C.A.L.L.E.D

The beginning

You can never prevent the unpreventable.

Chapter 3

Lewis

The bright screen of what the boys called a T.V. gave me a headache. I left after a while, wandering around the Monastery. It was quiet, the only sound being my footsteps. And my footsteps being soft themselves, I stopped walking when I heard the squeak indicating a door opening in front of me.

I slid behind a plant seconds before Nya comes out of her room, talking to herself.

"He couldn't have, because I would've seen him. I could ask him, but he's playing with the boys." Nya seemed to be having an argument with herself. As I stood there, I wondered who she was talking about. Was it me? David? Was she going to question us about our powers? Did she know about them?

And what am I supposed to do if she does know? I can't tell David from here. And by the way, David doesn't know much about my powers. He didn't know what I did to him, and what I did to hide it.

As soon as this creature wandered into my mind, I was transported to the grassy meadow, but somehow I wasn't. I was in both the hall and the meadow. Out of one eye I watched a butterfly land on a bright blue flower. And through the other I saw the hard wood that made up the hallway wall.

Out of my left eye, I saw Nya standing in the green grass. She looked around in surprise. I was shocked too, my thoughts about this creature brought me and her here. I just wanted to know it's name. Where we stood back in the hallway, Nya had frozen, and covered her eyes.

"I- Why was I wondering about what to call a cow?" she asked wondering back into her room. The meadow vanished and the door slammed not a moment too soon. I didn't think I could keep in my excitement any longer.

"It's a cow!" I yelled, running back nowhere David sat with the boys.

"What?" David asked.

"The creature I keep dreaming about is a cow." I said barely able to keep in my excitement. For some reason this made the boys laugh. All five of them lay on the floor, controllers in hand eyes fixed on the screen.

"Why are you dreaming about cows?" Kai asked laughing. His laugh seemed to warm me up inside.

"Don't know." I said smiling. "I've never seen one before."

Someone knocked on the door, and I turned to see Nya.

"Hey, Kai." She said. "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, sure." Kai said glancing up and her then getting to his feet. He handed his controller to me. "Win for me."

I sat down on a beanbag and looked at the screen. I made the person on the screen move around, I wasn't that good at this. Somehow, after a while, I was ahead of the others. A voice announced: "Game Over! Player 4 wins!"

"No!" Jay shouted. "I clearly won!"

"Did not Motor Mouth," Cole said laughing. "I won." He held up his controller. "See?"

"Cole," Jay said laughing at him. "You're player three."

"No!" Cole shouted looking at his controller. "Who's player four?"

"I'm player two." David said looking at his controller. Kai had entered the room again. He looked at the screen.

"Please say I won." He said. I shrugged.

"I'm player one." Zane said. "Were you four?"

"Yeah…" Kai said amazement and hope on his face.

"Kai won, again." Cole groaned.

"Yes!" Kai yelled pumping his fist into the air. "Course, it wasn't just me." He looked down at me.

"Me?" I asked hesitantly.

"Yes." He said grinning. I rose to my feet and backed away from the spot, a grin

fought it's way onto my face. I handed him the controller.

"Kai, press A." Jay said. "Let's see how close I was to first."

I glanced at the screen, it changed to show each boy's name.

Kai- 1,204

Jay- 973

Cole- 893

David- 892

Zane- 886

"How'd you win by three hundred?" Jay shouted. "Did you cheat?"

"How do you cheat?" I asked.

"I think that's a no," Kai said roaring with laughter. "I don't believe it either. When I left, I was only a few points behind Cole."

"Let's play again!" Jay requested excitedly. "This time, no kid geniuses."

"What about me?" David asked grinning. "I was only a point behind Cole."

"This is your first time playing, I think you were going easy on me." Cole said. "You could've easily outstripped me."

"Could not." David said glowing at the pride.

"Could too, and you know it," Cole said. "You were holding back on me."

"Okay, David can play," Jay said. "But no winning."

"Jay!" Kai said. "Are you threatening a ten year old?"

"I guess I am," Jay said. "Threaten, threaten!"

"Jay!" Cole said.

"I don't care," David said. "He should just except I can beat him."

"Can not!" Jay said. "You're on!"

