Captivating Contrasts

Chapter 3; an Unexpected Prophecy

Emma's POV (later that night)

I glance upon the stars; they have always been so comforting. The bounty makes the experience even more breathtaking. I take a deep breath and feel the ocean breeze. The cold feels good to sooth my hurting heart. I feel so lonely. I am startled by a voice behind me and I turn around.

"Can you not sleep too?"

"Hello Zane. I probably could I just… needed some time to think" I profess.

"Hmmm... I see" He elucidates.

I continue to gaze at the stars to my surprise Zane joins me. I look upon the millions of stars and become lost in the constellations. I rest my eyes and stare at one of the most vivid of the stars. I continue my gaze and it seems I simply cannot remove my eyes. I cannot stop myself when something slips out my mouth.

"The rain strikes back and dances with quick snaps. A swift breeze chills the bones of the renewal and life is reborn." I say in a monotone voice.

Zane notices but I am still looking up. I could already sense his confused countenance. My connection breaks and I look down. I seem to glide my way to look at him. I am perplexed but I guess he was too.

"What?" He responds.

"Huh?" I look bedazzled.

He ponders; "What where you talking about Emma?"

"I truly do not know. It just came out I guess." I reply

"Oh, does this happen often?" he inquiries.

"Sometimes" I say

I look up to the night then back down to the ocean waves. I think I am ready to go to bed now. However I feel distraught because I really do enjoy Zane's company and the wonder of the millions of stars watching me.

"Zane I think I am ready to go to sleep I will be heading back to my room" I say as he nods his head in what seemed like approval? Or was it acknowledgement?

"Night, night Zane," I say before I leave.

"Goodnight." He says.

I take one last glance at the hours of darkness before I start heading back to my room, however I did hear his steps a while later when I came inside. I look up at the ceiling while lying on my bed. When I was out there it seemed so full of meaning. Then I remembered what I said. What did I mean? About everything I guess. These where my last thoughts before I drifted to sleep.

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Still Emma's POV but in the morning

I woke up early this morning and gracefully made my way out of bed. I looked over to Nya who was still sleeping. They luckily had a spare bed I could use so I could sleep comfortably. But I wonder how big this ship is. Perhaps I can use this time to explore. I open the door and make my way through the hall. My inquiring mind leads me to a room I happen to of heard noises from. The door was open so I merely peaked through the doorway.

I was looking at a room overflowing with scrolls, some journals perhaps, and books. I am startled to see a head poke up from a large pile.

"Hello Emma! How have you been?" greets Misako. It took me a minute to respond because I was still startled.

"What are you doing in here?" I ponder looking around at all the scrolls, must be the library of the bounty.

"I am trying to see if there is anything in these scrolls that can tell us anything about the serpentine being released this time."

"Oh, maybe I could help!" I respond enthusiastically

"Can you read this?" she shows me a scroll and I nod my head. I took a few classes about this stuff…

After a while of searching I had to leave to eat breakfast. You thought I would find something didn't you? Like some cliché miracle.

After breakfast

Nothing strange happened during breakfast. Nothing really happened so I think the guys went off to play video games. But Nya did join me in where I later learned was the scroll room to organize. Misako suggested we organize the parchments and documents in a timeline. Nya showed me a scroll.

"I remember when the guys found this. They became obsessed over who would be the green ninja!"

"Really, that is ironic!" I say back to Nya.

"Yeah, it was really funny in the end" she looks down at the scroll sentimentally. It has some ancient text and pictures of all the ninja.

My head shoots up when I hear an alarm. I look over to Nya who is already up.

"What is that?"

"There must be another serpentine sighting. I must go to the bridge immediately!"

I nod as she leaves the room. I place the scroll in the proper slot in the wall. If they had so many prophecies about what had already happened then why haven't I found anything about the future? Did the first spinjitzu master or who ever created all these documents stop for some reason? I look at the case where we are keeping the scrolls; I seem to have most of the scrolls in there and I only have a few piles left full of random scrolls and pieces of paper. I get started on the next pile. I start with a scroll with a red ribbon around it. I unravel the scroll and feel the smooth paper between my fingers. I look at the scroll and decide to read it. The time this scroll describes is unfamiliar. However it is after a lot of past events. What really catches my attention is the symbol for serpentine. I then decide to read the text.

My last message to the stars

Deep within the ground the serpentine sleeps but has now been awakened. The story is then undone like the unfolding of a flower bud and Evil grows stronger than it ever has been before. The sunset's light must become as bright as high noon to find the secrets of the shadows. To overcome the darkness by knowing what is unknown. The tree of life with the ten branches of justice is the only way to kill the garden snake. The rest of the future can only be seen by the stars now.

Now I bid you goodbye because this is the last you will ever see of me.

I read this over and over but I still do not know what it means. After the text I look down at an illustration on the scroll. It must be the tree of life like what text said. Each of the branches on the tree, ten to be exact are all different. One is on fire and another is covered with snow. I look at it and also see lightning, earth, wind, the moon, light, life, One with multiple elements, and of course the stars. I let my finger glide down the picture.

"What do you got there?" I jump up surprised not expecting that. At that moment I must have looked like I had a spasm because I find that Jay is laughing at my startled expression!

"Jay! What did you do that for?" I say furiously.

"The look on your face was priceless!" He is almost rolling on the floor now but I am not amused.

"Well I am going to go I found something new that I must show to Misako." I say with a scowl.

"Oh sorry, I just came to ask you if you wanted to see this girl, she was caught in the attack with the serpentine and man can she throw a punch!"

"I will talk to her then after I show this to Misako." I say still a bit angry.

"Ok then" He says then leaves the room. I then get up and roll up this scroll. If Misako was looking for a scroll explaining the serpentine then I think I found something. I then rush out of the door. I bump into Cole who seemed to have been thinking about something. I ask him where Misako was and he tells me that she is in the bridge.

I open the door slightly and see that she is there. I dash over to her to show her the scroll. She smiles at me and seems satisfied with the scroll. As she reads the scroll her face seems to be deep in thought. She looks over to Sensei Wu who was also in the bridge talking to Dr. Julien. She then walks over and he seems surprised and reads the scroll. A question burns inside of me and I cannot help to let it out.

"What does it mean?" I say impatiently. I then realize my mistake and shy away. Sensei Wu stares at me for a second then answers my question.

"I do not know."

The next chapter will explain the girl on the bounty! XD

From the first master of Sarcasitzu

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