So I just watched the newest Ninjago episode, 38, and I've decided to write a one-shot about it! Yay so I hop you like it! :)
"Hey guys! Guess what I just found in town!" Lloyd shouted rushing into the game room where the other ninja and Nya were.
"Food?" Cole asked drool already dripping from the corner of his mouth.
Lloyd grimaced, "No. This flyer!"
Jay took the paper from Lloyd, "Ooh! A new roller skating place just opened up down the street! We gotta check it out!"
"That sounds like fun." Nya agreed.
"I am not very used to roller skating, but I will give it a try." Zane said smiling calmly.
"Well I'm sure they'll sell food there so I'm in!" Cole said joining the others.
"Kai, you coming?" Lloyd asked the quiet fire ninja.
"Uh, I don't know guys. Why don't we just stay home or maybe go to the beach..." Kai said fidgeting in his chair.
"But we can do that whenever, this is a brand new roller skating place where we can see what it is like! Please Kai please!" Lloyd pleaded giving Kai his puppy eyes.
Kai couldn't argue with a face like that so he agreed. Just barely.
...
Finally reaching the place, which was called Racin' Roller Skatin', The ninja and Nya went up to the front desk to sign in.
"Name please." The friendly woman said behind the counter.
"Lloyd Garmadon."
She stamped his hand with a red stamp labeled "Racin' Roller Skatin' Guest".
The other did the same with Kai coming in last.
"Woah, it is so much bigger on the inside." Lloyd said and looked around the massive building.
There was a carpeted area where they were now where tables and game stations were set up. Behind them was a prize and snack bar where she could turn in tickets to get prizes and food. In the center of the building, which took up the most space, was the skating rink and beyond hat was a smaller gaming station. The ninja went over to the bathrooms where the skate rentals were.
After they got their skates, and a failed attempt with Lloyd falling down crashing into Kai and Jay, the ninja finally got onto the skating rink. All but one of course.
"Kai, aren't you coming?" Nya called to her stand still brother.
Kai looked nervously to her and then to the rink. "Nah, I think I'm good. I'll cheer you on from the side lines."
"Come on Kai! Join us!" Jay said coming over to Nya.
"It sure is fun Kai!" Lloyd shouted waving a hand.
A few other people who had been there as well noticed these were the ninja. Including another ninja guest as well.
"Kai? Is that you?"
Kai whipped around to see Skylor beside him.
"Oh hey there Skylor! I didn't see you there!" from her appearance, it made Kai jump and now he was slowly drifting further and further into the skating rink.
Kai did his best to hold back a scream when his back hit the center pole in the middle of the rink. Skylor joined him.
"I didn't know you guys were here. Usually I don't come to things like this but I thought maybe I'd try it out for once." she said stopping herself by holding onto the pole.
"Uh y-yeah. Lloyd really wanted to come so we all just came along with him." Kai said wincing when he saw a group of poor people get clobbered by Cole.
"Oh really? Do you guys do everything he says, him being the green ninja and al-!" Skylor was cut off when Lloyd bumped into her sending her flying far away from Kai.
Lloyd smirked but quickly hid that from Kai, "Uh, Oops?"
Kai's heart rate began to pick up, but he wasn't sure why. "Uh h-hey Lloyd. I joined you out here."
Lloyd smiled, "Great! Come on and join us!" Lloyd said pulling on Kai's hand. Pink stained Kai's cheeks.
"Uh, I d-don't know..." Kai said letting Lloyd pull him. He was already feeling his feet becoming unbalanced.
"Its ok! Let's go!" Lloyd started going faster until he got to Nya and Jay.
"Hey Kai! Nice of you to join us!" Nya said.
"Where is Cole and Zane?" Lloyd asked.
"I saw Cole head to get some snacks just now and Zane went with him to help carry them to a table Cole decided he'd call 'The Ninja's bounty of the sating rink'. I'm not sure, really." Jay shrugged.
"Its time for game time! It will be starting in 1 minute! If you choose to play, stay out on the rink, if you want to leave, go on off and cheer n your friends!" the announcer shouted over the intercom speaker.
"Ooh a game!" Jay said excitedly.
"Let's all try it!" Lloyd said smiling ear to ear.
Then the speaker came on again, "Alright everyone! The game is about to start! This will require a partner, so pick one soon!"
