Lloyd woke to the sound of pounding on his door. Groggy he rolled over and rubbed his face and eyes.
"Get up Lloyd! Things to do, places to go" Bree yelled through the door.
"Get up Lloyd. Its your turn with the pendant and then I need to take it back after you eat so you and the girls can start practicing" Wu called.
Lloyd could hear Bree and Wu talking to each other. He still hadn't gotten out of bed. His eyes hadn't had to adjust to light yet. The window filtering the light that came in in slivers of green and sliver. When Cole and Bree had rebuilt all the rooms in the fortress they had use colored shards of glass and shiny translucent rocks to make windows that shone like stained glass.
"I am hardly a little girl Wu." Bree told Wu with a chuckle.
More banging on the door. Then with a pop and a puff of burnt orange magic Bree stood instantly in front of Lloyd at the foot of his bed.
"The fuck Bree?" Lloyd grumbled as he rolled over.
"You better have pants on" She growled back. Snatching him by the leg Bree used another puff of Djin magic and popped out of Lloyds rooms. Popping them back in and dropping him on the floor in the kitchen.
"Pants?" Cole called. Not bothering to look and busy at the stove getting some eggs for Alanna.
Jay leaning over the table to check. "Pants. Pay up Kai." Jay said holding out a hand and squeezing it back a forth.
Lloyd groaned and he pushed himself up to his knees and then stumbled onto a bench at a table. Zane dropping off a plate of food and a large cup of coffee as he walked by. Wu walked in then. Chuckling at Lloyd's disgruntled appearance. Wu gave Lloyd the pendant before going to pour himself and Misako a few cups of tea.
"Cole, Morro Nya and Jay are going to go see if they can't find Ronin and talk to him. Or at the very least leave a message for them at the beach cove. Pixal, Skyler and Kai are going to go talk to the police commissioner and see if there isn't any evidence or camera footage to look at. Zane and Misako are going to be so kind as to watch Alanna and Cyrus with me whille Bree, Lloyd and Harumi try and use the training rooms to practice." Wu explained.
Bree went and sat beside Cole next to Alanna. Cole taking the opportunity to scoop her off the bench and set her on his lap. Alanna protesting that she was still locked in the tall chair.
"Must you two do that?" Wu asked not looking up at them.
"It could be worse" Cole replied.
"So much worse" Bree said wiggling an eyebrow at Cole.
"I am going to feed the baby kappa outside. Bring Alanna out to me before you start training" Wu said rolling his eyes as he walked out with his tea. Misako quietly giggled.
"I planned on seeing just how far Harumi can jump in and out in one realm. And then practice taking you both back and forth to a calm realm. Maybe we can figure out which one of you, if at all can realm jump" Bree told Lloyd.
"Nothing before coffee" He grumbled at her.
Bree sat with Cole. While Alanna happily ate and flicked eggs towards Lloyd. The other ninja and family coming and going. Morro sat at the far end of the table with a grouchy look on his face.
"Alright, Rumi is already out practicing jumping the hell around. So if you could peal your face off of the big dudes for a while I can take him and go." Morro said.
Rolling her eyes before nodding Bree looked like she was going to say something to Cole. But with everyone else in the room thought better of it.
"Come on Lloyd lets go" She said. Picking Alanna up and dropping her off with Wu on the way to the training rooms.
Harumi was waiting impatiently for Bree and LLoyd. She didn't look happy to see either of them.
"So this is going to suck I take it." Harumi grumbled.
"Hopefully not as much as it could. However take these bags and tie them onto you tightly. They have travelers tea from several different realms in there. So if in theory if we do get separated then you both can get back here without me having to hunt you down." Bree explained.
"Lovely" Lloyd added sarcastically.
"Well we aren't jumping the whole way to the never realm. We are going to try one of the more chill realms and back. Did you figure out how far you can pop in and out Djin wise?" Bree asked Harumi.
