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The Master of Fire.Snow falls onto the rooftop of a small cabin, The cabin sits on top of a mountain as the freezing winds blow against the wind chimes. Inside asleep in a cosy bed filled with pillows was the elemental Master of fire. It was around 6 in the morning when his alarm went off. You could hear it ring out loud around the room echoing.The Master of fire groaned as he hit the alarm button shutting it off as he got up. He stretched his arms out as far as he could making his arms and back crack. Then he stood up and walked out of his bedroom shutting the door behind him. He went into the cabins kitchen but shivered from the window that was left open. He cursed himself for leaving it open as the fireplace had blown out. It took him Months to work up the strength to conquer up that fire as the cold weather fought against his fire powers constantly. To make things worse he didn't have heating as Wu told him it would be useless and unhelpful for his training.He sipped on some coffee he brewed to help keep himself warm. Though irritated he knew he was going to have to mop up the melted snow that slowly turned to water. He put his coffee down down and went to a small supply closet and pulled out a mop he began to mop away all the water and closed the window. Now all he had left to do was his daily chores:1: Clean the Cabin
2: Melt the frozen water in the pipe outside
3:Shovel up snow outside
4: Washing up as well as laundry
5:TrainHe got the cabin into tip top shape or as well as he could get it and went to his room to put on more warm clothes. A fluffy coat, Winter Goggles, Gloves, really fluffy joggers and boots then he went outside the cabin into the freezing cold. He had to push the door open with all his strength as a pile of snow nicely rested outside the door. This was one of his least liked chores. Everyday he would go outside and use the pathetic amount of strength he had to use his elemental powers and melt water that froze in the water pipes. Like anyone he liked to have running water. After doing this though he would feel exhausted leading him to fall asleep for the rest of the day. The cold felt like daggers hitting his skin he could swore he had frostbite by the amount of times he had to go outside in this monstrous weather he finally got around the house and used his last bit of strength to melt the water.Once he got back into the cabin he fell onto the sofa drifting off into a long slumber. To be honest he didn't expect the training to be this tiring and awful at first he was happy to train to get his powers back he was so prepared when he first got there.Skip back a bit to around a couple of months ago...The Master of Fire finally arrived to a small cabin perched on the side of this grand mountain it took him about 3 days to get there but he was ready if it meant getting his powers back. Gentle snowflakes stuck to the brunettes hair as he wondered closer to the cabin leaving a trail of foot prints behind him. The weather up their was harsh and strong but he was optimistic that nothing could hold him back he was fired up. He walked towards the cabin door seeing a note pinned to it.'This is where your training begins Kai, My father used to go up here to practice the ice elemental. Your fire will not work up here unless you train it to. As one say's iron sharpens iron, Ice sharpens Fire.
P.S there is no heating in your house as that would prove this whole training to be useless. There is a fireplace in the cabin but staying warm is determined on you.'The mention of lack of heating did dim his mood as it was up to him to stay warm but he was too focused on getting his powers back as soon as possible to care to much. He pushed his way into the house taking it all in. The house was indeed small with what he can see there were 2 other rooms from the kitchen/Living Room , a bedroom and a bathroom which were quite cramped but this place would have to do since this was where he was living for the next few months.As the days went by he started to notice small problems one by one. The water pipes would freeze up regularly leaving him without water for a couple of days. The wind outside would occasionally blow open the windows leaving piles of snow around the room which then lead to the furniture getting soaked from the snow melting. Snow would pile up outside the door making it a mission to get outside not even mentioning the one time he got trapped outside and ended up having to use his hands to move the snow away almost getting frostbite.He was having the worst time of his life this was absolute torture and due to all these problems he never had time to train. Soon he came up with ways to stop these problem by reinforcing the windows. Then by feeling embarrassed when finding a shovel in the supply closet he never looked in. This gave him a small time everyday to train to finally spark his powers back up.He couldn't help but miss everyone back at the monastery. He knew he had to push forward and train harder cause that's what everyone was doing right now and he wasn't going to let them down. Not again.