"Jay, do you want to be my partner?" Nya asked.
"Of course!" Jay said and hugged her before they both fell down.
"Nya! You'll leave your brother for him!?" Kai protested.
"Be Lloyd's partner. We can compete then." Nya said standing up with Jay.
"Do your best everyone!" Zane shouted from their table where Cole was stuffing his face with various foods.
Kai noticed Skylor sitting with them doing her very best to ignore the skaters.
"Alright everyone line up with your partner at the back wall. This is how the game is going to work. Partner A will be in front while partner B will help push them forward. When you reach the opposite wall, you two will switch with partner B in front and partner A in back. The first three to get back to the beginning wall will each win a prize! Good luck to all!"
Music started blaring over the speakers as a countdown from 10 began.
10.
"Lloyd...I have to tell you something Kai said with Lloyd behind him.
9.
"Yeah, what is it Kai?" Lloyd asked putting his hands on Kai's shoulders.
8.
"I didn't want anyone to know, with my cool reputation and all."
7.
"So? What is it?"
6.
The shouts from Zane and Cole echoed off the walls.
5.
"Kai? Is something wrong?" Lloyd asked again.
4.
Jay held onto Nya's shoulders getting ready to take off any second now.
3.
"Lloyd...I..."
2.
"...I..."
1.
"I don't know how to roller skate!"
The alarm went off and the others began to take off.
"Lloyd smiled, "Well why didn't you say so?" Lloyd began to push Kai faster and faster catching up to the other groups and soon pasting them up.
"Lloyd, don't you think you could Slow down a bit?" Kai asked feeling the air rush by him.
"Nah, we have ground to cover." Lloyd said smiling as they reached the opposite wall.
Only a few others in front of them, Kai went behind Lloyd, "But I can't push you enough to get us there. We'd just fall the entire way." Kai said shakily pushing Lloyd back to the first wall.
"Just relax Kai, I'll do the moving, you do the pushing." Lloyd said and started to skate by himself. Kai just had to hold onto his shoulders and pushing him ever so slightly until they made it back across the first wall.
"Great job guys! We may have not won, but we got fifth place!" Jay said.
"Yeah! We got seventh place! Isn't that great Kai!?" Lloyd said cheerful as ever.
Kai blushed, "Y-yeah, that's not so bad."
Deciding they needed a break, they made there way off the rink to join the others at their table.
"That was awesome!" Jay shouted grabbing a slice of pizza.
"Yes, you guys were quite speedy out there." Zane said smiling and giving them a thumbs up.
"Lloyd sat down near Skylor and he smiled at him, "Great job out there."
Lloyd half smiled, "Yeah, thanks Skylor."
Cole, being the blunt idiot he was, noticed how Lloyd acted around Skylor, "Hey Lloyd, do you hate Skylor?"
Lloyd flinched, "Why would I hate her?"
"Why would he hate me?" she asked as Kai came to sit next to Lloyd.
"I don't know, he just seems a bit bitter to you." Cole said shoving another pizza slice into his gaping hole of a mouth.
Lloyd shook his head, "No, I don't hate her. She's a nice person and all too..."
"Why would he hate her?" Kai asked, "Isn't she one of our friends now?"
Lloyd seemed to smile a bit more, "Yeah, she's a friend."
The truth was Lloyd did feel a bit...jealous...he wasn't sure why but he just didn't like it when she got so close to Kai.
It was getting late and so the ninja said their goodbyes and headed home.
...
It was either really late or very early, Kai wasn't sure. Something about earlier bothered him. He never liked roller skating and he felt shy about it eailer. He didn't want to roller skate there, but he didn't know why. It was probably because Skylor was there and that was making him nervous. But whenever he looked at her, those shy feelings never came. He knew who he really liked, and hiding them was getting him nowhere.
He liked Lloyd.
So now what? Lloyd was the only one who knew he couldn't roller skate and he was the only one he wanted to keep it from. He could shrug it off, but Lloyd probably thought Kai was a sissy for never learning.
Then he heard a noise from the bunk below.
"Kai? What are you doing up?" Lloyd asked rubbing his eyes.
Kai flinched, "Uh, getting some water?"
Lloyd yawned. He wasn't fully awake, "Ok then, good night." and then the green ninja was out like a log again.
Kai sighed of relief. He'd confess to Lloyd another time. He was just happy Lloyd never was mean to him when he told him he couldn't skate.
