Second chances

Chapter 5

Harumi's POV:

The wallpaper's arrived, so I spent half of the day putting it up and a few hours getting everything else up.

My arms felt sore, so I stretched them. As I did so, I heard a squeaky sound. Hm. That's odd. I stretched again; and I heard it again. I shrugged, hearing the sound again. Hm. Odd.

I decided to go outside to watch the ninja train. Weirdly, a boy with shoulder-length dark hair (with a single green streak down at the right side of his head), about half a head taller than me,was already sitting down on floor.

"Who are you?" He asked. 

"I should be asking you the same question." I replied.

The boy shook his head like this was funny, making his hair spin a little as well, then said: "I'm Morro. You may know me as "the emo ghost who possessed the green ninja""

He said the last bit sarcastically, as if he were quoting someone; and then I remembered when the TV in the palace was turned on for a week to hear a story about the city of Stiix being taken over by the Preeminent. The same, or at least similar words were used.

"Wait you released the preeminent?"

Morro chuckled nervously, then said, "yeah, not exactly my best moment."

"I'm Harumi, although I'm more known as "the Quiet One"." I said, in a similar, but more spooky voice to Morro's imitation.

"Wait, that was you?" Morro asked, looking slightly worried that his next-door neighbor was the same person as the person who brought back Garmadon from the dead.

I nervously scratched the back of my head, then replied, "Yeah, not exactly my best moment", imitating him sarcastically.

We stood there for a minute awkwardly, then Wu pulled Morro over.

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Morro's POV:

Sensei's eyes twinkled in the sunlight as he asked, "Did you put the toffee in my tea?"

I froze, but relaxed when he let out a chuckle.

I grinned, then Sensei Wu lightly smacked my head with his staff, not enough to bruise but enough to hurt a bit.

"Ow!" 

I wondered how I could be here, in the monastery, but then Sensei said, "Answers will be revealed in time."

I relaxed. He hadn't said this like there was a secret he wanted to hide, nor did it sound like bad news.

I went back to Harumi to talk for a bit. (I was still a little bit unnerved that the person who lived right next to my bedroom took over Ninjago and ressurected Garmadon. I'd heard stories from the people who had died fairly recently about the horrors of living at the time, as well as every single villain the ninja had faced. The ninja really needed a holiday lol. They can't do anything without finding an ancient evil or something like that.)