"Shes part Djin?! Wait they are all part Djin. We should just get rid of them all now" Jay said ready to throw a bolt of electricity in Bree's direction.
"What part of legally and magically binding do you not understand Jay?" Wu asked in annoyance.
Jay was so angry Cole took a hold of him this time as Nya was barely able to hold him back. Harumi had her hands up in confusion. Bree looked over at him with an annoyed but questioning face. Sensi Wu gestured the rest of the ninja off. Thought they looked unsure if they should give space or fight.
Attempting to put on a reasonable and calm face Bree said "I'll get you an ingredients list and make your tea then we all can be out of your hair Mr. Wu". Then she turned and gave the now freed Harumi a hug. Which Harumi's reddened face said she was embarrassed by. But privately was so releaved by what Bree had said and done.
Whispering to Bree "Is this going to work?" Harumi asked.
"Of course it will, magically binding and all. You can't break a promise after I did that" Bree answered her, not bothering to whisper.
"And the tea? Is that true?" Harumi asked.
"Of course" Bree said with a smile. "I don't lie, I did help my mother brew the same tea to un-curse Slates elemental line, I can do it again". Then in a very hushed whisper so no one else could hear over the fussing of the now very tired and hungry baby. "I just never said how enormously difficult it will be to get the ingredients. Near impossible actually". Bree raised her eyebrows and looked amused.
The two young women looked at each other and then broke into laughter. The ninja looking at them in annoyance, contempt and utter hatred on Jays part.
"You really are something aren't you?" Harumi said. Bree looked a little too pleased with herself at that.
Cole was still holding a struggling and now cursing Jay back. "Dude calm down, whats your deal?" Cole asked him in exasperation. Jay was getting ready to start zapping things and Cole wanted zero part of that.
"BECAUSEDJINAREEVILANDTHELASTTIMEONESHOWEDUPHENEARLYDESTROYEDALLOFNINJAGOANDKILLEDNYA!" Jay spat out so quickly no one but Nya could understand what he was going on about.
Bree and Harumi stood looking as confused as the Ninja. Well except for Morro. He looked thrilled to be uncuffed and was now hugging Sensi Wu. Much to Lloyds annoyance.
"Say it again more slowly Jay" Nya pleaded him gently.
"Because Djin are evil and the last one nearly destroyed all of Ninjago and killed Nya" Jay spay with furry.
"Sorry to tell you bud, but Djin are not evil, crafty yes" Bree said with a grin. "But we are people just like anyone else. And there are currently three part Djin left in existence, not even full Djin. I saw the entire realm of Dinjago fall. Hundreds of thousands dead can't exactly hurt your..." Bree considered Nyas face again before finishing "Nya anyways".
"How is a whole realm dead" Wu asked in suprise. "That's just not possible".
"The cursed realm went on a walkabout and got its own ass sent to the departed realm. The cursed was the polar twin of Djinjago. When it fell Djinjago fell apart too. Killing everything and everyone that lived there. Millions of beings gone" Bree said dejectedly. "What is Gordon's deal here anyways? Is he just nuts?"
"Names Jay you evil witch!" Jay snarled at her. Jay was beginning to zap Cole a little bit with excess energy. Cole was beginning to loose his temper with his best friend.
Nya sighed and then said "In an alternate timeline a Djin called Nadakhan got set loose from a teapot prison and went on a rampage before Jay managed to wish it never happened".
"Oh good hell" Bree said. "You made wishes with a Djin prince? That's a terrible idea. Where is he now?" She asked.
"Jay wished the teapot had never been found" Nya answered her. Jay looked pissed she even mentioned it.
"That's too bad, I would have been happy to put a locking spell on it and then drop it in a septic tank for you" Bree told her in disgust.
Jay looked at her with his mouth agape and finally still. Then asked "Why?".
"Do I look like the Djin crown prince? I'm not even half Djin. The crown prince had the jackass been around could have shouldered the responsibility of saving the people" Bree said in disgust. "No instead my jerk cousin ditched all his responsibilities, ran away from an arranged marriage and bugged off to do who knows what. Hundreds of thousands died while he was gone and there was exactly nothing mom and I could do. We barely made it out ourselves". Bree said in anger. Turning to the railing Bree eyed the floating island with Alanna on her hip. "This looks more like Djinjago than I can possibly tell you" she said sadly.
At that point Morro came up behind Bree and Harumi and tried to throw an arm around each. He was still in a fabulous mood from the whole not being dead. Harumi flipped and pitched him over the railing. Morro caught himself with a gust of wind before he hit the ground laughing. "You know Im fairly sure Bree is the one that some how drug me back to the land of the living". Morros yelled up to them still laughing.
"Eww put it back" Harumi said to Bree. Mocking the words Bree had said to her about Garmadon. Both women laughed. But this time it was a warm and real laugh from Bree. Not as cold and calculating. Thank goodness Harumi could make her laugh sometimes. She would go crazy without some break from the real life angst. Bree shouldered her bag and the baby while Harumi took a leap and jumped from the bounty railing to the floating island it was docked to. Bree didn't want to admit it but she was tired from using so much magic. The djin promise was hard to do, not as painful as the last realm jump. But tiring none the less. And was about to tell Harumi to help her when she and Alanna were scooped up again.
