Ninjago: Ripped World 2

Epilogue

Jay sat with his three-day old twin sister on his lap, across from his mother who was just eight years his senior. He quite rightly, looked shell shocked, his mother was equally so. Only having had mere days to accustom herself to being a new mother of twins, she now had to adjust her expectation of what that meant as well as what it meant to be a single mother.

In one painful and confusing day she had managed to escape an unknown threat, loose one of her new-born twins, gain a young adult son and loose the love of her life, all because she had dated the wrong guy, a very, very long time ago. He too was gone, her son having helped vanquish him. He could no longer hurt her, her odd family or his own.

She looked at Jay. Studying his features as he held his small sister awkwardly. He had his fathers eyes but he was all her, the shape of his face, his mouth, skin-tone, a smattering of freckles over his nose and his elemental power. Would it be the same for his sister Amy? Could there be two Masters of Lightning from one generation? Or even three at one time? By all intents, she was a different generation out of time, now finding herself a part of her sons. 'Two generations fighting together...' she liked that idea. But she really didn't know what to think at this time. Not thinking felt like the better option.

The box had rescued them all. Though not exactly as Amber had hoped. Lilith went over the events again, Amber having provided the missing pieces to the story. When they had recovered from the temporal shift and the new reality had been explained, they came together, Lilith and Jay, Amber, Skylor and Jewel, Wu and Misako.

Jay's journey had ended with a reunion of friends and families and he recounted his life with the Walkers. How he ended up there became apparent when Amber told her story.

'My life was a dream but cursed from the outset. I looked to you, Lil. You were my best friend and my idol. You were amazing, talented, beautiful had a way of making people fall at your feet.'

'Not literally Am!'

'No not literally, but really, they did take a step back when you entered a room, like you should have space to shine. You turned pretty much every mans head...'

'Oh Amber, I really didn't'.

'And you never realised... You were just oblivious. I mean how could anyone but you make the eternal bachelor Cliff Gordon fall so in love with them, that he forsook all others?'

'Argh, please, no more!' Jay cut in. This is all weird enough as it is.

'Sorry' Amber said 'I'm really vocalising my own insecurities, ones that took me down the wrong path and ended with us all here. So, I was obviously jealous. I admit it and I'm not proud of it. There should be no space for jealousy between friends. Lilith was dating Chen, he was a powerful person, charming and strong. All I could see was the prize. How they looked together, what people said about them. I chose to ignore it when Lil started to tell me of her concerns about him. He seemed so perfect, what I wouldn't give to make a match like that.

And then she dumped him. I was incredulous. I had created in my own mind a persona for Chen that matched his outward appearance and I could only think that Lil was being stupid. Perhaps I saw this as an opportunity, I'm not sure. I like to think that perhaps I honestly cared about them, but I went to him, to Chen. I thought I could let him know that I thought Lil was making a mistake and I would try and make her see sense. Though in the beautiful gardens of his grand house, Chen talked softly to me. He said how much he appreciated my effort on his behalf. How Lil had always put me down to him and he had never before seen how beautiful I was. Oh, its cringe making, really it is, but I had been living in my own dream world for so long this was all I had ever wanted to hear. He hooked me and never let me go.