Jaya Oneshots and Stories

A Gentleman Never Dies

A/N: This is a rather short oneshot, sorry!

The morning arose like any other he had witnessed. The sun shone brightly, the birds chirped happily, and the thunderclouds had gone by during the night, after it had rained heavily.

The Master of Lightning stretched in the bed but refused to wake up and leave the soft, warm space between the sheets.

Turning to the side, he expected to sling his arm around a familiar waist, but instead his arm flopped onto the bed.

"What the—" Jay opened his eyes and noticed that his girlfriend was, in fact, not in her spot on the bed. "Nya? You in the bathroom?"

He turned on his back to look at the bathroom door, but it was wide open. Although Nya would usually keep the bathroom door unlocked when she would occupy it, she would always close it. Always.

So she was not in there.

Turning back around, Jay sighed as he mentally prepared himself for leaving his small cocoon. He groggily got out of bed, went to the empty bathroom, did everything he needed to do in there, and then walked back out. Then he put on his gi before walking out of the bedroom.

His destination was the kitchen, where he saw Lloyd and Cole preparing breakfast and Zane telling them how to handle the food. Jay sniffed the air and detected the smell of lentil soup and mashed potatoes with eggs.

"Double breakfast? Yeah-yuh!" Jay sat down in his seat and poured himself a glass of orange juice.

"Lloyd wanted the mashed potatoes and I wanted the soup," Cole explained, grabbing a ladle and beginning to pour everyone some soup into their bowls. Then he placed the bowls on the table.

Jay's nostrils danced happily, the scent of the soup immediately lightening his mood. He waited until Zane, Cole, and Lloyd sat at the table before digging in.

"Where's Nya?" He looked around. "And Kai?"

"They're at their parents'. Something happened or something," Lloyd explained poorly, with food in his mouth. "They didn't say what it was before they left."

"Okay." Jay raised his eyebrows, a bit in disbelief that Nya had left the monastery without telling him beforehand. "Well, did they say when they'd be back?"

Lloyd shook his head.

The conversation shortly stopped before Zane chimed in, "We need to continue working on the blueprint of the new bike, Jay."

The Blue Ninja nodded and quickly finished the bite in his mouth, swallowing it down with his juice. "Yeah, sure. Nya's responsible for the engine and brakes, though, and that's the thing we have to look at right now."

"She could just look over the plans you'll have made, no?" Lloyd suggested, right before stuffing his mouth with his spoon.

"I guess..."

After breakfast, Jay and Zane walked to the base and started their quest to figure out how to better their already-good work.

A while passed by, but the longer he worked, the more exhausted Jay became. His head felt heavy and pounded against his skull. "Zane..."

Zane stopped working to look at his teammate. "Are you okay, my friend? You seem pale."

"I don't...feel very...okay."

Zane gasped when Jay collapsed to the floor, hitting his head against the edge of the workbench. The nindroid knelt down to offer him help, but the nasty gash on Jay's head kept bleeding uncontrollably, and the look of Jay lying on the floor and bleeding out tainted the vision of the nindroid...