Kai looked surprised at one of his best friends "I'm not so sure. " he stated slowly "Usually you don't space out like that but if you are sure, then it's OK..." Soon enough one of the villagers led them to the place where they were supposed to train. This should help them to gain even bigger control over their elemental powers. After longer while they made a break to drink and maybe eat something. Red ninja stretched "What do you think about this?" Master of earth thought about everything they went through "Let me tell you this, we've never before went through such crazy stuff as this time...though in good way." Master of fire had to agree with his brother "You're right. It's good to be back home, I still can't believe that we were in another dimension. That's strange that we never before heard about this place though." Cole drank a bit of water and nodded "Right and this village suddenly appeared like that plus will help Skylor and Lloyd get their power back." Kai sat down "I know what you mean but honestly it still surprises me how many secrets sensei kept from us and I must wonder why. The fact that we have to stay longer doesn't bother me at all, I like this place. Besides others have everything under control and we really need a break." Black ninja laughed at this and sat down next to his best friend "It's almost like holidays." Red ninja laughed as well "Look at that, we have our own little, private summer resort. We must tell everyone about this place, after all others need to brake too...I saw that something really woke your interest up." Cole blinked looking more than confused and yet he felt the heat rising up to his cheeks "Huh? Me?" Seeing this master of fire only smiled brighter than before "Yup, don't tell me that someone here likes pink-haired archer. It looks like as if she loves dark colors as well." According to brunet this was the highest time for ex-ghost to get together with someone. It was long enough since the whole 'love triangle' thing. Cole blushed slightly just at the though of newly met girl "I even don't know what are you talking about." Red ninja looked at him playfully, this should be fun "You know that you're blushing, right? This shows that I'm right on that one." Master of earth got up and quickly turned away from him only to hide how red his cheeks were "I'm not." Was all what he murmured. His mind was firmly set on fulfilling mission and not on getting himself busy with personal stuff, which wasn't even there in the first place. He just rolled his eyes as he heard snickering from behind him and another one of his brother's teasing comment "You do know that you act just like 'the young one' back then?"Suddenly black ninja turned around hearing more serious Kai's tone of voice. OK, this was rare and happened only when the case called for it "Look, everything aside...it's not shame to admit that it got you hard so just accept that." Cole hesitated for longer while and then sighed heavily "OK, I'm maybe a bit kinda interested in her...but don't tell anyone about that!" Kai smiled understanding that this wasn't easy and put his hand on master of earth shoulder looking in a sympathetic way "Don't worry about this, I can keep a secret. Just remember what Nya told us when we gave Lloyd advice: be yourself and show her you're the right guy." Cole smiled still not being totally sure about this "I'll try...it's strange. To feel something like this not for food but someone. I don't even know her." Master of fire just raised eyebrow "Whom you're telling this. I fell hard for Skylor at the same beginning of the tournament or have you forgotten about this. You can do it." Black ninja nodded at this taking deep breath "I guess you're right." Kai hit friend on the back a bit too hard "Sure I am. If Jay could make it then you can as well, just believe in yourself, man." In this moment he saw Seliel, who passed them by, obviously her shift came to an end. He smiled innocently pushing Cole in her way "And now is perfect occasion for that. Go and prove her you're the right one." Cole panicked and almost froze in place "But what am I suppose to talk with her about?" Red ninja shrugged "The village, training...don't know...every topic should be OK for the start." of earth gulped hard and started walking towards the girl "Hey." Seliel stopped in her tracks returning the greetings "Hey, taking the break?" Cole nodded "Yeah and you've finished your shift? It's good to know that village has good protection." Pink-haired girl just smiled as she nodded at the question "True but your looks back then were priceless. It's as if you're not used to strong girls." "We...uh..have two girls in the team and they're cool, I mean you're cool as well and you all are..cool." Dark-haired boy obviously panicked, right after this he scolded himself 'Way to go, Cole. You just made a weirdo out of yourself' Archer laughed qualitely, she had pity over poor boy. If she had to be sincere then she thought it was kinda cute "OK, I get it, taught girls are cool." Yet she decided to tease him a bit "Who knows, maybe one day I'll visit you guys and meet these other cool girls." She shook her head lightly "Now seriously, relax a bit, after all this is why you're here for. They're getting back power and you should use this time as small vacations. This will make you feel better after stressing time that you just had." Cole took deep breath to keep himself calm "You're right, by the way it's beautiful place." Seliel gave small nod looking at the sky as if to check what weather will they have in couple of hours from now "Wait till it's get dark. The village will show it's true beauty but..it's probably nothing comparing to what you guys saw...but this is everything for me." Master of earth looked at thee girl this whole time as if not being able to take his eyes from her "Does this mean you've spent your whole life here?" The girl nodded "Yeah, it's my destiny. My father is the leader so one day I'll take his place. I'm bound to help others get back their power or, like in your case, gain better control over their element." Young boy was more and more fascinated by her "It's amazing." Seliel sighed "It's nice of you to say this but everything has it's pros and coins. Masters of elements have the choice what to do with their special abilities, part of them chose to ignore it and live as if there was nothing special about them. And there are such people like you guys, who want to make good use of it by helping and protecting others. My brothers and sisters don't have such freedom, our destiny is settled the moment we came to this world." Cole shook his head "You got me wrong. I meant to say I can see how Skylor and Lloyd suffer because they can't use their power and you're like doctor, who's doing her best to help others. We're more similar than you think." Archer just had to smile "You know you're the first one, who sees this like that? To everyone else it's nothing special." As if being encouraged by her words master of earth smiled righter "Really? And here I was sure that people tell you this quite often." He felt that whole stress was slowly vanishing as he talked with her. Seliel returned the smile "Really, everyone even think that I can't defend myself so they have to do this for me. At first it was even nice to have someone watching over you but later on it got kinda annoying but I guess it is how it is...being the newest member and youngest in the team." Cole scratched back of it's head feeling ashamed right now. Why? Since this strongly reminded him of something "We had quite similar case. When Nya became master of water we hardly let her to fight thinking she can't and won't make it on herself. She showed us how wrong we were thought." Pink-haired girl just nodded looking at him "Let me guess, overprotecting older brothers or was there something more?" Dark-haired boy answered almost immediately "Older brothers." He really didn't want her to know that he fought with Jay for his teammate, maybe he'll tell this girl about whole case later on but for now...didn't want to destroy his chances. No one knew how well she'd take this fact. Seliel smiled at this, she didn't know why but felt...relief? "It's not so bad that you care about each other, this makes you a family." She was about to continue but stopped seeing how fast Kai and Skylor ran to them, they looked worried. Almost panicking and this could only meant really bad news.
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