A GreenFlame Twist

Crystallized Episode 1, Farewell the Sea

A/N: I try to use as much of the actual dialogue and character actions from the episodes as I can. I'm sorry if I get anything wrong, it is purely unintentional. Also, I do not own Ninjago and credit for all show dialogue and characters goes to their owners.

A/N: This episode was suggested by NinjafanLL007 on Wattpad

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Cole storms off to the elevator that leads to the Monastery, ticked off about what Zane just told him.

"It's not fair." He mutters as he steps inside the elevator, "He can just turn off his emotions whenever he feels like it, and boom! It's like nothing is wrong. Like we didn't lose one of our best friends."

He sighs as he remembers the events that occurred... actually exactly a year ago today he realizes. When Nya sacrificed herself to save Ninjago. The elevator dings as it arrives in the living room of the Monastery. For once as Cole walks out of the secret entrance there is no yelling or complaining about ruining a game or interrupting a show.

The Monastery used to never be this quiet.

Cole thinks as he walks down the halls towards the library. And indeed, the Monastery is very quiet without the chatter of four other ninja bouncing off the walls, so much so that it's almost suffocating.

Cole passes the kitchen where piles of empty pizza boxes and dirty dishes are. He pauses to gently straighten the picture that hangs on the wall at the end of the hall. The one of Jay and Nya. It seems like it was taken a lifetime ago, when really it's only been a couple years since then.

A soft sigh escapes his lips as he thinks of Jay. A few days after Nya's funeral he disappeared, leaving only a note in his room saying that he couldn't stay there anymore and had gone to the old lighthouse where Zane's father once lived.

Then a week after Jay left, Kai and Lloyd had gotten into a huge fight. Over what, Cole never learned. But it was something big enough that the sprinklers had gone off and everyone rushed into the two's bedroom where they found the red and green duo up in eachother's faces, not even noticing the water that soaked their clothes. The reason the sprinklers even got activated in the first place was because Kai had smoke billowing off him. He was seconds away from bursting into literal flames before everyone else barged in. Cole had taken one look at the enraged couple and immediately stepped forwards, ready to intervene and try to calm them down.

But before he had even gotten the chance to say anything, Lloyd yelled, "Maybe we should just take a break then!" to which Kai yelled back, "Maybe we should!" before turning and storming out of the room, the others hurriedly getting out of his way so as to not accidentally touch the *ahem* hot fire master.

The next day Kai left, he didn't say anything to anyone other than telling them that he was going to go and start a dojo somewhere. Lloyd didn't even come out to say goodbye.

Cole doesn't even know exactly when Lloyd left. He had been holed up in his room for days before Zane went to check on him after noticing that the green ninja had stopped going out and eating. But when Zane later came to tell Cole that Lloyd's room was empty, Cole couldn't say he was all that surprised. The three people that were closest to Nya all left. Her Yin, her brother, and her best friend.

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Opening the doors of the library, Cole steps in and looks around. Crates of scrolls fill the room to the ceiling, barely leaving enough room for the earth elemental to walk around as he searches for his master.