"I've got less than a mile tops. That's alone. I tried dragging Morro with me and got about half that. And he did not appreciate it at all. He puked the first time actually." Harumi mused.
"Really?" Bree said with a chuckle. "It's not abnormal the first few times you learn for that to happen."
Lloyd was glad she hadn't asked him for help then. His stomach was already flip flopping violently. They talked about magically transporting through time and space like it was nothing.
"So, we jump. Give me a second to take a breath. Remember the feeling, The way the magic pulled you through. Then when we get there I want Harumi to try first and try taking us right back here. Same exact spot. Pull up a picture of this room in your mind and then imagine its the only place in the world, well existence, that you want to be. And don't get frustrated if it doesn't work the first time. Or at all. I honestly don't know what side of my family the ability comes from. It could be either or neither of you for all we know" Bree explained.
She took each one buy the arm. Gripping them tightly enough that it was probably going to leave a mark on their skin. Gesturing that this was how you hauled someone with you. With a cloud of purpleish magic and a loud bang Bree vanished them from Ninjago and brought them back into a different realm. Once they were solid and the purplish magic faded she then let go. All three of them dropping down to the ground.
"Did I ever mention how much I hate that?" Harumi said in disgust.
"Frequently." Bree answered. Standing and brushing herself off. Looking around and taking the scenery in around here. She brought up a blueish purple blob of magic and set it around them like a bubble.
They had jumped to a jungle world. However there were also island looking chunks floating in the sky, reminiscent of Djinjago, But with huge animal heads carved into all the stone. Blue skys above and waterfalls of crystal clear water flowing into bending rivers. Far beyond into the horizon it looked like a city was peaking out through the jungle.
"So... where are we?" Lloyd asked.
"Never caught the name. Only was here a few times. The inhabitants are not... human like us. In fact my mother said she had heard it suspected this is the real origin home of the serpentine." Bree replied.
"More snakes. You have got to be fucking kidding me. Is it really safe to realm jump here?" Lloyd asked in a whisper.
"I put up a protective bubble Lloyd. But we are far enough out of the main city area that I don't really think we will run into anyone. And no... not snakes. I've seen Lions, Bears, Wolves and Crocodile people in this realm. Which for the time period seems to be peaceful." Bree said shaking her head.
"Huh. I think Morro and I were here, for a moment. When we were fighting over the realm crystal." Lloyd added.
"Quite possible. But we need to start practicing on getting home. Who wants to try first? Rumi?" Bree asked.
"I can try. But I think its gonna be a shit show" She grumbled.
It was Harumi's turn to take each one of them tightly by the arm. Lloyd doing his best not to go pink cheeked and embarrassed at that slightest touch. She struggled. And stopped. Taking a deep breath she tried again. This time popping all three of them out in a burnt orange puff of smoke and reappearing only a few yards away. Dropping all three to the ground and then dropping Lloyd and Bree's arms quickly. Lloyd looked like he was going to lose it and hurl. And leaned over heaving.
"Well that didn't work. Good job on moving all three of us though." Bree mused.
"Are you done dry heaving yet sparky?" Harumi asked teasingly.
"I. Never. Want. To. Do. That. Again." Lloyd gritted out between dry heaves. The coffee he had for breakfast threatening to come back up on him.
"It gets easier the more often I take someone and Djin jump. Morro quit puking after the forth or fifth time" Harumi quipped.
"Fucking good for him" Lloyd spat out. Leaning his hands on his knees and breathing deeply.
"Come on Lloyd. Your turn" Bree said. Leaning over and with a very gentle touch healing his nausea. "Better?"
"Yeah" he answered. Never more glad for his cousins elemental magic.
"Alright. Now you try. Grab an arm of each one of us very tightly. And think exactly back on the training room. What the walls looked like. What the floor feels like underneath. How you can still smell the slightly bit of paint from where Kai tried to paint over the scorch marks he put on the wall the other day." Bree explained.
Lloyd snorted and Harumi outright laughed. Lloyd just might have helped Kai repaint the wall.
