Chapter 6: The Team
Ace's P.O.V
I was training just like Lord Garmadon had told me to. He had woken me up very early (my clock said 4 a.m., but I think Garmadon moved it forward) and told me to train. He said he would come and get me when I was supposed to stop training. I was wearing my new purple ninja outfit, which had bone-white armor covering my right arm, my left leg, my shoulders, and some above the eyehole in my ninja mask. I used two daggers.
Well, now my clock said 4 p.m. I had been training for 12 hours! My eyes felt droopy, but I would not dare to stop. Lord Garmadon had brought me back from the dead, and I knew he could send me back just as easily.
Lord G. came in, along with a girl in a gray ninja suit with gold shoulder pads and armor over the eyehole. She carried a katana as a weapon. I stopped training. When I looked in her eyes that she had been abused as a child, and was thinking about those times. "Ace, meet Cassidy." he said. I nodded at Cassidy. She smiled weakly and asked, "Did Garmy save you from Serpentine too?" I shot her a confused expression. "Oh, Garmy is what some people call Lord Garmadon." Cassidy explained. I couldn't believe that some people got away with calling Garmadon, Garmy. In answer to her earlier question, I shook my head no.
"Stop talking and start training, ninja!" Lord G. ordered, and then left. We started training. "So, my element is torture, what's yours, Ace?" Cassidy asked me. "Death." I stated plainly. "So you can talk." Cassidy said excitedly. I nodded again.
"I hear talking, so SHUT UP!" Garmadon yelled. "Oops." Cassidy whispered. "I SAID, SHUT UP!" Lord Garmadon screamed. We wisely shut up.
Later, Lord G. came in with a different girl. She had on a crimson ninja outfit with black armor and white gloves. She was holding a halberd. Her eyes showed that she was thinking about something from her youth, something to do with a family member and darkness."Ace, Cassidy, Aurelia." the Dark Lord said, pointing at each of us in turn, "All of you, train." Then he left. "Hey." Aurelia said kind of shyly. "Hi." Cassidy replied. I just nodded again. We all started to train.
"So you two are some of Garmy's students too?" Aurelia asked. Cassidy and I nodded, looking at the door Lord G. had exited through. "Cool, what are your elements?" she inquired. "Mine's torture, and his is death." Cassidy replied, pointing at me and feeling less tense after not hearing Garmadon. "I'm poison. Can you not talk?" Aurelia continued, also pointing at me. All this pointing made me feel sort of uncomfortable. "He can." Cassidy said for me, "He just doesn't like to talk." I looked at her with thanks.
"Woah, Ace, do you have red eyes?" Aurelia inquired. I nodded. "Why?" she requested. I pulled back my ninja mask to show my bone-white hair. Cassidy and Aurelia gasped, "You're albino?" they said at the exact same time. I nodded again. "Have you always been albino?" Aurelia asked to keep the conversation going. I looked at her, annoyed, and nodded. She got the message and was quiet.
Lord Garmadon must have been busy today, because he waled in the room with a boy that looked about my age, but had big muscles rather than being skinny like me. The boy, introduced as Nick, had on a dark blue ninja outfit with silver armor, and used kunai knives as weapons. His thughts were angry and vengeful. Lord G. said he was the Ninja of Storms. After giving him all of our names, Garmadon left. All of us trained, and got to know each other. I wrote down the answers to all the questions they asked me. When they found out I was raised from the dead, they all gasped simultaneously. "So you're...dead?" Nick asked me. I wrote down: More like was dead. "Woah!" Aurelia exclaimed.
After a long day of training, until my clock said 11:45 p.m., we all went to bed in our rooms. Me and Nick in one, and Cassidy and Aurelia in the other. I yawned. Being on Garmadon's team of ninja was going to be an adventure!