Chapter 19: Irresistible

Pixel panted as she ran down the halls of the school. She had just received a text from Zane saying that it was an emergency and she had to come and meet him and the others in one of the art classrooms as soon as possible. She ended up running into people and knocking a few students over, but all she could do was offer an apology and continued running until she finally arrived. She burst into the room finding the pack in there waiting for her with big grins on their faces.

"What's the emergency?" She panted, trying to regain her stamina.

"We sort of lied about the emergency." Lloyd smiled and she gave them confused frowns.

"Actually, we've got something for you," Morro added as Zane stepped forward, holding something behind his back. "On behalf of the wolves you so bravely protected, we would like to present you with these." The lone wolf said and Zane pulled out a framed photograph. The photo inside was a sketch Cole had done of his and Kai's wolf forms.

"They're amazing!" Pixel gasped as she took the gift from her boyfriend. "They look exactly like the wolves I saw."

"Oh, I... just copied them from photos on the internet." Cole quickly lied.

"Thank you so much." She smiled and gave each one of her friends a hug, including Morro. "I can't wait to speak to the Department of the Environment." She suddenly said and they all froze.

"Department of the Environment?" Lloyd asked nervously. "Why?"

"The wolves are in danger up there, with people like Iron Baron and farmers with guns." She spat in disgust at the thought of those wolves being hurt. "In some parts of the world, wolves are protected and I'm going to get our wolves protected too."

"What if going public just attracts more hunters?" Morro asked.

"Or the government decides to shoot them?" Nya added.

"I won't let that happen." She snapped and the others did feel a twinge of joy at the thought of Pixel fighting to defend them, even if she didn't know the wolves she saved weren't real wolves. "You weren't there, but your picture brought it all back to me." She said with a fond smile and they felt like slapping themselves for giving her that picture.

"What do you mean?" Zane asked.

"How they trusted me, how they knew I was their friend." She replied. "And I'm going to make sure no one ever threatens them again."

"Wolves have been extinct in Ninjago for centuries, if you want the government to start passing laws to protect them, you'll need proof they actually do exist," Cole said and the others felt some relief. Pixel didn't have any actual proof there were any wolves in the forest and there was no way they were transforming and running in front of a camera for her.

"And I know exactly how to get it; Iron Baron's wolf-bait." She smirked and all the werewolves in the room instantly paled. Kai and Cole had told them about it and they said it was irresistible. If Pixel started spraying that near them, they would go crazy.

"Y-You've got some?" Jay asked, trying to hide his fear.

"Dareth threw the canister away, but we can go up there after school, find it, attract the wolves, and take all the photos we want!" She giggled excitedly.

"Kai and I can't." Cole quickly said. "We're still grounded."

"Oh right, what about you guys?" She asked the others hopefully. Unable to think of a good excuse they reluctantly agreed and she thanked them before leaving to go get ready for her search. As soon as they were sure she was gone, the pack descended into full-on panic mode.

"Why did we give them those drawings?!" Kai cried as he started pacing around

"It was your idea!" Lloyd glared.

"We didn't know Pixel was going to turn into Marti Kheel!" Morro defended the others.

"We should have just said we weren't going." Nya groaned. "Pixel opens the canister, no wolves, no problem."

"And what about tomorrow, or the next day?" Zane argued. "She will not stop until she gets what she wants, we need to find the bait before she does,"

"What happens if we find this canister? Won't we just wolf out?" Cole asked.

"My Dad's got filtered masks in his workshop," Jay suggested and they nodded. It was the best plan they could think of.

"We meet up at Zane's, then we'll head to where that hunter trapped us!" Kai exclaimed and they took off to their homes...

When Cole made it home, his dad was nowhere to be seen. Cole took a sniff and cursed quietly. His dad was home but he just still be avoiding his son. With how much noise he already had made, he must have known Cole had come home. The teen had to get out of the apartment and meet up with the others without Lou noticing. As quickly as he could, Cole ran into his bedroom and started packing things he thought they might need for their search.

