Who knew having your parents ask you more than I thousand questions could be this tiring! I groaned as I fell down on the bed. I gave a sigh and rolled onto my back, facing the ceiling. I need to go visit my parents sometime. There was a faint muffling coming from outside the room. I sat upright and tried listening more carefully.

"Your parents are interesting." The voice of Lloyd said while stifling a laugh. I heard a groan and a door opening.

"Yeah...very interesting..." Jay said.

"They are not that bad, Jay. At least they care," Cole said.

"Yes, I know. We had this talk before..." A door closed. I lay down again. The moonlight was dimly shining through the window making unusual figures on the floor. I loved my parents and it was really great seeing them again but sometimes they're too much. I went through my day trying to make sure I didn't miss anything.

1. I woke up three days later with no memory of what happened to me!? What the brick happened?!

2. Nya somehow fixed the bounty with the help of my parents.

3. My parents took 4 hours questioning us.

4. I wanted to throw this guy named Dareth of the boat.

5. We got to the monastery and ate something.

6. The sensei's also questioned us.

7. It wasn't even mid-day and I was tired.

8. I took a shower and changed clothes because the ones I was wearing were stained with blood. What the hell?!

9. Jay told me it was normal having blood on your clothes after a fight. I'm still not convinced…

10. My mom insisted on making dinner before leaving. Weird…

10. At dinner, I felt like something was missing but I couldn't remember what.

11. I'm so tired!

12. Wh-

I was walking to an entrance. There were people all around with different colors on. Blue, black, green, red and white. There was also more than one of the figures dressed in purple. An unfamiliar voice spoke next to me. Everything was blurry, so couldn't make out their faces.

"This is Hamane. This is our home; we have lived here for more than 500 years. We teach our children not to fear the outside world because we know they would someday need to protect themselves from evils that will come and force us away from here." The voiced was brass but still polite. We looked over a whole village that was built under the ground. There was small round houses built together and one big house in the middle. It seemed to be the heart of the village. Everything was lighted up by glowing rocks and a few holes in the ceiling. Lots of 'people' were looking at us strangely.

"Why'd you show us this?" The person in black said behind me. We all turned to him.

"Because you need to know. There is something coming, something that cannot be destroyed. Your ancestors didn't believe us but we are hoping you do. The spell that I cast over you will make you forget your whole experience here till you are ready to know the truth..."

"But why would you do that?"

"To make sure we can trust you."

I opened my eyes, uncertainty played on my face. To my own demise I slowly began to forget what happened but those last words wouldn't go away. Why do I always have weird dreams? I turned the wall, trying my best to relive the dream. There was something important to it.

"Elise? Are you in there?" I asked knocking on the door, I heard a groan come from inside. "I'm going to take that as a yes," another groan came from the room. "Are you alright in there?"

"Yes, Jay. I'm fine, just tired…" she answered from inside.

"Mind if I come in? I want to talk to you for a bit." I asked, putting my hand on the doorknob.

"Yeah, sure. Just don't expect my full cooperation." She lazily said as I opened the door. She was on her bed wrapped in her duvet. Elise was probably sleeping before I came barging in.

"Hey, so I want to talk about what happened," I carefully said.

"I thought we've gone over this already?" she started sitting up. "There's nothing more to tell, I don't remember what happened." She countered.

"I know. I just want to know why you do it."

"Do what?" she asked.

"Fight." I answered. "Why do you fight? The serpentine are dangerous. Why do you put yourself in danger?" I asked a bit impatiently.

"I…" she stopped and gave sigh, looking down. "Well, always seeing you fight these guys made me believe that anybody could save the world and protect it, no matter what you are. It was inspiring. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you before. I just guess you could say I wanted to be like you in a way." She gave a half smile and fumbled with her fingers.

I chuckled while scratching the back of my neck. "I'm flattered, Elise, just remember I already took the roll of comedy relieve, so don't try an' steal it." I playfully warned.

"Wouldn't dream of it," she laughed and shifted her weight on the bed. I started getting up. "Hey, Jay?"

"Yeah?" I stopped by the door, it was halfway open.

"Thanks." I nodded while smiling before closing the door.

Outside I took a deep breath; the warm night air relaxed me. I was just glad we all were safe. Things could have turned out worse. I slowly walked toward my room I shared with the other ninja. They were all sleeping by now.

"Crap!" I heard Elise shout from her room. Instinctively I ran toward her room and slammed the door open. Elise was out of her bed rummaging through the room like a crazy person.

"What happened?!" I shouted over the ruckus Elise was making.

"It's gone!" she shouted and a ball flew past me. "I just remembered what was missing!"

"What's gone?" I dodged the few clothes that went in my direction.

"My staff-" she turned to me with a flushed face "-is gone."

I hope Elise and her friends are alright and didn't get in too much trouble, three days is a while...but they had to recover, right? Of course her parents and Sensei's didn't know that, they were out of range. Even that robot thing told us he couldn't reach them.

I watched Enkur's chest slowly move up and down. I'm still lucky he survived. That blow he received was almost fatal. I sighed and looked at the moonlight, which fell through the hole in the ceiling, dance on the floor.

I began thinking of my father. He always took me and Enkur out of the village and to the world above at night. He always showed us the moon, stars and how it contrasts with the light of the human city. He always looked so happy.

But then his smile began faltering when we went out. He and my mother started fighting more till one day it got so bad he left. A few of our people left with him, which was a year ago. Since then some of the snakes, those who let with my father started attacking us under his order. It hasn't stopped since.

I sighed and let my head fell down on the bed. A few months ago we received a message. It said that if we didn't join my father's cause, he would come destroy our village. I still couldn't understand why he would do that. He and my mother built this village together.

I was left pondering in the darkness, my eyes pleading to be closed. I finally gave in to the darkness and fell asleep.

Aaaand…DONE! FINALLY! Sorry for not updating guys, I was busy but then I got some help and everything went smoothly form there on out. So, THANK YOU APPLEJACK! You help a lot with the ideas and everything; I'll remember to ask you again if I get stuck.

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