Song Of Hope: This, again, is basically just Ninjago: The Untold Truth, but it's gonna be way better. I'm better at plotting, better at writing, and better at creating characters, as well as following the rules of Ninjago Elements. RR

An old man was walking up to a blacksmith's shop, where two people, a brother and sister, lived. The brother, who had very spiky red-brown hair, was forging a sword.

"To forge the perfect weapon," he said as he hammered at the hot sword above the burning coals, "you need the right amount of metal and heat." He dunked the hot sword in the bucket of water. "Cool it off, and, presto!" He looked at his messed up sword. The sister, laughed a little at his attempted smithing.

"You made it too quickly Kai. Be patient. If father was here, he'd say-"

"I know, I know," he said as he cut her off, rolling his eyes, "no matter how much fire you have, experience isn't something you learn overnight." He turned to her, clearly annoyed. "That may work for you Nya, but I'm gonna be a better blacksmith than dad ever was." The old man walked in as Kai turned back to the forge, ready to try again.

"Hm, your metal is loud and heavy," he observed wisely, "useful to slow one down. It is useless in the art of stealth. Are tools for a samurai, but nothing for a ninja or even a kunoichi?" Kai looked a bit amused, but insulted as well.

"Ninja? You're a long way from finding a ninja in these parts old man, or a kunoichi." He moved away from the forge, going towards the old man with a glare as he got in his face. "And the shop is called Four Weapons, not For Browsing. Either buy something or go pedal your insults somewhere else." The old man just shrugged.

"Hm, too bad. Thought I'd find something special here." Kai turned to Nya, who gave him a mean look that said to apologize, so he turned around to grab a helmet.

"If it's something special you're looking for," he started turning around to show him, "then let me-" when he looked, the old man wasn't there. Nya looked worried for him.

"What is it?" Kai looked around, trying to find the old man.

"He, he was just here!" Nya raised an eyebrow, wondering how he missed seeing the old man leave. Kai sighed. "Forget it."

The skies above Ignacia Village turned black as giant vehicles with undead skeletons rolled up.

"Let me go first, oh please, oh please! I'm dying to go down there!" Three skeletons in a giant tank were rolling up to Kai's house. One of the skeletons, one wearing a large black helmet, yelled at one wearing an eye patch.

"You nitwit, you're already dead! Try controlling yourself in front of Master Samukai!" Then, he put his hands together and meekly looked down, like a high school girl talking to her crush. "With all due respect, last time, you did say I could go down first." The last skeleton, who had four arms, turned to both of them, seeming to be Samukai with the way he addressed both of them.

"Sorry boys, this one is mine. Just remember what we're after, and find that map. ATTACK!" The skeleton tank and the other skeletons on bikes started going very fast, all heading towards one place, scaring many villagers who were just harvesting some crops.

Nya and Kai were looking from their window. Kai was dressing up.

"What are they?" He put on a black helmet.

"I don't know. Stay here." Kai went outside, his stance showing he was prepared to fight, but not to do it right. A skeleton came up to him and started attacking Kai with a bone, using it like a sword. He accidentally popped off the skull of a skeleton next to him by elbowing it off, so it hopped over to him and bit his foot.

"OW!" He looked down at the skeleton, a pissed expression on his face. "Bite this!" He kicked it very far away, and two skeletons started clapping at the amazing kick he did. In their blindness to their surroundings, Nya took the chance to sneak behind them and attack them with a Bo Staff. He ran to her brother's side, but he was mad at her.

"Nya, I thought I told you to stay back!" He knocked over two skeletons. She smiled playfully at him like a sister would.

"And what, let you hog all the fun?" She knocked over three other skeletons. "No way." They fought as two of the skeletons snuck into the shop, ransacking it for the map. One stopped to put on a helmet and look at himself in a reflective shield. The other one threw a helmet at him.

"You're not looking hard enough!" The first skeleton rubbed his head.

"OW! You're not looking hard enough!" He threw the helmet back and they started fighting, knocking off the Four Weapons sign, which had a map in the back.

