Kai, Emmet, Nya and Rex were sitting in the dining room table and played card game "thousand". The Siblings played this game for the first time because it wasn't created in this dimension, but they quickly learned it.

"I won!" Master of Fire suddenly shouted.

"You have a thousand on the minus, not the plus" Rex picked up a notebook with the current results.

"You didn't say if there was a thousand plus or minus. A thousand is a thousand!" He insisted.

"Bro, chill" She pulled his sleeve to make him sit down. "They said it was supposed to be plus, not a minus, so don't deny your defeat."

"Probably one more round and we'll see who wins" Rex shuffled the cards and dealt them all. He wasn't doing too well because had only 400 points, Emmet 910 and Nya 890. Now winning depended on how their cards worked. "You give anything?"

Kai and Emmet answered zero, and Nya had to collect three forced cards. She took them and looked at them. After her little smile, it was easy to tell that she was in the winning position. She gave two of her cards to her fellow players and laid down hers.

"All reds!" She got up from the table and formed the text from water: I WON. "Really cool game, maybe we can teach others to play it too? We'd play it sometimes".

"Honestly, it was nice to play with you" Emmet admitted. "I'm looking forward to another game!"

***

"How long have they lived with us?" Lloyd asked while avoiding a White Ninja shot.

"66 days, three hours and twenty minutes." He took out his shuriken and threw them. One hit Lloyd's leg, which caused him to fall when he tried to escape. "And I forgot about 12 seconds."

"Ouch..." He was massaging his back because it hurt the most there. "You didn't have to be so precise. Remember, my wound healed recently!"

"I know, but I always try to do everything with precision." He stretched out his hand to him and helped him stand up. "Something worries you?"

"Maybe a little" He was cleaned his outfit off the sand."I just think a lot about some things. You know I do sometimes."

"It's a fact" Master Of Ice agreed with him. "But even then, you don't get so distracted." He noticed his friend's embarrassed face. And he was kicking the tip of his shoe against the ground, and that meant something to Lloyd personally. Zane had long recognized the natural signals that exposed his friends' feelings.

"I don't know, I guess I'm just a little bit in love, but it's not serious" He waved his hands in denial.

"Are you afraid that Emmet will turn out to be an enemy, like Harumi, or are you just afraid of being rejected?" He asked, caring

"Both, I guess. Hey... how did you know it was about Emmet?"

"I just now used my sixth sense more than I used facts to base it on, but I also noticed some signs of love in you." He smiled and sat on a bench and patted the seat next to each other encouraging Lloyd to sit down.

"I got rid of the thought that he might become an enemy or that he might reject me, but now I worry about something else." He sat next to him.

"About what?"

"They got here by a mistake and they're actually prisoners in our world for months. I want the best for them, and especially for Emmet, but I'm afraid that once they find a way to teleport themselves into their dimension, Emmet won't want to stay here and leave me, and even if he wants me, he'll want to go back to his home and choose his home." He looked up at the sky imagining how to say goodbye to him. "I can't leave my dimension, so I understand that he may miss his and want to go back there."

"Well, we don't know if they still miss their home. I think they're getting used to it they're fine here."

"What if they're just pretending?" He asked him with a hopeless tone.

"I don't think they're pretending, but if you want, we can talk to them together. I'll help you with that." He patted him on the head.

All of a sudden, they heard Jay's plane. The blue Ninja landed in the courtyard, got out of the vehicle quickly. They saw him sweating, his hair was more straggly than usual, and his face was terrified.

***

"I want everyone to come to the meeting that will be in the courtyard!" They heard Lloyd's voice from small speakers.

If the Green Ninja called them, it meant they had a mission to complete. Rex and Emmet have also been on missions since the boy was rescued from bandits.

When they all arrived, they quickly realized that one member of their team was missing.

"Where's Cole?" Kai questioned.

"He was taken away by Oni" Jay covered his face, looked scared. "I tried to save him, but Oni attacked so fast... Cole told me to run, so they wouldn't take me either."

"But what exactly happened?" She asked Nya.

"Jay and Cole helped a couple who got lost in the woods get out of it." Lloyd started explaining more precisely. "By the time they accomplished their mission, they were about to return to the monastery, but they were attacked by abducted Masters of the Elements."

