Cece huffed as she followed kai and jay through the outdoor market of ninjago city to restock on supplies. It was about 8 in the morning and cece was more than furious when they interrupted her training time. Kai had a sack full of food while jay had luxury food in his. Cece just has a jar of bugs from the pet store for luke and some new spray cans.
"I love my new phone." kai said, smiling on his screen. "This camera just loves me"
"That phone is like a flip-phone!" cece stated " you should have gotten the pear 9 it's must better." she pulled out her own phone that seemed much more technical and advance then kai's phone. "And the camera is much better than yours."
"Hey guys" jay said interrupting the talk and they both looked over at jay "we're down to five bucks, what do you want to spend it on?"
Cece looked around, seeing that they were in familiar territory. She smirked as she saw a dark alley and out came a man crying. "We can get more money"
The two boys looked at her and she pointed at the alley "in that alley, holds on the of best gamer yet scammer of the city. Everyone loses because the dealer moves the piece at the last moment before everyone can spot it. But i can sense it moving"
"Won't the dealer know you?" jay asked
"No, i've never did anything bad in this part of the city. This is the north side, which is ty's side. My side is the south. So i'll be in the clear" cece said and she walked into the alley, spotting the dealer. "Excuse me?"
The dealer looked over at her and the women smiled
"Hello deary, do you want to play as well?" the dealer asked
"Sure, um..how do i?" cece asked in an innocent voice
"It's quite simple. You just try to find the rock when i saw go. Okay?" the dealer said and cece nodded and covered her eyes.
"Okay, now go" cece uncovered her eyes as she rubbed her chin at the three bowls, immediately she poked at the one in the middle and the women lifted it up. Showing the rock.
"Wow, you're good at this." the woman said and she handed the girl some money, about four dollars "why not spice things up a bit. You're earrings will be placed in a bet, if you win you get 20 dollars and you're earring if not then i will get them."
"I'll do it for 40 dollars" cece said as she took off her earring. She suddenly felt a chill as if someone was watching them.
"Deal." with that, cece covered her eyes again.
"Go" the women said and cece looked at each bowl, no one noticed but she tapped the toe of her shoes to the ground very lightly and she finally pointed at the front bowl.
"Sorry little lady but-" the women cut herself off by seeing the little pebble underneath "huh?!"
"Um? Where's the money?" cece asked but she felt an odd chill up her spine and she looked around "hello?"
"Who are you talking to?" the dealer asked
"I thought i felt someone near..."
"Where did you get the money to buy all this stuff?" nya asked as the three entered the bounty
"And where were you? You were supposed to be back an hour ago" asked zane as he went through kai's bag with luke on his shoulder. luke bounced off of him and hopped on cece's shirt. Cece cupped the lizard in her hands and kissed his nose.
"We were in ninjago city" jay answered taking a bite from an apple
"We got the money from cece, she scammed one of the gamers in the city to get money for us to buy food for the next four months." kai said smiling and wu frowned
"Cecilia, you shouldn't be gambling with a dealer"cole told her and cece raised a brow
"It's not like we got hurt, and i like it. You can't stop it wu." cece said bluntly and she grabbed a bag of chips from jay's sack as well as some water "now, i'm going to watch a movie, come in when you feel like it"
"Well while you were gone, we got a call on the phone about a fangblade, in town called miika. From what i've researched, it's home to all the criminals of world" nya stated
"You know that place?" kai asked cece who was giving luke a bug
"Oh um, never been. But i don't want you guys going there." cece said "i'll go over there and retrieve the fangblade."
"Sorry but if the fangblade in miika, then that's where we're going." cole said "besides, if the fangblade is there then pythor might be on his way there too. You can't fight off his army at once. Not after last time."
Cece narrowed her eyes before she sighed "fine, but you follow my lead without hesitation. Got it?" luke scurried up cece's shoulder as she walked out of the main deck and into her room.
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"Wow! This miika?" jay exclaimed, pointing at the town. The town of miika was built near mountains,and the buildings were completely made of rocks. The rocks are very flustered, and shined with the sun. looking down, the ninjas saw many lightings resembling lanterns, and there was even kids running around laughing, adults gambling or selling things. "You should feel right at home cece"
Cece simply just leaned against the walls, scowling. Luke was sitting on her head, playing with her bangs.
