A/N: Hey guys!

It's only been a few weeks since my last story! A record for me. But that was also, crazily enough, last year.

And speaking of which, in case you didn't know. it was Expendable. If you haven't read that, go and do so. You'll be confused otherwise. Yes, this is the sequel to Expendable.

Enjoy Courageous!

Part 1- The Call

Two months.

It had been two months since the world ended. Two months since Lightning fell. Two months since Jay was supposedly lost to death. Nya had stuck true to her last promise to him. That she wouldn't tell anyone he was alive.

Allies had come to pay their respects to the fallen ninja. Skylor brought a bouquet of forget-me-nots. Ronin had simply come, though him pulling Nya aside to comfort her was more like the two of them trying to figure out what Jay was doing now. Darreth tried to comfort the ninja, but considering his "comfort" was mostly telling them they were overreacting, Kai literally kicked him out of the Monastery.

The ninja were still in grief. Kai especially. He was always shouting, "Dangit Jay, I never meant it!" up at the sky. Things would never be the same. Not now that Jay was dead.

Except he wasn't, but only Nya knew about that.

A phone call disrupted the semi-silence that had engulfed the ninja. Lloyd answered.

"Is this Lloyd Garmadon?" the person on the other end asked.

"Yes," Lloyd answered. "How may I help you?"

"I need you to meet me in the Sea of Sand. Midnight tonight. Don't bring your team."

Villain, Lloyd thought. "I'll be there."

"Good." And with that, the line went dead.

"Dude, you nuts?!" Kai yelled when Lloyd told them about the call.

"Why do you think I'm telling you guys now?!" Lloyd asked in reply. "You guys would never let me leave alone to meet a random stranger, most likely villain, in the middle of the night. I'm just sparing you the trouble of having to make sure I don't see you."

"He's got a point," Nya said, shrugging.

"Out of sight, out of mind," Cole said. "I say we do it."

Midnight that night found the five ninja in the Sea of Sand, awaiting whatever was coming next, all concerned for their little brother.

A/N: The entire first half of this chapter is mostly explanation. Oh well! It did what was its part and the second half of this chapter was, perhaps, the hardest part about writing this particular story.

(Then again, I'm not too satisfied with the fourth chapter, but that's for another day.)

Reveiw!

~NG