A/N: I'm a back! I know that is improper grammar…I'm not gonna change it. So, who wants to meet Lloyd?! Seriously, that's next in the story. Ok, first day at a school for teens with super powers without any powers is next. But Lloyd is in it! Yeah…I wasn't buying that either.

Uh…Hi RandomDragon2.0! Glad you like this so far! Hope you like this chapter to.

Ooh! Another thing! I prefer reviews over follows and favorites. I mean, I like those too, but reviews are what I go back to frequently to feel inspired to continue writing…so PLEASE REVIEW! (Reviews where you are talking to the characters are the best in my opinion) Also… The middle names for all but Lloyd are of my own invention.

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Chapter One: First Day of School

Cole woke with a start, his eyes snapping open. He was lying in the bottom bunk of a wire frame bunk bed. It had a rather firm mattress that truthfully felt like it was made out of cardboard; it also had a limp grey pillow, and a scratchy brownish-grey blanket thrown over him. Groaning, Cole rolled over to stare across the room, at the other bunk bed in the room. He could see Zane sleeping on the bottom bunk, cradling his pillow. Spiked hair was sleeping in the bunk above Zane, his arm dangling. Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed, Cole looked around the room some more. He could see two doors, one closed tightly, the other slightly ajar to let him see it was a bathroom. He could also see that the closet was wide open. Interestingly enough, despite the fact he couldn't remember anything about the night before, all of their hang-ups were neatly organized into the closet. As well as what appeared to be the hang-ups for some little kid. Standing up, Cole looked around the room…and immediately spotted said kid, with messy blonde hair flopped over his eyes, sleeping in a wire frame twin bed that appeared to be designed to be just like the bunk beds. A hundred percent uncomfortable for all those who bother to sleep on it. Cole glanced at the top bunk bed above him to see the last of the boys in his new class dozing quietly…while kissing his pillow.

Cole slowly backed away, just in case the strangeness was contagious. Turning, he noticed that each end of the bed had a trunk pushed up against it, including the top bunks. Those trunks were sitting on wire shelves that were attached to the bed, and had thick metal poles running down to the floor. Interested in that, and being way too nervous to sleep, Cole examined his trunk, surprise flashing through him upon noticing that it was black with mountains, boulders, and mountains with boulders crashing down them, decorating it. It also had his name. His FULL name; Cole Mason Brookstone. Startled, Cole decided to see if it was like that for all of them. So, he did the logical thing and looked to Zane's trunk. It was white with ice shards crisscrossing it. The name on it was Zane Andrew Julian. Now really interested in what the trunks claimed his roommates names where. Turning, he quickly read the guy that was kissing his pillow name. Jay Alexander Walker. The trunk was electric blue with lightning bolts zigzagging across it. Glancing over, he checked spiked hair's trunk. It was red with flames dancing across it. The name on it was Kai Wu Smith. Wondering if the kid also had a trunk, he turned to look over there. Sure enough he did have his own trunk. It was green with gold stripes. The name was Lloyd Montogomery Garmadon.

Humming to himself, Cole sat back down on his bed and was about to go back to sleep, when a loud noise reverberated through the building. The noise really was the sound of a gong being used, but gongs hadn't been used in a hundred or so years, so Cole didn't know this. Loud yelps escaped Jay and Kai, has they promptly fell out of bed. Zane was much more composed than them as he stretched luxuriously before climbing out of bed. Cole clapped his hand over his ears, trying to block the noise out.

"What is that?!" Jay screeched over the noise.

"It is the gong. Sensei Wu uses it to wake the students to start the day. If memory serves correctly, we must hurry if we want to make it on time to the Annual Start of the Year Assembly." Zane calmly announced as he quickly pulled a white and gray sweater out of the closet, before opening his trunk and pulling out jeans and socks.

Cole quickly gathered his own wardrobe choice for the day, wondering if the mysterious Sensei Wu even knew what time of day it was…five thirty a.m. After a brief inner debate, Cole threw his watch off, not really wanting it to remind him how early they were getting up for the day.

