It was Jay's turn to drag Cole into the woods. Ever since Cole told them he figured out the mental block and his powers had mostly returned, everyone was keen to get him training again.

"I hope this works and you can move back into the monastery again. It's been so different with you gone. It's just not right with only five ninja there. You did tell your dad you're moving back in, right?" Jay rambled as they went deeper into the forest.

"More or less," Cole admitted.

"Great! I've missed having my best friend around!"

"What about Nya?"

"Nya… is different. She's the love of my life," Jay said, choosing his words carefully, especially since he wasn't positive Nya couldn't hear their conversation at this point.

"Not a best friend?"

"I never said that."

"Right… Now, is Hermes going to be wherever you are taking me?" Cole asked.

"I don't know. He just shows up whenever he feels like it. Kind of like Wu if you know what I mean. And if you ask me, he is your grandfather and you should take the chance to get to know him better. He helped us take down Morgen."

"He did?"

"Yes. I don't know if we could've done it without him," Jay admitted.

Cole stopped to consider this. Jay waited for his friend a few feet off.

"He's really not that bad once you get to know him," Jay continued.

"… So what does he want me to do?" Cole asked as he started walking again.

"Uh, take your shoes off, blindfold yourself, then you have to defeat us by only feeling our vibrations or something like that."

"Oh, seismic sense?"

"Can you do it?"

"Sort of. I can tell if something is in the ground beneath me. Like when the Serpentine were a threat, if they ever burrowed near me, I could feel it. Or, the other day, when I was in the graveyard, I could tell where every single coffin was."

"That's a bit creepy," Jay said as they came upon the group. Hermes was with them.

"What's creepy?" Lloyd asked.

"Seismic sense. Jay told me what you want to do. I'm not blindfolding myself," Cole said.

"Yes, you are. You can't do this exercise correctly if you can see it coming," Hermes protested.

"I don't need it. I already know how to feel vibrations in the ground."

"Really? Then prove it." Hermes held out the blindfold.

Cole squinted his eyes as he stared at the blindfold. He growled as he grabbed it out of Hermes' hand. He kicked his shoes off, put the blindfold on, and stood in front of Hermes.

"Great. Who's my prisoner today? Sparky?" Hermes rubbed his hands together.

"Like I'd let you shove me off a cliff again," Kai said.

"What?" Cole lifted the blindfold up.

"Not important. Miss Amber, you're up then," Hermes said.

"Wait. You threw Kai off a cliff?"

"Blindfold down!"

"You really are crazy," Cole muttered as he complied.

"Who told you that?"

"Everyone. I once heard Uncle Wil ask Dad if preferred the General or the Crazy for a father-in-law."

"And what did your dad say?" Hermes asked as he and Amber got in their positions.

"Oh, the General hands down."

"Hmph. Everyone ready?"

"Yes!" Lloyd called.

"Okay. Cole, stop them from getting to Miss Amber here. Remember, the attackers are not allowed to use their powers. Whenever you're ready!"

Cole took a deep breath as he felt four figures rush towards him. He waited until they were about ten feet away before he quickly raised a wall of rock and pushed it towards them. The group did not have time to dodge. He waited a moment, listening for the movements of the fifth person.

"Out of the tree!" Hermes yelled.

As soon as they touched the ground, Cole used his power to turn the ground beneath their feet to sand and let them sink up to their knees before solidifying the ground again. Based on the yelling, he guessed it was Kai who was trapped. By this point, the other four were standing again, so Cole lifted the chunk of ground beneath them and sent it flying back almost fifty feet.

"And that's how it's done, Miss Amber!"

Cole removed the blindfold. Lloyd, Jay, Nya, and Zane were tangled up a ways off, and Kai was desperately trying to free himself. Cole ran over to Kai.

"How did you do that?" Kai asked as he took Cole's hand.

"Instinct?" Cole shrugged as he freed Kai.

"I'm surprised Wu hasn't taught you how to attack what cannot be seen yet," Hermes said.

"Well, clearly your powers are back," Lloyd commented.

"I don't know. I still feel like there might be some vengestone left in my system," Cole said.

"Well, I'd hate to see you do this at full strength," Nya added.

"Speaking of, there is that boulder…" Kai started.

"You and that boulder! Ugh. Fine. I'll take care of your stupid boulder," Cole said.

Cole stared at the moss-covered boulder. It was the largest boulder he had ever seen, but he felt like he could easily carry it out of town. Not that he wanted to carry it.

"We still don't know how Morgen managed to do this, since none of the buildings were damaged when she rolled this into town," Lloyd said.

"Yeah, it was just a distraction so she could kidnap our parents," Kai added.

"Why would she want your parents?" Cole asked.

"I guess she didn't realize Kai and I had their powers and thought they were still the Masters of Fire and Water," Nya replied.

"She had been living in a cave, so it makes sense she wasn't up to date on current events," Jay added.

"Anyway, we tried to get rid of this ourselves, but it's just too heavy. But you have super strength. You should have no problem picking this up," Kai said.

"I suppose I could pick it up," Cole said. He cracked his knuckles and his arms started glowing.

"Woah, my arms never did that," Hermes said.

Cole ignored Hermes and focused on his breathing. After a few deep breaths, he drew his arm back and punched the boulder, smashing it into millions of tiny pieces that flew everywhere. The ninja scrambled to protect themselves from the flying debris.

"Dude! What was that?" Jay demanded.

"There, that's taken care of," Cole said.

"… We just wanted you to carry it out of town," Kai said.

"Yeah, but this was more fun. And there's no more boulder, so problem solved."