A/N: Hello! Hmm, probably should get the friends back onboard their ship… their flying ship that Jay wanted so badly. Anyways. Enjoy the story!

Oh! Wow…lots of questions from Bookeeper2004 (Guest) let's see here. No, I don't think Earth is one of the sixteen realms. Sorry, only the friends have personified powers. I have no idea about that actually…good question. Same thing with your last one. Does that answer your questions?

Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Except for my OCs! Chayton is just Falcon renamed, I don't own him!

Chapter Twelve: Let's change our minds here…

Cole lead the way as they slowly but carefully made their way down the mountainside. Lloyd slide past him having fallen down somewhere above him. Bending down, Cole grabbed the kid, stopping him from sliding even farther down. Lloyd nodded his thanks as he scrambled back to his feet, Cole steadying him even as the others caught up with them. Kai crouched down, a frown crossing his face.

"Hey Cole. Do serpentine usually climb up mountains…particularly if the said mountain has a road that they could use instead of the backside that is rather difficult to climb?"

Cole snapped his head forward to look down and noticed what it was that Kai had noticed. Several serpentine, a good variety of the different tribes minus one, were climbing towards them. Panic seized his heart even as a hoot filled his ear. Reaching up, he pulled a now wide awake Manu out of his hair. The other birds landed on their respective owners' shoulders, feathers bristling. It wasn't until Cole noticed the other birds' aggression that he noticed that Manu was bristling as well.

Glancing back down at the serpentine, Cole's heart nearly stopped upon seeing that they were even closer than before. Releasing Manu, Cole expected the owl to fly off, not to sit down on the ground in front of him, hooting as if he were excited. "No…Manu. You need to leave. Go on. Shoo." Cole made a shooing motion with his hands, trying to get the supposed to be nocturnal owl to move.

Manu merely hooted all the louder at that, staring down intently at the serpentine. Cole groaned as he wondered if he had a defective owl that didn't know what self-preservation means. "Manu! Leave now! Before you get hurt!"

Unfortunately, right then was when the serpentine noticed us and attacked. Ducking the friends noticed a small overhang and dove under it. It wasn't until they were safely out of the serpentines' reach that Cole realized that Manu wasn't with them. Actually, Chayton was the only bird still with them. Alarmed the friends stepped out of their hiding spots to scan the area for the other birds. What they ended up witnessing left their mouths dropping to the ground.

Manu was running in a circle around the serpentine so fast that he was just a blur…and a not so small dust storm had sprung up blinding the serpentine. Phoenix caught his wings on fire and dived at a group of serpentine that Manu had missed; leaving long scorched scratch marks on them. Teal had somehow multiplied herself, and was swarming around another smaller group of serpentine; pecking and scratching at them like no tomorrow. Arnett screeched so loudly, two groups of serpentine fell off the mountain, one of the groups being the group that Manu had blinded. Calli dove towards the ground, tucking her wings tightly against her body as she spun around in an even tighter circle, until she looked like a missile headed to the ground. Oh wait. There was a loud explosion as she connected to the ground, a good sized hole appearing where she had connected, her momentum driving her farther and farther into the mountain. Nya cried out in alarm, not expecting Calli to do something like that.

Zane cleared his throat loudly, amazement filling his eyes even as he looked towards Chayton. "Maybe we made a mistake with our choice. We best go back and talk with the spiritia about what we just witnessed." As he spoke the last of the serpentine fell into the hole that Calli had created.

Cole nodded in agreement, wondering what other secrets they had in store for him and his friends. Turning around, they headed back to the hidden pirate ship. Calli swooped back into the air, gliding after Nya.

~Back in the ship Ten minutes later~

"We have decided that we will be these Guardians that you spoke so highly of just cause birds shouldn't be able to do any of that!" Jay announced as he bounced back into the library, Teal perched on his shoulder while the others followed him in; their birds perched on their respective shoulders. Except for Manu, he was back asleep on Cole's head.

