Hello everyone *waves manically :) Thank you to all of you who have followed or reviewed "The List". Gosh, just realised how ominous that title sounds…oops!

Masters of Fire and Amber: ha! I wasn't joking when I said I've got so many stories and snippets of stories whirling around in my head! It's a bit messy in there, you know…?!

RandomDragon2.0 : I wholeheartedly agree, love a bit of Kailor! Although this chapter is not as fluffy, I'm sure there will be more fluff soon!

RPM Shadow: Its good to have you on board again!

Well here it is, and this one is based around a true story which did happen to me once…

The Panda and a Whole Bunch of Keyrings.

"Yes!" Jay punched the air as he managed to hook one of the little rubber ducks, eyes lighting up as the vendor turned around with his prize; a giant stuffed panda holding a little rose.

"This is going on my bed!" he declared gleefully, hugging the panda tight.

"Jay, it's bigger than you!"

"It is not, Cole!"

"It so is. Look, stand next to it."

"I will not!" The blue ninja defensively hugged the panda tighter, eyes narrowed at the laughing earth ninja.

"It's ok though, Jay," Cole patted the blue ninja's arm reassuringly. "You should still have room for your kissing pillow on your bed with it…"

That was too much for Lloyd, who snorted and managed to cover a small child next to him with a shower of the candy floss which he had been stuffing into his mouth, creasing with laughter and leaving Zane to apologise to the child's mother for his apparent leader's misdemeanour.

"You could always give it to Nya?" the master of amber offered, smiling at Jay, trying to distract him from his irritated scowling at Cole and Lloyd. Nya had elected to stay at the monastery rather than join them at the Mega Monster Amusement Park, preferring to stay and complete some upgrades on one of the new mechs with PIXAL. All of the other ninjas had come, excited when they heard where Skylor had planned to take Kai. Even Sensai Wu had been eager to come, although he was currently elsewhere in the park with Misako, no doubt still on the spinning teacups…

Smiling back at her, Jay beamed "Nah, she doesn't really like stuffed animals."

Kai couldn't help himself. "Well that's not true, she likes you!"

And that was it, they were all howling as the poor blue ninja scowled, muttering under his breath and holding on tighter to his prize. Skylor thumped Kai on the arm, who swallowed and tried in vain to hold in his laughter.

"Ah, I'm sorry bro. But you walked into that one." Kai smiled, but fell about again after Zane's quick,

"Well he is a Walker!"

Once they had all managed to get themselves together again, after a few deep breathes and Lloyd had finally managed to shake off his stray candy floss pieces from his hoodie, they gathered around the amusement park map, Cole pointing to the large red "you are here" sign.

"Ok, so we've done the ferris wheel, the ghost train and the rocket roller coaster. We agreed to meet Sensai at the spinning tea cups in…" Cole glanced at his watch "…40 minutes. So that means we've got time for one more ride. What do we all want to do? There's the Screaming Swing ride, oooh, Whack-a-Snake, although we could do that on the way out…and… Oh! Oh! I've got it!" Cole was practically jumping on the spot in excitement. "The new log flume, look!" They all strained to look closer, and to Kai's horror there it was, at the edge of the park in a newly developed area, Splash Mountain.

"Err, guys, I might sit that one out." His quiet voice was nearly drowned out by the excited noises of affirmation from all of his team mates and girlfriend. But not quite…

"What? No Kai, you've got to come on it! It'll be fun! It's not like you're actually in the water, or having to swim…"

"I agree with Cole, Kai. There is only a less than 33.8 percent chance of getting significantly wet on this ride, and a 89.4 percent chance that you will enjoy it. It may even help you to overcome your aqua phobic tendencies."

Kai sighed. How could he argue with nindroid logic? And the statistics did look good. But then when did they ever take notice of the odds…? Before he knew it they were all queuing for the ride that just looked like pointless torture to him, Cole and Jay bickering over the chances that Jay would be allowed to strap the giant panda into one of the log flumes with him. Skylor squeezed his hand gently.

"It'll be ok." She smiled. Yeah, she was probably right. Millions of people ride on these things daily, right? What could possibly go wrong?

