Cole sat at the table drinking his coffee. It was the early hours in the morning when it was still dark and the others were all still asleep. He liked this time of day. No one else was around so he could clear his head. Him and his friends had recovered quite a bit since Lloyd had brought his students to visit a few days ago. They weren't resting in bed quite as much, however they were nowhere near their full strength yet.
The dark force which had infected the Dark Island so that travelers were endangered had caught the ninja's attention less than a year ago. They believed that the dark force was what remained of the Overlord's dark soul. To fully get rid of him they had had to fight him for months on the Dark Island. They had to make their elemental powers stronger than ever before. So strong in fact that they were warned that their own powers could likely  destroy them. So they learned a way to transfer their elemental powers to someone else while they fought the darkness and then eventually as they made the final strike with the help of Lloyd, Nya, and Skylor, they fully passed the powers to the next master. It was strange, like Cole had given up apart of himself.
He hadn't told anyone yet who he had passed his powers to, and that was because he didn't know who it was. Looking back on it, it seemed like more and more of an impractical and dumb choice. In his moment of his high power, in the moment he had to choose who would receive it, he sensed someone. Someone who was close to whoever got Jay's lightning, the one he believed was his long lost daughter. Once they were back to normal, or as normal as they could ever be again Jay said he intended to find the girl he thought he had seen. So Cole also intended to go looking for her friend. It made Cole uneasy that there were two inexperienced and unknown elemental masters out there somewhere in Ninjago.

Jadyn carefully made his way down the ravine as the sun was beginning to rise over the forest srounding the den. He had walked for what felt like hours to reach the den, stopping now and then for a rest. He couldn't remember the last time he had slept and hoped the pack members would just lock him up or something so he could finally get some rest. Maybe he should have returned with the team after all. No, he needed to find a way to stop Alpha and the pack, the future of many depended on it... Because of his uniform he entered the den without any trouble. He tried to make his way to either Zechariah's room or the cells, whichever he came across first. But he was suddenly stopped by a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see one of the wolf rank generals glaring at him. He spoke in a rough middle aged voice.
"Why didn't you do as you were told? I thought I lost you last night. Do you have any idea how much trouble you caused? Well, at least you came back and it all worked out in the end... I still need to bring you to Alpha though."
"Lead the way I guess..." Said Jadyn tierdly. He led Jadyn to the room Alpha always seemed to be in, leaving Jadyn in there alone. It was brighter then he'd seen the room before although it was still full of shadows. The tapestries hung on the walls depicting wolves and foxes and other designs. One of  which he realized had aorura minerals and stars, and an asteroid streaking across the sky on its way  to the ground. There was also a group of wolves with a fox in the center and a group of what appeared to be shadowy foxes with a majestic looking wolf in the center.

"Now..." said Alpha looking Jadyn in the eye for brief moment. "There's your third mistake. Which was probably unintentional, because I don't believe we have discussed this matter yet."
"What matter?" Asked Jadyn.
"The matter of your possible feelings towards my granddaughter..."
Jadyn stiffened, that was almost the very last thing he had expected Alpha to say... Alpha continued.
"Ah, so there is something there. I suspected as much."
"How can you even say you know such things?" Asked Jadyn trying not to make eye contact with him. Alpha grinned.
"I may only have one working eye, but I'm not blind to thses things. In fact I have eyes all over the place that all report to me. Did you really think you could trust a soul here?" Jadyn quickly realized he ment Calvin.
"Apparently I did..." he repiled.
"Anyways, doesn't matter how I know. Based on your reaction to me even suggesting it it's clear how you really feel. Also you can't deny that you two shared a moment last night in the ruins of the village. I have witnesses."
"That was just a hug. There's no way she feels that way, right? Besides, why does it even matter at this-" He was cut off by Alpha laughing in what sounded to be sarcastic tone.
"Why does it matter? Did you really just ask that? My, you aren't catching on to quickly, are you?" Alpha's face slowly became serious again and he continued, this time in a more serious tone.
"It means everything, that's what. She has much wolf blood in her dispite her mother's side. When the world is finally safe for our kind again we will need to restore our race so that extinction is out of the question. So preferably, if she is to end up with anyone I would rather it be someone who also has some wolf blood. Or at the very least a normal human." Alpha was glaring at Jadyn now as he said,
"Not some fox of an elemental master like you!" Right after he said that Jadyn felt a stinging pain across his face as Alpha slapped him with his bare hand.

"What else did you expect me to do? I'm keeping you in line and reminding you of your place in a way I'm sure you won't forget. Now, unless you want me to use your fear against you, I suggest you do as you are told in the future..." Said Alpha smirking.
"I think I understand well enough..." repiled Jadyn coldly. Alpha readjusted the cape draped over his shoulder and walked over to the door.
"Good, let's keep it that way. I think we are done here. Oh, and you should clean that up, we like to keep the den free of filth such as that." With that Alpha left the room with and closed the door with a hard slam. Jadyn tried to cover his runing nose with his sleeve. He collapsed to his knees on the cold hard floor right under the tapestry. The exhaustion and stress was just so high he couldn't force himself to stand any longer. His teeth chattered from the cold and his head hurt terribly. His vision began to cloud over. He should have gotten rest, food and water by now, yet he had only been deprived of it, and tortured both physically and mentally. He began to fall forward and the last thing he remembered was his vision clouding over into darkness.