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A/N: This one's a bit shorter. A look at Cole's thoughts when the ninja were climbing the wailing alps in Season 5. Enjoy!
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Cole clung to the icicle, his fingers clamped tightly around it. Around him, the air was chilly and every breath came in puffs of sparkling silver. The land below the mountain was vast and the sky stretched on for seemingly forever. The wind beat furiously, the top of the Wailing Alps shrouded in swirling mist.
"I did it! I did Airjutzu!" Kai's excited voice broke through the still air.
He watched as Jay and Zane joined Kai at the peak.
Cole was left clinging onto the frozen ice as his brothers waited for him atop the mountain. Kai was calling out to him, urging him to perform the martial art but Cole couldn't.
"We'll catch you!" Kai reassured.
But Cole still wasn't certain. He was terrified, scared out of his mind. His grip tightened and he desperately tried to keep calm.
"Come on Cole! You're the strong one!"
He was the Master of Earth, he was meant to be unbreakable, unshakable - to be strong.
But the all-consuming fear was overwhelming him, dragging him down.
"But what if I fall and die!"
"You're a ghost! Ghosts can't die!"
Yes, he was a ghost He was faded He was empty He was hollow He-
Couldn't die
"Ghosts can't die... Ghosts can't die!"
Cole laughed out loud. It was hilariously, hopelessly obvious. He took a deep breath, letting go of the icicle and spun. Higher and higher he went, surrounded by a dizzying spiral of blue. The howling gusts attacked and tore at him but Cole's bubble stood strong.
He landed over his brothers, laughing, smiling, brimming with intoxicating joy.
He had found his second wind. He had found his strength.
