A Legend of our Childhood: A Kirby Morrow Tribute

A new day to live

"Hey, folks, need a lift?" Cole asked as he and Jay jumped off the ladder and faced the NGTV news workers.

"Boy, are we glad to see you guys!" Vinny exclaimed as he and the others began to walk towards the two ninja."Thanks!"

"Our pleasure! Mind your step now." Jay said as he and Cole helped the people get on the ladders.

Cole heard a whooshing sound and turned around to see the black wines and fog creeping up the side of the roof. His eyes widened. Not good. "Uh, a little quicker, folks?"

Jay also noticed as he ushered the people up. "Creepy black vines closing in!" He warned.

Gayle ran up to one of the ladders but stopped and looked at Cole with an annoyed look. "You should know, you just ruined a heck of a broadcast." She said before climbing up the ladder.

Cole stared at her dumbfoundedly before scowling. Why are people so ungrateful? We just saved their lives! He snapped out of his thoughts when he felt a familiar chill. He looked at his feet and saw the black vines creeping up to him. "Ah!"

Cole and Jay quickly scrambled up the ladders. "Okay, Water! Get us out of here!" Jay called to Nya, the water ninja. Since there were people on the ship, he couldn't say her real name. That was also why everyone had their masks pulled up.

"You got it!" She shouted back as she quickly made her way up to the helm. She quickly got the ship ready to blast ahead and pushed the lever up, only for it to blast in the wrong direction.

Cole felt the heat of the thruster and looked up to see it pointed towards him. Uh oh! The thruster started up and messed up Cole's balance, making him lose grip of the ladder and descend. He screamed as he fell but was saved when his legs got stuck at the end of the ladder. However, one of the ropes snapped, so the ladder was barely holding his weight.

"Black!" Jay called as he noticed his friend hanging off the end of the ladder. Cole's head bumped against the roof of one of the buildings, giving him a wound and making him dizzy.

"Ugh! I keep forgetting that!" Nya facepalmed before pulling the lever down.

The bounty stopped for a moment before blasting ahead. Cole bumped around the roofs of the building due to the turbulence, earning more wounds. The upper part of his body had become bloody and bruised. Ugh, I'm going to get a concussion if this doesn't stop. I feel so...dizzy.

"Hang on, Cole!" Jay exclaimed as he tried to reach for his friend with a panicked expression on his face. He was too panicked to realize he had said the black Ninja's real name but to their luck, his voice couldn't make it to the deck due to the commotion caused by the thrusters.

Cole tried to reach up for the ladder and make himself upright. "I got it! I think I did!" He exclaimed as he managed to grab the ladder. But his eyes widened in fear when he spotted the broken rope. Oh no.

Suddenly, the rope snapped, and Cole began to descend.

Jay's eyes widened in fear. "COLE!" He cried as he saw his friend fall. It was as if everything was going in slow motion.

Zane, Kai and the people on the deck heard Jay's cry, but couldn't make out what it was, but they understood immediately when they looked down to see the black ninja slowly disappear into the black fog.

His friend's faces were the last thing he saw before his vision was clouded by pitch darkness. He felt all the heat drain out of his body.

"This one seems to have a strange energy about him." Cole heard a slightly distorted voice speak. "Similar to that foolish child."