Here's the second chapter. It's much longer than the other because I had a lot of ideas. An OC, and slight one-sided LavaShipping (really really really slight). ColdFireShipping as well.

Burning Marshmallows

The ninjas were walking on a marrow road to the woods, carrying heavy bags.

"Ugh, I hate camping!" complained Jay.

"Everywhere we go, you've got to complain." snapped Kai, "I'm sick as hell but I don't bitch about it."

"Your voice shows it, thanks, but maybe if Nya came with us, I'll be in a better mood!"

"So we're not good enough for Mr.? You would rather spend time with your awesome girlfriend than with us low-lives? Thanks, that helps our self-esteem."

"Couldn't we have traded that idiot for Nya?" asked Jay.

"No. It's been a while since we didn't have…" Cole paused for a moment, brought the four other ninjas close and took a majestic pose, "…a VERY MANLY CAMPING NIGHT!"

"Maybe it's because it's the first time." Lloyd corrected.

"NON-SENSE!" yelled Cole, still convinced it happened.

"It is true, I have no memory of any kind of event similar to this one."

"You have as much memory than a Windows 95 processor!"

"You're hurting his feelings!"

"He doesn't have feelings." Cole whispered, gritting his teeth and grabbing Zane by the collar.

The ice ninja shot him a glare and pulled Cole up by the collar. Their looks were getting denser, and they just stood still, fists hovering waiting for a face to punch.

Meanwhile, Jay had already received a clout right in the face. His nose had considerably swollen up.

"STOP! I'm sick of your crap! Jay vs Kai, Cole vs Zane…Can't we have a normal week-end? A week-end with no training, no evil creatures and no punches? Is that too much?!"

"Sorry, Lloyd…" the ninjas apologized.

"I have a feeling this week-end is going to be absolute…CRAP!"

"If no one wanted to go camping, you could have just told me!" growled Cole.

"I was about to say 'fun". Except I stepped in it." explained Lloyd, wiping his shoes on the nearby grass.

"Krmmpfffhhhh…"

It was the sound Kai, Jay and Cole emitted before bursting out in laughter.

"I don't see what is so funny about somebody walking in an animal's excrement."

Cole straightened up and gave Zane back the glare he shot him earlier.

"You just have to suck the fun out of everything, don't you?"

Lloyd stopped them before they started anything bad.

• • •

They settled in a clearing. They had only brought one tent, so they had to sleep together.

They made a campfire to cook the canned beans. Nobody was sure how you were supposed to cook them, or even if you needed to cook them.

"Anyone knows about those beans?"

Everybody shook their heads.

"No." a voice answered. "They're already precooked."

A tall man loomed from the forest. He had what seemed to be black hair. In the night, you couldn't make the difference between brown and black. He wore a long black vest and dark pants.

He approached the fire and sat down beside Cole. The earth ninja took a closer look at the stranger's face. A detail disturbed him especially : he didn't have eyes. Or maybe he did, but it looked like two bottomless pits.

"Sorry to invite myself here, but I'm lost. My name is Grimmer."

"It's fine, you can stay."

"Can you see?" Cole asked.

The man turned his head. His face seemed constantly frowning.

"Yes." he answered bluntly.

"You two really look alike, you know." said Lloyd, "Same hair, same skin tone, similar voices. It's pretty disturbing."

Grimmer and Cole stared at each other for a while.

"What? We don't look the same at all!" they answered simultaneously.

They both covered their mouth with their hands and glared at each other:

"Stop doing the same things than me!"

They stood up at the same time. Cole stormed off and hid in the tent but Grimmer didn't follow him.

"I was just playing. I did the same things than him on purpose.", he explained. His gaze directed to Zane, who was scoffing the canned beans. He slowed down and dropped the spoon. Sauce was dripping on the corner of his mouth, "I see this robot needs to eat."

"How did you learn about my robotic nature?"

"I felt it."

He went away and joined Cole in the tent.

"Sorry about your anti-evil-creatures week-end, Lloyd." Jay whispered.