Once above miika, cece stood in front of the others, standing on a create, luke over her shoulder.
"Alright, listen up! Once we're in miika, we'll ask around for anyone who has seen or know anything about the fang blades. But before you ask you must say 'i'm with cecilia de rais.' it'll open them up to any questions." cece explained "oh and watch out for the lee-cruits. The city's protection system. The rest why this city is still in progress is because of them and they don't take good messages from goodie-goodies."
"Alright, let's split up. Cece you go alone, jay and kai you two check the east, zane you're with me when we head north, nya check the south while you cece go to the west." cole ordered and they all went down there and separated.
Cece walked around the town, getting hooted at by teens much older than her, drunks, even some skanks. She didn't pay attention to them but simply asked around if they seen the fangblade. Many of which had told her to go to somewhere called 'the blood sacrifice' which is not far from miika but they also told her to stay away from there if she didn't want any trouble. But at this point, she was starting to take those chances.
"Excuse me?" cece called to a bow that was her age "but have you've seen or heard of a fangblade near..." she trailed off when the boy turned to her and she saw very familiar brown eyes "CAMERON!?"
"Cece? Is that really you?" cameron asked in surprise before he hugged her "my god it's great to see ya!"
Cece hugged back, just as tightly laughing "OMG! I can't believe it! You're hair! It's finally tamed!" cece giggled, her hand messing up cameron's new hair style, it was similar from Bolin from legends of korra but only without that nik on the forehead.
"Hey, the ladies love it" cameron said, winking to a group of girls, who blushed and laughed like school girls. Luke suddenly popped out of the neck hold of cece's sweater and cameron grinned "hey there luke, long time no see"
Luke gave a happy chip in reply.
"Anyways, now that i know that you're slowly turning into a man stripper, how are the others? Are they here?" cece asked excitedly
"Oh yeah! Ty is doing fine, he's rocking a wolf-tail now. Chris now has a mullet like he's always wanted...he kinda looked like keith from 'voltron legendary defenders'." cameron said as they both walked on "the city is getting a bit boring without you so we've been moving place to place. we took a break when we heard that a statue of you're dad was gonna be placed here."
Cece paused before she bowed her head and cameron's eyes widen "oh..oh cece i didn't me-"
"I know..it's just...i'm still getting used to it.." cece said, her voice quiet and cameron nudged her shoulder
"Hey, at least you got to see a side of him no one ever has but us" cameron then tapped his head "because all of those memories belong to us."
Cece smiled at cameron and gave him a side hug "you're awesome cam."
"Aren't i always?" cameron grinned and cece gave him a playful shove.
"YO CAM! STOP TRYING TO SMASH!" yelled a hypered voice and ty came swinging with chris. Like cameron said, the son of a hacker had a wolf-tail on his head, no longer having a rat tail. Chris really did look like a younger version of keith. Only with his nose ring. Both boy's eyes widen at the sight of her and she smirked.
"Hey boys, i'm back..."
"CECE!" They both yelled in unison and they both hugged her tightly.
"Hehe, nice to see you guys too!" cece laughed, hugging them back.
"How's it going? How are you? Are you really with the ninja? How's it like being on the bad side of life? Did they brainwash you? Do you wanna get something to eat? Why are you so skinny? You need to get fat again! Is that a new weapon?" ty bombarded cece who put a hand on his head, as if hitting a snooze button, ty fell quiet.
"Sorry, we let him have soda" chuckled chris and he gave cece a side hug "it's great to see ya cece"
"Good to see you all. But i gotta ask you all something. And it's pretty important."
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"The blood sacrifice is one of the strongest gangs out there, they're scavengers. When they want something they get it. One way or another. The lee-cruits won't do anything to stop them. They're hidden but you can tell if one's apart of it by their hair. If it's extremely long, with the top half shaved off that's them." chris explained as the four sat down at a restaurant.
