*pokes head out from behind fort* Hi everyone! I'm back! *ducks back behind fort as chair flies past me* Yikes! Okay. Yes, this is FFF here. I don't trust Lloyd to make a good A/N. And yes, Angel is throwing chairs at me. She seems upset... *cough*

Short review replies (because I'm short on time):

ADWC: ikr? She says thanks. :)

Samantha: Sorry. *hides behind fort* IT WON'T LAST LONG TRUST ME

KRR: Though your short stories are needlessly violent, they always make me laugh. lol. Oh good, Kayson can come home just in time to read my CHRISTMAS ONE SHOT and Indigo can come out now.

Angel: I wasn't trying to make Bansha look like a jerk! I like her too! I used to hate her guts, but I think you infected me... heheh. The only reason she lied to Morro like that is because she doesn't want him to leave. *hides again* As for forgiving Jake... did you say you wanted me to or didn't want me to? I guess I already did, though telling me to "go to hell" was rather offensive... -.- Also, I thought you liked Indigo.

Leb: Yeah, I think I'll like it a lot. I'm actually a little nervous to, I'm afraid I'll like it more than Ninjago... o.o Oh well. Yeah, I can't wait for the next season. :D I hope it comes out soon. And unfortunately the movie doesn't come out until 2017. :c

Petal: Ooooookaaaay...? How do you know?

I will be hiding here for the rest of the chapter. At least.

Chapter 5

Clouse stood in the center of the Monastery's training room, quietly chanting an ancient spell. Lloyd, Kai, Jay, and Indigo stood off to the side, outfitted for the journey ahead. Lloyd and Indigo were going for obvious reasons, Jay wanted to fix what he had done, and Kai wanted to make sure Lloyd was safe. Lloyd hadn't wanted Indigo to come, but she had insisted. She could be very persuasive when she wanted to be. Specifically, she threatened to possess him. Although Lloyd was almost positive that he could beat her in a fight, he didn't see any point in continuing to argue with her, so he agreed to let her come. As a portal began to grow in the center of the room, Lloyd went over the plan again in his head. The portal that Clouse was in the process of creating would lead just inside Prison Mountain. In exactly two days, Clouse would make another portal in the same spot, so they could return. If they failed to get back in time to go through that portal, since they lost track of time or got delayed or something, Clouse would make another portal at the same time for two days in a row after that. If they still weren't back, the other ninja and maybe Tara, who had come with Clouse, would go after them and Clouse would continue making the portals every day. If they didn't come back... well, hopefully it wouldn't come to that.

"It's ready. Go, quickly." Clouse's voice broke Lloyd out of his thoughts. "It's unstable. Hurry, before it becomes too powerful."

"Got it. Let's go, guys." Lloyd clutched the straps of his backpack as he ran forward and jumped into the swirl of purple and blue. He was tossed around in the void for a few moments before being spit out the other end and crashing ungracefully to the ground. After a couple seconds, the other three landed beside him. They picked themselves up, getting their bearings as the portal closed behind them.

"Well." Kai broke the silence that hung eerily over the land. "We're here."

Forgotten

Lloyd looked down at the green land below him as he navigated his dragon through the air. They had searched every tunnel in the mountain at least twice, but they had found no sign of Morro, so they were now heading to the largest of the four towns they had seen. Minyeng. Kai, Jay, and Indigo flew alongside him as they approached the town, which glowed from the light of the many torches in the mist that hung over the night.

"Let's land." Lloyd called over the rushing wind. "We don't want to be spotted, and giant, glowing dragons kinda give us away."

"Right." Kai nodded and the four spiraled their dragons down to the ground. After they dematerialized, Lloyd began to make a plan.

"Okay, so, we obviously can't let ourselves be seen, so we'll need to sneak around in the shadows, like Ninja are supposed to. Indigo-" he was cut off by the sound of a bow string being stretched taut. The four whirled around to see Soul Archer standing ten feet away at the head of about fifteen other ghosts, an arrow in his bow pointed directly at Lloyd's chest.

"Guess we landed too late..." Jay whispered as the Lloyd took a nervous stop back.

"I would advise against moving." Soul Archer said in his deep voice. "And keep your hands where we can see them. Bansha, tie them up." The ghost warrior nodded from beside him and floated forward with a length of rope, with which she tied their hands securely. When she got to Indigo, she frowned, pausing. After a moment, she produced a small sack from a hidden pocket and shoved it over the ghost girl's head.

"Hey!" Indigo exclaimed, her voice muffled due to the thick cloth. Lloyd grabbed her arm with one of her bound hands, saying,

"Don't fight them. We should go with them for now. Besides, Morro might be in there." this calmed her down enough that she didn't struggle or try to pull the hood off, but Lloyd heard her muttering angrily under her breath. As the ghosts began to herd them away, Lloyd noticed one who stood apart from the rest. He wore a hood like Soul Archer's that covered all his features except for his eyes, which Lloyd realized with a start were staring right at him. They looked very familiar... a lot like Morro's, but, unlike his friend's, these burned with contempt. Just before a guard pushed him out of sight of the person, the ghost pulled back his hood, revealing black hair with a green streak. Lloyd's mouth dropped open. That couldn't be. Morro?!

