My first instinct was to jump out of the way before they came crashing down on us. At least my friends did the same too.
The ninja landed on their feet and I saw they were each a different color: there was a white, black, blue, red, and green ninja. Weird dress code, I thought.
Before we could say we mean no harm, the one in red attacked me with a golden sword. A sword! So, in return, I hit him with a steaming water ball.
"OW!" the ninja cried out. "Guys, they have powers to, attack them with all your might."
So three of the other ninja started to fight us and, having no other real options, fought back. The one in white was conversing with Lena. What is she doing? I thought.
The white ninja went between the ninja and us. "Wait, they mean no harm. They were transported over here from another world by using a portal that came out of nowhere."
"Zane, you're really going to believe that?" the blue ninja asked.
"It is possible; don't you guys want to hear their story before you continue fighting blindly?"
The black ninja put his scythe down. "Ok, start talking then," he ordered.
After we explained everything to them, they looked completely bewildered.
"So you aren't enemies?" the black ninja asked.
"No, we just came here by accident," I said.
"Ok, we'll trust you, but first, you have to tell us your names," he said.
"And will you return the favor?" I asked.
He looked shocked that I asked, but then he said, "Yeah, sure."
"Well, I'm Joe, the leader of this group," Joe said.
"I'm Monty," Monty said.
"I'm Triston," Triston said.
"My name is Lena," Lena said.
"And I'm Jamie Totsen," I said.
"How come they don't have last names?" the black one asked, still accusing us of being more than what we say.
"They don't think they should because our families have forgotten about us and they don't think they should keep it, but I do," I explained.
"Oh. Well, I'm Cole, leader of my group," the black ninja said.
"I'm Jay," said the one in blue.
"I'm Kai," the red one said.
"My name is Zane," the one in white said.
"And I'm Lloyd," the green one said.
Cole and Joe shook hands as a sign of respect. "So, Cole, you don't suppose you could tell us where we are, can you?" Joe asked.
"Well, right now you're in the Forest of Tranquility, but the main part of the land is called Ninjago," Cole replied.
"Hm, I see." Joe looked around.
"You're welcome to stay with us until you find a way back to Xeam," the green one blurted out.
"Are you sure?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure Sensei Wu would understand; right guys?"
The others nodded with uncertainty.
"Yay, we get to hang out with ninja!" Monty said.
It took forever for us to finally reach the top of the staircase, which by then, I could say I have never seen so many stairs in my entire life.
Cole opened the huge door that led into the monastery. "Come on in," he said.
"Whoa," I said as I entered the monastery. There were two golden dragons, one smaller than the other. There was also the huge training course set in front of us.
An old man walked out of the monastery. "Ah, I see that you've returned with… Visitors?"
"Uncle, can they please stay until they find a portal back to Xeam?" Lloyd asked.
"I guess, hello, I'm Sensei Wu, who are you?"
After we explained who we were, he lead us to our bedroom, and while the boy's got a room to themselves, so did me and Lena, despite the fact that we could've been in the same room as that girl, Nya.
As I climbed into bed with borrowed pajamas from Nya, I thought about my day. First, normal, then a brand new image sits in front of me.
"Hey," Joe said, "Lights out they said."
"Ok, goodnight," I said.
"Goodnight," Joe said and closed the door.
I can't believe I got my team into this predicament. First, we get attacked, and then we are probably going to get bombarded with questions tomorrow.
"Hey, Jamie, I think you should know something," Lena said.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"That ninja that is named Zane is a robot."
"How do you know?"
"I saw him open his arm on our way back here."
"You know, you're quite the observer."
"Thank you."
Jamie paused for a moment, thinking about how random it was for Lloyd to do that. Then, it clicked. "Lena, did you use your powers on Lloyd?"
"Well, where else would we have stayed tonight?"
I laughed slightly at this, knowing she meant well. "Well, try not to do that too much. Goodnight."
"Night."
I woke up in my bed to a pair of big yellow eyes. "Ah!" I got up to fast and our heads collided. This is the fifth time he's done this. "Monty!"
"OW! Can't you ever tell it's just me giving you a wake up call?" Monty asked, rubbing his head.
"Can't you ever get the hint that I don't feel like waking up to a pair of lizard eyes staring at me?" I asked.
He just shrugged. "Everyone else is awake and eating breakfast, so maybe you should put some day clothes on and scuttle downstairs, ok sleepyhead?"
I looked at the clock. 8:00 A.M. "I'll be down in a sec."
"One," he said, smiling.
