Tuesday went by in a blur. The day was unusually quiet, without a single ghost causing destruction, just a couple of spirits wanting to get out of the ghost zone. Even Dash and Kwan had backed off that day, much to Danny's confusion, but were back to their bullying on Wednesday morning when they stuffed Danny's locker with toilet paper.
"And here I thought they actually grew some brains." Sam commented whilst she, Valery and Tucker helped Danny clear out the TP.
"Nah, but they might grow half a brain in lets say... Another hundred years?" The group laughed as they walked to history, all happy to see that Mrs Gordon had returned from her holiday.
"Good Morning class. I hope you didn't miss me too much during Monday's lesson? Anyone with permission slips for the field trip on Friday, please leave them on my desk." Danny took out the slip from his bag and putting it out on the desk, muttering a small good morning to the History teacher.
As the lesson dragged on, Danny made sure to pay attention to everything Mrs Gordon said, knowing Morro wasn't going to give him the answers should the teacher asked him questions.
"... And after The First Spinjitsu Master finished constructing other lands, he settled down to raise his two sons, Wu and Garmadon, and trusted them to keep the golden weapons safe, and out of the wrong hands."
"Pst! Danny." Danny looked to his right to see Valery trying to get his attention.
"What?"
"Isn't Garmadon that Borg guy said was possessed by Pariah?" Danny nodded, remembering the doctor's words from the other night. He looked up to the painting of the two sons that was up on the projector screen. The two looked totally different, but Danny knew people could easily change over time.
The ghost boy raised his hand, catching the attention of the history teacher.
"Yes, Danny?"
"Did either of the brothers turn evil at all?"
Mrs Gordon was a little surprised at the question, but went on to answer it anyways.
"Yes, unfortunately Garmadon was, as you would call it, evil. But he wasn't born evil. He has helped ninjago and fought along side the elemental masters during the great serpentine wars, which you will learn about during your field trip to the museum. Last I heard, Garmadon even settled down and had a family himself, before being banished."
" Mrs Gordon, do you have a family?" Pauline asked, attempting to try and distract the teacher so she could talk gossip with Star.
The history teacher just froze a far away look on her face. "I did once, a long time ago." The class went silent, and several students could've swarn they saw a tear in her eye.
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At the end of the school day, Danny rushed back home and went straight to the portal, heading towards Clockwork's lair for his lesson. As he went by all the clocks and mirrors, he noticed the hospital room again.
With all the commotion and chaos that went on that Monday, Danny had almost completely forgot about it. He entered the room and noticed the girl was now awake, and was sat up in her bed reading a book.
"Hello?" The girl jumped at the noise, dropping the book onto the floor.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to startle you." Danny picked up the book and handed it to her. "My name's Danny, Danny Phantom. I'm a student of Clockwork's."
"Thank you Danny. My name's Harumi. I don't exactly have a last name. But, for some reason, Clockwork is allowing me to stay here until I recover from my injuries."
"Well it's nice to meet you Harumi." Danny held his hand out to shake, which Harumi gladly took.
"I'm glad to see you've introduced yourselves." They both looked around to see Clockwork entering the room. "I do believe it's time for our lesson Danny. Harumi, if you're feeling well enough, would you like to observe the lesson?" Harumi nodded as Clockwork grabbed a wheelchair for the girl and wheeled her to an open room where Danny usually had his lessons.
"Imagine where you want to go, and try and create an opening to get there." Danny pictured his bedroom in his mind, and then imagined a door in front of him that could lead him to his room.
Right in front of him, a small portal opened, showing the NASA posters the ghost boy had on his wall.
"Well done. See if you can open another one, and see if you can take an item through it." Danny did it again, and this time, the portal showed Dash and Kwan stuffing their faces at the Nasty Burger whilst Paulina and Star snuggled up to their boyfriends. Danny reached through the portal and grabbed a burger and some fries whilst the two Jocks weren't looking. He closed the portal before taking a bite out of the burger and offering a fry to Harumi.
"I believe you have now mastered each of your ghost powers, but there is still much for you to learn. If you could detransform please, Danny."
Harumi couldn't help but watch Danny in fascination as his hair turned from white to black, his eyes green to blue, and his hazmat to normal clothing. He looked just like a normal teenage boy, and not like the ghost hero Clockwork often talked about.
Another portal opened up inside the room, and Harumi was surprised to see a familiar ghost walk through with three other people behind him.
"Morro, right on time. I trust that you have brought the others?" Morro moved to the side to see Sam, Tucker and Valery behind him. "Good."