"Well, I'm going to hang out with Cole, goodbye." Kai got up from the log that were sitting on.

"Not if I'm getting there first!" yelled Jay, overtaking Kai in his race to the tent.

Only Zane, Lloyd and the sound of saucy beans being devoured.

"Zane, give up on those beans already."

• • •

Kai was unsure which person he had to shake. He wanted to wake up Cole, but he didn't know where he was. Was it the guy in the brown sleeping bag, or was it the guy in the blue sleeping bag?

The only way he could know was getting really close to the face. Grimmer had inhuman bags under the eyes. They were so dark it looked like make-up.

It made him uncomfortable. At any seconds, Grimmer could wake up, his inexistent eyes shooting open. He really didn't want to deal with him. He didn't know why being close to Cole's face was making him uncomfortable, but it did.

He decided to wake the 'dude in the brown sleeping bag'. Hopefully, it was Cole.

"Man, wake up!" he shook the leader faster, but he wouldn't wake up, "Only one thing left to do: poking him."

The poke was pretty violent. Cole was almost folded in two, holding his stomach in agony.

"Do you have any justification?" he asked, shooting him a deathly look.

"Marshmallows." Kai answered simply, showing the bag.

• • •

So there they were, burning marshmallows at midnight in a forest.

"Don't you think it's absolutely unhygienic? Eating marshmallows from a dirty stick found in the woods." asked Cole, observing the marshmallow empaled in the stick.

"Unhygienic, unhealthy but it's freaking delicious."

"You should slow down on that. It's worse than Zane and his beans."

Cole was close to the fire. He seemed to want to move further.

"You're going to burn if you stay that close." Kai said with a croaky voice. His cold kept affecting on his voice.

"Not my fault if it's so cold out there!"

"I'm feeling pretty hot…"

"That's what you think, but you're actually really cold. Come warm up beside me." he smiled, patting the place next to him.

"No, I'm warmed up enough!"

"I can see it from here, you have goose-bumps."

Kai resigned to join Cole. Kai's hoodie was black, seemed way too big for him and was sliding off one of his shoulders.

"Kai, are you wearing my hoodie?"

The spike-haired man seemed paralyzed. He pulled on the strings of the hoodie, the hood closing on his face. He only left his nose sticking out to breathe.

"Please don't hate me." he whispered. His voice was changed by his illness and muffled by the hoodie. It was inaudible.

"What?"

"Please don't hate me." he repeated.

"WHAT? I can't understand what you're saying! Speak up!"

"SHUT UP, why are you so damn loud?! We're going to wake everybody else! "

"Is that a problem?"

"Do you want to deal with Grimmer?" Kai pointed him out like a monster.

Cole gulped. That guy crept him out more than dragons.

"Don't' you have a joke? The atmosphere's getting kinda heavy…"

"Let me think…

What do you call a pony's cold?

A little hoarse."

"Is this the best you can do?"

"What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

A PUMPKIN PI!"

"That's even worse."

"Fine! You don't like puns?" Cole said, rising from his the ground.

Kai feared what was going to happen.

"Well, I don't know anything else, so deal with it."

Staring at someone made Kai laugh. Staring at Cole much more than usual.

"Dude, your laugh is horrible. It sounds like a pig in agony."

Kai kept laughing. Cole was afraid he was going to die due to the laughing.

• • •

Lloyd was woke up by some screams. Or what seemed to be, it sounded like a chicken being slaughtered. The tent was bathed in an orange light that came from the outside. Lloyd guessed it was a campfire. He distinguished two shadows. One was on the floor, wiggling and the other one was standing in front of him, menacing.

He quickly gazed at the other sleeping bags. Two of them were empty. They were Grimmer's and Kai's!

• • •

Kai had passed out of laughing. He was lying on the floor, unconscious. Cole tried to revive in all the ways he knew, until only one was left.

"I'm going to have to use mouth-to-mouth…"

"Yes!" Kai whispered. Unfortunately Cole heard him.

"What?"

