Chapter 12; Do all wise people drink tea?
Cole's POV (The next day, in the morning)
I walk down the hall when I hear someone playing a violin. It must be Anne I think. I get closer to the sound and I come to the game room. Why did she had to pick this place to practice? I slowly open the door and attempt to not disturb her playing. quietly I sit down on the couch behind her. She stops in the middle on the song frustrated at her mistake. I clap my hands and she is startled because she did not know she was not alone. She turns around to find it is me.
"Hi Cole" She says
"You are a really good violinist, Anne." I complement
"Um... thanks? But I am not that good. I have like; robot Lego figure hands!" She then mimics a Lego clamp. I laugh as I think of Zane.
"I am pretty sure that would be offensive to robots if you where not amazing." I say and she blushes and smiles.
"No matter how much I practice my fingers are always too slow. I guess that is why I was never in the first chair of the section. Ever sense I was little I have been practicing this violin. When I was much younger my father had died so this is all I have left of him. A year ago I applied for a scholarship for the Marty Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts and I got in to one of their orchestras. That is when I moved away from Acacia village and from Cece." She says then looks at me
"I used to go to the Marty Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts, but I ran away a long time ago. My dad really wanted me to follow in his foot steps, but it just was not me." I say
"What did you do at the school?" she asks
"I was a dancer"
"Wow, I am horrible at dancing." She says
"Really, how bad could you be?"
"Really bad" She says and I laugh.
"I could teach you if you want… so I could make up for the cooking lessons" I say pretty amused and I stand up.
"You do not have to…" She says but then I gently take the violin out of her hand and place it in the case. She smiles and I give her a twirl.
"Do you want an encore?" she asks and takes back the time she goes through the song with no mistakes.
"That is much better!" I say and she smiles.
"I think it is time for breakfast." She says and we head to breakfast.
Cece POV
I sit on the table by Anne and wait for Kai to bring out breakfast. After a while Anne brings up a question.
"When are you going to make our fighting attire, Cece?" Anne asks
"Oh yeah, I think I started a while ago but I am far from done. Would you and Emma like to help me?" I ask and they both agree. After breakfast we get started right away.
"I am not the most skilled fighter of the group. This being by I am a seer unlike you, you are a warrior. It should help me be able to comfortable and it should describe more of who I am. Something… elegant and mysterious" Emma requests. I do not normally make clothes for combat. Well, besides that one time… I start on sketching everyone's attire. I should be green; Emma should be Navy blue, and Anne silver.
"How are we going to make armor" I ask myself
"I heard that Nya and Kai were blacksmiths" Anne says.
"Good idea, could you get Nya for me?" I say and she leaves. Emma has a small poncho over a purple tank top. She also has a long but not too long of a skirt. I feel the smooth sample fabric with small intercut designs like the stars in the sky. (It is basically what she wears on the cover art) I decide what mine should be; a simple V neck shirt (It is a mild v neck just for the style of collar in the shirt) with short sleeves. I also wear something similar to a long loincloth. But underneath I wear pants that resemble what a genie would wear. On the sides of the pants are embroidered vines. Nya comes into the room and I show her my design; Chest/shoulder plates and shin guards. It also has a skirt which I know I can make. She nods her head then starts working on it. After a few hours we all try our clothes on (I also did a few tweaks to Nya's armor, the stuff she wears under the Samurai suit). We come out and we look at my handiwork and we look amazing! We head out of the stuffy room and head out for the deck for fresh air and to train with the ninja. I then ask Emma a question before we reach the deck.
"What about the kunoichi of light?" I ask
"I think it may be a while before we meet her… a few other things will have to happen before she comes into the light" she then laughs at her own pun. We then walk out into the deck. I smile as I walk down the deck, it seems like the ninja are impressed by my sewing skills. I look over to Anne who is talking to Cole.
"Wow Anne, you look great!" Cole mentions
"Thanks, Nya and Cece they were the ones who made it!" Anne replies. And I turn my attention to Emma and Zane. He seems very transfixed by my design then politely complements her and she blushes. (They are too far away to hear clearly) I turn over to hothead who was as well staring.
"What, no complement, hothead?" I say and he frowns. We then start training for the day in our new attire.
