Authors Notes: I love this part :D Its incredibly awesome and I hope you like it too. Once again this is BOOK 3. If you haven't read Book 1 or 2 yet this won't make any sense at all. Start with Unready Guardian.

Zareth belongs to Grumpy-Zane

Danny and Inky belong to me.

Ninjago belongs to Lego!

Midnight Sun

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Chapter 20

Spring

Looking at the stars in the woods at night looks amazing. Inky lay on her back looking up through the trees. They had been hiding in this one spot for over 3 months now. It was an old broken down house. It had to have been there without someone for at least 10 years before they found it. It needed to be fixed up and she liked it. It was quiet, you could see the wildlife flourish all around you, and her personal favorite the sky was so clear at night. Sadly she hadn't touched a bit of paper for months so she was starting to pull of bit pieces of bark to draw on. Just little things to pass the time when she wasn't doing her chores. Apparently having a building like this meant you had to do a lot of work.

"Inky! Where's that water? We need it for dinner!" Zane called from the house. Inky giggled and stood up. It was the eve of her birthday and she would soon be fifteen.

Inky picked up the bucket and ran off toward the spring. Filling the bucket and running back toward the house where her bare feet padded against the ground. Actually she hadn't had any shoes since she left that house sometime ago.

Zane smiled down at her as she handed him the bucket. He poured it into a wash bin and looked at her. He chuckled softly reaching over pulling a leaf from her hair. It was at least down to her shoulders now. She could probably get them into pigtails again. But she didn't have much string left to do anything. There wa a small town not to far from them where they at least get there meats and grains. Dareth worked there in a market selling apples, ginger, and sassafras. She loved the smell of it. They found a lot of it in the woods they stayed in now. A lot of the people either pay for the stuff or trade. Now only if they would trade for a pair of shoes. She spent most of the winter sitting on her father's lap in the shop trying to stay warm. He was an excellent heat source, but it's beginning to look weird for a teenager to sit on her father's lap.

Inky sighed and looked up at Zane for a few second as he put the now clean rice into the pot for boiling.

"What is on your mind Inky?" Zane asked. Inky shook her head.

"It sucks growing up." She said walking into the kitchen. Zane looked into the living room area where there was a small fire glowing lighting up the room for them. It changed everything into a orange hue and the soft flicker made everything look like it was moving around. The nights were still kind of cold, but it was quickly beginning to warm up. Dareth walked out of the bathroom with his hair wet having just took a bath. Inky ran over to him as he sat down she took the comb and started to comb his hair like he liked.

Across the room there was a small lump on the futon. Danny's form lay under the blankets. Dareth and Zane figured her form would to a bit better if it weren't so cooped up in the luggage all the time and cleaned her up, redressed her, and put her under the blankets for a little while once in a while. Inky hated to look at her actually. She had given up a long time ago. She knew that now that winter was over they'd be continuing on their journey to find some observatory.

Inky gasped feeling Dareths hands close around her hand. She dropped the comb to the floor not realizing she had stopped combing Dareths hair.

"Baby...you okay? You look like a dog about to attack someone. What's got you so angry?" Dareth pulled her down so she could talk to him. Inky bit her lip and tried her best to word what she was thinking. She had bottled it all up inside her. She wasn't totally sure if she should say anything after all. She was her mother after all. But she was still mad at her.

"She left us."

"She saved us." Zane corrected her bringing in a plate of meat, veggies, and rice. Inky scooted over so her father could have elbow room to eat. Spooning some rice into a bowl and passing it to him.

"Inky I know looking for her has been well...fruitless...the only one who had any sort of answers was at that observatory. Moreover the woman we were talking to was Zareths own great grandchild, your grandmother. For his sake. We should at last check to see if she's alright." Zane said sipping some tea. He would eat occasionally if there wasn't any oil to be had.

"What about mom?"

"There is no option with that Splat. She comes with us...we'll get her back...we have to get her back." Dareth said biting into the pork. He could taste the ginger in it as well as the mint. But it was just a light flavor.

Inky lay in bed looking out the crack in the window. She couldn't sleep. There was so much going on in her head at the moment.

A light in the corner of the window. Only for a second. She sat up and looked around again. It was gone. She didn't hear any footsteps no matter how hard she listened. She looked from one window to the next for at least five minutes till she saw it again. She looked around at her dad who was literally hugging Zanes arm to him and drooling on his shoulder. She rolled her eyes and sat up walking quietly through the house.

'I should wake them…' She thought to herself as she ran, but she never stopped. Not once did she look back. If this was her Uncle Cryptor again...even if he was a bad person she missed him. Oh she did.

"Hello?" She called out then saw the light stop for a moment then the light began to quicken its pase.

Inky gave chase. She wasn't totally sure where she was going, or how to get back. But this person was sniffing around there house for some reason and might have stole something. So here she was chasing a light. The person holding the light fell and jumped into some bushes. This was where the spring was that she used every day. So she watched as the person ran into the clearing.

"Stop!" Her eyes locked onto the person. It wasn't a light at all. Actually they were…

"Damn it Inky...your legs have gotten so long I can't outrun you anymore." They were wings. For there in front of her, was none other than Danny.