Chapter 44

They ran to the stone warriors with Lloyd and Mel feeling as strong as ever while the others held their new weapons confidently. Kai was first to strike. As the stone warrior strike down his sword, Kai used his elemental blade to block it and this time, it didn't shatter. The stone warrior looked surprise while Kai smirked. Kai lifted his sword and pushed all of his weight onto the stone warrior, forcing it to the ground. With a swift swipe of his sword, he engraved a fiery X on its chest. The warrior stumbled backwards and into the others.

"This is cool!" Kai exclaimed. Hold his blade tight in his hand, he spun around doing Spinjitzu. Oh boy he missed it so much.

Meanwhile, Jay faced a couple of stone warriors. They all came charging at him in a line. The first one threw his spear in his direction. Jay jumped up and the spear lodged itself into the pillar. He jumped back swiftly onto the spear. He saw the samurai who threw it went to grab it. Seeing his blade sparked again, Jay flipped off and let the electricity run through the spear. The first samurai got electrocuted then the others bumped into him therefor they got electrocuted as well.

Zane quickly dodge an arrow which pierced through the air heading towards his neck. Sensing danger right behind him, he did a black flip and pinned the warrior down. He used his new blade and cut across the warrior's arm and to his surprise, the warrior turned into ice. Zane got up and kicked the glass statue and he watched as it broke into tiny ice cubes. He smiled as he tossed his blade between his two hands.

Cole quickly climbed up the wall as a group of warriors charged at him. He held onto his weapon tight as he came up with a plan. Breathing out slowly, he let go and jumped onto each of the 6 samurais heads. Jumping down, Cole strike his blade into the ground and a pile of dirt had raised, trapping the stone samurais in its grasp. He laughed and danced through their heads and jumped onto them again.

Melanie skillfully used her new form as an advantage to move swifter. Whenever she needs to escape from a tight squeeze, she would transform herself into a puddle and float through their weapons. Even though they can go through her, it made her feel uneasy. She made her orbs in her hand and shot it to the warriors and the results surprised her. Not only she gets a new transformation but also she had become stronger. Once her orb shot at the stone warriors, it expanded into a bigger one, with the warriors trapped inside there were less to battle. But Mel needed to destroy them.

"Turn them into ice!" Zane shouted towards her as he faced another dozen. Mel nodded and turn the water orb into ice and to her surprise, the warriors were also ice. She ran up to it and kicked at hard as she could and it burst into pieces. She sighed in relief but the hunger sensation did not disappear.

All the current stone warriors in the temple were gone but another lot had just arrived.

"I got it!" Lloyd shouted as he created his green sphere but instead, it turned into a golden colour. As he was about to unleased it, the orb itself turned into a golden dragon. The size kept expanding which scared the stone army back. The dragon exited the temple and let out a loud yet melodic roar.

"We did it!"

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"Your army isn't as tough as you said they were." Garmadon said as he walked around the large countdown clock, talking to the Overlord.

"The ninja may be getting stronger but so are we. When the celestial clock reaches zero, the ultimate weapon will be complete and there will be nothing the ninja can do to stop us."

"But when will it reach zero?"

"In a couple of hours now until the final battle."

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Mel giggled as Zane spun her around as they were on the beach, relaxing.

"Throw another coconut!" Kai exclaimed. Cole threw it high in the air as Kai shot a fire ball from his elemental blade. As the too collided, a strong coconut and smoke smell was released into the air.

"Enough cooking coconuts, we should swim!" Mel exclaimed as she took Zane's hand into hers and pulled him into the ocean in their swimmers. Zane couldn't help but stare at her slim body in her one piece aqua swimsuit.

How can she still be slim after child birth?

Mel instantly splashed the others soaking Zane's shirt, Jay's singlet and Kai's and Cole's bare chest.

"The ocean water is cold! And don't you know where the fish poo and pee?" Jay asked. Once they returned, Kai thought it would be funny to tell Jay a joke except this joke got to him seriously.

"We were just joking Jay." Kai laughed.

"Still…" Jay muttered.

"Fine, let's go and see what Nya and Lloyd are working on then." Cole suggested. The others agreed and left the beach and to the sand hill where the bounty was hidden.

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Nya tightly screwed the last bolt into the falcon's mechanical body.

"Wow, you must be pretty smart to work out how to fix the falcon without the blueprint… Are you sure that piece goes in there?" Lloyd asked as he watched Nya's moving hands closely.

"Of course, every single piece is important. If one piece is missing or misplaced, the invention won't work." Nya informed. "It's like you and the others, each of you have an important role like each gear. All gears could lead up to special inventions like every ninja can lead up to a great fight." Nya told him and she placed the hatch back on and the falcon's eyes glowed a blue color. "Come on, Zane must be worried about you."

