Here's the long awaited chapter! I hope y'all like it! Two months worth of work went into it. I honestly have know idea where that time went. One day, it's Easter, the next, I'm still getting over the sadness of the 8th graders leaving Pops Chorus. It's that moment when they're up there, singing the 8th grade tradition that you know they really are leaving next year.

Saturday Night

"Ha! I win again!" Lloyd jumps up off the couch in triumph.

"Can we play another game now?" Jay rolled his eyes as the green ninja did a little gloating dance.

Lloyd, Jay, and Kai had been playing Fist To Face 2 for the past few hours. They'd played three whole games, Lloyd winning every single one. The blue ninja was just about fed up with it.

"How about this one?" Kai asked walking over to the game cabinet, pulling a disc out off the wooden shelf. "I don't think we've played it before."

But before Jay or Lloyd could reply, Nya poked her head in the room, a flustered look on her face."Hey, guys. Is Zane in here?" Her chin length black hair looked soft, as if it had been recently brushed. "It's his night to make dinner. It's getting late already, but I can't find him anywhere."

"It's Saturday already," Jay thought aloud, ignoring Nya's question.

"That reminds me!" Kai cried, dropping the game disc on the floor. "I have to go."

The fire ninja rushed out of the room, probably off to somewhere else on The Bounty. Jay took a side glance at the game disc Kai had suggested to find it lying shattered on the floor. The title wasn't even readable anymore. So much for playing something other than Fist To Face 2.

"Do either of you know where Zane is?" Nya repeated, growing rather impatient. She was loosing her temper after the others simply ignored her.

"I'm sure he's somewhere around," Lloyd reassured is fiery brother's younger sister. "I doubt he'd forget if it was his night to cook."

"Why don't you join us for some video games," Jay gestured for the girl to join beside him on the couch.

"Ok," Nya replied finally, reluctantly joining the blue ninja, picking up Kai's controller off the floor. "What are we playing?"

"Fist To Face 2," Lloyd replied," I've won every time so far," he boasted proudly.

"Let's see if you can take me," Nya challenged playfully.

"Bring it," Lloyd smirked, picking up his controller as well.

As the three began another game, Jay kept finding his thoughts drifting away. Where had all the time gone? It was last Friday when the party was ambushed. Over time, Cole's wound has gotten much better, and he can actually put up a decent fight, though he was still advised to take it easy on the training.

Kai just seemed to be in another world all week. Something was on his mind, Jay was certain of that. Maybe it was just a side affect from the medication he was using to keep his burns free of infection.

Lloyd and Zane seemed to be normal, at least on the outside. Nya too. They all seemed practically worry free, though he couldn't be certain of that, not without any way of reading their thoughts and feelings.

Jay couldn't understand how they weren't worrying about those other ninja. He couldn't seem to stop thinking about the lightening ninja from the party. He was having nightmares about her, destroying him, The Bounty, Nya, everything.

Only Sensei Wu still seemed to be concerned about the other ninja. He scanned over nearly every scroll Misako had brought. He didn't share any information with his students though. If he even had any.

"Jay!" Lloyd cried, snapping the blue ninja out of his thoughts. "You just pushed me off a cliff!"

Jay glanced at the screen to see that Lloyd's avatar had indeed fallen off the cliff. The red flashing letters reading "KO" indicated the green ninja was now out of the game.

"Uh... Wasn't that the point?" Jay stuttered, not entirely sure if he should feel sorry or victorious.

"Never mind," Lloyd muttered, throwing his controller on the floor.

"I think we've been playing for too long," Jay decided, also putting down his controller. "Maybe Zane's finally cooked dinner."

"He better," Nya agreed, resting her controller beside her, and turning off the TV. "It's almost nine, and I'm famished."

Jay hoped off the couch, gathered the game consoles, and brought them across the room, storing them back in the cabinet. As he opened the small wooden door of the cabinet, a stack of game discs feel on top of him, causing him to drop the controllers in surprise. The lightening ninja watched in slow motion as the discs feel and shattered on the floor like the one Kai had dropped earlier.

Jay let out a sigh as Lloyd did a face palm in frustration. Nya had a shocked look on her face as if the cascading game discs spooked her. Jay brushed the bits of broken discs off him, gathering himself to his feet to cross the floor to the closet, grabbing a broom to sweep the pieces up.

"Who stacked these?" Nya gasped finally. Her soft brown eyes still wide from what Jay assumed was the noise he didn't hear from the discs. "Someone should be in charge of keeping this thing organized so we don't loose anymore games this way."

Jay felt like he should say something, but no words could escape his lips. Lloyd seemed to be in the same sort of trance. The blue ninja shook himself, hoping of clearing this spacey-ness that was clogging his head. Jay had found himself very often somewhere other than the present. The dreams haunting every moment of shut eye he was given. He was losing sleep thanks to those haunting images. The most reoccurring one was definitely the worst yet.

Night after night, Jay found himself standing in the middle of an empty field, dark storm clouds filled the sky. Lightening would begin to strike around him with deafening cracks of thunder. If he listened closely to the thunder, it would begin to sound like a girl's scream. As he listened closer, those screams became Nya's. All he could do was listen in horror as the terrorizing outcries of the girl he cared for most rang through his ears.

