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Day of the Departed, a holiday to remember the ones that you have lost. A day to spend with your loved ones. The heroes of Ninjago, the ninja, want to celebrate this special day with their families.
Jay went to spend the day with his parents at the scrapyard. Zane, Echo and PIXAL went to Borg Tower to celebrate this day with Cyrus Borg. Kai and Nya made their way to their parents’ blacksmith shop, four weapons. Lloyd stayed in the monastery together with his mother and uncle.
For Cole, however, this day was more special than anything. Exactly 2 years ago Cole became human again. Two years ago, Cole was finally able to hug his friends again.
Cole was on his way to his father’s place. Before Cole went there though, Cole had one more thing to do.
Once Cole reached his destination, the temple of Airjitzu, he unsummoned his elemental dragon and made his way to the door. Cole opened the door and was greeted by the familiar face of a certain ghost, Yang.
“Hello, Cole.”, said the ghost.
“Hello Yang, I’m bringing you a lantern again.”, said the master of earth.
Cole placed the lantern on a small table and saw a few little ghosts flying around the temple. When Cole first became a ghost, he was very surprised at how many small ghosts are always around. Cole slowly got used to them. Some of them act like dogs that just want to be cuddled. It helped Cole a little when he was unable to hug his family. When he returned to being a human two years ago, Cole was surprised that he could still see them, and hug them.
“Hey there, little guy.”, said Cole while picking up one of the small ghosts.
“Cole, I have a request for you. There seems to be a problem.”, said Yang.
Cole looked at Yang, asking him to continue.
“Earlier today, someone appeared here, someone who should be here.” said Yang, “He can’t stay here. Come.”
Yang started to walk away, and Cole followed him. The temple still looked the say as it did when the left this place. Yang lead Cole to one of their old rooms, surprisingly it was Coles. While Yang flew through the door Cole opened.
Much to Coles surprise there was someone in his bed, asleep. When Cole stepped closer, he noticed it was Morro. The very same guy that possessed Lloyd but also helped him become human again. Ever since Cole found out Morro had helped him; he didn’t know what to think of the guy.
Cole got a good look at Morro and even though he hates to admit it, Morro is kind of cute.
“What is Morro doing here?”, asked Cole.
“I do not know. He just appeared here in the morning.”, said Yang.
“We should probably wake him up.”, said Cole.
Yang nodded in agreement. Cole moved towards the former ghost and put a hand on his shoulder, trying to shake him awake. The keyword being trying. Morro is thigh asleep. Cole does the next best thing, which he commonly uses to wake up Kai, he leaves the room and comes back in with a glass filled with water. Cole empties the glass onto Morro’s head and the master of wind promptly wakes up.
“What the fuck?!”
“Good morning, sleeping beauty.”
“What are you doing here?”, asked the very confused master of wind.
“Me? You are the one who suddenly appeared here.”, said Cole.
Morro was very confused at this. Not only was in a bed, but he was also surrounded by Yang and the black ninja. ‘What was his name again? Kyle? No, Cole? Yeah, Cole.’ But he also felt awfully… real.
Morro looked around a bit more until his eyes fall onto is hand. He wasn’t glowing green anymore. The green glow he had gotten so used to was gone, completely gone. He’s human again. Morro noticed something more on his right hand. A green spiral was on the back of his hand. It wrapped it’s was around Morro’s wrist before ending. It looked like a scar, but it was practically glowing. It seemed ghostly.
Morro turned to look at the ghost and man in front of him. After looking a little closer, Cole also had a scar, like Morro, but instead of having it on his hand like Morro, it was on his face, seemingly going over his left eye, which seemed to have changed colour. ‘Did he always have one green eye or does this have to do with his scar?’
“How am I human again?”, asked Morro.
“That’s what we’d like to know.”, said Cole.
“We are all quite clueless.”, said Yang, “Cole, I suggest you take him to your Sensei.”
“That might be the best option we have right now.”, said Cole.
“I not going.”
“Well, you don’t have a choice. I doubt you have any strength right now.”
Morro mumbled something under his breath. He may not like it, but Cole was right. Morro does not have much strength. He hates it. He feels weak. Morro got out of the bed and tried to stand. However, Morro lost his balance, luckily Cole noticed and caught him by his arm before Morro hurt himself.
“Careful.”, said Cole while helping Morro to stand on his own.
Once Morro got his balance back, Cole backed off again.
“What are you waiting for? Don’t you want to take me to Wu?”, said Morro impatiently.
“Yeah, come on.”, said Cole.
Cole bid goodbye to Yang and the two elemental masters left the temple. Once outside Cole noticed that Morro was only wearing ripped clothing. He probably wore this when he died and wore it all the time as a ghost. It definitely showed how old it was. Cole took his backpack, which he had with him, and looked for the hoodie he had packed.
Cole found it and handed it to Morro. Morro looked at it, questionably.
“Take it. It’s pretty cold. You don’t want to catch a cold right after becoming human again.”, said Cole.
Morro took the hoodie from the taller guy. He put it on. ‘This is comfortable.’
Cole created his elemental dragon. He waited for Morro to create his own, but he didn’t. He probably doesn’t have enough strength to create his own.
Cole reached out his hand to help Morro on his dragon. Morro glared at Cole before taking his hand. The two started to head towards the monastery.
‘This is so awkward…’, thought Cole.
“Hey, Morro. While we’re here, I want to thank you. Thanks to you, the others remembered me, and I became human again, so thanks.”, said Cole.
Morro didn’t say anything. Morro obviously doesn’t like not being the one in control when travelling on a dragon.
After a very silent and awkward ride to the monastery. Cole and Morro head inside, where they find Lloyd, Misako and Wu.
Cole knocks on the doorframe to get their attention. The three turn to him. Cole leads Morro inside and begins to explain the situation.
Wu decided it would best to handle this situation properly tomorrow seeing as everyone was out for the night and would only return tomorrow. Cole offered to stay and watch Morro. Wu more or less ordered him to not worry and spend the night with his father. Cole shortly after left, heading to his childhood home.
Morro sat down in one corner of the room, making sure he can see everything. If Morro had just a little more strength he would just leave, but he doesn’t. This only leaves Morro wondering one thing.
What is going to happen now?