*Warning! If you have not read The Real Story of Ninjago read that first*

Me: Here is my first chapter of Year of the Snakes with the girls from The Real Story of Ninjago.

Jayleen: Hi I'm Jayleen!

Cathleen: *shakes head*

Jayleen: What?

Katie: Then already know who we are. Duh!

Zora: Anyways Animals Music and Ninjago does not own Ninjago but she owns us!

Jayleen: I wanted to say it!

Me: You can say it next time! Anyways on to the story!

Episode 1: Rise of the Snakes

Long before time had a name the first Spinjitzu master created Ninjago using four elemental weapons. But when he passed, a dark presence sought out to collect them all, Lord Garmadon. So I, Sensei Wu, his brother, sought out to find four ninja to collect them first. Excuse me? Oh yes and my sister, Sensei Yin, also sought out to find four ninja to collect the elemental weapons.

(Zora's POV)

It has been a couple of months since Garmadon went through the portal. During these months I've noticed that every time I see Zane I seem to blush a little. I don't know why, I just do it almost on instinct. It's almost like... oh never mind. Anyways, for the last couple months I've trained while 7 certain ninja have begun to obsess over video games. So, as usual as they were playing video games in the game room I was practicing my front kick in the courtyard. That was when Sensei Wu and Yin walked in.

"Zora? Why are you the only one training?" Sensei Yin asked me.

"I wasn't exactly interested in what everyone else was doing," I answered.

"And what exactly is everyone doing?" Sensei Wu asked shaking his head as if already knew the answer.

"Check the game room," I told him. Almost as if on cue we heard, "Fire strike. Oh my gosh, is that the greatest move you've ever seen?" "No I'm pretty sure the greatest move ever is the lightning strike." "Stop trying to do it yourself, we need to attack as a team." "Exactly!" "Zane, stop wasting your special attack on me, you have to save it." "Fantastic I'm out of lives."

I rolled my eyes and walked up to the door. Then I slid it open to show Zane telling everyone, "But the lesson is on, and I am getting the hang of it."

I blushed and looked at the ground while the Sensei's walked in unnoticed.

"Okay, now!" Cole announced just as Sensei Wu pulled the plug.

"Aww man," everyone groaned at the same time. I have to admit that I grinned. They deserved it after all.

"What happened?" Jayleen asked with a small pout on her face as Katie gave Sensei Wu a fierce glare and Cathleen complained,"It took us three hours get that."

"Why would you do that? Why?" Jay wondered.

"Just because Lord Garmadon escaped though a vortex, doesn't mean he won't return one day for the weapons of Spinjitzu," Sensei Wu reminded everyone.

"The same goes for you girls," Sensei Yin told them.

"But Sensei Wu, ever sense he has gone, Ninjago has had nothing but peace," Zane said, informing us all the obvious.

"But that doesn't me we can't train," I whispered to myself.

"Yea, peace is boring, there's no one to save, there's nothing to do," Jayleen commented.

"We can train tomorrow," Cole and Cathleen told them. I smirked already knowing what the Sensei's were going to say.

"Never put off in till tomorrow, what can be done today," Sensei Wu scolded. Just as I predicted!

"Well, I was going to eat this pizza tomorrow so, if that's the case…" Cole said. As he started to put the pizza in his mouth Sensei Yin hit it out of his hand causing Cole to reply with an "Oww!"

"No pizza for you. In order to reach your full potential, you must train!" Sensei Wu ordered.

"Uh, remember when we did a little thing called the tornado of creation? I thought that was pretty insane," Kai grinned.

"No it was more than insane," Katie told him with a smirk. I rolled my eyes. Those two totally like each other.

Sensei sighed and shook his head. "You four…"

"Excuse me but what are we? Invisible?" Katie asked sarcastically. She earned a glare from Sensei Yin.

"The eight…" Sensei Wu stated again.

"Eight? Sure there's eight of us but only seven of us are here," Jayleen interrupted. I walked up behind her sat down and tapped on her shoulder. She turned around and saw me.

"Whoops!" she said with embarrassment.

"May I continue?" Sensei Wu asked looking at Cathleen considering she was the only girl who had not interrupted without counting me.

"Yep," Cathleen said.

"It that case you eight have merely scratched the surface of your full potential. There is still so many secrets you have yet to unlock. You haven't even begun to tap in what powers your golden weapons hold," Sensei Wu lectured as everyone lay on the floor with bored expressions on their faces. Cole suddenly smirked and I sensed he had a creative idea on his mind.

"You want to talk secret powers, check this out," he grinned, picking up his scythe and holding the plug with it. Then he stuck it back into the outlet in the wall. The game came back on immediately. Everyone but me grinned and grabbed a remote to continue playing. Sensei shook his head in a disapproving fashion. Just to reassure him Zane explained, "Don't worry master; we will be ready when Lord Garmadon returns."

Suddenly Nya ran into the room with Nate at her heels yelling, "Guys, Lord Garmadon, he's returned! He was spotted approaching Jamonacai village!"

"And Linayera* village at the same time!" Nate continued.

"Does that even make sense? I sense something strange is going on," I informed everyone. But they were too busy trying to get up but falling over one another to hear me. When everyone finally got up and ran to the stables, Jayleen and Jay were looking for their nunchucks. Lucky for them, Nya and Nate were on the ball and were able to hand them their weapons.

"Uh Uh thanks uh…" Jay started to say as Jayleen said," Gee, um um um th- th- thanks…"

"Hurry!" Nya and Nate said in a hurried way.

"Okay!" Jay and Jayleen said as they ran off with me following.

As we ran to the dragon stables Cathleen tried to open the door almost hitting Zane, Cole dropped his Scythe as he got on his dragon, Jay leaped over his dragon, and Jayleen got on and then fell right off. I just shook my head and started to get on my dragon, Icicle which I call Icy. That's when I noticed a long scrape along Icy's wing. So she must have gotten hurt when we were flying and I accidentally told her to go down into the canyon. Not wanting to make her fly when she was hurt, I whispered to Icy, "I'll get someone to let me ride with them on their dragon you rest okay?"

Then I got off Icy and asked Zane, "Hey is it okay if I ride on Shard with you? Icy is kind of hurt so I was just wondering."

"Sure," Zane told me.

That's when I heard Nate and Nya asking their sibling if they could help. But Kai just replied, "Sorry sis, where we go, danger abounds. This is a job for the ninja!" But then, as he tried to reach for the reins he found out he couldn't reach them causing him to add,"Uh a little help?"

Katie smirked then said to her brother, "Yea you don't need to help but... I guess you could hand me the reins."

Both Nya and Nate rolled their eyes and handed their siblings the reins.

As we flew off I heard Nya ask Sensei Wu, "Will they every reach their full potential?"

"In time, maybe a long time, but in time," Sensei Wu answered with a shake of his head.

And then they were out of sight and we were on our way.

Me: So how did you like the first chapter?

Jayleen: How come Zora got the POV the entire time?

Me: Because she did! Anyways...

Katie: That wasn't fair! Because everyone knows I'm the best!

Jayleen: No I am!

Katie: Am not!

Jayleen: Are too!

Cathleen: No ones better than the other person! And you know what you sound like? Little kids!

Me: Well said Cathleen. As I was saying, he's a few questions for you to think about. How can Garmadon be in two places at once? And does Zora like Zane?

Zora: No. Anyways review please and check out the question on Animals Music and Ninjago's page!

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