Chapter 14: Playtime
Soft violins and orchestra music played and echoed in the large audiotrium of the Ninjago City Opera house. Bright, colorful costumes were adorned onto the dancers as they slowly swayed and moved along with the music conducted from the maestro as he instructed the music. The singer sang softly to tell the tale of ancient Ninjago as she danced along with her followers. Warm lights from the catwalks above the stage shined directly to the background set to represent daylight of the story with a monestary set in the back of the stage with an elder meditating inside; representing the First Spinjitzu Master. Everything was in perfect melody and tempo to have the audience intrigued.
In the box seats, closest to the stage, a man with green hair watched the show with admiration and anticipation to know about the history of ancient Ninjago. How he wished he could be in the time when the land use to be beautiful before everything began to change. Maybe with Ivy's ability, she could recreate that land from what it used to be. Maybe after she's finished with her perfume production she could do that. Oak leaned back into his seat to close his eyes to enjoy the music and opera singer's voice to imagine himself in the past to smile softly.
Outside of the audiotrium, a slender figure scaled along the ceiling rafters and climbed down on a support strut to land softly on the glass railing of an upper floor balcony. She had to smile softly to herself to how she gotten past security, via by the vents to enter in steathly. But her only problem was that the bright lights were revealing her out more from her black uniform and mask. But it wasn't going to stop her still to find her target. And she knew he was near. What ever Ivy needs from here, you might have the answers I need to know, Oak. she said to herself and started walking on the railing to find him.
Below from her, a security officer had to gaze upward as he heard something in the quiet lobby to sputter out of his seat to watch the figure walk on the high balcony without losing her balance. His jaw did drop to this astonishment to wonder how she gotten in without warning security. To that, he had to quickly reach for his radio as she walked away from his sight. "Call the cops," he exclaimed. He had to pause for a moment to rethink on that. "Actually make that the Ninja. They're not going to believe this."
Tension began to rise as the ochestrated music was beginning to become deep and low with the lights dimming to represent darkness. Red and orange lights began to flicker rapidly while the dancers frlocked away on the stage as the lights for fires blazing on the stage to have Oak lean forward onto his seat to know what was happening. The sounds of thunder booming with lightning bolts had the stage become more darker with the fire lights flicker to have the audience tensed to the opera. But the elder in the monestary remained on the set and calmly walked onto the stage to sing with wise words about the darkness descending to remain silent in the end. And with a wave of his staff, he slammed the end onto the stage and the darkness returned to daylight with the storms and fires gone to return to his spot on stage. And soon, everyone else in the opera returned on stage to continue the tale.
Oak had to smile softly to lean back into his seat as the tension of tale was amazing to him. How an elder in the past had such power to do so many things before, it must've felt powerful for him. He had to wonder if that's how Ivy felt when she first discovered her abilities. And how she could do many things that maybe the First Spinjitzu Master may have done. The green haired man had to wonder, but rather not think about it at the moment. Right now, he'd rather enjoy the opera until the end.
"I love this kind of this music," a feminine voice spoke quietly. Oak's head snapped to the voice to turn quickly to see the girl with the cat mask that attacked him the other night. What was she doing with him now? Nya turned her chocolate brown eyes to him to smile softly. "This kind of music can really calm a cat such as myself." She held up her hand to have her nails extended from her gloves. "Like my nails still? I just got them done as well."
Oak had to move his head away from her. "What are you doing here?" he demanded softly. "What do you want from me?"
Nya grabbed a hold of his dress coat to pull him closer to her. She had to give him a small glare. "Something about Ivy doesn't make sense to me for one," she stated to release her grip on him. "And having you as her ally, is another thing I'm not sure on. There's no way you can suddenly change over to the good side even when you were plotting to kill people, including my bro-I mean the Ninja as well. So what is it really she wants with you and this perfume."
Oak could feel his heart beating against his chest to feel his Adam's apple bobbing in his throat. And with her small glare, he felt his forehead become drenched with sweat. "L-Look, I know what I was doing in the past was wrong, but I've changed." he answered defensively. "And Ivy is innocent. All she done for me in the past was create what I wanted without her knowing. And yes I tried to cover my tracks, but with her ability she can make good changes. Thanks to her, she made me a different person."
Nya could only keep her glare glued onto him to retract her claws into her gloves to have Oak sigh in relief. "So what is it that you're doing here then?" she wondered to turn to opera. "Ivy said you're here for an errand and yet I doubt there's really anything here for her perfume production."
The green haired man had to smirk after he felt his heart rate slowly relaxing to avert his gaze back to the opera to smirk softly to what his deep green eyes laid on. He had to motion Nya to lean closer to him. "See that flower on that dancer's headdress?" he pointed out. Nya had to direct her eyes to what he was pointing at to see a bright golden lily flower on the center of a flower headdress. "That there is a rare river lily that only can be found within the Misty Forest, within near a large waterfall at a mountain base. Its scent is said to make one calm and rejuvinate your energy. At least that's what they say."
"So that's what Ivy wants, a simple flower." Nya observed. She turned to him. "Why couldn't she make that flower then if she has this ability? And how do you plan to obtain this flower then?"
"How should I know why she can't create that flower, it's Ivy for you." Oak exclaimed. An idea sprouted in his head to turn to the girl. "And maybe you can help me with obtaining it. Since you're quiet and stuff, maybe you can sneak that flower for me, it'll be worth our while."
Nya had to think about on it to smirk. If she does it, it might get her closer to Ivy's plans to know what her intentions are. "I think that can be-" She stopped as the door behind them was kicked down to jump from her seat to have her eyes widen to the sight of her friends, Cole and Zane, barging in with their weapons drawn. It came to her as they think she was the one who robbed the jewelry store when it was her, but she did return everything back. But she was still wanted from the law. The earth and ice ninja glared at her to reach out for her, but Nya turned on her heels to jump off the box seat to land softly on her hands and feet on the stage. This caused the dancers to stop and the audience startled.
