Jay's POV

I looked over to the cage and began to see Amy stirring a bit. Looking around, I went over to the cage and met her when she awoke. "Hey Amy, you alright?" I asked.

She looked...confused. "Who are you?" She began to look around. "Why am I in a cage? Where iss Lord Garmadon?" Then, her eyes narrowed. "Wait a second I know what you are." She got up and tried to reach for my neck. "You're one of those pessky ninjas!"

"I can expl-"

"HELP! GUARDS! ANY-" I knocked her out in the next moment.

"Sorry Amy…" I looked to the entrance and noticed no one came. Good. Then I looked back at her. "What happened?"

Andrew's POV

"We can go home now," Mark said, "We've completed the mission…"

I looked around at my other friends and saw them nod in agreeance but I shook my head. "We need to ssee what becomess of all of uss."

"Well, you can do that, we'll be heading home, right guyss?" Mark turned to see the others were not nodding but just staring blankly, as if not sure of what decision to make.

"I need to sssee and if anyone else wants to sssee, then join me. Otherwise, go home." I began walking the familiar rode back to the Serpentine village. I heard other footsteps behind me and I knew they were following. They were just as curious as I was for already I could feel the effects of the new route, my mind growing slightly darker...

When we reached my house, I could almost feel the cold and saddened air surrounding it. "Who in their right mind would jusst give Jamie away like that?" I heard my past self cry out. 'Always did forget to close the windows...' I motioned for the others to follow and we made our way up the tree towards the open window and spied in to see all of us together besides my father. "I mean, sshhe was ssupposed to forever be a part of the Sserpentine! Why would they let her go so easily?" 'Because of Mark...'

I looked over but I couldn't find Mark anywhere to be found. "Where'ss Mark?" I asked the others.

"I believe he went home, Andrew," Jenna said as she looked through the window, watching herself shivering with sadness as she was weeping, George by her side trying to comfort her.

"I don't believe it," the past Mark said in pure disbelief as he sat down on the floor. "He just came and took her from usss."

"Thiss hass to not be real, it'ss a dream!" past Jenna cried.

Past George held her. "I'm ssorry Jenna but it'ss not…"

"Ok that'sss enough!" Andrew's past father came pounding into the room. "You were all insstructed to take care of her until sshhe was of age to be in the military. Now that sshhe has left, it isss time for each of you to enlisst in your roless in life. The boyss go towardsss militia training while Jenna hass to either do the ssame or learn how to protect herself and otherss, undersstand?"

"Father, we have jusst lost-" past Andrew began.

"No excusess! Now either you go now or I'll have to report you all to be placced into the militia by forcce…"

Everyone began to shuffle out of the room besides past Andrew. "You know you misss her too, Father…" Then he left while the father stayed in the room, alone.

We left the tree and traveled our past selves. They were signing the papers that would enlist them to be in full time. "Andrew...how do you think it'll be like without Amy?" we heard past George ask as he signed his name up.

But past Andrew just shook his head. "Never how it wass before…" Then we had to duck before he looked our way. "Oh Amy, pleasse be ok…"

We then left for the day. My mind was whirring with thoughts like a mad snake. 'What iss to happen now? What iss to happen now that Amy is forever out of our lives?'

Mark's POV

'The otherss don't get it,' I thought to myself, 'She'll be fine, she won't be in any trouble, she'll be on the path of the ways we know!' "All of them, they are all weak!" I yelled as I was safe distance from them. I began to pick up a light jog. "They are all sstupid! Andrew wass the one that sstarted thiss to save her from learning the truth! To only know that good wass the Sserpentine, that the ninja and humans were the ones that were truly bad. That iss the way it hass alwayss been! And it will be for for-AH!" I fell into an unexpected ditch that was meant for as a trap. It was pretty deep, about 5 feet above myself. I tried to claw for something but there was only dirt surrounding me. "Great, jusst great…" I muttered to myself. Then I began to hear movement around the hole. I was tempted to call for help but then I remembered that as a Serpentine, calling for help was a sign of weakness. I was not about to give that up now.

"Oh, something fell in Grandma! Something fell in!" a little girl's voice cried out. 'Humanss...great...'

"Careful baby, don't get too close, the thing may still be alive," an older voice spoke.

A little head popped out of nowhere on the side, the little girl having bright green eyes and bright red hair with freckles covering her face. I frowned upon her and hissed. "Hey look, it'ss a big snake!"

"Petty mortal I am a member of the Sserpentine!" I yelled at her.

"An angry snake," she whispered to herself.