Once he was done, he opened his bedroom window and was about to climb down the fire escape when his door suddenly opened.

"Going somewhere?" Lou asked, not impressed, as he glared at his son from the doorway. Seeing he was busted, Cole sighed and stepped back into the room.

"I was just-"

"Just running off with your friends, getting into more trouble?"

"I'm trying to stop trouble, not cause it," Cole growled, but sighed. "There's more chemical bait and Pixel's going to release it."

"Why?"

"She wants to get the wolves protected by law and the only way she can do that is to prove they exist." He admitted. "The quickest way to do that is to attract them with the scent and take photographs."

"We need to tell your friends' parents," Lou said and pulled out his cell to make the calls

"But we can get that canister before Pixel does!"

"What if it's damaged? Or leaking?"

"Dad, I'm not a kid anymore." He sighed. "I made this mess just, please, let us clean it up." He pleaded but Lou refused to listen...

Lloyd sighed as he and Morro walked along the forest trail towards Lloyd's home. The lone wolf didn't need to get anything from his place and he doubted his foster parents would even notice he was missing for the afternoon. Lloyd couldn't stop worrying about Pixel and the bait. He knew she had the best of intention but they had to stop her. he just hoped the canister wasn't leaking or damaged or they beat Pixel to it. If she started spraying that near them, they would lose control of their wolves and they might hurt their human friend.

If that happened they would never be able to live with the guilt.

As he walked, Morro suddenly caught a sniff of something strange and he stopped walking. Lloyd stopped and gave Morro a confused look until he smelt it too. It faintly smelt of a werewolf, but they couldn't tell if it was from someone they knew. Learning from his mistake with his father, Lloyd and Morro followed the scent, preparing for what they might find. What they found shocked them, however. Sat behind a large tree near the forest trail was a girl.

The girl looked a few years younger than him with chocolate brown eyes and short, curly black hair.

On each of her cheeks were three thin painted red lines, they looked almost like whiskers. She was absolutely filthy and her clothes weren't much better. They looked worse than she did. What was once a white shirt was now a torn, dirt-stained shadow of its former self, only barely able to hang from her shoulders like a discarded old towel. She was wearing a tattered white and red fleece over her shirt. It was too big, torn, and very dirty, but at least it helped her fight the elements, even if only for a little.

Her white pants were a mess as well.

A big tear had split the left leg in two and the right leg was full of smaller tears as well. At least she had brown boots to protect her feet. Although they were tattered, a little too big, and the left toebox had come loose from the sole. She wore a red bandana around her neck that was full of holes but still holding together. Her head was covered by a large white hat that had what looked like a wolf face stitched into the front. Lloyd took a quick sniff and realized she was the werewolf he had been following.

Judging by her appearance, she must have been wild so Morro carefully pushed Lloyd behind him and they braced themselves in case she attacked.

Instead, the girl simply stood up and her cold eyes started to look them up and down until they zeroed in on Lloyd.

"So they haven't made you completely human, then." She huffed.

"Who are you?" Morro growled, slowly stepping away from the wild werewolf.

"You know who I am." She said and Lloyd frowned. He had never seen this girl in his life. Against his better judgment, Lloyd took another sniff and his eyes widened when he picked up a very familiar scent.

"You smell like... my father?" He muttered in shock and slight fear.

"I'm Akita, from your father's pack; and I've come to take you home."...

Cole glared at passing objects through the window as his father drove them both to Zane's home. After Lou had called the other parents, he had dragged his son into the car and they sat in silence as he drove. When they arrived, Cole noticed there were other cars parked in front of the house too. It wasn't until he and Lou went inside did he see why. Gathered in the house were Jay and Zane and their parents, along with Misako and Wu.

It was almost like an intervention.

