(UNDERGOING EDITS) Gift of the Future (Ninjago au book 8)

Chapter 1: Beating around the bush

It had been a month and Acronix still hadn't told his brother anything, he turned down every mission, and gave an excuse for every training session.

He simply paced the bedroom, it was part of his new daily routine.
Wake up, eat, get fully dressed in armor, troubleshoot the problems at hand, push everyone away when they tried to help him, lunch, deflect his brothers questions about his well being, back to troubleshooting, pace helplessly and try to contact the other Devines or summon his power, dinner, more troubleshooting, get angry and scream, take off the armor and dress in his night clothes, fall asleep before Borg came to bed.

Today, that routine was interrupted early in the morning after breakfast while he was trouble shooting.

"Dad?"

Acronix snapped his head away from the hologram before him he was using to jot down ideas. If it were anyone else in the world, he'd have been mad, but he couldn't be mad at his daughter.

"Hirosha." He knelt on the floor and she ran over to him wrapping her arms around his neck in a tight hug.

"You're scaring me." She whispered.

He hugged her tightly and replied softly. "I never intended to. I'm sorry little keeper."

"Papa says there's something stressing you out."

"That's an understatement."

"Why won't you talk to uncle Krux about it?" She pulled away from him.

"He's already helped me so much. Just once I'd like to do something myself."

"You do your time mission things alone don't you? He can't come with you."

Acronix smiled. "You do have a point there Hiro."

"So you'll tell him about this? I'm sure with how smart he is he knows something about this you might not."

"There's a chance." Acronix stood up and held out his hand. "You've convinced me, let's go tell your uncle."

Hirosha smiled up at her father and took his hand. Her smile quickly faded as her father's eyes turned a bright green and his body fell to the floor.

"Dad?!" She watched as he shook on the floor, the temporal energy in his body finally showing itself again.

He pulled himself to his hands and knees and let out some pained grunts as the power surged through him.

Hirosha quickly left the room to go find her uncle, he'd know more about this than she would.

Borg let out a sigh. "So he still hasn't said anything to you?"

"No. He's ignoring everything around him. He seems, more focused on the wrong things."

"Have you noticed anything about his powers?"

"Just in general? He's been strange about it in weird ways. Ways I've never seen him act. Not even after his first time using the acceleration power." Krux shook his head. "What do you know about it?"

"He told me he's been having this dream, over and over again. That it feels real to him."

"Could it be foresight?"

Borg froze for a second, now distracted from his work. He let out a nervous chuckle and adjusted his glasses.

"Borg? What do you know?"

"I'm not at liberty to say, it's not my power."

"Cyrus, you wouldn't have started this conversation about my brother if you didnt want to say. If something's going on, you need to tell me."