Green ninja raise his head up hearing firm feminine voice "Who knows, maybe from intruders that shouldn't even be here." The figure jumped down from the branch and landed in front of them aiming from her bow at the team "Now..who are you and what are you doing here." "Hi there ... we ..uh...come in peace?" Skylor didn't really knew what else should she say in that moment, this wasn't definitely how they pictured first meeting. Archer still held herself ready for an attack "Everyone says that, who are you and what do you want." Lloyd and team slowly got up so that they would be in better position to talk, fight or...just ran away in case they were outnumbered "OK, this is not how it's supposed to be. We came here looking for help." Kai was right, he was the one,who was always doing the talk. From what he heard brothers weren't good in improvising...'we'll go ninja upon ya'...seriously? "We're masters of elements. I'm Lloyd and they're my friends so..." At this person immediately lowered her weapon and voice became softer, someone could even think that friendlier than before "I'm so sorry, we were waiting for you. Our village was attacked before so we must be really careful when it comes to strangers." Saying this she took off the mask and everyone could see pink-haired girl, who were in their age "We were sure you'll visit us much sooner." Red-haired smiled at young girl "Hi, my name's Skylor." Master of earth followed her lead "I'm Cole." Kai introduced himself as well, girl returned the smile "We heard about you, Skylor - master of amber, Cole with element of earth, Kai that controls fire and ... I'm not really sure how to call you 'the chosen one', 'young lord Garmadon' or 'sensei Lloyd'. I'm so sorry for what's just happened, we don't really know how you look like. To tell you the truth we don't have any sort of technology, never needed these stuff anyway." Green ninja looked a bit embarrassed "Just 'Lloyd' will be fine. I'm not ready to be sensei and other titles don't really suit me." Archer nodded at this "I can understand this. I'm Seliel by the way. Come in, my father is already waiting for you." Right after this she lead them in to the village. They walked in the house, which stood in the middle and her only words were "Father, they're here." Room was nothing special, it was rather comfortable and for sure didn't show how important the man sitting at the desk was. Hiroshi, since this was how he was called looked up from the large book only to see small group of visitors. So, they had to be said ninjas that his other men told him about when his daughter kept them outside of the settlement. Meantime Skylor looked around thinking 'Not bad, not bad at all', the first who said something...without actually thinking about this was Cole "Hi there." Lloyd, who stood in the middle of the group closed his eyes and nearly facepalmed. 'Hi there'?! What the hell?! There they were, in front of the man, whose help they needed so desperately and the first thing his friends come up with is 'hi there'. Didn't they know he could deny them any kind of help? To think they always said he was the youngest one, in moments like this one he really was doubting this. Young sensei opened his eyes and quickly elbowed his friends telling them through this to show middle-aged man respect that he deserved. Hiroshi only smiled seeing young lord Garmadon panicking, he found it sort of amusing since he was a man, who didn't really pay unnecessary attention to formal stuff. To tell the truth, he found them unpractical, simple politeness was more than enough "Easy there, everything is fine. We were waiting for you ever since we heard about fight in the prison. I'm kind of surprised your friends let you go there alone." Lloyd coughed to hide his embarrassment "Lets just say that I didn't give them any choice when it came to that." Hiroshi just gave small nod at this "It's obvious, I see the same fire inside you that your father used to have. When you set your mind on something then nothing and no one will stop you." Then looked at master of amber "I see though that you're not the only one, who wants to get power back." Red-haired girl smiled lightly "I lost mine long time ago." Hiroshi thought about this "I see potential in you that haven't been discovered yet. May I ask you how did this happen?" Skylor nodded and started explaining "My father took my element away to become one of 'unstoppable serpentine'." Middle-aged man only sighed heavily easily figuring out who she was "This means you're Chen's daughter yet I see light in you that he never had." Green ninja was proud of one of his friends "That's why we ask you to help her as well." Man thought about this for a longer while "We'll help her and I'm sure there won't be any problem with this, your case is something else and more difficult than we've thought." Cole immediately asked "Why?" Hiroshi looked at everyone wondering how he should explain so that they would understand the problem at hand "There's a reason why young lord Garmadon is 'the chosen one', till now he only scratched the surface of green ninja's true potential. No one else would be able to control it. Till this day he didn't know who he really was so in short, accepted him and his heritage. That's why he could freely use power even if this was only small part of it. Something is blocking his natural strength, which is doing the same to ' the chosen one's ' power. What's happened?" Lloyd stiffened slightly and avoided others' looks, after a moment he replied "Nothing's happened." Leader of the village's voice turned more serious and somewhat even concerned "Then why is your heart in such great pain." Red-headed girl immediately knew what was wrong and quickly walked up to her boyfriend "I think it's about Harumi. Should we tell Hiroshi about this?" Kai slowly nodded looking worriedly at their young friend "I bet she's the reason. Lloyd was head over heels in love with her. If Hiroshi wants to help us, then he should know." Master of amber sighed heavily "I guess you're right. If not Lloyd then one of us must tell him about this." Mater of fire smiled lightly at his girlfriend "Maybe you should. I mean it's sensitive case and I'm worried that we'll tell something wrong." Green ninja didn't even want to mention about 'princess'. His fight with oni that took form of Garmadon had to be the reason. Otherwise this would mean...he still had feelings for her and this was why her betrayal still did hurt deep inside "It's because of my fight with 'father', it hit me really hard." Man's look only became more intense as he asked "Is this the only reason?" Red-haired girl took deep breath "It's not the only thing that might block his potential." She quickly looked at 'the young one' and on her face was clearly written 'I'm sorry but I must'; looking back at Hiroshi she continued "I'm not sure whether you know 'princess' Harumi but