{Location: Mission room in the airjitzu temple}(Kai's POV)

I call loudly even though the two are a few feet away. "Master, Misako?"

"Hmm." Sensei looks up. "Did you say something?"

"Yeah, we may have found out a few things about our new visitors." I grumble as everyone takes seats and turns telling the story.

"I've scanned both the picture and the recording, neither appear to have been tampered with." Zane finishes. An uneasy silents takes hold before Jay busts it.

Jay raises an eyebrow. "But you already had some suspicions."

"We had an inkling when Misako was looking through some scrolls." Sensei opens one up.

"I decided to clean up and organize my old research about the Green Ninja when I stumbled on another prophecy. One about a woman called the White Rose. I think at the very least, I've seen it before." Misako tells us as we look at the opened scroll, along the margin lines, very neat handwriting is there with question marks. "Yet when I first found the scroll, I can not recall reading it before."

"This is quite the conundrum." Nya sighs as her hand falls into Jay's. A twinge of brotherly protection snaps in me, I like them as a couple but my big brother instincts seem to have a mind of their own.

"I'm more curious about have we all somehow managed to forget nearly three months of memories." Cole chews his lower lip.

My stomach growls as dinner time draws nearer. "Then let's start by getting some of them answered. The hard way if necessary." I flex my robotic arm and smirk.

Clip, clap, clip, clap. The sounds of Willow's heels draw closer to us.

"And that's the whole place." Lloyd holds the door open for the girls. Kit skips in, not noticing the sour mood she sit next to Zane. All over her arms and hands are faint paint marks like she's been finger painting.

Willow walks in like a normal person but definitely notices the mood. She tugs at her white hoodie sleeves a bit and sits next to Kit. "Do I have something on my face?" Willow keeps perfect posterior in attempts to try and intimate us.

"No. But we do have a bit of questions." Jay grabs Zane's arm, opens up his arm flap and presses play. Willow's confident face drops as she hears herself singing from earlier. As the recording ended, a flood of question erupts.

(Lloyd's POV)

"Care to explain that?" Kai huffs his chest as I walk over to my mom. Willow has on twenty shades of embarrassment on. Everyone began shouting things like, "How could you not tell us that we've met," or, "What are you hiding." I keep my eyes on her as Willow lose her posterior, she starts half-rocking on her seat, her hands by her ears and her fingers weave in her messy hair, one hand is holding onto her white strand. Then on the table, a small puddle grew, only it wasn't water, it is tears. Willow is silently crying.

"How about we give Willow a chance to actually answer." I have a darker tone in my voice then I intend.

Everyone quiets down as they notice her crying, Willow takes a couple deep breaths and looks up, her brown eyes are puffy from crying. Whoever Willow is, I don't think that she's human.

"I'm sorry for not saying any of this sooner." Willow seems at a lost for words. "We have all met before. And it's a long story." Willow swallows hard. Next to her Kit pulls out a sketchbook, purple, yellow and black pencils and sets them down in front of her and begins doodling. "About three years ago..I."

"WE'VE GOT BIGGER PROBLEMS." Kit practically screams in worry. Seconds ago the page was blank but now it is full of fresh ink. Kit tosses the page on the middle of the table. A picture of Closue and a woman in a slightly revealing purple armor were crashing through the east side window. I frown a bit, this is incredibly realistic for someone who's only twelve yet there's no way that Kit had someone else to this in five seconds. Is Kit hiding something of her own?

"We don't have time for doodles kid." Cole snaps.

"Nya, get to the other side of the table." Kit practically grabs Nya and tries to pull her by herself.

"I don't see how this is a problem." I raise an eyebrow as Kit lets Nya be.

"Wait for it. Three...Two...One." Kit almost hides behind Willow.

Zane frowns as Kit is probably playing a game with us, "I think that Kit is still feeling the rush from earlier today. Perhaps some-AH" He calmly gets back into a smile as the east window explodes. Like the picture, Cloues and a woman in revealing purple armor stand there.