"Oni was there too! Somehow they were controlling them and took Cole!" The Master of Lightning has interfered.

"And not only did they kidnap them" Lloyd showed them the newspaper. "The next ones will be kidnapped by her. You know why she's catching us now because we're the only ones left. It's very possible it's a trap, but we have to go to this magical wilderness"

"You're right, but we can't act hastily," Rex said. "We don't know the enemy. They looked different in our dream than in your descriptions. We don't know what she's capable of, and the most important thing is that we don't separate, we can't afford to, and if they control the other Masters of the Elements, then we have to be careful."

"The old man is right," Kai said.

" Don't let yourself call me that, Flame. Zane is older than me."

"I am an eternal teenager" Nindroid rolled his eyes. "We don't have time for this kind of argument now. We need to get ready to fight."

"Exactly" Lloyd confirmed. "Just take the necessary things on a rescue mission."

Everyone went to their rooms to take their weapons and change into ninja outfits. Emmet and Rex put on their protectors, and the ninja got swords, daggers and one plasma weapon each.

The gun almost dropped, he couldn't relax at all. He started to like the master of the earth, and he got the closest to him of all ninja, and now someone wants to take away his friend, the person he cared about. But he knew that his emotions wouldn't help Cole. He needs to be careful. Their enemy has already conned many warriors. If he gets them... He didn't even want to guess what he could do to them. But he had a very bad feeling about it.

They entered the Destiny's Bounty when they packed their stuff.

Zane sent a message to Master Wu in case he returned from his journey. They didn't want to worry about their master's absence, but they felt he would be more worried when he read it.

They landed in the woods. The forest was too dense to be watched from above, so they decided to go on foot. Four ninjas also took gold weapons with them, and Lloyd took Cole's weapon because he's missing. He was the only one except for Cole who could control it.

"And why do you call it the Magic Forest?" He asked Emmet.

"They say this forest changes all the time" Nya started. "he paths are never the same, and trees, bushes and stones change their position, so it is very dangerous."

"Some say you can find some ancient buildings here," Zane said." If they are hiding here, it will be very difficult to find her."

It was getting darker slowly and so far they have not found any enemies, but all the time they felt as if someone from the shadows was watching them. It could have been caused by the energy of this place or really someone was following them.

"And there is no maze in this forest?" He asked Jay Zane.

"Apparently, yes" He confirmed by scanning the area. "So far, my scanner shows it's not far, but that could change right away."

"Oni may be hiding in the labyrinth. We need to check it out" Lloyd let the Ice Master go and the whole group started following him.

Rex was measuring with everyone's eyesight one by one. A demon that can turn into any person. What if one of the ninjas is that demon? It's possible that Cole could only pretend to be in danger, but actually, he was. If so, I hope he wasn't from the beginning. It would really come out awkward if I found out I'm mating with someone I haven't really met. And I also confessed?! He sneaked a peek at his friend. What if he's Emmet and now he's not Emmet? What if that demon kidnapped him and turned himself in for him? I've been checking, but you don't know what else this demon can do.

"Rex, before we go in, I want to give you something." he pulled out of his pocket a pendant with an mp3 on it, an amulet and a keyring with an R." I made the headphones, but they stayed in our room."

"Wait, what's the occasion?" He took a gift from him and looked at it.

"And there must be an opportunity? Besides, you've had two birthdays I haven't been to! Let's assume it's a gift to celebrate that we met again."

"Thanks, and now I'm gonna have to come up with something for you." He laughed. He couldn't stop the fact that he was associated with what he had lost, so he felt a hug in his heart when he touched him... ...the amulet was rhombus-shaped and his previous circle. He wanted to see what was inside, but the ninjas started to rush them because they stayed behind. They accelerated their step and caught up with the team.

For a while, they stared at the wide entrance to the maze. They had to risk it, because, in the end, it could be one of their hiding places, and catching it is for the safety not only of their team but also of the other kidnappers.

They crossed the border of the labyrinth and suddenly walls of tall bushes grew between them. Exactly what they wanted to avoid happened.

