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Chapter 3: Battle of the Cousins

Lucas

In my grip was my cousin's foot, after attempting to land a strike on me from behind. But I had to give the kid credit for trying to throw a sneak attack on me. Course I was expecting that to happen later than eariler. But I was one step ahead of him. He may be twelve and I'm seventeen, but he has a strong kick to make my palm sting a little but he also has a strong heart to perform such a quick attack on me. That's what I can't wait to see in a fight if he's willingly or just gives up against me.

I glared down at my cousin as he glared at me while remaining in his stance with his foot still held above his chest. I grinned a bit as I twisted his foot to hear him wince since I was causing him to become unbalanced and little pain in his foot. "If you're the powerful Green Ninja," I smirked to twist his captured foot the other way. "Then fight me and see you can defeat me. I'm more powerful as well than you think. Fight me!"

I heard him growl lowly to scream and watched him jumped with his planted foot of the ground. I watched him twist his body and foot was freed from my grasp and felt his heel strike me on the cheek to cause me to stumble. I felt my cheek swell a bit as it was tender to grimace as my cousin landed in a crouch to glare at me. This was going to be new I suppose. I growled to crack my knuckles and got into a stance as well. But instead of fighting, Lloyd quickly turned and ran. Oh no you don't!

I quickly held my hand up at the river to feel my powers conjure with it and quickly swiped it to block his path and created a wall. He quickly turned to a different direction but I heard Storm roar loudly to quickly rush out of the river to splash me in the process and chase him down and gently grabbed him by his gi before he could reach the treeline. He squirmed and screamed against my dragon but Storm snorted to turn and gently dropped him near my feet and I crossed my arms to give him a hard stare. "Stupid dragon and you." he grumbled and got back to his feet.

"Yeah well I gave you a choice and you ran." I remarked and grabbed the rope that I binded him with before. "But looks like I have to tighten security on you, Shrimp."

"Stop calling me that!" he screamed and charged at me. I waited for him to come closer and simply laid my hand on top of his head to stop him in his tracks. I laughed at his petty attempts as he swung his arms like a little kid defending himself against a bully to roll my eyes as it was pathetic. Powerful ninja of all in Ninjago and can't get out of this one. Oh Ninjago is doomed. But as he slowly resisted his fighting technique, I didn't realize his foot was coming for another attack and struck me in the shin. I yelped to jump back to nurse my leg as I hopped on one foot to glance up to see smirk. "Told ya to not call me that."

I smirked. "Touche." I laughed and rested my foot down to slowly walk around him while he was still in a stance. I kept my eyes locked on him to quickly turn and run for his unguarded side to swing my foot at him. But he quickly jumped out of the way to charge at me and jumped with his foot out. In an instant response, I crossed my arms over my body to catch it and pushed him back to have him stumble as he landed and ran back for me. I blocked with my forearms against his strike and with a quick hand, I threw a strike against his right shoulder where I impaled him with my sai. He screamed a bit to step back and cradled his stitched shoulder. To which I smirked. "What's this?" I cooed darkly. "A weakness? For shame, the mighty green ninja has a weakness."

I heard him breathe heavily while cradling his shoulder more to shoot with me hot daggers of hatred. I must've got him good on that. Hope I didn't open any of them, though. I'm not trained to sewing people up like most doctors. I would feel back if I did. Lloyd continued to growl at me to scream in anger and moved his nursing hand from his shoulder to get in a stance. He's still got a little fight in him. Strong heart he has, but can he still fight against me injured like if he was in the Final Battle? I'll have to see. "Well then, I stand corrected." I smirked. "You still got a little fight in you still but for long can you fight with an injury like that?"

Lloyd

Pain ran through my aching shoulder painfully as I glared at him to wince a bit as it felt tender still. Sure Nya has given me medicine the night before, but still it kills. Foul play that's what I call there. Using my injuries to his advantage. But I wasn't going to let that stop me. I still had fight in me still like he said and I was going to show him. No one defies the Green Ninja. "I don't have to show you how much longer I can fight." I growled. "Ninja Recover!"

I shouted as I charged at him to leap off my right foot for a higher bounce and swung my left leg out at him. I felt my foot make contact to his chest to push him back and landed back. I winced a bit as I figured I may have rolled my shoulder in the process to grit my teeth to feel the pain slowly ease. This may be a bit tougher with my injury. Even with the guys telling me to ease with fighting and training. But I'm kidnapped and lost in a foggy forest so I have to fight if I want to get myself away from him and his dragon from taking me to my dad. Who knows what they could make me do with my powers if they make me on their side. I just had to fight and get out of here, alive.

I heard my cousin chuckle to probably my injury to snort at him as he slowly picked himself up from the wet ground. What was so funny to him all the time? Fighting the enemy shouldn't be funny to him. Except to fighting Serpentine when they flee in fear, but ninja against ninja, this wasn't funny. "What's so funny to you!?" I growled to him.

The chuckling stopped to have a small smirk playing on his lips still. "Nothing." he replied which I figured was a lie. "Just that a small shrimp of a kid like you still has the energy in him to knock me down like that. Especially with an injury on your shoulder. You remind me of a friend I have in Jamanakai Village who's the same. But with my cousin to be the destined Green Ninja, not amused yet."

Not amused? Not a amused!? NOT AMUSED?! I'll show him! I'm the Green Ninja, powerful ninja in all of Ninjago and I'll show him to be amused to my powers! I growled deeply to clench my hands tightly into tight balls and felt my elemental fire powers taking heed to begin envisioning the heat and colors of fire spreading across my hands. I felt my hands become warm underneath my black gloves and saw smoke fuming through my knuckles to glare at my cousin to see his eyes slowly widen in amazement. I had him entertained now. I growled loudly for him to hear and soon my hands were engulfed in bright green flames. I had to admit, that was impressive to help unleash my elemental powers, almost like the way Kai uses his when in combat.

