A/N: Hello! Kai's turn to get his true potential! This should be interesting cause the episode this is following his all about his obsession with the idea he is the green ninja…which is not true in this story… we'll figure this out together.

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Chapter Ten: Finally, I know who he is!

I leaned against the railing watching the others train against a dummy, the lights turned off despite the fact it was after dark, to make it look more like a serpentine. We've been taking turns operating the large spotlight, and observing the others at work. It wasn't the best set up, but we were used to Sensei watching us and telling us what we needed to improve on. I reached for the large spotlight, noticing that they were finishing up. Finally, Zane gave the signal to turn it on. Flicking it on, I flooded the deck with the light. Cole and Jay quickly snapped their arms up to prevent themselves from being blinded. Zane merely blinked twice and was fine. Advantage of being a Nindroid, you don't get blinded as easily. Pushing this thought out of my head, I quickly cupped my mouth, using my hands as a makeshift megaphone.

"Good job! You guys did great! Now then, can I please have a go at the dummy tonight?" I was itching for some late night practice. Of course, that typically didn't happen because the guys had a tendency to use it for practicing their use of their true potential. We didn't want anyone to accidently miss and get one of our own instead of the target.

"Sure thing Kai. Except that's past our usual bedtime and we still have to get up early in the morning. Evil never rests, so we shouldn't either!" Cole rolled his eyes as he walked up the stairs to join me on the upper deck…I think that's what's it called…

I scoffed at him as I fiddled with the spotlight, rotating it to look over the entirety of the ship. A yelp could be heard as the spotlight landed on the gangplank. A familiar yelp that we haven't heard in ages. "Sensei!" We charged down to him, excited to see our mentor back from wherever he's been. The excitement quickly turned to horror when Lord Garmadon stepped out from behind Sensei. Alarmed, I quickly launched forward to attack him, while Zane flung himself in front of Sensei to shield him from any attacks that Lord Garmadon might have up his sleeves.

"Kai! Stop! He is here to help us rescue Lloyd! As Lloyd's father he has the right to help us save my nephew!" Sensei pulled Zane off of him, and then whacked me with his staff.

I yelped as I rubbed where the staff hit me on the back of my head. A blush blossomed across my face as I realized my mistake. Lord Garmadon maybe an evil Lord bent on world domination, but he also was a father, and if he was anything like my father….well, let's just say he could be very protective for all we know.

"Sorry Sensei." I bowed my head in shame, my face turning as red as my suit.

"It is alright Kai. You did not know, and was trying to keep us all safe." Sensei smiled warmly at me, accepting my apology. "Now then." Sensei clapped his hands together, looking highly excited about something. "What has happened while I was away?"

Jay immediately shot into the air, his eyes dancing with uncontained excitement. "We found out that Zane's a robot! Ow!" The last part would be because Zane very neatly leaned over and hit him in the back of the head, for that outburst.

Straightening, Zane looked Sensei straight in the eye. "I have unlocked my true potential." He said it in his normal monotone voice, as if he didn't just hit someone he considered a brother.

"I see now…" Sensei slowly blinked, probably trying to figure out what Jay meant by that little outburst.

"I have unlocked my true potential too!" Cole announced, not wanting Sensei to think that Zane was the only one to improve while he was away.

"Me too! I just needed to be comfortable with who I am!" Jay was bouncing out of excitement, beaming from ear to ear.

I pinched my nose, all the while stifling a groan. I highly doubted that Lord Garmadon wanted to know that the ninja acted like kids when around their mentor. Scratch that, we always act like this.

"Kai? What about you? Have you unlocked your true potential as well?" Sensei interrupted my thought process.

I quickly shook my head no. "Sorry Sensei. I haven't yet unlocked it. Maybe you should ask Jay about his date with Nya?" I smirked when I noticed Jay's panicked look at that suggestion.

"Oh? How is Nya doing? I take it that your friendship with her has grown while I have been away." Sensei placed a hand on Jay's shoulder, steering him inside.

"Well, uh, yeah…Oh! Nya was the Samurai the whole time! And Kai knew about that the entire time." Jay threw his head back as he quickly added another little tidbit. "I think they were conspiring against us."

"Hey!" I yelled as I bolted after them. Sensei chuckled as he watched our interactions.

"They act like us when we were younger, brother." Lord Garmadon muttered to Sensei, unaware that I could hear him.

