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Chapter XVI: The Last Draw

The ninja had made their way o the mountain many people called Gynim with more than a day to burn. The mountain was very cold and steep, and the winds were so strong it was too dangerous to use their wings to get up.

Although, Cole was an excellent mountain climber and couldn't be bothered by the snow, the others had a lot more trouble.

"I-I should be better at this," Cayden gasped for breath as he held onto Alex's hand to keep her from getting lost in the blizzard.

He grabbed onto Alex's wrist and threw her up onto a ledge of the mountain before he climbed up himself.

"How long do we have until the top?" Micah asked his mother.

"Another mile," Pixal replied.

Kiki groaned, "I can't take another step!"

"Calm down," Alex told her.

"I am not gonna calm down!" Kiki yelled back.

"Guys! Stop fighting!" Jay told them.

"You see, this is why I didn't bring Kyle and Sarah," Kai said as he tried gripping part of a ledge, only for it to give way, and he started to fall!

"Kai!" Jay yelled.

"I got this!" Cozu said as he took out his rope.

He swung it around a few times before letting part of it go to wrap around Kai's waist. Cole had to come down a little to help Cozu pull his uncle up.

"Are you okay?" Nya asked her brother once he was back to safety, or as safe as you can get on the side of a mountain.

"Just peachy!" was Kai's sarcastic response.

The group kept climbing until they finally got to a ledge where they could rest a bit. The blizzard had stopped, but it was still snowing, so Cayden and Isaac used scattered sticks from trees hanging on the mountains above them to build a fire.

Once everyone was settled, Lloyd asked, "How much time do we have?"

"Over a day," Zane replied.

"Can we take a break then?" Cozu begged.

"How long should it take to get up this thing?" Jay asked as he looked up at the rest of the mountain above him. It was a little hard to see due to all of the snow.

"Now too long," Cole replied.

"Good night," Cayden said as he fell down on his back.

"I'll make sure the fire doesn't go out," Isaac offered.

Lonnie looked at Cayden longingly before laying down herself. She had a bad feeling about all of this, but she didn't know why. She tried pushing her feelings down, but they just kept popping back up. It wasn't until Kai told her that it was her turn to watch that she really felt alright.

Lonnie looked at her friends before she turned her attention towards the fire. The repeated sounds of the sparks were like a lullaby. She tried her hardest to stay awake, but she had hardly gotten any sleep for the other three hours they were there. She drifted to sleep for what seemed to be a minute, when suddenly, Cole woke her up with a look of worry on his face. Lonnie felt an immediate wave of guilt as she realized what she just did, but when she heard the crackling of the fire she felt a little better.

"Wh-what's wrong?" she asked groggily.

"Where's Cayden?" Cole asked.

Lonnie couldn't exactly comprehend what Cole said for about a minute. She looked around the camp to see that everyone else was already awake, but someone was missing.

"I-I don't know," Lonnie explained, a wave of panic settling over her.

Cayden looked above him at the stars. He didn't know why, but they seemed to calm him. The ways they twinkled in the dark. It was like they were trying to say everything was going to be alright. He felt a restless energy overtaking him. He was a freaking wolf now! How would anyone expect him to go to bed now? He wasn't tired, and he desperately wanted to be. Finally, the former earth master got up and walked over to Lonnie. She was sitting by the fire like she was supposed to be watching the ever-going fire, but she wasn't even awake.

Cayden scoffed as he started to get up. He then quietly walked over to Jay and took the riddle from him.

"'Finally, when the wolf is all alone, place your items under the moon in the snow'," Cayden read. "Well, it says here, I gotta be alone," Cayden told his friends, even though he knew they couldn't hear him.

Cayden went over to Lonnie and took the pouch with the stone and moon crystal in it before he started climbing again.

It didn't take long to get to the top. Especially now that he didn't have to wait for everyone, and just as the riddle said, the whole top of the mountain was completely covered in snow. Cayden could see a huge, decorative clock like the one he saw in Shintaro. It was just about to chime the second time.

Cayden ran over to the clock, only to fall into a hole. He looked around him to see that he had fallen into the biggest of three holes. The smallest one was about the size of a coin with the Ninjagan word dead written in the snow next to it.

"That's not creepy at all," Cayden said as he quickly put the skull's stone into it.

He then looked at another hole, that was no where near as big as the one he had fallen into, but it was much bigger than the first one. The Ninjagan word wolf was written in the snow next to it. Cayden assumed that this was where the moon crystal went, so he put it into the hole. It fit perfectly!

The last hole, Cayden was now standing in was about the size of a person. It scared Cayden a little, but there wasn't anything else to put into it, so Cayden sat down.

The next minute felt like an hour for the Earth Ninja. Finally, the clock chimed, wind blew harder than it ever had before, knocking Cayden on his back. The next thing he knew, he could only see white, and he was colder than ever. Cayden tried to move, but as soon as he did, everything went dark.

"I-I don't know," Lonnie answered as she looked at everyone.

"You don't know? You were supposed to be awake," Cozu whined.

Lonnie just looked down in shame. If she had been awake like she was supposed to, she would know where Cayden was.

"He took the riddle," Jay told the others as he looked through his stuff.

Lonnie suddenly realized something. She was missing her pouch.

"He-he took my pouch!" Lonnie yelled as she desperately tried to find it around her.

"He must've gotten impatient," Kai realized.

"Oh, ya think?" Jay asked.

"At least we know where he is," Alex mentioned.

"Okay, Jay, Cole, Isaac, and Jamie. You guys come with me to look for Cadyen. The rest of you, stay here," Lloyd ordered.

"Yes, sir." "Yes, sensei," were the responses he got. The rest just nodded.

