Chapter 59
Fighting a Reflection

.:Violet:.

The first thing she felt was a sharp pain igniting in the back of her head and just like that, she bolted up, wincing. When Violet opened her eyes, everything was still a bit hazy but she managed to make out through the darkness and found herself in a small space. She went to hold her head when the pain didn't cease but she found her hands were tied by the wrists behind her back. She looked down at her feet and saw her legs were tied together with a knot behind her ankles. Wiggling, she moved her hands so her fingers could untie the knot. Once she did that, she stood up, using the walls of the small space. She then skilfully jumped up and swinging her arms underneath her legs although it resulted her hitting her head on the roof.

"Why my head…?" She whined as she sat down and tried as best as she can to hold her head in her bounded hands. Once the pain died down, she used her teeth to undo the rope around her wrists. The person who tied her wrists must have done it in a rush since it wasn't tied super tightly.

Violet dropped the rope to the floor and she tried looked for a door and once she did, she banged her body against it, the door opened and she stumbled into a hallway. She groaned as she did and when she looked back to where she was held captured, she saw she was in a locker. However, when she heard grunts, she knew some people were involved in a fight. She ran down the corridor and stopped when she either have to make a right or left turn. She listened closely and heard the grunts and growls coming from the left corridor. So she turned left, then right and she gasped at the scene. Her friends were fighting themselves although she couldn't tell who was who. Although she frown when she saw that in the Cole fight, a ninja clad in purple with her mask over her face also fighting Cole although she couldn't tell which one.

"Violet! Thank goodness you're here! Take your double!" She heard one of the Cole's yelled and instantly, the ninja in purple looked at her.

Violet frowned when she saw that the ninja skin was ghostly pale with bloodshot, glowing eyes. Immediately, Violet's double ran to her but within one meter, she jumped up and flipped over her double. When her feet touched the ground, she turned around and looked to see her double have skidded to a halt and turned around.

"Who are you?" Violet asked, not letting her lavender eyes leave the red ones.

"Your reflection." The other Violet replied. It's voice sounded hollow and echoing that it managed to send chills down the original, female ninja's spine. Once the double ran towards her, Violet braced her hands in front of her and grabbed the double's shoulder. Instantly, her legs tried to make her opponent trip but the twin kept blocking her leg. Without Violet realising, the replicate managed to grabbed her shoulders and throw her to the lockers, Violet's head hitting it first again.

"That's it. I'm no longer playing nice." Violet hissed and she turned invisible and she ran to the duplicate.

The other girl looked confused but as Violet as about to perform a roundhouse kick to its face, the double grabbed her foot and twist it, making her twist in the air and fall to the ground. With a low growl, Violet thrust her leg out, knocking the other girl down. Violet got up and pinned the double down, the lavender-eyed girl's knees on the red-eyed girl's thighs. The ninja quickly drew her fist back and hit the double in the face, making a purple bruise form on the white skin. When Violet was about to strike the double again, its right leg managed to slip through Violet's knee and collided in her stomach.

As a reflex, Violet rolled off, holding her stomach. When she looked up, she was startle for a second to see her double have already jumped in the air, with a fist coming towards the ninja of air. Violet's hand left her stomach and she held it in front of her face. Instantly, everything around her became a slight blur due to the barrier Violet set up and the double collided with the shield. Holding her left arm up, she used her right hand and made a swift swiping movement, making the air forcefully push the double into the lockers.

Already, Violet felt tired and she looked to her friends, the ones who look tried out of their doubles. Poor Zane looked stiffed as if the gears in his joints have locked up. Jay was panting so hard that Violet could hear him wheezing from the other side of the corridor. Cole had sweat pouring down his face and his thick and bushy eye brows furrowed so deeply Violet wouldn't be surprise if those creases on his forehead would stay there. Her eyes found Kai and saw him getting pushed around by his double. He was breathing hard and being sick wouldn't help at all.

Violet spared a moment and looked at her double that seemed dizzy for the moment so she flicked her wrist towards Kai's double and forcefully push it to the other side of the corridor. Kai's amber eyes met her's and she saw how tried and exhausted he looked. When she saw his eyes widen, Violet turned her head in time to see her double rushing towards her. Violet ducked down and grabbed the double around the stomach and ran forward, pushing the double backwards.

