Captivating Contrasts

Chapter 19; a Poke from a Thorn

Laura's POV

I run out into the school's garden with tears forming in my eyes. Falling, I am on my knees near the rose bushes and onto the soft grass. The hot torrent of agony flows down my face and feeling betrayed I turn on my side to continue bawling out all the water from my person. Rain falls from my hazel eyes and the river flows down my visage. Wiping my runny noise, bitter thoughts race through my mind like cars on a race track. How could I have been so stupid and naïve? Yet how was I supposed to know? Yet he acted without courtesy. Why did his heart belong to someone else if that is the true reason for his devilish intentions? Only now do I realize how alone I have always been. Tacitly, when I calm myself down by rocking back and forth I look up from the ground. Glancing upon the beautiful roses growing from the ground, I gently touch a few petals on an old rose. From a single touch each petal felt falls down to the ground. Looking, I find a younger rose and pick it from the bush without a single poke from a thorn. While glancing at the rose, I come to one conclusion; I will never love anyone again.

Lloyd POV

I sit at the table and I wait for breakfast. After Zane brings it in I start to eat the waffles on my plate. Beginning to hear loud footsteps from the hallway, I watch the door open into the dinning room. Unexpectedly, Emma walks into the dinning room. I turn my head and look at Zane, who at her entrance smiled glad to see her, yuck. Even though it is Zane and he did occasionally feel lonely before Emma came along I still find it a bit gross. Walking, Emma sits across the room by Zane. She quietly begins to eat without a word. I then look back onto my plate and focus on my waffles. After breakfast everyone goes out onto the deck to train besides Emma, who will be talking with Sensei Wu. Because of Emma's absence, today I will train with Zane only.

Emma's POV

I woke up well rested today, I was really tired yesterday. That reminds me… sigh… we were so close… And that was my first kiss! Oh my goodness! After that I fell asleep though. Slowly, I walk down the hallway and the floorboards creek with every step. I enter the bridge and join Sensei Wu, Lord Garmadon, Misako, and Dr. Julien.

"Good morning Emma!" I am greeted by Dr. Julien and I smile in response. Walking over to the table in the middle of the bridge I Look down at the piece of paper down on the table where I wrote my prophecy on. I sit down in a chair.

"You want me to tell all of you where she is right?" I ask and Sensei Wu nods. I gently close my eyes to concentrate. Painfully, I read the paper over and over. Slowing, thinking of where she may be… Closing my eyes, I concentrate on where she is… Blocked, I concentrate harder. It hurts more and more and I find myself crying… Something serious and emotional must be going on with her… well she would be easier to find then… I open my eyes and breathe heavily.

"I apologize; The Kunoichi of Light is going through something… emotional. Hm… Luckily that would make her easier to find. I know she is in Ninjago City in a garden but that is it." I say, Sensei nods his head and I leave to train.

Anne POV

I feel the hot sun of this summer afternoon on the deck of the bounty and look up with the sun in my eyes at my sparring partner. We both get into a fighting position. Cole stands solid as a rock in a defensive position as I plan my attack. Walking around him patiently, I seek a weakness in his flawless defense. I stare strait into his emerald green eyes then strike him in the shoulder. He blocks my attack and I pull my hand away. Throwing a punch as well, I dodge and run to his left. I give a kick and attempt to trip him but he jumps out of the way. I feel my heart race when he rushes towards me. However I grab him and flip him over my shoulder. Since he lands on the ground, I throw my hands in the air with success. I do not believe that worked! I turn around unable to react in time to prevent him when uses his foot to trip me. However… that backfires because… When I am tripped I land on top of him.

"Oops" he whispers to himself. I blush and breathe heavily. I look deep into Cole's eyes but he looks back. A large blush forms on his face but I immediately try to get up on my feet.

"ABOUT TIME!" yet I cannot do that before Cece and Kai walk back on deck. Cece shouted that rudely to create it even more awkward and I feel my cheeks burn. I get up to face Cece

"IT WAS NOT LIKE THAT!" I say to Cece who smiles evilly.

"Sure~" She says sarcastically.

"HE TRIPED ME… and it sort of backfired…"

"COLE AND ANNE SITTING IN A TREE, K-I-S-" She shouts for everyone on the bounty to hear but I interrupt her.

"YOU!" said I before running after her. I chase her around the deck and Cece is cornered at the front of the ship. She looks around her and with no other choice she jumps in the water. I follow. Making a big splash, I pop my head over the water and look over to Cece. She laughs and gives me a cute smile. Sighing, I then laugh myself. I splash some water at her. She retaliates with a bigger one. I use my powers and I send her away with a large wave.

Zane's POV

I look down from the rails on the bounty and I watch Cece and Anne splash each other with water. I look over to Cole and Kai who were also watching… intently…. I open my mouth to say something but decide against it. Turning around, I see Emma coming up on deck and she looks over to me. I walk towards her as Anne and Cece climb back on deck soaking wet. Emma and I both help train Lloyd a bit (even though he doesn't really need it now I suppose) while training ourselves. We are currently practicing our accuracy with things like shurikens and daggers and helping Lloyd. I look at a target and direct the shuriken in the middle and throw. I throw it nearly dead center.

"Getting a little rusty?" Emma asks before she throws a dagger at another target and hits it dead center. "YES!" she says happily.

"With my elemental blade I suppose I lost practice. Yet that was only a bad shot." I throw another at a dummy and I hit it right between where eyes would go. "It merely takes a lot of practice, Lloyd" I say as he tries to throw one. He hits the target but still a ways from the bull's eye.

"Better than last time" Emma says and I agree. She turns to look at me and gives me a smile and I gaze into her sky blue eyes. She breaks the contact by attempting to throw another dagger at the dummy.

"Hey, Emma… I got a question! Did you get to find the kunoichi of Light?" Lloyd asks Emma. Intensely, she throws the dagger right at the heart of the dummy. She turns to Lloyd.

"Almost, I think we are heading to Ninjago city right now." Emma says.

"She must be in Ninjago City then?" Lloyd asks and Emma nods.

"Hmm… How will we find her in such a big city?" I ask.

"We will find her." Emma says and we leave it at that.

Laura's POV

I sit up from the grass and look at my clock. It seems like dinner will be ready soon so I better hurry. I walk in the bathroom and wipe my face in till you could not tell I was crying. I walk into the cafeteria; I go to a boarding school and live here. Currently, it is time for dinner. When I have my food I think of somewhere to sit. Perplexed, I know I cannot sit at my normal spot because he will be there. I find an empty table and sit. I never liked it here… in Ninjago City. It always was too busy and crowded. I would like to be outside in the sun. However that little garden on the roof of the school is the only place during school where I can be outside. I eat my meal quietly and alone in till I am excused to work on homework. I am silent; I am pretty shy either way, in till I can go to bed.

Skales' POV

"Stronger and stronger we go, round and round and around we go.

What you seek, you already have…

UP and DOWN you shall LOOK until YOU find the DARKNESS

And enemies struggle, yet with turning tables."

Her words echo profoundly inside my thoughts as I try to decipher them. Why did she tell me this? Was she toying with me? They call her the Seer of stars so she must have told me my fortune. Perhaps we must find a way to build our forces and then we can rule the surface. Well we have the Fangpyres so that may not be difficult. Yet we will need a more efficient way to build our forces… what if we had a machine of some sort to create clones or transform humans…? AND I COULD TURN THE NINJA AND COSMIC LEAGION AND FORCE THEM TO JOIN MY ARMY! Well if things go to plan.

Cole's POV

"DONG, DONG, DONG!" I wake up abruptly from my sleep and I lazily turn to face whoever was whacking the gong. I see that it is Cece and Emma, I was expecting Sensei Wu. "WAKE UP YOU SLEEPY HEADS WE GOT WAKE UP EARLY TODAY TO FIND THE NEXT COSMIC MASTER!" Cece yells and I hear the groans of the rest of the guys.

"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, I AM UP!" I moan sitting up in my bed. It looks like Zane is still asleep, man, is he such a heavy sleeper. Seemingly, Kai is still in bed and jay is slowly standing up. Lloyd is also sitting on his bed.

"Wake up Zane" I hear Emma say sweetly to Zane to wake him up. He wakes up quickly hearing her voice, go figure. He smiles, Emma being the first thing he saw in the morning. I feel happy for the guy, he seemed lonely sometimes.

"Who gave you two the authority to wake us up?" I hear Kai snap.

"Sensei Wu requested us. Wow Kai I didn't know your hair could get spikier!" Cece says. I hear Kai growl.

"Well breakfast is ready when you all get ready!" Emma says and we all get ready and head down to breakfast. I smell the bacon when I walk into the dinning room. Anne walks in with Nya and places down a bunch of bacon, pancakes, and scrambled eggs. I personally prefer my eggs fried but with this many people… Yeah. We pass around the food family style and I wait a bit for some food. I begin eating and I hear everyone talking and yammering, especially Jay.

"So Nya… Have you been able to create any inventions lately?" He asks

"No, not really, I have not had the time" Nya answers and Jay nods his head.

"Oh, ok then. Hmm… hey Nya, you think you would want to, next time we have a day off we could do a little inventing together or even something else?"

"Of course Jay" Nya says and she drinks a glass of milk. I look over to Zane who seemed to abruptly stop eating.

"That reminds me! Emma…" Zane says then looks over to Emma "It occurred to me… that…" he stumbles, which is unusual for Zane. I do not blame him though. "Would you like to go on one of these 'dates'…?" Zane finishes his question and looks over to Emma who looks at him surprised. She is shocked for a moment, but then recovers.

"Sure!" She answers with a warm smile and I see Zane looks relieved.

"Wow, looks like things on the bounty are getting HOT!" Cece says to Anne and Anne just smiles and nods. She looks over to me but then quickly looks back down at her plate. We all continue eating and after Breakfast head to the bridge.

"So where will we start looking?" I ask once we are all at the bridge.

"Her name is Laura, she has brown hair. I saw her in a dream last night so I have a better picture of her thankfully. She lives in Ninjago city and I last saw her in a garden on a roof of a building… that looked familiar…" Emma says and we all start our search.

Daaww… wasn't Emma waking up Zane cute? I thought it was writing it! I gave yall a long chapter because it was kinda filler in a way. YET WE ALL LOVED IT RIGHT? LONG LIVE DA FLUFF! Cece… is sort of on a mission if you did not notice… she has to help the author out!

Important news people! Dogcake and I are making a Colab together! And it is based off this story! However that story absolutely does not fit into this stories timeline. Yet I hope you all read it! It will probably be posted today or soon. IT is called Crimson and Fuchsia and I hope ya'll give it a try! Please?

"But Nindroids don't dream" ~cuddly and adorable kid Zane

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