They tried to destroy the walls, but it didn't work, and even the powers of the elements seemed to be worthless. The enchanted, tall bushes could not be moved.

They were divided into four groups, Rex and Jay were in the first tunnel, Lloyd and Nya in the second, Emmet and Zane in the third, and Kai was left alone. They decided to go further because they couldn't turn back, they had to go forward.

***

"I'm afraid of Kai because he's left all alone," Nya said kept her spear ready all the time.

"I know. I'm worried about him too, and Cole and the other masters" Lloyd heard a sound behind him. He turned around violently and only saw Nya stepping on the branch. "Nya, don't scare me!

"I'm sorry" She laughed awkwardly.

"Why don't we talk about the weather?"He tried to relax the atmosphere somehow, even though he was nervous and didn't know how to relax it.

"Yeah, cool, foggy and gloomy, it looks really good" She responded sarcastically.

They heard a scream, but for a moment they thought it was a mistake but it happened again. They ran, but could not find their way, but still heard the scream. They recognized that it was Kai who screamed. They found him lying down and writhing on the ground babbling something under his nose. They came closer and noticed that his eyes were open, but that his whole eyes were shining in a very dark violet shade.

***

"Why didn't Pixal come with us," Emmet asked the nindroid.

"Pixal often becomes a Samurai X and defends people from smaller crimes, and now she had a call to one of the smaller towns" Zane explained.

"I know you and Pixal are together, but how long has it been?"

"Almost four years," He said with pride. "We're happy together. I'm really happy to have someone like her. It's possible that..."

He didn't finish because he stopped them screaming at the end of the tunnel. They saw Rex fall to the ground and they're facing him.

***

Rex kept his weapon on standby all the time. It is possible that their opponent turned into some kind of animal and watched them, so on the way he managed to shoot some smaller animals just in case.

"You said before that what pulled Cole in was those kidnappers, and you're sure it wasn't Oni to mislead you?"

"It certainly wasn't them. She stood behind them and controlled them in some way and they tried to kidnap me too when I tried to help..." He turned his eyes away and his hands holding the nunchaku of lightning were trembling.

"Don't blame yourself, redhead." He patted him pretty hard on the shoulder to calm him down, although he almost knocked him down. "With that attitude, you can't save your friend."

Rex turned around on his heel and leaned his head to see where the fork leads. All roads looked the same, which made it difficult for him to choose his path.

"And who said he was my friend," A person with a female voice said.

The archaeologist hearing it instantly charged the blaster and aimed at Jay. He was sure he said it.

"You're Oni" He spoke through his clenched teeth and looked with contempt at a smiling imitation of a Blue Ninja. "Let me guess, you kidnapped Jay, then Cole, and before that, the Elementary Masters, and now you want to come after us. How long have you been Jay?"

"About a month, I guess. It was easy to kidnap him, he doesn't like to follow orders and instead of going to his parents' place with someone, he went alone. But this transition and kidnapping is just part of my bigger plan" There was a sneaky smile on the stolen face.

Rex couldn't look at Jay's face with that smile. It didn't fit him so well with that joke he met, it drove him crazy.

"Show your real face, or are you so disgusting that you're afraid to reveal yourself?" He mocked her.

She didn't answer anything. She walked slowly towards him like she wasn't afraid of him at all. Rex pulled the trigger, but his bullet missed because she jumped. Something purple hit him in the face. He wiped his face with his sleeve, and when he opened his eyes, he still saw nothingness.

The black abyss took shape. Rex began to look around the familiar corridor with surprise. He sensed that they had done this and wanted to be prepared to shoot her when she revealed herself, but his weapons disappeared. The hand was pointlessly looking for even a dagger, which he had hidden under his vest.

Some sounds were coming from the end of the corridor. He went there and opened the door, and inside he saw himself playing with his son. He realized that these were his memories and his happy life in the past.

"What the...?"His voice collapsed, and his leg took an involuntary step back.

His reasoning screamed that all this wasn't true, but suddenly something started to tell him that what he saw was true. He completely forgot his mission and what they had done to him before.

***

Emmet and Nya approached Rex, who was lying unconscious on the ground and wriggling. He looked like he had a nightmare. They tried to wake him up, but it didn't work.

