Book 2: Rift Wars

Chapter 17: Where to?

Crumbling:

Rift Wars

Chapter 3

Where to?

The skies were full of bombers. They would drop the bombs making yet another crater that used to be part of ninjago city. This isn't what she wanted to come home to. She kept running, she ran out of an alleyway and fell down into a huge crater in the middle of the street. She hit something on the way down and landed in a large pool of water at the bottom. Thanks to Mindroid for teaching her to swim. She was able to swim to the edge. She held her back and looked up at the sky. Their were so many small explosions, so many bullets flying up there. She wasn't to sure who was fighting who up there. She couldn't see that high up. Her eyes unfocused as a drop fell into her eye. But it wasn't raining...was it? She looked around to see Danny standing over her.

"Mom?" She whispered choking on her own words when a gun was poised on her. She tried to sit up the wound won't allow for any sort of movement. She lay there. "Please...please mom." She curled into a little ball as she saw the gun start to charge. She heard something unusual just when the shot should have happened. She turned to see an armor clad nindroid. The droid who had been pointing her gun at her earlier had a sword through her power source. Inky gasped

"Mom?" She croaked out and reached for her. Yet the nindroid who had a sword in her mother gently placed their own hand into hers. The helmet folded back and Dannys face appeared.

"Its alright Splat. I'm home."

Inky opened her eyes to the sound of seagulls in the rafters. Clear skies at last. She rolled over on the lumpy bed and looked around. Their were bookshelves lining a wall to her left, and a large dresser with a mirror on it. Their were things on the dresser that belonged to a male. Probably her grandfather Dr. Julien. She looked back up at the rafters realizing the roof was in major disrepair if their were seagulls walking around and nesting in them. She crawled out of bed and opened the door. She looked out seeing a long set of stairs. She wasn't to sure where she was. The day before was a blur and she felt incredibly exhausted even though she had just woken up. She leaned against the wall for a second and then walked up the stairs. She stopped half way and sat down. She felt someone pick her up and carry her the rest of the way. She didn't know that smell. It smelled a bit more metallic then the others. Almost...rusted. Yet she put her head down on their shoulder and felt them rub her back as they put a kettle on the stove.

"Are you hungry dew drop?" hum? What was that? She slowly sat up and gasped suddenly remembering where she was and who this was. She loved his kind eyes. He even had a cute nickname for her.

"I didn't get a chance to eat yesterday." She said and turned to see some eggs in a pan. They weren't chicken eggs though. She suddenly wondered if they were seagull eggs. Its all she really seen here. And more then likely he didn't really need to eat so he didn't have anything other then oil. He pulled out two eggs and put them in a bowl before walking over to the table and put them down for her.

"I'll have some tea to you in a few minutes alright?" His voice was so low to her. She looked up to see Cryptor with Cygnuses hand in front of him. Mindroid was playing chess with a rather cheeky seagull.

"Wassamatter with his hand?" She mumbled as she was placed down on a pillow. She scooted closer to the table.

"Slammed his hand down in frustration The struts in his pinky bent. I've got to bend them back." He blew on them using a small torch on his finger he was able to heat the metal up and bend it back.