The group stared at a Hologram of one of the Fangblades projected in the middle of the room.
"They dug up the first one and there are three more." Nya explained the obvious. "And we just need one to stop Pythor."
"And they have a map and we don't" Calli finished for her. "So, the question remains: How are we going to find them first?"
The redhead had her hair bound together in a ponytail with a few curls framing her face as she walked to stand next to her friend. Unlike Nya she was still dressed in her Guardian outfit, only lacking the mask. Jay went off in a ramble over Nya and her being their helpers.
"We're over that!" Kai bristled obviously annoyed the others had been bragging.. "Can we move on!"
The blue ninja grinned as the Cheshire Cat. "Someone is a little hot under the collar." He challenged.
"It appears as if his impatience is because he has not found inner peace and unlocked his true potential like you and I have, Jay" Zane joined into the teasing.
The Red Ninja growled. "Nice observation Mr. Roboto." He scoffed. "But Cole hasn't found it either."
Calli glanced at the said teammate, who didn't seem to listen at all to their bantering, instead was looking at the Fangblade with a look in-between puzzlement and annoyance, like he had seen it before.
"Cole?" She asked in concern and put a hand on his shoulder. This seemed to snap him out of it.
"I got it!" He exclaimed, nearly knocking the girl out of the way. "Sorry!"
Kai however groaned before anything else could be said. "You've unlocked it!? Why am I the only one left!"
The Black Ninja looked beyond confused at his friend and then to the girl next to him.
She only shrugged. "What did ya wanna say?"
"Oh! Yeah. I remember where I recognize the Fangblade from!" With that he dashed off. "I have a picture of it!"
"Ya…. what now?" Calli asked incredulously as she went after him to their room.
When she found him, he was rummaging through what looked to be a suitcase. The girl kneeled next to him.
"What are you looking for?" Inside the case were most of his art supplies, including some drawings he quickly covered before grabbing something from the bottom.
"This." He handed it to her. It was a black picture album
Calli grinned. "So, we get to see ye'r baby-pictures?" she couldn't help but snicker when his dark cheeks got a slight red tint.
He quickly snatched it back. "No." He coughed and grabbed her arm, pulling her up. "Let's get back to the others."
"I got it!" He called out as the two re-entered the bridge. Calli looking a bit too amused for his taste. The Black Ninja sat down at the table and placed the book in front of him, flipping through it to get to a specific page.
Jay snatched the book from his friend and looked at the picture it showed.
"Back where I grew up, there's a pretty big competition where every year, the winner gets the Blade Cup. My dad's won it multiple times." Cole explained.
Zane looked up from the book. "You never told us your dad was an accomplished athlete? What sport?"
Calli looked at her friend as she felt his mood took a complete 180. "Oh... ehm... He's a Blacksmith…" He answered awkwardly.
"Nothing wrong with that." Kai told him, confused as to why Cole sounded so hesitant. "My father was a blacksmith too, but I've never heard of a-"
"That's because he's not a Blacksmith Blacksmith. He's a Royal Blacksmith." The Black Ninja explained as he turned the page. Calli's eyes widened.
"A Royal Blacksmith? As in one of Ninjago's most famous troupes?" The girl asked with awe in her voice.
The eldest looked at her with a mild surprise. "Ehm… Yes?"
"But how did the Fangblade become a trophy?" Kai changed the subject, slightly amused at the awestruck girl.
"Well, Supposedly, the blade cup was made by the same guy who collected priceless artifacts." Explained Cole. "His name was something like… ehm… ', he snapped his fingers as he tried to remember. 'Dutch? No Clutch! Clutch Powers! Anyway, it gets passed on to each year's winner."
Zane looked at his friend as he paced trough the room. "Who has it now."
Cole stopped pacing and fell silent. Calli stood up and inched closer.
"I don't know." The black ninja sighed. 'I haven't talked to my father in ages."
"Then we'll call him up." Kai didn't see the problem in the situation.
