Chapter 7
All right, here's the next chapter! A few of you probably guessed what the girls found in the book, but you have no idea what else is in store for them! This is were the action starts happening so I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review!
Chapter 7
The twins opened the book and gasped at what they saw. On the first page of the book was a picture of Jay in his full ninja attire with Nya snuggled up against him. Above the picture were the words, Jay and Nya Forever. Below that was the date of their wedding.
"Dad is wearing a, a-" Jayne started, surprised.
"Ninja suit," Kailee finished.
"Yeah, but why?" Jayne wondered. Kailee shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know, maybe they were going to a costume party or maybe it was Halloween," she suggested. "Look at the way Mom's dressed. Her dress looks pretty funny!" Kailee added as she noticed the low-neck, sleeveless red dress Nya was wearing in the picture. It was covered in ruffles that were accented with silver and black sequins and lace. Jayne giggled.
Kailee turned the page. The next page had pictures of their parents wedding. As the twins continued to look through the book, they found several pictures of Jay in a ninja suit. In one picture, he was standing next to four other guys in ninja suits, but all of their hoods except for Jay's were down so that their faces were not visible.
"I don't think all these pictures are from a costume party," Jayne told her sister.
"I think you're right, but it doesn't make since," Kailee said. "Why would dad be wearing a ninja suit unless he was a-"
"Ninja!" both girls exclaimed together. They looked at each other with eyes wide in amazement.
"That must be it!" Kailee said.
"But why would they keep it a secret from us?" Jayne wondered. Kailee shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know," she replied. They flipped back through the book.
"Wait a minute," Jayne said as Kailee was about to turn the page again.
"What?" Kailee asked.
"Look at that picture," Jayne said, pointing at a picture of Jay and Nya in front of a little cave in the side of a cliff. Inside the cave was set up as a little workshop. The caption below the picture stated that the cave was their special work place, because not many people knew that the cave existed.
"Doesn't that look like part of the cliffs near here?" Jayne asked her sister. Kailee studied it thoughtfully.
"I guess it does," she admitted. "But I've never seen a cave in any of them."
"Maybe that's because you didn't know to look for one," Jayne pointed out.
"That's true," Kailee agreed. They finished looking through the book before Kailee closed it and set it on the floor. She reached in the trunk and pulled out the smallest of the packages.
"I don't think you should open that," Jayne told Kailee, warily.
"Why not?" Kailee asked, her hand pausing on the string.
"Because its not ours," Jayne reminded her.
"No but it they're gonna keep all this a secret from us, we're just gonna have to do a snooping to find out what we want to know," Kailee said. She pulled the string loose and unwrapped a small velvet covered box.
"I still say you shouldn't do that," Jayne told her as Kailee flipped open the top of the box. Inside lay the two most beautiful pendants the girls had ever seen. They were each attached to a tiny, carefully made chain. Slowly, Kailee reached her finger put and touched one of the red gems on the golden pendant.
Immediately, the pendant began to glow brightly.
"Kailee, what did you do?" Jayne asked in a scared voice.
"I just barely touched it!" Kailee informed her sister. The necklace continued to glow and it seemed that it was steadily growing brighter. As Kailee brought it closer to Jayne, the other pendant began glowing as well. The girls eyes were wide.
"I, I think you should put those back in the trunk," Jayne nervously suggested. Kailee nodded and closed the box, wrapping
it back up and placing it at the bottom of the box.
"Well, that was unusual," She remarked.
"I told you that you shouldn't have opened that box," Jayne reminded her.
"Nothing bad happened so just calm down," Kailee said. she looked at the other packages in the trunk, debating on whether to open them or not.
"I think we should leave the others alone," Jayne told her, reading her thoughts. Kailee thought for a few more minutes, then nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, you're right. We've been in here too long. I'm surprised no one's come looking for us," Kailee said, beginning to place the other things back into the trunk. Jayne joined in and soon the attic was back to the way they had found it before they started digging through boxes and trunks.
Quietly, they left the attic, closing the door behind them.
"What do you want to do?" Kailee asked. Jayne thought for a moment.
"We could see if Grandpa needs anymore help," she suggested.
"Well, I have a better idea," Kailee said. Jayne looked at her, seeing the mischievous gleam in her eyes.
"I'm not sure I want to hear it," she replied.
"You know that picture we found in the attic, the one with dad's cave workshop in it?" She waited for Jayne to nod before continuing. "Let's see if we can find it."
"But, the cliffs are off-limits for us to go by ourselves," Jayne reminded her sister.
"No one would know that we went there," Kailee promised. "We'd be back in plenty of time before uncle Kai and the others get here.
"I don't know," Jayne said, her voice skeptical.
"Come on, Jaynie! Don't be a stick in the mud! Lets go of something fun!" Kailee told her. Jayne sighed.
"All right," she said, agreeing to her sister's plan. "But what are we going to say if mom or grandma and grandpa ask what we're going to do?"
"You let me handle that," Kailee told her with confidence, as they headed down the stairs. Nya met the at the bottom.
"There you two are," she said. "I thought you were still helping your grandfather."
"We were but he didn't need our help anymore," Kailee replied.
"Oh, well, lunch is ready. You'd better get cleaned up," Nya told them. The girls looked down at themselves and realized they were still wearing their coverups over their outfits.
"Yes ma'am," Jayne replied as she turned to go back upstairs.
"Mom, can me and Jayne take our lunch with us and have a picnic?" Kailee asked, causing Jayne to pause on the stairs."
"Where are you going?" their mother asked.
"We was going to our playhouse," the dark haired girl replied.
"All right, but don't wander off too far, uncle Kai and the others will be here soon," Nya said. Kailee hugged her.
"Thanks mom!" she said, excitedly, before running up the stairs after Jayne.
