"There it is!"

Kai and Nya and their following hoard of Dragons all began to see the Temple of Fire just ahead of them in the bliss horizon, Kai grit his teeth upon seeing skeleton and Serpentine troops all on patrol, surrounding the entire Volcano, and he knew exactly that their friends, and his two sisters were inside. "Let's go in, and give Garmadon a surprise that he'll never forget," Kai joked, smirking, Nya grinned mischievously, and held tight to her brother as they swooped down.

Meanwhile, inside, it was growing too quiet for Jay to handle, and so he decided to lighten the mood a little by telling some jokes, so of course he picked on Cole, who was just so frustrated, he could barely think. "Hey, hey, Cole," Jay began, tapping his teammates shoulder, the team leader let out a low growl, obviously this was not the right time to speak to the ninja of earth. But Jay didn't care, he was desperate for someone to talk to, "Cole, come on, want to hear a joke?"

"No," Cole grunted through his breath, his face hidden deep into his knees, but the lightning ninja of course paid no attention to his irritated tone and continued to get on his nerves. "Ok, ok, so, what do you get, when you cross a Fangpyre, right before his dinner?"

Cole didn't want to answer, but he felt that if he didn't, Jay would just whine like a five-year-old until he did, so he sighed and asked, "What..."

"You become its dinner! Haha! Get it? Cause it fangpyres bite off more than they can chew! Haha, your not laughing," Jay instantly shut up once he saw Cole's expression, which obviously showed frustration and some hostile emotion Jay could not make out. "What's wrong?" he asked, sounding worried.

Cole blinked, "Nothing...I'm fine..."

"You don't sound fine, idiot," Jay stated, and Cole raised his head at the last part, Jay leaned against the bars and tried to pretend he was thinking, he already knew why Cole was so upset about, but he only did it for humor, "Hmm...lets see...its Andrea isn't it?"

Cole felt as if he could punch Jay right in the face. "W-What?! N-No! NO! Just, no! T-That's not it!" he stuttered.

Jay smirked, "Suuuure, its not, come on man, you know its true!"

"ITS NOT TRUE!" Cole barked, making Lily and Zane jump, the earth ninja rose, and Zane felt tempted to hold him back. Cole approached Jay and stuck his finger right at his chest, "I DON'T LIKE HER, I DON'T OK!"

"SILENCE!"

The entire volcano seemed to shake, and the cell teetered back and forth, knocking Cole off balance, and Jay had to keep from laughing. Lily walked over to the front of the cell to see Garmadon, his ghastly appearance had not changed, and it seemed as if he'd grown a set of arms. She cursed, "Garmadon."

The dark lord glanced up at the roof and smiled at his hostages, "Hmm...well, I see you've made yourself comfortable, like the hospitality? I got the idea from a cooking show called, Fry The Ninja."

"You know, your humor is weak, for an old man," Jay teased. Garmadon tensed a bit at the insult, he thought for a mere second, perhaps he should kill him first, or all at once, a slow death would surely be a reasonable price to pay for all the times the ninja have made a fool of him. So he merely chuckled, "I see you haven't changed a bit, Jay...looks to me, your jokes have gotten old themselves..."

Jay bit his tongue, Damn that bastard he thought to himself. Cole got up and glared daggers at Garmadon, the villain smiled up at them, he turned to Pythor who had slithered up next to him, he almost stopped smiling, almost. "Well, I see you've done a good job capturing these damn fools, so I might reconsider your fate, to another day, if you don't mess up my plans again, do you understand snake?" Garmadon questioned, almost in a deafening tone. Pythor only glanced at the staff tightly grasped in his fingers, and he cracked a smile, "Oh, yes. I understand perfectly."

Garmadon stared in disgust and turned back to his prisoners, he snapped his fingers and two skeleton warriors began to lower the chain that held up their mobile prison. The four felt gravity pulling on them as they began to slowly lower more and more towards the pool of lava beneath them, Garmadon only paced around, pretending to notice nothing. "As you can see, I've captured you in order to meet the face of your doom," he explained.

