2. Home
So I now have a schedual and I'm trying to keep to it. So every Friday I will update. If it's not updated Friday it will be Saturday. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review!
Sensei sat meditating.
"Uh my turn. It's my turn."
"Okay want a little more? Take this."
Wu's eyes popped opened. He stood up and took a flute from a stand and placed it in a cabnit. He walked into the game room to find it empty. He turned and looked outside to see the ninja actually training.
"Ninja-go!" Kai yelled as he used Spinjitzu.
Zane, who was meditating, suddenly jumped up. He jumped infront of Jay, making him lose his concentration. Zane jumped over to Cole and took his sythe. "Hey. What?" Cole asked confused. Zane cut a dumby in half and used Spinjitzu. The ground and obsticles frozed over. Kai, who was still in his vortex, fell as he reached the ice. He walked over to Cole and Jay.
"This roof isn't big enough for the four of us," he said.
"Correction. This roof isn't big enough for him," Cole correct.
"It's like he's in his own world," Jay added. "I bet he can't even hear us!" Zane only barely looked over his shoulder. He threw his shurikens and jumped before catching them. Sensei walked over to the three.
"Sensei Zane's... Weird," Kai said.
"What is weird? Someone who is different, or someone who is different than you?" Sensei asked.
"No no Sensei he's... Weird, weird," replied Cole.
Cole was sitting on the toilet reading the newspaper. Zane walked in and began combing his hair. "Do you mind?" Cole growled.
Jay and Nya were crying at a movie. Suddenly Zane breaks out in laughter. Jay and Nya turn and give him an odd look.
Kai opened the fridge to find a note from Zane. It read, 'I'm sorry. I've consumed the last of the deli meat. Cheese?'
Zane bowed to the dumby which arms popped out, hitting Zane. "We like the guy," Kai said. "He's really smart. He's just, a little off sometimes."
"Zane is a brother, and brothers are often different. I should know," Sensei told them.
A man with a basket on his back was walking up the monistary steps. He looked up to see he had a long way to go. Eventually he reached the top. He set the basket down and pushed the doorbell. It made a gong sound which startled him.
"Mail!" the ninja cheered as they heard the gong. They rushed to door and opened it.
The mailman sighed and said, "Let's see. A letter from Jay's parents. Kai has a fan letter. Oh and something from Cole's father." He handed each of them their mail.
"What no package? I'm expecting something from Creature Beast and Beyond," Cole complained.
"No nothing from uh... Oh ah here it is," he said handing Cole a package.
Cole took it and said, "Rocky's gonna love this." He turned and ran off, forgetting about the letter from his father.
Jay and Kai opened their letters. Zane slowly walked through the court yard a little ways. Sensei Wu walked over to Jay and Kai as Jay asked, "Hey Zane, how come you never hear anything from your parents?"
"I don't remember my parents," Zane replied. "I have been an orphan all of my life."
"You mean you've never had a home?" asked Kai. Zane shook his head.
"The monistary is your home now," Wu told Zane. Zane turned away and walked inside.
Cole opened his package and pulled out a dead frog. "Liver and toads, Rocky, your favorite," he said, tossing it to his dragon. Rocky gulped it down in no time.
Two serpentine watched what Cole was seeing. "I can't believe you hypnotized on of the ninja," the scout snake said in a hushed tone. "Does the general know?"
"Of course not!" the other one hissed. "He's been put under the control of Lloyd, and I plan to use it for my besssst interesssst."
The scout walked away as the general approached them. "Everyone works while you two sssslack," he growled. "As my second in command, I expect more from you Sssskalessss!"
"Yessss general," Skales said, bowing. The general began to slither away. "General, you know I am most loyal to you, but I must question this childissssh agena. The ninja have stolen our tribe's staff, yet you instruct your army to make this play house for Lloyd. Ssssnakes don't belong in treessss."
"You know better than to question my judgement, Sssskales. I'll pretend you didn't assssk," the general snapped.
"Hey!" Lloyd called from down below. The two snakes looked down to him. "If we plan to rule Ninjago from here, this elevator needs to have a trap door. I want more boobytraps!"
"As you wish," the general bowed. "Young Garmadon." He waved his hand towards Skales.
"As you wish, general," Skales hissed, bowing once again to his leader. He turned and walked inside.
