Reconciled hearts: a season9(Lloyrumi story)

Chapter129: Flicker

It was an incredible sight, almost too surreal for their own liking.

The group stood in place as the lights flickered ever so slightly at the rhythm of everyone's breathing at the moment.

The ninjas all looked down at a bloody pile in front of them, their expressions all varying due to their personalities.

"No way..."

"Is this even real?"

Hushed comments overlapped over another.

Taking a deep breath, the red ninja advanced forward and bent down, examining the corpse currently laying unmoving.

"Karloff has been killed tonight." He confirmed quietly.

Standing behind him, Nya turned her eyes over to everyone else in the room with her. Nobody was missing. There were the other elemental masters, Lloyd, Harumi and the ninjas.

She sighed and moved her glance to the corpse now laying in front of them.

"So, now what?" She gave a concerned look over to her brother.

"We gather information, easy enough, right?" Kai replied to her. He made sure not to tamper with the evidence.

"You say that with so much confidence. Everyone pretty much don't have alibis." Lloyd remarked, not even taking a second to examine the injuries of the corpse like Zane and Kai had done so.

That was a valid point, the detective of this round didn't know where everyone had gone off to, everyone pretty much scattered and it wasn't like the ninjas had any idea what everyone's roles were.

"Then let's start looking," Kai insisted, standing up from where he had been crouching from. He turned to look at his friends with a serious look on his face.

His eyes were fixed on the earth ninja, who only gave an uncomfortable look in return.

"Cole, where were you the entire time?" The fire ninja questioned.

The black ninja shifted a little, "I was upstairs, why? You can't seriously think it's me, right?" He tried to protest.

The ninjas all turned to each other, implying the continuity of a pressuring atmosphere. Even if she was watching by the sidelines, it made Harumi rather nervous.

She took a deep breath and tugged on her shirt, blinking a few times and continuing to watch the scene unfold before her very eyes.

"Instead of looking at me now, let's ask everyone else, shall we?" He paused and started pointing fingers, "Lloyd, Jay, Nya, Zane, Harumi! You could've asked them first, why me?"

Jay, who was by the kitchen stove, that was rather close to where the living room was,
put the mittens away onto the counter. He just finished preparing the muffin batch for tonight.

An exhausting job but definitely a fun one. Jay didn't have any baking experiences however the others insists that it was a spell casted onto him so that he knows the steps by heart.

"If you phrase it like that, Cole, that's pretty suspicious of you. Are you trying to hide something?" Jay questioned.

Cole went silent. He stammered a bit as he couldn't believe that Jay, of all people would begin thinking he's suspicious.

Lloyd thought for a second. "Hmm, now that you bring it up, Jay. You're right, he is kind of acting suspicious at the moment." He agreed.

Flabbergasted that his team was betraying him like this, "Lloyd?! You too?!" Cole exclaimed.