Dong! Dong! The loud sound of a large heavy bell filled the air. Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum headed outside wearing their brand new red ninja's suits. Everybody had been organised to stand in rows according to what group they were in. Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum stood in the fifth row with three other group members, who they had not met. Sensei Shinto stood at the front. He, as well as all the counsellors at the camp were wearing a black ninja suit, identical to the ones the students were wearing. "Welcome to your first ninja lesson." He bowed and the whole of the camp followed. "We will start with the basics" Quite a few people groaned including Colt. "I know you all can do this, otherwise you would not be here, but your counsellors must know your abilities. Now let's begin the lesson".

Sensei Shinto began performing a series of different movements and the student's began to follow. He began with easy and slow body and arm movements. This isn't hard Colt thought to himself. He was expecting something harder then this. They eventually moved onto simple kicks. Colt was beginning to loose his patience. He wanted do something harder, faster and more fun than this. Without thinking about what he was doing he had managed to trip over his own feet while he was attempting to do a simple low kick, Colt fell on top of the person beside him and they both fell on the ground. The person beside him pushed him roughly. "Watch it Jerk! Got two left feet or something?" She yelled angrily. Colt stared back at her. "I...I..." he stammered. "I didn't mean to, sorry" he managed to let out. The girl just pushed him back down onto the ground and stormed away to find somewhere else in the row to practice her ninja. Colt sat on the ground, still shocked at the girl's reaction. One of the ninjas who had been practicing on the other side of him offered him their hand. Colt took it and the ninja helped him up. "Thanks" Colt said once he was back on his feet. He began wiping the dirt off his clothes. "Don't worry about her, she's always like that. It's best not to get in her way," The ninja said. "Thanks I'll remember that" Colt said. The ninja returned to their place in line and continued practicing. Colt decided he'd better do the same but this time he'd watch more carefully what he was doing.

After the ninja lesson was over Sensei Komori gathered his group. "Now I must tell you who are your partners" Once again he flicked through the sheets of paper in the clipboard. "Rocky?" Rocky glanced at the counsellor. "Hai (Yes) Sensei" he responded. "Your partner is Fire". He ran his finger down the page "Colt. Your partner is Precious" 'Precious, what sort of ninja name is that?' Colt asked him self. By the sounds of it, it looked like he would end up stuck with a petite, feminie, fragile girl who would be afraid to fight and would be hysteric if she was to break a nail. Colt chuckled to himself. Suddenly he felt someone tapping on his shoulder. He spun around to find a ninja who was an inch shorter than him self standing before him.

"Hi, you must be my partner" the ninja said. Colt recognised the voice. It was the same voice that belonged to the girl who had helped him up earlier. She took off her hood, revealing her very beautiful face. Colt was amazed to see how pretty she was. She had the most amazing, piercing violet eyes he had ever seen and the nicest, angelic looking face. She had soft red lips and a face, which was not spoiled by make up. Her long black-blue hair, which hung in ringlets, fell upon her face. She tucked a locket of hair behind her ears. "Hi I'm Shjaylan Wade," she said smiling. "But my ninja name is Presh" she continued. "I talked to you earlier during training" "Yeah I remember" Colt said trying to sound casual. "I'm Jeffrey Douglas but my ninja name is Colt". "Nice to meet you" she shook his hand. Rocky approached the two. "Hi Colt" he looked over to Presh. "Hi Rocky. Rocky this is my ninja partner..." Colt didn't know which name he should introduce her by, either her first name or her ninja name. "Presh" Shjalan finished for him. "Hi Presh" Rocky shook her hand. "I'm Rocky, Colt's big brother" Rocky teased. Colt glared at him. "Where's your ninja partner?" Colt asked trying to change the subject. "I'll introduce you to her" Rocky said. "Hey Fire" he yelled. A pretty redhead with blue eyes and had quite a bit of make up on approached the group. She had a snobby look on her face and her arms were crossed over her chest. She walked towards the group unnaturally, she wiggled her bum making her hips swing noticeably. Colt tried to restrain himself from laughing. "Fire I'd like you to meet you to meet my brother Colt and his ninja partner Presh. Their in the same group as us" Rocky said. "Hi Fire" Presh said. "Oh hi Presh it's good to see you, I'm glad I'm in the same group as you!" Fire and Presh unmistakably knew each other. "Hi" Colt said. Fire turned to look at him. "Hey you're the kid who threw yourself at me during training" she frowned. " Uh yeah sorry about that" Colt mumbled. She pretended to ignore him, it seemed she didn't want to be friendly with him.

Dinner that night...

Tum Tum's eyes lit up as soon as he saw a huge buffet table filled with food in the camp cafeteria. He quickly grabbed a plate and began pile food on it. "Well Tum Tum will be occupied for a while" Rocky noted. "Always thinking about his stomach!" Colt said, rolling his eyes. Colt and Rocky grabbed them selves a plate and began getting their own food. Once each of the brothers felt they had piled on enough food they headed for the Dragon table where Presh, Fire and Wave were already seated. On the way Colt clumsily slipped on a puddle of water he began to loose his balance, and began to fall. On his way down he let go of his tray of food which went halfway across the cafeteria and landed on some one's face. The tall, broad shouldered boy who looked about Rocky's age stormed towards Colt who was now on the ground. "Your dead meat" He yelled and held out his clenched fist. Colt tried to restrain himself from laughing because of the pile of spaghetti was dribbling down the boy's face. The boy grabbed Colt by the collar and threatened to punch him. "Brenton Thornloe! What do you think your doing?" The camp counsellor who was on duty roared. "Let go of the boy" Brenton released Colt from his grip roughly. "Who better watch yourself kid, cause I'm gonna get you!" Brenton threatened him and stormed off. Rocky and Tum Tum rushed to Colt's side "Hey Colt are you al right?" Rocky asked sounding concerned. "Yeah I'm alright," Colt said as Rocky helped him up. "Lucky for you that counsellor came otherwise that other Brenton guy would have bashed the crap out of you!" Tum Tum exclaimed. "Tum Tum!" Rocky warned him, he knew better than to get on Colt's bad side. "Thanks for the vote of confidence" Colt said sarcastically.

Colt, Rocky and Tum Tum sat down at their table. "Look's like you just made yourself an enemy" Fire snickered. "That was Brenton Thornloe, he's the bully around here" said Wave, a small brunette who was about Tum Tum's age, who they had met earlier said. "Yeah we sorter figured that one out for myself" Colt sat down. Just then Presh walked in. She sat down next to Colt. "Hey guys! What's up?" "Colt just met your boyfriend" Fire said. The smile on Presh's face disappeared.

"That guy is your boyfriend?" Tum Tum asked.
"You mean Brenton?" she frowned.
"Yeah" Rocky answered.
"No way, he likes to think he is" Presh reassured them. "I wouldn't go out with that guy even if he was the last gorilla on the earth! Anyway what happened?" she continued.
"Colt had a unusual meeting with him, which involved spaghetti" Wave said smiling. "I slipped in a puddle of water, which I have no idea of how it got there and I lost my balance, fell on the floor and on the way down I let go of my tray of food and it's contents landed on Brenton's face." Colt explained.
"Oh man I would of liked to see him with spaghetti on his face!" Presh said smiling. "Yeah well he threatened to bash Colt up" Wave added.
"Yeah but luckily one of the counsellors came before any one got hurt," Rocky said. "I reckon I could have taken him!" Colt said.
"That's what you said last time in Japan, but Miyo beat you and she was a girl!" Tum Tum teased. Fire giggled and Colt glared at him.