After an adventure like the one they had earlier today, Sensei decided to let them all rest for the rest of the day. The guys weren't complaining, but they also got quite a bit of training in. Nya went back to her workshop to get some of her own work done, while Kyna and Soula had chosen to get their late lunch ready.

Talynn was back in their room, putting some final touches on her wall. She'd painted it completely black with splashes of silver here and there, reminding her of the night sky of her home.

'My home.' She thought, cleaning out her paintbrushes in the bathroom sink. 'It's been so long since I've been there. Since any of us have been there.' She looked down at Storm, who was finally settling down and resting on the bottom of the cold tub.

She petted his scales slowly. 'What would my mother think of me? Of what I've done? I want to believe she'd be proud of me but-'

A knock on her door startled both her and Storm. It had to be Nya or one of the guys if they were knocking.

"It's open!" She yelled, getting back onto her feet.

Zane entered. "Talynn?"

"I'm in here Zane." She called from behind the bathroom door. "I'll be out in a minute."

"There is no need to rush." The nindroid replied, walking a bit further into the room. "I just came to tell you that lunch is-"

He stopped talking when he saw the painting on Talynn's wall, making it look like the night sky was in this very room, shooting stars lighting it up. It was incredible.

Talynn walked back into the main part of the room, seeing the nindroid stare at her latest art project. "Is it good?"

"Good?" the nindroid asked. "It is incredible. I've never seen someone paint something like this."

"Well it's not quite done yet." She stated, drying off her hands. "I mean it looks done but…I dunno, it needs something."

"Even if it is not complete, it is still magnificent." Zane said, turning towards her. "You have quite the talent."

"It's not a talent." She said, "It's just something I like to do."

"But it-"

"Can we please just drop it?" she asked, walking towards the door. "You said lunch is ready so the others are waiting."

Zane watched as Talynn stormed away; as if the father she was from her painting, the better she would feel.

And that was something he didn't understand.

(Kai's Dream P.O.V.)

"Something wrong Kashton?"

I look up from the lake to see a guy who looks like Cole coming towards me with a little one who looked close to Ky's age. Cole was right when he said these guys looked similar to us, but there were differences.

Like the fact that there were markings all over our arms that looked like vines, or the fact that we wore masks. Other than that, we were the same.

"It's Ky." I sighed out, looking a little farther down. "I can't teach her anything."

"Oh come on it's not that hard." The Cole look-alike said, sitting beside me.

"I'm not patient like you or Zandor Colatos." I said getting to my feet. "I'm just not cut out for it."

Colatos chuckled. "I thought the same thing when I first started teaching Tallie." He scooped up the small child, making her meet his eyes. "I felt like I wasn't teaching her anything with the way she reacted with what I taught her. But when I discovered she was mute, I found I had to change the way I taught for her to understand."

Tallie looked up and me and began signing-somehow I understood every motion. 'Ky really looks up to you Kash. Don't give up yet.'

"Then what do you suggest I do?" I asked exasperatingly. "I don't know how!"

"Then don't think." Colatos said, getting to his feet. "Just do."

(Normal P.O.V.)

"Kai lunch time!" Nya called into the boys' room. "Come on everybody's waiting."

Kai sat up from his bed. He didn't remember falling asleep, but then that dream seemed like it was pretty important. He saw that Kashton-who he was in the dream-felt like he did sometimes. That he just couldn't do anything right.

First there was the whole Nya being kidnapped, then the fact about the green ninja, followed by losing Zane, and now…now he was confused about three girls who seem to be more than what they appear to be. He didn't know what to think.

"Then don't think." Colatos' voice said ringing in his mind. "Just do."

It wasn't much, but it was enough.

"Kai!"

"Okay Nya I'm coming!"

Lunch was a quiet affair for the most part. The girls all sat on one side while the boys sat on the other. Nya decided that she would get to know the others better by having the rest of the day dedicated to them; what they liked to do. The guys on the other hand were talking about the girls, and the latest dream of Kai's.

"You weren't kidding when you said they looked like us Cole." The fire ninja said, playing with his food. "I mean, looking into the lake, I saw me-but it wasn't me. It was someone else."

"I know," Cole said, grabbing a drink. "What I find weird is that it's just you, me, and Zane having these dreams. Why aren't Lloyd and Jay?"

"Hey, don't ask me." The blue ninja said eating his food. "From your guys' reactions to those dreams, I don't want 'em."

"I'm not sure if I do either." Lloyd replied. "But I also think that the girls have something to do with it."

"I'm afraid I don't understand." Zane said, confused at what the green ninja was getting at.

"Think about it. The dreams didn't start until the night before those three got on the ship. My guess is that the dreams are trying to warn you about something. Something that has to do with them."

"So what do we do?" Kai asked. "Ask them if they know anything about these dreams? Last time I checked, those three don't remember a thing about their pasts before they were toddlers."

"Not necessarily." Cole mumbled.

"Huh?"

"Nothing." Cole got up from his seat. "I'm gonna go train some more."

As the black ninja walked away, he didn't notice a pair of red eyes follow him out of the room. Nor did he notice the owner begin to follow him.

"Talynn."

"Hmm?"

"Where are you going?"

She hadn't realized she was standing, or even making her way towards the door.

"I…don't know."

"So let me get this straight." Nya said, leaning against Kyna's bed. "After the fire took away your loved ones, you were all separated? Why?"

"Well, from what we understood, we were too powerful when we were young." Kyna said, messing with her juzu beads. "When we got older, we were able to be together again. But our power was unstable; just like our emotions."

"Emotions?"

"Yes." Soula said, picking up her laptop. "When we were children, our emotions dominated everything; especially our powers. And since we were overwrought with the death of our loved ones…well…"

"Let's just say that if we were left together, we could've destroyed many things." Talynn said, digging in her bag, tossing objects out.

