This is the next-to-last chapter of this story. Yay, I am actually ahead of schedule with my updates - and even though it's my Birthday today :).


Chapter 6: The Great Ninjago Frosting Fight

Jay really was lightning-fast, there was no doubt about that.

Before Kai even understood what was going on, multiple blobs of brown frosting already covered his fire red apron.

"This means war!" The Master of Fire exclaimed, when another dollop of frosting landed in his hair, throwing a handful of chocolate chips as his friend.

"Fine with me." Jay shouted back, flicking his spatula again. "But you might want to reconsider your choice of weapon."

That was when Kai realised that Crystal had already washed the bowl he had used to prepare the cream cheese mixture. Without this, the Red Ninja would have a huge disadvantage against his blue-clad brother and his orange chocolate ganache.

Kai quickly scooped the remaining chocolate chips into a small plastic container and took cover behind his kitchen stall. He quickly searched through the cupboards of his kitchen area, in the hope of finding something useful among the basic ingredients they had been provided with, preferable a squeeze bottles with any kind of sauce in it...

From directly above him, Kai could hear Crystal operating the mixer on their bench top. Of course, why would he care about the Red Ninja's predicament?

But, much to Kai's surprise, Crystal suddenly crouched down next to him, two small bowls with a white, fluffy substance in his hands. "Here." He handed one of the containers to his baking partner.

"Egg white." Crystal explained, noticing the questioning look on the other's face. "We will never be friends, but we're still a team. You know… bakers' honour and such..."

Kai grinned. "A baker never leaves another baker behind, huh?"

"Well, you can put it like that if you have to..." Crystal replied, shrugging his shoulders in a slightly annoyed way. "So, as one of Ninjago's great heroes, you'd better come up with a plan what we're gonna do now?"

Kai briefly pondered their different options. "We should definitely stay down, so we can surprise him. Jay won't expect you to work with me; maybe if you distract him from one side, then I'll attack from the other."

"Alright, I'll go this way then." Crystal chose the right side, the one between the two rows of baking stalls, so Kai took the left, outside way. He kept his cover and, using his skills of a ninja, slowly and silently moved around their kitchen. As expected, Jay had his back turned to him.

But it was not only Kai's baking partner who kept the Blue Ninja busy. After Kai's disappearance, Jay and Tori had directed their attention – and their frosting – first at each other and then at Cole and Lia, who had, of course, immediately fought back with leftover cream cheese frosting and 'cannonballs' made of coloured icing and marzipan.


"What's going on here?" The Green Ninja asked, looking up from their masterpiece. Lloyd had been so focused on spreading and smoothing the frosting over their Red Velvet Cake that he had completely missed what was happening in front of them.

Ashley snickered. "I thought a Ninja should always be alert and observant to his surroundings."

He blushed. Again. "I-I wasn't expecting any serious threat to the safety of Ninjago at a baking competition, but I probably should have known my teammates better…" He grinned widely. "How dare you start a food fight without me, the amazing Green Ninja?" Lloyd called to his friends. He quickly grabbed the mixing bowl with the remaining vanilla buttercream from their bench, ready to join in the fight.

"Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon. Stop. Right. Now." A firm female voice held him back.

The boy turned around and gave Ashley an astonished look. "Huh? Weren't you the one who has told me earlier to have more fun?"

"And you should. But first we get our amazing cake out of the line of fire." She pointed towards the counter at the front of the competition area, four finished cakes were already sitting on it. "You were the one who told me that you should always try to do things at your best. And this…" she looked at the bowl in Lloyd's hands, "is not going to last us long."

When Lloyd returned from his mission of taking the cake to its safe place, Ashley was already mixing a paste from lemon juice and icing sugar. "This icing is very fast to prepare and very sticky." She explained. "And don't you think…" she asked Lloyd, taking the half empty bottle of red food colouring, "… that your friends could do with a bit of pink as well?"


Zane looked at his baking partner, who himself was silently observing the mayhem happening behind and next to them. Arctic's face still displayed very little emotion, so the Nindroid was trying to figure out what the other was thinking.

Finally, the other boy spoke: "Does this happen frequently at your home?"

"We used to have regular food fights when we first met each other, but we have not had one for quite a while." Zane replied. "To be honest, I am rather surprised that they would do this in front of the camera, for all of Ninjago to see us on the television."