...
The sun rose over Ninjago and into the windows of the ninja's room. Lloyd was the first one up and was bounding all over the room to wake the others, "Hey get up everyone! Let's go have breakfast! Zane go and make some!"
Slowly, everyone was awake and out of the room to wait for Zane to finish making breakfast.
Kai was the last out since he had to do his hair before too many people saw his hair without hair gel.
"Hey Kai..."
Lloyd walked over to Kai just as he was laving the room.
"Yeah, what is it Lloyd?" Kai asked closing the door behind him.
Do you ever want to learn how to roller skate? I'd love to teach you." Lloyd said smiling.
Kai blushed slightly, "Uh, s-sure I guess..."
Lloyd nodded and quickly made his way down to get some breakfast with Kai following behind.
...
A few weeks had passed and the ninja were bored as ever trying to find things to do. Zane was cooking, so that kept him occupied at least. Cole soon decided to eat the left over cake Zane made yesterday, and Jay and Nya agreed to start a new project for another vehicle for the ninja utility.
The others were busy so Lloyd went over to Kai, slamming a ball against the wall repeatedly, and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey Kai?"
"Yeah, what is it Lloyd?" Kai asked stopping the ball.
"I was just wondering, did you want to come and learn how to roller skate?" Lloyd asked.
Kai smiled slowly, "Sure, I'd love to."
They went down to the skating rink and signed in Luckily, not many people were there.
"Ok, hold onto me and I'll show you a few things." Lloyd said and Kai held onto Lloyd's shoulders.
After a few successful attempts, and many failed attempts, Kai soon got the hang of it and was being able to skate remotely well by himself.
"See? Isn't it easier than you thought?" Lloyd said cruising beside him.
Kai smiled, "Yeah, thanks Lloyd."
Then two bulky men flew past Lloyd, knocking him over. "Out of the way greeny boy!"
"Hey! Watch where you are skating!" Kai shouted to them.
"Oh, you want a go, huh?" they said and came back over to where Kai was and Lloyd stood up behind him.
"Kai, let's just ignore them." Lloyd said and tugged on Kai's arm.
"No, these jerks need to be taught a lesson." Kai snarled cracking his knuckles.
A man came racing out to stop the fight, "Please no fighting is allowed here! Take this outside!"
One of the men pushed him away, "No way, get outta here, they asked for it."
The man ran back to his post to call security.
"Kai, seriously, let's get out of here." Lloyd said trying to pull Kai away.
Before Lloyd could say another word, the man threw a punch at Kai.
"Kai! Look out!" Lloyd shouted. He tried to pull Kai out of the way, but Kai only smiled and dodged the attack.
Lloyd, still trying to save Kai, fell onto his face and looked up to see Kai slowly moving backwards away from the two men.
"Uh, Lloyd, how do you stop again?!" panic was laced through his words.
"Push down on the front toe part! The friction slows you down!" Lloyd shouted rubbing his nose.
Kai pushed down and came to a halt, almost toppling over, but he kept his stance. The men who tried to punch him however, fell down as well and quickly stood back up. "Hey little wise guy. Get back over here and fight!"
"Why don't you come to me?" Kai said in a cocky tone. The truth was he didn't want the two men to see him fail over and over with skating.
Anger filling them, they raced to Kai ready to push him into the ground. Sliding between them, the two men went crashing into the game station.
"It was fun, but while you two dopes dig yourselves out, we'll be leaving." Kai said and slowly and carefully skated over to Lloyd and they got off the rink and watched as police dragged the two men outside.
Finally out of the mess of the place, Lloyd and Kai were walking back home.
"That sure was some skating lesson, Lloyd." Kai said smiling and putting his hands behind his head.
Lloyd looked at Kai, "Y-yeah...um...that was."
Just before Kai could open the front door, Lloyd tugged on his sleeve.
"Kai, wait."
"Is something wrong, Lloyd?" Kai asked looking back at Lloyd.
Lloyd leaned forward and kissed Kai on the cheek, "Thank you." he then skipped into the house and to the kitchen where Zane brought out lunch for everyone.
Kai smiled, "No problem, Lloyd." he then followed Lloyd inside.
So is it good? Bad? Tell me what you think! And I thought about this with some inspiration from lovestarr.
Thanks for reading!