PLZ RD: Hello! It's me, Kairi- This is a story about Zane and his life as a nindroid BEFORE he met the Ninja, and his life BEFORE he was a nindroid in the first place- yea, you're probs lookin' at me weird. -.-' This is sort of a tie-in to my (Ninjago )NFAN series, but you DON'T HAVE TO HAVE READ IT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT ZANE HAD A LIFE BEFORE HE BECAME A NINDROID. Okay? That's it.

(Altho I encourage you to go read the first NFAN book, Shadow Dancer, because it's freaking awesome, and then you'll go read book 2, The Autumn of Twilight, and then book 3, The Kingdom of Death, because you'll be so in love with the series you'll be hooked. ;D)

SO ANYBODY CAN READ THIS! ^-^ With that being said, here's the prologue!

Prologue
A DAY AFTER THE FIRST SPINJITZU MASTER'S BIRTH

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN any other choice for me. When you're someone like I am, you live in a rather brutal, uncharacteristic world, where everybody looks like replicas of everyone else, and all the other people around you have exactly the same problems, and basically every living cell in every single body has the same genetic makeup. Everyone tends to like to be just like everyone else because they are scared of being different. They never stray from the crowd, never shift the balance just a little to make the world more exciting. Where I come from, that would be considered extremely "weird," as some people would call it now. Back then, there was only one way that people lived, and that could even be considered, well, not living. No one took risks, no one did anything beyond the set path for them in life's course. It was extremely sad.

I liked to live on the edge, be different. But one day, I didn't know how different I would become when I took the wrong turn on the wrong path. Life is kind of evil that way, yet I do not despair, for I have lived my life to the fullest. Well, my first life, anyway.

My second life? Even better.

Perhaps you're extremely confused with me, and that's okay. I will explain this all to you in good time, but it must be slowly released. I don't want to ruin the whole book for you, now do I?

I want to tell you about how I lived, and how I died. I want to tell you about how I have loved and lost and suffered through many extreme battles, and made it out alive. I want to tell you about my first life, as a human, with a heartbeat, and a family who I could safely call mine. And I want to tell you about my second life when I became someone else. I became someone who broke the normal rules of staying "within the crowd," someone who veered off the path because I was so completely different that it could've costed me my life if anyone found out what I had become.

Eventually, someone did.

This is the story of my life, from beginning to end, and then beginning again. There's sparks, there's gears, there's new friendships—and even a little danger. Of course, you, as my reader, are probably rolling your eyes at me to scoff, "I really doubt that you have much to say, random guy."

But I do. I have lived for a long, long time. You might say that I've seen it all, although that is an extremely different topic, and very irrelevant to what I was talking about.

My name is Zane. I am the first of the Nindroids, the first of the Clockwork Army.

And I swear on my life that I will be the last.