A/N: Time to get our favorite ninja in more trouble! Seriously though…I have got to stop sending them to destroy school property. Oh well. No one will miss that brick…right? Ugh. At least it's only one brick and not the entire fireplace. Also, this is during detention too…. HOW DID THE TEACHERS NOT NOTICE!? Um, ignore that. This is gonna be fun. For the ninja. Not the oblivious teachers. Can't think of anything else to say…

Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Except for my OCs! The riddle belongs to RandomDragon and Cat! Thank you both!

Chapter Eight: When cleaning the fireplace, the first step is to pull it apart when no one is looking. Wait. That isn't the first step? Oops.

Cole concentrated on burying the dummy, spraying the dirt everywhere, but on the dummy he was supposed to hit. Garmadon dodged yet another fistful of dirt that nearly whacked him in the head. All of the freshmen were trying to knock down the row of dummies…and failing as their powers proved be harder to control than expected. Kai growled angrily as he punched the dummy with his burning fist…and yet somehow managed to not burn the dummy at all. Nya couldn't even summon her water, and Zane had already frozen Sensei Wu in place. Jay was trying his hardest to shock the dummy, and not Misako…but, uh that wasn't necessarily happening. To say that Power Training had a whole new meaning to the five freshmen, would be understating the facts. They had gone from zero to negative six overnight. Didn't help that the other students keep asking how they did it.

"Cole! Concentrate! I am not the dummy!" Garmadon growled as he tried to avoid Cole's way.

Sensei Wu glanced over, a huge grin crossing his face. "Really? I thought you were a dummy." Garmadon yelled, before quickly swatting his younger brother on the arm. "Not in front of the students!"

Misako rolled her eyes at her husband and brother-in-law. "Knock it off you two. Honestly. I think I preferred it when you were spread out between the students during Power Training and not just trying to work with these five."

Cole frowned at that, wondering if they really were that bad at controlling their newfound powers. A loud explosion suddenly shook the ground, followed by a hurried apology. "Sorry! I sneezed!" Cole glanced back at Lloyd, to find the kid sniveling while he waved his hand around to clear the smoke from whatever it was that he has since then destroyed. Misako rolled her eyes as she walked over, pressing a hand against his forehead. "Sick. Maybe we should have you wait a day before we do the last part of your punishment."

Zane looked up from where he was trying to, and failing at, defrosting Sensei Wu. "What are we doing tonight anyways?"

Cole crossed his fingers that it wasn't cleanup after the dragons. Talk about stinky! Garmadon folded his arms, a smirk crossing his face. "You will be cleaning all of the school's fireplaces today in detention."

Jay went round eyed at that, panic crossing his face. "But that… this place as at least a hundred different fireplaces!"

Misako rolled her eyes as she looked to the sky. "Not really. Just one in the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. As well as the headmaster's office, and some of the dorms. In all there are about thirty different fireplaces. I suggest you eat your dinner quickly if you're still going to finish your homework on time."

Everyone groaned as they looked to each other. Two weeks of detention had them regretting that they had ever found their powers. The other students didn't mind since that just meant that they didn't have to clean various things in the school. Cole squared off his shoulders, before turning back to look at the dummy he was again, supposed to be burying instead of Garmadon.

~Several Hours Later~

Cole scrubbed at the filthy fireplace, ash, soot, and dust covering him from the twenty-nine fireplaces he had already cleaned that day. Nya suddenly placed her dust cloth down on top of Cole's head. Annoyed, Cole swatted at it, shooting her a quick glare. "Watch it Nya. I'm kinda busy trying to clean here."

"Fire." Nya whispered as she pointed to the hieroglyphic engraved into the brick fireplace.

Kai was the one who spoke up, glancing behind him as if double checking that they were alone. "Hurry. Misako should be back from checking on Lloyd any minute now."

With that said, the five friends quickly clawed and pried at the bricks. After glancing around multiple times to double check that Misako hadn't arrived yet, they finally removed five of the bricks. Kai reached in, pulling out the red pendant with a gold sword engraved on it, and the scroll with the next riddle. They quickly begun the task of putting the bricks back where they belonged. As Cole shoved the last brick into place, it crumbled into his hand like dust. "Umm… I think I have superstrength. Unless the brick was of poor quality."

What?!" All eyes landed on the mess that used to be a brick. Zane cleared his throat, anxiety dancing in his eyes. "Quick, see if you can't use your powers to summon a rock big enough to fit into the hole."

Cole frowned as he concentrated hard on what needed done. A moment later, a good sized rock was sitting where the brick was supposed to go. Misako walked up to them right then, a smile on her face. "Good job. You finished cleaning the fireplaces. I hope you learned your lesson. Now off to bed with you."

"Yes ma'am." They quickly bolted for it, glad that she hadn't noticed the scroll or pendant.

~A few minutes later, their dorm~

"Lloyd! Wake up!" Cole jumped onto the kid's new bed.

Nya quickly climbed into her brother's bed, a huge grin on her face. The sick ten year old, he had thrown up during dinner, blinked sleep from his eyes as he pushed himself up into a sitting position. "Cole? Why are you acting like Jay?"

