Hey everyone, I hope everyone had a great Merry Christmas yesterday. I know I have yesterday. Got some nice gift cards. Anyway, even though I said I'll update late in my last update but I had the free time today to work on this update so why not. Anyway, here's the newest update and I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 2: The News

To what Jay was hoping for, didn't go as he had hoped. All throughout breakfast was utter embarrasment and a nightmare to the lightning ninja. As soon as he stepped foot into the dining room, he has been laughed at nonstop. He had jokes made about his glasses. Jokes as he was like a school nerd or collector as Kai or Cole would say. It made him beet red to everything. Even more worse when his glasses slid off his face and land in his plate of pancakes to coat the lenses in syrup, everyone had to laugh at him more on it. Even Nya, the girl he was in love with all of his heart, joined in to make feel betrayed and feel more embarrased. But he wasn't going to let it get the best of him as he was more excited as it uncle was coming very, very soon. He could just feel it.

After the humilating breakfast, the auburn teen leaned against the ship's railing by Sensei Wu's orders so he doesn't damage his glasses while the others were practicing and training on the deck. Doesn't mean he has the day off, he'll still train with the wing chus, his nunchucks, and on the balancing posts in Dareth's dojo. But he can't spar with his friends. Good. Which means I won't get bruised up before my relatives comes. I know how my aunt gets with me in bruises. he thought to himself.

The Ninja of Lightning stretched his arms out while stilfing a yawn as he felt bored to not train or spar with his brothers. He felt the morning sun bake the back of his neck and listened to the music of the streets below him from the roof of Dareth's dojo they docked themselves on for being an old flying pirate ship. Boring. He wanted to train with them, but his glasses stuck out like a sore thumb to prevent him doing anything. It was making him antsy as he watched Cole teach Laurie on self-defense for her being a Ninja-In-Training like her brother and wanted to tag in so badly. But he'll be scowled or whacked on the head from Sensei Wu for disobeying his orders. He sighed in pure boredom.

Honk! Honk!

Jay's head snapped up to the horn as it didn't sound like the normal Ninjago City driver, but more calm and welcoming. A smile formed on his face as he rushed off the ship and across the tarred roof to look over the ledge. He watched two figures climb out of a silver car parked on the curb to smile wider in joy. It was them. "Uncle Ben! Aunt Mary!" he called out to them in excitement and jumped off. Of course he wasn't an idiot to plan on jumping off the four story building and quickly spun around in his Spinjitzu tornado to land softly on the cement sidewalk and rushed over to his relatives with open arms. And both parties were happy to see each other.

Jay had his arms wrapped around his aunt and uncle and felt their arms being wrapped around him to return the embrace. All three felt happy to see each other again after not seeing each other for a couple of years ago or more. Jay felt his aunt kissing the top of his head as he squeezed them a bit for the hug and withdrawn a little to smile with them. "It is you two." he said excitedly. "It's awesome to see you after so long. I always wonder to whenever visit you, but I apologize for being so busy. What with me a ninja and all. B-But... But right now, I'm happy to see you guys."

Uncle Ben, or Ben, smiled back to his nephew after not seeing him for such a long time with his wife, Mary. A man in his later years with age getting to him to grow wrinkles on his face and hair full of grey. Jay had to snicker a little as he reminded him of his father when he visited the junkyard. His wife, however, was the same Jay remembered with small wrinkles forming but she still had hair raven black hair but with streaks of grey forming. Jay didn't even care if they were aging; just happy to see them whether they're in their late fifties or not. "It's good to see you, my boy." Ben said while patting his back to almost make him lose his glasses. "Hey you're even wearing your old glasses. Did you do that just for us?"

The blue ninja's face turned a blush of red to contrast his gi and could see his reflection from the silver armor on his right arm and the rugged shoulder armor. He quickly shook it off to shake his head in response. "N-No." he stuttered for a bit. "I lost a contacts lense down the drain and can't order new ones until my next appointment. I'm still surprised that I have them still. I'm definitely Dork of the Year for sure with these on."

He received small laughters from his relatives, but didn't grow angry at them like he did with his friends laughing at him. They're all family so it was natural. It brought away the redness from his face more and more to be back to his normal skin tone. Mary pulled her nephew closer to plant another kiss on his head. "Doesn't matter though." she said sweetly to him. "You're still you. But still, my nephew a ninja. Such an honor it must be." and pulled him back for another hug.

"Hey Jay, where did you go?" Cole's voice called up from the roof.

Jay removed himself from their arms to face up at the rooftop and waved his brothers over. "Come on down if you want to meet my relatives, guys." he called back. "I promise they won't bite like my parents do." He waited for some time until they too had jumped off the roof and spun into their Spinjitzu tornadoes, Nya riding with her brother for not being able to perform the special arts and Laurie and Lloyd riding on Lucas' back, and all met up with them. "Guys, these are my relatives Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary." he introduced while they recieved a few Hellos back from them. "Uncle Ben, Aunt Mary, these are the Ninja of Ninjago. Cole, the black Ninja of Earth. Kai, the red Ninja of Fire. Zane, the white Ninja of Ice and nindroid."