Kai was fighting, when Samukai came up to him, hiding his arms behind his back. Kai looked pretty cocky and assured of victory until Samukai revealed his arms.

"Whoops." Samukai started attacking him, trying to slash Kai to pieces, but Kai kept just barely dodging the attacks, until he was able to disarm Kai and throw his sword aside. He was about to go in for the kill, spinning the knives in his hands round and round, but then a voice cried out.

"NINJAGO!" A golden tornado came at Samukai, knocking his weapons away. The tornado stopped spinning and showed the old man. Samukai smirked at the old man.

"Sensei Wu, your Spinjitsu looks rusty." Sensei Wu thoughtfully stroked his beard.

"Nothing like bone to sharpen its edge Samukai." Kai was struggling to get up because his armor was too heavy. Samukai took advantage of that and threw his knives at Wu, knowing he'd dodge them, to they hit the water tower. It almost fell on Kai, but then Sensei Wu used his Spinjitsu to save Kai. Samukai jumped on his tank.

"Lord Garmadon says take the girl!" Sensei Wu was shocked at what he had heard.

"Lord Garmadon?" One of the skeletons launched a giant skeleton hand targeted at Nya. She screamed as she soared through the air, towards the skeleton vehicle.

"NYA!" They took Nya away before anyone else could do anything about it. Kai sounded shocked and very upset. "They took Nya." Sensei Wu walked up to Kai.

"I told you," he tapped on Kai's helmet with his Bo staff, "useless." Kai blew up, shouting at Sensei Wu for not stopping him.

"ARGH! You could've done something! You could've used your twistitsu or-" Sensei Wu cut him off.

"Spinjitsu." Kai glared at him even more.

"But you did nothing!" he turned away from Sensei Wu, starting to follow the skeletons. "I'm gonna get my sister back!" He started walking off, but Sensei Wu said something that stopped him.

"Where they go, a mortal cannot." Kai stopped and turned around. "That was Samukai, King of the Underworld. If he is carrying out orders for Lord Garmadon, then things are far worse than I feared." Kai angrily walked towards him, brandishing his sword in anger.

"Lord Garmadon?! Underworld?! What's going on?! What do we have that's so important to them, and why would they take my sister?!" Sensei Wu frowned slightly in anger and moved to no longer be in Kai's face.

"What's so important?! How about everything in Ninjago itself!" Then, he got prepared to explain everything. "Long before time had a name, Ninjago was created by the First Spinjitsu Master, using the Eight Weapons of Spinjitsu. They were the Scythe of Quakes, the Nunchaks of Lightning, the Shurikens of Ice, the Sword of Fire, the Chigiriki of Metal, the Fans of the Wind, the Sais of Flora, and the Tonfas of Sand. These weapons are so powerful and so many; no one can handle their power at once except for the First Spinjitsu Master himself. None can even hold them all. When he passed away, his two sons swore to protect them, but the oldest was consumed by darkness and wanted to possess them. A battle between brothers broke out, and the oldest was struck into the Underworld. Peace returned, and the younger brother hid the weapons. But, knowing his brother's relentless ambition for power, he placed a guardian to protect each weapon, and, for fear of his own demise, a map for an honest man to hide. That honest man was your father Kai. The older brother is Lord Garmadon, and I need to find those before he does." Kai figured it out quickly.

"You're the younger brother? Then, you came here looking for the map?" Sensei Wu shook his head.

"No, I came for something greater," he said as he pointed his Bo staff towards Kai. "You. Since my brother cannot enter this realm, it is obvious he has struck a deal with Samukai. If he were to collect all eight weapons, even I would not be able to stop him again." He pointed at Kai with his Bo Staff again, moving it closer towards him. "But you, you have the fire inside. I will train you to harness it, use it, become a Spinjitsu Master." Kai completely disregarded what was just said.

"Look, I'm flattered that you think I'm all that, but I've gotta save my sister. I don't want to get involved in your sibling rivalry." He started walking off, but Sensei Wu took him down easily, and so quickly it was hard to see what happened. Sensei Wu laughed.

