Ninja Possession {Completed}

Chapter Eight

A/N: K it's 11 at night and nighttime is when I feel the nicest so here's an update that--for normal people--could've waited till morning

But I'll be normal when--

No. Not even then.

Lizz woke up with an angry hiss--startled by something in her sleep. Jay, who was closest to her, jumped back a little, "Whoa!"

"Oops," Lizz's voice was flat as she fell back down.

Jay sat down beside her, offering a bowl of noodles, "Rough night?"  

Lizz sat back up and gratefully took the take-out from NinjaGo, "Yeah... you could say that, I guess... Did mom bring breakfast?"

"She did," Jay confirmed, nodding back over his shoulder at Misako and Wu, who were talking in hushed whispers.  

"Who's all up?"

"Everyone but Kai," Jay stood up, slurping down the rest of his noodles before offering a hand to Lizz.

Unlike the rest of the times someone offered her a hand, she actually grasped her's firmly in Jay's and allowed him to pull her to her feet, "Thanks, Jay."  

The two of them went over to one of the logs they'd been seated on last night. Each grabbed another bowl of noodles and sat down, side by side, "How long've you been up?"

"Maybe an hour," Jay shrugged, watching Cole come over to them with his own breakfast. He sat on the other side of Lizz, making her slide down to her feet and move to the left side of Jay. Jay gave her a strange look, "Something going on with you two?"  

"No," Lizz denied it, "I just don't like the right side of people, you know that, Jay."

"But-" Jay stopped himself, thinking it best not to say anything. He did know that she disliked the right side of a friend, but also knew she liked to be in the middle if the number of those in a group was greater than two.  

Kai was being licked on the face by a not-so-wild Wallaber and was suddenly startled awake, shrieking before scooting away from it and standing up, "Misako got our message," he acknowledged, joining the group.

"And she brought breakfast," Cole told him through a mouthful.

"Good," Kai sighed, "I'm starving."  

Kai turned around to get it and saw that his breakfast was being eaten by a Wallaber, earning an exasperated groan from Kai.

"As far as I knew, the tomb was only a fable," Misako was holding a rolled-out scroll, looking eagerly at it, "Until I saw what was on the staff."  

Kai turned around to Lizz, Jay and Cole, "Does she know what the symbols mean?"

"Not the last two yet," Cole whispered, "But get this; the first symbol means Airjitzu," for emphasis, he waved around his chopsticks above his head.

"Airjitzu?" Kai went back and peered over Misako's shoulder.  

"A lost martial art created by Sensei Yang," Misako explained, "Who passed years ago... If mastered, it allows one to temporarily take flight."

"You hear that, Kai?!" Jay shouted, "We get to fly!"

"You haven't found it yet," leave it to Sensei Wu to ruin the temporary excitement. He began stroking his beard, looking off into the trees, "The scroll of Airjitzu it well guarded in the Ancient Library of Domu."  

"Forgive me if I speak out of turn," Zane closed his eyes, resting a hand on his head, "But my records reveal it was recently stolen."

Jay gasped, "By who?!"