Cole is being pulled by the hand by Nya as she pulls him to the side of a cabin. "What is it, babe?" He asks.
"Did you tell Jeanette about what happened to Lloyd?" She asks with worry. "About finding a ripped peace of his uniform and the fighting and the avalanche."
He shook his head. "No. I know better then that." He placed a hand on his chin in thought. "But if Boma and Uthaug told her." He trailed off.
"Those two had better not have told her!" Nya said hotly and with anger. "I'll drown them in water if they did! Jen will be devestated."
"We need to go find her before something happens to her." Cole desides.
"Excuse me?" Nya stares at him.
"I'm going up there and find her and bring her back!" He insisted as he placed a hand on his chest. "If Lloyd comes back before Jen returns, Lloyd will make us wish that his father had really killed us."
She shook her head. "You're not going up there alone!" She refused. "I won't allow it." She folds her arms.
He gently took her hands. "Babe, Kai told me that you still feel guilty over what happened when me and Jen fell." He said gently, Nya pulled her hands away and threw her arms around his neck.
"I'm so sorry!" She cried as she clung to him, and he held her just as tightly.
"Stop blaming yourself for what happened." He said gently. "It was a freak accident."
"But I should have saw it." She cried, her tears getting his shoulder wet. "I should."-
"Stop!" He insists, pulling away from her gently. "Sweetheart, please don't do that to yourself."
She nods and swallows hard. "Ok." Her voice shook a little.
Cole kissed her gently. "I'll be ok." He promises, he notices that she's still shaken. "Come here." He gently pulls her into his arms, she clings to him as she closes her eyes tightly.
XxXxXxXx
Jeanette is fighting off Krag, his roar is heard from the Great Lake. "I love Jackie Chan!" She smiles after sending the creature flying back from her. "Your days of terrorizing travelers are over!" She points at him. "Ninja, go!" She leaps into the air and does Spinjitzu. She knocks the beast back against a ledge. "I want the Traveler's Tree! And no overgrown ape is gonna stop me!" Krag rips off a branch and smacks Jeanette with it, sending her flying back and crashes into a rock and she falls to the snowy ground, more snow falls down on her. Krag growls and roars in victory.
XxXxXxXx
Cole, and Jay are walking the mountain, searching for Jeanette. They pause in there tracks when they hear Krag's victory roar.
"That has to be the creature those villagers call Krag." Cole said.
"Yeah, that's a bad sound. Every time I hear a sound like that, it's big with lots of teeth!" Jay said with worry.
"And I'm betting Jeanette found serious trouble." Cole added. "This is partly our fault, you know."
"Oh!" Jay threw his arms into the air. "I had no idea how sensitive she was about losing the Traveler's Tea!"
"Jen has always been sensitive." Cole reminds.
"Why didn't she just tell us that she's going alone to find the Traveler's Tea?" Jay once again threw his arms into the air.
"Nya says it's because Jeanette still wants to prove her worth on the team."
Jay stops walking with surprise. "What?" He stares at his best friend.
Cole stops and turns to him. "Yeah. Harumi really rattled Jeanette last year. Come on!" He turns to continue walking. "We gotta find Jeanette!"
"Lloyd will kill, us once he finds out we let Jeanette gone off on her own!" Jay cried. "Why didn't we bring weapons?!"
XxXxXxXx
Jeanette awakes to find herself in an unknown cave, and prances to her feet. "Where?" She starts as she looks around and stops to see a big footprint. "Uh oh!" She backs away and continues down the cave, until she hears Krag's sound and hides.
Krag approaches the spot where Jeanette was, finding she's disappeared. Jeanette leaps at Krag. "Ha-yah!" Krag falls back into a wall, then charges at her. Jeanette turns and runs. But she slips on the very slick ice and smacks into an icicle. Krag approaches her, Jeanette punches the air above the creature and a stalactite swings against the wind, Jeanette punches the air harder and this time the stalactite falls down on Krag, trapping him. Jeanette turns and runs up the stairs, finding a bedroom. "Bunk beds? I hope his friends don't come back." She walks little further into the room to find a burial mound with flowers. "Burial mounds?" She turns. "He is the last of his kind." She hears Krag's groaning. "The poor thing."
XxXxXxX
Krag struggles to get the icicle off him, he looks up when he hears Jeanette's footsteps. Jeanette walks down the steps and sees the branch, picking a berry off it.
Krag points to his mouth and makes chewing sounds.
"Food?" Jeanette looks at him. "This is for me?"
Krag nods, Jeanette looks at the berry, she turns so he can't see that she puts the berry in her pouch.
Jeanette turns back to the creature. "There where more of you, wasn't there?" She asks as she knelt in front of him. "You're the last of your kind." Krag nods. "Your family? What happened to them?" Krag turns to growl at something on the icy ground. Jeanette walks over and picks up a crossbow. "Ice Samurai?" Krag's response is a growl. "And now you're all alone." Jeanette throws the crossbow to the floor. "Wow. I should stop suspecting that every new person is going to be like Harumi. I thought you wanted to kill me. The bridge was breaking and you saved me! And then instead of being nice, I attacked you, so you were just defending yourself, weren't you?" Jeanette uses her telekinesis to push the icicle off Krag.