Maybe you are not as grown up as you like to believe. P.I.X.A.L. remarked just to him.

"It does look like a very entertaining activity though…" Arctic observed.

"It is." Zane replied with a polite smile. "We still have some whipped cream left from our Mango Cake, so would you like to try it yourself and oin in? "

Arctic's face lit up. "Heck, yeah."


"This is so much better than watching a movie." Dawn commented.

She and Nya were sitting on their kitchen counter, sharing their leftover frosting and amusedly watching the fierce fight between the other ten contestants.

"You are right." Nya agreed. "And this chocolate fudge frosting is sooo good, it would be a shame to waste it on the others." She licked her spoon.

"I have to say I would have never expected something like this to happen." Dawn told her. "Who would have thought you ninja to cause such a mess... I mean, on purpose and not just accidentially. Especially Lloyd… he always appears to be so serious and mature."

Ninjago's famous Green Ninja, together with Cole, was currently holding down Jay, while instructing Ashley to write on the blue apron with some kind of pink goo.

Nya laughed. "Oh, believe it or not, Lloyd used to be the biggest prankster of us all. But then a lot of…" Her face fell. "well,… stuff happened to him, making him grow up wayyy too fast. So, it is really good to see him having fun."

"So, you mean this is similar to their normal behaviour at home?" Dawn sounded surprised.

The Master of Water shrugged, as she watched Cole and Kai trying to shove frosting down each other's shirts. "I guess when you live in a household of six young elemental masters, at some point you just stop thinking about what is normal…"

"I guess you are right." Dawn replied. The blonde girl smirked, when she saw that Jay had finally been released and was standing up. "Now, could you please remind me which of them was your boyfriend again?" She teased her new friend.

Nya sighed. "Yes, it's the one with Zaptrap written in pink letters all over his apron. And, in case you have decided to forget that as well, my brother is the guy with the orange chocolate highlights in his hair and little green balls of icing in his nose…"

Hearing them mention his nickname, Jay looked over and winked at the girls. "Kai, there are still two people with clean aprons at the back. And one of them is your sister…"

"You are right, we should change that right now." Her brother agreed.

Nine heads turned around and Nya saw nine spoons with frosting (or other) being aimed at them.

But at that moment, a timer went off. "Time out." Kai shouted. "Our cake is done."

"Looks like we've just been saved by the bell." Nya whispered to her baking partner, causing Dawn to giggle.

Everyone immediately stopped their activities and watched as Crystal took the beautiful and delicious smelling cheesecake from the oven. He carefully placed it on the counter with the other five finished cakes.

"I think I'm done as well…" Cole commented.

Zane nodded. "And it should soon be time for the judges to assess our cakes."

"Okay, we're out of frosting anyway." Jay replied.

"I wouldn't say we're out of it…" Lloyd remarked, looking down at his frosting-covered apron. "It's just been… relocated."

The other ten contestants joined Crystal and Kai at the front of the baking area, all giving high-fives to each other (and Jay quickly kissed his girlfriend, claiming that he only wanted to make sure she would end up with at least some frosting on her lips and cheeks), before taking off their soiled aprons.

"Careful with the aprons." Lloyd reminded his teammates. "We still need to sign them." The Ninja had agreed for their used aprons to be auctioned off on ninbay, in aid of the Grant-a-Wish Foundation.

"I've never noticed before how terrible your throwing accuracy is." Cole told Kai. "I am really glad you weren't the one handling the Shurikens of Ice…"

"It was still good enough for a big boulder like you." The Master of Fire retorted. Cole's black apron showed multiple blobs of egg white.

"And I think we all understand now how Lloyd must have felt after that book launch..." Jay laughed. But he became silent as soon as he noticed his teammates glaring at him. They had agreed not to unnecessarily remind the Green Ninja of this unpleasant experience. "Uhm, sorry kid, I didn't want to upset you…"

Lloyd shook his head. "Oh, don't worry, I really don't mind. But you are wrong…" He replied with a mischievous smile on his face, secretly taking one of the baked delicacies from the counter behind him. "You have no idea how it feels to have a complete cake in your face. Not yet…"


Thanks for reading. And if you haven't done so yet, please vote for the winning team/cake of The Great Ninjago Bake Off (review or poll, details are in the previous chapter). It's a really close decision at the moment!