With a very loud and very gravelly groan, Jade rolled over and glared at the small, round window, "Why is it so damn bright out?"

Slowly, she sat up, sweeping her razzled bed-head from her eyes. She set to adjusting her eyes, blinking to get the blurriness out of them. After a moment, she noticed that the bed across the room was completely vacated, the messy sheets telling her there used to be a person in them.

She swung her legs out of bed, set her elbows on her knees and rubbed her eyes, the burning from earlier that morning coming back. Groaning, she stood and noticed something different but couldn't get through her foggy mind to find what.

"Hmm," Jade furrowed her eyebrows when she noticed her bright yellow bag at the foot of her bed. With a shrug, she dug inside it and removed her hairbrush, "Handy."

Nya walked in five minutes later to see Jade sitting on the floor, dressed in a new set of clothes, contently brushing away at her hair as she stared at the wall, "Good afternoon."

"Afternoon?" Jade stood and threw her brush on her bed, "No wonder it's so bright out." 

"I like your dress," Nya commented, sitting on her own bed, "Why so fancy, though?"

Jade looked down at her 'fancy' outfit, which was really a royal blue dress with sky blue around the hems. It had no sleeves. Instead, there was a strap tying behind her neck. The actual neckline was straight, and the dress length sat at knee height her knees. The stretchy material would fan around if she twirled, like any dress, but otherwise bounced when she walked and sat still in a perfect 60s fashion.

"Erm... Thanks, I guess. No reason to be fancy, though."

Nya stood back up, "How're you feeling?"

"Just peachy, why?"

"Just making sure you're okay," Nya led the way to the door, and Jade instinctively followed, "Do you want something to eat? Jay makes the best steaks, and we left one for you if you want it." 

"I'll be there in a moment, thank you," she parted through a different door, "I just want to make sure I took care of my bed-head and maybe brush my teeth a little," But of course, if I'm eating right away... she shrugged and continued towards the bathroom, encountering not one living soul.

There was still something different to Jade, and as soon as she stepped through the door of the bathroom the fact was evident. It was brighter, and by a lot. Before, the bathroom was dark... or at least half dark. The wood was darker, the white sink was grayish and the lights were dimmer. But as Jade stepped inside and looked around, the dark qualities were blindingly different, and it was hurting her eyes. 

Eyes... she thought, stepping in front of the mirror over the sink, "Eyes..." so quickly she almost ripped out her hair, Jade grabbed the long bangs hiding her left eye and yanked them up, revealing the dark brown iris beneath them. 

It was as if her entire world was paused. She could finally see correctly. No more half heat-seeking vision. Am I... human!? The thought registered in her head with a high pitched scream that lasted a few seconds before her vision blacked. 

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"Your spine is cracked in two places, you've got three broken ribs and you rolled your ankle so it's swollen," Neuro paused and looked at the scribbled notes in the notebook on his lap, "There's also a slight scrape on your elbow."

Lar swore, "So in other words I can't do anything for the next three hundred years?"

Neuro laughed a bit, "Bit of an over exaggeration, but you've got the correct idea. You are on bed rest until I say you can move. Thusly, I strapped you to the bed."

The young blonde rolled his eyes and mentally flipped off Neuro, sure that he saw it when Neuro's expression went from neutral-emotion to a deep scowl. It wasn't as if either of the two could voice anything, because Griffin burst through the light blue door, "Neuro! Ash needs you outside ASAP! Go! I'll stay with Buster over here."

"Alright, Griffin," Neuro stood and dropped his notebook on Lar's mahogany nightstand, next to the blue lamp and matching digital alarm clock, "He stays in bed."

Lar waited until Neuro was out in the hall before speaking, "Any updates about the search for Jade?!"

Griffin only laughed, a high pitched girly laugh, and Lar could only watch in terror as he dissolved into Camille with a shimmer of green. Lar saw she had stitches running down her left temple and there was a dark blue bruise under her left eye. Those were only the prominent features, but with a glimpse he noticed her right wrist was bound with gauze, "No, no updates," she sneered, "Let's just hope your snake is dead, or not with the Ninja anymore. Sky already told the Droids where she was. Only a matter of time."

Lar struggled against his restraints and screamed profanities and wordless growls, "Shut up! Jade is twice the fighter you'll ever be, Cami."

"Stop struggling," she limped forward and stroked down his cheek with her good hand, "Doc said you're on bed rest, remember?" she jerked her hand back with a screech when Lar bit her, "You little- No matter. I'll get you back for you and O'Connor's little escapade in the dining hall and for biting me."

Lar started struggling again, calling for Neuro. Camille only laughed, "He's a little tied up at the moment, sweetie."

Lar froze up, "What did you do to him?"

"I didn't do anything, Lar," her voice was fake, and sickeningly sweet, "It was you that put your friends in danger by getting so involved with someone who's wanted by the OverLord, and by the Ninja, a group that you despise so much."

He began struggling once again, his glare following Camille as she paced across the room. Back and forth. Back and forth, "Camille let them go. They have nothing to do with this, your fight is with me."

"Them?" she stopped near the window and turned to look at him, "There's only one that we've got. The rest of your little gang went to find your ex. And Neuro is only incapacitated, right out in the hall. As soon as I'm gone he'll be free."

"Why are you in here?"

"To ask you where the Ninja are keeping Jade," Camille leaned forward, towering over him, "Tell me and we'll get out of your soft blonde hair."

"I'm not telling you anything," he snapped, laying back, "Kill me if you must, but then you'll lose your lead to your target."

Camille backed off, standing straight and pacing once more, "Fine. But just remember. There's only so many places in NinjaGo a person can hide."

She disappeared. Turned into Paleman, Lar suspected. A few minutes passed and Neuro jumped through the door, breaking it off it's hinges, "Screw your bed rest."

The straps were loosened, enough for Lar to rip them off himself and jump to his feet, only to stagger back and flop onto the bed with a groan, "Ow."

"Get up, quick," Neuro pulled Lar to his feet, putting half the Water-Master's weight on himself as they walked down the stairs, "Before they come back."

"What happened to," Lar composed his voice to mimic Neuro's deep smooth one, "'You're on bed rest until I say you can move.'"

"The island isn't safe for anyone affiliated with the Ninja anymore," Neuro shouldered open the doors that led into the now empty cobblestone courtyard out front, "Can you create your Elemental Dragon?"

"Yeah -- Yeah I think so," Lar gasped, "Where are we going?"

"Strength in numbers," the gray-clad Master stepped aside and put all his mental strength into creating his dragon. Once completed, Neuro was comfily perched on the back of a dark grey dragon who looked to be made of molten gold. His skin shimmered gold beneath his scales, "Lar, we are going to find the others, and we are all going to the only safe place I can think of."

Very slowly, Lar's dragon appeared as well, shimmering with blue and turquoise, "Where?"

"Secret," he grinned maniacally and his dragon lurched into action, disappearing in the ever-so-nearing nighttime fog.

A/N: Can someone, anyone, please tell me how many days has gone by in this story? I can't remember and I'm having one hell of a time trying to figure it out. *Sigh* I'm so bad at keeping track of this stuff. :/