"It has been past around that they got massive strength from sleeping on the tombs of those have past. And they do evil dances!" ty exclaimed
"They do not do evil dances ty." cameron groaned "but they do have strength, they can manipulate others. Heck, there's a rumor that they been recruiting more people out of blackmail"
Cece scoffed and she gave out a heartless laugh as she let luke have a few sips of water that she had with her.
"Of course, but that's not a group, that's a cult." cece said "discord is written all over it, when people are forced, they fight back harder then ever. But if they aren't fighting back then they're either really stupid or very submissive"
"That has two meanings!" laughed ty and they all gave a chuckle as a waitress came over and gave them a drink
"you're food shall come shortly, as fast as the cook wishes it, soon you will be full" the waitress said and ty smirked as he looked up and down the waitress.
"they call me ty, that is from ninjago city, i am not a joke" ty smiled and they all smiled at him.
"chirtting monkey, in the spring he climbs treetops, and thinks himself tall" the waitress said
"oooh" the remaining three said
"you think you are good, with you're fancy little words, this is not so hard." ty said, crossing his arms
"whole seasons are spent, mastering the form, the style, none calls it easy!" the waitress stated
"i calls it easy, like i rob all the money, you can have some too honey" ty shined a flirty smirk
"there's nuts and there's fruits, in fall the clean plum drops. always to be squashed!" the watriss said
"quish squash sling that slang, you can keep the moeny you don't deserve, you might be the waitress but you just got served!" ty said
"OOOOHH!"the other three cheered and ty sat down as the waitress left them alone.
"must you always make a sence?" asked cameron, lightly punching ty's arms "serously you're always finding you're way in hiaki battles!"
"i can't help it" laughed ty
"alright, enough casonva" cece laughed "now, i need to talk to that 'Blood sacrifice' cult. They might have been the ones who gave us the call. thanks for the info guys, but now i gotta ship out"
"We'll come with you!" chris said quickly "if it's true that they're blackmailing others to join them, i'd be at peace with all of us going together"
"I don't know, you see i kinda got a group with me and i need to get this info to the-" cece started but was cut off by cameron
"Aw come on C! Just once! For old time sake" cameron said with a smile "we haven't been together in almost five months! The four troublemakers are back! We can't leave without doing one more raid together! Please!"
Cece looked deep in thought as she molded over the options before she finally smiled
"Alright, let's do it!" cece smiled
"When do we get started?" chris asked
"Right now, get some rest. We're starting Tonight."
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"I say we get in by our titles." chris said as the four walked to the building the three boys lived in" if they knew they were talking to the kids of the most feared crimmals, they've gotta listen to us"
"My old man is getting a statue in his honor, it's gotta be work" cece said "but we gotta fight fire with fire, we need leverage.."
"We can take them by ambush!" cameron stated quickly "we've done it before back home. Pick off their numbers group by group until they've are rendered defenceless"
"But they got people all around miika! It's gonna take too long to take all the groups!" ty reminded
"We only got a few hours, we gotta hurry before the snakes figure it out where miika is." cece explained "i got here around 3 o'clock, but it's already dusk!"
"Then let's hurry up" chris stated
"But can we take a nap first?" ty asked and they all gave him blank stared "hey! Today was eventful! I haven't felt this tired since i ate all those hotdogs!"
"That still disgusts me" cameron said shivering.
Cece sighed before she said "two hours of sleep. That's it, then we're heading out."
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Later that night, there were few figures running around the building. Running past the boy's rooms and stepping in front of a room that had a sign that said 'rotten to the core' on it. Ignoring it, there was the sounds of the knob being turned and the door opened.
The figures went in the room and Luke woke up when he heard the door opening but before he could look, he was suddenly hit with a dark on the side and he fell limp on the ground, unable to move but he can still see. Cece woke up when she heard the thump from luke and She saw the figures and lit her hand in flames but before she could throw it, three darts hit her arm, leg and stomach, causing her to be immobile and stuck limp on the ground, weak and paralyzed .her vision blurred but she saw two people, one male and one female enter her room and they grabbed her. The two walked over to her and bounded her hands and feet tightly and they bounded her mouth as well before one of them lifted her over his shoulder and they all ran off into the night.
