In the Monastery of Spinjitzu, Arin, Sora, and Riyu sleep. Suddenly, Lloyd bursts in.
Lloyd: Rise and shine! Time to train!
Arin: What... Not just a dream! It really is my first day of ninja training! Yes! Awesome! Maximum awesome!
Sora: It's the crack of dawn.
Lloyd: I know. I thought I'd let you sleep in for your first week. Meet me in the courtyard in ten minutes.
Sora: "Sleep in"?
Arin and Riyu do push ups in the courtyard.
Sora: (yawns.) Why are we training way up here? We're becoming ninja to help people. Shouldn't we be around ... people? Y'know, like in the Crossroads?
Arin: You just wanna go to the Crossroads Carnival, don't you?
Sora: Well, duh. Don't you? We've never, ever missed one.
Arin: True. And I was determined to win the pie-baking contest this year. Grab-Barg wins every time. I've been perfecting my recipe all year.
He sighs.
Sora: Let's ask Lloyd if we can go.
Lloyd: Go where?
Sora: The Crossroads Carnival, where everyone from the combined lands celebrates their traditions. There's a ton of food and games and a huge fireworks show by this fireworks genius named Dorama.
Arin: Plus, a pie-baking competition. It's super fun!
Lloyd: It does sound fun. But it also sounds like a distraction from something even more fun. Training!
Sora: What are we supposed to train on? There's nothing here!
Lloyd: Ah, to become a ninja, you must see potential where others do not.
He strikes the ground and the mechanisms begin to shift, but it gets stuck halfway.
Lloyd: What? This always worked when Master Wu did it! Oh, it's a whole big impressive reveal!
Sora: Sounds like your mechanisms haven't been maintained. When junk gets into gears, it can ruin everything. When did you last clean 'em?
Lloyd: I was supposed to be doing that? Uh, maybe if I—
He seemingly falls down, but reappears on structures rising from the ground.
Lloyd: The training course!
Arin: So cool!
Lloyd: One more thing! You must complete the course before I finish my tea.
He sips from a cup, but spits the tea out.
Lloyd: Oh, I burnt the tea. I didn't even know that was possible! I can't drink this. How do I time your performance now?
Sora: Why were you gonna time us with a hot beverage anyway?
Lloyd: I had the best teacher, my uncle. Master Wu. That's how he did it.
He approaches a portrait of Wu.
Lloyd: As your teacher, I wanna do everything like he did. That's why I come here and kneel on his favorite old meditation carpet, and ponder how to be just like him. It's also why I grew this beard!
Arin: Beard?
Lloyd: You're too far away to see it.
Sora: Still not seeing.
Lloyd: Even closer. Closer...
He reveals a tiny hair on his chin.
Arin: I guess I see something? Kinda?
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Ninjago: Swift Winds
FanfictionToge doesn't know much about his parents only that they left him on the steps of a Shaolin temple. The boy was raised by monks and now he trains with a family friend named Wu, as he trained the boy to become the master of Air. Him and four other nin...
