Chapter 21
No One's P.O.V.
The ninja were in quite a pickle at the moment. Little red lights all focused on each of the ninja's chests.
"Looks like we are in the right place." Kai whispered.
"Indeed." Zane replied, looking straight ahead. "How are we getting out of this one?" Zane whispered so only Lloyd and Kai could hear. Lloyd slightly turned his head to Kai for an answer.
"You may have forgotten two things: one, a ninja never quits, and two, we have spinjitzu." Kai whispered to his friends with a smirk.
Kai swung his hands to his left, creating the momentum to spin. Kai ripped into spinjitzu and the gunman behind him shot his gun. A bullet shot towards Kai's tornado but he swerved to the side.
Kai began taking the guys out around them. Lloyd and Zane dropped their arms and spun as well. Kai stopped spinning and two tornados passed him and took out the last guards. The tornadoes stopped and the three smiled to each other.
With Pythor
Pythor was pacing with his hands digging into his head. He was not happy. He just witnessed the ninja take out all of his guards! The only guards remaining are the two at the Earth ninja's cell, and the guards repairing the secondary base at the other side of the woods that the ninja destroyed last time. Pythor was furious that they managed to fix the nindroid.
"That Nindroid! He's functioning! I had my guards install the core! He was supposed to stay shut down permanently!" Pythor raged and stopped walking, "But I've tested the new core on the leader! As long as it stays on his chest.."
Pythor's hands slowly released from his head as he thought how things could work out.
"Sir? Plan B?" The minion asked. Pythor turned to him.
"I have forgotten all about plan B. I was so confident with the first. We shall start Plan B!" Pythor nodded and clasped his hands together with sick delight.
The Ninja
The ninja were searching the hall in darkness. Zane was observing the wall which had a strange air current coming through, he used this to find a hidden passage. His eyes eventually landed on a small slit in the wall that had little light coming through. The nindroid put his ear to the slit and heard nothing but the air slipping through, he knew their was something in there.
Kai picked up a gun from a guard and aimed the gun at a wall. He saw the red dot and made it dance around. He smirked thinking of what the gun was capable of.
"Kai, stop messing around. A gun isn't a stealthy weapon for a ninja, it's not meant to be." Lloyd explained crushing Kai's hopes and walked over to Zane who seemed to have found something.
Kai frowned knowing he was right and flicked the safety on. He dropped the gun back at the guard and caught up to the others.
Zane placed his hands on hidden door and pushed his weight against it. He grunted as it didn't budge. Lloyd came to his side and started to push. Nothing but small movement and a little more light squeezed through. They went to open the door again and Kai ran to their side and they all push with their best effort.
The door opened a crack big enough to shimmy through, Kai squeezed in the small space first.
"Ahh!" Kai yelped and fell down some stairs on the other side. The two ninja outside heard the thumps of him falling on each step. Lloyd poked his head in once it stopped and spotted Kai at the bottom of the staircase lying on his back dazed.
"Are you alright?!" Lloyd called to his friend that must be in pain. The stairs were concrete and Kai could have hit his head pretty bad.
Kai groaned and turned his head to the top of the stairs, "Careful.. there's stairs..."
Lloyd tripped in like Kai but instead of falling he hit the wall. He groaned and pulled his foot through the gap. Lloyd pushed his weight off the wall and shook his head.
"If that hurt me I can't imagine how Kai feels.." Lloyd said mostly to himself.
Lloyd went down one step to let Zane in. The nindroid stepped in perfectly fine.
"We should open the door more." Zane said and grabbed the edge of the door. Lloyd held on too and they both pulled. At first it didn't move then Lloyd put his foot on the rim of the door way and pushed with his foot while pulling his hands. The door opened almost all the way.
"If the door is hard to open it must have something important behind it." Zane commented as they started to make their way to Kai still on the ground. Lloyd crouched next to Kai. The fire ninja now had his eyes closed and his face was relaxed.
"Kai? Did you hit your head?" Lloyd asked and watched Kai's eyes opened.
Kai blinked and looked up at a torch on the wall trying to focus his vision. "Yeah, a few times." Kai used his elbows to push himself up. Lloyd stood in front of Kai and help him up. Kai rubbed his head where it ached, there were many places where it ached, he felt a bump on the back of his head. "Lets worry about my head later and focus on Cole."
Lloyd noticed a bump forming on Kai's forehead and decided to check up with him back on the Bounty.
The walls were made of stone slabs and one torch at the bottom of the staircase lite the room. At the end of the stairs sat a old wooden door. Zane twisted the knob and it creaked open. Everyone looked at each other before continuing in.
Each of them decided not to talk for different reasons. Lloyd and Zane didn't speak so they can hear their surroundings. Kai didn't talk because he felt there was nothing to be said. He was embarrassed for falling down the stairs and now his head was aching.
The room they were in now has stone floor that was a bit sloppy, the walls were stone too. It looked more of a wide hallway.
The stone design reminded Zane of his cell. The memories of how awful it was to watch them rip apart his falcon. The faces of those who tormented him day and night. The guards shocking him, the machine in chest that cause it all. Was it still in him? Zane felt a lump in his throat. Zane's thoughts immediately stopped on Cole. He felt a chill run down his back and he never noticed that Kai walked to his side.