Cole shifted slightly, glancing nervously at the others. The five of them were standing up on the steps into the school, in front of the entire school body. The entire staff, which he couldn't but note was kinda small, stood next to them. The lady from the testing grounds was introducing each staff member. First there was Dr. Julian, who apparently taught both, math and science. Then there was Lord Garmadon, he was an older man; wrinkles and white hair, wore an old gi with a staff in his right hand. He taught P.E., Flight Aviation, and aided with something called Power Training. Cole vaguely wondered if the kid was related to him. Then she introduced herself, Misako Garmadon; she was their history and their Literature teacher. Then there were two teachers for our Random class; Ms. Powers, a young lady with short cut brown hair and green eyes, and Mr. Powell, a middle age man with red hair and blue eyes. She also introduced the school psychiatrist; a middle aged man with black hair that was just starting to turn white named Neuro. Finally, she pointed to the last of the staff members. He was an elderly man with a long white beard and mustache, brown eyes with gold flecks in them, and a staff in his right hand.

"Please give a room welcome to our principle…Sensei Wu!" Misako stepped to the side, allowing Sensei Wu to take over.

"It's so good to see so many familiar faces!" Sensei Wu looked over the crowd, a warm smile on his face. "Now I am sure you all are excited to meet the new students as much as I am, so without further ado, lets welcome them to Sensei Wu's Monastery for the Gifted!" Sensei lifted both hands up, to a rather large smattering of applause. "Now then, when I call you name, you just step forward so everyone can see you and tell me what your power is. Understood?" He turned to face the new students.

Cole immediately felt panic blooming in his chest. He didn't have any powers! A quick look at his fellow freshmen told him that they had the same dilemma about that detail. Jay nervously leaned forward, worry dancing in his eyes.

"What does he mean by that? And does anyone here know someone in real life that has actual super powers?" Jay hissed quickly to us.

"This is why Father and I had a hard time believing I could get in. I never manifested any powers, of any kind. That, and Neuro is a telepath. He can read our minds." Zane responded in an actual worried tone.

"We knew about the power thing, since both of our parents attended here. But we never manifested any of our own." Kai whispered to them, glancing over at the only girl in the group, who nodded her head in agreement.

"So…what I'm hearing is that the Test goofed, and instead of sending us to a school where we will excel at…it sent us here to a school where the entire student body has some kind of super natural ability making them more like the characters in our comic books?" Cole drily asked as he leaned into the conversation.

"Basically…how do we tell them that apparently all five of us do not have any special abilities?" Zane asked nervously, twisting his hands together.

"You don't. Everyone can hear your conversation." Heads snapping up, they found themselves looking at the amused Sensei Wu. "Anyway…first up is Cole Brookstone!" Cole bit back a groan and stepped forward. "Jay Walker!" Jay quickly joined him. "Kai Smith!" Kai stepped up next to Jay. "Nya Smith!" Nya slipped next to Kai, her fingers grasping his hand. "And finally, Dr. Julian's own son, Zane Julian!" Zane moved stiffly to the other side of Cole.

There wasn't much warmth coming off of the student body as they muttered amongst themselves. Cole was pretty sure he heard someone say that they wouldn't last a day here. Cole clenched his fist as he decided that he was so going to prove them wrong, right after breakfast.

"Everyone pair up! It's time for P.E.!" Sensei Wu barked out suddenly, gesturing for Lord Garmadon to take the stage.

Cole really did groan this time as he realized that he had to wait for his breakfast.

Zane pulled Cole back up onto his feet as the rest of the school filed past the freshmen. Kai was rubbing his arm, as if it were sore, while Nya was limping up to them. Jay was still lying sprawled on the ground, face first. Slowly, and stiffly, pushing himself up, Jay turned to face them.

"I think the others are right… we're not cut out for this. I mean, come on! We haven't made it to breakfast yet and we're already making fools of ourselves!" Jay whined, reminding Cole strongly of Jones.

~Flashback~

"No! Mommy don't go!" a four year old Cole clutched the skirt of a grown lady with near pitch black hair, and Cole's deep dark brown eyes.

Fingers' tugging at her son's persistent clinging; she smiled warmly down at him. "Now Cole…preschool will be good for you. You can make lots of friends here. Ok?"

"No! I don't wanna go to preschool! I wanna stay with you, Mommy!" Cole bawled loudly, tears running down his face.