"That is because, for Zane and Kai, this is their family." Sensei responded as he stepped out of Cole and Zane's way as they charged off to chase us.

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I rolled over in my bed to peek uncertainty at our guest. He was crackling with lightning, and completely out of it. I honestly didn't get how he could be asleep with lightning shooting everywhere. I flinched back as a stray bolt nearly hit me in the face. I quickly rolled over to stare up at the ceiling, wishing for sleep to come to me. I felt my heavy eyelids flicker close…

You do not belong here. You are hiding something. My eyes snapped back open as the words Lord Garmadon had spoken to me back at the Fire Temple so long ago. I couldn't let him tell the others that I was hiding something from them. They trusted me greatly, and if they knew that Lord Garmadon figured out I was hiding something from them first… I would never live with myself. I just had to keep a close eye on him.

With that last thought crossing my mind, I finally fell asleep.

…

I handed Jay the screwdriver absentmindedly, Lord Garmadon was playing our new video game, checking out how the entertainment has changed since he was banished. Sensei had sent me to help Jay with repairs in the engine room.

"Kai, I asked for the wrench, not the screwdriver." Jay said as he looked towards me, concern creasing his brow.

I quickly snagged the wrench, handing it to him. "Sorry. Mind's elsewhere."

Jay grasped the wrench, twisting some loose lug nut tighter. "You've been distracted all morning. Especially if you can't see Lord Garmadon…" Jay suddenly slammed the wrench down hard. "That's it! You're worried that he might try something!"

I stared at him wondering how exactly his mind worked. "Jay… let's just pretend you're right. I don't feel like arguing with you."

Jay immediately knitted his eyebrows together in confusion. "What do you mean by pretend that I'm right? Is something else bugging you?"

I bit my bottom lip as I wonder how to explain that he knew I was hiding something, and that the thing I was hiding is that I didn't belong here, not exactly. I ended up deciding that I could just tell him a half truth. "Remember when I was in the Fire Temple alone with Sensei and Lord Garmadon? Well, Sensei wasn't there the entire time. It was just me and Garmadon for awhile…and he said something that makes me wonder if he knows more about my past than I do." I looked down at hands, which I had clasped tightly during my little confession.

"What did he say?" Jay placed a hand on my shoulder, a signal that no matter what, he would still be my friend.

After briefly debating which one of the many things he told me, I went with the vaguest thing that could easily be covered up by amnesia. "He said I didn't belong here, in Ninjago." Looking up, I met Jay in the eye. "If I don't belong here, where do I belong?"

Jay quickly scratched the back of his head. "Uh, that is weird. Maybe next time you get a HUGE headache, you will remember what he meant by that."

I quickly clapped a hand over my mouth to prevent myself from groaning aloud. "Jay…last time I only remembered my name. I doubt I'll suddenly remember my childhood home next time. I might remember my folks faces. If we're lucky." I made a mental note to try and pretend to recall what my parents looked like next time I am on the receiving end of a double whammer.

"You're right. Sorry, I was getting ahead of myself." Jay ducked his head in embarrassment.

"It's fi…" I never got to finish, for right then, Cole ran into the room.

"Falcon found the serpentine! And they have Lloyd with them!" We quickly ran off to the bridge to see what was going on.

…

"Remember; do not use your golden weapons. The volcano is unstable!" Sensei called out as he led us, including Lord Garmadon, into the Fire Temple. I grasped my steel sword, my eyes flickering through the area, alert for danger.

It wasn't long until we found ourselves standing above the serpentine, watching them dig for the third fangblade. From our position, we could see the cage they were keeping Lloyd in.

"Son." Lord Garmadon whispered, his red eyes landing on the small kid.

"Go ninja. Stop the serpentine. Garmadon and I will concentrate on getting Lloyd back." Sensei placed a hand on Zane's shoulder.

Nodding in agreement to the plan, we charged off to fight the serpentine. The serpentine immediately started hissing, right before punching me right in the face. Taking a step back, I swung my sword up to block another blow, while pressing a hand against my now throbbing nose. Grimacing, I knocked two serpentine down, before turning to spot Jay being cornered by four of the serpentine. Breaking at a run, I knocked into one of them, knocking him off balance. Jay flashed me a grateful, which quickly turned into a look of horror.

"Kai! What happened to your nose!?" Jay screeched, his voice filled with horror.

Alarmed, I gently poked at my nose, wincing as it throbbed fiercely at the touch. "Is it really that bad?"

