Don't Kill My Vibe (A Ninjago High School AU)

The Merge is Among Us

The alarm clock beeped with malice. Who could it be trying to wake up at 6 am???

Ah of course. The dorm of boys who refused to get up this early most of the time. Normally they'd skip a Monday of high school--But not today.  Today was different.

Lloyd woke up in a panic, his head hitting the top bunk above him as he winced in pain. He was going to have to get  Jay to raise that up a bit. It didn't help that he had a throbbing headache paired with that. What could be stressing out the son of a warlord and the nephew of the Headmaster so badly??? 

Well, shifting his head to the calendar, he pinned it on the wall next to his bed. "THE MERGE"  was written on it today, mocking him in the bright red marker he used. What even was The Merge? And why wasn't he excited about it?

Ninjago City Darkley's Technical College for Boys was one of two High schools that were made for more of the... Unique. To protect the students, they lived there in dorms and were provided everything they needed to live normal lives, while also training to become heroes (or villains) for a later time. Unfortunately, due to public fear and the alarming rate of how many students the school was gaining, monetary gain started to drop.  Of course, big names like Jay and Cole's fathers paid a lot of money,  but it wasn't enough to run a school and second home.

Which brought in their sister school, Darkla's for Girls. One of the donors to that school, Cyrus Borg, came up with the idea for the two headmasters to merge the schools. That way, all students would be together in one place, keeping costs to one school, and public fear at a low. Of course,  they agreed. 

Over the break, the school was remodeled to fit more students, and now today was the day. Once the bell rang, it'd either become a battle of the sexes or a club.

"Who the hell set that alarm?!" Kai yelled from the top bunk. "You can't ever get any sleep in this shithole."

"Shut up man, there's that important shit today," Lloyd responded from below him. Kai's legs dangled off the top bunk, signaling he was about to get down. He dropped down in front of Lloyd with his arms crossed and eyebrow raised.

"And what could that be?" Happening to cock his head to Lloyd's side, seeing the bright red marker illuminate like a deer stuck in headlights. "T-that's..." The boy immediately rushed into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him, which made Cole and Zane whip their heads at it.

"What's up with him?!" Cole whipped back at Lloyd.

Lloyd responded with a simple shrug.

"Wait, isn't that merge thing today?" Zane stood up and slid on his house shoes.

"Merge? Hah... Merges are cool..." Jay mumbled, half awake.

Cole clasped his hands together and thought. "A whole new area of school.  New students. It's going to be--"

"Yeah, merges are cool... There are merge  games and stuff too, like merge dragons, or merge a garden, or like  merging realms..." Jay interrupted Cole with his sleep-rambling. 

Cole let out a deep sigh and stood up, lowering his hand right to Jay's head, and slapped the boy right off the bed. Jay was brought out of his trance immediately, yelling at Cole about knocking him on the floor.

"I WAS GOING TO GET OUT THE BED YOU MEATHEAD!"

Cole just shook his head and walked off. "I'm going down to the breakfast hall, I'll bring back a pudding cup if you're ready when I get back  Motormouth," He said snarkily as Jay glared at him from out the door.

"I'm gonna beat him up one day," Jay muttered. 

Zane and Lloyd glanced at each other and snickered. Jay normally would have to find it in him even to tap Cole's shoulder. Beating him up seemed a bit ambitious, even if he had powers.