Kai and Nya weren't there, however, most like because their parents were out of town and Morro and Lloyd were nowhere to be seen either. Morro he could understand but Cole didn't understand why Lloyd wasn't here when his family was. Cole didn't have time to worry about that however because Lou made him sit next to Jay and Zane.

"So let us get this straight." Wu seethed. "You children gave Pixel a picture of you in wolf-form?!"

"What were you thinking?" Misako glared.

"We were thinking about our friend," Cole growled. "You know, the ones who saved me and Kai from those hunters!"

"Who is now about to call the authorities!" Lou exclaimed.

"Pixel doesn't mean any harm," Jay argued.

"Most humans never do, but it can still end badly," Edna said calmly.

"We know it's good to have friends but your pack, your own kind, they have to come first." Dr. Julien explained. The teens were about to argue when Zane's phone suddenly started ringing.

"It's Lloyd." He told the others and answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Another werewolf from my Dad's pack's just shown up." Lloyd quickly said, catching the pale boy off guard.

"Is Garmadon there?" He asked, startling the adults.

"Garmadon? What's going on? Is my son alright?" Misako asked, fearing for her son's safety.

"Another wild werewolf from Garmadon's pack showed up," Zane replied and the others gasped.

"Wonderful! Another one!" Lou growled in frustration. Zane chose to ignore him and returned to his phone call.

"Why's she here?"

"She says she's come to take me 'home'," Lloyd replied and Zane could hear the annoyance and impatience clear in his voice. "What part of, 'No, I don't want to live in a cave' did Garmadon not understand?!"

"I do not know, just stay with her and try to figure it out." He said and glanced at the others in the room. "I've got family issues of my own to deal with." He sighed before hanging up the phone. As soon as he put the phone away, the parents started ranting.

"All these years we've told you to hide the truth, we weren't saying it to spoil your fun," Lou growled. "There are people out there who'd hurt werewolves."

"You don't think we know that?!" Cole snarled. "We've kept the secret, haven't we?"

"No thanks to Morro!" Wu shouted.

"Things have been going ever since that boy arrived!" Misako added with a glare.

"We have tried to help him." Dr. Julien sighed. "We brought him into our pack, showed him how to be safe."

"Where did that get us?" Lou scoffed. "He got Kai and Cole arrested on a full moon! Kai and Cole were captured by hunters, and half the city has seen Garmadon!"

"You can't blame Morro for Iron Baron or what Garmadon did!" Jay argued.

"He saved Kai's life, remember!" Zane exclaimed.

"He's getting really good at controlling his wolf and he's really happy here!" Cole pleaded and for a brief second, it looked like their parents were listening to the teenagers. That is, unit all the adult in the room shared a look, and immediately started locking all the doors and windows.

"What's going on?" Jay asked.

"We're staying here, where it's safe until Pixel's used all this scent up," Misako stated.

"Morro's out there with Lloyd!" Zane shouted in disbelief.

"And we don't have a clue where Kai and Nya are!" Cole added.

"We'll find Kai, Lloyd, and Nya," Ed reassured and Edna nodded in agreement. With him and Edna being human they would be unaffected by the bait if Pixel started using it.

"And Morro is no longer our problem." Wu glared before the teens could ask.

"What?!" All three of them cried.

"He's out of control, and sooner or later he's going to get caught, and you are not going down with him!" Lou shouted.

"It's the only way to keep you all safe." Dr. Juilen said calmly trying to ease some of the tension.

"Well, we're not going to let you abandon him!" Cole snarled

"It's not your choice anymore! Get upstairs and stay there!" Misako ordered. The teens wanted to argue but they were too outnumbered. With angry snarls and growls the three teens reluctantly ran upstairs to Zane's room. They stayed up there for close to an hour until they were sure their parents were distracted, then they climbed out Zane's window and piled in Cole's car, and took off before their parents even realized what was happening...

