Song Of Hope: Sorry! When I updated the story with the major change (adding the word kunoichi in) I accidentally update chapter 20 as chapter 12. It's been fixed. R&R

Down in Jamonakai Village, a bunch of kids were balling with a ball. One kid kicked and another kid against a wall tried to stop it, but the ball hit the wall, which was apparently the goal of the game because a few kids cheered while other kids looked a bit upset, but like they were still having fun too. Down in the village, there were also some girls outside braiding each others hair, putting beads in them, giving each other "make-overs" with that kid make-up that little girls play with. Both Kyria and Lloyd looked onto those scenes wistfully.

"Lloyd. Kyria. Garmadons!" Both looked over to their fire tempered ninja teacher. Their cool and collected icy teacher smiled at them.

"Now that we have the Bounty back in our possession, we can train you both more affectively, but you both have to focus." Kaze nodded.

"Yeah, if you don't focus, then you're not going to learn what you need to know." Kinzoku nodded and smiled.

"Besides, I've always found training to be pretty fun. One more time!" Lloyd rolled his eyes and sighed.

"But we've been training all day!" Kyria nodded in agreement to Lloyd's statement.

"Can't we take a little break?" Cole got closer to him.

"It's all getting you ready to face your father." Hana nodded.

"We don't have time for breaks. You can take breaks for eating and bathroom until bedtime. Now, in position!" They both sighed as they walked to the front of the deck. Ninja put on their masks and got in a position ready to fight while Lloyd and Kyria yawned. Lloyd got in a loose fighting stance.

"Whatever." Kyria nodded.

"Do whatever." Kai and Kinzoku went to kick their respective Garmadons, but both easily blocked them. Jay and Zane jumped up to attack Lloyd while Kaze and Jikan jumped up to attack Kyria.

"NINJAGO!" They both used their green Spinjitsu to fling away their opponents. Then, Hana and Cole both attacked them from behind, and flipped them over several time before they landed on the deck. Lloyd looked up.

"You're right Kinzoku, that was fun." Kyria nodded.

"Are we done now?" Jay took off his mask.

"Oh, come on, you're better than this! What's on your guy's minds?"

"Well, the new issue of Star Farer came in at Doomsday Comix, a limited run, so if I don't go out and get it, it's gonna sell out." Kyria nodded.

"And the new My Little Pony movie Equestria Girls is coming out on DVD, and it's a limited run too, so if I don't go to see it in theaters, I might never get to see it!" Jikan sighed.

"The fate of Ninjago rests on your shoulders. As the Green Ninja and Green Kunoichi, you have a giant responsibility to hold. Neither of you have time for such childish things." They both walked over to the side of the deck and looked at the two groups of kids sadly. Lloyd looked pretty frustrated.

"Other kids get to play and have fun! All we ever do is train!" Kyria nodded.

"Why can't you guys let us just have one day doing normal kid stuff?" They looked pretty sad at hearing that, but they all knew what had to be done. Just then, Nya ran up to them.

"Guys, there's been a break in at the Ninjago City Museum of History, and the security camera's picked up you know who!" Jay looked confused.

"Lord Voldemort?" Kinzoku whacked him in the back of the head.

"No you dolt! Lord Garmadon!"

"Oh, that would make more sense." Jikan pulled up her mask.

"We must stop him before he tries another plot to destroy us." Kyria and Lloyd looked excited for a second, but they realized automatically what they would say. Lloyd sighed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's safer if we stay here and train."

"And we also can't go to get those comics or see that movie." The ninja and kunoichi nodded.

"Mm hm." The two Garmadons folded their arms and sighed.


Kai was in the Ultra Sonic Raider.

"We'll meet up at the Bounty as soon as we're done." Nya looked down at her brother.

"We'll be waiting for your safe return." Kai closed the hood up the Ultra Sonic Raider and zoomed off. Lloyd sighed.

"Too old for comic books, and too young to fight. When are they going to make up their minds?" Kyria nodded.

"Yeah, and I know for a fact that Kinzoku has a hidden stash of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic DVDs under her bed, but she won't let me go and see the movie. I'm betting that she still wants to see it herself!" Nya smiled at them.

"Come on pint sizes, show me what you've got." They both yawned and walked to the center of the deck."


The ninja and kunoichi were on top of the museum building. Jay threw down a rope that they climbed down to get to the second story window. They ran quietly through the halls until they came upon one of the main exhibit rooms. The Serpentine generals entered, each with a flashlight. Scales flashed a light upon a portrait that was supposedly of the Serpentine.

"Boy did they get that wrong." They kept slithering around. The Venomari general was getting impatient.

"Why would we come to a museum if we weren't going to steal anything from it?" The Fangpyre general rolled its eyes on both its head.

"Because Master Garmadon-"

"Has another plan to destroy the ninja." Scales got a bit mad at that.

