This is the longest chapter I've made so far.
[+2] Nova's luck to a hit.
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*Sounds of arguing are heard somewhere in the Monastery.*
"My turn! Uh, it's my turn!"
"Oh, you want a little more? Take this!"
"Yeah? How about a little of this?"
"Monkey paw to the head!"
"Ninja, roll!"
"Say your last prayer!"
*Wu walked around trying to find the ninja, and Nova.*
"Dragon punch!"
Wu goes to the training compound and is shocked to see that the ninja are actually training. Jay is deflecting arrows with his weapons, Cole is practicing on the dummies. Kai is practicing his spinjitzu, Zane is meditating, and Nova is practicing her elemental powers against a cardboard cut of a serpentine.
"Ninja, go!"
Zane suddenly gets up from his meditation process and disturbs the other ninja. He starts by jumping in front of Jay.
"Hey! Huh?"
He steals Cole's weapons for the dummy test.
"Hey! What?"
"Ninja, go!" Zane goes on to use his spinjitzu on the whole compound, causing Kai to slip.
"Woah, oof."
Zane then jumps to the side and uses his shurikens on Nova's cardboard serpentine, freezing it.
"What the fuck, Zane!" Nova shouted.
"Language!" shouted the ninjas.
All four regroup as they look over at Zane, who just ruined everyone else's training.
"This roof isn't big enough for the four of us." Kai narrowed his eyes towards Zane.
"Five of us." Nova added, crossing her arms, standing between Cole and Jay.
"Correction: This roof isn't big enough for him." Cole pointed at Zane.
"It's like he's in his own world. I BET HE CAN'T EVEN HEAR US!" Jay raised his voice.
Nova let out a heavy sigh. "I really do like Zane, but damn it my guy, couldn't he at least NOT go for my cardboard snake. Now I need a new target to practice on." thinking to herself, until she noticed sensei Wu coming over to them.
"Sensei, Zane's... weird." Kai told sensei Wu when he came over.
"What is weird? Someone who is different or someone who is different than you?" Sensei Wu questioned them.
"No, Sensei. He's "weird" weird." Cole said as he started having a flashback.
*Cole's flashback.*
Zane enters the bathroom despite Cole doing some private business.
Cole, getting embarrassed, shouted. "Do you mind?!"
*Then we changed to Jay's flashback."
Jay's flashback shows him, Nya, and Zane watching a sad romantic movie.
"Goodbye, my darling." said the man on the TV.
Zane starts laughing. Jay and Nya looks angrily over at him.
*Jumping to Kai's flashback.*
Kai are going to the fridge, but he finds Zane inside.
Taking him very much by surprise as he shouted ."Ahh! What the hell?!"
"I'm sorry. I consumed the last of the deli meat. Cheese?" Zane said, offering Kai some cheese.
*And then we end at Nova's flashback.*
Nova is sneaking into a room where she had seen some of Nya's tools, trying to find the right tool to steal.
"Where is that screwdriver?" Nova mumbled, until someone was holding it in front of her.
"Is this what you are looking for, Nova?" said a voice as the person was holding out the tool she was looking for.
"Yes, thanks." Nova said, taking it before it took her a good second to register what just happened, as she jumped back with a scream. "What the fuck?!" Looking up to see Zane, just standing in the shadows.
"You're welcome, my friend." Zane smiled, leaving the room, but quickly popped his head back in. "Also language, kids your age shouldn't say that stuff."
*End of all the flashbacks.*
Nova snapped out of her flashback when she heard Kai's voice as he spoke.
"We like the guy. He's really smart. He's just... *sighs* a little off sometimes."
"Zane is a brother, and brothers are often different. I should know." Wu told them, until they saw the postman arriving at the monastery with the ninja's mail.
Nova stayed close to Wu, as she watched the others going over to get their mail. Until she heard her name being called out.
"Oh, I also have a letter for Nova." The postman said, holding out a letter.
Nova was surprised to hear she had a letter, so she walked over and took it. Thanking the postman before she went to open it up, and began reading it.
"Hey, shrimp.
What happened to that mission I sent you out to do? You still owe me 20 bucks for that alarm clock, do you know how hard it was in getting that thing?
Also, don't think I've forgotten about the toaster, frying pan or my FUCKING AIRSHIP!!!
You had better be back with a good reason when I see you again, and you can very much expect you are gonna be grounded, little lady.
From
Ronin / Boss."
Nova had a nervous smile on her face as she quickly ripped it apart, so no one else could read it, and so she could forget all about that.
"How should I have known his airship had a kitchen, it never showed it in the show or anything, or was mentioned." Nova thought to herself.
"Who was that letter from Nova?" Kai asked, catching her by surprise as she jumped and quickly turned around. "Ummm, no one." She said with a shrug.
