Chapter Ten: Voices and Dreams
"Lydia, Lydia, where are you?"
"Blair, is that you? Blair?" Lydia called out after hearing her sister.
"Where are you, Lydia?"
"I'm over here!" Lydia said even though she wasn't able to see her sister anywhere. It was near dawn but Lydia wasn't able to see very well. She was frantically looking around to see her sister.
"Here I come!" Blair said as she came running towards her sister. As Blair ran, it was as if she was bringing the sun with her; Lydia was able to see better and better as Blair got closer and closer. When the girls were close enough, they reached out to hug each other.
"I missed you so much and I shouldn't have ran off," Lydia said through her tears.
"And I'm so sorry for those horrible things I said to you. I know that I never should have said or thought that. I am truly sorry, Lydia," Blair said still hugging her sister also crying.
The twins pulled apart from their hug and stood about a foot apart, holding each other's hands.
"Will you ever forgive me?" Blair said. The sisters had now stopped crying.
All emotion leaving her face, Lydia said in a monotone voice like a robot, "No, I shall never forgive you for what you have said."
Everything started to go black and fuzzy again and Blair disappeared into the darkness. It was like she turned into small black particles and blew away, mixing in with the other darkness. Once Blair had completely disappeared, Lydia still stood motionlessly with a blank face. It's not that she didn't care that her sister had disappeared. In fact, she wanted to help Blair but Lydia felt like she couldn't move. Lydia was unable to help her. She then looked up and a blinding brightness came closer, closer, and closer still...
"Ahh!" Lydia yelled sitting straight up, sweating, shaking, and breathing heavily. She then sighed and began to calm down thinking 'only a dream, it was only a dream'. It was true, it had only been a dream. Lydia was at first a bit shaken by her dream, but eventually calmed down remembering that Blair was safe with the other ninja.
Thinking over the dream made Lydia realize that she was, in fact, missing her sister and sorry for running away. She then thought that Blair probably was sorry for the things she said and didn't really mean it. Lydia almost decided to get back on her motorcycle and return to the Bounty but a little voice convinced her otherwise.
"Why would your sister be sorry? She may say so but you really know that she meant it. If she didn't mean it, she would never have said it."
Not even questioning the voice Lydia said aloud to herself, "You are right. That was only in my dream when she forgave me. Dreams are only dreams, they're not real. She did really mean it."
"She called you weak, helpless, a burden, a mere child."
"I will make her pay for what she has said and done," Lydia said still speaking aloud.
"Yes, show her how powerful you really are and what you can do."
"I shall take over all of Ninjago. No other person was able to, not even the Dark Lord Garmadon. Once I do what no other was capable of, she will she how powerful and strong I am. Maybe if she admits her fault in what she said, I will let her rule over all of Ninjago with me and we will be the most feared and powerful rulers that ever existed."
"Excellent plan, but may I suggest that you train first."
"Yes, we must train. First, I must find a suitable place to train."
Lydia got on her motorcycle, turned it into a plane, and flew away. She flew as close to the ground as possible in case she was being searched for. Lydia had been in a dry, desert like place with very little trees, bushes, water, etc. She was looking for a forest to train in. They're would be lots of trees for throwing her knives and lots more objects to practice her darkness on.
She eventually came to a forest or a jungle, she wasn't really sure which one it was, and landed there.
"Time to get training," she said to herself.
Lydia took out her usual throwing knives and started throwing them at trees in every direction. Once all her knives were used up, she got out the two knives that she has taken from the Temple of Darkness. They were much prettier than her old ones. These were silver and shiny, yet they still looked dark and creepy. Lydia abruptly turned around and threw both of the knives at a tree that was behind her. She, of course, hit the tree and the knives stuck into it. Starting from the knives, the tree started to turn black. It quickly spread throughout the tree and consumed it. Unlike what she could do to the bush, the knives made the tree dark until it fell apart and crumbled into nothing. This shocked Lydia; she had no idea that they would do that, but she was glad it could.
"Perfect, the knives turn whatever it pricks dark," said the little voice.
"That's cool, although I don't know what I'll use them for."
