The ninja once again took to training in Dareth's dojo while the rest of us stayed on the ship. I was wandering around when I saw Misako walk into a room. Not much later, I heard Sensei and Misako talk about the prophecy Misako was researching.

I shook off my curiosity and continued on my way- not wanting to interrupted the adults. Suddenly the whole ship shook, sending me falling to my knees. "What was that?"

Sensei Wu and Misako passed me on their way to the dojo. "Stay here young one- we are going to check on the ninja and the case of these quakes."

"Can I go to?" I stood up.

"No - you and Nya must guard the ship."

"But-" I looked up and gave up upon seeing their reactions. "Ok."

Then they left.

After a few hours- the earthquakes had the streets breaking and crumbling and soon the buildings were falling down. The mayor of the city called for a massive evacuation and below more stone warriors were coming up from the ground.

Nya was put in charge of the landing of the ship in an evacuation point in the city where the ninja were going to take the people of Ninjago City. But there wasn't any safe place to land. The stone warriors kept trying to attack the ship but luckily- they were too small to reach. Nya was then instructed to land on the NGTV rooftop where there was a landing pad for helicopters.

When Nya landed, I snuck off the ship and helped the citizens to get on board They were coming by the tens and I lost count after 100 people were on the rooftop. I couldn't see the ninja anywhere and I could only see Dareth, Misako and Sensei. Lloyd managed to reach the top before the other four but I was swept up by the crowd and couldn't see over the people.

Luckily the other ninja arrived and helped the people to get below deck. I ran around doing a headcount of our crew but Misako was missing. "Where is she?"

Without much time left, Sensei jumped off of the side of the ship (Misako actually ran back to gather her research she lost while running...I learned this afterwards). Nya had to take off, leaving Sensei and Misako behind due to the warriors attacking the ship. I gasped and ran to the railing. "Sensei!"

"Nya turn to the side of the building!" Lloyd yelled.

Zane ran up to Nya on the bride and frowned. "Nya descend." When she didn't do it he (not so) politely asked her and frowned from under his hood. "DO IT NOW!"

With that maneuver, we actually caught Sensei Wu and Misako as they jumped out the window. Finally our heart could start beating again. I grinned and ran to Sensei. "Thank goodness you're alright!" Still smiling, I turned around and gave Misako a hug as well. "You too… you're a part of our team now and our family, we can't have you leaving us so soon."

She smiled and patted my head. "Thank you Brittany."

Nya then led the ship away from Ninjago City as the stone warriors ransacked the city below. I looked down to see the chaos as it passed us by. "I hope no one is still down there."

"I doubt it Brittany." Kai stood next to me. "But stay away from the edge- we don't need you falling over and you don't need to be looking at this. Come help us with the people...we need to register them."

"Ok Kai."

We dropped the people off at different villages depending on if they had family there or not or if the village was capable of receiving the refugees. It took a few days and we had to restock the ships supplies but we managed. That's al the ship could take though and soon the damage that it took made us dock at the last village.

Nya and the ninja (except Zane- he went with Sensei to check out a new island) tried to fix the ship but to no avail. I sat in the bridge with Misako and looked at her scrolls by her side to try and figure out where the missing pieces were. Soon Misako found something I couldn't see (it didn't help that I couldn't quite read their language) and called the group to the bridge. "The prophecy reveals that the only way to defeat the stone army if with the green ninja."

"I tried!" Lloyd groaned. "I gave it everything I had."

"Yes- but you are stronger than you think." misako smiled at him. She said. "Look. The power of the green ninja can only be unlocked when his four protectors find their pure elemental powers."

Cole looked over Misako's shoulder. "Are we the protectors?"

"Of course Cole." Jay laughed. "What a silly question! Right?"

"If we are the protectors-" Zane cut in. "-then we're doomed. Our elemental golden weapons no longer exist. We can not tap into our elemental powers without them."

"But the powers do exist inside each one of you."Misako said. "And there is a way to unlock your powers on your own. We must go to the temple of light."

"Temple of Light?" Nya tilted her head. "What's that?"

"The gold in the golden weapons was found in the golden peaks but they were forged in the Temple of Light. A powerful place that I thought only existed in legend."

"It's on the Dark Island?" I sat on my knees to look at the scroll better.

"I believe so. I think our only option is to find out."

"So we get our powers back?" Cole grinned. "Alright!"

"But there's still one problem." Nya sighed. "The ship can't fly."

"It's s ship isn't it?" It can sail."

So, the next day we moved the ship into the water and watched as the citizens said their goodbyes. Jay was talking to his parents- Cole was saying his goodbyes to his dad (who sang him a song about his departure) -Kai and Nya were talking to Dareth (he was then put in charge of the dragon...and the people) and Lloyd was saying goodbye to his dragon.

Zane and I watched over the railing, seeing everything go down. Sensei walked up to the two of us and said. "If there anyone you would like to say goodbye to?"