Then a woman came looking over the edge. "Oh, so I see it is. Well, it's nothing much of meat so we can't eat it. Need some help down there?"

I was almost aghast at these words but I shook my head and once again tried to get out. "I think he does need some help Grandma Patt," the little girl whispered.

"I don't need any help thank you very much!" I yelled angrily, 'My own dignity being challenged by a puny being!'

"Yeah, well, we'll be around if you need something. Come on sweetie."

"No, I want to stay here and watch him."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I am curious on how he gets out without any help."

"Well, be sure you stay a good distance from him if he does manage to escape."

"Yes Grandma."

Then I heard footsteps going away from my hole. "You know," said the little girl, "I could just throw done a vine for you to climb…"

"I will have no help given to me by a being of your kind!" I yelled angrily.

"Ok then Mr. Snake."

"My name iss Mark mind you!"

"Ok then Mr. Mark," the girl said gingerly.

"You are not ssuposed to use it!" I yelled, my anger increasing."

"Well then why did you tell me it?"

I groaned loudly and put my hands to my eyes. It was certainly going to be a long day.

*A couple hours later*

"He has the whole world, in His hands, He has the whole wide world in His hands He has the Whole World, in His hands, He has the whole world in His hands," the girl began singing. "He has the little ity baby in His hands, He has the little ity baby in His hands, He has the little ity baby in His hands."

"Who in the name of Pythor are you sspeaking about?!" I asked angrily, quite annoyed with her racket.

She giggled as if it was silly of not knowing. "God of course. He is the Creator of all creation!"

"No, the Creator of all creation is the Master of Creation," I corrected her.

"I know, he was one of His many angels...man, I wish I could've met him sometimes. He loves all of us…" she looked down to me and smiled. "Even you Mr. Mark."

I laughed at such a thought. "If he'd just seen what he had created-"

"He'd love you all the same. Anyway, are you ready for me to let you out now?"

I didn't say anything in response. It was getting close to night time. "Where isss your gaurdian?" I asked.

She shrugged. "Unhinging more traps I suppose. Do all of your kind have those extra s sounds when you are speaking?"

"Of coursse, it wass the way we were created to be afterall…" I said, slightly annoyed.

"Oh, I see. Question, why do you refuse help?"

"Becausse you are a medeling human and I'd rather die knowing that I didn't recciieve any help from you than living to tell the tale of how I esscaped with the help of a human…"

"Pardon me but that is one of the most dumbest things I have ever heard."

I gasped. "I am offended by thiss remark!"

She shook her head. "Well, you might want to rethink your, how do you say, honorary bounds and try to give us humans a chance."

"I already have and look at where 'that' hass gotten me!"

"Really?" she asked, now interested. "How did it happen? Was it like a tragic love story where you both love each other but then the different kinds could never be one so you are running from her? Or was she a friend that betrayed you and the others of your kind? Or was it like a-"

"Nothing your little head can even dream of little girl…" I muttered.

"Will you tell me then?" she asked, excited. I shook my head. She frowned and put on a thinking face. "What if I were to 'accidently' drop down a vine for you to climb up, would you tell me then?"

"How can you 'acccidently' drop down a vine?"

"Like this." She stood up and began to stretch quite oddly. She reached her hands high into the air, then pushed her left leg over something that fell over the side, saying in the process, "Oops!"

Then the vine fell over the side to where my nose was. "You do realizzze how unconvincing that wass, right?"

"Oh just climb the vine so I could hear the story already!"

I began to climb and when I surfaced, I noticed she was only to my chest. "You do realizze I can jusst throw you down there to rot, correct?"

"You do realizze I could sspread word around quickly about you, right?" she said, mocking me. But, scowling, I resisted the urge to throw her down. "So what is your story Mr. Mark?"

I sighed. "It'ss quite a long sstory."

"Oh, I see that he has gotten out now," a voice rang in the distance.

We looked to see the guardian had returned. "Yes Grandma Patt. May we invite him to dinner?"

"I would really rather not-"

"Rumors spread quickly Mr. Mark!" the little girl said again, much to my annoyance. "You still owe me the story, maybe you can tell it over dinner or before I go to sleep!"

I looked at her grudgingly while the grandmother just laughed. "My little darling will always be that stubborn, gets it from her father I'd imagine. Anyway, you may join us 'member of the serpentine' as long as you keep your fangs away from my granddaughter."

"Yesss ma'am…." I began to follow them to their house. 'Thesse have to be the mosst oddest people I have ever met...'