A/N: Hello! Umm…oh boy. Mind is a blank... ooh lets listen to Disney music!

Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Except for my OCs! I also don't own the song… Disney owns it technically. I just changed man to ninja. Disney also owns Mulan…which may or may not have inspired this chapter…

Chapter Fourteen: I'll make a Ninja out of you…some day

"Ok! Listen up! It's time to learn how to defeat the Overlord!" Earth barked as he tossed a collection of staffs at the teens and preteen.

Fire quickly showed them how to properly hold the staff for combat. Copying him, the friends all somehow managed to knock each other of their feet. Groaning, Ice facepalmed as he watched everyone try to untangle themselves from each other.

"Oh boy. This might take awhile." Lightning commented as Jay finally managed to crawl out from underneath a startled Cole, who was trying to find his footing.

Water folded her arms confidently, staring intently at the sea stacks. "No way they can mess this up!"

Fire leaned forward, a frown on his face. "Wanna bet on it?" He muttered darkly.

Water glared at him, before turning just in time to see Kai freeze up on the middle sea stack. Unfortunately, he was in front of all the others. "I don't know how to swim! I don't even like water!"

"Can I just say that all of Ninjago is doomed if we let them save it?" Energy muttered to himself as he watched as they one by one fell off of the sea stacks.

"No… they'll get better." Earth wasn't that sure if he was telling the truth.

"Ready! Aim! Fire!" Ice barked as he watched the new Guardians lift their arrows up and aimed at the tree he had painted four bulls-eyes on.

A minute later, a thousand arrows were resting anywhere but on the tree. Lloyd was sticking his tongue out as he tried to steady his first arrow, which he hadn't shot yet. Nya was growling as she aimed her fiftieth arrow at the target. Kai was just about ready to throw his bow. Zane was scratching his head in confusion, trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. Cole had somehow snapped his bow in half, while Jay somehow had loosed his arrow alongside himself.

"Jay! How did you…umm… yeah that." Lightning slapped his face as he stared at the young teen, who was sprawled next to his arrow near a large boulder nowhere near the tree.

"Umm, good question?" Jay blinked rapidly, trying his best not to see stars.

Ice buried his head into his hands. "Ok… next lesson! Earth!"

Earth folded his arms, a hundred percent proud of himself. "No way they can find a way to mess up a run in the mountains!"

"Earth? You were saying?" Water pointed to the friends, all six of whom had collapsed from exhaustion.

"Oh come on! Lightning, your turn!" Earth wailed loudly, tears threatening to escape.

Lightning grinned as he bounced a pebble in his hand. "Ok…it's easy. We throw pebbles at you. You use your staffs to block them. All the while balancing buckets of water on your head; just cause I feel like it! Ready, set, go!" With no warning, he flung his pebble hard.

Three minutes later, Nya was cautiously lifting her bucket of her head. Jay slipped as he tried to move, only to step into a puddle from the spilt water.

"Hey…Energy? It's your turn." Lightning rubbed his forehead.

"I think that this isn't going to work. We need a new plan." Earth groaned has he threw a bunch of papers that he didn't have a minute ago into the air.

"Hey…it's my turn to train them!" Energy protested loudly.

Energy wondered if he was the only one that wished he hadn't insisted upon going through his lesson. Everything looked like it was going great…until Cole fell from halfway up the pole. That was when Energy began panicking. He only had the one pole, and they were climbing it one at a time. And Cole was the first one to climb it. A minute later, Nya thudded to the ground. After her, Kai fell from not that high honestly. Jay slid down, just barely getting higher than Kai. Zane went next, barely getting off the ground before he fell off. That just left Lloyd. Lloyd scrambled for several minutes, but he couldn't get a hold of the pole.

Sighing, Energy floated over to the young child. "That's enough for today. Go rest. We will begin again tomorrow."

Cole tossed and turned in his bed, his mind replaying all of that day's disastrous training. Sighing, he swung his legs down to the floor. Standing up, he crept out of the room, his mind dwelling on the run through the mountains. He could have done better than what he did…he just needed practice.

Zane paced around his room, sleep evading him. Running his fingers through his hair, he glanced at his alarm clock. A scowl crossed his face upon seeing that it was only eleven thirty at night. Sitting down on his bed, he considered that day's events carefully. Sighing, he stood back up and left the room. He could always practice firing the arrows.

