~completed!~ Life is never as easy as you want it to be. Choices have consequences. People change their minds. And the world around you might not be sympathetic towards your beliefs. It seems like either you change the world or be changed by the wor...
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~ Lyrics from "Only Us" from "Dear Evan Hansen" ~
~ around ten years after the events of Prophecy ~
Peak expected the airplane ride to be a lot more like dragon flying. Then again, he hadn't gone dragon riding in a very long time, so his memory might be a bit off. Turbulence jostled the plane a bit, but it didn't resemble the steady up and down of dragon flying. Peak wasn't that uneasy during his flight. The brewing in his stomach was mostly due to the fluttering of his nerves, due to the excitement that lay ahead.
"Attention passengers: please fasten your seatbelts. We will be descending into Skylor's Island shortly."
Peak glanced out of the window to see the bright island slowly getting closer. Leafy trees dotted the edges of a vast civilization. He had a hard time believing it'd only sprung up a few years before he was born. Then again, he was a full-grown adult now. A time before his birth was a very long time ago.
The passengers around him were more than happy to get back onto steady land. Peak only felt a twist in his heart when the solid earth greeted him again. It hadn't been as hard as he imagined to go without elemental power for so long, however, he supposed it was the memories of it that brought back the grief. He hadn't seen all of his old friends together in such a long time. Shade was gone, Morro had a third child on the way, and Storm and Carmen were living it up somewhere. They traveled all across Ninjago, sending postcards at every destination they visited. And Peak hadn't seen Aureole since Morro's wedding. She was far away, trapped on her parents' island, devoting her life to the business he wasn't sure she wanted to keep. The steady ground, the earth, the memories of times he used to control it, they all brought back an entire swarm of remembrances. Some were cherished, others weren't.
Peak saw his mother's face light up when he practiced in front of her, he saw the triplets gripping him tightly as they wailed before his mother's grave, snakes flying, cannonballs falling, excruciating pain ripping the elemental power straight out of his being.
He blinked, and he was getting out of a taxi, standing in front of the biggest property on the island. Chen's Noodle House. It was a massive structure with more design elements than he cared to take in, standing as the sole reason Skylor's Island existed. It held both the corporate offices and the factory of the whole company, standing as the instigator of the economy of the island.
