Chapter 1
A brisk dawn breeze floated through the courtyard of the monastery, ruffling the hair of two young ninja.
Conri Garmadon closed his eyes and let the cool summer breeze push around the stray strands of golden hair that just refused to go together with the rest of his hair, which was tied up in a tight bun.
The same breeze circled around Wez Julien, carefully pushing around the chocolate brown fur of the chimaian wolf, almost as if his icy coat of thick fur wasn't messed up enough already.
Finally the breeze drifted to the two masters that followed the beginning duel, Zane was sitting down and enjoying a cup of tea as Lloyd prepared to signal the younger ninja to begin.
As soon as Lloyd's hand dropped down Wez and Conri launched at each other with a force that you wouldn't expect from two teenagers.
Conri went in with a jump, aiming to jump on Wez's back, but the wolf ducked under him and kicked his stomach, sending him quite a bit to the air, as he was about to hit the ground he took on a bright glow and landed as a golden furred wolf, swiftly turning back to a human he pretended to jump again, Wez prepared to serve another kick, but this time Conri ran and dodged to his right, diving on the top of Wez, the two soon turned into an unrecognizable storm of fur and claws.
"The dinner should be ready by now, do you think this is enough?" Zane asked as he took another sip of his tea.
"Yeah I think so." The ultimate Spinjitzu master turned to the wrestling boys and called out; "Okay that's enough!"
The two stopped in their tracks, which happened to be Wez sitting on top of wolf-Conri, Conri's paws clawing Wez's back and Wez biting on Conri's ear. The two let go of each other and got up.
Wez laid on his bed in one of his more normal positions, his fluffy tail resting on his stomach as his chest and head hung off the edge of his bed, meanwhile his legs were crossed against the wall.
"I swear you don't have a spine." Conri laughed as he brushed his shoulder length hair.
"Heh. Hey what do you think about the recruits dad and uncle Lloyd told us about?" Wez stared upside down.
"I dunno, it's not like we know much about 'em." Conri shrugged and put his brush down.
"Well, I overheard dad n' uncle talking and one of them is apparently a serpentine." Wez mused.
"Oh? Bet it's a hypnobrai." Conri challenged.
"I'm gonna say constrictai just to disagree with you." Wez gave his best wolf smirk.
"Ha. Did you hear anything else?" Conri perked up.
"Well, not really." Wez's ear twitched.
"Do you want to hear more?" Conri smiled mischievously.
The duo stared at each other in silence and nodded. Slowly creeping to listen to their parents' conversation they both pressed their ears against the door to hear a muffled conversation.
"Are you sure about this kid Z?"
"I am certain that they could be of assistance to us."
"Okay, just..."
"Please hold that thought Lloyd. Boys I know you're eavesdropping, go to bed."
The brothers jumped and swiftly made their way back to their room.
Wez curled up with worry as Conri sat next to him and pet his head carefully.
"I wonder what's going on…" Wez muttered.
Conri hummed in agreement.
"Surely they wouldn't bring anyone dangerous in the monastery… right?"
"Dad's way too smart to do that." Wez closed his eyes as Conri slowly petted him.
"Well yeah, but pops sounded pretty unsure." With his free hand Conri tapped against the bed.
"Guess we'll have to wait and see." Wez muttered as his eyelids refused to open back up.
"You gonna fall asleep right there?" Conri joked.
"Mmhm." Wez turned his head slightly so that Conri would scratch a different spot.
"Sleepyhead." Conri teased as he pulled Wez to lean against him.
Wez's only response was a calm half snore.
Thanks for reading!
The next chapter will be published the day after tomorrow (:
-Nuppa Nuppa out!