Fatal Promise - Ninjago AU

--- Sunday 24th August 2025 ---

"Tu tu-tu tu-tuh tu tu-tu. Tu tu-tu tu-tuh tu, tu, tu..." Cole continued humming the tune while tapping his pencil on the desk.

"Dang it!!" Jay yelled, tapping the buttons on his controller aggressively before huffing and flopping onto the couch. "This was so much more fun with Lloyd..."

It was Sunday morning, and the two of them were sitting in Cole's apartment, which is filled with loads of music stuff - from instruments to all sorts of music production gear.

Jay is Cole's next-door neighbour, and they live a few blocks down from where the explosion occurred. The only thing on the news is Lloyd Garmadon. The 18-year-old who was murdered by a car bomb. Jay practically woke up screaming at the sound of the explosion and ran into Cole's apartment in his duck pyjamas and woke Cole, who was sleeping like a rock, up to see if he heard it too.

He didn't hear it, but they both looked out of the window to see smoke and flames coming from that old parking lot, so, as many other people did, they called the police.

Cole didn't say anything in reply to Jay's comment and instead looked outside the window and frowned.

He was only 18.

There was a knock on the door. Jay turned off the game and opened it to let Nya inside. Cole glanced at her, "Hi, you alright?"

Nya took a deep breath before completing breaking down and burying her face into Jay's chest. Cole frowned at the sight and looked outside the window again. Jay wrapped his arms around Nya and rested his head on hers. She could probably reach his height if she stood up on her toes. Kai is slightly taller than her, but not by much, so he doesn't quite reach Jay in terms of height. Obviously, Cole is much taller than all of them. He probably got it after his mother.

"Hey... It's okay..."

Nya shook her head. "He was only 18, Jay," she stated before pulling away.

"I know... but unfortunately, that's how life works... people go."

"Not like that! I've seen him, Jay. He was barely recognisable. Whoever did that to him is inhuman. Only a monster is capable of such a thing."

They heard someone knock on a door, but not the door to Cole's apartment. Unfortunately, these walls aren't particularly soundproof. You can hear everything going on in this apartment. And I mean everything.

"Jay Walker?" the person knocking called out. A woman.

"I'll get that. I'll be right back," Jay said before checking who was knocking at his door. There were two people standing outside his door: a tall blonde man and a shorter woman with brown hair. When their eyes turned to look at Jay, he was a little unsettled by the vibrance of their eyes but also admired them at the same time.

"Can I help you?"

"Are you Jay Walker?" Paige asked.

Jay nodded, "Yeah, why? Wait, Zane? Is that you? What are you doing here?"

"We're agents Borg and Julien with the FBI," Paige said, showing her ID. "We have a few questions about Friday. You were one of the people who called the police that night, and we wanted to ask about what you saw," she explained.

"Borg? Like Cyrus Borg?"

"My surname is irrelevant to the case..."

"Sorry, it's just that I'm a big fan of-"

"Hey, motormouth. Who is it?" Cole asked.

Jay turned to look at Cole, "Oh! It's Zane! You know, my friend from my hometown. Him and Agent Borg are with the FBI. They want to ask questions about Friday because we called the police."