Jay wrapped his blanket around himself, blinking in surprise. "Uh. He's right. You're acting like me…cool! Oh! That reminds me. We found the next pendant and riddle. We sort of grabbed it while we were there and instead of waiting for you…"

Kai pinched the bridge of his nose, puzzled about what Jay just said. "How does Cole acting like you remind you have that?…DON'T ANSWER THAT!"

Zane spoke up, turning his attention to Kai. "Where is the pendant anyways?"

Kai blinked before suddenly letting off a small exclamation of oh, pulling the pendant out from under his shirt. Nya pulled the new riddle out from his pocket without asking, quickly unrolling it. "I am required by all, both living and machine and keep the balance of all things. Some say they have too much of me, others say that they have too little. What am I?"

"No one is surprised that it's a riddle, are they?" Lloyd asked before he broke off into a coughing fit.

Zane, Kai, Cole, and Jay looked at each other wondering why it was they were expecting it to be a riddle. "The last three were riddles. It kind of makes since that this was going to be a riddle to."

All heads snapped up to the only girl in the room, who was thoughtfully falling asleep on top of her brother. Kai quickly shook Nya awake, a smile crossing his face. "Come on. You need to get to bed. We have that field trip in Random Class tomorrow, remember?"

Groans immediately escaped everyone. Apparently, the school had its own power source, which the school sometimes held field trips to, when the Random Class was on maintenance of power plants. This was going to be fun.

~Next Day~

"…And this is where they pumped the water now turned energy into the generator…" Mr. Powell droned on, unaware that his students were falling asleep on their toes. Well, five of them were.

Skylor quickly nudged Cole awake, while Dareth stopped Jay and Kai from hitting the floor. They weren't the only ones who noticed that the freshmen were falling asleep. Neuro helpfully placed a hand on Zane's back to help steady him, while Ash pulled his arm around his neck, adding much needed support. Paleman and Griffin rushed over to help Dareth hold the two up, while Chamille and Tox grasped Nya. An overly excited Lloyd suddenly appeared out of nowhere, tugging on Cole's sleeve. "Hey Cole. What's up?"

Cole nearly froze, but somehow managed to keep following the teacher through the room. "Lloyd. What are you doing here?"

Lloyd wrinkled his nose at that question. "I got tired of being on bed rest."

"Seriously!?" Neuro hissed as he glared at the boy.

Lloyd ducked his head as a simple mumble of sorry escaped him. Kai woke up enough to pull the kid close to him. "It's fine. We can watch him piece of cake."

"You better be right about that!" Shade growled as he eyed the small child.

"We totally can do that!" Jay chirped up as he shook his head awake.

~Four hours Later~

"And that ends the tour. Now then. Does anyone have any questions?" Mr. Powell turned around to face his students, confusion quickly flashing across his face upon seeing that Lloyd was there.

"Why yesss…how about you all go over into the control booth and sssstay there while we place thissss place on lockdown." Pythor suddenly materialized out of nowhere, with an army of skeletons and serpentine to back him up.

Mr. Powell promptly paled at his appearance, not entirely sure on what to do. Before any of the students could think of how to get out of this situation, they were seized upon and tied up. As their attackers were locking them up in control booth, Scales suddenly flung his arm out, stopping the underlings from placing the six youngest members of the group in there. "Wait. I don't trussst thessse ssssix at all. Place them in the back of the van."

Cole felt all color drain from his face at that. A large brown burlap sack was quickly thrown over his head. A minute later he felt himself being carried down to who-knows-where. Cole strained his ears to listen for any noise through the running of the noisy generators. The only sound he recognized was the repeated sound of doors opening and closing. The gagged teen frantically began tugging on his bonds, trying to free himself.

~With the Spiritia~

Earth bellowed with rage as he slammed a fist against the table. "So close! So, so close! They were literally standing next to the next pendant! Ugh!"

Ice calmly placed a hand on his shoulder, amusement dancing in his eyes. "You do know that we can send four of the Guardian Pets to help them right?"

Lightning immediately perked up. "Which four? I hope that Teal is one of them!"

Water whacked him on the back of his head, annoyance flashing in her eyes. "Lightning! We can send Teal, Chayton, Phoenix, and Manu. We can't send Calli though." Disappointment edged her voice at the mention of Calli, a clear sign of favoritism.

Earth nodded, relief flashing in his eyes. "I'll call Manu immediately. Lightning, call Teal. Ice.."

Ice tilted his head to the side, his countenance calm. "I presume you want me to call Chayton?"

Fire grinned as he flexed his fingers. "I'll get Phoenix. He's way better than the others."

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

Earth groaned as he placed laid his head down on the table. "This is going to take awhile."

A/N: Hey, lookie here. I just wrote a cliffhanger! Sorry, I had to kidnap them…actually, that wasn't supposed to happen… I wonder who these supposed pets are. Ok, you all should know who Chayton is…if not look it up in Babble Baby Names A-Z (website) Chayton technically is not an OC. I have merely changed his name because it was not at all creative.

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