(A/N: With Season 11 coming to the US, I thought I might put this up. The full chapter is Reading is the First Step to Every Adventure)
"Guess it's true, the greatest love stories do always end in tragedy." Nya's voice was heard as a tear had landed on the ground as it turned out to be Jay's. He was in a torn black gi with blue sleeves and had an octopus in a tornado on it. He was holding Nya, who is wearing a white dress, partly stained with a green liquid as she was lying on Jay's knelt leg. Around them was Lloyd, Cole, Kai, Zane, Geoff, Blake, Maggie and Gewuji. They all had the same gi, but with the sleeves in their respective colours and different animals in tornadoes. Lloyd had a dragon, Cole had a bear, Kai had a lion, Zane had a tiger, Geoff had a scorpion, Blake had a raven, Gewuji had a butterfly and Maggie had a horse. Like Jay, they were all torn. For some reason, Lloyd looked very old, Geoff had white eyes, Jay had scars and bruises all over his face and all their hairs were shorter than before. She smiles at him one last time before she moved her head back and closed her eyes, dead.
The Ninja lower their heads for their fallen ninja while Kai had his hands on his face, sad at his sister's death. Jay soon started to cry as his tears hit Nya's lifeless body. An orange hand makes a grab for a sword nearby and it slowly moved up to them before gold specks soon appear around Jay so suddenly. "I wish-" Jay was about to talk.
3 Months Earlier
In what appears to be an ancient temple, where a genie lamp was on a pedestal nearby, fighting was heard. "It's mine!" Someone yelled. "Don't touch it!"
Someone soon lands close to the lamp, revealing to be a skeleton warrior as Jay, wearing a new gi, that has blue sleeves and an octopus in a tornado on it, soon jumped the air as the skeleton tried to strike with its axe, but misses as Jay immediately grabs it and throws it away before getting out some nunchucks and swings them about as the skeleton avoids it. The skeleton soon jumps up and grabs hold of the chain between the nunchucks, but Jay spins around, causing the skeleton to lose its grip and fly off as a few more appear behind him. "Surprise!" Someone called out as the skeletons look around for the person who said it, before someone in an Airjitzu bubble lands between Jay and the skeletons. It was Geoff, whose new gi had yellow sleeves and a scorpion in a tornado. He immediately held his hands out to the skeletons, firing a burst of sand and knocking some of the skeletons down before the rest climb over the pile of sand that the attack had left behind while Geoff turned to Jay, giving him a high five, before he moves to the lamp and turns it to one side.
One of the walls suddenly changes from blue to red while it revolves revealing Kai hanging from the red wall as it stopped. His new gi had red sleeves and a lion in a tornado. "Ninjago!" He yelled as he came out and did Spinjitzu, knocking some of them down as one hits a pillar, which falls back and it slides down it as some skeletons soon ran by before something emerges from the wall in front of them.
It was Cole, whose new gi had light grey sleeves and a bear in a tornado as he lands in front of them. "Boo!" He said as the skeletons soon turn back.
But as they did so, they stop when see Blake was now in their path. His new gi had silver sleeves and a raven in a tornado. "Blow off some steam!" He yelled as he soon held his hands out, emitting a gust of wind, which knocks them back.
Then, a wall of ice next to them soon breaks, revealing Zane. His new gi had white sleeves and a tiger in a tornado as Jay, Kai and Geoff slide down the pillar. "Whoo-hoo!" Jay yelled.
"Yeah, ha, ha!" Geoff yelled as they land next to Cole and Zane as Blake came up to them and they pose in front of the skeletons as they immediately got up.
Cole soon moved forward as the skeletons soon turn to run. "Run!" One of them yelled as Cole soon slammed his fists into the ground, creating a sonic boom, which comes at the skeletons from underneath their feet and they end up crashing into a wall.
The wall soon broke open, revealing Samukai, who soon charges at them as they just stand still, before someone falls down from a bright light as Samukai shields his eyes. It was Lloyd, whose new gi has green sleeves and a dragon in a tornado. He soon conjures an energy ball and fires it at Samukai, who is immediately knocked back, screaming before he crashes into the wall, causing it to break apart. "Do you have the golden scroll, Lloyd?" Kai asked as they came up to him.
"I sure do, Kai." Lloyd replied, getting out a scroll and opens it to look at it. "But I don't know what it says. Can anyone help me read it?"