"Jezzie is back. Did you miss me, ninja?" The purple women's voice sends shivers down my spine despite me seeing her for the first time.

"Who the heck are you?" Nya holds her head. She has a small trail of blood dripping down, she should have moved...Like Kit said.

"Oh, that's right. Alaula here took your memories. Good, now I get to hurt you all, all over again." The woman pull out what looks like a toothpick that extended into a silver staff with purple gems all over it.

"WHo's Alaula?" Jay asks as he flips on his hood.

"Jezzie, I see you've gotten a new lap dog. Please tell me how expendable this one is before I hurt him too much." Willow sounds brave but her face has another story, like the icy anger behind her eyes.

"Can we kill them now?" Clouse asks in a dreamy voice. I notice two things, one, Clouse was human and two, his eyes are purple.

"Not with just the two of us. I think we could use some reinforcements." Jezzie smirks as Clouse begins to magic it up.

"AAG!" Willow jumps off the floor and onto Jezzie, the two roll outside in a total catfight.

"AQIA!" Clouse screams as copies of him appear everywhere. Somehow the fight gets outside. And Willow and Jezzie are still going at it. For a brief second, I notice that Jezzie has pointed ears too.

Kai punches a Clouse double as Jay kicks two more off his tail. "How'd they get here?"

"I think they may have help with that." Cole points to just outside the no-Phoka shield. A few dozen are there, clapping and cheering for our unwelcome guests.

"Stupid White Rose," Jezzie hisses and kicks Willow off and to me. "Your magic only holds Fays with wings. Perhaps you should've been more clever with your words."

"What the heck is a Fay?" I roll under an attack and catch Willow before she lands on the ground.

"And don't say long story. Give us the quick version." Jay screams as Clouse makes more copies.

"Fays are magical beings. They are powerful with light magic, weapons, and some elemental powers." Willow blushes before getting back on her feet. "Kinda like a human fairy."

"And mostly that is true." Jezzie charges at me, she manages to hit my side with her staff, "If you're talking about normal Fays." Jezzie back flips away. Like a dog, Clouse comes to her side.

"Last time you had the Black King's support, and I know you Jezzie. What's your plan?" Willow growls and licks her lips.

"You'll find out soon enough. By the way, Katara told me to tell you," Jezzie lets out the worst amount of cuss words I've ever heard. If Ronin were here, he'd even blush with how bad the words were.

Zane freezes half the ground, which make my siblings slip and fall. "Who's Katara?"

"A person that you probably won't meet. Start phase two Clousey." Jezzie blows Clouse a kiss. Clouse almost melts into his shoes as he starts the spell. A vortex appears below with green figures dotting it, a strong wind starts pulling me and my siblings in.

"Oh perfect, the Cursed Realm." Nya grunts as she holds on to Jay.

"I'd love if you six stuck around, mainly because I'd like to torture you. But it's better for my plan to have you take a trip." Jezzie snickers as gravity increases and pulls me in.

Gloved hands grip my sleeves, I look up to see Willow holding me and clinging to the ground. Somehow my siblings line up behind me. "Sorry Greenie, I'm not letting you get away from me again." Willow strains as she begins to slip. Her hands light up with magic, her hair turns white as she manages to step back. I grip on to her hoodie sleeves tighter, they start to rip.

"Nope." Jezzie has a cat like a smile on and speaks with glee as Clouse pushes Willow onto her face. He sits on her and begins choking her from behind. Despite everything, Willow holds as we slip through the portal. "Here's another sacrifice to your resmae, either let the Ninja drop or this portal will grow and casum all of Ninjago." Jezzie is enjoying this as she kneels by Willow's face.

"Or you could stop the portal and let us back up." Jay's nervousness is like a battering ram in the moment.

Clouse squeezes harder, "CHOOSE WHITE ROSE!" He shouts as Willow's face turns blue from lack of air.