Lloyd and she were really close... but she turned to be the enemy and...you understand." Suddenly Skylor felt awkward, she knew this really wasn't her business, but at the same time wanted to help 'the chosen one'. Green ninja was about to say it's everything since he didn't believe in any other thing that could make impossible to use his power. When he heard one of his friends, he quickly as if afraid looked at her. She just voiced his fears out loud "It's true, we were but I'm over this. Don't care about her or what happens with her at all." Kai put his hand on their leader's shoulder "I guess we got to know what this is really about. You never cared what happens with our enemies, were always the first one to tell us that it's the highest time to kick someone's ass and now something like this?" Hiroshi sighed heavily getting what she was hinting at "So this is how things looks like. For the first time and pain...this is something what may block power more likely than another fight with your 'father'. After all years ago you easily managed this." Young sensei knew guys were worried about him so he wasn't angry at all but some things needed to be cleared up "Look, this is not what it looks like. I just...you can't seriously think that after everything she's done I still...really?" Skylor smiled lightly at his as she shrugged "Feelings are really complicated stuff, you know." 'The young one' still kept denying it "You all can't think that, right? After everything we went through I'd have to be an endless idiot to still...? Come on, guys! I get it, you're in love so you see feelings everywhere but don't you think you take it 'a little bit' too far?" Almost panicking looked at his third friend, who remained silent "Cole, tell them something." Master of earth kept out of this as much as he only could out of simple reason: he didn't know what to say "Errr...don't look at me. I don't have any clue about love...maybe for food but it's something else so...can't help you with that one." He quickly looked at pink-haired Seliel, who was putting hair-strand behind her ear and then back at others. Young sensei blinked at this "Wait a moment..what love? It maybe was a crush but nothing more. You really see something what isn't and never was there and besides..." he interrupted seeing that his team wasn't buying this and he sighed heavily "Was this so obvious? I'm really an idiot but how can this block my potential. How does it work?" Red ninja shook his head "Not sure but this happened before. Long time ago, before your first fight with Garmadon... on the island when your father was weakened you could easily finish this yet you didn't. When we asked why, you said that something blocked you. That and you were the only one, who wasn't celebrating when we thought that we've stopped ritual in time." Archer saw Cole's eyes on her and smiled at him and then voiced her opinion "If fear can make it impossible to call inner dragon out, then stronger feelings can do the same..." Green ninja looked at the ground resigned "Just great, what am I supposed to do now?" Master of amber looked at him "No idea.." suddenly her eyes became slightly bigger "..wait a moment. Fear is a feeling that is really hard to get ride of, right? And yet you managed this, then what if you do the same with feelings that are blocking your true potential?" 'The young one' looked at her "I try this all the time and that doesn't work. Still without power." Master of fire wondered about something "You did beat oni though. How did you do it?" Lloyd wasn't sure how to answer this "I don't know, I was just...pissed at myself, more than sure I'll never see you guys again..and somehow it worked out." Hiroshi, who listened to kid's talking knew the answer "You unintentionally used power of destruction." Skylor was more and more confused "How it's working again?" Village's leader started explaining "It looks like powers are something that you inherit from your antecedents. Just like his grandfather 'the chosen one' unites in him two powers: light one of creation and dark one of destruction. They both were and are able to unite them into one so called gray strength. It's not so simple as one might think. When he wants to protect some one or just feels positive emotions then he uses power of light. At the other hand when he feels lost or has negative thoughts during the fight then the element of destruction activates on it's own." Red-haired girls started understanding what was really going on there "I get it now." Green ninja also started slowly got to grip with new information "So this is what father meant by telling me to find the middle of myself and taking control of it. It's easier said than done but that doesn't mean that I'm giving up on trying. All right then...how does that training with blocking my feelings looks like?" When he heard that it most probably will last at least three months 'the chosen one' gulped "No one said this will be easy." Looking at his friends asked them "Are you sure you don't want to get back to Ninjago City? I'm safe here." Seliel took voice in the case again "This won't be any problem with finding you a place to stay and I doubt that your friends wants to go without you. Master of amber needs to get back her powers too." Skylor looked at boys "Well, she's got the point there. You can always go to watch over the city with others and I'll stay here with Lloyd." Kai shook his head "No way, I'm staying here. For sure here's a training for us here as well. What about you, man?" Master of earth crossed is arms on the chest "If you're staying then me too. Besides if I were to go alone then I'll for 100% get lost and.." he smiled "..it's more interesting with you." Lloyd couldn't even describe how much he appreciated his sibling being there "Thanks guys, I don't know what I'd do without you. We only have to give others a call that we will be here longer than we thought." Hiroshi nodded slightly at one of his people giving him an order with this to take 'the chosen one' and master of amber to the holly place where they'd work on getting or better to say setting their powers free again. Kai and Cole walked out from the room to see where their friends were being taken. Meantime Seliel got back to her duties. After a while master of fire put his hand on friend's shoulder giving him more than confused look "Do you even listen to me?" Apparently he was asking master of earth something several times already. Cole looked after slowly disappearing in the distance girl before noticing that red ninja even there "Sorry, were you saying something?" Kai only looked at him even more surprised and even a bit concerned "Yeah, I asked whether you're ready for our training. Are you really OK?" Master of earth gave slow but firm nod "Yeah, I'm more than OK." The truth was he even didn't know that himself.
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