"Eh…we can pretend that it isn't." Jay stuttered, his eyes still round with horror.

I groaned at his not so helpful answer, before diving back into the fighting. I quickly lost sight of my friends, a swarm of serpentine trying to pin me down. That was not gonna happen. Jumping into the air, I flipped over them, landing next to Zane.

Zane nodded in greeting, only to freeze, alarm crossing his face. "Kai? What happened to your nose?"

I groaned as I once again touched my throbbing nose. "How bad is my nose?"

Zane quickly left, plowing through serpentine like no tomorrow. I bit my bottom lip as I wondered if that response meant it was bad. Shaking my head quickly, I hurried off to continue fighting. Leaping across a large pool of lava, I landed next to Cole.

"Need a hand Cole?" I asked as I knocked two of the serpentine away from him.

Cole grinned as he glanced back at me. "Thanks Kai…" Cole's voice broke away as a look of terror crossed his face. "What happened to your nose?!" Cole squealed, the blood draining from his face.

I blew air out of my mouth, annoyance flooding me. "Seriously! How bad is it?!"

Cole opend and closed his mouth a couple of times before whirling around and fleeing the scene, muttering something about being sick… shrugging, I charged after Pythor, noticing that he had the third fangblade in his scaly hands. Scrambling, I climbed up a small ledge, trying to get see where he was headed. Just as Sensei called out frantically.

"Retreat! The volcano is about to blow!" A minute later, "Kai!" Rang through the caverns, as I watched the entrance the others were gathered at cave in, trapping me inside the volcano.

Whirling around, I scanned the area for another way out…only to see the fangblade lying forgotten on a floating piece of rock. The cage Lloyd was in was close to eat, the kid crying for help as the lava lapped at the cage. My eyes flickered between the two for about three seconds before I launched myself at the cage. Landing next to it, I used my sword to hack it away, breaking it open. Sheathing my sword, I pulled the kid out just as the cage finished its dangerous descent into the lava. Looking down at him, a gasp escaped me as I realized that I have seen his eyes somewhere before. The green ninja has green eyes. The memory of the parchment with the prophesy on it flooded my mind, bringing the eyes of the green ninja to the forefront. No, not the green ninja. Lloyd's eyes.

A laugh immediately tore from me, relief flooding my very soul. "Finally, I know who he is!" Immediately, I felt warmth, power, surge through me. I tightened my grip on the kid as everything went black. When I came to again, I was standing on the Bounty, the kid safely on the ground in front of me. Sensei and Lord Garmadon both pulled him away to hug the kid tightly, tears of joy streaming down their faces. Cole, Zane, and Jay were cheering as they tackled me to the ground, laughing now that I was safe.

"Kai? What happened to your nose?" Lord Garmadon suddenly interrupted the reunion between my friends and I.

I groaned loudly as I threw my hands in the air. "Seriously!? We were just fighting serpentine! Of course my nose is broken!" I quickly took a deep breath to steady myself. "How bad is it?"

"I'm sure our insurance can cover the cost of it…hopefully." Sensei looked even more concerned than Zane as he gazed at my throbbing nose.

"That was so awesome! How did you unlock your true potential?" Jay asked as he scrambled back away from me, the others quickly following suit.

I paused as I pondered what happened down there in the exploding Fire Temple. "I don't really know what happened. I just…when I pulled the kid out of the cage, I noticed he had the same eyes as the painting of the green ninja. After that, I felt something surge through me…next thing I knew, you were tackling me to the ground."

Silence fell as everyone looked to the kid, who just stood there looking confused. Before we could explain things further for him, I pulled the sword of fire out and placed it in front of the kid. Immediately, it sparked with green lightning, the sword floating midair in front of the kid. The others quickly placed their golden weapons next to mine, which one responding the same way.

"Oh dear…it looks as if the line between our family has been made even tighter. Now instead of it just being brother versus brother, it is now son versus father." Sensei solemnly announced, a great deal upset about this turn in events.

Lord Garmadon looked ready to cry again at this discovery and not happy tears either. A frown crossed my face as I realize that this means Lloyd will have to fight his own father one day in the future.

But we can handle it. We'll keep him safe from harm and train him diligently until that time comes. After all, we're his brothers.

A/N: Phew! Done with this chapter! Poor Lloyd, now he has the entire fate of Ninjago on his shoulders. Kai was held back because he didn't know who the green ninja was, and now he does know who he is.

Till next time!

SkyTalon