Season 11.5 [Rewrite: Continuation]

Divisive

I did not care much for this decision. I found it an unnecessary waste of time. Drama here, tears there, ridiculous grudges used in arguments based on emotions rather than logic. Details all too, human.

It is of no importance and of every importance. That is why I absolutely scorn this decision.

>_<

She finally did it.

More precisely, he. He did it. She shuffled the players on the board, but it was her king to eliminate the internal threat.

She didn't know what to do after this.

Hope? It was plausible. Confession out, repentance was possible. Repentance led to change, one slower than the variation of the seasons, but change that's potency was not to be questioned.

Then what? Discover a solution to the cursed element? Mend the torn relationship with Ninjago City and the ninja? Pretend that her friend's suffering was but a television series to be forgotten about?

Her hand quivered. That was impossible. Victims suffered years, if not more, from their traumatic event. Zane's suffering was not to perish peacefully.

As was hers. It was a feat to prevent her hands from trembling. A legendary victory from rampantly replaying the sadist's bone-freezing grin. That nightmare plagued her dreams, and now, there was no peace in her sleep.

P.I.X.A.L. retrieved the picture frame at her bedside. Seven happy smiles were captured in a miniscule frame, seven people without internal betrayal and constant arguments.

She set it back. Tragically, she knew that years were to pass until the seven smiled like this again.

That, more than anything else, hurt.

>_<

"Why didn't you ask? Why did you hurt those people?

Emptiness. No plausible excuse left his friend's mouth, for what explanation justified death? One was unable to mount a defense under
knowledge that the person, his or herself, was the guilty party.

That was what the judge, or he, concluded.

Zane was guilty on all charges of murder. P.I.X.A.L. and Wu on aiding.

Why did they do such a crime? How did they let Zane go on in his suffering and killing spree?

It made him sick, Zane's and their leader's deceit. Why didn't Wu tell the others? Spread the word? The others were as competent, if not more, than P.I.X.A.L. in supporting Zane and stopping his elemental challenges.

They were a team for Pete's sake. Teams didn't scurry off to play every man for himself. They worked together, each harnessing one another's strength to save the day.

Cole tightened his fists. Teams were to resolve issues, not exagerate them. That was exactly what Wu and P.I.X.A.L. decided to do.

That was unexcusable.

Zane's crimes were of the same caliber. Murder was murder, and his friend was to be judged in time. Yet the third party, the one who brandished the power to save or destroy his friend.

Those were the demons.

>_<

Chitters and chirpings chortle. The water boiled. He reached for a cup and poured the liquid in, and with a stash of tea leaves stuffed in an unreachable universe, he reached for thin air and tossed the leaves in to steep.