"Master Garmadon?! Ha, he's no master of mine. He and his so-called Mega Weapon has failed every time. I don't see why we don't call our own shots."

"Because this time I will not fail!" The sudden appearance of Lord Garmadon made him drop his staff and his flashlight, which then shown directly at him. The other Serpentine immediately bowed down.

"Yes Lord Garmadon!" Scales bowed down, but was mentally cursing himself for doing so.

"Yes Lord Garmadon." He walked over to one of the bones exhibits.

"Behold, Dromaeosaurid Theropod Grundalicus, otherwise known as the Grundle! Although now extinct, in its time, it was the most dangerous and feared creature in all of Ninjago, with claws that could slice through steel, heightened sense that could detect its prey from miles away! It could track the stealthiest of ninja and kunoichi, and once it had picked up your scent, there was no hiding from it." Jay was pretty nervous yet glad.

"A Grundle? I've heard of them. Boy am I glad that we don't live in an age where we have to deal with those things." Jikan nodded.

"You are quite lucky. I, on the other hand, had to deal with them, constantly. Things have wandered many times into the Time Temple that I had made my home. The Grundle had taken a liking to trying to come and get me, but it never succeeded. I may have possibly been the reason why they went extinct." They turned back to the exhibit when Scales started talking.

"Thanks for the history lesson, but what are we going to do with a pile of bones?"

"I am going to make it so the beast shall walk again!"

"Yeah right! Well show us then!" Garmadon turned to the exhibit and lifted up the Mega Weapon.

"Rise Grundle, and feel the power of the Mega Weapon! I wish to create the power to make you young, to turn back the clock so that you are no longer extinct, but hungry, hungry for the ninja and the kunoichi!" A purple smoke started coming out of the glowing Mega Weapon, and the Grundle bones started shaking. Hana looked scared.

"Oh no! Those things feed on sneaky prey, AKA us! They're intelligent creatures that like a challenge. It won't stop until it eats all of us! Garmadon's gonna get us all killed!" Zane shook his head.

"Not if we have any say in the matter!" They each pulled out their weapon and jumped onto the railing of the second floor. Garmadon heard them.

"The ninja and the kunoichi! Stop them!" The Serpentine started throwing their spears at them, but they all easily dodged as they ran towards the other side from the second floor.

"Rise Grundle, rise!" Cole got the closest to it.

"We can't let him finish!" He jumped down onto the bones, as well the others.

"Stop them!" The Serpentine started throwing weapons at them. Hana glared at her boyfriend.

"Great idea Cole!"

"Hey, it's al that I had!" They all ended up falling off, short of Kai and Kinzoku.

"Feeling pretty alone up here!"

"Hey hothead, I'm right behind you!"
"Oh. Still need some help!" Kai found an opportunity to throw his sword at the Mega Weapon, thus knocking it out of Lord Garmadon's hand and stop glowing.

"Not again! Not again!" Scales held his staff out to him.

"And you said it wouldn't fail."

"Retreat!" Lord Garmadon ran and grabbed the Mega Weapon as they all ran off. Jay jumped up in the air.

"Ha ha, we stopped him!" Kai got pretty happy too.

"It didn't work!" Lord Garmadon looked back at them.

"Curse you ninja and kunoichi!" He ran out as Kaze smiled.

"Well, I think we handled that well." Jay noticed something.

"Hey, hey, hey, they're trying to steal the golden sarcophagus!" The four Serpentine generals ran out with it. The ninja and kunoichi started chasing after them. Hana noticed something.

"Um, guys." None of them even looked at her or heard her.

"After them!" The Serpentine generals came upon a sewer drain.

"That's our way out of here." They tried to shove the sarcophagus down, but it wouldn't fit, which the Constrictai general vocalized.

"It won't fit!" Scaled dropped his corner.

"Forget it! Let's get out of here!" They slithered down the sewer drain and out of the ninja and kunoichi's reach. Hana was still trying to get their attention.

"Guys!" Jay groaned as everyone, short of Hana, peaked out from behind a corner.

"I can't believe couldn't catch up to them. I'm usually faster than that." Kinzoku nodded.

"Man, I feel like I have as much strength as when I was ten!" Jikan nodded.

"It seems as if we have lost some of our strength." Hana got mad after nobody would listen to her.

"LOOK AT ME RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS!" Kinzoku rolled her eyes while turning around.

"What did you pick up a new look along the way or, wait a minute. Hana, did you get taller?!" She shook her head.

"No, you guys shrunk! You're little kids, probably no older than Lloyd and Kyria." Jay screamed.

"WE SHRUNK!" Kai was freaking out.

"We're kids!" All of them were screaming, even Jikan.

"This should not be possible! I should be in control of my age and appearance!" She closed her eyes and concentrated, but she remained the same. "Because of the Mega Weapon, which has my Katana and Wakizashi of Time, I cannot counter its affects! If anything else had bent time, then I could, but because of that, I have no power to undo this transformation!" Cole was majorly freaking out.

