Jay was one of the most wanted person in Ninjago for one reason only. The murder of the Royal Gordon's. The thing is he never committed to such thing, he was only 1 at the time it happened. But Jay knew more than what the public knows. 

The burnet boy rode the raven hair's horse and the girl was sitting behind him fast asleep. It took about an hour or two before he made it to a cave deep in the woods. Where no one dares to walk through because of the rumors. He made a stop in front of the cave and got off the mare and tied her to a tree nearby. But before he went in the cave, Jay picked up the sleeping princess from the horses back and carried her bridal style to the cave. 

Jay came inside the cave which was quite cozy if you thought of it. There was warm blankets everywhere you turn, a couple of beds, and a beautiful view of the abandon kingdom. Jay set the raven haired girl on one of the beds gently, but he didn't tie her or anything. He just lay her down and pulled a blanket over her body and pulled up a chair for him to sit in. 

The blue man watch the girl sleep peacefully not even making a sound. He admired her beautiful raven hair, and that cute little mole on the right side of her face. That was until Ronin came in the cave, "Are you going to tell me the plan, or are you just going to stare at her sleeping" Ronin asked annoyed.

"I'm waiting for her to wake up thanks to you!" Jay yelled quietly. He looked back at the sleeping beauty and realized she was waking up. 

Nya opened her eyes and sat up from the bed and screeched when she saw the man in blue, "WHY AM I HERE!!! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!" Nya screamed. 

"Hey calm down princess, we only need you to answer a couple questions" Jay assured her. 

"I won't answer anything" Nya hissed as she tried to get away from the bed, but someone grabbed her wrist. 

"We won't hurt you. Well I won't hurt you at least" Jay joked trying to get her to calm down, "Please take a seat."

 Nya obeyed what he said and sat on the bed in front of Jay, "Before I answer anything I need you names" Nya demanded, "But before you say anything else I'm not going to turn you in. I'm trying to live a different life." 

Jay understood and nodded, "I'm Jayson. Jayson Walker, but you can call me Jay if you want. And that grouchy pants over there is Ronin" Jay told her, "What about you?" 

Nya smiled, "I'm Nya, Nya Smith" She answered. 

"Well I guess you weren't lying about the princess part" Ronin puffed. 

Nya looked back at him annoyed, "Yeah, I don't like it either" Nya hissed at him.

"May we ask the questions now your majesty" Jay asked politely.

The princess nodded, "Yes, but please don't call me majesty, it's only Nya" She corrected. 

"Alright Nya, do you know anything about the abandoned kingdom?" Jay asked. 

Nya looked at him in a confused way, "All I know is that a protest went wrong and destroyed the castle" Nya replied, "Other than that I have no clue"

Jay looked back at Ronin a bit worried, "Does your brother ever talk about it?" Jay questioned. 

"No, all he tells me is that he lost his best friend from the battle, and that was the prince, Jayson Gordon" Nya told him. Jay was disappointed that he didn't get any new information, but a least he knew he had a best friend. 

"Are you alright?" The raven haired girl asked concern. 

"Yeah, I'm fine" Jay assured her. 

"Sorry to ruin this moment, but I got to go" Ronin interrupted. 

"It's fine Ronin, go home" Jay told him as Ronin walked away from the cave.

 But before Jay could walk away from the scene, "Jay why do you want to know more about the protest that happened 18 years ago?" The young woman asked.

 Jay took a deep breath and cleared his throat, "To prove my innocents" He responded.

Nya was confused, but then she realized what he meant. "You mean. The people think that you killed the royal family?" Nya said shocked.

 Jay nodded his head in grief and sat next to Nya on the bed, "Can I tell you a story" He asked her. She nodded.

"Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loved to color blue. He had a funny personality and was as happy as he could be until one day a protest of people came stomping there way into my home. I was scared I tried to find my parents, but the protest found them first. I watched as the light in my parents eyes fade into darkness." Jay continued after wiping a tear from his face, "After that day the little boy was never the same. He would steal to get money to survive and even though he was a kid he got the job done real easy. That was until one day when he was 14 and looked like a 25 year old he got caught by the Royals Brookstone's  back in Jamanakai village. As they were running finger scans, they saw something that they have never noticed before, the teens finger prints match the ones that was on the deceased parents and immediately thought that he was the one who killed the parents. When the little boy found that out and they were going to execute him for something he didn't do he ran. Ran far away so no one could find him as long as he lived until he could find the person who killed his parents."

Jay covered his face with his hands in sadness and didn't want the princess to see them. It soon hit Nya, "You're telling me that you're Prince Jayson Gordon" She said before Jay nodded his head. Jay thought he was always going to be along. That was until he found Ronin to take him in. 

Before Jay could realize it, Nya hugged Jay in comfort. Jay blushed lightly, he never experienced something like this before . He wasn't falling in love was he. NO! He couldn't she probably doesn't even like him. Jay put his head on Nya's shoulder as he was trying not to cry.

"I know this might be off topic, but why were you un supervised by one of your royal guards?" Jay asked. 

Nya let go of Jay and looked slightly embarrassed at his comment, "Well I sorta, kinda, run away from home" Nya laughed. 

"Why did you run away?" He asked wanting to know some more details. 

Nya looked down at the floor, "I was just told I have to marry a man I don't know nor care about. I didn't want to give up my freedom for something that I won't care about." She told him. Jay couldn't relate due to the fact that no one knew he was a royal, but he could help her. 

"If you wouldn't mind you could always lay low here with me if you want" Jay said politely. 

Nya smile, "That would be great, thank you" She said before a thought came to mind.

"Jay, you said that you wanted to prove you're innocents right?" Nya asked as he nodded a bit confused, "Well I have a friend in the kingdom of Stiix that has a frozen pond that can revile the truth of the past, and if you wanted to. We could go there and prove you're innocent!" Nya exclaimed.

 Jay thought about it for a little while until he came to the conclusion, "That would be great, but I'm one of the most wanted man in Ninjago. How am I going to go to Stiix without anyone noticing me?" Jay asked her. 

"The same way that I have been making sure that no one knows I'm the princess of Ignacia" Nya informed the thief, "We go under cover in modern day peasants clothes like ripped jeans and hoodies" Jay thought about the idea and it was perfect in his mind at least.

"That could work, but what about protecting ourselves from guards, serpentine, or even worse stuff" Jay asked. 

"I'm good with a bow and arrow and you seem like a guy who can land a punch on someone" Nya told him after punching him in the arm playfully. 

"You know what lets do it!" Jay yelled excitedly as he hugged Nya as tight as he could before realizing that she couldn't breath, "Sorry I didn't mean to... Well what I mean to say is.. Um" Jay tried to apologized. 

"It's okay don't worry about it. When do you want to start this epic journey?" Nya asked confident. 

"At sunrise" Jay exclaimed, "But I think we need to rest before we go anywhere though" And then he got up from Nya's bed and went to the other one next to it.

Once Jay got under his warm covers Nya said, "You aren't like most thief's you know that." 

Jay laughed, "Yeah I'm not like the other people out there who steal to be rich or famous" He assured her.

"Thank you" Nya murmured to Jay, "for everything" and then the little princess fell asleep in her warm, snuggly, bed. Jay could only imagine a future with her maybe. That's all he could think about was her. All he could ever want is to be with her, but who would want to be with a common thief.