Chapter 10: Training

Garmadon's P.O.V.

Where are they? I said to myself, They've been gone for about a day! They couldn't still be fighting, could they? Ugh, I should have trained them more!

I needed those ninja! They are the only way I could think of to get my son back. And I'm worried about them. Somewhere deep down inside of me, I think I actually, kinda, sorta, maybe, almost, care about them.

Suddenly, Aurelia, Cassidy, and Ace hopped over the side of The Black Bounty, and landed on its deck. Nick jumped up soon after. I stopped pacing, and removed my worried expression. I contorted my face to show annoyance. "Took you long enough." I grunted, "Did you capture The Ninja?" "Ummmm, no." Cassidy told me.

"We didn't stand a chance against them, Garmadon!" Aurelia shouted, "They are professionally, completely, trained ninja. While we are partially trained ninja, taught by a teacher who's never had students before!" "And we don't even know how to use our weapons!" Nick complained.

Meanwhile, Ace had started twirling his daggers around, then throwing them in the air and catching them, the daggers landing on his head, still spinning.

"I meant the special powers that Lord G. told us about." Nick grumbled. "I will teach you how to use the weapons." I told them. "Yeah!" Aurelia, Cassidy, and Nick yelled at the same time, all high fiving. I rolled my eyes, and saw Ace looking at my three other students, confused.

"Follow me." I commanded. They followed me over to the training course, an exact copy of my brother's. "This training course will teach you Spinjitzu." I told them, then seeing their confused looks, I said, "You know, the magic tornado thingy that The Ninja do." "Ohhhhhhhhh." all of them except for Ace said.

"But what about our weapons!?" Aurelia complained. "Figure it out yourself." I said rudely. "You said that you'd teach us." Cassidy said as I started to leave. I replied, "Well, I lied."

Later

I went back into the training area. I saw Ace and Cassidy practicing Spinjitzu, and Aurelia and Nick running the training course. What have you learned about your weapons?" I asked suddenly. Cassidy's gray tornado died, and sent her to the ground, while Nick got hit by an axe, a dummy took out Aurelia, and Ace's Spinjitzu spun calmly to halt.

"Oh, well, we haven't exactly..." Cassidy tried. Aurelia finished, "We haven't really gotten to our weapons yet." "WHAT!" I screamed, "I leave you in here for a few hours, and you STILL haven't used your weapons!"

Ace then jumped in the air, then fell down and landed with his daggers in the ground. Cracks appeared in the bottom of the room. Out of the cracks crawled skeletons. Not stupid skullin, but skeletons, with hollow eye sockets, creepy grins, and huge swords! "Very good Ace." I complemented, "You will get the rest of the day off of training, while the other three have to train until midnight!"

Cassidy's, Aurelia's, and Nick's faces fell. Then Ace clearly said, "No." "What do you mean 'no.'" "No." Ace said again. "Fine, you can train until midnight too!" I yelled at him. He nodded. "Ugh!" I shouted. Everyone else's faces lit up with happiness. I left the room, but hovered outside to hear their conversation

"Why didn't you do what he said?" Aurelia asked Ace. "We're a team." I heard him say plainly. If they work exactly like a team, I thought, then they will fight better together.

This is good, I said to myself, very good. I smiled evilly.