Ok. William isn't coming yet, I had fun when it came to Ronin stealing the Sword. Sorry! He'll be coming very shortly.
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At Steep Wisdom. Eleanor, Rainn, Chantal, Wu and Misako studied the last clue. The others were outside, while Nya continued to practice with her water training.
Zane is placing a sign up at the entrance, while behind him, the others were placing water traps all around the front yard.
"There." Zane said as he walked over to the others. "That should keep customers away. 'Closed for renovations.'"
"More like fortifications." Kai said as he places a bucket of water over the front door of the shop, then jumped off the chair he was using. "If Morro and his ghouls show up here looking to steal the Sword of Sanctuary, they won't know what hit em."
The door started to open and the bucket started to spill, causing Kai to turn to see Cole. Cole cries out and jumps back into the shop as the water from the bucket spills down. "Careful!" He yelled. "You know not all of us are immune to water." He opened the door further and jumps over the bucket. "And I for one would like to stick around long enough for Misako, Sensei, Ellie, Chantal and Rainn to figure out the last clue." He jumps over a dug up trench filled with water as Jay placed bamboo sticks over it.
"We got Cyclondo, we got the sword." Jay starts. "Now they just have to figure out where the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master is."
"Let's hope they figure it out soon." Kai said as he placed water balloons onto some catapults. "I don't know how long we'll be able to hold out."
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Inside the shop. Parchments of the next clue are placed on drawers with the Airjitzu and Sword Of Sanctuary symbols crossed off as Wu took off the skull symbol. "We know the skull represents his tomb." Wu said as he walked back to the table.
"But from everything that was ever written about it, there's nothing in Ninjago that matches its description. Where is it? The clues are all right here, but what are we missing?" Eleanor said as she pulled off her glasses and rubbed her eyes before placing them back on as Wu sighs.
"We mustn't give up. If Morro finds it first and takes the Realm Crystal, I'd hate to think what would happen next."
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Outside someone steps on tripwire and continues to walk as it had set off an alarm.
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Inside the shop, Wu and the girls look up as a bell goes off.
"The early-detection warning system." Chantal said.
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Outside the Ninja quickly sprang into action. "Intruder!" Kai yelled.
"Let him have it!" Jay yelled. "Pull!"
The team catapults the water balloons, they hit the back of the sign and sprays all over the 'intruder'.
The mailman sighs as the water rains down on him. "No wonder you're going out of business." He said giving the letter to Kai, who took it and start to read it.
"No, you're the one going out of business!" Jay yelled. "Heh, who sends letters anymore?"
"Guys, he's right." Kai said with a sigh. "It says he's gonna shut us down unless we drum up some business."
"Well, don't tell Ronin." Cole warns. "If this place is worthless, he won't stick around and we need all the help we can get. Come on, we're gonna need more water balloons."
The team turn back towards the shop.
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Later, Ronin is looking under a shelf inside the shop as he hears Misako. "Thanks for gathering on short notice."
Ronin looks up and quickly jumps up.
"Looking for something?" Kai asked suspiciously at the thief as the Ninja walked into the room.
"Ha, just making sure the tea blends are in alphabetical order." Ronin lied, moving a box of tea. "Yup, A to Z, heh."
"Punch his teeth out, Kai." Eleanor said with her arms folded.
"I'd rather burn is jewels off." Kai said with narrow eyes on Ronin.
"So you figured out where the tomb is?" Jay quickly asked, turning to Rainn.
"Not yet, but we think we know how to locate it." She answered as Ronin crept towards the door.
Before he could open it, it opens from the other side to reveal Wu and Chantal walking in. "Oh, hey!" He said nervously laughing as he backed away to let them in.
"Zane?" Misako turns to him.
The falcon projects the skull image as Wu turns off the lights. "To bring you up to date, the skull symbol refers to the tomb's entrance." He said as Ronin started for the door again.
"We also know my father's resting site, where the Realm Crystal resides, is protected by three deadly tests designed to keep anyone unworthy away, and only the Sword of Sanctuary can see past its riddles." Eleanor added.
"Yeah, but where is it?" Cole asked.
"We started to wonder if the scroll and sword combined held a secret." Misako answered. "That's when Kai reminded us there was a map on the back of the scroll."
"And if you use the sword on the map, the blade's reflection will reveal the tomb's location." Kai finished.
"Exactly." Misako nodded as Ronin grabs his hat that's hanging, Eleanor notices him leaving.
