Hey guys, this is my first Ninjago fanfic. Please give it a review and tell me what you think :)
Why were the ninja all getting ready to spend the night in a forest? Because Nya just received intel that a group of thieves were planning to meet in the spot they were at, and going to plan on stealing a valuable article from a museum.
Unfortunately though they knew of the meeting spot and the enemy's plan, they didn't know exactly when they were planning to meet. Whether it was day or night, the only thing they knew was that it would be within the next week. They knew this because some items from the museum were being shipped to another location next week, and the article was being shipped as well.
So they had a fire started, and the plan was 2 ninjas would be on guard at night and see if they spotted anybody. The first 2 to do the night shift were Kai and Cole. It was a boring first 3 hours, as it was completely silent despite the sounds coming from crickets and the fire.
Cole noticed the flames had lessened and it was getting a little colder. They would have to get some more sticks to add to the fire, but he didn't really feel like moving. Kai had been mostly quiet, staring at the fire most of the time and listening for any unusual movement. If anyone should know the fire had slowly been dying it should be him.
As if on queue, Kai said, "We need to get some more wood otherwise this fire won't last much longer."
"You're better at listening for stuff than I am. I'll get some more twigs and dry leaves," Cole said.
"Whatever. Hurry and don't die," Kai said sarcastically.
"I'll think about that one," Cole said as he started to get up.
Stretching never felt better. Going away from the small camp and further into the woods made the light lessen a lot. It may have been a full moon but the trees were bigger, blocking the sky. Not to mention clouds would block it every couple of minutes.
Cole picked up some good twigs, not all tiny and smaller than a finger, good sized twigs that seemed perfect for fire. Then he noticed a decent pile of shriveled and dried up leaves. Perfect.
Cole should have sensed a problem the second he noticed the pile. There were no other piles he had seen and he had been walking for a solid 5 minutes. Either way any red flashing sign of danger wasn't evident in Cole's mind.
Walking over he picked up a handful of the leaves, making the (to him) satisfying crunching when he squeezed his hand. He took a step, then another. Except his foot never touched ground. He began to fall. A good 20 feet fall.
He had fallen into a trap. Literally. He got the wind knocked out of him, so in the moment the only thing he was focusing on was breathing. Slowly but surely he began to inhale and exhale. Good. Now he needed to get out.
The hole was too big to press his hands against and slowly climb up the "walls". He tried gripping the dirt, which was mud since he was so deep in the ground, but he couldn't get a good hold. How is that possible? He's the earth ninja.
Clearly this trap had been set up for trespassers, so somebody could be coming around at any moment. He could shout for help? No way. He couldn't give Kai the pleasure of teasing him about it for the next year. Besides if he did he would most likely get caught if others found him first.
Either way if an hour went by and Cole still didn't return, Kai would probably come looking for him. He just hoped he could get out and play it cool as if he never got stuck in the situation he was in to begin with.
That's when he heard footsteps. He didn't lie when he said Kai had better senses when it came to hearing, so the person couldn't be far. They were about 5 feet from the whole because with every step taken, leaves were now crunching.
Cole looked up, hoping he would see Kai looking down. Just from the silhouette of the persons hair, Cole knew it wasn't Kai. The person threw down a rope and still hadn't said anything. Maybe he was trying to help?
Either way it was the only chance of getting out so Cole grabbed onto it and started climbing. Once out, he realized the person definitely had no intention of helping. There were 8 people, and the one that threw the rope was holding a knife.
He took a step closer to Cole and said, "Looks like we got ourselves a spy. Clearly he's not too smart to fall for a trap as dumb as that one," the man said.
That partially offended Cole, and it didn't help that the others laughed at him.
There was no chance of him getting out of this alone, so unwillingly he shouted, "Kai help!"
The man put the knife against Cole's throat and said, "Like I said, not too smart. But it benefits us considering we'll capture your friend as well."
Well that was stupid, Cole thought.
KAI
Still staring at the fire as it was dying down, Kai was listening for anything. Footsteps, talking, any sort of movement. He hadn't remembered how long it had been since Cole had went to get wood, but realized it might be a little too long.
He would give it another 10 minutes and if he still didn't hear anything or see Cole coming back he'd go looking for him. He looked at his brothers and Nya, he wished he could be sleeping like them.
That's when he heard a faint "Kai help" from what sounded like Cole.