"Uh...Nindroid?" Ben interupted. He saw the one named Zane nod and reached over his chest and swung open his hatch to reveal his gear, wires, and switches of his systems. Mary had gasp quietly to the sight of an android in real life while Ben was stun with amazement. "Amazing. I never seen anything like this. Even at my workplace. Well we are almost finishing on an android of our own, but one is in front of me that amazes me. I can't believe it."

"Thank you then." Zane said while Jay's uncle was examining him carefully. "Also would your job happen to be Oscorp, right?" he wondered as he closed his hatch. "Jay has told us that you work there as a enviromental scientist. Am I correct?"

"Well...actually not an enviromental scientist anymore." Ben admitted while playing with his hands to see Jay's face react a bit. "But I'll explain later. Go on, Jay. Sorry for butting in."

"Uh... Okay." Jay said while glancing at his uncle oddly. He coughed a bit to clear his throat. "So Lucas is the grey Ninja of Water while his cousin, Laurie, is the orange Ninja of Winds. Each ninja here represents an element that makes us kick butt to stop all sorts of baddies here. Mine is lightning. But Lloyd here," points to the small green ninja. "is the the legendary Green Ninja where he's the master of all elements and is under protection from his two guardians, Lucas and Laurie."

Jay had noticed Lloyd had his arms crossed with a smug grin on his face for being the futuristic hero in the Final Battle. He had to scowl him with a hard stare. Ben, however, saw his nephew's stare at the boy to chuckle a little. "Kinda reminds me when you were little, Jay." he smiled softly. "How you wanted to be a superhero." The blue ninja's hazel eyes went wide to the mention to hear snickers from all the guys to have his face become red again. "But you do know that you have a huge responsibility with that kind of power, right kid?"

Lloyd had stopped to labor his laugh with the guys and nodded. "Yeah I know." he said and leaned against his cousin. "It's in my prophecy and all but I know my cousin and sis will help and protect me until it's time for my battle against...my father." He sighed while looking at his feet and felt a hand rest on his shoulder to look up and smile a little at Lucas.

Frowning a bit, Jay and the others understood how hard it was going to be for him when the battle between father and son comes, but all knew it would be years until it came. And all will be ready for it when it does. The lightning ninja broke out of his trance to hear someone cough to get his attention and turned to face Nya. Oh crud, I forgot to introduce her too. he realized to himself. What kind of a boyfriend am I? Lousy one, that's what. He quickly and gently grabbed her hand and pulled her up forward slowly. "I almost forgot to introduce someone important to the team." he continued while sleepishly smiling at her. "This is Nya. She's the samurai that works with the large samurai exo-suit and is also a mechanic like me. Plus she enjoys romantic movies, allergic to perfume, and even loves the color blue." He saw her blush a little and he even didn't realize he was too.

"Seems like to me that you know more about this girl than her being a samurai." Mary stated slyly with a smile. She had suspicion after seeing the two blush. "Does my little nephew have a crush on this girl?"

"You could say something like that." Cole rebutted sarcastically with a smug grin. "Lover Boy here just can't keep his eyes off of her while her brother can be a time bomb if he made a mistake. Am I right, Kai?"

Kai turned to the white, grey, and black ninja to his left to shake his head quickly. "I wouldn't be like that." he hesistated to reply.

"No, you would be." Zane snorted with a smirk. "We know you, brother." He and the other two weren't bother to the fire ninja's glare.

Jay chuckled a little with Nya and turned to his relatives. "So this is the team, Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary." he finished. "We work as one to ensure no Serpentine, pirates, and dark lords cause trouble to rule Ninjago. As long we have our wits and Spinjitzu, we're golden." He was received with congradulative smiles from his relatives and pulled into another hug and transfered one back and stepped back. "So... What's this of not being an enviromental scientist anymore, Uncle Ben?" he asked after wondering about it.

He noticed his uncle was still smiling and judged that he may have good news and not bad news. Oh please be good news and if not, at least be great news. Not a single person enjoys bad news. "As I was saying after your friend's nindroid surprise," Ben began while flicking some of his grey bangs aside. "I still work at Oscorp, but have a new position there. Jay, my nephew, I'm a-"

"Hello? My pupils?" an elderly voice called out. "Where have you run off to?" Jay glanced over his shoulder with the others and squinted his eyes from his glasses to see a figure in white standing at the entrance of the dojo and realized it was Sensei Wu, Lucas' father. The elder walked down the small steps with his bamboo staff tapping on the concrete with a cup of tea in the other hand. "Why aren't any of you training?" he wondered sternly. "I given you fair instructions while I meditated for awhile and seem to have disobey me." His grey eyes scanned around his students until they met with two new people behind Jay. "Oh. I apologize for my rant there if I haven't seen you." he said apologenicly. "Tell me, Jay. Who do we have here? Friends? Relatives?"