"Which means we'll have to get our hands on that map." Cole said as Ronin leaves the room.
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Ronin sneaks towards the shed. "Aah." He said as he opens the swords case, only to find it gone.
"Something about what you said stuck with me."
Ronin jumped and quickly turned to see Nya, Eleanor, and Chantal standing by the door. Nya points the Sword of Sanctuary at him.
"Oh, yeah? And ... what's that?"
"That you don't care." Nya replied as Eleanor and Chantal dropped into defense stances.
"Why are you here then Ronin?" Eleanor demanded "If you don't, why are you here?"
"Sure, this tea shop could potentially help you pay off your debt in time." Chantal added.
"Or, you could speed things up by just giving them the sword in return for your cursed soul." Nya finished.
"So, where does that leave us?"
"We don't need the sword to tell us where this is going." Nya said.
Ronin throws his hat like a frisbee at the girls, who all dodge. He grabs a hoe and starts to sword fight with Nya, while Eleanor kicks him in the butt, he yelps as he turns and swing the hoe at her, but she throws her powers at him, he yells as he quickly dodges, Chantal grabs a shovel and swings it like a baseball bat at Ronin.
"Hey! This isn't fair!" Ronin complained. "Three against one."
"Since when do you care about fair?" Nya questioned.
"I need that sword." Ronin said as he jumps backwards, avoiding the shovel that Chantal swung, he ducks from Eleanor's kick. But Ronin was quick to trap Nya in a corner. "I don't want to have to hurt you ladies."
"You know, I was thinking the same thing." Nya replied before looking into the sword to see his next move is to kiss her, she screamed in disgust before kicking him between the legs, hard.
"Aah!" Ronin cried as he grabbed himself and dropped to the floor, Nya used his shoulder to jump over him and quickly stand at the door with her two friends. "What did I do to deserve that?"
"You know what you were about to do!" Nya said in disgust.
Ronin looks around before quickly finding the garden hose, he snatches it and swings it like a lasso before throwing it, the garden hose drops over the three girls and Ronin pulls, making the girls scream as they fall to the floor of the shed.
"Like I said." Ronin said as he snatches the sword from the floor after Nya dropped it from the surprise attack. "Try too hard and you'll trip over yourself!"
"KAI, RONIN'S GETTING AWAY WITH THE SWORD!" Nya screamed, making Chantal and Eleanor wince.
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Ronin smirks as he quickly leaves the shed, he slides to a stop when he sees the Ninja approaching him, alerted by Nya's scream.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Ronin said as he backed away from them. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
The Ninja soon activate their own water traps.
"Haha!" Ronin laughed, he turns to see the three girls emerging from the shed, struggling against the garden hose. "That was way too easy!" He whistles to summon R.E.X.
As Ronin escapes the girls stumble, still tied up in the garden hose and see the Ninja stumbling and falling over their own traps. "That's embarrassing." Eleanor said dryly.
"Ronin's getting away!" Chantal cried as Eleanor uses her powers to cut the garden hose and it flopped down.
The three girls take off in the direction that Ronin went down.
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At a stream Eleanor shot her powers at the river stream, creating a small crystal boat. The three quickly climb on and follow Ronin.
"Ronin!" Nya yells, she currently knelt down with her hands in the water. "Stop!"
"Yeah right." He scoffs.
"Why are you doing this?" She asked.
Ronin gives her a lazy look. "You know why!"
The crystal boat soon slammed into a rock and shattered, making the girls scream as they drop into the stream, getting drenched within seconds.
"Giving Morro the sword is the only thing that'll save me."
"He'll never hold up his end of the bargain!" Eleanor yelled. "You can't trust him!"
"I have to. It's my only shot."
Nya whips the water off her face. "Become the water. Become the water. Become the water." She tells herself as she concentrats and the water in the stream starts to flow backwards. "Reverse the flow, Nya."
"What the?" Ronin frowns as his boat starts to move backwards "Hey!" He tries to paddle forward as the stream is still moving backwards. He lowers the mast to get some wind and he starts to move forward.
Nya groans.
"Face it, Nya. You're not strong enough. You care too much!" Ronin calls as Nya closes her eyes against her tears. "I'm sorry, Nya. I wish it never had to come to this!"
Eleanor threw her powers at Ronin's retreat, behind the girls the Destiny's Bounty and Sensei Wu's dragon arrive.
