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I did not mean to take such a long break but here we are. I finally got this chapter done and the next is under way. Also the next chapter of TEHWWTF is SO CLOSE to being done, I just need to edit a few things.

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Now please enjoy a nice angsty chapter on our rock mom!

Terra was as loyal and kind as she was strong.

And considering she was the Master of Earth, she was certainly very strong.

She was the best friend anyone could ever have (Libby could vouch for her). She was sweet, caring, kind, loyal, brave, and so many other things. Deemed as the 'Responsible One' by her family she took the role very seriously. While sometimes coming off as stubborn or hard-headed, in the end she was still a great person and an even greater friend.

She had long dark brown hair, normally worn in a single loose braid, with equally dark eyes. She was very tall, six-foot two, towering over most of the Masters.

Following in her father's footsteps, she trained under Wu and Garmadon and became the next Elemental Master of Earth in line. She fought with honor and dignity and was easily one of the best, most talented fighters in the Alliance.

She stepped in to fight for her father during the Serpentine War when he became too old and sick to fight and she fought against the Time Twins.

She was always dedicated to her work, but after her father passed, she became even more so. All of a sudden she was cold and distant. So focused and driven, committed to training and fighting, almost nothing could shake her attention away.

Which is why it was such a shock to everyone in the Alliance when suddenly, just the mention of Louis Brookstone's name could send Terra's heart fluttering and her mind elsewhere.

It all started when Libby invited her out to see a concert. Libby hated seeing Terra so upset after her father passed, so she surprised her best friend with two front-row tickets to see 'The Royal Blacksmiths,' a fairly new, but quickly rising in fame, barbershop quartet, hoping to give Terra a way to relax.

Terra always had a love for music and the arts, even having quite the singing voice herself, so she was excited, to say the least.

Once the show started and the quartet entered the stage, their eyes met. It was definitely love at first sight.

"Oooo, Terra! Looks like that short one with the mustache likes you!"

Louis got so lost in her deep, dark brown eyes, he immediately fell in love.

Literally.

He tripped off the stage.

Amongst the laughter of the crowd and the embarrassment of his quartet, Terra was the one who helped him up. He couldn't even speak he was so lost in her beauty. He somehow managed to tell her to meet him after the show.

She was waiting for him when he walked off the stage and he hurriedly rushed to meet her. His jaw dropped when he actually got a good look at her. First thing being, she was tall, probably a half foot taller than him! But he couldn't bring himself to care. She was gorgeous.

"Thanks for the help earlier. Louis Brookstone, but you can call me, Lou."

"Terra. Nice to meet you, Lou."

They were married within six months.

Even though it hurt that her father couldn't walk her down the aisle, Lou filled that void in her heart.

The Alliance, her family, was so happy to see Terra happy again, especially Libby, who took personal responsibility for them meeting.

Lou actually didn't know she was an Elemental Master until she had to leave during a date to go on a mission. He didn't mind one bit.

After they were married, life never seemed to slow down. They moved into a pretty nice house in a village just a few miles from Jamanakai. Wedding after wedding soon followed theirs, including Ray and Maya's, Libby and Cliff's, and Garmadon and Misako's.

They supported each other through everything. Terra came to every show she could and Lou would always wait up for her at night when she had long missions.

Their life couldn't possibly be more perfect.

Until Terra revealed she was pregnant, and life got even better.

Coleson, Cole, Brookstone was born to the couple a little over twenty years after the Temporal War. He was the best thing to ever happen to the two.

Not long after Cole was born, Ray and Maya had a son, Kai, and about a year after them, Libby and her husband had a son also, Jay. She celebrated with her family when their kids were born and she mourned when half the Alliance quit. She was there for weddings, funerals, and birthdays.

But she wasn't there when Libby went missing.

She had been taking her mandatory leave from the Alliance, home with her family, when she got the message from Wu. She rushed to the Monastery as fast as she could. When she arrived all her friends were there already. Cliff was holding his crying one month-old son and talking to an officer, Ray and Maya, with Kai in tow, were talking to another, and Wu was with Garmadon. She immediately rushed over to Cliff and Jay and embraced the two, frantically asking what had happened. The heart-broken husband cried into her shoulder.

"She's gone. I-I don't know where she is, or-or what happened... She- Libby never came to bed three days ago and she's been missing since. I-I've asked everyone she knows, I've even tried calling her parents, no one knows anything. I've looked everywhere... she's just gone."

The night Libby was last seen, a huge storm swept over Ninjago, and Terra knew there was something off about that storm. It was like the one's Libby would create by accident when she was upset. When she vented to Terra about her parents, how her father was a drunk, and her mother hated her for having an element after it skipped two generations before, when she doubted her worth, when her anxiety had gotten the best of her, when nothing in the world was going right.

But Terra had thought everything was going right for Libby.

She had a son that she loved with every ounce of her being. She had a loving husband. And regardless of her parents, she had a family with the Alliance. She was a ninja for FSM's sake.

After two months of searching, most had given up hope. There was nothing to go off of. There were absolutely no leads. She left no clues behind. The possibility of kidnapping was put to the table, but there were no signs of violence or a break-in. Nothing in their small apartment was moved. Nothing out of place. No one else in their apartment complex heard anything either.

After three months of searching, Terra lost hope. She did all she could to help with the investigation and Cliff, babysitting Jay while his father was at the police station most nights, but she just couldn't handle it anymore. Regrettably, she informed Wu, Cliff, and everyone else that she'd be leaving.

Over the years Terra lost touch with the Alliance, and since she never heard anything, she assumed they never found Libby either. But she got to watch her son grow up more every year, and despite the lingering want of being with her old family, their children, and her best friend again, Lou and Cole we're enough for her.

And even though the fights between her two boys grew worse the older Cole became, they were still a family and they still loved each other. She tried her best to support Lou sending Cole to the Marty Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts, even though Cole wanted nothing to do with music and dance.

It was just like back in the Alliance. They sometimes fought but they still loved each other. Everything was going to be okay.

That's what she told herself when she collapsed backstage at one of Lou's performances, what she told Cole when he started panicking, what she told herself when she woke up in a hospital room, Lou and Cole huddled around her, and the doctor telling her they'd found cancerous masses in her lungs, what she continuously told Lou and Cole over the course of the next several months.

Terra bravely fought her battle with cancer for seven months, and oddly enough, she was never scared.

She didn't want to die, obviously. She didn't want to leave her husband and son. She wanted to watch Cole grow, he was only thirteen, with so much life ahead of him, she didn't want to miss that. She wanted to be the one to tell him about the elemental power in his blood, she knew he had her earth when the element left her on Cole's first birthday. Maybe he wouldn't fight as a ninja, but he deserved to know about the power he would make his own.

The fights between Lou and Cole had gotten worse. They could hardly be in the same room with each other anymore. She didn't want to leave them behind. She didn't want to let go of her family.

But despite everything she'd miss and never get to see, she was never scared of dying.

On her worse days she often thought about her old family. Ray, Maya, Libby, Nicolaus, Wu, Garmadon... Their children.

And after seven months of fighting, with Lou and Cole holding her hands, two days before Cole's fourteenth birthday...

Cancer won.

"Cole, baby. I want you to know how much I love you. No matter if I'm gone, I'll always be with you. A piece of me will always be inside you. Don't cry for me, baby, you know how much I love your smile. Just do me a favor and get along with your dad while I'm gone, okay? I love you, Cole. Smile for me, baby."