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ItsYoGreenGirl - Aaaaah better yet, Lloyd should get the thug life meme lol. Your reviews always make me burst out laughing. Thank you for the support ;-) Also about Morro having the best redemption arc same! I completely agree there no argument. In my honest opinion Harumi got did dirty in seasons 8-9 TBH I just wish the writers had given her better motivation to bring Garmadon back other than "Like he didn't save my parents ,but he killed the thing that killed them so...I'm his #1 fan now!" But that's just my opinion.

Phetiamwantip- Thank you! I really enjoy seeing your constant enthusiasm. As for your idea, so I'm kind of writing this story based off the outline I've got going on in my head. I can't really see that particular idea coming into play in FF with the flow I've got going on right now. I do appreciate your story ideas though, it's just I can't really add too many in at the moment because I have a lot of future chapters planned already.

Fallingtoast - Awesome! Got to admit, I was kinda missing your insightful reviews ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ Thank you for continuing to read and support this story and honestly same that crazy face painting gorl need a chill pill. Also Morro and Lloyd are definitely trying, so lets all hope those two dorks can get it together.

Morro and Lloyd : *overhears me* HEY!

Chapter 16

Kai knew one of them would eventually come looking for him when he didn't return to the bounty last night, he knew they would tell him he needed to come back and rest before he couldn't maintain his energy dragon any longer and pass out from exhaustion, he knew they would argue with him when he shouted back that he needed to find Lloyd.

However what the red ninja did not expect was what would be told to him after. " Kai, Zane and Nya had the falcon contact me, they said that they found tea shop woman...and she says she knows what happened to Lloyd." Cole said to the spikey haired ninja, as he flew his large dragon next to him. "We need to head back to the bounty now."

After a beat of silence Kai slowly nodded. "..Ok"

ForgottenFamily

"Its,...complicated to say the least." Greta explained to the colorfully dressed teenagers who stood before her.

"Pardon me ma'am," Zane spoke up. "But you informed us that you know what happened to our brother, Lloyd Garmadon."

The old woman nodded slowly. "That I do."

"Do you know where he is?" Kai asked, stepping towards her. Greta looked into the fire wielder's amber eyes that reflected the clear anxiety he felt concerning his missing comrade. Then she replied.

"I apologize I don't know where your younger brother is, but I do know that Lloyd is in no danger. He is completely safe."

"What?!" The red ninja demanded. "What's happened to him?"

Greta let out a small sigh of sympathy as she stared into the worried eyes of each colorfully dressed teenager. "Listen, my reason for coming here wasn't to help you find him, all I can tell you is that the green ninja has been taken somewhere, somewhere safe I promise you, and he is currently being looked after by a,...well an old friend of mine."

Jay arched an eyebrow as his eyes widened at the old woman, "Are you talking about the guy that attacked sensei, is he the same one that destroyed your tea shop?"

"Well,...yes he is, however I can assure you that he is of no danger any longer."

"What does that mean?" Cole asked incredulously.

"I...I was able to reason with him, and I swear to all of you that he has absolutely no intention of harming your younger brother."

"Who even is this guy!?" Jay shouted

Greta lowered her eyes to the ground. "It's a very long story and one I am afraid I cannot reveal to you, at least now you all are simply not ready for it."

Kai angrily stomped towards the old woman as he replied. "listen here, our brother is missing and we need to find him. Can't you understand tha-"

Before the fire wielding ninja could finish his sentence, out of nowhere Greta's form disappeared from their field of vision and was now nowhere to be found in the room.

ForgottenFamily

'That probably wasn't the best idea. I knew it would cause trouble talking to the ninja, they'll no doubt come to look for me, to find answers.' The old woman thought quietly ,but she also knew it would have been so cruel to leave them thinking their poor little brother was being tortured by some devious captor, or ...worse. 'Poor children, they must have searched tirelessly to find him these past two weeks. If only I had been able to remember how to cast those spells sooner.' Greta thought to herself as she now stood near the sight of her destroyed shop, the old woman walked about the scattered remains of her business hoping maybe some of her teas were still salvageable.

Unfortunately all she could fish from the wreckage were a couple of herbal medicine teas that usually only sold for a couple dollars.

'I suppose I need to call Hank and ask him to let me stay with him for a while, I'm sure he and Nathan will be happy to know I'm alright. Maybe tomorrow I can get Hank to bring his truck here and he'll get his older boys to help find more of my teas. Nathan can even pitch in. ' Greta theorized to herself. Hopefully her son wouldn't be to keen on asking a thousand questions about where she had been and who that man who destroyed her shop was.

The old woman grimaced at the thought of him using that stern expression he often used on Nathan to get him to confess a misdeed on her, his own mother! Wanting to put that event off for now the old woman decided to use one of her old tea carts as a temporary stool and take a small rest to sit down as she surveyed the large piles of debris that had been her tea shop and thought of everything from her past that had been dragged to the surface those past two weeks.

