Chapter One: Listen to Kai

1

Sensei Wu was off on one of his mystical adventures, leaving the five ninja and Nya alone on the Bounty for a little over a week. Hardly any big crimes were going on and the ninja were completely fine about the break this allowed them. The Bounty rested near a lake, making it easy for the ninja to swim. That is, all the ninja but Kai. He happily sat in a foldout chair, reading a book by the edge and avoiding the water. Nya and Jay were splashing each other, Cole and Lloyd raced, and Zane quietly floated on his back, watching the sky. Before long, dark clouds began to roll in along with a chilly wind.

"It looks like it's going to rain. We better get back inside," Kai said to the ninja and his sister.

"Oh, it's fine. What are we gonna do? Get wet?" Jay said sarcastically.

Looking up to the clouds that appeared as if they would burst at any second, Kai said, "Whatever, you all can swim in the rain if you want to. I'm going inside where it's nice and dry."

"Come on, Kai. Don't be such a party-pooper," Lloyd said.

"Sorry," was all Kai said before taking his chair and book inside the ship with himself.

Sure enough, it began to rain pretty hard but that did not stop the swimmers. Looking out the window, Kai did admit he wished he was not afraid of water, but shrugged it off to finish his book. Absorbed in his story, the red ninja did not notice how the rain was now coming down in torrents or how the wind picked up the pace so that it could be heard from inside the Bounty. However, Kai's thoughts were taken out of his book when he heard a pounding on the door. He sprung up and flew to open the door when he realized he had locked the door behind him out of habit. Standing in front of Kai when the door was opened were the five soaked swimmers, shivering (even Zane who rarely gets cold), and holding bundles of drenched towels in their arms.

As they quickly came into the ship, Kai said, "What happened to your towels?"

"A r . . rather large gu . . gust of wind came and knocked them into the l . . l . . lake," Zane said as his teeth chattered.

"See," Kai began, "this is what happens when you don't listen to me."

"Sh . . shut up and get us some dry towels," Cole said, also through chattering teeth.

"Fine, fine," Kai said.

While everyone else was changing and drying off, Kai cooked pancakes and sausage for dinner; he figured it was a cozy meal appropriate for such an occasion. Soon, everyone else filed into the kitchen all wearing warm clothes but still shivering a bit.

"It's hot in here, does anyone mind if I open the door a bit to let in some cool air?" Kai asked his shipmates as they ate.

"No, don't," they all said.

"Ok, ok, I didn't know you were still cold. See, maybe next time you will listen to me."

"Yeah, but you are always hot, Kai," Nya said.

The fire ninja rolled his eyes and continued to eat his meal, knowing that the five would never admit to their error.

2

Later that night, everyone but Kai was pretty tired and decided to go to bed a little earlier than normal. Not wanting to be up all alone, Kai too went to bed. After putting on his striped pyjamas and brushing his teeth, he crawled into his bed, snuggling up into his blankets, and soon drifted off to sleep. A little over an hour later, the fire ninja was awoken by the sounds of loud snoring.

"That's strange," he thought to himself, "no one normally snores."

Sitting up in his bed, he saw the culprit; it was Cole snoring his head off. Kai decided that Cole must have just been extremely tired to snore like he did and therefore decided it was best not to wake him (Plus you do not want to wake up a sleepy, cranky Cole). This left Kai in a dilemma as he laid in his bed, staring at the ceiling, for the longest time, getting more and more irritated at the snoring by the second until he finally drifted off to sleep again.

Not too much longer and Kai was again awoken to the sound of Jay sniffing and Lloyd coughing this time. He did not think it was humanly possible to cough as much as Lloyd was and still be partially asleep for that matter. Now the fire ninja had even more trouble falling back asleep with the monotonous snoring from Cole, the now usual cough from Lloyd, and the added bonus of Jay sniffling.

"It's going to be a long night . . ." Kai thought.

Kai was soon to find out that he was in for an even longer week.

So this was my poll winner, but don't fret, I'll probably still write the other voted on ideas later. I've had this idea swimming around my head for awhile and I figured it was about time to write it. I hope you like it and please don't forget to review to tell me what you think:) I welcome constructive criticism. God bless you all!