Hey, I'm back with a new chapter! If I were you, I'd read the second chapter to Zora's Rise of the Ninja's story. That's where I got Zora's dream from, so give her some credit! Sorry for the late update!

Kai POV (there will be a lot of switching POV's)

Zora was now sobbing uncontrollably as I tried to make her calm down, but nothing was working, "Zora, please, just calm down!"

"I-I-I just can't! I can't!" She then started shaking even more, vibrating like a phone. "All my f-f-fault...all my fault..." She whimpered and buried her face in her hands, letting out another wave of tears stream down her face. I just kinda sat there hugging her, having no clue on what to say or do. Man, you guys, I thought, hurry up! She really needs you two...

Abby POV

I get Cole to stop crying and I hug him one more time before we go back inside the room where Kai is looking at us and hugging Zora somewhat awkwardly. Cole and I rush over. I sit right in front of Zora on my knees on the floor and Cole sits on the side that Kai isn't. I put my hands on her wrists and pull her hands off of her face. I look her straight in the eyes as another wave of tears hit her and I pull her down to sit next to me and gather her in a hug. Cole slides into the spot she was in and rubs her back. When she calms enough for me to talk, I pull back to look at her face that still has tears streaming down like waterfalls, and say as gently as I could, "Zora it wasn't your fault at all, none of this was your fault. Did you give your mother the cancer?" She shakes her head slightly, "Did you make your mother miscarry your little brother?" she shakes her head again, "Did you burn down your home?" She shakes her head again, "Did you make that person kill your father?"

"No" she says it confidently that time and Cole took his chance to add something.

"Zora... You know you'll always have me and Abby and occasionally Kai and Pinky. We'll always be here for you when you're hurting like this. Zora, why did you hide all of this from me?" I could tell that he was a little hurt that Z didn't trust him enough to tell him this.

"I didn't want you to think I was weak," She mutters and avoids all of our eyes.

"Z its bad, like really bad to keep this stuff from the people you care about and the people that care about you. We would never think that you're weak. Not only are you strong, but your also, Smart, funny, sweet- sometimes-, caring and an amazing person. Why can't you see that?" I say and look at her like a worried mother would.

"All I see are my imperfections," I think all of our hearts broke a little at her mumbled, sad reply.

"Imperfections are the things that make you beautiful. I mean just look at Abby" I raise my eyebrows at Cole, who started talking, and think, 'He better know where he is going with this.' "She has big hips, it makes her stomach gorgeous. She has an anger issue; it makes it funny to push her buttons. Now you Z, are annoying, but you are the greatest person I will ever meet. You eat my cake, but I should share with you more. You have anger issues and like Abby, I love to push your buttons! And all the things that make you imperfect to everyone else... makes you perfect to not only me, but Abby and Kai and Pinky and Red and Silv and-" I cut off his rambling.

"I think she gets it, babe. What he means is we all love you unconditionally." I smile sweetly at her and she nods.

Zora POV

I understood what they were saying. Even though my cousin was being a butt, I get it. But it still hurt. As I whipped a few stray tears from my face, I let a small smile form on my face. "Thanks guys...and I'm sorry for how I acted..." Cole then pulled me into an unexpected hug, but I hugged him twice as much as he hugged me. Now that I think about it, it feels great to have my big cousin back.

"Hey, Zora, you couldn't control it. It's okay." I nodded my head and buried my face in his shoulder, but it didn't feel alright.

"Thanks guys...I mean it..." I then felt two more pairs of arms join the hug I was having with Cole, and looked towards Kai's and Abby's smiling faces, and I smiled back. It felt...alright...

"Can't have a group hug without the rest of the group!" Kai shouted, and hugged us all tighter. I squealed with happiness. This too felt familiar. I let a few tears slid down my face, and Abby noticed them.

"Hey hey, what's wrong?" I shook my head, and smiled at her and the guys.