Jay climbed up the bars and held himself up, the others did the same, Garmadon chuckled at them as they scrambled to escape death, but the cage was nearly hitting the surface of the burning magma, and the sizzling of metal beginning to melt was just music to Garmadon's ears. "Quite quick death, I might say, but of course, the quicker, the better, now lets get this overwit-" He stopped once the cage was just visible to his prying eyes, and he felt a sense of something missing. Andrea he thought.

"STOP LOWERING IT!" he yelled. The skeletons immediately caught the chain in their bony fingers, before the lava even reached the bars of the cage, the ninja all clung to the bars tightly, and were baffled at why they weren't being further lowered. Garmadon jerked his head straight towards Pythor and pointed the staff right between his eyes, "Where is she!"

Pythor smiled, and pretended to act confused, "Who?"

"THE GIRL! YOU KNOW WHO I'M SPEAKING OF YOU IDIOTIC SNAKE!" Garmadon snapped, and it almost seemed like he was eager to shoot something out of the staff and end the Anocandrai's life and be done with it, but to the villains surprise, the snake grin only grew wider, into a much more creepier smile, "Ah...yes, that girl...someone bring her forth, if you please."

He snapped his fingers and to their left, everyone saw Andrea in the clutches of two Serpentine, she was chained and obviously pissed, struggling for freedom. Garmadon's eyes shrunk in fear, he turned to Pythor, his anger couldn't even be compared to anything else, "HOW DARE YOU! RELEASE HER!"

Now, this surprised, almost everyone in the room, especially Pythor, who's smile had turned into a disgusted, deformed frown, "How dare me? I am beyond perplexed, oh great one. How dare you, I thought you were rotten to the core."

Garmadon glanced at Andrea, than at Pythor, his blood boiled, and the four ninja could not make out what was going on, "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PUT HER IN WITH THE OTHERS YOU IGNORANT SNAKE! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I-"

"Care?" Pythor finished for him, making the dark lord shut up instantly, Pythor merely chuckled, "Oh, you really think I'm that stupid Garmadon? I know all about you and Wu training her as the legendary Ninja of the Universe, and yes, I do know, how much you cared, while still under the influence of the Devourer's venom...oh no, you treated her almost like a daughter, I believe?"

Garmadon's face burned, and he gripped tightly onto the staff, Lily narrowed her eyes at him and then at Andrea, her mind trying to piece everything together. "Truly, you only wanted me to put her in with the others, because you didn't want to kill her last, pathetic one you are, shame on you," Pythor spat. Garmadon had had enough, he grit his teeth and moved forward to attack him, Pythor snapped his fingers, one of the snake warriors held a knife to Andrea's thick throat, she held her breath. Garmadon tensed, he was shaking his weapon pointed straight at Pythor, but he couldn't help but glance over to Andrea, who was just as shaken up as him. "You kill me, you kill her, and life for a life, aint it?" Pythor chuckled.

Cole was ready to sock the snake in the arm, but he was afraid shifting his weight would cause the cage to fall again, he couldn't put the others lives in danger, so he stayed put, but he didn't like it. Garmadon looked at both Pythor and Andrea, his wicked heart insisted, but a softer side to him pleaded No no, don't do it. A tough choice, for a villain, either kill both of his enemies, when one is like a daughter to him. He shook the thought out of his head and went ahead and pointed the staff at Pythor, the snake frowned, "Wow...you really are cruel...very well then. Kill her."

"NO!" Lily cried.

But before anyone died, there was a loud roar from outside, and everyone froze, especially Garmadon. They heard cries and screams, and a loud explosion, and the volcano shook, Pythor backed away, his eyes narrowing in fear. Dragons flew in from all places, all ready to fight, the snakes and skeletons stood absolutely still to the massive hoard of reptiles with wings, thinking themselves either to run or be cooked. Garmadon only stared in shock, and once he saw Kai and Nya on a massive fire dragon, he lost it. He turned to his men, furious, "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! GET THEM!"

The skeletons and Serpentine broke away from their patrol, the only ones that were left, and went in to fight, even the skeleton holding the chain. "AHHH!" the four yelled, but instantly were caught by Kai and Nya's dragon. They could all breath a sigh of relief, as they were being lifted up away from the lava. Since the floor was gone, they could easily climb out of the cage and meet up with the twins. "Took you long enough!" Jay yelled.

