Chapter One: The Promise

"Back so soon?" Sensei Wu inquired as his students came back aboard the Bounty.

"Kind of," said Kai as he shot a glare at Jay.

"What do you mean?"

"Well," said Cole, "we would have been able to do what you wanted if Jay hadn't been such a motormouth and gave us away."

"You're not saying that it was my fault," Jay said.

"You are the one that got us caught," Lloyd said.

"Sorry, guys, I didn't mean to. I just have a lot to say," said Jay, a bit hurt by their remarks.

"This has been an ongoing trend, Jay," Zane, the nindroid, said.

"Just make sure it doesn't happen again," Cole said.

Later that night. . .

Everyone sat around the dinner table but not too much eating was going on in the right corner. Jay, as usual, was talking everyone's ear off and it was starting to get irritating. How he had that much to say was beyond the other ninja, and quite frankly, they weren't paying much attention to what he was saying as they really did not care. Even Nya wanted just a bit of silence. A couple of different times someone would try to sneak a word or two into the conversation, but Jay would either ignore them and keep on talking away or simply say, "I'm not done talking yet". This usually was replied with Kai muttering under his breath, "You never are".

"And then, Fritz, he touched this weird snowy stuff which made him sick and go crazy and-" Jay began in one, big breath.

"Jay, seriously," Kai cut him off, "leave some oxygen for the rest of us. I really don't care about Fritz's space exploration."

Eating what was only about the third bite of his food, Jay said, "Sheesh, it looks like someone is a little hot under the collar."

"It's not just him. Besides, you have been talking so much that dinner is almost over," Lloyd said.

"Yeah," Cole said, "I don't think your mom would be too happy that you're not eating your vegetables."

Jay ate one piece of broccoli and continued rambling on, completely ignoring his brother's comments. The others rolled their eyes as Jay didn't care that they didn't care about his stories. Being extra chatty today, the ninja of lightning continued his speech, sometimes directly to one person and sometimes to everyone, all through dinner cleanup and a good chunk of the evening.

"I had this weird dream once that I had this pony, well actually it wasn't pony-it was a frog, and then, well maybe it wasn't a dream at all. Once when I was little I had this frog-" Jay began to say so quickly that his words were mixing and running together like too much paint on the same tray.

"Jay, be quiet! You're driving me insane!" Kai finally yelled out as he could no longer stand the chatter.

Taken aback by Kai's sudden outburst, Jay sheepishly said, "Sorry."

"No, he's right," Cole said, "I don't know how much more of this I can take! I wish you would just be quiet for once in your life."

Lloyd and Zane agreed with Cole and Kai as well.

"You don't think that too, do you, Nya?" Jay said, quieter than usual.

"Well," she said, "sort of. It was getting just a bit incessant."

The blue ninja knew he talked a lot but he didn't think his brothers and Nya felt this way. He felt very hurt that they told him to be quiet; he really wasn't told to be quiet too much in his life other than school, but he did not figure that counted as teachers told everyone to be quiet.

"Fine, then I won't ever speak again," Jay thought, that by this remark, he would get the others to apologize and let him continue his story. On the contrary, quite the opposite happened.

"Good," Kai said, "maybe we'll have some peace for once."

Jay thought they misunderstood him.

"Then I promise I'll be quiet for the rest of my life. The only thing you'll get from me is silence."

"Good, you will never last anyway," was the only reply he got.

The poor blue ninja was heartbroken and then became angry, storming off to his room. As Jay laid on his bed, he then realized the promise he had just made. They were right, he knew himself that he wouldn't last a day, let alone a lifetime, without talking. He was about to call it off but he stopped himself at the door. There was no way he was going to give them the pleasure of calling off his promise, especially so early on. Laying back down, he decided to keep his oath of silence until they were begging him to speak.

So I just randomly got the idea for this story and decided it would interesting to write:) I hope you like it and don't forget to leave a review! Feel free to use constructive criticism. God bless!