Kai let out a loud yawn, when a touch with the same structure trailed down his delicate young scaly back. After regaining a little part of his consciousness, he looked around the room with his half-open eyes and saw each of his teammates along with Master Wu by their side standing in front.

For a moment he felt that this whole situation with the transformation into a serpentine was just a terrible dream, but after his fuzzy sight did not reveal the location of his younger sister, Nya, Kai got a thought that she was stroking him on the back.

The former fire ninja slowly glanced up and almost immediately cursed his curiosity.

No other caressed him, but the white gem on the chest and extended white neck with glowing red eyes itself played a major role in this.

Even if Kai's eyes were playing tricks on the owner himself, the young Pyro Viper himself was close to the truth.

Pythor P. Chumsworth. One of Kai's oldest, but still active enemies in his days when The Great Devourer decided to party in the city.

It was a terrible sight for a young snake. Why did his friends do nothing about it? Why did they just sat there after letting this white devil inside their Monastery as if nothing had happened!?

"H-help!" Kai wailed, as Pythor's hand rubbed the former red ninja's neck. "NYA!"

Jay tried to keep himself calm at this wreching sight, but under the pressure of terrified screams of his friend, could not stand it. Others were also unprepared for the sight when Kai would be terrified of his own parent, mostly Wu, who knew that Kai would not receive the message about his biological father well.

When little Pyro Viper tried to break free from the embrace of the "stranger" in its eyes that held him tight, he felt on himself someone else's touch.

Kai raised his head with new appearing tears and spotted Lloyd.

"Lloyd..." the young serpentine mumbled toward him with scared tone. "Please... Help..."

The green ninja actually heard that and gulped to give a sigh after that. Opening his eyes again, the blond boy smiled insincerely.

He knew that what he would say will be difficult for Kai.

"Don't be afraid, buddy" Lloyd said regretfully. "Your dad won't hurt you in any way. He loves you..."

Kai clearly ignored his friend's words and was still trying to break free.

"W-what are you talking about?" Kai stuttered, letting out a high-pitched hiss right at the edge of sentence. "My dad Ray loves me!"

Lloyd sadly sighed.

"You misunderstood me, Kai" the green ninja continued with even sadder voice. "Your DAD won't hurt you in any way..."

The young Pyro Viper however, still remained in own world.

"But I'm telling you..." Kai replied nervously. "My father really loves me... He will don't do anything to me!"

"Stop it!" Pythor yelled out angirly. "My son doesn't understand this mill!"

Silence fell over the entire bedroom, and Kai himself looked more and more tearful, which meant that other ninja didn't get along with him that way they all expected.

Lloyd slowly stepped back to the group.

The only good way to communicate with the little snake was their master, which Kai most took seriously. It was up to the old man how the conversation proceeded.

One could say that this was their personal confession under the guidance of Pythor.

When the older man felt that he could not break away from the eyes of his students, sighed and knelt before the crying little snake. Apparently, Kai heard clearly what Anacondrai holding him said.

"...Master, please..." the young Pyro Viper shook his head, hoping it's just a slander on the adult serpentine's side. "Just say he is lying... He can't be my father..."

To the horror of the young snake, Wu shamefully looked at the floor, specifically the wooden tiles. Pythor himself had nothing to say, hearing each word of pain from his son's snout.

"Kai" the old man swallowed. "Nya and your human parents will always love you..."

Kai didn't stop shaking. He began to believe, but concealed that emotion about the feeling of being abandoned.

"H-human?" he stammered with growing shock in his voice. "What do you mean by saying that? They're my NORMAL parents, right!?"

The young snake also sought the truth in his friends turning his glowing eyes toward them.

"RIGHT!?"

He searched in vain, when each of them just like Master Wu, stared sadly at the floor. When he heard no answer, Kai's eyes returned to Wu's place.

"No..." he shook his head in both directions understanding every detail, but it wasn't a nice feeling. On the contrary, the feeling of pain tormented him from the inside along with his broken heart out of despair.

Kai felt betrayed, unwanted and rejected by his own friends which he trusted the most.

The young Pyro Viper's vertical pupils widened to the size of plums, when he wanted to cry the most.

Master Wu sighed and gingerly caressed the former red ninja's massive snake skull. He was still sobbing with his eyes closed.

Well, he had a reason. The first time he learned that he was never human, and the other one that his greatest enemy from the past turned out to be his biological father.

It was a unsatisfying feeling for him.

Everyone in the room overflowed with sweat when they felt the heat rising in it. At first the heat was withstandable, but it became unbearable after a few seconds.

"Lloyd?" Zane managed to speak. "Is this your doing?"

The green ninja rubbed the forehead and shook his head in response.

"No... That's not me..."

"Aw, my tail!" Pythor suddenly screamed, causing every other ninja inside to flinch.

The whole group looked at their master, who stood still at that moment. If Master Wu looked like that, then something unusual had happened.

They were not wrong.

From the slightly bloodshot tail of Pythor, the young Pyro Viper slowly came down. This, however, was not the strangest.

Kai's scales became golden and his head looked like a torch. It was also the first time the Ninja felt sorry for Pythor, being

glad that none of the ninjas held the young serpentine on their knees when this phenomenon happened.