Ninjago: Reversed Destinies

Chapter 31: Meetings

TRIGGER WARNING: If you are sensitive to depictions of eating disorder, skip it to the next "***".
WARNING: Mildly spoilers from Dragons Rising Season 2.

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Kai looked at the plate in front of him. He was trying to keep his mind out of it by polishing his helmet, but that clearly wasn't working for him.

The boy put his things aside, picking the meal and the fork. Looking at it, he gulped, feeling something turn in his stomach at the sight of it.

"Come on, Kai. You can do it." He thought to himself, picking a whole piece of bacon and putting it in his mouth. He slowly muched the food, feeling a sour taste at the bottom of his throat.

He gulped, and then took another piece, trying to eat. As he munched, a part of his mind flashed to Lloyd, trapped in that cage and pleading for Kai to run away, and that made his mind go even far to the past, seeing a bunch of bills in the table at his home, some of them already expired.

"Kai, I'm hungry..." He heard his sister from the sofa.

Kai's stomach couldn't take it anymore. Nauseous, the boy ran towards the window of his room, throwing up the little he had eaten that day. Slowly, he leaned himself on the wall, sitting.

"Should've expected that..." He thought to himself, rubbing his face. The boy slowly got up, looking at the small mirror he hás put in his room.

Damn, he was hopeless. His reflection looked at him, completely exhausted.

"How can you think about eating in a time like this?" He heard his own voice inside of his head. "Lloyd is counting on you, you know that. And still you do nothing. Do you think you deserve some peace?"

Kai quickly turned away his head, not wanting to look at the patetic reflection in front of him. Instead, he just got back to his plate and throwed everything away by the window. After that, he sat on his bed and began to polish his things again.

"Hang in there, buddy." He sighed.

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Wu had walked a long way by himself. It had took him the whole morning and even a bit of the noon, but he was finally there, the place to where the Spiritual Smoke pointed him. The Dragon Stone Shrine.

It was a beautiful place, almost like a garden. It had a waterfall on the center, bringing water to every corner of the place. The old man didn't knew exactly what were the trees of that place, but their leaves had a beautiful tone of fuchsia, or could it be magenta? He wasn't sure.

"I wonder why I am needed here." He ponders, walking towards some kind of sculpture of a dragon head. He decided that the best way to figure it out would be doing what he could do best. Meditate. Finding a spot he thought was good enough to do this, the wise man lit up a candle and sat on the grass, giving a deep sigh.

Slowly, he felt his conscience flying away, lost in a mist of sounds and smells. It was almost like Wu himself was floating in the ether. He felt so relaxed, and yet, so concerned.

Then, it started. Wu open his eyes, seeing ach one of his students wearing the green robes of the Green ninja. He heard Pythor cackling in the distance.

Then, a spiral. Lloyd engulfed by flames, the shadow of an enormous snake, Garmadon yelling in desperation...

And Garmadon reaching for his hand in a strange, dark place.

"...Wu! Master Wu!" Someone was shaking him. The old man quickly opened his eyes, breathing heavily.

"Wha... What in the world?" Wu shook his head violently, looking around. There was someone behind him.