Kai very much didn't believe it was nothing as he raised an eyebrow, and went to grab one of the ripped pieces. But quickly dropped it when it started turning to dust.
He looked over at Nova, seeing that she had just used her elemental powers on all of the ripped pieces. "Huh, it doesn't seem like it came just from no one, princess." He said, dodging a knife that cut through some of his hair.
"You want another haircut, flamebrain?" Nova asked with a glare, already holding up another knife.
"Why you little." Kai started walking closer towards her, but Wu blocked his way with his staff. "Enough you two, Nova, stop throwing knives at people when they call you that, and Kai, she is only a kid, so be nice." He told both of them.
Both of them let out a heavy sigh. "Yes, Sensei." They said in unison.
"Good, now let's get back to training." said Wu, turning around.
"Hey Sensei Wu, can I get a break? I've already used my powers most of the day." Nova quickly followed after him.
Wu looked over at her, stroking his beard, thinking for a moment. "Okay, Nova, you can have a break." He said, petting her head.
Nova smiled happily that she was able to get a break. "Thank you Sensei, then I'm gonna grab myself a snack in the kitchen." She said, heading inside the monastery and towards the kitchen.
It didn't take long until there was an explosion in the kitchen.
"WHAT WAS THAT!!" The ninja ran to the kitchen, only to see a broken sink with water somehow turned to coal, a few glasses on fire, and next to it all, sitting in a chair eating cookies was Nova. Looking all innocent as if she hadn't done anything. "What?" She gave them a confused look.
*Later in the evening, everyone was sitting by the dinner table.*
"Mmm. Oh, I love it when it's Zane's night to cook." said Jay excitedly.
"Hey. I didn't hear any complaints about my duck chowder last night." said Cole raising an eyebrow.
"That's because it glued our mouths shut. You really thought Jay was speechless all throughout dinner?" said Kai looking at him.
"Yeah. Please don't make that again." said Jay, not wanting that again.
Nova gave a slight nod. "Maybe I could try and cook something." she said, smiling.
"NO!"
"NEVER!"
"YOU ARE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE KITCHEN!"
The ninja shouted out loud at the same time.
"Aww man, seriously, it was only a small accident." Nova said, pouting a bit.
"You broke the sink!"
"You turned water into coal, that shouldn't even be possible!"
"Our glasses were on fire!"
They pretty much pointed out everything that happened in the kitchen after that explosion.
Nova pouted, crossing her arms. "This makes now, what, two kitchens I'm banned from?" She thought to herself.
Soon, Zane enters the dining room wearing a pink apron with flowers, while holding some turkey.
"Dinner is served." Zane told everyone in the room.
Everyone pretty much started laughing, the guys from what Zane was wearing, and Nova just laughing because it was contagious.
"What's so funny?" Zane asked, very much confused.
"Zane. You're wearing a... Even I wouldn't wear that." said Nya through her laughter.
"You laugh because I take steps to ensure I'm clean after cooking?" Zane wasn't getting the joke.
"Haha! No! We laugh because you came out wearing that ridiculous outfit!" Kai explained while laughing.
"I guess we don't share the same sense of humor." said Zane, not seeing the fun in it.
"Well, how about this?" Cole throws a plate full of shrimp on Kai's face.
This just made everyone laugh except Zane.
"How could you not find that funny?" Cole asked until Master Wu poured soup onto Cole's head. "Ah!"
"Now you are brothers." Wu told Zane and Cole.
Soon enough, it became a full on food fight, though Nova did make sure to save some of the food for her to eat and enjoy.
"He looked so cute in it." said Nya, as Zane was confused with the food fight, and the waste of the food he had made for them all.
*Outside after dinner, Zane is throwing out the trash with some help from Nova.*
As they were taking out the trash, a bird that looked like a falcon showed up.
Nova watched, giggling a little as she saw Zane dance to the bird before they both started following it.
"Okay, I already know what is gonna happen next, so this should be interesting when Lloyd actually sees a girl. When he clearly is gonna complain about not wanting to see any girls, in his treehouse." Nova thought to herself with a smirk.
They soon saw Lloyd's treehouse, quickly going into hiding and watched.
"If I see one girl in here. I'm gonna go ballistic!" said Lloyd, while Nova thought the words in her head.
Zane looked up at the falcon. "Thank you, my mysterious friend." He said, smiling, before looking over at Nova.
"We should go back, and tell our friends." Zane said.
Nova looked over at him. "You go back and tell them, I'll stay here and keep watch, until you guys arrive." She told him.
"But you are only a kid Nova, leaving you here would be dangerous, and you are not trained." Zane told her.
"Oh pleassse Zane, I promise to be very careful and well hidden, that they won't see me." said Nova, giving him the puppy eyes.
It took him a good minute until he finally replied. "Okay."
