So now everybody knows the tea. Well not the literal tea that they are trying to make. But the drama tea. Is that all Bree has failed to mention? Probably not. Awkward and cringy times ahead we go.
Bree made her way over to the bounty. Privacy and quite was at a premium with so freaking many people staying at the airjitzu temple. She hoped up the plank that Jay's dad had put together. They seemed like nice people, Jays adopted parents Bree thought. Walking thru she could hear people moving around one of the cabins down below. Nya and jay had probably decided to head to bed early tonight. Even getting a few min of peace and quite here was next to impossible. Making her way to the back of the ship she eventually saw Cole sitting with his legs dangling out thru the railing.
"Hey" Bree said quietly. Not wanting to startle Cole. He didn't turn or speak, but she could see him flinch. Bree didn't get closer to him and instead leaned into the doorway. It was early evening. And pretty to watch the sun setting if you didn't have a care in the world. And Bree had many.
"I am so very sorry. If I had known, if I had been in Ninjago..." Bree said getting cut off by Cole.
"You would have what? Made sure my mom didn't die? People get sick and die all the time" Cole said flatly.
"Your mom was wonderful, she watched me all the time when we were little. My mom brought me to visit Ninjago just to see her. I now realize she did that and totally avoided running into my own father. When my mom told me you had both died and we could never come back here it was awful. I would have done anything to help her. Realm jumped, come back to this miserable place. Anything" Bree told Cole.
"Why would she do that? Just never see or speak to her own best friend again" Cole asked.
"She told me it was because of the kappa, but really my mom could be a selfish spoiled rotten brat. It could have been out of fear of ever coming back to Ninjago. It could have been because she knew the fates were going to mess with my destiny as well. But given the fact that she knew who Slate was and who he was related to and was around when we first got married, before she was killed. I just don't know" Bree said. "Again, I am so very sorry".
"Why didn't you tell me all of this when we met? Why didn't you tell me the instant you saw me? If you knew me so well as a child" Cole asked scornfully.
"I didn't recognize you till you used your power. If you didn't know, you may have grown a tad bit" Bree said smiling then. "The last time I saw you was your mom carrying you home from some sort of outing with mm mom and I. We were so little. Not even in school yet. After that... well I was and still am a bit afraid of how you'd react". Bree finished.
Cole turned to look at her. She hadn't come any closer than the doorway. She was afraid of him? Really?
"Why bother? I mean once you stopped looking so terrible and got a few days rest you look like you could mop the floor with nearly anybody here". Cole asked still angry. "What do you care what anybody thinks?". Bree shot him an ugly look for saying she looked terrible.
"I care about the well being of my daughter, about my younger cousin. Half my family is dead. Dead dead. As in I saw the Kappa kill and then eat the corpse. I can not, will not, put them in any more danger. Even if some of you are technically family. Its not like I haven't seen my own family do some terrible crap and hurt people they are suppose to love" Bree her voice cracking.
"And what makes you any better than them? Lieing about who you are?" Cole snapped at her.
"I have not once lied, I have offered to help you ninja, yes for a price because that meant keeping Harumi safe too. When we first jumped into this realm I was so freaked out and scared I nearly tore Lloyds arms off. But I didn't. Because I try to be the better person. I try to do the right thing, even if it sucks. I certainly did omit some details. I had hoped we would be done and on our way to someplace safer by now" Bree said shrugging.
"And leave more of your own family without so much as a good bye? Lloyds probably your cousin, Sensi Wu is probably your dad. Alanna is defiantly my family. Don't you think any of us and her had the right to know that, to get to know each other?" Cole said scowling at Bree.
"To be honest, my mom left my dad for a reason, even if she was a spoiled brat of a princess. I thought he might be a jerk. Your cousin was defiantly a jerk. I didn't want to stick around just to find out you were exactly like him" Bree said.
Cole was up in an instant and he was pissed. His arms turned a glowing orange. Bree quickly backed out of the doorway away from him.
"I am absolutely nothing like him. I don't lie, I don't hurt people for my own gain. And I don't up and leave friends and family" Cole said anger.
Unintentionally Bree popped out and back in a few feet away. One hand raised as if she was going to use her power.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Cole asked her.
