3rd Person POV with Sensei Wu
Wu was meditating in his room on the Destiny's Bounty, the flying ship he and his students called home, while they were training up on deck as they docked the ship just outside of Ninjago's borders in the Badlands.
While in meditation, the spirit smoke showed him the six ninjas in their fighting stance with their weapons before a white-scaled Pythor.
They battled him fiercely, but he was, somehow, stronger and it seemed that all the ninja were about to be defeated when something dark streaked around and was able to land a hit on Pythor before horrifyingly familiar red and purple eyes filled his vision and the smoke dissipated.
Wu snapped out of the vision just as Misako walked through the door with a pot of hot water for his tea.
"What did you see this time?" Misako asked as she dropped a tea bag into the pot to steep.
"I must warn the ninja that Pythor has returned and so has the Overlord." Wu told her.
"Will you need my assistance?" Wu nodded in response as he got his bamboo staff and they walked out onto the deck into the high noon sun where the ninjas were battling against each other in equal pairs; Cole against Nya, Lloyd vs Zane, and Jay fighting Kai. Meanwhile, Xia, Zane's little sister, was sitting to the side meditating and hovering off the ground a bit from her powers of aura.
Cole was still a ghost, but had already adjusted to it and was finding ways to use his ghost abilities to his advantage, like how he was practicing going through obstacles on the course to avoid Nya's water sprays.
"Students!" He called out and everyone stopped training immediately apart from Cole, who barely managed to dodge a misfired water sphere.
"Yeah Sensei?"
"What is going on?"
"Is there trouble?"
"What is going on?"
All the ninjas talked over each other until Wu raised his staff to stop them and said,
"I have just had a vision, Pythor will return sooner than we expected."
"What?!" Jay yelled.
"We haven't seen that snake since the whole situation with the Overlord." Lloyd pointed out.
"The spirit smoke only revealed that he will return, not why, how, or when."
"Oh come on! There has to be some kind of clue you're Sensei Wu for crying out loud." Cole exasperated as he tried to facepalm, but his hand went through his head and he groaned in frustration.
"You all must be prepared, for I saw him facing against all of you at once and he nearly defeated you."
"How is that even possible? He could barely take us on when he had the Serpentine tribes under his control." Kai asked.
"Sensei is correct. We must be prepared for his return, wherever and whenever that may be." Xia told everyone.
"I will send the falcon to be our eyes in the sky for him." Zane stated as he launched the falcon from his arm compartment and sent it off to search for the Anacondrai snake.
"What're we s'posed to do while we wait?" Jay questioned.
"As luck would have it, we had a call earlier about helping to clean up in the village of Stiix." Misako joined in as she pulled up a chart on the Destiny Bounty's computer.
"Cleaning up Stiix? They still haven't cleaned up since the last time we were there with the whole Preeminent situation?" Nya asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, I guess it's been some time." Lloyd responded.
"Whatever the case may be, they need your help," Misako said as Wu went back down below deck and came back up with a rucksack on, "and we must go on another journey."
"What?! Where are you going?" Lloyd asked.
"I will be accompanying Wu on his journey." She answered, not giving any more information, as she pulled Lloyd into a hug.
As soon as the Bounty landed on the outskirts of Stiix, Wu and Misako went their separate way from the ninja as they went on into Stiix to help them clean up all the broken wood and trash piles off the docks.
"I will stay aboard the Bounty to guard it." Xia said as the ninja got off to get started.
"Be safe, Xia." Zane told her as he gave her a hug.
Just as they started to get to work, Lloyd bumped into a person who was wearing a black jacket with a hood over their head and carrying a box full of scrap metal.
"Sorry." Lloyd started to apologize.
"Watch it, ninja." The figure spat before walking away in the opposite direction.
"Man... what was his problem?" Lloyd asked himself.
"Rough crowd huh?" Kai asked since he saw the encounter and they all got to work.
A few hours had passed and the ninja managed to clean up most of the wood and had helped to repair a few houses the best they could.
Lloyd was picking up some broken planks when he heard a weird noise, like grunts and something metal being knocked over, coming from an alley nearby.
"Did you guys hear something?" Lloyd asked the others, but no one was nearby so he ventured in by himself.
It was dimly lit and there were a few trash cans and bags laying around, but, other than that, it looked empty so Lloyd was about to head back when he heard a someone groan in pain and when Lloyd looked behind a trash can, he saw the figure he had bumped into earlier on the ground with their box of scrap spilled over and they were laying on the ground on their stomach.
"What the...?" He started to say to himself until a vaguely ominous voice said,
"Well hello, old friend..."
"Pythor..." Lloyd whirled around and got into a fighting stance, searching for the source of the voice.
Out of nowhere, he was swept off his feet by a bleached white tail with purple markings and landed on his back where he was pinned into place by a metal rod.
"Sorry to cut our little reunion short, but it's not you I came for." Pythor raised the rod, about to bring it down on Lloyd, when something appeared in front of him and blocked it.