"Yeah!" Nova whisper-yelled happy. "Huh?" She replied when she got picked up by Zane. "Wait, what?" Getting a bit confused, and before she knew it, she got carried all the way back to the monastery by Zane.
*Later in the day, the ninja are following Zane while Nova is still being carried like a sack of potatoes.*
"I don't even think Zane knows where he's going." said Kai before looking over at Zane. "Uh, tell us again how you and the kid stumbled upon Lloyd's secret headquarters?"
"We followed a bird." Zane told them.
"Why did you follow a bird?" Jay asked.
"Because it danced." said Zane, finally putting down Nova, who had been pouting the whole way back and forth with her arms crossed.
"Oh...okay. Was it a cuckoo bird?" Jay asked in a joking manner.
The ninja laughed, except Zane and Nova.
"The bird." said Jay after they stopped laughing.
"Of course not. Everyone knows cuckoo birds are not indigenous to these forests" Zane and Nova told them in unison.
This stunned the other ninja and creeped them out at the same time, as they said it in unison along, with a 10 year old kid knowing such stuff.
It wasn't long until the treehouse was in view for Nova and the ninja to see.
"Watch it! No, bigger! Come on, we don't have all day! It's not time for a lunch break." Lloyd shouted out orders.
"Holy cannoli, Frosty and Shrimp was right!" Cole said in surprise.
"Shrimp? really!?" Nova whisper-yelled.
"Hey, you always eat the shrimps first whenever we are eating, so yeah, really." Cole told her.
"We can't let that brat and those snakes get a foothold of Ninjago. We gotta destroy that thing before it becomes operational." Kai told the group.
"Whoa! Are you sure? It looks like a pretty cool treehouse. There's a ropes course... Ooh, a tree swing!" said Nova as she really took in the treehouse.
"Hey! Remember who's team you're on. Alright, guys. What do we do?" Cole said, looking at Nova with a raised eyebrow, before looking at the others.
"It looks like the entire place is being supported by those three trees. Once those ties are severed, the whole is gonna fall like a house of cards." Kai explained as he pointed out.
"But why would one make a house of cards? Such construction would be careless." Zane asked, confused.
"Oh, brother." Kai whispered, not up for explaining it again.
"Travel in shadows, boys and kid." said Cole.
Soon enough, every ninja worked their way up, along with cutting the ropes.
Nova activated her mask as she traveled with Kai up the trees towards the top of the treehouse
She could hear Lloyd's voice but rolled her eyes as she kept following Kai.
"I said no ninja! and no girls! Attack!" Lloyd shouted when he saw Kai and Nova on top of the treehouse.
"Wow, and after that deal I made with him, and he is already breaking it now, that is just evil." Nova thought sarcastically.
"Everyone! Retreat!" shouted Skales to everyone.
"Cole! Wait till we're off the treehouse, then cut the line." Kai told Cole who gave him a short nod in understanding.
"Where's Cole?" Jay asked as they couldn't see him anywhere.
"This whole place is coming down!" Kai shouted.
"We are going down like timber!" Nova shouted, holding on to Zane so she didn't fall.
"No one goes anywhere until you deal with me!" Cole said under hypnosis.
"What's gotten into him?" Kai asked.
"He's under their control." Nova said, as she had now climbed up on Zane's back.
"Yeah, well, he better snap out of it quick because this whole place looks like it's about to go down!" Jay shouted in a panic.
Cole had the ninja and Nova cornered.
"Okay, now come on. Friends don't hit friends." said Jay until Cole kicks Jay on the jaw. "Ow, okay. I-I-I-I'm gonna ignore that." he said, rubbing his jaw.
"What're we supposed to do? If I use my sword, this place will turn up into flames faster than a tinder box." Kai told the rest of them.
"Isn't the anti venom in the staff?" Zane asked.
"Yeah, but the staff is back at the Monastery." Nova told him from his back.
Cole knocks Kai off the top, but Zane saves him, while Nova jumps off and runs over to Jay.
"Jay! Use your lightning! Try to shock him out of his trance!" Zane shouted.
"Oh, sorry, Cole, but this is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna hurt me." said Jay as he shocks Cole, but only making him angrier. Cole knocks Jay off of the tree house. But Nova acted quickly by grabbing his hand and using what strength she had to hold him up, only for the both of them to fall off.
"Jay! Nova!" Kai and Zane shouted.
Lucky Jay manages to catch one of the ropes, while Nova was on his back, but the treehouse continues to collapse.
"That is a serious safety hazard!" Jay shouted.
"I'm too fucking young to die like this!" Nova shouted, slowly choking Jay from having her arms wrapped around his neck.
Cole goes on to try and sever the last rope with his teammates still on the rooftop.
"No, Cole! Don't!" shouted Kai.
"No! No, Cole! No!" shouted Zane.
Cole suddenly snaps out of the trance when the sacred flute is being played by Wu, as he and Nya go collect the ninja using Flame.
