Hey y'all!

This is a story I came up with that I've been wanting to write for a while. It's basically a look into the previous elemental masters' lives, before their kids were born and their relationships with each other. And my idea as to what happened with our lightning mom. I tried to go along with the timeline as best I could but let me tell you it is very hard to break down Ninjago's timeline and have it make sense.

Each Master will have their own chapter with the exception of Ray and Maya and Misako and Garmadon. The order I'm going with will be: 1) Ray and Maya, 2) Jay's mom, 3) Cole's mom, 4) Previous EM o/ Ice, 5) Misako and Garmadon, and finally 6) Wu.

And yes I am well aware I already have a fic I need to be working on but I just had to get this one out.

I do hope y'all enjoy! If you do, please leave a quick review, it gives me motivation to keep writing.

I don't own Ninjago

Ray and Maya were perfect for each other.

They were both young, both barely in their 20s when they first met.

Polar opposites, yet the perfect team.

Maya was calm, cool, and collected. Strong-willed, speaking her mind, yet always thinking things through and keeping a level head.

But Ray was brash, hot-headed, loud, and ambitious, rushing into situations before thinking.

While at first glance, it would seem the two would never get along, based on their personality clashes, but they ended up being the best of friends, hitting it off from the very start. It was no surprise at all to Wu, or the rest of the Elemental Alliance, when they finally tied the knot.

Both had an incredible talent at blacksmithing.

They were easily Wu and Garmadon's closest friends and most trusted allies.

Wu even entrusted the map of the Golden Weapons to Ray, when his brother's decent to darkness was complete.

Their talented blacksmith work was the main factor in the defeat of Krux and Acronix.

The Masters of Fire and Water fought bravely with honor in the Serpentine War, the battle with Krux and Acronix, and protected the realm of Ninjago with their team for years.

They fought alongside many other elemental masters, descendants of the protectors of the First Spinjitzu Master, with special, unique powers like their own. Masters of Creation, Destruction, Earth, Lightning, Ice, Sound, Shadow, Time, Mind, and Gravity. Creating a bond with each other so strong, they dared call themselves family.

Even though the Serpentine Wars nearly tore them apart, they rekindled their Alliance, if only for a few years, after the misunderstanding with Chen and the Anacondrai was cleared.

Ray and Maya were brave, dedicated fighters, who vowed to protect Ninjago above anything else.

That was, of course, until they had their first child.

A little over 20 years after the battle with Krux and Acronix, the couple now in their 40s, Maya announced to her teammates, her family, as soon as she got the news. Her friends couldn't be more happy for her.

When Kai was born, everyone, especially the new parents, were so thrilled and so happy. He looked just like Ray, only with brown hair and faint freckles. There was much discussion on who's element the child would inherit. Ray's fire, or Maya's water? But only a month after Kai was born, and Ray's elemental power became nonexistent, they knew their answer. Ray couldn't have been more proud.

Ray and Maya weren't the first masters to have a child. The Master of Earth, one of their closest friends, had given birth to her first child, a son, only a couple months prior. The Masters of Mind, Shadow, Sound, and Gravity, had children in their late teens and early twenties, already teaching them how to properly control their elements and to one day, unlock their true potentials and fight for Ninjago.

By the time Maya was pregnant with her second child, two years after their first, the Elemental Alliance was hanging by a thread.

After Krux and Acronix betrayed them, others started to have doubts about each other's loyalty.

And finally, years after the Time Twins' betrayal, the Masters of Mind, Shadow, Gravity, and Sound left the Alliance, completely cutting off contact.

The only members who stayed in touch with Ray and Maya were Wu, Garmadon, and the Masters of Ice, Lightning, and Earth. Nicholaus, Libby, and Terra.

Nya, a baby girl, was born to Ray and Maya afterward. The day Maya lost her powers was the best day of her life.

Libby gave birth to her baby boy a little less than a year before Ray and Maya had Nya, and Terra had her little boy just before Kai was born. Nicolaus never married himself, but he was always supportive of the families and their children.

The few Elemental Masters of the Alliance left remained a close family, getting together often, talking and fantasizing about how great fighters their kids would be someday. They celebrated many things together, such as Misako and Garmadon's engagement and eventual wedding.

They were the perfect family with the perfect life.

Until everything went horribly wrong.

Libby went missing. Gone with no explination, no evidence, no trace whatsoever, leaving a distraught husband and a one month old boy behind. The widower cut his connection with the others and gave their child up for adoption after her case ran cold.

Terra, Libby's best friend, was devastated. She went back home to her husband and 15 month old son, and lost touch with the rest of the Alliance.

Nicolaus grew old, too old to fight, and became gravely ill. He said his solemn goodbyes, and went off on a, 'Very important journey for the next generation of Elemental Masters.'

They never saw him again.

Then remained Wu, Garmadon, Misako, Ray, and Maya.

Four years after Libby went missing and communication with Terra and Nicolaus was lost, Misako and Garmadon had a child. A beautiful little boy with shiny blond hair. Very small, three weeks premature, but he was all the couple could ever ask for.

Not long after their son turned three months, Garmadon's decent to darkness was complete, and he was banished to the Under World. Misako left soon after, unable to process the truth, taking her son and leaving Ray, Maya, and Wu behind.

Then there were three. They continued to keep in touch.

A few months later, when Kai had turned five and Nya barely three, Ray and Maya were visited by a kind man, by the name of Dr. Sander Saunders. They invited him in for tea, he was a wary traveler, exploring Ninjago.

At least that's what they thought.

When he revealed himself to be Krux, he forced them to come with him, threatening Kai and Nya's safety if they didn't.

Ray and Maya left behind two young children, forcing Kai to raise himself, and his little sister on his own. During their 13 year imprisonment, the previous Masters of Fire and Water could only hope and pray, that Wu would fulfill his promise to look after their children, when they couldn't.