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Chapter 15
"Why... why do you want to know?" Morro asked the blonde, with an almost nervous confusion clear in his voice.
"I just do, ok." Lloyd replied defensively.
The wind master stared at the green ninja skeptically. After what seemed like hours to Lloyd ,but was in reality only a few minutes Morro spoke.
"I just,...I don't really understand why it matters."
"If it doesn't matter then you can just tell me about it?"
"Why are you all the sudden so curious?"
"I- ok fine so look, I don't know about you ,but I think this whole situation is beyond insane." The green ninja threw his arms up in the air in a dramatic gesture. " I mean, c'mon! We're being held captive by a man who says he's my great uncle, the brother of the first spinjitzu master, and also that we are somehow f**king related."
"Yeah, I know it's like you said he's some insane sorcere-"
",But that's the thing!" Lloyd exclaimed in a raspy whisper. "You saw it like I did, it wasn't that f**king sword that was giving him his power, he had all of that just by himself!"
"Yeah I know what does this have to do wi-"
"So," the blonde continued over Morro. "I'm beginning to believe that maybe just maybe, he might be...telling the truth."
"...really?" The wind master asked with a voice that should have held more surprise, but was instead more dead panned then anything.
"Well yeah really!" Lloyd exclaimed softly. "Look, my point is that, he says he was dead for sixty years right? So If that's true than he must remember what the after life was like, so I thought that, maybe if I asked you about the departed realm I could ask him later too, and if his answers aligned with yours then..."
"Then you'd know that... it's all true."
"Yeah, that's the basic idea anyway."
"oh "A pregnant pause settled between the two of them. The wind master felt his stomach twist slightly, as he hesitantly began to speak. "I,..I guess it be interesting to know if the f**ker's insane or not." The former ghost admitted. Another beat of silence fell between the teenagers, then, the green striped haired boy spoke once more.
"Well, uh I guess, umm, it was really dark." Morro finally spit out. "Dark and I don't know how to explain it ,but we'll everything just felt...weightless, like, I wasn't even there ,but was...that doesn't make sense I know, it's just, you ever feel like you're barely awake and you can't really tell what's going on so it's all just a...blur?" Morro asked quietly as he finally finished his nonsensical ramble. Jasper let out a small whine as he curled his body tighter against Morro.
'Seriously what is it with this thing, it's like he thinks I'm his teddy bear.' The wind master thought as Lloyd cupped his chin thoughtfully. "So uh, what was it like when you were resurrected then? How did it feel?"
"Yeah, it was like,.. well the best way I can phrase it is, it was like falling from a really high cliff." The wind master explained.
"Oh? That's...neat?"
The wind master averted eye contact and waited for a few seconds before he spoke again. "I- Well when it happened I honestly just thought it was all just a dream I was having as my body continued to float through the departed realm." Lloyd couldn't help ,but wonder if maybe the wind master still believed that to be true, and that was the reason for his constant apathetic attitude.
"then I suddenly woke up, floating in some water." 'Probably in the ocean near Stixx' Lloyd thought to himself. "I-I don't really remember much after that, I was only awake for a second then everything went dark, and...well next thing I know I'm being woken up by you."
The green ninja took a second to process all of this information, then another question suddenly came to mind and spilled from his lips before he could stop it.
"Was it like when you came back on Day of the Departed?" As soon as Lloyd said it, he kind of wished he hadn't, simply for the fact he was not wanting to talk about certain things that happened that night.
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Lloyd felt his heart drop into his stomach as he laid eyes on the moving plastic husk that held the soul of his former enemy. It was jarring to say the least to witness the ghost animate the statue effortlessly to the point the green ninja wouldn't be able differentiate his current appearance from the one pictured in Lloyd's memory, were it not for the way Morro's present body reflected the city lights off it, due to its synthetic texture.
'Well he has had practice possessing bodies that aren't his.' Lloyd thought bitterly.
Needless to say the green ninja was thankful the wind master took little time in getting to the point and telling them where Cole was being kept and what Sensei Yang's plan was. He was very ready to bolt with the rest of his friends when suddenly he heard his plastic bodied former enemy called out to him.
"Hey, uh Lloyd, wait." The blonde arched an eyebrow, as he looked over his shoulder at Morro. The wind master was fiddling with his plastics hands, as he looked down at the pavement. The green ninja was slightly surprised to see this rare display of what could only be described as shyness coming his former enemy. Allowing his eyes to dart to his sensei who stood with his arms crossed as he stood behind Morro, Lloyd saw Wu giving him a stern look that might as well have said 'Let him speak.' Then the old man briskly walked away leaving the two alone.
Suddenly wishing his brothers and sister had not been able to run off so fast so they could offer moral support, Lloyd begrudgingly turned around to face his former foe.
"What is it?" The green ninja asked sharply.
"I-I just wanted to say that, I shouldn't have done what I did to you, it was wrong and I'm sorry." The statue possessing ghost spat out quickly.
The stifling silence that fell between them was more than a little tense, with Lloyd staring Morro down with unreadable expression upon his face.
Then the blonde spoke. "Ok?"