Forgotten

Bansha floated out of the village, scanning the ground for her sword. She seemed to have dropped it during the ambush. Just as she spotted it on the ground, she saw something else. Morro, standing about twenty feet away, staring at the stars with his hood removed.

"You shouldn't take off your hood. It's not safe." she said as she floated over. He looked down at the sound of her voice.

"I wanted Lloyd to see who I was. That he was at my mercy now." he muttered, looking over into the village at the building the four had vanished into.

"Technically he's at Soul Archer's mercy, not yours."

"You know what I mean." the wind master sighed, looking back up at the stars. Bansha waited a few moments before saying,

"You shouldn't go in there."

"Why not?" he looked over, meeting her eyes.

"He might try to deceive you. He's very convincing. That might be why he's here." she added after a moment. "He might have heard that you lost you memory and is trying to get you over to his side."

"How would he know?"

"I don't know. I'm just saying it's a possibility." they were silent for a few moments before Morro spoke up again.

"Well, I'm glad you found me first, then." Bansha turned away with a frown. Although she knew that lying to him was for the best, it still bothered her.

"...right." she muttered in reply.

"Bansha?"

"Hmm?"

"Why did you cover that girl's head?"

"Oh, umm..." the real reason she did it was so Morro wouldn't recognize her, but she couldn't tell him that. "She was very annoying the last time she was here and I wanted to keep her quiet."

"I would think that would backfire on you and she would freak out." Morro shrugged. "Who is she?"

"Her name is..." What was that brown-haired girl who traveled with the ninja's name? "...Jessica."

"Oh." he was silent for a few moments. "She looks like Indigo did." he murmured.

"I know." Hopefully Morro wouldn't realize that it wasn't just an uncanny resemblance. "We should go back inside." she said at last, pulling Morro's hood back over his head. "Don't go in the jail." she warned him.

"Uh huh." he didn't sound entirely sincere, and she sighed.

"Come on." she said. He nodded and they walked back into the village.

Forgotten

"Morro? Are you sure?" Kai asked from his cell.

"I'm positive." Lloyd paced back and forth in the confining, stone room. "And he hates me. I saw it in his eyes. I don't even think he recognized you guys.

"Well this sucks." Jay remarked from across the hall.

"'Sucks'?" Indigo muttered. "We're locked in jail, AGAIN, and Morro hates Lloyd and doesn't remember the rest of us, and we're stuck here until the others come to rescue us, and then they'll probably get captured too, and-"

"We get it. Calm down." Lloyd stopped next to the door, looking at her through the window of the door directly across from him. "We'll get out. Trust me."

"But how?! We barely made it out last time!" she sounded panicked.

"But we did make it last time, and we'll make it this time." he assured her. "It's okay." she didn't respond and he sighed quietly. He wished Morro was there to comfort her, but that wasn't going to happen. Just then, they heard the door to the hallway open, then slam shut. Lloyd backed away from the door as he heard footsteps approaching. That probably wasn't anything good. After a few moments, a hooded ghost stepped into view and stopped. When he turned towards Lloyd, the green ninja realized with a jolt that it was Morro. The two stood in silence for a few moments, not breaking eye contact, before the ghost spoke.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked. Lloyd heard Indigo gasp at Morro's voice, and footsteps as she probably ran to her window to see him.

"Of course." Lloyd nodded. "You're Morro."

"Correct. Then you also know that you are now at my mercy."

"Um... yeah, but... why? What did I ever do to you?" the blond boy asked in confusion.

"How can you even ask that?!" Morro snarled. "You know what you did. Don't make it any harder not to kill you where you stand." Lloyd backed another step away. Whatever the ghosts had done to his friend, it was serious.

"Well I, um, don't." He coughed. "So... could you tell me?"

"Shut up!" Morro slammed his fist against the door, making Lloyd flinch.

"Cut it out!" Kai yelled from the cell next to his. "Whatever you think he did, you acting like a jerk will only make you just as bad!"

"I could never be as bad as him." Morro muttered venomously, stepping back from the door. Lloyd edged farther away, leaning against the back wall. Morro was starting to scare him. It would probably help if they knew what he supposedly did, but whenever they asked it just made Morro angrier.

"Well..." Lloyd called softly, getting the ghost's attention. "I don't know what I did," Morro looked like he was about to yell at him again, so Lloyd quickly continued. "but... I'm sorry?"

"Sorry won't bring her back."

"Who?" the word escaped his lips before he could stop it, and the burning rage returned to Morro's eyes. The ghost clenched his hands into fists, and, without warning, a gust of wind sent Lloyd flying to his right, slamming into the cell's stone wall and sliding to the floor. He cried out, partly from pain but mostly from shock and fear, which made Kai and Jay shout his name from their cells.