Pixel sighed as she waited for the others at the Ying Yang cafe. They were supposed to be here half an hour ago so they could help her search the forest for Iron Baron's wolf bait. It was getting late and they were losing daylight. If they didn't arrive soon, Pixel would have to go without them. As she was waiting, Harumi and her gang of cheerleaders suddenly entered the cafe and spotted her on her own

"Oh, look, Dr. Monster's going on an expedition," Harumi smirked, but Pixel just rolled her eyes.

"Is your boyfriend coming?" Maggie laughed.

"Nah, she's already scared him away." Harumi cackled and the rest of her gang joined in as they took their seats. Pixel just chose to ignore the cackling witches. She knew the truth about the wolves in the forest and she was going to protect them, no matter what. After another five minutes, she tried calling Zane and the others but each time all she got was a ringtone. With an irritated sigh, she grabbed all of her things and left the cafe.

She would have to find the bait and the wolves alone, as per usual.

She drove into the forest and straight to the spot where she believed Dareth had thrown the canister. She stepped out of the car and started looking among the bushes and fallen leaves. After searching for about fifteen minutes, she was about to go home when something shiny suddenly caught her eyes. She quickly ran over to it and gasped in delight when she saw it was the canister. She picked it up and was relieved when she saw it was undamaged from the throw.

Now for the real reason, she was out here.

She came to find wolves and that was what she was going to do. With an excited giggled Pixel got her camera ready and started spraying the white misty substance into the air...

Akita and Morro watched as Lloyd growled in frustration as he hung up the phone. Akita had been watching him talking on the phone in fascination the entire time and Morro had to stop her from taking the phone from Lloyd while he was using it. She had never seen human objects and she was curious about how a voice could come from such a small box. After a moment of thinking, Lloyd turned to the two werewolves with a stubborn glare.

"Are you coming with me then?" She asked impatiently, getting nervous being so close to a human city.

"Where's Garmadon?" Lloyd asked.

"Dunno." She shrugged. "Tracking me, probably."

"So you've come on your own?" Morro asked in disbelief.

"I heard Garmadon talking about you, he said where you lived and I left when the rest of our pack was sleeping." She explained.

"So you ran away from home to find me?" Lloyd glared. The last thing he needed was his father coming back when things were already such a mess.

"Why else would I be here?" She growled. Lloyd was about to say something when his phone suddenly buzzed, causing Akita to jump back in fright. Lloyd just rolled his eyes and looked at the text, only to curse when he saw it was from Pixel, asking where they were. They had forgotten they were supposed to be meeting Pixel to go searching for the canister.

"Come on, let's go to my place." Morro sighed and the two boys made to head back to the city, only stop when they saw Akita wasn't following them.

"It's not safe here," Lloyd said, but she wouldn't move. "There's a canister, it's got something in it that makes werewolves go out of control, like a scent."

"But that's the human world." She whimpered.

"It's not as scary as it looks," Lloyd reassured.

"I'm not scared!" She snarled. Knowing they were running out of time, Morro grabbed her wrist and started dragging her all the way to his house, kicking and screaming all the way. Lloyd just rolled his eyes and followed them, casting a worried look to the forest. Eventually, they arrived at Morro's foster home in the suburbs of Ninjago city. It had taken them a while to sneak Akita in without any neighbors seeing them, but they did it.

As soon as they stepped into the house, Morro took a quick sniff and relaxed when he realized his foster parents weren't home yet.

They were both probably still at work or something like that. While the two boys were trying to figure out what to do now, Akita slowly walked around the house in a stunned daze. This was the first time she had ever been in a human house and it was nothing like she was expecting. All her life she had been told human homes were dens built to store and capture unlucky werewolves. Instead of the pelts of fallen wolves and weapons, all she found were comfy carpets, framed photographs, and the scent of vanilla.

"I suppose this is a bit weird for you," Lloyd said as he and Morro led her into the white, sterile kitchen. "Just don't touch... anything."

