Third

While everyone waited for Mystake, they couldn't help wonder what exactly that girl had done to Jay. They stood around waiting for Master Wu, Garmadon, Misako, and Nya to come back with the person that was going to help their friend.

    "Does anyone else think that this is the most bizarre thing to happen to us?" Kai questioned.

The others shared looks with one another. Most bizarre thing?

"You do remember we had to battle snakes." Cole said.

"Battle the overlord twice." Lloyd said.

"Lloyd got possessed." Zane said.

"And you went totally psycho during the Tournament of Elements. I don't exactly think this is something to call the most bizarre, but yes. It is bizarre." Cole finished.

"Yeah, but the girl. I don't think I have ever seen  a person much less a girl having that kind of power." Kai explained.

"You don't think..." Cole started.

"That the overlord may be behind this? Yes! He had access to dark matter. He could have had access to any other dark thing." Kai said.

"Well, to be fair. I'm going to ask the question none of us want answered." Cole said. "Is Jay going to die?"

"He's not going to die, Cole. We just need to find out what exactly caused. What is it that made whoever she was do this to Jay?" Kai asked.

"She's a criminal. Probably from a mafia and probably low level. She was probably ordered to kill us off one by one." Cole said going instantly dark.

"Then, why was she crying?" Zane asked.

"I don't know." Cole said.

"None of us exactly knows what's going on." Kai said before looking at Lloyd. "What do you think, Lloyd?"

They turned to the green ninja. He had just taken on the role of sensei-in-training. And Kai seemed to want to know what was going on. What was happening to his friend. And they all knew Lloyd could have some theories. He was Lloyd after all. Comic guru of the group.

"Well, the veins are purple which could mean she had the element of darkness. Or she uses dark magic." Lloyd said.

"This isn't Harry Potter, Lloyd. Magic does not exist." Kai said.

Everyone turned to look at him. Kai was known for saying what did and did not exist. He had been the most surprise when Lloyd had persuading the serpentine into being candy stealing thieves. 

And he had used the following formula for most things: [Thing] does not exist. And it always fired back at him.

Cole whacked Kai up the head. "Will you stop saying that?"

"First off, ow! Second off, why does it matter?" Kai asked.

"Because-." Lloyd started but stopped once Mystaké, Wu, Misako, and Nya walked into the room.

"I see you are all very worried about Jay." Wu commented. "What do you make of it, Mystaké?"

Mystaké looked at the lightning ninja studying his wounds. The purple veins. The black splotches.

"I can only increase the amount of time he has left. I can do no more. If whoever did this cannot heal him on his or her own...."

[Y/N]

I sat in my room away from everything. Away from my "friends," my cat, the people living next to me (corner apartment), and the TV. I clenched my head in my hands.

Why do you always have to win?
Because I'm the string one.
Someone almost died.
Seems like a productive day.
He could be dead.
You should have killed him.
Killing is wrong.
But you've done it before.
Because you have control over me!
That is no excuse!! I control you because you are too naive to know who to protect yourself against.

My phone beeped from beside me. Someone I had no idea who he or she was had sent me a text.

Hi.
I figured this was the safest thing to do.
Because I have to ask you something.
Who are you?

I had no idea what it was. I had no idea if this was a trick to get me to say my location for the cops. I didn't know who I had hurt that would send me a text. But maybe it was my brother. The same brother I had put into a coma six years ago. Trying to reach out to me. I just had to know for sure.

Who are you?

A lightning bolt.

It couldn't have been any clearer. Jay Walker was trying sell me out to the cops.

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so I blocked his number.