Ninjago Lava Ship - It's messed up

Unexpected circumstances

As the time was slowly passing, people started coming. The door for people to get inside opened at 4:30 in the afternoon, the concert started at 5:30, having other song artists singing their songs before the main group.

Zane and Harumi successfully blended with other fans at the concert, their positions being somewhere in the middle, far from the stage. Jay and Nya were vibing together on planks above the concert, dancing together in their ninja uniforms as they had them under the work clothes. Cole and Kai also changed back into their ninja outfits, Cole mostly looking down, around the area to find anyone suspicious while Kai was messing around with something in his hands.

"What are you doing, Kai?" The black ninja's voice could be heard as he is still looking down at the crowd.

"I'm putting earplugs in my ears, of course." Amber-eyed guy said, getting the earplugs out of the box and putting them in his ears. "This noise is worse than any explosion which we were next to."

Cole only looked at him with as straighter face as he could, making Kai know his disappointment in him, then he said as loud as possible for his words to get to red ninja. "And how will you communicate with others if you do that?!"

"What?!" That was the only thing Kai could have said back.

Cole, on that, just sighs and turns his gaze back to the crowd.

One of the music artists was done with the singing at that moment, the lights which were lightning up the stage dimmed down, making the whole area dark, only colorful lights left behind. Workers were preparing the stage with other musical instruments, after that, leaving the stage and three figures getting on it. The crowd started cheering really loudly, as the three girls took their spots. A girl with white, shoulder-length hair with long bangs and hair pins stood in front of the microphone. She could be seen wearing light purple shaping bra and white, tight shorts. On them, she wears see-through crop jacket with elbow-length sleeves and see-through short skirt. On feet, she has violet purple, long boots with light pink laces and big, white platforms. The girl with short, green hair and bangs long enough to cover her eyes took the guitar. On herself, she has crop, white, sleeveless shirt, dark denim shorts, black fishnet-socks all the way to her thighs, dark green sneakers with high, black platform and an emerald green, baggy jacket which is sliding down her shoulders. The third girl, with long blonde hair which is mostly on one side, took her position behind the piano. She has thin, black blouse with open shoulders as the long sleeves are connected to it. She has choker around her neck, blue see-trough skirt which is short in front and is getting longer at the back. For the footwear, she has one really long black boot with a heel and a platform, while the other black boot is shorter.

"That's them." Kai informed others trough the earbud.

"Is everyone prepared?" Wu could be heard on the other side of the communicator, as Lloyd, Pixal and Misako are next to him, Pixal having the whole concert on the computer screen on Bounty. "We are watching the concert as well. Pixal succeeded in hacking the cameras so you are not alone."

"Got it, Sensei." Nya answered. "Jay and I are ready."

"Harumi and I are also prepared." Zane was the next one to talk. "Although, from our position, it is hard to have a good look at the stage with all the people surrounding us."

"Don't worry Zane, we are your eyes. "Cole spoke back. "But.." His brown eyes took a glance at certain ninja who is asking Cole questions about what others are talking on the communicator. "We have two ears less here." Then he mumbled to himself. "And probably one brain less as well." He shook his head to stop thinking about this stupid situation.

"Don't think about the problems, focus on the mission." The green ninja said, laying on the sofa on his back while eating mint candies.

The event announcer began talking, ending the ninja's conversation like that.

"Anndd~ Are you ready for S.K.A.?!"

The crowd cheered.

"First up, we have Sally singing as her two beautiful friends will back her up! This is.. Move Your Body!!"

The white-haired girl, known as Sally, began to sing, as two other girls were playing on the instruments and being back-up voices.

"Sally?" Kai questioned. "I met a Sally before, but this girl doesn't look like the same girl which I know."

"Oh so you actually can hear." Cole frowned at Kai, but not getting any response back. The raven-haired ninja took a look at the big screen on the stage behind the three girls. There was a video wall, having all sorts of LED movements on it, and above it, it was written Sally's name. "Oh.."

"They don't look like someone who would attack us if I'll be honest." The water ninja said on the communicator for everyone to hear.

"I agree." Pixal said back. "With the information I got about them, they have no history in Ninjago. They only got here few weeks ago because of their singing tour. So they have no reason of attacking us or anyone in Ninjago."

Cole stood up, as he was sitting before, holding onto the iron bar so he doesn't fall. "So did we follow the wrong lead?"

In that moment, Harumi started moving through the crowd. With Zane noticing, he yelled after her and went to inform the others. "Guys, Harumi is leaving her position."

"What?!" Lloyd sit up from the couch. "Didn't we say you must stick toget-"

And Harumi interrupted him by speaking back. "Don't worry, Lloyd. I know what I'm doing. I'll go check the back of the stage. Something doesn't seem right."

"Really?" Jay asked, looking towards the stage. The big video wall was, of course, blocking the view to see anything from what's happening on the other side. After looking at the video wall, he looked to the sides to get a glimpse of the back-stage. "Mmm.. True that we can't tell from here what is going on behind too. So I say why not?"

"But-" Zane tried to move away out of the crowd, but with no avail. "If she goes alone, there is much more possibility something can happen to her."

"You can't both just leave your positions, Zane." Cole could be heard talking. "She will inform us if anything's happening behind either way."

"Cole's right." Wu proclaimed. "Unfortunately, we can't have everyone leave their positions. I guess the improvising is starting."

Lloyd was not too happy about it. He clenched his fist, looking away from the others, probably thinking to go to the music venue himself. But he knew master Wu is giving him glances, there is no way he could escape that easily.

"Anyway." Wu continued, still keeping an eye on Lloyd. "Cole, Kai, Nya, Jay, do you see anything suspicious."

"Nope." Jay answered. "Nothing where Nya and I are."

"Although.." Nya holds her chin. "It's weird that they didn't let out any smoke yet.. Isn't it? I'm pretty sure every concert has those."

"Well I guess we will just have to find out." Cole kept on looking around the crowd, the stage, the workers and any suspicious movements those three girls on the stage could be doing. "As for us, we also don't see anything suspicious."

Only, Kai was just looking at Cole with a raised eyebrow, expecting of him to tell him what the others are saying, but the black ninja was just trying to ignore those looks the red ninja was giving him. If he wants to know so bad, he can just remove those earplugs. Or at least, he could focus on the mission and look around for anything out of the ordinary, but he is not even doing that.

"Guys.." Zane began talking. "I am not 100% sure, but I think I see Emily and Evary. That man's wife and daughter." Not so far away from Zane, there was definitely a brown-haired woman with a younger, blonde version of herself, her daughter. They are having their backs turned to Zane, but they still move enough for Zane to get a glimpse of their side profiles. "The man whose body we found."