"We're so evenly balance, this fight might go on forever!" She heard Jay yell out.

"But we can't give up… Keep fighting!" Kai wheezed out between his heavy breaths. Just then, Violet felt her double's hand struck with her nose, sending Violet falling backwards with her mind sent in a blur. She saw a blur of purple coming towards her so she felt her left arm and let her barrier defend her.

She lifted her right hand to her nose as she blinked rapidly. She had managed to focus her eyes on her hand which pulled around from her now sore –and thankfully not bloody- nose. But she looked back up to her double who wore a smirk, grinning at its accomplishment. Infuriated, Violet put her barrier down and pushed both of her hands out, making the air grew strong and push her double past though the four boys' fights and to the other side of the corridor. Violet smirked back seeing her double broke through the wall and got stuck in there. So the female ninja stood up and walked towards the other end. Violet grabbed the double's hand and pulled her out of the wall forcefully and threw her to the floor. Violet then performed spinjitzu and then kicked her double to the wall, where it turned into black dust.

She looked back to the boys, seeing they were keeping up except for Kai. The female ninja dodged through Cole's and Jay's fight and then when Kai's double was about to strike him, Violet got between them and grabbed the fake Kai's hand.

"Violet!" She heard Kai exclaim from behind her but she focused on fighting her new opponent. She twisted the double's arms, making the double writhe under her control and then gracefully, she jumped and flipped onto its shoulders. The double growled underneath her and she pulled on the spiky hairdo but it didn't last long when the double leaned forward, making her roll off his back.

A groan exited her lips and she rolled over on the floor and before she got up, the double grabbed her face and planted its lips on her. "Get off!" She growled in the kiss but then the weight was lifted off her body and she saw Kai was punching and kicking his double brutally until the poor double burst into black dust.

"Are you okay?" She heard him asked and she nodded meekly. He walked over and helped her up.

"Thanks." She mumbled her thanks and when she looked around to see little ninja in red, blue, white and black fighting the ninja. She then realised it was the kids. "How come there are no purple ones?"

"You really think the boys of Darkley would want to wear purple and be the 'girl ninja'?"

"Good point."

"I can't believe my double had the nerves to kiss you." He growled lowly.

"Well you're the better kisser by miles."

"That's good to know." He smiled softly but she heard a shriek of pain and when she looked, she saw Cole's double punch a boy clad in green to the wall.

"Lloyd!" She shouted and she left Kai's side and dodged all of the little ninja and kneeled near the Green Ninja.

"Ow…" He whined and already, she saw a blackish-purple bruise forming on Lloyd's jawline.

"You got hit pretty badly."

"Yeah I know…"

.::.

Despites Sensei's foreboding words about going in pairs, Violet completely ignored it. She looked up at the sky where the bright, little, twinkling stars contrasted against the dark, dull and cloudless sky. The full moon shone brightly but there was a reason why she was up here. It was the night the Shoujouhi Moon will occur. Violet made herself comfortable by laying on the diagonal roof with her right leg over her left and her arms resting underneath her head. She waited and waited until it happened.

The side of the moon grew dark and the darkness slowly took over the moon until a tint of red appeared. Violet watched with a smile as the moon turned completely red. But eventually, her eye lids grew heavy and the female ninja was taken back with surprise since she just felt wide awake and before she knew it, she was fast asleep with the red moon above her.

.:Nya:.

Like every other morning, Nya woke up early, just about ten minutes after the sun have peaked over the horizon, letting its warm sunshine in through the window and into the room. She let her amber eyes wonder to the clock which hanged in the corner of the apartment and she frowned to see that it was actually six-forty-two.

The sun had risen a little bit late.

She thought to herself as she swung climbed out of her covers and grabbed a spare change of clothes in her arms before climbing down the ladder of her's and Violet's bunk. When she reached the bottom, she let her eyes take in her surroundings. Lloyd –who slept on the top bunk of his and Wu's bed- was curled up in a ball with a blanket over his feet so Nya climbed halfway to draw the blanket over his shoulders. She climbed back down and looked at Wu who slept with a tea cup in his hand.