"Yeah. Yeah, you're right." He smiled back, although she could tell he was still apprehensive

.

"Told you so!" Cole smirked over at Jay as he sadly placed the panda into the baggage shelves at the side of the flume embarkment platform.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Jay muttered, deftly dropping himself into the middle seat of the flume, behind Cole and in front of Lloyd. "At least it won't get wet." And with that their flume was off, hoots of excitement escaping from Lloyd as he put his hands up in the air as their ride started its climb up to the top of the first ramp.

"Err, guys. Do we need one of these?" Kai nervously pointed to the ponchos on sale, one size fits all, guarantees to keep you dry… he read.

"No Kai, it'll be fine. Come on, it's our turn" Skylor took his arm gently but firmly, leading the fire ninja over to their flume. She and Zane hopped straight in, whilst Kai paused, looking like he was about to bolt…

"Kai. It will be fine."

"Sir, could you please step into the ride quickly." The attendant was scrutinising him, and that was enough to get Kai straight into the flume, trying to save face. He could not be, would not be, scared of a little water ride.

As soon as he sat down on the little red plastic seat at the back of the flume, behind Skylor, he knew he had made a grave, grave mistake. It was wet in here. Already wet. Already very wet. Just as he started to get up Skylor pushed him back down.

"You can't get out now!" She was right, the rickety flume leading them directly to the gates of the Underworld was now tipping upwards, starting its ascent up that ramp. He found himself wondering how much had changed in the Underworld since they had last visited, but was rudely brought back to reality as the flume tipped up onto a steeper angle, and a whole truck load of water came rushing to the back of the flume, swirling around his ankles. Kai's eyes widened.

"Erm, guys, is that supposed to happen?" He knew this was a wet ride, but that seemed like a lot of nasty wetness…

"Don't worry Kai! It's all part of the ride." Zane's voice was enthusiastic. Kai tried to take comfort from his friend's excitement…

That is, until they reached the top and went shooting back down the ramp. All of the water went flooding to the front, pooling around Zane, but hey! They were right! This was fun! The rush of adrenaline took hold and he was whooping, even as the flume hit the bottom of the ramp and levelled out, sending a huge splash over the other flume on the track alongside them, Lloyd and Jay giving them thumbs up signs from their flume as they passed in the other direction. Cole appeared to be trying to get his severely dampened hair out of his eyes.

But then he noticed it. The water was back. This time they were level as the flume made its way around the track to the next ramp, so the water had levelled out in the flume. But this time it was part way up his shins. His heart stopped.

"Erm, guys…" Kai patted Skylor's shoulder. And then he noticed she was also looking down, staring at the water.

Zane turned to look at him. "No Kai. That is not supposed to happen."

Kai breathed in sharply, adrenaline rush turning back to panic rapidly.

"I've got to get out. How do we stop this thing? I knew this was a bad idea. I knew this was a bad idea!" His fists were curled, and he knew in the back of his mind he was acting irrationally, but he couldn't help it. He had to get out.

"Kai…" Skylor had turned and was putting her hand on his which was gripping the side of the flume tightly, knuckles turning white. "Kai. We can't get out. But it'll be ok, look, there's only two more ramps after this one, and it's only a little hole…"

"ONLY A LITTLE HOLE!"

The panic was taking over now, and looking around wildly he could see the others had already disembarked from their flume, just a little wet, Jay reaching for his panda, oblivious to his fellow team mates' obvious oncoming deaths by drowning in this damn rickety flume! Lloyd and Cole, however, had heard his outburst and were turning to see what was going on.

"Kai! Stop it! You're shaking us and making it worse!" He looked down and noted the water was only just below his knees now… Oh this was not good.

And then the little, rapidly filling up flume tilted and started it's second climb again, all of the water rushing to the back and swirling around Kai's waist now, soaking him all the way through to his skin and making him groan out loud.

"I'm going to drown in here!"

"Kai, you are not going to drown in here."

"Zane. I am going to drown in here!"

"Kai, you are not."

