Hey, so where we last left off, something happened to Alexus, and some hunches were correct about what happened to her, but none of you could figure out what that one word was, though, some of the guesses were pretty great, just not the right one. Anyway, I regretfully inform you that I do not own Ninjago. Also, this chapter is going to be way longer than any of the others!
Cole ran into the control room and sounded the alarm. He went to the deck were the others were gathering, and wanting to waste no time, Cole jumped down the steps, and rushed in front of them. "Where's Alexus?" Jay asked. "That's what we're going to find out," Cole said, holding the piece of paper up. "What's that?" Kai asked. "It only says one word, 'Garmadon.' I saw it flying by when I discovered that Alexus," Cole hesitated, "was gone."
"You don't think that Garmadon took her, what if someone else did, and used that paper to throw us off of their trail?" Kai said. "Or that Alexus could have written it and dropped it for us to find. It could be a clue," Zane said. "We have to take our chances, we don't have time to check out ever suspicious person in Ninjago, what if it is Garmadon, and he's planning on hurting Alexus somehow? What if he plans to use her against us someway? The possibilities are endless," Cole said. "Either way, we have to save Alexus, where ever she is."
"I could run a scan for finger prints, and seen if I could identify the handwriting," Zane said. "That's a good start. I'll run a sweep of Ninjago to see if any serpentine are active, and try to find Alexus," Nya said, starting to go to the control room. "How can you find Alexus by running a scan?" Jay asked, and he started to follow her. "Easy, if she's wearing her necklace," Nya said.
Alexus tried to struggle against the arms that were carrying her, but she couldn't. She had a bag over her head, so she couldn't see anything, tape over her mouth so she couldn't talk, and the classic ropes binding her arms behind her back, and her feet together. It was if though the figure had wanted to block all her senses completely, and it had! She couldn't tell whether the figure was walking uphill, downhill, in a field, in sand, or in a forest or jungle! All she knew was that where she was heading couldn't have been good, and that it required a lot of walking.
She struggled a little more, but it was still worthless. Suddenly, a breeze swept the area, and Alexus felt small particles hit the bare skin of her arms, because she was wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants. She finally knew that she was in the desert, but she wasn't sure how exactly that would help. Eventually, the figure set her down none too gently. She fell on her back in sand, and grunted a little as she hit the ground. She started to get up without hands, but she just rolled over.
Two sets of hands grabbed her arms, and pulled her up, and started dragging her along with her feet gliding in the sand. She was slightly glad that she had gone to bed barefooted, and not warn her slipper boots, so the sand wouldn't get caught in them. She didn't try to struggle anymore, for she knew that it had been no use at all. She then realized that the hands were slightly scaly, and had claws, and she tried not to freak out then and there.
She then heard a bunch of hissing, and she realized where she had been taken; Oriborus. She heard many chuckles, and laughing, and she was glad that no one could see her blushing, she hated being the center of attention. She was dragged to an area with a hard flooring, and she was thrown down there as well. This time, the snakes started to unravel the ropes around her arms and legs, and the bag was taken off.
She was in a dimly lit room that only had one torch on the wall, and everything else was concrete. A hand pulled the tape off, and it sent tears of pain to her eyes of the abruptness. She blink them away, and she stood up. She looked around, and saw four snakes looking at her. And one figure that had haunted her nightmare weeks ago. He had still had four arms, black skin, and red eyes, just as Alexus remembered from days ago when he hit her over the head with a giant weapon.
"Why have you brought me here?" she asked, trying to exterminate the fear inside her. "That is for me to know, and you to find out when it is all over," Garmadon said. "Whatever you think up, leave my friends out of it, or you will be sorry," Alexus said, as threatening as she could. Garmadon laughed, and so did the snakes. "Oh, but they wouldn't dare hurt me if I have their precious apprentice. Especially that pathetic black ninja. That was a very interesting display of emotion back there in the past, could it be that he has feelings for you? Of all people, a girl who is in way over her head, and thinks that she could ever defeat me?" Garmadon sneered, and Alexus gasped when he mentioned Cole.
"Leave him out of this," Alexus said, gritting her teeth. "Oh, I keep forgetting, Alexus, you do have a backbone, however small it may be!" Garmadon jeered, and the snakes laughed. Alexus tried to open her mouth, but she couldn't think of anything to say, and she closed it, at a loss words. "Oh, so upset you can't think of anything to say? Face it Alexus, when the others find out that you really weren't destined to be the apprentice, they'll leave you like that!" Garmadon snapped his fingers. "You're just another girl who has wasted her time on false hope, and dreams. Did you really think that you were special?" Alexus let the words sink in before she found her voice.
