Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for an update. We all know that Jay had gotten bitten but how do you think he'll discover his powers. I'm not saying anything but this chapter will be funny and enjoy the update.

Chapter 5: Confusion

The metallic floor rattled underneath Jay's seat on the subway ride home. The sunlight rays shifted as the subway car turned to shine on his face. He groaned to the light over his closed eyelids to shift himself as he laid on the hard seat, but couldn't move much or else fall off. Somehow he wished he could get at least some comfort, but felt exhausted to not bother. Not even the rattling of the subway car was helping him to get comfortable. Why did he felt awful all of a sudden anyway?

After the tour from Oscorp, Jay slowly began to feel feverish as soon as he stepped out. He felt uneasy, pale, and sweaty to support himself. The others saw him looking feverish and gave him their seats for him to lie on with his jacket acting as his pillow. His forehead burned to have sweat mat his bangs to his head and drip down on his pale face. Clammy hands and felt tired to move. What could've made him like this? Couldn't have been that spider bite he took; thankful that the others couldn't see it as he covered it over with his free hand. Or was it a normal flu bug going around? He couldn't decide, but they all felt the same.

Another thing on the blue ninja's mind other than his fever was Gwen. Even since he saw his uncle's lab assistant, but couldn't stop thinking about her. He could still smell her lilac perfume lingering in his nose and her snow white hair. She was even wearing blue; his favorite color. He wondered if it was hers as well. He then stopped to what he was thinking. He was falling for another girl other than Nya. That couldn't be right. He's in love with the samurai, not a lab assistant. Plus Kai would kill him if he knew he was in love with another girl to break his sister's heart. He didn't know what to do. His headache was killing.

"How's he doing?" He heard Nya ask about his well-being. The auburn teen stirred a bit to rest his tired eyes. He could tell she was worried.

A cold hand was laid on his forehead to groan a little. He could also tell it was Zane's for being the ice ninja and cold a lot. He heard him hum in deep thought and felt the hand removed with his bangs falling back on his burning head. "His fever is going up little by little and won't go down." the ice ninja informed her. "I need some ice to help. If only my shurikens weren't stolen and I still had my powers. Lloyd, help us out and stop playing with his glasses will you."

"What? I wanted to see how he sees from them." the green ninja stated and set the glasses in Jay's pockets. "He just looks weird with them on. Even on me."

"Knock it off, Shrimp and help me." Lucas said and formed an orb of water in his palm. Lloyd then held his hand out to feel a cool mist evaporate from his palm and slowly froze the orb to an ice ball. "Here Zane, this should help with him." and tossed the orb to him.

A slight chill ran through the white ninja's systems after he caught the ball of ice. He didn't even shrug as the cold never bothered him anyway. He began to feel water pool as the ice was beginning to melt and reached into Jay's jacket pocket to pull out a handkerchief and wrapped it securely. And with a good smack on the plastic seat, the ice ninja heard and felt the ice ball shattered to become and ice pack for their lightning brother. He smiled lightly to and held it over his head.

A small, minuscule drop seeped through the dark blue cloth and fell in the center of his forehead. His hazel eyes immediately snapped open to quickly react and jump from his seat and on the ceiling of the metal car. But his fingertips were firmly planted on the metal ceiling and not held onto anything else. Jay slowly came to a surprise to what was happening with recently, as well with the others and passengers staring at him. He felt his fingers lose their fathom grip to fall and roughly on his back. "Ow!" he groaned quietly and slowly pulled himself to his feet. He then gazed at his hands and at everyone worriedly.

The Ninja were astonished to what was happening from the blue ninja to look at him weirdly. They saw his hands planted on the ceiling firmly without gripping the overhead bars. Like he was a bug almost. Was there something more with him than a fever? Laurie cautiously walked over to him and laid a hand on his shoulder. She could tell he was shaking to the sudden shock. "Jay, are you alright or something?"

