"Should we tell Lloyd?" Misty asked Nya quietly. "We definitely shouldnt tell Lark so soon after."
Nya sighed. "We'll have to tell Lloyd, but I'm just not sure if he'll tell Lark. He shouldnt, it's better for her health, but he hates keeping secrets, especially once that's this big."
Misty looked down at her hands. "We could always force him to quiet down about it, but what would we tell him?" She asked. "Winter told you an awful lot."
"He was in a hurry, he couldn't be kept up long, probably put a lot on the line to tell us."
"If we ever see him again, you'll have to properly thank him for that." Misty nodded slightly. "Thanking him is the least we can do."
"Yes, I think freeing him from his current position is the best we can do right now though." Nya sighed, holding the shard Krystal had gifted her close to her chest. "Do you know how to make necklaces with ancient material?" Nya asked Misty.
Misty leaned back in her chair slightly and said. "No, I know how to make necklaces, but maybe you can call up those two archeologist friends you have. With their knowledge on ancient stuff and my knowledge on necklaces we should be able to do that, why?"
Nya held out her hand and revealed the shard. "This is a magical crystal shard given to us by Winter."
Misty picked it to carefully and said. "Oh yeah, definitely should call those two up for this, This is probably older than Winter." She added lowly, placing it back into the palm of Nya's hand.
"Let's head back to the Monastery, I just wanted to bring you out here to talk about that without Lark or Lloyd overhearing, the boys are filling in everyone else."
Misty nodded. "No problem, but a coffee shack probably wasnt the best place to bring me too." She added with a small laugh.
"Probably not." Nya giggled. "C'mon, I wanna see my little girl."
"Of course you do!" Misty laughed.
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"Well, have you decided what to do?" Cherry asked the group of people that had gathered around her. The Goddess showing no sign of willing to give in her own input. This was their choice.
"We'll tell Lloyd." Nya began. "We will also contact her doctor and see if we can figure out when it will be safe to tell some very upsetting news, but we'll try and be vague on it." She continued on. "And we'll contact Clutch and Zoe and see what they can about this crystal so we can turn it into a necklace for Juliantha with our harming any of the powers within it."
Cherry nodded. "That seems wise, might I give my own recommendations?" She asked.
"Please do." Skylor whispered.
"Contact the doctor first and tell Lloyd what the doctor stated." Cherry told them. "It'll make him more hesitant to tell Lark since the doctor has given his advice on when to tell her."
Misty nodded. That made sense. Cherry continued on though and said. "When you gift the necklace to Juliantha, tell her that it's a gift from the two nerds you're inviting, and if she worries about it harming her daughting in anyway, tell her it wont and that the two nerds highly reccomend she wears it constantly, they didnt tell you why, because they wanted it to be a surprise, but that they went out of their way to ensure it wouldnt harm the little one."
"That's a good idea." Nya said. "Lark knows Clutch and Zoe wouldnt hurt Juliantha."
"She also wouldnt put it pass them to gift her daughter a magical device."
"What if she asks how come the other children dont have any?" Jay asked suddenly, his face completely serious.
Cherry narrowed her eyes and responded with. "Tell her they havent found one that would suit the other kids, just so she knows how selective they have to be."
"Okay." Jay mumbled. "Who wants to call Lark's doctor?" He asked, looking around.
"I'll call up Clutch and Zoe." Kai said.
"I'll call up her doctor." Nya decided. "I'll tell Lloyd after I'm done, just try and keep Clutch and Zoe out of Lark and Lloyd's sights until Lloyd knows what's going on."
"Wouldnt they get confused that Clutch and Zoe dropped off a gift, bit didn't meet Julie?" Misty asked.
"Tell them that Zoe or Clutch were sick and they couldnt stay long." Another voice spoke, much more gruff.
Cherry immediately summoned her blazing sword the second she heard the unfamiliar voice, but Nya quickly managed to interfere. "Ronin! How long have you've been standing there."
"The whole time." He responded. "Wu called me up and demanded I get here immediately. He wants me to figure out some kind of cure for whatever the hell is going on, he didnt tell me what was happening though, so I figured I'd listen in."
"Great." Cherry mumbled. "A theif." Her sword disappeared though, clearly seeming him okay.
Ronin raised an eyebrow and said. "You share an ability Morro has, that's interesting. He was the only elemental master I knew to do that."
Cherry growled lowly and said. "My abilities dont matter."
Ronin nodded in response. "Of course, but can someone explain to me what I'm supposed to be researching right now?"
"I can do that." Cherry whispered. "You all should deal with your young and your duties right now."
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"Wow, that's a lot." Ivan spoke on the other of the phone, luckily for Nya, she caught him on her break when she called the hospital, and demanded to speak to him. Using what little power she had as a ninja.
"Definately not now." He said. "It was an incredibly rough pregnancy and she's still gonna have to be coming in constantly, if you have enough time, maybe in a few days, the longer you hide it from her the worst she'll react. When you do tell her, explain to her that you were just waiting for her to be completely okay before you let her know of what's happening."
"Sure thing, thanks Ivan. That will make things a lot easier with Lloyd."
"Not a problem, please take care of Juliantha and Lark."
"I will." Nya smiled to him. "I promise."
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"I'm not sure I can find a cure for that kind of thing, especially with Irene." Ronin sighed, rubbing his temple.
Cherry sighed and said. "I understand, but clearly you'll be the only one who can find information like that and not get in trouble." She informed him. "If we had those other two do it, we'd be risking a lot and we simply cant ask them to sneak around like that."
"I know." He grumbled. "I'll see what I can do, let me talk to Irene first though."
"Of course."
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"Looks like the power is channeling down here." Zoe observed.
Clutch nodded and gently pressed against the shard, pushing against certain points. "You said this thing is a shard, right?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Correct." Misty nodded.
Zoe looked to her significant other and stated. "So it's already been broken."
Misty nodded once more. "Yeah."
"You can drill here, but do so incredibly slowly." Clutch suddenly said, taking out a marker and placing a mark on the crystal. "This type of artifact will work around any damages done to it, but there has the least amount of power coursing through it and if you do it slowly, it'll warp around the drill and the crystal will not even notice and damage done to it."
"That works for me." Misty noted once she examined the crystal. How the hell did he notice that just by feeling it around. "How did you notice the power difference?" She asked him.
Clutch shrugged. "I've always been able to I guess."
Misty nodded. "I'll accept that answer." She smiled. "Thank you."
"No problem."