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A little proposal	By : Fairycakeater Category: +M through R > Ninjago Views: 2824 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Zane had amassed at least ten trout on his one spear and the other had caught two catfish, Lloyd was learning fast and had caught three catfish which seemed larger and easier to aim at, he quickly swam to the surface again and raised his spear in the air triumphantly, at the same time gasping for oxygen.
"Yeah! Hey guys how does a fish dinner sound?" Lloyd hollered, somewhat out of breath. He still swam eagerly with his hunter-gatherer skills on show and for full impact at having learnt something as quickly as he had.
He carried his now heavy feeling spear in both hands before laying it down carefully on a flat rock so that Cole and Kai could catch a glimpse of his personal endeavour.
"Hey, way to go Lloyd, you got some skill there," Cole replied with a smile. "Wish my dad was interested in that sort of thing though. All he wanted to do was dance, and perform. Honestly, every other weeknight after school was recitals and performances, meet-ups with his dance troupe…urgh."
"I hear ya Cole, I was stuck at Darkleys remember! We just got taught how to be evil which was kind of stupid, considering it didn't help me in the slightest. Hey, aren't schools supposed to teach you valuable life lessons and then parents teach you everything else?"
"No, that's the wrong way around," Kai replied with a shake of his head.
"School teach you everything else, math, science, languages and so on. Parents are supposed to teach us everything in between. My dad was teaching me how to be a blacksmith and how to forge metal into good strong weapons and armour and I loved it. I only went fishing the once because he was always so busy running the four weapons with our mum." Kai replied looking at Nya who had fallen asleep in Jay's embrace.
"Yeah well, I didn't get to learn all that much at Darkleys, can't understand why my mum let me stay there, to be honest. We were taught how to deceive, steal, perform hostile takeovers, annihilate and sabotage. Gahh I wish we'd been taught basic skills like fishing and cooking and stuff like that, or even being given a hobby that didn't involve pretend torture role-playing games." Lloyd sighed and released his pent up frustration, he grabbed his towel and roughly dried his platinum blonde locks until he looked more like a surfer dude.
"Let it all go Lloyd, it's not good to hold onto that." Kai soothed as he gave a sympathetic pat to Lloyd's damp skin.
"Look at it this way, now you've got four extra brothers who can all teach you something different. We've all had different upbringings, some sheltered and some forced but all different and mostly all positive."
"I mean take Jay, for example, he was raised in a junkyard, right? So his childhood was sheltered because he was too far from the nearest school yet twice a week he had hobbies which included roller derby and swimming. He's damned good at both which I kinda found out on Chen's island. But anyway he's also a great cook, brilliant inventor, always joking and uhm…." Kai paused and realised how much he was gushing about his future brother in law. He was grateful in the knowledge that Jay had fallen asleep because he would likely blush at Jay's reaction. He looked up again and caught Lloyd's solemn face and then the sun slowly lowering in the distance.
"Anyway, where was I, yeah uhm Cole. He's a good dancer even if he denies it, he used to go out with his teenage friends when he was younger in an act of rebellion and he'd go to youth clubs and so on, he played sports quite a few different ones and he's ace at rock climbing and abseiling. So uhm that's probably why he can't cook, he never bothered with home economics at school that was the first subject he dropped."
Kai quickly scooped up an armful of dried broken sticks and logs before placing them neatly in a pile, the other stronger sticks he used either side of the pile were driven into the ground with some force leaving a useful hook-like shape at the top of both upright sticks. He lit the sticks and twigs with his own element of fire and stood back a little poking at the fire from more of a distance.
"Zane well, he was created by a mastermind, a genius. He knows everything pretty much and if you wanted to learn anything just spend some more time with him." Kai replied.
"Of course you already know about me so there ya go. I mean I can't even begin to imagine what life was like in a boarding school because we went to the local village school and it was quiet, everyone knew everyone. We got to come home at the end of every day do our homework that sort of thing ya know."
"Well Darkley's was just strange, we still had the same lessons as before otherwise the local school board would close them down but we were expected to take additional lessons."
"There weren't that many of us that boarded either, just me and a handful of other boys namely Brad and Gene and a few other trouble makers. Heh, I even got jealous when the others got to go home at Christmas and Easter when I was just stuck there year in and year out." Lloyd sighed again and looked down.
"Lloyd don't be so down, look how far you've come. Remember, you have completely changed from that young boy who would run off and cause trouble ya know letting all those serpentine out!" Kai smirked raising his eyebrow.
"Yeah sorry about the whole serpentine wars thing hehe, still you're right though I mean, I did learn thanks to all you guys and my uncle. To be fair I couldn't have done it without his wisdom and your patience." Lloyd admitted and smiled as he looked up to meet Kai's concerned gaze.
"Lloyd you put all that past behind you when you became a ninja, just remember that kiddo because you're so much better than you were. And for what it's worth, I know our past kinda defines us but don't let yours consume you, Lloyd."
"I won't Kai, not if you guys are always gonna be around."
"I know what a traumatic childhood can do to anyone which is why I tried my hardest to protect Nya, we both found out what had happened even if we didn't see it first-hand, I was told about it. Nya was inconsolable for months afterwards, she was so young." Kai bit his lip and continued to gut the next fish with more gusto.
"Anyway I had to give up school early so I never got to leave with any qualifications, just had a business to run with the most basic of skills, but our little shop survived despite the dire situation we'd been left with, yeah they didn't leave us with nothing. Our parents were smart they had life savings of course but ya know most of that got swallowed up with paying off the mortgage and buying the materials for the business to thrive and continue."
"We lived within our means just me and her," Kai said pointing to his sleeping sister who was curling into Jay's arms. "At least until Wu came along."
