Well... we have an interesting case of death threat. Once again, Clovercream has threatened us, but in a different way.
You know I read this! Fine you want a better death threat you get one!
If you don't get the next chapter up by the end of December 20 I'll take my mini cannon, Adurna's CCS (chainsaw shooter), Kim's war tank and Ron's whip to kill you! And if that's not enough I wil personally and I mean personally, come to your house and rip you into shreds and then throw you into the Alantic Ocean!
Later, they added:
And that goes for both of you!
AL1321: First and foremost, there are spelling mistakes here. 'wil' should be 'will', and 'Alantic' should be 'Atlantic'. The references are, I suspect, from their own fanfiction, as this was the only place I could find them. All in all, you took our advice, created a highly specific death threat and even clarified! But... again the overused chainsaw (chainsaws are in ALL HORROR MOVIES, in TV, everywhere), and with the... interesting... acronym (one would think it would be CSS, not CCS), so with that and the spelling mistakes I give you an A-.
do0m: There are a few punctuation errors too, mostly commas, but this one has way more voice in it and, honestly, it sounds angrier than the other one, fabulous, I'll give it an A- too, good job!
AL1321: Later, we also received this death threat from Nightmare (Guest):
If you don't update i'll force the ninja to eat you ALIVE!
AL1321: No spelling mistakes, though it should be 'I'll', not 'i'll'. Though short, the threat itself is very creative! Forcing a five people to eat the two of us is quite a feat, as each would have to each 40% of a human being! Including organs as meat and blood as drinks, that would indeed be impressive! Taking off points for grammar and length, I give you a B+.
do0m: You use apostrophes properly, as well as only using capslock for emphasis (and avoided falling into the trap of multiple punctuation, Good Job!) but you did forget to capitalize on I'll, and I'm afraid it might to be difficult for a human to eat another human in large enough pieces they would still be categorized as 'alive' (though if the mutilation that would require is part of the threat, you could theoretically receive more kudos there too). Overall, I'd give it a solid B for ability to concisely complete the assignment.
Moppet, having finished another grueling training session with Lloyd (she ended up landing on her face every. single. time.), decided to go and watch some TV, but changed her mind upon reaching the TV room.
The TV was on, but Alexia was curled up next to Kai, both dozing as it was afternoon and the movie on was a generic horror movie with little to scare. Moppet smiled, they were adorable, even if she was the only one who could tell the two were dating. It seemed odd to her how Lane couldn't tell her best friend had gotten her first boyfriend, but Moppet was in no rush to tell her.
Closing the door as quietly as possible, Moppet went looking for Lane, finding her in the main control room, fixing the computer.
"Lane!" Moppet cheered happily, leaping onto her sister, "Hi!"
Lane shouted inarticulately in surprise, Moppet may not be the most skilled ninja on the ship, but she was not prepared for Moppet attempting to glomp her. In fact, had Zane not held Moppet back from tackling her sister, Moppet would have landed on the ground as Lane instinctively rolled out of the way of what she saw as a fast moving object.
"Hah! Got You!" Cheered Moppet, "I'll catch up with you someday Lane!"
Lane looked at Moppet, nonplussed, "You mean the surprise attack score? Aren't we 1824 to 46 at the moment?"
"47 now!" laughed Moppet.
"You did miss," commented Zane.
"Yeah, but I caught her off guard. That counts." Moppet huffed.
Lane sighed, she knew Moppet was not going to be talked out of this, it was better to give her a point and get her back for it later. As luck would have it, the subject was abandoned as Sensei Wu entered the control room. "Could you gather everyone here? There is a matter we must attend to."
Nodding, Zane let Lane finish (she just had to reconnect a few wires which had frayed) before using the intercom to get everyone in the control room.
"The spirit smoke has shown grave danger." Sensei began. "The Serpentine have found new uses for their dead stratagem."
"Uh, English please?" Cole asked.
"He means the Great Devourer's venom has been leaked into the water supply." Nya explained. "The cities have cut off the flow, but there are still plenty of people who were affected by the venom."
"Doesn't that goo turn you evil?" Kai pointed out.
"Not exactly." Nya pulled up a file on one of the earliest victims. "If it comes in contact with the skin, it...mutates the person. Some people have two heads, some grew multiple appendages..."
"What're appendages?" Moppet inquired. Lane whispered it to her sister before Moppet gave a small gasp. "That's disgusting!"
"You must fight. Cole, Kai, Zane, Lloyd, Jay; contain the infected while Nya works on a solution." Once the boys left, Sensei Wu turned to the girls. "You have a different task." He handed them a photo of a plant. "This herb has been known to show healing qualities, and is very delicate and rare; you will go and seek it out in the Wildwood Forest."
Lane looked at the picture, frowning. "What's it called?"
"Ginseng." Sensei Wu handed the photo to her.
Moppet frowned, it sounded familiar, maybe her mom had mentioned it somewhere? Not like it mattered anyway. This was a mission. She would walk through poison ivy to succeed in this mission… well… maybe not poison ivy… maybe custard. Yes, she would definitely walk through custard to impress Sensei Wu...
"Alright, let's go." Lane snapped Moppet out of her little fantasy of custard, causing Moppet to realize both Alexia and Lane were already armed. Moppet grabbed her claws before following the older girls out.