"Oh, yeah, if I'm not the one, then why did you send your dim-witted goons after me that day it all started? Why would you waste what little brains and ideas you have on a girl who is way in over her head?" Alexus countered. Garmadon looked outraged, and said, "So you're not as think as I originally took you for. Now, it all comes down to this, you can stay on the pathetic side of those goody-two-shoes ninja, or you can have respect, power, glory, and join my forces. You would make a valuable general, Alexus. No one would ever mock you, no one would ever turn down your brilliant ideas. Think about it."
Alexus just laughed. "Do you really think I'm that daft! That's so cliché! Every movie that I've ever seen, the villain offers that one hero the power, the glory, and respect, and all they have to do is join the dark side! Everyone knows that! What's next, are you going to say 'Luke, I am your father!'" Alexus laughed. "I seriously thought that you would have come up with something a little more convincing. Seriously, sell it somewhere else, because I'm not buying it." Alexus took in a deep breath.
"Alright, so you want to play that game? Well, two can play that game. You know what else the villain does in every show? Destroys the love interest or the best friend! So, when your friends come to rescue you like I know they will, think about their lives. Especially that meddling earth ninja, or that troublesome samurai. I know that you hold them close to your heart, and that will truly be your downfall," Garmadon said. He started to walk out a door that Alexus wish she had seen earlier. "Oh, and one more thing," Garmadon said, turning around. "Make sure her stay is comfortable, boys," the evil Lord said. Alexus gulped as the snakes had grins that Alexus didn't like. They started to surround her with their weapons and ropes, and Alexus gripped her angle necklace that her father had given her.
The Bounty was alive with action. Jay and Nya had finished the scan of Ninjago and were analyzing the data. Zane was searching his data banks for fingerprint and handwriting recognition. Kai and Lloyd were searching Alexus rooms to see if anything had been taken or if there might have been clues. Harry was still sleeping in his sleeping bag in the ninja's room, and Sensei was calming down a distressed Cole with a cup of tea.
"Everyone come to the control room, we've made a huge discovery!" Jay shouted into the intercom that sounded through the boat. "Wow, that is fun! I can see why you announce stuff through this thing, Nya," Jay said, stepping away. Nya smiled and rolled her eyes, and turned back to their work. Everyone gathered in, and Nya stepped up, and spread her information on the table.
"We've printed off the results, and it says that there was some serpentine activity 5 miles west of Oriborus," Nya started when everyone was settled. "Then, we ran a scan a half an hour later, and it appears that they were heading back to their city with a little something else," Jay said. "Then, we ran a scan of the same time, but this time looking for Alexus!" Nya pulled down a map, and used a laser pointer. "Here, is where we found the snake activity," she said, pointing, and Jay marked the spot with a black marker. "And here is where Alexus was at the same time as this scan." Jay marked this spot with a red marker, and the red dot was right between the black ones. "Here's the interesting part, a half hour prior to this, Alexus was here!" This time, the red dot was far from the black ones, and alone.
"So, did Alexus wander off, and run into snakes in the middle of the desert? Or-" Nya started, and she and Jay spoke in unison. "Was she being led by Lord Garmadon?" They looked at each other, and laughed. Kai and Lloyd smirked, Cole face-palmed, and Zane cleared his throat, stepping forward. "I too, have made a discovery," he started. "I analyzed the paper that Cole found, and saw not only his finger prints, but another's as well. But, not Alexus'. Using my data, and memory, I found out that the extra ones belonged to none other than Lord Garmadon."
Everyone gasped. "'But, why would he write his own name on a piece of paper for us to find?' You may ask, well, I have a feeling that Garmadon wanted us to follow him. He might have just taken Alexus for bait. But, her room is at the end of the hall, and wouldn't it be faster for him to take another? So, why Alexus? Maybe, when we were in the past, I have a feeling that I was not the only one to see the display of emotion between Cole and Alexus," Zane concluded. Cole blushed, and the others laughed. "Or it could have been because he knows that she is training to be Nya's apprentice!" Cole exclaimed. "Yeah, that's the reason," Jay said sarcastically.
"Well, me and Lloyd searched Alexus' room, but we couldn't find anything missing," Kai said. "Well, at least we know about where Alexus is, and probably why she was taken. All we need now is a plan," Cole said. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Cole, this is probably what Garmadon wanted us to do. That's why he laid the evidence. If we just go charging in there, we would be playing right into his hands," Jay said. "So? We can't leave Alexus there! She can't break out on her own, she's the least experienced out of all of us. She can't be having a picnic there," Cole muttered the last part darkly. "For once, I agree with Jay, the best thing now might for us to plan cautiously, and maybe see if Garmadon has any plans, so we'll be ready to strike," Kai tried to reason with his brother.
