I'm so sorry this is really late! I've just been, still, uninspired, and procrastinating! If I ever do this again, I swear, I'll pitch myself off the Astronomy Tower, just kidding, I just wanted to make a Harry Potter refrence! Anyway, here's the next chapter!

(Nya's POV)

"They took Kai!" I chased after the bone vehicles, but they were already long gone, disappearing over the horizon faster than you could say, "Spinjitzu."

"As I told your brother; useless." Suddenly, Sensei Wu is behind me, rapping his old walking stick disapprovingly on the back of Kai's helmet, which had clattered onto the floor when the skeletons took him.

I bend down, picking the helmet off of the ground. It seemed wrong that he was gone in the blink of an eye, with only his helmet as evidence that he had ever fought to protect me in the first place.

"Please, will you help me get my brother back?" Is is the only thing I can think of to say.

He shakes his head. "Where they go, a mortal can not. That was Samukai, King of the Underworld. And if it is true that he is carrying out orders for Lord Garmadon, then things are far worse than I had ever thought."

Even Sensei seems to be against me today. Turning away, I pick up my staff and slid Kai's helmet ontomy head. I probably looked ridiculous wearing a helmet with a kimono, but by this point of time, I don't care. If I plan on hunting down Samukai, I'm going to need all the protection I can get.

"Where are you going?"

"To find my brother!" I keep walking, not even bothering to look back. Big mistake.

Before I can even take another step, a foot slams into my back. The wind is knocked out of me as my chin strikes the ground. Sensei Wu stands over me, still eeping his foot pressed against my back. It is impossible to stand up.

"You speak of fighting Samukai, but you can not even defeat my pinky toe," he wiggles his foot for added emphasis. "But, you have the fire inside of you. I will train you to harness it, use it, and become a spinjitzu master."

Was he seriously offering me to become a ninja? I couldn't become a ninja; I'm the samurai! Or should say, I will become the samurai?

If I accept Sensei's offer, I will be able to go after Kai with more training under my belt. I've seen what kind of damage those spinjitzu tornadoes can do. And maybe I can even get the guys to help me find my brother. It would certainly be easier to take Garmadon and Samukai as a group.

On the flip side though, if I accept Sensei's training, I'll just be messing up the future. Well, messing it up more than it already has been anyways. Perhaps I could convince Sensei Wu to simply train me, but make Kai a ninja after we rescue him.

It was worth a shot.

"I'm flattered that you think I'm all that," I started, "But I'm just not ninja material. Don't get me wrong though, I'd love to stay and train at your place, it's just that there's a lot of people out there who would make a better ninja then me. Something tells me that Kai would be a great ninja."

Sensei Wu pauses, and I hope that he will take the bait. Kai was the one he had wanted to train, right?

"It is true that when I first came to your village, I was convinced that it was Kai's destiny to become a spinjitzu master. However, he was hard-headed and arrogant, and was taken by Garmadon's skeleton army."

He glances at me. There is so much hope and confidence in his gaze that I find myself unable to look away. "I was wrong to believe that a girl couldn't be a ninja."

I remember Sensei telling me a very similar thing one day on the Bounty. At first, I had believed it was just a simple apology for doubting my skills. But now, I was beginning to wonder if it was something more; did he sometimes regret making Kai the ninja of fire?

Time travel was way too complicated!

"Perhaps I will just have to keep looking." The disappointment is clear in his voice as he walks away. Part of me wonders where he will look next. Birchwood forest? Ninjago City?

Soon, he is just a dot on the horizon. Slowly, he has almost disappeared from sight, taking all my chances of hoping to successfully stop Garmadon with him. I take one step towards him, then two.

Before I know it, I'm running after him shouting, "Wait! I'm coming with you!"

He stops and waits for me to catch up. I can see the creases of a smile in the corners of his eyes, although he manages to keep the rest of his face serious. Sensei Wu has found his final ninja.

Perfectly in stride, we head out of the village. Out of my past, and into a whole new life.