"Hey watch it!" Kyna said, dodging another book sailing across the room. "What're you looking for anyway Tal?"

"I figured out why I couldn't sleep last night without wearing myself down."

"And that is?"

"The book." She said, looking up for a second, then diving back in. "I know it's in here somewhere, but where?"

"Um…what book?" Nya asked, dodging another book. "It looks like she's got plenty of them."

"The book she's looking for is special." Soula said, grabbing a book before it hit her. "Her mother wrote it."

"And every night we read it to settle down and read it." Kyna said, picking up the books. "It's sorta our comfort for when we miss our moms."

"Found it!"

Nya looked over to see that the book was pure black with silver and green trim. In pure cursive was the title, The Shadow Bride. Underneath was a black rose with a green gemstone inside it, behind it was a shadowy hand reaching out for it.

"Wow." She said, getting up to look at the book. "Your mom wrote this?"

"Wrote it, designed it, and published it." Kyna said smiling a bit. "I think you can guess where Tal gets her talent." She nodded towards the wall.

"But I'm not-"

"Tal," Soula said, closing her laptop. "You're letting his words get to you again."

"Who?" Nya asked. "One of the guys?"

"No. Her ex."

Nya stared. Talynn had had a boyfriend?

"He hurt her physically and emotionally." Kyna explained, coming over to Talynn's side. "We almost lost her about a month ago."

"That's why we came back." Talynn said, sitting on the edge of her bed. "So I could get better."

"So WE could get better." Soula stated. "Kyna cuts her wrists-"

"Hey!"

"And I don't eat that much. Sensei said he could help us. But I don't know how."

Nya stared at them for a bit, then smiled.

"The best way to start," She said, pulling them close together. "is admitting you have a problem."

It was late at night when Talynn woke up to the sound of pounding. It didn't make sense to her that anyone would be awake; they'd all gone to bed tired after a long day like today.

Curious as she was and knowing she wouldn't go back to sleep until she found out what was happening, she pulled on the same thing from the night before and made her way upstairs. She was startled by what she saw.

It was Cole, pounding away at the same bag she was last night. He didn't seem angry, he just seemed…confused.

"Any reason you're awake and not in bed?" She called out, making her way over to him.

Cole looked up to see Talynn walk over, making him get hit with a returning punching bag, and stumble. Talynn barely contained her giggles.

"Did you plan that?" he asked rubbing his head.

"No." She said smirking a bit, helping him up.

"You so did!" he exclaimed, causing her to laugh more.

"Okay, maybe I did." She admitted. "Just a little."

Cole stared at her for a second, then joined in the laughter. This girl was something else that was for sure.

Talynn settled down first. "So why are you up here anyway? I thought everyone went to bed early tonight."

"Couldn't sleep." He said, walking over to the railing. "With a day like today, it's put a lot of questions in my head."

"Any questions you think I can answer?" she asked, walking towards him.

"I hope so." He said. "That thing you did today; with the shadows. Could you always do that?"

"Well yeah." Talynn stated, leaning against the bar. "I mean there's more to being a Master of Shadows than anyone knows. There's becoming the shadow, and then there's actually controlling the shadow. That's what I specialize in."

"I don't follow."

"Well…you know how you control the Earth, but don't become the Earth? It's kinda like that."

"That makes sense," he said. "but it doesn't explain why your eyes turned black."

"Oh. That." She slid down to the ground. "It's a trait I get from my father. Whenever someone threatened him or someone he cared about, his eyes turned black; his power intensified. He became someone else for awhile. Everyone thought he was unreachable in that state. That is, everybody, but my mom."

Cole hadn't seen anyone talk like this about their parents in a long time. Sure, when you're young you adore them. But this, this was just rare. She spoke about them as if they were what she hoped to be; what she hoped to have. He had to know more.

He sat down beside her. "So your parents meant a lot to you huh?"

"Well yeah." She said looking at him. "My parents were total opposites. But somehow…they made it work. They got through to eachother; helped make eachother stronger and learn to love. That's all I ever wanted. But…you know what happened."

He did, but he knew better than to bring that up. "So your dad was an elementalist?"

"They both were actually." She stated, pulling out her locket. She showed him the picture inside. "My dad was a Master of Shadows, and my mom was a Master of Earth. My brothers got my mom's powers, I got my dad's."

"I didn't know you had brothers." He said looking the photo over. All of the kids looked like a combination of their parents, but Talynn was the only one with their dad's tan hair. The boys had the mother's auburn hair. "What were their names?"

"Parker is the older one." She said pointing to the taller one. "And the other is Alexandros. Park was seven when I was born; Alex was five. And I don't talk about them because I haven't seen them since the fire."

"You mean they-"

"I dunno. No one knows. Heck I don't know and I remember the whole thing."

"Wait, you remember? But the others-"

"The others don't remember because their amnesia hasn't cleared up yet. Mine did when I tried to kill myself a month ago."

It made sense to Cole. One really bad memory would become unlocked with the actions of something worse being done to the person. So her nearly dying awoke the memories that were trapped in her mind.

"So why didn't you tell them?"

She looked down at the deck. "Because some memories aren't worth remembering. Even if they're about the ones you love."

Cole sat back in thought for a bit, then got up. "It's late. We should get to bed."

As Cole walked away, Talynn felt her heart rate slow down exponentially.

'Funny.' She thought. 'My heart hasn't sped this fast since-'

Her eyes widened, her heart almost completely stopped.

"Here we go again."

Well, another chapter done. For those of you wondering where Pixel is, she's already in a new body and back with Cyrus Borg. We'll most likely see her in the next chapter, but I'm not sure yet. So enjoy this chapter! Be back when I can!