Morro

He could only remember two things: His name, and the fact that there was something he urgently had to tell someone before it was too late.

Too bad he didn't know what it was or who he had to tell it to.

He walked through Ninjago City with about as much direction as a blind duck, but he didn't have much of a choice in that.

It was starting to get late, and the person only known to himself as Morro had nowhere to sleep.

He considered sleeping in the alley between two buildings, but he was afraid of the dark, despite being around sixteen and having to be past the age where things like that scared him.

He also let out a sharp scream when the manhole cover moved under his feet and throwing him off.

Two people crawled out of the hole.

One was dressed in all blue while the other was dressed in all black, like a pair of colour-coded ninjas.

Not that he could mock them or anything, seeing as he was wearing all green (his clothes smelled of fish and salt, though) and looked about as graceful as a drowned rat.

The two guys (Black and Blue, as Morro mentally nicknamed them) removed their masks and looked around.

Black had black eyes and short black hair and was built like an MMA-fighter. He had a slight stubble, which meant that he was either growing a beard, or forgot to shave that morning. He appeared to be about nineteen.

Blue had grey eyes and spiky grey-brown hair that was longer than Black's, and much shorter than Morro's. When the light in the street went on, he could see an ugly scar on Blue's throat. Pinkish red lines of half-healed skin.

Blue didn't speak, but Black did. He spoke enough for the both of them.

"Who are you?!" Black demanded of Morro. "Where you come from?!"

"I'm Morro and I don't know!" Morro screamed, crawling away from the two strangers. He was pretty sure that they were part of some kind of gang, judging by the scars and the weird ninja outfits. Morro was wearing one too, but his was barely an outfit and was coming off thread by thread.

Blue smacked Black at the back of his head and angrily pointed at a flagpole and made a motion as if he was holding a kid. Then Blue made a motion as if to scold someone and folded his arms as if he had somehow won an argument that Morro (and judging by his expression, Back too) didn't know was being had.

"Ash, I have no idea what you try to say." Black brought out a little blue notebook and a pink pen with a poofy, feathery thing at the back from his pocket and handed it to Blue. "Write down."

Blue took the pen and the book, gave Black a funny look as he shook the pen a little, making the feathery bit dance around in the air. It seems that the blue-clad stranger was displeased with the pen he was given.

But he still wrote in the little book and showed it to Black. Black shrugged. "Sensei leave right after we come back. He say we don't come get you just yet, that we have to wait, but I was worried about Serpentine eating you."

Blue scribbled down something else.

"I know, I know," Black groaned after he read Blue's writing, "but don't…"

More scribbling.

Black turned his attention back to Morro. "Where you come from again?"

Morro blinked at Black. "I don't know." Morro stood up from where he fell due to Black throwing him off the manhole cover. "I don't remember anything." Morro pulled on his sleeve, which came right off at the sudden stress. "I just remember my name."

Black looked at Blue with the saddest look on his face Morro had ever seen, while Blue started scribbling something in his little book. Blue didn't even get the chance to make Black read it before both he and Morro were stuck on a bike behind Black and speeding off into the dessert.

Morro didn't know if he should try to escape from these two strangers, or if he should stay on the speeding bike that was being driven by a lunatic of sorts, but it didn't matter, because they were soon parked in front of a large wooden ship that had lights and everything.

A young girl of about thirteen with black hair in a bob came running out to greet Blue with a hug, telling him that she thought he was going to get eaten by snakes (wtf) and then became aware of Morro.

"Who are you?" the girl asked. She didn't have an accent like Black, so Morro doubted that she was related to him, as he first thought upon seeing her. There was little resemblance between them other than the colour of their hair anyway.

"Nya, this is Morro," Black told the girl. "Morro can't remember anything so we brought him here in case…"

The girl shrugged. "I don't care. Just as long as this guy doesn't destroy the Bounty with his mind like the one my brother brought with him."

"That person's not still here, is he?" Morro asked nervously, trying to peek into an open window. He didn't like the idea of anyone destroying anything with their mind, and being close to a person like that…

"No, he took off with my brother and two other guys," Nya told him before climbing up the ladder leading to the deck of the ship. "They were never near the Bounty anyway."

Morro climbed up after her, followed by Blue, then Black.

"Who're you?" a red-haired girl in matching red gi asked the moment Morro was on deck.

This girl seemed to be about sixteen. She had her hair tied back into a ponytail and she looked just about ready to knock him out. Then Blue's face appeared behind him.

"Ash!" The girl ran over to help him up. "Ash! How'd you escape?"

"I go get him!" Black's voice rang down below. "I beat up snake!"

"But Sensei said not to go after him!" The redhead scolded. Then she hugged Black. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know, I was worried too…"

Morro realised that the girl was crying. Then a fourth person showed up, this one all dressed up in white.