"Oh, it's impossible! We must be dreaming Zane! Tell me we're dreaming!"

"Kai, tell me if this hurts!" Kinzoku punched him pretty hard on the arm.

"OW! Yes, it hurts!" Kinzoku punched Cole's arm.

"OW! What was that for?!"

"Well, you're the one who asked, and so just to make sure, I punched your arm too!" He punched her arm. "OW! Hey, don't hit a lady!"

"You're no lady! You're a female menace!"

"What'd you say?!" Hana got in between them.

"Stop it you two! You two are acting like, well, little kids! You guys are, in reality, adults, so act like it!" Zane figured it out.

"Perhaps Garmadon succeeded in turning back the clock, but instead of reviving the Grundle, it only affected us!" Jay walked over to him and started pointing at him.

"Yeah, but nindroids don't turn into kids! Explain that genius!"

"I've extended my logic parameters, but nothing is coming up! THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!" His eyes twitched and sparked a bit. Kaze thought of something.

"Hana, why didn't you turn into a little kid like the rest of us?" Hana thought about that.

"Probably because I drank that Tomorrow's Tea, and so instead of turning me into a little kid, it just undid the affects of it, so I'm sixteen again." Zane looked relieved.

"Okay, at least something about this that computes!" Cole looked frustrated.

"Okay guys, we're all in this together!" He got mad and walked away from the rest of them. "But I can't be a kid again! I hated being a kid! You can't drive, nobody listens to you!" He stopped and realized something. "Oh no! BEDTIMES!" Hana looked pretty mad.

"You think that bedtimes is the worst thing about this?! You're a little kid and I'm a teenager!"

"So what?!" She whacked him in the back of the head.

"Cole, think about that really, really hard and then say that nothing's wrong!" Cole thought about that.

"Wait that means-" She nodded.

"Yeah!" Suddenly, police cars were coming. They stopped in front of the ninja and kunoichi, getting out of the car.

"Well, well, what do we have here? Looks like we caught our culprits to the museum heist. Who would've thought it was just a bunch of brats. What have you got on apple dumpling gang, pajamas?" They started laughing. Obviously, they hadn't seen Hana, so she used this to her advantage.

"Officers, oh thank goodness!" She went over and hugged them. "Don't ever scare me like that again!" They were confused.

"Hana, what are you-" She glared at Kai, who then shut up. She turned and faced the police officers.

"I'm so glad you found them! Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Bara, their babysitter."

"So you're in charge of these brats? Why'd you let them steal this sarcophagus from the museum?" She laughed.

"Oh no officers, that's not what happened. You see, they like to think that they're all the next ninja and kunoichi group to defend Ninjago City. I was with them not far from here and they saw something taking this. This one here," she pointed at Zane, "said that someone was taking a golden coffin, and so they all ran out to stop the real thieves before I could stop them."

"Oh yeah? Why were they up so late?"

"They were supposed to be asleep," she glared at them, "but I guess they were just waiting for a chance to be little heroes, hence why they're in their pajamas. I myself was trying to sleep, but one of them set off the house alarm, which I turned off before it could send a false alarm to you."

"But we're not-" Kinzoku elbowed Jay, and gave him a glare that told him to shut up, so he did. One of the officers scratched his head.

"Well, that story actually makes quite a lot of sense. Okay, I'll let you off the hook, but can you tell us who was really trying to take it?" Jay nodded.

"It was Serpentine!"

"The Serpentine?! Why would they want that?" Jay shrugged.

"Beats me."

"Officer," he turned to face Hana again, "if I might borrow your phone, I'd really appreciate it. I need to call their parents, and mine is at the house."

"Sorry, but I don't have my phone on me, and the local payphone are down right now, but I've been told they'll be up again tomorrow morning. I have one last question though. Any idea where those old bones went?" Jikan's eyes widened.

"Sir, did you just say the word 'bones'?" He nodded.

"Yeah. Some bones were taken from the museum too."

"My apologies sir, but we only saw the Serpentine taking the sarcophagus. We never saw anyone taking any bones."

"Well, I guess it can't be helped." They got back in the car and drove off. Cole looked up at Hana.

"What are we gonna do? We can't get back to the ship, and none of us have anywhere to stay for the night." Kaze smiled.

"There's a shelter here. I stayed at that shelter once before when I was still a drifter. We can stay there for the night, and then we can go and use the payphones to call Nya or Sensei Wu on the Bounty."


Lloyd was reading a comic book and Kyria was brushing the hair of a Fluttershy toy while Sensei Wu and Nya were by the railing of the Bounty's deck.

"They should be back by now."

"I fear something horrible has happened to them." He turned to the younger ninja and kunoichi. "Lloyd, Kyria!" They dropped what they were doing and grabbed their study books. "You two are in charge of the Bounty while Nya and I have a look around town."