They started playing again. Each boy was grinning broadly. I wandered away, out to the entrance of the building. It was silent, and I looked out at the mountain. Dust was rising in the distance, it came over a hill and was progressing up the mountain. It looked like a dust storm. I backed away as it came closer and yelled in surprise. It wasn't a dust storm, it was animals, strange blue animals. I sprinted back inside, and into the game room.

"I'm winning!" Jay shouted.

"Back again, Lewis?" Kai questioned. "What's wrong?" He paused the game and looked back at me.

"Kai!" Jay shouted. There was a crash from the hall, and he stopped.

"What happened?" Kai asked. I couldn't form the words, my voice was still in the entrance. Something thumped in the hall and I slammed the door shut. The boys were on their feet in a second.

"What's out there?" Cole asked.

"I- I don't know!" I said.

"What ever it is, it's tearing up the Monastery." Jay stated. Something slammed into the door, and I ran to stand behind Kai.

"We need to stop it." Zane said.

"Right." Cole said. "Ninja, we're going out there." He walked calmly to the door, revealing David who was standing behind him.

"It's been way to long." Kai smirked. "I'm ready to fight Garmadon."

"Someone needs to stay here." Zane said. "Get David and Lewis to safety. Bring them to Sensei Wu and Nya."

"I'll do it." Jay volunteered.

"You sure?" Kai asked. "I could."

"No, you need to help Cole."

"Right." Kai said. I assumed he didn't want to be stuck inside away from the action. We watched Zane, Cole, and Kai open the door with a blast and rush outside. Soon they had disappeared from view.

"Let's go." Jay commanded as sounds of fighting echoed from the entrance. "Try to keep up."

I followed him closely, next to David. Jay broke into a run and sprinted down the hall. He was fast, and we soon were left behind.

"Where'd he go?" I asked in a panic. Dust fell from the ceiling, and the ground shook slightly. I heard footsteps behind us, and we both turned, it wasn't Jay. A hairy man stood there, his back was hunched and he smiled, showing sharp yellowing teeth.

"Masters." He said in a hoarse voice. "I have come to save you from the clutches of these-"

"Leave them alone!" Jay's voice interrupted. I turned to see Jay running toward the man, a pair of nunchucks out. David grabbed my arm and pulled me aside as the man sprung like a wolf at Jay.

"No!" The man shouted, swiping at Jay. "You kidnapped them! I'm here to take them back!"

"You twisted old man!" Jay shouted as he danced out of the man's grasp. "You had them chained! You wiped their memories! How am I supposed to believe that they weren't your prisoners!"

The man didn't respond, but lunged at Jay. Jay turned into a blue cyclone. Thunder roared from somewhere and the room flashed with light. Yellow lightning danced up and down the cyclone.

"Wizardry!" The man shouted moving from attack to defense as Jay moved forward surrounded by his tornado. "I have witchcraft also!" He spun in a circle, before wielding a sword. "Recognize this, Masters? It shall be the downfall of this oaf!"

"Ha!" Jay's laugh came from inside the cyclone. "What can that flimsy sword do to me?""This sword is one of my own design. It's the sharpest sword in the world and riddled with poison. One scratch, and you die!"

Jay didn't speak, and his silence unnerved me. The tornado froze and disappeared, revealing Jay in a blue outfit. "What kind of battle suit is that?" the man barked.

"I don't doubt it is a very sharp sword." Jay said ignoring the man's comment. "I do doubt that someone like you, who can't tell a man from a ninja, invented a sword like that. Who'd you steal it from?"

"No one!" The man roared loudly. "With no instructions, I combined a sword of Elron with the poison of the Madid Mace."

"Very clever." Jay said even louder. "I wouldn't expect you to explain something like how to make a sword while we're fighting in the hallway!"

"He's buying time!" David shouts loudly in my head. "Calling others to help him. He can't take that man alone."

"It doesn't matter." The man said. "I'm going to finish you now."

"You will not!" There was a flash of gold as Sensei Wu's voice echoed around the hall. "Not you, Griffon of Kalnd!" Griffon flew backwards, and fell to the floor with a thump, his sword flew out of his hand and slid across the floor.

"I don't know who you are," Griffon roared, "but you are well informed."

"I am Sensei Wu," Sensei replied as he stood at Griffon's feet. Griffon rolled away from Sensei and stood next to his sword. He shoot a look around the hall.

"I'll come back to get you, Masters." He said bending down and retrieving his sword. "I shall return." He raced down the hall, back the way he had come. "Retreat!" His voice filled the monastery, and he was gone.

