p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro could hardly remember what had happened after Lloyd's mother—Who he learned was named Koko—had served the two cousins' dinner./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But with Lloyd's upset rambling the next morning about how he shouldn't have done what he did, Morro could get a good idea./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Aunt Koko had mentioned not knowing about Morro, and then Morro had started to spiral, and there was kind of a gap there. Lloyd had dragged him out of the bathroom and forced him to explain why the sink was full of cold water and how he possibly could have burnt his hand, so he could infer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro told his cousin he didn't know. But he did. He felt terrible lying to Lloyd, especially after the blond helped him bandage his hand. And now here he was, wearing clothes borrowed from him, waiting at the bus-stop while holding an umbrella to keep the both of them dry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The guilt felt awful, but he tried to act like nothing was wrong because the sooner he could talk to Wu, the sooner he could leave. For now, he just had to make it through the day, and all he really had to do was follow Lloyd around, which couldn't be emthat/em hard… could it?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Well, it wasn't as if anyone was trying to talk to him, thankfully. He had had enough of that from the day before. (Yet another reason he preferred living on his own)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, it was strange how everyone avoided being within a seven-foot radius of his cousin, treating him like the plague. And the looks of fear and disgust did emnot/em escape Morro's notice./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was about to (against his better judgement) mention it to the blond when what Morro assumed was the bus pulled up. Morro tugged the borrowed hood further over his face as he closed the umbrella, praying to FSM that he wouldn't get drenched. The emlast/em thing he needed was to get hurt again./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd grabbed Morro's sleeve and tugged him onto the bus, claiming the only empty seat and shoving the black-haired teen in first, causing Morro to land awkwardly for a moment before he pulled himself back up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Strangely, this side of the bus was now devoid of people, everyone huddled as far as they could from where the duo was sitting. First Master, what was going on?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey. M." Lloyd said, nudging Morro's shoulder. Morro looked at him and nodded. Lloyd's face scrunched up for a moment before he looked a mix of curious and confused "What's up with your hair? I feel like it keeps changing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What? There's nothing wrong with my hair." He replied defensively. Lloyd raised an eyebrow, holding up a strangely shaped mirror to Morro's face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Yeah, your green streak keeps getting bigger." Green streak? What green streak? Morro ignored the mirror being shoved in his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I emdon't/em know what you're talking about." Morro said firmly, and Lloyd shrugged, seemed to drop it./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was feeling more anxious than usual. He had asked his mom if he could take more of his meds to school to try and help, but she refused, saying he should stick to his prescribed amount. Which was fair, he had to admit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Oh, right, why was he nervous? Yeah, the weird thing that had happened yesterday afternoon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay had been with the rest of the ninja and had just gotten back to the warehouse when he had spotted a guy dressed very oddly, and his teammates had decided to try and fight the guy. So, he went along, and got his but handed to him just like his friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Well, turns out mystery guy was Sensei Wu's son! (And previous student?) And he had a grudge. His name was Morro, and he seemed like a very angry person./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay hoped he didn't have to be around the dark-haired teen again, because Morro seemed like the kind of person to have a short fuse. And Jay had a habit for making people angry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But he was at school, and his small group of friends were always patient with him, so he usually didn't have to worry. But the weren't here yet; he was waiting for them at his usual spot, where no one could really notice him, but he could very easily see the bus stop./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He suddenly felt like someone was watching him, and turned around to see-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Zane! You snuck up on me." Jay let out a nervous laugh./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Yes! I did. I am very sneaky."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Well, being a robot certainly helps you with that," Jay joked, already knowing what Zane would say to that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I am a totally normal teenage human boy!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Despite his statement, it was obvious Zane wasn't human. If you listened close enough, you could hear a faint whirring coming from him, he always spoke with 'perfect grammar' (Aka no 'colloquial language' as Cole had called it), his eyes slightly glowed an icy blue, and not to mention the way his voice reverberated. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, no one ever mentioned it outside of the occasional teasing comment from within the friend group. Speaking of Jay can see Kai, Nya, and Cole all walking his way, The two siblings having a peaceful argument, and Cole with his eyes closed and headphones on./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Cole, eyes open, you're gonna fall," Jay said loudly, stepping closer to the taller. Cole opened his eyes and looked at Jay, muttering a quick thanks, slipping off the headphones as he did so./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Lloyd's bus is taking foremeverrrrr/em to get here!" Kai grumbled abruptly, and Jay hand signed it as quickly as he could./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was the only one in their friend group (other than Cole) who was fluent in sign language, and always made an effort to repeat whatever was said into it for Cole, who was hard of hearing. Cole insisted that the brunet didn't need to, but Jay always told him that it was a good habit to have and that it was a good way to keep himself from getting rusty./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Actually, the bus he arrives on is earlier today than usual," Zane informed them, pointing towards where, sure enough, Lloyd was hopping off the bus./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, the one thing different than usual was that Lloyd was practically dragging someone behind him- that someone being the same person they had fought the night before. Morro./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was already resisting the urge to start twisting his curly hair around his fingers. This… didn't seem like it was going to be all