How did it all come to this?

The man she could once call a surrogate brother had been changed so drastically she could no longer recognize him. Of course who could part blame on him, she had failed him in an unforgivable way. The old woman put a hand to her face as she closed her eyes and let out an exhausted sigh. Departed realm help her, Tera must be so disappointed in her. This,...this was all her fault. She should have asked more questions when Koso had brought Elizabeth to her house in the middle of that cold December night. She should have made him sit down, have a cup of tea, get him to calm down and tell her what was going on before she let him run off into the night leaving behind his ten year old daughter to never see him nor her brother again.

'I could have tried harder to stop him, to keep his family intact.' Greta told herself. 'Please forgive me Tera, I'm so sorry.'

As Greta thought of her beloved sister, the old woman could not stop the memory of seeing her younger sibling for the last time from bubbling inside her head. Greta recalled how her sister had looked on the day she died. Her eyes had dark circles under them and her short brown hair had been quite unkempt. Her deep blue eyes reflected exhaustion despite her never getting to leave her bed. What Greta remembered most though was the bouncing happy baby boy she had pressed against her small chest. That infant was so small and fragile looking it was hard to believe he had any dragon or in DNA in him at all. Greta recalled fondly the adoring look in her sister eyes as she held him so very tightly in her thin arms, almost as if Tera believed if she could only hold him close enough then she wouldn't leave him when she passed away that dreadful night.

ForgottenFamily

"Alright." Koso announced as he casually barged into Lloyd and Morro's room. The conversation the two were having died upon their lips immediately as he entered.

The teal eyed man paid it no mind though as he gracefully lifted a small vial that held a bright glowing red liquid, up into the air for both teenagers to see.

"I have completed the antidote." Koso explained as he edged closer to the bed bound Morro. "Now if you would kindly open up.." The teal eyed man said in mocking politeness whilst he carefully maneuvered his body to sit on the edge of the bed as far away from Jasper as he could get.

Uncapping the small vial Koso's eyes momentarily darted towards Jasper, who was beginning to softly growl as he snuggled his head closer to Morro's in a protective gesture. When the wolf's fur coat came into contact with Morro's face no matter how hard he tried the wind master was unable to halt the oncoming sneeze that erupted into the air for all of the room's occupants to hear and just like last time, the sneeze was quiet and resembled that of a small feline.

Koso's usually narrow eyes widened at the sound as he displayed a rare show of surprise upon his angular features.

The whole room went silent for a moment or too, before Lloyd's soft chuckle rang out and Koso shook himself out of his slightly stunned state. When the straw hat wearing man looked back to Morro he saw the teenager's face take on the shade of a fresh tomato as he angirly turned his head to the side in a vain attempt to avoid Jasper's thick fur.

"Ahem well I uh,...where were we?" Koso asked hesitantly, before righting himself back into his usual irritable aura.

"Right, c'mon now you, primitive beast, move aside." Koso chided to Jasper who kept his large muzzle firmly planted on top of Morro's thin neck as his low growl steadily grew in volume, the closer Koso's hand levitated towards him and the wind master.

The teal eyed man sighed heavily. "For the departed realm's sake, there's nothing to get your tail in a twist about here, I'm not going to hurt him."

Jasper seemed unconvinced though and stubbornly remained in the same position. That was, until Morro grew agitated enough that he couldn't take it anymore and decided to exert a great amount of effort to raise his right arm and give the wolf a light slap on the nose.

After letting out a small whine, Jasper turned his giant head to face Morro. The former ghost's grey green orbs would have obliterated the animal into dust if looks could kill.

"Get. Off."

After flashing Morro a slightly betrayed look, Jasper turned his bright blue pupils back to Koso then let out one last warning growl before he begrudgingly backed down and off Morro's body.

Arching a long thin eye brow, Koso scoffed as he held the antidote up to Morro's mouth whilst using his left hand to prop the wind master's head up slightly much to the former ghost's clear annoyance.

"Of course he listens to you, takes a wild beast to peak sense into another I suppose." The teal eyed man commented as he titled the vial and watched as the blue liquid trailed downward into the grouchy teenager's parted lips.

As soon as the antidote made its way into his mouth, Morro couldn't stop from gagging a little. The antidote tasted as bad as it did last time. After the medicine was completely drained from the vial and into Morro's mouth, the effects took place. Almost immediately Morro could once more move his limbs without difficulty and his body was no longer consumed in agonizing pain.

Fifteen minutes later after the wind master had jumped up from the beds and immediately began to stretch his aching muscles that had been constricted from the strain of lying still for hours on end, Koso cleared his throat and said

"Well now that has been taken care of, seeing at is only midday I believe now would be a good time to start on your training."

