Chapter Eight: Rainstorms and Shopping...oh and Meddling Teammates.
"It's raining it's pouring... the old man is snoring..."
"Storm...stop singing. You sound terrible." Ocean threw a waded up piece of paper at her brother's head.
Storm ducked, eyes flashing as he turned to glare at his sister. Amber sighed as she closed her textbook, something telling her that she wasn't going to get anything done once again. "Ocean's right. You are a terrible singer and have been one since the day you were born."
Storm flung a hand up over his heart, dramatically flinging himself backwards. "Ah! My own cousin has turned against me!"
AJ shook her head, slamming her own textbook shut as she gestured at the window which showed a gray sky. "No... pretty sure its the weather. It's been raining nonstop since we got back from our first mission last week."
Groans escaped the group as all eyes turned to the window. Rocky, who surprisingly had less musical talent than Storm, stood up from her seat, walking across her father's classroom to glare out the window. "Since there's nothing to do... how about we do something for a change? Not school or ninja stuff. Just normal average everyday teen things?"
"Uh...that actually might be fun..." Icey tilted her head, glancing over at Juni, who slowly nodded his head in agreement.
"Sensei..." "It's sounds weird when you call Dad that..." "Gave a mission to the Siren Squad this morning and all classes that aren't necessary for ninja training are canceled... and we've already done all of those classes." Juni ignored the way Amber cut him off.
Amber sighed, her gaze darting down to the textbook in her lap. "So what I'm wearing is that we need a break and a trip to the city is on everyone's minds?"
"Ooh! Yes! Shopping!" Ocean began jumping up and down, her eyes lighting up with excitement over her favorite activity.
AJ and Amber both groaned, before glancing at each other in surprise. Apparently Ocean used both cousins allowances when shopping, Icey smiled glancing over at Amber, "You know this might be a good idea for team bonding. Didn't the last generation was known for being extremely close?"
Amber felt a jolt as she realized that Icey had a point. "You're right. To the city for some... well we do have some tourist attractions that aren't a certain amusement park."
"And shopping!" "We best ask Uncle Kai if we can't borrow one of the self-driving cars to carry all the stuff my sister is most likely gonna end up buying..."
Icey snorted as she held up a bright green shirt up to Amber, one eyebrow raised. "I don't believe it... they already have merchandise for AJ..." Confused, Amber glanced down to see that it had AJ's picture on it, well. It was her wearing her new ninja gi.
"Green Ninja is the most important one... so yeah. Makes sense to me that she'll have merchandise." Amber shrugged, looking up at Icey. "Does it come in her size? I bet she'll find the whole thing funny."
AJ stuck her head through another rack, sticking her tongue out at them. "I heard that. And no I wouldn't find it funny unless everyone has a shirt with their respective pictures on it."
Ocean rounded the corner, holding a stack of dresses. "I can totally do that! Except that no one has come out with those. Just the Green ninja."
Rocky looked up from her sketchpad that she was sketching in, one eyebrow raised. "I can make it happen. Even make it more our own personal style."
"What? Your old man has a private fashion designer for his shows?" Amber blinked as she stared at her teammate.
The new master of earth smiled sheepishly as she held up her sketchpad. "No...that's just what I'm good at. I mean... I design clothes. And sew them. I made most of my wardrobe."
"Cool!" Amber grinned at that, recalling how fashionable her wardrobe was. "Think you can change our gis up? At the moment we look like we're wearing our parents old gis."
"Sure." Rocky flipped her sketchpad to a new page, before glancing over at Icey suddenly. "Hey...where are the boys?"
"Arcades. Storm said something about shopping being for girls only."
"Ah...okay."
Amber smiled to herself, before wondering away from her friends?, could she call them that already?, moving towards her favorite aisle in every single store. Even after her parents and their friends retired from being ninjas, most stores kept their ninja merchandise. A grin crossed her features upon seeing that there was new green ninja merchandise on sale... and it wasn't Lloyd Garmadon. Shaking her head at how quickly AJ was getting a fan base, she picked up an action figurine of her, turning it over in her hands as she examined it carefully...
"I guess New Ninjago High isn't the only school that was cancelled today due to technical issues?" Sam appeared behind her, carefully readjusting his glasses.
Amber felt her heart lurch to a stop, before casually, okay it looked forced but she was going for casual!, leaned against the shelves lined with ninja merchandise. "Oh! Hey there Sam! Didn't see you there!" Am I blushing? No...worse! Am I sweating!? Did it just get hot in here?! Amber swiped a hand over her forehead... crossing any and all mental fingers that she wasn't doing either.
Sam shuffled his feet together, looking rather uncomfortable. "So...um... I was wondering if you've seen the new movie...?"
"The Prince and the Princess? No I haven't seen it. Not super into princessy things... though I guess according to the trailers she's more of a fighter. Sorry I couldn't be of any help." Amber shrugged, before turning and walking off. Upon finding her friends, Storm and Juni included, watching the exchange, she stared at them. "What?"
Ocean groaned, before slapping herself in the face. "Amber! He was trying to ask you out on a date! It was so obvious! Besides that... haven't you had a crush on him since seventh grade when he moved here?"
Amber squeaked at that, having not realized that Ocean knew about that detail. "Ocean!"
Icey sighed, before marching over to Sam, who had noticed their interaction and looked completely lost. "She'll pick you up tomorrow at five so you can catch the earlier showing and get dinner. May I suggest the Chen's Noodle House?" She didn't wait for an answer, merely leaving the aisle as she swept past her stunned teammates.
Juni cleared his throat, amusement dancing in his eyes. "I think my sister just arranged a date for you..."
Amber wasn't too sure what to think about what just happened... maybe scream endlessly into her pillow once home?
A/N: Done! I couldn't concentrate/writer's block for this story. Sorry! Anyways, today is raining and while moving aimlessly to get energy out since I can't go outside to do that, I am chanting the it's raining it's pouring song in my head... then next thing I knew I had Ocean snapping at Storm about him being a lousy singer... quickly opened this and started typing. Inspiration comes from anywhere. Also, apparently Rocky, unlike her father, doesn't have any musical talent... but is talented when it comes to fashion! (By the way... I'm not so don't ever ask me what exactly they're wearing...)
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Xola: I know... it was too easy! Something going wrong... oh we probably should wait since I don't want to spoil anything! As for their ninja names, I kinda want that to be a running gag amongst them. Eventually they'll get the hang of it. Until then it'll make everyone laugh and smile.
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