Lloyd pulled his covers over his head, before he threw them back off. Sitting up, he placed his chin into the palm of his hand. He couldn't sleep. Not when he knew that he had failed so, so bad that day. A frown crossed his face as he recalled how he was the worst one at climbing that pole. Energy had explained it to them…the Guardians in the past operated like ninja. They should be able to climb that pole like a piece of cake! Shaking his head, Lloyd tiptoed out of his room, figuring that a little extra practice wouldn't hurt him.

Kai didn't know what happened. All he knew was that an alarm had gone off suddenly. Scrambling, he tumbled out of his bed and charged out of his room towards the bridge. A yelp escaped him as he crashed into his sister. Jay nervously appeared behind him, while Zane, Cole, and Lloyd sprinted up to the room already dressed.

"What's going on!?" Lloyd demanded as he finally fought his way through the door.

Zane nodded in agreement. "It's only three in the morning. Is something wrong with the systems?"

Lightning shook his head, distress flooding him. "No… the village of Jamanakai is under attack. You need to go do your part and protect the citizens."

"Oh…OH!" Alarm shot through everyone has they finally registered what he had just said.

Zane crouched down behind a dumpster, Jay on his left and Nya on his right. Across from them, Kai crouched behind another dumpster, with Lloyd and Cole. It was raining lightly, so their birds were staying behind, while the spiritia hovered over them. Zane flinched as a constrictai flung a vendor stall into the alleyway near them.

"Ok…we need a plan that is not let's rush into things and get ourselves almost killed." Cole hissed as he pulled out his pendant and rubbed it nervously.

Lloyd suddenly bolted upright, pulling his own pendant out. "Our pendants…they're magical. Maybe we can use them to fight off these constrictai!"

Energy quickly shook his head at that. "No. You're not ready to use its power!"

Unfortunately, that was when another constrictai grabbed and flung the dumpster Kai was behind away. "Ooh, lookie what we have here. Sssscalessss been looking for you three." He moved to seize Kai and Lloyd, picking them up by the scruffs of their necks. He glared menacingly at Cole, daring him to attack him.

Zane leapt out of his hiding spot, weakly punching him in the back. "Let my friends go!"

"You know… Sssscalesss isss looking for you too." He flung the two boys back down to the ground.

"I don't care! All I care is that you release my friends!" Zane cried out, his pendant started glowing, floating up where everyone could see it. "To me everything is as clear as ice!" Ice gasped as he noticed that his edges were also glowing. "I will never let anyone harm my friends!" With that said, Ice suddenly zipped forward, combining into his pendant. A white glow surged forth, blinding everyone. When the light died down, standing right there was a white clad ninja, shruikens twirling in his hands. "For I am the Guardian of Ice! You just made a big mistake…" The now at full strength Guardian flung his shruikens, freezing the constrictai in place.

"Whoa…" Zane's friends slowly stood up to stare at him. Lloyd snapped his head up to look at him. "How did you do that!?"

"I…I…I don't know!" Zane promptly began freaking out.

Earth hummed as he looked at him thoughtfully. "You must have said your transformation sequence. Curious really seeing has we don't know what your transformation sequence is either…for that matter, we don't know how it works. Just that we get sucked into our respective pendants when you say it."

Zane glanced back, noticing more serpentine rushing forward to join their now down companion. "We have to, uh hum, blow this popsicle stand so to speak. If you don't mind the pun there."

Laughter escaped his friends as they darted off to get out of his way. Zane closed his eyes, concentrating on the essence that made him, him. A brilliant white glow covered him as he snapped his eyes open, revealing that they were glowing a brighter blue than normal. Lifting his hand up, he cried out with loud voice. "Cutting Ice Blizzard!" Suddenly, a flurry of snow and ice shot out of his hands, covering the entire mountainside village in several inches of snow and ice.

Collapsing to the ground, Zane gasped for breath. His pendant, which had morphed into a golden medal in the middle of his chest, flashed brightly, before going back to normal. Ice grimaced as he spun out of the pendant, turning Zane's ninja gi back into his jeans and white sweater.

Earth glanced back at the others, before turning to face the collapsed Zane and shocked Ice. "Let's head home. They need to rest."

Ice slowly nodded in agreement, still trying to wrap his head around what just happened.

A/N: Done! Let's see here… Zane basically found his true potential. I guess…. Not entirely sure what just happened. As you can tell, I was listening to I'll make a man out of you while typing this up.

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