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While the Master of Fire was in a winter hell, His sister was just as unlucky...Underneath the scorching sun in a desert that seemed to stretch for miles was the new and improved Land Bounty that was being driven by the Master of Water. She was driving towards a canyon that was shielding whatever it could from the boiling ray of the sun, leaving the creatures of the desert a perfect place to cooldown during the hottest temperature of the day. She was speeding towards the canyons in hope she would get there before the sun overheated the Bounty.She finally reached the canyon placing the bounty in park right underneath a nice cool shadowy cave in the canyon. It was around mid day when the sun was at it's hottest making it unbearable for anything to stay underneath the sun's watch. She reached over to a cup holder by the drivers seat and grabbed her bottle of water that used to have ice in it. After taking a sip she almost spat it out as the water was lukewarm she was tired, sweaty and hot the least she wanted was a cold beverage. She got up from the drivers seat and headed to the kitchen and got herself an iced cold bottle of water to cool herself down.Even after months of training her elemental powers were still to weak for her to control them again fully. She hated this feeling of weakness it was pathetic for the Master of Water to be weak like this. How was she expected to train in a bloody desert, there was no water around for miles which was the whole point of the training but it didn't help ease the frustration in herself knowing that she's defective... powerless to help anyone. How could she let this happen, she can't protect anyone like this.As more thoughts filled her head, She slowly sat down grabbing a controller for the AC. She turned it on letting the cool blast of air wash over her giving her a moments peace though she couldn't help but wonder how everyone else was going about this. She didn't know the locations of their training for Wu had said they need to focus on their own training and not the others as it may lead to distractions. It wasn't her fault that she cared about them, she just wanted to make sure the people she loved where ok. Her thoughts trailed on about everyone and how there handling it because truthfully this whole training has been nothing but trouble and she could only assume everyone else wasn't having a splendid time either.She wanted to stay seated and relaxed just a little bit longer but she had important things to do even if this is the last time she gets to rest today. She headed towards cockpit and sat down in the drivers seat. She was thankful P.I.X.A.L added more seats to the bounty which was desperately needed after the amount of accidents due to no seats or seatbelts. Why did any of them think it was fine to have no seatbelts on a ship that flies? she would've thought more about this but she had a task at hand.She checked the bounty's solar weather scanner to check for sand storms or small sand tornados these made her drives in the desert way more harder than needed sometimes the bounty would get flipped over from these natural forces. She couldn't count the many concussions she had gotten.
She was relieved to see that for a good amount of her journey it was a clear path, she still had a long way to go before she reached the co-ordinates that Wu sent her. She was told the location she was being sent would help her regain the strength she once had and that she would be able to reach her full potential once again. She couldn't figure out where she was heading as the co-ordinates that showed on the map where in the middle of the desert and as far as she could tell it was nothing but sand for miles all around.Clicking the controls she turned on autopilot as she needed to start training for the day. After setting up an area for training she began by holding out her hands towards a bowl full of water. Soon the water rose from the bowl into the air moving to wherever she pleased. She had more control over her elemental powers today or so she thought. Small droplets fell from the clear liquid until more and much larger drops fell until it all fell out of her grasp. The Elemental Master of Water certainly didn't like to fail especially at things she was once good at. She stormed off after only one attempt afraid to fail once more if only she stayed she could of seen the water rise back into the air circling the room till it fell back into the bowl.The Elemental Master of Water was never really a fan of failing even when she was younger...A young girl was walking home from school with her brother Kai. On the way home the children were both quiet from an earlier argument the only sound to be heard was their shoes hitting against the pavement. The closer they got home the darker it got, The clouds hid the sun covering the land in darkness once the 2 got home they rushed to their parents calling out their names."Mum! Dad!" They both said in unison.Their home was quieter than usual with no sight of their parents anywhere. They searched in the workshop, the bedrooms, the kitchen even the garden yet they were no where to be found. That was until they saw a note stuck onto the fridge. Kai her older brother who was the tallest of the two got onto his tippy toes and pulled the note from a lone magnet on the fridge. He then began to read it.Dear Kai and Nya,Me and your father have left to help out a friend as they are in a bit of a pickle, we won't be back until a week.
We have left you enough money to buy food and maybe some sweets. We love you both, work hard.
Love Mom and Dad.This wasn't unusual for them as their parents were generous people helping whoever they could and before they would go anywhere they always told a trusted neighbour to keep an eye out for their children to make sure they were safe and didn't cause any trouble.As the days went by Kai worked hard in the workshop hoping to take over the family business and be the best blacksmith ever while Nya played out in the garden rolling around in the grass and daises. Though when she was indoors she studied for a test she had coming up wanting to show their parents her test hoping to past. The day of the test Nya had failed she was one mark off. The walk home was awkward as Kai tried to speak to his sister and she just ignored him with her head hung low looking at the ground. She wanted her mom she knew just how to make this strange pain go away. She couldn't understand why she felt this way. Once they made it home she threw her test into the fireplace out of frustration and shut herself in her room. Kai left her be so she could get some rest as he assumed she had a rough day. Kai had made them both some ham sandwiches for dinner."Nya I made your favourite, ham sandwich!" - KaiHe could hear her heavy footsteps as she stormed down the stairs making her way to the kitchen pushing open the door. Kai was sat at the dinner table waiting for his sister to come and eat. She grabbed her plate and placed it onto the dinner table sitting next to her brother and slowly started eating."Mum and Dad are coming back today" - KaiHer head shot up as she looked towards her brother. She missed them a lot, she didn't like it when they went on trips like this leaving them alone in this large house that echoed the silence through the night. As she finished her food she went and sat by the door waiting for her parents soon her brother joined her, Both sitting on the doorstep of their house in the middle of autumn. The dying leaf's fell off the tree as the hours went by and still there was no sign of their parents.Days went by and their parents never showed as they waited by the door sitting on the cold concrete doorstep not moving unless the neighbours saw them outside and the 2 would be brought back inside to sleep and get warm by the fire place. Currently Nya was sitting alone on the doorstep with small tears falling down her cold cheeks as rain poured from the skies she wondered if the clouds knew how she felt.She was left to her thoughts thinking to herself of the reasons why they weren't back home with her and Kai "Why aren't they back home yet?... Do they not want us?...
