Lion warriors gathered on the walls of the Temple, all of them carrying weapons that looked like spears and bows with essence of Chi. Lagravis and Laval stood amongst them, watching the approaching vehicle army; both of them wearing stiff faces, knowing that this was a serious danger, to not only this sacred area.
This was a threat to their home.
"Laval, I want you to do something for me," said Lagravis, talking to his son without turning his head.
"Yes father?" asked Laval, turning to face his father.
"If I should….If I…If I lose my life during this conflict, I wish for you to take the Golden Chi and take it as far away from here as you can. We cannot allow these Yellow Skins to get the power," said Lagravis, his face never shifting from the hard look as he said this, otherwise, emotional sentence.
"Father!" gasped Laval, not seeing that coming. "I…I cannot have the Golden Chi! We do not know of its full power!"
"That does not matter; we cannot allow these Yellow Skins to get it!" repeated Lagravis, adding a bit of sharpness with his tone; his son didn't question his sharper tone.
Emmet walked with Wyldstyle and Batman through the Temple, trying their best to avoid getting in any of the Lion's way; Chase and Johnny had split apart from the others to help holding back the vehicles.
Emmet saw something out of the corner of his eye, and turned to face it; it was a large pool of light blue water, with a small waterfall leading into the water from up in the tops of the mountain.
"This must be the source of the Chi that Dr Inferno wants," said Emmet, approaching the edge of the pool and sitting at the edge of the pool, looking into the light blue, almost glowing, liquid filling the pool.
"Yeah, looks like it," said Wyldstyle, taking a seat next to Emmet as they both looked into the pool; they were cast several looks from some of the Lion Tribe, but they guessed, as long as they didn't take anything out from the Sacred Pool, then they wouldn't attack them.
"The thing is…what exactly do you think Inferno wants to use this for?" asked Wyldstyle, gesturing to the pool while trying not to touch the actual liquid.
"Oh! Maybe he-" started Benny, landing on the floor in front of Emmet and Wyldstyle.
"Maybe he's building something," said Batman, sliding in front of Benny, effectively cutting the other figure off.
"But, that's what…" said Benny, a frown on his face as he trailed off.
"Maybe, Batman; but what could he be working on that requires this?" asked Wyldstyle, the confused expression never leaving her face, as she gently rubbed the side of her hair.
"Well, I can't think of anything that could use something like this," said Emmet, before rubbing the side of his head and muttered softly.
"Emmet? Emmet, what's up?" asked Wyldstyle, looking over at her boyfriend with a mildly concerned expression.
"These numbers…you know, the Master Building thing….it's a little hard to control," said Emmet, shaking his head as he blinked; he could see numbers flashing across his vision, trying to find the right types of bricks to find in order to build something.
Though there was something that broke everyone, including Emmet's, thoughts all of a sudden.
From apparently out of no-where, the large barricades at the front of the Temple, which had the face of a lion to represent the ownership of this Temple to the Lions, was blown clear off its attachment points; it flew across the ground a bit, sliding to a stop at the feet of a few of the Lion warriors.
Lagravis had moved to stand amongst the Lion warriors when the barricade door landed in front of them, and his hard glare looked up through the gap that was now left with the door off; he pulled out his Silver Chi Blade, a blade not unlike that of Laval's sword apart from the silver in colour of the gold, and held his Shield of the Lion, a gold-and-silver shield with a lion's head on the front, in front of him, as he took a fighting stance.
From the gap in the wall, a few figures walked forward; one of the figures, the first one to walk through the frame, had the look of an alien spaceman about him; his legs, torso and arms were jet black. One of his hands was black, while the other, was replaced with a transparent red hoof. He had black, alien-like shoulder pads over his shoulders, with a large gold visor over his face. Behind him, several others walked in sync, like a marching army. They had a half red, half black cloth style, with red epaulets and black hats on skeleton faces.
The next figure to walk in had a slightly more sinister appearance to him; while his torso had the appearance of a leather jacket with a brown belt, which had a weird octopus-shaped emblem. But the really creepy part was his head; it looked like nothing more than a red skull, the red 'skin' held tightly in place. He had an angered look on his face, and had, what appeared to be, a duel-barrelled pistol in one hand.
