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"Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones" - Thich Nhat Hanh

Chapter Three: Trepidation

Light gleamed through a little crack of the window blinds, waking up a certain ninja who was only wearing boxers.

'Ughh...' He thought to himself as he sat down on his bed, groggily. A big yawn escaped his lips as he gawked at the ground below him. Looking around his room still dazzed, he quickly glanced at the clock. 'Hmm, 9:00.' He pondered. 'I'm suppose to meet Cole in a few to hang out.'

Getting up to take a quick shower before heading out. Once he entered the bathroom, Kai didn't hesitate to check himself out in the mirror. He grinned at the square shaped mirror, obvisouly liking what he saw. He turned on the faucets to let the water run for a while. He left to the kitchen to put water for coffee, but when he plugged in the coffee machine nothing happened. He tried another power outlets, but nothing worked. He figured it burned out, so he took out a pan and placed it on the stove. He tried turning on the stove, but it didn't turn on. Getting frustrated, he opened his refrigerator only to be slapped in the face with really foul oders.

''Uhhhhhh!" He yelled out loud as he covered his nose and slammed the door shut. 'No...! No! No!' He thought to himself. He went over to the light switch and began begging the light switch to turn on. "Pleaseee...! Pleaseeeee! Pleaseeee, turn on!" He closed his eyes and flipped the switch. He opened one eye slowly only to shut it again as he stomped his foot in annoyance. He stomped his foots forcefully as he walked to the bathroom with a flashlight in his hand.

He touched the water that he left running and quickly pulled his hand away shivering. He was about to hop in when he heard knocking on his door. Signing in irritation, he threw his hands in the air.

He opened the door all the way, fully exposing himself to a girl with her messy light brownish hair and eyes as blue as the ocean. She had a light skin complexion and big innocent child-like eyes. A soft touch of blush shortly appeared on her face.

"Omg!" She squeaked covering her eyes.

"What?" I asked her with a hint of annoyance in my voice.

"Did I catch you at a wrong time?"

"What do you mean?" I asked her totally oblivious of what I was wearing at the moment. As I looked down I noticed I was only wearing the clothes I woke up with, my boxers. "Oh shit!" Kai said as he chuckled. "Hold on." He said as he grabbed her hand, "Come in?" He asked her awkwardly.

"Your gonna put on clothes right?" She said as she was following him with her eyes shut tight.

"Yeah...yeah." He replied as his voice and footsteps faded towards another room.

She opened her eyes and glanced around his place for a bit. Kai soon came back wearing a shirt and buckling his jeans.

"So, how can I help you...? Um."

"Aubree, my names Aubree." She replied with a smile. "And I was wondering what you were doing stomping around so early in the morning?" She asked as her smile faded.

"Stomping?" Kai asked.

"Uh..yeah? I just moved in here last night and your stomping woke me up."

"Oh..." Kai said dumbfounded. "I'm sorry, I was just upset about something and..Hey? Do you by any chance have power in your place right now?

"Yes..." She replied nervously.

Kai signed in relief, "Okay, I know this is going to sound weird...,but can I shower at your place? For some weird reason I don't have power right now? And I'm gonna meet my friend in a bit."

"Sure..., but bring your own clothes. I don't think your my size." She said laughing as she walked to the door. "Room 101." She turned around and said smiling.

Once she was out of sight, Kai did a little dance. 'Haa!' He thought to himself. 'I still got it!' He said in his mind as he grabbed his phone and keys.

Cole woked up to the smell of pancakes. He carefully sat down and checked the clock sitting on the nightstand. He couldn't opened his damaged hands because Bella wrapped them in ace banadages, but that didn't mean he couldn't do anything. He was wearing a white plain T-shirt and his dark blue boxers. He would of slipped on some pants, but no thanks to his hands, he wouldn't be able to tie the button. Knowing no one would show up, Cole decided it wasn't such a big deal.

"Good morning babe." Cole said as he walked up to Bella.

"Awe! Goodmor-" She said as she looked up at him, her green eyes widen. "Woaah, did someone forget to wear pants today?" She giggled teasing him.

Cole smirked back at her, "You like what you see?"

Bella scoffed while a hint of blush crept it's way on her face. Cole took noticed and decided to tease her a bit more. "You know.." He started saying as he got closer to her. "If you're not doing anything later on...we could you know.." He said huskily.

She gave a soft laugh and took a seat at the table. Patting the chair next to her for Cole. As if on cue Cole sat down next to her. He frowned as he started at the delicious plate on pancakes in front of him. Then he looked hard at his bandaged hands.

"Aren't you hungry?" Asked a soft voice full of concern.

"Yeah, I am. It's just..." He trailed off glancing down at his hands.

Bella picked up his fork and cut a small piece of pancake. "Here." She said as she placed the fork closer to his mouth.

"I'm gonna head out to the dance studio in a few, I have a class to teach today. Do you think you'll be alright, here by yourself?"

"But do you think you'll be okay..?" Cole asked concered for his lover.