In Ninjago City...
"Nya wasn't kidding when she said 'multiple'!" Kai grunted, trying to fight off but not harm a three armed and four legged man. It fell flat on its back before walking like a spider on all... sevens...
Zane, who had the falcon flying, sighed as the falcon finished calculating the number of mutated in the city. "There are well over one hundred citizens who have mutated."
"So? Any ideas?" Cole asked, fighting with a two headed and five limbed child.
"Do not harm them, as we don't know which limbs or heads grew due to the venom and which were already there. Nya is working on whether or not this is permanent." Zane responded, ducking as three multi-limbed men threw a car at him.
"Remind... me... to..." Jay was panting, as he was continually faced by different opponents. "Get... a... blood sample... for her!"
"Nya has some of the venom on the ship from when we faced the Great Devourer. She'll be alright!" Kai yelled, forced to use the pummel of his blade to smack a person with a head growing out of his stomach.
Meanwhile…
"Is this it?" Moppet asked, showing Alexia a leaf.
Alexia checked the leaf against the picture. "Nope, we have to keep looking, those people are depending on us!"
Lane nodded grimly.
Also meanwhile…
Nya frowned, she was pretty sure she could cure a human, it wouldn't even be that hard, but she was sure she was forgetting something…
And back to where we started…
Jay was screaming, honestly not that surprising when he had just been attacked by a rat the size of a small horse with three vicious, biting heads, but the sound was still startling.
"Goddammit!" Kai sliced through one of the rat's heads, figuring it was fine as long as it wasn't a human. At first, he'd wondered why Sensei hadn't sent all of them, but right now he was glad, since even Zane was looking slightly squeamish.
"Any luck with the antidote?" Zane asked over comlink.
"Almost... got it!" Nya grabbed the medicine, running outside onto the deck before sliding down the anchor chain. "Just spray them in the face."
Cole grabbed the spray bottle and tried it on one of the R.O.U.S. It promptly grew another six feet taller and attempted to bite his head off. "Shhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
"It's only cleared for use on humans dumbass!" Nya shouted angrily as Cole ran from the now even larger R.O.U.S.
Grabbing the bottle from the ground, Zane sprayed a nearby human, who, unlike his rodent counterpart, appeared to choke for a few seconds before reverting to normal. "Must we spray every single human individually?"
"...Kind of." Nya admitted.
"Fucking fantastic." Kai grumbled.
Nya sighed, "I'll make more spray bottles…"
Five hours later...
Covered in blood, slime, and who knows what else, the male ninja and Nya were in the control room, finally finished with the killing of all animals and curing of the humans who had been infected.
The door opened, with a muddy Moppet tumbling in, panting. She had been fully prepared to go through custard for this (she had been carrying a spare spoon and everything), but she had not been ready or willing to go through a swamp.
"Found the motherfucker." Alexia and Lane walked in, the former carrying a small plant.
"Uh, I finished the antidote." Nya explained.
"Then what the hell was this for?" Alexia asked before the plant was taken by Sensei Wu.
"Thank you. This is a wonderful additive to tea and I was worried I might get a cold." He remarked, chuckling.
Eyebrow twitching, Alexia walked out of the control room. A few seconds later, a slamming of a door and several thuds were clearly audible.
"What wrong?" Kai asked, concerned.
"Either she's having a small tantrum, or she's torturing small animals." Lane replied, walking to the girls' room. She opened the door a centimeter before closing it promptly. "Yup, just a small tantrum."
"Should we-" Kai began
"No."
"What about-"
"No."
"But-"
"No. Leave her alone. It'll make her feel better, I promise."
"...Are you sure?"
"Yes."
Two hours later...
Lane and Moppet cautiously entered the girls' room, making sure to be close to the door. There were several burst pipes, causing water to have spread out onto the floor, the bunks had nicks and marks from being hit with a sword, and Alexia was currently on her bunk, slamming her head into the wall.
Sighing, Lane grabbed a wrench from under her bed. "I'll get to work on the pipes..."
Moppet plopped onto her bunk, trying to avoid stepping in the various puddles on the floor. "At least you're getting better with your powers!"
Alexia just slammed her head into the wall again.
Having managed to fix most of the pipes and stopped the water leakage, Lane went to Alexia's bunk, grabbing a longbow from underneath. "Go hunt something, we're low on meat anyway."
Taking the bow in hand, Alexia left the room while Moppet turned towards Lane.
"Why does she have a longbow under her bed?"
"Honestly, I don't think we want to know right now."
Sensei Wu entered the room, noting the mess. "I see Alexia did not take it well. Her temper rivals that of her teacher."
Lane shrugged. "Alexia does work believing there will be an outcome worth the work. When the outcome isn't, she takes out her anger on... whatever is in the room she chooses. Heck, she was peeved when she worked really hard on an essay and then the teacher announced it was just a completion grade."
"This was a test." Sensei Wu explained. "I wished to see how you worked together. It would appear you do well when working with each other."
"Was that why you followed us?" Moppet asked. "To see how we did?"
Sensei Wu raised his eyebrow. "I did not follow you. I was on the ship this entire time."
"But there was this thing following us." Moppet insisted. "Every time I looked back, though, it hid from us..."
"Moppet... what did you see?"