Kai acted the most lifeless possible. Cole shrugged and bended to reach Kai's face.

'Another victory for me!' Kai thought.

• • •

Lloyd was watching the shadow, as the one that appeared to be Grimmer's bend over and reach Kai's face.

"He's going to eat his soul!"

Lloyd grabbed a saucepan and jumped outside. The cold was burning his skin and walking in mud barefoot wasn't too pleasing either. He lurked behind Grimmer and hit. The raven-haired man fell flat. He didn't move at all.

Kai felt the weight of Cole crushing him. He really passed out. He looked up and saw Lloyd with a saucepan.

"Haha! Take this, fish-faced demon spawn!" Lloyd shouted.

"What the hell is going on here?"

Grimmer was standing behind Lloyd.

"G-Grimmer?"

If Grimmer was there, who had he hit?

"Lloyd, WTF?! Why would you try to kill Cole?" Kai asked angrily.

"I…I thought he was…Cole…Grimmer…Eating your soul…"

Lloyd's gaze travelled from Grimmer to Cole. He notice Grimmer's long and bony limbs.

Jay had arrived on the scene. He was pinching his nose.

"Maybe beans weren't the best thing to bring. It stinks in the tent! Who knew robots could fart-"

He stopped wham his gaze locked on Cole and Kai.

"What were you two doing?" he asked suspiciously.

Lloyd answered first in his manners:

"Kai and Cole sitting next the fire, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"Whaaaaat?! We weren't doing anything close to this, I swear!"

"You drugged him, right? That's why he passed out!" accused Jay.

"No! We were eating marshmallows."

"He's probably saying the truth, smells like burnt diabetes. And I'm the one who hurt him." reasoned Lloyd.

"Then I'm out of here. And I'm getting Cole away from you sickos!"

He carried Cole all the way to the tent. Which wasn't an easy task because Cole was dead weight. He tripped a few times and landed in the mud.

He kept giving dirty looks to Kai who returned them.

• • •

Zane had left. It still smelled like robot farts.

Jay laid Cole on a sleeping bag. He covered him with a soft blanket. He had to call an ambulance because nobody knew CPR except Cole. But before he wanted to get a few things off his chest. He started to talk to 'Unconscious Cole'.

"Sometimes I don't understand you Cole. Why do you like this idiot? He's annoying, hot-headed, stupid, lazy, narcissistic and doesn't have any sense of humor. He might be attractive, but that doesn't cover up all these flaws. You're not that shallow, right? I guess that's love. You deserve better. You could find someone better like…like…"

Jay didn't know how to express himself anymore. He knew Cole was unconscious but he felt like someone was listening. He laid a kiss on Cole's firm lips. He pulled away and lied beside Cole. It was useless. When Cole would wake up, he'd just go back to Kai and Jay would be alone in a corner, watching them show their affection to each other.

"Like who?"

Jay shrieked when he heard Cole's shattered voice.

"Where you awake all this time?"

"Nope. I can hear when I'm unconscious."

"Then you're not unconscious."

"Guess no. I can hear and feel anything, except I can't react. Pretty annoying."

Jay didn't say anything. He kept his eyes down. Cole was going to hate him for what he did. But he had to try one last time:

"H-How did you find it?…"

"The kiss? Pretty nice."

"Which one?" Jay asked suspiciously.

"I only had one. And it wasn't from Kai."

"I'm going to kill Lloyd for singing that stupid song-"

"He might need to sing it again. Except he's going to have to change one name."

• • •

Kai had heard everything. He sat down in the mud and wrapped his arms around his knees, after getting rid of the hoodie.

"For a happy ending, there needs to be a sad one." he sadly smiled. He was much colder than before.

A hand with a can of beans sticking at the end of it was waving in front of Kai's face.

"Perhaps you would appreciate to absorb this canned food?"

"Is it heated?"

"Negative."

"So it's useless. I need something to warm up."

"Extra layers might help."

"Maybe a hug?" Kai asked, full of hope.

"Definition of 'hug'."

"Let me show you…"