"Nya!" Melanie called out as she and the guys arrived at the bridge.

"Hey everyone, look who just woken up!" Nya smiled as she let go of the falcon.

"My falcon." Zane smiled as it perched on its owner's shoulder. Nya laughed and looked back to Lloyd, who looked upset.

"What's wrong?"

"Nya… if we're all gears, what happen if I'm the gear that doesn't work? I can't defeat my father… I just can't."

"I know you don't want to defeat your father but I don't think it would happen…"

"But we can prevent the final battle."

"Misako!" Everyone exclaimed, startled by Misako's sudden appearance along with Sensei Wu.

"We had recently discovered a scroll that may give us a clue of more about the celestial clock Garmadon had activated."

"What scroll?"

"This one… The one you guys found in the cave."

"Ohhhhh, that one!" jay exclaimed.

"Shut up, we all can hear you." Kai hissed but Jay ignored him.

"Well, the scroll says that when the helmet of darkness is removed from its perch, the celestial clock will countdown to the activation to an unspeakable weapon. The first sign of the final battle between good and evil has begun." Misako explained.

"Unspeakable weapon?" Mel asked… "Oh sorry, go on, I didn't mean to interrupt."

"It's alright-"

"Err, sorry but how do we stop the final battle?" Jay asked, interrupting Misako's sentence.

"It doesn't say anything in the scroll but what happens if we return the helmet of darkness?" Misako questioned the others.

"Hmmm, that could work." Sensei Wu muttered, stroking his beard as he leans over to read the scroll as well.

"So are you saying that if we return the helmet, the clock will stop and the unspeakable weapon will cease to exist?" Kai asked.

"Yes."

"So that means the final battle won't start!" Lloyd exclaimed.

"But that means we'll have to go through the whole army and get the helmet off of Garmadon's head. That's going to be much harder than it sounds." Cole sighed.

"So I'm going to do it."

"What? Misako you can't do that!" Nya said.

"But of course they'll help me." She said and pointed to kai, Jay, Cole, Zane and Mel.

"What about me?" Lloyd asked.

"You'll only prematurely start the final battle." Wu told his nephew. The green ninja sighed. "Remember, we're trying to prevent the final battle, not start it."

"Ok…"

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"Arg, why is their amour so damn heavy?" Mel whined as Zane helped her into a stone warrior's amour that they had managed to get their hands on.

"It's made out of stone, not chains and fabric." Jay reminded her.

"Can I just soak into the ground and follow you?"

"That can work, the less of you is better so they won't get suspicious but please do stay close." Misako said. Mel nodded and turned into her water form and soaked herself into the ground below.

"It's going to look weird then, wet sand that's following us." Kai pointed out and he tied Misako's hands behind her back. "Are you still sure you want to do this?"

"Yes I'm sure and for Melanie, she could be in our shadow because wet dirt is always darker." Misako answered.

"Ok." Mel replied.

"That's freaky, talking dirt…." Jay muttered. Cole couldn't help but laugh. "Wait, can't we just get Melanie to hypnotize Garmadon? I remember she did that to Kai once."

"Don't remind me please…" Kai muttered as he holds his hand to his face to hide the embarrassment.

"To be honest I forgot how to do it plus I need my normal form. Before I can actually hypnotize Garmadon, he would call for guards and they'll come and we'll be screwed."

"Come on, let's go in." Cole beckoned them to the gate which was currently closed. Cole banged his fist hard on the wooden gate. The gate spun open and the 4 ninja disguised as stone warrior walked in with Misako in ropes to appear she had been captured.

"Unhand me!" Misako shouted. All 5 of them were surprise that she wasn't a bad actor. Then a stone warrior in complete red came up to them and spoke something in their language.

"What did he say?" Kai asked, whispering to the others.

"I don't know… Somebody say something." Zane whispered back.

"Bada Bada Bing dong." Cole said to the stone warrior.

"Chep chep tadada da." Kai also said.

"Tick tock tick tock." Zane mentally punished himself. That's a clock, not a language…

"Be que be que be que." Jay next said. They all could hear the others sighing. They knew they were in trouble.

"Alright, you caught me but I'll never tell you where we are hiding. If you want answers you might as well take me to see Garmadon and see if he could do anything." Misako said bravely but when the Stone warrior got closer to her, the old woman started to shake. He grabbed her shoulder and took her into the direction of a high tent.

"Mel, follow Misako." Cole whispered. They knew she was listening to him once they saw wet dirt moving towards Misako shadow.

"That's soooo cool." Jay said.

"But what do we do know? We have to stay and make sure Misako get out safely but we don't even know what they're doing." Zane said as the 4 of them started to walk around.

"Well it looks like they're building something." Kai muttered.

"Come on."

Ah! That was so rushed! Sorry everyone! I'll try and do better next chapter! :(
But please review.