"You. You is what's wrong. Why the hell do I listen to Harumi. Go talk to him she says". Bree sputtered.
"What the hell is wrong with me" Cole said annoyed and confused.
"You and your weird glowing arms and totally immune to my magic. I've never seen anyone immune to it. Not your mom, or Slate, or my mom. And that weird color change thing with your arms, in elemental magic masters that usually denotes a shit storm of power. I dunno what it means in earth masters. That's creepy and scary. But not quite as creepy as those two nindroids. That's a whole other ball park of weird" Bree babbled erratically.
Cole took a step towards Bree hands raised gently trying to calm her down. And that promptly went to hell. Bree panicked and let loose a massive blast of magic at Cole. It did nothing to Cole. In fact he barely felt it brush him. The magic ball smashed into the door frame behind him. Damaging the door hinges with it.
"Watch what your doing!" Cole yelled at her.
"How about you don't tell me what to do!" Bree yelled back. "I tried to talk to you and be nice and where does that get me?".
"Well if you'd just calm down maybe I could also be nice. To you. Maybe" Cole yelled back again.
This time Bree intentionally lobbed a ball of magically energy right at him. Then another and another. Venting her anger and frustration. When it did nothing to Cole save make pretty lights Bree turned and blasted a chair into nothing but splinters. She stopped herself and raised her hands to her face. Very infrequently did she loose her temper and embarrass herself like that. She was about to apologize when Cole tackled her like a linebacker.
"Please stop blowing things up!" Cole said in frustration.
Bree turned first pink then red from embarrassment. She turned her head into her arm so she didn't have to look at Cole face to face. She managed to mutter a quick sorry. But didn't turn her head back to Cole. Squirming she then asked very quietly and muffled that Cole couldn't understand.
Cole privately thought he might be a little bit of an asshole for it, but he really liked to see Bree turn pink from embarrassment. Or get on her nerves. And he didn't exactly hate having to be so close to her either. Leaning his head down closer he whispered into her hair by her ear "What did you say?". When she didn't respond he sighed deeply and then said "Look, Im sorry I scare you. Im not doing it on purpose".
Bree turned her head back and their faces were but centimeters apart. Whatever she was going to say or do was cut off by a loud banging on the cabin door.
"What in Ninjago is going on! If you two are going to kill each other""... Jay yelled as he banged on the door.
"My ship, not on my ship!" Nya screamed over Jay. "Go break things outside!".
Cole and Bree looked at each other and then the door in panic. Cole still holding Bree they realized that it looked like...
More hits to the door. And then the sound of gushing water. It sounded like Nya was going to lift the door off its hinges to open it. Bree started to try and pop out of place. It failed with a poof because Cole was holding her.
"Oh no you don't" Cole ground out as quietly as he could.
"Why is it quite now. Are they dead?" Jay asked only half laughing.
Cole held onto Bree's hands with one of his and the snaked his arm around her waist tightly. She huffed at him. Two could play that game. Pulling up as much elemental and Djin magic as she could silently she popped them both away magically.
Nya finally popped the door off its hinges to reveal...nothing?
"Like I swear I heard people fighting in here" Jay said puzzled.
"I swear to all in Ninjago that Kai and Lloyds stupid pranks must end" Nya said with a huff.
Nya wearing a kimono and Jay nothing but his boxers and his left sock. Both turned to look out the port window at what was going on. All looked quiet, well as quite as the over packed temple could be. No one outside must have heard the clamor.
"Every time we get some alone time they pull this shit" Jay muttered.
"It will get better. We'll get some magic tea. Fight some bad guys. Save Ningago" Nya started.
"The only thing I want to start with you right now is..." Jay swooped in to kiss Nya. Both left the room holding hands.
On deck where Bree had popped to with Cole both held perfectly still and silent.
"Did we interrupt?" Bree didn't finish whispering.
"If I don't interrupt those two at least once a week Jay is probably sick. The big baby" Cole whispered back to Bree.
Both chuckled slightly that. Bree pulled her hands free and gently pushed up on Coles chest only for his arms to flash a dull orange with her touch. Cole sat back and then let her a hand to pull her up with him. His arms again glowing orange.