too fun./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But with Lloyd's upset rambling the next morning about how he shouldn't have done what he did, Morro could get a good idea./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Aunt Koko had mentioned not knowing about Morro, and then Morro had started to spiral, and there was kind of a gap there. Lloyd had dragged him out of the bathroom and forced him to explain why the sink was full of cold water and how he possibly could have burnt his hand, so he could infer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Morro told his cousin he didn't know. But he did. He felt terrible lying to Lloyd, especially after the blond helped him bandage his hand. And now here he was, wearing clothes borrowed from him, waiting at the bus-stop while holding an umbrella to keep the both of them dry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"The guilt felt awful, but he tried to act like nothing was wrong because the sooner he could talk to Wu, the sooner he could leave. For now, he just had to make it through the day, and all he really had to do was follow Lloyd around, which couldn't be emthat/em hard… could it?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Well, it wasn't as if anyone was trying to talk to him, thankfully. He had had enough of that from the day before. (Yet another reason he preferred living on his own)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, it was strange how everyone avoided being within a seven-foot radius of his cousin, treating him like the plague. And the looks of fear and disgust did emnot/em escape Morro's notice./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He was about to (against his better judgement) mention it to the blond when what Morro assumed was the bus pulled up. Morro tugged the borrowed hood further over his face as he closed the umbrella, praying to FSM that he wouldn't get drenched. The emlast/em thing he needed was to get hurt again./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Lloyd grabbed Morro's sleeve and tugged him onto the bus, claiming the only empty seat and shoving the black-haired teen in first, causing Morro to land awkwardly for a moment before he pulled himself back up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Strangely, this side of the bus was now devoid of people, everyone huddled as far as they could from where the duo was sitting. First Master, what was going on?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Hey. M." Lloyd said, nudging Morro's shoulder. Morro looked at him and nodded. Lloyd's face scrunched up for a moment before he looked a mix of curious and confused "What's up with your hair? I feel like it keeps changing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""What? There's nothing wrong with my hair." He replied defensively. Lloyd raised an eyebrow, holding up a strangely shaped mirror to Morro's face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Yeah, your green streak keeps getting bigger." Green streak? What green streak? Morro ignored the mirror being shoved in his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I emdon't/em know what you're talking about." Morro said firmly, and Lloyd shrugged, seemed to drop it./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was feeling more anxious than usual. He had asked his mom if he could take more of his meds to school to try and help, but she refused, saying he should stick to his prescribed amount. Which was fair, he had to admit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Oh, right, why was he nervous? Yeah, the weird thing that had happened yesterday afternoon./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay had been with the rest of the ninja and had just gotten back to the warehouse when he had spotted a guy dressed very oddly, and his teammates had decided to try and fight the guy. So, he went along, and got his but handed to him just like his friends./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Well, turns out mystery guy was Sensei Wu's son! (And previous student?) And he had a grudge. His name was Morro, and he seemed like a very angry person./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay hoped he didn't have to be around the dark-haired teen again, because Morro seemed like the kind of person to have a short fuse. And Jay had a habit for making people angry./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"But he was at school, and his small group of friends were always patient with him, so he usually didn't have to worry. But the weren't here yet; he was waiting for them at his usual spot, where no one could really notice him, but he could very easily see the bus stop./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"He suddenly felt like someone was watching him, and turned around to see-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Zane! You snuck up on me." Jay let out a nervous laugh./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Yes! I did. I am very sneaky."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Well, being a robot certainly helps you with that," Jay joked, already knowing what Zane would say to that./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""I am a totally normal teenage human boy!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Despite his statement, it was obvious Zane wasn't human. If you listened close enough, you could hear a faint whirring coming from him, he always spoke with 'perfect grammar' (Aka no 'colloquial language' as Cole had called it), his eyes slightly glowed an icy blue, and not to mention the way his voice reverberated. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, no one ever mentioned it outside of the occasional teasing comment from within the friend group. Speaking of Jay can see Kai, Nya, and Cole all walking his way, The two siblings having a peaceful argument, and Cole with his eyes closed and headphones on./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Cole, eyes open, you're gonna fall," Jay said loudly, stepping closer to the taller. Cole opened his eyes and looked at Jay, muttering a quick thanks, slipping off the headphones as he did so./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Lloyd's bus is taking foremeverrrrr/em to get here!" Kai grumbled abruptly, and Jay hand signed it as quickly as he could./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was the only one in their friend group (other than Cole) who was fluent in sign language, and always made an effort to repeat whatever was said into it for Cole, who was hard of hearing. Cole insisted that the brunet didn't need to, but Jay always told him that it was a good habit to have and that it was a good way to keep himself from getting rusty./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';""Actually, the bus he arrives on is earlier today than usual," Zane informed them, pointing towards where, sure enough, Lloyd was hopping off the bus./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"However, the one thing different than usual was that Lloyd was practically dragging someone behind him- that someone being the same person they had fought the night before. Morro./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; padding: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"Jay was already resisting the urge to start twisting his curly hair around his fingers. This… didn't seem like it was going to be all too fun./span/p
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