Hey everyone, happy Friday and time for a new update. I hope the suspense from the last chapter was exciting so lets see what happens now. Plus I also have a soundtrack for this to make this amazing to hear if you wish to. The link is watch?v=eLvrYNmsG1E and when you see the mark, *, enjoy. I enjoyed doing this chapter.
Chapter 5: Reborn
Pain radiated all over his body, but it was mostly around his right femur. A teen in a red gi stirred to groan painfully to tiredly pry an eye open to feel his head pounding. The smell of smoke wafted into his nose to remember he was in a burning building and the smoke had clung to his clothing and mask to carefully remove it to breathe in stale air from the building he fell from. But it felt better to not breathe in smoke.
His chocolate eyes gazed to the sky to see rain clouds surrounding the building with rain smothering out the fire and smoke. He smiled softly as the fire was gone, but he didn't feel strong enough to move just yet. He just needed a few minutes. But then again, how long had he blacked out after what happened inside? And why does his right leg feel worse than his entire body? Please don't be broken or shattered? he begged to tiredly feel around his femur for any fractures. But to him from his touch, it felt tender to him.
A few minutes have passed for the red ninja to feel his strength regained to carefully sit himself up from the ground as he didn't want to put any weight on his legs just yet. He carefully scanned around to see where he was to figure he was in an alley to sigh to himself and figured he had to wait for anyone to come find him because of his leg. But as he scanned around, he noticed from the corner of his eye to see his sister lying next to him to smile softly as she made it out with him. "Nya, we're alive." he sighed happily. "I'm just glad you're safe." He waited for a response, but he heard nothing to turn to her to look at her as she stared at the sky blankly. His eyes widen to quickly put two fingers on her neck for a pulse. "Nya!?"
*Tears began to prick as he couldn't feel much of a pulse to stutter. "NO. . .nononono!" he cried. "Nya! Nya!" Nothing came from the girl to have him worried to look around for anyone coming, but no one was coming. "Help! Help!" He quickly scrambled to his feet to take his first step with his right leg to scream out in pain, but ignored it to hobble off to find help. "Help!" He left, leaving his sister alone in the alley. His cries of pain creasing as he hobbled away.
Quietness filled around in the alley with bits of ashes falling like snow. But in the quietness, a sandy furred cat appeared to seat itself on a trash bin to stare at the body of the samurai to look at the cloudy sky. Rawn. . . Rawn. . . Rawn. . . The Mau waited and soon other cats begun to gather around the limp body from anywhere they could enter from. Cats, large and small, fluffy kind, non-furred, domestic housecat or stray. All stared at the body and turned to the Mau as it hopped off the bin to sit near Nya's feet. It stared at the other cats and they stared at it and surrounded the body of the girl. It stared back up into the sky to see the clouds move away to reveal a full moon to purr softly from its throat and started heading for the samurai.
It walked up slowly onto her legs and across her body to sit onto her abdomen with its tail wrapped around its paws to stare into the girl's lifeless chocolate brown eyes. The cloud of cats stared patiently and anxiously at the body to mew softly in rhythm as they waited. As cats, they knew what has to happen. And it comes up to the sandy furred cat to make these choices. The Mau waited until the moonlight reflected onto the girl's face to rest its forepaws onto her chest to lean its face close to hers to stare into the eyes. Nya's blankness stare made no contact to the Mau on her chest and couldn't be aware of the cat's surrounding her. The Mau purred softly to move its face closer to hers to then slowly exhale a ghostly vapor from its mouth until it entered the girl's body and suddenly the pupils became oval shaped as a cat's.
Silence clung around the body until the eyes suddenly blink to reveal normal chocolate colored eyes. Nya slowly sat up to feel her heart racing to choke on a breath of air to breathe to give out a high pitched cough to finally breathe again. Her breaths soon became quick and shallow to feel her heart beating without any relaxing, no matter how much she tried. All she remembered was falling and seeing darkness for a quick minute. But nothing else became vague to her.
Her ears perked to the sound of fluttering to turn her head to the sky to see a flock of pigeons flying by to feel her eyes enhanced to the birds to see it closely. She shrieked a little to cover her face as it felt close to her face, but peeked an eye to see the birds weren't around her. She felt her heart pounding hard to this odd experience to shakily pull herself to her feet and started to wander away from her spot and into the city.
