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Chapter 10: Lost

Lupe's POV

I woke up to Lloyd smiling and giggling, like a first grader with a secret.

"¿Que?" I asked. (What?)

"Nothing," Lloyd giggled more. It didn't take a genius to know he was lying.

"Tell me," I started to get annoyed and suspicious.

"I ate all your bacon!" Lloyd smiled, I rolled my eyes, and then I smelled the bacon from his breath.

"Lloyd," I shook my head, smiling. I pulled my little brother to me and hugged him. I caught the strong smell of snake on him. That's got to go soon. I thought. Suddenly, I smelled more bacon from the kitchen. I got up and started walking to the kitchen, with Lloyd hot on my heels. When we finally arrived at the kitchen, Kai and the rest of the ninja were already there with Nya, but Sensei was missing.

Lloyd ran to his seat, which was next to Kai, and at the end of the table. The only place I had left to sit was next to Lloyd and Blue Jay. Just then, Sensei walked in.

"Here, Lupe, a letter came for you in the mail." Sensei handed me a letter, and carried a box to the opposite end of the table, then sat down. I was confused; I never got any mail, ever. I opened it and saw it was in Lucine's handwriting. I smiled as I read what she wrote.

'Dear Lupe,

I haven't heard from you in a long time. Where are you? Will you ever come home? We're all worried about you. Have you found our brother yet? In the Underworld, the skeletons are listening to me and doing what I tell them to do, and Wyplash is helping me out a lot. But I haven't seen Kruncha or Nuckal ever since they tried to take the Golden Weapons. Have you seen them? I hope you're alright. Please take care of yourself; we all know you can find Lloyd. Please write back to me as soon as you can.

Your little sis,

Lucine.'

"What does it say?" Kai asked.

"It's from my youngest sister, Lucine." I responded, not taking my eyes off the paper. "I didn't know she would have time to write a letter."

"Why wouldn't she?" Nya asked.

"Because she's queen of the Underworld." I told them, still looking at my sister's signature.

"I thought you had more than one sister." Kai questioned.

"Yeah, but the triplets wouldn't be able to decide what to do. The Underworld needs an independent leader. Not three or more." I explained.

"What about the sister closest in age to you?" Kai asked. I looked at him and laughed slightly.

"Luisa? Queen of the Underworld? The Underworld would be up in flames even more so than it is now." I told them. "Luisa, with any power at all, will destroy something. I swear she's worse than dad sometimes. Well, most of the time, really."

"Oh," Kai nodded.

"Anyway, what would you do if a snake came up to you?" Cole asked the group.

"I would knock him out." Kai responded enthusiastically.

"I would freeze him." Zane said.

"I would hit them with my nun chucks," Blue Jay added. I hadn't even known that he was there, he was so quiet.

"What about you Lloyd?" I asked.

"First, I'd stomp on his tail, then when he turns, a thunder clap to his ears! Then when he's stunned, I'll disarm him." Lloyd said.

"Too late, he's already hypnotized you and now you're under his control," Cole told him.

"Or he's already put you in a squeeze." Zane added.

"Or spit on you with his hallucinatory venom. Trust me, bad stuff." Kai remembered his experience with his hallucinations.

"Uh, uncle, what's the best way to stun a Serpentine, when you don't know what kind they are?" Lloyd asked Sensei.

"Sadly, it was the Sacred Flute you four carelessly lost." Tío Wu responded.

"Yeah guys, shame on you," I smiled while moving my right pointer finger across my left one. Lloyd saw me do this and copied.

"Yeah, shame on you." I smiled at my little brother.

"We didn't lose it! Pythor stole it!" Blue Jay defended.

"Whatever the case, without it, I fear we have nothing to combat their powers." Uncle dismissed it, then turned to me, and added, "Stop it Lupe."

"Yo lo haré más tarde." I murmured, snickering because I thought no one would hear me. Even if they hear me, they won't know what I'm saying. I thought. (I'll do it again later)

"We may have prevented them from uniting in the past, but they will try again. And one day, they will be stronger." Tío finished.

"Don't worry Sensei, I've almost reached my full potential, and when I become the green ninja, we not going to be needing any Sacred Flute." Cole announced with pride.

"You're going to be the green ninja? Ha, ha, don't make me laugh." Kai countered.

"I thought it was decided that I would become the green ninja." Zane put on the table.

"The only thing decided about you Zane is that you're weird." Blue Jay told him. The ninja started arguing over who would be el ninja verde.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's in the box?" Lloyd walked over to Tío Wu.

"Your new uniforms." Tío handed the ninja each their new uniform, to which they all responded to excitedly.

"Cool! They've got, like, armor!" Blue Jay exclaimed.

"I love the gold highlights." Kai announced, observing his uniform over carefully.

"Battle claws!" Cole exclaimed.

"The material is really light and breathable." Zane noted.

"Nothing for me?" Lloyd asked sadly.

"You get, uh, the box," Tío offered. Just as Lloyd was about to take the box, the alarm went off again. We all rushed to the bridge.

"Sorry to break up the moment, but a small portion of our slithering friends are stirring up trouble at Mega Monster Amusement Park." Cole explained.

"Amusement park! Can I go, please? Let me make things up! I can help!" Lloyd jumped around.

"I'm sorry nephew, but you must stay here, where it's safe." Tío instructed.

"Aw, ninja have all the fun!" Lloyd complained.

