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Chapter 6: Spinjitzu
"Lucas!" Garmadon shouted to the top of his lungs. "I need you in the courtyard now!"
I snorted in my sleep and my eyes shot straight up to my uncle's shout. I quickly sat up on my bed for the chamber my uncle gave as his apprentice was a spare bedroom. But this room was different than my old one in the dojo. This room was much larger than the other one. My bed was a king size canopy bed than that small twin bed I had. And the only window I had didn't shine sunlight, but darkness.
"Lucas!" my uncle shouted again.
I climbed out of the bed, while stubbing around the surrounding furniture, and ran over to my window to stare in below was my uncle, pacing back and forth with the skeletons standing in a large circle around him. My body felt renewed with energy after the exhaustion I had from the forest before running into the skeletons. Sleeping on a comfortable bed is much better than a pile of dead leaves. I caught my uncle waving at me to come down and I walked away from my window to change. I changed out of my pajamas and into my black suit and left my room to start my training under my uncle. Or should I say my master?
It took me a few minutes to reach the front gate doors because my new home was larger than the dojo where my father lives. Oh how I hate that man. Every time I think about him, I want to destroy him for not leading me to my path as the strongest ninja. And training from my uncle, he will lead me to that path. And I will destroy my father and the people that stand in my path.
I like being on the dark side.
After crossing the stone bridge with –what appeared to be whale bones—on the side, I finally reached the courtyard and the surrounding skeletons created a path for me to walk through. I looked at each one as their bones clattered and still can't tell what their expressions were. I hope I get to know their expressions soon. I finally reached the open clearing to see my uncle wickedly smiling at me and I looked back to see my pathway closed.
Training has begun.
"I hope you slept well, my apprentice?" my uncle asked while tapping on the hilts of his two katanas strapped to his hips.
I looked at him and bowed. "I have, master." I replied. My uncle stopped toying with his swords and clapped twice. I saw Eye-patch and Kong walking up to me with weapons in their arms and threw them on the stone floor. Metal clanked as the weapons were at my feet and I looked at my uncle a bit shaking with confusion.
"In order to train, you must harness the power and master Spinjitzu first." he stated while giving me a quizzical look. "Tell me, Lucas, what did your pathetic father tell you to master the Arts of Spinjitzu?"
My blood began to boil on the thought of my father. "He spoke to me in riddles." I scowled, "Over the planks. Dodge the swords. Here comes the dummy."
"The very same riddle my father taught me. To master the arts, you shall fight me in sparring. You will learn Spinjitzu from weapons training. Not some obstacle course your father has put you on. You have two minutes to prepare yourself."
"Weapons training?" I thought. Sparring to learn Spinjitzu? My uncle wants me to fight him with actual weapons. I looked at them to see they were the same kind of weapons that my father trained with before. "Um…what about breakfast?" I asked stupidly.
"I'll cut you a deal, Lucas." My uncle proposed, "If you beat me, you get breakfast. If I beat you, you get none today. One minute." and walked to the edge of the circle.
I quickly got down to my knees and shuffled through the assorted weapons. I moved swords aside, nunchucks, and scythes and bo staffs until I found my favorite. The shurikens. I grabbed two for each hand and stood in an attack stance; prepared for training.
"The lesson begins now!" my uncle shouted and crossed his arms over his chest to grip his two swords and drew them out. The firelight from the torches gleamed on the metal of the blades and felt them glaring at me. My uncle gave out a shout and charged towards me.
I studied his movement and smirked as I threw my mask over my face. I've found my target. I twirled my body to release the shurikens from my right hand and let them slice through the air. I continued to twirl in the same direction and planted my right hand on the ground to kick my legs up and threw the remaining two to strike at my uncle's legs and landed on both feet in a defense stance. I watched all four pieces of metal slice through the empty air towards my uncle. Suddenly, he stopped and deflected all of them with his swords and they clanked on the floor by his feet. I gasped as they were the only weapons I favored and that's all there was.
"Poor choice of weapons, Lucas." Garmadon huffed, "A ninja would never just use the shurikens to fight. Unless the one who can possess the power of ice and his weapons would be the Shurikens of Ice. In which, they can return to their wielder alone." He looked down at the ones I threw by his feet and then back me. "Unlike these, in which they do not return to you. A ninja would choose a weapon that chooses the wielder. Find that weapon before I destroy you."
I quickly fell to my knees and searched frantically for a good weapon. I picked up a nunchuck and spun it around to hit myself in the head and tossed it aside. I picked up a sword and tossed it aside as I never favored them. I tossed the scythe as it required me to use both hands when I want to fight with both of them. I gazed at a wooden bo staff and heard the wood clutter as I tossed it aside. I thought it was hopeless now that my favorite weapons are the shurikens and they're over there and didn't return to me when I threw them.
But then something caught my hazel grey eyes.
On the bottom of the pile were two identical weapons. They looked like two oddly shaped daggers with the main shaft taller than the two identical shorter ones, which bend near the base and curved upwards and were symmetrical. What are these? I never trained with them before. I picked them up and they felt comfortable as they fitted in my gloved hands. I twirled them in my fingers and gripped the handles tightly and stood in an defense stance. Let's see how they'll do.
"Ah, the sai's." my uncle spoke in an interesting tone. So that's what these things are called. "An excellent choice of a weapon for both defending and attacking. Let's see how well you'll fight with them." and charged towards me.
