Ray ( Ninjago ) Ray is a Ninjago minifigure first introduced in " " . He is described to be the father of Kai and Nya , the original Elemental Master of Fire , , and a companion of Sensei Wu . Description . Ray has a traditional , yellow head . Ray has wrinkles on the sides of his eyes , cheekbones and a goatee . He has a dark red torso with an armor printing . The printing consists of dark grey and gold . Ray has black legs , with the continuation of his armor printing . Background . Ray was one of several Elemental Masters , the original guardians of The First Spinjitzu Master , each blessed with an elemental power ; Ray being the original Elemental Master of Fire . Ray was the husband of Maya , the Elemental Master of Water , and a comrade of Sensei Wu , a son of the First Spinjitzu Master . During the Serpentine Wars , Ray and the Elemental Masters fought against the Anacondrai Warriors . However , the Elemental Masters lost the battle of Jamanakai Village . Ray fought later alongside Sensei Wu and Garmadon during a another battle with the Serpentine . Although the Elemental Masters had an advantage , Chen used deception to pit the Elemental Masters against themselves . The war was lost , until Ray and the loyal Elemental Masters discovered the Sacred Flute at a remote village . After discovering the flute ' s hypnotic abilities , they used it to their advantage against the Serpentine . Using the sacred flute , Ray imprisoned the Anacondrai inside a tomb , located in the Sea of Sand . After the war , Ray and Maya joined the majority of the Elemental Masters in battling against two of their own : Acronix and Krux , the Hands of Time . After failing to defeat the pair in battle due to their mastery of Time , the masters hatched a plan that hinged heavily on Ray and Maya ' s skills as smiths : forging a set of four blades from Chronosteel , the one material capable of draining a being of their elemental power . Ray and Maya succeeded in forging the Time Blades , but the process left them drained both physically and mentally and thus unable to join the other Elemental Masters in the final battle with the Time Twins . They were thus absent from a mural depicting the battle that later ended up in the Ninjago Museum of History . After Acronix , Krux , and three of the Time Blades were thought to have vanished into a temporal vortex , Wu asked Ray and Maya to hide the Reversal Time Blade , which they did by using the Dragon Blade to form the Fusion Dragon and place the Time Blade within the sunken library of Hono Mizu in the Boiling Sea . In fear of his own demise , Sensei Wu made a map of the locations of the Four Golden Weapons and entrusted it to Ray . At some point , Maya gave birth to Ray ' s children , Kai and Nya . Unfortunately , the pair later discovered that Krux had returned to Ninjago with knowledge of when Acronix would return , and posed as Dr . Saunders to earn their trust before blackmailing them into helping with his plans by threatening Kai and Nya . Forced to leave their children behind without a word of explanation , Ray and his wife were forced to design and construct armor and weapons for Krux ' s growing army of Vermillion warriors . However , Ray also stamped the armor with his blacksmith ' s symbol in the hopes that it would eventually lead someone to them . By some means Master Chen had knowledge of the fate of Ray and Maya , and he hinted at this to both Kai and Nya on separate occasions ; when Kai and Nya looked into the matter all they could discover was that their father had been the Elemental Master of Fire . Kai later had an encounter with a younger version of his father after a wish made to Nadakhan took him into the past . Later , after recovering a Vermillion helmet , Kai felt a familiarity with the symbol but took some time to recognize it as his father ' s mark . Krux would also lie to Kai about his parents , claiming that Ray and Maya had fought alongside Acronix and himself against the Elemental Masters ; their absence from the mural coupled with his father ' s mark on the armor soon convinced Kai of the truth of these claims . After discovering a hidden room beneath his father ' s shop and evidence that Ray was still alive , Kai became determined to find his father and bring him to justice . Kai eventually found Ray at the Vermillion base and fought with him , ignoring Ray ' s attempts to explain himself until Maya and Nya together intervened . Ray and Maya then explained how they had been blackmailed into helping the Vermillion after hiding the Time Blade , only to realize that Kai and Nya were now the only ones who could retrieve it . Acronix and Krux soon forced the pair to do so , with Ray and Maya giving them counsel on how to accomplish the task using the Fusion Dragon . When the Time Twins double - crossed them , Ray was struck with a Time Punch and left aging rapidly , and remained behind with Maya in the present while their children and Wu followed the Iron Doom back in time . Kai later impersonated his father in the past , and upon returning to the present used the Reversal Blade to save Ray from his advancing age . Spinjitzu Smash DX . In Spinjitzu Smash DX game , Kai ' s father appears as a spirit to guide the ninja through the Underworld , and disappears shortly after . His appearance is very different than one on his picture from the flashback .