It couldn't be good if Cole was calling for him. Quickly Kai grabbed his sword and ran in the direction of the sound, making sure to grab Cole's weapon too in case it was needed.
He ran fast, and it didn't take long for him to find Cole, being held in a firm grip by an unknown man, with a knife pressed against his neck. Slowly he saw 7 other men's figures, and he was guessing they were the people they were waiting on. Well hey, they found them.
"Put the weapons down, and nobody gets hurt," the man said.
"Yeah right bud, I've watched plenty of movies, and 10 out of 10 times the bad guy never lets anyone get away unharmed," Kai said.
Cole just rolled his eyes. Yup, that was Kai for you.
"Well then, I guess we'll have to do this the hard way," the man said.
Another one of the guys behind him pulled out a gun, and aimed it at Kai. No way was he getting shot today. Kai thought quickly and in the blink of an eye did spinjitzu. In a heartbeat the guy shot, but Kai was fast and dodged the bullet.
He knocked the knife out of the hand of the guy holding Cole, and pushed him to the ground. Quickly he gave Cole his scythe. Now both Kai and Cole were facing the men, weapons in hand, ready for a fight.
"Quit while you're ahead. It's eight against two, you guys have no chance," the man said getting off the ground, dusting off some leaves.
"Wanna bet?" Kai said.
Then a man fired a bullet at Kai, but he blocked it with his sword as if he had practiced a million times. 4 men went against Cole, and 4 against Kai. Cole used earth to knock a guy over, and he fell into the their own trap. How's it feel to have a taste of your own medicine?
"Kai, there's a hole right here, lets push em in," Cole said towards Kai's direction while fighting some guys.
Kai quickly looked in Cole's area and spotted the hole. He did spinjitzu and had a guy flying straight into the huge ditch. A hole in one! Then Kai looked at Cole quickly. He looked like he was getting tired, and someone was going to attack Cole from behind.
Without thinking Kai threw his sword at the man, and it stuck straight into the guy's leg. Killing somebody wasn't something Kai liked at all, so he would just give him an injury. A sword as big as his would keep the guy knocked down for a while.
That's when Kai realized he didn't have a weapon to use for himself now. Turning around he saw 3 men who probably couldn't care less if he died. All Kai had were his fists. He couldn't use his fire, he didn't want anyone burning or to potentially start a forest fire.
Cole was struggling but managed to use the end of his scythe to push another guy in the whole. He thought about how much it would suck to be the guy everyone was landing on. Now he only had one person left, no big deal.
What was a big deal was that he noticed Kai no longer had his sword, and all 3 men he was fighting began to start punching him. He couldn't help him now though, but quickly turned around and spotted Kai's sword. Lodged into somebody's leg.
Kai could take a few punches, nothing wrong with that. It got really bad though when one of them pulled out a pocketknife that may have been small, but was jagged and looked pretty sharp. In a second the man stabbed Kai in the leg. It may have been a small knife, but the cut went deep.
He didn't stop at just a stab, he ran the knife lower, cutting through more skin while Kai's right pant leg started to get soaked with blood. Kai held back any kind of sound of pain, he didn't want Cole to know he was wounded.
That's when his sword was thrown perfectly right next to him, obviously by Cole. He took it and stabbed the guy who cut him in his leg. How does he like it? Unlike Kai, the man screamed in pain. He curled into a ball, clutching his leg.
Two down, two to go. The other guys didn't have weapons, so they weren't hard to throw into the ditch. Within a minute Kai was no longer fighting anybody, but the pain in his leg was throbbing really badly.
Still, Cole had just thrown the last guy he was fighting into the pit. Well they just had to wake up the others now, but they already did all the work. From the looks of it Kai didn't see any major injuries on Cole, some cuts and red spots that would definitely bruise, but that was it.
Kai made sure to stand where the guy had been bleeding from the leg so Cole wouldn't notice he was injured. He was bleeding really badly though, as the puddle of blood soon got bigger.
"Oh my gosh Kai what happened to your leg?" Cole asked.
"Don't worry, just a little stab. Kinda couldn't fight back until I got my sword again so yeah. I'll be fine," Kai said.
"Speaking of that, why did you throw it? I don't need you to take out guys I can handle," Cole said.
"Sure you can handle them but he was coming from behind and you clearly didn't see him. You should be thanking me," Kai replied.
