Chapter Nine: This...was so not supposed to happen!

I drummed my fingers against the desk even as the last of our students left the building for summer break. Three months of pure bliss coming right up. I hope. I really really hope it will be bliss... "Drake? Are you okay there." Skylor placed a hand on my shoulder, concern flashing in her eyes.

'I'm fine Skylor...honest.' I forced a smile, so that she wouldn't notice that I wasn't too sure of that myself. Then again it's been five months since we blew up Chen's Island...much to Sensei's dismay. Apparently rigging private property to blow up isn't something ninja are supposed to do without a warrant first.

"Do I need to get Nya?" Skylor nodded to the office door, where Nya was on the other side, talking about Samurai stuff with Pixal.

I shook my head, even as Cole and Karlof walked in. "Come on... I am totally stronger than you!"

"No...Karlof stronger."

'Still arguing over that I see...' I signed casually, rolling my eyes at the two elemental masters. At least we were all now fluent and not just those of us that have been fighting crime the longest.

Karlof huffed, before crossing his arms across his chest. "Drake tell Cole that Karlof is stronger."

'I'm not getting involved in this. Coming Sky?' I glanced over at her, fingers almost twitching with surprise over my casual asking her to go on a date with me. As Zane would call it if he was in the room. For some reason he thinks me spending anytime with Skylor meant we were on a date.

Skylor nodded in agreement, before leading the way out of the room. Moving through the school, we dodged several other elemental masters, some were walking, some were talking with each other, others were showing off powers, nothing out of the normal there considering the last five months. Finally we reached the teachers lunge, where we ducked inside to find that Lloyd was already in there. He glanced over at us, a sympathetic smile flashing across his features. "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that Zane and Bolobo tried getting you two involved in their fight too."

'Wait...those two are fighting? We were getting away from Cole and Karlof.' My fingers flew as I felt surprise flash through me.

"Apparently Zane accidently froze his petunias." Lloyd sighed loudly at that, possibly annoyed that Sensei was on the other side of Ninjago helping Misako and Garmadon with something, and not here with us to deal with all the fighting… which has been steadily getting worse over the past five months. I wonder if it has to do with the fact we have so many new team members..?

I was about to sign ask Skylor if she'll like a drink or something when someone that looked rather familiar came running in. I stared at him, trying to place him even as Lloyd started in surprise, recognition flashing across his features. "Can we help you?"

"Yeah...long story short a powerful pirate djinn was released and he kind of is..."

"Crazy? Power hungry? Most likely will try to capture us in his magical sword which gets more powerful the more souls he traps in it?" Nya materialized behind him, Pixal behind her.

I gave her a funny look, my fingers twitching quickly. 'Sis...what are you talking about there?'

Nya paused, turning red in the face as she did so, eyeing me nervously, her own fingers flashing in our secret code... which meant she doesn't want the others to know what it was that she was saying. 'Trust me bro. You don't know what I'm talking about. Jay erased this part of the time line for the rest of us. I was already dead so I still remember.' I suddenly felt like strangling my sister...if I wasn't so sure that she would just blast me with water in the face if I tried to do that that is.

'Call a meeting.. also why do you look familiar?'

Nya slapped her face, before speaking up calmly. "That would be Ronin..."

"Oh... you do know him then. I was going to say that is the guy that attempted to kidnap me but you scared him off just by being in the same room as me when I was still a kid." Lloyd looked slightly embarrassed that he remembered something before me.

I shrugged, even as Ronin decided to clarify the air between us. "Yeah about that...your old man paid me to kidnap you because of...something about how he didn't want to fight you..?"

"Sounds like Dad..." 'Yeah, that's Garmadon for you.' "Enough of this. Let's gather up everyone and warn them that they, no matter what, cannot say I wish!"

...

"Am I missing anything?" Nya beamed as she looked over the gathered ninja, ninja-in-training, and the lone Samurai that were in the room. I raised my hand, ready to ask if she remembered her sanity, only for her to glare at me. "That is not my sanity brother dearest."

My hand dropped very quickly at that. I mock pouted at her, before turning to face the others. 'I believe that since Ronin has confirmed what she said, we should be careful... how it is that Nya appears to have all this information is beyond me. I wish I could remember how it is the two of us knows all these random stuff about the future!'

Everyone tensed at that, but nothing happened. Jay frowned as he slowly raised his hand into the air. "Um...why isn't anything happening? You made a wish!"

Nadakhan popped out of nowhere, bewilderment dancing all over his features. "What do you mean he made a wish!? I didn't hear anything about a wish!"

'I'm mute... I signed it.' "He is a mute. He signed his wish." Zane was still oddly adamant on avoiding using my name for some reason.

"That doesn't count! I don't know sign language!" Nadahkan really shouldn't say that in a room full of people who happened to be fluent in sign language if the way everyone perked up was any indication.

"Thanks for the tip! We'll make sure to make all of our wishes in sign language!" Neuro cheered, making the djinn splutter for five seconds before he simply disappeared once more.

'We're going to have so much fun with this...' I signed excitedly, expecting the others to respond out loud like they always do.

'Agreed!' Or they could all just sign in unison. That's new. Oh well, I get the feeling that we're all going to be having fun with this...and according to Nya it's this time around. I wonder what that is all about anyways..?

A/N: Done! And yes... Nadahkan is regretting telling them that. Um... no he isn't going to learn sign language. Pretend that djinn magic simply doesn't work with sign language. Also presume Ronin is the one that released Nadahkan, by accident, since I really didn't cover that one very well. For the next little bit, Nya will know more than Kai/Drake about what's going on. Fun! Ooh, this is so gonna drive the others up the wall... they're used to going to Drake/Kai but this time around he is as lost as they are!

Reviews:

Kifo Entiegon: Thank you. You have to keep reading to get those answers since it will be spoilers if I told you. Let's just say march of the Oni ended very differently for them... Yeah... Nya doesn't know how that happened either. Don't worry. Once his memories come back he'll be able to tell them how he lost his memories.

Jbear2019: Thank you!

Anonymous Ajita: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

PiratePirata: No...no they don't. Of course Nya was trying to get Sensei Wu to faint... she wasn't trying to make Garmadon faint.

grungekitty: I'll let you... once I know. He just figured it out somehow... I wasn't planning on having him finding out until I wrote that chapter and now its stuck...with me with no idea how that even happened. Do I need to send white flowers to represent Zane to make you feel better?

phetiamwantip: Thank you! Things are going to be far more interesting this time around since they have knowledge that Nadahkan doesn't have :). Honestly, I don't think that he will ever think to wish for that. Maybe one of the others gets frustrated and wishes for his voice back..?

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