"Huh? Where-where am I? What are we doing?" Cole asked, confused.
"We're getting outta here because this whole place is coming down!" Nya told them as they all hopped on the dragon.
"That flute!" questioned Kai.
"It cancels their powers!" said Jay.
"It's as old as the Serpentine themselves. But we must hurry! The Monastery is unguarded! Quickly!" Wu quickly answered them as they headed back to the Monastery.
*By the time the ninja returned to the Monastery, it was burnt down, some of it still covered by the flames.*
"We're too late. Those snakes." said Kai.
Everyone soon heard the other dragons cry for help.
"Rocky!" Cole shouted as he quickly releases the dragons to gain some fresh air.
"Our home." said Kai in disbelief.
"Shard! Put this out!" shouted Zane.
Shard freezes the burning flames.
"The training equipment, gone." said Zane.
"Our video games, gone!" said Jay in despair.
"They stole their staff back." said Wu.
"What do we do now?" Cole asked.
Kai's sorrow quickly turns to anger as he turns to Zane and Nova.
"If you two hadn't followed that silly bird, none of this would've happened!" Kai shouted out in anger.
"Kai..." Wu warned him, but it went ignored.
Nova started to hide behind Zane as tears started forming in her eyes.
"No, Sensei, he's right!" said Jay before turning to Zane and Nova. "Because of you, two, my high score has been deleted!"
"This is a teaching moment. We must learn from this." said Zane, not noticing their anger.
Nova very much did, and tears were already running down her face, as she was shaking in fear.
"A "teaching moment"? What's wrong with you? Don't you get it?! EVERYTHING IS GONE!" Cole very much yelled in pure rage.
"Enough!" WU yelled as the three ninjas turned to look at Wu. "We are all at fault. Zane is your brother and Nova is your sister. Apologize at once." He said sternly.
The three ninja change emotion and turn around to apologize to Zane and Nova.
"I'm sorry, Zane, I..." said Kai, but noticed Zane had disappeared before looking over at Nova, who had already started crying out loud, which only made the other ninja feel even more bad.
*Some time later, The ninja and Nova are sitting on the Mountains of Impossible Height, trying to gain their spirits.*
"Wh-what are we eating again?" Kai asked.
"Mud-newt. Not bad for something that lives underground." said Cole.
"What?" said Jay disgusted as he spits out the piece he was eating, before throwing away his portion. He then throws a rock into a can. "Yeah! A new high s-sc-score!" He cheered.
"Remember, we must be thankful for what we still have." said Wu.
"What do we have? Our home is gone." said Cole with a sigh.
"You know, I don't miss our home. What I really miss is Zane." said Kai.
"Yeah. I miss Zane." said Jay.
"I miss him too." said Nova, sitting next to Nya while hugging her legs.
"Zane?" Nya said.
"Yeah, Zane. You know. White Ninja. The smart, strange one." said Jay.
"No." Nya said and pointed ahead. "Zane!"
"Zane!" Everyone shouted as they ran over to him.
Jay let out a sigh of relief. "Zane. We're so sorry for everything we've said. We're a team, and that means we're all responsible."
"You don't need to apologize to me." Zane told them.
"But what about all those awful things we said? Isn't that why you left?" Kai questioned.
"Of course not. I saw the Falcon again, and I followed him." Zane told them.
"That's our Zane." said Cole as they all gave him a hug.
"We're happy to have you back." said Nya.
"Yeah, never leave us again." said Nova, still hugging him.
"I've changed my mind. Zane is my number one favorite ninja." Nova thought to herself, smiling.
"Why? Is it my turn to make dinner?" Zane asked while letting Nova keep hugging him as everyone started laughing.
"Yes, Zane. We would love for you to make dinner." said Wu, smiling.
"But I already made it. Come. I want to show you what I've found. I think you will all be pleased." Zane told them.
*They all follow Zane to the Sea of Sand.*
"I can't explain it, but I feel a strange connection with the Falcon. I think he's trying to help show us the path we need to take." said Zane, showing them the Destiny's Bounty.
"Our new home." said Zane.
Everyone is surprised by this revelation.
"Do I smell pie?" Jay asked.
Nova was already running to the ship the moment he asked that question, trying to get a head start.
"Cobbler berry. Oh, and I made myrtle berry and apple and—" Zane started explaining, but Kai, Jay, Cole and Nya already raced to the Bounty, catching up to Nova quickly.
"I'm proud of you, Zane. One day, I promise. We will find your family." said Wu.
"But I've already found them." said Zane, smiling.
"I feel there's more to you than meets the eye. There's something special about you, Zane." Wu told him.
"Sensei, will I become the Green Ninja?" Zane asked.
"It's too early to tell, but if it's in your path, you'll know. Come now. It would be a shame to let them eat all that pie." said Wu.