As the five were climbing (or flying, in Jamie's case) a huge blizzard nearly knocked them off of the mountain. Jamie had to change back to her human form to grip the mountain. Once the wind settled down, Jamie was able to change into her hawk form again.

"What was that?" Isaac asked.

"Some sort of freak snowstorm," Lloyd replied. Although, he seemed skeptical by the his own answer.

The five kept climbing until they finally got to the top. It was snowy, it was big, and it had a clock.

"This is my kind of place," Jamie said as she picked up a some snow.

"We're not staying. We're just looking for Cayden," Lloyd told his daughter.

"Aww!" Jamie groaned before she ran up to her father.

"So, Jamie's the master of destruction, right?" Cole whispered to Jay as they were walking up to the clock.

"Uh, yeah," Jay replied.

"How'd that happen?" Cole asked.

"Honestly, I don't know. She lived in the Never-Realm until she was five," Jay explained.

"Huh."

"Woah! That's a lot of snow," they heard Jamie breath.

Jay and Cole ran over to where the rest of the ninja were to see three mounds of snow near the clock.

"Why are these mounds here?" Jay asked as he stepped onto one of the mounds, only to have one of his feet fall in suddenly. "Guys!" Jay yelled. "Help me up!"

Cole used his powers to try to help Jay up, but he wouldn't budge.

"You're too heavy," Cole said.

"I am not heavy!" Jay shot back.

Isaac immediately tried digging through the snow with Jamie and Lloyd's help while Cole kept pulling to get his friend out. After a while of digging, Isaac could feel something else underneath the snow he kept digging, and Lonnie's pouch could soon be seen.

"Guys?" Isaac asked.

Jamie and Lloyd stopped digging as Cole had just managed to pull Jay out.

"Are you okay?" Lloyd asked him.

"Guys?" Isaac asked again.

"I'm fine," Jay replied. "A little cold, but fine."

"Guys?"

"Why couldn't he get you out before?" Jamie asked.

"I don't know, but I thought I felt something under there," Jay replied.

"Guys?!" Isaac yelled this time.

"What?" everyone else asked in unison.

Isaac pulled Lonnie's pouch and Cayden's glove out from under the snow. The glove had a few holes in it due to Cayden's claws, and a little bit of blood covered in frost.

The five started digging rapidly until they could see Cayden. Cole, Isaac, and Jay managed to carry him out of the hole while Jamie turned to her hawk form and flew down to the campsite.

Cayden was completely covered in ice. His face looked paler than ever, but he was still breathing.

"Oh, gosh," Jay breathed.

Jamie flew back only a few seconds later with some wood and matches. Lloyd quickly took them from her and started a small fire nearby. Color started to come back to Cayden's face as the frost melted from his eyelashes. It wasn't too much longer that everyone else had come.

"Is he okay?" Nya immediately asked as she ran over to her husband.

Jay grabbed hold of Nya to calm her down, and said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he-he's fine. Right, Zane?" Jay asked.

Zane looked at Cayden before he nodded in agreement.

"He should wake soon," Zane replied.

The group sat down around the fire for a little while before Kiki suddenly asked, "What time is it?" She wouldn't take her eyes off of Cayden.

"2:00 A.M.," Micah replied. "Why?"

"He's no longer in his wolf form," Kiki mentioned, eyes still on her adopted brother.

"You can't really see the moon up here," Cozu mentioned.

"But he was in it when we went to bed."

"And you can't go back to normal until the sun's up," Cole mentioned with a smile.

"That means..." Alex started to realize.

"It worked!" Lonnie cheered.

The rest of the group joined in her cheering as Cayden opened his eyes groggily.

"I take it it worked then?" he groaned.

Alex practically jumped on Cayden in her joy.

"You're okay," she breathed as she buried her face into his shirt. "You smell like dog, but you're okay."

Cayden chuckled at this comment before he looked at Cole.

"Please don't go," Cayden begged.

"I have to give you your power," Cole said.

"I don't want it anymore," Cayden's voice was barley audible

"I know," Cole nodded.

Cole tried to come over, but Cayden pulled away.

"Kiki," Cayden said as he slowly stood up. "You promised to give me the lamp."

Kiki gasped. She didn't expect him to want to do it once he was back to normal. She hoped that the idea of bringing Nadakhan back was because being a werewolf affected his thought process.

"Kiki," Cayden said a little softer. "You promised." Cayden then held his hand out to his sister, and said, "Please. Give me the lamp."

Kiki wasn't sure what to do. She wanted to keep the lamp away from him at all costs, but she did promise to give it to him once he was cured. She looked at her father for help, but Jay had his back turned. She knew it was because he didn't want them to see him cry.

Kiki then looked at Cayden's hand and slowly put it into his hand, but she wouldn't let go.

"I'll give this to you, but if it backfires, don't come crying to me," Kiki told him before she let go.

Cayden had tears in his eyes when he looked up at Kiki.

"I'm sorry," he said.

Kiki just turned her back on him as Cozu wrapped her in a hug.

"Alex?" Cayden asked.

"I'm with you 'til the end," Alex replied as she searched for his hand.

Cayden smiled sadly as he took it and lead her away from the group.

He helped his yang down the mountain and lead her to one of the burnt down houses in Ignacia. The sun was now shining through the broken window of the now one floored house as he let go of her hand and sat down. He looked at the lamp for a moment, then Alex, and said, "You sure you're gonna let me go with this?"

"I'd rather you didn't," Alex admitted, "but I know I can't stop you."

Cayden nodded as he looked at the lamp one more time and wiped the dust off of it.

Just one more chapter. I hope you guys liked this one. Please leave a review telling me what you think of the story so far.