"So, we're suppose to sit here and wait?" Cole shouted. "Alexus is out there in the nest of the snake army, and the Dark Lord, who has who-knows-what planned for her, and we're suppose to just sit here and wait!" Cole shouted. "Cole," Zane started, but Cole stormed out of the room, and onto the deck. He went up to the railing, and leaned against it, watching the sea of sand in the distance, and wind blow it by. The sight always calmed him down, and the sun was beginning to rise over the horizon. He remembered that Alexus once told him, that she could never get up early enough to see it, when he described it to her.
He smiled a little at the thought, when he heard a voice behind him. "You really do love her, don't you?" Nya asked, stepping up to him. "What? I do no-" he started, but Nya cut him off. "Oh, don't even try to tell me that! How you acted back there only proved it, even if the others are too oblivious to see it," Nya said. Cole chuckled a little. "Yes. I think I do love her. But how does she feel about me?" he asked. Nya looked at the rising sun as well. "She doesn't have to tell me. I've seen the way she acts, and it doesn't need a CSI agent to figure it out. The way she looks at you, the way her hand jumps to her necklace when you enter the room. She told me that she always plays with it when she's nervous, and sometimes, she doesn't even know when she is playing with it," Nya said.
Cole smiled. He too, had noticed when she plays with the necklace, and he realized that he saw her playing with it more often that he realized. He noticed that she would sometimes laugh when she was reading a book, or he saw her look devastated, or one time, he saw her near tears! When he asked her if she was okay, she just said that it was the books fault. He remembered that she always had a pencil and a little notebook that fitted in her pocket. She often stared into space, and he loved it when he heard her unconsciously sing under her breath.
"Cole, I understand how you feel," Nya said. "Alexus has become my best friend, she is the only other girl on this boat, and she's almost like a younger sister to me. I too, want to rush into that snake infested city and personally break everyone's legs, but I know that isn't the answer to getting her back any sooner. If we charge in there, and Garmadon's expecting it, then we might never see her again. Garmadon knows that we will try to save her and that we would never leave her there forever, and that's where he wants us. If we charge in there, he has us right where he wants us, and we'd be playing right into his hands. You are this team's leader, Cole, and it's up to you to make the right decisions, and lead us to victory. But, you can't do it all alone, if we all work together, Alexus will be back with us in no time."
Cole nodded at Nya's words. "You're right. I have acted foolish, but I'm going to save the talk, otherwise this is going to sound like a soap opera. Let's go make the perfect plan. One that will save Alexus, and Garmadon will never see coming!" Cole's fire had returned, and they ran back into the control room.
Alexus sat in the room the serpentine left her, tied to a chair. She tried to fight back when they teamed up on her, but they overpowered her. Lucky, they didn't use their weapons, and she wasn't injured, just a little bruised. Her arms were tied to the arms of the chairs, her legs were bound together, and their was a rope around her stomach. They didn't gag her this time, and she had shouted at the door for an hour before her throat started to go sore. She struggled for the first five minutes before realizing that the snakes had bound her well and tight.
She then realized how hot it was in the room, and felt her shirt start to cling to her back. She was use to it, for she spent much time in her room upstairs before she went onto the Bounty. She looked at the door, wishing that there was someway that she could get out, but she couldn't even move the chair. She started to think about the situation. "What would Hermione do?" she asked herself. Then, she thought of that one scene in the Deathly Hallows. What happened in Malfoy Manor. She started to panic, and struggle again. "Okay, what would Elsa or Anna do?" she asked herself. "Well, Elsa was in a similar situation, but she has ice powers! She froze the shackles! Anna, I have no idea what she would do. But she's so optimistic, like Jay."
She started to think about the ice and lighting ninja. She smiled when she remembered how she outran Jay, or that she beat Zane in a game of chess. "I bet he let me win," Alexus joked to herself. She then thought of Kristoff, and his love for reindeers; much like Cole's with dragons. She cringed as her heart started to ache at the thought of Cole. She hoped he didn't come bursting in like he was Kai, then he would be playing right into Garmadon's hands. The more she thought about it, the more her heart started aching. She started to struggle again, she knew she had to get out of here before Cole did something stupid.
Well, I'm going to stop right there. This chapter was one of the longest I had ever written! What do you think Garmadon has planned for Alexus? Will the ninja save her before it's to late? Will I stop sounding like Christ Mclain from the Total Drama series? Find out next time, in Legends of the Samurai! Anyways, tell me what you think! Remember to review and vote on the poll! Oh, and a special thanks to those of you who take the time to review!