"Focus both of you" Bree whispered.
Lloyd closed his eyes and tried to envision the training room. Holding on tightly to Bree and Harumi. He tried to think of the way the room looked. The wooden floor underfoot. The tall ceilings with their arched beams. He could feel... something. Like he could almost reach out and touch the cool stone walls. And he held tighter onto Bree and Harumi. For a second thinking about the last time he had been this close to Harumi, before they had fought over the Oni mask and he felt that little something snap back to him. Knocking his grip loose and blowing all three of them away from each other.
"What the hell was that Lloyd?" Bree asked in annoyance. As she sat up and brushed leaves and dirt off her.
"I thought I had something... and then it was gone." Lloyd said sheepishly.
"I felt the barest glimmer of a realm jump. And then you abruptly dropped it." Bree told him.
"So Lloyd can and I can't. So its not a Djin thing?" Harumi asked.
"Maybe. Maybe not. It could be years of practice and it never works. Or you both get it next week." Bree replied.
"Do we have to keep trying today?" Harumi and Lloyd asked at the same time. Harumi looking at him annoyed.
"No we are going to head back. If Lloyd was on the verge of puking he definitely will next time" Bree laughed.
Grabbing on tightly to each one of them and pulling them in with a puff of purplish magic Bree realm jumped them back. Landing on the training room floor with a thump and laughing at Lloyd rocking unsteadily. However they wernt alone in the training room when they returned. Kai waiting for them and he jumped at their return.
"Damit, finally. You guys have been gone half the day. Cole and the others ran into problems. They need Bree down in the spare rooms" Kai yelled.
"What happened?" Bree yelled. Following Kai as he ran out and down the halls to the spare rooms.
"Bree! Harumi!" Wu called.
As Bree ran after them she realized that there were a whole lot more people here than actually lived here. The hell she thought. Cole stepped out and grabbed her. Wrapping his arms around her before dragging her into the first spare room. Injured people everywhere.
"We went to go find Ronin. And we ended up finding I think its one of his wifes cousins. Well after a lot of screaming we ended up getting her to bring Ronin and Delphine to us. And it wasn't good. Who ever has the Sword now was super super pissed that Ronin had found and sold it. And he took it out on the rest of the mermaids" Cole explained quickly.
Injured adults and children everywhere, Bree, Lloyd and Harumi stood aghast before Bree stepped forword to the closest person and started using her magic to help heal them.
"Rumi?" A voice called from one of the tables. Turing and running to him she found Morro alive but injured as well.
"What happened?" She yelped as she grabbed onto him. Morro gently touching her face.
"A bunch of assholes in boats tried to kill us is what happened" A deeper gravely voice interjected. Ronin.
Bree looked up in anger before returning to her work. She was still not thrilled with him ditching Cole and herself how long ago.
"Mermaids find and sell lost treasure on the ocean floor all the time. Totally legitimate work" Ronin said. Getting a shitty look from a few of the ninja at his words. "And after I found that sweet looking sword some guys came looking for it. And they weren't happy when I said it had already been sold... legally I might add...and they took it out on Delphine's whole villiage."
"I brought them all here because I didn't want to leave them there all out in the open. And as we started getting people on the bounty the sky boat guys came back. Hence Morro looks like sushi right now." Cole added.
Lloyd looked at him in confusion. "The who?" he asked. Before he stopped and stilled and watched something behind Cole.
"I dunno Lloyd. Sky boats with engines. Not quite pirates. Sort of looked like a couple of the guys from the one temple at the cloud kingdom. We were getting shot at and drastically outnumbered. I didn't want to stick around and ask for a calling card" Cole snapped.
Lloyd was going to come back with a snide remark. But he was too busy still looking behind Cole. His jaw dropped. Cole turned around and groaned. Behind him Harumi stood beside Morro laid out on the table. Morro reaching up to touch her hair as she leaned down to kiss him.
