Brother of Wind {Book 8: the Sons of Garmadon}

Chapter 5

The Ninja landed the Bounty in Hollow's Bluff to hide their location. The rocky and fogged up area covered them right up. Only for the time being.
"Is this where we'll be living?" Harumi asked. She followed Lloyd onto the deck.
"Just until we know you're safe." Lloyd said.
"Don't you have a headquarters?" The Princess asked.
"It's too in the open. The Sons of Garmadon will be looking for you. We'll need to keep moving." Lloyd explained. Lloyd held out his hand. Harumi took it. Lloyd smiled and lead her away. The two climbed their way up to the bridge where everyone else worked away.

'Not skilled enough?'
Morro shot a look to Lloyd.

'I'm more nervous than I look.'
Lloyd glared.

"So, Harumi, looks like we're gonna be...roomies for a while." Cole leaned on the rails. Harumi smiled.
"You have all been so gracious to take me in since our palace was...taken away, and--"

"You're safe with us." Jay interrupted. Her tone was getting sadder. Jay needed to cheer her up.
"That assumption is not entirely justified, Jay. We know very little about the Sons of Garmadon's full capabilities." Zane corrected.
"We know nothing about them. Period." Kai said.
"We do know they're after the three Oni Masks. Unfortunately, they already have two of them." Nya sighed.
"Pixal scanned everywhere for the third mask, but it came up empty." Zane added.
"It's as if...it never existed."

Morro tapped his pencil on a note pad and jotted something down.
"Right." Lloyd nodded.
"Then we need to focus on who's giving the orders. A group this organized must have a leader." He said.
"Maybe someone from our past?" Jay suggested.

"Uh, forgive me." Harumi interrupted.
"But is that...underwear?" She asked. Jay snatched up the blue boxers from the ground.
"Ahaha! Ha ha!... We're usually more organized. Ahem. But our leader got lost in a time-stream." Jay said.
"Uh, they're Cole's."

"They're blue!" Cole yelled.

"You're lucky they're not yellow." Kai laughed.

"What about the suspect captured at the heist in Borg Tower?" Nya moved it along.
"I can stay behind with Harumi if you wanna press him on who he works for." She said.

"The police have him in custody, but he has refused to talk. He is set for release today." Pixal informed on the computer screen.
"Then if Johnny Law can't get him to talk, perhaps Johnny ninja can?" Kai smirked.

Morro stood up on that note.
"I don't believe you playing detective will get much answers." He said.
"But someone else can help with that." Morro walked towards the deck, straight past Harumi as if she weren't there. Harumi almost reached her hand out to grab him but retracted. Nya saw and kinda smirked.

"Let's go." Morro turned back to the guys.

. . .

The Ninja, minus Kai and Nya, followed Morro to a tea shop in the city.
"Mystake's Tea Shop." Cole remarked.
"I wonder what magic tea she can brew up for us." He giggled.

"Is Mystake here?" Lloyd asked the old woman sorting the shelves.
"Never heard of her!" She exclaimed.
"Ooh! Apologies, young Lloyd Garmadon. I didn't recognize your voice." She said as she turned around. Mystake sighed with a smile.
"Oh, it's so good to see you again. It's been years." She said.
"And young Wind Master." She turned to Morro. His shoulders tensed.
"Still alive now?" Mystake asked. Morro looked down at himself then back up.
"Y-yes...?" He said.
"Good." Mystake smiled.

"And the search for your father, has it been well?" The tea maker asked.
"We haven't given up on him. We just have more urgent problems." Cole said. Zane stepped forwards.
"We seek--"