"Uh, yeah, sure thing!"

"We promise we'll do it Sensei!" Sensei Wu and Nya left. Lloyd smiled as he picked up his comic book.

"Okay Fritz Donagan, looks like it's just you, me, and the Imperial Sludge!" Kyria picked up her Fluttershy toy.

"Now we can play all day Fluttershy, as well as Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, and Pinkie Pie! Maybe we can have Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence in with the fun too!"


"Thank you for letting us stay the night Mrs. Smith." A kind old lady smiled at Kaze. People in beds surrounded them.

"No problem. This shelter was made for everybody, and even if you've just been locked out of your house, we'll still help you. Quite frankly, you also remind me of a little girl who stayed here. Poor thing, didn't have the slightest clue what had happened to her before, but eventually, she remembered that she had run away when she was three! Three years old and living on the streets alone! She must've been very blessed by someone to still be alive! Now, back to the subject, do you need something to eat?" Jay nodded.

"Yeah, I'm starving!" Kaze whacked him on the back of the head.

"We have a home where we can get food! These people here don't! They need the food, we have money to get some!" She turned to Mrs. Smith. "No thank you, we don't need any food." Mrs. Smith smiled.

"Well, you're welcome to come back if you ever get locked out of your house again." There was a TV on in one of the rooms. "Oh dear, why would they want to watch that? Those are the Joneses. They lost their house to do theft, but because they weren't insured on anything, they lost everything. Why would they watch something about a robbery?" Jikan's eyes widened.

"A robbery?" Mrs. Smith nodded.

"Yes. Someone broke into the Ninjago City Museum of History and took the Sarcophagus of Toki and the bones of an ancient creature, what was it again?" She put her hand on her chin. "The Grudge Girl? The Gun Holder?"

"Might you be thinking the Grundle?" Mrs. Smith nodded at Jikan.

"Yes, that's it! The Grundle!" They were all pretty worried looking. "Why, is that familiar to you?" Kai grasped for an excuse.

"Um, we studied it in school." Hana smiled at Mrs. Smith.

"Well, thanks for letting us stay here, but I need to find a payphone and call all of their parents to let them know what happened. They'll probably fire me, but at least the kids are alright." Mrs. Smith smiled.

"Alright then. Have a nice day." They quickly got out of there. "Although, now that I think about it, we have a free telephone that they could've used. Oh well, they're gone now, and I don't have the strength I once had to go and catch up to them. They seemed to be in a hurry." Suddenly, she heard some pretty heavy breathing, and some loud thumping. "What in Ninjago is that?" She went outside to look, and saw a huge monster on the top of the roof of the homeless shelter. "A MONSTER!" She fainted.


They got to an area close to a payphone. Jay was freaking out.

"The Grundle is loose, the Grundle is loose, THE GRUNDLE IS LOOSE!" Kinzoku covered his mouth, looking annoyed.

"Jay, shut up." She took her hand off his mouth. "What we need to worry about is the fact that we're kids. Lloyd and Kyria can barely handle their Spinjitsu, so what about us? Can we even use it now?"

"Let me try. NINJAGO!" Kai tried and managed for half a second, but ended up flinging everyone else away and getting knocked out. "No, it doesn't work!"

"Here, I'm still older, let me try. NINJAGO!" Hana tried to do it as well, but her Spinjitsu didn't work either. "Mine isn't working either!" They were freaking out. Cole remained pretty calm though.

"Okay everyone, calm down! We can fix this! We just have to, to-" Hana figured it out.

"Call Father! He'll know what to do! He can probably get some of that Tomorrow's Tea that we need." She dug around in her pocket and pulled out some coins, making a call to the Bounty. "Collect call please."


The phone on the Bounty was ringing while Kyria and Lloyd were facing each other in a video game.

"Lloyd, answer it."

"You answer it Kyr!"

"No, then I'll lose my lead!"

"I'm in the lead!"

"I have thirty thousand more points than you! Just answer it!" Lloyd whacked it off of the hook. "That's not what I meant!"

"Whatever! Destiny's Bounty."

"Lloyd! Where's Father?!"

"Hana? Where are you guys? Sensei and Nya went out looking for you guys." Kyria nodded.

"Yeah, Nya was getting so worried I though she was gonna puke!"

"Apparently, I wasn't authorized to give parental permission so they could ride the bus, so we can't get out of the city!" Lloyd looked confused.

"Uh, what?" Kyria nodded.

"You're not making any sense Hana."

"Just ignore that. Jay says to meet us at Buddy's Pizza in twenty minutes, and I'm telling you to bring our weapons." Lloyd started reaching for the phone.

"Weapons? AH!" He fell out of his chair. Kyria smiled because the game was done with at that point.

"YAH! I WON!"


Hana put the phone back on the hook.

"Great, now we have Lloyd and Kyria coming, but we still need clothes. Our ninja and kunoichi suits are too conspicuous." Zane thought about that.