"Rex! Rex! Rex! Wake up!" He grabbed his vest and shaken it.

Suddenly something hit him in the back of the head. He blinked a few times and turned his head, but he didn't see anybody, the Master Of Water disappeared, and then his friend he's holding, and everything around him became black.

All his old friends and Lucy appeared. They were in their post-apocalyptic clothes, and the builder thought he had gone back in some strange way in time.

They started gossiping at him, whispering: "He's not special." "He's that famous warrior? He's just a wimp." "He can't even adapt. He's always smiling. Pfff, a kid can't grow up."

"Ey, don't say that" he was confused. "I just wanted you guys to have a little better mood then..."

"We never wanted that" Lucy walked out of the crowd in front of a building contractor. "We don't need someone like you.

They started calling him names, and Emmet couldn't stand it. He broke through the crowd and tried to get away from them. They didn't go before, but he felt their voices echoing in his head.

He hid in the first house he saw. He wanted to get out of it as soon as everything calmed down, but after a while, he recognized the interior. This was his home, where he lived when he couldn't build anything without his tools.

"What's up? You want to watch a movie?"

He heard his voice in the other room. He walked up to the door and saw himself sitting on the couch with his plant he was talking to.

It suddenly became clear in his eyes. He blinked and found himself again in another place and this time in a bunker. During the apocalypse, he and Lucy lived in one smaller bunker.

"Lucy, why don't we go look at the stars?" - He offered.

"No, Emmet" She turned her head. "Why would we do that?"

"You know, the city is ruined, but the sky and the beautiful stars are still the same."

"The sky from which these aliens flew in". She said.

"Oh, come on, you're exaggerating. Come on, it'll be fun!" He grabbed her hand and led her to the exit.

"I said no!" She put his hand away.

He grabbed her hand and felt a slight burning on her, but he had the most heartbreak. He left the place without a word. He wanted to find someone to look at the stars, but he couldn't get anyone to do it

He climbed to the roof of one of the bunkers and looked at the starry sky alone.

Seeing his past, Emmet realized a certain thing from which he subconsciously escaped and thought that this problem never affected him.

"I was always lonely".He whispered to himself. "Now I'm lonely too, I don't want to feel it..." He fell on his knees and lowered his head down

***

Rex's nightmare was getting worse and worse and the end of his world began again. Rex closed his eyes and covered his ears. He didn't want to see or hear it for the second time, but voices started to sound in his head, which became louder when he covered his ears, so he discovered them. These were the moans of his wife and child. Suddenly he started to hear them outside, behind him.

He turned his head slowly, and as soon as he saw a small part of the view behind him, he turned his eyes away and let his head down, feeling more and more pain, which made him sick.

"It's all your fault..."

He jumped away because Lucy appeared before him with the baby in his arms. The skin was coming away from their bodies, and pieces of clothing were melted with burned skin.

"I... I didn't want you dead."He looked at them, though he couldn't stand the terrible sight. "I know I let you go... I'm sorry..."

"Your apology doesn't mean anything. You're guilty of our death!" She punched him in the face with her fist until he fell over.

It felt like gravity was pushing him harder, so he couldn't get up. He leaned his weakened body against his hands, and tears fell on rocky ground.

Suddenly he saw that he had an amulet hanging around his neck, but it was not the necklace Lucy had given him. He opened the medallion and there was a picture of him, Emmet and Ninja. He stared at them, and all his memories came back. He lifted his heavy body and looked at his dead loved ones.

"I missed you, but it wasn't all my fault, and now" he grabbed the medallion harder. "I have to help my living family". He turned around."Goodbye, Lucy, goodbye, Rebel."

He woke up all sweaty. He quickly realized that his hands were tied by handcuffs on long chains that were attached to the wall. He looked around and tried to recognize the real world around him.

Next to him lay unconscious ninjas and all the other masters who had recently disappeared. Missing Jay and Cole were also here.

Although the darkness made it difficult for him to see, he tried to see if they were alive. Some were kidnapped a few months ago and looked dead, Jay too. But when he looked at it, the rest looked like dead bodies, too.

