Promises (Ninjago's Kai x Reader)

Episode 5 - Dance the Night Away

"Why, of course," says Chen. "Be my guest."

Dad takes my hand and leads me out to the dance floor.

"Thanks," I say and he hums in response.

For a while, we dance together as a father and daughter should. It's funny, actually: when I was younger I dreamed of attending some sort of Daddy-Daughter Dance, and now here I am at a ball, dancing with my Dad.

"Dad," I say suddenly.

"Yes, Tasha?"

"I did something earlier during the fight for the Jadeblades."

He raises his eyebrows. "Oh?"

I then recount what happened between Karlof and I, how I was able to freeze him when he reached for the Jadeblade, and then force him out of the way with a simple flick of my wrist. I told him about the purple aura floating about him and how it disappeared after I put my hands down.

"Ah," Dad says, smiling in an amused sort of way. "You're right, you did figure another way to manipulate energy. You see, Energy, by definition, is the ability to do work. You, as the master of Dark Energy, have the power to determine weather or not someone or something can use their energy to do that work."

"What does that mean?"

"What it means is: you can manipulate anyone and anything to do whatever you want them to do by controlling the energy they use to do it.

"The purple aura that you said was floating around Karlof, that was the energy he was using to reach for the blade. What you did was take that energy out of him, virtually rendering him useless, and then you used that very energy to force him away.

"But you must be careful with this ability. It is a power that will make you many ememies."

I stay silent for a moment, absorbing all this new information.

"Can Lloyd do it?" I finally ask.

Dad takes a deep breath. "I do not believe so. Not as easily as you can, at least. You're power is obviously the darker side to the force. This means you are more inclined to commit cruel acts such as this. Lloyd simply does not have the heart to commit an act such as rendering somebody useless."

"Does that make me a bad person?"

"No," he says firmly. "It simply makes you more dangerous."

A small smile makes its way across my face when he says that. I'd like to think I smiled because of my ambition, but I know deep down that it's because a part of me still likes to be mean.

"Hey, Dad, mind if I cut in?" Lloyd asks, coming up behind us.

Dad smiles. "Of course. I was just thinking about heading to bed now, anyway. You kids have fun."

"Goodnight, Dad," Lloyd and I call together.

Lloyd takes my hand and spins me, making me laugh lightly. And then the song changes it's tempo from mellow to upbeat, a song that I vaguely recognize from when I was just a girl, a song from before I was taken to the underworld.

"What is this," Lloyd asks, glancing around at the other Elementals, who are excited for this song.

"A song from before you were born," I say, grinning. "Makes sense though. All these people are at least ten years older than us."

Lloyd scrunches up his nose. "Are we really the youngest here?"

"I wouldn't doubt it." I step away from him and start bouncing to the beat of the music.