"About 3.7589 blocks away, there should be a clothing store where we can grab some clothes. Hana, how much money do we have left?" She looked in her wallet.

"About ¥20,096, but Father said it was strictly for emergencies!" Cole looked at her bewildered.

"This doesn't qualify as an emergency?"

"Fair enough."


Lloyd and Kyria walked into Buddy's Pizza, Lloyd holding the ninja's weapons and Kyria holding the kunoichi's weapons. They heard someone talking, but weren't paying attention.

"Really, of all places, you picked this place?"

"Hey, Jay's the one who told me to say that!"

"What, I like their pizza."

"Yeah, but their service stinks!"

"Psst! Lloyd, Kyria." They both turned to face a kid that looked like Kai. Both of them also saw a kid that looked like Cole and a kid that looked like Zane. They were all wearing smaller versions of their regular outfits.

"We're over here too!" On the other side they could both see a kid that looked like Kinzoku, a kid who looked like Jikan, and a kid who looked like Kaze. Like the boys, they were wearing smaller normal outfits.

"Beat it brats, we're on a mission."

"We've got responsibilities to take care of." The kid who looked like Kai grabbed Lloyd's arm.

"Lloyd, it's me! Kai!" The gray-haired girl nodded.

"And I'm Kinzoku!" They looked at them for a while and realized that they were the ninja and kunoichi, therefore dropping their weapons in shock. Lloyd couldn't believe it.

"Whoa, what happened?" Kyria nodded, looking at the kunoichi.

"You guys are small now!"

"Not all of us." Hana poked her head into view. Kyria's eyes widened.

"Okay, now that's just weird. Why are all of you except for Hana little kids?" Lloyd nodded.

"Yeah, what's the big deal?" Kai explained it.

"Your father's Mega Weapon not only turned us into kids, but unlashed a creature who's sole purpose is to hunt down ninja and kunoichi!" Hana nodded.

"I had previously drank something called Tomorrow's Tea, which ages things, so instead of turning me into a little kid, to just reversed the affects and made me sixteen again. No one will believe anything we say, so whenever someone thinks we're making it up, I have to make it look like it was their imagination and have to pretend to be a babysitter." Lloyd and Kyria started laughing. Kai didn't look very happy about that.

"What's so funny?"

"Well, I guess you now know what it's like to be treated differently." Kyria nodded.

"Now you know how hard it is to be a kid!" They plopped the weapons down on the tables. Kinzoku glared at them both.

"This is no laughing matter! The Grundle hunts ninja and kunoichi, so if we don't get back to normal so that we can fight it, we'll be eaten!"

"Well, what about us? We know Spinjitsu!" Kyria nodded.

"Yeah, we can easily take on the Grundle." Jikan shook her head.

"You would not have the power to defeat the Grundle. I was barely able to do so, and I never used any force, only my powers over time to send them to where they cannot survive. I do not have my powers at full strength because of the way Garmadon used the Mega Weapon to affect us, so I cannot do that. We need someone who is well versed in the ways of creatures and know their weaknesses." Lloyd and Kyria were looking over at a kid who had a Star Farer comic book. Cole looked frustrated.

"You two have to focus!" Lloyd looked at them.

"I am. I think I know just the guy." Kyria nodded.

"I think we're thinking the same guy too."


They all walked into Ninjago Doomsday Comix. Kyria and Lloyd looked at each other.

"We were thinking the same guy!"

"Alright!" They high-fived each other. Cole looked pretty mad.

"You brought us to a comic book store?!" Lloyd smiled at him.

"Trust us. If there's anyone who knows how to defeat a monster that doesn't exist, we know just the guy." Kyria nodded.

"He knows everything about things that don't exist." Kinzoku rolled her eyes.

"So he knows everything about nothing?" Kyria's temper flared up a little.

"No, nothing would mean he doesn't know anything, but this guy even knows how to defeat a Changeling or how to stop Discord!" Lloyd nodded.

"I don't know about those, but probably." Kai grabbed his shoulder.

"We're not going to pick up your stupid comic Lloyd! This is serious business!" Jay noticed a comic on the shelf.

"Oh look! A First Edition Daffy Dale! I used to love that nut growing up!" He laughed until he saw the looks on his companions' faces. "So juvenile." Kyria and Lloyd got behind the group and ushered them to the back of the store.

"Fellas and gals, meet Rufus McAllister, AKA Mother Doomsday."

"Why, if it isn't Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon and Kyria Alexandria Garmadon. Lloyd, sorry if you came in for the latest Star Farer, I'm all sold out, and Kyria, sorry if you're here for any of the Equestria Girls movie DVD's, I'm all sold out of those too."

"WHAT?! SOLD OUT?!" Both the twin shouted. Mother Doomsday nodded.

"Yep. In fact, that girl over there just bought the just DVD." He pointed over to the MLP section. Kinzoku couldn't believe it.