Jay gazed into her icy blue eyes and then his hands to search them thoroughly. He couldn't facade the situation now. He just woke to be on the subway ceiling like he was bug. But he didn't have tiger claws to help him climb or anything that caused him to do that. He just became stuck to the ceiling. He began to hyperventilate and slowly stagger away from the orange ninja. "I-I don't know!" he yelped a little. "I still feel sick, but this is a whole new level to me! I don't know what just happened!"

He stumbled and collided with someone behind him without looking over his shoulder to where he was going to hear a cry of anger and annoyance. "Hey you made me spill my coffee, Weirdo!" a male voice boom and felt his shoulder grabbed to be pulled around. Jay yelped a little to face a teenager older than him probably by a year or two with dirty blonde and dark brown eyes with a large wet stain on his navy blue tank top. He gulped a bit from the blur of his vision as he look really, really mad at him and heard knuckles crack. "You're dead now."

"Alex, stop!" a female voice shouted to him. "It was an accident. Here, you can have my coffee. I already had enough caffeine anyway. Just leave him alone."

The teen named Alex turned on his heel to face the girl shouting at him. She had dark maroon red hair curled up to fall onto one shoulder with her arms crossed and a Styrofoam cup in one hand over her pink coral parka. He slowly eased as her sea-foam eyes burned into his. "Jamie, I get that it may have been an accident but I want to show this pipsqueak a lesson or too." he growled.

"Whoa! Okay now, enough!" Cole bellowed and grabbed him by his shirt and pinned him against the doors. Jay heard Alex wince from the earth ninja's strength and finally caught his breath to relax. Cole's got this now. "There is no need to start fighting here." he grumbled to the teen. "Our friend has been feeling...out of it today. But if you mess with him though, you mess with the team. Even me; the leader."

The teen struggled against the black ninja's strength but then laughed. Jay slowly felt nervous as Cole loosened himself to look at each other weirdly. Alex quickly threw a fist toward Cole's jaw to make contact and watch him slump to the floor in a daze like a bag of rocks. "Cole!" the blue ninja shouted and knelt to his side to gently slap his cheek to wake him back, but heard a groan to softly smile. Then he felt something crawl in his mind. The hairs on the back of his neck stood rigid. The back of his head buzz to feel his senses heightened.

Like someone was attacking him from behind.

In a reaction, the auburn ducked his head to quickly gaze up to see a fist and quickly kicked his leg back to hear someone grunt. It sounded like Alex. Jay quickly got to his feet to turn and gasp as Alex was clutching his stomach from the kick. He gazed down at himself to wonder how he knew that blow was coming. He couldn't have sixth sense like Zane does. Could he? A wave of nausea washed over the teen to grab the pole in the car to lean on it. "Look, I didn't mean for that to-" he paused to realize he couldn't free his hands from the pole. Almost like they were glue to it. He even couldn't pull himself free, no matter how much he struggled and strained. Not even the others could help him.

He gaze up to hear Alex catch his breath to begin struggling harder now. This wasn't going well now. Cole was still dazed and being tended and no one else was stopping the fight. "Oh I know you meant that to happen." he heard Alex say to gulp. He saw the hand being clenched into a fist and thrown. The buzz in the back of his head returned to duck and swing his body around the pole to kick him back and felt his hands freed to stagger and collided to have his hands on Jamie's shoulder. He gulped and blushed. What was going on? "Hey! Get your hands off my girl!"

Panic now spread through Jay to have his hazel eyes widen and struggled to remove his hands from her. But like the last time, his hands were glued to anything. He ignored the girl's complaints as he pulled to free his hands. "Look I'm sorry but this isn't like me!" he squeaked. "This is a huge, big huge, misunderstanding!" He felt his head buzzing on his new senses to quickly jerk his body away.

Rrrriiiippp!

In an instant glance, he yelped a little to the torn coral parka in his hands to lift his eyes to yelp more. He watched the maroon girl glance down to her chest to be in her tank top to scream at him. He stammered as he watched Alex become redder in anger. "You are so dead now!" Alex grumbled to charge at him.

