Butterflies (lloydxreader)🦋🦋

06 - the plan

*2 days later*
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Y/n pov

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The last few days in the city were boring, there wasn't much happening.
I did make my first public appearance and started seeing myself on the news and magazines, now known as the mysterious new girl ninja.
It kind of made me laugh thinking about Kai's face when he realized I got more attention at the moment than he did.

The date of the ball was set, it will take place this Saturday. Which was already in four days.
Only the richest people in Ninjago seemed to be invited, Cyrus Borg told us.

He got a letter saying it was to honor the exhibition taking place in the museum of history this Saturday, it started at 9 pm and the host expected everyone to dress neat.

It appeared to be a masquerade, where everyone would wear masks.
I wondered what the advantage of that would be for them, for us in any case a chance to sneak in undercover.

After practicing the technique of knives throwing a little bit more I went inside, it was already time for lunch.
And we would have a meeting about the ball, since we didn't have any plan yet.

I was the last person to sit down at the table, with everyone being there already.

"As we know, the ball is masked. What gives us a chance to attend, since they didn't invite us." Garmadon stated, looking slightly offended.

"It might be the best if we'd split up." Lloyd spoke, "we can ask around a bit so we have a clear target."

"I'm coming with you guys." Nya said, turning everyone to look at her.
"You'll blend in the best if you'd have a date. And i will carry my samurai X helmet under my dress, just to be safe." She added.

"I'll take you as my date then Nya." Cole smiled at her giving her a wink. He recieved an angry look from Jay, who seemed a bit jealous.

"Then I'll have y/n as my date." He said crossing his arms not looking bothered. I saw Nya glance at him, clearly annoyed.

"No, y/n's coming with me." Lloyd told Jay and I was grateful he saved me, the last thing I wanted was to come between Nya and Jay.

"I need you and Zane at the roof, having a clear view of the exhibition room. And Kai's coming with us, I'm sure he'll do his part on gaining information." Lloyd added, making clear there was no room for discussion.

"Good thing that's settled" Wu spoke while taking a sip of his tea.
"Remember they aren't giving a ball for nothing, they're after something in the museum." Misako spoke.

"At the moment they're preparing the exhibition that will exist out of historical documents, such as old letters and maps." Zane said, everyone nodded as response.

"I can't imagine anything useful for them in that collection, but we can't rule anything out." Misako said.

The meeting was called to an end and the plan was clear, we'd sneak into the ball undercover to gain more information about the enemy's plans.

It secretly exited Nya and me to attend, we'd get a chance to full out dress up and attend to a very fancy ball!!

I smiled at my thought and left the kitchen. Turning a corner towards the inside training hall, to have a bit more private practice.

I walked in the big empty room and left the door open, there were a lot of machines and weapons waiting to be used.
I walked up to a punching bag and tried to land some good hits, which I found hard to.

Landing hits with pure strength wasn't my strongest side, I always won with the element of surprise.
Being unpredictable and fast was what always seemed to work best for me, since I wasn't that strongly muscle.

I looked at my feet, trying to stand steady and hit the punching bag hard without taking a break.
Suddenly I heard footsteps behind me, looking to my side I saw Lloyd observing me as he walked up next to me.
I didn't try to let him distract me and continued to try and hit the bag as hard as I could until I heard him speak up.

"Your weak, you have no muscle." I eventually heard his voice tell me from behind.
I didn't say anything and ignored him, still trying to land hits on the bag.
"You're never gonna win not like that." I heard his voice tell me from behind.

"Good to know." I answered feeling like he was just talking down on me.
"You have to use your whole body."
He spoke and suddenly I felt his hands on my hips. "Keep tension." He said.
For a moment I was taken away by his sudden touch and I turned around to face him.

He looked at me and continued talking, "Try to hit me." I doubted for a second and then turned my body towards his.

I took out my arm to hit him, but he didn't budge.
I rolled my eyes and looked at him annoyed, I wasn't even weak he just made me feel like I was.

"Use your whole body, come on y/n." He told me with a slight tone of amusement in his voice.
I positioned my feet further apart for better balance and took out my arm to land a hit, turning my hips slightly making the hit land harder then the one before.

And this time, Lloyd took two steps back.
He smiled at me but before he could say something I landed another punch, and another right after.
He was taken away for a second but then stood steady on his feet, blocking my upcoming punches one by one.

Instead of alternating the use of my left and right hand I switched, punching with my right hand two times after each other.
He was to late to defend the unexpected punch and stumbled back. "Got me there." He said while he lowered his head a little bit.

"Shouldn't call me weak." I told him raising my eyebrows as we went on, never stopping because we kept successfully blocking each other.
"You aren't weak, but those first punches.." he started and just then I managed to hit him right in the stomach and he stumbled backwards.

He gave me a proud smile and sat down on the ground grabbing two bottles of water, handing one out to me.
I took it from his hand and sat down next to him, wiping the sweat of my forehead.

"Are you looking forward to the ball?" He asked, stretching his neck.
"I am, even though we have no idea what we'll encounter." I answered, "it'll be fun." He told me smiling.

"You think people will recognize you?" I asked him, imagining how the face of the green ninja is for sure a famous face around here.
"I think all eyes will be on you, they won't even notice me." He assured me.

I smiled at him and we continued talking for a while, heading to diner after.
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