The hunt for the Air Ninja had stopped since freak attacks all over Ninjago City had become a regular occurrence. A place would blow up, exactly four girls would die, and nobody could figure out how it was done. The ninja were exhausted from chasing shadows and practically running in circles.

"This makes no sense!" Jay exclaimed, throwing his arms up in the air in frustration.

The rest of the ninja filed in, worn out.

"I dunno Jay. I just don't care anymore." Kai flopped onto my air mattress.

I had been living my whole life without anyone else in a room, so sharing one with Solaris just made me uncomfortable.

I poked Kai with my finger. "Get off so I can get the knife you are currently laying on."

Kai groaned, rolling over so I could pull the knife off my bed. I slid it into a pocket of my ninja suit, then turned to Cole.

"We need trained." I gestured to Emma who had her earbuds in and music on high, completely oblivious to the world and Beth who was watching us silently.

"Yeah, I know." Cole ran his fingers through his hair tiredly.

"Maybe we could train now?" Beth offered.

"Yeah, sure." Cole stretched, yawned then walked out of the room.

I followed, cracking my knuckles.

...

"You haven't been getting much sleep, have you?" Solaris watched the ninja, her grey-eyed gaze focusing on each ninja in turn.

"No, not really. We've been busy chasing nothing." Lloyd responded, trying not to yawn.

I touched my toes, flexed my fingers and stretched my arms. "Okay, let's do this thing." I bounced on my toes, eager to begin.

"Try the training course." Cole waved to the course.

I eyed it. "I've already been working on it since the attacks began."

"Then you should be good at it." Cole replied.

"You're just lazy." I rolled my eyes, then crouched, waited a beat, then sprinted for it.

I got about 3/4 of the way before I got flung out. With a yelp, I crashed into Jay, who was smushed against the wall.

"Ow..." I collapsed to the ground.

I heard slow clapping. "Congrats, you managed to amuse me." Emma said sarcastically.

I pushed myself off the ground, blowing a piece of dark hair out of my eyes.

"That's it, you're going down." I growled, running back to the start and trying again.

I didn't make it. Cole stopped me, grabbing my arm. "You're pretty good, spar me once."

I blinked, but complied. "Hand-to-hand or with weapons?"

"Hand-to-hand first."

I grinned. Finally, someone with skill to fight. A ninja, no less.

"This should be fun~" I got into position.

He did the same, and we eyed each other for a long moment. I struck first with an easy punch. He blocked, and tried to hit me back.

I dodged, then said teasingly, "You're holding back. What, scared to hit a girl?"

"No." He tried to knock me off my feet.

I jumped, then punched his gut, immediately regretting it. "OWW!" I shrieked. "You've got rock abs!"

Cole only grinned, and the fight continued.

Short, but whatever.

Fun Fact: I've got my OC's posted on Deviantart, under the same pen name, if you care to check it out. Emma says it's rated M for nudity, but it's not anything you couldn't show to a kid. Just rated that for safety.

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