The ninja sat around the table. "I love it when it's Zane's night to cook," Jay said.
"Hey, I didn't hear any complaints about my duck chowder last night," Cole told them.
"That's because it glued our mouths shut," Kai informed him. "You really thought Jay was speechless all through out dinner?"
"Yeah, please don't make that again," Jay pleaded.
"Dinner is surved," Zane said, walking out with a pink apron on. Everyone began laughing. Zane looked at them confused. "What's so funny?"
"Zane," Nya said. "You're wearing a... Even I would wear that."
"You laugh because I take steps to insure I am clean after cooking?" Zane asked, not understanding.
"No," Kai corrected. "We laugh because you came out wearing that rediculous outfit."
"I guess we don't share the same sense of humor," Zane thought aloud.
"Well how 'bout this?" Cole asked, shoving a plate of shrimp into Kai's face. He started to laugh, followed by the others. Sensei Wu got up and walked around the table. "How can you not find that funny?" Cole asked. Sensei dumped a bowl onto Cole's head causing him to scream.
Wu and Kai chucked. "Now, you are brothers," Wu said. Everyone began laughing again and throwing food at each other. Zane watched, but still didn't seem to understand why it was so funny. Some food flew at him and got stuck on his apron.
Zane walked outside and put the garbage into the dumpster. He took off his apron and looked up at the starry sky. He heard something and turned his head to see a falcon sitting on a tree branch near by. He tilted his head and the falcon mimicked him. Zane shook his head, and so did the falcon.
Started to like this, Zane began to dance, causing the falcon to do a small dance. The falcon turned its head and jumped to the edge of the branch. It turned back to Zane before taking off. Zane glanced back inside before taking off down the steps. He followed he bird through the woods. It lead him to Lloyd's tree house which was lit up by red lights.
"If I see one girl in here, I'm gonna go bulistic," Lloyd told the snakes as they carried him on a table.
Zane looked up to the falcon and said, "Thank you, my mysterious friend." Zane turned to head back by stopped when he noticed another ninja dressed in pink. Her attention was towards Lloyd and his new head quarters. He approached her and she turned to him.
"You're one of the ninja, right?" she asked in a quiet tone.
"Yes, and who are you?" Zane replied.
"My name is Alex," she said, looking back to the tree house. "You're attacking in the morning, aren't you?"
"Well..." Zane started.
The girl looked back to Zane. "Do what you wish to the serpentine, but promise to leave the boy alone. He doesn't understand the evil he's unleashed," Alex said before taking off with in the shadows.
"Alex..." Zane repeated her name. "I promise." He turned and ran back up towards the monistary.
The next day, the ninja ran through the forest following Zane. He stopped and looked around, remembering which path he had taken the night before.
"I don't even think Zane knows where he's going," Kai said, looking to the others. They caught up to Zane. "Uh, tell us again how you stumbled upon Lloyd's secret head quarters."
"I followed a bird," Zane said as an explanation.
"Why did you follow a bird?" Jay asked.
"Because it danced," Zane replied.
"Oh, okay," Jay said as if he was crazy. "Was it a coco bird?" He, Cole, and Kai laughed.
"Of course not," Zane replied to his friend's rhetorical question. "Everyone knows coco birds are not insidious to these forests."
The others exchanged looks before comtinuing to follow Zane. Finally, they arrived at the tree house which was almost complete.
"Watch it!" Lloyd's voice echoed. "No bigger! Come on we don't have all day, it's not time for a lunch break."
"Holy cunoly, Frosty was right," Cole said.
"We can't let that rat and those snakes get a foothold of Ninjago," Kai told them. "We have to destroy that thing before it becomes operational."
"Are you sure? It looks like a pretty cool treehouse!" Jay exclaimed. "It's got a rope coarse, a tree swing..."
"Hey," Cole inturrupted. "Remember who's team you're on. All right guys, what do we do?"
"Okay, it looks like the entire thing is supported by hose three trees," Kai noted, pointing at the trees. "Once those are severed, the whole thing will come down like a house of cards."
"But why would one make a house of cards?" Zane asked. "Such construction would be careless."
"Ah brother," Kai mumbled.
"Travel by shadows, boys," Cole instructed. They all followed him to the treehouse.
