Yeey another chapter!
Sitting still for a longer period of time wasn't something Calli really minded. However, even she had her limits and being cooped in her room for a couple of days now was making even her restless. With a sigh, she stood up from her bed and moved to the small bookcase on the other end of the room. Maybe she could pass some time with organizing the mess that was in the wooden thing.
Despite the mess that was called a bookcase, the rest from her room could be considered clean. Next to her bed was a small desk littered with stacks of papers and sheet music and on the shelf above it was her Violin Case.
The moment the ginger pulled the first stack of books out from the upper shelf a loud bang followed by an apology sounded from the room next to her.
It was the room that Cole and Jay shared. Like her they probably got a lot of pent up energy from being stuck in their rooms. Either that or one of the two did something stupid.
Deciding she had nothing else better to do she put the pile of books to the side and walked to the next room.
Apparently, Zane had the same idea. He had the last room, on the other side of Jay and Cole. Only one look passed between them before the white-haired boy opened the door.
Their room was pretty clean, A pile of mechanical pieces in the right corner while the desk was filled with papers and pencils. Meanwhile a chair in the left corner was full with clothes of which Calli could never tell if they were clean or not. In the middle of the room, against the far-left wall was a bunk bed with a trunk parked under the lower bed.
However, the two hadn't much time to take in the room… Instead they were focussed on the scene in front of them. Cole was currently seated on the floor, laughing loudly, A metal pin in the wall behind him while Jay was currently laying on his back, his butt stuck in the small trashcan. The sounds he made where somewhere in-between muttering angrily to himself and laughing.
"I don' even wanna know."
The sound of the resident female snapped the both of them out of it. Cole was the first to action and helped his poor friend out of the trashcan.
"I am curious as to what happened." Zane moved to help Cole and Jay and the girl moved to get the pin out of the wall
"Well, I tried to stick the pin into my invention, but there was too much tension, so it shot lose and into the wall." Jay explained vaguely. "And launched you into the trashcan." Cole finished with a snicker.
"That explained the giant bang." Calli's voice shook somewhat, the metal from the pin burned her hands as she tried to pull it out. Jay brushed himself off and quickly made his move to stop her. "You really need to stop touching things that are made of metal." The girl scoffed but didn't argue as she let go. Her hands hurt and she could feel the blisters coming up.
"I'm fine" She could practically feel the eye-rolls of her housemates but chose to ignore them.
Zane opened his mouth to talk when someone's alarm went off. Immediately, the boys sprang into action. Calli remembered Sensei's instructions and called after them when they ran out of the room and window in Jay's case. "Don' get yourselves killed!"
Cole poked his head back in the room. "We won't." He said with a wink and moved away again. Calli just rolled her eyes and moved to take care of the burns on her hand.
Something told her that the calm days were over.
It was only after she'd just taken care of her hands that she heard sounds of a fight outside. Just as she decided to not get involved, Sensei, who'd returned just two days ago, mentioned for her to follow.
What they walked into was a similar situation as Jay in the trashcan, but instead had four boys' doggy piled in the middle of the training course.
Despite the fact her housemates wore their complete training outfits, Calli recognized the top one as being Zane, under him was Jay, the next one she didn't recognize and Cole was stuck on the bottom.
"That's enough!" Sensei Wu's voice was enough to make them un-pile and bow to their teacher. Well, all apart from the boy in the red pyjama's. He just looked confused beyond words.
The boy looked taller than jay, but only by a bit (170cm or 5ft6) but she couldn't measure exactly due to his messy, spiky brown hair. His eyes where a lighter brown color.
A chorused "Yes Sensei" was enough to snap the boy out of his confusion. "Wait a minute, They're your students too? This was my final test, wasn't it…?" He sounded somewhat disappointed at himself, slumping his shoulders down.
Before Calli could even ask what this was all about, Jay opened his mouth.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa…. whoa! You never said anything about a fourth. It's always three!" His ramble continued but more against himself then the rest. "Three blind mice, Three musketeers. Three…"
"Uh, what he's trying to say, Sensei Wu, is that the three of us trained together. We're solid." Cole interrupted his friend before he could ramble on.
"And 'm pretty sure the three musketeers got a fourth later on." Jay glared at Calli as the red boy challenged Cole. "Didn't look so solid to me."
"Master, what is the meaning of this?" It was Zane's question that created the silence.
Sensei walked to them, explaining. "Each of you have been chosen. Each of you in tune with elemental properties." He paused for a second. "But first, NINJA GO!"