"You okay?" Kai whispered and put a hand on Zane's shoulder. The ice ninja jumped in respond to Kai's touch. At first Zane didn't want to answer but his concern for Cole increased.
"We must find Cole." Zane said all in one soft breath. Kai nodded and removed his hand from his shoulder. The silence washed over them once again.
There was another door to go through once they got to it. Kai was the one to step up and open it. They weren't expecting much to be on the other side of the door but they did expect Cole to be somewhere down here. But once the door was open the snake guards greeted them. The guards must have been a lower class then the guards with guns because these two guards held spears in their possession.
The two guards fidgeted hearing the door open and shakily gripped their spears. They pointed the spears at the door noticing the ninja. Their defense was weak and their spears did very little to stop them or let alone protect themselves.
"Ok, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." Kai threatened and cracked a knuckle.
The guard that was red propped his spear up with one hand holding on and leaned on it. "I choose the easy way, the easy the better." He smiled to the ninja.
The green snake next to him glared at his partner. The snake of red got back in stance aiming his spear to the ninja.
Kai sighed in annoyance, "Guess it's the hard way." Kai make his hand into the 'ok' gesture and his flicked his finger to the guards. A ball of flames erupted from his fingers and landed on the green snake's spear. The wooden spear immediately changed to ash and fell to the floor. The arrow head followed the ash to the ground.
Kai leaned on the wall not worried for one bit about the guards, "Zane, would you like to take it from here?" Kai looked to the red skaled guard and smirked.
"Certainly. Ice!" Zane pushed both his hands out and ice coded the other spear. The snake's hands froze with the spear and he dropped the spear once he shook his hands free. The spear shattered into millions of pieces once connecting with the ground.
At this point the guards were to scared to moved. They knew that they were up against Elemental Masters but they didn't know they were this powerful. Lloyd smiled a bit under his mask.
Now for the finally, "Boo." Lloyd said and the snakes started screaming and ran for their lives. Once the guards were gone, things got serious again. Kai got off the wall and started to walk to the door the guards must have been protecting. He didn't want to look through the little window. He could just look up and see it if he wanted to but he couldn't. Lloyd and Zane stood back and gave him some space.
Kai then needed to know if Cole could actually be there. If this wasn't a waste. If the one they were searching for was okay. Kai looked up and gasped immediately.
Cole was definitely there and he was not okay. Kai's hands quickly found the door knob. He push against the door and twisted the knob. Nothing. The door wouldn't budge! Kai started to ram into the door. Lloyd and Zane were shock with Kai's reaction.
"I-Is he there?" Lloyd asked, it was a dumb question he knew the answer to.
Kai panted and backed up, "If he wasn't in there I wouldn't be trying to get in!" Kai shouted with frantic hand motions and he rammed into the door again. "One of those guards had the keys!"
Zane and Lloyd ran to Kai to help but once they reached him the door broke open. Kai broke the door off its hinges. All the light from the torches behind him flooded the room. Cole was in full view of all of them.
"Oh my Ninjago.." Lloyd whispered in shock. Kai was the first to break their frozen incasement. He ran into the room and in front of Cole.
"Cole? Cole!" Kai called and put a light hand of Cole's cheek. Cole in his sleep flinched at the touch. Kai sighed to see he was alive. Lloyd was the second to run in and his gaze followed the chains on Cole's wrists. Lloyd walked around Cole a little scared to touch him. His eyes stopped on Cole's back. He gasped and his hands covered his mouth.
Kai quickly ran to his side and saw what the problem was. "Oh my..." A hand flew to his mouth, "Zane! We need to get Cole out of here now!"
Zane shrank into his mind, lost without a trace. The memories of himself in the same position, drowned him. This was too much for him. He went through the same thing. But he is a nindroid he can recover from an experience like so but Cole is a human. There is a chance Cole wouldn't survive!
"Zane!" Kai shouted and shock Zane's shoulders till he noticed the ice ninja's eyes move. "Snap out of it! We have to get Cole out of here!"
"I-I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me." Zane said shaking his head and focusing on what's important. Kai ran back into the cell and throw a fire ball at the chains to melt it. The chains didn't melt as he original thought and he noticed Zane walked to Cole's side.
Zane saw the condition Cole was from the back side and he stiffened. His eyes followed down the streams of the blood to the pool of blood.
"Did you see this Kai?" Zane asked crouching down to analyze the red fluid. Kai looked down to see what he met.
"Just another reason we have to hurry!" Kai reached up to the chains and tried to free Cole's wrists. Zane got up to help and he froze the chains just above the locks. Lloyd came in and hit the frozen metal till it shattered. Zane and Kai both acted quick and caught Cole.
The earth ninja was now free from the chains but the shackles were trapped on his wrists. Cole grunted at the sudden moment. Lloyd took Cole's right shoulder from Kai while Zane had Cole's left arm around him.
Lloyd flinched in pain as he was shocked from Cole's touch. "Ow, he just shocked me."
