Chapter 7: Born To Kill

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'Silver's POV'

At some point, I'd finally fallen asleep last night. I didn't wake up again, it was the first time I'd slept in a real bed in forever.

I'm waken up by someone shaking my shoulder. I groan and open a tired eye. Lilian stands in front of me with a bright smile on her face

"What time is it?" I ask, roll onto my back and place my hand on my forehead. Lilian looks to the clock on the wall, but Nya answers before she can

"It's 9am." She looks through her closet

Lilian turns back to me "C'mon Silver, we're going to the mall today!" She literally jumps for joy, shaking my arm as she does

"Okay, okay, I'm awake." I sit up on my bed

"Silver, Lilian, pick out something to wear." Nya walks back to her bed and begins changing

I pick out the simplest thing I can find, a grey V neck T-shirt, black jeans and shoes that Nya called "converses". Lilian grabs a cute lilac dress and black sandals.

I pull my hair into a long braid, even in a braid, my hair falls to my mid thy.

Julia continues to sleep as we quietly make our way out of the room. We meet up with the guys and are off to the mall.

Lilian and Dez's tails are tucked into their clothes, and they're both wearing some sort of hat.

"Silver, look!" Lilian pulls on my arm and points to a beauty salon

"Oh, did you girls want to get a haircut?" Kai asks, Lilian nods frantically

"I could use one too." Dez laughs lightly

"Okay, that's our first stop then." Cole instructs. We turn and walk into the salon

"Welcome, who is getting their hair cut?" The young woman at the front counter asks

"These three." Jay pushes Lilian, Dez and I forward

"Alright, please follow me." She leads all of us into the salon

Lilian, Dez and I sit in the weird, black chairs. A middle aged, brown haired woman places a black tablecloth-like thing around my shoulders, snapping it together behind my neck

"What would you like to do with your hair today?" She asks

"Um, well, I'd like to shorten it a bit, maybe put some layers in it." The lady nods and begins to take my hair out of the braid.

I hear a gasp from beside me. I turn my head and see both Dez and Lilian's hats have been taken off. Oh no! We never thought about that!

"What in the world is this?!" The lady cutting Lilian's hair screeches

"They're... Ears!" The man cutting Dez's hair holds his hands back. Dez and Lilian look panicked

"Please, you guys act like you've never seen cosplayers before." Lloyd crosses his arms

"What?" The woman asks and turns to the guys

"Yeah, they were cosplaying and had to glue ears to their heads as a part of the costume." Kai continues the white lie

"The glue they used ended up being very strong and the ears have stayed in much longer then expected." Zane finishes

"Oh, why didn't you just say so! We could totally get those out for you!" Dez's hairdresser says

"No thanks! I think I'll wait until they come out on their own..." Dez smiles nervously

"Uh, me too!" Lilian adds

"Alright." Lilian's hairdresser shrugs her shoulders.

We admire our new haircuts in the mirror. Dez's hair is cut kinda like Cole's, only longer, flipping the opposite way, and red. Lilian got the hairstyle from the magazine she was reading last night; short and layered with side cut bangs. My hair is still long, it stops at the end of my back and falls in layers.

After that, boys and girls split up. We shop for hours, buying everything a teenage girl could ever possibly need.

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We meet up with the guys at 1:00pm in the food court. We eat and get ready to leave. Only then do we notice the four white coats that are slowly closing in on us

"Guys, we've got to get out of here." Lilian begins to look panicky

"Alright, from here, there's five exits, one down each hall. We need to split up and run, on my signal. We'll meet back at the monastery only when Lilian, Silver and Dez are safe." We sit inconspicuously at our table. They get closer and closer, slowly pulling out their guns once they're close enough

"Now!" Cole yells. We shoot up and run. I run down the hall farthest left, not sure if anyone ran down the same hall I did.

"Silver, the exit's right there!" I hear Cole's voice

"Alright, let's go!" I push open the doors and run into the busy streets of Ninjago.

We run through the streets, eventually making our way to a dead end ally way

"Did they follow us?" I ask, out of breath and half panting

"Looks like it." Cole steps in front of me as Vanessa and the four other white coats walk to us, their guns out stretched

"So I see you've been staying with the ninja." Vanessa smirks

"Yeah, I have." I step to the side, so that I can look her in the eyes

"Silver, why did you run away? Do you hope to have a normal life? Because if so, it's impossible. You were made to be a killer. Your whole purpose is to kill, nothing else. You can never have a real family, they'll never except you. No one will." Her smirk grows wider when she sees I'm taken aback

"T-that's not my purpose! You don't get to tell me what I was made to do! I get to decide!" I yell

"Silver, you can't fight your DNA... SHOOT!" Cole stomps his foot into the ground as Vanessa and the white coats begin shooting.

"Cole, hold on!" I hold around his waist and fly up. His arms instinctively wrap around my neck.

I fly us back to the monastery and land in the grass.

No matter how hard I try, I can't get what Vanessa said out of my head "You were made to be a killer."... No, there's no way that's true... I get to decide my fate, not them. They don't get to decide what I do... I can make those choices...

Can't I?

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