Chapter One

It's Supposed To Be A New Beginning

Megan's Point of View:

I stood in the center of the ground and watched as Rachel paced back and forth. It had been nearly half an hour since we sent Amari to deliver the message.

"Where is she?!" Rachel shouted, "She was supposed to be back, like, an hour ago!"

"Technically it's been thirty minutes and five-point-five seconds," I corrected.

Rachel scowled and continued to pace across the ground, scuffing her feet into the dirt with each drag, and breaking the silence with a flash of sound and light, Amari returned.

"Sorry I'm late you guys," Amari said with a slight catch of her breath.

Rachel ran over and slapped her on the back of the head, "Where have you been?"

"Eating ice cream with pandas," said Amari in a sarcastic tone, "You didn't have to hit me so hard."

Standing up, I asked with worry, "Did anyone see you?"

Still rubbing the back of her head, she answered, "No, not unless you count that squirrel I saw sleeping in an old burrito. People can litter so much at the park."

"You went to the park?!" Rachel exclaimed.

"Of course not! I was passing by it while on my way here. And why should it matter if anybody did see me? It's not like we're fighting Dimirtri again!" Amari argued.

"It matters because it's possible that something else out there is looking for us!"

"Would both of you knock it off!" I yelled, "We're not going to get caught! That's what we called them for. We can't go through this alone, but we also have to remember that it's not only about us this time. Got it?"

"Whatever you say….general," Rachel said with a scowl.

She walked past me and sat down on a large rock as Amari plopped herself down on the grass with an irritable look on her face.

"I hate taking human form," she muttered, "So many weird…emotions."

By then, I had nothing left to say. So, that's just what I did; nothing. I kept my mouth shut and walked over to the nearest tree I could find and climbed it to the top branch, and once I got to the top, there was nothing in my sight but the infinite numbers of stars in the sky. For that moment, it was all I could think of.

"Nice job tonight, Rachel," I said.

She kept her eyes to the ground and her arms folded across her chest as she muttered, "Thanks."

"You see them yet, Megan?" Amari asked.

"Nope," I said keeping my eyes fixed on the stars.

And it was silent for the moment. Amari had decided to take a nap on the grass while Rachel got started on a fire. At this point, it would have easy to assume that they weren't going to show up, that we could just go home, but for beings like us, nothing was ever easy. That is, until I saw lights in the distance.

I jumped to the ground, "Rachel!"

Her head shot up, "What is it?"

"I saw lights coming in this direction," I stated.

"Are you sure it's them?" she asked.

"I'm not completely positive, but who else would it be? There aren't any roads around this area."

The roaring sound of engines suddenly grew louder and closer with every word we spoke. Rachel then looked at me and without hesitation, quickly put out the fire.

"Go transparent," she said before disappearing. I did the same and silently waited for something to happen.

The engines suddenly came to a stop and the sound of a car door slammed shut. "Megan!" I hear Rachel whisper.

"Dude, be quiet!" I whisper back.

"But-" she says.

"Ssh!"

I waited silently in the thin air for someone or something to show up when something broke the silence. A long and loud snore came from the darkness. I realized that we had forgotten Amari.

"Crap," I mumbled, "Amari…"

Her snores continued on as I made my way towards her, trying to wake her up.

"For God's sake, Amari, wake up!" I whispered.

"No burritos for pandas…" Amari muttered.

Growing footsteps filled the atmosphere and drew closer by the minute.

"Come on!" I said.

Seeing that there were no solutions left, I hesitantly made way towards Rachel and silently waited for the roaring sound of nearing engines to die down.

It all stopped.

Amari's Point of View:

I could really use a waffle right about now.

"For God's sake, Amari, wake up!" I hear someone whisper.

Drowsily, the words 'No burritos for pandas' escape from my lips before I flip over on my side and continue napping. Footsteps suddenly scurry away and my silent snores fill the air along with the annoying sound of engines. Whoa- engines? Hm, probably nothing serious; I'll just go transparent.