Jay laughed a little while nodding. Now he felt dumb to forget to introduce another most important person; his teacher and mentor that made him a ninja. That made him feel like the worst student. "Relatives, Sensei." he replied and turned to face them. "Uncle Ben, Aunt Mary, this is Lucas' dad, Sensei Wu. He's our teacher and mentor that has taught us everything about Spinjitzu and to understand our elemental powers and other things. That's what makes Sensei Wu, you know...Sensei Wu. He-he."

Ben and Mary turned to the news of meeting their nephew's sensei master and stuttered for a bit to introduce themselves. But they quickly brought their hands together and bowed saluationly. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Sensei Wu." they said in unison.

Sensei Wu smiled softly back and quickly handed the unexpected earth ninja his staff and cup of tea. It nearly caused Cole to lose his balance to the rush and almost dropped the small ming tea cup but sighed as he didn't. The elder removed his straw hat to reveal his shadowed face that the sun was blocked from to reveal the small black cap he adorned with the small bradied ponytail behind. Jay and the others, but Lucas, were a bit surprised as they hardly saw Sensei Wu without his hat. With both hands on therim of his hat, he bowed in return. "The pleasure is mine, Mr and Mrs. Walker." he said back and slipped his hat back on to shadow his face from the sun. "Not to pry but what brings you two here to visit Jay on a nice day? A visit? Bring news?"

"Actually Sensei, it's a bit of both." Jay mused. "My uncle was about to tell us the news until you came in." He stopped to hear he sounded a little rude on that last part and pushed his glasses up a little. "He-he. Sorry. And sorry, Uncle Ben. But what were you saying?"

Ben had given his nephew a small hard glance for sounding a bit rude to his teacher, but shrugged it off after he apologized. "As I was saying," he continued while clearing his throat. "Jay, I'm no longer an enviromental scientist at Oscorp. I'm a genetics professor now."

"A genetics professor?" Laurie inquired. "For what?"

Jay heard his uncle laugh a little and saw his face light up more. This must be some serious good news he wondered. "Would you think it'll be better if I showed you instead of telling you?" he asked. The blue ninja's eyes went wide to the news. Could he be talking about what he was thinking. "Jay, my boy, how would you and your friends like to come over and take a tour at Oscorp?"

The Ninja of Lightning's mouth dropped to the news with his hazel eyes widening more. It was what he thought. A tour inside the tower of Oscrop. Home of the many futuristic inventions that could help the world. "Y-Yes!" his voice squeaked in reply with a huge grin. He stuttered to move and pulled his uncle to a tight hug. "You have no idea how desprate I am to ever set foot in that place! I really want to see how you guys do it there and see the mechanical wings, those octopus arms, and scoripon tail I read about even they could be prototypes like you said before! I think they're reality now! Oh guys can we please go!? Please!?"

The Ninja were take by surprise to his outburst of excitement as he seemed more excited than he did this morning. He seemed to be like a kid in the candy store for the first time. But they didn't know how to respond to his begging. Should they come along with him or what? "Calm down, brother." Zane said. "We see that you're excited to the news, but we can't just take the day off to a tour of a cooperation. We still need to train and keep watch on Ninjago." The ice ninja watched how his face drooped in disappointment to sigh a bit and analyzed a recovery plan. "But if it's alright with Sensei Wu first."

"As long it's okay with my dad, then sure." Lucas added and turned to face his father. "What do you think, Dad? Can we go and we'll promise tomorrow to make up with everything. Right, guys?" He saw them nod to lighten Jay's face a little.

Sensei Wu had his grey eyes closed as he stroked his snow white beard to ponder. He lifted his gaze to meet with Jay's begging eyes with him on his knees and sighed in defeat and retrieved his items from Cole. "Very well. I'll allow this one day only." he said in defeat. "But it means you all will do double of training and patrol. You know that my brother and the Serpentine never rest to conquer Ninjago. Understand?"

Victory bells rang in Jay's head to have smile widely to the answer and jumped to his feet in victory. He felt energy kick start his body to perform many things at once and quickly rushed over to his teacher to wrap his arms around him tightly. Sensei Wu was now taken by more surprise with his students. "Thank you, Sensei! Thank you!" he screamed in joy. "You have no idea how happy and excited I am to that answer!" and pulled himself off. "Well, what are you guys waiting for!? Let's change and head there now! Or else we'll miss something cool there!"

Overly excited, the auburn quickly rushed away from the others to head inside the small dojo to race up the stairs and nearly crashed into Dareth to leave him dumbfolded and stormed to the roof. He was leaning over the edge to see his friends were surprised and left behind to wave them up to join him and turned to head inside the ship and bedroom. A lot of things rushed into his head. What was he going to see? Inventions!? Possibilities in the future!? Was something extrodinary going to happen!? Was he going to see what his uncle does as a genetic professor!? The possibilites were endless in the lightning ninja's head and knew nothing could ruin it.

Nothing!

Nothing, Jay tells you. Nothing! Or will there? Just have to wait then. ;) Anyway, I hope you enjoy the update, leave a review if you like, uh... have nothing else to other than have a happy new year and I'll see you all in the new year for my next update. :)