Krag stands to full height and roars.
Jeanette takes a step backards. Krag grabs her and squeezes her in a very tight hug. "Oh-ok. I ... can't breathe. Put friend down?" Krag excitedly jumps from one foot to the other and twirls around. "Whoa! Oh, boy! Whoa! Getting nauseous. Starting to black out." Krag puts her down and Jeanette holds onto a stalagmite for support. "Oh, ok. Listen, d-don't do that again, okay? No more squeezing. Or spinning. A-and, listen. This is great and all, but I didn't come all the way out here just to make a new friend. I'm looking for a tree." Jeanette explained. "A special tree. Do you know where it is?" Krag scratches his head with confusion. Jeanette picks up the branch. "The Traveler's Tree." She shows him the branch. "Do you know where it is?" Krag finally understands and runs out. "Wait! Where are you going!?" She follows him, even as he jumps ahead.
Krag stops and and turns to see Jeanette trying to keep up. Krag returns and picks up Jeanette.
"Whoa! Ok, whoa, whoa. J-J-Just take it easy." She tries to hold on while Krag runs. "Please, big guy, slow down. Ok! Careful, careful." She makes the mistake to look over her shoulder. "Don't look down!" She cried as she turns back around. Finally they reach the top, Jeanette jumps off to see the Traveler's Tree. "Whoa!" She breaths in a whisper. "The Traveler's Tree." She walks closer to it. "It's beautiful." Her eyes glitter with tears. She walks over to the tree and jumps up onto one of the branches and gently picks some leaves, before jumping down. "Thank you, Krag. Because of you, my friends and I have a real chance of getting home."
Krag beats on his chest proudly.
XxXxXxX
Cole and Jay arrive at the cave. "This is where those creepy footprints lead." Jay said as they enter.
The two walk further into the cave, and come up into the bedroom.
"It's definitely the creature's home." Cole comments. "Look."
The two walk further into the bedroom, finding Krag's bed. "That's a really big bed." Jay comments nervously, then gasps. "How big do you think Krag is?"
Cole knelt down to investigate a footprint. "Pretty big."
Jay steps into the footprint, before quickly stepping out. "I wish Kai was here." He said as they walk further through the cave.
"Someone had to stay and protect the village." Cole told him.
"Yeah, but who's protecting us?" Jay said nervously, Cole stops him when they hear Krag's shadow. "We should have brought weapons!"
Cole gasps when she saw a shadow that looked like a limp body. "We're too late."
"J-J-Jeanette." Jay stutters. "Lloyd is going to see no problem at seeing his father kill us now."
Cole grabs his arm and yanks him behind a bolder.
"That monster!" Jay said.
"And he's gonna pay." Cole replied. "On three. One, two, three!" He and Jay jump over the bolder, Jay sending a powerful blast at Krag - sending the creature and Jeanette back into a wall, Jeanette gets covered in snow.
Jeanette picks herself up from the icy ground. Just as Krag is shoved back into her. She grunts and manages to squeeze out from behind Krag.
"No! Stop!" Jeanette runs up and stand in front of Krag. "Don't hurt him."
"Jen!" Cole, and Jay run over to her and the three hug in group hug.
"We thought that."-
"How!?"
Krag suddenly jumps up, he grabs Jeanette and throws the branch into Cole and Jay. "Friend."
"What?" Cole asked with his hand on his head.
Jay sat back. "Did Krag just say 'Friend?'"
"He's not a monster." Jeanette explained. "That's what I was trying to tell you. He's, well. He's Krag. Krag, Cole, Jay. My friends. Krag helped me find the Traveler's Tree. He helped me get this." She pulls out the leaves and shows it to her friends.
Jay gasps. "Are those."
"Traveler's Tea leaves?" Cole asks, raising an eyebrow.
"But how? Where?" Jay asks.
"I'm trying to tell you. There's a tree up this cliff. And I never would have found it if if hadn't been for Krag's help."
Cole, and Jay look at each other then look back at Krag. "Wow, we're sorry we misjudged you." Cole apologized. "We heard some crazy stories and I guess we let them get the better of us, and." He trailed off.
"Yeah, I don't think he understands all that." Jeanette said.
Cole thinks about it, then offers his hand. "Friend?"
Krag looks at him, then grabs all three - hugging them tightly.
"Again?" Jeanette wheezes out.
"Can't ... breath." Cole wheezes out.
"Uh, what's he doing?" Jay wheezes out.
"Uh, down, Krag! Down! Let us down!" Jeanette insists. Krag lifts his arms and the three Ninja drop, and they breath heavily. "Krag, how would you like to come with us? Down the mountain." She offers.
Krag gives him a shock but confused look.
"Krag." Jeanette stood up. "Come with Jeanette. Come stay with friend. Ok?" Krag nods with excitement.
"Great! Well, that's settled." Cole smiles.
XxXxXxXx
The three head back down the mountain, Krag stops and turns to look back. Cole and Jay walk up to stand on either side of Jeanette.
"Let him have a moment." She tells them as she takes each of their arms as the watch Krag plant the branch and growls and roars.
"What's he doing?" Jay asked.
Jeanette smiled sadly. "Saying goodbye to family."