Adrenaline poured in his veins as he gracefully dodge every attack without the use of his training to defend himself. Like his body wouldn't give him control to do so and let his mind work it. The Ninja, including Cole as he was slowly recovering, watched Jay dodged the mixed martial art teen for he was using his fists and legs only to fight with and he only dodged them without any sign of self-defense. Jay continued to feel his mind become fuzzy every time Alex tried to strike a blow on him, but quickly grabbed the pole to swing him onto it and it was ripped from its foundations. He hated the feeling of a bō staff in his hands as he would rather prefer his nunchucks; this was Laurie's expertise, not his.

He quickly ducked a punch and felt his head buzzing again to let his mind take control and quickly vaulted over the fighter. After he landed, he rotated the pole around his back and swung it at Alex at his chest, then legs, and head. He kept trying to apologize to him, but he tossed the pole away to jump to plant both feet onto his chest for he was stunned and pushed against him to have fly back and land in a heap. He then took the momentum to perform a backflip and land in a crouch flexibly close to the ground. He was breathing heavily as it was now over.

All was silent in the car and eyes were trained onto Jay. The Ninja of Lightning stood up slowly and shakily stared at himself. He stuttered to speak as he couldn't figure out what he just did. He couldn't free his hands to whatever they touched and has sixth sense. What was going on? Another wave of nausea washed over him to sit down and hold his head in silence. "Jay, are you alright or something now?" Kai had asked.

Silence came from the blue ninja to what he went through. He couldn't find his words as his askewer vision still locked to his feet. He felt the subway car reduce its acceleration and stopped. The voice from the speakers rang in his ears and the doors opened to let its passengers board off and at last second he grabbed his blue jacket and slipped out of the car as the doors closed. He lifted his head after setting his glasses on his nose to see his friends looking at him worriedly and watched the train leave the station. He was now alone at the station.

He sighed in content as it was his only choice. He needed some alone time to the fiasco. That wasn't like him at all. How was it though? It was him, but not like him at all. Something like he never done in training or on a mission. He shook his head to clear it all but it burned in his brain to the growing headache as well to sigh and leave the station.

His pace began to quicken as soon as he reach the ground level to head for the Bounty. He ignored all slight shoves he received on his passing and felt slightly chilly to throw his jacket on as he walked into the historical district of Ninjago City and to Dareth's Dojo. He began to feel paler than before to slowly climb up the fire escape to reach the roof and onto the ship.

"Jay, I see that you are alone and not with the others?" he heard Sensei Wu talk to him. "Also are you feeling well? You appear to be ill."

Jay lifted his head to face his teacher to show his pale face, but ignored to reply to him and paced into the lower levels of the ship. Absentmindly, he staggered to hug the walls as he carefully found his footing to reach the bunkroom he shared with and slammed the door shut behind him. In the haste to reach for his bed, he quickly kicked his shoes off and removed his jacket and tee shirt to be only in his jeans and tossed the discarded clothes aside to stumble to his bunk. But feeling weak, he couldn't reach the top bunk and grabbed his comforter to fall back and land roughly on the floor to have his glasses lying next to him.

The blue ninja groaned as he curled his knees to his chest and curling into his comforter really tightly as he squeezed his eyes shut. He tossed and turned but couldn't become comfortable with his growing fever and headache. He didn't even care if he curled himself into a tight ball on the floor. He just wanted to sleep now.

What could've made him like this?

Pain blossomed through the Ninja of Lightning's body as he thrashed more and felt sweat precipitate on his forehead. He felt his skin crawl to the burning pain and tossed to furrow his brows tightly to the unbearable fever he was enduring. Even his bite was burning as well. It somehow reminded him from the Fangprye skeleton when he accidently pricked him to almost become a Serpentine. But the pain and burning was more futile to him than he can stand. He groaned and slowly slipped into darkness and unrestful sleep.

Hmm... Sticking the ceiling or anything he grabs, sixth senses to alert the danger he was going to endure, and now his spiderbite and body is burning with a fever. Something is happening and I know what but you'll have to wait. Hehehe! Oh the fun in this chapter was fun to me to write because it shows what is happening to Jay now. But you'll have to wait next week to know what happens now to our lightning ninja. Have a great weekend, leave a review if you wish to, and I'll see you all next week. :)