He will find us [ninjago story]

1 "black silhouette"

❗Important information: This story has been translated from Russian into English, so there may be errors. Sorry for that. Enjoy reading!❗
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A winter evening reeking of wild cold. In this weather, you just want to stay at home and sit in a thick blanket while watching the next episode of your favorite TV series. Only Kai and Lloyd were a little unlucky - Wu forced them to go to the city for some very necessary, according to the teacher, tea. How could they refuse him?
- Let’s quickly buy this tea, I’ll wait outside, -  Kai looked after the green ninja and began to wait for him under the street lamp. He looked first at his feet, then into the distance, then at the entrance of the counters and counted down the seconds until his friend’s return. The cold was chilling, and he was wearing only a kimano. Kai rubbed his shoulders and hissed something under his breath, but Lloyd was still not there. The red ninja was about to follow him, but ahead, among the dark veil, he noticed a suspicious silhouette. Kai narrowed his eyes and stared at him carefully. A strange premonition arose, warning of something very bad. Who is this?
- Kai, is everything okay?
Kai jerked and turned around: it was just Lloyd returning with a bag of tea. The red ninja exhaled. How did he not hear his friend's steps?
- You were staring somewhere for a long time. Did you see something? - Lloyd found this situation strange.
- Yes, I was just watching...-  Kai grinned and pointed forward, but there was no one and nothing there. The fire master's face immediately turned into a puzzled one.
-Watched...?
-I was just thinking and that’s it, Lloyd, let’s go back, it’s terribly cold here, - Kai smiled through trembling teeth, and thought to himself that he definitely looks like a crazy person right now.
The ninja returned to their car, parked a twenty-minute walk from the tea shop, and Kai got behind the wheel - it was his turn to drive. A difficult path lay ahead, because ice and snowfall are an integral part of winter, and it also became even darker.
Lloyd had by then contacted Nya and said that they had bought tea and were heading back to the temple.
Kai thought about the strange silhouette that resembled a person. Whoever it was was just standing motionless in front and looking... looking at Kai? For what? Who could it be?
- Kai, stop!!! - Lloyd's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. The red ninja saw a man right on the road. Kai immediately turned to the side and braked. The car spun 360 degrees, sliding across the ice, but, fortunately, stopped. The friends almost hit the windshield; after all, seat belts are a necessary thing.
- Who was that? - Lloyd asked in fright and flew out of the car to help the victim, but immediately returned back, - There’s no one there!
- What? Then who did we almost hit? - Kai felt how hard his heart was beating.
- I don’t know, - Lloyd’s voice trembled, - We didn’t imagine it, did we?
- It was real, - Kai whispered and pursed his lips,-You didn’t have time to see what he looked like?
- Because of the darkness, I couldn’t see anything. It appeared as if out of nowhere and just as quickly disappeared. It is very strange...
- Either we’re both going crazy, or there’s some kind of devilish thing going on here, -  Kai started the car again and drove off.
Both ninjas fell silent for a moment, digesting what had just happened.
- Tell me, you saw him there, right? Did you look at him near the store? - The green ninja was the first to break the silence.
- I guess I don't know, Lloyd. There was also a black silhouette of a man, and he also appeared out of nowhere and disappeared.
- I suggest we sort this out at home, but for now just watch the road carefully.
- Okay...