Title: Lost Girl
Rating: T-ZanexOC
Writer: Zane-Ice-Fairy
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Summary: When the ninja meet an odd girl in a battle with Garmadon and the snakes, they end up taking her home with them-but when Zane begins to fall for her, will a certain dark lord find out and try to use it to his own advantage? ZanexOC
So, hi! This is for emeraldgal, and the girl (whose name shall be revealed later) is her OC. I hope this is good; I spent a whole afternoon writing it. This is not connected to my other Ninjago series, The Powers of The Gods. I don't own Ninjago-trust me, if I did, it wouldn't be ENDING!
It had started out as a rather peaceful day in Ninjago City, but, of course, the snakes had put an end to that. Buildings were crumbling from the snake Fangpyre helicopter blasts, cars were overturned and on fire, and the injured people tried in vain to take shelter. Down a roughed-up street, four figures appeared to the relieved cheers of the running citizens. The ninja ran down the street, surveying the damage. The black-clad ninja, Cole, clenched his fists.
"If Garmadon thinks he can do this to MY city, he's dead wrong." Cole growled. The ninja nodded vigorously.
"He's gonna pay, along with his little lackeys the snakes." Kai replied. At that moment, an explosion rocked the street, and the ninja slid to a stop, narrowly avoiding a crumbling wall. Yells and cheers came from the next street over that sounded suspiciously like snakes, and Cole's eyes narrowed.
"Let's go." The four ninja ran, leaping over the bricks of the fallen building, and crawling through the large hole now in the wall, they emerged next to a group of dynamite-toting snakes. They knelt behind a pile of bricks and focused on Cole.
"Alright. First off, we have to get that dynamite away from them. Kai, Jay, create a distraction. Zane and I will attack them and steal the dynamite, and then you two join in. Got it?"
"Yep! Got it!" Jay replied. The two did a quick lookout, and then snuck away up the street. Zane and Cole knelt among the wreckage, waiting for the signal. Cole looked up at the rooftops that were still standing, and did a double take. For a second, he thought he had seen a white figure running. He shrugged. He must have imagined it. Suddenly, cries of surprise and rage echoed from the street, and the ninja grinned. Time to move.
Cole and Zane leapt up from behind the bricks, and ran up the street to the snakes.
"Ninja-go!" the guys yelled, and they were engulfed in swirling white and brown tornadoes. The snakes whipped around, and ran for their lives at the sight, but were soon flying through the air. Jay and Kai were soon in the middle of the fight, beating up any snakes that tried to run. Soon, the dynamite was in the ninja's hands.
"Alright, good job!" Cole congratulated his team. "Most of the teams of snakes will probably have dynamite, so let's-"
Screams suddenly filled the air from the street they'd just left, and the ninja quickly ran for the hole in the building. They blanched as the ceiling began to crumble above them, and the rest of the building groaned in a way that showed it was following it. The ninja ran as fast as they could for the exit hole, but the building was falling faster than they were running. Zane pulled ahead, and just managed to get out of the exit before a chunk of brick smashed right where he exited. The others leaped out just as the ceiling and wall obliterated the bottom level of the building. Breathing heavily, they turned around-to see Garmadon walking with his snake general entourage down the street. Citizens fled from the snakes, Garmadon grinning at their fear. Scowling, the ninja dumped the dynamite and approached Garmadon. Just noticing them, the snakes scowled, and Garmadon laughed.
"Well, well, well. What have we here?" Garmadon said, smirking all the while. Kai scowled at his easygoing attitude, and clenched his fists.
"We're the guys who're gonna beat you into the ground, Garmadon!" Kai replied. The dark lord laughed.
"Pitiful threat from a pitiful boy!" Kai clenched his jaw, and clenched his fists harder. Both teams came to a stop a few yards away from each other, and for a moment, all was silent. The citizens of Republic City looked out from their respective hiding places, and an air of expectancy settled on the street.
