After dinner was made, the Bounty was back in the skies heading towards Ouroborus, and everyone on the Bounty came together in the dining room to eat. They sat in the same seats they did before but since there wasn't enough room, Terrin decided to sit outside and keep watch just in case.
As the ninja crew ate together and joked around and talked, Lucy watched her new team and listened intently at how they spoke to one another and what they were saying. When the conversations around the table started to quiet down a bit, Lucy decided to speak with a little smirk on her face,
"So you guys have known each other for a while now huh?"
The others looked towards Lucy and nodded while some said 'yes.'
"Oh I see," Lucy said and continued, "Yes it must be nice to fight alongside someone you really like, right guys and girls?"
Lucy took a sip of her drink as a few others looked at her suspiciously.
"And what do you mean by that exactly?" Flare asked calmly, as she took a sip of her drink.
Lucy placed her cup down and said, "I'm just saying it must be nice to fight along with someone you looove."
Flare choked on her drink, Kai choked on his food, Cole choked on food, and Christa put her hand on her mouth (she wasn't chewing anything). Auria just looked at Lucy wide-eyed as well as Zane, Dareth was surprised, and Violet looked at Lucy with one eyebrow raised. Jay, Reine, Nya, Raven and Lloyd just looked at the others since they were choking, Garmadon, Misako, and Dr. Julien were a bit confused, and Sensei Wu had no reaction (like a boss).
After the choking episode ceased, Cole asked, "Well, uh, I'm sure you just mean like friends right?"
Then Kai asked, "Yeah you mean friendly love right?"
Lucy then lifted her cup again and said, with a smile and mischievous eyes, "Not particularly. I'm aware your all close friends. What I'm saying is there are those of you who are closer than that... Jay and Nya... Lloyd and Raven... Dareth and Violet... maybe a few others... "
Lucy took another sip of her drink, as the couples she mentioned blushed, even Violet, although with sheer will power she was able to keep her blush barely visible. Reine looked towards Lloyd and Raven, as they both noticed that she was looking at them. At first they were startled and a bit afraid, but when Reine smiled at both of them, it eased their tension. Garmadon and Misako smiled as well to see that Reine wasn't upset about it. Then Lucy placed her cup down again and said,
"Well of course I don't believe they're the only ones who have such bonds..."
Lucy looked at the others who looked at her surprised.
"Oh, so there are other relationships you know about Lucy? And to think, you just got here," Sensei Wu said.
"EH AH AH, Hold on Sensei," Cole said with his hands raised up defensively.
"Yeah, just because Lucy says so that doesn't mean it's true," Kai said.
At that moment, Violet slapped her hand on the table and the knife that was there popped up as she grabbed it, backhanded, and looked towards Kai.
"You will address the princess respectfully Kai," Violet said darkly, as Kai gulped and the others who were looking at Violet moved back a little.
"Um, I'm sorry, uh Princess Lucy," Kai said quickly to Lucy.
"There's no need for a knife Violet, at least not for them," Flare said casually.
"It makes getting the point across easier," Violet replied.
"True, but the thing is..."
Flare also smacked her hand on the table and caught a knife in her hand, backhanded.
"I'll be the one to deal with him if you don't mind," Flare said, as she looked at Violet, who sat next to her.
After a moment, Violet placed the knife back on the table as Flare did so too with a smirk. Jay was rubbing the back of his head as he said,
"What a nice thought to know who's got our backs."
Silence followed, and then everyone started to laugh.
"Jay, you actually said something funny," Cole said.
"Even if you didn't mean it," Christa said, as Jay pouted which made the others laugh more.
Outside, Terrin had a smirk on his face.
Traveling to Ouroborus would take a while, so the Ninja crew decided to take one day break, and then they would test out their new powers and train, especially for Raven and Lucy. Reine would teach Lucy about using her Water element, and Auria, Christa, and Flare would teach Raven to use their elements.
In the morning the kunoichi used the top deck and in the evening the ninja used the top deck (which they were happy about, but Sensei Wu still woke them up early). Beginning the training was Raven, who stood in the center, while Auria, Christa, and Flare stood around where she was in a triangle. Kai, Lloyd, Cole, Zane, and Jay stood near the bow of the ship, while Misako, Garmadon, Dr. Julien, and Sensei Wu stood on the upper deck watching. Terrin was sitting on the left staircase to the upper deck, while Lucy stood sitting on the other staircase with her Platinum staff and Nya was standing near Lucy. Reine stood standing next to Terrin on the bottom staircase watching the girls begin their training.
"Okay Raven let's see what you can do now, and then we'll help you excel in your abilities," Christa said happily, and Raven nodded.
