Ninja Apocalypse

12: It's over (edited)

Slowly, Jay opened his eyes to darkness and he felt cold, as if a deep chill had seeped into his core. How long he had been knocked out? He did not know. Confused he sat up and banged his head on something hard 'Owww! Rrrgh!' He fell back down and held his head, which was already pounding. His eyes began to focus and reaching his hands up, touched a solid surface directly above him. Realising he may be trapped, he willed himself not to panic and twisting his head around he caught sight of light behind him. He rolled and scrabbled towards the light through a tightening space, pushing himself along on his elbows to squeeze clear of the fallen structure and staggered into the daylight. As he emerged, a new world revealed itself. The bones of a large temple loomed over him and the city beyond, smoking and broken. Thankfully he was just battered and bruised. He tried to focus his spinning head and looked around. A grand staircase stretched disjointed before him, undecided if it was going up or down and he followed it as it passed through the broken neck of a great stone dragon. Pausing at the broken peak of a flight of stairs, he looked down onto a barren garden of ash. A green haze rolled over the ground like a soft blanket of grass. In the centre a figure was bent over, raking her fingers through the green blanket that swirled and draped itself over her hands. She sat on her heals and rolled her head back, the pained look on her face and the tears on her cheeks were clear to see. Jay's anger surfaced again crying over Lloyd, no doubt  he thought she can cry all she wants, but I won't cry for her  and with a dead heart, he turned away.

Nya could see the trace of Lloyd on everything. Dancing particles of luminous green energy jumped and swirled through her fingers as if alive, but he was gone, the evidence was all around. She grit her teeth in frustration and sorrow and screaming, she slammed her fists into the ground, the dancing particles splashed like liquid around her. She had handed Jay a loaded gun and he had pulled the trigger. The particles settled back into the drifting blanket and she tried to calm herself, to make sense of what had happened, because this Apocalypse was not supposed to happen. Had she been fooled? Had the High council played on her emotions and pushed her to do this? Did they know? Did they lie? This was her fault. It was all her fault. She had believed a snake, a manipulative lying snake. She raked her fingers through the green haze and threw her head back in despair, her tears flowing freely down her cheeks. Nya opened her eyes and through her blurred sight she saw Jay standing in front of the crumbling temple. She didn't move or try to go to him, what could she say? There was nothing to say. She was truly alone and she knew it.

Nya watched Jay turn and leave.