So Mar Mar wanted me to inform you all that her new fic she's writing is going to be a bit different from her others. Well, it's kinda like SaS was, starting at the beginning like this one and going through all of the seasons, but in her new one that's not posted yet, she's making it so that each chapter is an episode. So basically, super long chapters and long waits to be updated, but it'll be great and you'll all love it once it's up.
Pearl: On with the story!
Previously, on Masters of Spinjitzu . . .
"Wait a minute! They're your students too?" the boy cried, jumping to his feet and standing with his arms crossed.
Wait, what? He was Sensei's student as well?
Pearl POV
"This was my final test, wasn't it?" mystery boy groaned and my face fell. Another ninja?
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! You never said anything about a fifth! It's always four! Four seasons, four teenage mutant ninja turtles, the fantastic four, four—" Jay began, but I cut him off.
"That was bad, even for you," I murmured, earning a few laughs. "But I think what he means is, we trained together!"
"Yeah, we're solid!" Cole added.
"Okay, we are NOT solid!" I said, beating the mysterious red pajama boy to it. He shot me a glare. Okay, what was his problem?
"Master, what is the meaning of this?" Zane asked, obviously confused. I think we were all confused.
"Each of you have been chosen. Each are in tune with element properties. But first; NINJA GO!" Sensei cried, turning into a golden tornado of spinjitzu. He quickly whipped around each of us, and once he was finished, we were each in a different coloured gi and with our own weapons.
I grinned at myself, with my butterfly swords and now lavender gi. Jay had a blue gi now, Zane's was white, Cole's was still black (but with a cooler design), and mystery boy's was red, plus he now had a katana.
"Whoa, check out what colour I am!" Jay exclaimed, pulling on his blue gi and examining it all around.
"Wait a minute, I'm still black," Cole said in confusion, then glared at Jay's comment about thinking that he was white for sure. "You know what I meant."
"Jay, to my calculations, Cole is of Indian descent, not caucasian," Zane said in the same confused tone he used whenever anyone tried to make a joke. I wondered what was up with him.
"You are each master of an element, completely in tune with your element," Sensei said, ignoring our banter. He moved to the boy in red, placing his staff on the boy's shoulder, as if knighting him. "Kai, Master of Fire. It burns brightly within you."
"Trust me, it burns brightly on the outside too," I muttered to Cole, who stifled his laughter, knowing I meant his fiery personality.
"Jay is blue, Master of Lightning," Sensei continued, knighting Jay as well.
"Hehe, that's not all I'm the master of! I do a little inventing, I dabble in model building, a touch of cooking, a little poetry—" Jay rambled, until I interrupted him.
"Yeah, yeah, we don't really care, Master of Lightning!"
"More like the mouth of lightning," Cole mumbled, earning a laugh from me.
Sensei continued on to knight Cole. "Black ninja is Cole, solid as rock. Master of Earth."
"And there ain't nothing in this world I'm afraid of!" Cole bragged, pulling off his mask.
His untrue statement was obviously directed at Kai. He wanted to make a good first impression as the tough guy I suppose, though I'm sure our attack on Kai was the only first impression he would remember.
"Except for dragons," Zane pointed out. I frowned, wishing he hadn't said that to save Cole the embarrassment.
"Dragons aren't from this world Zane, I said in this world," Cole corrected nervously. I giggled a little bit. He was cute when he was nervous.
"White ninja is Zane, master of ice and seer with sixth sense," Sensei continued, knighting Zane.
"I sense this one takes things a little too seriously," Kai muttered with an eye roll.
"You too have the gift?" Zane asked, pulling off his mask to look at Kai with interest and earning a facepalm from me.
"It was a joke, Zane. Remember what we talked about? Your sense of humor?" Jay asked, pulling off his mask and putting an arm around the ice ninja.
"Oh it was a joke. Ha ha," Zane said in a monotone.
I just rolled my eyes as Sensei turned to me. "Lavender ninja is Pearl, nimble and quick—"
"And I jumped over the candlestick. Gotcha," I interrupted, getting some laughs, even from Sensei!
"Master of Sound," he finished, knighting me. "You five are the chosen ones who will protect the five weapons of spinjitzu from Lord Garmadon!"
"Garmadon?" I mused. "That name sounds freakishly familiar . . ."
"But what about my sister?!" Kai asked, pointing his sword at Sensei.
"We're saving a girl? Is she hot?" Jay asked immediately. I shot a glare at him. "Uh, you're nice too, Pearl! I just want to know what we're getting ourselves into! Does she like blue?"
"Back off!" Kai growled, raising his sword threateningly.
"Temper, temper," I chuckled, elbowing him. He just glared at me, like that had any effect at all.