"Attack!" Garmadon yelled, and the air broke, the citizens ducked back into hiding, and the teams ran at each other. Zane and Fangtom immediately engaged in battle, Zane dodging Fangtom's attacks with ease, but also not being able to land a blow with his Shirukens of Ice on him. Cole and Skalidor ran at each other with fury, swinging heavy, powerful blows at each other with their respective Scythe of Earth and spear axe. Skales and Kai began the attack, Kai avoiding Skales hypnotic powers, and Skales deftly ducking around Kai's Sword of Fire parries and lunges. Acidicus lunged for Jay, and the two fought, Jay quickly ducking Acidicus's venom blasts, and Acidicus nervously ducking away from Jay's Nun chuck's of Lightning. For a minute, the fight continued as such, with the city still in chaos around them. Jay flipped away from a particularly nasty venom stream, and saw a group of kids kneeling behind a pile of rubble. He gestured to the end of the street, trying to help them escape.
"Go! Run! While they're distracted!" Jay hissed. He turned and returned to fighting Acidicus, hoping the kids had gotten out okay.
Skales had, as Kai had discovered, cornered him. He was trapped in between two walls of rubble, and Skales was holding a dagger to his throat.
"Now, ninja, let's see how you like fighting for the Serpentine!" Skales hissed with laughter, and Kai gulped. Looking around for any way of escape, he spotted a pile of wood just begging to be tipped over on top of Skales. But how to tip it…he felt Skales begin to use his hypnotizing power, and the he spotted the board right underneath it…lifting up his foot, he stomped down on it, and the wood pile came crashing down on Skales.
"Ha-ha! See how you like that, overgrown garden hose!" yelled Kai as he took off for the battle, grabbing his dropped sword as he did so.
Rounding the corner, he saw Zane freezing Fangtom's tail to the ground, Cole whacking Skalidor's head so hard, he tipped over, and Jay cornering Acidicus. Grinning, he went to help Jay, when Garmadon's voice echoed, "STOP!"
The ninja and snake generals froze, and turned to see…Garmadon holding a girl that couldn't be over thirteen. The ninja gasped, and the snakes hissed with laughter. Garmadon grinned at the ninja, and the girl was as white as a sheet, trembling in the grip of the dark lord. Cole felt his anger at the cocky evil man before him shoot through the roof.
"LET. HER. GO. NOW." he growled, moving toward Garmadon. Garmadon pulled the girl back and shook his head.
"I don't think so, ninja. Surrender and I'll CONSIDER letting her go." For a moment, the ninja didn't move. Then, they lowered their weapons, and started forward…and Garmadon cried out in pain. The ninja stared in shock as the dark lord crumbled and the strangest girl they'd ever seen grabbed the young girl and ran her away from Garmadon. She was in a suit that was half black, half white, and her hair was the same, and she had a pair of sai strapped to her back. She ran the girl to a wall, and leaned her against it. She then turned to the shocked ninja, snake generals, and now recovered but just as shocked Garmadon. Without a word, she flipped over the wall and vanished. For a moment, all present were silent, and then Garmadon cried out, "Well, what are you all waiting for? Attack!" The generals approached them again, and the ninja prepared to fight again, when the building that the ninja had run through began to groan, and crumble-right towards them. The snakes ran to the left of it, to Garmadon, while the ninja ran to the right of it. For a second, it swayed back and forth, and then it tipped over, crashing to the ground and sending up a huge blast of dust. The ninja turned against it, trying not to breathe. When it settled, the guys turned toward the wreckage. The way to Garmadon was cut off. Sighing, the guys turned to leave when Garmadon's voice echoed over the wreckage.
