Ash

The wound where he was stabbed in the Serpentine Tomb had healed, but he lost all ability to talk.

So, he'd taken to always carrying around a notepad and a pen to write down what he wanted to say. Griffin also pre-recorded the sound of Karloff screaming for Ash so he would be able to get someone's attention if he needed it.

He used it once, and that was it, because everybody thought that Karloff was being attacked by something, including, for some reason, Karloff.

A lot happened in the past three months.

Skylor found an old scroll which Sensei hid, which spoke of a ninja who would rise above the others and become the Green Ninja, which caused everybody to train harder in order to reach their Full Potential and see who would be said ninja, who was destined to defeat the Dark Lord.

The Serpentine got unleashed, and nobody knew exactly who did it, or how they knew where all of the tombs were.

A hero called Samurai X appeared, who Skylor found to be Nya one day and then, a couple of weeks later, Nya revealed herself to the others.

Nya admitted that she was doing it to find her brother.

Ash got it. He had four brothers, one older and three younger, and he would hate for one of them to go missing, no matter how crazy they drove him.

While he was getting better, his brothers came over to visit him in the hospital and in the monastery all the time, with his younger brothers asking him it hurt when he got stabbed (yes) and if he was scared (yes) and if they could poke him in the throat to see if their fingers would go through(no).

His older brother, on the other hand, tossed him a pudding cup (gross, why?) and sneezed in his hair.

Nya told him that Kai would never do something like that when he asked her if Kai ever bugged her like that.

Apparently, he raised her after their father vanished and their mom lost her mind and ran off one day.

Ash was sparring with Griffin when Nya suddenly showed up in her Samurai X suit, holding a giant basket and two guys, one who he recognised from the village near the tomb where he got stabbed as the guy who made that great coffee and the other one, who didn't know at all.

The coffee-guy didn't move until the unfamiliar guy pressed a button on the guy's collar.

Then a familiar head popped out of the giant basket, looking like it just woke up.

"Lloyd?!" Karloff gasped. "Lloyd, you are alive!"

The little boy ducked back into the basket, while the coffee-guy started rubbing his forehead, as if he had a massive headache. "Ooh, that's got to be one of the cleanest kidnappings I've ever been kidnapped in."

That implied that the guy's been kidnapped before. It also implied that he thought that he had been kidnapped.

"No need to be scared, little guy," Griffin told the guy as he helped him up. "You're with friends now."

The guy looked around, not seeming all too baffled, which, in an odd twist of events, baffled the ninjas.

"Cool place you got here," the guy told them. "Very isolated."

"You're very calm for someone who thinks he's been kidnapped," Nya told him as she got out of her Mecha.

The guy just smiled at her.

"So how did you and Kai wind up with my nephew?" Wu asked. "I am very curious and I've been worried about him ever since we lost him."

The older guy (Kai) looked surprised when he found out that the old man knew his name, but Ash felt that he shouldn't, because his sister was with them and he would have to know that she would tell them.

"We found him on a flagpole," the coffee-guy told Wu. "He's been living with us since."

Lloyd poked his head out of his giant basket again. "How'd we get here?"

"Nya brought you here," Skylor explained very gently. "We're very sorry for hurting you, Lloyd."

Lloyd looked around. "Where's Cole and Zane?"

"You don't have to worry about them," Nya told the newcomers. "They won't bother you anymore."

"YOU KILLED THEM?!"

That was the punkish guy speaking, mortified.

Suddenly he grabbed Kai by the arm and pulled back as hard as he could while he (Kai) was reaching out for Nya. Clawing at her, really.

"No! Kai! Where are you?! Where are you, Kai?!"

The clawing at Nya stopped and Kai looked around, apparently surprised. "I don't know." His gaze fell upon his little sister. "Nya? I thought you were dead! Where are we? Jay, where are we?!"

The other guy (presumably Jay) shrugged as he let go of Kai. "No idea."

Ash brought out his notebook and scribbled in it. What was that?

Kai made a gesture that told Ash that he wanted to hug Nya, but he stopped himself mid-attempt and went back to looking around. "Seriously, where are we?"

"You are in my monastery," Wu told the three of them. "Your sister brought you three here."

A wave of recognition passed over Kai's face when he saw Wu, but he didn't say anything.