"Go ahead Raven, show us what you got," Flare said, as she wiped out her Platinum Shadow Scimitar.
Auria wiped out her Platinum Wind Fans, and Christa wiped out and slipped on her Platinum Sound Gauntlets. Raven raised her hands up in fists and stood with her left foot more forward and the other more back. Raven looked towards Christa first. Christa punched the air and sent out a sound wave towards Raven. Raven spinned to the side, and then she punched the air the same way as Christa. A smaller sound wave had emerged, and it went towards Christa, as she side-stepped out of the way.
"She really can use another element," Cole said, surprised.
Then Christa ran towards Raven and tried to attack, while Raven dodged. At one point, Christa tripped Raven and was about to hit her, when Raven held her hand up and a multicolored translucent shield appeared before her. Christa hit the shield and bounced back, which she instead did a back flip so that she wouldn't fly back.
"Already you can use a shield, good job Raven," Christa said, as she bowed to her, and Raven stood up and bowed back.
"Alright, me next!" Flare said, as Raven quickly turned towards Flare, and both girls readied them selves.
Flare stood holding her blade above her head back with her right hand, and with her left hand it stood forward out to the left. After a moment, Flare ran forward and began attacking Raven with quick movements, as Raven dodged each one. Then Flare charged up some shadows into her blade and tried to strike Raven, but then Raven grabbed the shadow blade just in time. They both struggled for control. Flare was moving forward, and then Raven began to push more forward, as she manipulated the shadows on Flare's blade in the opposite direction. Then Flare jumped back, and she slashed in Raven's direction with a shadow slash coming forth from her blade. Raven stood up straight, put her hands together in front of her, and when the shadow slash was close to her, she swipped her hands one up and one down and dispersed the shadow slash in those directions.
"Hiya!" Raven yelled out.
The audience was stunned by Raven's quick manuveur and some were like "OOOooo." Flare smirked, nodded, and then bowed as she said,
"Good. Well done, for now."
Raven bowed to Flare, and then she turned towards Auria, who nodded towards her. Raven stood in her fighting stance, and Auria only extended her arms out a little more. Then Auria jumped up and threw one of her fans towards Raven like a boomerang. Raven was able to dodge it the first time, and then she jumped up when the fan came back. In mid flight, Auria caught her one fan and threw the other towards Raven, who jumped towards it. Then Raven spun around and grabbed the fan, as she spun some more and then she unleashed a wind slash towards Auria. Auria spun and was able to dodge the strike, as she striked back. Raven was falling at this point, and she threw the fan towards Auria's wind attack so that it wouldn't hit her as she landed. When on the ground, Raven had to dodge a few more wind attacks, as Auria slowly descended to the ground. Once on the ground, Auria spun around in a short tornado, jumped out of it, and then smacked the tornado with her fan towards Raven. With little time to dodge, Raven got caught in the tornado and was being spun around in it. Lloyd looked on a bit worried, but when he saw that Reine and Terrin weren't worried, he stood where he was. Then the tornado that held Raven in it started to slow down. Raven had her eyes closed and she had her hands out to her sides. As she haulted to a stop, the winds around Raven continued to move around her in her control, as she made it spin around her like a wind shield. The ninja gasped, and the others were stunned.
However, Raven opened her eyes, and the wind immediately faltered and stopped. Raven looked at her hands concerned, as Auria approached her.
"W-What happened? It disappeared..." Raven said.
Then Auria replied, "You still need time before you can master using your powers. It's alright if you can't hold it for long, that's what training is for."
Raven looked up at Auria, and then bowed, as Auria bowed back.
"Interesting, very interesting," Reine said, as she walked towards Raven, and continued,
"As I can see it, your powers are starting to show more since you've acknowledged your power over them. However, they only seem to be usable to you when your in danger or fighting in general. Hm... we'll just have to teach you how to use your powers anytime and in full control. Well my dear child you'll have work to do."
Then Sensei Reine turned towards Auria and placed her hand on her shoulder, and said, "Well Auria, if you don't mind, may you be the first to train Raven in wind?"
Auria nodded and said, "Yes Sensei, I will."
Flare was questionable to this.
"Wait, how come Auria gets to train Raven first?" Flare asked, as Christa looked on with the same question in mind.
Sensei Reine walked closer towards Flare and Christa, who also walked closer to their Sensei.
"I feel it's best for Auria to train Raven since she has more experience using her element. Also, Flare I would like you to have more time to get to know your shadow element," Sensei Reine said, and Flare nodded respectfully.
Then Christa asked, "What about me Sensei? Do I need more time to train myself?"
Sensei Reine looked towards Christa and replied, "Well Christa... you need time to reflect on your heart, and then you can train Raven."