"Lewis, David." Sensei called. I looked at David, before coming out of our hiding place. "Do you know him?"

"N-no." I stammered.

"No, I did not think you did." Sensei said turning to Jay.

"Sensei Wu," Jay started. "Who was that man? Why'd he call them Master?"

"That was Griffon." Sensei Wu said. "A creation, leader of wolves. I do not know why he called the boys Master."

"How'd you know him?"

"Information has a way of winding it's way into my mind." Sensei said. "I must ask you not to tell the others about Griffon's strange loyalty to the boys. Come, let's find the boys."

No P.O.V.

No one was hurt, though the wolves did damage to the Monastery. The ninja and Nya had held them off long enough to contain the damage to the entrance and hallway. After a quick explanation of Spinjitzu to Lewis and David, they started to fix up the entrance. Jay and Sensei Wu disappeared for a hour to talk about what they had seen and to answer Jay's questions. Jay had come out of the encounter with a dazed, yet happy expression.

The boys and Nya heard nothing of what really happened between Griffon and Jay, only being told that Jay had kept Griffon talking long enough for Sensei Wu to show up. Long after the sun had set, the party sat at the dinning table, eating a rushed dinner. Everyone was tired from the fight, and eager for bed, though agreed as Jay claimed, "If I have any more nightmares, I'm not going back to sleep ever again."

The sun set and by the time the stars had come out fully, every person was in bed, asleep, everyone except David and Lewis, who stood in their room, bathed in moonlight.

"I think we should save some experimenting for a later date." Lewis said. "I only agreed to do this tonight because I promised to show you."

"Right." David said, it was clear even in the darkness that he was nervous. "I just wanted to see you do it."

"Okay." Lewis responded. "Who?"

"Dunno." David said. "Not Cole."

"Or Kai." Lewis added, both twins were thinking about their favorite ninja. "Not Sensei Wu either. He knows too much, and not Jay. He knows more then I'm comfortable with."

"So it's either Nya or Zane." David said.

"I've never done Nya before." Lewis said. "I didn't know where her room was yesterday, but I found it today."

"You could do both." David imputed eagerly.

"No, I'm only doing one." Lewis said firmly.

"Zane then." David decided. Lewis nodded and followed his brother silently into the hall. "Do you think he's asleep yet?"

"No." Lewis responded to his brothers voice. "He's smart, he probably stayed awake and will be for a while."

"Maybe we should go back." David said out loud stopping in the hall. "Wait for a while."

"I don't think we should." Lewis responded. "I told you I-" Someone spoke making them jump.

"What are you two doing?" It was Zane. He hovered in the doorway, his ice blue eyes watching them. Their voice's had obviously brought him to investigate.

"We- Well, it's sort of embarrassing." David stammered. Zane waited for him to explain. "We were searching for the bathroom." David lied easily.

"The bathroom?" Zane asked. "Didn't Cole show you?"

"Well, I don't know where it was." Lewis said. "I keep forgetting things."

"Come." Zane said in a cold voice. He stepped in front of the twins and led them down the hall. David was scared, what if he'd heard them through the wall? Slowly he read Zane's mind. To his surprise, he couldn't get to Zane's thoughts. "Here."

"Thanks." Lewis said as he disappeared into the bathroom.

"Shall I wait here with you?" He asked David, who was still puzzled by his encounter with Zane's brain.

"What?" David asked. "Oh, you don't have to. I'm sure we can get back to bed ourselves." Zane nodded and walked back down the hall.

When Lewis exited the bathroom, he looked around for the ninja. David had entered the bathroom, and Lewis waited for him. When he was rejoined by his brother they both though the same thing: not tonight. Not if Zane's hanging around.

"He's too smart."

"I don't think he'll be asleep for a while."

"Let's just go back to bed."

"Right."

When both boys were in bed, silence fell around the Monastery. Up in the rafters, the ninja of ice watched them fall asleep. Despite what his brothers said, Zane didn't trust the little boys. Something about them set him off.

Zane didn't go back to his bed until the wee hours of the morning. If he'd stayed no more then half an hour more, he would've spotted the pair of red eyes watching from the darkness.

Hi again. Sorry for the long wait. Thank you to StoneByrd and SlushyGoo for reviewing! Thanks again to ForeverDreamer12 for being my beta-reader! Again, I apologize for the long time between chapters. Please review.