"Can someone please explain what are we doing here? And who's the chick in the wheelchair?" Asked Valery as everyone looked over to Harumi, who just gave a small wave.
"Guys, this is Harumi. She's currently staying with Clockwork for some reason."
"Harumi... You look familiar. Have I seen you before?" Morro asked, floating right towards the girl, trying to get a better look at her.
"I don't think we have..." Harumi shrunk back into her wheelchair, hoping this ghost wouldn't recognise her as the former Jade princess.
"Back off Morro." Sam said as she came between the two. "You're making the poor girl nervous." Sam gave the girl a small smile and held out her hand. "I'm Sam. This creep over here is Morro."
"Hey!"
"I'm assuming you've already met Danny, and the two dorks behind me are Valery and Tucker."
"We're not dorks!" The two said simultaneously, making Harumi laugh. "It's nice to meet you all."
"Now that introductions are out of the way, why are we all here?"
"Each of you are talented ghost hunters, but those skills won't aid you against nindriods. In order to take them down, you need to be fast, strong, cunning. I'm going to teach you how to be a ninja."
"But aren't we going to meet ninja when we go to Ninjago on Friday? Shouldn't we learn from them as we don't really have a ninja to teach us here?" Asked Danny, noticing the shocked look on Harumi's face when they mentioned Ninja.
"Do not put off tomorrow, what can be done today, a friend of mine once told me. And I do believe we have a ninja currently in the room that can teach you for today." Clockwork pointed his staff over to Morro, who was smirking at the shocked looks of the group.
"That's right. I'm going to be your teacher for today, so call me Sensei Morro." Tucker couldn't help but laugh. "This guy, a ninja seriously? Sure he has great ghostly powers, but if he was human, I doubt he'd last long in a fight." Morro said nothing, but his smirk got bigger after hearing those words.
"If you think that, then I challenge all of you to a fight. Clockwork, the cage please." The ground started shaking as stone bars raised up around them, trapping them all in the cage. "These bars are made of deepstone. It blocks any ghost powers, including flying, turning invisible and you can't phase through them. A fair fight, no? So come on, charge at me."
Tucker audibly gulped, seeing the sinister smile on the ghost's face. Maybe he should've kept his mouth closed.
Tucker charged at Morro with a fist raised in the air and yelling out what he considered a war cry (everyone else heard a high pitched scream). Clockwork did not need the ability too see into the future to know that this wasn't going to end well for the boy. Within seconds, Tucker was laying on the floor, groaning in pain. Morro looked to the rest of the group, who had horrified looks on their faces.
"Anyone else want to try?"
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One by one, each of the group charged at Morro, hoping to at least get a hit on him,but not a single one managed to touch a hair on his head.
"I take back what I said. This guy is definitely a Ninja."
"Guys, we might be able to take him down if we all gang up on him." They all looked over to Morro, who's smirk had not faltered since they started.
"Ready, go!" They all charged towards the ghost, who was unmoving and uncaring as they all dog piled on him, attempting to pin him down.
"I've got his arms!"
"I've got his legs!"
"Those are my legs doofus!" They all paused when they realised they had grabbed Valery instead of Morro, who had somehow moved to the over side of the cage.
"How did he... Never mind, just get him!" They charged at the ghost once more, but Danny's eyes widened when he saw Morro doing a familiar move. There was now a mini tornado in place of Morro, who quickly sucked everyone in before throwing them back out of it.
"That's enough for now Morro." Clockwork interrupted as the bars came back down, releasing them from the cage.
"What was with that last move? I thought you said no ghost powers?" Complained Tucker, knowing everything was going to hurt in the morning.
"It's not a ghost power twerp. It's called spinjitsu and any human can do if they know how to do it. Besides, weren't you learning about the first SPINJITSU master in history?"
"Oh yeah. Guess that makes sense since you said you came from Ninjago."
"And learning such skill would give you a great advantage in this upcoming battle." Clockwork walked over to the group. "As Morro has just demonstrated, Spinjitsu can take out multiple opponents at once."
"Great, so when can we learn it?"
"I do not have the current equipment to teach you spinjitsu, but for now, Morro will continue to teach you to fight properly for the rest of today and tomorrow evening." There was a series of groans before the ancient ghost started talking again. "You all rely heavily on your powers and ghost hunting equipment, each of which will have no effect on androids."
For the rest of the lesson, Morro made sure each of them knew how to hold a katana, throw shurikins and, well, how to be a ninja. Danny and the others were so tired that Clockwork had to make each of them portals to their rooms. Needless to say, Thursday's lesson was going to hurt.