A/N: Hello! If you are just joining us, please read the first FIVE books to understand what is going on here. Hey. We're on book six. Which I might rename later on. Depending on if a better title hits me or not. Meh… this one will do.

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Prologue: Dareth's map

I stared at Dareth as if he had just grown a second head. "You want us to do what now?" I glanced over at Nya to see if she found his request as absurd as I did. She had a hand over her mouth, stifling a fit of giggles. Our bond told me that she found it hilarious that he believed we could read an actual treasure map. Shaking my head at her, I turned back to Dareth. "Absolutely not. We are not going to help you find some pirate's treasure! GrandCappy would be furious with us if we did that!"

Dareth shrugged, his expression neutral. "So? Don't tell him that you did that. Look. It's not every day that you find an ancient treasure map. It'll be fun!"

Jay groaned, leaning against the doorway. "Dude! Just say you'll help him read the map and go! And take me with. Everything's too quiet for us to have anything to do work wise. Besides…Dareth is right. It will be fun."

Nya quirked her eyebrow up, annoyance flashing briefly between our bond. "Jay…do you know how to read a map? Cause GrandCappy never taught us for some reason…*cough* Kai *cough*."

Cole blinked, before placing a ghostly arm around my shoulders. "Soo, Kai anything you want to tell us?"

I groaned, giving Nya my best death glare. Her nice warm smile really tells you how good I am at doing that. "Ugh, fine. When we best those few months with GrandCappy…I may have gotten bored and folded his most important map into a paper airplane and threw it overboard…" I scratched the back of my head nervously, turning a bright red color.

Laughter immediately erupted from my brothers as they doubled over, clutching their stomachs. I glared at them, though that just made it worse. Finally, Sensei slammed his staff against the ground, laughter dancing in his eyes. "Enough. We will all go help you Dareth. On one condition, the treasure goes to the museum."

"Understood. Now let's go!" Dareth spun around excitedly, nearly whacking Lloyd in the head. "Come on!"

Laughing still, Sensei and my traitorous brothers followed him out. Nya and I glanced at each other before shrugging and following them out. This was going to be very interesting.

…

I flinched as the loud explosion shook the very ground I was standing on, pressing Dareth up against the wall to keep him away from the flames. "Dareth…has no one ever told you that pirates typically BOOBY TRAP EVERYTHING!?" Somewhere in the back of my head, I knew I shouldn't be yelling at him…but seriously? Everyone I knew growing up knew that little tidbit.

"Uh…why would they do that?" Dareth blinked, suddenly somehow looking ten times dumber than what he normally is.

I slapped my forehead and groaned loudly, just as Zane and Jay dropped down next to us. Zane frowned as he looked over at me, his mechanical eyes burning into me. "I sense that you are exasperated about something. Would you mind sharing?"

"Dareth. Dareth is driving me up the wall. I mean seriously…who doesn't know that pirates booby trap everything! That's like not knowing that they sometimes plant false maps to keep people away from their treasures!" I snapped, my annoyance growing by the second.

Dareth shrugged, worry creasing his brow as he looked past me to what was the entrance to the hideaway cave. "Soo, do we have to worry about cave entrances being rigged with dynamite all the time or should we be good?"

Jay frowned worry dancing in his eyes. "Dareth…we're trapped. And the others can't get to us cause of the, umm, cave-in."

"Oh…"

"Come on. I guess we made it this far. Just be more careful, we don't need more surprises." I pushed myself away from the wall, walking down the brightly lit underground tunnel. I briefly debated on telling them that the torches being lit already was a bad sign…Nah. They'll figure it out when we barely miss death's open arms.

…

"Ok…if you touch one more button…we are going to have issues Dareth!" Jay screeched as he clung to the cave's ceiling, sweat dripping from his forehead.

Zane nodded in agreement as he pressed a hand over his power source, on the other side of a large trench, unable to cross safely without using Airjitzu. Something that we had already discovered triggered another booby trap that shoots poison arrows at us. I grimaced as I glanced at the door….that only Dareth can reach. There had to be a way into there.

"Dareth…please let Kai figure out what button will open the door. We might survive if you do." Zane muttered the last sentence, only my keen hearing being able to catch it.

I shifted slightly, the quick sand sucking slurpily at my legs. Did I forget to mention that I was in quick sand? "Dareth…what is that symbol over there on the wall next to the door?" I crossed my fingers that I was seeing something different than what I thought I was seeing.

"It's a sea serpent! Do you want me to push it?" Dareth called back.

Instantly screams filled the air. "No!" "No!" "Yes!"

"Wait…what?! Kai are you out of your mind!?" Jay gawked at me.

"Trust me…not sure how but I strongly believe that we are in my Great-grandfather's hideaway cave…in which case we need to push the sea serpent!" I felt excitement surge through me. One of Derick's ancestors worked with him if memory served correctly so it might be interesting to see what happens when the button is pushed.

"Umm ok…wait. How many pirates do you have in your family?!" Dareth snapped his head up to stare at me as if I had grown two heads or something.

I folded my arms, impatience creeping up inside of me. "Mother was the first non-pirate in our family. Can you please just push the button?!"

Dareth pushed the button quickly. I sighed with relief as all of the booby traps reset themselves. Shaking the last of the quick sand out of my pants' legs, I walked over to rejoin him. "Uh…guess I was right."

"Guess!? You mean you really were just going out on a hunch?!" Jay screeched as he dropped back down to the ground.

"Let's just go look at this treasure!" Dareth charged into the now wide open cavern full of ancient artifacts.

…

"…And now thanks to the ninja, and some civilian, we are proud to present our newest Exhibit!" The Museum Curator cried out as he lifted the scissors up, ready to cut the ribbon.

I stifled a yawn as I clicked the TV off, noticing that Koko wasn't the only one asleep. Jay was passed out on the beat up recliner, Cole dozing quietly in front of him on the floor. Lloyd was sprawled out on the floor in front of the couch, snoring rather loudly, Koko on his chest. Nya was snuggled up to me, her breath softly tickling my ear. Zane was on my other side, completely out of it. Roadkill purred quietly in my lap as she also slept, though she didn't help haul three tons of ancient treasure to the museum. Closing my eyes, I decided that sleep sounded nice right about now.

I mean it's not like Ninjago is going to get attacked in the next day or two, right?

A/N: Done! Camping for a week does miracles for writer's block. Don't worry I'm back now…and I don't think I have any other big trips planned this year for a while…soo we're good. Hope you enjoyed why one should not give Dareth a treasure map!

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