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Chapter 2: Stone Things
Kai's POV

In the bridge, we found Luisa glaring out the window. She looked so much like her older sister, except for her eyes, of course, but she was determined to do things her own way, on her own time. I heard faintly my friends discussing the Fangblades in the background. I was focusing on the similarities between the siblings when I was snapped out of my trance by Sensei.

"Kai and Nya, prepare the deck and double check the anchor. We need to be ready when we first get word of activity." Sensei told us.

"Yes Sensei," my sister and I responded together. We walked out of the bridge, but before we left completely, I had to say a word or two.
"I've got my eye on you," I muttered to Garmadon. I was so focused on him that I didn't notice the wall before I smacked into it. Luisa snickered. Nya grabbed my arm and yanked me out. I jumped back in and gave Garmadon the 'I'm watching you' hand signal before Nya came back and dragged me to the deck.

Cuchilla's POV

I woke up the next morning, still on the shore, but saw some rocks a few yards off that weren't there before. Puzzled, I crept closer to them. When I thought I saw one move, I tensed up, crouched down, and crawled over. I sniffed a small rock, got no response, scratched it, and a warrior emerged from it. I yelped as I jumped back, then got into a fighting stance, growling and baring my teeth.

The creature swung at me with a stone sword. I jumped to the left of the sword, then leaped at the figure. I smacked my head on a rock-hard surface.

Came from rocks, hurt like rocks, what is this thing? It is a rock! I'm dead. I thought simply. I tried to play defense for a little while longer, but it was difficult. Being a rock, it had no emotion, no fear, and, having no brain, probably didn't know what I was.
As far as it was concerned, I was an intruder. And it tried and swung mercilessly to get rid of me.

As I jumped and dodged, one blow hit my hip. I fell down, howling and yowling in pain. When he hit, I felt a bone snap. I felt like it was over. I closed my eyes and the thing approached. I ran through all my memories, thinking of everyone I would leave behind. Nya, Jay, Zane, Cole, Tio, dad, Lucine, Lloyd. Lloyd! My eyes shot open to see the weak-less menace standing in front of me, sword over its head, ready to deal the final blow.

No! I rolled quickly out of the sword's path. There has to be a way to defeat it. Its a rock, it can't think, it can't adapt, its heavy, it can't float, it...it can't float! Water! Agua!

I painfully dragged myself, using my front paws, to the waters surface. The creature had then dislodged its sword and was charging at me. I rolled out of its way again. Since the rock didn't think and couldn't think, it kept running, right into a deep area I had avoided the night before after almost slipping. I watched and the stone quickly sunk below the surface into the depths below.

I breathed a sigh of relief and pain. I lied there, on the beach, with the sun beating down on me.

I need to hide. I thought to myself. I'm injured, I can't face another one of those things. I tried to stand, yet was met with a piercing, puncturing, and burning pain that brought a tear to my eye. All I could do was crawl slowly and painfully back to the foresty area I first woke up in. There might be a cave or at least a hollow tree where I can rest until I can at least stand up for two seconds.

Eventually, I spotted a tree with a hole at the base. It looked wide enough for me to drag myself in, so in I crawled. Inside, I had just enough room to curl into a ball, so a furry ball it was. I banged my head in the process, and angrily growled at the tree. I later felt happy, regardless of the raging headache I had acquired, because when I banged my head, a pile of leaves fell from the tree, hiding the hole.

I felt the effects of the previous battle wearing in on me. I felt so weak I could barely keep my eyes open. I soon drifted off into a sleep.

Kai's POV

After a day of living with Garmadon, I could tell life wasn't going to be easy with him around. He not only teased me with his body language on the fact I couldn't lay a finger on him, yet, for some reason, I felt he was suspicious of me. I didn't know why, I just had a strong feeling he was holding something against me that had nothing to do with our previous encounters.
One day, I decided to man up and talk to him about it. I caught up with him in a hallway where he was scolding Luisa for doing something bad. Who knows what its about this time. I thought to myself. Odd how he doesn't seem to get along with her, yet she's his exact replica.

"Garmadon." I approached him. He looked at me before telling Luisa to go entertain herself.

"What?"

"Why are you so wary of me? And I know it has nothing to do with the weapons." I tried to look as serious as possible. His expression turned cold and stern.

"Where is she?" he asked in a demanding tone of voice.

"Huh?" I asked.

"Lupe. Where is Lupe?" he asked, clearly getting angrier and more concerned by the minute.

"I have no idea." I answered.
"You're lying." he accused me.

"I'm not. I'll tell you all I know."

"I'm listening."

"She's a moon wolf, wait, no, she'd kill me for that. Let me start over. She's a moon she-wolf." I started. I saw Garmadon's face go from angry and serious to shocked.

"What?"

"She's a moon she-wolf. She bite Jay, so he's one too now, but before she left," I leaned in a bit. "And you can't tell anyone. Otherwise, she'll have my head."

"What is it?" he demanded.

"She said she had to go somewhere far away, get as far away from humans as possible. I know it sounds crazy, but she said she'd come back. She didn't know when, but she promised."

"And why did she choose to tell you all this?" I hesitated at answering. If I told him I liked her, he'd kill me. I was in a stalemate. I tried to hold off the real answer for as long as possible.
"We all know she's a moon she-wolf."

"Yes, but why did she only tell you she was leaving?"

"I don't know." I lied.
"If you even touch her, you're dead. You hear me? Dead." Garmadon walked away from me.

"What have I gotten myself into?" I muttered to myself.