Chapter two: Snakes in a Barrel

(Sorry about the long delay, I got busy. Also, I'll try to improve on Johnny. But now let's get started) [...] super whispers

Johnny looked at the Serpentine, as they slithered around the small village. He hide back behind the fruit basket, and muttered, "Serpentine being evil again, the green ninja is a kid and stealing candy," he then gasped, "I must be in the past!"

He then noticed a person ran past him. Johnny looked around the corner of his hiding spot, and saw the person had a familiar look to it. It was Nya, the great Samurai, and the ninja of water!

"Nya?" Johnny muttered, as he looked in awe. He look around the place, to make sure that no snakes were near him, and quickly follow the past water ninja. Johnny tried to keep up with her the best he can. After a few minutes, he stop and heard Kai's voice from the corner. "Nya?"

"You're okay!" Jay's voice explains in relieved. Johnny's eyes widened. The ninja are here already?! He then thought about this for a moment. 'Oh wait, they're supposed to be here.'

"Barely. They hypnotized everyone in town." Nya explained to them. Jay looked at the others, shocked by this information. "Mind control." he questions at the info, "How is this possible?"

"When you hear them rattle their tails, not look at them in the eyes. That how they get you." Nya imformed them.

"What are we supposed to do? We can't use our weapons, and now we gotta fight with our eyes closed? Ha! Perfect." Jay complain at this. Nya then told them, "The snake with the staff is the general. He's the one in charge. If we can get the staff from him, it holds the antivenin. If we get that, we can save everyone."

Johnny then look at the ground and mumble, "Ohh... that's how they did it. But anyway, maybe if I help out the ninja, I can have a small chance to meet them personally. And I need to stop talking to myself."

He then saw the Ninja on the roofs of the houses to try and sneak attack on the enemy. Johnny started walking around slowly, trying not to be seen by some of the Serpentine.

He grabbed a wooden harp, hoping that it will be a good weapon; and walked up to one of the snakes. He lifted his harp up in the air in attack mode, but he then stop. "No... I can't hurt it, sure it's evil, but I don't like hurting people."

The serpentine looked behind him and saw Johnny. The snake hissed in anger, and Johnny squeaked out, "Opps." Then the snake tried to hypnotized him. But, there's one thing... Johnny can't be hypnotized.

Johnny blinked at it before saying, "Soo... is something supposed to happen? Or..." The snake's eyes widened in shock at the fact that the hypnotizing didn't work on this human. So, it had a plan B and started attacking Johnny.

Johnny screamed and hid by a barrel, and nervously started to play the harp. He tried to think of something to do to defend himself, then he stupidly try to pretend that he is a ninja. Genius idea (#sarcasm).

"With the power of my harp [or music,} I will defeat you!" He cried out, and hold on the harp like it was a weapon. Then out of nowhere, purple music notes floated around the surrounding serpentine. The notes then exploded, with a harp-filled noises when it did, and knock down the enemies.

Johnny stared at this in silence, before yelling in confusion, "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?! I was only joking about that! I didn't want to hurt the snakes!" he then started to slightly panic. He quickly hid behind a barrel to make sure that no more Serpentine see him.

"Cole, you have the antivenin." Nya's voice said. Johnny stopped panicking of one moment and saw Cole holding the staff. Cole realized that he had it in his hands. "By golly, you're right."

"Quick, the fountain." Nya pointed out. Johnny then saw Cole putting the staff into the fountain and a thin mist came out, and cured the villagers. He sighted in relief and looked at them as they talked. Also their sensei appeared out of nowhere.

"We're sorry, sensei." Kai apologized, "If we had dealt with Lloyd before he became a problem, none of this would have been necessary."

Wu looked at Kai and told him, "Even lessons learned the hard way, are lessons learned." He then looked at the distance and muttered, "Hm. A great evil has been released. I fear troubling times will come. This is only the beginning."

Zane then walked up to them, "Then we will train and be ready for the serpentine."

"It may not be Lord Garmadon, but that doesn't mean we won't bring out A game." Cole told their Sensei as he walk towards the group.

Johnny stared in awe at this, looking at how the Ninja acted like back then. Then, Sensei Wu looked in Johnny's direction and spotted him, "Looks like we have a new student of the art of spinjitzu."

Johnny looked around the area then back at the sensei and asked, "W-w-who? M-me?" He couldn't believe this, the greatest sensei of all time is asking him to be his student. "B-but... why?"

"Yeah, why him?" Questioned Kai. Sensei Wu walked up to the young man and said, "I had saw that you defeated some of the serpentine by yourself."

"I-I didn't mean to do it," object Johnny, "i-it was a mistake.. a strange, odd, and totally not normal mistake."

Sensei Wu shook his head, "It's no mistake, it was seems that you are the long forgotten element of Music."

Johnny's jaw drops as he heard that. Him, a Ninja, no way.

Jay looked at Sensei Wu with a confused look, "Why is it forgotten? I mean, it's still an element right?" Wu looked at the lightning ninja and answered, "It's forgotten because it is a special element that very few people know about." Johnny smiled shyly at that, him, special?

"It's also forgotten because it is obtained by kind hearted souls." Wu continued, making Johnny to frowned annoyed. "But... with training, it can still be a powerful element."

Cole sighed disappointedly, "So, this shy guy, is an element of music? I don't know." He then turn to face Johnny, "So, do you want to join our team?"

Johnny eyes light up and his smile nearly destroyed his face, "Oh my... Thank you, I mean yes. Yes, I would love to join." He then looked at Wu and did a small bow shyly, "T-thank you Master Wu."

Sensei Wu nodded his head then the group, plus Johnny, who was all the way behind them, walking to the dragons. Nya sighed in disappointment, "When am I gonna get my own dragon?" she asked to no one particular.

'Someday, when you are the water ninja.' Johnny thought in his head. Sensei Wu lightly chuckled at her, "Patience, Nya. Your time will come."

Everyone got on a dragon and flew back to the monastery. Johnny still can't believe that he is going to be like them. He still had his doubts about this, because he's way too kind to people and doesn't like to hurt others. The Ninja are going to have a hard time making him a fighter.

(Hope you like this chapter, and we'll see what happens next time, bye.)