"Nothing...they're just tears of happiness." They all smiled again and we hugged once more. "Hey you guys..." I started, and took a deep breath as I continued, trying not to cry, "Tomorrow's the 27...and I was wondering you all would..." I choked with the lump in my throat, trying hard now to keep it under control "And...And I wanted to know...if...if you guys...want...to...come along..." they all took a second to think about, but surprisingly, Cole figured it out first and gave me a hug.

"Why not kiddo we'll be happy to…after all, we are family" I nodded my head as we hugged, and I felt okay after that. After the hug, I went down to the basement to catch some Z's. Hehe…Z catching some Z's.

A young girl wandered around in a Dark Place. It was dark, cold, like the hands of death. She didn't know it, but she secretly was in their palms right this minute. The girl wandered around, calling for the names of people she had once known, but had led them to their ends.

"Mom?" She called for her mother, but got no answer, as she expected. She has been wandering This Place for unending hours, but she knew every little corner that there was in This Place. The girl gave a tired sigh, about to give up on her search in This Place, but stopped once she saw a head of someone she knew. Someone that she caused to leave this world.

"Dad? Dad! DAD!" Squealing with joy of seeing her father, the girl leaped towards the figure, and grabbed his hand. Never before has the girl acted like this, even when she was a small child, but now, after seeing her father in This Place, she was truly happy. "Dad!" She smiled, but it was soon whipped off her face once she felt his hand. It felt…burnt.

"Dad…what's wrong…" Then, like an owl would, his head spun around, making a sickening sound as it went, and looked at the girl, who let out a terrified scream. His face was burnt to a crisp, scar of a fire, you could easily tell that the man had gone through one, and didn't make it.

"You…you did this! You did this to me!" the man shouted at the girl who was now on the floor, looking horrified at the man she had once called her father was now hovering over her threateningly.

"D-dad, I didn't do anything! I-"

"That's the point! You didn't do anything! You didn't try to stop it! You didn't try to save me!" The girl's father shouted, and the girl whimpered in fear. Her dad had never acted like this before, dead or not.

"Dad, I'm sorry! I am!"

"Sorry won't fix it! You're useless! You always were!" The girl was taken aback, she knew that she did screw up a lot, in school, sports, life itself, but never before has her own DAD has said that.

"Dad…I'm sorry…" As she said that, her 'Dad' then swung an arm at her, but before it hit her, the place erupted in flames. The girl shrieked, trying desperately to get away from the flames and smoke, holding up her arms to her face to protect it from the flames, but couldn't.

"Help me! Someone, HELP!" As if she had just said the magic words, the flames went down, and she stood there, gasping for breath, trying to process what had just happened.

'What…what just happened?!' the girl thought as she looked around the Dark Place, trying to find what had saved her, but found nothing. Carefully, cautiously, she walked around This Place, now wanting to find a way out. The girl walked around, looking into the pools of darkness around her, looking for an enemy in the shadows, but instead, she saw something: a tent. She stumbled up to it, having tripped over a log, and ran her hand across the smooth material.

'It feels…familiar…' After feeling the cloth, she felt a small smile spread across her face, and gasped. How long has it been since she had done that? Ages, and she knew that. Taking a seat on a log around the remains of what was a campfire, she sighed.

"I seriously hope I find a way out of here soon…" The girl looked around the Place, it seemed eerily quiet, but the girl seemed to like it that way. Then, something caught her eye laying the ground several feet away. Curiosity getting the best of her child like mind, she wandered towards the item on the floor and picked it up. The girl looked at the small weapon, its trigger, the handle, this too felt familiar.

"Why would this thing be lying around here? It wasn't earlier…" As the girl looked at the weapon, deep in thought, trying to figure out where it came from, she was completely unaware of the figure creeping up from behind her.

"Hello…" The figure spoke into her ear, her body stiffened, then unexpected, she whipped around and a loud BANG came out of nowhere. The girl looked down slowly, looked at her hand, then to the gun, and saw smoke coming out from the firing hole.

