Lightning and Thunderblade (Part 2)

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This update is for DramaticFangirl12 !

I got a really lovely early Birthday surprise from her, and she mentioned that she likes this book, so I hope she will enjoy this story (well, it's actually only a third of a story 😄)!

Also, I've stolen the idea to put Lego minifigs on my chapters from Sopherloafer 😄. Look, Jay even got little Lego roller skates!

Lightning and Thunderblade (Part 2)

Together with the other kabuki dancers, Nya went to watch the race from the stands.

"I looove Thunderblade." One of the other girls exclaimed.

"How does it work?" The Samurai enquired.

"Oh, it's very easy." Her new friend told her. "Two Masters – here we have Energy and Form – have to race each other around the track. They each get to hold a Jade Blade and every time they cross the finish line with their blade, they score a point."

"That is easy." Nya agreed, mildly surprised. With Lloyd competing in this race, she wouldn't have expected Chen to play fair at all. "But what about the others?"

"That's where the real fun starts." The other kabuki grinned as she pointed at the green and orange helmets. "They each get to pick a side and support their champion – or rather prevent the other one from scoring."

"Oh." The girl noticed that, apart from Kai and Jay, everyone had picked an orange helmet, showing their support for the Master of Form. Things were not looking good for the Ninja at all.

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From outside the rink, Nya watched as, tightly clutching to his father's hand, her little boy slowly made his first steps on eight wheels. And 'steps' was probably the right word as the click-clacking sounds from the skates suggested that he was walking rather than gliding over the track.

"C'mon, Robbie. Relax, this is supposed to be fun." Jay encouraged his son. "Try bending your knees a bit more, don't keep them straight. Like this."

The brown eyed child copied his father who smiled proudly at him. "That's much better. You're doing really great, son. And now push one foot out and glide a little bit. We're here to skate and not to walk, right?"

"But we're Walkers." Robbie smirked.

"Your son has inherited his father's sense of humour." Kai remarked as he joined his sister at the side of the track.

"At least your son hasn't got his father's skating skills." She retorted, pointing at her daughter and nephew, who were racing each other around the course. "And Amber's doing pretty good as well for her first time." Kai and Skylor's youngest child was practicing with her mother.

"That's true." Kai admitted. "I could have definitely used those knee pads."

"And maybe another one for your behind." Nya laughed.

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And it only got worse.

When the race started, Lloyd and Chamille immediately took off, skating side by side and ahead of the crowd – whereas the first thing Kai did in this competition was to land flat on his back.

In his red outfit and with his arms and legs in the air he reminded her of an upside-down ladybug.

And during the first couple of laps he got to spend more time like this than on his feet.

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