Both the teenagers' eyes widened simultaneously. Lloyd was the first to splutter out a response.

"W-wait are you serious?"

"You mean actual training?" Morro asked quickly following Lloyd's question. "not just more f**king friendship exercises?"

Lloyd's eyes widened as he realized that Morro had cursed and braced his ears for they would no doubt be met with the piercing sound of a sharp hit of hand against face. Catching a peak at the wind master he knew Morro had realized his error as well and was already reading himself for the attack.

However what happened next did not meet their expectations at all for Koso simply narrowed his teal eyes as his mouth formed narrow straight line and responded with, "You know, it might benefit not you well to not use such vulgar language in the future, who knows you might be able to expand that limited vocabulary of yours. "

Feeling both kind of relieved and more than a little confused Lloyd let out a small breath he had not realized he had been holding in.

Morro was in a similar state of incertitude, but immediately tried to mask it with his usual appearance of apathetic complacency.

Koso then cast the dark haired boy a look that told both teenagers he would have happily smacked Morro upside the head if some unforeseen reason was not holding him back. "Now as you so eloquently put it those 'friendship exercises' wouldn't have been necessary if you two hadn't acted like spoiled brats and agreed to get along sooner. To answer your question though, yes Morro, I do mean real training. Hopefully you two morons have the capability to complete it so that I will not have dragged myself out of my 50ft grave for nothing."

Before either teen could think too hard on the cause for Koso's merciful leniency the straw hat wearing man raised up his right hand and snapped his fingers. Before either teenager could process what was happening they suddenly found themselves standing in a dark, damp cave all traces of the sunny bedroom they were standing in just moments prior erased from existence. Seeing that a familiar waterfall with crystal blue water rushing from it into the shallow pool below it, occupied the far side of the cavern Morro and Lloyd were quickly able to deduce that this was the same cave Koso had dragged them to on their first day of captivity.

Feeling the chill of panic run down his spine Lloyd immediately looked down at his clothes, before letting out a breath of relief when he saw that the boring grey clothes Koso befitted him with on his first day as his captive, were still left on his person untouched. His momentary relaxation was short lived however when Koso suddenly walked in front of the two teenagers and began walking along the ledge of the pool's wall.

"Follow me." Koso called out tersely without looking back at either of them. Briefly sneaking a glance at Morro, Lloyd saw the former ghost's eye brows were arched in thoughtfulness as his arms were crossed over his chest so tight the green ninja wondered how the wind master had not accidentally ripped them apart by now. Then the former ghost apparently decided that it was good idea to follow Koso's order (probably due to the fact he had just moments ago still been suffering from the effects of the teal eyed man's past attack) and he began to walk in the direction Koso was heading.

Coming to the conclusion that he should go along with them because what else did he have to do, Lloyd quickly followed behind. The three of them walked on in heavy silence, with each step Lloyd could feel his heart beat pound faster and faster. The green ninja couldn't help himself ,but begin to think of the very real possibility that he could actually inherit a new element, that would allow him to travel realms. The mere thought that all of this, impossible sh** was actually happening made Lloyd feel nearly light headed with the disbelief that filled his mind.

Morro stared dead eyed at Koso's back as he tried desperately to keep up his charade of apathy. 'Whatever, this is,...this is just - It's not like it matters anyway.' The wind master told himself. Who cares what Lloyd thought, the f**ker was probabl-definitely just crazy or some sh**.

Suddenly Koso stopped, and when the two teenagers looked up they saw that they had reached the other side of the small cave and had run into a wall. Looking over his shoulder Koso said briefly, "What you are about to see,..it is...just...try not to act like rambunctious apes. This place holds more value than any artifact in an monastery or museum in all of Ninjago."

Before either teen could question what the teal eyed man meant by 'this place'. Koso without warning, placed his right hand upon the wall, then out of nowhere, the part of the cave wall he was touching was revealed to be a large stone door that Koso was able to push open with ease. Dust fluttered about the air and Morro had to cover his mouth ad nose in order to avoid another adorable sneezing fit. Once the door was completely wide open Lloyd stole a glimpse inside as he ran to stand beside Koso and saw that below them stood a long winding stair case.

Then before Lloyd could have time to feel nervous about descending them in complete darkness he felt Koso push a long boney hand against his left shoulder as he passed his nephew and that startled the green ninja into movement. Behind him he heard Morro following along as Koso led the two down the steps. After they had walked some distance from the entrance, darkness began encroaching on the trio and it became harder and harder for Lloyd and Morro to navigate where to step. For some reason Koso seemed to have no trouble traversing down the stairs, and when Lloyd accidentally bump his hand against the straw hat wearing man causing him to look over his broad shoulder, the green ninja saw that Koso's bright teal eyes were glowing in the dark like a neon glowstick.