Kai waited for two snakes to walk by before grabbing a rope and cutting it. It swung him up onto the fort itself.
Cole hid under the elevator as it went up. One of the two snakes on top hit the other for no reason. The other one hit him back.
Jay and Zane climbed the tree nearby. Jay almost fell backwards, but Zane caught his hand just in time saying, "Gotcha."
The ninja regrouped on the roof and looked down into the treehouse through a hole in the roof. They saw Lloyd and a snake. "It's almost finished," Lloyd said. "Soon, my fortress will be complete. You!" The snake jumped and turned to Lloyd. "Hold that sign for me."
The snake quickly grabbed a sign that read 'No girls, ninja'. Lloyd pushed a lever and a trap door opened up beneth the snake. He fell to the ground and Lloyd ran over to the hole. "Boobytrap!" he yelled. The snake hit different parts of the tree fort on the way down. He sat up dizzily.
The ninja went up to the roof. Jay, Zane, and Cole all picked a rope to break. Kai stood on the top of the roof watching. Jay was the first to break a rope.
"Ninja-Go!" he said as he spun into a blue vortex. He cut the rope, causing the tree house to tilt. Snakes began falling onto the ground.
"Ninja-Go!" Zane shouted, spinning into his icy white-blue vortex. He cut the rope causing the treehouse to tilt the other way.
Lloyd slid down the hall and caught himself on the rail. He looked up and saw Kai. "I said no ninja!" Lloyd shouted. "Attack!"
"Everyone, retreat!" Skales yelled. The snakes continued to fall off and others made their way to the ground.
"Cole!" Kai hollored. "Wait till we're off the treehouse. Then cut the line!"
Skales turned to Cole and said, "You, will obey my every command."
"I will obey your every command," Cole said, bowing.
Jay and Zane jumped over to Kai. "Where's Cole?" Jay asked.
Kai pointed to where the earth ninja was. "This whole place is coming down."
Cole jumped onto the treehouse, drawing his Sythe of Quakes. "No one goes anywhere, until you deal with me," he growled.
The others began to back away as Cole got closer. "What's gotten into him?" Kai asked.
"He's under their control," Zane replied.
"Yeah, well he better snap out of it quick because this whole place looks like it's coming down," Jay told them.
"Don't go," Lloyd said to the snakes. "We have to protect my treehouse fortress."
"Your treehouse?" Skales hissed. "It's about time we did thissss."
"Did what?" Lloyd asked.
Skales pulled a lever causing the trap door to open up on Lloyd. Lloyd fell down to the ground as the serpentine that watched him fall laughed. "Now to get the sssstaff!" Skales commanded.
The ninja continued to back away from Cole. "Okay now come on, friends don't hit friends," Jay tried reasoning. Cole kicked Jay in the face. "Okay I'm gonna ignore that."
Cole kicked at the ninja, missing. He turned away, catching his breath. He turned back and swung his sythe at Kai.
"What are we suppose to do?" Kai asked. "If I use my sword, this place will go up in flames faster than a cinder block." Cole swung his sythe at Kai agian, missing.
"Isn't the anti venom in the staff?" Zane asked, avoiding a swing from Cole.
"Yeah, but the staff's back at the monistary," Jay reminded them.
Cole managed to hit Kai in the chest, causing him to fly backwards. He hit a post and it broke. He fell backwards, being caught by Zane last second. "Jay use your lightning," Zane said, throwing Kai back onto the roof. "Try to shock him out if his trance."
Jay pulled out his Nunchucks of Lightning. "Sorry Cole. This is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna hurt me," said Jay as he swung his nunchucks. He struck the air in front of him, causing a ball of lightning to hit Cole.
Cle flew back and landed on the roof. He sat up and opened his eyes, which were still red meaning he wasn't free of the serpentine's grip. He charged at Jay and punch him, making him fall off the roof.
"Jay!" Kai and Zane said in unison.
Jay caught a rope and swung back up onto the roof. "That is a serious safety hazard," he jokingly said.
Cole turned and ran up the rope behind him. He lifted his sythe to cut it. "No, Cole don't!" Kai yelled.
"No, Cole, no!" Zane shouted.
