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❝ an au in which nya's element is found earlier, and morro makes the decision to control the master of water. ❞

❝ nya, possessed by morro, drowns her brother alive as skyfall plays in the background dramatically. ❞

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❝ This is the end

Hold your breath and count to ten

Feel the earth moving and then

Hear my heart burst again

For this is the end ❞

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Skyfall, Adele

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kai

It was remarkable how quickly fear took over.

Simply put, Kai was drowning.

Let the skyfall

The water took him like a snake.

When it crumbles

He didn't even try and fight it

We will stand tall

His mind shattered as the water forced itself down his throat, turning it raw as the salt scorched the inside to pain.

And face it all together

Quick and painless, the Dark Water churned him from inside out like a gutted fish.

Let the skyfall

He could hear faint screaming, and he opened his mouth to yell back and tears burst from his eyes, the water forcing him down, down, down. Four blots of green, blue, white and black stained his murky vision as the water turned into an air bubble around him, teasing him with quick breaths of air, dragging him down to the depths of Stiix's water where strangleweed would be waiting to devour him. His fear of water was really not helping as his brain turned foggy.

The blots got closer and closer and Kai weakly reached for the closest when a whip of Dark Water yanked him back. Then another colour entered his vision - a blue green. His sister, but not his sister. Nya, possessed by Morro. Just the thought of it gave him new energy as he thrashed around, fighting his fear in his mind and outside.

Not yet, hissed the Dark Water. Lie in wait for the truth.

She looked hollow - so thin and so hollow - but Morro's rage seeped through her eyes, and her lips parted into a cruel smile that faltered a little once her eyes rested on Kai. Then the first goopy strand of strangleweed twisted around his ankle and pulled him into a vicious jerk, his sister cackling wildly as she twirled through the water towards him.

How could he have let this happen? When he'd finally taken that step away from overprotectiveness, letting Nya do her own thing without him breathing down on her neck in a brotherly way, she'd been possessed by one of Wu's former students? Kai's fingers tore at the cuffs of strangleweed on his ankles, trying to grab a shard of floating coral to cut it off. But it was too strong, and the swirling tornado was tossing his weak body around like a ragdoll.

The water forced him towards an underwater cave, and too tired to fight back anymore Kai let it throw him onto the sandy floor of the cave. The natural porthole in the side was stoppered with Nya's powers after she gracefully landed inside, a cruel smirk on her face. Hissing as the strangleweed retreated, leaving his limbs red and raw, Kai scrambled away from his possessed sister until his back hit a rock wall.

"Nya, this isn't you, please—"

"Shut up." she snapped, pacing the cave whilst rubbing at her temples. "I knew I should have taken Lloyd instead. Her mind is so full of doubts and yelling at me through that stupid little cage I put her in, I should have sound proofed it."

"Nya's in a cage? Get her out of there right now, or, or I'll—"

"Or you'll what?" she drawled, dropping to a squat in front of him. "You're a lone, in a cave, miles underwater. What are you gonna do, Kai Smith?"

He searched the cave for something he could use to knock her out, for long enough that he would be friends until his friends followed his tracker with a better form of transport than their bare bodies. But there was nothing he could do except try and stall her, try to get Nya back. If Nya could take over her body, long enough that Morro could come in contact with water then they could destroy him together.

"I heard a rumour," he said slowly, "That you thought you were the Green Ninja. Look how that turned out."

Morro jerked forwards, but something inside him recoiled the movement. Nya! Kai cheered as her eyes flashed from the possessed murky green to ocean blue, then back to Morro's. If I can provoke him, I'll give Nya the chance to fight him inside.

"And, I heard a rumour that you went in search of the First Spinjitzu Master's Tomb because you thought that would get you the job." Kai laughed hoarsely and shakily got to his feet. "I heard another rumour that Wu didn't believe in you."

Morro-Nya growled. Kai pranced around a bit teasingly, mocking Morro's strange gait from when he walked.

"I heard a rumour that you're jealous of Lloyd for being the Green Ninja, but you chose to possess my sister instead. How dumb is that?" He cringed inwards at the beating he'd receive later from Nya, but carried on. "I heard a rumour that Wu didn't even come looking for you, you came to him and begged, and begged, and begged—"

"SHUT UP!" Morro roared, his eyes turning into a kaleidoscope of green and blue as he and Nya fought mentally. Nya dropped to the ground like a stone, curling inwards as her body shook with pain, tearing at the sand on the floor, raking her fingers through her hair as the pain turned unbearable.

It's Morro, he reminded himself, you're hurting Morro, not Nya. Then he skipped around her fallen form, yelling obscenities and insults while they wailed in pain. And the final breaking point was when not Kai, and not Morro, when Nya screamed something garbled, pounded her fist to the floor and the cave exploded.

Kai's body was flung back as the rift slashed through the ocean, turbulent water creating an underwater explosion as a bubble around Nya-Morro swirled. Her body glowed bright blue, shining into white light as another shock split through the water. As it faded, Kai could tell she was Nya again. His little sister, annoying but loved sister, Nya, was finally back.

And then he remembered that there was nothing keeping him alive in the water, and the world turned black.

❝ I've drowned and dreamt this moment

So overdue I owe them

Swept away, I'm stolen

Let the skyfall ❞

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Skyfall, Adele

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A/N: not me thinking i'd give this a happy ending. I mean i kinda did. But i didn't. So. ha. This au was started like a month ago and i wrote the first half, left it, had writer's block on mos and decided to finish off my pixane oneshot called 'your half', and then finished this one. I absolutely love the song skyfall, and it's so freaking good for dramatic scenes. You may be asking, is kai alive? Kid, i don't even know myself. Have a good day, and keep an eye out for a harumi oneshot named 'silence', which may or may not come out.

-dommie out