Lydia threw around her old knives a bit more until she decided to practice her powers. She first did her trick of turning some plants and other things dark with her power. She could throw a ball of darkness, much like Lloyds energy ball, towards something, shoot darkness from her hands, or simply touch something to turn it black and dark. Lydia concluded that she had that trick well under her belt. She practiced making the surrounding area dark. Everyone knew she could do this; it was the first thing with her powers that she ever learned. Lydia only enhanced her old trick by making the sphere of blackness bigger. There was one trick that no one, not even her twin sister, knew about. It wasn't until recently that she nearly perfected it. That is why she never told anyone. It was the most difficult and impressive thing she could do, it would be hard to explain. It was like teleporting, but not very far. Lydia could disappear with a poof of blackness and reappear with the same poof in s different location. She was not able to reappear very far away though. The farthest Lydia had ever teleported (that is what I shall refer to it as) was twenty feet away, which wasn't bad at all. But Lydia did not want to settle for "not bad", she wanted perfection. Try after try after try, Lydia practiced but could not get past twenty feet. She was afraid that that was her limit.
After all of this, Lydia was, to say the least, exhausted. Her black braid was frizzy and askew, her bangs were plastered to her head with sweat, and her once clean and neat ninja outfit was dirty, sweaty, and torn in a few different places. Lydia was fine with it though, she wanted to get something else to wear anyway. She very well couldn't be a feared ruler of Ninjago in that.
"'Feared ruler of Ninjago' I like the sound of that," Lydia said out loud to herself. "What about 'Powerful ruler of Ninjago' or better yet 'Lydia, Queen of Ninjago'."
To dry the sweat on her face, Lydia climbed a tree to let the breeze help. The tree she climbed was a tall one and you could see pretty far from the top of it, which she finally reached after a few slips. Sitting on the top branch, Lydia daydreamed of when she would rule. She was delighted of the idea of people actually noticing her and quieting themselves to listen to her. She was planning on being the richest queen that ever existed. Lydia then started to think about how she would actually become queen; she hadn't really thought of that before. Leaning back a bit on the branch she was in, she noticed an immensely tall mountain in the far distance. At first, she took it to be a regular mountain but upon further inspection, she realized it was the Temple of Light. Lydia didn't think much about it until she looked down at her hand that was holding onto the branch, it was spreading the darkness, or you may call it sickness, through the tree. She then looked back towards the temple.
"If I can turn a tree and some bushes dark, why can't I turn a whole temple dark? Once the Temple of Light is consumed, covering all of Ninjago in darkness should be simple, right?" Lydia said this not really expecting an answer but, nonetheless, received one from the little voice in her head.
"Brilliant plan. Your darkness can easily flow from the temple throughout all of Ninjago."
"And then, no one will look down upon me or think I'm worthless anymore. I will be their most feared queen."
Looking back at the temple, Lydia guessed that it would take her about a two days drive to get there and would have to pack some sort of food and water to bring on the way. She swiftly leapt from branch to branch down the tree and landed on the ground without making the slightest sound. There was nothing to eat of any kind nearby that Lydia could see, so she decided that a walk might be nice to try to find something to eat. Besides, she had been training for awhile and needed a nice break anyway.
As the dark haired girl walked, she thought about how wonderful it will be to be a dark queen. Her mind was so clouded with darkness that she didn't even stop to think about what her actions will bring to others; she didn't think about how completely and utterly crushed her sister would be to have to try and defeat her. After about fifteen minutes, Lydia came upon some raspberry bushes. She picked a few and ate them, and then picked a few more and realized that she had nothing to put them in. Feeling around for pockets and then realizing there was none, she really wished she hadn't thrown her mask to the ground when she left the group; that would have made a perfect little bag for the berries. To solve her dilemma, Lydia ripped off part of her sleeve and tied it in such a way that made it into a makeshift bag. She filled it up with the raspberries as full as possible and tied the bag shut to start on her walk back to her motorcycle. It took a little longer to get back because she forgot the way and then got frustrated which made her get lost even more. Eventually, Lydia made it back to her bike but didn't seem to notice that the leaves she stepped on, turned black and shriveled up.
There was a small compartment in the back of Lydia's motorcycle and she put the bag of berries into there. By now, it was sunset but it appeared later because of the trees blocking out the last bit of sun. Lydia yawned and sat onto the ground when the little voice talked again.
"You'd better get some sleep now to gain strength and rest for tomorrow's traveling."
With a yawn, Lydia laid down in the same place as the night before and slowly drifted off to sleep. As she slept, Lydia had another odd dream:
She was sitting on a throne in what appeared to be a huge castle. The throne was very ornate with intricate silver (gold was never her thing, it's too bright and happy unlike the crispness of silver) carvings of different patterns and designs. The hand rests, along with where you would sit on, was very comfortable and covered with velvet that was a very deep purple. Lydia was wearing a black dress with lots of beading that was fit for a queen. On top of her long, black, flowing locks, was a silver tiara with diamonds too many to count.
