Hey everyone, sorry about last night on not updating. I forgot to mention that I was going to be out of town this week and I'm in Florida currently, but I do want to make it up for not giving the head up. Here's the update and I hope you enjoy. Again sorry. :)

Chapter 7: Odd Behavior

Confusion swam through her as she leaned against the staircase on the Bounty's deck. After her visit with her brother at the hospital, Nya couldn't keep her mind off on what he told her about. Saying that she wasn't...alive and then left. Yet she is alive and couldn't remember anything about the night. How all of this that has happened made her puzzled to configure it herself. Not even her friends could help her solve this. She needed something to help her remember. Maybe Sensei Wu still had some of the tea he used on Lucas to help him remember who he truly was.

She shook the thought away as he probably didn't have any around and doubted that it may help her remember anything. She sighed as she was now stuck with slight amnesia.

Her eyes darted away from her feet to pull her away from her thoughts to watch her friends train in sparring matches to feel something faint spread in her body. She watched as Cole and Jay fought against each other hard to try and pin each other on the mat. It was exciting for her to join in, almost to play as well. Cole quickly ducked from Jay's swing to quickly grab his arm and threw the blue ninja over his shoulder to hear him land roughly on the mat. The lightning ninja struggled to free his arm from the earth ninja's grip as it was above his head and couldn't move much to scoff as it was useless to escape. "Dang it," Jay groaned.

"Looks like we got a winner," Lucas chimed and used one of his sia's as a ringer and rang the small bell that hung on the deck's wall.

Nya perked her ears to the noise rather quick and turned back to the two. Jay finally felt his arm being freed from Cole and accepted his offering hand to pull himself to his feet. "Man, I was so close to finally beat you," the auburn whined. "Couldn't let me have the win on this. Could you?"

"Sorry Jay," Cole smirked. "Got to be quicker and stronger to get me unguarded." He peeked an eye to see him pout a bit with his tongue stuck out at him to shrug. Oh how he enjoyed messing with Jay and the others like this. "So who's next for a match? Don't be shy now."

At that moment, Nya quickly jumped to her feet without realizing to rush over to the mat. The others had to look at her confused for a moment. "How about a lesson from you?" she suggested. Cole could only blink. "What? I may not be a ninja, but I feel like I could have another lesson taught from a ninja. What do you say, Rock-head?"

Cole looked at her baffled to reply and turned to the others to see them shrug. This was the first time Nya had ever wanted to challenge anyone in a spar, let alone have a lesson taught as well. She mostly done it herself alone. "Uh... I guess I can teach you some moves that a samurai can't do well with," he stuttered. Nya smiled to this and stood in front of Cole to begin the lesson as Jay moved away. "So... I guess first rule is to never take your eyes off your enemy."

Nya listened to the black ninja's lesson and carefully followed suit to his movements, but her ears perked to the sound of a ball bouncing on the floor to turn her eyes away for a moment to see it was coming from Lloyd. The small green ninja threw the rubber ball at the wall to have it bounce back into his hand to throw it again to increase his endurance and agility. The raven haired girl watched the ball to feel the familiar urge to lunge at it and play with it, but remained in place. Cole watched the samurai becoming distracted with Lloyd to sigh a bit. "Rule one, never take your eyes off the enemy." He waited for her to respond and threw his fist toward her.

Her senses instantly kicked in to quickly turn her head to see the raven haired teen's fist heading for her. She quickly caught it to twist his wrist to hear him wince. But she then flipped her body to wrap her legs around his neck and shoulders and twisted her body again to flip the Ninja of Earth off his feet and landed back on her feet to leave him dazed. "Oh my gawd!" Laurie screamed in surprise. Jay, however, burst out in laughs to what happened to his elemental brethren. "Cole, you all right?"

The earth ninja slowly sat up, dazed still, and looked around to comprehend on what just happened. "Uh... Y-Yea... I just slipped..." he lied.

Jay finally collected himself, but occasionally let a small laugh escape. "Really, looked like a TKO to me," he teased to grab Lucas' sai to ring the bell. All Cole could do was glare at him for that. But he shrugged. "But that was so cool, Nya! How did you do that!?"

Nya gazed down at Cole in surprise and confusion to what she had done to be taken aback to it. That was not like her at all to do. She may be flexible, but having the strength to take Cole down like that, surprised her. She turned her gaze back to her friends to shake her head in confusion and quickly turned on her heels and disappeared into the lower levels of the ship to her and Laurie's room to shut the door behind and locked it.

Darkness surrounded the girl as the night rolled in. She sighed to herself to turn away from the ceiling she had been staring at to see the time on the clock to sigh. It was well after midnight. And yet she couldn't sleep, not even after what she done with Cole earlier that day. She felt frightened after it to lock herself in her room all day to comprehend on everything, but no results came to her. How she was able to do it was beyond her and didn't want to rethink of it. She sighed to herself and flipped herself over in her bed to throw a pillow over her head.

But before she could fall asleep, her ears perked to the sound of rustling outside to groan and sat up to march over to the recently repaired window to open it and peered out. Her eyes gazed around to what was the ruckus to see six people in a group roaming the alley behind Dareth's. She could hearing talking nonsense to make her roll her eyes and watched as one threw a glass bottle at the Bounty to laugh at it. To that, she growled. "Hey, this ship is private property!" she yelled at them. "Plus some people are trying to sleep from your crap!"

The gang member below her only smirked to grab another glass bottle to laugh. "Sucks to be you then!" he yelled back and threw the bottle at the ship's hull to laugh with his friends.

Nya only huffed to their antics and wished the guys to be up soon to deal with them. Just normal street thugs afraid of the Ninja hopefully. But yet, she didn't feel like she wanted to wake the guys up. But take care of it herself. She gazed at the gang with a harden gaze, but her eyes caught sight of a familiar sandy furred cat on the fire escape as it mewed at her. She felt faint memories enter her mind at the sight of the cat, but stepped back to get a small running start and gracefully ran on her hands and feet to leap out of the window and twisted her body to land softly behind the gang. She smirked as she startled them. "Did I surprise you boys?" she purred to herself.

The gang were slightly taken aback to her, but one of them smirked and started to walk over to her to lean against the brick wall with a smile. "What are you then?" he wondered. "A bad girl or something?"

Nya kept her smirk in place to laugh to herself a bit. "Actually, I'm not and I'm already taken." She quickly placed her feet on his chest to push him away harshly as she flipped back to her feet and he landed back to his friends. "Anyone else?" She found a piece of rope on the ground to whip out and have it cracked near their feet. This only startled the gang to quickly turn and run from the alley.

The samurai watched the gang run away scared to laugh to herself and gaze upward to see the sandy furred cat was now gone. But still, she gazed at herself to what she was capable at without knowing and felt like it was natural of her now. She wasn't definitely a bad girl or anything for a tomboy, but something new.

She was a new girl.