Within five minutes later, both girls had removed their coverups and packed both of their lunches in Nya's picnic basket and were headed towards the playhouse. Once they were out of sight of the house, they changed directions and continued to the cliffs.
It was about a ten minute walk to the first cliff.
"All right, lets start looking," Kailee told her sister.
"What are we looking for?" Jayne asked.
"Anything that looks like it could be hiding a cave," Kailee reminded her and Jayne nodded.
After an hour's worth of searching the cliffs, neither twin was closer to discovering the cave. Tired, they sat down to eat their lunch.
"I'm beginning to think that the cave isn't in any of these cliffs," Jayne told Kailee as she took a bite of her sandwich.
"No, it's gotta be here somewheres," Kailee insisted. "We're just not looking hard enough."
"Not looking hard enough!" Jayne repeated. "Kailee, we've been scouring our inch of these cliffs."
"I know, but there's got to be something that we're overlooking," Kailee replied.
"Yeah, but what?" Jayne wondered.
Suddenly, they were surrounded by strange looking snakes that walked upright. Jayne squealed in fright and grabbed her sister, both of their eyes wide in surprise. The snake with the tail slithered forward.
"How about ussss?" he suggested with a flick of his tongue.
Meanwhile, Kai, Cole, and Zane had arrived at the junkyard.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Kai yelled, after not seeing anyone. The door to the house opened and Nya ran towards him.
"Kai!" she exclaimed. Her brother caught her and gave her a hug.
"It's good to see you all again," Ed told them. He and Edna had followed Nya out of the house.
"It's good to see you again too," Zane said.
"Aren't you missing a couple?" Edna asked.
"Sensei and Lloyd stayed with the Bounty," Cole informed them.
"Where's the girls?" Kai wondered, looking around for any sign of his nieces.
"They went to have a picnic in their playhouse. They should be back soon," Nya told him.
"You guys are probably hungry," Edna guessed.
"Yes ma'am!" Cole assured her, causing the others to laugh.
"Well come on inside and Edna will fix you all something to eat," Ed told them.
An hour later, they were sitting in the living room talking about the ninjas' recent adventures with the serpentine.
"To tell you the truth, we didn't just come here to see all of you," Cole told the others. He was seated in one of the lounge chairs. Zane was in another chair on his left and Kai and Nya shared the couch on his right. Ed and Edna were seated on the love seat across from Cole and Zane.
"What do you mean?" Nya asked.
"We've been tracking the serpentine movements lately and from what we can tell, they should be somewhere around here," Kai explained. "We figured that when we leave here, we can scout out the area to try and figure out where they are going next."
"I would've thought the girls would be back by now," Edna said, walking over to look out of the window.
"Did they know we were coming?" Kai asked.
"Yes, they've been looking forward to it all week," Nya answered. "I told them not wander off too far."
"They were up early this morning to help me with my machine," Ed said. "I was trying to finish before you guys came but it still has more problems than I thought it did."
During this conversation, Zane had been unusually silent, staring straight ahead at nothing in a very focused way.
"Zane, is something wrong?" Cole asked. When the white ninja didn't respond, he gently tapped his shoulder. "Zane?" Zane jerked out of his trance and turned to face Cole.
"Yes, I'm sorry, what did you say?" he asked.
"I asked if something was wrong," Cole repeated. Zane was silent a moment before answering.
"I don't know," he finally answered.
"What do you mean, you don't know?" Kai asked, knowing that the white ninja knew more than he was admitting.
"I am sensing danger," Zane told them. "The Serpentine are nearby."
"Is it the twins?" Nya asked, standing to her feet, a worried expression on her face. Zane looked at her and nodded.
"I think so," he said. The ninja jumped to their feet.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Lets go!" Cole exclaimed as they ran out of the house.
"Ninja Go!" the three ninja yelled twirling into their spinjitsu tornados. When they stopped spinning, all three of them were dressed in their uniforms. Cole opened the weapons case and grabbed his giant golden scythe and the others followed suit. Nya grabbed Kai's arm, stopping him before he could turn his sword into his blade cycle.
"I'm coming too," she told him. He shook his head.
"No, it's too dangerous," Kai replied.
"I used to fight the serpentine with you guys all the time before the twins were born," Nya reminded him.
"Yeah, but you were inside the samurai suit," her brother added.
"Kai, please, let me come," Nya begged sweetly.
"Nya, you are staying here and that's final!" Kai told his sister as he wrenched his arm out of her grasp and turned away from her. Nya quickly stepped in front of him and pointed her finger at him.
"Either you let me come with you, or I will follow you by myself!" she threatened, glaring at him. 'Sometimes his protective side is so annoying,' Nya thought.
The two of them stood there, staring each other down. After a few minutes, Zane spoke up.
"Kai, just let her come," he told the fiery red ninja. "You should know by now that whenever it comes to a stare down between the two of you, Nya always wins."
Kai continued to glare at Nya for a few seconds before he sighed and gave in.
"All right, come on," he told her. "But I want you to stay behind us and no wandering off on your own no matter what happens. Understand?" Kai waited for her response. Knowing that anything but her agreement might cause him to change his mind and would waste extra time, Nya simply nodded. Satisfied, Kai quickly turned his sword into his blade cycle and waited for Nya to climb onto the back.
"Where to, Zane?" Cole asked the white ninja over the radio.
"The cliffs," was Zane's quick reply.
"All right, let's go!" Cole said, his tread assault leading the others out of the junkyard.
As the three ninja vehicles sped off towards the cliffs, Nya silently prayed that they would not be too late.
Oh no! The girls are surrounded by serpentine! What do you think happens? Will Nya and the ninja get there in time? And what do the serpentine want with the twins? So much for Kailee's promise that they wouldn't get caught! Please tell me your thoughts in the reviews!
