10 - Not a time for tea

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Above the city, the sky was dark and cold. Neon lights flooded the streets below with fluorescent colours. The ninja had arrived at Steep Wisdom Tea shop. It seemed to be closed.

"Well, there's definitely nobody drinking any tea in there," said Kai, as he peered through the window into the dark shop.

"Perhaps we'll find some clues inside." Pixal opened the door and lead the ninja inside. She turned on all the lights to reveal an almost normal scene. All the tables and chairs were in their ordinary positions except for one table at the far back; a solitary cup of cold green tea sat on top of the table. Two chairs were by it, but one was lying on the floor, next to Jupiter's dead phone.

"Oh! Check the security cameras!" said Cole, walking behind the counter to the computer.

Zane pulled up the security camera footage from an hour ago, but the screen was black for each one.

"Why are they all black? They usually work fine!" Jay said, moving his face closer to the screen. Nobody spoke until Nya stepped over to the nearest camera on the wall.

She pulled a disapproving face. "These cameras look purposely damaged - somebody completely prevented anyone even seeing the footage!"

"Okay, now something really isn't right." Lloyd scratched his head. "All the cameras are broken, one table looks out of order, Jupiter's phone is dead... what happened?"

"Wait." Kai ran to the window. "I doubt that the person behind this thought about the camera outside the shop! The one behind the sign!" He exclaimed, pointing at the sign outside.

Zane nodded at Kai's suggestion and tried opening the outside camera footage. Fortunately, it worked and the ninja huddled around the computer. On the screen, a lilac coloured figure had walked into the shop alongside someone else. Zane fastforwarded the footage, and only one person left the building.

"Hold up - pause it and zoom in; is that who I think it is?" Jay said. Zane zoomed in on the slightly blurry image of what seemed to be...

"Ronin."  They all said in unison.

"Then I think it's obviously time to ask him a few questions." Nya said.

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