Aeria's POV

"How much farther is this place?" I yelled to Lloyd over the wind that was rushing past us as we flew through the clouds.

"Not much farther." He responded as we managed to catch up with the others on their dragons, colored to their uniforms except Xia's which was smaller than the others' dragons and was mostly gray with small tints of other colors in the light.

"We're here!" Jay announced excitedly and I saw a huge place that had all sorts of machines with adults and children yelling joyfully on them and stalls selling all kinds of weird-looking food that I've never seen before. The ninja all landed their dragons and jumped to the ground as they disappeared.

"Haven't been here in a while." Nya sighed as we all walked together to the entrance, only to be met with a strange-looking monster,

"Welcome to Mega Monster Amusement Park!" It yelled in our faces and I got into a fight stance before Lloyd put an arm in front of me explaining,

"It's just a guy in a suit."

"Ok..." I glared at the guy suspiciously as we entered the park and made our way over to the new section of rides that had just opened up as I heard.

"What do you guys think, food before or after rides?" Kai asked and everyone, but me, made faces and responded with,

"After!"

"Oh! Let's ride the bumper boats!" Nya pointed to an area that had a large open pool with a couple of machines on some kinds of balloons in it.

"I'm out!" Cole ran away to a stand that was serving some kind of round, brown pastry with white powdery stuff all over it.

"As long as you don't try to squirt the rest of us with your powers." Kai laughed at his sister as she came over to me and dragged me by my arm to follow the others as they made their way over to the line of people outside the ride.

When we got to the front of the line, we each got our own "bumper boat" and I was still trying to figure out how to make mine move around, when a blast of cold water suddenly hit me in the back.

"Hey!" I turned around to see Jay laughing and I turned my boat around and was about to fire back at him when I felt another spray hit me from the side. Kai had teamed up with Jay to fire more water at me, when I decided to use a wind gust to spray water from the pool beneath my hand to them, drenching them back.

"Hey, that's cheating!" Kai yelled at me.

"You only told Nya not to use her powers." I countered and Nya joined me to fire more water at the guys as Lloyd tried to spray her.

Zane and Xia came over on their boats and, when the others weren't looking, Xia whispered something to Zane and he took some water in his hands and froze it into snowballs before pelting us with them.

When we got off the ride, we were all soaking wet and had bits of snow in our hair that melted in the sunlight, but I felt happier than I had felt in a long time and we all laughed so hard, we were doubling over.

"I believe we may have taken half of the pool with us." Xia giggled as we looked behind us and saw that the tank was halfway emptied than when we first got on.

"I got this." Nya told us confidently and used her powers to take all the water off of us, formed it into a large sphere as big as a car tire and threw it back into the tank, splashing the people who were boarding the boats for the ride.

"We're still wet though." Kai gestured to his floppy wet hair and I mimicked Nya by saying,

"I got this one." Using my wind abilities, I made a large wind gust that completely dried us out within a minute as everyone laughed at their windblown hair before straightening it back out.

"Where to next?" I asked and Cole came walking up to us with several colorful puffs of fluffy stuff on white cones.

"I bought some cotton candy." Cole handed them out to everyone with their gi colors and proceeded to eat except me.

"What is 'cotton candy'?"

"It's basically spun sugar dyed in different colors depending on the flavor," Lloyd explained and broke off a piece from his green cotton candy and handed it to me, "Try some, it's really good."

I hesitated before eating it, but shrugged and popped it in my mouth. When I started to eat it, the fluffy food started to melt in my mouth, filling it with a sweet, sugary taste.

"That is pretty good." I admitted as I reached for some more from Lloyd's cone when he handed me a purple puff on a white cone.

"Here's yours, so you won't have to keep stealing from mine." Lloyd laughed as I bit off a piece from my cotton candy and a different flavor filled my mouth.

"This is so good and really sweet." I managed to finish it in several bites, earning stares from the others.

"Seriously, how can you eat so much so fast?" Kai asked and I shrugged before pointing to a ride that looked like a small, open car on what looked like train tracks, but it went in a crazy pattern.

"Can we try that one?"

"I'm down for that, guys?" Lloyd asked the others and they all shared a quick look before saying over each other,

"You can."

"I'm not going on that after eating."

"I'm not really into roller coasters."