"We'll meet again soon ninja! Don't forget it!" They rolled their eyes, and began walking through the destroyed north part of the city. The rest of the city was fine-it was just this part they had attacked. After a second, Jay and Kai were chatting about how Kai had dumped wood all over Skales, or something, and Zane and Cole were walking ahead. Cole was contacting the Bounty to come pick them up, and Zane was surveying the damage. He knew some buildings were badly ruined, or gone, and many cars were history, but the death rate was little to none-the city had really become used to sudden evacuations lately. Zane was about to ask Cole to ask Nya to do a sonar sweep, when he heard a hiss. Thinking it might be one of the snakes, he whipped around into a defensive position-when he saw the odd girl from before! She was sitting next to an intact building, holding her left leg. She was bleeding, and her face was twisted in a scowl of pain. Zane quickly ran to her. She looked up, and twitched back-in fear? Zane slid to a stop in front of her, and knelt before her.
"Hey. You are hurt. Do you need help?" The girl looked at him, openly studying him. She had one eye that was dark grey, and one that was light gray, and they seemed to stare right through Zane, and into his soul. He barely heard the guys come up to him, and he lightly touched the girl's hand.
"You are hurt. You cannot walk. Please allow us to help you as you helped us. Please?" For a second the girl looked at her lap and did not respond. Then, she slowly raised her head, and nodded once. Zane felt a smile come to his face, and he went to help the girl up. Using his shoulder, she shot up much faster than he expected for an injured person. She leaned on Zane, using him as a support. The guys stood around them, looking at her with curiosity. They were going to ask her questions, but Zane shook his head.
"Here. Come with me." Zane said, leading the girl down the street. The guys followed, no doubt questioning Zane in their heads. Overhead, the Bounty appeared over the buildings. Zane led her to the rendezvous point, studying her all the while. She looked down, not speaking. Her hair was half snow white, half ebony black, and her suit was the same. Zane figured she must be involved with the yin and yang symbol, the idea of balance in the universe through opposing forces, which stated that if one force was taken away, the other could not exist.
"So, what is your name?" The girl did not answer, simply staring down at the ground.
"Um…do you not want to tell me?" Still the girl said nothing, only staring down.
"Um, can you even talk?" Kai asked, touching the young girl's shoulder. The girl was silent.
"She's mute, Kai." Cole whispered. Zane frowned at his friends. It wasn't a dumb assumption, of course, but maybe she just didn't want to talk. He somehow felt that she could, if she wanted.
"Alright you guys. Ladder's coming down." called down Nya through the megaphone. The guys looked up at the ladder as it was lowered. Zane looked to the silent girl.
"Can you climb?" Zane asked her. In response, she tried to move forward, and Zane led her to the ladder. She grabbed the metal rungs and more quickly than any of them could have done, she zipped up the ladder. Staring up at her, shocked, the guys watched her near the middle before they remembered they had to climb too. As Zane rose slowly above the city he had come to call home, he found himself thinking of how the sunlight had caught in the mysterious girl's eyes. Shaking his head to dispel the strange thoughts, he climbed faster until he reached the deck. Nya was helping the girl to the infirmary room on the ship, giving Kai a look like, who is this again? Kai shrugged as he pulled his ninja mask off, and stared down at the city below.
"Well, the dork lord got away again." Cole and Jay stood next to him, staring at the damage their adversary had done. Zane, however, stared after their odd new guest, thinking about how she'd helped them.
"Don't worry Kai. We'll get him soon enough." Cole offered. Jay shook his head.
"What I'm curious about is that girl! How'd she just bring down Garmadon like that, and who is she anyway?" Cole turned to Zane.
"What do you think?" The guys stared at Zane, who seemed off in his own world today. Zane stirred, and looked to the guys.
"I don't know who she is…but she's unique." He looked out at the city with an odd little smile on his face that his friends suspected he didn't know was there.
So, hope this didn't stink! I'm bringing in POV's next chapter, but this one was a freebie. This will mostly be from Zane and the OC's point of view, but the others will be thrown in there too, don't worry! Anyone who reviews gets a virtual cookie! OM NOM NOM! Hope you like, emeraldgal! Zane-Ice-Fairy out!