Tides of Reality| Ninjago | Monkie Kid | ROTTMNT

Chapter 39 - The Invitation

It was a normal morning at the ninja household.

Unagami was trying out a new recipe with Cole, Kai and Jay teamed up to try and steal some of the cookies the first they were trying to make and Zane was on firefighting duty, trying to put out every fire the first two started while baking.

Lloyd was playing videogames in the livng room and the rest was nowhere to be see, probably still in their rooms, seeing as it was 4am.

Jay was just about to steal a few cookies from the not-so-burnt batch he was sneaking up to for past 5 minutes, when a doorbell rang across the temple.

"Can someone get it?" Lloyd's voice ran to the kitchenafter a few seconds of no one moving a muscle to get to the door.

"Why can't you get it?" Cole shouted across the hall in response. "We are busy here." Unagami nodded in agreement, hands in a bowl of dough.

"I won't do it. I'm busy too!" 'With what? Videogames?' Cole wanted to ask sarcastically, but stopped himself.

"Ugh, okay. Kai. You get it." Kai stopped in his tracks, a cookie halfway in his mouth. That was the first time his presence has been  adressed since he came in.

"Uhhh..." He didn't want to lose kitchen-entering privelegesso he quickly walked up to the door.

"Hey, you need someone in particular?'The redd ninja asked as soon as he saw the mailman, hoping he could just go get whoever's order just got delivered and go back to stealing cookies before Jay can eat everything.

"No. t's adressed to all of you. Have a good night." Mailman turned  and walked away.

Great! Now they had to wait six hours for breakfast to find out what it is with everyone present.

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When the whole family finally gathered around the table (with Harumi fashionably late) and he managed to die of boredom at least three times, Kai finally stood up and announced there was mail.

"Well, you could've just told whoever bought a giant bouncy castle this time and end this shaming." Liv crossed her arms with a sour expression.

"Okay, first of all it's not my fault thet mailman didn't tell me who the package was for." It was a lie. Ka just didn't catch t and mailman was gone before he could ask. "And second, this ^letter^ is adressed to all of us." He opened the envelope and some kind of magical fanfare started playing, along with little fireworks exploding all around.

How this thing managed to not light anything on fire was a mystery.

"King Vangelis indly requests your presence as honored guests to celebrate the birthdayof princess Vania."Kai read out loud.

Who even is 'king Vangelis'? And where was the party taking place?

"Ohhh... It's from Shintaro." Sky said, not really clearing anything up.

"What's 'Shintaro'?" Jay asked what everyone has been wondering.

"A mythical city atop a mountain. t's said to be very beatiful and rich and it's people have wings." Okay, maybe not exactly everyone has been wonderng, as Zane provided an explanation.

"Mhm. That." Sky confirmed. "Hey, Liv are the shields on the Bounty working? I heard that there were Direbats living around Shintaro."

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Fortunately yes, the shields were workingand when Jay pressed a button, a glowing force field surrounded the whole ship, protecting it from the bats, so it was a smooth sailing.