The Dragonkin Twins

Ch 7: the encounter

Lloyd POV

It's been a few days since the mysterious people were seen on the eastern coast.  They've moved from their original spot and we've been trying to find them ever since.  We've been doing steak outs and extra patrols, looking around for them.  For a while I thought they had disappeared, but I soon found out they were closer to us than I thought.

I'm currently sitting against a willow tree at a large pond next to a small mountain.  From atop the mountain is a river that flows over the edge and into a waterfall, landing into the pond.  I look out onto the water.  The sparkling pond reflects the sky and myself like a mirror. I came here to rearrange my thoughts. We've been searching for a few days now and nothing has come up.

Where could those people have gone in the few hours I wasn't watching them that day?  I think to myself.  Where they even real?  Or was it my imagination? I pick up a small stone and skip it on the water's surface.  How could I be so stupid, I should have stayed and observed them further.  Wait, why do I even care?  They're just random people that I know nothing about.

In the distance I suddenly hear a couple of voices arguing.  At first, I can't hear what they're saying, so I get up from my position and silently make my way over to the voices.  As I get closer I climb a tree and hid behind the leaves.  I move from tree to tree when I finally spot two people arguing with each other.  And then I realize, they're speaking Ninjagian.

One of the people is a shorter boy (around my height but I'm a bit taller) with messy strawberry blonde hair and freckles.  He has blue eyes and seems to be wearing a blue ninja suit; He's also holding nunchucks.  The other one is a taller boy with light brown skin, brown hair that is gelled up nicely, and he seems to also be wearing a ninja suit, but his is red;  He carries a sword on his back.  He has the most beautiful amber eyes I've ever seen.  He's... really handsome. Wait what?  Did I seriously just think that?  Why did I just think that?  They begin to start arguing again.  Yep, they're definitely speaking Ninjagian.  Now I'm really glad we took those lessons for all these years.

"Oh come on Kai!" The blue one speaks first.  "You're telling me you saw a flying person the other day?  You're crazy!" He says.

"Uh, I didn't tell you anything!  You're the one who eavesdropped on mine and Nya's conversation!"  The red one, Kai I'm pretty sure, says in an irritated voice.

"I wasn't eavesdropping!  I simply was just passing by, and overheard your conversation with her."

"That's just eavesdropping with extra steps,  Jay!"

"Whatever bro." He says.  Jay and Kai.  Huh.
"So, why are we out here again?" Jay asks.

Kai slaps his forehead with his hand.  "Why do you never pay attention?" He asks. Jay is about to say something when Kai interrupts him.  "That was a rhetorical question, Jay. Basically, we're out here to observe the area and see if anyone is around us."

"Ohh, okay."

They begin to move along again and I silently follow.  I found them!  They must be the people who were on the eastern coast the other day!  Wow, what a coincidence.  They walk a little longer, arguing a bit along the way, until Jay stops and puts his hand up to his ear, staying silent for a moment.  "Okay, we'll be back in a moment." He says. Who's he talking to?

"Who was it?" Kai asks.

"It was Misako.  She wants us to get back to the bounty."  Misako?  I'm guessing that's a name because I've never heard a word like that in the Ninjagian language.

"Do you know why yet?" Kai asks.

"No, I don't."

"Okay, let's head back."  They start walking back the way they came.  I should follow them. There is no way I'm going to loose them again. I follow them all the way back to the waterfall I was just sitting near.  They walk around the pond and behind the waterfall.  I climb down the tree and follow them into a huge hidden cave.  In the cave sits a large ship.  The same one I saw.  So this is where you've been hiding.  Right under my nose!