"Bye Mommy! Don't worry about me! I'm gonna have fun…hey! What's your name?" A four year old Jones suddenly walked into the classroom, followed by a lady carrying three babies in her arms.

"This is Cole. He doesn't want to go to class apparently." Cole's mother told the little boy, while Cole buried his face in her skirt.

"That's just silly! Mommy says that preschool is full of kids that can actually play with me. My name is Christian. But I don't like it. I prefer my last name. It's Jones. Come on! You can be my best friend!" Jones grabbed Cole by the hand and dragged him away from his mother.

That was the last time Cole would ever see his mother…

~End Flashback~

"Hey! Earth to Cole! You in there?" Kai waved his hand in front of Cole's face.

"Knock it off Kai. Come on, we better get to breakfast." Cole brushed the dust of his clothes; a frown forming as he realized it didn't came off with his brushing.

"Why bother? It would be faster for us to just pack our bags." Nya grumbled, folding her scratched up arms in annoyance.

Everyone nodded in agreement. Everyone that is except Cole. Now then, to this very day, Cole has no idea what possessed him to do it. He just did it. Without any thought either.

"No. That is what our fellow schoolmates want us to do. We stay. The Test sent us here for a reason. Maybe if we stay we can find out why it did that. But if we leave…others will start questioning the Test. Now then, who's hungry?!" Cole spun around and started heading inside.

After awhile the other new kids followed suit, realizing Cole had a point. They couldn't give the student body what they wanted. Because the Test wanted something else from them entirely…

Cole slid carefully into his seat, Jay next to him. It was time for their history class, which was one of the classes broken up by grade. He could do with an all freshman P.E. class though. Maybe then they wouldn't fail so epically in front of everyone. Sparring with a junior by the name of Chamille was not fun at all. Cole felt a sharp nudge in the side as Zane tilted his head towards the chalkboard at the front of the room. The True History of Ninjago was written in cursive across the board. Cole wondered what that meant. Pushing this to the back of his mind, he pulled out a notebook and pencil, glad that the second class of the day was a subject that he already knew pretty well.

Misako strolled into the room, carrying several ancient artifacts…that looked nothing like the ancient artifacts in museums. "Good morning class! I hope you're ready to learn today. I have prepared my favorite lesson for today." Misako beamed at them as she carefully laid out the artifacts on her desk. "Today's lesson is on the First Spinjitzu Master and how he created our beautiful world."

Cole felt like the world had stopped spinning. None of his teachers growing up said anything about a First Spinjitzu Master creating Ninjago…it was always evolution! Apparently he wasn't the only one thrown off course.

"Wait! Our teachers told that was just a legend!" Kai cried out in alarm, glancing over to Nya, who looked just as in shock.

"Indeed, while I was homeschooled, I ended up researching our history myself… and everything stated that it was just a legend." Zane spoke in his monotone voice, much to Cole's annoyance.

"Ok…this just means we're gonna have to learn something new. Something new that proves that everything we have learned growing up may or may not be true…" Jay slunk low into his seat.

Cole stared down at his notes trying to will them to memory like Misako told them to. "I give up. Zane? What's next on our schedule?"

Zane tilted his head back, thinking back on the schedule that had been passed out during breakfast. "Next is Flight Aviation. I am afraid I do not know what that means. Kai, Nya, your folks appear to be rather comfortable telling you about the school. Perchance you can shed some light on the subject?"

Kai immediately snorted. "Dad said something about dragons."

Nya quickly shrugged, worry creasing her brow. "Mom didn't like the class. Preferred it when they did swimming for their Random Class." Kai shuddered at the mention of swimming, displeasure flashing across his face.

"Ok then… well, we can cross the dragon thing off. They're not real." Cole felt a brief bout of confidence surge through him.

Jay, who had sprinted up ahead, suddenly skidded to a halt. "Guys! Hurry it up! They have real dragons in here!"

"What?!" They all ran up to catch up with him.

Sure enough, Lord Garmadon was standing next to four dragons; one white, one red, one brown, and one blue, gently stroking them while talking to the kid from the dorm room. Unfortunately, Cole took that time to scream like a little girl and almost fainted on the spot.

"Cole! There ain't anything to be afraid of! They're harmless! See?" Lord Garmadon grabbed Cole's hand and helped him pet one of the dragons.