"I…I didn't press the trigger…" trembling as she looked up from the gun, she saw a figure standing where it was before, staring at her with dead eyes. When the smoke cleared, she was able to tell that the person in front of her was a lady, but she didn't know who that person was.

"Who are you?" The person shifted over to the right slightly, and over the person's shoulder was yet another figure on the floor, unmoving. Squinting her eyes slightly, they quickly widen in realization on who the person was.

"MOM!" The girl screeched, shoving the person aside to get to the one on the floor. She hovered over her mother, not know what to do, and saw a puddle of a crimson liquid forming on the floor.

"Oh my-"Suddenly, as she was hypnotized by the large pool, she felt herself get pushed off to the side, landing with a loud THUMP. The girl winced in pain, looked up, and saw the two figures struggling on the floor, one trying to attack the other.

"Mom!" the girl scrambled to her feet and tried to intervene, but she couldn't because she couldn't tell who her mother was and who the attacker was. As the two were battling it out, she stood there, watching in horror when one of them got the upper hand and the other was left defenseless.

"Z! Get her!"

"NO! I'm your mother! Help me!"

"Don't listen to her! She's lying!"

"You know which one of us is right! Listen to me!"

"Don't you DARE try to trick my daughter!" The girl looked back and forward to each figure, each pleading for her to help them, but she didn't know. She just didn't know. Then, she felt the gun get bigger in her hands, but it was really her hands shrinking round the gun. She had now the hands of a child.

Struggling to get a grip on the gun, fumbling around, another loud BANG echoed from the Place, reflecting off of the walls somewhere she never reached. And what she never reached was the end.

After looking around the area, her eyes wide in horror and shock, she couldn't find anyone. Nobody. She was alone, once again. But that's what she thought before her 'mother' appeared, along with the figure. She was alone once again around the dead campfire. Shaking from the tension from the moment before, she sat down, unable to control her feelings of confusion and fright; she looked into the shadows that surrounded her in this Dark Place.

"When will I get out of here? It feels like I've been in here for years…" The girl looked around, looking for at least a light of the sort, but saw none. "I just wanna go home!" then, as those words were said, the fire from the fire pit roared to life, surrounding the area around the girl. The fire formed a patterned, but the girl was too shocked to noticed it by staring into the flames and saw her 'dad' come out from the fire. She remembered seeing her dad do that before, but that was years before this all.

"Oh man! Not aga-"her 'dad' then lunged at her, and gripped her arm with an iron grip. The girl cringed, his hand was as hot, or even hotter, then the flames itself. "Dad! Let go!" then, from somewhere unknown, another figure came out, and she knew who it was.

"Mom!" thinking someone was finally going to help her, but instead, her mother just grabbed her other arm and held her down. The two of them forced her to sit down, yelling heart crushing stuff about the girl, the child just reminded herself that none of this was real and remained a wall.

As the two figures held the girl down, she saw from the distance a small hand burst its way through the floor. When she saw that, the wall crashed down, and tears flooded down her face as she struggled to get out of deaths palms.

"No! Please! Let me go!" the two figures tightened their grip, and the girl closed her eyes to block out everything that was surrounding her.

"No…" the girl whimpered "No…I don't wanna relive this! None of this is real! NONE! Get away from me NOW!"

When she shouted those exact words, the place erupted in flames, and the girl felt herself get burned. She couldn't stop the flames, she tried to get away, but she couldn't. Then, from the flames, a figure tackled her out of them, and landed on top of her. Weak from the entire experience, she let whatever happened happen.

Then, one of the figures raised its arm, about to end her short life, and she looked into the eyes of death, for a split second she looked horrified, but she reminded herself that this wasn't real, and smirked into Death's eyes.

"I'm better off with death…at least I'll be with the real you…And you guys…all of you…I'm sorry…" and with that, the blow was delivered, and the girl was a flash of the bloodiest red and then the darkest black.