Zane and Lloyd both looked at each other once they both felt Cole started to tremble. Zane got back to what Lloyd said, "That was what happened to me when I was captured. They shocked me. They put a device in my chest. There must be the same thing on Cole some where."
Kai turned around and looked at Cole then Zane. "I swear things kept getting worse. Lets figure this out later and get Cole out of here."
Kai's eyes landed on Cole's chest where it looked to be a bump but as he said he would wait till later. Kai walked out of the cell and the others with Cole followed.
Kai lead the way through the slab hallway and to the stairs. Once Kai was at the top of the stairs he looked back and saw that Zane and Lloyd were near the bottom.
"What the problem?" Kai called down to them.
Lloyd huffed, "Carrying Cole and stairs isn't completely easy Kai." Lloyd and Zane stepped with the same foot at the same time to keep a momentum going.
Once they were nearly the top Kai jumped out of the stairway and into the dark hallway. Kai looked into the hidden area and reached out and grabbed their hands that didn't hold Cole. He pulled them into the hallway and right when he turned he was met with something he rather not see.
A single guard stood in their path with a gun pointed at Kai. The fire ninja wasn't frightened in fact he smirked.
"Well well well would you look at that." Kai said full of confidence. Lloyd and Zane were confused why Kai was using that tone while the red dot was pointed at his chest.
The guard said nothing and stayed in his spot keeping the dot on Kai. Kai then started to walk forward and the guard tensed.
"Freeze!" The snake guard yelled yet Kai didn't stop. He frowned at the command. The guard pulled the trigger.
Lloyd and Zane gasped when nothing happened, the gun didn't shoot. Kai reached the guard who seemed to be stunned by what happened. Kai pulled the gun from the guard's light grip.
Kai pointed the gun to the guard, his hands immediately flew up. Kai moved quick and hit the side of the snake's head with the gun. The guard fell limp onto the ground joining the others that were previously taken down.
Kai threw the gun on the ground and turned to see this friends shocked. "What? I had to do what I had to do to protect us."
"No not that but what exactly happened?" Lloyd questioned in awe.
Kai smirked, "Well it was the same gun I clicked the safety on."
"How did you know it was the same gun?" Zane asked calmly and Kai shrugged turned back around.
"I didn't" Kai stated and started to walk the back to the closed door, stepping over and around the guards that laid unconscious.
Making it to the door Kai felt around the door for an indent. He remembered the door pushed open from the outside so he was going to have to pull hard. Kai found the indent and both hands slide in. He pulled with what he had and the door swung open.
The light nearly blinded them but they adjusted quick. Kai held the door and aloud Lloyd and Zane with Cole to go first. After they were out Kai slammed the door shut.
"That felt too easy. Zane can you contact the bounty? I will take Cole." Kai and Zane switch positions.
They all walked into the woods again back to where they believed the Bounty was. Zane opened his arm up and typed in a couple things.
"Strange, I can not connect to the Bounty." Zane said closing his arm and taking the lead.
"Do you know where it is at least?" Lloyd asked while shifting Cole's weight.
"If I can not connect to the Destiny Bounty then I would not know the location of it." Zane said looking back slightly.
There was a silence over all of them. It wasn't awkward, it was just neutral. Eye contract came and went. Kai and Lloyd could feel that Cole was shaking and often his hands would twitch.
After awhile of walking Kai just stopped walking causing everyone else to halt. Lloyd looked passed Cole to Kai.
"Hey, you okay?" Lloyd questioned the fire ninja. He nodded and Zane immediately walked over and grabbed Cole from him.
"I'm fine. I just need a break." Kai answered finding an root grown out of the ground and he sat on the strong root. Kai put his head down and closed his eyes, his hands wrapped around his head. Zane and Lloyd noticed he started to rub a bump on his head. Lloyd looked from Kai to Cole.
"Zane hold Cole up. We can't have his back infected from lying down." Lloyd slipped Cole's arm off his shoulders. Zane held Cole up while Lloyd went to Kai's aid.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Lloyd asked again and Kai didn't reply for a few minutes. All Kai did was shrug.
A strangely familiar sound echoed around in the sky. Lloyd couldn't pin point this sound but Kai got it almost instantly. Everyone's eyes were in the sky looking around. Kai jumped up to his feet and started to climb the tree next to him. He poked his head up above the trees and looked around and saw-
"Kai! What do you see?!" Lloyd called up to Kai as he looked down.
"I see Samurai X! And the Bounty in the distance! I don't think Nya sees us." Kai shouted down.
Lloyd started to form a ball of energy. He shot the energy into the sky just above Kai and it burst like silent fireworks.
Kai climbed down the tree joining the others once he saw the Samurai suit heading his way.
"The problem with letting Nya know where we are is that it might not get just the attention of Nya." Kai stated while Lloyd got hold of Cole.
The sound of the Samurai X suit got louder but they didn't hear just that, they heard hissing.
Hey everyone! Here is another chapter of Serpentine's Rage! Sorry that the chapter was not updated on the first of the month. My editor hasn't contacted me since last month and I had to deal with things on my own. I decided that today would be okay to update being Saint Patrick's Day. I hope you all enjoy the chapter! Tell me in the reviews what you think will happen next!
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