A/N My best friend wanted to remind people that while Lane, the character based on her, is slightly insane this is just showing her psychotic side. There is a gentler side, but right now Lane is in a new place and doesn't trust anyone except Alexia and Moppet.
Dawn's rays awakened Alexia. Blinking, she rose noiselessly from her bed. Lane and Moppet were still fast asleep. Both could sleep to noon if they wanted to. Alexia changed into the shorts and t-shirt Nya had given her the day before and slipped into the corridor. She tiptoed up the hall, trying to avoid waking anyone up. When no one came into the hall, Alexia sighed in relief and entered the training room on the far side of the deck. She slid out of the shirt and shorts for her exercise outfit, a sports bra and spandex, and put her hair back up in a ponytail. Evening her breathing, Alexia began her morning workout.
She had been working for an hour when Kai, awakened by Alexia's movements, opened the training room door. "Cole, can you not wake me up next time-" He stopped when he saw Alexia, half-naked in the training room. What was even more embarrassing was that Alexia had heard him, turned around and was now blushing intensely.
"S-sorry!" Alexia squealed, grabbing the shirt and shorts on the floor and quickly re-dressing while Kai looked away before she turned to face Kai again. "S-sorry about th-that. I d-didn't think a-anyone w-was awake." She stammered, quickly going back to her room. Kai stayed in the training room for a few seconds before face-palming himself.
"Great idea Kai, don't knock." He muttered, annoyed with himself.
Back in the girls' room, Alexia sat on her bed and calmed herself down. "You okay girl?" Lane asked, her eyelids opening a slit.
"Did I wake you?" Alexia asked.
"Nah, I got too much sleep yesterday and just woke up naturally. So, what happened?" Lane asked, propping herself up on her elbow.
"I was in the training room, exercising when Kai walked in." Alexia murmured, blushing red again.
"That's not so bad." Lane said.
"I was in a sports bra and spandex when he saw me." Alexia continued, and Lane put her free hand up to her mouth.
"Oh. Was he checking you out? If so, I have a spare bottle of poison." Lane said, taking out the bottle she had found in her pocket.
"No, it was a mistake. He thought I was one of the boys, and hadn't expected a half-naked girl in there." Alexia explained, calming down again.
"Hmm, shame. It's been too quiet around here. Any who, wanna spar? I'm bored and I need something to wake me up." Lane replied, getting up and stretching.
"Alright, because I'm not giving you caffeine to wake up." Alexia told her with a smile. She and Moppet were related, so it made sense that whenever Lane had caffeine or a lot of sugar in the form of peppermint bark, she went nuts.
Lane and Alexia dressed into their ninja suits and went up onto the deck. Each took a fighting stance, then began. Alexia aimed a roundhouse kick at Lane's hip, which she deflected through a down block. Lane countered with a punch to Alexia's chest, but was blocked by her middle block, giving Alexia an opening to double-roundhouse kick. Lane blocked the first kick, but was left wide-open to the second. Grunting, Lane smiled.
"Oh, it's so on now." She said, making Alexia smile.
Meanwhile...
Kai went back to his room to catch some more sleep, but a few minutes later Sensei Wu came in with the gong. The ninja groaned but got out of bed anyway.
"Time for training! Lloyd must be trained in time for his fight with Lord Garmadon!" Sensei Wu shouted over the gong.
The ninja dressed into their ninja suits and went out onto the deck, prepared to train Lloyd, and not at all expecting two people to already be on the deck.
By this time, Alexia and Lane had been sparing for twenty minutes, neither gaining the upper hand.
"They're good." Cole commented.
"Look at them go." Nya said, smiling at the fact that the new girls were impressing the ninja.
After some time, Alexia scored a direct hit at Lane's chest, causing her to fall over into the nearby crates.
"Are you alright, Lane?" Zane asked, extending a hand to help.
"Never better. Nice kick, Alexia." Lane said, getting up without help. "You're getting better than me."
Alexia smiled. "Nah. It'll take a while for that to happen. Besides, it was a cheap shot, since you were preoccupied with my high punch."