I whimper in my sleep, twisting and withering before waking up with a gasp and a silent scream. I looked around to see Kai, Abi, and Cole in a triangle around men, and the events from tonight flashed into my mind. Then the dream came into my mind. "Oh my God..." I whimper and run into the bathroom to depose of the cake I had earlier, and look around the room. "It's so dark in here..." I notice the walls and how they were closing in on me, and I had to get out of there. I step outside and let silent tears go down my face as I pull my knees up to my chest and whimper, "Just a dream...just a dream..."

Abby POV

I wake up and I hear something downstairs and it was getting louder. I immediately wake Cole up and he hears it too. We look at each other then book it down to the basement, then out the door, where we see Zora sitting on the ground, crying. When she hears us coming she glances our but then goes back to crying. Cole and I run to her and give her a huge hug. What was supposed to make her feel better made it ten times worse, the moment we both had are arms around her she starts crying harder and harder. We sit around her and try to comfort from a distance. It takes longer but it still works.

"Zora... What happened?" Cole asks her with a confused look on his face. She doesn't answer, "Come on please tell us. We hate to see you like this. So not happy, not funny, not the amazing person that we know and love. So...not you." he says and reaches out to touch, when she nods I grab her arms gently and turn her to look at me. "Zora were scared for you. Why is this happening? Why are you so sad? I know it's not because of your family, so what is it?"

Zora POV

I avoid everyone's eyes and look at the floor, suddenly interested in the tile. "It was n-n-nothing..." I then felt Cole turn me to look at him, and at the moment I felt another wave of tears hit me, but I struggled to keep it under control.

"Zora, it's something that's bugging you. You wouldn't be sad if it was...you can cry you know..." After hearing that, I then bust out crying, each wave of tears racking my body violently and I thought I was going to die considering how many tears I shed this night. Cole pulls me into a strong hug, both firm and comforting, as Abby got on the other side of me and hugs me too. For some reason, being between them made me feel confined, and I try to pull away, but Cole holds on tight, this remind me of my dream, how they wouldn't let go...I struggle some more, my movements getting more and more desperate with each tug, and I started hyperventilating.

"Cole! Let go of her!" Abby shouts, and right away Cole lets go, and I toss myself to the floor to get away from the both of them, and gasp for air. It felt...like I was being crushed between them. I glance back to see Cole looking at me with regret and horror in his eyes.

"Oh my God...Zora...I'm so sorry..." I whimper slightly afraid of what was going on, and curl up into a small ball, wanting to act like a turtle and hide my head inside of my little shell and be in my own little world.

Abby POV (I just realized that I've been doing this in present tense wording, so I'm going to switch to past tense)

Cole and I stared at Zora while she cried on the ground. I looked at Cole to see that he was slowly sinking to the ground next to Zora, looking like he was going to cry too. I stared at the two relatives and decided to comfort Cole first since it seemed like Zora wouldn't let me. I walked over to Cole and sat down next to him and pulled him into a hug. He sobbed into my shirt harder than Zora was sobbing into her hands; it surprised me when I saw Zora calm down slightly when she heard Cole crying too. I scooted us a little closer to Zora and she calmed a little more. I did that until I was right next to her. She looked up to see her big cousin sobbing like a baby on my shirt she looked up at me.

"Is he crying because I was crying?" I nodded and she still didn't look like she wanted a hug, but knew that Cole really needed one right now. She reached over and grabbed him and he calmed a lot when he looked up to see Zora smiling weakly at him, she still looks like she's hurting but Cole needs her right now and she knows that. When Cole stopped crying I walked over to them "Is it ok if I hug you guys?" Zora hesitated but then nodded, Cole was nodding since I said hug. I got on the ground and held them in there time of need.

Zora POV

After a very emotional night, I fell asleep with a minimum amount of nightmares. Each time I woke up with one, either Cole or Abby woke up to help me out. They...they're kind of like another pair of...parents I guess. Not that I'd ever admit that.

