In the blink of an eye, the storm clouds that had once been in the sky, disappeared like wisps of vapor. Citizens of Ninjago gazed up at the clear skies and jumped up to cheer. Sensei had come out of the Bounty to see it, Lloyd followed him, the aged master gazed around to find that the storm had ended. He could feel his worries melting away, "The balance, has been restored."
Lloyd looked up and pointed ahead of them, "Uncle, look!" Wu turned and what he saw was most surprising, his students, Cole, Jay, and Zane, riding dragons, three of them towards Destiny's Bounty. One was black and red crested, another had a purple aura surrounding it signalling great power, and the third was only like the first but silver crested. The three all smiled once they caught sight of their teacher, the dragons landed on deck and let them down.
Lloyd ran over to pet one, though Sensei only followed to be cautious, he turned to his three students, "Whats this?"
"Our dragon friends, sensei, what else do they look like, hippos?" Jay joked. Sensei couldn't help but smile, but he frowned upon noticing one was missing, "Where is Kai?"
The red crested dragon brought himself forward towards Wu, and he only looked upon the dragon in wonder, but when he looked into the dragons autumn green eyes, he gaped, "Kai?" Their was a flash of light before him, and once it faded, in the dragons place stood Kai, in his ZX robes, Wu blinked, obviously awestruck. "Yeah," Kai scratched the back of his neck awkwardly, "I tend to have learned a few things during this quest."
"I...I see," Wu stuttered, still trying to piece what had just occurred, "Who...how?"
Kai shrugged, "Don't ask me..."
The silver crested dragon turned to her original form, Lily, in her silver and white silk robes, and Andrea. Except, when Wu first laid eyes on her, he didn't believe what he saw, he only tense upon seeing her face again. "A...Andrea?" he gasped in unison. Andrea stared back at him, she only stood still, as her old teacher eyed her in amazement, after a whole minute of staring he spoke again, "I...It...cant be..."
"I'm right here...master," she uttered, making the other four, (except Kai) jump. "Master?!" they all yelled.
Wu walked over to her, and wrapped her in a hug, a few tears of joy leaving his eyes, "I-I...I never thought I'd see you...again..."
Andrea began to get emotional herself, but she dare not shed tears, she only embraced the warm feeling, not ever wanting it to end, "N-Neither did I..." Wu finished crying and broke away, smiling widely at her, "You've grown since the last time I saw you, and you've learned much. I see you protected that staff well."
Andrea glanced at the staff in her hands, she smiled, "Yeah...I guess I did..."
Sensei smiled warmly and turned to the rest of his students, "You all must be tired, come now, now that the balance has restored we may celebrate, Zane, you wouldn't mind making dinner, would you?"
"Of course not, Sensei," the Nindroid bowed and headed inside to cook, the others only sighing in relief, except Cole who wanted to be the one to cook. "Now as for you two young ladies," Sensei stated, turning to Andrea and Lily, then smiling, "Welcome, to the team."
The night was great for our noble heroes, and the dinner Zane prepared was delicious, as always, things couldn't seem to get better than this. Andrea and Lily had moved into the spare bedrooms on the Bounty, and went in to join the celebration, well, Lily did, Andrea seemed to have missed the party. Cole began to get a little worried of where she had went to, he excused himself to go check. He found her outside on the roof of their house, looking out towards the beautiful crescent moon. Cole silently made his way up to sit next to her, but he nearly slipped while reaching the rooftop, and would've fallen if Andrea hadn't caught him by the arm. She smiled at him, "You know if your going to sneak on me, bound to end up as a chew toy."
Cole gulped at the idea, making Andrea chuckled, "I'm kidding, come on up, rocky." She hoisted him up with one pull, letting him sit beside her as both of them looked out into the midnight sky, and Cole had begun to see how beautiful it was. But when he turned to Andrea, he almost felt that wasn't true, her appearance was bound to be much more prettier than the moon. He then remembered why he came, "(Clears throat) So...uh, what a nice night, eh?"
"Yeah," Andrea replied, her eyes locked on the moon, Cole rubbed the back of his head, what should he say? He hadn't felt ever this much nervous ever, he didn't know how to talk to girls! Cole then decided to cut to the chase, since there was nothing better for him to say, "Why aren't you celebrating with us?"
"Huh?" she asked, turning to him, finally.
"We're inside partying, and...well, you seem distant," Cole spoke. Andrea looked at him then down, she sighed, "I just...I just cant help but feel...worried, about the future."
"The future?" Cole questioned, "why should you be worried about that?"
Andrea tensed, "Because..." There was a long moment of silence between them, and Cole began to think whether this was a good idea to come up here, but then Andrea spoke again, "Because there's not much to tell...Garmadon will return for revenge...its not something we can change, Cole, one day he'll come back...and maybe...he just might get what he wants."
She looked away from him, and Cole could understand why, he sort of felt the same, but not in the way Andrea felt, I mean, both Wu and Garmadon trained her, by the way he saw it, and having to face someone that had been so close to you was hard enough...he knew it perfectly.
But right now he didn't matter, Andrea was troubled and needed comfort, so he had to be for her. Cole put a hand on her shoulder, and she looked back at him. "We all...have to make hard decisions sometimes, even if it means facing someone you thought you knew, or someone as close to you enough to be family, its hard, I know...but, no one can predict the future, Andrea, no one has that power...wait, you don't right?"
Andrea looked down, "No...I guess not..."
"Well, that's just the point, there's no way of telling whats around the corner, but all that we can do is prepare ourselves, so when evil comes back, we'll be ready for them, we'll be ready for a fight, to make sure the peace is restored...got that?" Cole asked. Andrea turned, and smiled at him, she nodded slowly, "Yes, Cole...I got that."
The earth ninja smiled, "Great."
Andrea smiled and looked out at the moon, Cole joined in and there was a moment of silence, before Cole started to speak again, "You know...if Kai gained his Dragon potential, due to the fact he's the prince of Dragons, and your little brother, does that mean that only he can gain his Dragon potential, and we cant?"
"No, that doesn't really mean that, all the Ninjas of Legend will reach it, when we find them all, boy wont that be an adventure," Andrea laughed. Cole chuckled, "Yeah..." Suddenly, the insides of Andrea's robes began to emit a faint glow of light, and Cole noticed, "Hey, whats that inside your robes?"
Andrea reached in the folds of her clothes to pull out the last piece of the prophecy, and the glow was coming from the paper, as it began to write words on the paper, they both watched in awe. Once it had stopped writing, the light dimmed to reveal a sentence in pure gold letters: An earthborn finds its way, the way of the dragon to sway, soon or later, time will tell, all in all things will not come well.
Andrea looked at Cole, and he knew exactly what the text meant, he smiled nervously, "At least we know who's next..."
(aaaaand the end! That marks the end of the first pilot did you like it? I hope so! But not to worry, tomorrow or the next day I'll update with the first episode of season one, and yes, the next to reach his Dragon potential is Cole, so the first episode will be based on Cole, hope you guys are ready, cause its gonna be epic! Sort of, I don't know yet...oh well, until then, have a thriving Thursday, and I thank you all for reading this! Those who are celebrating the Jewish New Year today, happy new years to you!)
