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Chapter 4

He yawned and ruffled his extremely spiky, milk chocolate brown hair. His almond brown eyes greeted him with a light that said, 'Well, come on. Get your lazy butt moving.'

He blinked, a sleepy half-smile playing on his lips.

He stood up and rummaged through his drawers. In the end, he pulled out a pair of decent, but well worn, faded blue jeans, a leather belt, and a simple red t-shirt.

He walked out of his room and into the dining room. His baby sister, Nya, was already at the table, eating a bowl of cereal.

"You do have a belt on, right?" she inquired him, her eyebrow slightly raised.

Kai lifted his shirt up a bit, just to show her that he did indeed have a belt on.

"Good. I don't think the customers appreciated the view of your bright red boxers with the yellow smiley faces on them yesterday."

Kai felt his cheeks warm up. "Hey, I tried to pull my shirt down," he protested.

Nya snorted into her bowl of cereal. "Sure."

Kai glared at her for a few moments, and then went into the kitchen to fix himself some toast.

Grumbling, Kai wrapped a roll of bandages around the huge cut that was on the palm of his right hand.

He had gotten it cut from whenever he accidentally stuck his hand between a few gears, and then got snagged. It had seriously hurt. But, it was his own fault that he had cut it. He was a klutz. And probably the most stubborn, hotheaded, reckless klutz in all of Ninjago.

"You okay?" Nya asked him as she wiped grease off of a wrench that she stuck into the tool belt that she had tied around her waist as he walked back into the 'garage.'

Kai showed her his cut palm. "You tell me."

"Well, I can't exactly feel your pain," she retorted, "so you can tell me on how you feel."

He sighed. "Like an idiot."

Nya sighed also. "I don't know where this is coming from, but I can take care of myself, ya know. I know you try to protect me, but I'm fine." She looked him in the eye. "Understand?"

Random, but I understand. "Absolutely."

"Get to work, you two!" the manager yelled at them.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Kyle!" Nya shot at him. "We know!" She grinned at Kai.

"How about I put a wrench in his mouth?" she asked, her ebony black eyes gleaming.

"Uh, no."

After a long day (as always), Kai locked the door behind him. Nya, who had the keys, was already changing the radio station. Kai slammed the door to their red 1999 Ford 4x4 F-150 Off-Road pickup truck and put the gearshift into 'Reverse.'

"Are you serious?" Kai groaned as the station started playing Maroon 5.

"Get over it, Kai," Nya scolded him.

Kai just blocked it out until it was over.

He turned the windshield wipers on whenever it started pouring rain. He noticed that the wipers were leaving streaks on the windshield. Note to self: buy new windshield wipers.

"Where are you?" Kai grumbled as he searched for his apartment key.

"Here, use my key," Nya thrust it at her older brother.

"Thanks," he replied as he fitted it into the lock. He turned it to the left, and then swung open the door.

"I call shower first," Nya said once the lights were turned on and the door closed.

"Fine by me," was Kai's reply. He went to the refrigerator and pulled out a few things for a simple dinner.

Kai was drowsy and comfortable, but not entirely sleepy. He rolled over onto his side (he had always been more comfortable on his side), rearranged his pillow, and then finally, sleep caught him in its talons, dragging him downwards.

Whenever Kai opened his eyes, he was in the middle of a forest fire. Flames were everywhere around him, smoke billowing towards him.

But the flames couldn't touch him, nor did the smoke make him cough. Instead, he felt at peace.

"Young Kai," a mysterious voice said from nowhere, "you will help the One battle the darkness that has lasted for millennium. Along the way, you will meet four others, so you will not be alone."

"Why me?" Kai asked. "Why me and not someone else?"

"You have the heart and skills of a mechanic, which will serve you well when the time is right. You will be the one to solve the problem that the others cannot."

Wait a second… "If there's going to be a battle, then don't I need a weapon?"

The second that the words were out of his mouth, Kai felt a long, cold object strapped to his back. Fumbling around for it, he pulled out of a back sheath a sword, created out of solid gold with rubies in the hilt. Then he noticed his sleeve. He looked down.

He was wearing a red twist-patterned sleeved shirt, with red twist-patterned pants. A sash of blue silk was tied around his waist.

Puzzled, Kai opened his mouth to say something, but he woke up in a cold sweat. He pushed himself up and looked at his clock. He thought it was broken, because he couldn't see the time. Then he realized that there was something blocking it.

Kai reached over and drug the item away. It was a narrow, long box. Confused, he lifted the lid and picked up the red velvet sheath. A gold hilt, inset with rubies, was sticking out of the opening. Kai grasped it firmly, and pulled it out.

He almost shrieked in surprise and pain as a burning pain erupted from his left shoulder and raced across his back, tracing all the way down to his right hip. He fell out of bed with a thump.

He dropped his sword, rolled onto his knees, and dug his fingers into his scalp, biting his lower lip to keep from screaming because he didn't want to wake Nya up.

Once the painful sensation had passed, Kai pushed himself up off the floor and went to the bathroom. Pulling his shirt off and flipping on the light, he looked at his back, his mouth sagging open.

Clearly printed on his back was a red dragon tattoo, outlined in blue. Kai blinked. Am I really seeing this?

He turned off the light, and then went back to his room, pulling his shirt back on.

He sheathed the sword that looked like the exact one from his dream, and then went back asleep. He was out within a matter of seconds.

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