I woke up very groggily, and flipped my pillow over my head. "Five more minutes please..." I heard some feet shuffle across the floor and ignored it. Suddenly, I heard something very loud and rolled over to see an annoying song play on my alarm cock radio. Startled, I grabbed my clock and shot locked it across the room, smashing it to pieces. "I HATE that song..." I looked at the clock, and a date flashed on the screen. Sunday the 27. Today's the day. The day that it all fell down... I shuddered, as memories flooded into my mind, and a few tears piled up in my eyes, but I mentally smacked myself and wiped my face. "Listen Zora Celina...you've cried enough...you even made your big cousin cry...but you will cry no more..." After pulling myself together, I put on my happy face, and went into the kitchen to see Cole glaring at Abby who was cooking and saw Kai reading the comics from the paper. "Morning everyone!" I Spoke cheerily, and gave Cole a hug when he stood up.

"Morning Z!" He smiled, but I think the both of us were able to tell that we weren't okay, but we didn't want to ruin this morning. Today was the day that my world fell down. But today will also be the day that my world will be rebuilt.

Abby POV

While I was making breakfast, I noticed that ever since last night Cole, Kai and I have been acting like Z's parents. I don't dare tell her that, afraid of how she will react. I don't want to see any more tears ruin her happy face this morning. I know that it's not exactly a real happy face, because I've seen the same one on Cole and the rest of the ninja after a battle or training.

I know that those two are breaking inside and I can't stand it. I need Kai's sweet side right now. I sighed and finished the eggs and bacon and put them on their plates, and then I grabbed Kai and dragged him into the hall.

"What?" he asked the moment I shut the door.

"Kai you know what today is don't you?" he nods and sighs.

"I know it's the day her world fell down" I nod.

"Kai we have to help those two. Cole is only hurting right now because Z is and if we can't fix Z...we'll lose two very important members of this family." He looks down and puts on his thinking face-one I have rarely seen.

"I got it! We need to show Zora that we are a real family right now that-that you're the mom and Cole is the dad and I'm that one uncle that can never get a job because he pretty much sucks at everything!" I look at him amazed that he came up with that. It's a little sad that he's so excited about his uncle part in this though. "Maybe we could go to the amusement park and take her on every single one of her favorite rides!"

"Kai when did you get smart?!" he punches my arm playfully which leads to a full on fight. It ends when Cole opens the door to see me pinning Kai down and about to punch him in the face. This position also looks like something you really shouldn't do to someone that is pretty much your brother. Cole looks at us shocked for a second and then slowly closes the door again. I get off of Kai as fast as I can, not bothering to help him up. He followed, a lot slower than me, holding his cheek grumbling about going easy on me.

Zora POV

After hearing some noises out in the hall, Cole went out there to go check it out and opened the door slightly, and then closed it slowly. Me being too short, I couldn't see what was going on, so I just sat there and munch on a really awesomely baked waffle.

"SO what happened out there?" I asked Cole, swallowing the waffle and taking a sip of orange juice. Cole sits down in his seat and has an 'I'm forever scarred' look on his face.

"I'm seriously hoping that they were just fighting..." I gave him a confused look, but I decided not to go and ask him about what that exactly meant...

"Should I even ask?" darn it, I asked!

"Lets just say...it looked like they were having a WHOOP moment," when Cole said WHOOP, he made a circle with his pointer finger and his thumb and stuck his other pointer finger in and out while making that noise. I shook my head slowly...not getting what he was trying to get when the door opened.

"Cole that was in no way what you think it-ZORA WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" I heard Abi shout as I did the same hand gesture that Cole did.

"Hey m-ABBY! What does this mean?" Poo nuggets! I almost called her...the m word...but luckily, she didn't notice and pushed my hands apart from each one,

"Where did you see that from?" I saw Cole get slightly tense, but I decided not to bust him out.

