Hallelujah! I'm alive!

Yay?

Anyway, I'm sorry for how long I've been gone, I've been behind on schoolwork and whatnot but now school is out and so am I!

Yeah I came out as trans recently and if you're gonna be transphobic then I have nothing else to say but fuck you because I don't need that shit in my life right now

Anyway, sorry again for how long it's been, I am now under a new name, one year older, vegetarian, out of school for six weeks and still battling mental health issues, but I'm gonna try to upload more

I also have loads to write since I've been starting chapters and whole new stories but haven't finished them which is incredibly annoying but I am working on them so hopefully they'll also be out soon

For now though, here is the long-awaited...

Chapter 23

Skylor chokes and coughs as she forces her way through the rubble and out onto the stone floor of the courtyard, her eyes pressed shut. Kai calls her name, relief flooding his voice, as he runs towards her, Cole close behind him. The two boys gently pull the Master of Amber to her feet even as she continues to cough the dust out of her throat. She slowly opens her eyes to see the group before her.

Nya and Jay are sat next to the door, the former coughing with one arm wrapped around her own torso and the other on her boyfriend's shoulders while the latter runs a hand through her hair, trying his best to comfort her. He has a small cut on his left cheek which is slowly leaking down his face and he occasionally wipes the crimson line away with his spare hand. Zane has a few dents of varying sizes on his body, the worst seemingly being the one on his torso. Even Pixal has a few dents and scrapes, while both of them have scratches in their metallic, shining skin. Cole has a rather large hole in one of the knees of his gi, revealing a bright red scrape over his right knee, blood trickling down his skin from a few small spots. His left arm also has a rip in the sleeve, a long but thin cut piercing his shown skin. Kai seems to have gotten out with possibly the least damage, only a small line of blood slowly making its way down the left side of his head, inches above and to the side of his eyebrow. Skylor then runs her eyes over her own body, seeing the scratches on her legs and arms, oblivious to the gash on the right side of her face until pain erupts from within it. She winces but restrains from touching the site.

Only then does Skylor look over her shoulder.

The monastery, once proud and tall in the dying light of sunset, is now in ruins. The roof, which Skylor remembers laying on, staring up at the twinkling stars high above in the heavens, waiting for Pixal to return from her search for the missing Nya, has been completely demolished by the explosion, tiles blown to pieces which even now hurl towards the sea below. Small splashes reach the ears of the ninja and their team as some of the tiles collide with the waves, sinking down into the cold darkness below. The walls of the building have fallen apart, the stone crumbling. Chips and chunks have smashed into the painted murals between the decking and the courtyard doors, scratching the colours and ruining the art. All the memories made, the nights spent, the meals eaten, lessons learned, everything seems to have been destroyed in the blast.

A single rear rolls down Skylor's cheek, slipping into the large cut on her face, sending pain rippling through her body again, but she barely flinches, taking a moment to remember and mourn the monastery.

The home of the ninja, the place where Master Wu and his brother were raised by the First Spinjitzu Master, the birthplace of the Ninja team as they were known, now reduced to nothing more than ruins once again.

Okay so I know this chapter again is kinda filler but I'm just trying to ease my way back into writing and uploading again, and I really like how this came out so I think I'll just...

Yeah I'll just leave this with y'all.

Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter, I guess, even though it wasn't as happy as some of the others have been, and I hope I'll see some of y'all again soon in my other stories. If not, then hopefully I'll have the next chapter up again soon.

As always, don't be worried to drop a review if you want to on your way out, I always love to hear from people reading my work. My inbox is also open, so if you want to you can send me a DM and I'll get back to you when I can.

For now though, this is Tyler, signing off.

See ya!

-Panic1AtTheHere