The mere idea of her getting hurt is relentless in my heart. Which probably explains what insane thing I'm about to do, "Brace for impact team. We've got a long drop coming our way." I let go and twist my hands out of Willow's grip. And fall into another world.

{Location: Ninjago}(Willow's POV)

The portal closes as soon as Lloyd is too far to grab.

"Poor Willow." Jezzie's voice oozes with posain, "So much tragedy in a person." Jezzie walks to the army nearby and stands on a small square that takes her to them.

"GET OFF MY SISTER!" Kit's voice screams as Clouse's weight topples off of me.

"Jezzie, what about me?" Clouse asks as he spits out dirt.

"Oh yeah." Jezzie blows a kiss, a pucker-shaped object flew to Clouse and smacks him on the head. "Good catch, I can't have a loose end with the final battle coming."

"Come back and fight," Misako growls as she ties up a very confused Clouse. Then she goes white, "Wait. The final battle hasn't happened yet?"

"I'd love to answer but I'm sure that Willow will help with that. After all, I have much to do." Jezzie cackles evilly as she flies away with her Phoka army.

I get to my feet and hold my neck. "I really hate her."

"Where am I?" Clouse asks as Misako puts him on a tree branch. "HOW THE HECK AM I HUMAN?"

"Are you ok child?" Wu asks kindly as if the world wasn't about to fall to pieces.

"Honestly, no," I grumble as I look at my torn hoodie, the sleeves past my elbows looked like they've fought a shredder and lost. My arms as they are exposed for the first time in a long time.

Kit walks to me and forces me to hug her. "We have to get the Ninja back."

"We also have many questions to be answered," Wu points to my left forearm, "Starting with you."

The four of us locked Clouse in a room with no windows and a metal floor. After that Kit drew something quickly and said that we needed to get on the Bounty and head somewhere call, 'Hectic Cove.' All the while I explained how we've met before, how I was the White Rose and what happened to their memory.

"After I fell back to Ninjago, it was hard not to find you and convince you. But one crisis after another kept happening." I breathe with a heavy sigh as I finish.

Kit rubs her eyes and yawns, "And now Ninjago is defenseless if the Overlord comes back." At this point, it is nearly midnight.

"Can we use magic to get the Ninja back? Perhaps traveler's tea?" Misako mindlessly plays with her braid.

"I never studied magic that could open portals and travelers' tea is unpredictable when it has to open the cursed realm." I sigh. Today wasn't my day.

"There has to be something we can do. Are there any Fay that would be willing to open a portal?" Wu strokes his beard as the bounty lands.

"As far as I know, Jezzie can open a portal but only when she's super focused. The only other person..." I stop talking as I realize where this would go.

"Who?" Wu slams his staff down.

"My sister." I sigh as today is about to get worse. "My other sister."

Kit looked at the floor as the Bounty docked in place.

"Your sister?" Misako stops playing with her hair.

"Yeah. Katara." I let the name hang in the air for a bit. Yup, today is just awful.

{Location: The Cursed Realm}(Jay's POV)

"I spy, a ghost." I hear my voice echo as we keep falling.

"Jay, we're in the cursed realm, all we'll being seeing are ghosts," Zane grumbles and calculates the remaining time until we land.

Kai stares daggers at Lloyd. "Which we could have spent time asking Willow about our missing memories. But no, we're here. Falling to our doom."

"It was either us or W..I mean Ninjago." Lloyd almost said, Willow. Wait a sec, does he like like her?

"I'd hate to interrupt, but Land ho!" Cole points down as the ground meets my hips, hard.

I moan as I sit up. "A little more warning would be nice."

"Is everyone ok?" Nya stands up first as we moan.

"Other than the fact we landed in the worst place in the sixteen realms, ok." Cole rubs his right shoulder as he stands up.

"Good." I hear Chen's voice echo behind me with a loud mechanical stomp. "That means I can destroy you completely now."

"WE JUST FELL A GAZILLION MILES," I scream as I jump to my feet. "CAN'T WE JUST GET FIVE MINUTES REST?"