"I…saw it on a TV show where they had a white talking dog and a guy with a big head that said Giggady giddady!" Abby and Kai looked at me shocked, and didn't say anything until Kai got super close to me.

"HEY ZORA!" Not sure why the buttlog chose to do it, but he is Kai. Too bad for me, because when he did that, I was taking a sip from my juice, and I started choking on it. I didn't want to spit it in Kai's face, but I couldn't swallow it either, so I just kind of swallowed most of it. After I did that, I started coughing and then drank some more juice as Kai continued on as Abby and Cole gave me worried looks.

"Do you wanna go to the amusement park?!" Right away, I bounced out of my seat to face kais. "OH HECKY YES MAN! WHAT TIME!?" As Kai and Abby filled me in on info, I couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt flash through me. I want to see them today...but after seeing Cole's excited face; there was no way I could say no.

Abby POV

I saw Zora's happy face and smiled. As I was watching what I thought of as a daughter, I saw disappointment flash her face before smiling widely again. Does she not want to go to the amusement park?

"Or we could do something else if that's what you wanted. I mean its your day Zora we just want to see you as happy as you were before!" I said it as happily as I could and glanced at Cole and Kai's disappointed faces. Wow Abby, way to put a dapper on everyone else's day. Their faces turned to a confused expression, but quickly understood what I was implying. Zora- being unusually nice -shook her head.

"No its sounds awesome, maybe we could get some cotton candy!" I smiled and nodded but it hurt because I knew she wasn't telling me the truth.

We gathered everything that we would need: money, the car keys, our phones and some snacks. We got in the car, me driving, Cole in the passenger seat, Zora and Kai playing eye spy in the back. I craned my neck to see Zora genuinely laughing whenever Kai did or said something funny. I smiled and glanced at Cole and saw he was laughing at Kai when he said that the sky was all one big pretty rainbow, I turned back to the road with a proud, happy smile on my face and thought about how we really are a family.

When we got there Kai and I paid for the tickets while Zora and Cole decided what rides to go on. I heard Zora mention the GIANT roller coaster and Cole visibly paled and looked at me with a 'help me' expression

"I'll go on that one with you Zora!" She looked slightly confused and glanced from me to Cole.

"Why can't Cole?" Cole's face- much to mine and Kai's amusement –turned bright vermillion.

"Don't tell her Abi." Kai and I both smirked very evilly and gave each other knowing glances. Zora looked utterly confused.

"I'm gonna tell her Cole" I said in a singy songy voice as I walked closer and closer to Zora, who was giggling and Kai, who was laughing. He knew this story very well. He was the one that sat next to Cole on the ride. I finally get to Zora, and winked at Cole.

"Last time me, Cole and Kai came here, I was at the gift shop, getting something for Nya. So when those two" I point to Kai, who was still chuckling and Cole who had his head in his hands, "were left alone, Kai decided that they should go on that roller coaster," I was going to go into details but then I saw Cole's very pleading puppy dog look and decided to give him some mercy, "Well let's just say Cole ended up sobbing on Kai and I had to comfort him, THE ENTIRE DRIVE HOME THANK YOU VERY MUCH KAI!" I yelled at said dipshit who gave me a thumbs up and laughed very smugly at my poor Cole who had gone even redder in the face- If it was possible.

"Aww, did we embarrass you Cole?" Kai continued to tease my unlucky little boyfriend more and more. The best part was: Zora was smiling and laughing- genuinely -the entire time.

I was too lazy to reread this for errors so sorry about that. I am so so sorry for the wait, but YEAH.

JUST SO YOU KNOW: PROBLEMS OF YOUR AVERAGE DE-AGED EARTH NINJA IS ON HAITUS!

Horrible writers block, my apologizes. I just can't find a place to go with this one.

AGE DRABBLES WILL BE UPDATED I PROMISE! Jay is just really hard to do.

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