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Pearl: Me too!

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Pearl: READ ON!

Previously, on Masters of Spinjitzu . . .

"I've already told your foster mother that you would be living with myself and my other students. Shall we depart?"

I was still unnerved by my own speed and ability, but this man said he would be able to train me. Help me discover my potential. Maybe I was destined to help others in more ways than just song.

"Yes," I decided. "Yes, let's go."

Pearl POV

It's not like I hadn't climbed a rock wall before, I've been to camp before. But this was definitely different; and dangerous.

"Why do I get the feeling that my training has already started?" I muttered to myself, as I hung upside down from a cliff, trying to climb higher.

Sensei Wu said that the place where he would train me was at the top of this mountain, and we would need to climb. He was already at the top, but I was struggling a bit. I mean, with no safety equipment at all and this jagged cliff that was thousands of feet up? I was kinda stressed.

But I kept going, one foot after another, climbing towards the top. As I got higher, it gradually got easier, until I felt like a monkey, swinging to the top with ease.

Jumping to the top, I posed with a huge grin. "Tada!"

Sensei smiled, saying, "Very nice, Pearl," before pushing open the large red gates of where we would be training.

"A monastery," I said plainly. "Generally a place of peace, but I'll accept it."

The sound of laughter alerted me of another presence, and I turned to see three boys, who were around my age, standing beside a full training course.

"These are your companions," Sensei said, gesturing to them. I studied their features closely.

The first boy, evidently one of the two who had laughed as he was still giggling, had reddish brown hair and shocking blue eyes. His face was covered in freckles and he had a scar above his right eyebrow. I also noticed that he had a great smile.

The second boy was extremely pale, with platinum blonde hair and icy blue eyes. He was looking confused, maybe at my joke. He was different from the others in some way, and it intrigued me.

But the last boy really caught my eye. He had shaggy black hair and eyes the colour of thunderclouds. His skin was darker than the rest of ours, making me guess he was of Indian descent. He had a sturdy build and definitely had muscles. His overall handsomeness made my eyes linger over him for longer than necessary. When his eyes met mine, I jerked away, turning back to Sensei Wu.

"Boys, meet Pearl," Sensei introduced. "Pearl, meet Jay—" the funny one "—Zane—" the strange one "—and Cole—" the handsome one "—and they will be training alongside you."

Sensei began to walk over to sit of the steps, with his tea tray. "Let us begin."

Cole POV

Pearl was beautiful. With her blonde hair in short pigtails, bright hazel eyes filled with joy, and the kindest smile I think I've ever seen. She gazed at me as she played with the gold locket that was hanging around her neck—

Wait, she was staring at me? I caught her gaze, but she quickly turned away with pink cheeks. I suddenly felt my cheeks heat up as I realized I had been staring dreamily at her as well.

I didn't even comprehend that both Jay and Zane had already finished the whole training course until Jay had tapped me on the shoulder to garner my attention.

"Cole? It's your turn, buddy," he said, ushering to the training course and Sensei Wu, who was getting ready to start making his tea.

I felt my cheeks heat up even more than before. "Oh, right."

I heard Pearl giggle and nearly kicked myself. Stupid! If only I hadn't been staring . . .

I took off running through the course, dodging, punching and kicking when necessary. I hopped over the planks, dodged each of the swords, and then quickly disarmed the dummy. I ended up finishing mere seconds before Sensei was finished his tea, even though I could've done better if I hadn't been thinking about Pearl so much.

I went to stand by the other guys as Pearl readied herself to go through. I watched as she pumped herself up, then bolted through. Was it possible that she was even more beautiful when she was decapitating a wooden dummy? When she finished, grinning at our teacher who had barely started making his tea, I found myself gaping at her.

"Cole? You're not breathing, dude," Jay whispered, nudging me.

"I know CPR," Zane said quickly, stepping towards me.

"Zane, I'm fine," I said quickly, moving away from our strange teammate.

"Now," Sensei said, handing us each a black ninja gi in our size, "I'm going on a short journey, continue to train while I'm gone, I'll be back within a week's time."

"Really?" Pearl asked dubiously. "You're leaving us? Already?"

"I have confidence that you will all be fine," Sensei said, as he began to walk out of the large courtyard gates, leaving us staring at him with dumbfounded expressions.

Jay POV

"Perhaps we should take this time to get to know each other," Zane suggested after a few moments.

We all agreed that this was a good plan, and then Pearl shocked us by jumping, in one great leap, onto the roof of the monastery. She peered down at us, yelling, "Well? Come on, don't tell me you've never wanted to just chill out on roofs with your friends?"

We exchanged glances, shrugging, before we followed her up. Settling on a sort of circle (we could all see each other at least), I offered to begin.

"So, I'm Jay, Jay Walker," I began, racking my brain with facts about myself that I wasn't embarrassed to share. I shot Pearl a glare when she tried to stifle a giggle at my name. "I'll have you know it's short for Jayson! Anyways, I'm an inventor, so I tinker and invent things and fix up things a lot. I lived with my super annoying parents until I was old enough to move out and yeah." I looked expectantly up at the others.

"My name is Zane," Zane said, with a slight monotone. "I live near Birchwood Forest. I can stay underwater for longer than an average human being. I prefer the cold."

After a few moments of waiting for him to continue, we realized that Zane was finished. Cole began his own introduction awkwardly. "The name's Cole Stone. I'm really strong and love physical activity and sports. My father and I don't exactly . . . We don't see eye to eye. I was really excited at the opportunity to become a ninja."

Then it all came down to Pearl. We watched her fervently as she gathered her thoughts. She seemed nervous as she stood, as if she was about to perform a speech.

"Um, hi. I'm Pearl. But, uh, you can call me Pearl," she began, causing Cole and I to laugh, but Zane merely seemed confused. "So, I'm a bad guy. I'm 9 feet tall, I weigh 643 pounds, and I got a little bit of a temper on me. My passion bubbles very near the surface, I guess, I'm not gonna lie. Anywho, what else?

"I'm a wrecker. I wreck things professionally. I mean, I'm very good at what I do. Probably the best I know. The thing is, Fixing is the name of the game. Literally, 'Fix-It Felix, Jr.'

"Fix-it Felix is the good guy. He's nice enough as good guys go. Definitely fixes stuff really well . . . But, if you got a magic hammer
from your father, how hard can it be?"

This earned more laughter, again from everyone except Zane. He seemed to have no sense of humor whatsoever! What was he, an emotionless robot?

Pearl continued, "Nah, just kidding. I'm a singer from Ninjago Town, a small town in the outskirts of Ninjago City. I've won awards, actually. It's my life! Also a small part of my life is quoting movies, as you just heard. Another example: Buddy the Elf, what's your favourite colour?!"

As I laughed my head off, Zane got to his feet slowly. "I think I'll go make dinner," he said, obviously not understanding any of Pearl's joke at all.

"Wait, Zane!" I called, following him off the roof. "We need to work on your sense of humor!"

Pearl POV

After a few moments of awkward silence, Cole broke the ice, saying to me, "You're really funny, Pearl."

I grinned at him. "Thanks, Cole! Seriously though, what's your favourite colour?"

He laughed and responded, "Orange." Then he blushed. "But that's a secret. I have an image to maintain y'know."

I laughed. "Your secret is safe with me! My favourite colour is lavender. It happens to be my favourite flower too." We were silent again for a moment, until I looked him in the eye and added in a sincere voice, "Seriously though, if Felix were a regular contractor, carpenter guy, I guarantee you, he would not be able to fix the damage that I do as quickly."

Cole burst into peals of laughter with me, and I couldn't help but think how much I enjoyed his company.

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