"I guess we all have a different story to tell right! Mine was sped along by the hands of time and that 'yesterday's tea' so I guess I'll never know what my younger formative years would have been like. I kinda lost five years in the space of five minutes because of the grundle and my father, when he was in his whole 'take over Ninjago' phase." Lloyd replied in a deeper voice to mock his father as Lord Garmadon.
"Right again Lloyd. Hmm, we need to round everyone up, we can't stay here for too much longer because I don't fancy falling into that ravine on the way back and I doubt that anyone thought to bring glow sticks with em." Kai mumbled but hid his nerves at the thought of crossing the tree trunk in near pitch black darkness as one by one a domino effect would ensue and they'd all fall to their deaths.
"No, I don't think they did hehe, well actually you never know. I mean Jay bought a tool kit and first aid pack, Zane bought rope, folding knife and god knows what else." Lloyd stated as he looked at the bulging backpack Zane had brought with him.
"Always handy ya see, both of them forward thinking too, just in case of emergencies." Cole piped up. "I've trained them well hehe."
"Well better to be safe than sorry, all eventualities and all that." Lloyd stood and called out to Zane across the water.
"Hey wake up guys! Err ZANE I think you've caught enough now." Lloyd hollered loudly, his voice carrying across the water waking up Jay and Nya in the process.
"I reckon the sun will be going down in a couple of hours so we need to wrap this up," Kai shouted and lifted up the third catfish before plunging his own blade into its underbelly.
Lloyd starting dry heaving, he had to turn his head away as Kai expertly removed the giblets from each fish before ramming the spear back into the now gutted fish, he carefully placed the spear over the warming flame and rotated it gently as the three fish began to sizzle.
Zane came out of the water grinning from ear to ear with his three remaining spears all covered in a variety of freshwater fish and the horrid looking slimy eel.
"Well, it looks like we'll be eating fish for a while, hope it's not Cole's turn to cook tomorrow otherwise we'll be eating that one," Kai said pointing to the eel as it flopped around on the wooden spear.
"Hey no fair, that's a bit below the belt," Cole replied but it came out as a whine.
"Just telling it like it is hehe, sorry Cole I'm joking!"
"Yeah which part?" Cole asked rhetorically, he stood up and grabbed his towel folding it carefully so it would fit in his small messenger bag.
"Cole, so serious all the time...it's like the world is gonna end or one of will be snatched by aliens." Kai teased.
"Well Kai, 'Mr run off before thinking' something is always on the horizon, that's why I'm so focused because I wanna be ready for it." Cole said in response and looked down at Jay who was turning his nose up for some odd reason. He followed Jay's eyes until his own settled on to Zane and what he had caught.
"Urgh, why did you catch an eel they're kinda gross?" Jay whined and looked away in disgust but at the same time, he looked excitedly at the fish over the fire, the scales beginning to flake off revealing the cooking meat underneath.
"Hey um, I bought some seasoning too ya know just in case," Jay said timidly, passing over a small sealed bag with salt and herbs in.
"Ya never know when you might need to season your food." He replied as he was aware that most of his brothers were looking at him.
"What? Are you telling me you've never done it, never bought it with you and just put up with the stuff you caught at scout camp….no just me then hehe I can live with that."
"You still manage to surprise me, Jay," Kai stated and took the bag from him gratefully.
Zane finally answered Jay's question once he had finished drying off, "I caught the eel as it simply got in my way. It was not my intention to kill this fine specimen but it seemed insistent on thwarting my spearfishing plans and the slippery thing managed to get away with two of the smaller trout I had caught." He answered with a flustered tone and cast the eel to the side. The rest of his fish slipped easily into a clear plastic bag for transporting.
A few hours had passed and the ninja team were gathering their belongings getting ready to make their way back to the Bounty, gathering all and everything. The fire had been put out with a chunk of ice and the fish guts had been discarded into the water as chum to attract the larger fish and eels as well as the few gulls that had joined in when remains of food could be seen.
Zane helpfully retrieved some glow sticks from his backpack and handed them to each member for the 'just in case' likelihood that a thunderstorm would hit and darken their journey home. This was met with a few giggles from Lloyd and Kai, a shared earlier conversation coming back to the forefront of their minds.
He really had thought of everything, typical but thoughtful Zane, the guy could always be relied on for all eventualities. Because of Zane, the journey back was met with no problems at all, it was easy to navigate back once they had travelled across the ravine as Zane had left markers using UV paint.
He had purposefully stayed back to do this and his teammates were largely unaware but were immensely thankful for it as they had nearly gotten lost on the way back until Zane pointed to the tree trunk with a single number on it, signifying a countdown marker indicating a number one.
Sighs of relief were heard all around when they saw some bright lights up ahead, the clearing of trees and green heavy laden leaf canopies finally provided the comfort they were all longing for after a day of rest and relaxation. The Bounty was in sight in all of its glory, standing there as proud as the day it was made. Their Sensei was waiting patiently for them as each one made their way back onto the ship they called home.
Each ninja brother and kunoichi respectively bid their Sensei a good night and each one retired to their bed, desperate for sleep as the day had truly knocked the wind out of their sales. Jay hadn't even managed to kiss Nya goodnight which is something he did every night but he was just too bone tired to do anything, even strip off, he fell where he stood and luckily ended up on his bed.
Before he fell asleep he promised he would make it up to Nya, he'd kiss her good night after the proposal and he likely wouldn't stop there because he would want to spend the night with her too.
'There's always tomorrow night Nya, I'll make it up to you tomorrow I swear on my life.' Jay thought and smiled as he closed his eyes.
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