Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for an update. As usual, I have nothing to say but to JayHawk134, these updates are weekly. Every friday. Hope you all enjoy today's update, let's see Jay's anger today.
Chapter 10: Redemption
Panic swept in the dark and cramped loft room of a warehouse floor as a person carefully scanned around in fear. Something was stalking him and he could feel it in the air. His footsteps softly echoed through the feather covered floor from the many nested pigeons that had claimed this warehouse as sanctuary. His breathing was quick and ragged from his rush and tend to quickly gasp every time he had thought he met with the one that attacked him from the skies outside. Who was it to make him frightened?
Above him in the dark rafters, Jay gazed at his target below him as he clung to the ceiling upside-down; a bug on the wall. He quietly crawled away from him to hide more into the shadows to observe his target more. A search light from the window flashed past him to flash his eyes to wince and blind him while casting his shadow. Gun shots rang in his ear to begin to scurry away before he could get shot to feel his heart racing rapidly in panic and sighed as he wasn't in his line of sight. Too close. An idea popped into his head and quietly fired a thread and prompt himself to dangle upside-down and slowly lower himself down like an actual spider would while being closely behind his uncle's murderer and quickly pulled himself back to the rafters before he could be spotted. He had to laugh internally.
This was fun.
He was enjoying making his prey frightened and panicking as he watched him turn constantly. It was like a game of cat and mouse, but more extreme for him. He was more like toying with his food for having these spider powers; he was the spider and the other was the incest. Soon to be tangled in the web. The more the lightning ninja gazed at his target with a glare and stitched brows, the more it made him think of a vampire horror movie he watched late at night one time with the guys, and Lloyd because he wanted to join them, and all ended up with nightmares from it. The undead creature stalked his prey, Clutch Powers, while being upside-down as he was while having its vision changing to where he could see his heart and bloodstream. Only Jay though can't do that, he's definitely sure he couldn't, but that's what it reminded him of. Another metaphorically saying.
He had to laugh a little to himself like this.
Adrenaline rushed into the auburn's veins to drop to the floor and ran across the loft to grab a hold of his target to shove him against two loft doors. He screamed in anger as he grabbed a handful of his head and shoved his head through one of the small windows. Glass shattered loudly with the man screaming in pain and Jay ignored him and shoved his head through the next window and shoved him aside. Still within the shadows, the auburn watched him pull out a knife from his jacket since he made him drop the gun to gasp and slowly cower to the floor. "You found my weakness." he squeaked while hiding his face. "Knives and very, very, sharp objects." He heard the man laugh to this and slowly lowered the blade. Once he saw his guard down, the Ninja of Lightning quickly fired some sticky thread at the blade's hilt and yanked it from his hand. "Or maybe I was wrong." he laughed while jumping to his feet.
The thunderstorm inside his chest bellowed to have himself take a stance as the murderer was taking one to defend himself. Now the fun began. Being quick as lightning, the blue ninja broke through his defensive moves to stun him and sent powerful strikes to weaken him for every time he tried to hit him. The darkness and cramped space both served a purpose; hiding his identity than a red sweatshirt over his gi and couldn't send any leg strikes. He ducked his head from a hook punch was coming for him and quickly sent the heel of his right hand against his chest to push him back against the large window and Jay saw the chance for his redemption. "Please give me a chance!" the man begged in panic.
Chance!? Was that all he wanted!? The thunderstorm in the lightning ninja's chest burst loudly to stitch his brows tightly together to growl to the words of chance from him. Snarling, he ripped his hood and mask off to reveal his face in the shadows still. "What about my Uncle Ben!?" he shouted in hatred with voice in malice and steel. "Did you give him a chance!? Did you!? Or rather pull off with a hit and run scheme!?" He grabbed a hold of his jacket to push and pinned him against the window. "You're dead to me either way."
"Please wait!" the man begged. "I know who you're talking about. But I'm not the one who killed him!" He tried to struggle but Jay kept him pinned tightly. "T-There was another guy." he said. "We fought over the gun. Everything happened too fast. He's the one that killed him. Not me. I just robbed the store. I'm innocent. You got to believe me. He was blue even. Pretty creepy!"
Jay snorted. He wasn't buying it all. Two men struggling when it was just him he saw. Didn't see a blue man at all. No witnesses either. Angrily, the auburn slammed his fist into his gut to hear him grunt and gasp for air to shudder and cough. "I'm not believing a single thing from you!" he snarled. "There was no blue man or witnesses. I saw you run away from it. I see how these things go, you run and hide and here I have you. Now you're lying even. It's becoming worse. You killed my uncle in cold blood and caused a storm in me. You're dead to me." and clenched a fist to crack his knuckles.
The anger boiled in his body as he glared at his uncle's murderer pinned by him. He was guilty at first sight no doubt. A blue man? Yeah right. The only thing he knew would be living blue were the Hypnobrai tribe and he hasn't seen any in weeks. Plus he was stammering as he pleaded. Clear signs of a lair. Even by the twitch of his nose. That made him hungry for more revenge.