"So weird" Bree said. "I need to go check on Alanna". With that she tried to get down off the bounty as silently as possible. Which didn't go well as the plank Jays dad made creaked and groaned loudly. Looking back up at the cabin where Jay and Nya were Bree disappeared with a pop and reappeared a few feet away. Cole just jumped and spun and landed on the ground not a few feet from Bree.
"I honestly don't understand your spinny spinny thing either that you all do" Bree said to Cole.
"Spinjitzu? We all learned as ninjas with Sensi Wu" Cole answered her.
Rising her shoulders Bree shrugged. "Still don't get it, Must be a ninjago thing".
At that moment Bree and Cole spotted a ship flying in at speed from a distance. Really moving Cole thought. It looked like Ronin and Dareth were back. Bree turned to Cole and asked "Is something wrong?...Somethings wrong right?".
"I think your correct" Cole answered her grimly.
Both broke into a run into the yard where Morro and Lloyd still stood near the fountain. As Ronin set Rex down with a bang all of them could already hear Dareth calling for help. Apparently they had finally found Bo and a few others. Bo looked like he was in bad shape. The women and little girl with him looked like they were in shock and scared. But in one piece.
"Get Wu! and Misako! And maybe some more help than that" Ronin yelled.
Morro made for the kitchen doors once again. Dareth hadn't even tried moving Bo. Bo was seriously injured. Bree pushed forward past the others and assessed Bo's injuries.
"Why the hell didn't you take him right to a hospital?" She snapped at Ronin.
"Because sweetheart the instant anybody with elemental power of any kind shows their face down there they get swarmed by those devil turtle things. And to make it worse if one of them is bleeding it draws them in like blood in the water to a shark" Ronin snapped back.
Bree wondered how much experience this Ronin had with sea creatures but she had more urgent things to deal with. With an angry huff Bree pushed Dareth away, the second he let pressure up Bo started bleeding heavily. Holding both hands out she called up strong bluish purple magic and used it to seal off the worst of the wounds. Once she let up it set her back hard enough to nearly fall to her knees. Dareth and Ronin stepped back in shock. They hadn't really met Bree or knew what she could do.
"Get him inside. That was only a temporary fix. He needs serious medical attention" Bree directed them both. She was about to turn to Lloyd and say something when Bree was nearly knocked down with a hug. The women that came along with in Rex along with the little girl both enveloped her.
"Rowena?" The women asked.
"Brianna" Bree responded shaking her head.
"The women and the little girl turned and followed the ninja and others into the temple with Bo. Bree followed for a few steps, then headed upstairs to check on Alanna and Harumi first. Harumi stood over the makeshift box that served as a crib for Alanna. Looking up to see Bree Harumi visible relaxed.
"I came to check on you both. Another elemental master is hurt. Badly this time" Bree said sadly. Rubbing her eyes from the stress.
"This realm is never going to be safe. Not for you and Alanna or Morro. Not for anybody who has your kind of magic " Harumi responded slowly.
"Not with kappa everywhere that can find them so easily because of the curse" Bree answered her. Raising an eyebrow at Harumi mentioning Morro's well being.
"I don't know how to even start killing an army of kappa. Not with so few on our side. But if we could actually get that tea made it would raise everyone's chances of survival, even just being able to hide and blend in" Harumi responded.
Bree sensed she was going somewhere with this. "If I try and help find the last parts it puts me in danger and then how can I protect you both" Bree said tucking the blanket more snugly around Alanna. "And I can't set foot in cloud kingdom to get a spell book that actually belongs to me" Bree finished in annoyance.
"Morro has snuck into cloud kingdom before..." Harumi paused before starting again. "I think him and I can go get the spell book. And when we get back you can find the scale we still need and take Cole and some of the non elemental powered with you. That way at least one of us stays with Alanna at all times. If something should happen" Harumi finished with a gulp.
"I can't ask you to do something so dangerous, its my job to protect you" Bree said.
"I'm hardly a baby" Harumi sulked. Bree snorted at that.
With a sigh Bree turned and hugged Harumi. "I know what your getting at. If we don't help these people they aren't going to make it. Even if we do the best for us, for our little family. Its hurting others" Bree responded. "I have to go take care of the injured elemental master. After...we go talk to the others ok?"
Harumi for a change hugged Bree back and both then turned and looked at Alanna sleeping quietly.