Nya is the current Elemental Master and Ninja of Water, Kai's younger sister, and Ray and Maya's daughter. She was named after a brave Merlopian warrior named Nyad,[1] the first Elemental Master of Water. Upon meeting Master Wu, Nya and Kai joined him in his quest to protect Ninjago. As her brother trained to be a ninja, Nya grew tired of being left out from the team and created the identity of Samurai X. During this time, Jay began to start a relationship with Nya. She helped fight the Serpentine and later the Stone Army, who corrupted her using Dark Matter. After the Overlord's defeat, Nya was purified but faced new problems when a love triangle formed between her, Jay, and Cole. After Zane's apparent demise, Nya and Dareth journeyed to Chen's Island, joining the ninja to save the restored Zane and fight Chen's army. Following the conflict, Wu trained Nya to harness her element of Water. Though her training troubled her at first, she unlocked her True Potential and destroyed the Preeminent. Consequently, Nadakhan freed his crew of pirates and wreaked havoc on Ninjago. After being captured by Nadakhan, Nya was accidentally poisoned and died, but she survived due to Jay's final wish as it undid recent events that happened. On the Day of the Departed, Nya and Kai battled and defeated Chen, who was accidentally revived by Cole. Nya and the ninja went on to battle the Time Twins and their army of Vermillion. After being faced with a new Samurai X, Nya and Kai discovered that their mother and father were still alive. The family reunited, and Nya and her brother helped Wu fight and defeat the Time Twins, though Wu was lost to time. The ninja then faced the Sons of Garmadon, a criminal syndicate led by Princess Harumi that sought to resurrect Lord Garmadon. After Wu and the original ninja were seemingly killed, she, Lloyd, Misako, P.I.X.A.L., Dareth, and most of the Elemental Masters were left to resist Garmadon's oppressive reign over Ninjago. When the Wu and the others returned, they reunited and defeated the Colossus while Lloyd faced and defeated his father again. Peace returned briefly until the Oni invaded and Nya along with her friends had to evacuate the city. She experienced a lot of guilt for unintentionally leaving Cole behind, but got the idea to forge the Golden Weapons to defeat the threat. At the monastery, she and her friends fought the Oni along with Wu, Garmadon, and Cole who returned to help. During the climax of the fight, Nya accepted Jay's Yin-Yang promise before they all used the Tornado of Creation to vanquish the Oni. Months later, Nya and her friends fight against Aspheera and her Pyro Vipers after accidentally releasing them from their tomb. After Zane is banished by Aspheera's sorcery, she and the remaining ninja send themselves to the Never-Realm to rescue him. Nya struggles when she is unable to use her powers, due to the realm's extreme winter freezing all water, but is mentored by an elder of the village they have taken shelter in, Sorla, to learn how to control ice, before the village is frozen by Boreal. Nya uses her new skill to briefly knock out the Ice Dragon and discovers that Zane is the Ice Emperor. After Kai uses his restored Fire elemental power to finish the dragon off, they reunite with Lloyd and Zane, whom Vex inadvertently managed to return to normal, and use Traveler's Tea to head back to their home realm. Sometime later, Nya and the other ninja enter the virtual world of Prime Empire, when the legendary arcade game resurfaces and hundreds of gamers are zapped into it. Nya and Jay participate in a dance competition to gain points to participate in a race called the Speedway Five-Billion and won. She, Jay, and Lloyd survive the Speedway and keep moving on without Kai or Cole as they both got cubed. Lloyd is eventually cubed in a fight with Avatar Harumi, and Nya and Jay move on to the Temple of Madness. They make it through, however Sushimi, barely alive, he throws a malice at Nya, killing her. Jay moves on alone and eventually convinces Unagami to free everyone previously trapped in the game, including Nya. They embrace upon seeing each other. After the Prime Empire events, Nya, Wu, and and