Last time on Jay and Cole's search for their lost master, Jay was upset about his and Cole's trip up the mountain near Ignacia. The trip took an entire week before they finally got to the top of the blizzard covered mountain. The two ninja took shelter in a cave they found only to be captured by the man who owned the cave.

Chapter XXII: Stopping Ice

Jay and Cole were now the prisoners of some sort of crazy weirdo. Jay was pacing around the cell, Cole was trying incredibly hard to get some rest, but it proved to be downright useless.

"All we wanted was a break, and now we're in prison!" Jay started to rant for the fifth time that morning. "We're all alone, we're never gonna see the sun again, we're probably going to freeze to de-"

"Jay!" Cole snapped. "Shut up!"

Jay looked at Cole for a moment as if he didn't understand what he just said. Jay then sat down and stared at a frozen wall with some strange markings on them.

After a while of silence Cole started to get scared. His friend didn't usually do what he asked.

"Okay, I'm up," Cole said as he sat up on the ice, cold, table-like bed to see Jay...meditating?

"Jay?" Cole asked. "Whatcha doin?"

Jay didn't respond. He reminded Cole of Master Wu, which was a reason to get out of this stupid prison. Cole was about to use his elemental powers on the cell door, when Jay grabbed his arm causing Cole to scream.

"What is wrong with you!" Cole whisper yelled. (If that's a thing)

"I stayed up all night afraid something would happen to us. Look!" Jay said pointing to a guard near a door at the end of the hallway. "That's 'Mr. Iceman's' personnel guard, and that's 'Mr. I Want to Kill Everyone Just Because', and that's 'Mr-'."

"How do you plan on getting out of here, then?" Cole interrupted, trying not to lose his temper, which was on a low budget today, for some reason.

"Okay, okay. Well, 'Mr. Iceman' has some sort of throne room or-or lab, or whatever it is, and he's using that room to freeze the top of this mountain! So, I suggest we go in the exact opposite direction and hope Lloyd calls us back to the city for something else that involves Nya on our team."

Cole facepalmed.

"Are you sure this wasn't a crazy dream or something? I have weird dreams all of the time that I think are real. One of them was so weird, though. It was about an orange genie, and-" Cole started.

"Woah, woah, woah, woah! Wow! Th-that's so weird how dreams work if you ask me. Good thing it was just a crazy dream, right?" Jay said before laughing awkwardly.

"Yeah, right," Cole replied. "If what you said about this guy is true, then we need to stop him! First the mountain, then it might be the rest of Ninjago!"

"But, Nya," Jay wined.

"But, Lloyd doesn't need us right now. Can I use my powers now?"

"Fine," Jay said as he crossed his arms.

The man that captured the two ninja wasn't aware of the ninja's elemental powers so Cole was able to use his RX powers to break the door of the cell down, but the guard at the end of the hallway heard them.

"Elementals!" he yelled. The man had such a loud voice, his warning was heard on the other side of the mountain!

"Yeah, hi," Jay waved once his senses had come back to him, "I'm Jay Master of Lightning, and this is my buddy Cole, Master of Earth. I know you probably hate us, but I have to give the king a little shock, if you don't mind," