Disclaimer: I do not own G. I. Joe nor any of the characters except my own Oc's of Lt. Col. Jane Abernathy "Demon Rose" (or Emily Rose), Sgt. Jake Henderson "Pile-Driver", Corporal First Class Jana Ling "Amethyst", and Col. Roger Stevenson "Cap". Here's Amethyst's story,
Synapse: Amethyst had been captured by Cobra nearly one year ago and now she was finding herself imprisoned by another. This man is using her, keeping her hidden, and now he expects more from her. Now she wants out.
G. I. Joe
The Amethyst Stone
Chapter 11
Coming up with a plan to get a band concert was annoying, trying to get Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes trained for a specific instrument while designed a holographic projector/disguise was tiresome. She sat there watching the two argue, one verbally the other with sign language. She had about enough of both of them. She put her bass down and walked up between them and pushed them apart. "Do not fight with these instruments…if all else I will teach you both how to erm…fake it." She felt her qi become clouded with frustration towards them both.
"Sorry Jana." Storm Shadow whispered before picking up the drum sticks and twirling them between his fingers on each hand. That made her worried. He was better at fighting than anything else. If they were to pull this off they sure as heck needed to be good at something else than fighting.
"I wish Pile-Driver wasn't evil, he could just do this."
"And Cap wasn't in prison?" Storm Shadow suggested.
"that too…"
Snake Eyes rolled his eyes and looked around before smacking them both upside the head.
"Hey!" Jana shouted while pulling something out of her pocket. "What the heck was that for?"
'Stop flirting and start working.' He signed.
Amethyst blushed. It was true she had been flirting with Storm Shadow a little bit, but not enough to drop the hit, or so she hoped.
"We aren't flirting." Storm Shadow countered while dropping the drum sticks and getting to his feet. "For your information she is teaching me-oomph!"
Amethyst rammed her elbow into Storm Shadow's stomach. There was no way that she wanted Snake Eyes knowing that she was teaching Storm Shadow the Seven Hidden Blades technique when he himself had asked her to once.
"From the top you idiots." Amethyst ordered while going back to her base. She knew the lyrics to the song that they were going to sing, but she hated her voice as she sang.
As the moon was being held closely by the sky,
I became frightened by loneliness,
So I called out, searching for you, but couldn't see through my tears.
When reflected in your eyes,
I would be smiling,
Never again shall I find a smile like that one.
In the pitch dark, my cries go on,
And there I see you,
Too far away.
Amethyst tapped her foot and waited for the right moment in the song to come back to singing.
The Ninjas looked at each other as she finished. It almost sounded like she was a dying pig.
Jana noticed them both looking at each other in slight disgust. "Ok so I can't sing. That was always Jane and Sarah, when she did perform with us."
"Don't worry, no one is perfect." Storm Shadow murmured before hitting the symbol loudly. Jana flinched at the sound then put her hand on top of it to stop the noise. "What?"
"I was never able to stand those things…it drives my ears nuts."
Seeing an opportunity to joke at his former students sake, Snake Eyes quickly signed: 'Your ears can go nuts?'
This caused Storm Shadow to start laughing. Jana's face was just too perfect. It was a combination of shock, humiliation, anger, and annoyance that made her cheeks turn bright red, eyes bulge out slightly, and body shake furiously.
"It's just a joke," she chanted to herself as she walked away. "It's just one of Snake Eyes' jokes, at my expense, moods."
When Jana was away Storm Shadow glanced at Snake Eyes. "You pick on her all the time don't you?"
Snake Eyes shrugged, signing 'She makes it too easy.' He then left the room. Storm Shadow could see the green-shirt they had assigned to watch after him hesitate before walking into the room.
…
Amethyst lay on the bed in the quarters her and Storm Shadow had been assigned. Outside stood the guard assigned to her. Noticing the guard assigned to Storm Shadow, Amethyst deduced that they were bringing Storm Shadow back. He walked in, slammed the door behind him and glared at Amethyst.
"I don't like it."
"Being here or—"
"All of it, being here, you teaching Snake Eyes and I how to play in your merry little band, everything!"
Hoping her calm demeanor would help him calm, Amethyst stated: "You and I both know that if that is not Jane then Cobra has done something terrible; something that might end in catastrophe for all sides."
"I don't care, we're leaving."
"No, we are not. If you want to continue learning Seven Hidden Blades you will stay too."
How he hated that she used his learning against him. However, he also hated the fact that no matter how hard he tried the first of the seven Blades would not work for him. "You know that I cannot learn it."
Amethyst walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Yes you can…you just don't have the ability to push aside everything in order to learn it."
"The technique is impossible. Qi does not exist!"
Closing her eyes, Amethyst cleared her mind. "It does exist, otherwise the move I used on you a long time ago would never have worked. You must understand that you are trying not hard enough and yet too hard."
He grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look him in the eyes. "You speaking in riddles is the worst thing I can imagine."
"And you, knowing not how to control your temper is what stops you from learning to become the Tóngkǒng. That is the first step, learn to become a pupil again and you will learn the first Blade."
He yelled and let her go before turning away from her. "You are impossible!"
"And you are stubborn." Amethyst walked up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder again. "Do you know why I am teaching you the Seven Hidden Blades technique?"
"Because you trust me."
"No."
Storm Shadow turned around. If she didn't trust me then why was she openly teaching me the technique?
Looking away from those eyes that troubled her mind, Amethyst felt ashamed. "I'm teaching you the technique because I did not complete my training. I know the Seven Blades, but I did not complete what I was to become. I had hopes that you might."
"The seventh mark you have…the one that you said meant nothing."
"I was forced into getting it because my father feared he did not have enough time for me to receive it."
Storm Shadow gently put a hand under her chin. He knew she was ashamed of something. "Jana, what does the last symbol mean?"
"Qíngrén, the translation is Lover. I had to learn to become a Lover to someone."
A/N: Anyone else think it was funny that Jana can't sing but she can play the bass? r&r please...