Marie-Grace, a currently very annoying sixteen year old, ignored the pleas of her best friend and roommate, Essly. "Please, Marie-Grace?" Essly begged. "I promise I won't take long!"

"No! Get it yourself!" Marie-Grace was in the middle of The Prisoner of Azkaban (rereading the series again) and didn't want to be bothered with such annoyances such as grocery shopping.

"You know that any other day I would, but this is different!" Essly had a valid point. It was different this time. There was a murderer on the loose.

Apparently, Fiona Harrison, formally Fiona Wu, had killed two of her own children, years back. Now she had escaped from Azkaban (JK, it was Ninjago Prison) and was prowling around. Nobody really knew where she was at the moment, but everyone was scared.

"Please, Marie-Grace? I need your amazing swordsmanship!" Essly pleaded. Marie-Grace glanced at her prized katana hanging on the wall. Sighing, she grabbed it and its sheath, and flung open her bedroom door to see the smiling face of Essly. "Thank you, Marie! You have no idea how much this means to me!"

"Don't worry, Es, I actually do," Marie-Grace muttered, putting her katana in its sheath. "Now let's get outta here."

Kai shook his head as he consulted the shopping list again. Why had Nya forced him to get the groceries? He was a ninja, not her personal errand boy! Although he was the one who had asked for her to bake cookies . . .

He finally got the milk and eggs for Nya and was out of the store. As he walked down the unusually not crowded sidewalks of Ninjago City, he heard some cries coming from a nearby alleyway.

Poking his head in, he saw two girls, probably a year or two younger than him, being attacked by an older woman. He recognized the older woman as Fiona Harrison, the prison escapee. He didn't recognize the two girls, but that didn't matter! "NINJA GO!" Kai whipped into his ninja gi and ran towards them.

The lighter skinned girl was fending off Fiona with a seriously sweet katana, and was doing a great job, but Fiona did have the upper hand, with her powers and such. "Look out, Essly!" The lighter skinned girl pushed her caramel skinned friend away from the action.

The darker skinned girl, Essly apparently, bumped into Kai and gasped. Kai smiled at her, but remembered she couldn't see that with his mask on. Essly kinda hid behind him after her friend had gone hurtling into the wall.

Kai knew it was time to take action. He pulled out his sword of fire and swung it at Fiona. The older woman, obviously surprised by the interference, jumped back, then settled on glaring at him.

"Ah, one of the meddlesome ninja. Just what I needed," Fiona said, with clear annoyance in her voice. Despite being, like, fifty or something, she had incredible strength. Grabbing Kai's arm, she swung him upwards. Kai's back hit the fire escape above and with a groan, he fell on the closed dumpster below.

"Okay, now you're getting it . . ." Kai growled, and pounced onto Fiona. But she just pushed him off. Luckily, this time he just skidded backwards a bit. He grabbed his fallen sword and set it on fire. He thrust it towards Fiona. She moved ever so slightly, so his sword got stuck in the wall behind her!

Fiona smirked and punched Kai in the eye, then shoved him backwards. Kai had still been holding his sword hilt, so in the process of pushing him, Fiona had inadvertently dislodged the sword of fire from the wall.

Now Kai was really agitated. But by this time, the katana-wielding girl had gotten up. She now attacked Fiona, her sword slashed the older woman's shoulder. A deep cut was now residing in Fiona's right shoulder.

Fiona just looked at the girl as if she were a fly and gave her punch to the jaw. The girl stumbled backwards, blood trickling from her mouth.

Kai slammed his full body weight against Fiona, crushing her between him and the wall. She slid a blade out from her sleeve, and stabbed Kai in the side. The fire ninja stopped pressing her against the wall and yanked the knife from his side. The pain was probably the worst Kai had ever experienced, but other that shaking a bit, he stood his ground.

Fiona was panting from the fight, while Kai and the katana wielder were barely fazed, even though they had both been injured. Fiona knew this was not a fight she would win. She narrowed her eyes at Kai. She would come back . . .

Kai blinked. Fiona had disappeared. He knew it'd be pointless to chase after her because she could be anywhere in Ninjago by now. Instead, he focused on the two girls.

The bystander, Essly or something, had caramel coloured skin, wavy black hair and green eyes. She smiled sweetly at Kai, but seemed worried about Kai's injury.

The katana wielding girl, whose name so far escaped Kai, had light skin, short chocolate coloured brown hair and brown eyes. She was currently wiping blood from the corner of her mouth and looking concerned at Kai's wound.

"I'm fine," Kai snapped, to get them to stop staring at his side. "Who are you girls? Why did Fiona attack you?"

"My name's Essly Lison," Essly replied. "I don't know why Fiona attacked us! She just dragged me into the alleyway and-"

But Kai had stopped listening. The other girl had just removed her light sweater, revealing a scar on her left arm. Kai would recognize that scar anywhere. "Marie-Grace?"