Chapter Eight: This is Drake's doing, isn't it?
I darted into the school, happily signing for all the world to see, 'Honey! I'm home!'
"Drake..." Jay, Cole, Lloyd, and all the elemental masters soon to be ninjas groaned loudly at that. Uh...funny, why didn't Zane or sis say anything? Lloyd raised his voice, worry edging it. "Uncle Wu? We're back!"
"Where have you been!? You si... why is all of the elemental masters standing behind you?" Sensei froze, staring at our new friends.
Nya coughed loudly, amusement dancing in her eyes. "Yeah about that... they want to train to be ninjas."
"What!?"
"And I probably should tell you right now that I was Samurai X, I decided to retire and have helped Pixal take over for me in that aspect..."
"What!?"
"Also, I'm the master of water so I'll be joining the guys on their adventures from now on."
"What!?" Sensei rolled his eyes to the back of his head as he collapsed to the ground.
I raised an eyebrow at Nya, not entirely sure she should have done all of that like...I don't know the way she did it? 'Nya... next time try one piece of news at a time.'
Nya snorted as she slipped into the secret sign language that we were the only ones that knew it. 'Chill bro. I just wanted to get revenge on him for that time he made me faint from news.'
I frowned at that, confusion settling in. Since when did Sensei make her faint from news he delivered? 'If you say so...'
"Uh...Drake? What did she say exactly?" Jay scratched the back of his neck, clearly bewildered on what it is that we were talking about.
'Trust me... you don't want to know.' I signed quickly, deciding against explaining what she just said since I have no idea what she was talking about.
"Why is my brother unconscious in the hallway? Drake what did you do?" Garmadon appeared in the hallway, eyebrow raised as he stared first at Sensei's limp form, then at me as if it were all my fault.
'It was my sister's doing this time!' I quickly signed, shoving Nya forward so that she can take the blame.
"Samurai X isn't here." "Oh sure, throw me under the bus why don't you?"
"Wait..." Garmadon stared at her for several seconds...before joining Wu on the floor.
Misako walked in right then, and immediately froze upon realizing that her husband and brother-in-law were both laying on the ground comatose. "Do I want to know what Drake did this time?"
'Why is everyone presuming that I'm the one responsible!?'
"Should we be concerned that so far everyone has presumed that this is Drake's doing?" Skylor nervously raised her hand, raising one eyebrow upwards.
"Drake has a really strong sixth sense as well is able to see, sense, we're not entirely sure which, various outcomes with different events." Cole hurriedly explained, ignoring the withering look that Nya was shooting him.
"For the last time... my brother doesn't have a sixth sense! Honestly!" Nya threw her hands in the air with exasperation, before a look of pure worry and panic flashed across her features. "Wait... if we managed to defeat Chen without opening up a portal to the Cursed Realm... does that mean we won't have to fight the Preeminent? Will we actually not have to deal with Nadahkan!?" Nya sounded a bit excited about that for some reason, though I couldn't figure out why.
The lack of a random subconscious thought popping in my head to explain that away was all that was needed to tell me that I didn't know what she was talking about. "So... I'm taking it isn't Drake's doing this time?"
"No...it's me." Nya apologized, before saying the last thing I had expected her to ever say. "I just told me that thing I had told you and Pixal before training her to be the new Samurai X."
"Oh...so they just fainted over the fact that your the master of water and Drake's sister. Gotcha."
"She's what now!?" Garmadon stared at her for another few seconds, before passing out again.
"I think you took this way better... since you just asked way too many questions instead of fainting." Nya drily announced as she stared at them.
"Ya think?!" 'Wait...you told Misako and Pixal?!'
"Brother dearest... of course I told them!" Nya shot me a look, annoyance flaring in her eyes. "I don't have to ask your permission to do anything."
'Fine... yo! Sky! Wanna grab some ice cream?' Where did that come from? It must have shown on my face, since the guys began sniggering, Jay not so subtly whispering about how it looks like I had a crush.
I scowled at him, even as Skylor signed me a quick response. 'Sure thing. Never been on a date before.'
"What are you two talking about?" All of the elemental masters asked in unison.
Jay facepalmed himself, even as Zane turned to face them. "Perhaps you all should stay here for a crash course on sign language? While those two go out on their date." I started at that, my fingers twitching in an incoordinate way that mimicked spluttering. Zane held his hand out to stop my spluttering, raising one eyebrow upwards. "You just asked a young lady to go out for ice cream with you. That is a date last I checked."
Before I could think of an protest against that, Skylor grabbed me by the arm and dragged me out of there. "Come on... let's go get that ice cream."
~Zane's POV~
It wasn't until after I had sent Kai and Skylor off on their first out of what I strongly suspected would be many dates, that I realized that maybe I should have sent Nya with them. For protection... from her for me. Nya's eyes narrowed dangerly as she zoned in on me. "Let's split up into smaller groups. Jay and Cole can teach one group, while Lloyd and Misako teaches another. Zane and I will team up." Yep... definitely should have sent her with them...
Whacking my CPU for an idea to get away from her, I blurted out the first thing that came to mind. "I promised Pixal that I would show her how to do spinjitzu!" Breaking at a sprint, I bolted out of there. There's no way that any of them could tell that I was making up excuses. Right?!
A/N: Done! Finally! I was supposed to post this Wednesday but didn't start working on it till Thursday... and then stuff happened and it is so, so, so late! Sorry! Poor Zane, he forgot that Nya knows that he knows at least a little bit more than he is supposed to... and Nya was trying to make it very easy for her to grill him for answers. Thankfully Zane realized his mistake and came up with an excuse to get out of it...for now. Oooh! I should totally have it so that everyone keeps trying to keep Nya away from Zane after he did the this is too obviously an excuse to keep away from her, much to Zane's relief, and confusion since he thinks he did a good job and that no one knows he's trying to avoid her, and the frustration of Nya who really needs to question Zane on how much he knows...especially since Kai/Drake can't do that for her.
Poll: Skybound or No Skybound?
Results: Yeah for Skybound! Next chapter will be Ronin releasing Nadahkan and all that fun stuff!
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PiratePirata: I've rewritten Skybound before, and I'm sure that it's definitely going to be a bit different. For starters, Echo lives in the city with Dr. Julian still. Another thing... who says Nadahkan knows sign language? I wasn't actually including Hands of Time with the voting... I need that one to happen to get Ray and Maya back, and to, eh hm, spoilers. That one has to happen before March of the Oni, which is still gonna happen after Sons of Garmadon. If I can get it to actually do that one the way I am picturing it. Let's just say that the ninjas get very very tired of the SoGs after awhile if it goes according to plan...
Verbum artis: Ta-da! Your vote has been cast and Ronin shall release Nadahkan! Now I just need to think up the other changes that will go with that... I would love to see him try to frame all of the ninjas when there is so many more of them than what was in the show. Plus Pixal. Never underestimate Pixal!
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