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Nya did nothing more than turn to Jay, silently watching him with kind eyes as he continued to plead for her to look at him, to the rest of them. To her family.
She could see his lips move with such speed, but his familiar voice gradually tuned out. A moment's confusion settled in her mind as she wondered whether she was going deaf, but instead... something stronger reached out to her.
A calling.
It... didn't sound like a voice. Not at all. But... its coaxing eased her, warming her to the core. She felt herself long for the tone, the music which whispered to her to join the waters.
"Do you hear it?"
Jay halted immediately. His posture tensed, fearing Nya would disappear the second he uttered a word.
Tentatively, he asked, "Hear what?"
Turning with fluid motion, Nya scanned the glowing ocean, taking in the sunlight as though breathing it in.
"The sea," she answered quietly. "It's so loud. So... powerful."
Benthomaar stepped behind Jay, gently placing his hand on his shoulder.
"It calls to her."
The gesture did nothing to avert the Lightning Ninja's gaze from his seabound lover, however. Instead, he kept his eyes trained on her, tears threatening to fall.
Waves rippled through Nya's form, stunning Jay momentarily.
"Nya..."
"I'm sorry," she said politely. "It's difficult maintaining this shape."
"Wait, what do you mean, 'shape'? That's... that's what you are!" he said loudly. He began to quiver.
Nya shook her head. "What I was," she corrected, the word foreign on her tongue. After several seconds, she slowly nodded her head. "Yes."
Jay only stared.
"I will have to go now." This time, she set her eyes on the man she had wanted to live with for the rest of her life, staring fixedly into his blue irises. How much they resembled the sea... resembled home.
"I will remember you."
Her elder brother Kai intervened. "'Remember'? What are you talking about? You're not going anywhere?" Rather than a statement, it came out more as a question.
Deeply troubled, Jay shook his head and spoke as though there was no tomorrow.
"Nya, stop! Wait a second and listen! Something isn't right with you. You've got to concentrate, you have to focus!"
He faltered when she walked through him, leaving him unwet, yet cold beyond anything he had felt before.
"No... don't leave me."
His face crumpled when she raised her hand and caressed his cheek, the limb rippling as tears poured onto it.
Slowly, just slowly, she lowered her arm and stepped aside, turning away to look at the vast ocean. Yet again, the sounds of someone's voice, Master Wu's, tuned out. She couldn't fight it. She couldn't remember Nya, once a blacksmith, Samurai X, or Master of Water.
Instead, she was...
"I am Nya. I am the sea. We are one."
The faces of her team, her friends, her family, they all bore devoid expressions. From Cole, Lloyd, Zane, her mentor Wu, her brother Kai... to Jay.
Amidst the roar of the ocean's waves, she could faintly hear his voice. The words which gave her such life.
"Nya!" Jay cried. "Nya, I... I love you."
She didn't know what she had said next, or if she had said anything at all. The tug of the sea, luring her soul to finally accept her destiny and become one with it...
She stood on the edge of the crippled building, the rays of the sun radiating in her peripheral vision. Breathing in one last time, she jumped, diving straight for her home.
Nya opened her eyes. There was barely any feeling in the landing.
This was it. Here she was. One with the sea.
The sea grew bright near the surface, a distant silhouette visible above the water. She extended her hands and swam up, up to look at her family as a parting goodbye.
Her head reached the summit, staring at each and every one of them, her chest swelling with unbearable happiness, pride, and love.
Finally, her gentle gaze landed on Jay.
"You are my family. All of you."
Nya dove headfirst into the depths of the sea once again, disappearing into the horizon. She only smiled at the last sounds of her husband calling her name, gradually becoming faint as she swam into her future.
