Last One Standing (Cole Brookstone x Reader)

The Tournament of Elements

{First Person POV}

My feet hit the pavement as I played a game of catch-up with a peculiar man. Moments before this I had witnessed a robbery at the local grocery store, and being an elemental master and a natural-born protector of the people, I had to step in. Although he is a bit faster than I initially expected, and I'm out of shape.

I caught up with each passing second, following his every twist and turn through the city, my steps getting faster and faster. Finally, he turned into an alleyway I knew was a dead end. I smiled as I rounded the corner, ready to make things right again. I grabbed the brick of the wall next to me for leverage as I turned and came face to face with...

No one.

"What?" I whispered. Instead, I faced an altar with my picture on it. It struck me as odd, but it had to be a prank or something. My picture isn't exactly hard to find on the internet. 

I come from a long line of elemental masters and warriors sworn to protect those without gifts like ours.

...We're also very wealthy if I'm being honest. I had the gift of crystallization. I could forge weapons out of the air and put armor on my back within seconds as I willed myself to do so. I worked hard to be at the point where I am to be able to control these powers gifted to me by my father, although it wasn't exactly a choice. 

In front of my picture sat a plate of fortune cookies with candles and incense. A weird combination in my opinion. I approached cautiously and grabbed a moon-shaped cookie. Inside lay a piece of paper.  

"Master Chen has personally invited you to participate in his Tournament of Elements. Secrecy is of the utmost importance, tell no one or suffer the consequences." The front of the fortune read.

On the back said, "Meet on the Ninjago City pier at midnight and come alone and unarmed."

After I read I stared at the fortune for a few moments before it popped and sizzled from my hands. 

"Okay. This is weird," I uttered to myself. 

Growing up the way I did, I had access to knowledge greater than I could ever imagine. There's no way this could be the same Master Chen involved in the Serpentine Wars... 

Whoever it was, they meant business, even if it meant using the guise as someone like Chen to take them seriously. 

"This sounds sketchy, not to mention dangerous. My name is too notable. If this really is a Tournament of Elements with others like me, I'd have a clear target on my back..." I thought to myself. I had 4 hours to decide, and decide I did.

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At 11:50pm I readied my gear I was taking with me. I deliberated back and forth on whether or not to go, and it took some small lies to get myself away from the house and my father. I suspect he knew it was a lie, though he made no effort to stop me. Looking around, I saw many people and powers I did not recognize, but few I did. The infamous Ninja stood in the middle of the pier, blocking the path. Descendants from speed and form were here, and I did not recognize many other. I wore a black gi with a mask pulled up over the bottom half of my face, to attempt to stay low while I could before someone recognized me. 

Before too long, a large passenger ship approached the docks. Everyone went silent as opposed to the chatter from before. 

A plank was laid between the docks and the ship and an older man with a pinched face and a dark aura stepped forward to advise people to watch their step as they crossed.