Jay, however, was studying the daisies in the garden, exclaiming that "Zane would've loved this," before falling into them, face first, with a loud squeak.

"Zane's one of the guys who kidnapped you, right?" Griffin asked next to Ash.

Jay poked his head out of the daisies as Lloyd finally left the safety of his basket and jumped in with him. "No! Zane's our friend, and so is Cole. They're harmless."

"Should I… Should we help?" Griffin asked. Jay had gotten himself tangled up in the flowers and was giggling that he didn't sleep on anything so soft in ages before falling asleep in the garden.

Kai, on the other hand, started dodging Nya when she tried to hug him.

"Nya, Nya, please don't touch me," Kai told (warned?) his sister as he kept ducking away from her. "I missed you too, but please don't touch me."

Lloyd was making a daisy chain (where he learned it was a mystery to Ash) while Kai was still dodging his sister.

Sadly, Nya had given up on catching her brother and giving him a hug, as she wanted to.

Apparently, Jay didn't fall asleep in the garden, he just closed his eyes, because now he was running into the ninjas' home, announcing that he had an idea and that the ninjas shouldn't attack anyone who came in through the gates because he could explain.

When he came back, he had a sheet in his arms and threw it over Kai, who didn't seem to mind it, despite the fact that he was now blinded and almost helpless.

He also looked like some kind of a blue ghost, which would be funny if it didn't mean that Jay took a sheet from Ash's bed, and he appeared to be reaching for Nya now.

"Nya, where are you?" Kai's hand hit Griffin's head by accident. "No, you're not Nya."

"Kai, she's right in front of you," Jay said.

Kai grabbed out in front of him, finding Nya, who was now a little mad at her brother's antics. "Found you!"

"Kai, what's wrong with you?" Nya demanded. "First, you dodge me, then your little friend throws a freaking sheet over you, and now, as if by magic…"

Kai wrapped his arms around his sister. "I'm so sorry!"

Jay put his hands over his heart and smiled. "Aw, you guys are so adorable together."

Suddenly the gates opened, and two people popped in, both of them looking very tired. It looked like they ran all the way from the bottom of the mountain.

One of them was holding a chair (?!) and the other one had a falcon perched on his shoulder.

"Cole! Zane!" Lloyd ran over to hug the two strangers by their legs. "You're alive!"

"Why's Kai under a sheet?" One of the strangers asked, sounding genuinely confused. "And are these the Ninjas? Did they kidnap you?"

The one holding the chair got a sudden hug from Jay. "I was so worried that you guys! I thought that you…"

"We followed your freaking chair all the freaking way to this freaking place," the guy engulfed in the hug complained. Then he looked right at Ash with a bright look on his face. "Hey, you're alive!"

Ash nodded and started writing down in his notepad.

How did you know about my accident?

The other guy, the one who came in with the first guy, winced. "We heard about it from someone who lives close to where the accident happened. He told us that he saw you get carried away by your friend and he couldn't help but notice that you were injured."

Lloyd looked up from where he was hugging a leg. "What happened?"

"Nothing, pipsqueak," the purple-eyed guy said, messing up Lloyd's hair as he spoke. "There was just an accident back where we used to live."

"What kind of accident?"

"The Blue Ninja got stabbed in the throat and now he cannot speak anymore," the second guy told Lloyd.

"I want my chair back," Jay grumbled, reaching out behind the older guy.

The purple-eyed guy gave Jay the chair (WTF) with a groan.

His friend was busy petting the falcon, which was perched on his shoulder.

Kai was still hugging Nya, sobbing over and over that he was so sorry while the girl started to fuss over him.

Jay was hugging his chair.

The purple-eyed guy was talking to Lloyd with a soft, gentle voice, telling him something that Ash and his friends couldn't hear.

The sun was starting to set.

Wu looked over the four strangers and his nephew.

"You should stay here until you can find yourselves a new home," the old man told them. "We have plenty of room, and I believe that we have beds far more comfortable than my garden."

Jay turned bright pink while the older of the four (Purple Eyes) thanked Wu very much.


Bold: Ash writing down.

Ash is okay! Well, more okay than before.

Also, I have a feeling that things are about to get a little crowded over there.

Today was my BFF's birthday. Yesterday I caught a bird and today I caught a bird and the power's been out all day until just now. Please send in your reviews, and I will be very happy! You are all so very nice. Please enjoy this fic!