"Have you got any meat?" She asked, being able to smell food in this room. Morro and Lloyd flinched at this and looked at each other. They didn't know how to explain that Morro's foster parents were vegetarians, in fact, they doubted she even knew what that word meant.

"How about a burger?" Lloyd offered and he immediately dashed over to the freezer and pulled out five frozen vegan burger patties. Hopefully, Akita wouldn't notice they weren't made with real meat. He placed them on the counter and began looking for some bread to put them on. While he was doing that, Akita picked one up and tried to bite into it. When she realized it was frozen, she threw it away in disgust.

"They're made of ice!" She gagged loudly.

"We haven't cooked them yet!" Morro snapped as he put the remaining burgers onto the bread and into the microwave. They stood in silence for the next two minutes until the microwave finally beeped, signaling the burgers were done. Unfortunately, the small sound had startled the young wild werewolf, causing her to jump backward and straight into some shelves. The shelves fell over and all the plates in held shattered on the cold tile floor.

Before Morro could lose it, Lloyd quickly ushered Akita upstairs to Morro's bedroom while the lone wolf cleaned up the mess best he could.

After another ten minutes, Morro finally came upstairs, carrying two plates of burgers. They were a little cold now but they were still edible. Akita devoured the burgers before the boys could have a bite. She didn't seem to notice they were vegan burgers.

"So you live in the wild, with Garmadon?" Morro asked, but all she did was glare at him. "Any brothers and sisters?"

"A brother." She said, her mouth still full of food.

"I already told Garmadon I didn't want to go with him so why are you here?" Lloyd asked.

"All Garmadon ever talked about was finding you." She spat, causing bits of burger to fly out her mouth. "His lost child kept away from him by tame werewolves, how when he transformed he'd bring him back home."

"Look, Akita, I already told Garmadon I wouldn't go with him so what makes you think I'll change my mind now?"

"You have to, for your own good." She begged. "Humans, and the tame werewolves, they're corrupting you, both of you."

"Did Garmadon tell you that?" Lloyd asked with an eye roll.

"Stop calling him that! He's your father!" She roared. "You both have been hiding what you are too long you think you're one of them."

"We are one of them... sort of," Morro muttered. Even after all these months, he hadn't really felt like he was part of the pack, especially with the adults. They always treated him like an outsider and he had a feeling that they might blame him for all the bad things that had happened recently.

"I know it's going to disappoint you, Akita, but I like it here." Lloyd sighed, getting really sick of his father trying to take him to the wild.

"I don't care what you like, he was gone for weeks!"

"Garmadon?" Morro asked, but she ignored him and glared at Lloyd.

"Since coming home without you, he's not the same." She hissed. "He doesn't hunt, he hardly notices anything, you're the only thing he thinks about anymore; I want Garmadon back the way he was, and the only way to get that is to bring you home!" She bellowed. Before Lloyd could respond, however, the front door downstairs opened and all three werewolves froze. Morro took a quick sniff and suddenly paled. His foster mother was home.

"Morro! What's all this?!" She suddenly cried from downstairs and he flinched. He must not have cleaned up Akita's mess as well as he thought.

"If you're in trouble you'll have to leave with me," Akita smirked.

"I'm not in that much trouble." Morro scoffed.

"Morro!" His foster mother screamed again and that was all the encouragement he needed to climb out the bedroom window with Lloyd and Akita and back towards the forest. They ran for about an hour until they were far enough away from the city for Akita to be comfortable.

"Does this mean you're coming with me?" She asked the lone wolf once they had all caught their breaths

"Nah, she'll cool off in a few hours." He shrugged.

"She's not your mother." She said and Morro flinched. As soon as they had entered the house Akita knew Morro was the only werewolf that lived there and she felt bad for him, having to live with people who weren't your real pack. Seeing Morro's distraught face, Lloyd quickly pulled the wild werewolf to the side.

