Ninjago OneShots

Goodbye my love.

Libber looked down at the small bundle in her arms, rocking him back and forth in an attempt trying to stop him from crying.

"Shhh. It's okay. Mommy's got you." It was hard to stop a baby from crying when you were on the verge of years yourself. Libber didn't want to do any of this, but she had no choice. Her husband and babies lives were in danger.

It all started with those stupid letters. She and Cliff would receive them every week, with often threatening messages saying that if they carried on with their relationship, things would turn ugly.

At first they though it was a prank, or one of Cliff's obsessive fans. They made it very clear that they didn't like some woman marrying their favourite actor, but it was nothing the police and an increase in security couldn't handle. But after Jay was born, the messages for more and more threatening. They were even getting disturbing phone calls, the threats were getting worse as the days went on. Threatening their reputation, their friends and family, their child.  The couple lost hours of sleep worrying about their Jay's safety. Libber had no idea what to do.

The straw that broke the camels back was when they heard the sound of breaking glass and crying coming from Jay's room. The two burst into the room, and almost had a heart attack, to see a dark shadow looking over the baby's crib, before running back out window. Libber clutched Jay to her chest as she sobbed, and knew her baby was no longer safe with her.

"Do we have to do this Lib?" Cliff asked as he held Jay, watching his wife pack a small bag for herself. Like his wife, Cliff had been sleep deprived, and was thinking of any other plan that could keep his wife and child both safe and by his side. 

"I don't want to do this any more than you do Cliff, but we have to, for our little Jay's future." Libber took Jay back from Cliff's arms, trying not to wake him. "Besides, I know two people who will take very good care of him."

Cliff just sighed, knowing his wife was right. Other than being an actor, one of his dreams was to raise a family of his own, but thanks to this one person, it was all being taken away from him.

Cliff grabbed a small envelope and a key and handed them to Libber. "Could you at least give him these." Libber took them and shoved them into her pocket. She gave Cliff one last kiss, before summoning her dragon and flying off, trying to hold the tears in.

The flight across The Sea of Sand only took ten minutes, but to the master of lightning, it felt like hours. Several times Libber almost dropped herself and Jay due to her lack of concentration, and several time more was she tempted to fly back and be with her husband.

She soon came across the sign 'Ed & Edna's Scrap N Junk', lit up even at this time of night. Libber landed just outside of the scrap yard and walked over to the trailer in the centre, still trying to calm down Jay.

She gave him one final hug and a small kiss on the forehead, before lying him on the doorstep, making sure to leave Cliff's letter and key with him. Libber knocked on the door and ran off behind one of the scrap piles before anyone could answer.

"Who could possibly be knocking at this time of night?" Edna asked herself before opening the door. She looked all around and found no one. Thinking it was just a prank, she was about pinhead inside when she heard crying. Looking down, Edna was more than surprised to find a baby lying at her feet.

"Oh my goodness! Ed! Ed!" Edna picked the baby up and started rocking him back and forth.

"What is it Edna?" Her husband replied.

"A baby's been left on our door step!"

"What?" Ed walked over to Edna to see what the fuss was about, and saw the bundle in her arms. "Oh my golly gosh! Is that a baby?" Edna just nodded, trying to get the said baby to settle down.

"Do you think he's hungry?"

"Probably? I'll heat up some milk." Libber just watched as the three retreated inside, tears flowing down her face.

"Goodbye my little Blue Jay. You're safe now." With that, the master of lightning summoned her dragon and left Ninjago, not knowing if she would ever be back.

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When Cliff woke up the next morning, it took a moment to remember why the other side of the bed was empty and why he couldn't hear anything from the room across his. A wave of emotion hit him like a truck as he sobbed into his pillow as he came to the realisation that he would never see his wife or son again.

From that day, Cliff felt ill, both Physically and mentally, but he carried on his acting career over the next fifteen years. However he never mentioned his wife or son to anyone, sometimes acting as if they never existed, but Cliff would still look at their one family photo they took every night before he went to sleep.

"Who are they?" Cliff asked his assistant, Louise. She had been watching a video on repeat of a group of brightly dressed people fighting who Cliff recognised to be serpentine. 

"Oh, haven't you heard? These are a group of ninja that have been protecting the city from the serpentine. Look." Louise showed the screen to Cliff, who immediately noticed a certain blue ninja with a pair lightning nun chucks.

"Who's the one with lightning powers?"

"That's Jay Walker, the blue ninja. He's my favourite." Louise listed all the things that she loved about the ninja, but Cliff didn't listen to any of it. He had finally found his son.