"Oh. I didn't know that," Cole said.
"Yeah, how'd they find you anyways?" Kai asked, trying to distract Cole from his leg bleeding profusely.
"Uhhhh ran into them looking for leaves," Cole answered, not wanting to tell Kai he fell in a stupid hole.
"Well we should go wake up the others," Kai suggested.
"Okay lets put these other two in the hole so they can't escape," Cole said, kicking the guy into the pit.
Then they began to start walking back to the little camp they had set up. Kai should have stayed there, as he tried to look casual when walking but failed miserably. The pain was so bad and it hurt a ton to walk on. Of course he would never admit that though.
Cole caught on pretty soon and said, "Kai you're bleeding a lot."
"Just a little bit of blood Cole," Kai said, trying to sound normal.
"No its not, we have to do something or you might even bleed out," Cole said.
Kai looked down, he hated to admit it but Cole was right. He was bleeding, a lot. He looked behind them and saw a huge trail of blood. His blood. Quickly he tore a piece of his clothing off and lifted his pants to see the cut.
Cole kneeled next to him, and winced when he saw the wound. There was a huge red streak, bleeding. It looked bad, and they needed to get back
to the bounty quick. They didn't bring any medical supplies.
"It looks like some of your muscle got torn, that's pretty bad. We gotta hurry and get a first aid kit," Cole said.
"Jeez Cole you saying I'm lookin' strong?" Kai said with a smirk.
Just because he was hurt didn't mean his sense of humor was.
"This is serious Kai, we gotta go," Cole said as he quickly tied the torn fabric around Kai's leg.
They kind of jogged to the others, with Kai using Cole as a crutch. They got there in a couple minutes. Cole quickly woke everybody up, and Jay was not happy.
"We found the guys, but Kai's hurt so we need to get to the bounty, now," Cole said with a hint of worry.
That got everyone up quickly. Jay and Lloyd stayed behind with the criminals while Cole, Nya, and Zane all went to hurry to the bounty. They couldn't exactly put it in the woods so they had to go a distance to get to it.
Kai was losing blood, and fast. Zane said to keep him awake, but it was getting harder by the second for Kai, who was slowly succumbing to sleep. In what felt like forever, they finally arrived at the bounty.
Kai had fallen asleep and Zane and Nya were quick to patch him up. Cole just sat there, thinking it was all his fault. He let his guard down, so Kai had to lose his sword to save him and endanger himself.
Kai was moved to his room, and layed on his bed. Nya had been a crying wreck and Cole couldn't help but blame himself. Nya was in the living room crying with Zane trying to comfort her.
That left Cole alone in Kai's room. Hours had gone by and it was now 4 a.m. Jay and Lloyd came back, and watched over Kai for an hour but ended up going to sleep. Zane convinced Nya to do the same, then he went to sleep later himself.
So Cole was sitting there, looking at Kai. Suddenly Kai's eyes started to twitch and he slowly but surely opened them. The first thing Kai looked at was Cole, not that there really was anything else to look at.
"Hey Kai, how you feeling?" Cole asked.
"Like garbage, haha. So I lived huh? Cool." Kai said.
"Yeah..." Cole said quietly.
"Where's everyone else at?" Kai asked.
"They're sleeping, its 4:28 a.m. Kai," Cole replied.
"Oh wow really? So why are you up?" Kai asked.
"Well it was kinda my fault you got hurt so," Cole said.
"You cannot possibly be blaming yourself, Cole. Yeah I saved you but c'mon it's cause we're brothers! I don't regret doing it and I would do it again in a heartbeat if it meant feeling the same pain in my other leg. Besides, I know if the tables were turned you would do the same for me," Kai said, hoping to knock some sense into Cole.
"But you could have died. If we didn't treat the wound earlier you could have bled out. You fell asleep, and not the normal sleep, the could possibly die sleep. All because you couldn't let me take a hit," Cole said, looking down.
"Cole I'm not mad at you or anything. Besides I need to be in the spotlight, if anyone's gonna be injured it's me. Don't worry about it, in a month or so we'll be laughing about this," Kai said.
"Well..." Cole tried finding something to say, but gave up and said, "You're right. Thanks Kai," Cole said.
"No problem. Now, let's get some sleep," Kai said, and with that Cole went to his room, falling asleep the second his head hit his pillow.