"How clumsy of you! You're not ready to face my pinkie toe." He lifted up his foot and wiggled it in Kai's face. "If you want to get your sister back, you must control the fire that burns inside." He tapped Kai's helmet with his staff. "Only when you are a Spinjitsu Master will you be able to face Lord Garmadon." Kai sighed in defeat.

"Okay, when do we start?"

He was struggling to climb up a mountainside, while Sensei Wu did it with ease. Kai climbed over a rock, and he wasn't very happy.

"How long is this training?" Sensei Wu only said one word.

"Patience." They climbed all the way over it and Sensei Wu opened up the doors, to show a monastery. "You will be ready when you are ready, and not a moment sooner." He opened the door. Kai was in shock at what he saw, and a little angry.

"A monastery? You expect me to learn to fight in a place of peace?" Sensei Wu shook his head.

"Not fight, train. First, in order to become a ninja, you must be able to see what others do not." Kai held up his arms, partially at what was before him.

"But there's nothing here!"

"Tell me about it. If it weren't for the magic martial arts I saw and the lack of asking for money, I'd think this was all just an elaborate scam." He was shocked at the voice. He looked around, trying to figure out where it came from until he saw a girl with blonde hair that was really knotted, dressed like a hobo, with ratty yellow clothes.

"And who are you?" She smiled and walked down.

"My name's Bree, and I got here yesterday. Sensei Wu found me wandering around and gave me a place to sleep and eat temporarily in exchange for being his student until I learn Spinjitsu." He raised an eyebrow.

"Temporarily?" She nodded, looking at the sky and smiling.

"I'm a drifter. I never stay in one place for too long, so once this whole Lord Garmadon thing is done with, I'm outta here." Sensei Wu frowned at that.

"You are here to forge strong bonds of friendship and of sibling strength that transcends the boundaries of blood ties." She rolled her eyes.

"Look, I have a destiny of some sort, that's all I understand. I don't wanna be cooped up. I hate staying in one place for too long, and as soon as this whole Garmadon mess is done with, I'm moving along. I only came out of sheer boredom anyway." He sighed.

"I cannot change your mind. Only time is able to do such a thing." He looked at them as Bree moved to stand next to Kai. "Now, what did you say Kai? About the monastery, I mean." Kai rolled his eyes.

"I said there's nothing here." He crossed his arms over his chest. "I don't think that needs to be repeated." Sensei Wu pushed the statue over, which made a button come out. He pressed it, and an entire training facility came out of the floor. Kai and Bree were both amazed, but she stood in her spot while Kai moved to get on the course. "Cool, is this going to teach me that cool move?" He jumped on a wooden pole, making Sensei Wu's eyes widen a bit.

"Oh dear." It came down, then shot up, sending Kai flying, landing on his face. Bree laughed.

"That is priceless!" Sensei Wu sat down next to a pot of tea, a sugar cube holder, and a teacup.

"Complete the training course before I finish my tea, then we shall see if you are ready." Kai didn't even bother getting up while Sensei Wu drank his tea. "Today, you have failed." Kai was about to protest, but Sensei Wu cut him off and turned to Bree. "Bree, would you like to go?" She smiled.

"Of course." He poured himself another cup. She only got through the first training cylinder before he finished his cup.

"You have failed too." She looked at him in disbelief.

"Failed?" In her distraction, a fake person hit her in the face.

"Yes, failed." He stood up and opened a screen door behind him. "Tomorrow, we shall try again." He closed it behind him.

Every day, each of them got a little further than the day before, but each day, they both failed. For several days, instead of learning any moves, Sensei Wu insisted that before he could do anything else for them that they had to complete the training course before he was done with his tea. And every day they both failed.

The next day, Kai came with a wooden sword, and Bree with a pair of fans. When Kai went through, he threw his sword at the cup, and finished while Sensei Wu got his second cup of tea. Bree, on the other hand, knocked the teapot out of his hand, and spilled all the tea before he could even pour a cup, and then fully completed the course. He smiled at them both.

"No use crying over spilled tea." Kai looked at Sensei Wu expectantly.

