Hello there, I just wanted to point something out. I decided that Ani's new voice actor will be Sumalee Montano (Arcee from Transformers: Prime and Katana from Beware the Batman). Oh, and also: I own only OCs and plot tweaks and any non-show based chapter I write.
Warning: there will be some changes to the original story, due to this one being a semi-crossover. Also, here there be spoilers!
The next day, a boat was sailing through a freezing cold sea surrounded by towering masses of ice. Cole was steering the ship, Ani stared out into the icy background, and Jay was bored.
"I spy something… white," Jay said, breaking the silence and trying to entertain himself.
"Uhhhh, could you try to be quite for once?" Ani groaned, not looking at anyone.
"Yeah, this ain't easy," Cole added, referring to the steering.
The ship then scratched against an ice mass, Cole quickly regained control and groaned.
"I spy something broken," Jay stammered.
"Huh… If Sensei knows the way to the next golden weapon, why isn't he steering the ship? We've been drifting aimlessly for miles," Kai asked anxiously, shivering from the cold.
"Sensei's wisdom is beyond my own," Zane replied, the two looked up to the old man who was in a pose at the front of the ship.
"The most powerful move in Spinjitzu can only be accomplished when all five elements are combined. Earth! Ice! Fire! Lightning! Energy!" Sensei began doing stances for each element.
Jay and Ani joined up with them.
"Uh, what happens when all of them are combined?" Jay asked.
"The Tornado of Creation: the power to create something out of nothing," Sensei Wu lectured.
Kai began doing the same as Sensei combined with kicks.
"No Kai; if done incorrectly, it will lead to disastrous consequences," the elder warned.
"Disastrous consequences… right," Kai repeated.
Then the ship hit icy ground, causing the sails to turn pale blue and freeze.
"Uh. Wasn't me," Cole stated.
"Even though you were the one at the steering wheel," Ani retorted.
"Did I do that?" Kai asked.
"No," Sensei answered, "We are here."
A large mountain of ice stood before them as the group walked into the sanctuary. The walls were completely made of ice that seems to reflect enough light to make the entire room visible. In the middle, the Shurikens of Ice hovered below a white and silver ice dragon head. Scattered around the room were frozen skeletons.
"Looks like someone's already been here," Cole remarked.
"And failed epically," Ani snickered.
"The shurikens," Zane exclaimed, pointing.
He jumped up to grab them but got frozen on contact and another dragon is awakened. The team grabbed Zane and ran out of the mountain, yelling on the way. When they reached the path, they rode on Zane down the path, smacking into a glacier at the end and freeing Zane in the process.
They travel next to the Forgotten Kingdom of Kyber, an ancient stone city in the middle of a vast desert, the gauntlets floating in the town square. Getting them was easy, the ninja were able to grab them while the two skeleton generals, who their master identified as Knuchca and Nuckal, kept the orange and yellow energy dragon busy by running scared, screaming and fraying their arms frantically.
"Ah, what do these bracelets do again?" Jay curiously eyed the golden pieces as they walked on their way to the next weapon.
Sensei walked up behind him, frightening him for a moment as he lectured, "Energy is a very special element. It can neither be created nor destroyed, only change form. Therefore, the gauntlets are just as much tools as weapons, creating whatever object or form the user imagines from a powerful energy blast to a delicate looking hand fan."
"That could come in handy if we were allowed to use it," Ani remarked.
Next, they headed to the Floating Ruins. Each had a backpack on as they climbed an oddly shaped floating pillar. Ani looked over the edge to see the skeletons.
"We're being followed!" she warned.
The team began to climb the chain to where the Nun-chucks of Lightning were. Jay grabbed the nun-chucks and the lightning dragon appeared. They all jumped from their spots and Jay's wing invention glided them into the Forest of Tranquility, none of them noticing Samukai chuckling evilly.
That night, the boys on the team was dancing to Cole beating drums, while their teacher was mediating and Ani was sharpening a sai.
"Come on Sensei! Ani!" Kai called, "Join us!"
"I don't do dancing like an idiot," Ani stated flatly.
"There is still one weapon left. We must get our sleep," Sensei reminded them.
They weren't out of danger yet.
"Aw, Sensei! Look, you've got to admit, we're kicking their bony butts!" Jay begged.
"Get up here and show us some moves!" Kai encouraged.
"Mm… I guess I could," Sensei caved.
Ani cringed, "Please don't. Last time you danced for my birthday I had nightmares for a week."
Sadly for Ani, her words fell on deaf ears, "Now this move is very special…"
"But if done incorrectly, will it lead to disastrous consequences?" Zane seriously asked, causing the group to laugh.
"Zane! Is that a joke?" Kai asked.
"I think you've finally found your sense of humor!" Jay cheered before Cole began to beat the drum again.