Cole had been watching Bree this whole time. Between the nosebleed earlier and the not jumping right after Harumi he wondered if she was ok or not. Cole scooped her up in his strong arms. With wide eyes Bree had called up a ball of purplish magic to hit whoever grabbed her. When it touched Coles skin it did nothing but turn his arms into a glowing orange. "What the heck?" She asked. "I didn't ask you for help".
"Women you look like you need it, what's so terribly wrong with helping a lady?" Cole asked. Not putting her down.
"My name is not Women, nor am I technically just a lady. I can get down myself" Bree Bristled at him.
"Can I just be nice? Can you be nice?" Cole asked her. Not putting her down. Bree was no where near as light and tiny as Harumi, she was at least four inches taller and built much more strongly. Cole couldn't tell much beyond that due to her loose fitting clothing. But still nothing for the current master of earth to carry. He wondered if she knew this.
"I AM NOT NICE!" Harumi's voice joked from below in a parody of Brees. Those words were exactly something Bree had said to her months ago in some sort of joke. Morro could be heard below laughing again.
The other ninja had either dispersed, or might be sent to watch Harumi on the sly Cole thought. He could see Sensi Wu and Garmadon having a talk with Lloyd. So Cole was standing on the deck of the bounty comparatively alone with Bree. Well did babies count he wondered. He didn't have much experience with babies aside from the disaster that turned Sensi Wu young and then eventually old again. He could be wrong but the baby didn't look much older than a year.
"So whats your name?" Cole asked her.
"Really? You wanna make small talk weirdo?" Bree bristled again.
Cole didnt respond in words but just jiggled her a little bit. He was finding it a slight bit amusing getting on her nerves. Ok he was finding it extremely amusing to tease her. She certainly blushed easily. And picking her up definitely got on her nerves.
"Fine if it will end you being a pain in my ass and get this over with sooner. My name is Brianna Stone, or just Bree. This is Alanna my daughter. And you all apparently know Harumi" Bree said.
Cole shrugged and holding them both with one arm he used the other to build a temporary set of steps down made of earth. He tried walking down when Bree yelped in surprise. Her eyes going flat white then back to their normal blue gray and flat white several times. What the hell is that he thought. Once down she struggled till he let go of her and she darted to Harumi.
"Who in Ninjago is this?!" Bree yelped at Harumi and Cole. Gesturing at Cole with her free hand. She looked pissed, surprised, upset..?
"Cole Brookstone, master of Earth" Cole started off slowly. Wondering what set her off.
"Cole Brookstone. Beverly's kid? As in a living master of Earth?!" Bree sputtered out. Turning to Harumi "Important information much!?" She spat. Harumi shrugged her shoulders.
"You know my mom?!" Cole sounded surprised.
"Of course I know her. Where is she? I want to talk to her right away" Bree said quickly.
Coles face dropped and he went quite. Bree searched his face and his body language. "I'm sorry, I was hoping my mom had lied to me about her being gone too" With a sigh she said "I can not wait to get the hell out of this realm, it sucks and everyone I love dies".
"Your mother?" Cole asked, "and Alanna's father?".
Bree nodded in response. "My mother and Alanna's father. He made some stupid choices and wound up dead because of it" Bree mentioned looking angry. "I could have protected him, he threw a fit over something and left".
Cole raised his eyebrows at that. The baby was still pretty small. "Left when?" He asked.
"Before Alanna was born, the kappas got a hold of him. Its not a pleasant end" Bree said. "I jumped to the never realm and stayed there until Harumi got literally dropped out of thin air in front of me". Bree looked done with her small talk then and Cole didn't press further.
Bree walked past the fountain and sat down under the tree. Bree could see people moving around everywhere. This temple sure is crowded she mused. She set a wiggling Alanna down beside her and started searching thru her black bag. First she pulled out some of the food they had gotten earlier and broke it into smaller bits to feed Alanna again. The baby happily shoveing fist fulls in her mouth. Bree then grabbed a piece of a rolled up bit of paper and she started writing. Well more like magically burning the words into paper. Pausing now and then to think. When done she rolled it back up and handed it to Harumi.
"Well there's their precious list. Go give it to one of them" Bree said to Harumi. Leaning over in the soft grass to watch the baby clumsily eat.
Harumi less gave it to Lloyd than pitched it at him while he was still deep in conversation with Wu. This broke up the conversation between the Garmadons who came over to where Bree and Harumi were.
"Is this a joke?" Sensei Wu sputtered. "Some of this is difficult to proqure, others... these aren't even real".
"What language is this even in, this part?" Lloyd asked a he held the paper asku.
"Can he even read" Bree asked without even looking up. She was brushing crumbs off the baby and holding her squiggly hands as Alanna struggled to stand in Bree's lap. It mostly involved a lot of bouncing.
"Of course he can read, this list is a load of junk" Wu bristled. "You made it up just to get Lloyd to agree to not pick fights".
"Hey" Lloyd said. Looking put off.
"I got every single thing off that list myself. I was a teenager then. As of five years ago every single item could be found in the realm of Ninjago. It's not like I'm sending you all to sixteen realms worth of crap". Bree said in return.
"This could take months" Wu said angerly.
"I did it in less than two weeks, without my mother catching on first. You get the stuff or default. You've got one week. You can't and I fail to see how it's my problem" Bree said with as much composure and finality as she could muster. It's going to be a long week she thought to herself.
