Ninjago Stuff

A bit o Lava

Cole slumped into his chair. He was alone in the house after a long solo mission, and damn, was he was glad for the peace and quiet. After all, it had been a long few days of world-saving. He really deserved a break. A cake break.
Cole chuckled. That was a good one. Cake break. He really came up with the best things sometimes.
Cole got up from his spot, heading for the kitchen. But before he got there, he heard something. Something like...
Singing?
Cole followed the sound around Yang's temple. Could the sound be the ghost of Master Yang? The old fart sometimes did some apparition- y stuff around the place, sure, but he had never really had the tendency to burst into song, even when he was alive. And the singing sounded... good. Not just good. That was some Disney shut right there. Yang's voice was old and croaky, like the texture of a salty prune; no, it couldn't possibly be him. But what else could it be? Another ghost?
Cole had never really thought about another having spirit in the temple. He was pretty darn sure that he had gotten all of Yang's cursed students out of the temple that one day of the departed, but he couldn't be sure. It was pretty crazy out there, and he didn't exactly have time to check for stragglers. Oh no, Cole thought. What if the ghost wants revenge?
There was only one way to find out. Cole would need to conduct a seance.
(If Cole was paying more attention, he would have noticed that he wasn't as alone in the temple as he had assumed. But common sense makes stories of this sort no fun, so let's keep on going!)
Cole set out a makeshift Ouija board and some candles on a table. He turned down the lights and lit the candles. As it turns out, that wasn't the best order of events, because instead of lighting the candles, Cole tripped on the edge of the table and accidentally set the fancy tablecloth he had put down to impress the ghost alight.
Cole panicked. He did the only thing he could think of; "OH MY GOOODDD!!! THERES A FIRE!!! OHHHH MYYYY GOODDDDDD!!!"
A figure came rushing in. "Cole, what the... OH MY GOD!"
"PUTITOUTPUTITOUTPUTITOUT OH MY GOD-"
"You leave this guy alone for ONE second.." The figure raised his open palms towards the table and flicked his wrists. The fire danced up and around his hands like serpents. As he closed his hands, the fire sputtered out with a quiet hiss.
Cole squinted through the dim light.. "Kai? Is that you?"
"Yeah, no shit!" Kai shouted. "Now turn the damn lights on, I can't see a thing."
Cole obliged and surveyed the damage. Kai whistled. The tablecloth was in sooty tatters, and the makeshift ouija board was no better. The table was a blackened mess, but thankfully salvageable. As for the candles... they were now closer to blobs of molten wax than candles in any sense. "What the hell happened here?" Kai asked.
Cole explained everything. Now that he said it all out loud, everything that he did just now sounded pretty dumb. It wasn't really like him to do something like this. It was more of Jay's thing. He was expecting Kai to laugh at him, but by the end of his tale, the Master of Fire was... blushing?
"Cole, I'm pretty sure that wasn't a ghost."
"What was it then? Do we have and infestation of weird orange snakes?"
"No, that's ridiculous!" Kai shook his head. "Ok, I'll tell you, but you have to promise not to laugh."
"Laugh at what?"
"Ummm..."
"Cmon, spit it out!"
Kai cleared his throat. "itwasme."
"What was that?"
Kai's face was turning redder by the second. "I said, itwasme."
"Slow down, I don't-"
"IT WAS ME, OKAY?!? For the love of-" Kai's shoulders slumped, and he turned away. "Please, don't laugh at me."
Cole was silent.
"I like singing, okay? It makes me feel good. I do it in the shower sometimes." He laughed nervously. "There's pretty nice acoustics in there, I guess."
Cole still didn't say anything. His mouth couldn't form the words.
"Come on, Cole. Say something, anything! Don't just leave me hanging here!"
"I'm just-"
"Shocked? Disgusted? Horrified? In need of a thesaurus?"
"No... well, yes, for that last one. I need a better word for WOW."
"What?"
"Your voice is AMAZING. I'm just...astoundingly jealous, in all honesty."
Kai brightened. "Really?"
Cole snorted. "Come on. Have you ever heard me sing?"
Kai tentatively shook his head.
"Alrighty then. I guess since you just embarrassed yourself and bared your soul to me, I guess I owe you something in return."
——several regrettable audition videos later——
"Oh. My. Lord."
"I know. It's bad."
"Just... wow." Kai smiled at me. A big, genuine smile. Those are pretty rare from him, especially towards me. "This was fun. We should do this again."
"Really? Umm, I mean... ok."
"Sweet! How about six next Tuesday? I know this great cupcake place, you'll love it."
"Cool."
"Ok. It's a date."
Cole couldn't really comprehend all that had just went on. Before he had time for it all to sink in, he saw winged silhouettes in the distance. "Damn," Cole sighed. "How much time did we spend watching those videos?"
"I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it was worth it." Cole's face heated. Kai was awfully close. Did he... were they.... Before Cole could react, Kai had pecked him on the cheek.
Kai backed away and grinned. "Come on, you coming to greet them, or what?"
Cole wasn't all that sure about what had just happened. What he was sure about, he thought as he touched his cheek, was that something was going on between him and Kai.
And he supposed he was okay with that.
"Wait up!"
Kai laughed. "Last one there's a rotten egg!"
Cole rolled his eyes. "Fine. You're on!"
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