Chapter 2

Dreams do come true

Leo journeyed hard trying to follow the trail set for him by Kai. He was desperately attempting to make it to the monastery. He could remember the conversation with his parents. He was worried they would stereotypically say the average "It's too dangerous we want you to have a more down to earth job, like in a bank", that's what they wanted him to do instead of comics. But they accepted his comic ambitions, ambitions that he will leave behind. His parents were proud for their son to gain such an honour. Plus, it was for the fate of the world. Leo sighed and noticed the mailman passing.

"Hey, mailman!" Leo yelled, the mailman stopped to listen to Leo "Can you tell me where I can find the Ninja monastery"

"Oh, I'm heading there know, you can hitch a ride on the bike if you'd like" the mailman gladly offered.

"That'll be swell, thanks" Leo replied. He hopped on to the flying bicycle that immediately darted off to their destination.

15 minutes later….

"Here's your stop" The mail man said. Leo leapt off and took a piece of mail to hand to the ninja, before waving goodbye. He noticed a boy outside the monastery.

"You must be here for the place of a Ninja" Desmond assumed.

"Yep" Leo responded "Oh, the mail man wanted me to give you this" he handed the parcel over to Desmond.

"Thanks" Desmond said rather begrudgingly "You must be Leo, as he's the last one remaining" Leo nodded "Come" They entered the training grounds, Leo was overwhelmed by the equipment. He saw four other youths which he assumed would be his fellow Ninja. "You better go join them"

"What about you, aren't you a Ninja?" Desmond rolled his eyes and walked off. Leo decided that he wasn't worth it, so went to join the others as their teachers emerged from within.

"Hello students" Lloyd began "I am Lloyd, grandmaster, past Green Ninja, current Golden Ninja and ultimate spinjitzu master"

"Show off" Jay murmured to Cole.

"And these are master Kai Red Ninja of fire, master Jay Blue Ninja of lightning, master Zane White Ninja of ice and master Cole Black Ninja of earth. But of course you already know that" The five teenagers stood paying strong attention. "This is Nya, Jay's wife and Samurai X. The baby is their daughter Jya. This is Cole's girlfriend Katie. And this is Desmond our assistant. You have been granted a great honour, to become the next generation of Ninja. You'll have your own colours, elemental powers and will be represented by animals." Now if you all acquaint each other, we will explain why soon."

As the Masters departed, the Ninja gathered to introduce themselves. "Hi I'm Leo"

One girl introduced herself "I'm Julien" She had pitch black hair, Grey eyes, and a scar on her left cheek. She noticed one boy was not in the group. "HEY, we're over here" The boy started wandering aimlessly "What are you…"

"….Blind?" The Average sized boy with brown hair and blue-grey eyes interrupted. "Yes"

"Oh my god, I am so sorry" Julien responded "I had no idea. And you are?"

"Storm" He replied "My name is Storm"

"And I'm his sister" Said the young girl, small for her age with shoulder length, wavy blonde hair and green eyes. "My name is Paige" The last member was away from the group, there was something weird about him he had black skin and purple eyes with blue highlights. He was like one of those lone wolf type characters from an average anime Leo thought.

"What about you tough guy" Julien yelled

"Nick" He said nothing more. The masters arrived.

"We will now explain why he have decided this" Zane said "It has been foretold a battle will commence, a war to end all wars, gathering all Ninja into combat, although it will be inevitable one Ninja will rise above all others to cease the fighting. That is the Diamond Dragon Ninja. The picture within this scroll is similar to our previous one, it shows the diamond Ninja within the middle of 5 others. A Orange Ninja, A Purple Ninja, A Turquoise Ninja, A Yellow Ninja and A Crimson Ninja" He explained "There also seems to be animal symbols for each one. A Lion for the Orange, A Eagle for he Purple, A Wolf for the Turquoise, A Lynx for the Yellow and A Bat for the Crimson. These are you. One of you will be the Diamond Ninja"

"Do you want to hold this burden?" Cole asked, they all nodded.

Kai stepped forward "You're training begins today"

"Why not tomorrow?" Storm questioned.

"No putting off onto tomorrow what can be done today" He responded

"But surely we need a tour" Paige interrupted

"You can have one tomorrow" Jay claimed

"Can't we have one today" Nick said. Jay thought for a few seconds. And realised what Kai had said earlier. Everyone except for Jay and Nick laughed.

To be continued