Jaya Oneshots and Stories

The Traitor

Heels had never been her thing. Even though she was absolutely killing her cat-walk, she could not stand wearing high heels for personal occasions.

Nya was not required to step out of her comfort zone, yet she felt like it was time to. Besides, almost every other woman was wearing six-inch heels and sparkly dresses, and she was in the mood for receiving some compliments while she was at it.

It was already past midnight in the tame kingdom of Shintaro. Almost everyone had already gone up to their rooms.

The ninja were all still on the dance floor, as well as a couple of dozens of Shintarians. The music was loud but not deafening, so everyone was enjoying themselves a lot.

A half empty cocktail glass was comfortably held by Nya's index finger and thumb, the rim attached to her lips. The red liquid trickled down her throat effortlessly, the fruity taste leaving a trail of mango, strawberry and cherry behind.

"Wanna go upstairs?" Jay asked her, yawning. He was still holding his glass, too, even though it had been empty for a while.

Nya softly shook her head, the bass of the rhythmic music beating in her eardrums. "I'm not tired yet, are you?"

Jay nodded, his eyes hooded.

The Water Ninja looked at the time and realized it had already gotten very late. "You can go up to the room if you want," she told him. "I'll come after you in a bit."

She didn't feel like leaving the main event yet. It still felt like they had just started the Royal Ball thrown by Queen Vania.

It was the Queen's birthday, and since the ninja were good friends of hers, they were, of course, very high up on the guest list.

Speaking of Vania; she was currently busy conversing with the Black Ninja.

The sparks that were flying all around those two were obvious — everyone was aware of that. Everyone but them.

Since he was barely able to stand up straight, Jay accepted Nya's offer and made his way up the bedazzled staircase after giving his lover an uncontrolled smooch on her mouth. She even needed to wipe her lips, which smudged the clear but sparkly lipgloss she was wearing.

She didn't care about that though, the night was almost over anyway.

Her hurting feet led her over to the food table. A maroon table cloth was spread over a long string of rectangular tables and all kinds of pastries and drinks were scattered around. She gave the young flying guard, who was hovering behind a large bowl of the red cocktail with a silver ladle in his hand, a polite smile and watched as he poured another round into her glass.

The cocktail was surprisingly better than Nya had first thought. In fact, everyone seemed to love the intoxicating beverage that was served by Vania's staff.

Nya was not dancing but walking around slowly whilst watching the people dancing around her. Kai was wearing his red tuxedo that he had bragged about before arriving, and it seemed like he just spilled something on it because he was vigorously trying to wipe something off with dark green paper tissues as his date, Skylor, was laughing at him.

Nya chuckled, taking another sip of her drink. To her right were Cole and Vania, who were still talking animatedly. But something caught Nya's eye... something very interesting. Because Cole had his muscular arm wrapped around her waist, which was normal when dancing, but now they were not dancing. They were standing very close to each other. He was looking down at her, she was looking up at him.

The Master of Water smirked and quickly pulled out her phone. She snapped a few pictures of the two and then focused on someone else, leaving them some privacy. She could nag him about his obvious infatuation later on.