Chapter 20
Hallway Hades
No P.O.V.
"Wait! Execute Plan F," Jason calls to his guard.
"Yes sir!" the man says enthusiastically and exits the room, rushing down the hallway. "Plan F!" the guard presses an alarm button on the wall. A series of rapid ringing sounds throughout the underground and the cave above followed by loud beeps.
"The alarm!" Sensei Garmadon shouts and the group storm into the cave, grabbing torches that light the wall, but the interior of the place flashes red, off and on, off and on. In front of them were three tunnels. Zane immediately moves to the center one, casting his torch on the ground, while the others follow in single file like this: Zane, Wu, Lloyd, and Garmadon. Near the end, they hear a scraping sound behind.
"Dad! Watch out!" Lloyd warns, grabbing his father and pulling him around the end into the right turn as he and Wu drop their torches, dropping to the ground. Something strikes the floor, next to Garmadon's foot and he pulls it out, to find an arrow, and several others close by.
"Why would they do this all of a sudden? Is this a test?" Zane wonders aloud, before he can catch himself.
"Who is 'they'?" Lloyd questions his brother, eyeing him strangely.
"I'm not certain; however, they might be the people that had kidnapped me when I was small and murdered Kai's parents. I do not know who they are."
"I never heard Kai or Nya say anything about them being murdered, nor about knowing you before," Lloyd says.
"They did not mention knowing me because-" Before Zane can finish his sentence, a rain of bullets strike the wall next to them and he yanks Lloyd, leaping away from the opening. One bullet grazes Zane's left arm, snagging on the gash, tearing the wound open.
"Are you both okay?" Wu asks; then sees Zane holding his arm, and blood seeping between his fingers, "Are you hit?"
"No, just grazed," Zane manages to respond before biting down on his lip, flinching as Lloyd, gets on one knee, his blond hair brushing against the wound. The shots abruptly cease and Zane rushes to the opening, blasting a wall of ice in front of them to bide some time. "Down the passageway, now!" he tells them and they dart forward in the orange tinted passage that expands.
They halt in front of two split ways. "Which one?" Lloyd asks as the wall of ice collapses.
Zane glances from left to right, trying to recall which one. It's different. It was clearly a large room before. "I don't know. It wasn't like this at the time."
"We better hurry and pick one!" Garmadon shouts as people clad in black shove pieces of ice out of their path.
"To the left!" Zane shouts as he creates another ice barrier then turns, creating a second one. After making the third wall, his body weakens and he can no longer shoot the ice for about five minutes. The turn leads into another tunnel, but without torches. Garmadon dropped his moments ago and now they can only touch the walls, stumbling forward, in the darkness, with the enemy temporarily delayed. A screech pierces the cave, bringing a deadly chill to the trapped people.
The End Until the Sequel (of course I'll have to write a third one)
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