The ambushers pasted chris' room, who was just woken up by his alarm. Immediately he heard the sounds of fast footsteps. They didn't sound like cameron's footsteps, or ty's, or even cece's footsteps so who could it be?
"Am i hearing things again?" chris whispered.
"WHAT THE HELL!? THEY GOT CECE! THEY GOT CECE!" ty yelled and quicker than quick, chris ran out of the room with a bag of small round ords. "Let her go!"
Chris threw three of the orbs to the ambushers, which popped, sending out small clouds of knockout gas but somehow it didn't faze them, he threw three more but just like before nothing happened. Suddenly four blades came from behind him, and hit one of them in the arms, head, and chest making him fall limp dead and ty and cameron came beside him
"You think we'd miss this party?" smirked cameron as he threw more blades, moving and dodging like a wrestler. Ty, however, just helped with hand-to hand combat, using his speed as an advantage.
One of the ambushers ran forward to stab cameron but cameron jumped over him, before pulling out a dagger and stabbed him from behind, making the ambusher fall dead from a stab in the heart.
Ty faced off with two of the ambushers as chris threw more smoke clouds to provide cover. Going from dodging and weaving to the defence, using chi-blocking to get closer to cece sadly, the smoke bombs can be a double-crosser.
"Keep them back, i'm getting us out of here!" one of them yelled and he placed his hand on the ground, which sent out shock waves. The other remaining three ambushers jumped to avoid the shocks but chris, cameron and ty were not fast enough and they were hit with electric shocks and they fell to the ground and the ambushers fleed.
"We can't let them..." cameron groaned "get away"
Chris wobbled but stood, using the wall as support "we gotta tell the ninja..."
"Oh boy.."
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Cece struggling with her chains. She was behind stretched from the sides of the walls, making her a few feet of the ground, and her movements limited so she couldn't use fire, earth or air or even water. She was above a few clocked figured and they all we're looking up at her, an eerie smile on their faces as cece struggled "When i get out of here, none of you will survive!"
"do not even try to fight your way of this one, unless you found a way to use metal to you're liking" said an awfully familiar british accent and cece's eyes widen and she looked over to the one clocked figure. The figure removed his hood, showing purple scales and slitted black eyes. Pythor. "once we embed the venom into your system, your body will naturally react, sending you into your highest destructive state in order to keep the venom from entering your heart. sadly from you, you'll be entering it for the last time."
Cece eye's widen and she yelled out "you can't do that! My element! The balance!"
Pythor smirked as he continued "yes, you've been the only thing capable of destroying me and our plans so you must be taken out. Just like we did with your did your father die again? A guard shot him, oh yes."
Cece's eyes widen and she then narrowed them
"How did you know that?!" demanded cece and pythor's smirk grew as he spun a blade in his hands, it was the fangblade "you had it the whole time?!"
"Yes i did, you see i 'asked' this wonderful blood sacrificed to give it to me. In return i take down the most harmful threat to them. Which was you and your dear old daddy. I had a bit of a. ..chat with him" pythor laughed "you should've seen the face he made when i told him his daughter was working with the ninja, such disappointment right before he was left to rot."
Cece's chest tightened, her breathing becoming deep and fast, her struggles more stronger "You...you... YOU HEARTLESS MOTHER****** I'LL KILL YOU GOD**** MOTHER******* B****! YOU A***H****! YOU BA****** BETTER F******! YOU BETTER PRAY THAT I DON'T MAKE IT OUT OF HERE ALIVE!"
pythor chuckled and he snapped his fingers "i know you won't make it out alive...embed the poison."
Cece was suddenly sprayed with the venomari venom, but this venom wasn't green like the other times, it was red and it stuck to the arms and legs of the tied up girl and they sunk through the flesh which released great agony in cece's body made her groan in pain, the pain only got worse when more venom was added making her scream in pain.
Cece's eyes rolled to back of her head and she hung her head. She didn't move, inside her body started to glow a bright or dark purple.
