Kylie, Master of Healing

🌱 Unfair 🌱

⚠️ Rated T for blood and stuff

[Please watch this (even if you know it by heart), either before or after the chapter. It's... you'll see. It's incredible. I'm obsessed.]

Knowing Chen, Cole didn't think that he'd just let them fake a fight and call it a tie. He knew there would be a loser. And he knew what he had to do.

He was sure that horrible things happened to Chen's prisoners. He wasn't sure what, but he had his guesses. And he could never let Jay go through anything like that.

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After his mom died, it was always Cole that did the work. Not even necessarily because his father told him to, but it just needed to be done. It felt like, bit by bit, it was becoming his burden to carry. Maybe it was his father slowly edging away from home responsibilities, all absorbed in his singing group.

Even after he became a ninja, Cole still felt that same weight. Be the mature one, the responsible one. Responsible for everyone and everything. It was his nature to silently suffer and sacrifice himself for those he loved. Especially after losing the closest person to him, now he didn't want to risk losing anyone else. 

It wasn't easy, though. 

After Cole decided what he had to do, he felt burdened  underneath the weight of sorrow. Bittersweet. Knowing what's going to happen to you next, and it's not gonna be fun. But, oh, was it worth it.

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Half an hour before the battle, the ninja and Garmadon were meeting in Kai's room. Garmadon was calmly sitting on the bed with Lloyd standing near him; Kai was furiously pacing the room; Cole was standing tensely, tightly hugging his crossed arms; Jay was ringing his hands, and of course, rambling.

"Ugh, why does it have to be us?" he jabbered. "Why did he target us? Maybe we shouldn't have always been together, looking so much like a team."

Lloyd and Garmadon exchanged a look.

"Of course he's going to target us!" Jay continued. "Break up our team. Who knows. I mean, it's not like he wants to stop us from saving our other teammate that we thought was dead and that he probably happens to have locked up somewhere."

Kai rolled his eyes and started nervously biting his hand.

"Or stop him from stealing everyone's elemental powers and doing First Spinjitzu Master knows what with them- oh my gosh, what if he takes my powers. What if he takes any of our powers? And- and- I'm gonna lose against Cole. Obviously. Chen's totally gonna steal my powers when I lose."

"Jay," Cole said, taking a couple steps to stand in front of him, and placing his hands softly on Jay's shoulders. "I don't want you to lose," he said, looking him straight in the eyes.

Kai stopped pacing and listened to what Cole was saying.

"And I don't want to beat you. I want both of us to win, and I want Chen to lose. Got it?"

"Yeah," Jay nodded slowly.

"And Jay, I promise I will not hurt you, and... everything will be ok."

Kai thought he felt some underlying meaning in Cole's words, but he didn't know what...