the ninjago academy of jedi | star wars/ninjago au

𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 | bullies

LUCKILY FOR ASTRA, the door was a few metres away and very much shut. Rubbing her temples, Astra stepped back from Jay and sighed.

"Sorry, I've just got a lot on right now." Like finding out about the Knights.

"It's fine. Man, we should probably get inside, Tute starts in two minutes." Jay graciously held the door open for her despite the fact she'd threatened him not even a minute ago.

Astra stepped inside Zaven's classroom, which, upon further inspection, was more of a lab than a classroom. The classes seemed quite small here, with only six benches and two people apiece. At the front of the classroom, near the door she was now standing awkwardly by, was what she guessed was Zaven's desk, his own work lab with an odd addition to the end so it made it look like an L. The other bit was wood and stacked high with missives and papers.

"Ah, Jay, Astra, come on in, Tute is just about starting now!" Astra recognised the Bothan teacher from the holodeck and smiled nervously. Jay jogged over to a bench next to a girl with blonde hair, setting down his mountain of books to unwrap the orange scarf around his neck.

"Your desk is just over there," Zaven pointed her over to a small table a few meters away from his in the front of the class.

Bantha crap. Astra sat down on the chair stiffly, keeping her gaze away from the rest of the students. She only knew Jay here (barely at that) and had been hoping Nya was in this class. Zaven cleared his throat, leaving his desk to pace in front of the board behind it.

"Welcome to Tute once again, folks! Today we're just going to play Fist to Face 2 in class since I bought it and we can start a running competition, eh?" Astra sat up in interest as Zaven brought out Fist to Face 2 and started setting up the game.

"Tute is basically a forced opportunity for us to get to know each other better, but Zaven lets us do cool stuff like this competition. You played Fist to Face 2 before?" Walker was by her side again, blue eyes twinkling in eager anticipation.

Astra thought back to how she and Nya had absolutely destroyed Kai and Lloyd in Fist to Face 2. She hadn't played since then, which had been a deary month, but she was up for a challenge.

"No," she lied, grinning. "What's Fist to Face 2?"

"Oh! It's this great combat game, sorta 2D, you'll catch onto it fast. Wanna team up?" Walker offered. The game was played in teams of two, and Jay seemed to be pretty experienced with it.

"Sure," Astra shrugged, taking one of the controllers. The opposing team was another girl and boy, both had fair hair and weird eyes - not that she could say anything about her purple ones - but they boy's were green, and the girl's was gold.

"I'm Rema," said the girl, sticking out a hand.

"Remalyn, actually," butted in the boy next to her. He looked like a child that had grown up a little too fast; very tall, but his face still had that babyish-look to it.

"This is Kade, my cousin. And don't call me Remalyn if you want to wake up with hair tomorrow." threatened the blonde quite seriously. Fist to Face 2 loaded up and the four of them chose their characters.

"All right, we've got our first round ready. Fists up, and fight!" Zaven yelled animatedly, pumping a fist in the air like he was another fellow student and not the teacher.

Astra was surprised to see that Jay actually wasn't too bad - he had great reflexes and counter attacks whereas she battled mainly as attack. Without exchanging too many words, she and Jay managed to get into a good rhythm that pushed Rema and Kade back into the defence. To their credit, the cousins nearly got them with a surprise-triple-axle-halo combo, evidently having practiced the move before.