Another chapter? and it ain't tuesday? gasp? yeah i have like nothing to do during my internship due to big projects which i can't help with...
Nothing much had changed in the couple of weeks since the group returned from the Underworld, a Garmadon sighting here and there, all had been a false alarm. Both Kai and his sister had officially moved into the monastery, the latter ended up bunking with Calli, who was glad for a female companion.
Nya was 14 years and very useful to have around, she was handy with all of Jay's tools and the one to help Calli keep the others in check. She was also very stubborn and wanted to train with the boys, which Kai didn't allow it because it was dangerous. So, she and Calli ended up sparring in secrecy, Calli more by force then by choice though. Nya would write down and memorize all of the lessons Sensei gave to the boys and then the two of them would go down the mountain to train after dinner. Calli quickly took a preference to sticks or staffs while Nya had taken one of her brother's swords.
Calli herself was currently seated against the door Wisp's pen. The blue dragon was leaning his head on top of hers and kept breathing hard trough his nose to play with her hair, enjoying the fact he could blow it up and it fell down again. He enjoyed the silliest things. Meanwhile the redhead, as per usual, had her nose in a book while she was singing along softly with the music that was playing from the small cd player she's borrowed from Kai a few days back.
It was a sunny day and she couldn't, for her own safety, sit in in the training court during practice, it happened one time too many that she nearly got hit with a dummy or one of the other pieces of equipment as the boys practiced their Spinjitsu.
As she blew a ginger curl from her face she heard footprints coming down the steps, followed by Nya's laugh.
"Wisp discovered that even my hair is affected by gravity and he's completely fascinated by it." Calli explained as the dragon once again blew her hair up. "Cut it out ya idiot." She carefully pushed his head away and stood up to join the other girl.
"Are you up for some more training tonight?" The black-haired girl asked as she started to pet Flame.
"As long as you try to keep me in one piece, I might."
"I'm afraid I can't promise that." Nya laughed, remembering last training when she'd hit her friend in the head with her stick once the girl had lowered her guard, resulting in a cut in her forehead, a headache and questions from the boys.
Calli let out a small laugh, remembering the two of them trying to explain what happened. Calli knew how to weasel her way out of a conversation, Nya… not so much. In the end, they settled with the excuse she'd slipped on the stairs and hit her head.
"So," The ginger changed the conversation. "What's up with you an' Jay?"
Nya turned away, face just a bit reddened. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Sure ya don't." Calli said sarcastically, grinning like the Cheshire cat and had a knowing look on her face. Flame blew a wisp of smoke in Nya's face. "See, even your brother's dragon doesn' believe ya."
"I could ask you the same thing." Nya just rolled her eyes and brushed the soot from her cheeks. Calli stood up and stretched her back and neck, not commenting on the girl's retort.
"So why did you go here? You know the boys won't be up before ten."
Calli shook her head. "Zane usually gets up around 7, Makes breakfast and starts meditating. Cole is next, around 8 or 9, depending, goes to directly make coffee and helps himself to leftovers from the day before, Kai and Jay sleep till 10 if given the chance and then usually grab leftover coffee, or tea depending on Jay's mood." The redhead looked up to see Nya staring at her. "What?'
"You really do pay attention to them." Her friend said with a smile, making Calli raise an eyebrow and scoff.
"'Course I do! I may not be very social but I do care about them. Who told ye otherwise?"
"Kai." Both girls said. "My brother acts on his guts, he also judges with them."
"I do not!" The voice of an insulted Kai interrupted. Only moments later the boy himself came around the stair corner. Flame pushed his head against his rider, as if he agreed with the girls.
"We're just joking" Calli said and leaned against Rocky's stable door.
"Not fair, Kai, you can't just- Hey, is that my shirt?" The three turned to see Jay, Cole and Zane walk down the steps towards them. All of them moving towards their respective dragon.
Calli looked down at the shirt she was wearing and back to the Ninja of Lighting.
The girl gave him a raised eyebrow. "Whose fault was it that all my clothing ended up soaked in paint? No way in hell I'm going to walk around in my underwear"
"It was Cole's paint!" Jay defended himself, face red from the girl's last statement.
"Don't bring me into it!" The said Ninja called from the inside of Rocky's stable, also trying to hide a red face. Zane probably was the only one who didn't have some sort of blush on his face.
Jay opened his mouth again to retaliate but Nya was quicker.
"You only have 2 pairs of jeans and 3 shirts! You know what, I'm going to take you shopping right now." By the look on the youngest face, the ginger girl could tell she wouldn't be able to escape this one.
"With what money?" Calli managed to squeak out, her voice somewhat normal to her own surprise.
Nya shrugged. "I'll pay."
"No." It was a short, determined answer. "No-one is paying anything for me."
The others eyed each other, thanks to what happened with the golden weapons, Calli had opened up some more, even more so when Nya came to the monastery. None of them had heard her original tone from then on, Until now. The cold tone in her voice and the matching face.
Silence followed making Calli suddenly realized her mistake and shrunk down somewhat. They were only trying to help her. "Sorry." She muttered softly and averted her eyes
Kai tossed his arm over her shoulder. "It's fine. But you're still going shopping with us."
"Us?" Both girls and Jay asked. Cole poked his head out of the stable with raised eyebrows and Zane just shrugged. "Don't you have chores?" Nya asked her brother with a pointed look.
"The dragons can use some time to spread their wings, she needs new clothing, we get time off, it's a win-win-win honestly."
By now, Calli really didn't see a way out. She sighed and gave in, no matter how much she hated it.
"Fine, As long as it's not Ninjago city or Stiix."