"Yes, I'll be fine." She said as she placed a soft kiss on his cheek. "Now I'm gonna go get ready." Bella said as her breath tickled his cheek. She pulled away from him and went to go shower.

Remembering he was suppose to hang out with Kai, he got up and saw his phone. The screen was completely cracked. Rolling his eyes in exasperation, he thought to himself, 'What else can go wrong?' Taking a seat on the couch he added, 'Ohh..I hope I didn't jinx that..'

Bella came out a few minutes later wearing some light grey skinny fleece sweats and a loose strapless black T-shirt. "I better get going." She told Cole as she checked her watch. "I'll see you later." She said as she quickly kissed him goodbye. "Be a good boy!" Bella yelled as she walked out the door.

Zane and Pixal were sweeping up all the leftover glass from the floor.

"No! No..! No..." Cried Mr. Borg "This can't be... even my standby generator won't turn on! It's as if someone hacked my entire system.." He said in disbelief.

"Maybe I can reboot the system with my Techno Blade?" Suggested Zane.

Zane walked over to the generator and lifted up his Techno blade over his head. "Here goes nothing." As he swunged the Techno blade down towards the generator, little sparks began to flickered from it. Zane took noticed of this, but unfortunately at the last minute.

Once the Techno blade made full contact with the generator, a wave of elecritcity shot throughout all of his body. An intense searing pained coursed through his right arm, Zane's heart was beating faster than a Nascar. Sparks emerged within his body. A tingling sensation crept it's way throughout his body. He heard faint voices in the distance, but couldn't quite make out who they belonged to.

"Zane! Zane!" Wailed Pixal and Cyrus Borg.

Pixal extended her hand in order to help Zane, but Cyrus Borg grasped her hand before it made contact with Zane. Mr. Borg gave Pixal a look of concern and understanding.

After what seemed like an eternity, Zane finally let go of his Techno blade. Staring at nothing, he was trying to process everything that just transpired. His right eye began to twitch, which caused sparks to fly around it.

"Zane?" Pixal called out to him softly.

"W-ho wh-o was th-at? Stuttered Zane.

"Who was what?" Asked A worried Pixal.

Zane clutched his head in agony as he tried to remember what occurred. "I heard a voice... Someone was trying to talk to me..." Whispered Zane.

"Who was trying to talk you Zane?" Commented Cyrus Borg.

Glancing back at his Techno blade which was dropped in front of the generator he uttered,"I- I don't know..."

Nya was making her way back home alone. 'I can't believe it!' She thought to herself as she signed in disbelief. A honking car reached her ears, but she ignored it. She heard a motor of a running car slowing down pulling up next to her. Refusing to glance at the car, she kept walking.

"Hey? Need a ride?" Asked a masculine voice reached her ears.

Nya has had it up to here and she was just about to tell him off. But when she turned to the car, she saw a grinning Kai. Kai chuckled at Nya reaction, "So? Do you want a ride or not?"

Nya walked over to his Ferrari and got in. "You scared me half to death Kai!" She scolded him, socking him on his shoulder.

"Ow.." Kai laughed as he rubbed his shoulder. Pulling out of the sidewalk, he drove foward.

"Where were you heading?" Nya asked eyeing the rode ahead of her as well.

"Actually, I was going to hang out with Cole, but he's not home."

"He's stayed over at Bella's." She replied not wanting to worry her brother of what actually happened to Cole.

"Ohhhh...I get it!" Kai said smirking. Looking straight ahead of him only a few houses down, he noticed the light just turned green. He pressed on the accleterator. He was just about to pass it, going at 44 mph.

When the green light flickered to red, green, and then red again. He wasn't going to stop, but he saw a blue vechicle fast approaching on the other street side.

"Kai..." Nya screamed with a tint of apprehensive in her voice.

Kai pressed down with so much pressure on the breaks, hoping he'd be able to stop. Before he knew it, the blue Ford made impact with the rearmost part of the Ferrari. The sickening thud of metal colliding with metal, glass shattering scattering everywhere. Tires squealing and screeching. Then absolute silence filled the scene.

"Mwhahahahaha..." Chuckled a maniacal laugh that went unnoticed. It had a full view of the scene that unfolded in front of it.

Kai gaped straight ahead in bewilderment trying to comprehend what just occurred. Still gripping the steering wheel with all his might, too scared to let go. Fear quickly consumed his mind. "Nya! Are you okay?!" He asked his baby sister.

Groaning she sat up, loosening the tighten seatbelt. "I'm fine. Are you?" She barely managed to say with tears welling up making her vision blurry.

Kai sighed in relief. Reaching over grunting he grasped Nya's hand and gave her a small reasurring smile. "We're gonna be alright, imouto."

No more than a few seconds, sirens could be heard in the distance. Flashing red lights came into view and a wail of a sirens soon filled their eardrums.

"Are you guys, okay?!" Asked a fireman dressed in navy blue.

"I think we're fine." Nya choked out, sniffling.