"It's never a cheap shot if gotten without cheating or trickery. I won't take no for an answer on this one." Lane replied, and they fist-bumped.
"Do you guys already have training?" Kai asked.
"Yeah. I took about three years of taekwondo, while Lane took a few years of judo and the same amount as me for taekwondo. We're about the same, with Lane a little bit better." Alexia answered.
"Alexia, Lane, could you show us your powers?" Sensei Wu asked. Lane shrugged.
"Sure." She took out her dagger and, to everyone but Alexia's surprise, cut her skin open. When Nya stepped forward to stop her, Lane moved her hand and the trickle of blood coming out of the incision floated in midair. Lane took aim at the rope supporting a punching bag, then closed her fist. The blood shot like a bullet towards the rope and cut flawlessly through it, causing the bag to fall over. However, drained of the blood she had used, Lane staggered and fell over. Quickly, Zane grabbed her hand and helped her up gently.
"Thanks." Lane said, flashing Zane a smile. Zane felt himself grow warm and was thankful that the ninja hood he wore concealed his reaction. "Your turn, Alexia."
Alexia nodded and took out her sword from her belt. Concentrating on the blade, water shot out of the hilt, licking at the blade. Alexia slashed the air, and a cut of water shot into the air before piercing one of the punching bags, slashing it to ribbons.
"Wazz goin on?" Moppet asked, appearing on the deck. It was clear that she had just woken up, since she was still in her P.J.'s and her hair was a rat's nest. Lane tried to tackle her little sister, but Alexia held both of her arms behind her back to keep her at bay.
"No, you're NOT going to take advantage of your younger sister's sleepiness and attack her, Lane." Alexia said firmly.
"Aww... No fair. I was just gonna give her a noogie." Lane complained.
"Just a noogie, or were you also gonna tackle her?" Alexia asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh... I plead the fifth!" Lane cried, breaking free of Alexia. The non-Americans I.E. the ninja and Nya looked at Lane like she was nuts.
"It means she has the right to remain silent. Anything she says can and will be used against her in the court of law." Alexia recited, making the ninja even more confused. "Oh, never mind."
Moppet, completely oblivious to what had just happened, wandered over and yawned. "Did you guys have to wake up at the break of dawn?"
"It's ten in the morning. Heck, I'm surprised you slept through the gong and your normal breakfast." Lane told her, under control.
"AHHHHH! I missed breakfast!" Moppet ran inside, trying to find the kitchen desperately.
"Really Lane? You do realize that when she finds out that she didn't miss breakfast she'll freak out even more." Alexia said.
"Don't worry, I've got it covered. How do you think I handled her before she met you?" Lane asked. "Give her five minutes and she'll forget about it because she's half-asleep."
AnimeLover1321: Page Break? *Sigh* I'm so sorry about what I'm about to do. Lane, it stole all of the peppermint bark in the world.
Lane: WHAT? GIVE IT BACK, YOU COWARD!
Page Break: OH SHIT!
After breakfast (which, thankfully, was made by Zane), Alexia went back into her room and found her Itouch was gone.
"Hey, are you looking for that little phone thing?" Lloyd asked, hanging out in the doorway. "I thought I saw Moppet with it. The glass was cracked since she had dropped it. Sorry!"
Meanwhile, Moppet found her stuffed pig, Snuffles, was also missing.
"Looking for your pig? I saw Lane using it for target practice earlier. I told her not to, but she didn't listen." Lloyd said, walking away.
Later, Lane couldn't find her DSI XL.
"Oh, I saw Alexia with it. She was playing with it, but it slipped and fell off the ship. She didn't try to get it, though." Lloyd claimed.
However, the three girls knew each other well enough to know that none of those things had happened, and since Lloyd was the only one to report of this, it was easy to see who had really done it.
"I say we drop him off the ship and see if he splatters." Lane said, but Alexia and Moppet shook their heads.
"We could use the torture I looked up from a fanfic." Alexia suggested, but Moppet waved the idea away.