"You can't!" The protest was almost as loud and basically final as Calli could be and made the said girl raise an eyebrow. "He thinks I'm in Ninjago City, Training at the Marty Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts. Ugh." He slammed his head into the steering wheel. "He wanted me to follow in his footsteps but when I couldn't sing or dance I… Well, I ran away. And when he sees I can't dance, he knows I've been lying in the letters."
"He doesn't know you're a Ninja?" Asked the White Ninja.
Cole scoffed. "What? You're gonna crack some joke my old man wears a tutu."
"We're not." Calli intervened before anyone else could speak. "But if we want that Fangblade, we need to enter that show." She told him before sighing. "I might have a backup plan, but I need you to at least try? Okay."
The Black Ninja sighed as she looked him in the eye, a confident look in her eyes. "Alright then."
As the boys went to Cole's house, Calli had to stop in another place in the city. She was currently pacing on top of one of the rooftops, in front of an open window. Had she still been living in the city, she would've just entered and be done with it, now however….
"Say, are you going to pace there all day or are you coming in?" Calli jumped up, having been so lost in thought she didn't hear anyone approach. Whirled around to come face to face with a smiling boy from about 18 years of age. He had fiery red hair, compared to her more orange color, and bright golden eyes shining with mischief.
"Dante" The girl groaned as she calmed her beating heart. Dante just grinned like the Cheshire cat as he pulled her through the window.
"Hey guys~" he called out in a sing-song voice. "Look what I found on the roof!"
The two others in the room looked up from what they were doing and grinned.
"Calli!" The only girl exclaimed and shot up from her place on the couch where she had been practicing with her bass, dashing towards the other girl and embraced her, making Calli go rigid.
"Hey Saoirse." The Redhead coughed. Saoirse pulled back and gave the younger girl a bright smile. Calli could only describe Saoirse as beautiful. She had long silver hair that appeared to be a faint blue in the sun. Her skin was fair and lacked freckles and marks like she herself had and had the most beautiful, bright, blueish-silver eyes.
"What brings you here?" Saoirse smiled. "We haven't seen you in forever!"
"I'm more interested in what's with that getup?" Calli looked past the girl towards the boy on the couch, before looking down to her outfit. She forgot she was still dressed in her armor.
"Liiiiii~" Dante whined and threw his arms over the shoulders of Li, The eldest of the bunch with 20 years old. "Don't tease her."
Calli raised an eyebrow and looked at the other girl, she just shrugged and giggled.
Li sighed and with a small smile, he softly pushed Dante off of him. The young man stood up and gave the girl a quick look over. He had very dark eyes and black sleek hair and a dark brown skin-color. "Something tells me you're not here for small-talk."
"Yer Right." The redhead admitted. "I need yer-"
"FOODS HERE!" The last of the bunch interrupted her as he walked through the door. Jake was the youngest of the group with 17 and had messy black hair a pale skin tone and blue eyes. "Oh, Hi Call."
"Hi."
"Jake!" Saoirse scolded out to him with her hands on her hips. "It's rude to burst in like that."
The boy just shrugged and plopped a bunch of pizza boxes down on the table in front of him. Saoirse sighed and rubbed her temples. "You're lucky you're my brother." She sighed making the rest snicker. "But continue."
Calli nodded and sighed. "I need your help."
It took a while to explain the whole situation, she was just glad Dante was as much into myths, legends and all sorts of things like that as she was, making the whole thing much more believable.
"That is one heck of a situation you've gotten yourself into." Dante remarked from his place against Li's legs.
Calli sighed as she fell down on the couch. "I know. That's why I need ye'r help. We need that blade."
The others looked at one another, they all knew the redhead hated begging for favors.
"Alright, we'll help you." Li spoke up, breaking their silence. "But you own us a solid, Kid."
"Thank you." The girl breathed a sigh of relief. "What do ya want?"
Li grinned like the Cheshire cat, a habit he picked up from either Dante or Jake. "Normally I would've asked you for some Lyrics, but this time, I'll let you know when I want to"
Calliope pursed her lips but nodded anyway. Right now, she couldn't complain if she wanted to help her friends.