He probably fell asleep after he finished his tea.

She then looked to the guys. Zane was sleeping with an emotionless face meanwhile Jay had a goofy grin plastered on his face making her smile. Cole had a deep frown as he squeezed something in his hands. When Nya got a closer look, she saw he was cuddling a shoe. The samurai bit down on her lips to prevent waking up everyone else. She then looked at her brother, who was breathing quietly, meaning he fully recovered from his flu. This left Violet. But to Nya's surprisment, Violet wasn't even in her bed, making the younger girl worry. Instantly, she went to Kai and shook him awake.

"What..?" He groaned.

"Where's Violet?"

"What do you mean? She's in bed."

"No, she isn't." She whispered and move to the side to let her brother get a clear view of the place where Violet should be sleeping in. This instantly got Kai on his feet.

"Have you checked in the bathroom?" He asked and Nya shook her head. The raven-haired girl ran to the bathroom door and knocked on it lightly.

"Violet, are you in there?" She asked as she could hear Kai waiting up the others. When Nya got no reply, she opened the door and peeked her head in to find it empty.

"Is she in there?" She then heard Zane's monotone voice from behind and she turned around and shook her head frantically. "Violet wouldn't have run off like this… She knew we have to remain in pairs."

"I know… You don't think she saw serpentine during the night and went to deal with them?"

"I hope not." Zane replied but they both turned their heads at the sound of the door opening and witnessed Kai running out of the apartment, still in his pyjamas and barefoot. It wasn't long until they got his response.

"I found her!"

Instantly, she and Zane ran outside and saw Kai climbing a ladder along the building. They followed hot in his trails and when they got to the roof, Nya watched as Kai brought the unconscious Violet towards his chest. In a way, Nya envied Violet and her brother. She wished that the relationship they shared could be like the relationship between her and Jay. Zane quickly went to Violet's side and assessed her.

"She appears to be in a deep sleep, she probably won't wake up for a couple of hours even if we tried to wake her up." Zane informed both of them.

"What's going on up there?" Nya then heard Cole's voice from below. The samurai moved to the edge of the roof with caution and looked down.

"Violet's in a deep sleep up here!" She shouted in response and looked back to Zane. "Why is she in a deep sleep?"

"I do not know. Perhaps Sensei will know when we bring her down."

What do you think? I realised things were starting to get boring for me and Violet so I'm introducing a new problem for her! But OMG! You guys are incredible, amazing, fantastic. Ah! I don't know how to describe you guys. You all got me more than a hundred reviews for eight chapters. Yay! Anyway, big thanks to: Yuna54321, LD Stories, MortalNinjas, ninjaofairandlight, Jayla Fire Gal, Nightmare, Rachymel, Nightmare (again XD), ElementzGirl7, FlameNinjaofDarkFire (and for the second one as well ;) ), Kaiisthebest, Magicalunicorn24, AllyofTheNinja, ShadowNinja27 and CarlyShi208. That's a total of 16 reviews, you guys are amazing!

Yuna54321: Thank you for answering the POV thing! I'll make sure I'll do Lloyd soon.

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Jayla Fire Gal: Whoa, how fast do you read? And yes, this bit is part of Violet's vision from the venom. And previously, I've spelt Scarlett with 1 't' but when I searched it up, the name Scarlett but have 2 't's whereas the colour is just 1. I couldn't be bothered changing it. And thank you for your amazing reviews!

Nightmare: I'm not that much of a spoiler but I'm happy to spill about my plans about Skylor but I'm sure there's plenty of people here who doesn't want it to be spoiled. I would tell you but it seems you don't have an account so I'm sorry. But I have two ideas but I'm not sure which idea I'll be going with. And thanks for being my 600th reviewer!

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ElementzGirl7: Sorry about you not being the 600th reviewer but I can't wait to see you this weekend! Oh, and I'll make sure I'll do Nya's POV. And the fight between Kai and Violet sounds like an excellent idea!

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And to say a big thank you to everyone, I'll try to make the chapters slightly longer, ranging from 2500-3000 words. I've already written chapter 62 so probably after chapters will be longer. Once again, thanks to everyone –especially to those who bothers reading my long author's notes.