Okay, so here is chapter one of... The Ninja Trials... Now, before you get too excited, here's the catch. Since I will be needing a whole. Freakin. Bunch. Of OCs, I won't be updating too consistently until I post a list of all the contestants.

So if you want me to update fast, I need you to review and pm me all the OCs you can. Now, on to the rules and stuff.

I will decide who survives, unless you want your OC to die the first day. If you want yours to die first, please let me know. Give me everything I need to know about your OC.

So, there will be six victors: three boys, three girls. This is a future where the Serpentine rule, and have conquered the ninja. So they decided to set up games where all but six ninja will be brutally slaughtered, and the remaining six are kept for 'entertainment.'

This is about five (or so) years after season two, and season 3 never happened. The competition excludes everyone over 30 and everyone younger than 10. So don't make them all around 23 (how old the ninja are in this fanfic), give me some variety! The first five reviewers with girl OCs will be able to have their choice of who their girl gets to date. You can choose any of the five ninja, but please note that I am only planning on one ninja surviving, maybe two. And my choice may confuse you.

Nya won't be in this fanfic, Kai and Jay sent her away when the Serpentine took over. And she's a samurai, so I will allow someone to date Jay.

I AM PLANNING ON HAVING A SEQUEL!

I will have a couple of my own OCs, but they'll die pretty early on.

And don't forget, I will need some boys too! I will need a total of 23 OCs, so there will be 30 in the competition. Send in those OCs!

I don't own le Ninjago.

Ten-year-old Iris sat huddled in the corner of her cage. There were rows of cages, about the size of dog crates. The Serpentine had captured everyone between 10 and 30 and had hauled them out to their base.

Well, everyone who was a ninja.

When she was eight, her uncle had begun to educate her on the ways of a ninja. She still had yet to learn Spinjitzu, but her uncle's pleas hadn't stopped the Serpentine from snatching her with the others.

She winced. Being the ninja of emotions, she could feel the emotions of those around her. On occasion she could some of their basic thoughts: hunger, fear.

Fear rippled through some of the younger ninja once more as slithering was heard coming down the hall.

King Pythor entered the room, followed by General Skales. On a silk pillow carried by Skales was the thing you put stuff in for shots. Iris didn't know what it was.

"Ssskales, I'm telling you! Thissss issss brilliant!" Pythor argued with the blue snake.

"Very well then, sire." Skales hissed reluctantly.

"Now then..." The Anacondrai began going around the room, peering in cages, before he stopped on a certain cage.

Dread flowed from the cage, from the girl she loved so dearly. Her 20-year-old sister was in that cage. The ninja of music.

Pythor roughly unlocked the door, and gently pulled India out of her cage. Her auburn hair cascaded down her back in waves, and she looked at Iris.

Emerald met emerald before India tore her eyes away. Pythor grabbed her chin and forced her to look him in the eyes.

"Yesss," he smiled and nodded to Skales, "she will be perfect. The serum, please?"

Skales gave Pythor the object, and he inserted it into her sister's neck.

"NO!" Her voice clashed with another, a male voice, and Pythor paused.

"What was that?" His voice was calm and deadly, and he gave her sister Skales.

"I said no."

Pythor looked over to the cage the voice had come from- one she couldn't see. "Kai Flamey, I don't believe it. How on earth did all five of the rotten ninja get captured?" He roughly dragged the boy into the center of the room, where Iris could once again see.

Amber eyes looked up at her, flaked with sorrow and misery. He had obviously lost someone...

Pythor faced her cage, and she shrunk back as he unlocked the door. "And you, Iris," He spat, roughly dragging her out, "you too will pay for daring to defy your leader."

An hour later, she and the brown-haired boy were escorted to a hospital room, where they would be treated for the twenty new lashes on their backs.

Iris was still crying, tears running down her cheeks. 'Stupid snakes!' She thought back to last month, when she was ripped away from her family. She missed home...

Okay, so I know chapter one was short, but it was more of an intro. I'll see you soon!