"So, when do we get to learn the Spinjitsu stuff?" Bree nodded, relieved.

"I feel like I've been here for way too long." Sensei Wu stood up, heading to the screen door behind him.

"You have already learned it. Your next lesson is to figure out how to use it, your task is to get some sleep."

That night, six strange black-cloaked figures were in the monastery, sneaking around. Three were on one half, while another three were on the other half. They never noticed each other, and went on their way.

Kai was brushing his teeth before bed, thinking about what Wu had said.

"Oh yeah? Well take this, and this!" He pretended his toothbrush was a sword. He started spinning around, two ninja popping up behind him, one holding Nunchaks, the other holding shurikens. "And this!" He came face to face with another ninja, one wielding a scythe. "Oops."

Bree looked in the mirror, seeing her appearance. As two kunoichi snuck behind her, one wielding twin sais and one wielding twin tonfas, she sighed.

"This is getting boring. Even if-" As she turned around, another kunoichi wielding a chigiriki came to be in front of her, the other two moving to be behind her. Her eyes widened, but they she smiled. "Well, this should be fun."

Kai threw his toothbrush at the ninja wielding the shurikens. He spat it out and made it hit the face of the one wielding the Nunchaks. It bounced off his head and then fell into the pants of the one with the scythe. Kai took the chance to jump up onto the rafters and escape, but the ninjas were in hot pursuit of him. The one with the shurikens jumped up from the floor in front of him and lunged, but Kai quickly moved over and dodged, making the other guy go straight past and fall. Kai laughed, but then realized he didn't have the luxury for such things and started running away again. However, one of them caught up to him and kicked him right into the courtyard.

Bree smiled and got into a fighting stance. The girl with a chigiriki swung it, trying to hit Bree, but she grabbed the chain part and yanked it out of her hands and then threw it at the girl with the sais. The girl with the tonfas the tried to beat Bree, but she easily dodged the attacks. She then slid to be on her back and kicked the girl's stomach, moving her in an arc to throw her into the girl with the sais. The girl who had the chigiriki grabbed it again, but in that time, Bree ran off, heading straight for the courtyard.

Kai flipped the dragon switch over and activated the course just as Bree ran out, with the three kunoichi right behind her. As the ninjas got hit with punching bags and training dummies, the kunoichi walked right into the part with the moving sticks and kept getting bashed in between those things. Kai was in shock at who was pursuing Bree.

"You have ninja on your trail too?!" All of the kunoichi glared at him, holding up their weapons.

"WE'RE KUNOICHI!" Kai and Bree stood back-to-back and fought against their six adversaries. Even though it was 2 against 6, they managed to keep it at a stalemate until someone interjected.

"STOP!" They all looked at Sensei Wu. The three ninjas and three kunoichi automatically stopped and straightened into a row, bowing in respect.

"Yes Sensei." Then, the ninja group and the kunoichi group looked at each other in confusion. Kai walked up to Sensei Wu a little, also highly confused.

"Wait a minute! They're you're students too?!" Bree looked even madder.

"And you didn't even bother telling us?! How the hell did they stay here without us noticing?!" Then, it hit Kai why the event had occurred.

"This was our final test?" The ninja with the nunchaks started protesting and running his mouth.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Sensei, you never said anything about a forth, left alone a fifth and sixth and a seventh and an eighth! And you never said anything about girls!" Bree and the other kunoichi glared at him, but the kunoichi with the chigiriki grabbed him by the front of his shirt and lifted him up.

"What's wrong with girls?!" He put his hands up in mock surrender, but mainly so she wouldn't hurt him.

"Nothing!" He turned back to Sensei Wu. "It's just that's its always been us three, three blind mice, three bears in the forest, three musketeers-" The ninja with the scythe cut him off, walking up a little.

"What he is trying to say Sensei Wu is that we've trained together. We're solid." Kai folded his arms over his chest.

"Didn't look so solid to me." Before anyone else could say anything, the kunoichi with the tonfas walked up.