Soothing flute music began to play and Cole stopped. Sensei Wu and Nya flew in on Flame, Kai's dragon. His eyes returned to normal and he asked, "Where am I? What are we doing?"
"We're getting out of here because this whole place is coming down!" Nya shouted from the dragon. Cole hopped onto the back of Flame.
The treehouse became to unstable and began to collapse. Jay, Kai, and Zane ran to the otherside of the roof and jumped onto the dragon. As they flew off the treehouse collapsed.
"That flute," Kai started.
"It cancels their powers," Jay finished.
"It is as old as the serpentine themselves," Wu informed his pupils. "But we must hurry, the monistary's unguarded." They flew off across the forest.
They arrived at the monistary but it was burnt down. "We're too late," Kai noted.
Cole noticed the other dragons were still cooped up. "Rocky," he gasped. Flame landed and Cole hurried down the stairs to the lever. He pulled it and the dragons flew out.
"Our home," Kai said, pulling his mask back and looking around.
"Shard, put this out!" Zane yelled to his dragon. Shard obeyed and blew ice onto the fire, causing it to go out. The ninja stared at the ruins for a moment. Finally, Zane said, "The training equipment, gone."
"All our video games, gone!" Jay exclaimed.
"They stole back their staff," Sensei Wu informed them.
"What do we do now?" Cole asked. Rocky nussled up to him and Cole began petting his dragon.
Kai picked up a piece of charcoal and crushed it in his hand. Rage took over and he approached Zane. "If you hadn't have followed that silly bird, none of this would have happened," he blamed his friend.
"Kai," Sensei warned.
"No he's right," Jay growled, running over to Zane. "Because of you, my high score has been deleted!"
"This is a teaching moment," Zane said, trying to find the bright side. "We must learn from this."
"A teaching moment?" Cole questioned angrily. "What's wrong with you? Don't you get it? Everything is gone!"
"Enough," Wu inturrupted. "We are all at fault. Zane is your brother, apologize at once."
The three looked down in shame. They turned around and Kai began by saying, "I'm sorry Zane. I..." He stopped and noticed Zane had disappeared. They looked into the distance and saw Shard flying away.
The Hypnobrai walked back down into their tomb. Skales held the staff in his hand. One of the other snakes was holdin one end of a rope, Lloyd was tied to the other end. "Do something general," he whispered. "You're still under my command, right?"
The general stared at Lloyd for a moment. Then he loudly yelled, "Enough! I am the general. You will return my sssstaff at oncccce!"
"No," Skales challenge. The other snakes began murmuring about Skales.
"You dare challenge my command?" the general asked. Lloyd nodded in delight.
"Slitherpit, slitherpit, slitherpit," the other snakes began to chant.
Skales nodded in agreement. "I guess we will have to fight for it," Skales said, amused. "In, the slitherpit!" The snakes cheered.
Skales handed another snake the staff as he prepared for the fight. The snake took the staff into what looked like an ice statue of a snake's mouth. "Winner gets the staff and leads the tribe," he informed them. "You know the rules, there are none. But in the slitherpit, whatever I say goes." The two snakes nodded to him. "All right, fight!"
The two snakes circled each other for a moment. The general swung his tail and Skales jumped so he wouldn't be tripped. Skales three a punch at the general whom caught his hand. He punch at Skales, just barely missing his face. The warrior snake kicked the general backwards.
Lloyd watched the fight and looked away. He noticed a rolled up piece of paper and began reaching for it. The rope that was tied to a stalagmite prevented him from getting too close. Lloyd looked to a snake that was close by, making sure he wasn't watching him.
"Two weapons!" the slitherpit ref snake ordered. Another snake pulled a lever lowering a rack with multiple weapons on it. The general grabbed a shield and a pick axe while Skales grabbed two swords.
The general threw the pick axe at Skales. The warrior moved out of the way and the ice weapon struck the wall causing a stalagtite to fall on him. He used his shield to avoid being hit.
"Sidewinder!" A snake pulled another lever causing the ground below the battlin snakes to tilt. Skales and the general began to slide to where the ground was tilted down.
Lloyd continued to reach for the paper and finally grabbed it. He slid it into his back pocket and turned back to the fight. "Go general go!" he cheered, making a snake turn to look at him funny.
