NINJAGO: Amateurs of Adulthood

B1

It was a strange feeling, but a lovely one nonetheless. Cole was warm and inviting, and even though he watched himself sob into his arms like a child, a loving feeling filled his chest

A loving feeling...

The answer clicked into Jay's head like lightning, the opposite of feeling heartbreak was love. If he wanted out of these memories and to help his friends, he would very possibly have to feel enough love to match the heartbreak.

Jay quickly scrambled out of his bunk and raced pass his past self. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love. The word raced through his head as he franticly searched around for things he loved. He hurried into the kitchen but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Kai and Nya sitting at the kitchen table, calmly speaking while quiet enough that Jay wouldn't hear them in the bedroom

Jay didn't remember this, he had never known that Nya and Kai talked together while he was with Cole. Jay gasped, here he could see the entirety of what happened in the past, even if the event wasn't actually in his memory, like a live replay. Jay stood and listened for a little, wanting to hear what the two siblings were talking about

"What's your deal?" Kai asked, his arms crossed as he leaned back in the wooden chair

"Kai, I can't be with someone I'm not in love with." Nya justified, straining her voice in an effort to get Kai to understand what she's trying to say

"I know that, but why? You guys were fine for years and now you wanna drop it and yeah, Jay's an annoying whiny bitch but I don't like seeing him cry so what the fuck is your deal?" Kai stressed. "There's clearly a reason and-"

"I'm in love with somebody else."

Silence.

...What?

"...What?" Kai asked, voicing Jay's thoughts

Nya looked up with a stern look and small tears in her eyes, "I can't marry Jay because I'm in love with somebody else."

Jay didn't know that. He stood with his breath caught in his throat as he watched the interaction

"Who...?" Kai started

"It doesn't matter how he cries, it would've hurt him either way. I'm no cheater, and I'm no liar. I can't be with him." Nya said calmly

"Nya..." Kai said again

"Jay's a great guy, and I love him, but I just can't be with him."

That...hurt, yeah, that hurt a lot, but it was a decision he had to accept. He didn't even realized until after a small while that this was a distraction. He got up off the living room couch that he lifelessly laid on and decided to use his head. If he was currently in Heartbreaker's tank bag, then HeartBreaker had a good leverage over him, and if HeartBreaker was using people's emotions to most likely power his tentacles, then this means that HeartBreaker as most likely caused these memories to resurface, meaning that he could also be controlling this dream and stopping him from waking up

If HeartBreaker, needs heart broken feelings to control his machine, then wouldn't it makes sense that they have control over what you see in your memory to make sure you stay heart broken and give them more power. For all he knew, anything he didn't see with his own eyes could've been an illusion

Jay didn't know what to think anymore, there had to be a way to differentiate memory from illusion. But how? Jay looked around the monastery for a few minutes but didn't find anything, after a while, it became obvious, there was no difference. When he figured this out, he decided that he couldn't trust anything he didn't see with his own eyes, which not only made him extremely suspicious of many people, it also left him bound to the monastery, as things that he hadn't seen could be used against him.