I gripped the sai's tightly as he came closer until he was in front of me. He swung his swords at me and I felt adrenaline coursing in my veins, and somehow in instincts, I blocked both weapons with mine by crossing them. He drew his swords back and swung them back at me. Metal clanked after I deflected the first sword and twirled my body while reaching over my shoulder to parry another sword with the sai and stood a few feet back from my uncle after I deflected his swords. He turned around to glare at me and I gasped in amazement to what happened with the sai's. I looked at them in amazement and knew that I never trained with them before. How did I do that?
My uncle charged back at me and I found myself charging at him and both of our weapons made contact. I deflected each attack he threw at me while I sent a few back along a punch or kick to his chest or limbs. To that, he stumbled back. Seriously, how did I do that without proper training on these twin weapons? "You know what I see?" he asked me. And in my response, I shook my head. "I see you as your father. Weak. Pathetic. Slow. Sloppy."
I growled at him under my mask. I am nothing like my father! My blood was boiling and I charged at him with a cry of anger. My anger coursed through my body as I sent attacks at him. I then placed my left foot on his chest and sent my right knee up to his chin to make contact and allowed the momentum to jump back and performed a backflip and landed perfectly. He growled at me and charged. I screamed in anger at him and charged at him, again. I began to see it now. His movements, attacks, and defense. It's like the training course at my old home.
He swung his swords at my legs and I jumped over him and landed behind him. Over the planks. He quickly turned around and swung his weapons to my chest and I quickly twirled my body while arching my back to dodge them. Dodge the swords. I looked at my uncle as he charged at me. Here comes the dummy. "Ninjaaa-Gooo!" I shouted and spun around in my spot. I squeezed my eyes tight as I concentrated harder and felt energy swelling in my chest increasing with power until I felt it unleashed.
My Spinjitzu.
I opened my eyes as I spun and a smiled grew on my face as I done it. I was doing Spinjitzu. But it was different than my father's and wasn't green. It was grey. It was grey and misty with little fog swirling around me along with drops of water. I'm not the Green Ninja after all. What am I?
I can see through my Spinjitzu and saw my uncle charging at me. I directed my tornado as I spun and landed a kick to his chest and watched him fly back. He gave out a painful grunt when making contact to the stone floor and I stopped spinning. I felt a little dizzy and nauseas, but quickly recovered and ran to my uncle to pin him. I placed a foot on his chest and grabbed the front of his kimono and had my hand drawn back with the blade of the sai between my index and middle finger. Both fingers were then wrapped around the base of the blade and the sides as it made like I can make the final kill. I won.
"Excellent work, my apprentice." He congratulated me. "You performed Spinjitzu and beaten me." But then his lips curved into a smirk. "But failed to see something you did wrong."
"What?" I asked.
"Your footing." he pointed out.
I looked at him confused and down at my feet. I gasped as I did do something wrong with my footing. My left foot was on his chest, not my right. What's the difference you may ask? If I placed my right foot on his chest, all of my weight would pin him down. But with my left, he could easily knock me down. A lesson I once learned from my father.
My uncle swung his left arm at me and made contact to my leg. I felt weightless and saw the floor closing in as I fell; welcoming me. I let out a grunt and felt my lungs ached when my back made contact and felt air escape my lungs. I tried to breathe, but it gave me a small dose of pain as I tried. I lifted my head to see my uncle place his right foot on my chest and felt the weight crushing me and he yanked my mask off. He then placed a sword by my throat and could feel the cold steel against my warm skin. He now has the upper hand to deliver the final kill. I failed. No breakfast then.
My uncle began to chuckle and removed the blade away from my throat and pulled me to my feet. "You've done an excellent job today, my apprentice." he said while giving me my sai's. "Or should I say my Ninja of Water. And for mastering and harnessing the power of Spinjitzu for the first time, I'll give you the privilege to have breakfast. But next time, never show yourself weak to your enemy. Otherwise they'll take the advantage to destroy you."
Inside, I felt pride for mastering Spinjitzu. But outside, I looked at him confused. What did he call me? "The Ninja of Water?" I stuttered, "Is that what I am as a ninja?"
"Yes." My uncle replied, "Instead of the Green Ninja, you're the Grey Ninja. Master of Water. With that element, along with your golden weapon, you'll be able to manipulate water in your hands. Create storms and tsunamis. And with that, you'll cause destruction with your powers and still be the strongest ninja and defeat your father." and tossed me my mask. I caught it and tucked it in my belt. "But for now, you may return to your chamber and I'll send a skeleton to give you some food while I get your new suit made. Get some rest now. Your training is over for the day."
I bowed to him and made my way back to my room. When I entered and closed the doors behind me, I walked over to my bed and collapsed; exhausted and threw the covers over me. It felt great to be back in my comfortable bed as my training to master Spinjitzu was exhausting and didn't want to wake up. Like an endless sleep. I feel like I can sleep forever. In a matter of minutes, I instantly fell into slumber. And I was proud to master Spinjitzu.
Hoped you enjoyed today's chapter. Lucas mastered Spinjitzu! And not only that, he found out that he fights well with the sai's and found out that he is the Ninja of Water. Review if you want to and have a wonderful weekend and summer. See you all next week. :)