A little caught off guard by the surprising reveal the green ninja stopped completely, causing Morro to run into him. The former ghost let out a soft curse that only Lloyd who was the closest in ear shot could hear. At first all the two received from Koso was a puzzled look ,but then realization seemed to don on the man and had Lloyd been able to see more than just Koso's eyes, he was sure he would see a look of slight embarrassment graze the black haired male's face at his folly.

"Urghmmm" Koso cleared his throat. "Alright, my...apologies I forgot that you two are only about a quarter dragon, just..." The glowing eyed man trailed off as he reached for Lloyd's arm and before the energy wielder could shrink back, the straw hat wearing man awkwardly gripped the fabric of the blonde's grey sleeve. The green ninja was glad the darkness around him shrouded his embarrassed expression.

Koso looked back at Morro and said, "It would be wise of you to grab onto Lloyd so you don't end up falling and having to be bed bound again."

Morro scoffed in response. "I am not doing that."

Lloyd couldn't believe that had this situation taken place just two weeks ago, he would have come close to a heart attack, but now after spending so much time being in such close vicinity of the former ghost 24/7 the most effort summon was a small look of annoyance.

"Oh sorry? Did you believe that to be a suggestion." Koso shot back.

"Can't you just use your magic to make a light appear or something?" Morro asked earnestly, with a hint of desperation present in his voice that Lloyd was not aware the wind master could summon.

"Unfortunately, no" Koso responded. "Starting from that entrance we just came through years ago the walls were laced with an anti magic agent."

'What?!' Lloyd thought to himself. 'Maybe this means we can-'

"I feel I must warn the two of you foolish teenagers. No matter what your miniature denial infused brains may tell you, I am the brother of the first spinjitzu master and if you decide to seize this as a chance to attack me whatever consequences arise from that idiotic action will be entirely of your own volition, understand?" Despite hearing nor seeing any confirmation from either teen that they did in fact 'understand' Koso continued regardless. "Now, Morro please do me this small favor and quit acting like an overgrown child and grab onto your relative's arm, so that I don not have to worry about you injuring yourself, again."

A part of Lloyd believed that Morro would immediately try to attack Koso right there and then, however he was slightly surprised when he felt Morro scruffy hand grip the back of his grey shirt. He was even more surprised when he heard the former ghost softly say.

"I...don't freak out okay,...its just cuz I don't want to have to deal with that f**ker right now. I can't even see him clearly."

Lloyd felt confusion flood his mind. Was Morro trying to comfort him? Did he think Lloyd was getting scared. Had the sincerity in Morro's voice not caught the blonde completely off guard he might have felt insulted that the former ghost apparently thought he was trembling in terror. Before the green ninja could think too hard about it though, Koso tugged on the blonde's sleeve and suddenly the teenagers were pulled along into movement down the stairs.

For a while the trio simply walked on in tense silence. Morro and Lloyd both tried to awkwardly pretend they were not currently in the situation they were in now was non existent. After what seemed like hours their journey down the stairs came to an end when they finally reached the bottom.

What lay beyond the steps was shrouded in absolute blackness, Lloyd and Morro both couldn't help ,but stumble when Koso quickly led them off the last step into the rocky and uneven ground before he walked them up to what was probably a cave wall ,but it was so dark neither teenager could tell for sure. Then the straw hat wearing man suddenly pulled his long almost serpent like arm back and within the blink of an eye he shot his clenched fist into the darkness and a loud slamming noise rang out about the pitch black cavern.

Then out of nowhere light coming from first spinjitzu master knows where poured into the room almost blinding both teenagers. When they eventually recovered their sight Lloyd and Morro looked around and what they saw both shocked and excited them at the same time.

The room they were standing in was much larger than the darkness had led them to believe, not only that ,but the room was filled wall to wall with weapons and training equipment the likes of which they had only ever caught glimpses of in paintings that were featured in museums and monasteries. On the cave walls there also existed numerous paintings that were so old they had a lot of peeled off paint no doubt over years of neglect and it was hard to tell what exactly the art had been trying to depict in the first place.

"Alright" Koso said aloud breaking both teenagers from their shocked state. The teal eyed man turned around and took his straw hat off and tossed it a few feet away. Then the he did something that slightly surprised both teenagers, Koso took off his large white cloak and revealed his clothes underneath to be what Lloyd and Morro could only assume to be some kind of old battle armor. As the two teenagers stared at Koso the teal eyed man took out a length of rope and proceeded to tie his long hair into a tight pony tail clearing up his field of vision completely.

"You two wished for real training, well get ready."

Oooooooh! Stuff about to go down! I wonder if Morro will still be in denial after this? Also Koso had a son to? Eh who would have guessed. Thank y'all for reading!