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Season 2

Chapter 24: The Last Hope

It was morning once again.

The ninja were by the beach, happily testing out the abilities of their new elemental swords. They were celebrating on regaining their powers. How do they celebrate? By shooing down coconuts..

Their wolves were off to the side, laying down as they watched their masters. Since the day before, the wolves have proven to cause a bit of trouble.

When the ninja had returned from the Temple of Light, the wolves had almost attacked Nya, Sensei, Dr. Julien, and Misako. Not knowing that they were the ninja's allies. After a lot of...fighting...the ninja managed to calm down the wolves. They have also shown that they seemingly only listened to the ninja. If others were to give them orders, they would often ignore the person.

Anyways, the wolves continued to watch their masters. Well, one of them was. The fire wolf and lightning wolf, who were named Flare and Storm, were "fighting" with one another. The earth wolf named Dusty was lying down, seemingly asleep. The ice wolf, dubbed Frostbite, was the only wolf who was watching her master.

The sound of a voice caught the three wolves' attention.

They looked to the side to see the person that their masters call, Sensei.

The three wolves watched as Sensei chastise the ninja.

Flare and Storm soon became bored and went back to playing around with each other. Frostbite turned to watch the two.

Flare quickly ran over to Storm and tackled her to the ground.

Storm growled playfully and shocked Flare. The fire wolf let out a surprised yelp and got off Storm, who was amused. Flare growled and shot a fireball at Storm who luckily dodged it.

Frostbite shook her head and quickly stood in front of the two. She let out a bark and looked at the two. Storm and Flare looked at each other for a moment before nodding towards Frostbite.

A couple of minutes later, their attention was caught by the ninja calling their names.

Storm and Frostbite quickly made their way to the master while Flare went to wake up Dusty.

Once Flare had woken up Dusty, the two followed the others back to the Bounty.

0o0o0

As the ninja and wolves arrived, they had overheard the conversation going on between the others.

"You mean, Lloyd doesn't have to fight?" Cole questioned, walking down a hill along with the others. "This I gotta hear."

"The scroll say that when the Helmet of Darkness is bequeathed from its rightful ruler, the Celestial Clock will countdown to the activation of an unspeakable weapon." Misako explained as she opened up the scroll. "The first sign of the Final Battle between good and evil has begun."

"Did you just say, unspeakable weapons?" Kai asked.

"Uh, I'm still stuck on what "bequeathed" means." Jay stated.

"Go on Misako. Don't let us interrupt you." Cole said. "How do we stop the final battle?"

By now, everyone was standing around the table. Except for the wolves, who were sitting on the sidelines.

"There is nothing here that explains what would happen if the Helmet of Darkness...is returned." Misako explained.

"Interesting." Sensei stated. "Remove the helmet, the clock starts. Put it back, the clock stops."

"And the Final Battle never starts!" Lloyd continued.

"Bequeathed? Anyone? Is anyone gonna help me with that?" Jay suddenly asked.

"Uh...it sounds great and all and we got new powers, but how do you expect us to sneak past the Stone Warriors and pluck the helmet off his head." Kai reasoned.

"My brother's right, they're good. But they're not that good." Nya agreed.

"I know." Misako said. "And that it why I'm going to do it. I'll just need a little help." She said, gesturing the ninja to come over as she walked a few steps away.

The four wolves, having to have heard the conversation, looked at each.

"This is not good. The Helmet of Darkness has been removed and the Final Battle is slowly coming." Frostbite said, which only came out as barks to the humans.

Flare nodded. "If the Final Battle were to begin, we must protect the ninja and their allies no matter what."

"We must also make sure that none of them are hurt." Storm added.

"That's the same thing as protecting them." Flare stated.

"Well, sorry." Storm said in a sarcastic tone.

Dusty shook her head and let out a huff. "Calm down you two. If we're going to protect the ninja and their allies, we need to make sure that we are ready to do so."

"Agreed." Frostbite said.

0o0o0

After the ninja and Misako had left to go and retrieve the Helmet of Darkness, the four wolves decided to test out their abilities.

Out on the beach, they began their own version of training.

"Alright..so...let's see what we've got." Flare said and launched a fireball at one of the trees.

The tree began to fall towards the ground.

Frostbite quickly froze the tree while Dusty ran over to catch the tree. Storm had created a protective shield around Dusty so she wouldn't get hurt. Dusty had caught the fallen tree and tossed it to the side.

"Nice job guys. Let's see if we still know how to create our elemental forcefields." Storm said and closed her eyes.

When she opened them, they were glowing a deep shade of blue. A transparent bluefish forcefield surrounded her. Around the forcefield, lighting bolts moved around rapidly. She closed her eyes and the forcefield soon disappeared.

The others followed and closed their eyes, a different kind of forcefield surrounding each of them.

Flare's forcefield had an orange-red glow and flames were constantly active at the base of the forcefield, making the area around it extremely hot.

Frostbite's had a baby blue glow and elegant ice patterns outlined her forcefield. An icy most surround said shield, making the area cold around her.

Lastly, Dusty's shield had a green, brownish glow. The ground beneath her was moving around, creating a small sandstorm at the base.

They all closed their eyes and the shields eventually went away.

"Great job guys." Dusty commented and turned her head when she heard their names being called.