"Sensei Wu, what in Ninjago is going on?" Sensei Wu walked down the steps.

"Each of you has been chosen, each in tune with elemental properties. But first, NINJAGO!" He used his Spinjitsu to change them into new outfits with new weapons. Kai wore red and had a sword, Bree wore yellow and had two metal fans, the kunoichi with the chigiriki wore gray, the kunoichi with the tonfas wore orange, the ninja with the nunchaks wore blue, the ninja with the shuriken wore white, and the last one stayed in black, with a scythe. Kai looked down at himself in shock.

"Whoa! How'd he do that?" The one in blue seemed pretty happy.

"Look what color I am!" Bree looked down and seemed pretty happy.

"Yellow's always been my favorite color." The one still in black looked a bit confused.

"Wait a minute, I'm still black." Sensei Wu pointed towards Kai.

"Kai, Master of Fire. It burns bright in you. Jay is blue," he put his Bo Staff on Jay's shoulders, "Master of Lightning." He looked pretty proud of himself.

"That's not all I'm master of. I do a little inventing, I dabble in model building, touch in cooking, a little in poetry." The one in black rolled his eyes.

"More like mouth of lightning." Sensei Wu pointed out that one next.

"Black Ninja is Cole, solid as rock, Master of Earth." He spun around and held his scythe out to Kai.

"Nice to meet you kid. I got your back. And for the record," he threw off his zukin, revealing his long, thick black hair, "there ain't nothing in this world that I'm afraid of." The one in white held up his hand slightly to make a point.

"Except for dragons." Cole looked a little timid at that.

"Dragons aren't from this world Zane. I said in this world." The gray kunoichi got very excited.

"I love dragons! I make them all the time when I'm soldering or welding." Sensei Wu pointed her out.

"Kim is gray, for she is as strong as steel, and the Master of Metal." She smiled, pretty proud of herself.

"I love metal! It's great, and can be used for anything." She threw off her zukin, revealing her long black hair. "Although it's pretty dangerous, just like me." She smirked. The kunoichi in purple rolled her eyes.

"Kim, you get way too excited over things. And you're a giant ball of fluff, you aren't dangerous." Sensei Wu pointed towards her as she finished her sentence, throwing off her zukin to show her red hair.

"Rose is the Purple Kunoichi, and is the Master of Flora." He then turned toward the girl in orange. "Sam is the Master of Sand, and the Orange Kunoichi." She smiled and took off her hood, showing her long, sun-bleached hair.

"Never been a big fan of orange, but I'm sure I can pull off this look." He turned back towards Bree.

"And the last of the kunoichi is Bree, Master of the Wind." She nodded.

"But remember, this is only a temporary thing." He nodded and turned towards Zane.

"The White Ninja is Zane, Master of Ice, and a seer of sixth sense." He spun around and then held out his shurikens, seeming to make them disappear with a little slide of hand. Kai leaned over to Kim.

"I sense that this one takes things a little too seriously." Zane took his zukin off, revealing his straight up blond hair.

"You too have the gift?" Jay laughed a little as he put his hand on Zane's shoulder.

"He's just making a joke Zane." Jay took his zukin off, showing his brown hair. "You remember what we talked about? Your sense of humor, huh?"

"Yes, it was a joke, ha ha." Jay smacked himself on the forehead. Sensei Wu shouted out to them.

"Pay attention! You eight are the chosen ones who will protect the eight weapons of Spinjitsu from Lord Garmadon."

"While all of this is interesting, what about Nya?" Jay got pretty excited.

"Whoa, no one ever said we were rescuing a girl! Is she hot?" Rose, Kim, Bree, Sam, and Kai glared at Jay. "What?" Kim whacked him upside the head.

"For one, that was practically an insult to our appearances." Kai nodded, threatening jay by putting a sword very close to him.

"And second, she's my sister." Jay backed away a little.

"I just wanna know what we're getting ourselves into. Does she like blue?" Kai stepped closer.

"Back off." Sensei Wu walked over and pushed Kai's sword down and away from Jay's throat.