the other ninja get an invitation to visit Shintaro. When the ninja notice that Cole and Vania are gone, they go underground but get captured by Vangelis' skeleton army. Shortly after, Nya, Lloyd, and Jay escape with Murt to encounter Murtessa, the Queen of the Munce. She and Nya fight in the Munce arena to claim Jay, and Nya wins and becomes the new queen. At the battle of the Dungeons of Shintaro, Nya makes the Geckles and Munce work together to defeat Grief-Bringer. Nya traveled to the Island of the Keepers to save Misako and Wu. There, the ninja discovered the Storm Amulet and the existence of Wojira. Shortly after returning from The Island of the Keepers, Nya's powers started to fail due to Kalmaar's attempts to reawaken Wojira. Nya, her mother, and the ninja traveled to Merlopia to investigate Kalmaar's plot and fix her powers. Following their escape from Merlopia, they struggled to protect the Storm Amulet needed to awaken Wojira. After Wojira was awakened, Nya was forced to merge with the Endless Sea, becoming a water spirit in order to defeat Kalmaar and Wojira and save Ninjago City at the cost of her humanity, but also ultimately save Jay's life as well. Eventually succeeding, she bid goodbye to the ninja and entered the sea. One year after merging with the sea, Nya regained her memories after talking with Nyad, and sought to rejoin the ninja. The ninja broke Aspheera out of prison, and she agreed to drain Nya's elemental power of Water and separate her from the sea, returning Nya to her human form. Without her elemental powers, Nya once again took on the mantle of Samurai X and breaks the ninja out of prison. During the final battle, her powers began to return and helps the ninja defeat the Council of the Crystal King. Several weeks after the Overlord's defeat, Jay and Nya went on vacation before Nya made Jay check the resort out. When he didn't return, she managed to find him, accompanied by Unagami. When The Merge occurred, where all realms formed into one, Nya woke up somewhere far from the Realm of Madness, where she managed to reunite with Kai and help defend the Craglings from dragons, until Lloyd, his students, Arin and Sora, and a baby dragon named Riyu arrived. After their quick visit to the Cloud Kingdom, Nya stayed behind to try and find a solution to the MergeQuakes, where she was called towards the mysterious Monastery of Imperium, where she and Kai meet up, find Zane, and help Lloyd, his students and Wyldfyre escape from Imperium. Needing the Dragon Cores to end the MergeQuakes, Nya, Sora, and Riyu went to the Pinnacle of Crystals, only to find it gone, and are guided by a Djinn called Arrakore to the Land of Lost Things, where she reunited with Cole, only to lose the core to Dr. LaRow and return to Imperium to retrieve it. Helping the local resistance to expose Beatrix, the disgraced empress created the MergeQuake Storm, which is thwarted by Lloyd using the Dragon Cores to stabilize the Merged Realms. Later, Nya helped the other ninja stopping the Mechanic from stealing mechs in the Mech Master 5000. When Lloyd started having visions of the Blood Moon and the Cloud Kingdom was seized by Ras, Nya accompanied the Ninja to train under Egalt, and helps Kai achieve Rising Dragon. As the ritual went underway, Nya watched as Kai was sent to the Nether-Space, which resulted in her achieving Rising Dragon. After sneaking into the City of Temples, Nya found herself pitted against Jay, who has no memory of her and corrupted by Shatterspin. Upon his defeat, Nya tried to express her permanent love for him, only for him to coldly state his hatred for her. Learning Ras sent him away, Nya, upon losing to Nokt, intended to find Jay and help regain his memories, but was halted when Riyu shows off a stone he stole from Ras with a connection to the Nether-Space, allowing her to communicate with Kai. With Riyu's help, Nya managed to open a rift to free Kai and Bonzle before Nokt's scheme was thwarted and the Forbidden Five, Ras and Arin end up scattered when the portal gate they entered was destroyed. When they got back to the Monastery of Spinjitzu, Kai then tells her that the two of them are going to find Jay and bring him back.