So, my first attempts at fanfiction. We'll see how this goes. Story will jump from point of view and place and time. Angst and shenanigans abound. As well as characters having more adult themes and language. Which makes sense considering they are late teens at the youngest and early twenties at the oldest by now. Seriously creepy evil characters. You are warned.
"When I find them I am going to hit every single one of them in the face with my hammer... repeatedly" Cole snarled. "And Skyler and Pix are getting it too, I will not go easy on them because they are girls."
"Every single day it feels like now I have to go pull these idiots out of whatever hidey hole they found and drag them back to Wu for training" Cole said exasperated with his team. His friends.
But some how it felt a whole lot less team like and more pair like. As each couple tended to either sleep elsewhere and pull a walk of shame before training in the morning. Or in Jay and Nyas case "sleeping" in the bounty bunk room because the temple is sorely lacking enough private bedrooms. Bedrooms with literal not figurative paper walls and doors. Lloyd is no dam help anymore Cole thought. He is off in his own little world thinking about training to be a master.
"I think I need to invest in ear plugs...and brain bleach in my future" Cole complained to himself.
He flew over parts of the city, still quite and sleeping. Not even the farmers or fish markets were awake. Thought they would bustle soon with activities, sights, sounds and smells. At the thought of smells his stomach growled uncontrollably. Reminding him that he haven't had breakfast. Also that it was not his turn to cook. That it was Kais turn to make breakfast. He swooped down and dropped as softly as the master of rock can and landed on the balcony of Skylers home above her newest noodle shop. Such close proximity to the airjitsu temple was not in any way shape or form related to the great retail location of the shop below like skyler claimed. But mostly Cole thought due to the fact that it was within line of sight of the temple and thus a quick flight down for Kai.
I should make this wake up call seriously less than pleasing Cole imagined. As he raised the length of the hammer to swing at the glass doors. Thinking better about it Cole decided that screaming like a banshee was a better option. After all he didn't have to live here with the neighbors.
"Get the hell up Kai, we have got stuff to do and no time to waste." Cole screamed. Knowing full well he just woke up half the block. He heard a few loud thumps. Like a body rolling out of bed and hitting the floor. Followed by mumbling and disgruntled groans. Then the sound of some hushed speech followed by footsteps. A very groggy Kai appeared. At least with pants on even if he was still holding his shirt. Starring at it and trying to decide if it was inside out or not. Giving up Kai put the shirt on inside out and ploughed past Cole.
"Morning dirt bag" Kai quipped. As he flipped himself off the railing. And free falling for a few moments before calling up his dragon. Cole was not amused. Not in the slightest.
"Keep it up you flaming ass" Cole snarled in reply. "I am so done being nice and coming to get you when you won't answer the phone."
"I can't do...this..." Kai responded. Gesturing between the two young men. "Until I have sufficient coffee to perform normal human functions.
Cole was about to have some smart ass remarks about the quality of Kai"s performance when a empty tuna can whipped past his head. Followed by yelling. Crap he did wake the neighborhood Cole thought. He also pitched himself off the railing, pulling up his own dragon in a much less melodramatic manner than Kai.
"I love you babe" Kai called. "Movie after dinner tonight" Skylers response was drowned out by a neighbor telling the men for the love of ninjago shut up.
The flight back was more peaceful. Neither man spoke. One lost in thought. The other lost to nearly sleeping and falling off his dragon. Cole had not found Zane and Pixal yet. After Jay came into the kitchen this morning Wu sent them both off in search of their brothers. Cole hoped Jay had done his job and found Zane. Kai and skyler at least slept in doors in private. For the most part. Hopefully. Zane and pixel could easily stay when and where they pleased. Doing whatever the hell they do all night. Cole once found them under a cherry tree having watched the sunrise and sunset in a blizzard.
Landing back at the temple Kai dropped his dragon first and sauntered in. Most of the team was in the kitchen already eating. Cole helped himself to cold cereal and hot coffee. As black as his temper Wu might say.
Lloyd came in then dressed and ready for training. "Are you not done eating? It would be nice to feel ahead of the game instead of chasing after our tails when the next big bad guy shows up."
"Why is the next supposed bad guy a guy at all" nya asked. "Why not another girl?"
"Because Lloyd totally does not want to fight another girl after falling for her crazy" Kai laughed. Earning snickers from most of the room. Save Cole who was still in a foul mood. And Pix who was too busy feeding Zane the marshmallows out of her bowl of cereal.
Wu called the ninja then and intercepted any further jesting. They had training and maintenance to do around the temple. And then they would have to sit through Lloyd and Wu debating for hours it felt on safety plans and preparedness. If the other ninja were lucky only then could they beg off to shower and then have personal time. Cole however would often get stuck helping with the tail end of the chores that had been planned. Somewhat because Cole could lift and carry tens times what the others could. Sometimes Cole also thought because Lloyd had no girlfriend to keep him as occupied as the others and Lloyd was going out of his way to prove how adult he is to master wu.
Cole was balancing the end of a beam for a new set of the training course when Jay just stopped paying attention to directing placement and started screaming about a spider.
"Ahhhhhhhit'ssogrosswhatifitsababytigerwidosentbyadjinasrevenge!" Jay screamed. Pulling his weapons and bashing the spider into a greasy smear. Nya ran to Jay and wrapped him in a huge hug from behind. Calming the blue ninja who was totally oblivious to the rest of the team watching him like his brain had turned to noodles.
At some point during this episode kai had a call from someone and was trying to understand the words being said.
"Will someone shut the blue lunatic up!" kai demanded.
Jay did calm slightly, but still pressed a electrically charged knunchuck into the smear formerly known as spider.
"Babe wait slow down, what?" Kai asked. A look of confusion changing to a look of horror and fear. "Ill be right there, no don't leave and expose yourselves, stay indoors till we get there" Kai ordered the person, skyler it sounded like.
"We have to go to skylers and get her and Tox and bring them here. Tox came to and told her that Chamille is dead, killed right in front of her and Tox barely made it out herself." Said Kai. The look of horror and fear still on his face.