"When we find the weapons, we will find your sister. It is time. We must go to the first weapon!" Cole stepped forward, a bit concerned.

"Whoa, hold on a minute, you said you were going to teach us Spinjitsu." Sensei Wu's expression did not change as he replied to Cole.

"Spinjitsu is inside each and every one of you. But it will only be unlocked when the key is ready to be found." Kim rolled her eyes.

"Great." Jay looked highly annoyed.

"Now we have to find a key?" Cole nodded.

"Yeah, I'm feeling like he's taking us for a ride." Kai looked at them with determination on his face.

"Well, if it means finding my sister, then sign me up."

"Sign me up," said Jay in an annoyed, mocking voice. Everyone short of Sensei Wu was pulling the horse carriage. Zane, Bree, Rose, and Kai, in that order, were on the right, Cole, Jay, Sam, and Kim were on the left in that order. Cole clenched his teeth as he made a comment to what Jay had said.

"Way to go spark plug." Kim turned to Kai and glared.

"Kai, you're not pulling enough on your side." He glared back at her.

"I'm not the only one on this side!" Kim rolled her eyes.

"You're the one next to me so I can tell!" Sensei Wu yelled at the both of them.

"Quit arguing! You cannot work as a team if there is a large enmity between you two! You two barely know each other, so take the time to get along and find the things you respect about each other, and this is the perfect time." Zane thought about what they were doing.

"I sense this is some strange form of team building." Cole rolled his eyes and looked towards Zane.

"Whatever this is, just keep pulling. We've got a long way to go." He looked back forward. Sam looked around, trying to start some conversation.

"So, how did Sensei find you guys? I was on my way to new places." She thought about how she'd been on her way to Ninjago City and on a particularly stormy day, had taken shelter in a nearby cave, where Sensei Wu was waiting with a fresh, hot pot of tea and a nice warm fire.

They all looked at each other, and then Cole answered him.

"I don't know about you or what you think, but I think if Sensei didn't exist, we'd never be seen together. I was testing my limits." He thought about how he nearly fell off the mountain at seeing Sensei Wu up there, drinking tea. Jay nodded.

"I was testing my invention." He thought about how he had tried a glider that he had invented, which only made him crash into a billboard that Sensei Wu was behind. Zane remembered what he had been doing.

"And I was testing myself." He thought about how he had been underwater for a long time, and then suddenly saw Sensei Wu, somehow drinking tea underwater, and accidentally breathed in some, couching and choking.

"I was just making my greatest creation!" She smiled at the thought of the dragon she'd welded from scrap, which Sensei Wu managed to climb on top of.

"I was visiting the library." Rose thought about how she'd been reaching for a book that was too high up and how Sensei Wu had handed it to her from the top of the shelf, which was ridiculously high up.

"Stop!" called out Sensei Wu. They all stopped pulling. "The Caves of Despair. Samukai must be close to unearthing the Scythe of Quakes." They all let go and walked towards the edge of the valley before stopping. "Remember, do not use the weapon, or its power-" Jay cut him off.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's too much for us mortals. Alright guys, lets chop sake this lemonade stand. Cole, do you have a plan?" He nodded.

"Sure do. First, we lower ourselves down the ledge, and then, where's Kai?" Bree pointed.

"I think the idiot is down there." There, Kai was sneaking around to get to the Golden Weapon first. Jay sighed.

"Let's go." They all leaped off. They sneaked past some skeletons and got under an over turned cart. They made one skeleton drop a rock on his foot when they bumped into a boulder. They started walking and saw another skeleton, but this one saw Kai, so they took it under the cart before it had the chance to alert the others, then beat it up.

Kai looked around, trying to find Samukai. If he found Samukai, he found the map. He saw him on top of a guard tower with a paper in his hand.

"The map!"

The rest of the ninja and the kunoichi were under a conveyor belt, heading into the mine. The two skeletons that found the map were there. The one with the eye patch held up a rock.

"Oh, oh, I found something!" The other one smacked him in the back of the skull.

"You idiot, it's just another rock!" He still looked excited about his rock.