"Shake like you mean it! Shake like your momma gave you. Yeah. Look at this one, now. Hm-hm! Spin round, oh yeah. I put my feet…" Sensei danced until the boys started laughing and dancing along as well.
Ani just sat there with her head in her hands, not at all amused.
Later when they were asleep, a voice whispered, "Kai… Kai..."
The second time, Kai woke up, "Huh?"
"Kai..."
"Is that?" Kai recognized the person: it was Nya!
"I have to go," she said before leaving.
"Nya!" Kai called as he ran after her, "Slow down! Why are you running so fast?!"
Kai reached the end of the forest and called, "Nya! Where are you?!"
He saw Nya run into the Fire Temple and ran after her. Inside, he saw the Sword of Fire and Nya, standing in front of it.
"Nya!" Kai called again as he began to run to her; he had never been more happy to see her.
"Don't worry. I'm right here brother," "Nya" said.
However, Nya's voice changed into that of a grown man's and her image changed to a shadow of someone else, with red eyes grew in size.
"Garmadon," Kai spat as he reached for his sword only to find that he left it back at camp.
"Forgot something?" Garmadon taunted.
"You can't hurt me here!" Kai yelled, "You're trapped, banished in the Underworld!"
"That is why you, are going to remove the Sword of Fire for me," Garmadon coolly explained.
"I don't think so," Kai said with an angry voice.
He'd never do such a thing.
"Are you sure about that?" the dark-lord asked.
He then disappeared and a chain with the real Nya appeared over the lava behind the sword.
"Kai!" Nya cried.
"Nya!" Kai shouted.
"If you don't remove the sword," Garmadon asked, "How else will you cut the chains to save your precious little sister?"
"You know it's a trap! I can… free… myself! Ngh! Okay that's tight. Aahhh!" Nya struggled to get free but couldn't.
Then the chain started to lower her to the lava.
"Nya!" Kai ran for the sword but stopped at Garmadon's voice.
"Tick tock, tick tock," it taunted.
Kai focused before jumping for the sword. When he grabbed it in mid-air, he used Spinjitzu to cut the chain and catch his sister in time. The two walked cautiously toward the exit.
"Stay close," Kai told her.
"Trust me, I'm not going anywhere," Nya responded as Garmadon reappeared.
"You can't hurt us! You're only a shadow!" Kai snapped.
"Even shadows have their uses," the villain said as Kai's shadow floated in front of them.
"Kai! Look out!" Nya said in fear.
"Stay back, Nya," Kai commanded.
"Stay close, stay back. Make up your mind!" Nya complained as she hid behind a rock.
Kai did a barrage of slashes but none did any damage, but the shadow kicked Kai back.
"That's not fair!" Nya complained.
"Oh, am I being too hard?" Garmadon mocked as Kai's shadow duplicated several times.
Kai slashed through several shadows but ended up getting hit instead. One of them knocked the sword out of his hand and picked it up, but then a familiar shadow appeared. It belonged to Sensei Wu! As Sensei slashed thin air, his shadow was attacking each of the shadow clones. He used his hands to create an eagle to scare off some of the clones, chuckled a bit, and retrieved the sword.
"Brother... I see you protect one, but what of the other four?" Garmadon asked, Sensei faced the shadow.
"They are safe! Far from your grasp Garmadon!" Sensei answered as Kai and Nya joined him.
"I wouldn't be so confident," the dark-lord said before conjuring a light sphere revealing the campsite.
Cole was there, still asleep, curled up with his drum. He woke up to see a skeleton staring at him. Cole looked for his scythe but Kruncha had it. He saw Zane, Jay, and Ani, all tied up with Knuckal sitting on the males and Samukai holding three of the golden weapons and wearing the gauntlets.
"I believe these belong to Lord Garmadon now," Samukai sneered and the skeletons cheered.
The vision ended as the scene disappeared and so did Garmadon's shadow.
"My brother must not unite all weapons of Spinjitzu; we must keep them all apart!" Sensei warned.
The three jumped to the place where the sword was.
"AWAKEN GUARDIAN OF THE DEEP! THEY'RE STEELING THE SWORD! You must not let them escape!" Garmadon shouted as if in a frenzy.
Sensei jumped onto the fire dragons head just as it appeared from the lava. Sensei jumped back, the dragon blocked the exit and roared with fury.
"There's no way out! He's taken away all our options!" Kai panicked.
"All but one," Sensei revealed.
He jumped back onto a piece of rock behind them.
"Sensei! What are you doing?!" Kai shouted just as Sensei sliced the platform he was on free.
"NO! YOU FOOL!" Garmadon shouted in anger.
"If he is to bring the other weapons here, then I will take the Sword of Fire to the Underworld. It is my sacrifice to pay," Sensei declared as the platform drifted away in the lava.