Sensei used his Spinjitzu technique and somehow managed to re-dress the boys and give them a weapon. Calli didn't want to know the physics behind that.
"Whoa! How did he do that?" The boy in red asked.
Jay let out a giggle. "Whoa, look what color I am!"
"Wait a minute, I'm still black." A sudden image of Cole dressed in a Yellow Gi made Calli snicker.
"Be glad, ye'd look terrible in Yellow." The black-haired boy only had time for a raised eyebrow before sensei continued his speech, starting with the red boy.
"Kai, Master of Fire. It burns bright in you." He moved to Jay.
"Jay is blue, Master of Lightning." Sadly, Jay took this as opportunity to… humbly list all of his talents.
"I do a little inventing. A dabble of model building, A touch of cooking, A little poetry…" Calli slapped her hand on his mouth as Cole leaned to Kai. "More like 'Mouth of Lightning'"
"Black Ninja is Cole. Solid as Rock. Master of Earth." Wu had decided to ignore the rest as he went on.
The still Black Ninja removed the mask and showed a grin. "Nice to meet'cha, kid. I got your back, and for the record, There ain't nothing in this world I'm afraid of."
Zane looked at him "Except for dragons."
"And ghosts." Calli piped in.
Cole glared at the two. "They aren't from this world. I said from this world." He then raised an eyebrow. "At least I don't think ghosts are..."
Once again, like nothing happened, Sensei went to the last of the four. "and White Ninja is Zane, Master of Ice and seer with sixth sense."
"I sense this one takes things a little too seriously." If Kai planned for no one to hear it, he failed miserably as Zane himself replied. He didn't get the joke though.
"Zane, remember what we talked about? Your sense of humour? Huh?" Jay explained to him.
"Yes, it was a joke. Ha Ha." Jay shook his head, disappointed and Cole face palmed. Zane was a different kind of special. Not a bad kind, just different.
"Pay attention! You four are the chosen ones, who will protect the four weapons of Spinjitzu." There was another pause in sensei's speaking. "From Lord Garmadon." His tone was serious enough to keep everyone's attention. At least, until Kai spoke out about what would happen to his sister.
"We're saving a girl? Is she hot?"
"Jay…." A double warning from Calli and Cole made him realize what he had said.
"I... I just wanna know what we're getting ourselves into." He defended himself. He turned to Kai again. "Does she like blue?"
"Back. Off." The look and tone of Kai was enough to silence him.
"When we find the weapons, we will find your sister. It is time! We must go for the first weapon." While there wasn't supposed to be any room for arguments, Cole still found one.
"Hold on a minute. You said you were gonna teach us Spinjitzu!"
Sensei turned to them. "Spinjitzu is inside each and every one of you, but it will only be unlocked when the key is ready to be found. Now, Come! My feet are tired. We will take the horse carriage." With those words, he walked inside.
"Great…"
"Now we have to find a key?" Jay exclaimed and Cole sighed.
"Yeah… I'm feeling like he's taking us for a ride."
Kai interrupted any further discussion between them. "Well, if it means finding my sister, then sign me up."
Calli's snicker got their attention. It seemed they forgot the crucial detail that while they had a horse carriage, they didn't have any horses.
"And you are?" Kai asked. His eyebrows arched up. Calli chose to ignore him. Good first impressions be damned. Instead she looked at the others. "Well, seein' as you'll be leaving in a couple o' minutes, I should be gettin' you some food for the road."
"There will be no need for that. You will be joining us." Wu called from inside.
Calli blinked twice letting the words sink into her mind before she finally managed to give a response to the sensei's words.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wha' now?" Calli looked behind her and saw the confusion on most faces. Kai for a different reason than the others. Jay and Zane gave each other a look while Jay shrugged his shoulders.
"You'll be fine. We've no trouble teaching you some things, you learn better in a practical way right. Right guys?"
Zane and Jay quickly agreed with the Black Ninja. The fighting wouldn't be a problem at all, it was the her going with them she was unsure about. Still, it was nice to see they had more confidence in her than she had herself.
So, I'm hoping to make Tuesday my update date... Or at least I'll try to. You see Monday is my only free day in the week. (I work during the weekend, Graveyard shifts and whatnot.) So that means I have all monday to finish the next chapter and I only allow myself to post a chapter the moment I finish the one I was busy with. That's why I started to post this when I already had finished 10 chapters, so I have some space to miss one deadline.
Anyhow that's my story for today xD
See Ya in the next chapter.