Dawn seemed to find it's self the seemingly remains of last night's events as the light, though barely there, began it's way through the gray sky. The rain had manged to find it's self go awry till gone in the middle of the night, but the light gray clouds had stayed, leaving the sky's light having to find it's way through little holes in the clouds. All was silent inside Zane's room, except for the light sound of sketches made by a light little pen and the light sound of the tick tocks of the seconds going by.

As the seconds seemed to find themselves go awry with time, I looked up from my sketch pad and hummed slightly. Looking over at Zane, I watched as he sighed peacefully in his sleep. Without moving his left leg off the lifted blanket it was on, he rolled over onto his side. I looked down back at my sketches.

We were both inside Zane's room, waiting out the storm of the Garmadon events. Since the moving of the hallway boards had severely messed up the rest of the monastery's boards, making the place extremely dangerous, and that I wasn't sure that Garmadon had completely given up yet, we had stayed in the only room that seemed to me safe. Zane's room.

I was now trying to think of ways that I could keep Zane safe from Garmadon. So far my sketch pad was almost filled with possible ideas, but none to me that seemed like they would completely work. All except for one. Getting up, I, with great sadness, accepted what I had to do if I wanted this plan to work.

Putting my sketch pad up in the process, I walked over towards Zane and slightly shook him awake. "Huh?" Zane mumbled as he stirred in his sleep.

"Zane, hurry ,get up. We need to go," I whispered softly. Half asleep, Zane sat up. "W-where are we going?"

"We're going to see an old friend of mine."

::

The door to the old tea shop creaked open loudly, therefore telling the old lady we were there before the loud ringing of the bell did. The old lady, with her light gray and frizzy hair in a bun and light old blue eyes, looked up from the counter. "May I help you?"

"Yes, actually you can," I said, walking up towards the counter while Zane looked around curiously. Finally, his eyes rested on the old lady, or better known as Mystake. "Is she the old friend of yours?"

Mystake raised an eyebrow and gave me a glare that clearly said," Really, old friend?" I nervously chuckled before saying, "No. But we need to get something here first. "

I turned back to face Mystake, her face still fix in an uncaring glare. "May we please have some Refreshal Tea?"

Mystake shook her head. "Never heard of it."

Digging into my pocket, I pulled out some gold coins. After a few seconds flew by with her eyes lowered onto her payment, Mystake looked up. "Let me look in the back."

A few seconds later, she came back with small, brownish orange, and roundish bottle of tea. As she handed to me, her eyes landed back on Zane. "For him?"

"Yes. How'd you guess?"

Mystake picked up the gold coins and placed them in the cash register. She motioned back at Zane, who was still looking around busily. "His father came around here not too long ago, looking for Travel Tea."

Mystake leaned closed to me and whispered, "So how hard was it to get him out of the house?"

I thought back to earlier this morning, when I had to mange getting little Zane past all those blocks and barriers. The crisp, cold morning wind still felt fresh on my face.

I shook my head, shaking my thoughts out of my mind. "A nightmare. But I plan to fix this."

Mystake knew about Garmadon's problem. She had been there, right after the first Serpentine War, when Garmadon had his first real attack.

Mystake motioned towards Zane one last time. "Wu, be careful of the consequences."

::

The snow had started lazily on it's own way in the wind by floating in the soft currents as I opened the door to my old friend's hidden workshop in the Birchwood Forest.

Dr. Julien looked up from his work and smiled. "Why, hello Wu. Nice to see you. Who's your, um, little friend?" I looked down at Zane, who was looking around the hidden workshop, amazed. I smiled.

"Hey Zane, why don't you go over there and play with your toy car?" I said softly.

Zane smiled. "Okay, Uncle Wu!" he said before running over to a corner of the workshop to play.

Turning back towards Dr. Julien, I saw his smile brighten. "I didn't know you had a nephew, Wu."

I frowned sadly. "That's the problem."

Dr. Julien's friendly smile slowly faded away as I filled him in. It only took a few minutes, but to me it felt like a few years.

"And that is why I've finally resigned myself onto the one thing I can do. R-"

"Refreshal Tea," Dr. Julien muttered softly. I nodded.