"Alright! But just to be sure, I'ma need you two to go get checked out by the paramedics."

Slowly both Nya and Kai mastered getting out of the Ferrari without much help. Once they got to the ambulance, they finally got a good look at the person driving the blue Ford. He was a middle-aged man around in his early 40s. He had a giant gash going through this forehead. When he noticed Kai and Nya, he had a sympathetic look on his face.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean too. It's ju-st th-at the- the li-ghts ch-an-ged out of nowhere. It's like someone el-se was con-trol-ling th-em. Hope there's no hard feelings..." He tried reasoning with them, wincing as a paramedic treated his wound.

Kai nodded towards him, not knowing what to say. Paramedics quickly checked them, but found nothing too serious. They both had a few lacerations here and there, but nothing too serious. Although they did ask Kai to lie down because his vision was still a little blurry. The police soon arrived on the scene and question all of them.

"Do you want to press any charges, sir?" Question a cop.

"No." Nya answered for Kai.

"Alright, then. Do you want me to call anyone for you, ma'am?"

Nya was going to politely declined, but then she remembered she didn't have her phone. "Um, yes please. She gave him Zane's phone, but his phone wasn't in service. 'Hmm, that's strange.' She thought. She then gave him Cole's, Jay's, Lloyd's, Pixal's, Cyrus borg's, and Bella's phone numbers, but no ones phone seemed to be in service. Nya didn't want to call Sensei because she didn't want to worry him.

"Wait! Can you please try this last number?"

The officer tried the number and much to his relief someone answered. He turned away from them and took a few paces explaining the situation to Sensei. He then shut his phone off and walked back to them.

"Okay, ma'am. He should be coming to pick you guys up in no time." He told her with a small smile.

"Thank you." Nya replied.

"No problem. It's my job." He finished off with a smile.

About thirty minutes of waiting on a bus bench, they spotted a yellow school bus. Pulling up right in front of them and stepping out was none another than Dareth.

"Uh, hey guys. I'm sorry I took so long.." He said while rubbing his hands together.

"It's fine Dareth and thanks for coming. Can you just give us a ride home?" Kai asked. "Uh, well..." Kai tried taking back what he said because he remembered he had no power at home.

"Actually Dareth. You won't mind if we spend the night in the monastery, would you?" Nya spoked up.

"No. Of course, not at all." Replied Dareth with a sincere smile. "But...just to let you guys know ahead of time, Sensei's staying over as well."

They all climbed into the bus and started making there way to the monastery. The only noise that came from within from the bus was the radio playing soft music. It took them about thirty minutes to get there and on the way there Nya drifted off to sleep. Kai glanced at his little sister and noticed she had a small gash on her cheek.

'I should been more careful!' He mentally scorned himself.

"We're here." Dareth said bringing Kai out of his thoughts.

Kai stood up and stretched groaning as he did so. He walked over to Nya and scooped her in his arms. Dareth was holding the front door opened for Kai. Upon entering the monastery, an aroma of green tea was dancing in the air. Sensei stood only a few feet away from the entrance. His eyes full of sorrow and distress.

"There's another room down the hall on the left." He said to me as he motioned towards Nya. Nodding my head in agreement, I walked to the room and placed Nya on the bed. Closing the door quietly, I walked back to where Sensei was. After giving Sensei a quick summary of what happened, luckily he didn't bother to tackle Kai with questions.

"Here." Sensei said handing me a cup of tea. "It'll relax your muscles, after all you've had a rough day. You should go shower and head off to bed. There is extra clothes in the cabinets."

Sensei felt the warm soothing liquid running down his throat. Once he finished it, he decided to go consult the spirt-smoke. Gathering everything he needed in order to consult it, he took a seat on a red mat.

Sensei saw something evey disturbing, but he couldn't make out what it was. After a while it remained the same, disturbing images ran through the spirt-smoke. He was about to give up, but then the scene changed.

He saw his students and nephew. They were in fighting positions, but the one thing that caught Sensei's eye were his students eyes. Their eyes filled with fear. He saw Cole cautionsly looking around as if someone was going to hurt them. Sparks then flew everywhere making his pupils throw their arms over their heads. Smokes then filled the room and someone was standing before them. Sensei couldn't make out who was that person because the person wasn't facing him in the spirt-smoke. Then an evil crackle snickered loudly and everything began to fade.

Sensei still heard the diabolical laughter ringing in his ears, with a doubt instantly recognizing whom it belonged to. Sensei opened his eyes in horror. Sweat began to form on his forehead. He felt the air in the room growing ominous.

'Then... That means the prophecy lied..' He thought to himself. He was so lost in thought, he didn't notice his lamp flickering. A loud noise popped and that startled him. Sensei was left in the dark, and in that moment he knew what this meant.

"My worst fear has come true..."

Trepidation- a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.

Imouto- little sister in Japanese.

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Oh oh oh! Don't forget to review :) What do you guys think of Aubree? Who's causing all of this? And are the ninjas safe? Find out in the next chapter...!