Dum. Dum. Dum. Another chapter done! ~Michael Jackson pose~
ShinxLovesNinjago
OH MY COWS COLE IS CRYING (but isn't he a ghost, wouldn't he, like...poof?)
He cries without tears, otherwise, you better make sure that you don't get too sad or too happy.
Zane-is-everyone's-senpai
I WANT MOOOOOOOOORE! This is awesome!
Your wish is my command. With the power of magic, I give you...the next chapter.
"Well, well," Morro said.
Morro could see Zane's surprise, in the way that he stiffened.
"Oh, he-y Morro, can you believe that I fixed Zane?" Jay stuttered nervously.
"And broke the bar of the cage?" Morro raised an eyebrow.
Jay gave a nervous chuckle accompanied by a shrug.
All the tools that sprouted out of Zane's arm had folded neatly back into their compartments.
"Miss your explosive shurikens?" Morro asked, "Ya, I deactivated that. We wouldn't want you to be able to escape that easily. But I didn't know about those tools. I am guessing you have a self-repair system?"
The two just stayed as far away from Morro as possible, which wasn't very far considering the length of the cage.
"It would have been terrible if you broke it, vengestone is so expensive. I don't know how I'll replace it." Morro said, feigning a faint.
"Hasn't anyone told you that you'd be great in theater? I suggest you do something better with your time and take it up as a hobby." Zane replied saltily.
"I already have a hobby. Cursing this entire, dreaded, worthless world that you call home. It's just a dirty rock ready to be worn away by time." Morro spat.
He got no witty remark, no defensive answer. Just silence as his reply. He turned around, wondering if they had just no reply, or if they didn't even care enough to defend their view-points and morals.
Jay looked up at Zane's face, which was blank, hidden from any emotion that he was feeling. He could almost see gears spinning his head, but what he was thinking, he had no clue.
"What'cha thinking about?" Morro asked, floating on his back in the air.
Still more silence. Morro flipped over, looking like he was laying, belly-down, on an invisible couch that also happened to be floating in the air.
"Cat got your tongue?" Morro asked, determined to get an answer.
"If-" Zane started, "If I comply with you. Will you promise to let Jay go unharmed?"
"What!?" Jay shrieked, "You can't just give up! I just got you back! I can't leave you again! Let alone with these guys!"
Morro stopped, thinking about the offering. Zane knew he couldn't resist, he had carefully planned it out, stretching it to the farthest boundary that Morro would accept.
"Deal," Morro stated.
"Zane..." Jay said.
"I know. But one of us has to get out of here alive." Zane said, pulling Jay into a hug, "Look I said I would do anything to prevent them from possessing you."
"But I want to be here with you. I don't want you to be alone." Jay said.
"Technically, he's not alone. He's got me." Morro added, earning him a glare from Jay.
"It'll be okay. I'll be okay." Zane said, "And the sooner you get out of here the better."
"Great," Morro said, "Soul Archer! I need the keys!"
"Fine." Soul Archer said, walking out of a wall.
He handed a brass key to Morro who unlocked the door, and Zane stepped out, the only sign of his nervousness was the floor freezing slightly, now that he was away from the vengestone.
"Here," Morro said, producing a contract from thin air. "It's a contract. You can read through it. Sign you name at the bottom when you're done. It's a ghost contract so if you don't uphold your side of the bargain, your soul belongs to me. Or rather the preeminent. It's how Soul Archer got Ronin's soul."
Jay watched Zane carefully read through the paper, before grabbing the floating pen and signing at the bottom, scrawling his perfect fancy signature at the bottom.
"Are you sure there aren't any tricks?" Jay asked, peering through the bars, trying to read the small script on the piece of paper.
"No, I read through it carefully. I basically can't fight him for as long as he is possessing me. I have my own free will for as long as he's not. In return, he's going to release you. " Zane explained. "I'm ready."
Jay didn't want to look and turned away as a bright green glow filled the room.
"Wanna give your brother one last hug?" Morro offered.
"This is for Zane, not for you." Jay said, tightly hugging the nindroid, through the bars, "Be strong, we'll come back for you."
"Great." Morro said motioning to Soul Archer, "Now can you please take Jay and lock him in, I don't know, one the serpentine tombs?"
"What?!" Jay and Soul Archer said together.
"Woah, Zane's mad," Morro stated. "I mean he's free and unharmed. I'm keeping my side of the bargain."
"You made a bargain!?" Soul Archer said, "I finally get a sufficient body and you bargained it away!"
"Look, we were going to kill them all anyways. I'm not killing him. I'm just specifically leaving him somewhere. I mean I can't just let him go with all the information he's probably acquired." Morro argued with presumably Zane.
"No, it's perfectly in the 'parameters' of the contract. I'm not killing him. It's didn't say anything about leave him a specific place." Morro argued with the voice inside his head again.
"Wait!" Jay said, "It's okay. I can find a way out. I kinda knew that these guys had some trick up their sleeves. Just-just don't lose your soul, okay?"
"Sure, sure. You can find your way out." Soul Archer grinned.
"I mean it's pretty easy to trick people once you know how they think." Morro mused. "You're pretty much immortal with self-repairs and what not. The only thing that can stop or kill you is that contract. And the rules are easy. Just abide by them and you won't lose your soul."
"What about Ronin?" Jay asked.
"Oh, Ronin only got out of it but making another deal with some idiot," Morro said, casting a scathing glance at Soul Archer.
"He's a cheat and liar!" Soul Archer protested.
"Whatever." Morro rolled his eyes, "What's done is done. Now hurry up and take Jay so we can get on our way."
With a huff and a flash of green, Jay walked out of the cavern.
"I won't be long," Jay waved.
"Hopefully," Morro muttered under his breath.
Jay rode into the Glacier Barrens, astride his motorcycle, swiped from a parking lot. Chilly icy air blew through his hair as he rode up to the entrance of the Hypnobrai's former tomb. It was sealed, but not for long as he found the lever that caused it to open. The wind blew the ice and snow around, as the mouth of the tomb opened.
"Enjoy your freedom." Soul Archer told Jay, "I hope you can find your way out."
With a snicker, Jay jumped into the tomb, landing on the ground.
"See ya," Soul Archer said, floating up into the sky.
Jay could only watch as the entrance to the Hypnobrai's tomb closed, sealing him away. Jay picked himself up from the ice, looking around.
"Whelp...looks like we are going to die here together." Jay heard someone sigh, "Great."
He turned around to see Ronin sitting on an ice lump.
