Willow jumped to her feet when she heard Emma's scream. The siren princess took off running towards the sound, fearing for her friends' lives. She couldn't loss the only people she had left. She had already lost her mom, father, boyfriend, and people. She wasn't about to loss her best friends.

She heard fighting and she pushed herself to go faster. Willow reached the clearing and took in the chaos around her.

Hope was unconscious on the ground, with her back against a tree, blood oozing from an arrow wound in her shoulder. Emma was kneeling over, shaking Hope's other shoulder in a desperate effort to wake her.

It the middle of the clearing, two people were fighting. One was a man with a bow slung over his shoulders. He was big and burly. The other was a small woman in a black cloak, lithe and graceful. She nimbly dodged everyone of the man's attacks.

"You are a traitor! How dare you protect that human scum!" the man growled.

"I am no traitor! I still fight for Ninjago and all its people, unlike you. All you do is beg for scrapes from your master's table," The woman hissed back.

"Then you are no Beast!" the man shouted and threw the woman to one side. He pulled out a huge knife and started towards the girls.

"Hey, ugly, leave our friends alone!" Taylor shouted and jumped onto the man's shoulders. Nya tackled him and pinned him down, spraying something in his face. The man quit moving and just lay still.

"That was very brave," The woman said, getting to her feet and dusting herself off.

"Stay right there!" Taylor barked as the woman went to move closer to the ninja and the injured Hope.

"Let me help your friend," the woman said.

"How can we know we can trust you? For all we know, you shot Hope, and framed that guy!" Taylor shouted, drawing her long battle knives.

"Taylor, its all right. The trees say she is a friend," Willow said, from next to Hope. 

"The trees?" Taylor asked, staring at her friend.

"Yeah, I can understand them. They say she is a friend of the forest and legendary healer in these parts," Willow said, eyes closed.

"Does anyone else think its weird that she is talking to flipping plants?!" Taylor asked, freaking out slightly.

"There is much we don't know about our powers. Somethings might even be unknown even to our teachers," Emma said wisely. 

Nya stopped Taylor before she could say something that they all would regret.

"Ma'am, can you save our friend's life?" she asked.

"Yes, I can," The woman said. She moved closer to Hope. She pulled some clean white cloth from a small leather pouch on her hip and held it in one hand.

The woman carefully removed the arrow from Hope's shoulder. Blood flowed from the wound only to be stopped by the white bandage. 

"We must take her to my village. I must stitch the wound closed. It will be safer there, for both her and you," the woman said, lifting Hope carefully.

She darted into the forest, the female ninja hot on her heels.