Morro's plastic eyes slightly widened before narrowing and looking towards the ground as his synthetic mouth formed into a tight lipped line. For a reason he could not identify the green ninja felt his momentary fear dissolve into the overwhelming anger that was beginning to fill his entire being.
"I just, I know that I really hurt yo-"
"Yeah you really f**king did." Lloyd snapped cutting Morro off. "and, sorry if you thought that some half a**ed apology was going to make me forgive all the s**t you put me through."
"Well I know, I just-"
"Look." Lloyd said once again cutting Morro off. His rage felt as if it were water gushing from an open faucet. "I know that Sensei probably told you that, by apologizing to me, you'd be able to make amends or whatever, and now you did, great ,but if you thought, even for a second that I was going to roll over and forgive you for everything just because you said 'sorry' you're wrong
"I-
"and you know why, it's cause I have had to deal with so much s**t because of you, I had to make a lantern for my dead dad because of what you did!"
Before the wind master could reply, Lloyd sharply spat. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go save my brother."
Before the blonde turned his back on Morro, he saw the ghost's plastic face break from the feigned nervous and shocked guise he held not just a moment ago and morph into an utterly offended and angry facial expression.
"Well...fine! F**k you! I don't even care! I just said that so sens- Wu would get off my back." The spirit shouted back. The blonde could imagine the ghost mashing his synthetic teeth together.
Lloyd rolled his eyes as he continued walking away. "Yeah, cool. Enjoy your Day of the Departed, maybe Sensei will remember to make you a lantern next year."
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"Well, that was kind of like the same thing." Morro spoke breaking Lloyd from his thoughts. "Except, when I was being, uh taken from the Departed Realm, it felt more like I was being pulled along, into some sort of tornado."
The green ninja was surprised at the lack of reaction the wind master showed at the mention Day of the Departed. It appeared to have no affect on the former ghost at all as if he didn't even remember their brief encounter.
'Whatever' Lloyd said to himself, 'Remember none of that matters right now.'
Despite telling himself this, the green ninja's mind could not stop itself from wandering to thoughts he'd really rather not have.
'But,...if he's related to me...'
'If we're stuck here till we can summon this hidden element we didn't know we possessed...'
'What if,...when/if we can summon this power, what will Morro do with it? What if he breaks out of his 'don't care' funk and decides to some f**ked up s***t again! '
The blonde quickly shook his head rapidly hoping, that these thoughts would fall out of his head if he did it hard enough. No,..if something like that would be even close to happening, Lloyd would make d**n sure to stop Morro before he could even blink.
After all Lloyd was the green ninja.
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Koso stretched his long arms as he leaned back. The antidote was nearly finished all that was left was for it heat up on the stove for fifteen minutes. The straw hat wearing man put a hand to his face as he let out a loud sigh. "Those two have certainly been a handful."
All the trouble he went through and still they callously gossiped about him as if they weren't aware that he could hear their endless chatter through the thin walls. Koso found it especially amusing that Morro couldn't seem to recall who had graciously saved him from drowning
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"Well this is interesting" Koso said to himself aloud, as he watched the floating body sink beneath the waves in the distance.
The green eyed man had felt his newly resurrected body tell him to come to this ocean, going on a hunch, that this boy was a relative of his Koso acted quickly and tore his white cloak, straw hat and sword off and dove into the water. With his half dragon DNA aiding him, Koso quickly swam through the freezing water towards the drowning boy.
It didn't take too long to reach him thankfully and due to the boy's light weight Koso was able to grab him under his arms with ease and bring them both towards the surface.
After that is was a simple task to swim back towards the shore Koso had previously occupied. As the black haired male treaded onto the course sand, he moved the boy in his arms so that he was carrying him bridal style. As the moonlight shined upon the pair like a spotlight, Koso looked down at the boy in his arms, and paused momentarily as his red rimmed eyes noticed the bright neon stripe that stuck out in the boy's hair like a lake in a desert. In that moment the image of a young woman with short curly chestnut brown hair standing barefoot in the sunlight with a little girl in her arms who bore locks identical to his own save for a lone green stripe staining her hair like a splotch of paint entered the dark haired man's mind and he suddenly was positive the boy was one of his descendants.
Coming back to reality, Koso strode away from the shore and into the small wood that stood not too far away from the ocean before carefully laying the child onto the thick grass.
Wasting no time, Koso quickly checked the boy's pulse and was slightly relieved to find he hadn't been too late in his rescue attempt. The next thing he decided to focus was to take this opportunity to inspect his relative for any injury he might have sustained upon his fall and near drowning.
Lifting the boy's torn shirt up slightly Koso found nothing more than a vast amount of old scars on the youth's small body. Checking the boy's lower half as well, Koso found no injury there either, although as he got a closer look the black haired man was slightly displeased to see that the boy wore an old gi that had clearly out grown him long ago. Due to its low coverage of his body, the boy began to shiver and tremble under the harsh breeze that began blowing their way from out on the ocean.
'I wonder what your story holds' Koso thought to himself.
Koso stared at the boy with a tight lipped frown upon his face before deciding to wrap his white cloak around the green striped haired boy then lift him into his arms and throwing the child over his shoulder like a sack of flower.
Then the black haired man began to walk off into the darkness of the night.