Toxine admired the flames that burned under her leader's icy prison, which she and her sisters were using to thaw her out.

"Uh, mistress?" Slithra began, nervous.

She glared at him, Slithra backed away quickly, and went away from the she-snake. Toxine only looked on further, her eyes having a crazed look within them.

Toxe looked at her, "What's up with your face?"

"I need to get my hands on that fire starter," Toxine whispered, as if she were in a trance, her eyes still locked on the fire, "is that too much to ask for?"

Toxe scowled, "We know, sis. It's been months, does that fire ninja ever leave your mind?"

Toxine narrowed her eyes, "Does the ice ninja ever cease from your head?"

Toxe growled, "Shut up."

Poisa came in, Toxe was the first to speak, "Don't bother. She'd only talk about getting her hands on the fire starter."

"I know, that's why I'm here. I've found the target," Poisa hissed. Toxine's eyes left from their original post, a new excited gleam shone through them, "You did?"

Poisa smiled, "It was hard, but I've managed to locate him. Fool couldn't keep himself hidden forever, you know?"

Toxine grinned, cackling, "Perfect. Find him, and capture him. Then we begin our plan..." _

"Woohoo!"

Kai flew high in the sky, over the clouds and through the sky. He had never felt so free!

He laughed, looking back to see the others trailing behind him, Cole, Zane, Lily, and Andrea were all soaring right below him. Kai smirked, "You guys too slow for me?"

"Kai, you try flying with half a sprained wing!" Zane yelled, slowly flapping his enormous wings.

Cole rolled his eyes, "Don't listen to him Zane. He does this all the time when he's flying."

Lily humphed, "He'll probably end up as a dragon one day, have you seen his cocky attitude lately?"

"Kai's always been like this, sis. You just have to learn to live with it," Andrea sighed, flying ahead.

Kai smiled, doing a dive straight into the clouds and then swooping upwards again. "Yeah! Try to catch me now!" he taunted.

"That's it," Zane growled, flapping his wings furiously towards Kai, the fire ninja almost stopped midair.

"Zane! Be careful!" Cole warned.

Kai flew just out of reach, the ice ninja nearly caught him with his wings, nearly missing Kai's by an inch. "Hah! Is that the best you have?" Kai snickered. Zane growled, flapping his wings hard, and finally managing to take hold of Kai, the fire ninja was stuck in his grasp.

"Hey! Let go!" Kai demanded.

Zane smiled, satisfied with his victory; however, it didn't last long for the moment he took hold of his teammate his dragon form had disappeared, and only his wings were still intact.

The ice ninja gasped, dropping Kai, the fire ninja took flight once more, looking back to see Zane as himself, except for the fact he still had his dragon wings on his back. Lily groaned, "Not again."

Kai stared, "Wow."

"I still cant control it, ok? I've only trained since the last few weeks!" Zane shouted, feeling a bit light.

The fire ninja snickered, "I knew I should've taught you the basics."

"You think you're a natural? I'd like to see you come here and try against me! Come on! Fight me!" Zane challenged.

Lily flew up to Zane, "Alright, that's enough you two. Zane, calm down. It's only been the fifth time, we'll keep working on it. Kai? Seriously? Stop making Zane angrier by the minute, if you please."

Kai flipped on his back, flying backwards in the air, "What? I was just giving him the heads up. He seriously needs to learn how to stay in his dragon form, I mean what if this happens again without the wings to hold him up?"

"Kai!" Cole called.

Kai humphed, "Ok. OK! Fine. Can we just get through this stupid lesson already? We skipped breakfast!"

"Be patient Kai. Lily didn't rush you when you trained, and yes. Would you please quit being so arrogant?" Zane stated.

The fire ninja sighed, "Yes, yes. Fine, whatever. Just, can we please hurry up?"

Lily allowed Zane to safely turn back into his dragon form, she nodded her head and smiled, "Good!"

Zane grinned.

