Lloyd blinked pausing in petting Konton his little shadow creature whining at being suddenly ignored as a different shadow gave Lloyd a note the young albino opening the note reading threw it sighing.
"Hope he's back before midnight." He grumbled huggling Konton.
"Don't worry little one, he'll be back." Joey yawned Lloyd deliberately looking away and ignoring the dragon. "...Now that's just rude." Lloyd sniffed checking that no one was around before glaring at Joey.
"Maybe I wouldn't be so rude if you told me what you meant the other night!" Joey sighed.
"It isn't that I don't want to tell you, it's that it's for the best you don't know it would only cause pain," Lloyd glared at him.
"Why can't you just talk straight!" Joey snarled the boy gulping a little at the threatening display.
"Don't you think I want to?! Just drop it Lloyd!" He growled slinking away Lloyd glaring and childishly stamping his foot.
"Stupid dragon!" He huffed unaware of a cleaver pair of green eyes watching him mulling over the exchange they'd just seen.
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Claire blinked peering into the small dirty window before glancing at her little shadow creature. "What do ya think Hoshi?" the creature shrugged the young girl breathing onto the glass and rubbing it to clean a area to look in properly blinking seeing a small room and a figure in the room. they seemed to be sat on a bed and crying. She frowned wanting to help and ask the poor crying person what was wrong, humming she pushed on the window the rotten wood groaning and giving a little.
"Hoshi help!" The shadow nodded at the order and pushed against the window the frame creeping before giving Claire yelping surprised the figure giving a small scream bolting to a dark corner of the room when the window landed on the bed. Claire blinked and knelt down able to poke her head into the small opening though not much else could fit threw.
"Hi!" the figure that Claire could see was a child only a few years give or take older then her. "What's your name?
"...S-saya tidak mengerti..." the child said softly Claire smiling realizing it was a girl.
"Your names Saya? That's a pretty name! Do you live here?" the girl whimpered.
"Apa yang kau katakan? Saya tidak mengerti..." Claire frowned when she repeated what she said before.
"Wait...Are you's speaking Japanese like big brother does? I'm not that good at it yet..." the girl sniffled sobbing.
"Aku ingin pulang ..." Claire blinked.
"Why's you so sad? Can you come here?" She asked softly pulling her self out a little and wriggling to get her arm in offering a hand to the girl. Hesitantly the girl came forward into the light Claire gasping in shock at the jagged scar on the other's face going over her right eye the pupil discolored from the blue of the other unharmed eye to red the strange girl taking care to tilt her head so the normal eye could focus on her.
"...Nama saya Seren, tolong bantu saya."
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Kai panted as he and the other's tried to keep up with Zane a part of him impressed the Ice Ninja had the endurence to run all the way out here and back and then come back with them with only a short brake.
"So how did you find this place?" He asked blinking at the think underbrush pausing a moment when he thought he saw something worried it could have been a serpentine. He shrugged it off seeing that there was nothing there, and it's not like the snakes could teleport or become invisible or anything crazy like that.
"I followed a bird." Zane shrugged not seeing anything wrong with that, he blinked and turned feeling the disbelieving stares of the others.
"...Was it a coo-coo bird?" Cole sniggered at Jay's joke Kai having to fight back a grin, Zane frowned at them cocking his head confused.
"No...Coo-coo Birds aren't native to Ninjago, it was a Falcon, a Peregrine falcon I believe." he shrank back a little at the unimpressed looks of the others.
"Zane...Sence of humor? It was a joke." Jay deadpanned Zane blinking and laughing awkwardly in a attempt to rectify his mistake.
"Ok where are the snakes?" Cole cut in to try and help his floundering friend Zane blinked and pointed up, the Ninja looked up the three of them freezing.
"...Well I'll be damned." Jay blinked watching the Hypnobrai working to make the tree house the structure looking pretty unstable.
"...You the the ropes it'll probably come crashing down." Cole yelped spinning around a second yelp coming from the Rabid Wolf who held his hands up in a surrender the blade of the Scythe of Quakes at his throat. "I'm unarmed!" Cole growled glaring a little at Zane as the other grabbed his arm.
"I sense he means no harm Cole." Reluctantly he lowered his weapon Jay laughing.
"No harm?! You saw his powers he's evil!" Kai noticed a flash of hate in the Rabid Wolf's eye before the male took a breath held it for a few seconds and let it go.
"Not everything that hides in the dark is evil, don't you Ninja Stick close to the shadows to avoid being seen?" Jay opened his mouth to retort then froze realizing he really didn't have a comeback to that and shut it looking embarrassed.
"We need him to stick around, normally it's only with his teeth glued Jay's this quite." Kai sniggered.
"How did you come across this place?" Zane asked frowning a little.
