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The walls of the pit were far too slick for them to climb up and too deep to get out of even if they were to stand on each other's shoulders.
"Those dirty snakes!" Nya growled clearly very agitated.
"Great," Jay moaned. "Now we're trapped down here."
Cole stared at the circle of sky above them for a few seconds, then shrugged. "No problem. I control earth remember?" He slammed his fists into the rock. Nothing. Not so much as a tremor. Cole looked back, panic etched on his face. "My powers are... gone."
Jay carefully spread his fingers and watched blue tendrils of electricity arc between them. "Mine aren't."
"Yea, mine either," Kai said, walking up with his hands on fire.
"Well I can't move even a speck of this wall," Cole said, kicking it in frustration.
"Maybe it's not a problem with Cole's powers," Lloyd said blasting the wall with his green energy. "See I didn't even make a dent."
"Lloyd is correct," Zane said as he placed his palm on the rock. Frost crept up his arm but couldn't seem to stick to the smooth surface. "This stone is impervious to our powers."
"Okay then, my powers aren't gone but we still can't get out of here."
"I could fill the hole with water," Nya said. "Then we'd float to the top."
"No offense Nya, but after analyzing your preferred velocity of shooting water you and I are likely the only ones who would not drown and with my titanium shell I am unsure I would float in the first place."
Nya sat down grumbling about how she wasn't that careless.
"Hey, Zane," Jay said perking up. "Remember that little scrap of folded paper that was 'saved only for emergencies?' I think now qualifies!"
Zane fumbled around in the multiple pockets his outfit had unsure if the note was even on him.
"What?" Kai asked. "What paper? When?"
"Remember the night I climbed through the window?"
"You climbed through the window?" Nya asked. "Pfft of course you did."
"Yes, I climbed through a window. Anyway, when Zane went to close it he found a note that had fluttered in. It had all our names on it and said 'saved only for emergencies.' Zane thought I dropped it but I didn't so he kept it. Now that I think about it that's kinda creepy. Someone knows who we are and-"
"Slow down motormouth!" Cole said using Jay's famous nickname. "Zane's found the paper."
Zane unfolded the slip of paper and read it out loud.
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"Your flaws may have helped you remember your powers,
But forgetting them will make you stronger."
.
"What? Forgetting our powers makes us stronger?" Jay yelped, clearly confused.
"Umm, I think it's telling us to forget our flaws, Jay," Kai said, a touch annoyed.
"Hehe, I knew that," Jay said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.
"I don't get it," Cole said, stepping forward. "How do you forget a flaw."
"You become stronger than it," Lloyd realized.
Zane nodded. "My power was instinctively activated by fear. Now I must let my nightmare play out." He sat down criss-cross on the floor and closed his eyes in concentration. Within a few moments, a faint blue light escaped Zane's tightly shut eyelids. The hologram made impressively realistic drops of sweat roll down his forehead as his fear took over. They waited hardly daring to breathe. An invisible clock clearly proclaimed the seconds.
Suddenly Zane's face relaxed. The light behind his eyelids tripled in intensity. The cloaking mechanism shut down to show a bright blue circle of light shining through his clothing where his heart would be. White light, snow, and ice swirled around him as he opened his eyes. He soon became too bright to look at. When it faded they glanced back to see Zane proudly perched on top of a pale blue and white dragon. He laughed from pure exhilaration.
"Dragon!" Jay yelped, jumping behind Cole.
"Be at ease, Jay," Zane said, patting the dragon's neck. "He will not hurt you." He jumped down as the dragon disappeared.
"Hologram?" Cole asked.
"No, it is the next level of my power, of all of our powers."
"Cool!" Jay said poking his head out. "I want to do one! How did you do it?"
"Forget your flaws," Kai answered, remembering the paper said. "But what's mine."
Everyone thought for a moment. "It's your anger," Lloyd realized.
"Hey!" Kai said wheeling around to face him.
Seeing Kai's slightly red face he quickly elaborated. "Well, come on! You found your power by burning up my chess piece because you lost."
Kai smiled, suddenly lost in memory. "Oh yeah. That was fun. By the sounds of it your flaw is anger too," he said hoping to get a playful rise out of the boy.
Lloyd thought about it. "Maybe it's overprotectiveness?" he said, taking on a more serious tone. "You guys are going to get hurt and sometimes I won't be able to do anything."
"But what's my flaw?" Cole asked. "I wasn't angry or scared. I just focused on the earth beneath me."
"And that's it!" Jay said without missing a beat. "That's your flaw! The ground doesn't give you power, you have it!"
"Why Jay! That was almost thoughtful!" Kai teased.
Jay didn't reply, instead, an electrical ball of light enveloped him as he jumped into the air and did a flip, landing neatly on the back of a shockingly blue dragon, its scales crackled with lightning.
"Woohoo!" Jay yelled.
Next, to Jay, a fiery red dragon flapped its wings. Nya's dragon somehow had wings made out of pure water. They created steam when they touched Kai's flaming wings.
Cole's earthy brown dragon appeared next, quickly followed by Lloyd's gold and green one, as Zane's dragon arose again.
"Alright!" Lloyd cried, directing his dragon upwards. "Let's get out of here!" The six multi-colored dragons burst into the open air.
A/N: I didn't realize this chapter would be so long. I hope it was worth the long wait. Believe it or not, I didn't plan this scene when I wrote their rediscovery of their powers. A review actually got me thinking about this. Anyway, I only have to last though today and it is officially spring break for me! So hopefully I can get more work done on both my fics.
As always, constructive criticism is welcome.