"Attack these beasts!" shouted the gold-visor wearing figure, throwing his hooked hand forward; the skeleton-faced figures behind him marched around him, approaching the Lion Tribe.
"Attack!" roared Lagravis, the Lion tribe all letting out a roar of anger and intimidation as they all rushed at the approaching skeleton drones.
Sword clashed with arms and torsos, separating several of the skeleton drones in half or taking their arms off before kicking them down. The Lion tribe warriors swarmed the approaching skeleton drone army, hoping they could fight them back with a mixture of brute force and sheer overwhelming of numbers.
At first, it would appear that the Lion Tribe was gaining the upper hands.
But then, the two figures that stood out from the enemy group, pulled out their weapons, advanced looking pistol, for the Red Skull, and rifle, for the other figure. They then waited until the Lion Tribe got the skeleton army out of the way before the two figures opened fire.
The Master Builders dived for cover behind several large stones in the Temple as bullets and lasers rained around them. Benny, somehow able to miss all of the bullets and lasers that hit most of the Lion Tribe, was floating out in the open, waving frantically in an attempt to fly out of the way.
One figure, wearing dark green clothes with yellow hands and a yellow utility belt with an 'H' at the centre, walked out from behind Red Skull, carrying a bazooka and fired it; the rocket heading in the direction of Benny.
But Batman jumped out from behind his cover, though he was reluctant with a loud groan of annoyance. He grabbed Benny and used the momentum of his jump to knock Benny to the safety to the ground.
The rocket, however, continued traveling; he missed Benny and Batman, but it finally came to a stop when it struck one of the stone pillars.
From the sudden impact, the ancient stone pillar started to groan in protest, unable to stand any longer with a large chunk of it missing.
Lagravis, fighting off a few of the remaining skeleton drones while deflecting a few of the bullets and lasers that got to him. He heard the sound of stone crumbling behind him, and looked up.
The last thing he remembered seeing was the stone patterns of a pillar.
"Father!" shouted Laval, watching in horror as he watched his father get crushed by the pillar. He pushed the two skeleton-faced figures he was fighting, and rushed to get to his father. But he was thrown back when Red Skull got between the Prince and the fallen King and grabbed Laval's throat.
Laval choked, dropping his sword as he tried to get out of the superhuman grip around his throat.
"Get the Chi! Schnell!" ordered Red Skull, several more of the green-and-yellow figures flooded in, this time, wearing large backpacks and holding vacuum-heads in one hand.
Ogel turned to face the Master Builders, which were holding their own against several of his skeleton Drones in any way they could; which involved Wyldstyle making a giant hammer and bashed the skeleton drones away.
"We must go; now!" ordered Ogel, lifting his visor up to reveal a scowl expression with one of his eyes were a bright red.
"I vill catch you up," said Red Skull, still choking Laval, which had turned a faint shade of blue at this point. His HYDRA agents almost gathering as much of the liquid Chi out of the Sacred Pool; they just needed a little longer.
Ogel left the once secure Temple, which now lay in ruin and with bodies littering the area everywhere. Red Skull threw Laval against one of the walls, causing the Lion Prince to fall unconscious.
Red Skull walked around the area of the Temple, approaching the pillar that had fallen. Looking over one side of it, he saw the top half of Lagravis, his breath shallow and struggling to push the pillar of him.
"Pathetic, primitive beast," spat Red Skull, pulling out his holstered gun and aiming it at Lagravis' head.
He fired.
As the echo of the laser shot echoed around the Temple, Red Skull turned and saw both his HYDRA Agents and Ogel's Skeleton drones restricted the Master Builders, with a few of the Skeleton Drones dragging Johnny Thunder and Agent Chase to join them.
"Vell…this is a turn of events, is it not?" jeered Red Skull with a dark grin.
Yeah...this chapter is a bit dark compared to the rest of it. I don't think that there'll be many more like this... :S
As always, please R&R.