"We'll see you two later."

Before everyone left, leaving me and Lloyd alone near another ride that looked like a boat, but held on either side by chains.

"Shall we?" Lloyd gestured to the line of people who were getting on the ride.

"Then can we try the roller coaster?" I asked and Lloyd nodded before we ran to get on the swinging boat.

We seated ourselves at the end of the boat and another guy dressed as a strange-looking monster shut the doors on the boat and went to a stand with a panel on it and pushed a button before the boat started to slowly rock back and forth, picking up speed as it went along. The boat was getting really high up, about to go down, when Lloyd lifted his arms in the air and motioned for me to do the same. As I did so, the boat went down super fast and, for a split second, it felt like we were falling through the air before getting picked up and swung forward.

"Woo Hoo!" I screamed without thinking and Lloyd started to yell too before we started laughing until the ride slowed down and everyone got off.

"That was so fun! It felt like falling through the air almost."

"Alright, roller-coaster time!" Lloyd led me to the ride I was looking at before and it turned out to be even more fun than the swinging boat since it was faster and maneuvered around more.

"That was so cool, it felt like when I'm on my bike just riding through the forest." I told Lloyd as we got off when I suddenly remembered that I haven't thought about my bike at all the whole time I've been with the ninja.

"What's wrong?" Lloyd asked when he saw that I stopped in my tracks behind him.

"I still haven't gotten my bike back from the canyon yet."

"Oh don't worry, we made sure to go back and pick it up after..." Lloyd trailed off and I knew he was referring to when Ronin shot me down before continuing, "Nya's been fixing, and upgrading, it for you as a surprise."

"And you're not good at keeping surprises a secret, are you?" I smirked at him and he went blank-faced as he realized he ruined the surprise.

"It's OK, I'll act surprised so they won't know you spilled." I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"So which ride was your favorite?" Lloyd asked as we walked around the rides.

"Hmmm, Imma have to go with... both of them."

"Hey you can only pick one favorite." Lloyd laughed at my choice.

"Why? Both of them were really fun and I felt the Call on both of them."

"The Call?" Lloyd looked at me in confusion.

"It's… how I describe my wind powers, it's like the wind is 'calling' me to just… run or fly with it and it's just… amazing… and sometimes I feel like it unites me with my brother for a little while… I like to think he's speaking to me whenever I listen to the wind… it helps me stay-"

"Connected…"

"Yeah…" We both held each other's gazes before we met up with the others as they were eating some other kind of weird, new food. This one was shaped like a flattened heart with an X going through it.

"Who's up for a soft pretzel?" Nya asked as she held out one to me and Lloyd.

"Thanks guys, but shouldn't we hold off on all the food until after we finish riding the rides?" Lloyd asked and they all shared a look before they all, except Zane and Xia, chorused,

"Nah!"

"But you guys said-" I broke off Lloyd's protest with,

"Save it Lloyd, they're obviously not thinking too clearly right now after that sugary stuff. It actually might be cool to watch them spew it back up." I pointed to their food while fake wicked smiling.

"Ewww... save the puke stuff until after I finish my pretzel."

Once again, Lloyd broke off a chunk from his food to give to me to try and when I tried it, my mouth crinkled up at the salty taste. I started coughing when Lloyd complained to Nya,

"Why do you guys ask for so much salt on your soft pretzels?"

"They just come that way, brush it off if there's too much." Lloyd did so and offered me some more, but I shook my head rapidly, declining.

"No thanks, I'm gonna go on another ride."

"Well, you better hurry this place is about to close." Xia told me as I barely realized that it was getting dark.

"What?! I could've sworn we just got here."

"Time flies when you're having fun." Nya told me and I realized that I was having fun, a lot in fact, and with these people, who I now realized that they really were my friends...

"I wanna try the high swings before we leave then." I told them before running off to the ride with no line.

3rd Person POV

Aeria ran off to go to the high swings and Lloyd was about to follow her, but Kai challenged him, Jay, and Cole to see who could finish eating an extra-large bucket of popcorn the fastest.

So, as he obliged them to the challenge, while still on a sugar high, Aeria went up to the ride with no line and was let on by another figure in a monster costume and, when no one was looking, the figure smirked to himself as he closed the gate to the ride with a harsh 'bang'.