The rest turned their heads to see that it was the Green Ninja who was calling their names.

The four elemental wolves bowed their heads respectively towards the Golden Wolf's master.

The Green Ninja just simply nodded back.

"Guys, the ninja are in trouble. We have to help them." Lloyd explained to the four wolves, who nodded in reply.

Soon, the five of them were on their way to save their friends/masters.

0o0o0

As they ran through the jungle, the wolves couldn't help but wonder what had happened to their masters.

Ahead of them, the ninja in the Power Drill was behind held by Garmadon. Who was in some sort of mech. Lloyd had seen this and frowned.

"Let them go!" He yelled and shot an energy beam at Garmadon's mech, causing him to fall backwards while letting the others go in the process.

Lloyd ran over to the area, followed by the Flare, Frostbite, Storm, and Dusty.

The wolves stood beside Lloyd while he watched his father get up. With the wolves, he looked quite intimidating, having four elemental wolves growling.

Garmadon got out of his mech and walked towards Lloyd, who did the same. The wolves remained where they were.

Everyone was watching the two, the four ninja encouraging Lloyd to finish him off.

Lloyd turned back to look at them before looking back at his father.

"I'm sorry, Father, you leave me no choice." Lloyd stated.

Garmadon let out a few coughs.

"It is our destiny." Lloyd said.

He started to create an energy ball while Garmadon just stood there, helplessly. He continued to create the energy orb but when he looked at Garmadon, he saw him bow his head in defeat, he quickly made it disappear.

That action made Garmadon look up in surprise.

"No, what is he doing?" Jay asked from the sidelines.

The shouts and cries of the Stone Warriors were soon heard.

"They're coming." Misako said.

And indeed, the Stone Warriors were heading towards the heroes. Garmadon laughed as he looked at his son.

"Lloyd we need to move." Misako said, urgently.

"The clock is not to far from here." Nya told him.

Lloyd glanced over at the Stone Warriors for a moment. "Ok!" He said as he quickly jumped into the Power Drill. "Go!"

Nya directed the Power Drill to the ground, digging down.

The wolves looked at each other, questioningly before jumping into the tunnel.

0o0o0

Soon, they made it to the Celestial Clock where Sensei Wu was waiting for them.

When the wolves had arrived along with the others, they were surprised to see the Celestial Clock.

"It's still here? How?" Flare questioned.

"I don't know...but we have to ma-" Frostbite said as she stared at the clock until she saw the Stone Warriors.

The four wolves watched in both fear and worry as the helmet was knocked out of General Kozu's hand. It landed on the clock and Cole goes to try to retrieve it. Though, he didn't get it, he managed to knock it down towards the helmet's pedestal. Misako quickly went to get it and put it on its perch. Luckily, she succeeded in doing so...or so everyone thought.

While everyone was cheering, the wolves stared at one another with worried looks.

Suddenly, the clock began to move and a horn was heard, grabbing everyone's attention.

"No!" Sensei Wu exclaimed while General Kozu laughed.

"The Horns of Destruction! We were too late!" Misako exclaimed.

Everyone watched as a beam of light traveled through the clock before shooting out towards the distance.

While that happened, the Stone Warriors advanced towards the ninja.

Said ninja got out their weapons while the wolves got into attacking positions.

Backing up, the ground beneath them began to sink down towards the ocean.

Flare began to freak out as they slowly went towards the ocean. She let out a whimper and she constantly looked around.

"Flare, it's okay." Frostbite said calmly.

"Okay?! Maybe for you but, if you haven't noticed, I'm basically made of fire and we're heading towards one of the things that can put me out!" Flare barked.

Their speed was increasing and everyone fell off.

Luckily, everyone made it. Including Flare, well I guess she was considered ok.

Frostbite and Dusty were pulling her out of the ocean. Flare was passed out and her flames were barely noticeable.

The two wolves set her down against the sand and the three huddled around her.

"Well...that could've been worse..." Storm said.

Dusty and Frostbite gave her an annoyed look.

"Sorry..."

Dusty rolled her eyes. "This isn't good. I heard from one of our master's allies say that the Final Battle has begun.."

"What are we going to do? You know the Final Battle is not out fight. It is the ninja's. Well, mostly the Green Ninja's." Storm explained.

"That is true. But that doesn't mean we can't help. We were made to protect the ninja, weren't we? So why don't we do what we were intended to do?" Frostbite told them, encouragingly.

Storm and Dusty looked at each other and smiled.

Just then, Flare began to wake up. Her flames becoming active once again. She looked over at the others with a slight smile.

"I heard what you said Frostbite and I'm totally in with the plan. But, what ever happened to things being okay back there?!"

Welp, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I apologize if you didn't. This chapter was one of those chapters were the episode wasn't quite eventful (in my opinion) and my imagination just sparked. XD Thanks for the cookie KRR! And yes, I wonder who will be Jade's love interest. X3 Yeah, I agree with you BubbleEwa, it is a weird way of describing someone. But, that's just how I roll! XD Thank you guys so much for helping me out with the names! I absolutely appreciated it! You guys are honestly the best! :D Now, I must write about a corrupted Nya and Lloyd hurting his foot? Welp, Until next time! (#TeamKai)

Question to my fellow ninjas: What is you favorite...holiday?! :D

~AI