The redhead felt a nervous pit in her stomach as she rounded one of the corners, big and well used notebook under her arm and a filled wallet in her pocket. She had changed her clothing back to the Blue and black shirt Cole had picked out, though she didn't use the optional sleeve this time, and black jeans.
She checked the address on her phone once more and walked down the path to the front door and rang the doorbell.
"I'll get it!" The girl breathed a sigh of relief when she recognized Cole's voice. "Call? What are you doing here?"
"Kai forgot his wallet and phone so Nya asked if I could bring them." The black ninja whirled to the others who peaked his head around the corners and gave Kai a pointed look. The said Ninja just rubbed the back of his neck.
"Cole? Who is it?" The boy didn't miss his female friend tense up as his dad called out.
"Just a friend of ours." He called back. "Please come in." He gave her no choice and pulled her inside with a face that asked for him to be saved from the situation.
It was then that Cole's father joined them in the hall looking her over.
"Dad, this is Calli. Calli this is my dad."
And this is the most awkward situation I've been in so far. "Hello, Sir." She managed to croak out, feeling completely out of place.
"So how did you meet my son and his friends." Calli put her teacup on the table carefully. Lou was a nice man, from what she could tell. He had the same hair and eye color as his son, but whereas Cole had a light brown skin-color, Lou's was a pale white color. Calli guessed Cole must've inherited his mother's skin tone.
"Well…" She started. "I'm actually good friends with Kai's sister. So, I met them through her." It wasn't that much of a lie but kept in tune with what the others had told her.
"I see."
"Dad, can we talk to Calli for a minute?" Cole poked his head out of the doorway. Lou nodded and Calli excused herself and all but bolted towards her friends.
"You owe me for putting me through that." She glared at her friend who gave her an apologetic look. "What did ya want to talk about?"
Jay answered. "We decided to steal the trophy."
"Ya, what now?" Calli's eyes narrowed dangerously, something she hadn't done for a long time.
"I don't see why you're so upset about it." Kai said as the girl paced thought the room. "You said it yourself, we need to get the fangblades."
"I didn't mean for ya to steal it." She hissed as she whirled around. "I meant make a deal or something!"
It was clear to the boys that the girl was saying less then she wanted to say.
"Calli." Her head snapped up towards Cole. "I don't like it either, but we need that blade."
The redhead sighed in exasperation. "Ye don't understand! I can't be caught stealing again!" Her hand flew to her mouth and it was at that slip off tongue she knew she screwed up.
"Again?" Zane was the first to break the awkward silence.
"Never mind that!" Calli pushed back, trying to find a way out of either the conversation or the room in general. Like a deer caught in the headlights of a vehicle.
Unsure of what to do, Cole put his hand on both of her shoulders. "Calm down and breath, you'll start hyperventilating at this rate." With some difficulty she managed to calm down. "Now, do you want to explain what you meant?"
The girl only sighed and looked down at the floor. "Call?"
"Alright. Just… Just keep an open mind okay?" And with that… a year of secrets and 4 years of guilt were spilled.
Whoopsy, Someone just made a mistake xD anyhooties... This episode spans 3 chapters... and none of them are very short... So many things happen, mostly because this is a very ColexCalli centric episode xD Also, Calli is more prone to panic attacks then she thinks she is.
Also fun fact about Calli's friends: Jake and Saoirse are half siblings and share the same father with a different mother. Dante is an orphan and Li's parents don't approve of him being the owner of a music shop.
Anyhow... Onto the reviews:
MightyShipper: Haha nothing wrong with a bit of excitement xD Glad you enjoyed.
Pappilie: haha glad you think so :)
MiraculousFanGirl22: Yes I will write all the seasons (1,2,3,4,5,DOTD,7,8,9) I'm just skipping season 6. That is why i'll be doing Shadow of Ronin.. well that and another reason.
Anyhow I hope you enjoyed and look forward for more CalliXCole moments :)