Softest Scales

by Dancing_Shadow

Summary:

They have students now, a bigger family to protect.

There's new enemies, new dangers.

So little time to talk, yet so many new wounds.

They try to make it work.

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Smaller oneshots from DR, mostly comforting fluffy scenes that are 'missing' from canon, featuring the Ninja actually reacting to and talking through things and doing their best to make their new family work(-ish), while their new kids try to fit in

Notes:

Yello! So I love Dragons Rising, but with so many new characters and the focus being mostly on Lloyd and his students, a lot of stuff that should be explored more isn't, mainly when it concerns the other original Ninja. Now, I get why that is, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it. And what do I do when I'm not happy? I write fanfic! (Brilliant coping mechanism, I know)

These are mostly smaller oneshots I collect throughout the series and that don't quite have enough to be their own separate stories but I still wanna get out. TLDR; everyone's traumatised and giving therapy to everyone but themselves while everyone else gives them therapy. Want some fluffy interactions throughout the series? This is the fic for you!

Chapter 1: Table of Contents

Notes:

DR season 4 is almost here, so I'm finally getting around to posting all the stuff I've hogged up over the past few months. Deadlines are a really powerful motivator lol
This story is really just me coping with the less polished parts of DR so don't expect anything too revolutionary. Fluff galore and nothing much else :D
If you have any parts of the show you'd like to see more sense in, feel free to drop a suggestion in the comments (I'll try to get into it, but no promises, I have close to 200k of Ninjago WIPs in my drafts, and they are loud)

Ch 2: Disappeared (Again) - S1 E17, Kai and Wyldfyre come back from searching for the Dragon Core to find Zane gone. Kai doesn't take it well - Main Focus: Wyldfyre & Kai, Zane & Kai (and the Ninja Team by extension)

 

Ch 3: Pain of Remmbrence - after S4 E10, Jay is struggling with guilt after regaining his memories and Zane, sharing the experience, tries to help - Main focus: Zane & Jay, Jay & The Ninja

 

Ch 4: The Burden We Share - S2 E3, Zane finds out Lloyd is having visions and does his best to make the (unfortunately familiar) burden easier on him - Main Focus: Zane & Lloyd

 

Ch 5: Hurts to Stay, Hurts to Leave - S3 E10-11, Giving Zane an actual reason for why he left with Pixal after Thunderfang's first defeat - Main Focus: Zane & Kai & Cole (& Jay)