***UPDATE: Tke kunoichi of wind is silver and the kunoichi of life is pink. Their colours have been swapped.
Chapter 2: A New Prophecy
Sensei Wu walked back to his room as his students quieted down after he gave a little talk to him. He was going to check all his scrolls and prophecies to see if there were any that relate to anything he saw. Anything, from the temple to the four locations to the four kunoichi. His mind was mostly thinking towards the kunoichi. What could that mean? he thought as bent over to get out all his scrolls and prophecies from the little drawer.
The old and wise man read them all over but found nothing of use. All the scrolls and other things he had read were all prophecies that had either passed or had yet to come in the near or late future. Oh, how I wish she was here right now. She would be really helpful right now.
After spending two hours of looking for any hints on what he saw, he gave up. That is, until he saw one old and dusty scroll only a few feet behind him. He picked it up gingerly because it looked like it would crumble any time now and opened it to read it. Immediately, he found a part of what he was looking for. He saw the kunoichi. He decided now would be the right time to tell his students about it.
The ninja and Nya were beginning to worry about their sensei. He had gone up to his room for two hours now and not a single sound came from him. They didn't want to go check, however, for fear he was meditating and they would disturb him.
"What do you think happened?" Jay asked the others who were all talking amongst themselves about it too.
"I don't know." Kai replied.
"Sensei would not hesitate like that unless something is amiss." Even Zane had the feeling something had disturbed him, but like his brothers, he wouldn't ask unless their teacher told them first.
At that moment, Sensei Wu walked into the living room where they were all standing around, holding what looked to be an old scroll. That only meant one thing…
The ninja knew by now if he came in holding something in his hands, it had to be something important. "Sensei, what is that?" Nya asked.
Sensei looked at her and then to all his students. "My students," he began, "this is a scroll that has a prophecy written on it."
They all looked at each other then back at their teacher. "What does it say? Or show?" the leader of the ninja, Cole, asked.
He opened it up and showed it to the five ninja and Nya. The scroll had drawings of girls looking like ninja, and looked VERY similar to the prophecy of the green ninja. The scroll had four girl ninjas on the corners of the papyrus, in the colour of cyan, teal, yellow, and silver. In the middle was another girl ninja, enlarged on the papyrus just like the drawing of the green ninja was in that prophecy. The girl was coloured pink.
"Are those…more ninja?" Lloyd asked.
"And what does that have to do with anything?" the blue ninja asked.
"And they're girls!" Nya exclaimed, having a feeling she was going to like what Sensei Wu was about to say.
"Allow me to explain. These five girls you see here are called kunoichi," Wu started his explanation. "These four kunoichi here," he continued, pointing at the four that were in the corners of the scroll, "are the kunoichi of water, nature, light, and wind." He pointed at the cyan, teal, yellow, and silver kunoichi in the order that he said the element names.
"Sensei, I do not follow," the white ninja couldn't understand where his sensei was getting at either. Plus, he was considered the most intelligent of the five ninja.
Kai was getting impatient. "Guys, stop interrupting! Just let him finish! I can't stand all these little breaks he takes because someone interrupts!"
"I would have to agree with Kai on this," Wu said. "Please, no more interruptions, and let me continue." His students gave a nod of understanding. "As I was saying, these four are the kunoichi of water, nature, light, and wind. The one in the middle is special just like the green ninja. Her powers are…well, I cannot say for sure. I could be wrong about what she can do, but what I do know for certain is that she is the kunoichi of life."
The ninja and Nya were speechless, so Wu continued. "There is a new evil rising and this prophecy says we must find the five kunoichi to combat the new evil."
"There's some writing here, but I can't read it," the black ninja said. "Can you read it, sensei?"
"Yes, yes I can."
"Then what does it say, uncle?" the past saviour of Ninjago asked.
"It says:
A new evil will rise again
Five boys and girls will answer the call
Battle between brothers shall end
To Life or the Dead the world will fall
The ninja, Nya, and even their sensei pondered over the words for a while.
"What do you all think it means?" Jay finally broke the silence.
"I am not sure, but let us try anyways, but line by line." their instructor told them.
"How can you not know?" Jay asked looking shocked as if his sensei should know everything. "You're Sensei! You have a white beard! The whiter your beard, the more wise you are!"
Wu looked at his disciple and put his head in his hand like a facepalm. The way Jay said it reminded him of his long life…
"Well, I'm pretty sure 'A new evil will rise again' is pretty self-explanatory," Cole broke the silence.
"Yes, but what new evil?" Zane asked.
"How about the next line?" the sister of fire asked. "Sensei said it says 'five boys and girls will answer the call'. I think that's referring to you five?" she said while pointing at the five ninja. "And these five kunoichi?"
Sensei Wu nodded. "That is the only line I truly understand, but that is because it's an easy one."
"What was the third line again?" Lloyd asked.
"'Battle between brothers shall end'" his uncle replied.
"That can't mean you and Garmadon, can it?" Kai asked.
"Yeah, Lloyd…I mean we, already defeated him," Jay added.
"They're right, so there's no way you two can fight again…" Cole finished.
"And we've found no sight of Lord Garmadon anywhere for the past few months," Zane said as they all remembered Garmadon hasn't shown his face ANYWHERE in a while.
"What Zane said is right," Wu said at last, looking sad that his brother could be anywhere…or nowhere at all. Even Lloyd looked sad. Cole noticed this and quickly jumped to the next line before things could get a bit emotional.