"Ha, ha, very funny, now go before you use all your good jokes on me."
"Wow, Xeam seems to be a very complicated place," Kai said.
"So does Ninjago, I mean, having to deal with things coming back from the Underworld? How is that even possible? They're dead!" Lena questioned.
"Well, there are many things you can do, like you can ride a dragon to the underworld or…" Zane started.
"Ok," Cole interrupted, "before we can trust each other, we need to see what you guys can do."
"Would you like us to do a presentation or something?" Triston asked, trying not to sound sarcastic.
"Sure, I guess, but outside, ok?"
We walked outside and saw that they had prepared dummies for us.
My team sighed. Why couldn't they just give us real opponents, I guess they were thinking.
But nonetheless, Joe hit one dummy with a thorn that formed from his hand and started to tangle another in vines.
Monty shot water at his dummy and also made ice with his cold breath.
Triston grew claws, ferocious teeth, and extra hair and ripped apart a dummy.
And now it was my turn, so I threw fireballs, water sliced it, threw mounds of earth at it, and blasted it with a golden power of which I could only learn.
And now it was Lena's turn, but she was having a bit of trouble.
"Well?" Cole asked.
"Her powers don't work on inanimate objects to well," I explained.
"Well, she could try it on me, I guess," Jay offered.
"Ok, Lena let it rip," I told her.
She nodded and started, moving her fingers idly. Nothing seemed to be happening at first, but when we looked at Jay, he had his head down, like as if he was asleep, and was lifted high into the air. "I love pie," he said, but I knew that wasn't him. He was simply being told that.
"Ok Lena, I think they get it, you can put him down and let him out of his trance now," I said.
When she did, he immediately started to thrash around. "Who, what, where… What just happened? One minute, I was alert, the next, very drowsy and peaceful. What did she do?"
"She just hypnotized you and levitated you up into the air like a puppet," I said casually.
He looked like he wanted to say something, but no words escaped his mouth.
"So that's all you guys can do?" Cole asked.
"Well, we all have the ability to move inhumanly fast, but besides that, no," I said. "Now, when were you going to tell us that Zane is a robot?"
Cole blinked as Joe and Monty looked at Zane with a new outlook. "Well, we really didn't think you guys needed to know, but yeah, he's a nindroid."
"And you thought that we would be able to trust you even if you didn't tell us all your secrets, but yet we gave ours to you freely?"
"Well sorry, but we aren't the ones who invaded now were we?" Cole argued.
"Hey, don't talk to her like that," Triston said; eyes gleaming blood red and claws stretched, ready to attack at a moments notice.
"Hey, now we're going to violent, eh?" Cole said, taking out his scythe.
As me, Monty, Triston, and Joe were about to attack, Zane and Lena said in union "STOP IT ALREADY!"
That made me stumble back. I've never heard her yell like that. And I guess the ninja haven't heard a girl yell madly either because they stumbled too.
"Look, we are already in a bad situation as it is ok? It's bad enough that we probably won't see our friends for while, but it will be worse if we make more enemies now, won't it?" she asked.
"She's got a point," Joe admitted, putting the thorns away.
"Yeah, sorry for not telling ya'll about Zane, friends?" he asked, holding his hand out to Joe.
He took it. "Friends," he said.
Suddenly an alarm went off that made my team jump a little.
"Serpentine are at Jamonicai Village!" Nya yelled through the intercom.
"Serpentine? What are those?" Monty asked.
"Basically snakes that are the size of humans and have hands and feet; they also have a certain power according to their tribe. The Hypnobrai have the power of hypnosis so don't look in there eyes when their tails are rattling. The Fangpyre have long teeth so if they bite you, you start to turn into them. The Venomari spray venom in your eyes to make you hallucinate. And last but not least, the Constrictai can dig underground and could choke you very well," Cole explained.
As the rest of my team let this set in their minds, Lena asked, "Is there a way to tell them apart?"
"Well, the Hypnobrai are a lighter green than the Venomari and have red, spiral eyes. The Fangpyre are red with longer fangs than the others. The Venomari are a darker green and have black around their normal snake eyes. And then there's the Constrictai that are black mostly with scales on their backs. There used to be the Anacondrai, but he got eaten by the Great Devourer, and since Pythor was the only one, then their colony became extinct," Cole explained.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Monty said.
"Do you even know where you're going?" Triston asked.
"Nope, all I know is that I'm going somewhere," he replied.
We all ran after him to keep up, Nya riding in a contraption of some sort that was supposed to be a samurai.