The fire danced around in my palms as I waved my hands around to watch the flames flicker in the air and lifted my head to smirk. I wavered my hands around to form a ball of fire in my hands and pushed my hands toward to fire the projectile like it was a cannon. But I gasped as he simply raised his hands in front of him and a wall of water and dissolved the fireball and his shield went down after he lowered his hands. The fire in my hands soon disappeared after the disappointment. I was so close.

My cousin stared me with his unamused looks to roll his eyes at me. What a jerk though. I'm trying to show him how powerful I am afterall. "Pathetic attempt, Shrimp." he sighed. "You had me going with that for a second there, but using fire against me, pathetic still. I'm the water ninja, remember. Water beats fire no matter what. Whatever you use on me with fire, won't work. I'm pretty sure your fire-head friend would've known that in the alley or that ship of yours. Try using something to your advantage than mine. Or better yet, give up."

I will not give up now! I need to get out of here or at least from him. But surrending, I will not do. I growled again to dig my fingers into my palms to feel my hand tingling as I started to focus on my elemental lightning powers like how Jay has been teaching me. Find the spark and harness it. My emerald eyes were squeezed tightly as I concentrated on that spark I felt in my body and felt it growing and coursing through me. My hands tickled as I knew I had control to snap my eyes open and raised my hands above me to disperse the power of lightning in the air. Hope the others could see this if they're out searching for me. I waved my hands around and thrust my hands forward to fire the charged bolt at my cousin.

With quick reflexes, my cousin dodged the volt by rolling on the ground and congure more of his element from the river to launch his power at me by I ducked quickly to avoid the liquid and jumped away from the second one. With lightning from me and water from him, I should be able to zap him really good if I can get a clear shot. I needed the right moment. I kept evading his attacks while I fired my own but neither of us could land a blow. I had to get him down and maybe his dragon even so I can run and hide or find the exit at least. I'm not staying in this place any longer than I should. I should be found by my friends and they should be beating him to a pulp. But still, I don't want them to hurt him a lot though. Ugh...why am I thinking about this?

My eyes snapped back as I realized I was losing focus and felt myself pushed off my feet by a pulse of liquid to fly back and rolled on the wet ground near the base of a tree. I couldn't help but cough out the water that made its way into my throat to groan as that wasn't fun to glance up to see my cousin was running toward me. Adrenaline soon filled my body in a cool feeling to tiredly pick myself up to feel nauseous on the first step but the world stopped spinning eventually to get myself in a sloppy stance. I looked over my shoulder to see the tree behind me and my charging cousin to see a plan forming. I seen both Zane and Cole do this when sparring and I tried countless times practicing but always ended up flat on my face. But maybe that was because I didn't have a moving target and not a dummy.

Waiting for the right moment, I planted my foot firmly on the ground while tensing my body to turn on a que like how I seen Zane do in training. Cole does it differently, but I'm going with Zane's. At the right moment I saw, I quickly twisted my body to start running along up the tree trunk, thankful my shoes had traction to grip on the rough bark, and twisted my body yet again. And with a powerful push with my right leg, I literally threw myself toward my cousin to tackle him and we both rolled on the ground. Now I had him.

I used all of my body weight to push us both and stopped with me sitting on top of his chest. I saw him reaching for the back of my gi and I quickly grabbed his arms to push them toward the ground with all of my strength I could muster with my elemental earth powers, but being careful to not hurt him. And with a good chance, I could probably freeze him with my ice powers and make a run for it. I'm close to the treelines and know I could make it before his dragon could react. Surprised he's not intervening. But before I could deliver the final strike on him, I felt Lucas' hip buck harshly and felt myself weightless to yelp as I was tossed over him to land roughly on my back to gasp the knocked air from my lungs.

I grimaced a bit to the small pain raking in my chest and quickly breathed back the air I lost to flip myself over to scramble to my feet but felt something pressed onto my back to push me back to my stomach. I started to struggle and try to push myself back from up from this weight but felt my hands grabbed and soon twisted behind my back. I grunt and struggled more furiously as I knew my cousin was about to tie me up but I wasn't going to let him beat me; the Green Ninja! Quickly glancing over my shoulders to get a view of where my cousin stood as I struggled to keep him from pinning me and swung my leg out to hit his leg but only heard him grunt and soon my arms were trapped as I soon felt the rough rope binding my arms together and taunted tightly to growl. This can't be happening, I'm the Green Ninja! Master of Elements and can't be defeated!

"Keep struggling all you want, Shrimp." Lucas said to me as he tied the knot. I grimaced to his words and thrashed around to shout at him in frustration. This was like the time the others tied me to that sign in Jamanakai Village, but this was different. Way different. I growled and huffed at him as he sat me up from the ground to glare at him angirly to snarl with my teeth. "Because this is as far you're going now from here." He smirked and ruffled my blonde hair to make shake my head from his hand. "Thanks for the sparring match. I had fun."

So I enjoyed writing the chapter because the fight between the two was just funny and fun. So I got some news to announce. I am sorry to say but I am putting this story on haitus. Reasons why is because I am going to post my newest story of the superheroes series I'm doing this friday. So this story was a side project to keep myself occuiped when writing my other story. So I'm sorry to leave you all suspended in what I'm doing in the story but I promise you it'll be back on. But right now, my other story is ready to go for weekly updates. So again, I apologize for the news of this hiatus but it'll be back on.

See you all later, Packerfan95 signing off for now but I will see you all on friday. :)