This guy was wearing sunglasses, which reflected the scene on the deck, which was Blue just standing there, looking awkward while the redhead was sobbing into Black's shoulder, Morro was looking around and Nya was on her way inside, most likely to avoid being pulled in on the weird moment.

"ASHASHASHASHASHASH!"

That was the guy in white, running over to Blue with open arms, tackling him in a hug and causing both of them to fall over on the wooden floor. Apparently Blue was named Ash.

White didn't seem to care as much about Morro as the others. He was just happy that his friend was there.

As the love-tackle went on, the girl let go of Black, wiped her eyes and turned back to Morro. "So, do you have your parent's number on you or something? We have to call them to tell you that…"

"I don't know." Morro then explained his memory issue again.

It seems that it was all he did with these people.

The guy in white looked up at the girl in red. "Sky, it won't be an issue if he stays with us for a while, will it?" White stood up and helped Ash off the ground as well. "Just until Sensei comes back and figures out what to do with him."

The redhead, Sky, nodded. "Okay. But somebody's going to have to find him something to wear. His clothes are practically falling off."

With that, Sky went back inside. White started chatting very excitedly with Ash, while Black took Morro to the bathroom and told him to take a shower while he and his friends found something else for him to wear.

It was sooo nice, being able to shower.

He could scrub the smell of fish and seaweed off him, which had been following him since he woke up that morning. He was on a beach, washed up and covered in an extremely large piece of seaweed as if it was a blanket or something. He also had a dead fish in his hair that morning, which was why he was furiously washing his long black hair. The dirt and grime came off and revealed a streak of green once he rinsed off.

He cut it off right above his shoulders with a pair of scissors he found by the sink so it would bother him so much anymore and threw what he cut off in the trash can next to the toilet.

The face that looked back from the mirror seemed much more familiar, despite the soaking wetness clinging to him and the bags under his eyes from a lack of sleep. Morro had no idea what had kept him up in the past, but hopefully it wouldn't keep him up again.

Someone knocked on the door and White's voice spoke up behind it. "Morro? I brought you some clothes that might fit you."

Morro opened the door a crack and took a set of clothes from White's hands. He guessed it belonged to Ash, seeing as he seemed to be about Morro's size.

"Thanks."

"After you get dressed, I'll show you to your room."

Morro pulled the shirt over his head. "Thanks. I think I should warn you, though. I used someone's scissors to cut my hair and…"

"I'll clean it up later."

"No, I mean, I already cleaned up, I just hope it's okay…"

Morro put on a pair of (hopefully clean) underwear that was given to him and put on the pants after. "I feel so clean."

White laughed softly behind the door. "Yeah, a shower can do that to you."

"Um… I don't know any of your names," Morro suddenly realised out loud.

"Well, I'm Griffin." There was some shuffling behind the door, then Griffin went back to talking. "The big guy's Karloff, the guy with the scar on his throat is Ash…"

"I noticed that. What happened?"

Griffin was quiet for a while, then he sighed. "He almost died. You all dressed in there?"

"Yeah." Griffin didn't seem to want to talk about whatever happened to Ash, and Morro could respect that. "So, who are the others?"

"The girls are Skylor and Nya. Skylor's the leader around here, and Nya's the younger one." Morro opened the door and Griffin fell in with a shriek. Apparently he was leaning on the door.

Griffin was okay, though, because he got up again very quickly again and offered to show Morro around.

Morro didn't want to, being too tired to actually function like a human being, but he didn't want to be rude, so he nodded and followed Griffin through the ship like a lost puppy.

Dinner was had, but Morro barely even noticed what they were eating due to being so tired that he almost fell asleep several times, right in the chair.

Thankfully, Nya, the younger of the two girls, noticed this and took him to the boys' room, where there were two bunk beds. He was asleep before his head even hit the pillow.


His dreams were filled with nightmares about evil smoke creatures, islands and the ocean trying to drown him.

Glowing weapons.

A blond man reaching out for his hand, only to be pushed away.

Something grabbing him by the leg.

Something pulling him by the leg, whispering into his mind that he would never escape.

They were nothing but nightmares.

Just nightmares.

There was no way anything like that could have happened to him.


Guess who?

Sorry I didn't update for so long. First my dog died, then the other one (actually our landlord's dog, but whatever) got run over by the landlord's son-in-law and died too. And on top it all off, I rewrote this entire chapter several times.

Back to the story: Guess who made a new friend?

Also, I can't decide if Nya's element should be metal or wind. Please vote?

I have decided that I will now start unlocking the True Potensials of everybody, one person per chapter. No the ninjas hadn't unlocked theirs yet.

I'd appreciate it if you (the reader) could help by suggesting who has to unlock theirs first, and how.