Authors Notes: The first half of book 4 is in the afterward of Book 3. Read Zareth AU before you read this. It will not make any sense at all.

Ryan and Deity Brookstone belongs to Asktheblindarcher

Zareth belongs to GrumpyZane

I own the rest

Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago. It is a product of Lego.

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Cumbersome

Book 4: Stellar

Chapter 1

Graceful

My name is Kino,

And she has no idea where she's going.

Whose she you ask? This idiot walking around the train station jumping from poster to poster asking me dumb questions. Geez I was insane for allowing her to come with me.

Running my hands over my face I watch her turn to sniff the air. She ran toward a noodle stand.

"Kino...Kino, oh look whats this?" She asked. Now that proved she was dumb as a brick. Not only where there people around them eating noodles, but there was a large poster with it on the stand itself.

"Its food." I told her asking the cook for two bowl. I was rather hungry actually and the train wasn't due for at least another hour. So I picked up the bowl of noodles and walked over to a vacant booth. Sitting down and pointing for Hope to do the same. She picked up the chopsticks and looked at them. She looked over them and then looked up at me. She was very doe eyed. Very curious to boot. I hope I can keep her sitting down for the whole day on the train. Maybe she'll get bored and fall asleep like Danny and Inky used to.

That made my heart clamp shut. I looked down at the young girl in front of me as she started to poke at the noodles and grabbed hold of one and promptly sniffed it...which caused it to go up her nose. She...was happy about this. She laughed until I reached over and plucked the noodle from her nose.

"You don't eat with your nose. Do you see anyone else eating with their nose?" I asked. She pointed to a dog to my left.

For the love of Lloyd...this girl was going to make me pull my hair from my scalp by the time the day was done. She looked at the others around us looking at the chop sticks and shook her head grabbing the noodles and started to shove them into her mouth. Oh whatever...at least she's eating normally now. Danny...just what were you thinking? I needed to get this kid to Danika...quick...before she hurts herself.

Well at least she behaved herself on the train. She mostly kept looking outside the window. Talking about everything she saw and asking questions about everything. But then the problem started.

"Kino its so hot. Why do I have to wear this?" She pointed at the jacket I gave her.

"Because its inappropriate to wear nothing at all. Do you see anyone on the train naked?" i shouldn't have asked that.

"He's only wearing shorts." She pointed to a poster of people on vacation.

"Thats a picture of the beach...we aren't on the beach."

"Beach...a place where there's lots of sand, lots of water, and people gather for social activities such as surfing, building of sandcastles, volleyball, and bonfires." She looked up at me like I was some sort of information giver. Specially since she knew exactly what it was...the beach.

'Must have been because my Dannygirl and I went there so much. She did love the beach a lot.' Zareths voice said within my head. They were always there, all of them giving advice, telling me what to do, being loud as hell. If i didn't see them as a harmonious song then I would have went crazy long ago.

"You have selective memory you know that don't you?" I said to Hope who just smiled and giggled. "Bottom line kid...don't take off your clothes. Its to cold outside."

I had to improvise with her after leaving the cave. She had very thin clothing there and not good for the wintery weather that frequents the area. So I had to give her my jacket. Which means I haven't got a jacket on and I look like an idiot. Luckily I'm nindroid.

Now I'm sure there are those of you who are unaware of what happened to Danny and Zareth after my Aunt Inky's journals stopped. What happened to Aunt Inky and what not? She got married to some guy named Ryan Brookstone. Whose Ryan Brookstone? Obviously Coles son...duh...but not the one from Danny and Zareths realm. Nope...its from a realm next door. Deity and Cole Brookstones son Ryan. I won't go to far into it. Its a story from another time and another place. Pfft and another realm too.

Aunt Inky and Uncle Ryan had kids...two. Danika Rose Brookstone became the number 1 in droid repair and the first person to understand and speak the droid language. Growing up around droids how can you not right? But then there was Julien Cryptor Brookstone who just like our Uncle Cryptor went into law enforcement. Was built just like both their grandfathers Cole and Dareth, and just as tall as Cole too!

But then there was Otto Zareth Darzuski who is Danny and Dareths second kid who is also my dad. Who is also a elemental master of melding...just like my eldest half...Kira.

'Wait..Kino...what are you talking about?' You'd probably ask. Well allow me to tell you.

Kira is my first half. The current master of melding. My second half is her younger twin brother Omino the current master of earth. Our mother is Persephone who is the Cole from our realms daughter. So confusing I know...just try to understand that Ryan is from a different realms Cole...a realm almost identical to ours...almost! Mom is from Zareths realm...okay...you got it...good.

Lastly there is Ryder our younger brother who stays at home like a good boy. Mostly cause our dragon of melding Malt won't let him go to far without her. She's a bit over protective. Okay majorly over protective.

Now where was I…?

Oh yeah Hope...where did she go? Oh great...she's hanging from the luggage racks…

"Hope get down fr…" The train hit its brakes quickly. This caused Hope to fall forward out of the racks and onto the floors. I'm sure her head will have a bit of a dent in it but she seemed to be fine when she back paddled into my legs. But what burst through the side of the train...I had never seen someone like that before. Hair down his back, glowing green eyes, razor sharp horns growing out of his back, claws like a tigers, just what is this t...he looked right at us.

"Hope...run...RUN!" he charged us. What the hell did we do? Jumping through the doors into the snow. We ran into the woods. I could hear it behind us. Jumping at us. I used my lava arm breaking a tree to slow it down. It just rammed right through it. Bursting through the trees into the sight of a bearded man in a hood with an arrow pointed right at me. I hit the ground hearing the arrow fly over my head and hit the beast between the eyes. I turned over as it fell hard to the ground and slid in the snow at my feet.