Where did it all go Wrong?

Chapter 1

(Hey everyone! This is the same story I have posted on FanFiction.Net, and I'll post another chapter every week, until we're up to date with what I've wrote so far. Enjoy! Also, I wrote this a little while ago, so there'll probably be some spelling mistakes.)

Jay cracked his eyes open slightly. Sun filtered through the blue curtains that covered his large windows of his blue bedroom and a delightful aroma drifted through the air, infiltrating the lightning ninja's nostrils.  'Pancakes!'

Jay practically leaped out of his bed, scrambling to put on a shirt and a pair of shorts before dashing out of the bedroom and into the monastery's kitchen. Their, cooking over the stove, was a titanium figure, "Hey Zane!" The titanium teen jumped, almost spilling the pancake batter. Zane turned and found Jay looking at him with a large, goofy grin.

"Greetings Jay, I did not see you enter. Perhaps my optical systems have a small fault, or it could just be from my lack of sleep." He chuckled and passed Jay a china plate, with a raised eyebrow he asked, "I am assuming you would like pancakes for your breakfast, correct?"

Jay nodded, possibly a little to eagerly as his head spun slightly after he did so.

"I will advise you not to nod your head so roughly, Jay. It could do more damage to yourself than you might realise."
Jay mock saluted Zane before plodding over to the table on the other side of the room. Jay sat their, his eyes sparkling with excitement as Zane came over to the table, frying pan in hand, and used a kitchen tool that was unknown to Jay, to move the pancake from the pan to his plate. The lightning ninja picked the pancake up with his bare hands, about to shove it in his open mouth when Zane coughed to get Jay's attention, he looked up as the nindroid pointed at the cutlery draw.

"Their pancakes Zane! I need to enjoy them, ya' know? Get the full experience."

"While I understand you are on a break, table manners are not. So I would appreciate it if you would use a knife and fork, and," Zane pushed Jay's legs off from the table, "do not put your feet up on the furniture."

"Ok Mother, I understand." Jay nodded, trying to keep a straight face.

"Jay, I am afraid you may have nodded your head too hard," Zane put a hand on Jay's shoulder, "I am not your Mother, I fear you may need to see a doctor. Perhaps I should get Master Wu-"

If Jay has rolled his eyes any harder, he probably would have saw his brain, "It's a joke Zane. Oh my first Spinjitzu master, you must have lost your sense of humour while you were in the Never Realm." Jay teased and giggled stupidly.

Zane tensed, although Lloyd had told the others that Zane was in fact, the ice emperor, he had conveniently left out details about how he had spent decades in a mystical realm, almost murdered Lloyd, and tortured thousands of innocents. The ice ninja gulped, he hated that he spent so long there, he hated that he had frozen the realm and tortured its people, and most of all, he hated that he enjoyed witnessing their suffering. He could remember every person he had slaughtered, their tear-streaked faces imprinted in his mind. It was unnerving to say the least. Zane bit his lip, drawing a nindroid's equivalent to blood, the silvery, warm, oil like substance trailed its way down his chin and dripped onto his plain white shirt, staining the fabric. He could see the face of his first victim after he has ascended to the throne, it had been but a young girl - only around six or seven.

The girl, Zane recalled, had dark, sable hair that was tied with string into two plaits on either side of her head. The girls' eyes were a beautiful shade of ocean blue and her lips were a similar colour as she had stood in the icy throne room.

The ice ninja remembered vividly that the girl had seemed surprisingly polite at first and the ice emperor had been chatting happily and quite freely with the young female. But it had all gone horribly wrong after the the young girl asked a question,

"Mister Emperor, Sir, why did you overthrow the king and freeze our world?"

It was such an innocent fascination the girl had. She didn't seem at all sad about what had happened, simply curious and slightly confused.

But the frosty emperor had taken it the wrong way, and his blood boiled, the emperor sneered and replied, "What has your realm ever done for me?" His voice started as a whisper, but it slowly began creeping up with each word spoken, "While I suffered in a cave, in the dark - alone - your people thrived. You most certainly deserve whatever punishment is thrown at you!" He roared.

The emperor wielded his frozen sceptre and pointed it at the young girl. The girl nodded slightly in disgust and said, "Perhaps my mother was right, you really are a sick, frozen freak."

A blue light burst from the end of the staff and ice encased the young girl, her eyes widened as frost creeped up her body, and blood seeped from wounds as ice spikes shot through the ground, stabbing her frozen form.
The girl became a frozen statue before long, and the emperor, still very mad, hit the ice with his sceptre and in turn shattering the girl into thousands of pieces.

"-wrong, Zane? Zane?!"

Zane snapped back to the present, and looked around dazed. In front of him was a very concerned group of ninjas, as well as P.I.X.A.L and Master Wu.

Zane shook his head, trying to clear away the fuzziness.
Kai stepped forward, "Zane, are you okay? You've been standing their for around half an hour, is anything wrong?"

"I can assure you I am perfectly fine. I was simply lost in my own thoughts."

Lloyd didn't look convinced, "Jay, can I ask, what were you talking about before Zane zoned out?"

Jay nodded and said, "Well, Zane has just given me a pancake and then he asked me to use some cutlery and for me to take my feet off of the table, then I joked and said, 'yes mother'. Which he obviously didn't get the joke, and then I said he must have lost his sense of humour when he was in the never realm. Then Zane just-"

Lloyd looked at Jay, his eye twitching, "You did what?! Why in Ninjago would you think that that is remotely appropriate?!" Lloyd growled fiercely, "If you weren't my friend, I would have already slapped you."

With his point made, he grabbed Zane by the wrist and stormed out.

Cole let out a low whistle and Kai gulped before saying, "That was...intense."

P.I.X.A.L let out a sigh and replied, "Yes, though I am yet to understand why."

"I believe it would be wise to let my nephew calm himself before probing any further."

"But Sensei-"

"Butts are for sitting, we must leave the two in peace for the time being. Both of them have been as delicate as glass since returning from the never realm, and I believe we may have just made a crack. It is not a good idea to bombard the two with questions and cause them to shatter."

The ninja grumbled but eventually gave in, "Fine," Kai said, "but tomorrow, I want answers."

Sensei Wu nodded, "Tomorrow it shall be."