So here is the first chapter of the story! Hope you like it!
It was three years since the battle at the Corridor of Elders. It was three years since Garmadon's sacrifice. It was three years since he had seen Skylor.
Wu came into the boys' room, crashing the cymbal as an alarm. Kai groaned and rolled off the bed. Unfortounately, he slept on the top bunk and he ended up falling on Zane, who was calmly getting out of bed.
"You all know what day it is." Sensei said. "We are going to meet the other elemental masters in 3 hours. I suggest you get ready." Then Wu left the room and the ninja slowly got up to get ready.
Kai walked over to the bathroom and grabbed the tub of gel. He scooped some out with his fingers and started to spike his long brown hair. Ten minutes later once he was satisfied with his hair, he got changed into his ninja gi.
Then he went to the kitchen to get breakfast. He poured himself a bowl of Ninja Puffs cereal and brought it to the dining room. He saw all the other ninja, also eating their breakfast.
"So are any of you going somewhere before the meeting?" Jay asked, his mouth full of cereal. "Well I'm gonna go see Skylor. I'm giving her a lift." Kai said. "And I'm gonna help her close the shop before we leave."
"Are sure it's just 'helping'?" Cole chuckled. "Last time I remember you had some... feelings for her." Jay giggled as well. Kai looked at them and sighed. "No, no. Just helping her and a lift. That's all."
Kai quickly ate up his breakfast and left the Bounty, since it was parked. He got onto the Ultra Sonic Radar and detatched his bike from it. Then he started his drive to Ninjago City.
'Master Chen's Noodle House!' Kai read. He pushed open the door and walked inside. He saw lots of customers, and Skylor. She was making a bowl of noodles, and when she saw him a smile spread across her face. He walked over to her and gave her a hug.
"So ar-" Skylor coughed and started again. "So are you going to the meeting?" She smiled again and took a seat in front of him. Kai could swear he heard Clouse's voice come from her lips just then. He decided to ignore it. Maybe she can copy voices as well as powers.
"Yeah I am. And the rest of the team too." Kai said. He offered to help her and she told him to wash the dishes. Kai was more than happy to help. They started talking about the Tournament of Elements, and laughed at the memories. After all the customers finished their noodles, they left and Skylor closed the shop.
Kai walked to the shelves of vases and pots. "These are pretty. Where did you get them from?" Kai asked. He admired the designs on them. "I don't know. Chen said they belonged to my mother. I never knew her." Skylor looked at the ground and Kai put a comforting arm around her. "We'll find out what happened to her. And if she is even alive." Skylor leaned her head on his shoulder and whispered into his ear. "I already know."
Before Kai knew what was happening, Skylor tackled him to the ground. He quickly jumled up and pushed her onto a table. Then some purple energy orb was fired from her hands and it flew towards him. Kai jumped and did a flip to avoid it, but it hit the shelves behind him. They toppled over onto Kai, and when he tried to get up, his leg wouldn't respond.
Kai tried to look at his leg, but his whole body was squashed by the shelf. Kai assumed that one of the big heavy vases had fallen onto his leg. He lay on the floor, helpless. He saw Skylor's shoes walk towards him, but then she groaned and stumbled backwards, falling onto the ground.
Glowing green feet suddenly appeared, and some black trainers emerged. The trainers glowed purple as they transformed into orange shoes. He heard a voice speak. "What should we do with them?" Kai recognised the voice immediately. Clouse. Then Kai facepalmed himself, if he could move his arms. Of course! They never stopped him from escaping the Cursed Realm.
The other one started speaking. It was a woman, and Kai didn't recognise their voice. "Take the fire boy. Do what you want with her." Kai saw Clouse's feet walk away, and walk back. He leaned down, holding a knife. Clouse turned her onto her stomach and stabbed the back of her shoulder, where the tattoo was. "Traitor." Clouse muttered, and he stood up, leaving Skylor in a pool of blood. Kai started screaming at Clouse to stop and tried to get up, but his leg stayed limp.
Clouse approached him and held the knife at his throat. "You be quiet, boy, or else." Kai looked into Clouse's dark purple eyes and nodded. "Good." His eyes glinted. "You're coming with us."
Lloyd and the ninja drove to the Corridor of Elders in the Ultra Stealth Radar. They were 10 minutes early. There was Bolobo, Griffin, Karloff and Toxikita. They waited for another 5 minutes and the rest turned up, apart from Kai, Skylor, Camille and Neuro. Maybe Palman; they couldn't see him.
After another 10 minutes, they still weren't there. "Does anybody know where they are?" Gravis asked. "Kai said he was going to meet Skylor at the noodle shop. Griffin, can you go check if they're there?" Lloyd said. Griffin nodded and speeded off. A few seconds later he returned with a worried look on his face. "Kai isn't there. Skylor is on the floor, unconscious in a pool of blood. A shelf has been knocked on the floor, and there are plates smashed."
Everybody stared at him, and then Lloyd took off on his elemental dragon, the others following him. Something had happened to Kai, and Lloyd needed to save his older brother.
Jay followed Lloyd on his elemental dragon, and in a few minutes they arrived in Ninjago City. They landed and ran straight through the door to the noodle shop, to find exactly what Griffin had described : broken plates, a knocked over shelf, and unconscious Skylor in a pool of blood, and no Kai!