"But it looks like a doughnut! I wonder if it tastes like one." He bit it, and his teeth came out. The other skeleton just sighed.

Kai snuck up to the guard tower. All the other ninja and kunoichi followed behind. When they were all up there, Jay smacked him in the back of the head.

"What do you think you're doing?" Kai shushed him. Samukai looked at the map, then put it down and faced away from it. Rose was a bit shocked at what Samukai had managed to do.

"It's upside down. They're digging in the wrong spot! How does anyone manage to do that?!" Zane held up a shuriken with a rope tied to it.

"The Golden Weapon is near." Zane threw his shuriken down, pulled the rope after the shuriken hit its target, and got the map. Kai looked at it and quickly made a decision.

"There's no time to waste!" Kai flipped off the tower. Jay was highly annoyed and confused.

"What's with that guy, always in a rush?" Kim sighed.

"Idiot! I'm going after him." She leaped off as well. Rose rolled her eyes.

"Metal or not, she's just as hot headed as he is."

Kai found the spot and was trying to push away the rock that covered it.

"Need some help Kai?" He turned to see Kim.

"I don't need your help." She went over and pushed the rock with him.

"You just don't want to admit that you need help. Sensei Wu said it, I'm a strong as steel, I can help you move it. We all could, but you rushed off without anyone else to help." The others came over. Cole glared at them.

"Hey, before you two run off again, you've got to remember, we're a team." Kai rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, whatever." Kim looked back at them.

"I was trying to say that. Now shut your mouth and help push." They all pushed the rock out of the way and saw the Scythe of Quakes in the mouth of a stone dragon.

"Whoa, that is so cool!" Jay's cry echoed out throughout the whole dig sight. Bree smacked him in the back of the head, not in anger, but more to show Jay that he was being stupid.

"Dude, shut it! You could let everyone know we're here!" Cole jumped on the statue and grabbed the Scythe.

"Don't be so paranoid. We're on the opposite side of the cave system Bree." Sam looked around nervously.

"I don't know Jay, she may be right. Caves and stuff bounce sound a lot right?" She stopped. Jay spoke up again while Cole got down and threw the Scythe to Kai, who had the tarp to wrap it in before putting it on his back.

"Hoping that they didn't hear Jay, now that we've got the scythe, lets sneak out of here before those boneheads are still busy." They all nodded and started walking out. None of them noticed the dragon's head moving slightly as they exited the cave. Sam smiled brightly.

"Well I guess we're almost ready to get out of here!" Cole stopped short as he nearly walked into Samukai, who was smirking at him as he pulled out his bone daggers. Without another word, everyone else pulled out their weapons and started plowing down the skeletons. Jay was making battle sound effects, which annoyed Sam.

"JAY THIS IS SERIOUS WILL YOU QUIT IT?!" He looked back at her and shrugged.

"Eh, but it's more fun this way!" Zane saw a skeleton sneaking up behind Kai and held up his arms.

"Kai, over here!" Kai nodded and took the Scythe, tossing it to Zane. They kept tossing it back and forth between all of them as Jay started to realize something.

"Hey guys, it's just like the training course! Over the planks!" He jumped over some skeletons, "dodge the swords," he went over a couple of swords as he got closer to another skeleton, "here comes the dummy!" Slowly, blue sparks floated around him until he actually started spinning in a blue, lightning tornado as everyone looked on in awe. Kai even stopped fighting a bit.

"Spinjitsu?! Jay what's the key?!" Jay kept fighting in the tornado, he himself in amazement of his own work.

"I'm just going through the motions!" He laughed a bit. "This is what Sensei must've meant when he said we already knew it!" Kai nodded and started saying it out loud.

"Over the planks, dodge the swords, here comes the dummies!" He was then engulfed in a fiery tornado as everyone else followed suit, Cole surrounded by brown earth, Zane in white ice, Kim in sharp steel colored metal, Rose in a tornado of violet tflowers, Bree by flowing winds, and Sam by orange tan sand.

The skeletons that had found the map were a bit away from the battle. The one wearing a battle helmet started laughing.

