Chapter 12

The ninja stood side to side, and drawn out their weapons. They took a step forward, and made a defensive stance.

"Lloyd, get behind us." Cole commanded

"I'm way ahead of you." said Lloyd frighten and went behind them.

"We are not letting you escape this time." said Zane, "You're coming with us."

"I doubt it." said Lucas, "If I can't bring the green ninja with me, my master will be pleased if I bring all five ninja to him."

"And how are you going to that?" Jay asked sarcastically, "It's five to one."

Lucas smirked and pulled down his hood. With his sai's stretched out, he crossed them infront of his face and the fog concealed him. The ninja saw the fog covered Lucas, and started coming closer to them.

"Everyone get back to back and protect Lloyd." Cole commanded

The ninja went to Lloyd and surrounded him with their backs turned on him. The fog surrounded them and blurred their vision.

"Stay on guard." said Kai, "We don't want him to escape with Lloyd."

The fog became even thicker. So thick the ninja couldn't see each other sides. Lloyd started to become more frighten, not because of the fog and still can see the backs of Cole and Kai. But he was frightened because he didn't want to be captured again and be sent to his father. The ninja became quiet to listen for Lucas's movements and instead heard a scream.

"What was that?" Cole asked

"I think it was Jay." said Zane and felt to his right and felt nothing, "He's gone."

Kai realized what was happening.

"He's picking us off one by one." he said, "Stay on guard."

The remaining four heard another scream.

"Zane?" Kai asked

Then another.

"Cole?" and turned and saw only Lloyd remained

"Kai, I'm scared." said Lloyd

"Don't worry Lloyd we'll beat him and find the others." Kai says to comfort the kid and turned his back.

Kai heard another scream, and turned around to see Lloyd was gone.

"Lloyd? Alright lets settle this, once and for all."

"I couldn't agree more." said Lucas in a distance

Kai became quiet and listened to his surroundings. He didn't hear a thing as if time has stopped, but closed his eyes and concentrated. He heard birds chirping in the distance, the wind blowing infront of him. Then finally the moment he's been waiting for. He heard a leaf crunched behind him, and ignited his sword and spun around and struck the sword down. But was blocked by Lucas's sai's.

"What have you done with my brothers!?" Kai asked angrily

"They're fine, unconscious, but you'll join them soon." Lucas replied

"Not on my life."

"Bring it on."

Kai kicked Lucas in the chest, sending him back. He spun his sword above his head and started to create a fireball and aimed it at Lucas. Lucas saw the fire coming towards him. He pointed his sai's at the waterfall and brought the sai's above his head, and the water came infront of him, making a shield. The fireball hit the shield creating steam, and with the sai's, Lucas pushed the water forward heading to Kai. Kai jumped out of the way, and regained his footing.

"You don't realize what's happening do you?" Lucas asked

"What?" Kai asked

"My element is water, and you're fire."

"So."

"So, water beats fire, no matter what happens."

"We'll see about that. Time to turn the tables."

Kai came running towards Lucas, and threw his sword down and still kept running towards him. Lucas saw what was happening and threw his sai's down and started running towards Kai. As the two ninja's ran close, they each made a fist and drew it back to build up power to hit each other. Their fist's made contact with each other, both ignored the pain, and continued to close combat fighting. They both kept throwing punches and kicks at each other, and Kai jumped back and came towards Lucas again.

"Ninjago!" he yelled and created his fire spinjitzu and sent Lucas flying.

Lucas hit the ground hard, and stood back up quick.

"Two can play at this game! Ninjago!" he yelled and created his water spinjitzu.

Both spinjitzu's collided with each other, like tops bouncing off each other. Lucas saw this wasn't working and moved out of the way and jumped onto a tree. Kai stopped his spinjitzu and looked for Lucas. He turned his back from the tree Lucas was hiding, and Lucas saw his chance and dived at Kai and tackled him to the ground. Both ninja thrashed on the ground as one another tried to wrestle each other. Since Lucas suprised Kai, he had the advantage and put Kai in a headlock. Kai tried to shake Lucas off his back, but Lucas's strength was making Kai starting to lose air.

"The more you struggle, the quicker the job will be done." said Lucas

Kai stopped struggling, but started to feel numb. Darkness crept around him as he closed his eyes and couldn't move. Kai felt like lead as he couldn't wake or moved and slipped into unconscious. Lucas released Kai from his headlock and the limp body fell and laid on the ground. Lucas walked over to pick up his sai's, and with a quick swipe, the fog moved away and revealed the other four unconscious ninja's and looked back at Kai.

"Like I said before. Water beats fire, no matter what happens."