"We can!" They all said before somehow turning to face something. "Because reading is the first step to every adventure. Go, reading, go!"
"And cut!" Someone called out as lights soon came on as the temple turned out to be a film set and the Ninja exhaled in relief.
Close by, Dareth moves over to them, pushing some crew members aside as he did so. "Brilliance plus perfection." He said as the stage was soon being dismantled. "Clean up, little fellas, and make some headway here." He nudges a camera as he came up to the Samukai actor, who removes the mask, revealing a middle aged man with black hair. "Really nice work with the acting there, Mr. Bosch." (A/N: Guess his first name)
"Anytime." Bosch replied as he soon walked away, handing the mask to a stage worker. "Now, I gotta see if I can get that other role approved."
"That's a wrap!"
"A wrap?" Nya asked as she, Gewuji and Maggie soon came in. Nya was still in her Deepstone gi while Gewuji's new gi had light blue sleeves and a butterfly in a tornado, and Maggie's had tan sleeves and a horse in a tornado.
"We just got here." Gewuji said.
"Dareth said-" Maggie was soon cut off.
"Hey, hey, there's my boys." Dareth said to the male Ninja and chuckles as they come up to him, removing their hoods as they do so. Blake's hair was almost similar to a mullet. "I knew you could do Spinjitzu, but that acting knocked me out! Geoff, Cole, more compliments to you two."
"We've been acting in movies before, Dareth." Geoff replied, wiping some sweat off of his forehead.
"Oh, hey, sweethearts." Dareth said to the girls as he passed by them. "Mind sticking around for a segment to teach girls how to apply makeup?"
"I'm down with that." Gewuji said. "After all, I'm not an ex-kabuki for nothing."
"You're gonna need makeup when I rearrange your face!" Nya yelled as she prepared to run at him, but Gewuji and Maggie grab hold of her as Jay did so as well from the front.
"Easy!" He said before turning to Dareth. "The girls are one of us. There's no reason they should be treated differently."
"No reason?!" Dareth asked as he backed away. "You added girls to the group! You know how much that hurts your image? You're a boy band. A hunk machine."
"No, we're equals." Lloyd replied. "Our powers come from no one being more important than the other."
"And besides, the girls have been on the team longer than me, Darren." Blake said, folding his arms, in agreement.
"It's Dareth." He replied.
"Whatever."
"Well, what about being irresistible?" Kai asked as he turned to the door to see many girl fans. "It is debatable." He soon winks at them.
The fans soon scream and try to run in, but the guards try their best stop them. "Oh, my gosh!" One of them yelled. "It IS him!"
"He just winked at me!" Another fan replied.
"Sign my book, please!" Another fan yelled, holding up a pen.
Dareth chuckles. "I don't tell you how to do your business." He said. "Don't tell me how to do mine." He soon moves around the male Ninja. "Remember how every time you saved Ninjago no one cared? Well, now Dareth's in charge and Dareth says 'Don't change the recipe.' You boys are the face of the franchise and now the face of 'Teen Idol'!" He soon got out a magazine with many articles on the front age about some of the Ninja on it as they turn to it.
"'The Deserters' new single released today.'" Geoff said, reading one article as he took the magazine. "We never released any more singles after recording some songs the other day."
"Well, one's just been complete and the studio wants you two to sing it on 'Car's Stars Above'."
Geoff soon sees another article under it. "And they want me as a judge for 'The Voice: Ninjago'?"
"Why not? Lou told me that you and Dan from The Fold will be great at coaching some new blood."
"Ah, my new book sales are through the roof." Kai said, looking at an article about his new book, 'A Titanium's Ghostly Friend.'
"'From son of a multi billion-billionaire to samurai to ninja.'" Blake said, looking at an article with his face on it. "'Learn the rise to fame of the Silver Ninja, Blake Borg.'"
"'Master Lloyd'?" Lloyd asked as he took the magazine from Geoff's hands and looks at an article with his face on it. "But, but I've only been a Master in Training for 3 months."
"And what's this about me and Jay still fighting over Nya?" Cole asked. "That's old news."
"Who cares if it's real or not?" Dareth asked as he brought Lloyd and Cole closer, disappointing the girls, mostly Nya. "Isn't this what you've dreamed of? You're the hottest thing in Ninjago!"
