A/N: Second-to-last chapter, GO!

On a completely unrelated note, probably the randomest thing that's happened to me in all my D&D sessions happened yesterday. Let's just say the entire party was woken up by a random deer in the middle of the night. I'm still laughing about it.

Part 6- Home Again

Pixal and Wu were waiting anxiously for the ninja to return. Pixal was making a celebratory meal while Wu sat on the steps just outside the doors. He wondered if they had succeeded. He loved them as if they were his own children. To lose Jay meant silence. Would laughter once again ring through the Monastery after Jay's return?

Then he heard the familiar teasings, though this time, it had nothing to do with who they could afford to lose.

"…and Pythor's face when Kai and I tackled him!" Nya exclaimed. "That was a hoot." Laughter had indeed returned, but quickly fell silent save it be for one.

Jay's laugh.

Allies and parents were invited to the Monastery, though the ninja didn't say for what and none of the allies could figure out why the ninja were so happy. None, that is, except Ronin.

He was the first to show, laughing and telling Jay, "I knew it wouldn't last."

Ed and Edna were naturally overjoyed to see their son alive and well and Jay took their hugs with tears of joy in his eyes.

Skylor dropped the bouquet of forget-me-nots she had brought and could only stand there in shock. The other Elemental Masters and the others' parents had similar reactions.

Darreth wasn't invited.

It took the mailman a minute to figure out what was weird about the Monastery. It hadn't had a makeover recently, at least not on the outside. And everyone inside seemed joyful.

Then he realized what it was: laughter. The Monastery had been silent for two months and now there was laughter and chitchat going on inside.

Wondering what had happened to have changed everything so drastically, the mailman rang the doorbell. Only to jump back and yell in alarm as Jay opened the door.

"You're supposed to be dead!" the mailman yelled.

Jay laughed and said, "I've been getting that a lot recently. Want to come in for cake or something? And what about the others' fanmail?"

"Uhh…"

"Who is it, Jay?" Kai called.

"The mailman," Jay called back. "No one minds if he crashes the party, right?"

"Of course not, ol' buddy," Cole declared, giving Jay a noogie. Jay laughed again, but this time Cole went absolutely silent until Jay stopped.

It took the world only two hours after Jay's "welcome back from the dead" party to realize what had happened. Naturally, everyone went bonkers.

Huge Jay fans were constantly exclaiming, "I knew he wasn't dead!" to their friends.

The news was launching a story about how the Cursed Realm it was even possible that Jay faked his death on accident. And rolled with it!

Darreth was just furious that he wasn't invited to Jay's "welcome home" party.

A/N: And me making fun of Darreth because I don't like the guy. Deal with it. XD