"Don't complain Lloyd. Envy is the worst feeling. Eliminate it from your mind." I told him.

"What do you say guys? Time to try out the new merchandise?" Blue Jay offered. The rest of the ninja agreed. I smiled, and gave Nya a quick nod. She nodded back, our message to each other that it was time for Nya to have some fun.

"What do we do now?" Lloyd asked.

"Lupe has some knowledge you can pick up on." Tío told him.

"Have you ever wanted to learn another language?" I asked him. Lloyd nodded. When the ninja returned, Nya was in the bridge with Lloyd and I. I was going over the verb 'Ser' in Spanish. Ser means 'to be'. I was trying to teach him how to conjugate it.

"Multiple snake sightings, there everywhere!" Nya yelled at the ninja with panic.

"Here we go again." Blue Jay sighed. After the ninja and Nya left, Lloyd and I got back to Spanish.

"One more time Lloyd." I told him. For his age, he was learning extremely fast.

"Yo soy, I am. Tú eres, you are. El es, he is. Ella es, she is. Nosotros somos, we are. Ustedes son, you are. Ellos son, they are. Ellas son, they are." He recited.

"Ellos is used for?" I asked.

"Boys." Lloyd responded.

"Bien and ellas is used for?"

"Girls." He responded,

"Muy bien," I told him. "And remember, when you're talking to one person, you use 'Tu', but when you are talking to a group of people, you use 'ustedes.' Its complicated now but it will get easier."

After a few more explanations, and translations, later, the ninja finally came back.

"Whose turn is it to watch Lloyd?" Blue Jay asked. He's not showing any frequent signs of change, so that must be good. I thought.

"Kai's," I told them. "Don't lose him." I joked.

"I won't," Kai promised. "I'll just take him around Ninjago City for a while. We'll be back by dinner."

"You'd better be." I murmured.

"I learned Spanish!" Lloyd announced excitedly.

"Only a small portion. You still have a long way to go, hermano pequeño."

The next day, I had noticed Lloyd's absence.

"Lloyd! Lloyd!" I called for him walking around the Bounty. I went to the kitchen to find the ninja already there, discussing a 'Samurai'; I smirked, but frowned with worry when I noticed Lloyd wasn't there either.

"Kai, where's Lloyd?" I asked. Kai couldn't hear me though, as he was discussing loudly with the other ninja. Then, Tío entered the room.

"Looks like iron is sharpening iron. I feel you are getting closer to your true potential." Tío said. "Where is my nephew? I thought you were looking after him." Tío directed the question to Kai.

"I thought Cole was going to pick him up." Kai bounced the blame onto Cole.

"I went to the arcade but he wasn't there. Jay was…"

"Don't bring me into this! I babysat yesterday." Blue Jay snapped back.

"Sensei, we do not know." Zane had the courage to admit the truth.

"¡Por el amor de Lupa!" I shouted, drawing their attention to me. "Where is my brother?"

"We will find you brother, Lupe. Just calm down." Tío tried to calm me.

"Nunca la digas a una loba que se calmara," I muttered. "I'm finding Lloyd. With or without you." (Never tell a she-wolf to calm down.)

I glanced over to Kai and let my inner feelings out through my eyes for a brief fraction of a second. "¿Como pudiste?" I asked him softly, and then left. (How could you)

I quickly caught his scent and followed it to an arcade. From there, I followed the path of his scent to behind the arcade, and then I noticed the scent was fading quickly, as if he entered a building. Or, a bus! I thought when I saw bus tire tracks. I looked around me to make sure the coast was clear, and then I turned into my moon she-wolf form. Since it was almost the claw moon, my senses were heightened even more. Lloyd's scent came to me much easier now.

I'm coming Lloyd. I'm coming. I thought as I dashed out of Ninjago City, following the bus tracks. I followed the tracks into the middle of a desert. Suddenly, as I reached the summit of a sand dune, I gasped in shock. Standing before me was the long gone city of Ouroboros. Peridot had mentioned it a few times before. Without thinking, I bolted with all of my energy into the city.

Once I was in the center of an arena, I howled in my anger, grief, determination, and all the other feelings I was feeling at that moment. Once I was finished, the Serpentine were still stunned at my appearance. I spotted a tall purple snake with hot pink eyes. Anacondrai, he is defiantly the leader! I thought in rage. I whipped around and rocketed at him with all my strength, aiming for his outrageously long neck. Just before I hit him, I turned human with my arms outstretched.

"¿Donde es Lloyd?" I yelled. "¿Donde es mi hermano?"

"What's she saying?" The Serpentine yelled at each other.

"Lupe!" I heard my brother call me. I turned to face him, my hands still chocking the purple snake. Just another one of my many mistakes. When he saw me distracted, he took the opportunity to whip his tail at my legs and knock me off balance. I jumped back out of his grip and was back in the center of the arena. Suddenly, more big snakes came at me. Only five of them. I've taken on a herd of moose, and got a rack of antlers impaled into my stomach, and got a cold hard scolding from Peridot, but I survived! I thought, growling at my opponents. Suddenly, a snake yelled and threw a large, heavy object at my head. Then everything went black.

A/N So sorry this is so late! I was busy for the past two days, and I'll be traveling over the weekend, but hopefully I'll be able to update on Monday. Also, 'Tío' means 'Uncle' in Spanish.