"He called you a dummy," he said, pointing at the other one, who wasn't happy.

"No, he called you a dummy!" Their eyes widened as they screamed and ran when Zane got closer in his tornado of white.

"I sense that you do not stand a chance." Samukai started to back up. He was no match against eight Spinjitsu Masters.

"RETREAT!" All of the skeletons ran off screaming as they stopped using their Spinjitsu. Cole started looking at his muscles.

"Ha! Guess they didn't want a second serving of these babies!" Everyone one else had one of those "oh my god" faces. Jay even face palmed, but Rose just took a look. "Good thing he didn't check out the merchandise in the back!" He turned around and Kim laughed.

"You talking about your flat butt Cole?" He didn't even respond. He was frozen in terror. She raised an eyebrow and turned around and then squealed in excitement. "OH MY GOSH IT'S A REAL DRAGON!" Everyone else turned around, terrified.

"I sense we won't be able to spin our way out of this one," said Zane as the dragon loomed over them. Bree rolled here eyes and grabbed his arm as she started running off, everyone short of Kim following suit.

"No duh Zane!" Kim just started walking towards the dragon, her eyes wide with amazement.

"I've always wanted to meet one…" Kai's eyes widened as the dragon released a loud roar, filled with Earth that caused a cave in, cutting Kim off from the rest of them.

"Kim!" He took the Scythe of Quakes and lifted it up, much to Jay's dismay.

"No Kai, bad idea! Sensei told us not to!" Kai glared at him.

"Then you'd better keep your mouth shut! We need to get Kim out of there!" He struck the boulder with the Scythe as the dragon nearly bit her head off. Zane went in there and pulled her out quickly before the Scythe ended up causing more damage and making the ceiling fall on the dragon. Before Kim could complain, they used their Spinjitsu to get out of a small crack and escape, immediately meeting Sensei Wu as they started cheering over their victory. Sensei Wu, however, was not pleased, and the fact that they were celebrating their victory made him angry.

"Enough!" They all turned to him, confused. "I told you not to use the Scythe!" They all pointed at Kai, which made him glare, especially at Kim.

"Hey, if it weren't for your stupid obsession with dragons, I wouldn't have had to use it!" Sensei Wu raised an eyebrow.

"Kim, what does he mean?" She looked down, embarrassed as she pulled down her hood.

"I tried to reason with the dragon. I mean, you placed him there to guard the weapons, surely I could make him understand that we were your students!" He only got more angry.

"And you thought that this was more important than the team?! You put yourself in danger and created a situation where everyone's safety was compromised!" She looked down.

"I-I'm sorry Sensei…" He turned away from her.

"We still have seven weapons left. Maybe next time you and Kai can get it right." His eyes widened as he took a step forward, filled with anger.

"Me?! I did what I had to! They took my sister and I wasn't gonna let Kim screw up my chances of saving her!" Sensei Wu turned around before Kim could respond.

"I will not have such infighting! You could've found another way around the problem, but you always look for the easy solution! Now we will go and you will remain quiet all the way had to the monastery!" He was about to reply but Sensei Wu turned away, and Kai grumbled quietly to himself as they started walking.

Samukai was in the Underworld, standing in front of the throne of an unseen figure. He was bowing apologetically, as if it would keep his master, Lord Garmadon, from becoming angry with him.

"Master… I have failed you. They have learned Spinjitsu, all eight of them, and they have the Scythe." He braced himself for punishment.

"Good." Samukai's eyes widened in surprise as he looked back up at Lord Garmadon. "Then my brother was there." He smiled, thinking he saw an opportunity.

"If I can just gather my warrior, we can-"

"No." Samukai flinched, even though Lord Garmadon's voice was calm. "Let them think they are winning." Samukai stuttered a bit, trying to comprehend what his master was planning.

"I, uh… do not understand."

"Everything is going to plan." He started with a soft laugh as it quickly grew.

Song Of Hope: Well there's chapter 1! I hope that I can keep writing this wonderful fic, and I have another already plotted out, but I won't start on that until I'm done with this one! R&R