"The only problem with that is the fact of him turning into a robot and forgetting all of his past memories. Though the tea will remake him so Garmadon will not recognize him, it will turn him into a robot and make him forget all of his past and of all those who cared for him. That's why I'm here. To ask you for a favor. Once the Refreashal Tea has wiped his memories clean, Zane can't remember till the time is right or he'll might become disgruntled and start looking for his real father. Or, though Garmadon won't recognize him, he will still attack Zane as long as he's with me. So I'm asking if you would watch over him till the time is right, so he'll be safe."

Dr. Julien smiled kindly. "Wu, we've been old friends since as long as I can remember. You didn't even have to ask."

I nodded. "Alright. Then let's get this over with." Dr. Julien nodded.

I turned over towards Zane, who was still busily playing with his blue toy car. "Zane, can you please come here and drink this? It will make your leg feel better." Zane looked up and smiled happily, showing that he hadn't been at all listening in on the conversation. He stood up and walked on up to us.

"Okay Uncle Wu."

Dr. Julien handed him the Refreshal Tea and told him to sit down on his bed. Zane nodded and drinked the tea. Suddenly, his eyes rolled to the inside of his head and Zane fell, stiff as a dead body, all the way down on Dr. Julien's bed. It happened quick, Zane turning into a robot. Soon I found myself staring at Dr. Julien as he was steadily opening Zane's stomach. Instead of blood or guts, now it was filled with clockworks and other things. I breathed in deeply. For me, this was a very hard sight.

Dr. Julien was just about to turn on Zane's on switch when he stopped and looked at me. "Y-you might want to go. We don't want Zane remembering."

Breaking out of my trance like state, I nodded and got ready to leave. "Alright, just let me leave first." Dr. Julien nodded.

The last thing I heard inside of there as I left was Dr. Julien saying," Hello Zane..."

Presant Time

There was a moment of silence as we watched the other group members take this in. Garmadon and Wu had just finished filling me in a few minutes ago, and now we were filling in the rest of them.

Garmadon stood up from the chair he had been sitting in, listening quietly to all of this, and walked around the dining room table towards me. (We were now in the dining room)

"I-I had been using dark magic around that time. That's how I was able to raise the hallway and inhumanly jump upon top of it. And we never told you this before because after all of this happened (He at this moment motioned to everyone) we didn't think you'll ever need to know this ." Garmadon looked down at the ground. "But for all these years, I've been wanting to tell you I-I'm so sorry. I-I couldn't control myself then."

I nodded solemnly . I still couldn't believe it. After all these years...

I mean my whole life had been a lie. I wasn't mad at them, of course not, for it had only been done to protect me, but it was still mind blowing.

It was overpowering. It was madness.

"So Zane was never a nindroid to begin with?" Jay whispered, amazed. Garmadon nodded.

"So that's what's always powered you, Zane," Kai whispered, also amazed. I nodded. "Your human heart transformed into a robot's."

Lloyd looked completely stunned. "Zane's my brother?" Garmadon nodded. There was another moment of silence as Josh Norville slowly made his way up to me.

"Zane, I know that's a lot to take in at once, and I'm really sorry to tell you there's more."

My eyes widened in shock and surprise. "There's more?!"

Josh Norville nodded solemnly. Reaching into his pocket again, he pulled out an envelope. He handed it over to me. I looked down on it as the softness of the envelope touched my skin. Nicely printed and bold words were upon the front of it. It read:

To Mr. Z. Narcisse

(Sent from the Great Gatsby dimension)

St. Stevensburg Of Hwargts School

Slowly, I pulled out the letter and read:

St. Stevensburg of Hwargts School for Purebloods

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Narcisse,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at St. Stevensburg of Hwargs School for Purebloods. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September the 1st.

Yours sincerely,

Enchantra

(Deputy Headmistres)

"Due to the fact of being the pureblood son of Reid and Norma Narcisse, you are required to go to St. Stevensburg of Hwargts School for Purebloods. It's the other reason I'm here. It's been a law since the Pureblood War that every single pureblood between the ages eleven and seventeen from every single dimension must go to this school."

