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Normalcy is boring. It's not fun. I want to be weird, unapologetically weird, bizarre, a freak, I want to be different. Let's all be weird, let's all be different. We can't have normal if nobody's following something pre-established. Nothing needs to be normalized, everyone could just go crazy and then they would understand.
"can we normalize-" NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!
Zane's POV
I ran out of the monastery as fast as I could. "God, God, God! Why, why me?! Why! Why did he do that?!"
I ran off my head. But where did I go? Honestly, I do not know…
I ran almost the entire city and stopped just in front of the forest, the snow-covered, cold forest.
“God, I don’t want to see anyone! Especially him ... But where should I go? They will find me in my old house right away. To Skylor in the restaurant? No, no, no, they will also look there. But then where should I go?”
I looked at the forest.
"Hmm... maybe here? There won't be looking for me here"
With these thoughts, I ran into the forest...
End Zane's POV
* * *
Ninjas for the umpteenth time make another round of the whole Ninjago to find the escaped nindroid, but all for nothing. He just disappeared. No matter how they asked passersby, no one could give an exact answer. They looked at every possible place where Zane could have gone, but he wasn't there... He wasn't anywhere...
And now, pretty tired, they came to Skylor's restaurant. She wasn't happy to see Kai, but she couldn't drive her friends out.
After she found out what happened, she couldn't remain silent:
- Why am I not surprised? - said she, with a certain note of contempt. - At first, you quarreled with me, then shouted at Zane, for the fact that he wanted to put something in your head about the right relationship - continued she.
Kai just listened with his head down. He didn't want to argue with her, because he knew that she was right. But he did not want this to happen! He... he just... Uh... offended a friend who just wanted to help.
- Listen, Sky...- Kai decided to use the advice that Zane gave him. - I was thinking about what happened... - It was really hard for him to talk after all - And I decided that I really overdid it... I quarreled with you, offended Zane, Uh... I'm a horrible boyfriend and a terrible friend. A-and I really was wrong... - Smith was very ashamed - Heh, Zane really was right - here hysterical is me, not you. - on the last words, Kai looked straight at Skylor, who was looking at him with surprise and... regret?
- Forgive me. - this is all that could squeeze out of himself Kai, under such a look.
- Uh, and you forgive me. I should not have to pick on you.- Skylor was already smiling. Kai just smiled back.
They approached each other and embraced. These were long-awaited hugs, but someone broke this lovely atmosphere:
- Ahem! - it was Cole - I certainly don’t want to interrupt your reunion... - he made a pause - But we need to look for our nindroid since because of one idiot he ran away!
- I already apologized... - plaintively stretched Kai.
- You will apologize to Zane, not to us!
- Wait for me! I'll go with you. - said Skylor
They were ready to go in search again, when suddenly...
Breaking News!
If you are at home - do not go out! If you're on the street - run home faster! Snow cyclone "Amaya" is coming on Ninjago City. Such cyclones move very slowly and like to “freeze” in place. And, unfortunately, one of these “freezing points” is our Ninjago City! Therefore, going somewhere can be a deadly risk!
- Oh, you're fucking kidding me! - this phrase Cole described the entire current situation.
- What we're going to do? - Jay panicked.
Suddenly Lloyd's phone started ringing.
- Hello? Yes... y-yes... ok, mom... - as it turned out, it was Misako. - Mom told us to go back to the monastery...
- What!? - they said it all in one voice
- B-but what about Zane? - Cole asked.
- This is Sensei Wu's order... - said Lloyd, with certain hopelessness in his voice - We will postpone the search until the risk of death does not pass...
- B-but... - Kai got scared. Zane escaped because of him, and now because of this storm, he can get injured.
- Kai, don't worry, - Skylor put her hand on his shoulder - he will be fine. This is his element.
- And if we want to help Zane we need to stick together. - Lloyd added - Could we help him if we get lost in this storm?
Kai only sighed heavily and nodded his head.
* * *
Zane was still running through the forest, not knowing how far he had run. A strong and cold wind began to blow.
"Huh... it gets colder" flashed through our nindroid's head. But, it seems he didn't think to stop.
Zane ran into the thicket of the forest. He was completely in his thoughts when suddenly...
Zane's POV
- Watch out! - I heard a voice behind.
"W-what?! How did they find me so fast?! No, no, no, no, NO! I don't want to... Please leave me alone!"
I accelerated the pace of running.
End Zane's POV
When Zane heard the voice behind, he began to run faster completely unable to see where he was running. The blond decided it was his friends who came to take him home.
???'s POV
"God, where is he running so fast? Anyway, what is HE doing here? Now everyone should hide in their houses! Wait... Why am I running after him?"
End ???'s POV
- No! Wait! - again this voice behind.
Zane turned to look at the pursuer. He managed to see only a dark figure.
