Ninjago stories

The Porcupine

“ Mia, what in the world are you doing?!” Jay asked, staring at his sister.

“ Training. What else?”

“  no, I can see that you’re training, but what’s with the hay?”
“ I’m trying to punch a bag.”
“ But why not use a regular one.”
Mia sighed impatiently. “ Because regular ones break too easily. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to train.”
Suddenly, Blackie came running to them, holding a piece of paper.
“ There’s a mystery!”
Mia stopped boxing and turned to her cat. “ What?!”
Blackie nodded. “ I took notes.”
Mia took the paper, and read Blackie’s messy handwriting.
Happened at the beach
Worried
Saw hallucinations.
But the last one was what scared Mia most.
Quills
“ Seems to me we’re dealing with a porcupine.”
Blackie raised a brow. “ Pardon?”
Jay was also confused. “ A porcupine?! But…. But we haven't seen those since-”
“ We were little!” Mia ran to her room, and returned with a picture of young Mia and young Jay. They were holding a baby porcupine, and they had flowers in their hair.
“ Oh, isn’t that Cocoa? The porcupine you rescued?”
Mia nodded. “ Yep.”
Jay shrugged. " What are the odds that the porcupine is Cocoa?”
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It was Cocoa.
“ O…. kay. That’s…. Interesting.” Jay said,
“ Tell me about it.” Blackie meowed.
“ Wait wait wait. You’ve seen this porcupine before?” Kai asked, shaking his head.
Mia nodded. “ Yep. When we were little, and our parents were alive, we found a small porcupine. It was a baby, and it had no mother. So we raised her. But, when she was old enough, we had to release her.”
Then, she crouched down. “ Cocoa, it’s me. Remember?”
Cocoa took a hesitant step towards Mia. She sniffed her hand, and curled up in her arms.
“ Awwww, seems she didn’t forget you.” Jay cooed, petting the porcupine’s head.
Suddenly, Cocoa let out a grunt, and a smaller porcupine came from behind the rock. It was limping, and it was weak.

“ Jake?” Mia called, summoning her friend. “ What happened to the poor guy?”

“ I’ll ask.” Jake slowly inched his way to the porcupine, who remained calm. He put his hand on its head and closed his eyes.

“ It’s a she. And….. her leg is hurting.”

“ Oh, the poor thing!” Jay quickly scooped the porcupine up, and Kai raised a brow. But Cole beat him.

“ Wow, Jay, I’ve never seen you hold an animal so delicately.”

“ Yeah. You don’t even handle me with that much care.” Blackie grumbled.

Mia giggled and scooped her cat and placed him on her shoulder. “ That’s because he doesn’t pick you up.”

Blackie meowed but didn’t argue.

“ Okay, we need to bring Puddle to the monastery. We’ll help her heal, and release her to the wild.”

They all nodded.

“ Puddles says yippee road trip.” Jake said, and they all laughed.
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“ Puds, I need you to stay still!” Mia groaned as she tried to bandage the wiggling porcupine.
“ Maybe you should let me hold her?” Jake pointed out.
Mia nodded. “ Yeah. Four hands are better than two.”
Jake raised a brow but didn’t argue. “ Come on Puddles, be a good porcupine.” jake said, sitting her in his arms.
Puddles relaxed, and Mia was able to bandage the foot.
“ Oh, thank goodness.” Mia sighed. “ But what happened?”
Jake conveyed the message.
“ She said there was a big, moving tree with wiggly things who stepped on her foot and didn’t care.”
Mia raised a brow. “ ‘ Big moving tree with wiggly things who stepped on her foot’? That sounds a lot like feet.”
Then, a sinking feeling came in her stomach. “ You don’t think-”
“ That someone stepped on her foot? Yeah.”
“ Oh, that’s bad.”