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Now, on with the sadness!

"Jay! Look out!" said a voice from directly behind him.

A man with a sharp dagger in his hand was ready to strike him. Jay kicked the dagger out of his hand, and punched him in the face, causing a bloody nose.

Nya, who was standing back-to-back with Jay, was also dealing with a villain of her own.

She jumped, locking her hands around the victim's neck, and bringing his head down to her knees, smashing his face. The man cried out in pain, but he didn't give up.

He was disoriented, Nya had noticed, which gave her an advantage. She punched him in the face again, hoping to use his weakness to her advantage. His hand shot up, blocking her hit, and he twisted her arm violently and held her arm to her back, while kicking her continuously.

She screamed loudly. Jay turned around, alarmed by the scream. Jay's opponent swung his fist to Jay's face, but Jay dodged it. He kicked his foot into his opponent's shins, causing him to fall to his knees in pain.

With his enemy disarmed and unable to fight, he ran to help Nya, who was still screaming in pain from her arm being twisted and kicked.

Jay ran up from behind him, and with the pocket knife in his hand, he slashed the tendon of the man's leg.

The man shrieked, collapsing on his knees.

Jay ran towards Nya, who was frozen in fear, and took her hand, before limping out of the room and escaping the enemy house.

—

Nya knew Jay very well.

She especially knew what he was feeling. It could've been because of his descriptive facial expression, or, more likely, she has spent more than enough time with him to understand his feelings.

Right now, she sensed, he was not himself.

Why? She didn't know.

Everyone, with the exception of Jay and Nya, were cheerfully talking as they all walked on the sidewalk of a busy street towards the monastery. The sun was almost underneath the horizon, giving off a bright red glow.

Nya noticed that Jay hadn't spoken to her since the incident that happened earlier. She reached out to slip her hand into his, but when she did, he didn't hang on to her hand.

"Jay? What's wrong," Nya asked, trying to break the mysterious tension between them.

Jay ignored what Nya said.

Nya felt like something was out of place, and it filled her with a sense of uneasiness. "Jay, please, I know something's wrong. Come on, you can trust me," she whispered feebly.

Nothing but silence came from Jay.

Nya was confused. What had happened that made Jay upset all of a sudden?

"I guess it doesn't matter that you could have DIED while we were battling the enemies," he said angrily.

"But we won, didn't we?" Nya said.

"You could have died!" Jay said too loudly, attracting the attention of the other ninja, who stopped talking long before Jay started to yell.

"Do you think I don't know how you feel?Everyday before I became the water ninja, I would stay in the ship and just pray that my brother, the only family I have left, won't die. But I always trusted him, I believed in him, that he would come back," she yelled. "Why can't you see that I have become one of you now?! Or is it because I'm a girl?" And with that, she turned around, and started to walk across the street.

Jay was stunned. He couldn't believe what Nya was saying to him.

"Nya, wait!" Jay yelled.

Everything happened so quickly.

The lights, the horns, the screaming, the sirens.

The silence and darkness took over, leaving Nya alone with nothing but her thoughts.

—

Nya slowly woke up to voices she has never heard before.

"...accident, leaving her in a..."

"...she get better?"

"...my sister..."

She tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't. She had no control over her body, her muscles.

All she could do was listen.

Who are those people? she questioned.

She heard someone sobbing in the background. "I-I never should've s-said th-that to h-her," the young man said.

"Shh, Jay, it isn't your fault," another man, who seemed older, said softly.

So there's a boy named Jay, she thought to herself.

"Is Kai Smith in here?" A female voice asked.

"Yes, I'm right here," the male voice who was comforting the other guy—Jay, she recalled.So his name is Kai, she thought.

Suddenly, she started to hear urgent sirens go off all around her.

She felt herself

s

l

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p,

lost once again.

Noooooooo, not my favorite ninja...

What's gonna happen next, I wonder?

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