"But I'm not between the ages eleven and seventeen! I'm a twenty-eight year old robot!"

Josh Norville nodded. "Not in this dimension, you're not. But in the Great Gatsby dimension, you are. You see, time weaves differently in each and every dimension, this being one of the faster ones. Once upon your arrival in the Great Gatsby dimension, you will transform into an eleven year old." Josh Norville turned to face Wu. "I am also led to believe that this Refreshal Tea sped up your years in this dimension?"

Wu nodded. "And since the Refreshal Tea was only created and used this dimension , once you leave it, it should dissolve off you. Leaving the real you. The Refreshal Tea shall only work in this dimension."

"So Zane's younger than me?!" Lloyd breathed.

"Yes," Josh Norville said slowly, a puzzled and perplexed look making it's way onto his face.

"It's a long story," I muttered.

Silence seemed to fill our ears one more full last time, as we all took this in, particularly me. Still feeling way too numb about all this, looked back down at my letter. Over and over in my head, I reread it. "Dear Mr. Narcisse, we are pleased to inform..."

I still couldn't believe all this. I mean, I guess deep down I knew this was all true, but still all of my life I had thought I was Zane Julien the nindroid, when really I had all of this behind me! I was once really a human, had a brother, and now everything all made sense! The dream, my power source, or even that Garmadon now looks at me like a son. And somehow, instead of the common sense that should have filled my mind to tell me the craziness of all this, the excitement of all this had somehow manged to swell inside of me, like a giant balloon.

I was excited. It was like a new challenge, except this one would have me learning magic and power, instead of fighting snakes or power stealing madmen.

Finally, or what seemed like finally, I looked up from my letter to Josh Norville, who flashed at me a warm, friendly smile. "S-so I really am a pureblood?" I said, finally finding my voice once again. Josh Norville nodded.

"Yes. And a good one at that, once you've been trained up a bit. I might even reckon you'll even be a natural firebender or waterbender, like your mother and father. And don't worry about the school, you'll love it there. Seven years there, and you won't even know yourself. You'll be with youngsters like yourself for a change."

Jay grinned, and pumped his fists into the air. "Yeah! Who's going to a magic school?! We are!" I smiled. At least my friends were excited to go too.

Josh Norville frowned. "Actually, only purebloods can go." Jay slowly stopped grinning as he let his fists slowly loosen to the ground. "O-oh okay."

My eyes widened in shock. "What?!" I exclaimed. It felt like someone had suddenly took a pin and struck at the excitement balloon inside my chest, popping it in an instance. "Only purebloods can go?!"

Josh Norville nodded. "And that is why my other, other reason I'm here stands. To get you ready for St. Stevensburg."

"Ready for St. Stevensburg?"

"Well of course! How else do you expect you'll get your course books and everything you need?!" Josh Norville said before turning towards Nya, who so happened to be the closest member of the gang to the new Destiny's Bounty's wheel. "Now, if you don't mind, I would really like to take my godson shopping for school supplies, so if you will please perhaps land us, maybe say in that approaching desert?"

"Wait, you're leaving now?!" Kai exclaimed.

Suddenly, I got extremely nervous. Leave now?! B-but I've never been anywhere Ninjago, it was my home, how was I suppose to-

"Don't worry, we'll be back. In fact, Zane has a whole other week left to go before he absolutely has to go."

Nya looked over towards Wu, who nodded at her, before turning back over to the wheel to turn it. It was clear she was uncertain about Josh Norville.

Josh Norville looked back at me. "You ready?"

I thinking a minute over this, nodded.

...

The new Destiny's Bounty loudly and swiftly landed. Dust of the desert, swirled in the new founded wind. Garmadon and I put our arm up to our heads to keep the sand out of our eyes as we walked up the stairs leading up to the deck. Slowly, the sandy wind settled, letting me bring down my arm. I squinted . Hundreds of miles of sand seemed to surround us and go on for miles and miles, with no sighs of what seemed of human life. Or any life in that matter. Where it seemed like no one could hear your loud pain-stricken, yells for miles.

Strangely, I suddenly felt a pang of fear inside of me. Why, in all places, did Josh Norville pick this human lifeless like place? What seemed like a perfect killing spot...