"No! It's mine! I should have come on my own. You don't have to do this! There has to be another way!" Kai shouted, but Sensei went over the edge just as he brought out his tea set.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kai yelled and sank to his knees.
"Then I will see you there Brother," Garmadon hissed before he disappeared.
"It's all my fault. Sensei won't be able hold out for long," Kai mourned, Nya looked back to the dragon behind her.
"Forget Sensei, what about us?" Nya asked.
The dragon roared again.
At the camp, Ani was tied to a tree while the boys were tied up together in one bunch, Jay right side up, Cole and Zane upside down. They were suspended from the ground and struggling but somehow Ani managed to wiggle free. As the Skeleton army leader was flaunting their success to his minions, Ani grabbed a loose rock and prepared to throw, but the two generals caught and unmasked her before she could attack.
Samukai turned around, recognized her, and mocked, "Ooo, what were you planning to do, daddy's girl?! I wonder what Lord Garmadon would say about his baby girl working for the competition."
"WHOA, WAIT... TIME OUT!" Cole yipped, "GARMADON'S YOU'RE DAD?!"
"That traitor is not my father, biological or otherwise!" Ani declared, "I have no loyalty to that monster!"
"Whatever, the case…" the four-armed freak smirked, motioning two underlings to retie her, "You're not going anywhere!"
After some struggling, Ani was now tied up with the boys.
"To the Fire Temple!" Samukai shouted and everyone cheered, just then, Garmadon appeared to Samukai.
"My brother has taken the Sword of Fire to the Underworld. Hurry! Return home and unite the weapons before it's too late," Garmadon ordered before disappearing.
"Change of plan... to the Underworld!" Samukai shouted and everyone cheered once again.
Nuckal raised his arms up as he cheered, but when he brought them down, he saw that his large sword was "transformed" into a simple stick.
"What happened to your weapon," his counterpart glared as he boarded the truck.
Knuckal just threw the stick away and boarded as well. The skeleton army drove away, the weapons locked behind the truck.
"Great now what?" Ani groaned after the boneheads left.
"Now we get outta here," Jay answered, pulling up the sword he "borrowed" from the spiky general.
"Uh, Jay, before you do that," Cole warned, "you might wanna…"
Jay swung the sword and all four teens screamed as they fell; though free from the ropes, they were still very sore.
"… Warn us," Cole finished.
"Come on! They're getting away!" Ani reminded them.
"Let's go!" Zane added, putting on his mask.
The others put on their masks, grabbed their normal weapons, and jumped through the trees to catch up. On the monster truck, all the vehicles were speeding. Samukai looked at the speed gauge and growled.
"Faster! We need to go faster to cross over into the Underworld!" Samukai yelled and the vehicles sped up.
One by one, each vehicle disappeared in a purple light, the others drove on.
"There they are!" Cole shouted, they jumped and ran to catch up.
"More speed! We'll never get home at this rate!" Samukai ordered.
The speed gauge was nearing the red after one of the skeleton pumped the gas. But then the gauge went back to the yellow-orange zone.
"What's wrong?" Samukai asked, worried about engine failure.
Looking behind the vehicle, Samukai saw Cole's scythe on a chain connected to the truck and dragging on the ground. Zane jumped onto the truck, catching two of the skeletons attention, who are then knocked down by a branch which Zane ducked. Jay and Ani jumped onto the hood and knocked of three more skeletons.
"Get them!" Samukai shouted.
"NINJAGO!" Jay and Ani spun into tornados, knocking off more skeletons before Jay went to where the three remaining weapons were and punched the lock, only to recoil his hand in pain.
"Argh! Okay. That's why they made keys," Jay said.
Cole whacked Kruncha and Nuckal's heads and tried to remove them with a swipe, but their heads popped up causing him to miss.
"Hey Cole! Ack!" Jay climbed up but got hit in the throat by Cole's swing by accident.
First knocking back the two generals, Cole turned to Jay, who was coughing.
"Jay! Sorry, I didn't see you," Cole apologized.
Zane readied his punch to a skeleton but was then kicked to the front by Samukai, who also kicked Ani to where Jay and Cole were. Samukai then threw the skeleton driving out and took control himself. He made the truck tilt while accelerating, causing everyone to fly off to land on the road, Cole letting go of the chain; Samukai then disappeared into the Underworld in a bright flash, leaving behind burning tire tracks.
"Uhh, that hurt," Ani moaned as they all slowly got up.
Lightning filled the sky but neither a cloud nor rain was in sight, making the strikes dark omens of bad things to come.
"Weee diiiiddd nooot stoopppp tttheheee" Jay tried to say but got slurred.
"You don't need to say it, I know… we've lost," Cole sadly admitted.
To be continued…
*= a different ancient city, not the snake one.
Something else I forgot to ask, what do you think about Ani? Come on, be honest. Any ideas?