"Don't play dumb." Morro hissed, stepping away from the door. "You're a deceiver and a murderer. Nothing you can see will make me change my mind."

"Well you just threw him into a wall!" Indigo spoke up for the first time and Morro froze. "So it's not like you're being a great person!"

"Stay out of this, Jessica." Morro muttered after a moment. Indigo was silent for a moment before saying,

"That's not my name."

"Then what is?" the wind master turned around the face her and she stepped away from her door, probably affected by his appearance as much as Lloyd was.

"It's Indigo."

"No it's NOT!" Morro snapped, sending a gust of wind at her that made her hit the wall of her cell and crumple to the ground. "You can't be." his voice was still angry, but Lloyd detected sadness there as well. "Indigo is dead." he stormed out of the hall, leaving the four prisoners there in stunned silence.

"He thinks..." Indigo coughed, struggling to her feet. "He thinks you killed me."

"Yeah..." Lloyd mumbled, sitting up. "Are you okay?"

"Physically? Yeah. Mentally? Not really."

"Okay... well, now we have more questions. Why does he think that? Soul Archer and the other ghosts must have done something to him." Lloyd closed his eyes, leaning against the wall.

"Hey, remember when Ronin had that Obsidian Glaive thing?" Jay spoke up from a couple cells away.

"Yeah. He changed my mom's memories. I wanted to tear his head off." Lloyd smiled at the memory.

"Well, Morro's memories must have been changed somehow. Maybe they got another Obsidian weapon." Jay continued. "I don't know. But I think the only way we're getting out of here is if he remembers what really happened."

"But how do we get him to remember?" Kai asked. "We're trapped. And these cells are lined with Vengestone, which makes our powers useless. Again. Stupid ghosts."

"I hope that comment wasn't directed towards me..." Indigo coughed.

"Course not. Not Morro either. Soul Archer and Bansha and Ghoultar and all those idiots." Lloyd could almost see Kai making vague gestures with his hands. "But hey, who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll snap out of it on his own."

"I doubt it." Jay called over. "But if he comes back, we can try to tell him the truth. After all, Indigo is living proof. I mean, well, undead proof." The blue ninja snickered at his pun.

"Very funny." Indigo didn't seem amused, but Lloyd smiled.

"You haven't joked like that in days. It's good to see you're getting back to your old self." he said.

"Heh. Yeah..." Jay trailed off and was silent.

"This is all your fault, you know." Indigo broke the silence after a few moments.

"Indigo!" Lloyd hissed! "Now's not a good time to point fingers!"

"Why not? It's not like we have anything else to do." Indigo shot back.

"We need to be a team! We can't be arguing and blaming each other if we want any chance of getting out of here. Maybe it is Jay's fault. But maybe it's the ghosts' fault, for doing something to Morro's memories. Maybe it's Cole's fault, for throwing things back at Jay. Maybe it's Morro's fault for sitting there. Maybe it's Kai's fault, for leaving a glass of water where Jay could throw it. "

"How could I possibly-" Kai interrupted, but Lloyd cut him off.

"That's not the point. The point is, it's not any one person's fault. Everyone there had something to do with it. If you want to blame Soul Archer, that's fine with me. Jut don't break us up with anger and distrust."

"Good speech." the prisoners jumped the sound of Bansha's voice. "But, unfortunately for you, it won't help."

"What did you do to Morro?!" Indigo demanded, jumping to her feet as Bansha floated down the hallway.

"I didn't do anything to him." Bansha replied casually. "I suppose whoever killed him did this."

"Did what? What happened to him?" Indigo glared out the window of her door at Bansha, who smirked.

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

"Uh, yeah. That's why I asked." Indigo rolled her eyes and Jay laughed. "Seriously, though. You must have done something to him, or he wouldn't think that Lloyd killed me or that my name is Jessica!" Bansha looked taken aback by this.

"He was in here?" she asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Kai replied. "He threw Lloyd into a wall. He threw Indigo into a wall, too. What's up with that?"

"I told him not to come in here..." the blademaster muttered, turning around and floating back towards the open door out of the hallway.

"Why?" Lloyd asked.

"I see no reason to tell you." she paused and turned around, glaring through the window at him. "But don't expect to see him here again. I'll make sure of that." she muttered the last part before exiting the hall and slamming the door behind her.

*still hiding* DON'T KILL ME!

Hey readers, it's Lloyd again. FFF doesn't want to come out because she's afraid people will throw things at her. I can understand that. She did write this short story, though.

Me (FFF): *very quietly walks down stairs with arrow nocked in bow*
Amy (younger sister): *preparing to shoot at me*
Me: *pokes head into her view*
Amy: GEEEEEEEEEEET DUNKED ON! *shoots and misses*
Me: *shoots her in the stomach*
Amy: GACK *falls over*

And in case you're wondering, Amy is not dead. They were cheap dollar store arrows.

~FFF (and Lloyd)