What if Josh Norville actually wasn't my godfather, but an enemy of the ninjas? What if he tricked Sensi Wu to kill me? A lump of fear seemed to find it's self forming in the middle of my throat, making it hard for me to breathe as Josh Norville walked up the stairs leading up to the deck in pursuit. I watched as he grinned as Kai finished up saying something, and laugh. I grimaced as I wrapped my hands harder around the railing of the new Destiny's Bounty, pushing my fingernails into my hands. I wanted to bang my head upon the railing. Why, in the world was I afraid? I was a ninja for Pete's sake! I shouldn't be afraid, but yet ready! I should feel strong, steady, or uncaring even!

Before I knew it, the drawbridge to the new Destiny's Bounty had landed onto the ground, and Josh Norville was already halfway across it when he looked back at me. I gulped. He flashed me a friendly and kind looking smile. "You coming?"

Snapping out of my trance like thinking state, I quickly let go of the railing and joined him. I told myself not to worry, because if he did, I'll be ready...

Before I knew it, it seemed like seconds flashing by, Josh Norville and I had gotten off the drawbridge, and was waving goodbye to the gang till the drawbridge was raised and they were off. Soon they were nothing but a small speck in the sky, seemingly going farther and father away, getting smaller and smaller.

I turned around as I heard Josh Norville starting to complain. "Urrg! These stupid little dimensional travelers! Ever since Panem Snow became one of the most important presidents in the universe, the production of these new dimensional travelers has became garbage! Not, not that Panem Snow isn't a good president of course," Josh Norville said, turning towards me. He looked slightly nervous, like he had suddenly halfway thought I might just perhaps have a rather strong different idea in the political views of this Panem Snow. I shrugged. I didn't even have a clue who this Panem Snow was.

Josh Norville closed and reopened the dimensional traveler, this time it showed the little weird ray of rainbow like it did the first time. Josh Norville grinned. "Ah, there we go!"

Quickly, he touched the pearl and a pinkish purple dial appeared, which he started to turn, like a school locker lock. The little ray of rainbow disappeared and every time he turned the dial, a small little window of people and places appeared. Finally, he stopped.

Laying the dimensional traveler onto the ground, Josh Norville backed up, pushing me back with his arm. "Best if you stand back."

I nodded.

Suddenly, the little window started to grow bigger and bigger with a loud whoshing sound, until suddenly, it shot up into the high air with a pink beam following it.

I gasped. Josh Norville grinned at my surprise.

Suddenly, the window fell to the ground right next to the dimensional traveler. Everything else stopped.

Still grinning, Josh Norville walked halfway through the portal. "Well come on!" he said.

Then I followed Josh Norville through the portal and into a world I didn't know.

Or at least..., so I thought.

...

The first thing I noticed as the white blinding flash enveloped me, was that I suddenly felt shorter, like as if my body had just suddenly dropped off three full inches. And as the blinding flash continued, I felt like, if-if this is even possible, that my body was changing. It felt like it was pulling away at the hard, tough looking old tin nindroid I once was, for it to be soonly be replaced with a soft, little, and innocent kid. Soon though, the blinding flash left, leaving as fast as it had came.

As I opened my eyes, and as place begun forming into view, I looked down. Away was my sturdy build and bulkiness, to be replaced with soft, light skin. And even though my clothes were smaller as well, they had gotten smaller with me, my ninja outfit seemed no longer tight and snuggled up to me like it once was, but instead, it was doing quite the opposite. Though it still "technically" fitted me, it now fitted very loosely, and there was now in fact enough room for me and Josh Norville inside. My hair, now down and the color of soft, crispy, newly laid snow, laid down on my head to look a lot like Josh Norville's (long and shaggy) except for the little bits of unruly hair now all over my head that refused to go down, and had decided to reveal it's self to me by pushing my new bangs into my eyes. Somehow; oddly I had quiet calmly realized that I was an eleven-year-old kid. I strangely didn't feel tensed, or even affected by it. In fact, I actually-for the first time ever actually- felt physically accurate, as if I knew deep down inside me, this-this is how my body is supposedly supposed to be like.

