Chapter 9: In Captivity

Nick's P.O.V.

I woke up in the morning to the sound of people arguing. "I can't believe that you were that stupid, Kai!" one voice yelled. Someone else mumbled, "I can." Another voice added, "Yes, forgetting to lock the door was not very smart of you." "Well not all of us can be super smart nindroids, Zane!" a different ninja replied angrily. The voices faded away.

Kai, where had I heard that name before? Garmadon! I said to myself, Lord G. said that the blacksmith that refused to give me food to save my father was named Kai! My mind was suddenly filled with vengeful thoughts.

Then I heard footsteps running towards my door. It opened, and there was the red ninja. "What'd ya want!?" I shouted. "Just checking something." the ninja responded, then started to leave. "Wait!" I yelled, "Can I ask you a question?" "Shoot." the red guy answered. "What's your name?" I asked. The question seemed to catch him off guard. After recovering, he replied, "Kai."

I leaped. I jumped right at his throat. I have no idea what I was thinking, I had no weapon, and he had a katana. I jumped anyway. His eyes were filled with surprise, but he reacted quickly, and blocked my attack with one of his own. Like the day before, I was sent flying away from Kai. He tied me up, again.

I was brought to a room with small training equipment. Also in the room were Aurelia and Cassidy. I pondered where Ace was, but I couldn't think straight. "Hey." the girls said to me at the same time. All four of The Ninja were there.

"So, captives, there have been some, ummm..." the black one tried. "...uhhhhh, technical difficulties." the blue ninja suggested. "Yeah!" the black ninja said, "So we've had some technical difficulties with your purple friend. This means that you three will stay in the training room for a while." We all groaned.

Later

After a while, an old man had come in. The Ninja bowed respectfully to him, then the blue man said, "We found some of Garmadon's allies. We have them tied up over there." I was pretty sure that the old dude mentally face palmed right then.

"Ninja, do any of you remember the lesson?" the old man asked. "Which one?" Kai asked him. "The one where you had to train for a day because you couldn't answer my riddle." The old guy explained with exaggerated patience. "Oh yeah!" bluey remembered, "What is the best way to defeat an enemy." he said, imitating the old man's voice, and stroking an imaginary beard. Red and black started laughing quietly, while blue smiled and white looked confused.

"Well, what was the answer Ninja?" oldy asked. "To make them your friend, Sensei." the white guy answered. "And how did you defeat these enemies?" Sensei continued. "Oh, we tied them up and captured them." blacky replied, understanding what their sensei meant.

"Correct." Sensei said, "I am going on some errands with Nya and Dareth. When I get back, this matter will be resolved." Their sensei left. The Ninja turned back to us. "You heard the sensei, want to be our friends?" Kai asked us. "Never!" I shouted back. "Jay, convince them." black told to blue, who I guess was Jay.

Jay walked over to us and demanded, "Be our friends!" "No!" the three of us shouted. "Pwetty, pwetty pwease? Wif chewwies on towp?" Jay pleaded, making his eyes bigger. "No!" we yelled. "Well, I tried!" he said.

"This is not a very logical way to approach this." the white guy said, "My databanks show that to become proper friends, you must..." "Shut up Zane!" the other three ninja yelled.

Then it happened. Suddenly, the room was filled with smoke. I felt the ropes on my hands get cut, barely saw my real friends get cut free also, heard The Ninja coughing, and smelled and tasted the smoke. Then me, Cassidy, and Aurelia were grabbed by someone familiar.

"Ace!" Aurelia whispered, trying to not be heard by The Ninja, "You came back to save us!" Just then, we were out of the dojo. I saw Ace giving Aurelia a 'duh' look. All four of us ran. We finally were outside of Ninjago city, when I heard Cassidy yell, "We're free!"

"All right!" I shouted joyfully, putting my hand up in the air for Ace to high five. He looked at me like I was crazy. My high five was taken by both Aurelia and Cassidy, who then proceeded to high five each other. Ace just stared at us.

"Come on, Ace." Aurelia said, "Let's go back to our home, with Lord Garmadon on The Black Bounty." I watched as Aurelia and Cassidy grabbed Ace and started walking towards our ship. Home, sweet home. I thought, as I followed my three companions.