"What's happening?" pythor snapped
"Our venom isn't strong enough to imminently end someone. It takes a time for it to really sink into her bloodstream." a vemuri soldier notified
"Ugh! No matter. She can't fight it off forever."
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"Come on!" chris exclaimed as he and the boys lead the ninjas around miika "this way!"
"Do you even know where we're going?" jay yelled as they ran to the outskirts of the city
"She's close! I can feel it!" cameron explained
"Me too! She's not far from here!" ty agreed
"How do you know?" asked cole as they all came to a stop
Chris slowly stepped forward. They were in a clearing between two mountains and he tapped the ground, the dirt was loose. Ty looked around and saw some tracks in the ground, it may have been dark but it was noticeable. It matched serpentine tracks but they ended where chris stood.
"Their underground." the three boys said in unison.
"Oh yeah? How do you know that?" cole snapped and chris turned to him
"You're just gonna have to trust us." chris said and kai narrowed his eyes
"Why should we trust you?! You probably set this up to capture us, using cece as bait." kai snapped and the boys looked at him before chuckling.
"The greatest crime in this world is the crime of titles. We get you might not trust us but right now, our mission is getting our sister back." ty said smiling
"Yeah, haven't you realized that?" asked cameron "our titles really don't mean anything but just status symbols. Titles give expectations but not qualities"
"Yeah, just like you trust cece. She's the daughter of ninjago's old top murderer! She's a criminal like us but you trust her enough to help her." ty said shrugging.
The four boys looked at each other before chris cleared his throat.
"Cole, can you open the ground. There's something big under here" chris asked and cole nodded pulling out his scythe and slamming it to the ground. The scythe created massive amounts of cracks on the ground and the floor in front of them all collapsed. Showing an underground cave. Inside was a massive amount of snakes of all kinds.
"Hold on cece. We're coming." kai whispered to himself and he got his weapon out as did everyone else as they prepared to fight.
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Cece walked through a room, or what she thought was a room, or was it a building? A field? A hallway? She couldn't tell. Everything around her was a fog. She couldn't see anything, no light yet no darkness.
'Failure' whispered a voice
'You're no leader' another voice called
'disgrace'
"No, remember who you are cece. You are the daughter of gilles de rais, you are the master of chaos, you are an Allie to the ninjas of spinjitzu. You are helping you're team to recuse ninjago, the faith of the world rests on our shoulders." cece murmured to herself as she walked through the fog.
'You didn't protect me' said a familiar young boy's voice and she turned to see a figure ahead of her. The figure seemed to be a small boy, but she looked closer and she smiled
"LLOYD!" cece exclaimed happily and she ran towards him "you've been here the whole ti-" cece trailed off when she put a hand on 'lloyd' and saw that it was only a puff of cloud.
'You didn't protect me' lloyd's voice rang out 'why didn't you protect me. I thought we we're friends!"
'she's just like her parents, mother preice yet soulless. Father cold and unbalanced.' called a voice echoing through the fog
'She's nothing more than a filthy speck on ninjago that hasn't been wiped out yet.'
'zip it cece!you don't have anything to lose. You. Never had. is why you're dad left you! But you're too idiotic to fucking realize that! I should have thrown you out since the beginning!' kai's voice echoed in her head
"No, the dai rai's daughter is an outcast, her own mother disowned her" echoed a voice
"Shut up!" said cece to no one.
"You're weak..." whispered a voice close to her and she looked around 'all the power in the world at your fingertips, you don't even use it. Our blood carries the world's biggest power ever seen. We must carry on our father's work."
"No! I'm not like that..." cece said "i'm not listening to you!"
"Is it your own destiny? Or is it a destiny someone else has tried to cause on you!" the same voice asked "face it cece, wu's training only made our door even wider for us to take out the weeds. Our divine right to rule is open, we gotta take it. Father always said our loyalty is to mischief and discord. Any less makes us a stain that must be wiped out!"