"Sorry," Kai chuckled, "I just had to help a few friends."

Lily smiled, she was happy her brother was ok. The Dragons all swooped in from all places, this way and that, up and down, the Earth Dragons dug up from the rock floor and into the volcano, their solid scales protecting them from the molten heat. The skeletons and serpentine fighters were being numbered, mostly being cornered or already sitting in the stomachs of most dragons. Kai hopped on his dragon and flew up to join the fight, Nya took to the ground, helping her friends. Andrea broke free from her chains and side-kicked the two serpentine beside her, but one behind her caught her in surprise. If it wasn't for Lily, she might've been impaled. She smiled at her sister, and Lily only smiled back, "I apologize for before, can we, maybe fight together again?" Andrea took her by the elbow, "Absolutely." They swung themselves and paced up the walls, jumping on any Serpentine that delayed some Dragons flight. Cole swung his scythe straight into the ground, the earth cracked allowing Earth Dragons to climb through and gobble up some snakes and bones. One nudged him from behind, he laughed, "Rocky would be jealous if he saw me with you, big guy."

Jay and Nya worked together, Zane threw his shurikens straight for the walls of the temple, making it cold enough for the Ice Dragons that poured in, and colder for the serpentine. Garmadon glanced around at the chaos surrounding him, he growled and ordered his men to move faster, he then looked up to see Kai leading them all, barking orders, he clenched his fists tightly in anger, "This is the last time you rain on my parade."

The skeletons and Serpentine all ran for cover, exiting the temple, the Dragons followed, pouring out like a swarm of angry bees, the guys all fought alongside with them, taking out any Serpentine they had. Garmadon looked around for a Rattlecopter, but Pythor had slipped away with the last one, he cursed, but he didn't really care, he could make him pay when he got the chance. He ran to the nearest Dragon and hopped on, the Dragon bucked and screeched struggling to get him off. Garmadon shouted, "QUIET OR I'LL BLAST YOU TO YOUR DEATH!" The Dragon whimpered and took for the skies, and was headed straight above Kai. The Serpentine and Skeletons stood little chance against the hoard of Dragons that swarmed the temple, only few were left, some ran off into the woods and some left on their vehicles. "WOOHOO!" the guys cheered. Jay hugged Nya, Lily hugged her sister, and Zane and Cole did a high-five. Kai smiled down at them, as they celebrated their victory, not noticing the dark lord above him. Lily noticed however, and her eyes shrunk in fear, "KAI! LOOK UP!"

The fire ninja glanced upward too late, Garmadon had shot a beam of fire straight at him, and a shriek filled the air. Everyone looked up and gasped at the scene, Kai was knocked off his dragon, and was speeding straight through the mouth of the volcano. The battle inside the temple caused the lava to rise, it was growing unstable, most of the Dragons broke away to avoid the impact, but Kai looked not to be so lucky. Andrea glanced, and soon recognized, her brother. "KAI! NO!" She wanted to jump, but Lily held her back from causing any damage, she cried.

Kai's heart was pumping, adrenaline rushed through his entire body like crazy, and it felt just like the time Inferna taught him how to fly. He suddenly felt something spark inside him, a feeling he had never felt before, almost like taking flight. Much to everyones horror, the volcano exploded with hot mass, and Kai allowed himself to be submerged in its death-bringing heat.

(OH MAH GOD A CLIFFHANGER! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT OAO?! So, did I do a good job? Did I keep you guys on the edge of your seat? I hope so! Because the next chapter will be something to want to read! It shall be epic and full of some shocking action. Also, do you think that I should've cut off the part where Pythor makes a ransom over Andrea for his life? Wow, he really is a sick python, someone should take him to vet where they can inject him with poison! ]X Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, it sure kept me excited! Sadly, I'm almost finished with this pilot, buuuut, that means the episodes are coming! .D. Yes they will center a certain Ninja, and some conflicts their facing as they all struggle to find the rest of the Ninjas of Legend according to the prophecy, and when I say all I mean all, Andrea and Lily join tha team! X3 Well, that's it for me, until next time, have a Magnificent Monday guys, and a very good night! Thanks for reading!)