"The last line is really confusing," he said. "To Life or the Dead the world will fall'. What do you guys figure that means?"
"Maybe life as in the kunoichi of life?" Nya guessed, trying to be helpful.
"I sense that is right," the white ninja put in.
"Well, we have tried figuring out what this prophecy may mean, but I think we should take a break from it. I will go back to my room and meditate and you six can do whatever you like – just don't be loud about it!" With that, their teacher walked off towards his room.
It was Zane's night to cook and he was whipping up a delicious dinner. Jay and Lloyd walked in because it smelled so good. "Mmm, something smells REALLY good in here!" Jay exclaimed while sniffing the air even more.
"Yeah, it smells like you're really cooking that turkey!" Lloyd added.
"Hello, Jay, Lloyd." Zane smiled as he turned around and faced the blue and green ninja.
"Hey Zane, when's dinner coming?" Lloyd piped up.
"I think it will be ready in about 10 minutes." the ice ninja's monotonous voice replied.
Jay sniffed the air again and this time his nose wrinkled a bit. "Say, do you two smell that?"
Zane and Lloyd smelled the air again. Zane gasped. "Oh no! The turkey might be burning a bit!" Zane grabbed the oven mitts and put them on took out the turkey which was being roasted. Luckily, it did not burn much, just a bit overcooked although it will still taste good. "It smells a bit burnt, but not much." Zane came to a conclusion.
"Yeah, Zane's cooking is always awesome." Lloyd agreed.
"Sorry about that, Zane," Jay said with his hand behind his head.
"Why are you apologizing, Jay?" Zane asked as the nice robot he was.
"We distracted you a bit so the turkey got a bit burnt."
Zane smiled. "It's okay, I think it is still edible." The three ninja chuckled.
"Alright, we'll help you set it out on the table!" Lloyd said perhaps a bit too enthusiastically which made the nindroid suspicious that he Lloyd was going to pull a prank but he didn't care. Zane gladly handed the other food to the other two ninja while he took the turkey himself.
"Dinner's ready!" Lloyd's voice rang throughout their entire flying ship to call their teammates and sensei to the table. Cole was lifting weights, Kai was playing Fist to Face 2, Nya was working on one of Jay's inventions while he took a break, and Wu was meditating.
Everyone sans Sensei Wu came running to the dinner table, hungry for food.
"Wow, Zane," Kai managed. "You never fail to give us a feast."
Kai was right. On the table was a roasted turkey, a bowl of salad, and a plate with six veggie sandwiches on it.
"Thank you, Kai," Zane replied to his brothers' compliment.
At that moment, Sensei Wu walked in, smelling the delicious food. By then, everyone had sat down and started eating and Sensei Wu took his seat at the head of the table.
"So, that prophecy," Jay started, his mouth full with the turkey. "What d-"
"Jay, how many times do I have to tell you it's not nice to talk with your mouth full?" Nya scolded her boyfriend.
"Sorry, Nya," Jay said as he swallowed. "Anyw-"
"I know what you're going to say," Cole interrupted before Jay could get any further.
"What am I going to say?" the lightning ninja challenged.
"You were going to say if we've thought of anything new about the prophecy." Cole finished.
"And?" Kai prompted.
"I'm just going to say I didn't even think about it." Cole confessed.
"Yeah, me neither," Kai said.
"I tried thinking of what it could mean, but I didn't get anywhere with it," Nya admitted. "We don't even know what the new evil is!"
"I think we should stop worrying about the prophecy and start worrying about how to find the five kunoichi," Zane told them because he tried to draw their attention away from the topic. It was no use wasting your brains on something you have very little information to try and figure out.
"I have no idea how we could find them," Nya said. The young adults continued talking until they noticed their teacher hasn't said anything.
"Uncle, is there something wrong?" Lloyd asked with concern in his voice. When their sensei didn't reply, they knew he had zoned out.
"Uh, sensei?" Jay asked, frantically waving his hand in front of the old man's eyes.
Then Wu came back to reality. "I-I'm sorry…" he said quietly. "I was just…thinking."
"About what?" the green ninja asked.
"About…how to find them."
"Find who? The kunoichi?" Zane asked.
Wu nodded. "There are some other things I did not tell you earlier this afternoon. I looked in the spirit smoke this morning and saw many things that have yet to come. One of those things were the kunoichi. Some other things I saw were a temple whose name I do not remember, and four…locations, for lack of a better word." The ninja and Nya just stared at him.
"And…?" Cole asked as his voice sounded confused which made sense. Nobody knew where the wise man was getting at.
"Those four places are places I thought were random. They were the Akra Forest, Coastal Plains, Lonely Cave, and the Desert Pyramid. Now that I think about it, they are not random. Think: the four kunoichi I told you about, water, wind, light, and nature…well, all of their elements make sense with the four places I saw in the spirit smoke."
Light began to dawn on the ninja. "I get it…are you saying we might find the kunoichi there?" Kai asked now that he understood what Sensei Wu was saying.
"Yes, I think so. But not exactly there, but around there somewhere…there has to be some towns they live in that are near those places but not exactly there, so we may have to do a bit of scouring." Wu smiled.
"Where should we set course for first?" Jay asked.
"Hmm, I think we should go to the Akra Forest first. It is the closest."
"Alright, I'll set it right now!" Nya said.