Jay started looking around for his missing brother, and some others tried to stop blood flowing from her wound more than it already was. Cole took off his mask and wrapped it around the wound on her shoulder.
"Let's get back to the Bounty!" Lloyd shouted, grabbing her arms and gently slinging her over his shoulder.
Nya used her water powers to clear up the blood on the floor and the elemental masters travelled to the Bounty. As Jay was helping Skylor onto the table, he remembered. "Wait, did Camille or Neuro ever turn up?" They had been so concerned about Kai and Skylor that they had forgotten about them.
"Maybe they encountered the same thing as Kai." Zane said as he walked into the room with a medical kit. "Ninja, stay here." Lloyd ordered. "The rest of you, go see if you can find Camille or Neuro. Or Kai and Clouse. And stay in pairs!"
Nya quickly ran to her room and back, holding some wristband communicators. She handed them out and told them that they could use them if they found anybody, or if they were in trouble. With that the elemental masters jumped off the Bounty and summoned their elemental dragons and flew off.
Then Sensei Wu entered the room and looked at what was before him. He saw his pupils - minus Kai - standing over an injured Skylor. Before he could ask questions Jay started screaming answers. "Yes I know we're meant to be at the meeting but while we were waiting Camille and Neuro and Kai and Skylor didn't turn up and we found out that Clouse possessed Skylor and made her attack Kai and *takes a big breath* now we don't know where he is and we think that Clouse stabbed Skylor in the shoulder and now the other elemental masters are searching for them and the reason that Camille and Neuro didn't turn up may be because Clouse also attacked them too."
Jay bent over and started gasping for air after emptying his lungs. Wu just stood there, and Jay knew he was hiding something from them. Their sensei quickly left, and Jay assumed he was going to his meditation room.
Zane removed Cole's mask from Skylor's shoulder. "Oowww..." She moaned. Zane got some painkillers and injected them into her shoulder. Her breathing became more calm as as her shoulder became numb. Jay remembered when he sprained his ankle while climbing the piles of junk in the junkyard, and how his mum had given him the painkillers. He smiled at the memory and realised how much he missed his parents. "Done!" Zane said, finishing wrapping the bandage around her shoulder. "Let's get Skylor to the guest room. I'll stay here with her. The rest of you can go and see if you can find Kai or Clouse."
After Skylor lay down on the bed, Zane stayed while the rest of the ninja ran down to get to the Ultra Sonic Radar. "Hey Nya. Do you wanna go with me?" Jay asked, smiling. "Sure." Nya giggled. In the way that made Jay's heart melt like butter.
Jay and Nya sped off together. "Where do you want to go?" Nya asked. "The junkyard?" Jay answered. It was just an excuse to see his parents again. "And then my father's house." So then the two drove away from town towards the junkyard.
Nya knew that Jay just wanted to see his parents' house. Adopted and biological. But Nya didn't mind going there, so she followed Jay. They soon arrived and Ed and Edna approached them, their arms stretched out for a hug. They instantly squeezed Jay, despite his protests. Then Edna gave a big hug to Nya, who returned the embrace.
"Nice of you to come by, kiddo. Why'd you come by?" Ed asked, putting an arm around his son. "Well, three of the elemental masters have gone missing, including Kai, and we think that one of our old enemies have taken them. We just came to see if they were here, and also to see you guys again." Just then, a voice came from Nya's wristband. It was Griffin.
"Hello? Anybody?"
"Griffin? What is it?" Nya responded.
"They took Gravis. Clouse and somebody else. I don't know who it it though."
"What did they look like?" Jay asked, joining the conversation.
"They wore an orange robe and had a red hood. I couldn't see their face. They sounded like a woman."
"Try and follow them. We need to know where they're headed. It might lead us to Kai."
"Okay." After a few seconds, Griffin started shouting again. "Oh no, they've seen me! Run!" After that there was a lot of grunting and then they didn't hear Griffin's voice. But a new one appeared. A woman's. "Who are you?" They asked.
"I don't know. Who are you?" Jay replied. The woman on the other end chuckled. "I know you. You are Jay Walker, the master of lightning. You are one out of the six ninja. And I'm guessing the other is Nya Smith, the master of water. She is independant and doesn't want to be part of a boy's group. She wants to be Samurai X. But she inherited her mother's water powers, and has trained to be the water ninja."
Nya and Jay stared at each other in disbelief. There was no way that this person knew everything about them. It must be somebody else. "How do you know this?" Nya demanded. The woman chuckled. "I know all the elemental masters. I knew Ray and Maya Smith. I knew Libber Gordon. I knew your parents." Nya's mouth dropped open even more. "My... my parents?"
"Yes Nya. Ray, your father is the master of fire. Maya, your mother is the master of water." They hissed. "What do you mean by 'is'?" Nya thought her parents were dead. They had to be. "That is not for me to answer. You wait. (Time Twins XD) Well, we had a nice chat, didn't we? Sorry I have to go. These two elemental masters are in for a real treat." And then they were gone. Griffin was gone. Gravis was gone. And Nya's parents... weren't gone?
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