I quickly brushed them out of the way as I suddenly found Josh Norville watching me. With a moment of sad recognization hinted on his face, he suddenly flashed a grin at me, reached over and started ruffling up my hair.

"Hey, stop it!"I raised up my hands defenselessly. Josh Norville stopped and chuckled. Nervously, I patted my unruly hair. Josh Norville laughed once again before turning and starting to walk away. I followed him in pursuit, looking around as seemed to be in some strange white and yellow tiled train station, with Josh Norville walking steadily towards one of the small lingering lines of people that stood, waiting, in what seemed like a turnstyle and a ticket booth. Straight north of those things were sighs on the wall, ones saying things like: Aliens, Mushroomlized, and The Great Gatsby. To the far right of me, behind a white tiled column, trains of all sorts and sizes seemed to go on about their way, back and forth. Huge men, all wearing red and slightly blue uniforms, stood formally around the area in different areas, and if you look close enough at them, you could see that they seemed to have the built and scruffiness of the body and face of a huge bulldog, I noticed as one stared me down as we passed. I gulped.

Turning back to look at Josh Norville, I said, "T-this is the Great Gatsby dimension?"

"Huh, what? Oh, no, no, no, no." (Josh Norville had started laughing now at this.)

"Zane, welcome to the Panem Snow Crossroads of Dimensional Travel Station!"

"The what?!"

"The Panem Snow Crossroads of Dimensional Travel Station. Another thing added since the appointment of Panem Snow as one of the most important presidents in the universe. It's the last step of dimensional traveling. Panem has been trying to help improve the situation since she first heard about it." Josh Norville stopped and looked back at me. "You could either take the train or the dimensional portals. If you ask me though, I preferably prefer the dimensional portals," Josh Norville said before turning back around, and walking again. I followed again, in pursuit.

I looked around again, mainly looking at the guards. I could'a now swore that the guards had huge scruffy blueish grey bulldog faces.

"What's with all the guards?"

Josh Norville shrugged mindlessly." Oh, they're just the Panem Snow Crossroads of Dimensional Travel Station's newest development in security systems. Can't be too tight with security nowadays, after all what's happened, of course . I mean, we did just finish up a huge, major all out universal war after all. And with that idea in mind, you can never be too sure what crazy manic would, or when for that matter, attack for revenge on their side."

My eyes widened up in surprise as I struggled to keep up. (Josh Norville had now started speeding up his pace.)

"A huge major all out universal war?"

"Yep."

Josh Norville suddenly stopped and turned around to face me again as we reached one of the lingering lines. "You still have your list? It was the second sheet in your envelope."

I nodded, and started to pull out my envelope from my pocket.

BAM!

A huge explosion rocketed the station, causing Josh Norville and I to whip around towards the noise.

There, behind the second of the three white tiled columns, a scene was going on.

A man, around the age of twenty it seemed, with a black and white mask, blue skin, a long red cape swung around his neck that went almost all the way down to his feet , and wearing a black turtleneck tuxedo was being grabbed by two of the bulldog guards, despite his protests.

"I didn't do it!" He yelled as they started to drag him away.

"Yea right, tell that to the judge," one said as a third bulldog guard reached them. The other one nodded, as he reached into one of the man's many pockets and pulled out a stack of dynamite, suddenly causing tons of boxes labeled" Dynamite" to flow out. The man struggled even more.

"That isn't mine! You will all pay! You will all feel the wrath of Mumbo Jumbo!"

"Yea, yea, we'll pay alright," one of the bulldog guards said mindlessly as they grabbed better hold of the man and started to pull him away.

"You shall all pay! You will all pay for what you've done to my lord, Grinmey!" The man's eyes narrowed on me, locking on mine, as they struggled to pull him away.

"You, you, young child shall also be one of those that feel my wrath!"

Sneering and wheezing, the man was taken slowly away. The third bulldog guard, who had been watching this the whole time, turned to the side and pulled out a little walkie talkie. "The Mumbo Jumbo threat has been done with. Repeat, the Mumbo Jumbo threat has been taken care of." The guard turned off the walkie talkie and turned to us. "You may now return to your planed, everyday activities. The threat has been taken care of," he said before walking off.