This time Cole really did faint from the fear.

Cole folded his arms has he sat down in the back of the classroom. After ensuring Neuro that he was completely fine, and then doing the same thing with Sensei Wu, he was finally released from the medbay to go to his next class. Science. How hard could it be?

"Hello there! As I am sure Zane told you, I am Dr. Julian." Dr. Julian smiled warmly at them. "Today for our lesson, we will be learning how to disarm killer robots."

There goes easy. Cole was just starting to think that their new teachers like proving them wrong.

Cole limped into the large sitting room area that they were told their next class was to be in. Thing was, the class was called Random. Cole just hoped that their teachers would go easy on them, since they were all covered in laser burns and pretty much beat up all around. Ms. Powers stood in the center of the room, waiting for them, holding a clipboard.

"Come in, come in! Welcome to Random Class. This course will cover the basics in all kinds of other subjects you may need to know if you ever go undercover." Ms. Powers smiled warmly at them. Cole wondered what that all entitled. "Today we will be learning about Janitorial duties."

Jay leaned close to Cole. "Whoa…that kind of sounds like we will be cleaning the school."

Cole started to laugh, only for Ms. Powers to interrupt. "That's because we are cleaning the school. The best way for anyone to learn these skills is by doing them. Now gather around so I can give you your assignments!" Cole decided that he really didn't like how cheerful Ms. Powers was about cleaning the entire school.

"Finally! Done! It will be too soon if I never see another toilet cleanser again!" Jay exclaimed as he pulled his rubber gloves off, trudging after the others.

Cole stifled a snigger as he walked into the courtyard that was bathed in the low glow of sunset. Cole grimaced as he realized that he still had another class to go through before dinner. And all the other schools were eating by now, students mentally going over their homework. Cole didn't have that privilege just yet. He still had to go through Power Training with the entire student body…without any powers himself. It wasn't long before Lord Garmadon and Sensei Wu walked out to face the student body.

"Right for those of you that are new here…or just forgot the drill." There was a sudden cough of Dareth at that statement. "…when I call your name; you are to use your powers to get through this obstacle course. The faster you do this, the better the grade." Sensei Wu spoke up loudly as he addressed the crowd. "Karlof!"

"Paleman!"

"Griffin!"

"Ash!"

"Gravis!"

"Bolobo!"

"Jacob!"

"Tox!"

"Shade!"

"Chamille!"

"Skylor!"

"Dareth!"

Cole gulped as he watched the last of the older students blew through the course. Something told him that was not gonna happen with any of them, when it was their turn.

Lord Garmadon turned to face them suddenly; concern flashing across his face upon seeing Cole was there. "Zane!"

Zane swallowed hard before taking on the course…which through him out within seconds.

"Jay!" Same thing happened.

"Kai!" Kai lasted in even less time than the others.

"Nya!" Cole looked away as he realized he was the last one to go the course.

"Cole!"

Swallowing extra hard, he limped over to the course, eyeing it nervously. This was not gonna end well.

Cole pushed his peas around his plate, grimacing slightly. Dinner had been made by Mr. Powell's all seniors Random Class. Which was fine, the problem was that Cole ached like crazy. And he still needed to write an essay about how the First Spinjitzu Master created the world, write five paragraphs about why it was important to know which cleanser to use when cleaning toilets, and list ten ways to disarm killer robots. Not to mention he had to read up on what he missed in Flight Aviation class.

Yeah…really lost his appetite.

"Night guys." Kai jumped up into his bed, trying to ignore how two of their teachers, Misako and Lord Garmadon, were tucking the kid into bed.

"Night Kai." Cole collapsed onto his bed, suddenly realizing why they had such uncomfortable beds.

He was too tired to care by the end of the day.

A/N: Soo, yeah. Really hard day for the first day at school… and why don't our favorite ninjas have powers?! Also…did I get a budding friendship amongst them? I mean, they are still practically strangers, but they are literally doing everything together.

Cole missed a class on his first day because he just had to faint. He really wasn't expecting the dragons though, so we can't blame him for that.

Ok...the site not updating last night actually helped me a bit. I forgot what Misako's second class was. And Dareth's turn to go through the obstacle course.

SkyTalon