The general began to rattle his tail as he attempted to hypnotize Skales. At the last moment, Skales kicked the general in the face and began swinging his swords at him. The general used his shield to block them. Skales stopped and began to move his body side to side. The general looked at him confused and Skales ceased the moment. Her ran up and kicked the generals chin up, doing a spiral spin in the air.
The general fell and a scout said, "He used Fangwando!" Skales began to walk towards the general.
"Get up, get up," Lloyd called. The general attempted I get up, but failed.
"We have a winner!" the referring snake said. He held up Skales hand. The other snakes began to cheer as the snake handed Skales the staff.
The staff began to shake as a gold light surrounded Skales. His two legs merged together to form a tail. As this happened, the former general's tail began to disappear. He now had legs and Skales was the one with a tail. "Skales! Skales!" the Hypnobrai chanted.
"You will be loyal to me now," Skales ordered, pointing he staff at the has been general.
"I will do as you command," the snake obeyed. Lloyd shook his head in horror as his power over the Hypnobrai vanished.
"You," Skales hissed, turning to Lloyd. "Leave now and never return." Lloyd backed away a bit, now scared of Skales.
The ninja were under a small shelter with a fire going. Their dragons sat outside near them. "What are we eatin again?" Kai asked as Jay threw a rock.
"Mud newt," Cole replied. "Not bad for something that lives underground."
"Gah," Jay threw down his and coughed into his hand. He threw another rock and it landed in a Tim can a few feet away. "Yeah, I new high sc-core."
Rocky shook his head and laid it back down. "Remember, we must be thankful for what we still have," Sensei Wu reminded them.
"What do we have?" Cole questioned. "Our home is gone."
"You know, I don't miss out home. What I really miss, is Zane," Kai confessed.
"Yeah. I miss Zane," Jay agreed.
"Zane?" Nya asked.
"Yeah Zane. You know white ninja. The smart strange one," Jay replied.
"No, Zane!" Nya exclaimed pointing over to where the ninja of ice walked over to them.
"Zane!" they cheered in unison. They ran over to him.
"Zane we're sorry for what we said," Jay apologized. "We're a team and that means we're all responsible."
"You don't need to apologize to me," Zane told them.
"But all those awful things we said, isn't that why you left?" Kai questioned.
"Of course not," Zane said. "I saw the falcon again and followed him."
"That's our Zane," Cole smiled.
"We're happy to have you back," Nya said as they group hugged.
"Why? Is it my turn to make dinner?" Zane asked.
"Yes Zane. We would love for you to make dinner," Sensei told him.
"But I already made it. Come, I want to show you what I've found," Zane said, beginning to walk away. "I'm sure you will all be pleased." The ninja exchanged glanced but only shrugged as they followed. They walked through the desert for a while before Zane turned to them. "I can't explain it, but I feel a strange connection with the falcon. I think he's trying to help show us the path we need to take." They continued to walk and behind a rock, a huge broken down ship lied. "Our new home."
"Do I smell pie?" Jay asked through he murmuring of his teammates.
"Cobblerberry," Zane replied. "And I've made blurblerberry and apple and..."
The ninja stared in awe at the ship. Jay sniffed the air and sighed. Everyone but Zane and Sensei rushed to the ship.
"I am proud of you Zane," Sesei said. "One of these days, I promise, we will find your family."
"But I've already found them," Zane informed him, looking to the ninja and Nya.
Sensei smiled and continued, "I feel you are more than meets the eye. There's something special about you, Zane."
"Sesei, will I become the green ninja," Zane couldn't help but ask.
"It's too early to tell," Sensei had to inform him. "But if it's in your path, you'll know. Come now, it's be ashame to let them eat all that pie." They went to the ship and began eating with he others. They laughed and had a great time together.
Lloyd watched them from a distance. Alex walked up behind Lloyd. "That looks like it'd be nice," she said. Lloyd turned around and began walkin away. "What?" Alex questioned. "No, 'Hey Alex, how've you been?' or 'Nice to see you again.'?"
"I will have my revenge on the Hypnobrai," Lloyd mumbled.
"Okay, ask the ninja," Alex suggested, following behind him.
"No, I have a better idea," Lloyd said with a wicked smiled. He held up the map he stole from the Hypnobrai tomb. Alex sighed and looked back over her shoulder. She continued to follow Lloyd.