Querencia

S1 E3: Snakebite

Warning:

- Blood, Violence, Gore, and Crass Language

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The four ninja spent most of the night chatting and discusing their new home, until [M/n]'s patience finally snapped and he snarled at them to shut up or they'd lose a very valuable part. 

A gong woke them all up the next morning from their very short night of sleep. 

Cole rolled over to face the wall, cursing in Italian. Jay just whined out loud as Kai buried his face into his pillow. Zane sat up, looking around in confusion as the sound reverbarated. [M/n] sat up, popping his spine as he glared at Wu. 

"Evil doesn’t sleep and neither should you!” Wu stated, entirely too awake. "In order to reach your full potential, we must greet everyday as a new opportunity.”

"Okay okay, we’re up,” Kai groaned, removing his face from his pillow. "But if you want us to reach full potential shouldn’t we at least get a full night of rest?”

"You call that a rest? I think my back has more lumps than the mattress,” Cole grumbled, stretching. 

"We were up so late, talking about how cool it is to have a new headquarters, I guess we lost track of time. Since the Serpentine burned down our monastery, I’m just glad we have a roof over our heads” Jay stated. As he talked, he prepared his toothbrush not even noticing the sand that poured from the faucet. Squeezing out a dollop of toothpaste, he stuck it in his mouth yelping at the sand that was suddenly coating his mouth.

"Without [M/n]’s interference we likely would’ve stayed up longer,” Zane admitted, swinging his legs over the side. [M/n] eyed the weak and rotting boards apprehensively. "What is our lesson today, Sensei? Mastering the Strike of the Scorpion? Or perhaps the Grace of-” 

The boards collapsed and he dropped into the ground with a yelp. 

"Chores,” [M/n] asnwered dryly, carefully lowering himself to the ground. "Todays lesson should be chores.”

"What, no way?!” Jay cried.

"Yes, I believe it should be,” Wu agreed.

"Chores?!” 

"Ninja fight, Sensei, they do not clean,” Cole insisted.

"In order to respect ourselves, we must respect our new home and where we are from. And this place is a long way from becoming a Ninja headquarters. I expect things to be spotless when Nya and I return. And put your backs into it,” Wu ordered, before leaving to go get Nya. 

"This place is gonna take forever to clean up,” Kai complained.

"Unless we put more that our back into it, huh?” Jay wiggled his brows at them. 

Splitting up, they used their elements to begin cleaning the ship. 

[M/n] slowly walked through the ship, using his Tessens as a conduite to control his Nether and eat away at the mold and cobwebs that had grown. 

Within about two hours they'd managed to fix up the floorboards in their room, turned on all of the lights of the Bounty and rewired the electricity to the control room.

Finished, the four sat down in the living room and hooked up the old tv and began playing a video. [M/n] sat in the corner on a pillow, crossing legs and resting his arms on his knees, relaxing and sinking into meditation. 

Within Chóropsych

[M/n] opened his eyes to a shadowed forest, with tall tree that grew close together, keeping the light away. Hidden within the bushes were foxes of different sizes and species, watching him closely as he walked through the forest, unafraid of the protectors of his soulspace.