Cole rolled his eyes alongside Kai, before suddenly realizing that the spiritia didn't know what happened. "Umm, we sort of, uh…"

Earth quirked his eyebrow up, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Left without saying good bye? You also were attacked but most of your birds attacked your attackers. The only one that didn't would be Chayton, which truthfully makes sense seeing as all he can do is make it so that Zane can see through his eyes."

Zane gasped at that, glancing back at the calm falcon on his shoulder. Cole frowned, puzzled by how Earth knew all of that. Jay and Kai were openly astounded by this. Nya folded her arms, unease crossing her face. "How do you know all that about what happened?"

Water lifted a finger, pointing to the glass orb in the middle of the room. "For some reason, that allows us to watch your progress. We've been watching you since you were all a little child."

Cole wondered if he was the only one that could the crickets chirping. Ice coughed, clearly feeling the awkwardness of the moment. "It is getting late; we should discuss how we are going to divide up the chores, as well what the training schedule should look like. Unfortunately, we don't have that much time to get you fully trained."

Groans escaped everyone present at that announcement. There goes any free time for the next who knows how long.

~At a random news station~

"Good evening Ninjago! Welcome back to your favorite news station; Good Days to Come! This is your host, Billy News! Today, we have with us Lou Brookstone and his friend, Jo Anna Jones." Billy News grinned at the camera until he mentioned that Lou and Mrs. Jones were with him. Then a frown took over his face as he remembered why they were here. "What would you like to say to your son's captors?"

Lou sucked in a deep breath, not really sure why he had agreed to do this. "Just that, please, release my little boy and his friends and return them home. Soon." He glanced over at Mrs. Jones as if to double check that she agreed with him. Smiling, Mrs. Jones reached over and squeezed his hand tightly in her own hand.

Billy News turned to look at the camera again, a huge smile on his face. "There you have it folks. Lou Brookstone speaking up against his own kid's kidnappers, wherever they be."

~Warehouse that Cole and others had been held in~

Scales growled as he glared at the empty warehouse. The empty warehouse that was supposed to have six prisoners in it. The shredded rope on the ground was all that was needed to make them realize that at least four of them had four of the pendants. Tail twitching with annoyance, he slithered away, heading back inside where the others were at watching the news.

"I can't believe that we had a rich dude's kid and didn't even know it!" Kruncha the skeleton whined as he stared at the screen.

Scales shook his head, before turning to look at the soldiers that had been sent to locate the escaped prisoners. "Well? Did you find them?"

One of the soldiers shifted nervously, eyes darting everywhere as if he were looking for a way out of the room. "All six of them of the pendants. We were stopped by five of the Guardian Birds, and the sixth was on one of their shoulders."

Scales growled at that, quickly slithering towards Pythor to discuss what this meant for them.

~Later that Evening, about a hundred clicks away from the Monastery~

Nya and Lloyd looked at each other in alarm, before turning round eyes back to the equally terrified Water and Energy. Nya lifted a finger and pointed to the vehicle the others were in that was called the Ultra Sonic Raider, a powerful weapon on wheels that only the four fourteen year olds could control. "Are you sure we can't control it?"

Water flinched as the boys missed the target…again. "Unfortunately. Maybe you won't have to deal with the Great Devourer at all." Uncertainty filler her voice as she watched them back up into a ditch.

Lloyd lifted his hand up and slapped his face. "That's it. All of Ninjago is doomed. You guys really shouldn't place so much trust in a group of teens and one preteen."

Energy frowned as he looked to the small child that he was connected to. "You do know we're your powers, right? We don't have a choice but to trust you. Now then. How about we get you two into your mechs so that you can help the others get out of that ditch."

Lloyd and Nya rolled their eyes as they realized Energy was right. The others were stuck.

A/N: Done! Um, yeah. I think Ninjago is in trouble if they let those six save it. Oh! While I was working on it, someone expressed some confusion about whether or not Lloyd is Gifted. He is Gifted; he used his powers alongside the others when the Skeletons attacked them at the School's Ice Rink. However, he is not a freshman yet, so they can't train him just yet. Give it four years, and then he'll be a student and learning how to control his power. Only it needs to be done now, so his spiritia…also known as his powers, is giving him one on one training.

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