But after she left, multiple sets of feet appeared to her spot to look around for the girl. But all they saw was nothing in front of them. Kai became worried now as he leaned himself onto Zane and Laurie for support on his leg to scan around for his sister, but saw no one. "No! She was just here!" he exclaimed to push himself away from the wind and ice ninja to hobble around and leaned on a trash bin to support himself. "She couldn't walk off like that. I felt no pulse and now she's gone. My only sister even!"
"Well we're sorry to say Kai, but she's not here." Cole stated and grabbed his arm to throw it over his shoulder. "But for you, you need to see a doctor about that leg of yours. We can worry about Nya after we take care of you."
The fire ninja growled to free his arm from the earth ninja's neck and in an effort to push him away. "No, I am not going to a doctor right now." he snarled. "I need to find my sister right now. She couldn't have gotten too far away from here." He began to walk away from the group hard as he could. But with his leg, it caused him to trip and land roughly on the ground. "No..." He felt his arms being gently grabbed as he was being helped up by Lucas and Jay to try get out of their grasps as they kept a tight grip on him. "Listen to me, we need to-"
"No, you listen to us!" Lucas barked him. "We know you worry for Nya, but best case is that she is alive and is heading back home. But for now, we need to get you to a doctor about your leg. You can't get far without proper treatment." He smirked a little as he couldn't kick him like last time. "But listen to us, we'll find Nya, half of us will get you to a doctor, the other half will find her. Sound fair?"
Kai had to weigh his options for a second, but he didn't like the idea of it. His sister could be anywhere right now, but with his leg being possibly broken, he had to nod slightly. But he still wouldn't like it if he can't be in the search and rescue party. Please be safe, Nya. he said to himself. You're all I have left in this world.
Shaky steps walked down the quiet streets of Ninjago City as well did a shaky girl as she took these steps. Her eyes gave out blankness stares as she walked in the middle of the street without a car driving toward her. Then again, it was late as she had no idea how long she'd been absentmindly walking in Ninjago City so no car or any vehicle would drive in front of her. All the samurai could do was kept walking and walking.
Nya finally stopped to feel her senses acting up to turn her head and look up on a building to see an anchored ship on top. Her eyes kept staring at the wooden ship to walk into the alley next to the building to see the fire escape. But she stopped to see a sandy furred cat sitting on a trash bin to mew softly and clean its paw. Nya had to stare at the feline to turn away from it to feel her eyes enhance on the rooftop. And unknown to herself, she had hunched her legs to suddenly and gracefully jump and leap onto the railings to climb up to the roof. Almost. . .like a cat would.
Nya's mind slowly returned to her control to stare at a face in the reflection of a window. She could see the face covered in ash and soot with raven hair in a mess and clothes all ruined and burnt in some spots. But she soon realized it was her reflection to quickly throw her fist into the glass to shatter it and climbed into the bedroom. Glass littered around her feet, but her flat slippers weren't on any pieces to cut her feet. But all she could do now was gazed around the dark room to feel her eyes enlighten in the dark.
But she heard someone groan to turn to the source. "Wh-Who's there?" a tired voice yawned to turn on the bedside lamp. Nya had to wince to the bright light to turn away to feel her eyes return slowly to normal to hiss softly. "Nya!?" Laurie gasped quietly to herself to quickly push her blankets off to rush over to the samurai but carefully walked around the glass on the floor to pull her out of it. "You don't know who happy everyone will be to see you now because we thought you were gone and we searched everywhere for you. Kai is going to be grateful you came home." Nya could only stare at her blankly, unresponsive. Laurie saw this and thought of a quick idea to wake her up. "Let me run you a shower real quick." and left for their bathroom.
Nya slowly sat down on her bed to try and comprehend what was happening to her as she couldn't remember on what just happened. She last remembered being with her brother and then darkness and nothing else. She felt lost and she hated that feeling. The sound of rushing water brought her out of her trance to see Laurie rushing back and gently grabbed her hands. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up." the wind ninja insisted and gently lead her to the bathroom. The red head gently removed her hands to test the water's temperature, but the spray of the warm water splashed against her hand and gently onto Nya's face.
The samurai snarled and hissed to the liquid splashing onto her to quickly rush out of the room. Laurie quickly rushed out to see her leave to rub her eyes quickly to what just happened to lean against the door. What was that? "I...I must be dreaming." she said to herself. "I must be dreaming..." She went to back to her bed to thrown the blankets over to try and fall back asleep, hoping everything was a dream.