Cece's eyes widen but they started to brim with tears as these voices rang out
'Monster'
'Freck'
'Cold and heartless'
'You didn't protect me'
'Evil is the only real way to win'
"STOP IT!" cece yelled starting to shoot fire, lighting, even water at random drections
"we won't stop, even after you die.." the voices said "this is you're punishment, for rejecting you're desnity"
"..Help me! Please, somebody help me!" whimpered cece as she fell to her knees the voices never ceasing. "Please help me! Guys! Mom! Daddy! please!"
"NO CECILIA!" yelled a new voice, this one was male. "You mustn't give into despair!"
"Huh?" cece started to look around as the voice rang out again.
"Hello my cherry blossom" a figure appeared not far from her and started to walk towards her as it came into full view, cece saw brown eyes.
"Dad..." tears started to fall from cece's eyes "i'm sorry. I'm no fighter..i've let you down, i've let our hope for the family down...i'll never be the person you were.."
Gillies stared at his daughter for a moment before saying "you are right. You're not me, and you should not be me. You are cecilia." gillies knelt down next to cece and wiped her tears "i should be saying sorry to you my little cherry blossom. i was the one who tossed you into this path. I was the one who made you think you had to be like me..you're mother didn't want this but i did it anyways. If this is all you get from my influence is pain and suffering then leave it behind. Leave all of this behind. I've screwed up you're life long enough..."
"But how?! How could i leave this all behind?!" cece asked, her voice breaking as the voiced faintly started to return "i can't stop it, i've past the point of no return!"
"No! Don't resist! Let yourself fall into your lowest and darkest instincts. Now that you've allow yourself to fall down that road, you can now make things better for yourself, i was the one who strained our family but you just may be the one to make things right again, you alone can be the one who will cleanse our family's sins." gillies told her soothingly
"But-but how?! I'm a monster! A puppet! A freak" yelled cece, gripping her head " i'm the stain that needs to be wiped out"
"I'm telling you cecilia! It's time for you to look inward! And begin asking yourself the big questions!who are you?and what do you want?"
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Back at the underground cave, cece's dark glow suddenly faded as her eyes snapped open, Her eyes now fully bright white, but only only her eyes, but her whole body started to glow pure white. Pythor smiled at this and gave an evil laugh.
"NOW! take her out for good!" pythor commanded
The soldiers shot at cece with many swords, daggers and spears but cece breathed bright blue flames out of her mouth, stopping the attacks. Cece yanked as hard as she could on one of her chains and it broke loose, taking a large chunk of the wall with it and she directed it to pythor, nearly crushing him if it wasn't for the a fangpyer getting him out of the way.
"how is this possible? Metal should have stopped her from using her powers!" scales yelled
Pythor growled as he yelled "Keep firing at her! She can't fight us and the poison together"
Cece's eyes glowed at pythor and she broke both her ankles free from the chains and uses fire to burn the other chain and flips down to where she on a platform. Her right hand suddenly pointing at three snakes and she flicked her hand, making the water from the beginning leave them from their mouths and they dropped dead as cece spun the fluids around her in rings and shot them at pythor. The water collided with the serpent's chest sending him back a few yards away.
"Cece!" kai yelled as he and the others came running in, all eyes were wide as they said cece fight with everything she's got. All of her attacks were aimed at pythor but she seemed stronger, more faster and she seemed to be standing much straighter.
"She's unlocked her true potential!" zane smiled
Kai frowned as the others cheered
"But how?!" ty yelled in cunfusion
"Who cares?! TEAR THEM TO SHREAD SIS!" chris yelled.
"YOU GOT THIS SIS!" cole exclaimed
"GIVE THEM HELL!" laughed jay
"DON'T HOLD BACK CECILIA!" zane yelled
"GO CECE GO!" chris, ty and cameron exclaimed in unison as they watched the fight.
Cece suddenly took a stance and and she aimed her hand to pythor but the other one was on the ground. She moved the hand that was on the ground hard before she clenched the hand that was aim at pythor. Suddenly the walls around them suddenly started to have cracks that oozed a hot red substance
" YOU'RE ONE MISTAKE WAS LEAVING ME ALIVE!" cece's voice much more demonic than before she slammed both her hand to the ground, causing the wall to pour red hot lava to them.