Meanwhile, on the tallest cliff of dragon island, Jay and Lloyd were watching from a distance. Lloyd was of course, watching while feeding Krip, and eating breakfast himself, and Jay was just glancing at the figures in the air.

"Man, I cant believe they woke up this early to continue Zane's training," Jay uttered, taking a bite out of his chicken, "they even skipped breakfast!"

Lloyd only shrugged, "It's worth it if they can teach Zane how to control his unstable dragon shifting. He got his potential early remember?"

"Yeah, I guess so. But what about that whole thing, Lily said about, disaster?" Jay asked.

"Just ignore that, it probably already happened. How long ago was it that we defeated Toxis and her tribe?" Lloyd questioned.

"A few weeks, maybe months ago," Jay replied.

"See? I'm pretty sure that was just some other vague prophecy thing that doesn't mean anything. Besides, Lily seems pretty calm about the whole thing now, she's even offered to help Zane control his powers so he wouldn't have any problems. I'd say she's made up for her whole freakout back in the facility," Lloyd explained.

Jay nodded, "I guess your right, Lloyd."

"Yeah. Hey, anyway, has Sensei found Nya yet?" Lloyd asked.

Jay froze, hesitant to speak, "Uh...no...unfortunately..."

"Oh...well that's a bummer. Um, moving on, did you notice Kai's gotten a bit...meaner?" Lloyd spoke, changing the subject.

The lightning ninja rubbed his sore arm, "Uh...I guess..."

Lloyd frowned, he then noticed the others going in for a landing. "Hey, look! They're starting to land!"

The two made way for the five dragons. Andrea landed, followed by Cole, then Zane, then Kai, and lastly Lily. After changing back Kai yawned, "Alright, that was some good flying. Sooo, has breakfast been made yet?"

"Yeah. Jay made some waffles for everyone back at the Bounty," Lloyd stated, pointing to Jay.

"Alright! I'm starving, thanks Jay!" Cole exclaimed.

Jay smiled, then frowned a bit at Kai's dumbfounded expression.

"You can cook?" the red ninja questioned, a bit surprised.

"Uh, yeah? Haven't you noticed?" Jay asked.

Kai chuckled, "Sure." The fire ninja playfully punched Jay in the arm, the lightning ninja winced, "O-Ow..."

"Oh, Jay! Is your arm still hurting from my punch? I'm sorry about that," Andrea apologized.

The lightning ninja shook his head, "No! No, it'snot that. You healed it long ago, I uh...have just been clumsy while making some inventions, heh."

Andrea frowned, following her sister and Cole towards the Bounty.

Kai narrowed his eyes at Jay, before joining the rest for breakfast. Lloyd pulled on Jay's pant leg, "Hey, Jay? You coming?"

Jay looked down at the kid, he sighed, "You know what, Lloyd...I think you're right about Kai getting meaner..."

The two headed back towards the Bounty in silence. _

[Well! Hope you guys liked this first chapter that I wrote, and I just have to say, it's...kinda bad...

Is it? Because to me it looks a bit bad, I don't know, I'll see what you guys think in the comments.

Ok, so the first chapter to episode 4! Wow, Kai has gotten meaner, and poor Zane and Jay, they have to endure the shit he's giving them ugh. Well, let's see if Kai remains that way after Toxine's big "plans".

Not going to reveal too much, just letting it out to all of you out there, I guess there's going to be a huge change in tone as this story goes from beginning to end, so be prepared!

But overall, I just want to say thanks so much for reading this guys (if you are) and that I really appreciate your continued support towards my work. I try to do everything I can to make this series exciting and suspenseful to keep you entertained and ready for the next chapter, but I'd admit that sometimes I can write things that make no sense...

Let's just hope this story is not one of those stories. Again, I really hope you guys come back for more, and I'll try to update every Saturday as the series continues, until then, have a Sugary Saturday guys! Thanks so much for reading this first chapter of The NDS Series: Episode 4-Flaming Torment, see you guys next Saturday!]