"We know you're here," growls a low voice, "Why do you bother to hide?"

Now I know it's not the guys, unless Jay suddenly became a man and decided to join the Underworld.

"Should we not just leave?" says another voice, "They do not wish to fight, which means we can take what is ours."

"Are you a fool?! We are the darkness, we take what is ours and leave them with something to remember our names!" the low voice responds.

"Don't you bet on it…" I mutter softly.

"We shall retrieve it at the third moon," retaliated the low voice.

With the sound of sand-like material whooshing through the air, the two un-seeable beings left the scene, with us standing in the darkness.

Rachel's Point of View:

Megan and I emerged from our transparent forms and watched as Amari's form lit up the area.

"Well that was fun!" she said idiotically.

"Why can't we just be left alone?" I moan while crashing towards the ground.

"It's just like Paradise, Rachel," Megan explains, "There's a war going on every day."

I scowl and fold my arms, "You always have to bring that up."

"Amari!" a voice shouts.

I jerk up into a sitting position.

"They're here!" Amari exclaims excitedly.

"Is it really them?" I ask.

Megan didn't respond. I quickly stood up and watched as Amari used her power to light up the entire space we were in.

"Whoa! Turn that light down! It's blinding me!" a familiar voice shouts.

Amari did as requested and dimmed her light to reveal five figures slightly being shown in Amari's light.

"Roller coaster buddy!" Amari shouts excitedly as she tackles Lloyd to the ground.

"Why….."Lloyd moans.

Kai snapped his fingers and flicked a small flame towards the fire pit and made a new fire appear. Cole pushed his way through the group, "Rachel!"

My face lit up as I ran over to Cole and gave him a huge hug.

"Best friend!" I yelled.

I took a peek over Cole's shoulder and watched as Zane and Megan shyly waved to each other from a distance.

"It feels awesome to see you guys again!" Cole says after letting me go.

"It feels like it's been forever!" Jay states.

"It's good to see you guys too," Megan says.

"It's been only a year and you guys are acting like it's been a lifetime," Amari says slickly.

"Yeah that's great and all, but can you get off me now?" Lloyd says with annoyance.

Amari rolled off of Lloyd's body and lied on the grass with her eyes facing towards the stars while Lloyd sat up and glared at Amari with an irritated expression.

"Anyway…." started Lloyd, "What did you call us for?"

"When we last saw you guys, Dimitri was trying to take your elemental powers and fuse them together to give himself more power," Megan explained.

"But that didn't really end up so well," said Amari.

"What he created was a tear in the immortality layers between Paradise and the Underworld. That tear released demons from the Underworld into Paradise and parts of the Earth, including Ninjago," continued Megan.

"But what does that have to do with us?" Jay asked.

"That's the thing," I said, "We don't know. We can understand what they want with me, Megan, and Amari, but what we can't get is why they are targeted towards you guys."

"Demons have a way of taking possession of mortals and messing with their lives here on Earth," mentioned Amari.

"This is so weird," Lloyd said.

"Yeah, it's confusing," Amari said casually.

"We'll try to explain more on our way back home," I mentioned.

Cole's face tensed up, "Yeah, about that…."

"We know you raided our house," I said.

"How-" Zane started.

"Hello, angels," Megan said while pointing at all of us.

"All right then," Zane said.

"Let's get back before it's sunrise," Lloyd suggested.

"Good idea," Amari said while jumping to her feet.

"Hey, wait a minute," Kai said, "Where's Blaire?"

We all froze. I looked at Megan while she turned away and looked at Amari who was staring back at me.

"Uh…" Amari mumbled.

"Um," Megan said.

"She's….not….coming back," I hesitated to say.

Kai gave me a look of shock as the group remained silent, not knowing what to say.

Sooooo, it's me! I hoped you liked my first chapter and I hope I don't have too many grammar mistakes! Lol Please leave great reviews and I will see you next Monday with a new, and hopefully better, chapter! Bye! :D