Sorry it took so long, it's been a busy as sh*t week!

CHEESEPUFF fg: L was just to create suspense, if I'd put Lloyd or Loy or something like that, it would have been WAY too obvious. I'm glad someone noticed that, because there are other gangs in the city and most are just as bad...

RandomDragon2.0: Hmm, no, neither would I. Glad you think so :)

Cerenda: Yeah, that was for laughs :) Kind of, Wu somehow does care for them, but he's just got a hard time dealing with emotion after losing so many people. Yes he is. Yay :) Yeah, but I don't think that's occurred to Lloyd yet. Thanks, I'll try.

Again, sorry for the delay, but the teachers seem to take end of year exams just as seriously as GCSEs with revision and all that and I had a few personal problems to deal with.

"OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!"

"OK, OK, hold on!" Jay wheezed as he scrabbled at the lock. "Got it!"

The door burst open, pinning Jay to the wall as five or so people rushed in, Ronin, Shade, Griffin Turner, who was limping badly, and two women whom Jay had never seen before. But no one seemed injured. Ronin took a quick look around.

"Where's Wu?" He fired the question at Jay.

"Erm."

"Where?!"

Jay pointed, confused and losing his voice yet AGAIN!

Ronin and Shade rushed towards the door that Jay had pointed to. As they passed, Cole sat up, blinking sleeping.

"What the heck?" He asked, rubbing his eyes. Jay shrugged and followed the two men to the room.

He entered and froze.

Wu lay on the floor, pale and unmoving.

"What the FUCK happened?!" He exclaimed, then realised, "Oh, I can talk, yes, but, WHAT THE-"

"Shut up kid!" Shade snarled. "I saw them stab him, it's poison. Ronin, where is it?"

"Antidote? I put it on some pop tarts in the kitchen, you kid, go get them!"

"Oh, um, sure." Jay ran to the kitchen, ignoring Cole's quick fire questions and grabbed the box on the kitchen side.

Empty. What the-

Cole.

"Shit." Jay muttered, grabbing the box and running back to the room.

"Where the heck did they go?" Ronin exclaimed, looking at the empty box.

"Oh, erm, I think they got eaten." Jay muttered. The men scowled as Cole entered the room.

"Oh my..." Cole exclaimed, seeing the situation. Jay looked round at him and saw, his jacket pocket.

Sticking out of it...

"POP TART!" Jay cried, jumping forward and grabbing the last one from Cole's pocket.

"Wha- hey!" Cole scrabbled for it, but Jay tossed it to Ronin.

"Well done, there's just enough left!" Ronin crumbled it up and sprinkled it over Wu's mouth.

"OK, what is going on?!" Cole demanded. Shade sighed.

"Wu was stabbed with a poison knife that Ronin here engineered for the Skulkins so he therefore has the antidote and Wu should be fine now, I think?" Shade turned to Ronin, who nodded.

"Thankfully there was enough of it there, but seriously kid? The whole box?"

Cole squirmed.

"Come on, let's leave him." Jay tapped his friend on the shoulder and the pair went back to the others. Nya was awake now, and looked relived to see Jay. After he had rescued her, Nya had stuck close to Jay, probably due to the nervousness about her brother. Jay didn't mind, he liked Nya, she seemed nice.

"Hey, who are these guys?" Nya asked, gesturing to the two women and Griffin, who was clutching his leg, his trousers stained with blood.

"I'm gonna have to stitch that up." One of the women, the one with purple hair, said to him, holding a knife to cut his trousers open.

"Just... do it." Griffin said through gritted teeth.

"Other gang members." Jay replied. "Yeah, my voice has come back a bit now." He rubbed his throat. Nya sighed as Zane got up from the sofa and came over.

"I know this isn't quite the time, but..." Nya looked at Cole and Jay. "Who are you guys, and, you say you know my brother, but how and where is he?"

Zane sighed from behind her, making her jump.

"After you were taken by the Skulkin, Kai was recruited by Wu to join Elemental Force in order to get you back. We were recruited too, for all different reasons, but mainly because all our parents were part of Elemental Force. We were trained, went on a mission that went disastrously wrong, and then Wu dragged us to explore the warehouse you were being kept in while the rest of the gang fought. Griffin Turner's injured through the fight and I think Wu was as well.

Nya gave a small nod and a sigh. "So, Kai's in the police custody?"

"I think so." Nya frowned and brought something out of her pocket. The necklace the |S|kulkin had taken her for.

"For some reason they gave it back to me." She said. "I think, inside it, there's a map the the Elemental Tasers.

"Wu has one as well, your parents kept a spare before they were kidnapped." Cole told her. Nya gasped and he realised that Nya had been unaware of this. "Oh, erm, yeah, Wu figured it out."

"So Kai was wrong." Nya gave a small laugh. "They didn't abandon us. Do you think they're still alive?" She asked nervously. Cole and Zane looked at each other with doubt.

"Erm."

"Sure." Jay said quickly, putting a hand on Nya's shoulder. "We'll find a way to rescue them!"

"Really?" Nya grinned. "Thanks Jay, but, I'm coming too."

All three of them looked surprised.

"Say what?" Jay questioned.

"They're my parents. Kai is my brother and I don't care about the risk, I am coming with you to save them, wherever they are."

Cole, who seemed to be taking charge a little gave a small nod. "Fine, but we'll have to train you up. And, do you want a jacket?"

Nya considered. This was sort of a token of membership for Elemental Force, and Nya had always looked down on crime and been afraid of the gangs. The Skulkin had kidnapped her, and the gangs were very similar. Elemental Force were probably just as bad.

But for Kai? For mum and dad?

She'd do anything.

...

Urgh, rain AGAIN! He hoped it wouldn't be a storm like last night. Kai was tired already, maybe he did belong in hospital a bit longer. He had probably lost a lot of blood.

He hoped Lloyd wouldn't get punished for what he did, he was immensely grateful to the guy. Kai hoped Jay had been able to save Nya. Now all that was left was to find Ronin's apartment again (wherever that was) and find the others.

He hoped Zane had gotten away, damn, he should have asked Lloyd if there were any more Elemental Force patients.

Kai put his hands in his trouser pockets and felt something there, paper. Lloyd's address. The guy could get him and his friends out of the fighting. They could probably all get helpful jobs. Kai had worked, Zane had begged, Jay had tinkered and Cole had mentioned doing a paper round. They'd be able to support themselves.

Until they too were grown up. Would Shade or Griffin Turner or someone else show up at their homes, trying to recruit their children?

No, Kai was sick of the gangs. He would get back to his sister and the others. He just had somewhere to go first.

There was a map of the city a few feet away on a wall. Kai went over to it and pinpointed Ninjago City Police Station.

...

"Jay, what was that about?" Cole demanded as the three stood a few feet away from Nya so she couldn't hear.

"What do you mean?"

"There's no chance her parents are alive. I know she's been through a lot, but she can take that."

"You don't know that!" Jay argued.

"She's Kai's sister, he's not going to take this lightly." Zane warned. Jay's mouth dropped open.

"What, you mean, you actually... oh my-"

"Jay-"

"I'm not hitting on her, I'm just being nice!" Jay argued.

"Sure, Kai's going to see it that way." Zane said sarcastically. Jay rolled his eyes.

"Screw you." He said, and turned to go help the others tend to their wounds.

I feel like that was really boring and filler, but I have to keep the story moving somehow.