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Chapter Eight: Memories

After Lydia had gotten on her motorcycle turned plane, she did not know where she was going and she did not care where she went. All Lydia knew was that she was sick and tired of everyone else and wanted to get as far away from them as possible.

She felt so strange because, normally, she was very good about containing her feelings and emotions; it was as if all she had ever done was let them build up inside of her, growing slowly and quietly and now they were starting to make their way out. As Lydia drove farther and farther away from the other ninja and her twin sister, she felt worse and worse. Her tears relentlessly flowed from her eyes and it wasn't from sadness. She didn't even stop to feel sorry for herself. What Lydia felt was anger, anger that made her bitter towards her Sensei, bitter towards the ninja, towards Nya, and even towards Blair. Thinking of them, she tightened her grip onto the handles of her bike, she scowled in disgust, and yet, thinking of them made her cry more.

Lydia really did miss her sister and friends and she even felt a little bad for leaving like that until she remembered what Blair had told her. Blair thought she was helpless and weak; her own sister thought this. Ever since they were fourteen and their parents disappeared, Blair acted as her mother and put herself in charge. Blair always got the attention, the praise, the awards; Blair was the favorite child. One wouldn't think that there would be favorites in twins, but there most definitely was.

Lydia hadn't always been so quiet and reserved as she is now, there was a time when she was as outgoing as her twin. What made her so introverted was being rejected. Her parents were a little intimidated by her because of her element being darkness. They didn't know of any prophecy, but darkness is usually associated with evil. This intimidation led to fear, which led to rejection, which ultimately led to Lydia and Blair's abandonment.

The ninja of darkness, or whatever she would be labelled as now, then had a flashback of her childhood. It was when she was only seven years old and in second grade.

"What did you get on your math test, Blair? Lydia said to her sister as they were on their way home from school. It was about a fifteen minute bus ride from their school to their house.

"Actually, I didn't do so well. I only got a 38%, but I guess that's what I get for not studying. How did you do?"

"I got a 100%!" Lydia said with a big smile.

"Wow, sis, great job."

"Thanks."

When the two sisters got off the bus and into the house, Lydia couldn't wait to show her mom her test. She thought of how proud her mom would be of her.

"Mom, mom, look at my test, I got a 100%!" Lydia said enthusiastically as she waved her paper in the air.

Lydia's mom, Mai, payed no attention to her smiling daughter and walked right passed her without even the slightest glance. "How did you do on your math test, dear?" she asked Blair.

"Well, not so great. I only got a 38%," Blair said as she walked into the kitchen where her mom was.

"Aw, that's alright sweetie, I'm sure that you will do better next time."

Lydia, with the optimism of a seven year old and thinking that her mom had just not heard her, tried to say again, "Mom, guess what? I got an 100% on my math test."

"I heard you the first time you told me, now stop bragging to try to make your sister feel bad. Now help with dinner, your father will be home from work soon," Mai said losing her gentle motherly voice.

Something to this effect had happened again to Lydia before she started to be more quiet. No matter what happened, she always would try to please her parents and staying quiet seemed to please them. When her sister did all the talking, they didn't complain about her as much, so she decided to stay quiet and almost invisible. At first it was strange to Blair to be doing all the talking and always being the center of attention, but she quickly warmed up to it and enjoyed it.

Lydia's motorcycle began to loose power and die. It went slower and slower and slower until it finally came to a complete stop. Lydia was actually kind of thankful because she was getting a little stiff from riding. She got off and laid on the ground with her hands behind her head. By now, she was in a jungle or a forest.

Lydia closed her eyes and decided to just rest until she remembered the one line from the prophecy "the dark one will rise above the other in skill and knowledge". She tried to think what it meant. Lydia knew that she had always been smarter than Blair, so that covers the knowledge part. When she thought about the "skill" part, she was confused. Her and her sister always had the same fighting skill, as seen in the training course. They fought and moved almost identically. Lydia then started to think that maybe it meant skill in their powers. She had always known that she has had more powers in her that haven't been released yet. Lydia even had one trick up her sleeve that not even Blair knew about.