"Akita, listen to me." He insisted in a firm tone. "I know what you're saying, I do, but I can't just leave my life here to live a new one with you."

"You will come with me." She glared. "I'll make you come."

"How?" He scoffed. She wasn't strong enough to fight their entire pack.

"By telling people what you really are." She smirked cruelly and before either boy could comprehend what she had just said, Akita took off at full speed deeper into the forest. It took three seconds for the boys to realize what she had said but by then she was already long gone. While Morro loudly cursed Lloyd silently knelt down and placed a hand on the ground. There was only one way to find her now. Using the power of Jōhō, Lloyd saw through the entire forest and gasped.

He saw that Pixel had found the bait and was carelessly spraying it around.

That would not have been too much of a problem for them if not for the fact he not only saw Kai, Nya, and Akita in the forest but also Garmadon. He must have been tracking Akita down to bring her back to his pack in the wild. Again, Lloyd could have dealt with that if not for the fact all four werewolves in the forest got a whiff of the bait. Lloyd watched in horror as their eyes turned yellow and wild and they all started running towards an oblivious Pixel.

Lloyd gave Morro a scared look and that was all the lone wolf needed to see before he followed Lloyd in the direction of Pixel...

Pixel laughed as she sprayed the bait around. She was completely oblivious to the danger she was in. She had been spraying the bait around for a good while but no wolves had shown themselves yet. Pixel was about to stop and try and spray it further into the forest until she heard the sound of growling and running footsteps heading straight for her. The sound was coming from just over the hill, out of her sight. Believing it was the wolves, Pixel got her camera ready for the photos.

That is until she saw a terrified Lloyd and Morro running up the road towards her.

"Throw it away! Throw it away!" Lloyd screamed but Pixel just gave them a confused look. It was too late, however. Akita, Garmadon, Kai, and Nya suddenly jumped over the hill in their wolf forms and lunged at the petrified human. Lloyd and Morro had no choice. They quickly transformed into their wolves and blocked the four other wolves. It suddenly became a free for all between all six wolves. They were all snarling, biting, and scratching at each other.

Pixel back away in fear and cowered next to a nearby tree.

For a brief second, she thought she was going insane. But she knew she was not insane. She never was. With that thought in mind, she raised her camera in shaking hands and started taking pictures of the six fighting wolves. Just then, Cole's car drove onto the scene and he, Jay, and Zane quickly jumped out. It only took them only a second to realize what had happened and Zane's heart broke into a thousand pieces when he saw the terror on Pixel's face.

They didn't have a choice, however.

They had to stop this fight before it got out of hand. Pixel watched with eyes wide and her jaw fell open as Cole, Jay and Zane transformed and she watched as they jumped in between the six fighting wolves. After a minute all the wolves calmed down and returned to their human forms. Pixel blushed when she saw they were all naked but was in too much shock to think to cover her eyes. Cole shot everyone a glare as he walked over to Pixel, snatched the canister away from her, and tossed it into his car to deal with at a later date.

While Garmadon was angrily scolding Akita for running away and the others were getting dressed, Zane looked to a stunned Pixel.

He wanted to lie to her again. To say that the chemicals she had been spraying were making her see things, but he knew it was too late. Pixel now knew they were all werewolves. Seeing her expression, Lloyd stepped forward.

"This is my Dad Garmadon and Akita." He explained with a sigh. "We're all werewolves."

"L-Like Zane?" She whispered as she pointed a shaking finger at her boyfriend, who looked away in shame. They all just stood there in silence until the sound of a car approaching them was heard. They all looked over and their eyes widened when they saw it was Cole, Jay, Zane, and Lloyd's families. The adults quickly climbed out of their cars and took a look at the scene. They saw their children, a terrified human, and two wild werewolves.

As soon as they saw Kai and Nya and the two wild werewolves didn't have any clothes, having lost them in the forest, their stomachs sank.

"What happened?" Asked a fearful Edna.