She couldn't help but hate those thoughts she knew they were wrong and that she was just being stupid. She couldn't help it and started crying small crocodile tears that stained her face. Kai stepped outside and put a blanket around her protecting her from the harsh weather. He sat down near her rubbing her shoulder to try and soothe her.
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Below hundreds of feet of the earth's crust inside one of it's many cave's, Water fell splashing onto the freezing, cold floor of the cave. Only an inch away was a bucket that seemed to have fallen over spilling all of its contents onto the floor. The water had fallen from a stream that leaked through the ground into the very cave the Master of lightning happened to take residence in. The Master of lightning was staying in a cabin that the first Spin Jitsu Master used when he was conquering the earth element. He was not here to do the same as the one before, As After the battle against the Overlord and he was defeated once and for all. The 4 four of them had used their elemental powers to the brink of them disappearing for who knows how long. So he was sent their to reawaken his powers stronger than before as Wu believed that without help from their surroundings that once their powers returned they will be much more refined.Since the master of lightning was stuck under the earth to be hidden far away from any source of electricity to fulfil his training, He had to find other ways to enjoy his new daily life since he no longer had video games to keep him busy. He tried many things in the beginning months from crafting stone figures from lose rocks littered around the cave to acting like a prisoner and writing lines on the walls of the cave of how many days he had been there. Unfortunately his time was taken up as the water pipes leading to the cave broke beyond repair leaving him without water, so he had to find a solution quickly. A few weeks back he found a leak in the cave that seemed to come from a stream higher up and started working on ways to filter the water to make it safe to consume."Damn it!" - JayHe yelled rushing over to the fallen bucket picking it up and carefully placing it back to it's original position. He sat down letting out a deep breathe as he was tired of the training Wu sent him on as well as the tedious tasks that he now had to do, all because he still couldn't use his elemental powers after the whole overlord incident he felt useless and vulnerable even weak but he knew he will be able to use them again soon it just took time a lot of time in his case. Time he had since he had been out there for a couple of months.
More importantly he wondered why he was put in such a run down cabin, There was no running water because something had broken the pipe beyond repair. Luckily he found a stream above where he resided and he made the hole bigger so it could lead into this filtering system he made. He had used an old pipe that was is alright condition that he originally thought he could to fix the broken pipe but it was too small to fit. Then he grabbed a spare bucket and built some a layers of sand and gravel into it to filter the water which then would fall into the bottom of the bucket. He had to sterilise it afterwards but that was a different issue. He would usually check up on the system throughout the day.He sat on the crumbled, stone ground taking a break from his problems to catch his breathe and think for a bit. He thought back to months ago to when Lloyd had taken him to the location for his training with the resources needed that would last about a year including food, clothes, soap etc which were basic necessities. Due to Lloyd bringing him their he had no idea where is, He could be under Ninjago or even the desert either way he didn't care right now he was taking a minute to himself listening to the running water. Soon he would have to get back to training in hopes of regaining his powers even if it's just a little.He slowly got up from where he sat stretching his back raising his arms in the air letting them click. You could hear his footsteps hit against the chilling floor echo throughout the cave until he stopped standing in front of the small cabin that was temporally his home. It had three rooms one bedroom, a bathroom and a small living room that was attached to the kitchen, He sat down on the couch and stared at a radio laying dormant on the coffee table. All he had to do was power up the radio it was such a simple task yet he couldn't do it no matter how hard he tried. He hated that stupid radio.So in the end he decided to head to bed early and pick it up again tomorrow. Other than the shitty water system he had to create he had another reason to why he hated this training. Lately he had started to get nightmares he had never gotten them before not even when he was a young child. His nightmares usually consisted of him surrounded by pitch black darkness were his sense's would go numb the only one to still reacting to anything was hearing but he wished it wasn't as he would hear a high pitched screech which rung all around him it would make his ear drums pop. As well as blood would drip down his ears leaving a warm sensation as it trailed down his neck.In front of him would be the radio that float in front of his face stuck, unmoving emitting the screech from some strange channel.The Master of Lightning never acknowledged the nightmare's and would pretend they never happened to keep from losing his sanity. He got into his bed ware and went to bed hiding under the covers to warm himself from the frozen cave's wind. As he drifted off into a slumber small little blue sparks emitted off his body though he didn't notice what was happening, he never notice when ever this would happen as he was to tired to do any thing but sleep. Once he fell asleep more blue sparks appeared around the radio turning it on, you could hear the sound of the radio screech throughout the cave this would continue until morning when he would wake up.