Jaya Oneshots (Requests Open)

She Used To Be Mine

Jay looked at the bottle in his hand as he took in his surroundings that were around him. He didn't feel anything. After losing everything that he found good in his life, how could he smile? Zane was dead. Nya left him. Cole betrayed his trust completely. Kai and Lloyd couldn't stop fighting. He was stuck in his drinking limbo, not that anyone seemed to notice. They were too lost in their own stories to see his own struggles.

He stood up before quietly walking out of his bedroom. He could hear the fighting coming off of the walls from Lloyd and Kai. That was all that they ever did once Zane sacrificed himself. Jay didn't understand why they were fighting at all. They stopped him from running after Zane. They were the ones that pulled him back into that godforsaken sewer. If anything, he should be fighting them right now.

Of course, Jay knew that they would be in the same situation all over again if he went with Zane. If anything, they would be grieving in double time. He knew that if he stayed up there, he would be dead just like Zane was now. That seemed to make his chest tighten in ways that he couldn't remember ever feeling before. He clearly didn't drink enough if he was feeling the gaping hole that had been trying to ignore since before Zane.

Jay chuckled as he looked up at a picture of them when everything was okay. He could feel the world around him fade as he looked at Zane. He reached his hand up and hesitantly traced the figure in the picture. He couldn't believe that he was gone. There was something about Zane that made it so unbelievable to even even imagine this reality. However, it was this reality that Jay seemed to be stuck in. 

"Was it a Cuckoo bird?" Jay asked as he did a little motion with his hand.

"Of course not. Everyone knows that they aren't inhibited to this region." Zane said as he looked at Jay with an absurd expression.

He shook his head as he pulled his hand away from the photo and walked away. This wasn't even why he was feeling like this right now, and that was probably why he was feeling this way. Sure, it played as part of the reason, but that wasn't the main reason. He shook his head again. He couldn't go through these thoughts again without drinking them away. He was trying so hard to stop.

He walked as he heard muffled cries and he knew who those belonged to. Wu hadn't been able to stop crying after realizing what happened to Zane. Jay expected that as much. He expected himself to be with Wu, but he couldn't feel literally anything. Wu had gotten to know them. He knew that they were like his children, and he supposed that they were in a sense. Jay knew that there was no pain like the pain of losing a child. 

"Did you figure out the best way to defeat your enemy?" Wu asked as he looked at his pupils.

"Teamwork?" They all asked at the same time as they looked at their teacher.

"No. Have fun working on the ship." Wu said as he looked at them before taking a sip of his tea and walking away.

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"This is the answer to your lesson that I have been trying to tell you all day." Wu stated as he looked at his nephew with a small smile.

"What is it?" They asked.

"The best way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend." Wu said with a sigh and then an even bigger smile.

It was one of the most important lessons that Jay had ever learned as part of this team. He learned that friendship was more important than simply defeating the enemy. Of course, his friend became an enemy, and he didn't know what he was supposed to do for that. He didn't even show like he cared. He threw away his trust like it was nothing. Like Jay meant nothing to him, and that hurt.