"Ki?!" Kiniro was sitting there with a transportable DVD player watching her brand new DVD and holding a stuffed Fluttershy toy. Kinzoku was about to go over to her sister, but Kai grabbed her shoulder.

"Do you want your sister seeing you like this?" She stopped. Lloyd continued what he was gonna say.

"Actually Mother Doomsday, we need help."

"Well, color me intrigued."

"We have a problem. There's a Grundle on the loose, and we need to know how to deal with it."

"Ah, a theoretical question." Kyria nodded.

"Yeah, theoretical! Can you help?" He lowered his chair and stepped off of it, walking over to one of the shelves and taking off a comic with a picture of a Grundle on it.

"Dromaeosaurid Theropod Grundalicus. Although extinct, there have been a plethora of film, television and comics exploring the mythology around the Primordial predator. Supposedly, they always get their prey." Jikan rolled her eyes.

"That is what you think." Kyria elbowed her.

"Please, continue Mother Doomsday. Can it be stopped?"

"First thing you need to know is that it's invincible, thick, shell like hide is invincible to things like swords, even something as sharp as a katana or wakizashi, scythes, nunchaks, shurikens, sais, fans, and chigirikis, so your cheap imitations will do nothing to slow them down." Cole looked bummed about that.

"Swell."

"Second of all, it's nocturnal, and will only hunt as night." Jay looked pretty happy.

"Oh, good! It's still daylight, so we can relax for a bit!" Mother Doomsday looked confused, so Kai elbowed Jay. "I meant theoretically."

"The only way to defeat it is with light." He walked over to a special display case. "Like with a vampire, with enough light, it could potentially destroy him." He went to open a case with some fake light up swords. "If I had my weapons of choice, may I recommend the Illuma-Sword? These are authentic replicas, created only by the creators of the ones from the comic it was made for, that would come in handy, were you to live long enough to face the Grundle." He closed the case and walked over to another display with lances that looked like a twisted horn of some sort. "Of course, these would also be excellent weapons of choice as well. These are the Alicorn Lances, made based off of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. These lances are each modeled after a different princess of Equestria, one for each of the four princesses, made more for the older fans than for little kids. Like the Illuma-Swords, they light up, but these will match the color of the alicorn's magic rather than the color of the horn itself. And, if you're going to fight anything, might I recommend an authentic ninja and kunoichi Gi, each one signed by the respective ninja and kunoichi who saved the city." Kinzoku started reaching for the purple Alicorn Lance.

"We'll just take the lances and the swords." He closed the case.

"Not so fast. This Star Farer combo pack and that My Little Pony combo pack can only be won in their separate competitions, the Fritz Donagan Trivia Battle Royal and the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Trivia Battle Royal. Do you have what it takes to be the best?" Jay put his hand on Lloyd's shoulder.

"You can do this Lloyd!" Kaze smiled at Kyria.

"You too! You have the stuff." Lloyd and Kyria smiled.

"Sign us up."


Sensei Wu and Nya had returned to the ship, only to find Lloyd and Kyria gone, and the phone off the hook. Nya put the phone back on the hook.

"Great, now Lloyd and Kyria are missing. What's next?" The phone started ringing again, but instead of being an actual call, it was just a voicemail. Nya hit a button so she could hear the message.

"Sensei, we're at Doomsday Comix. Dad's turned the others into kids, Hana's apparently a teenager again, and we're about to face a real life Grundle! If you get this message, this isn't a prank, come quick!" The message ended there. Sensei Wu looked worried.

"Oh dear. Well, there's only one person who could help the ninja return back to normal."


Nya drove her scooter, with Sensei Wu in the sidecar, up to a teashop. They walked in to see that same old woman tending it. Sensei Wu smiled at her.

"Hello Miss Take. We need some Tomorrow's Tea, and a special ingredient, but I only need enough for one."

"Special ingredient, you're a fool!"

"This one is to counter any affects of Tomorrow's Tea."

"Oh, I have some of the tea in the back, I'll get it. I think I have some of the ingredient you're looking for, the Ever Root. I'll bring them both here up front." She went to the back of the store. Nya looked confused.

"Sensei, what do you need this Ever Root for?"

"In order to make them older, and to deal with the Grundle, it will end up hitting all of them. Unlike the others, who went back as many as possibly ten years, Hana only went back four, so she stayed relatively the same size while the others became much smaller. Because she is also older, she would already age more than the others, and because she is much bigger, she would also be hit by far more Tomorrow's Tea than the others. I fear that the combination of these two could possibly age her into an old woman far before her time. To keep this from happening, I need that Ever Root so that her age will not change."

"But Sensei, won't that make Cole older than her again?" He sighed.

"Yes, and I also fear that she may never forgive me for this, but the alternative is too much for my old heart to bear."


