School?
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Kai, Cole, Zane, and Jay were playing videogames in their one-room apartment in Ninjago City, just goofing off, when Sensei Wu, the ninja's teacher and, well, Sensei, came in. Sensei frowned at their rectulance to work and train, as he had noticed their goofing off.
"Ninja! You have been shirking out on your training,"" Sensei Wu scolded.
"But, Sensei, we've been train-" Kai protested, trying to no avail to defend himself-and his brothers.
"Yes, I know that you've been training Lloyd, but not yourselves. You have not been at the top of your game. I have been watching you carefully and have noticed that you haven't been training yourselves, so I have taken it upon myself to punish your lackadaisical attitudes," Sensei Wu said.
This time Cole protested. "With all due respect, Sensei, when we are done training Lloyd we are exhausted."
"That is not true and you know it, I have seen you go out and use as much energy as you would training, I have seen Kai daydream and sometimes act them out." Sensei retorted.
Everybody looked to Kai; he gave an embarrassed smile and rubbed the back of his head awkwardly.
Sensei continued, "Zane meditates, and Jay invents little things, as you can see none of you are actually keeping yourselves at the top of your game."
Jay opened his mouth to disagree but Sensei Wu cut him off with a wave of his hand, "So, I have found a fitting punishment," He paused waiting for the ninjas' reactions.
"Do we have to run across all of Ninjago in 3 weeks?" Kai asked, completely and utterly horrified.
Sensei smirked and shook his head. "No, but that is a good idea," he said, making a mental note.
"Kai!" Cole yelled.
"Sorry!" Kai yelped.
"Is the punishment caring 500 pounds for 3 days straight?" Jay wondered aloud.
"No, but that is als-"
Kai grew impatient and cut off Sensei Wu's sentence by yelling, "What is the punishment?"
Sensei chuckled, "Your punishment, ninja, is to go to Ninjago City High School."
The ninja looked at Sensei with their faces aghast.
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"I can't go back there! It's torturous!" Jay complained as he paced the floor of their small apartment.
Sensei Wu, Lloyd and Nya said that they were going to a shop to get more tea and they wouldn't be back 'til the day's end.
"I dropped out to help my parents maintain the junk yard, I just can't go back, I will be way behind," Jay ranted, continuing to pace, his softer features angry.
"Well, I dropped out too! I didn't have time to go to school. I had barely enough time to make ends meet enough to keep Nya and me alive!" Kai fumed on his makeshift table bed, his fair face scrunched up in rage, "I would be so screwed if I went back. I can't believe..." he trailed off. What with his elemental power being fire, Kai's stormy mood was making him give off smoke. Cole and Zane were looking on amusedly at Kai.
Zane, who was lying down on his bed reading a book, looked up at Kai. Zane's normally sharp-enough-to-cut features were the picture of confusion as he muttered, "Make ends meet?"
"It's a figure of speech, Zane." Kai answered through his teeth, still pacing and fuming at his Sensei.
"Oh," Zane said in understanding. "I hate figures of speech," he grumbled to himself.
Cole, who was sitting on his bed, the windowsill, said, "My dad took me out of school so I could go to the Marty Oppenheimer School of Performing Arts and follow in his footsteps. I don't want to go back to school, ever! I have had enough of it," he stated, outraged.
There was a silence when the ninja thought back to their past school experience, if someone was to walk in they would have been able to feel he irritation radiating off the ninja in waves.
"What about you Zane? Why did you drop out?" Cole asked breaking the angry silence.
Everybody looked to Zane, waiting for his reply.
"I was bullied every minute at school for being weird; I got sick of it and dropped out after the midterm." Zane murmured, looking down embarrassedly.
"I'm sorry Zane," Kai said apologetically, "I know how it feels, I was bullied at school too, for not being with or liking the popular groups and smart mouthing the bullies, but not as bad as you. I know what it is like to be late to class because you have to put up your stuff, having your face slammed into a locker door and a whole bunch of other stuff," Kai smirked, "but I always got revenge, they never knew what hit them."
"Did you ever go to the Principal's Office?" Jay asked intrigued, who had finally stopped pacing to sit on his bed (the 2nd real bed in the apartment.)
"Me? Get caught? Never," he said clearly pleased with himself, "I was always very sneaky, stealthy and patient. I guess I was always meant to be a ninja," Kai said the last sentence with a stupid face and a lisp, which made everybody laugh.
"Were you ever vindictive Zane?" Kai queried.
"No, I never did," Zane responded.
"Well since Sensei isn't here and we have some time to kill, I say we listen to some of the revenge schemes Kai has done in school," Cole said.
"Shouldn't we be training though?"Zane inquired.
"Nah, we can lie," Jay said, "I don't know about you but I want to hear what he did to lighten my dark mood."
Zane reluctantly agreed.
"Okay," Kai started, "there was this one time that I found a sleeping herb in the forest on the way to school. I took it there and put it in one of the bullies milk, he fell asleep in class and stayed asleep for the rest of the day, he then got suspended for a month, because this was strike three, the first two that got blamed on him were…"
Kai continued his telling of his schemes until it was night, getting a lot of laughs from his brothers as he dramatically told them, "even when one of them realized that it was me, they never had enough information to pin on the most awesome, most amazing and the most sagacious Kai. They did not have the sheer brilliance I have."
Cole teasingly punched Kai in the arm, "you and your inflated ego."
Their playful banter ceased as Zane said, "I sense Sensei, Nya and Lloyd are nearby."
Cole quickly took charge, "Guys, put some water on your foreheads and everywhere you sweat to make it look like we have been training all day."
They rapidly followed his orders, just in the nick of time, too, seeing as Sensei Wu, Nya and Lloyd entered the apartment just as they finished.
"I see you have been training, good," the ninjas' faces brightened, "but you still are going to school." Kai, Cole, Zane, and Jay's happy faces fell.
"Dang it," he heard the ninja mutter.
"You are in luck; the school had four openings for the 11th grade, all with the same schedule. The only bad thing is, you will be behind in your studies, so I have arranged for a tutor during your free classes." Sensei explained. The ninja breathed a sigh of relief. They all were thinking, well; at least we won't be so behind.
Sensei continued, "You will need to remember that nobody knows you are the ninja. Seeing as the Serpentine are still running amok, you will need to go to the Principal's office as soon as you arrive there and reveal your identities only to her. Principal Laya is an old friend of mine, and I told her you were coming."
"Poopsickles on a silver platter," Kai exclaimed.
"Really Kai, poopsickles?" Jay said tisk-tisk-ing him.
"Don't mock me," Kai teased, "it is my new exclamation."
"I could think of a better one in my sleep," Jay taunted.
"Well then, be my guest," Kai gestured to Jay's bed, "I wouldn't be surprised if you used it."
Over the course of the next three days, the ninja got ready for school, getting everything they would need.
Finally, the day the ninja had been dreading was nigh. They were at the doors of the school, the school that they had dropped out of years ago:
Ninjago City High School, 9th through 12th grade.
The day of torture was just beginning as they walked through the double doors, knowing that this was a long and hard day ahead of them, full of sadistic teachers who loved overloading kids with homework.
SO, this chappie was written by AreiaCananaid! Next chapter will be by JayceePhantom! We hope you guys like it!