Zane sighed. "My only family is my falcon and my only memory of my father was nearly erased. I will miss Ninjago for it's all I know and I am excited to see what the future has in store."

"Well…" Sensei smiled "...my nindroid friend- there are some people who would like to say goodbye to you."

We looked further overboard and saw a group of Zane's fangirls- cheering for him and yelling about how they'll miss him and how cute he was. I giggled and looked away. Sensei then walked over to me. "What about you young one?"

"Nah- I don't have anyone to say goodbye to." I rolled on the balls of my feet. "Unlike Zane I don't have any memory of my birth parents and I'm starting to doubt that they're even here at all. I only really have you guys and I'm going with you... so I'm just watching and waiting until we leave."

"I see.."

Soon we all piled into the ship and sailed out into the sea with the destination of the Dark Island. It was quiet as we tended to what needed to be done. By sun down we all were at the front of the ship, admiring the sunset. I sat on the railing away from the others, lost in my own little world. They were talking but their words never registered. It wasn't until Zane pulled me off of the railing that I realised that I spaced out. "Be careful Brittany- don't sit on the railing. You could fall over and fall into the ocean or you could hurt yourself."

"Alright Zane- I won't." I smiled weakly. "No news?"

"No...my falcon-" He cut himself off and went rigid, his eyes glowing blue. "...has found the Dark Island!"

We then ran to the bridge and Zane connected himself to the main screen. "There...now we all can see."

It was the classical bird's eyes view with what could have been heat vision. Zane positioned his head to look down and standing there was a stone warrior. It was launched one of its weapons and knocked the bird down. As a reflex Zane launched himself backwards and the view ended. I gasped and cried out. "NO!"

Kai and Nya went to help Zane off of the ground. Zane looked shocked and you could physically see the information being processed. "He's ...he's gone."

"We don't know that." Sensei stood up.

Nya frowned. "Oh Zane...I'm so sorry."

"He was our friend too." Kai nodded. "So we're not going to let him go in vain. If the stone army wants a fight- they got one."

"That's going to have to wait." Misako sounded stern and serious. "Because we're sailing straight for that strom- all hands on deck!"

Sure enough she was right- we were sailing right into of the blackest storms I've ever seen. Within moments we were surrounded by rain and thunder and lighting...all that jazz. The ninja went to hold the sails steady on the deck while Nya tried to her best to steer us through the storm. I was told to go under the deck for my own safety.

Soon- there was an eerie laugh and a starfish crashed into the window I was looking out of. They had a suction like mouth that was filled with nothing but razor sharp teeth. I didn't know what to do and soon these starfish like creatures were eating away at the ship- letting water into our boat.

Try as I might though the starfish didn't leave and the room was flooded. By daybreak- we got a break and the starfish were gone. The guys came to inspect the damage and got out buckets to clean out the water as well they could. I offered to patch up the hole as least (being a minecraftian it would have beena piece of cake) but I was ushered out of the room. I snuck back in though just as Zane looked out of the hole. Sensei tilted his head. "What is it Zane?"

Caole asked. "Is it the falcon?"

"Is he ok?"

"No it's a...it's something else!" He gasped. "Brace yourselves!"

I blinked and was quickly thrown into Jay as the ship crashed into an island of sorts. "Sorry Jay!"

"It's fine!"

"What was that?" Kai asked himself.

I shrugged and jumped out of the hole before anyone could stop me. "Let's go check it out!"

"Brittany!"

I landed on some sand and walked toward what looked like a tower. "What is it?"

Cole groaned. "Brittany...you have to stop doing that."

"Who would put a lighthouse way out here?" Lloyd tilted his head.

Zane bit his lip. "It's not a lighthouse...it's a prison."

I looked up at the amount of steps we would have to climb to check it out. "It's really tall."

"Wana piggy back ride Brittany?" Cole offered.

I smiled and nodded and was promptly put once again on Cole's shoulders. Kai rolled his eyes. "We get that you're the strongest Cole but why do you always offer to carry her?"

"It's merely part of my questy to be Pinky's favorite ninja." Cole grinned. "Am I your favorite?"

I giggled. "Oh...I don't know…"

"Oh please Cole- I'm her favorite ninja." Kai grinned.

Lloyd turned around and laughed. "Come on guys, I think we can all agree that I'm her favorite ninja."

"On the contrary-" Zane smiled. "I believe it it me."

Jay groaned. "Brittany, who's your favorite ninja? It's gotta be me, right?"

I laughed. 'I could keep this going.' "Maybe...maybe not."

"I'm her favorite!"

"No I am!"

Soon enough we were at the front door to the prison where a camera came to inspect us. Jay tilted his head. "Uh- should we smile?"

Suddenly the door opened and revealed an old man with slicked back white hair. "ZANE!"

We were all taken back at his proclamation while Zane looked frozen. The old man grinned and gave Zane a hug. "You found me!"

Lloyd tilted his head. "Do you know him?"

"Of course I know him!" The old man's smiled never left. "I built him for heaven's sake."

You could see the collective gasp from our group.