"Why don't we just scare him by hanging him off the ship with a rope?" Moppet asked.
"Eh, sounds like the most humane way of doing things. Let's do it!" Lane cried happily.
Five minutes later...
"HELP ME! AHHH! I'M GOING TO FALL! PLEASE HELP ME!" Lloyd screamed, dangling off the ship, only supported by the rope tied to his left foot.
"Shut up! Where's our stuff? And if you don't tell us soon, we're going to use Lane's method, which was the least humane of our options!" Alexia shouted, shaking the rope.
"What's that?" Lloyd asked fearfully.
"Splatter art!" Lane said gleefully.
"Okay! The stuff's in my room! Just get me up and I'll return all of your stuff!" Lloyd shouted, his vision blurry from all of the blood rushing to his head. Alexia pulled him up and he took off.
"Think he'll do it?" Moppet asked.
"If not, we'll use my methods of torture." Alexia answered.
"Uh, guys? What did you do to Lloyd?" Jay asked. The ninja had heard Lloyd's screams and ran up to the deck in time to see Lloyd running away.
"We taught him a little lesson." Lane said sweetly.
Cole opened his mouth to ask what it was when Lloyd ran up, carrying the girls' stuff. "Here, now please never do that do me again!" He screamed, panting.
"Thank you." Alexia picked up her Itouch and put on her music, Moppet grabbed her stuffed pig and hugged it tightly, and Lane picked up her DSI XL and began playing.
"We basically scarred Lloyd for life. That's what you get when you steal from us." Lane explained.
"What did you do?" Kai repeated.
"We dangled him from a rope off the side of the ship. For the record, it was Moppet's idea." Lane added.
"It was Moppet's idea?" Jay asked, looking at the girl who was hugging a stuffed pig.
"It was the most humane idea out of the three of us. I wanted to use torture from the internet and Lane wanted to throw him off the ship." Alexia explained.
"You scare me." Nya said, pale.
"Good. You'll live longer." Lane said cheerfully. Nya paled further and clutched Jay for support.
"Stop scaring them. There's nothing to be afraid of. Just don't get Lane angry." Alexia advised.
"You know, it may have been a better idea to win Lloyd as an ally." Zane commented.
"That would have been more humane, but we weren't going for that." Lane told him.
"Still, in the long run, it would have been better." Cole told them, but Alexia raised an eyebrow.
"You're not going at us with the whole 'the best way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend', right?" She asked.
"Actually, that's what we were going for." Jay said.
"Well, it isn't the best way to defeat your enemy." Lane said.
"Then what is?" Kai asked.
"Scare the shit out of them." Alexia said without the slightest look of humor. "Oh, that reminds me, anyone want to spar?"
"NO!" Everyone but Lane shouted. Alexia smiled.
"Come on. I'll go easy. If no one steps up, I'll do ee-meenee-minee-moe." She said, crossing her arms.
The ninja looked at each other and Jay pushed Cole forward. "Thanks a lot, dude." Cole muttered.
"Payback for getting us knocked out when we had to get the girls." Jay muttered back.
Cole got into a sparring stance, completely oblivious to the fact that his guard was far too high for taekwondo. Within seconds he was on the ground, pinned by Alexia's elbow and his arms were twisted behind his back at the most uncomfortable angles possible.
"Rematch?" Alexia asked sweetly.
"No, no, and no." Cole said quickly.
"You do realize your guard was way too high, which is how I flipped you over, right?" Alexia asked, releasing him.
"How good were you guys back at your dojo?" Kai asked.
"Let's see... I could beat our instructor with another kid's help, beat most of the black belts there, Lane's a little better than me since she took judo, and Moppet is about our level but lacks height and strength." Alexia said thoughtfully.
"Sheesh, you guys were good." Jay said, impressed.
Lane was about to reply when the loudspeaker came on. "Lane, Alexia, and Moppet, could you visit Sensei Wu?" Lloyd asked.
"So, how badly do you think we'll get punished?" Lane asked.