A tall figure entered the cave. She resembled a woman with amethyst skin, her eyes were violet in the wild, and her horns and protruding fangs made her look even more like a beast. Remember her from your dream.

The demonic dragged a chain of unconscious Emmet, to which Rex reacted violently. He tried to get out of the grip of handcuffs, but he felt as if someone had taken some of his unnatural strength away from him and made him unable to get out of ordinary handcuffs.

"Who are you?" He was mad to see him cuffing his friend against the wall. "What do you want from us?"

"My name is Inokertis, if you want to know so much, man" She leaned over him very low by her height. "And what do I want from you? You're not really guilty of anything. The one I was planning on taking revenge on unfortunately died long ago"

"Then why are you doing this? If your enemy is dead, why do you need all this?!"

"Everything you saw, this whole world was created by my enemy. I was supposed to kill him thousands of years ago, but he defeated me and imprisoned me in the mirror" It pointed to a huge mirror. "It is good that this Master of Amber came in time because I could use her energy when she touched the mirror and then I got your friend." She looked at Jay, and then she looked at Rex again. "I have to say, you have a strong will. You're the only one who got out of the nightmare. That's really impressive, considering what you've been through."

"I still don't understand your purpose. Why destroy this world when there is no one you hated? He won't see it."

"He's here. I mean, not exactly. His body died, but his soul went to one of the realities he created. He sees everything from there, and you and your friend came at the right time" She chipped her teeth.

"We have no control over any elements, so you don't need us for anything."

"No" she confirmed, "but your power to build and destroy is remarkably similar to that of Edrevile. It's a shame that Black exposed me. You know, I haven't finished my project and I can only kill one of you"

"One of us? Me or Emmet? What's the use of that? Do you want no competition? Taking away our power won't kill us."

"But you don't have the elements, did you forget? You have powers that come from another dimension, or rather dimensions, and they are connected to the life force or, in other words, the soul. My body is only able to hold four different powers. Heh, it's really a shame that I was exposed so early, one of you will be wasted."

Then Rex realized that she was about to kill him or Emmet. They were preparing their guns, which looked like a big blaster.

Rex tried to break out of his handcuffs again trying to use his power. Then he realized these handcuffs are made of metal that blocks all kinds of powers.

"My weapon is ready, and now it's time to tale the power. Hmm. Which one of you to choose" she was wandering her finger from Rex and Emmet until, at some point, she stalled her hand. "Emmet's more like the main victim. Look closely, man, as your closest friend dies before your eyes" She charged her weapon with a smile.

Oni aimed at Emmet, and Rex pulled harder, but he didn't notice that his right hand lighten up. The chains broke, he freed himself. The demon shot and Rex ran. At the last moment, he covered Emmet with his body, and a ball of energy pierced his body showing something in his body that looked like a platinum crystal.

"You're really stupid, and you could have lived a little more" It switched a small lever in the weapon that started taking the power and life force. All the energy accumulated in the little crystal that was in her tiara.

He felt as if his body had been torn into many pieces, making him scream loudly. But after the unimaginable pain came nothingness, he saw the darkness and felt nothing, he did not feel his body.

Emmet heard Rex screaming in his nightmare and woke up from it. He thought it was just a dream and this scream came from him, but seeing his friend roll up in pain, he realized it was really happening.

"REX!" He wanted to run to him when he fell to the ground, but couldn't get rid of the handcuffs.

The Rex's blank stare made Emmet even more convinced that he was dead. The builder couldn't believe it. He hoped it was all his too real nightmare.

Oni put a tiara on her head, put the gun down and raised her hand. The bodies of all the Masters of the Elements, except Skylor, Jay, Tox and Neuro, emanated different colors of light. Their energy went into the tiara. By taking their energy, they all woke up.

Oni created a glowing ball, threw it towards Emmet wanting to get rid of him, but instead of hitting him, she hit the mech that stood between them and protected the prisoner.

The mech was steered by Pixal, and Wu sat on the shoulder of a big robot, keeping his cane ready to fight the enemy.

"I was going to kill you one by one, but I think I'll do it later. You will be powerless to watch me destroy your land!" It ascended and flew through the hole in the upper vault created by the Pixal robot.