You may be wondering why she hadn't released whatever powers were left in her yet. Lydia even wondered that herself until she remembered why. She was about eleven years old at the time.

"What do you think you're doing?" Blair asked her sister. They were in their bedroom which was pretty small. It was alright though because there was enough room for their two beds, a dresser, and about three feet in between their beds. Blair was laying on her bed reading a book for homework and Lydia was sitting up on her's with her hands held out in front of her. Lydia's fingers were bent in towards each other and in between her hands was blackness just floating around between her hands.

Although Lydia did not really talk to her parents or anyone else, she would and still would talk to her sister. She never has talked to her as much as she used to and it was very rare that she would start a conversation with Blair like she used to, but she would, nonetheless, still speak to Blair.

"I'm testing out my powers and seeing what they can do," Lydia said not looking up from her hands so as not to break concentration.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Blair said putting down her book and sitting up a bit in her bed.

Lydia didn't respond, she just kept on messing around with her element. After a minute or so, the darkness that Lydia was once controlling got bigger and started to move around more in jerkier ways.

"Lydia, I really think that you should stop now," Blair said now standing and moving towards her sister.

"I can't stop, it just keeps getter larger and larger," Lydia said without taking her eyes off of the darkness in between her hands.

"Here, maybe this will help," Blair said.

Blair made a light in the palm of each hand and leaned forward so as to place it on Lydia's darkness. As she leaned forward, her hair (it was a bit farther than halfway down her back) touched her twin's darkness. She at first didn't notice because her light seemed to do the trick at vanishing Lydia's little bit of darkness. The girls did take notice when the darkness spread on Blair's hair so it was all around the edges and it was crawling its way up her hair.

"Oh no! Blair, your hair! Hurry put it out!" Lydia said in a panic.

Blair promptly created a bigger mass of light on her palms to put out the darkness that was consuming her hair. When it was put out, Blair's hair was now a little shorter than shoulder length with no other signs of damage. It was very strange that it had been broken off so evenly, but it was a good thing it did because her hair has never grown even an inch since then.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to," Lydia said to her sister now looking at herself in the small mirror that was hanging on the wall.

Before Blair had a chance to say anything back, their mother, Mai, had come up into their room after hearing the girl's ruckus. Mai looked around the room and then laid her eyes on Blair's hair.

"What on earth has happened here?" She asked looking at her twins and thinking they had cut it.

Blair told her mother the whole story. At the end, Mai looked absolutely furious; she liked her girl's hair to be long.

Walking up to Lydia she said, "If I ever see you messing around with your powers again, there will be big consequences. Your powers are hard enough to control and deal with without you messing around with them! Just look at what you have done to your poor sister's hair. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes, Ma'm," Lydia said looking to the ground.

When Lydia's flashback ended, she realized that she hadn't tested the limits of her powers for two reasons. One, being she was afraid she would harm anything else again and the main reason being her promise to her mother that she would not mess around with them again. She no longer cared about any promise that she made to her mom and nobody else was here so Lydia decided to take a try.

She put her hands almost together and black darkness began to form. It looked much like how Lloyd would create his energy ball, but darkness was being formed instead and it wasn't in a perfect ball shape. This darkness then stated to eek its way out of her hands and travelled over to a small bush. One it made contact, it was only a matter of seconds until the bush turned black and shriveled up. The darkness Lydia was holding faded away back into nothing.

When Lydia saw what she could do, she realized that she had only scratched the surface of her abilities and that no one would be able to stop her this time.

I really enjoyed writing this chapter, I liked doing a bit of Lydia and Blair's backstory and probably plan on doing more, I hope you liked it too. Also, I'm sorry if it was a little confusing because I started to write it one day until I lost my train of thought and I had to finish it a few days later.

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