"What do you mean Sensei?" Christa asked, and Sensei Reine replied,
"You'll figure it out soon, your very close."
Christa nodded, although she was still wondering about what Sensei Reine meant. Auria looked towards Raven and asked,
"Are you ready?"
Raven looked towards Auria and nodded, "I'm ready."
Sensei Reine, Christa, and Flare cleared the area where Auria and Raven stood. Auria then grabbed a random sack of sand that stood on one side of the deck. She set it a few feet away from Raven, and then she stood next to Raven.
"For your first lesson, you will learn to harness the wind and use it to move the sack further away from you." Auria closed her fans and hung them on the sides of her belt.
Then she put her hands together, and as she separated them a current of wind formed between her separating hands. Then Auria took her right hand and made a circular motion up and then forward towards the bag. The wind current moved forward with much speed, as it pushed the bag away a few more feet.
"Oh," Raven said.
Then Auria pulled her right hand back towards herself, as the wind current pushed the bag from behind closer to it's original spot. Then Auria turned towards Raven and said,
"All you need to do is move the bag forward. You don't have to move it back."
Raven nodded, and then she put her hands together and closed her eyes. She slowly separated her hands, and a small wind current began to form. The others looked on in amazement as the wind current between Raven's hands began to grow. The air around Raven began to spiral around her as well, which alerted Auria.
"Raven, you don't need that much power," Auria said.
"But, I can't... I can't control it..." Raven said, while her hands were shaking, as the wind spiraling around her intensified and grew larger.
"Raven stop, cut it off," Auria said, as the others on the Bounty grew concerned.
"I'm trying... it's... AH!" Raven yelled out, as she opened her eyes and immediately the wind dispersed violently outward.
The ninja blocked themselves, as well as the kunoichi, and the others ducked down and covered themselves, as the powerful gust pushed them all back a few feet. After the gust receited, the Ninja crew looked up and saw Raven on her knees rubbing her head. Auria walked towards Raven and put her hand gently on her right shoulder, as the others also walked towards Raven, but they stood back to give her some room to breathe. Raven looked up at Auria and said,
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I-I just couldn't control it."
Auria nodded and said, "It's alright. It takes time to master using an element like wind. It's more free and versatile than any other element, which makes harnessing it rather problematic since that goes against it's properties. But don't fret, I'll help you."
Auria nodded towards Raven, as she slowly nodded back.
"Wow Raven, you got a lot of power huh?" Lucy asked kindly.
Then Sensei Reine said, "Yes she does. That's why it's imperative that she trains to control it."
Sensei Reine walked in front of Raven and bent down to her level.
"Don't worry Raven. I'll be here for you okay honey?" Reine said softly, and Raven looked up at her and nodded and said,
"Okay mama. I'll try very hard."
Reine smiled and patted Raven's head and said, "Don't strain yourself alright?"
Raven smiled back and said, "Okay."
Then Sensei Wu said, "If you need any help in your training Raven, I'm sure Lloyd can assist you as well. After all, he also had to train to master his own abilities as the Green ninja."
Raven looked up towards Lloyd, who looked at his uncle surprised. Sensei Wu nodded towards Lloyd, as he understood and walked towards Raven. He kneeled down and said,
"I'll help you in any way I can Raven. It's gonna be a lot of work, let me tell ya, but I'll be here for you too."
"And me," Flare said.
"And me," Auria said.
"Me too," Christa said.
"And me too," Lucy said.
Cole looked towards the guys, as they nodded towards him, and Cole said, "Us too."
Sensei Wu looked towards the others, as they nodded, and Sensei Wu said, "And we will as well."
"I most definantly will," Terrin said.
Raven looked around at the others, as she smiled widely, and stood up, while Reine and Lloyd stood up.
"Okay... It's time for me to train then," Raven said, as the others stood back and nodded.
Then Raven looked back at the sack of sand, and she put her hands together and brought forth a wind current. She was able to move her right hand forward, while the wind gust pushed the sand sack away. The Ninja crew was ecstatic at seeing Raven move the sack with wind, as well as Raven.
"I Did It!" Raven said in delight, as she moved her hand back.
But then the wind gust came back and not only pushed the sack, but the Ninja crew along with it.
"AAHHH!" They all yelled out.
Some of them fell back like Kai, Jay, Christa, Lucy, Violet, Dareth, Misako, and Dr. Julien, while the others were able to block which helped them keep their footing and catch the ones flying back. Raven turned quickly towards the others and said,
"Oops... S-Sorry."
They all signed.
"Well, at leassst we're getting somewhere," Terrin said, as he walked towards Raven and put his hand on her shoulder, and they exchanged a smile.