He saw it before fell off the cliff. He didn't see it. Under the cliff turned a lake, frozen lake. The height was sufficient to break the ice, and he did it - had fallen, he broke the ice under him, thereby being in the grip of his element.
Head hit on the ice did not pass without consequences - Zane began to lose consciousness, and the last thing he could see with a blurred look was the dark figure in front of him that seemed to him... familiar?
God... That was hard... I hope I did not make any mistakes... hope...
In Ninjago City reigns an atmosphere of calm. There are no more villains here. Pirate ships do not fly in the sky, and giant monsters aren't destroying the buildings. So our ninjas can live peacefully in silence, sometimes catching petty criminals.
And in one of those quiet days, our ninjas go about their business. Jay and Cole play video games, Nia is on Instagram, Lloyd is meditating, Zane is reading a book, and our master of fire went on a date with Skylor.
And everything seems to be so quiet and good, but one brown-eyed guy is disturbing this peaceful environment breaking into a house.
- How stupid and hysterical she is! - shouts a fire master at the top of his voice. All, naturally, broke away from their affairs and began to ask about this in more detail.
- Wh-who stupid and hysterical? - Jay started first. It seems he got a heart attack from Kai's sudden appearance.
- Who-who!? Skylor! - Kai screamed loudly.
- In what sense? - Cole asks, being in no less confused, like the others.
- In the literal sense! - Kai is clearly angry.
- Wait-wait-wait! let's more in detail. – said Lloyd, trying to calm the red ninja.
- What in more detail?! That is wrong for her, this is wrong for her! Do you, girls, have something that isn’t wrong for you!?
- He really did not want to calm down. - Hey! - Nia obviously did not like the words of her brother. But he didn’t even pay attention to her and continued to resent.
- "Why do you look at all the other girls except me?", “You never look at me like on the other girls!” - quoted Kai. - Now let her bother someone else!
“Did you tell her that?” – Zane finally cast his vote.
- Well said, and what? – answered Kai.
-- Well, I think it is rude somehow… - Zane began. - In a relationship, you need to show initiative and patience with your partner, and not yell at him like that. All tensed up a little and moved away from those two. It was obvious that Kai began to boil. - and it seems to me that the hysterical is YOU here, not Skylor.
- Oh really. - Smith extended. - Well, yes, exactly. How could I forget! You our know-all guy, who never make mistakes. - Kai came close to Zane with unfeigned fury on his face. But not me have no relationship with Pix. And not me ruined it! - Kai looked straight into Zane’s eyes. He is about 2 centimeters above the nindroid, so he looked down on him.
The titanium nindroid visibly tensed up after these words.
- Kai, please stop… - Lloyd tried to calm the brown-haired ninja, but it was useless. Kai just missed his words.
- I just wanted to give you advice. - Julien said it quietly. Kai’s words hurt him. You had to... - Zane didn’t have time to finish, because Kai interrupted him very rudely. He began to scream and no longer understood what he was saying.
- SHUT UP! – shouted Kai! He lost his temper. - What can you understand in relationship, in love!? You just a machine! - after these words all the ninja froze. Everybody in this room knew that this quarrel would go far, but not SO far…
- Just a machine? – his voice trembled. Zane uttered it incredibly plaintively. It seems that Kai understood which mistake he just made.
- Zane, he didn't want to say that!” – Nia tried to justify her brother.
- Y-yes! Zane, p-please forgive me. I-i… - Kai couldn’t finish.
- I understood… - Zane said it as quickly as he could and headed for the front door.
- Z-Zane, please forgive me… - Kai want to grab his friend by the shoulder but Zane jerked his hand away and suddenly, even for myself, started screaming at the red ninja:
- DON’T TOUCH ME! - Kai's eyes widened. Nobody expected this from Zane… definitely not from Zane… - YES! YES, I’M A NINDROID! Y-YES I’M A MACHINE! BUT DID I CHOOSE, WHO I’M SUPPOSED TO BE?! – Zane almost cried. It was like a scream through tears. - DO YOU THINK IT’S EASY FOR ME TO BE LIKE THAT! NO! NO THAT IS NOT EASY! EVERY SECOND PERSON HATES ME! HATES ME, BECAUSE I’M A NINDROID! “MACHINE WHICH DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE!” YOU THINK WHY I NEVER PROTECT MYSELF?! BECAUSE… - he hesitated – B-because I d-don’t want to h-hurt a-anyone… - on the last words tears flowed from his eyes.
- SO, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! - White Ninja used his elemental power to create ice spikes. And while everyone was trying to recover from the attack of the ice master, Zane ran outside as fast as possible...
Ok! The first chapter of my FIRST fic. I tried :3
It’s so hard to translate from ukrainian to english. We have so many different words!