Welcome to my new story! This is going to be about the lives of the elemental masters we meet in season 4, before the tournament. I'm going to start with Karloff because he was the first one sent away. I want you guys to remember something. Karloff is from an island called Metalonia. They speak another language there, that's why Karloff talks in 3rd person. But because I'm going to tell a story about him before the tournament on the island, he is going to talk normal. (Sorry)
I'll be updating this randomly, maybe every second week. If you have any ideas, I am standing with arms wide open. Criticism is welcome, but no flames.
A three year old was silently playing with his metal toy car in his nursery, while his two parents whispered to each other, standing outside the room. The mother was worried about her little boy and the father even more.
"What did you exactly see, June?" the father looked concerned at his wife.
"Vincent, I told you, he went into the living room, he touched that weird gauntlets your mother gave us for a wedding present, and turned to pure metal. He even grew a few inches!" June started to get angry at how calm her husband was about it.
"I really hoped it would also skip him…" Vincent murmured to himself.
"What do you mean skip him?" the mother was growing impatient.
"I mean, I thought the power to control metal would also skip him like it skipped me," the husband looked his wife in the eyes.
"What?" the mother couldn't believe her ears.
"June, there's a reason my mother seems crazy. A long time ago, when I was still a little boy, my parents always hoped I would also powers like they had, but when I didn't they went to the First Spinjitzu Master seeking knowledge why. He told them that the elemental power to control metal skipped a generation and sometimes even two. They were disappointed but never cared less for me. When the Serpentine War began I was seventeen and my parents left me with some friends to go fight in the battle. I wanted to help but I would have only gotten in the way. My father…was…killed and my mother was bitten by Venomari. The bite of a Venomari makes you see things that aren't there, which makes you unable to fight and then leads to you being killed. When my mother was being bit, my father was so distraught he took his blade and cut off the head of the snake while its teeth were still in my mother. It took them a while to get the teeth of the snake out of my mother, by that time there was so much poison in her, the effect of the venom became permanent. She was never the same, always claiming to see sparrows and hamsters. My father wanted to avenge my mother and got killed by doing so…" Vincent explained with a pained expression.
"Why did you never tell me this?" June whispered, a little stunned by the story she just heard.
"I…don't know- I should have…" he answered a little unsure. "I guess it was painful for me to talk about it."
"I'm so sorry, Vin," she hugged him.
"Momma! Look what I did!" a little boy with short curly black hair ran to his parents. He was holding some sort of plane. The parents broke apart and looked at the little boy standing on his toes holding the plane in the air, waiting anxiously for them to look. "First it was a car and then I wanted to get my plane, then my car turned into a plane! Look!" he excitedly shouted. The parents looked at each other.
"Um…Karloff," his dad bent down next to him. "I don't want you to tell or show other people about this, okay?"
"Why?" the toddler frowned.
"Because there are bad people that would hurt you if they found out," June bent down next to Vincent.
"Why?" Karloff asked.
"Because you are special and these bad people will don't like people who are more special than them," his dad explained.
"Can I tell Andrew? He's not a bad guy." Karloff referred to his friend next door.
"No, you can't even tell Andrew. It doesn't mean that if Andrew isn't bad, there aren't bad guys listening, Karloff. You have to remember that," Vincent explained.
"Okay, so I'm undercover like those people on TV?" the toddler asked curiously.
"Uh…yes, almost like those people on TV," the father agreed. Karloff nodded and looked down at his used-to-be toy car. "June, I think we have to go visit my mother." Vincent stood up and looked at his wife for an answer.
"Okay, let's leave Karloff at Lilian's. I'm sure she'll understand," June replied. "Karloff, honey, go gather some of your toys. You're going to visit Aunt Lilian."
"Yay, Aunt Lilian is fun!" Karloff ran off into his room.
The parents got Karloff's stuff ready and drove to the house of the 26 year old Aunt, an old friend of June. Lilian and Karloff played games or the rest of the evening, awaiting the couples return. When it was starting to get dark, Lilian got worried. Karloff had fallen asleep on the couch, peacefully dreaming. Lilian phoned around to see if she can get ahold of the parents, but there was no luck.
"Aunt Lilian?" Karloff yawned. "When are my parents coming?"
"Soon, Karloff…soon," she answered, not trying to sound worried. Then the phone call came. It was a calm voice.
"Is this Lilian Tudabone?" the voice asked.
"Yes, who is calling?" she asked.
"I'm Ms. Richard of the Ninjago City hospital. You were on the emergency list of June and Vincent Steelix." Lilian's heart sank went she heard Ms. Richard was from the hospital. "I am sad to inform you that they died in a car crash earlier this evening…"
Dum dum dum! Clifhanger! So, what ya think of the story? I'll probably have 3-4 chapters on every character. Man, that's a lot of pressure to put on a 3 year old. Anyway, R&R!
Byeeeee!