Chapter 50: Peak-a-Boo

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( Kai grunts as he tries to use Airjitzu to reach a flag.)

Kai: Seriously! (He tries again, but misses.)

Ronin: (Lying down next to the flag.) Aww, just short. Like your temper, Kai.

Jay: Let me try. I'm for sure better Airjitzuer than you, Kai.

Nya: That's not a word Jay.

Zane: She is right.

Jay: I'm still better though.

Kai: Oh, yeah? And when did that happen?

Jay: Like, now! (He misses the flag and screams as he falls.)

Nya: Oooh. That's gonna hurt. (She cringes)

Kai: (Sarcastically) Oh, yeah. That was so much better than me.

Jay: It...it was.

Ronin: That wasn't Airjitzu, that was Failitzu.

Kai: Or weakitzu.

Wu: To master the powers of Airjitzu, we must uplift, not put each other down, Ronin.

Ronin: (Taking a bite of an apple.) You close shop for a week, you gotta let me have some fun. Aren't nindroids supposed to be precise?

Kai: (Sighs.) These new suits are heavy. Why can't we just use our old ones?

Wu: These are embedded with Deepstone. They will protect you from being possessed.

Jay: Yeah, well, maybe the name "Airjitzu" isn't uplifting enough. Maybe we need something more inspiring, like...Cyclondo! (He flies above the flag.)

Kai: You made that up.

Nya: Cyclone plus taekwondo, I get it.

Ronin: Miss. Again. (Jay takes his apple instead.) Hey!

Jay: (Laughs.) Cyclondo. (He takes a bite.) Mm. See Nya gets it, and if Crystal was here then she would get it too.

Kai: Speaking of Crystal, have any of you seen her? (Everyone shakes their heads) Styx?

Styx: Nope.

Jay: And where's Cole.

(Crystal spots Cole inside the bounty in his room, not training with the others. She goes inside to talk.)

Crystal: Don't feel like training?

Cole: In case you haven't heard, I'm a Ghost. 

Crystal: I know Cole.

Cole: Then don't tell me we can fix this 'cause we can't. This is just...who I am now. (He tries to hold a cup, but his hand passes through it.) Ugh. I don't feel anything anymore.

Crystal: Remember how Sensei told us our paths in life are never a straight line.

Cole: Yea, so?

Crystal: Well, take me for instance. I remember when I would always play my guitar and sing to myself or Styx. I never had the courage to do it infront of the other people. But you pushed my to do better, now I write songs. I'm here today because of you, a ninja never quits.

Cole: But I'm not a ninja anymore. I'm a Ghost.

Crystal: Then what do you do? I think that's something you have to answer on your own.

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