By the time Falcon had shown Lloyd what had happened, the Overlord was too far away to have been stopped. Lloyd was heartbroken that his daughter was taken from him before they had even begun to really know each other. When he found out that Kai had been taken as well, it just crossed the line right there.
"We'll go with you." Zane told Lloyd before he started to head out.
"Thank you, but no." Lloyd told him. His friends looked at him astonished.
"I have a feeling that this is something only I can do." he told them. "So, thank you for helping, but I need to go alone."
With that, Lloyd left with the falcon as his guide.
. . .
Slowly, Mina stirred from whatever comatose state she was in. She was laying on cold ground, and it was dark, wherever she was.
"What a pretty little hatchling, don't you think?" someone said cynically. Slowly, Mina blinked as her vision began to focus again. The female Serpentine from earlier stood near her, Kai was in bondage not that far away from Mina. Mina slowly turned her head to get a good look at Kai. He seemed to be alright, but he was struggling pretty hard.
"Oh, don't bother you fire boy." the Serpentine said carelessly to Kai. "Those ropes restrict your abilities, you can't do anything from there."
Hearing this though, made Kai struggle even harder with a look of determination on his face. The Serpentine sighed and turned her attention back to Mina.
"Hello my little hatchling," the Serpentine said softly, "My name is Mamba, and I like you."
Mina's skin crawled to know that a Serpentine liked her, and had said so in a tone that was less than nice. Mina now noticed that the Serpentine was holding a large stick of bamboo.
"I like you so much," Mamba continued, rather carelessly, "I want to be the one to kill you."
With that, the Serpentine gave Mina's stomach a hard whack with the bamboo stick. Mina let out a yelp in pain. From where he was bound, Kai struggled even harder, the look of fear and hatred shown in his eyes like flames from a fire.
"Not that hitting you is going to help things progress," Mamba said casually, taking a hard whack at Mina's ribs, "I've already poisoned you with pure venom straight from the Great Devourer's fangs. Soon, Darkness with overtake you, and the Overlord will be able to control you any way he wants!"
"Lloyd... will stop..." Mina tried to say, finding it hard to speak. Mamba hit the girl again, this time hard enough to invoke internal damage. Kai struggled even harder now, somehow in the process, untying a portion of the rope that bound him.
"Oh silly, silly hatchling, don't you understand?" Mamba asked, whacking Mina again. "When the Overlord takes hold of your body, he will make you and the Golden Ninja go to battle. The force of two extremes fighting will set off the balance between Light and Darkness and the winner will have dominance over the other!"
Kai finally broke out of his bonds after struggling for so long, and fell on his face in surprise. He quickly recovered and stood up to face Mamba.
"What makes you think that Light will give in to Darkness?" he shouted as loud as he could, out of breath from working his way out of the rope. "Without Light, you can not have Darkness. Shadows only appear when there is Light. Darkness needs to be subordinate to Light for a reason!"
Mamba growled at Kai, and started to hold the bamboo stick like a sword.
"Enough!" someone said from the door way. Everyone looked toward the source of the voice. It was the Overlord in his half dragon, half human form. He had a Nindroid with him, much to Kai and Mina's discomfort.
The Overlord looked over Mina's crumpled up body as she tried to sneer at him. The Overlord only snickered at her, lifted his hand and she flew across the room. She smacked the opposite wall with great force. She cried in pain. If it hadn't hurt earlier, it really hurt now.
"Leave her alone!" Kai shouted as Mamba held him from behind.
"No..." the Overlord said, melting into his mist cloud form, "This is part of the plan..."
With that said, the Overlord slowly moved toward Mina, then violently thrust himself down her throat.
"No!" Kai shouted in horror with his eyes widening, as Mina started to howl in even greater pain. In the shadows, the Nindriod started to type out a news bulletin of Mina's soon death. Knowing she could die if the Overlord took over her in the state she was in, Kai got out of Mamba's grasp and ran to her.
"Stay with me," he told her, beginning to cradle her like he did when she was a baby. "It's going to be alright. Don't let the Darkness take over, there is great Light in you. You hear me kid? Keep your Light!"
Mina's face crumpled in pain as the Overlord internally made the Light inside her dim. She held on to Kai with all her strength, a physical portrayal of how she was trying to keep the Light in her from going out.
"You can do it," Kai kept saying, holding her tight in hope that the Light inside him would help hers, "Keep your Light until Lloyd gets here..."
Slowly, the pain on Mina's face dimmed a little as the Overlord found he could not take all of her Light away. A piece of her mind that still belonged to her, and she was guarding it with lock and swallowed key. The Overlord may have been in her body, but she wasn't going to die. She wasn't going to give up. She wasn't going to let go of the Light inside her.
Nearby, the Nindriod set off a little beep, indicating that it had sent out the news bulletin. With its duty done, it left without another word. Soon all of Ninjago would believe that Mina had died.