We've Got Training To Do

1: Way of the Ninja

Sensei Wu found me first, then Zane, then Jay, then Cole. We still haven't found the last ninja.

Zane was an employee for a shop a little ways away from the monastery. Every morning, even if it was snowing, he would go underwater and just sit there. He almost never came up for air. He was really surprised when he saw Sensei Wu under the water with him. Zane has straight blonde hair that sticks straight up, and grey eyes. I know he's the Ninja of Ice, but he doesn't know it yet.

Sensei found Jay when he fell onto a building. Apparently, he was testing his invention. He's kind of stupid and is always making these dumb jokes. He's the Ninja of Lightning, goodness help us all. His weapons are nunchaku. He has brown hair and blue eyes.

Cole was climbing a mountain (with his shirt off) when Sensei found him. He has good fighting potential. He's the Ninja of Earth. He's buff. I am not even kidding. And those eyes.... They're enough to make a girl crazy. Not me, though. I prefer brown eyes to green. Cole's hair is black and sort of long. His weapon is a creepy- looking scythe.

I suppose I have to tell you about myself now. My name is Jade. Sensei Wu found me at the ruins of my house, sobbing over my parents dead and burnt bodies. My little brother is yet to be found, but when I do, I will either bury him in the center of Ninjago City or train him to be a Samurai, since he can't be a Ninja. I have blonde hair that falls to my knees and clear blue eyes. I have heard so many dumb eye- related pickup lines from Jay that if he says one more, I will slap him with his own nunchaku!

I know we are close to finding the last ninja. Sensei Wu says he works in a shop near Jamanicai Village.

I stare out the window in the only single bedroom in the monastery. "Hey, do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes," a voice says behind me.

"You've already used that one, Jay," I say without turning. I can't see him, but I know he's rolling his eyes.

"Seriously? Have I? Hmm..." Jay says. I grin and turn around. Jay is just standing there like an idiot.

"Maybe when you gain a few I. Q. points, I'll go on a date with you," I say. I kiss him lightly on the cheek and exit my room. I head toward the empty dragon stables and sit in the stall that will someday hold my dragon. I've painted all the stall doors in a different color. Mine is painted a shiny bronze color. The door next to mine on the left is red and the door on the right is blue. The order from left to right is this: black, red, bronze, blue, white.

After a few minutes, I decide to paint the doors some more. I pick up some silver paint and start painting Jay's door with a lightning pattern. I paint a rock on Cole's door and a sun and swirl on mine. With gold paint, I paint a snowflake on Zane's door and an insignia on the red one. I know the last ninja will be the red Ninja of FIre.

I return to the monastery, where Sensei Wu is waiting for me.

"Jade, I need your help to recruit the new Ninja. His name is Kai," he says.

"Sure, Sensei. What do you need me to do?" I say.

"Just charm him if he gets difficult." I grin. Charming is what I do best.

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I look at the shop sign, the Five Weapons. Its logo is a sword and a scythe crossed over a pair of knives and nunchaku in a diamond. In the middle is a shruikan. Sensei goes in first. I hang out by the entrance. The boy who must be Kai has crazy brown hair and warm brown eyes.

Sensei says something about self pride, and then makes a comment about how all the stuff in the shop is samurai, and there was no ninja stuff.

"You're not gonna find any ninjas around here, old man. And the shop is called 'Five Weapons,' not 'For Browsing,' so either but something or go peddle your insults somewhere else!" Kai says in a disrespectful tone.