The room was a big, open room with grand doors at the other end of Lydia's throne. A dark purple almost black rug was placed from the throne, all the way to the door. Everywhere you looked in the room, there was carvings and paintings all over the walls that were very tastefully designed. Large windows were on both the left and right walls but no light came through them. The whole room was dark, the outside was dark without a light to be seen. To your eyes, it would be like going outside in the dead of the night when the moon is at its smallest. To Lydia's eyes, she could see everything perfectly and it was just as she wanted.
Getting up from her throne, Lydia looked outside of the window on the right. From it, she could see Ninjago City but it looked different, a lot different. There were no flashy lights coming from any buildings and there was no cheering or happiness on the streets-only darkness and gloom. When she turned around, the room had filled with a bunch of different people. They had all turned pale from the lack of sun and looked as if any sign of color was sucked out of them. None of them made a single sound which frightened Lydia a bit.
"Don't be scared," said the strange little voice. "This is what you wanted, nobody is allowed to talk in your presence unless commanded to by you. Now everyone will know what it's like to have to stay quiet and let someone else do the talking for them. Now go ahead, you have always wanted to, talk, tell a story and everyone here has to listen to you."
'Everyone is at my attention and has to listen to me?' Lydia thought to herself not really knowing what to do because this had never really happened to her before.
"Yes, now go ahead. Talk away."
At first it was kind of strange and awkward to have everyone standing there, staring but Lydia quickly adapted and was talking away at meaningless things. As she spoke, Lydia's voice did not sound like her own; it sounded sharp, crisp, and icy. She did not sound like her quiet self. She had become so consumed in her ramble, she began to be unaware of what she was saying and didn't notice everyone that was previously in the room, had disappeared. Once this was noticed, she stopped talking. It was strange how that is one thing she had always wanted to do, yet she still felt angry, confused, and sad.
Lydia stood there, getting upset and frustrated when she was swallowed up by the floor; it was like a large wave engulfing a boat during a storm. She fell and fell in complete and utter darkness that not even she could see through. After falling or floating, she wasn't sure what it was, she finally landed on some sort of surface. It was smooth, cold, and hard but, being a dream, she felt no pain whatsoever. It was still too dark to see wherever she was but not as dark as when she had been falling. Looking around, Lydia saw something in the distance and squinted her eyes to see what it was. It turned out to be Blair, Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Zane, Jay, Nya, and Sensei Wu. Like the other people in her dream, they were very pale and dreary looking. As she saw them, the frustration went away and, for the first time in her dream, Lydia felt truly happy. She wanted to get to them so she tried running as fast as possible, but she couldn't. No matter how hard she tried she just seemed to be running slower and slower and her friends were getting farther and farther away.
Eventually, Lydia got close and she reached out her hand to her sister who was also teaching for her. They were just about to grab hold of each other when Lydia fell through the floor again.
This woke Lydia up with a jerk. Her eyes immediately opened and she bolted straight up. It was now the middle of the night, Lydia guessed it to be about 3:45. She wouldn't deny it, she had become a bit shaken by that dream as well. With a long sigh of relief Lydia thought 'Calm down, it was just a dream'.
"Yes, it was only a silly meaningless dream. Go back to sleep, don't worry about it," said the little voice.
"I can't sleep, I don't know why but I'm just worried and upset," Lydia thought in her head.
"I know you are, but it's alright."
"Who exactly are you?"
"I am a friend."
"Who?"
"I am someone who will take all of your troubles and burdens away if you would just let me help you."
"You could do that?"
"Of course, with me all of your fears can be gone in a snap. All you have to do is let me help you."
"Please help me however you can."
"I thought you would never ask."
All Lydia could next remember was something dark quickly coming towards her until everything went black and she fell over, unconscious.
And there you have it, a 3000+ word chapter. Ok, so I just realized that in the actual show there is a Temple of Light, but the temple in my story has nothing to do with that one.
Thank you ZaneLoverFan88 for your review. Personally, I would be a mix of Zane(quiet and smart), Jay(sarcasm), and Kai(wanting to be the first to do something, overprotective, and a bit feisty).
The question of this week is this: If you had an elemental power, what do you think it would be? I think that it's fun to have a question of the week, what are your thoughts? God Bless!