All around Nya, four more people she recognized jumped onto the stage to surround her with Zane and Cole jumping off the box seat to join with the team. She felt her heart racing to have her friends around her, hoping they don't see through her mask to know it was her. For Nya, it was Jay she hoped that wouldn't notice her as she gazed into his hazel eyes in front her. She had to get away from them, but she also needed the lily for Oak. The stage lights around them grew dark with blue lights dancing across the stage to have Nya smirk as the lights were on a timer and saw a way to escape from her friends and obtain the lily. But that doesn't mean they'll try and arrest her. "Shall we begin then?" she said calmly.
Lucas had to look at her weirdly for what she said to shrug it away and gripped his sai's tightly and charged toward the unknown samurai to swing his twin weapons toward her. But Nya retaliated to arch her back from the weapon tips to plant her hands firmly on the floor and kicked her legs right at his arms and swung at his legs to trip him and stood back up. So after, the rest of the team started to attack her after what they witness on what she was capable of. But all Nya was doing was moving and swaying her body to avoid each of their weapons along from Lloyd's powers. Her eyes quickly glanced at the flower headdress to flip her way from the group to grab the lily flower that was attached to a pin and saw her friends racing toward her to do a side flip as Cole swung his scythe at her and eyed onto Oak to throw the flower pin. It sailed across the air like an arrow to stick into the wooden door frame of his box seat area. Oak took the chance to grab it and ran out.
Jay studied her movements as she avoid each of their attacks, including his as well. As he studied her, he had to wonder how she was able to dodge them so easily; almost as if she knew their attack patterns. It made him raise his scarred brow to this. His hazel eyes grew wide as he watched the masked girl grab Cole's wrist to twist her body and wrap her legs around his throat and twisted their body to have Cole land roughly on his back. How did she have the strength to take down Cole just like that? he wondered.
The girl got into a crouching stance to softly smirk as she extended her claws over the Ninja of Earth's face to hear him gulp a little. Of course she didn't want to hurt her friend than what she already did. "Bye-bye!" she chimed to retract her claws and pounced onto the monestary set and climbed onto the background to head for the catwalks. Jay watched her escaped to quickly rush backstage to grabbed onto one of the many ropes that raise or lower the curtains and kicked the lever to felt his body lurch upward and released his grip to and on the catwalks.
His eyes gazed around the darkness of the catwalks above the stage to carefully grab the railing as he walked forward in search of the masked girl. It grew quiet for the blue ninja, but he knew she was there with him. He gripped his nunchucks tightly in one hand and started swinging them over his head as he felt alert suddenly. Unknown, above him, Nya watched the lightning ninja with an amused look to quietly land behind him without him knowing and quietly followed him. Jay had to stopped as the hair on the back of his neck suddenly stood up to feel chills run down his spine to look over his shoulder to come face to face of a girl with a cat mask. And all she done was make a kissing sound from her lips and kicked Jay down a small flight of stairs to another catwalk.
The Ninja of Lightning quickly recovered from her kick to roll back from her pounce and gotten to his feet. His weapon started swinging above his head, but Nya quickly cracked her whip at his wrist to have it wrapped around and pulled to disarm him. "Ah ah ah, those toys are dangerous after all." she teased to smirk at his glare.
Jay took a quick glance as his wrist was still wrapped from her whip to quickly grab a hold and wretch it free from her grip. He had to smirk to her light gasp. "I guess I can say the same for you then." he retorted. He only her smirk remain in place. "So what brings you all the way here and what are you then?"
"It's very rude to demand answers from a lady andI'd rather not say. I'm just an innocent girl who's looking for answers and this kitty wants to go home. So can you be a gentleman and move aside and give me back my stuff." She watched Jay remain still to sigh as it wasn't going to be easy now. "Fine, we can play a quick game. Fair warning, I don't play nice."
The two glared at each other to have Nya charge for him to quickly threw attacks of her own toward him, but he defend against them with his body to have her huff. Knowing Jay by heart, he was going to be a tough opponent to fight against. The auburn teen locked his arms with her to glance at the catwalk next to them to see his nunchucks were there to quickly push her back and jumped across the gap to grab onto the railing and pulled himself over to race for his weapon. Nya watched him head for his weapon to see an overhead light to retch the large wire free and swung across the catwalks to pin Jay to the floor to smirk at him. "Careful," Jay exclaimed to the exposed wire sparking near them. "With that much electricity from it, it'll fry us both."
"I always knew there was a spark between us." Nya chirped.
"In your dreams Kitty, I'm already taken."
"Does she know about us?"
"There's nothing between us."
Nya threw the wire aside to grip his face and removed his mask. "There is now." she smiled and pressed her lips against his. The raven haired girl kept her lips locked with his for a full minute to feel the bliss of what it was like when kissing him to finally pull herself away. She couldn't help but laugh to his blushing face. Jay finally broke through his trance to grab his nunchucks, but felt something being wrapped around his legs to see it was rope and felt his body being pushed to scream as he fell to dangle over the stage.
Nya jumped over the railing after obtaining her whips to use the wire she used to rapple down to look at Jay as he struggled and watched her friends surround her to slowly stepped back and looked over her shoulder to see an electrical box. She smirked as she looked at the wire with sparks emitting from the exposed ends. "Alright Ninja, time for a magic trick." she said to slam the end into the box. The lights flickered around them. "Now you see me," Everything turned to darkness. "Now you don't." With that, Nya took the chance to run away before they recovered and escaped into an alley and ran.