"Sorry. Oh wait, I'm not." Chen presses a button on his chair and a laser gun appears.

"Any ideas on getting out?" Lloyd asks as we go back to back. More minions of Chen surrounds us. "Anything's on the table."

"All I've got so far is damaging either Kai's arm or making really terrible puns," Cole growls as the baddies close in on us. I hear a whistle as we get closer together. I look up and notice some ghost in a grey ninja mask above us. He motions for us to come up.

"Whoever doesn't want to get blown up, up we go." Kai looks at the same place I am. All of us airjitzu up as the floor around Chen and his army falls through.

"That was close." I grip a stalagmite as the stranger jumps ahead, using the terrain like it was monkey bars. "Hey, wait for us."

"Hold up." Lloyd chases after him. "We need to say thank you."

The stranger lands and waits for us to catch up. "Come with me if you want to live." The stranger says in an obvious fake voice, then he runs like the wind into a cave across the clearing. I think I even feel the wind brush against my mask as we follow him at a much slower pace, "In here." The stranger holds the door as one by one we make it to safety. Once Kai gets through the stranger closes the door.

The cave is tiny, like the apartment in Ninjago city that we lived in for a while. There was a small pot above a campfire next to a tiny kitchen and a hammock for sleeping. And a TON of junk. It brought up memories of growing up in the junkyard.

"Thank you for saving us back there." Zane takes his hood off, "Is there any way we can repay you for your kindness?"

The stranger looks through a keyhole to the outside as he locks the door. "I think that I still owe you for all the trouble I caused." The stranger turns around and takes off his hood. Morro looks at his feet as we all have various reactions.

"MORRO!" Kai and Lloyd scream. Scaring me to jump back. Behind me, a tall column of junk starts to fall on me.

"Watch out." Morro holds his hand up and the wind above my head holds the falling objects long enough for me to get out. Once I am clear Morro stops.

"Thanks?" I almost question his kindness. Something was different, Morro didn't have that weird shading around his eyes like he did the last Day of the Departed.

"Whatever." Morro huffs as walks through a wall to his hammock. He lays down in it. "Feel free to anything you like. It's not much thought." Morro points to the pitiful kitchen and the wind blows open the cupboards.

Nya folds her arms as I take my hood off. "How do we know it's not poisoned?"

"Yes." Morro rolls his eyes as he starts to rock his hammock. "I went out of my way, saved you from Chen and his goons, managed to bring you to my house, all to poison you. That makes total sense."

"He's got a point there, sis." Kai frowns and moves into the kitchen, "You could barely feed a horse fly with this stuff." Kai holds up a single pack of ramen noodles.

"I said I had food. I didn't say it was good." Morro huffs.

"Nevermind food," Lloyd finally unfreezes but his voice carries a hint of fear. "We need to get back to Ninjago, ASAP!"

"And how do we do that?" I cross my arms, "We're in the Cursed Realm, the inescapable prison. Home to the worse of all. The inhospitable jail. The-"

"We get it, Jay." Zane snaps.

"And other than that," Cole mindlessly bites his lip, "We are also surrounded made a lot of people who'd like nothing more than to hurt us."

Lloyd squints at Morro. "Or possess."

"What we need," Kai, still looking for food but ends up finding dust, "Is a message to Sensei and the others. Maybe we can plan further from there."

"And on top of everything, we still have missing memories. The whole White Rose thing." Nya sighs heavily. What a day so far.

Morro tilts his head like a puppy. "Missing memories?"

"It all started earlier today when," I quickly ramble about today's events, all the twists, and turns.

"Are you sure they're called Phoka?" Is Morro's only take away.

"Duh. Have you heard of 'em before?" Cole folds his arms.

"Yeah, and if they are attacking Ninjago right now, you might as well fight off a hundred evil Djinn." Morro hops off his hammock and turns to a wall.

"Did that," I smirk.

"Not very well if memory serves correct." Kai jokes as he carefully splits dried noodle among the six of us.