"It's down to the final two in each category! For the Fritz Donagan Trivia Battle Royal, this question is for Lloyd." The ninja, kunoichi, and some of the other people were cheering for Lloyd. "What is Fritz Donagan's famous catchphrase?"

"Fair? Fair is not a word from where I come from."

"Correct! We're all tied up." They cheered for that. "Now, to the My Little pony trivia, this question is for Kyria." They were chanting for Kyria, short of Kinzoku. Kai gave her a weird look.

"Why aren't you cheering on Kyria?" She folded her arms over her chest.

"I can't take sides for that one! We may need Kyria to win, but her opponent is Ane, who is my little sister! Could you pick a side if it was Nya up there?"

"I guess you're right." They turned back to the trivia battle.

"Kyria, for your question, what is the original version of Starswirl the Bearded's unfinished spell, and what was Twilight Sparkle's revision of it."

"Starswirl's version was 'from one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled,' and Twilight Sparkle's revision was 'from all of us together, together we are friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end'."

"Correct! We are tied here as well!" They cheered. "Final question for Fritz Donagan. The first person to answer this will win. In the latest issue of Star Farer, how did Fritz Donagan escape the Imperial Sludge?" Lloyd panicked.

"But I haven't read the latest issue!" The other kid answered it.

"By reversing the polarity of the ship's gravity transducer!"

"We have a winner!" Jay was freaking out.

"We're gonna die!" Kaze elbowed him.

"Shut up! There are a bunch of kids here! We don't want to freak all of them out. Besides, Kyria can still win the Alicorn Lances."

"Because to the My Little Pony Trivia, the same goes. This is the final question, and whoever gets it right wins. If neither gets it right, then we'll ask another." He turned to the two. "In the My Little Pony movie Equestria Girls, how did Twilight Sparkle defeat Sunset Shimmer and regain her crown and her Element of Harmony?"

"But I never got a chance to see the movie!" Kiniro smiled.

"By connecting with the Elements of Harmony back in Equestria through the girls who were alternate dimension versions of her friends, and using her connection to the Element of Magic to undo al the damage Sunset Shimmer had done and returned Canterlot High students back to normal."

"Correct! We have our two winners!" Suddenly, building was shaking as the light turned off. "Who shut off the power?" Suddenly, part of the roof was torn off. Jikan looked serious, well, more serious.

"It has arrived." Mother Doomsday looked confused.

"What's here?" Jay kinda nervously laughed.

"You know that theoretical discussion we had earlier?" The head was now visible.

"Not the-" the Grundle stepped on part of the glass roof, cracking it.

"RUN!" Zane looked scared.

"We've got to get out of here!" They ran over to the door, but it was blocked. Kaze was starting to freak out.

"The door is jammed! We can't get out!" Jay turned to it.

"Look, it's coming!" It took a few steps and then fell through the roof. "We're doomed!" Mother Doomsday agreed with that sentence.

"Doomed as Princess Softskin in issue 4 page 15!" Kiniro glared at it.

"I'm not scared of you! My sister will totally kick your butt!" It flicked its tail at her, knocking her into the corner where the desk was and knocking her out.

"KI!" Kinzoku got mad. "NOBODY, AND I MEAN NOBODY HURTS MY BABY SISTER!" She was about to charge at it, but Kai grabbed her arm.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?! We need those swords and lances!" Jay nodded.

"Quick, this way!" They ran to get to the weapons and the suits. Cole got its attention after they had gotten the suits one and the weapons lit up.

"Hey Mc Nasty, I thought ninja and kunoichi were on your menu!" The Grundle turned to face the ninja and the kunoichi. They flashed their light up weapons it it and it started rearing back. Hana was pretty happy about that.

"It's working!" They started getting closer to it. Jay jumped up and whacked it with his sword, but it bent and stopped working, so he got flung away. They all tried, but only Hana's Princess Celestia lance and Cole's Illuma Sword were still working. Kaze looked concerned.

"We have a problem!" The Grundle used its claws to smack them away, towards where Kiniro had landed. The Grundle came towards them and they started screaming. Lloyd and Kyria both came over to the Grundle.

"Not to worry, we'll take care of this."

"Lloyd? Kyria?" They both tried to make spheres of light with their hands, and while it worked for a little bit to make the Grundle back up, it just used it's tail to knock them both over. Kyria ended up landing on Kiniro, waking her up.

"OW! Could you please get off of me?"

"Sorry!" Kyria got off of her. "Just to let you know, we're about to be eaten by a Grundle."

"My sister can stop it!" Lloyd shook his head.

"She's turned into a little kid, no older than us!" Kiniro's eyes widened.

"Then, this is the end, isn't it?!" Just then, Nya kicked the door open. She shouted to the store while Sensei Wu walked in.

"EVERYONE OUT!" They all did as they were told, short of those who were cornered by the Grundle. Sensei Wu held up a glass container.