Skylor couldn't help but giggle, even though she was also soaked through. He was never going to step foot on a water ride again, she thought.

"I'll give you less than 33.8 percent chance of getting significantly wet, Zane!"

Cole, Lloyd and Jay couldn't help but fall about themselves laughing as their three friends climbed out of the flume, sopping wet and looking like drowned rats. Zane and Skylor were laughing at their predicament, accepting towels from the extremely apologetic looking staff member who had appeared to help them. They could now make out the massive hole in the side of the flume which the unfortunate trio had embarked upon. Kai stomped past them, dripping wet and steaming, literally, waving off the offer of a towel.

"Hey, at least you can dry yourself off quickly!" Jay pointed out. Kai turned and gave him the stare. The stare of a saturated, aqua phobic master of fire who was going to roast you if you continued to mock him much more.

"It appears I failed to take into account the chances of embarking on a flume with a hole in the side!" Zane chuckled, passing his towel back to the attendant with thanks and joining Kai in leaning on the gate. "I am sorry, brother." Kai just harrumphed, folding his arms and looking away.

"Oh Kai, I'm sorry. But you've gotta admit, it was kind of funny." Skylor had bravely (or stupidly, Jay thought to himself) stood directly in the potential line of fire, her legs straddling his and leaning her hands onto his chest, eyes trying to meet with his. The sodden red ninja kept his arms crossed but met her gaze, harshness in his eyes melting slightly and sighing deeply.

"Don't ever make me do that again. Ever."

She smiled. "Pinky promise." He nodded at her, then brushed his flopping, soaking wet spikes back up and out of his eyes.

"Oh my gosh, guys! We have got to get one of these!" Lloyd was stood at the souvenir photobooth, pointing excitedly at one of the photos. Kai groaned. Nooo.

"You were right Jay, this is the best gift you could have brought back from the park for me!" Nya was unashamedly in stitches, clutching the souvenir booth photo to her chest. She snuck a look at it again, sniggering at her brother's scowling, soaked face and crossed arms at the back of the flume whilst his ride companions were laughing and screaming as they had dove down the last ramp of the ride.

Kai shook his head and sighed, now tucked up in his pyjamas on the sofa, under a fleece with a cup of hot chocolate which was laden with marshmallows. It was going to take a while to live this one down… And then Jay just had to buy the photographic evidence, didn't he…

"I'm more impressed that you actually got him on it!"

"I'm not sure it'll be happening again." Skylor grinned at Nya from where she had her head resting on Kai's shoulder.

Kai muttered "definitely not" and took a noisy slurp of his drink.

"So, next week then…" Skylor lifted her head to look at him "…something a bit, err, tamer? Less wet?"

"Hmm, please."

"Ok then." And she snuggled back into him, smiling to herself as she started thinking through the other options she had on 'the list'.

"Although I'm sure whatever you decide will be fun." She hugged him and beamed as he kissed her head gently. "Just please make sure the odds of me getting 'significantly' wet are less than 33.8 percent." She snorted, but didn't get a chance to respond as Lloyd walked in, dangling a bag triumphantly.

"Hey guys!" he waved the small plastic bag which was emblazoned with the emblem for the amusement park, addressing the lounging ninjas on the sofas. "Look what I've got…" They all looked over, interests pipped. Lloyd slowly reached into the bag and pulled out a handful of… photo keyrings! Featuring on them…

"No, you wouldn't…" Kai sat up.

"Huh, yes I would!"

"Lloyd! Give me those!"

Skylor shrieked as Kai leapt up, slamming his hot chocolate and marshmallows down on the coffee table as he gave chase to the now squealing green ninja, who was dangling one of the keyrings featuring the photo of her very own fire ninja's wet adventure at him, like a red rag to a bull, whilst tossing the bag with the rest in over to Cole.

"There's one for everyone!" The green ninja sang at them. "Help yourselves!"

"Affirmative. Less than 33.8 percent then…" She whispered to herself, smiling as she quickly grabbed one of the keyrings for herself as Cole tossed the bag over to her, then threw it over to Jay before Kai could reach her.

Although the water had been a whole lot of fun!