The Truth

Chapter 7

Once in the med bay, jay had his foot wrapped and a pair of crutches was tossed to him.

"It's really nothing too bad. Just stay off of it for two weeks" said Zane as he put the rest of the supplies away.

Jay hopped down and dragged himself to the couch. Now how was he supposed to train? Garmdn would probably push him to work on his bad foot for kicks. At least he'd get out of normal training this way.

The rest of the ninja decided to have a contest on the training course. They hadn't used it in years and wanted to see if they could beat their best times. While jay would obviously not be to participate, he could still watch.

The others went out and put their weapons on the side. Jay had always been the fastest. His friends liked to joke that he embodied his element.

"Alright! Who's ready to watch me win?" Kai called out.

Everyone just pretended that they didn't hear and they sat down.

"Good luck with that" smirked Lloyd.

Kai made it in four minutes which was pretty good. All the others did it in about five minutes so they reluctantly awarded Kai the honor of being the fastest. At least until Jay's ankle healed according the Zane.

The rest of the day was spent laying around. Soon enough, it was dark and all the ninja went to their separate rooms to relax before dinner. Jay sat down on his bed and began to work on a blueprint.

Since their time in the first realm, the need to invent proved hard to ignore for Jay. Building the dragon out of scrapes exhilarated him and he wanted to update the design. When he starts working, almost nothing will stop him.

After quite a few knocks he finally went to sit down. It was a quiet dinner as they sat in comfortable silence.

It was only interrupted by wu asking how the mission went. They all gave the typical answers as they pointed to Jay's foot. Once dinner was over, everyone retired to their rooms.

Jay waited about two hours before letting the team know that he had to pick something up from his parents. Before being questioned about his lack of motorcycle, jay waived goodbye and stepped out into the cold air.

He wearily checked his phone to check the time. It was already 12:20 and he was barley there. He took the bus again which wasn't smart. Already scared of grmadn enough, it was about to get a whole lot worse.

After getting off the bus, it took him another hour to get through the forest.

"Do you realize what time it is?" yelled  garmdn.

"Uhhh. There was a traffic jam?" said jay meekly.

Garmdn just growled and pushed jay to the ground.

"Hey! You're gonna make my leg worse."

Garmdn didn't reply as his back faced jay.

"This isn't going to work" said garmdn.

"Oh well. Guess we can't do it after all" said Jay nervously.

He wanted to find the truth about his mom but not at the expense of his life.

"We will have to find a different location. Somewhere close but far enough away where I won't be spotted. Any ideas?" asked grmdn.

"Uh. I guess we could rent an apartment" suggested jay.

"No you fool! How did you ever become a ninja?? Your father's house!" replied garmdn

Jay blanched at the insult but quickly recovered. He was good at that.