"Your secret's out," Garmadon replied smugly. Misako eyes wandered over everyone and as soon as she saw Morro, the red mist descended.

"You did this!" She snarled at the lone wolf. "We invite you into our pack, and you've destroyed everything!" She bellowed and lunged for the teen, only to be stopped by Lloyd. Her attack nearly caused another fight to break out amongst the werewolves, with Cole and Jay shielding their human parents and Garmadon standing between Akita and the pack.

"You need to leave our territory!" Wu exclaimed and the teens instantly started protesting.

"It's all right, guys." Morro quickly said with a defeated sigh. He knew that he never belonged here, no matter how much he tried to deny it. "He's right, I don't belong here, but maybe..." He trailed off and looked to Garmadon and Akita. His foster parents wouldn't miss him and now that Pixel knew he guessed most of the others were leaving the city so there wasn't much left for him here. Apart from one person, that is, but she would quickly move on.

Garmadon thought about it for a moment and nodded.

He might have his son but at least he had one consolation prize. Zane turned to Pixel and she seemed to have recovered some of her senses as she was slowly getting back to her feet.

"Pixel, I wanted to tell you." He whimpered but she started backing away from the boy she once loved. "If you give us a chance to explain..." He begged but the human had already taken off into the forest and back to the city. Zane wanted to chase after her but his father had suddenly grabbed him and was pushing him into the car. He looked at his friends and saw their parents were doing the same. Even Misako and Wu were dragging Kai and Nya away with them.

They all needed to leave the city before Pixel posted her pictures.

As they drove away, Lloyd looked out the window and watched as Morro, his father, and Akita slowly walked away into the depths of the forest. Pixel had heard they all drive away but she didn't stop walking. She had hot heavy tears rolling down her pale cheeks and to her camera that she still kept clutched to her chest. She just wanted to go home. She knew they were werewolves, but they had somehow tricked her and they have been tracking her for years.

All this time they had been laughing behind her back and treating her like she was stupid.

Stupid Pixel and her stupid stories. They lied to her for years! She knew it was a very big secret but she had hoped at least Zane would have trusted her enough with it. She was supposed to be their friend, Zane's girlfriend, and all this time they treated her like an idiot. Well, guess what? This time, she was going to do the right thing. For the first time ever, Pixel had a genuine exclusive!...

As soon as Lloyd and his family, along with Kai and Nya, had gotten to Lloyd's house, Wu and Misako immediately started packing while the teens just sat on the couch in shock. Lloyd had given the siblings some of his clothes since they hadn't found theirs. They were a little tight on Kai and a bit baggy on Nya but the siblings didn't have the right to complain. Not when they had more pressing matters to worry about. Wu and Misako had told them what was going to happen on the car ride over here.

The plan was to pack up their whole lives and move to who knows were, far away from the city they had spent most of their lives in.

"Just take the essentials and the valuables," Wu ordered as he approached the teens. "I will call your parents and they can meet us when we get there." He explained but got no response. He simply sighed and went to help Misako pack up their lives. About ten minutes later, Misako walked in and glared when she saw the teens hadn't moved.

"Come on, Lloyd, you've got to pack! Pixel's photographs will be online by now!" She exclaimed. The boy glared at his mother and ran off upstairs, his head to scrambled to do anything else...

Pixel sighed as she opened the website she had created to show the world what she had discovered in the forest. She was about to transfer the photos she had taken onto the website. She had taken over a dozen of them in their wolf forms. This is it, she was going to rock the world with these. All she had to do was click the confirm button and the whole world would know she wasn't crazy.

"You can't do that to the others." A voice suddenly said and Pixel nearly jumped out of her seat. Sat in her window was Morro. He had a stoic expression and a heavy-looking rucksack.

"W-What do y-you want?" She gulped, afraid he was going to attack.

"You think you know what it's like to be different, Pixel, to be the outsider, but you have no idea." He scoffed. "How scared we are of being discovered, having to live on the run, being captured, and locked in a cage." He sighed and she looked away. "How much we just wished we were normal, like you."