"Morro," Zane shakes his head at his piece and offers it to Nya. "Is there a way that we can talk with Wu or someone?"

"No. But I might be able to help with this memory problem of yours." Morro grabs a piece of parchment and opens it up in front of us. "Not too far from here is a small forest called, Forethought Forest." His ghost hands pass through the paper and it falls to the floor.

"Why doesn't that sound good at all?" I huff and scoop up the page.

"Because legend has it, if you stay there too long, you can get lost in your own memories."

"If it has answers about Willow, we have to go. Besides, perhaps it could shed some light about our Phoka problem." Nya argues as Zane takes the map.

"On the other hand, we'd be surrounded by a ton of baddies with no cover." Lloyd crunches on his noodles.

"Nothing ventured is nothing gained." I bite into my noodles. It tastes like year old cardboard.

"All in favor," Kai raises his hand, along with myself, Nya and Cole.

"Fine. We'll go." Lloyd grumbles something about Morro and where he could be instead.

Zane holds up the map, "How long would this journey take?" He asks while studying the map.

"Depends if we run into anybody on the way there." Morro leans up against a wall, it spins to show off an impressive amount of deep stone weapons. "So we might as well be ready for ghoulish guests."

"That's a lot of firepower." Lloyd lets a smirk crawl on his face. Then remembers where we are and it disappears like a ghost.

"When you've got all eternity doing nothing. You find just about anything to do." Morro grabs a weapon with a small ball and chain hooked to it.

"These aren't going to curse us, are they?" Zane casualty asks as his picks out a pair of shurikens.

Morro responds by smacking himself on the forehead. Or he would have if his hand didn't pass through his head.

"I'll take that as a no." I grab a pair of nunchucks.

"Have weapons, will travel to dangerous locations because we can," Kai smirks as he grabs a sword.

"What are we waiting for? To the Forethought Forest." Lloyd grabs two daggers. As we get set up, Morro opens another back door on the other side of the cave.

"Another adventure awaits us fellas," Cole smirks and puts on his hood. Nya punches his arm with a frown. "And girl. Sorry"

{Location: Ninjago}(Willow's POV)

"HARLOT!" A man yells as my sister face plants into the mud.

"You suck anyway," Katara mutters as she gets up. It was the dead of night but it felt like the world is watching.

"I could always teach him a lesson as you get cleaned up." I offer but stand where I am.

"Oh..you." Katara wipe of mud from her face. "What do you want?"

"I need your help." I fold my arms, my eyes look for her fairy wings.

"You lost that when Roberto died." Katara sighs and didn't attack. "They're gone. The council took them after you destroyed your own wedding." Something about my twin is different, maybe is was the lack of Jezzie being here or something happened to her in the last three years I saw her.

"But you can still do realm magic right?"

"Of cores. For a price." Katara pulls out a wallet, she tosses out ids and cards and scores fifty bucks.

Wu steps out from the shadows. "How about Ninjago's gratitude?" He holds his staff, ready for a possible fight.

"That doesn't pay." Katara cleans her dull red dress off.

"Willow is your sister, isn't that enough?" Misako asks as she stands with Kit.

"We've broken that part of our relationship off a long time ago."

"I can talk to the council about getting your wings back." I sigh. It was my only bargaining chip.

"You know them, they won't listen to a wingless Fay. So how about getting me back to Trylle instead." Katara smirks as she lets off baby sparkes.

"Yes. But after you help us with our problem." Kit growls and grips her pencils.

"Of cores." Katara walks up to me, a tricky smirk covers her face, "As long as my sister keeps her word." She holds out her hand for a shack.

"I promise." I grab her hot hand and shake twice.

"Good. Now, which world am I opening?" Katara lets go first.

"The Cursed Realm." Wu answers.

"Oh. Then we need to get someplace else."

"Why?" Misako asks as the moon breaks through the clouds.

"I don't want to be responsible for sucking innocents into that place." Katara says as we walk to the Bounty.

Yeah, something definitely happened to her. But what?