Jay had tried everything to block the screams out of his head. But with every attempt to mute them, they only became louder.

Jay had woken in a cold sweat every night over the past week. He tossed and turned in bed for a few hours before falling asleep again. To his dismay, he only found himself back in that field, surrounded by Nya's screams.

Adrenaline coursed through the Ninja of Lightening's body as she leaped from rooftop to rooftop with her companions. Running, running, running, JUMP! She couldn't seem to prevent the terror in her thoughts as street after street filled with cars and busy civilians trying to get their night errands done passed some two hundred feet below her.

Run, run, run, JUMP!

The ninja were trying to find the mysterious Destiny's Bounty that served as the headquarters for the green ninja. The home of the elemental swords.

Run, run, run, JUMP!

"Who... Would have thought... Finding a flying ship... Floating over a crowded city... Would be so difficult," the lightening ninja panted between breaths in their running, jumping game.

The earth ninja came to a sudden halt in front of her, causing the other three to go skidding to a stop. "It's all the heavy clouds. They're decreasing our visibility, which is already pretty restrained due to the dark."

The lightening ninja rolled her eyes. These all just sounded like excuses. Ways to avoid saying 'I have no idea where the heck we are in this blasted city'.

"On the brighter side, this will provide us with an easy escape. Those ninja will have no idea what hit 'em by the time we're done with them," the earth ninja added, pacing in front of the others as she described the pros of their situation.

"Who's the lucky one sensei permitted to handle the green ninja," the fire ninja asked, curiosity and excitement glittering in her eyes.

"He doesn't believe we're far enough along in our training to tackle such a mission," the earth ninja replied with slight disappointment that her sensei didn't trust them to carry out possibly the most thrilling mission yet. "He will deal with it personally."

The lightening ninja hung her head in dismay. After training for so long. Countless exercises in physical, emotional, and mental strengths. Teamwork and trust building missions. All was leading up to the capture of the green ninja. To prove to her sensei she wasn't that little girl he picked up off the street six months ago. She had grown fast in that time. A little too fast maybe.

The others had grown too. After everything they went through together, this was the ultimate test. The fact her sensei wouldn't even let them try meant they didn't meet his expectations. They failed their biggest test without even taking it.

"C'mon. We need to get moving," the earth ninja beckoned, standing near the roof's edge. "Destiny's Bounty isn't gonna find itself for us." Broken of her thoughts, the lightening ninja looked up from her feet and followed.

Run, run, run, JUMP!

Kai tossed his books off the dresser. Most of the room around him was pretty torn up. How could he misplace his phone on tonight of all nights?

"Kai," called a muffled voice from the other side of the room's heavy wooden door. A light knocking followed.

"Uh- come in," Kai replied, frantically trying to toss some of the mess to the side. If Cole or Lloyd happened to be the one standing behind that door, they would have his head for making such a mess of their room.

"Coming to dinner?" asked a voice Kai recognized to be his sister's once she opened the door.

"Uh... Shortly," Kai replied, returning to his search, tossing random objects left and right. Nya looked quizzically at her brother, eventually deciding not to question his reasons for tearing apart his room.

It was at least ten minutes after Nya stopped by before the red ninja finally found his phone. With speedy fingers, he dialed Melissa's number. Hopefully she'd be forgiving of his forgetfulness.

For what felt like hours, all Kai could hear was the shrill buzz coming from the other end.

"Hi! You've reached Melissa," said a monotone voice he recognized to be a recorded voice mail. His face fell in dismay.

He hung up after that.

The careful ninjas did their best to make as little noise as possible when climbing aboard Destiny's Bounty. This proved to be difficult, considering hard wood made quite a creak when it was landed on. Without wasting a moment, the foursome his beneath some crates someone foolishly left on the deck.

"Remember the plan?" The Ninja of Earth asked her teammates in a hoarse whisper. The other three simply nodded, not to add any sound into the silent night air. Assured that everyone knew the plan, the ninja clothed in black gestured with her finger for the Ninja of Ice and the Ninja of Lightening to move across the deck, closer to the bridge.

Right as the Ninja of Fire was about to make her move, an aggravating noise filled the air. The two ninja that remained by the crates cringed at the sound.

"What is that incessant noise?" growled the black ninja, gloved hands clasped over her ears.

Embarrassed, the Ninja of Fire pulled out a small phone. "I'm sorry! I don't even know why I have this with me!"

"Why would you have a phone with you? Just, why?"

"I didn't know I had it on my person! I swear it was on my dresser when we left!"

"Just turn it off, before you alert everyone of our presence!"

The Ninja of Fire quickly silenced the phone, but before putting it away, she couldn't help but sneak a peak at the caller ID. Stopping to read the little name, she gave a very audible sigh as she slid the device into a hidden pocket.

"Sorry," she barely whispered under her breath. "It's gonna have to wait, Kai."

Well, secret's out. We know who these ninja are(if you couldn't have figured it out already)! Or at least, we know one of them. So, if we know the identity of the Ninja of Fire, who are the others? O.o