Nya POV
I think I like Cece's suggestion of instead of red I dress in purple, (She is referring to her Samurai suit) purple seems to be my color. I then give another kick to the dummy but it seems like there is more force to the kick than usual. I guess Emma is right as well. The wind must have aided me, giving my punches and kicks much more force. I smile as I punch the dummy again even harder.
I turn around to see that Zane and Emma are sparring. I watch as they both use stealthy techniques to evade each others defenses. It seemed that Zane would win but then Emma turns it around but does not quite win. Zane flings a shuriken at Emma but then she jumps out of the way. She then dashes at Zane and slips down between his feet. She is now behind him. She then throws a punch but Zane had turned around quickly and stopped her fist from punching him. However she then slips from his grip and makes the decision to trip him. He steps out of the way and he strikes at her shoulder to unbalance her. She stumbles but then regains her balance! Will this battle ever end! She then pulls out a dagger and throws it at him. He jumps out of the way but she was expecting that. She quickly trips him at the spot. Yet then he grabs her arm and brings her down with him. They both lay down on the deck of the bounty and I chuckle to myself. They get up and shake hands.
"Now, after seeing that, Emma, I now think the Cosmic Legion has gotten a lot stronger. Yet I think we may need to work on our powers." I suggest
"That is true. Maybe we should work together on that." She says
"Ok." I say and I get Cece and Anne. I explain to them our goal.
"I got an idea!" Emma says then leaves. I look to Anne and Cece; I have gotten to know them fairly well.
"I agree, since we have not really done much to strengthen our powers…" Anne says "I am not sure what the knight of the moon does, like what power the moon holds, that I may employ and make use of it."
"Well you just summed that up, Anne." Cece stares at her and Emma returns with a bowl of water and a potted plant. I look at her cynically. She hands Cece the plant.
"It is imperative that we develop our skills because-" Emma stops to become lost in profound thought. Her eyes are full of sadness, frustration, and… confusion. She knocks herself out of it and shakes her head to focus. She stares us in the eyes "the Serpentine will become stronger and they shall fuel the upcoming darkness they wish to bring to Ninjago with revenge" after she says that we stare at her dumbfounded. Then she snaps us out of that by requesting that Cece to test herself by practicing on the plant.
Cece looks at the plant for a second and then closes her eyes. When she is ready she opens them and focuses her attention on a dummy that was near us. She raises her hand and the plant's green vines grow larger and fiercely strikes and swathes the dummy. She clenches her fist and the vines squeeze the dummy zealously.
When Emma hands Anne the bowl of water she looks at Emma confused. Emma then explained about how the moon has a power over the earth's tides and she thought Anne could control water somehow. Anne Places the bowl down and thinks for a second. She waves her hand back and worth with her wrist like a conductor and we all see the waves forming in the bucket. She raises her hands and a large wave forms. She then washes out a dummy she was aiming. Well all look amazed besides Emma who looks very content and seems proud of Anne.
"I think we all just need to think outside the box to earn our powers I think you too should try to work on it." She says to Anne and Cece and they both leave. She then turns to me and we decide to sparr. I give her a blast of air but she brings up a shield out of thin air to protect herself. I then think maybe I should try a tornado. I run around Emma very fast and by her startled visage I can already tell she knows what I am doing. When I form a tornado it swirls Emma all around the deck. However before the tornado can fling her out of the tornado she forms a ball of energy around herself and the tornado disappears. She seems to be in a lotus position with her eyes closed. She looks almost like a star. She then opens her eyes and relaxes and she stands on the deck
"Great job, we are really getting much stronger! I am going inside to get some iced tea." She says and I continue to train. However throughout training one question lingers in my mind; do all wise people drink tea?
Well I love iced tea and so does Emma… yummy iced tea… Anyway, I hope you liked the chapter. Lots wil happen in the future and thanks for all the reviews! I have drawn some ruff drawings of there attire however I cannot post any of my drawings on deviantart for a bit because I do not have the drawings on me at the moment. Probably a week or two. I also have one that I drew inspired by the last chapter! Nothing that important happened this chapter but I promise you... I am a evil author... MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Jay strikes lightning in the distance* thanks Jay! Please review!
"Complete the training course before I finish my tea then we will see if you are ready [*cough, cough*to learn Sarcasitzu]"~Sensei Wu
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