aftermath. [ninjago post-season 15]

Jay.

His head hurt. His eyes were blurry. Everything felt like a mess in his mind.

It was just like any other day.

Well, it as just like every other day since it happened.

After two months, you'd expect everything to be normal again. But this time, it wasn't anything like it was before. If fact, it seemed like it had someone gotten worse since it happened.

Pixal has struggled to do much of her building anymore, she can't do it without thinking of the girl that was like a sister to her.

Zane doesn't enjoy the dreary days that drag on anymore. He misses seeing a tired and grumpy ninja complain to him while she makes her coffee and he makes breakfast for everyone else.

Lloyd misses the free candy he would get every night and how she would always come to talk to him before he would go to sleep.

Cole hates that someone he linked his mother to so much was now no longer here, and everyday he kept reminding himself that his mother had gone years ago, and that Nya was nothing like his mother.

Master Wu isn't even the same either. He doesn't wake up all the ninja early for training, he rarely touches on the subject of water or Nya in general, and there has been many times where you can sense the guilt in his heart.

Kai has suffered the most out of everyone else. He was so quiet and never spoke anymore. His old egotistical and cocky behaviour had been replaced with silence and sorrow. There would even be days where he would still think his baby sister was here and would be caught looking around for her.

But Jay hasn't been taking it well at all.

Ever since it happened, he's been in some sort of state that he had never felt before. It's like all of his motivation for living had faded away, and now he's just another human on this Earth that has no purpose to fulfill.

His eyes had been blurry since he saw her jump. Rather form the shock of the situation causing him to become dizzy, or the fact he's watching the love of his life leave right in front of him and his friends..he doesn't necessarily know or care. What he does care about is the fact that Nya is gone, and that she can't come back.

Why her? Hadn't she gone through enough in her life? Why did she have to leave? Out of all people.

He would rather have died right there in front of everyone else than lose Nya. If that meant that she would've stayed and not made such a sacrifice, he would've took that chance so quickly.

Staying here in this world while his Yang isn't by his side felt worse than dying. It felt like a great big headache that never went away, no matter how much he tried. He would've rather seen her happy and healthy in the Monerstary than a constant migraine of mental exhaustion causing him to stay in a room of total darkness for what seemed like forever every day.

He was cold constantly and struggled to even get out of his room most days. No one had properly seen him or spoke to him for months and no one had even had a chance at talking to him either.

And it didn't seem like today was going to be much different.

It was around 1pm in the afternoon, and Jay is laying in his messy bed that has definitely not been made for months, along with his every messier hair and cluttered floor. It was silent in his room, just like any other day. No music blasting, no quiet murmuring from a certain someone, no alarm clock, nothing.

Despite the ninja being in bed most of the day, he certainly did not sleep well. He would usually get around 4 hours now, as oppose to his old 9 hours. He couldn't sleep no matter what he tried, and most of the time during those five hours he wouldn't do anything but cry or stare at the wall aimlessly until someone forces him out of his room.