"CECE!" they all exclaimed as pythor was suddenly in a moat of lava as well as his followers. Cece flicked her hand and used the earth under her to move her out of the lava's harm. She landed next to chris but before anyone could hug her and pulled a large tidal wave lava and let it fall over pythor. Just as when she did, the constrictai snakes pulled pythor and skales out of the range, causing it to miss and for the serpentine to get away with the fangblade.
Cece's glow suddenly faded and she fell to her knees, her whole body shaking.
"CECE!" they all yelled again before she was suddenly dogpiled on
"Ugh! Did i go back in time or something?" chuckled the girl and they all smiled
"That was awesome!" exclaimed jay
"You can control lava?! I'm so jealous!" cole smiled
"Cece, have i ever tell you how awesome you are?" asked kai
"Excellent work cece" zane cheered
"THAT WAS BADASS!" chris, cameron and ty yelled in unison and cece smiled
"Yeah thanks guys..but" cece looked around and saw that the ceiling was starting to lose rocks "i think i triggered the structure of this place, Let's go!"
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"i guess this is goodbye huh?" chris asked as they all stood below the bounty.
"no, it's not. it's just until something wild calls me back." cece smiled brightly "and when we do meet again, i'll be sure to bring you guys out to eat."
"FOOD!" cheered ty and the others laughed at him.
"cece?" called nya as she saw the four "time to go."
cece nodded but then chris held up something. cece looked at it and gasped, it was a a picture of them all, no older then 7.
"remember this? it was when we finsihed our first big crime together!" chris said smiled and ty glanced at it
"oh yeah, back when i was in my prime" ty laughed "and still am, still looking gorgeous."
"as gorgeous as a trashcan that has reminds of puke and rotten pizza but that was also the moment we made a promise, that no matter where we are, there's no place we won't be together." cameron smiled and they all put an arm around each other in a huddle.
"that was when we were kids." chris said "but we're not kids anymore."
"he's right. now, we're stories that'll soon be legends." cece smiled "i feel it. we're 10% luck."
"20% skill" cameron continued
"5% pleasure" ty continued
"15% pain." joked chris
"but we're a 100% reasons to remember our names!" cece smiled "our names will be wrote down in the history books, for good!"
"YEAH!" the boys all cheered and they all smiled at each as they broke the huddle.
"i'll see you boys soon. and don't die while i'm gone 'kay?" cece said, half jokingly.
"as long as you're not in that trap again." cameron stated "seriously, we don't want to hear that you' ve been captured again."
"deal"
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"I know we've made a lot of bad choices" whispered cece as she knelt in front of a picture, it was a picture of her father "but now, i'm going to set things right."
"Cece?" called a voice and the ninja walked in, it was cole who spoke "are you alright?"
"Yeah..."cece said
"how? how did you unlock you're potential?" asked jay
"...i realized i'm free to choose my own desnity, even if it takes a life time" cece said.
"what helped you realize it?"kai asked
cece paused before she looked at the photo of her father.
"i...i just wanted to prove everyone wrong." cece clenched her fists "growing up, i was taught that everyone just take after there parents, and that evil and chaos was a natural order that i must enforce. but then..i realized just how amazing that lie was." cece said frowning but soon it turned to a smile"i wanted to prove that i'm great, de rais or not. i'm not something someone can label." cece paused "but first, do you guys know why do you think sensei wu asked me to join? he has to have a reason or he just hit his head"
"I think he knew what you were capable of" zane said
"...i have a lot to learn" cece stated before bowing to them, which made their eyes widen and softly gasp"and i would be honored if you all can help guide me through it, if you want to."
"Of course cece" jay smiled and he stood up "oh and cece?"
"yes?"
"Today, You've showed something beyond your parent's years in such a short amount of time." jay started
"From the moment you fought with us against the hypnobrai, i saw a heart as big as ninjago city and twice as big. You're a soldier and a fighter." cole continued
" Creative, intelligence, strong, and bravery." kai smiled
" Those are the traits that define a great friend. Those are the traits that define you." zane smiled and they all left the room.
Cece stared at the place they stood before she smiled and turned to the photo and bowed her head
"Thank you dad.."