Escapade | Ninjago AU

Chapter 5

Nya's POV

I jolt up, regaining my body and opening my eyes again suddenly. However, I'm not in the forest. The fireplace crackles in front of me, the flames flickering and making me warm inside. I'm hit with a strong sense of deja vu.

The last thing I remember, I was fighting the unnatural elemental masters in the forest. I have no recollection of how I got here, but something about it is eerily familiar. I've been here before.

"You're up. You really scared me," the timbre of his voice causes an intense wave of emotions to flow over me. It's been almost 500 years since I've heard it, and suddenly the setting falls into place. I've sat in front of this fireplace dozens of times before.

I whip my head around, and his face, his gorgeous smile and electric eyes look at me with care. The boy that I loved with all of my heart is standing there within six feet of me. His face, the subtle features, began to fade in my mind over time. They're all here now, the placement of all of his freckles to the exact slope of his nose.

Confusion hits me like a semi, but I'm too happy to question anything. I jump up and immediately run to him. The tears pour down my cheeks as I cling to him. My fingertips grip the back of his shirt as my face presses against his chest. His shirt is soaked by my tears. He's been dead for centuries, and now here he is. The familiarity of him is so comforting.

"Hey, hey, hey, everything is alright. I'm so sorry I took so long. A lot of the roads Zane and I tried to take were blockaded," he informs me. However, with those words, I feel a bit of rage. He was around, and yet he stayed apart from me for all of those years and gives this as his excuse. I was expecting a legitimate reason, yet he drops this on me.

"Blockaded for 471 years?" I ask him indignantly. However, I still can't let him go. My actions and words don't align. While I'm upset, I'm relieved more than anything that he's okay.

"471 years? Where did you get that number from? I've only been gone for ten days," he pulls me closer to his chest, resting his head on top of mine. "When I came in, you got excited and hit your head on a cupboard and passed out. I freaked out, like freaked out freaked out. You didn't cut your head open at all, which was good, so I didn't think I had to bring you to the doctor. It felt like 471 years though. I missed you so, so, so much," I lean back and turn my head to look up at him. Cupping his face in my hand, I stand on my tip toes, and he leans downwards, in order to meet my lips.

He is intoxicating in the best way. His touch is addicting, and I didn't realize just how sweet it was. Yes, I remembered that he made me feel extremely special and happy, but this is to an even stronger degree than I thought.

"I must've had a dream when I was knocked out. I...I lost you, Jay," I start sobbing, letting my emotions overwhelm me. He's here; he's actually here.

"Let's sit down, and you can tell me all about it. Clearly it upset you."

I tell him it all, every excruciating detail of it while I rest in his arms. I tell him about the letter I got that said that he was killed during his travels. He was killed when the masters of ice and lightning got into a fight with the royal guard. He was electrocuted to a degree that he couldn't come back from. The image from my imagination had been seared into my brain.

I tell him about how lonely I was for so long. I tell him how I fought against the unnatural elemental masters, and he embraces me fully when I tell him that I'm the master of water. He tells me that he'll love me unconditionally no matter what, and if anything, that just makes me that much cooler.

I leave out the parts about Shade. Jay gets insecure very easily, and I don't want him to worry if my fake relationship with a made up elemental master is better than the one we have.