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Alexa, Klay, Cody, they weren't Rio's cousins, no, Neo and Aurora are her cousins. But they all treat each other like they are.
All their parents have known each other for many, many years, they were the protectors of Ninjago before them.
Their large, weird family is a strange one to be a part of, that's for sure.
Rio Smith, the current Fire Elementalist, twin sister of Luke Smith, current Amber Elementalist. Rio flew down the street, today was the first day of the last term of her Sophomore Year and she was going to be late again.
After running the full fifteen minutes to Ninjago High, she made it to her homeroom class with minutes to the bell.
"How do you manage to be on time?" she asked her brother who had the desk to her left.
"I don't sleep in and leave on time, Rio,' Luke answered, scrolling through something on his phone.
There were only two good things about homeroom: their whole group had the same one and the teacher let them do anything as long as it didn't disrupt other classes.
"Do we have training today?" Aurora asked, keeping her tone low so that the other students didn't overhear. The teacher, Mrs. Ari started to take attendance.
"Yes, straight after school," Alexa told the seven of them.
Mrs. Ari got to their names in the roll/attendance log. "Klay Brookstone?" "Here, Miss," "Alexa Garmadon?" "Here," "Cody Julien?" "Present," "Lucas Smith? Rio Smith?" "Here," "Here!" "Aurora Walker. Neo Waker?" "Here, Miss!"
Silence.
Aurora had her head buried in a book. Cody punched her lightly in the arm, "Oh, here!" she said, taking her eyes off the pages of the book for only a few minutes.
Lunchtime
Both Smiths and both Walkers were late, typical. Alexa, Cody, and Klay had been lucky to find an empty table in the cafeteria and had already gotten their lunches.
Neo and Rio came running through the doors together, seven minutes late.
"Sorry. Tech Teacher kept us in," Neo explained, dumping his stuff on the chair and going to join the lunch line. Aurora and Luke were yet to make their appearance.
Within the next few minutes, everyone had appeared, got their food, and were seated.
"Before I forget, Dad wants us to think about how we're gonna decorate the Monastry for Christmas," Rio told them after she had taken a bit out of her burrito.
"But Christmas is still more than two weeks away," Cody reasoned, Rio just shrugged.
Loud shouting drew their attention to the far corner of the cafeteria, Wez is the school bully, he and his group were standing over a black-haired Freshman. So, Wez had decided on his next prey, especially after the 'warning' Neo had given him.
Without saying anything to the others, the Lightning Elementalist stood up and approached the scene. He didn't fear detention or anything worse because of reasons they still didn't know.
Time slowed down as Neo pushed roughly past few of Wez's followers, helped the Freshman up, and led him away from Wez, then time returned to normal. (**I know I made Neo master of Lightning, superspeed is part of his powers**).
"Are you ok?" Neo asked, noticing that the boy stood at about 5'3, quite a bit shorter than Neo himself.
"I think so. Thanks for saving me back there. I'm William," he thanked and introduced himself.
"Name's Neo. No problem, Wez's an idiot-" at William's confused expression, he explained, "you'll see soon. See you around?" Neo walked away and joined his friends at their table.
"What was that about?" Klay asked.
"Just Wez picking on a freshman again. His name's William-" he got interrupted by Cody. "He is an Elementalist,"
The android had a weird sense-like thing that allowed him to detect other Elementalists, even ones that had yet to fully unlock their powers.
"Yeah? Do you know what element?" Aurora asked as the bell rung, signaling the end of lunch.
"William is the Wind Elementalist,"