"H-How is Zane?" She finally asked.

"I dunno, I'm going to leave with Garmadon and Akita." He shrugged. "I expect the others are leaving too." He added and she looked up in shock.

"Because of me?"

"You know the truth." He sighed and looked to the laptop, where Pixel still had yet to post them on the website. "Won't be long before all kinds of people know, some people will be worse than Iron Baron, Kai and Cole wanted to say thanks for saving them from him." He chuckled weakly.

"That was them?" Pixel gasped. She wasn't that surprised, she figured that one of them was the wolves she had saved but it was still shocking to think that two of her friends could have been killed because of her.

"You did the right thing then, do the right thing now." Morro pleaded before climbing back out the window and disappearing. Pixel could only look at the pictures she had taken...

After they had packed up all their things, all the werewolf families had driven up to Zane's house. Dr. Juilen was booking train tickets for everyone and hotels in the next three cities away from Ninjago. Wu had called Ray and Maya and they were going to meet them there. Then they would work out a proper plan and they would probably never see each other again.

As everyone arrived they saw Zane and his father had packed up most of their house, with boxes full of items scattered around.

While the adults were hacking over the final details, the teens all gathered in the lounge.

"I had no idea we had so much stuff." Dr. Julien smiled sadly as he looked over the boxes.

"300 years our family has been in this city." Wu sighed. The teens heard this from their spot in the lounge and the guilt threatened to drown them. They felt guilty for lying to Pixel, for getting caught by Iron Baron, for not telling their parents about the wolf bait, and most of all, allowing Pixel to take pictures of the wolves and exposing their secret.

Now they were all moving away and would most likely never see each other ever again.

Jay started tearing up at the thought of never seeing his friends or Nya again. This is exactly what happened with his biological parents. He feared Nya would find someone else and forget all about him. His parents saw this and went to comfort their son.

"Oh, baby, leaving here is the hardest thing we will ever have to do but I promise you one thing, it will be all right in the end." Edna soothed as she rubbed his back.

"We'll all have a new life, and you will be happy again," Ed promised. Everyone sat in silence, trying to come to terms with everything when there was suddenly a knocking at the front door. they all shared worried glances as Dr. Julien slowly walked to the door while the other parents stayed behind, ready to protect their children at all cost.

After a few moments, he returned with a shameful looking Pixel following close behind.

Everyone just stood there frozen, too scared to speak until Dr. Julien finally cleared his throat and signaled for the adults to leave the teens to talk it all out. Although reluctant and first, the parents followed the doctor into the kitchen, giving all the kids some privacy.

"I think you should have this," Pixel muttered as she held out a memory card. "That is all the photos I took."

"All of them?" Cole asked as Nya took the card.

"All of them." She promised. "Nothing is going on my blog and I am closing the whole site down."

"Why?" Jay asked.

"Because you're my friends, and that's supposed to mean something." She said and glanced around at the moving boxes. "Morro said you were all leaving."

"You've seen him?" Kai asked in shock.

"He came to mine, I was loading the photos onto my site, offline at the time." She quickly reassured when she saw the fearful expressions and her friends before frowning. "You should have trusted us! I wouldn't have told anyone! Any one of you could have told me any time you wanted to, but you didn't!"

"You're right." Lloyd sighed.

"We should have trusted you." Nya agreed.

"So trust me now, you don't have to go." She pleaded. "I won't tell anyone, who'd believe me anyway?"

"Thank you," Zane whispered and went to hug her, only for his heart to break once again when she stepped away.

"So where's Morro?" Cole asked after an uncomfortable moment of silence, but she looked away.

"He's gone."...

THE END

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Well that's all folks! This is the end of the story and I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I loved writing it! Thank you for all your suggestions and your help while I was writing this!

Thank you so much and I hope you all have a wonderful day!