Chapter 1

Truth or Dare

The ninja are always busy saving Ninjago. It just seems like it's constant battle after battle after battle for them. It's hard to find any moment where they can get a break. They enjoy being Ninjago's protectors, but it can get exhausting sometimes.

The ninja were ecstatic to finally get some time off. They discussed what to do with their free time and when Lloyd suggested camping, all of the ninja happily agreed. They packed up everything that they would need to go camping for a night and left. They went into the forest, found a nice spot to camp for the night, and set up their tents.

"It's nice for the six of us to hand out, just us," Jay told Nya as they were finishing setting up their tent.

"We don't get a lot of time off and even when we do, we all go off and do our own thing," Nya said. "Although, I am glad that we managed to get a tent to ourselves."

"Me too."

"When you two lovebirds are done, come over here and help us with the fire!" they both heard Kai calling them over.

Jay and Nya started walking over to the others who were around a pile of wood. It was starting to get dark and cold. "Kai, you realize that you are the elemental master of fire, right?" Nya said. "You can just use your powers to light the fire."

"Oh...right." Kai lit his hand on fire and directed it at the wood which started their campfire.

"Who wants to roast some marshmallows to make s'mores?" Cole asked and passed the bag of marshmallows around.

"So, should we play a game?" Lloyd asked.

"What game should we play?" Zane asked.

"What about truth or dare?" Nya suggested.

"Works for me," Kai said.

"Let's do it," Cole said.

Everyone sat down around the fire, but they didn't notice that there was someone hidden behind the trees watching them.

"I'll start," Nya said. "Kai, truth or dare?"

"Dare," Kai said.

"I dare you to not use your hair gel tomorrow morning."

"WHAT?! Nya, you can't be serious!" Kai was practically begging his sister to not have that dare.

"I'm dead serious." She glanced at the green ninja. "A little help, Lloyd."

"Sure," Lloyd said and went over to Kai's bag to grab his hair gel and he dumped it out.

"NO!" Kai yelled.

"Sorry Kai," Nya said. "You picked dare."

"Ok fine." Kai looked around for his victim. "Lloyd, truth or dare."

"Truth," Lloyd said nervously.

"No dare?"

"I'm not crazy! I was just the one who dumped your hair gel."

"Fine." Kai thought of a good question to ask Lloyd. "What were you really doing last week when you got out of training by telling Master Wu you were sick?"

"Uh...What?"

"Tell us what you were doing."

"I-I wasn't doing anything. I-I was sick."

Everyone could tell Lloyd was lying. "You picked truth, so you have to answer honestly," Jay told him.

"Fine," Lloyd caved. "I wanted to have a day off for once, so I hid in my room watching TV and reading comic books."

"That wasn't as bad as I was hoping for," Kai said.

"Wait. All of you knew I wasn't really sick?!"

"Of course we did," Cole said. "We figured you just needed a day. Besides, you are far from the first one to do it. We've all pretended to be sick at least once. Next time, you don't have to hide it from us. We've all started covering for each other." Everyone nodded. "Anyways, you pick the next person."

Lloyd looked around at everyone. "Zane, truth or dare?"

"Truth," Zane said.

"How serious have you and PIXAL been getting?"

There was a chorus of 'oohs' that followed Lloyd's question.

"How is this relevant?" Zane asked.

"You're the one who picked truth," Lloyd said.

"Missions have gotten in the way of our relationship. I promised her that we would spend some time together tomorrow when we get back."

"That's sweet," Nya said.

"Cole, do you pick truth or dare?" Zane asked the earth ninja.

"Dare," Cole said.

"I dare you to watch us eat the cake we brought and you are not allowed to eat a single bite."

"That's a really good one," Jay said as he, along with the other ninja, laughed. Cole just gave him a death glare.

Zane passed out slices of cake to everyone except Cole and they started eating it.

Cole crossed him arms. "This is so unfair," he huffed. Cole waited until everyone was done eating before he continued their game. "Jay, truth or dare?"

"Truth," Jay answered and Cole and Kai groaned. "What?"

"You always pick truth," Kai complained.

"Because I don't trust you guys."

"It's no fun if you never choose dare."

"Why are you picking on me? Lloyd and Zane always pick truth too."

"Well, Lloyd is the youngest and Zane is a nindroid," Cole explained. "We just don't argue with what they pick. Just let me give you a dare this once."

"Fine," Jay caved. None of the ninja noticed that there was someone hidden in the forest watching them. "What dare are you giving me?"

"I dare you to..." Cole looked around, trying to decide on what to dare Jay. "I dare you to go deeper into the forest alone and stay there for ten minutes."

Jay paled. "Y-You want me to do what?!"

Nya grabbed Jay's hand and squeezed it. "You don't have to do it if you don't want to," Nya told him. "Technically, you picked truth first, so it's ok if you don't want to do it."

"I-It's fine. I-I'll do it." Jay got up and walked off while everyone else stayed around the fire.

"It's ok. There is nothing creepy out here," Jay was trying to reassure himself. "I'm just alone in the forest...at night." He heard a branch cracked and tensed up until he saw that it was just a squirrel. "See. There's nothing scary."

"Hello blue ninja."

Jay immediately froze when he heard that familiar voice.

"Did you miss me?"

The others waited for Jay to come back. It had been fifteen minutes which was longer than he was supposed to stay out there.

"I'm gonna go find him," Nya finally said.

"I'm sure he's fine, Nya," Kai said. "Just give him a few more minutes."

"You are very wrong, red ninja." Everyone immediately got up and saw someone very familiar to Nya holding Jay and Jay looked terrified.

"Nadakhan?!" she gasped. "How are you back?!"

"Some fool opened the Teapot of Tyrahn," he responded.

"That's Nadakhan?" Lloyd asked Nya in a whisper. Nya nodded. Jay and Nya told the others about Nadakhan in case he ever returned, but of course, they didn't know what he looked like.

"Let him go!" Cole yelled.

"You made a mistake, black ninja," Nadakhan said. "Sending him in the forest alone made it a lot easier for me to take him so I can get my revenge."

"We will stop you!" Kai growled.

"You will have to find me first."

Nadakhan poofed away with Jay leaving an orange cloud where they were.

Nya fell to her knees crying as Lloyd and Kai tried to comfort her. Cole stood where he was in shock. He couldn't move. He couldn't speak. He felt like it was all his fault. His best friend was in danger because of the stupid dare he gave him. Zane put a hand on Cole's shoulder and Cole looked up at the nindroid. "We will get him back," Zane said.

"I hope so."

A/N: I hope you enjoyed!