[a/n: I got nothing to say. Mainly just a little explanation.]

"He's gone, you should stop that whole eye-watch thing unless you finally teach me it."

"If I did that I couldn't say 'I know something you don't know!' anymore. But yeah, I guess that's a good idea."

A second after doing as her brother suggested, she realized something. "I should've killed him!"

"Who?!" Ike was startled by his sister's sudden outburst, to say the least.

"Cole, who else have we seen recently?"

"Why would you-?!"

"Elo-"

"Do not interrupt me! Especially with his name-"

"What's wrong with my name?" Now that Cole was gone, Elo could speak. For some reason, when in the presence of their "masters," as they called them, shadows were unable to say a word unless disconnected.

Ignoring the third interruption in a row, Ike asked his sister, "Why's it always Elo this and Elo that with you lately?"

"Ain't it obvious? She's in love."

"Shouldn't you -oh, I don't know- go be Cole's shadow or something?"

"Excellent try. It's a new moon, idiot."

Ike opened his mouth to argue, but Elo smirked and added, "Street lamps too dim for shadows. I've got until he gets back to the ship, and you know what'll happen to me then."

Kai's shadow scowled at the ground, thinking about how he'd never really liked Elo. In relation to his human counterpart, he was nothing like Cole. Rude, manipulative, and evil (more deserving of the title than Yaj, at any rate) are all words that could describe the lightning wielder.

[A/n: before someone gets confused, Cole's (Elo) and Jay's (Yaj) shadows have swapped elements in comparison to Cole and Jay. Stated it last chapter but in different words, and I put this reminder cause it seemed there was room for confusion. Also as a reminder, Kai's (Ike) is ice, Zane's (Enez) is fire, and Lloyd's (Doyle) won't get any more than mentions. Please tell me in reviews if I should take this a/n out.]

What Ike considered worst of all was that the guy was a cheater (with Ike's ex Rolyks, no less) [a/n: Hmm, what is this reversed?] but his sister never listened if he tried to tell her. She'd assume he was trying to "protect" her by breaking them up. He didn't blame her though, not that he'd done things like that. Let's just say if Kai was overprotective, Ike was twice as bad.

One second they were fighting, the next both the green ninja and the ice ninja froze, their eyes now black as the darkest night. The robber they had been attempting to stop stared for a moment, wondering if this was some sort of clever trick. A similar thing was happening to Jay, Nya, and Kai, and Skylor was as confused as the thief was. The only difference was, the latter took the opportunity to escape while Skylor spent a few minutes snapping her fingers in the red ninja's face.

"What the..." Kai muttered.

She crossed her arms. "Don't scare me like that! I thought there was something wrong with you! Well, I mean more than usual."

"Ha ha, very funny." The red ninja rolled his eyes.

"It was. Now tell me what the heck just-"

"Anybody else just see Cole talk to invisible lunatics?!" the blue ninja interrupted, sounding frantic.

"No, I saw him chat with me and Nya's shadows."

"You believed that?!" Jay shouted, shocked, "I thought they were cuckoo!"

"Yeah, you've made that pretty clear. And quit yelling like that, people are looking at us."

"Please, Kai, they were already looking at us. How often do you see ninja in the park?"

The park had originally been Nya's idea for a date, and Jay agreed because, well, it was Nya's idea. Skylor unexpectedly had time free from the noodle shop, so the fire ninja took the opportunity to ask her out. Unfortunately, every place Kai thought would impress her was booked or too busy to actually be any fun, probably because it was Friday night, so Jay suggested they go to the park. It was both free of charge and big enough that the Samurai and the blue ninja could easily lose them later on. Kai had a similar plan, but before either could carry it out, their eyes, as well as Nya's, went black, and... let's skip back to where we were before the author bores the crap out of herself.

"Argh! Come on, I hate this place!" an unexpected voice shouted at the sight of the park.

Kai stared, almost dumb-founded, at the...thing that had attacked him so long ago. Only difference was that this time, the shadow was the same size as him. The red ninja reached for a sword that wasn't there and cursed under his breath when he realized he'd left it on the ship because the semi-formal clothes he was wearing now wouldn't exactly look right with a sheath on the back.

"I saw that."

"With your glowing, evil red eyes?" Kai blurted out.

"If that's what you choose to believe, so be it. But if I was evil would I tell you how to save your friend's life?"

"What do you mean?"

"I'm not in the mood for this," the shadow muttered. "Just ignore my thoughts on Elo during all of this, 'K?"

"During wha-" Nya didn't get to finish her sentence as the group's vision went dark and they heard Ayn's voice shout, "I should've killed him!"

By the time Elo had interrupted Ike, their sight was back. Seeing what Kai's shadow had seen and thought was a wierd experience, but not unlike what Ayn had done earlier. Only difference was that Ayn's was letting them view the events as if they were standing in the cave, invisible, while Ike was literally showing his memory.

And abruptly, it stopped. They sat up, blinking or rubbing their eyes. The red ninja felt a weird sensation, as if something inside of him was being pulled in two different directions. Meanwhile, the others either focused on one of the two odd sights before them: One of Ike's arms seemingly stuck to Kai's head as he fruitlessly tried to pull it away, or the dark figures that had appeared just as suddenly as Kai's shadow had.