"But I don't want to!" Cole grit his teeth dragging the reluctant Garmadon behind him.

"Lloyd it's only for a Month! My uncle and cosine are ni-"

"Why can't I stay on the Bounty!?" Cole sighed.

"Because we all need to go on a mission and your to young to go or be left on your own." Lloyd huffed still refusing to move of his own will but no longer pointlessly arguing. Cole knocked on the door of a tall house waiting a moment with the fuming nine year old before the door was opened. It was plane to see that he and Cole where cut from the same cloth, He was tall and strongly built with long ginger hair streaked with grey and a rough beard.

"Hey Tiger, this the kid?" oddly his voice was softer and kinder then his tough form would lead you to believe. Cole pulled Lloyd to his side a arm over the young Ninja in training's shoulders.

"Yep This is Lloyd uncle David." David smiled and knelt down a little to look Lloyd in the eye which he was trying to avoid.

"Hey there Lloyd." He reluctantly muttered a hello back to the older man and Cole sighed.

"I'll be back with my friends to pick him up next week, good luck." To be honest Cole wasn't too sure which would need it more.

For a moment David and Lloyd stared at each other not sure what to make of the other.

"…Well you coming in or what?" David finally asked, Lloyd glared at him but came in pushing past him. David sighed "This is gonna be a loooooong month."

Lloyd huffed looking around the narrow inside of the house the hallway leading off to two doors and the stairs to the upper floor. David came up behind him putting a hand on his shoulder ignoring the dark look the boy gave him, Cole had already made it clear Lloyd didn't want to be dropped off on what to him was a couple of complete strangers though he had hoped the people being family of friends might cool his temper a little.

"You want a tour?" David offered despite there not being that much to show, Lloyd shrugged and David sighed. "Well this here was the play room when Cole would come down to play with Cass, now a days it's the junk room." Junk room was right the place was filled with odds and ends they either couldn't be bothered to throw away or thought might be useful later on.

"This is the living room that leads to the kitchen and downstairs bathroom." The living room was thankfully cleaner though it was obvious that both David and his daughter where pack rats the tables covered in old letters and clutter and knick knacks spilling off the fire place. David sighed guiding the unimpressed Lloyd upstairs.

"Here are the upstairs bathroom, your room, mine and finally Cassie's. you can go into either mine or Cass's room when you want but if the door's closed knock." Lloyd shrugged as David lead him to his room at the back of the house, it was rather plane but done in a nice shade of green.

"Well ahh….make yourself at home, Cass has plenty of toys she said she's happy for you to play with long as you put them back when your done, X-Box in my room if you want or telly downstairs…" Lloyd shrugged sitting on the bed, David sighed.

"Look I get it Lloyd you feel left out because you couldn't go with the others, but think of it this way it's a holiday for you I mean long as you don't brake anything on perpouse or anything well….we don't have any rules here, You can get up and go to bed when you want, help yourself to snacks really do what ever you like."

Lloyd shrugged not responding and David rubbed his temples.

"Alright suit your self, dinner will be around six and Cass will be back at four maybe she'll have better luck…." He left the brooding Garmadon alone sighing, he was better at dealing with teens then kids like Lloyd.

After a hour of feeling sorry for his self Lloyd finally broke down, he was bored! He left his room hearing the sounds of the telly downstairs and pots clattering in the kitchen, inwardly he hoped David was a better cook then his nephew. Remembering what he had said about toys Lloyd opened Cassie's door half expecting to be assaulted by fuzzy animals they expected him to play with. He was surprised to see unlike being bright and a garish pink like he thought the room was a dark purple and silver the curtains open to lighten the room.

The walls where lined with pictures of dragons, and studded all over the place where statues of the beasts some looking like they were guarding the many books on the shelves over the bed. But what really caught his eye where the robotic action figures on the desk looking like a battle zone frozen.

"Cool!" he instantly grabbed the large white one and a smaller gold one acting out a battle between the two. Engrossed in his play he didn't notice when the door opened again or the teen girl watching amused from the doorway.

"They're names are Witch Doctor and Rocka you know." Lloyd jumped at the amused female voice dropping Witch Doctor and Rocka one of the Doctors spikes falling off by accident. The girl chuckled picking up the spike. "Don't worry he's always doing that." She said picking up the figure and reattaching it.

"Your Cassie?" the girl smiled, she didn't look that girly. Her long hair dyed a deep purple and wearing a worn looking army jacket and even her clothes where more boyish then you normally see girls where.

"Yep, I see you found my Heros ok." She set down Witch Doctor on the desk, Lloyd smiled a bit.

"Ya I didn't expect you to have cool toys, or the dragons." Cassie grinned.

"Just cos Tiger's scared of them doesn't mean I can't love the little cuties." She giggled sitting on her bed and petting a dark green dragon teddy.

0oo0

Where ever Cole got his cooking skills, it wasn't David's side. Lloyd decided tucking into the cheese and bacon pasta bake, David had called him and Cassie down after the two had, had an epic battle between her Hero's and Villains as the robot figures turned out to be called. Cassie made small noises of pleasure apparently agreeing with Lloyds opinion of the food curled up with a steaming bowl in her arm chair. David was lay out lazily on the coach with his while Lloyd sat in the comfy cushy chair set aside for guest's. When Lloyd had finished Cassie got up claiming the bowls to put in the kitchen leaving him and David to choose what they watched on the telly, while put out when he found out they didn't have many kids channels and they were going off anyway David flicked on a cop show.

"Cass the show with the drunken idiots is on!" Cassie yelled she was coming and Lloyd watched the show actually getting interested in it as the cops talked about a drugs raid.

"AHHH!" Cassie laughed when Lloyd yelped and jumped not expecting her to come up behind him and put what felt like a block of ice on his neck, she sniggered and passed the wrapped up ice-cream cone to him unwrapping her own.

"Don't I get one?" David asked pouting at his daughter who rolled her eyes at him.

"Get your own tubby!" She teased poking his belly, David scowled at her and lightly swatted her hand.

"Pain." He grumbled sipping his coffee Cassie just stuck her tongue out at him and curled up in her chair licking her ice-cream, Lloyd smiled eating his own, maybe it wouldn't be so bad here.