Still pinned to the wall by him, Jay's eyes slightly widen as his senses were becoming active. His hearing enhanced to hear the surrounding noises around him and below. He could hear the sound of footsteps creeping up on the steel stairs and knew it was the police heading for them and even heard the sound of another knife being drawn out from the man. Returning to him and taking instincts, the auburn quickly swayed his body to avoid the blade thrusting into his chest and quickly grabbed his wrist and twisted it, hard. He ignored his cry of pain and grabbed his other wrist and twisted it as well and threw his forehead to his nose and released his grip. He watched him stumble back and his back broke the window as he fell while screaming and became silent with wood breaking.
The brewing storm slowly settled in his chest to have him slowly unstitch his brows on what has happened and slowly walked to the ledge to gasp while thunder was clapping in the sky. He couldn't believe what he has done as he stared at the limp body few stories below him, broken as he landed on wooden pallets. A search light shine on his face to quickly shield his identity from those scanning on what happened and heard multiple footsteps storming into the room to quickly rush away from the scene. Once in the shadows, Jay quickly donned on his mask over his face and threw the sweatshirt hood over his head and ran out the window he entered from. He felt guilt swell in his chest to the thought of him running from a crime, but it was only for revenge, not lead any other deaths. Sighing, he quickly fired a sticky thread from his wrists and swung away.
Sirens rang and echoed all throughout Downtown Ninjago City. Soft winds howled through the darkened sky as it swiftly breezed. The rumble of thundering clouds eased as they slowly left the city to become quiet. The moonlight shined brightly through the veil of clouds to leave it in ghastly lights over the large city. Jay sighed as he breathed in the air while listening to the music of the city.
The auburn hung his head as he stared at his feet as they hung over the ledge of a metal eagle head he sat on that jutted out from a building. His fingers played with his mask as he let the recent events relapse inside his head. It made him stopped playing and then squeezed his mask tightly as it haunted him. It wasn't supposed to happen like that. His main objective was to obtain revenge for his uncle, not murder someone else for revenge. That was unlike him at all; a murderer. But it all happened too fast and he knew he was blinded and hungry for revenge. A lesson Sensei Wu once told him and he used it against him. Never let revenge cloud your mind or else you'll become a new person you'll never want to be.
He sighed as his mentor was right on that. He was a whole new person when he took pursuit after him after his uncle died in his arms. He became Spiderman, but also a murderer by accident. Two people in one. He sighed while running his fingers through his auburn hair and he knew he couldn't take it back now after his fall and wished he could've saved him. Even if he was after him for revenge, he was still a good soul ninja to help and save people's lives from many dangers, including deaths that could happen.
As Jay slowly tried to let the events pass, his hazel eyes became wide as he remembered something before everything went wrong with the revenge. He left uncle alone lying on the streets after he felt the storm in his body take hold and chase after his killer. What kind of nephew was he after he left his uncle like that? An awful one that is. But the more he thought of his uncle, the more he kept wondering about his Aunt Mary and his father if they heard the tragic news by now. It was going to bring grief and pain to all of them as it came sudden. He sighed while looking at the sky as he knew there wasn't any way his uncle could come back to life, unlike how Lucas was able to, but he knew his uncle was now safe and his death was avenged.
Just not like the way he had hoped it would.
Darkness surrounded the lightning ninja as he entered his aunt's condominium complex as the lights were down in the foyer and the only source of light came from the family room. His heart was heavy with sorrow as he figured his aunt and parents have heard the terrible news by now and slowly transverse himself into the den as he heard movement while shutting the front door behind him. But by the time he passed the vaulted archway to the den, he stopped with wide eyes as there more than his parents and aunt in the room he would expect in the complex. Inside the den with his aunt and parents was his intermediate family all gathered around with solemn looks on their faces. He was confused why they were here at first but he figured they had heard the news as well probably from his parents and were here for support. He tried to smile to them for it, but it couldn't be formed on his face and turned to his aunt as she stared at him with teary eyes. And he began to form tears in his hazel eyes with her.
He slowly met her in the middle of the room and wrapped his arms around her tightly to be closer to comfort her. He heard her cry softly into his shoulder to release his tears as it was hurting him deeply. His uncle was everything to him and his aunt was now a widow as she lost her husband. As the two cried, the blue ninja felt more arms being wrapped around him them to glance away to see his father and mother joining them as he cried for his older brother. Soon he felt another person joining them and turned to see Nya joining them and felt more supported with her by his side after what has been happening to him on his power. And soon, everyone on the team, including Sensei Wu, joined in to be there for the Walker family.
Jay was happy as he cried for his intermediate family being there for his family after being and witnessing in his case the news of his uncle. They may not know much of him, but they knew how close he was to him. How everyone was to the man. He was still glad that they were all being supportive for him and his family and embraced his aunt closer to softly cry away the tears and pain he had stored in when his uncle passed in his arms. The scenarios before flashed in his head again and he pushed them away as he didn't want to revisit them. The only thing he cared for was being with his parents and now widowed aunt. But in his head, he was glad his uncle's death was avenged and was now safe.
So what did you think? I really play off those sadden moments in the story really well, at least how I see it. Jay playing off as Spiderman for the first time, but not in a way he wanted to be though for a superhero. First days as a superhero may be tough and dark without realizing it. What will he do now? Anyway, thank you for reading today, have a great weekend, and I'll see you all next week. :)