"Use this!" He threw it to them, and Jay caught it.

"What is it?!"

"It's Tomorrow's Tea. It'll turn forward the hands of time, turning you older and turning the Grundle back to dust and bones, but be careful! There's no turning back! Hana, take this!" He threw her a small bit of something, which she caught.

"Father, what's this?!"

"It's an Ever Root! Put it in your mouth! It'll keep the Tomorrow's Tea from affecting you, but there's only enough of it for one person to use. If you let yourself be affected by it, you might turn into an old woman! I can't take that chance! Ninjago can't take that chance!" Jay was about to throw the jar.

"Grundle, prepare to be extinct!" Cole stopped him.

"Wait!" He held out the light up sword to keep the Grundle at bay for a little bit. "But what'll happen to Lloyd, Kyria, and Kiniro? They'll all grow old too!" Hana tried to give them the Ever Root while holding out her still lit up lance.

"You guys don't deserve to be robbed of your childhoods. Kiniro, you're not even a kunoichi!" They all didn't take it. Kiniro's eyes showed that she would stand firm.

"You need it more than me. I don't have the risk of turning into an old woman. Maybe I'll even become as old as Ane, and then Mom and Dad will finally let me stay with her like I've been begging too!" Hana shook her head.

"But it's still not fair!" The Grundle whacked away the light up weapons and landed the Tomorrow's Tea in Lloyd's hands.

"Fair, fair isn't a word from where I come from. Hana, put the root in your mouth!" She finally did it. Lloyd stood up and threw the jar, which broke on the Grundle's face and released the Tomorrow's Tea, which touched all eleven that were in range, twelve if you count the Grundle. It slowly started turning back into dust and bones, as well as aging the ninja and kunoichi short of Hana. They all stood up. Kai threw off his mask.

"What happened?" Kinzoku examined herself.

"We're back to normal!" Cole nodded.

"We're not kids anymore!" Nya looked pretty happy.

"It worked!" Mother Doomsday looked pretty happy about it, and excited, but stunned as well.

"They are the real ninja and kunoichi."

"But what about the twins and Kiniro?" Lloyd stood up, his hair much longer than before.

"I'm… older." Kyria stood up as well, now being much taller, with much longer hair, and with a different figure than before (which she'll have to learn about).

"I'm…full grown."

"The time for the Green Ninja and the Green Kunoichi to face their destinies has grown nearer." They all looked at each other, and then Lloyd and Kyria looked at each other.

"We're ready." Kinzoku looked pretty concerned.

"Wait, where's Kiniro?!" She looked behind the desk. Right there was a full gown woman with a shirt too small for her, as well as a way too short skirt, and really long hair. Kai was about to look over.

"Is she okay?" Kinzoku shoved him away.

"Don't look at her! Her clothes are too small now! She needs something to cover herself!" Nya handed Kinzoku a red blanket, which she used to cover her sister with. She lifted her up and over her shoulders. They all started to leave, but Mother Doomsday stopped the Garmadon twins.

"Lloyd, you can have my copy of Star Farer, and Kyria, you can also have my copy of the Equestria Girls movie. You two deserve them." They smiled at him.

"That's okay, but we already know how they end." Kyria nodded.

"Yeah, but thanks for the offer." They walked out.


Hana was on the deck of the Bounty in her purple and lighter purple stripped pajamas.

"How is it that I just knew that you would be out here?" She turned to the voice.

"Cole. How is it that I just knew that you would find me?" He smiled and stood next to her, leaning against the railing.

"I can tell something's bugging you. Don't try and lie about it, last time you tried lying to me, you ended up dying before you told me, and I don't want to go through that again. So, what's up." She sighed.

"Cole, I'm sixteen again, and you're twenty again. You're too old for me now, and I'm too young for you now. There's no way in Ninjago that anyone's going to let us be together now." Tears started falling down her face. He reached over and wiped them away.

"Come one Hana, that's no way for a Spinjitsu Master to act. You're one of the strongest people that I know, at lest emotionally. It's a four year age difference, not a ten year age difference. We'll work through this, and besides, it's just a two year long bump in the road. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure Sensei Wu won't mind as long as we keep some sort of limits." She turned to him and smiled. She hugged and and let her head rest on his chest.

"What would I do without you Cole?"

"I'm not sure. I'm honestly really bad at comforting people, but comforting you just comes naturally."

"As the plants nurture the earth, the earth also nurtures the plants."

"I guess, something like that."


Sensei Wu was looking into the spirit smoke, and saw his brother facing off against his own children and sighed.


There comes a time when we all must grow up. When that time comes, it is important not to forget the lessons of our childhood, because our childhood is the greatest training that one can have. Yes, the time until the final battle has grown shorter, but the Green Ninja and the Green Kunoichi have both grown much stronger.

Song Of Hope: Okay, there you have it for this chapter of Ninjago: Master of Spinjitsu Redone. R&R