"I asked him." The Wolf pointed at the bushes Mezmo being shoved out by a shadow creature. The snake looked around panicked and latched onto Cole.
"Hey get off!" The Hypnobrai whimpered.
"Don't let the Werewolf eat me pleasssssssssse!" Kai and Jay blinked looking up at the sky.
"...But it's day time..."
"Don't even try I spent half a hour last night trying to point out that it wasn't even the full moon." The Wolf sighed shaking his head at the snake looking back up at the trees. "The ropes seem to be the main support, you cut them the tre ehouse would probably crumble under it's own weight." Zane nodded.
"It would be simple, three of us cut the ropes while the other two distract the snakes in the tree house."
"Uhrm Zane? Ii think your maths is a little off, there's four of us." Jay pointed out.
"No...There's five, us and Wolf if he doesn't mind helping." Wolf shrugged.
"Sure thing, I'm happy to distract them if you like." Cole glared about to interject Kai quickly getting between them.
"I'll go with him, just don't cut the last rope till we're off it ok?" both Jay and Cole looked unhappy with the development but seeing they where out numbered in this dropped it Zane, Cole and Jay climbing the trees taking care to stay in the dark shadows of the branches.
"Close your eye's a sec." Kai blinked as Wolf took his arm.
"What?"
"Just do it unless you want to be stumbling around half blind for ten minutes." Wolf said flatly raising a eyebrow when the ninja actually did it surprised by the show of trust. holding onto his arm he shadow traveled them onto the tree house in a small corner where they couldn't be seen. "Open them." Kai did so startled looking around them.
"how did you...?" Wolf shrugged
"It's something I can do, I'd try explaining but we'd both end up confused."
"Ninja!" One Serpentine yelped Wolf and Kai looking up Kai drawing his sword glancing at the Wolf.
"Where's your weapon?" Wolf chuckled a little.
"I don't need one." Before Kai could question it the Snake screamed trying to fight off...A big black dog? "Shadow creatures, useful aren't they?" Kai nodded dumbly spinning around as Snakes started to surround them.
"How many can you make?"
"I can get to bout thirty before I pass out, but right now?" Wolf yelped leaning away from a attempted sword strike a second creature pouncing on the Snake. "I think two or three's my limit with the space!" Kai growled parrying a blade before clashing it out of the Hypnobrai's hands making sure to look at the hood or chest never the eyes.
"I was a little afraid of that!"
"Don't worry long as the other three don't screw up we'll be fine!" Wolf grinned stumbling a little as the tree house jerked as the first rope was cut "See! This'll be over quick!"
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Skales yelped grabbing onto a banister ignoring the confused yells of the two children, with any luck they'd crack their heads open on the side or something. He frowned narrowing his eyes before spotting a flash of blue and the tree house tilting harshly several pieces of wood tumbling as the fall jolted the nails out of place. "The Ninja?!" He frowned then smirked spotting Slitheraa floundering to save the kids. "Maybe I can kill two birdssssss with one sssssstone..." he mused eye's glowing.
On the third tree Cole leaned against the bark next to the rope waiting for the others to get clear before he sliced it, though cutting it with the crook Dog guy inside tempted him more then he cared to admit to. Suddenly the dull ache in his skull exploded into pure agony his mind going blank apart from the searing pain biting his lip threw in a attempt to stop his self screaming.
'listen to me' he wanted to collapse in relief as the cool calm voice cut threw the pain soothing it the black ninja trembling lightly. 'Kill the Ninja' what?
"N-no..." He couldn't do that, they where his friend's his brothers he couldn't just betray them like that! This time a scream did finally escape him as the voice left the pain coming back tenfold making him collapse to his knees.
'Kill the ninja and it will stop.' He grit his teeth part of him sure that he could hear them cracking and braking under the pressure.
"I-I don't want to!"
'Fine then!' Cole's head snapped back as Skale's angered by his reluctance to comply overloaded his mind with pain effectivly knocking the ninja out his eye's glowing red as the Serpentine commanded the now will-less ninja to get up 'Kill them, Now!' The puppet slowly nodded grasping the Scythe and sliding down the rope jumping on and facing the others who had converged on the roof.
"What are you doing? You where ment to cut the rope Cole!" Kai snapped Cole turning his blank gaze on the Fire ninja who shrank back as he meniced forward the light glinting off his weapon.
"Your not going anywhere."
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...Yup! This seemed the peeeeeerfect place to stop X3 Hehehe I'm evil!
Heheheheh Anyway please please prettttttttty please review? :3 I'd love to hear eeeeeeveryone's thought on this story really! I read everyone of them and I wanna read yours X3
Not sure what updating's gonna be like over christmas as well...I have like three or four sets of family to see 0.o and I only post a chapter when I'm done and happy with it so...Ya IDK what it's gonna be like but never fear! Never gonna abandon this story! X3