"Candy," Lloyd moaned. "I need candy!" "The boy set ussss free," Slithraa said. "He is a mere child!" Skales insisted. "He is not one of us!" Slithraa pushed Skales away in anger. "I may not have the sssstaff, but I am sssstill your general! Sssstand down!" Skales walked away and was met by Mezmo. "You coward," Mezmo hissed. "We all know he issss under Lloyd'ssss sssspell. You are second-in-command and still you do nothing?" "Now was not the time," Skales murmured. "I still hold the key to destroy the ninja. And when I do that, everyone will ssssee it is I who should be in control!"
"My turn! Ah, my turn!" "Okay, you want a little more? Take this!" "Yeah, how 'bout a little of this!" "Monkey-bar to the head!" "Ninja roll!" "Dragon punch!" Sensei Wu opened the doors to the training court and was surprised to find the boys practicing. But, although they were all training, Zane seemed to be acting differently. He stood, and then started flipping around the courtyard. He took Cole's scythe and broke a plank dummy, then cried, "Ninjaaaaa-Go!" and began spinning around. He somehow managed to freeze everything. "This roof isn't big enough for the four of us," Kai grumbled. "Correction," Cole said. "This roof isn't big enough for him." "It's like he's in his own world." Jay frowned. Then, he directed his next words at Zane. "I bet he can't even hear us!" Jayleen came outside and said, "Last time I checked you were weird Jay. Be nice." Sensei Wu walked over to the three boys while Zane began throwing his shuriken around. "Sensei, Zane's..." Kai paused to find the right words. "...weird." "What is weird?" Sensei Wu asked. "Someone who is different or someone who is different than you?" "No, Sensei," Cole said. "He's 'weird, weird'."
Flashback
Cole
Cole was in the bathroom, reading a newspaper. Then, Zane walked in and began combing his hair.
"Do you mind?" Cole yelled.
Jay
Jay, Nya, and Zane were watching a movie. Jay and Nya were crying and sniffling.
Zane, however, was laughing. His friends turned to him with confused expressions.
Kai
Kai opened the fridge door, only to find it empty, with a note stuck to the back.
'I'm sorry,' It read in Zane's handwriting. 'I consumed the last of the deli meat. Cheese?'
The sensei and ninjas watched as Zane bowed to a plank dummy, only for it to whack him on the head. "We like the guy," Kai assured Sensei Wu. "He's really smart. He's just... a little off sometimes." "Zane is a brother. And brothers are often different," Wu said. "I should know." Outside the monastery, a mailman was walking tiredly up the mountain he was on. He wiped the sweat off his brow and continued walking. When he reached the top, he took off his bag and rang the doorbell, which produced a gonging sound. "Mail!" Harmony, Misty, Jayleen, Anna, Kai, Jay, and Cole shouted. They answered the door and the man gave them their mail. "Hah... let's see," he said. "A letter from Jayleen and Jay's parents... A flute for Harmony… Kai has a fan letter... A letter for Misty from Sensei Shino… A letter for Anna from her grandparents…Oh! Something from Cole's father..." "What, no package?" Cole said. "I'm expecting something from Creatures, Beasts, and Beyond!" "No, nothing from... ah... Ah-hah! Here it is!" "Ha! Rocky's gonna love this!" Jay, Jayleen Anna and Kai opened their letters. Jay and Jayleen looked up from the paper and noticed Zane walking around, a bit slumped over…"Hey, Zane," he said, "how come you never hear anything from your parents?" "I don't remember my parents," Zane replied. "I've been an orphan all of my life." Kai and Jay exchanged looks. "You mean you never had a home?" Kai asked. Zane shook his head sadly. "The monastery is your home now," Sensei Wu told him. Zane just turned around and walked away and the sensei watched him leave. At the dragon stables, Cole was opening his package. "Liver and toads, Rocky!" Cole said, taking a dead toad out of the box. "Your favorite!" He threw the animal to the panting dragon, who snapped it up and ate it in a few short seconds.
Jayleen POV
Jayleen noticed Melody walking around. "Hey Melody, don't you hear anything from your parents?" she asked. "You wouldn't understand." Melody said. "I would understand Melody." She said. "Alright I'll tell, I was born with a family that fought for generations, I was in the middle and only daughter that exceeded faster than my older and younger brothers. So one fight I had enough with the slowness of the training and I ran away to go on my own to train, crime fighting, and that's when I came to ninjago. I was always abused." "Why did your parents abuse you?" Aie Asiko asked. "If you really want to know I'll tell you. My entire family can control fire, I can't control fire. When they figured out that I can't control fire just shadows and can see visions, they started to abuse me. Every night they would put me in a room that was lit, they made me sleep in the fire pit, they made me train for war." Melody said. "That's terrible, Melody." Zora said. "You know, we will not let anything happen to you." Anna said. "Hey Jay, don't you think you should give our parents a visit?" Jayleen asked with a smirk. Jay face turned red and he said, "I don't know…" "That so, Blue bird, or should I say Blue Jay?" Jayleen said with a smirk. "I'm going to get you!" Jay said while chasing Jayleen, "Can't catch me Blue Jay!" Jayleen said.