lilac. "You are Lilac Elza. You control the silver element, as well as ice, snow, fli-" She stops, seeing Lilac's unnoticed stop signal. "You and Crystal are close friends, as are you and Lloyd. But you have not slept in over thirty-six hours due to your duties as-" "As a teacher! Yeah, I've been up kind of late grading some last minute term papers and such." Lilac cuts in. Pixal clearly knows who she is, but is not able to tell she should shut up.
Lilac holds out a hand. "It's, uh, very nice to meet you. Zane has told us a lot about you." As they shake hands, I see Lilac uses magic to send Pixal a message. Probably something like 'Don't tell who I am' and whatnot. Man, she's struggling to keep this a secret.
"We are going to walk around, and later visit NinjaGo City if anyone wants to join us for that." Zane says. "It sounds great, but I think we'll sit this one out. You two enjoy yourselves." I say.
They smile and nod, then join hands and walk away. I turn to everyone else. I'm going to go do whatever the heck. Bye." "And I'm going to follow her. Bye." I say, with Lilac replying. About twenty or so years ago, we came up with a code: if one of us says we're going to go do whatever or whatever the heck or something like that, it means we need to talk in private.
We walk into a random room, closing the door. "That was an… interesting exchange." "Interesting is an understatement." Lilac says. "Look, I wanted to ask you if… if I could, uh, if I could… tell Kai about us? I think it's time he knows. Besides, I can't keep it from him if we continue dating."
Lilac bites her lip. "You make a good point, but is it the best idea? I had a vision instead of a dream last night. I saw… I saw something from the future. Garmadon, he was evil again. He was his dark angelic self, Tenebris. He was wooing with his son." "Wait, wait, back up, so Lloyd was evil in your dream?" "No, I meant Lu-*clears throat* Cal." "Oh, yeah. Go on."
"So, they had my magic, and they were covering the world in darkness. But before that, I saw them create an evil Kai and Lloyd because they knew the real us. So I think it's rather dangerous. But if you trust him enough, I say go for it. But do it privately, we shouldn't trust anyone else."
"Okay! Thank you so much!" I squeal and engulf her in a bear hug. "Crystal…can't….. breathe…" Lilac wheezes. I let go. "Oh right, sorry. Now what do you want to do?" "Hunger Games marathon?" "YESSSS!"
And we run out of the room and up the stairs to my room, where we went sugar hyper while watching all of the THG movies before falling asleep, me on the floor and her on the couch. It was so fun!