"When we find the weapons, we will find your sister," Sensei said. "We must go to the first weapon!"
"Wait, you said you were gonna teach us spinjitzu!" Cole countered.
"Spinjitzu is inside each and everyone of you. Come! My feet are tired. We will take the horse carriage," Sensei demanded, walking inside.
"Why do I get the feeling that we're the horse?" I groaned, looking at the others morosely.
Kai POV
Jay was funny, if not a little annoying.
Cole was pretty nice, and definitely brave.
Zane was really strange, and had absolutely no humour.
But Pearl ticked me off. All of her jokes, all of her singing, all of her positivity, all of just her! She was just suspicious.
Cole was head over heels for her, so he didn't see it. Jay was just so laid back that he didn't notice. Zane was just weird. But I noticed. I didn't like her.
At the moment, we were pulling Sensei on a horse carriage. (Okay, so Pearl might've been right about us being the horse, ten points or whatever, but she was still annoying!) Cole and Pearl were in front of me, and Zane, Jay and I were behind them. I decided to start up a little friendly conversation, see if I could find out anything interesting about Pearl.
"So, where'd Sensei find you four?" I asked.
"I was testing my limits," Cole said. "By rocking climbing with pretty much no gear."
"I was testing my new invention," Jay said. "By jumping off a building."
"I was testing myself," Zane said. "By sitting in the icy waters for hours on end."
"And I was auditioning to be part of a musical!" Pearl exclaimed. We all shot her strange looks. "What? Not all of us get tested y'know." Jay and Cole laughed, making me frown. They didn't get that she was just not good.
Pearl shot a glance at me. "How bout you, Kai?"
"Sensei was testing my patience." I got a few laughs too.
"Stop!" Sensei demanded.
We skidded to a stop, to see a cliff with a bunch of caves throughout it and skeletons mining the caves, obviously looking for the first golden weapon.
"The caves of despair. Samukai must be close to unearthing the scythe of quakes. Remember, do not use the weapon, for it's power—" Sensei said, but Jay cut him off.
"Is too much for us mortals to handle, yeah, yeah. Alright, let's chop socky this lemonade stand!" Jay looked over to Cole and I released a small growl. Why was he elected leader? Why not me? "Cole, you got a plan?"
I shook my head and didn't bother listening; I had to save my sister! I jumped down from the cliff and started sneaking my way through the masses of skeletons. It was actually easier than I expected, all of these guys were numbskulls (no pun intended).
I climbed onto the roof of a tiny hut, and by then the others had caught up with me. Pearl punched me hard in the shoulder. I looked at her with a 'what the heck?!' face.
"What in Ninjago were you thinking?!" I could hear the anger in her hushed voice, and I could see it even more in her eyes. "We. Are. A. Team! You don't just go running headfirst into an army of skeletons without a plan! Or the rest of your teammates for that matter!"
I shushed her, not really listening at all. I could see the skeleton with four arms —Samukai I think— holding the map that showed where the weapons were, but I could also see that it was upside down! Zane had evidently noticed it too, as he used his shuriken to grab the map. After a quick examination, I could see which cave we needed to go into, and I darted off again, leaving behind some very agitated teammates.
Cole POV
To say Pearl was mad would be an understatement; she was positively furious! As we chased after the red nincompoop, she kept clenching her fists threateningly, obviously getting ready to sock Kai in the head once we caught up. Though once we finally did catch up, she seemed to have decided to not hurt him enough to draw blood.
Kai was trying to remove a rock from the cave's entrance when Pearl stomped up to him. He barely had time to glance at her before she slapped him as hard as she could.
"That was for being an idiot," she said, then gave him a sharp kick to the shin that had him hopping on one foot. "And that's for everything else."
As he hopped around, spewing out every curse word in his vocabulary, the rest of us moved the rock from the entrance. Once inside, we saw the Scythe of Quakes, shining brightly in the center of the room.
"Whoa! That is so COOL!" Jay exclaimed, louder than he should have.
"Not so loud," I shushed, grabbing the scythe and wrapping it up in a cloth. "Now, let's sneak out while those boneheads are still busy. The way out is just around the corner."
I tossed the scythe to Kai, much to Pearl's dismay. I understood her anger at him; he was rash and hotheaded, but he was still a member of this team. Besides, if there was ever a time to redeem himself, it was now. Carrying the scythe was a simple task, he couldn't possibly screw this up.
But as we turned the corner and bumped into the whole skeleton army, I suddenly wished I had given the scythe to Zane.
I hope you enjoyed today's installment of Masters of Spinjitzu! Stay tuned for the next chapter! Same bat time, same bat channel!