Calli had taken the liberty to steal a vest from one of the boys, it was Cole's, taken from the size and color, and was currently seated behind Zane on the back of Shard. Nya was riding with Jay, despite obvious glares and protests from Kai.
The ride was silent apart from the occasional showing of between the guys. Calli was clinging to Zane for dear life, Shard was a fast dragon, not as fast as Wisp but a very, very close second.
These where the moments she wished she'd gone with Cole or Kai, Rocky was the most careful and Flame was the slowest or just the laziest.
The redhead was probably the only one not enjoying the dragon rides.
"You okay?" Kai called out with a laugh.
Calli scoffed and pushed herself further into Zane's back when Shard had to evade a flock of ducks.
"I hate dragons!" The four said dragons looked at her. "No offense."
Cole laughed as he patted Rocky. "How is that not offensive?"
"Shut it, Steele!" Cole just rolled his eyes at her use of his last name. "I'm flying with you next time." She muttered afterwards.
Kai had heard her statement and let out a laugh, Earning a weird look from the rest and a glare from the ginger.
"So, what do you prefer to wear?"
"Everything apart from dresses or frilly things, preferably a light blue color or purple." Both Calli and Nya eyed the black-haired boy with confused looks.
"What? You told me a last week, remember?" Cole threw his hands up in a defensive motion. "During our climbing session?"
Calli nodded, somewhat surprised he actually remembered.
The group had spilt up in two teams of 3, with Zane, Kai and Jay getting groceries and Cole ended up picking the short straw and went shopping with the girls.
"Yeah, 'm just… surprised ye did." She said, her eyes focussed on the road and shops ahead until something caught her eye, a local bookshop. Eyeing the various titles in the window, she made a mental note to escape Nya to take a look around.
"Come on guys, I found something." Calli's head snapped up and walked up to her friend, Cole on her heels.
The store the black-haired girl had found was more or less to her taste. Mostly long-sleeved shirts, nothing too revealing and most of it looked like older clothing.
"I'm going to find a chair to sit on. Call me if you need me." Nya snickered as Cole bolted to the fitting rooms to find a bench or chair to wait. Calli however groaned as her only moral support left, no matter how useless or useful he would be.
"Let's get this over with."
Nya groaned as shopping for Calli proved more difficult to imagine. Due to her petite frame and the unusual skin tone and eye-color. Jeans and skirts weren't the problem, it was the shirts, Since the girl didn't want to go all black, finding something was quite the challenge. They had one completely black sweater but that was it. Eventually forcing Cole to help. He agreed as long as it wasn't looking for fitting underwear.
"Why are you so difficult." Nya groaned under her breath making Cole snicker. "She's just different."
"Different?"
"Yeah." The boy didn't elaborate on it as he pulled something from the rack. "What about this?" He called out towards the Redhead on the other side of the store. Her head snapped up and moved towards the two.
Nya grinned at the shirt. It was a black one sleeved shirt with a long sleeve. Under it, it looked like a lighter blue tank top and there was a loose blue sleeve hanging over the hanger, to go over the left arm. "Go fit it!" Calli just nodded, took the hanger and moved to the fitting room.
Calli returned pretty fast, shirt back on the hanger.
"and?"
She gave a shy smile."it fits."
Calli looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing the shirt Cole had found. She found it weird to look at herself without her signature hood upon her head. Instead she had her whole face visible to see. She felt naked and awkward but somehow, she didn't dislike it? Calli didn't do well to changes, this being one of them, running from police and angry marketman had taught her to hide and run, so she usually had routine in her work. She was surprised how much she had opened up the last year. She was used to people hating her, hurting her and betraying her, so she used to think that Wu had an ulterior motive for taking her in.
And then Jay arrived. She remembered all the times he tried to open her up, despite her sour attitude. Sure, it had sparked more arguments then an actual talk, but he tried. Zane was different, he never bothered her if she didn't want to be bothered and most of the time no more than 4 words and a polite "good Moring" passed between them. By the time Cole arrived, she was still off on her own. Doing chores, reading her books, arguing with Jay. Cole became the in-between road. He left her when she wanted to be alone, but not before letting her know she could call for him should she need anything. Yes, it was the same the others did, but it was more on her terms then Jay's annoyance or Zane's… Indifference? She didn't know how else to call it.
Her eyes fell to the clock, Nya would be waiting for her at the base of the mountain by now. The boys had to go off to another sighting around Birchwood Forest, so they wouldn't be back for at least a couple of hours.
With a sigh, Calli put on a pair of long fingerless gloves and made her way down the mountain steps.
"There you are! I see you've changed." Greeted the black-haired girl.
"Yeah, on demand from Jay, He wanted his shirt back. Anyway, ye ready or what?"
Nya grinned and tossed her friend her Staff. Calli quickly put her hair in a ponytail before Nya charged at her.
So what you think about this? I loved to write the beginning xD after this, we'll officially start at the first season :D
Onto the reviews :)
SweetHeart114: Haha, I know the feeling of that. It happened more then once with me that I burst into laughing while reading something xD Only I often laugh harder when I get weird looks XD And don't worry! we aren't done by a long shot.
It'sYourGirl: I love the dragons as well. I just find it sad that there isn't much done with them. So I was glad I got to play with them befriending them xD.
Also.. a quick note. I probably won't include season 6 into this story. I'll give the reasons for it if people want but it's a whole essay so yeah. And as for Cole's last name. I read somewhere that Kirby Morrow (Cole's voice actor) would give him that name if he could and i liked it better then the more "Canon" ones. So yeah, until they tell us his real name it's Steele in this story.
Anyhow hope you enjoyed :)