Zane "blinked away" the shock. "But my memory tells me that you have passed!"

"Ah...you found your memory switch." He said.

There was a big roar and suddenly we were all being ushered inside because 'it' was coming to check on the old man. The old man then locked his door, barricaded it then checked the camera. We were then led up even more stairs and to this guys living space. It looked nice and a little cramped but he was the only one living here. He grinned. "Please, you must be thirsty, have a seat."

"Seat?" Zane scratched his head. "Where?"

The old man pushed a button and out popped a table from the floor with cushioned seats. I stared at it in awe. "Cool..."

Cole then lifted me off of his shoulders and put me on the ground. We all sat down at the table and watched as the old man pushed another button that triggered a tiny little robot to come out and give us cups. I grinned. "It's so cute!"

Soon we all had our cups and the robot retrieved a teapot from Zane's dad. It jumped back onto the table and poured each of us a cup of tea/ Jat tried to be a smart butt and move the cup so the robot couldn't do its job...so the robot poured the tea on Jay all laughed at him and waited for the poor boy to calm down. Zane talked to his dad as we drank our tea. "What you didn't see Zane was bone head Samukai reviving me with a special elixir. He wanted me to create state-of-the-art war machines for their army. I declined and was trapped here. He said that if I did- I would be able to see my son again and tot make sure that I didn't escape- he chained a leviathan to keep guard."

Lloyd tilted his head. "A leviathan? That's what we heard in the ocean?"

"Yes- when Samukai never returned? I thought I would never see you again." Zane's dad sighed. "But since so much time has passed, I started to question if you would even want to see me again. I was afraid...if you found out what horrible things I've created...you would think I was a … a monster."

"We will get you out of here father." Zane put a hand on his dad's shoulder. "Now that we're together- perhaps we can event a way off of this rock."

Jat gasped. "Could you repair the rocket clasters on our ship?"

I tuned out the rest of the conversation and took out my tag. "Everyone that was like me found their parents...where are you guys?"

The whole place suddenly shook and Zane's dad gasped. "It's here! Everyone hide!"

We all ran in different directions- hopped up with Jay and hid on a top shelf that was just above the window. No one dared to even breath. From my angle, I saw a blue tentacle like thing with two eyes on the tip of it look through the window. The old man then looked at our tea cups and turned them upside down- tapping on them with chopsticks so it would actually seem like he was alone. When the coast was clear- we all went to the window to watch it disappear. Kai huffed. "If we're going to get away, we're going to have to hurry...before 'it' comes back."

So we all got to work! Each of us doing out parts- Cole, Lloyd and I was assigned to sew together a large fabric balloon shape thing that we were going to use. Lloyd berated Cole for his whistling but I found it quite nice...sadly- the tune was gone and Cole didn't whistle again. It really was a shame- he was a good whistler and I liked that song.

By the time it was dark out, the leviathan returned and tried to grab the ship while we were in the air. Before we could escape though, the monster grabbed our ship, bettering its grip and started to pull us downwards.

Lloyd then used his elemental powers to shock the creature off of us which worked for only about a second before it grabbed us again. Zane then climbed up onto the railing, yelling. "It's chained!"

"Zane! What are you doing?" His father yelled at him.

I blinked. "You better not leave again! You promised!"

"I'm not Brittany! The leviathan won't let us leave- I think I know a way I can help!"

"But these waters are filled with start teeth!" Zane's dad cried out to him.

"I know."

Then he fell backwards into the water- leaving us all to hold on tight to both the ship and the hope that not only Zane would be alright but that he'll fix it. The monster kept pulling the Bounty closer and closer into the water until the bottom of the ship was touching the surface. When we were let go- the water was nearly spilled on the deck. Kai gasped. "He let us go!"

"What happened?" Zane's dad said.

Lloyd went up to help the guy up and said. "Zane released the leviathan and now it's letting us go."

"But where's my son?!"

"I'm here father!" Zane climbed over the railing and onto the ship. His father ran over to him and gave him a hug. "Zane.."

Sensei looked at the scene. "How did you know that if you freed it from captivity- it would let us go?"

Zane smiled. "Because no one deserves to be held captive...not even a monster..."

I smiled and ran to hug Zane- looking to see the monster swimming away. Zane waved at it. "Fare well creature of the sea...enjoy your freedom."

I let go of Zane as he turned to me. "See Brittany, I came back. I'm not breaking my promise, ok?"

"Never ever?"

"Never ever." He nodded.

I grinned and yawned. "Good."

"Go to bed Brittany." Kai chuckled. "It's been a long night for all of us."

"But I don't want to go to bed...not after everything that just happened." I frowned- rubbing my eyes.

Cole smiled at me. "Your body says otherwise Pinky- go get some rest, we'll still be here in the morning."

I yawned again. "Fine...goodnight guys!"

"Goodnight Brittany!" Came the chorused response

I then stepped into the room us girls shared and fell into my bed with a plop. I was out like a light the second my head hit the pillow.