We've Got Training To Do

10: Tick Tock

Previously on We've Got Training To Do.

"Pythor has successfully united all the Serpentine tribes," Zane said solemnly.

"Why can't anyone fight fair?" Jay whined.

"He just saved our lives!" Jade scolded.

The Samurai landed in front of Jade and handed her a red package.

"Thanks, Nya," Jade said. After Samurai left, Jade unwrapped the package. Laid out on the ground, the Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu glowed green under her touch. She gasped and they swirled around her. "Oh, fuck," she said.

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"Is he ever gonna come up?" I ask. Zane had been underwater for about ten minutes. I see a pale form swimming up through the water. It breaks the surface, and turns out to be Zane.

"Ten minutes and forty-seven seconds!" Cole shouts.

Zane climbs up the anchor chain and jumps on the deck of Destiny's Bounty. I high-five him.

"Are any of you thinking what I'm thinking?" Cole asks.

"Yeah! We've been training for so long, I don't think we can gt any better!" Jay says. "I mean, just look at the amazing stuff we've done!"

"I think we're ready," I agree. I follow the ninjas so we can go talk to Sensei Wu. He's been really distant lately. He apologizes for this, and then explains why.

"My mind has been elsewhere since Lloyd and Sammy went missing. Somehow... it feels like its all my fault. Now, what can I help you with?"

"Sensei, what if we've done enough training? What if we've found our full potential?" Cole asks. Sensei scoffs.

"You might have reached peak physical condition, but you have yet to unlock your inner potential. Inside each of you, there is something that blocks your full potential. You heart, not your muscles-" I really want to inform him that the heart is, in fact, a muscle, but I don't- "is the key to unlocking your full potential."

"I can understand that, but what I don't understand is how Lloyd and Sammy going missing would be your fault," I say.

"When I was young, Garmadon and I were more than brothers. We were the best of friends," Sensei begins.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait," Jay interrupts. "Garmadon, the embracer of evil, the doer of destruction, the king of chaos, you two were friends?"

"Don't interrupt," I scold him.

"One day, I lost one of our swords. Knowing our father would be mad, he told me to go get it. But I refused. He told me not to put off what could be done today and went to retrieve it himself." Sensei pauses before continuing. "When our father found him, he was very ill. He had been bitten by a legendary snake: the Great Devourer."

"So, the same snake the Serpentine want to release is the same one that turned your brother into the Dark Lord?" Kai asks.

"It was my fault," Sensei says.

"There was nothing you could have done," I say. "And before you say you could've gotten the sword yourself, just think about this: If you had gotten the sword, you would've been bitten. And Sensei Garmadon doesn't have as good of a ring as Sensei Wu." He smiles.

"Now, there is a journey I must take. I need to find someone who can be of aid." Sensei says. I nod.

"I think I know where you're going," I say. "Say hi to my grandmother for me." He jumps slightly.

"How did you know?" he asks. I smile.

"I have my ways."

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