Josh Norville looked back at me, like as if nothing had just happened, as everyone else went back to what they were doing. "So, you still have your list?"

I nodded, and pulled out my school list. As the lingering line grew shorter and shorter still, I read aloud :

St. Stevensburg of Hwargts School for Purebloods

Uniform:

1. Three Sets of Plain Work Robes-Black-( For special occasions that will occur through the year)

2. One Plain Pointed Hat –Black-(For special occasions that will occur through the year)

3. One Pair of Protective Gloves(dragon hide or similar)

4. One Winter Cloak (Black, silver fastenings)

Books

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

The Standard Book of Earthbending ( Grade 1) by Earthbender Master Yu

Mastering Waterbending (Grade 1) by Waterbender Master Pakku

The Standard Beginner's Guide of Mastering Firbending ( Grade 1) by Firebender Master Iroh

The Movements and Spiritualism of Airbending (Grade 1) by Master Gyatso

The Sun Warriors and their Movements by Geong Tenn

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Magical Creatures and their Preserves by Stan Sorenson

The Boy who would be Merlin by Jane Youish

Other Equipment

1 Wand

1 Cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set of glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set of brass scales

Students may also bring, if they desire, a small animal from their homeland

Looking up from my school list, I wondered aloud, " Can we find all this where we're going ,Mr. Josh Norville?"

Josh Norville looked down at me. "If you know where to go. And Zane, I'm your godfather-you can just call me Josh, okay?"

I nodded, before going back to my list.

Twice today it seemed, a ballon sized air of excitment seemed to fill inside of me- starting within my chest. This was it. I was finally going on an adventure where I-I was the main leader-the main one. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Lloyd and his natural elemental abilities, but-But this was exciting and finally on me. And looking up at Josh now, the fears of him betraying seemed silly and floated away. As we both stepped forward in line, I looked back down at my school list. "1 set of glass or crystal phials, now what the heck are phials?" I thought.

"Location?"

The voice rang suddenly, snapping me out of my thoughts, making me jerk my head up. We were now at the front of the line with the ticket booth and turnstyles- and a rather large, ugly purple, pink, and green dress wearing, uncaringly agitated looking, and gum chewing black haired lady staring down at me from within the ticket booth. A large pink bubble of bubblegum brewed out of her mouth before popping and going right back in.

"Oh, um-yes, the Great Gatsby dimension please," Josh said, reaching into his pants pocket, and pulling out a small, dim, bent up, and ugly yellowish gold colored coin-placing it onto the ticket booth. The ticket booth lady nodded before pulling out two hand held scanners to scan us with. All of a sudden, the balloon of excitement inside of me just seemed to pop. Filling so full of excitement earlier, I had left for adventure, not realizing that I might need money..., and that wasn't Ninjago money. Oh, how could I've been so foolish!? What would happen now?! Would Josh get mad at me, disappointed of me, his own godson not having at least one coin of his dimension's money... Okay, the last one of those thoughts was really stupid...

"Any particular spot?" the lady asked.

"Yes, near Diagon Alley of TellTale Heart would be great."

The lady nodded before pressing a button inside of the ticket booth. A blue portal simultaneously appeared suddenly right in front of us. "Good day."

"Yes, well um, come on Zane," Josh said before walking into the portal. I followed.

...

A few, small green weeds made themselves visible as the portal disappeared, leaving us in a small, walled courtyard, where there was nothing but a trash can and the few weeds. "Ah perfect," Josh said, before once again digging into his pockets- as I quickly scanned the place. What kind of place was this?! This-this was were Josh wanted to take me? Suddenly the fears of Josh betraying seemed not so silly as I looked at him, and watched him dig along inside of his pockets. "Here we go...," Josh said looking up, and having a wand in hand. "Now if I remember correctly,.. three up... and two across..." He tapped the wall three times with his wand. The brick he had touched quivered- it wiggled- in the middle, a small hole appeared- it grew wider and wider- a second they were looking at an archway leading to an old looking, but marvelous and filled street that seemed to go on forever. I gasped.

"Welcome Zane," said Josh," To Diagon Alley of TellTale Heart."