Guest: LOL! That's a great idea, I might use it sometime! Anyway, I didn't even think about what the teachers would say…hmmm…

I hope y'all enjoy this chapter! (Did I just say Y'all?)


"Echo," Misako, my mom—I'm still only getting use to referring to her as Mom—chided. "We went over it a thousand times! You have to get ahold of your powers, especially at school."

"I'm sorry," I said. "I didn't mean to, but Samantha was asking for it!"

"Wait, Samantha as in the ten-year-old third grader?" Alex questioned. "How many times has she picked on you?"

"Not a lot," I mumbled. "Just sometimes."

"Echo, you should've gone to a teacher," Wu, my dad, told me.

"I know," I moaned. "Can we just get to the point where you ground me or something?"

Misako and Wu exchhanged looks. "I think you should stay in your room unless you have to train or go to school," Misako said.

"Agreed," Wu said.

"I think I'm going to go call the principal and report that Samantha girl," Alex muttered, walking out of the room.

"So, until Lloyd comes to get you, you'll stay here," Misako told me before leaving. Wu didn't say anything before following her out.

I collapsed onto my bed and stared at the ceiling for what felt like hours. I sighed and stood up, walking around the room for a moment. My eyes stopped on Alex's nightstand. I had only opened it once before, but I didn't study the items enough. I was seven, seven and curious. I walked over to the nightstand and opened the drawer. It contained a ninja suit—small enough for me—a hair tie, a small bottle of glass shards, and a multi colored flower.

I picked the flower up and studied the petals. They were dry, but they wouldn't break. It seemed to be in fine condition besides the fact it was wrinkled. Each petal was a different color, I'd never seen anything like it before. One petal in preticular caught my eye though. It was a dark teal color, but there was something about it.

"Echo," Alex said softly. "Put my Ninjago Blossom down." She was trying to hide it, but I could hear the anger in her voice.

I set the flower back in the drawer. "What's a Ninjago Blossom?" I asked, turning to her.

"It's a rare flower," Alex replied. "It only blossoms every hundred years. The last time it did blossom I was five... So you have eighty-five more years to wait to get one. Maybe you can get one for your grand children."

"That's not why I asked," I mumbled as she walked over to me. "Why are the petals different colors."

"Well, they started out white," Alex told me. "The flower somehow knows what color each petal turns depending on what happened that year. Like, for example, the ninth color on this flower is maroon. I didn't know it at the time, but that was the year you were born. The flower knew, so it gave me the hint."

"Wow!" I gasped in amazement. "It knew when I was born?"

Alex smiled. "Yep. It knew everything that happened in those ten years I had it."

It was quiet for a moment. "Why's the second petal teal?" I asked.

Alex's face darkened as she looked down. "I don't wanna talk about it," she said. She sat down on her bed, closing the drawer.

"Please," I begged. I sat down beside her and grabbed her hand. "We're sisters, remember? No secrets."

Alex sighed, and being so close, I could feel her shake. "The dark teal represented Lucas," she said in a whimper.

I looked down. I didn't know much about Lucas. I just knew that he was Alex's older brother and he disappeared. He arrived in Ninjago City at one point and gave Molly's old roommate a letter. Then he disappeared again. I wanted to know more now that I knew he was my brother too. "What happened that year?" I asked impulsively. "Why isn't Lucas here now?"

Alex took a shaken breath. "The skeletons of the Underworld took him. I don't know why but they did."

I thought for a moment. I was about to ask if she thought he may have been still alive, but a voice in my head said, Go find him. Get him back. I paused. I'd heard that voice before, a couple months back.

"In that case," I said. "Let's go find Jamie, get the letter, and get Lucas back."

"Echo, we can't..."

"Sure we can!" I exclaimed. "I'm sure Mom and Dad won't mind me leaving if it was on a mission this important!"

Alex smiled at me. "You'd really come to the Underworld with me to get Lucas?"

"Sure!" I said. "He's my brother too. We'll need to tell the other ninja of course."

"Right," Alex agreed.

"Let's go!"


Break down the wall!

Echo: Hello!

Caleb: *waves*

Nancy: Hello people behind the computer screen!

I love these three! Nancy, the gossip. Caleb, the mute. Echo, the ninja. They are amazing!

Caleb: *signs something to Echo*

Echo: He said this is a for-

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