Wu felt uneasy about there being a snake onboard. It looked quite odd; each of his scales was either a Venomari's dark green, a Hypnobrai's bright blue, a Constrictai's greyish black, or an Anacondrai's light purple, making it appear a bit comical. His razor-sharp fangs and blood-red eyes offset this a little, but Sensei Wu still chuckled when he first saw him. His remaining students claimed he had a bit of each tribe in him. This wasn't too hard for him to believe, given March's appearance.

It was friendly so far. Though the old man had observed multiple opportunities in which it could've harmed them, it hadn't done a thing since biting Jay, which he had apologized for. Speaking of Jay, the master of lightning hadn't said a word since returning from the forest. According to March, he won't be able to unless Zane and Cole returned with the flower, and Cole had admitted, yawning, via a communicator that they'd searched half the night and still weren't any closer to finding it than they'd been yesterday.

The golden ninja was trying to be a leader in Cole's absence, but all he had done so far was broken up an argument between Kai and Nya over whether they should take Jay to a doctor. Jay had listened to them, obviously wanting to say something. March watched too, staring like it was the most interesting thing in the world.

For nearly half an hour or so, March didn't do anything except follow Jay around, which creeped him out. When Lloyd questioned him on why, he said he wanted to see if his venom really was weakening. The snake may not be evil, but he sure was annoying. And then there was the fact that March just left as soon as the sun started to set and didn't come back until 2 PM the next day. He looked a little angry when he returned.

Kai tried to get him to say where he'd been or why he was mad, but March of course never answered.

"What would you even do with Ninjago onccce you took over?"

"I never thought that far, I guess. I just wanna prove-"

"That hybridsss aren't worthlesss, I know. But there's something wrong with you if you can't tell when you've gone too far! If you keep this up they'll start thinking hybridsss are insane on top of everything elssse!"

No way March was admitting he ran into Cody. They might accuse him of meeting the half-Hypnobrai on purpose. Kai, at least, doesn't trust me, March thought, and why should he anyway?

Besides, the only remotely relevant thing he'd actually be able to tell the ninja about the encounter was that Cody didn't try to hurt him, not physically. He'd thrown around the usual threats, but frankly, March no longer cared. The only time Cody actually carried through on a threat, he ended up hypnotized. In all honesty March knew that was the worst he could do, though Cody would argue. Cody was never a skilled fighter, and you could tell when he was coming most of the time, even when he was invisible. The only reason the ninja hadn't known he was there the other day was because Jay had just turned up after his initial disappearance and they were distracted.

But today? Cody hadn't even tried to do anything, and March was still puzzled over this. Suddenly remembering what Amelia said, he tried to recall if Cody's eyes had been their usual purple or if they'd been green. Maybe he was drugged with Venomari spit and thought March was an actual rainbow. He really wasn't sure; he'd been more focused on making sure Cody didn't, you know, attack him than something as small, yet possibly as important, as the little blue snake's iris.

[A/n: If you noticed something was different, it was probably because I tried to use as little dialogue as possible in this chapter, mainly because I feel like I overuse it most of the time anyway. If anything sounds off, any typos, anything confusing, etc. please tell me so I can fix it. Edit: when I showed my friend who usually reads my fanfics (before posting) she said it was like someone else wrote it. What do you think?]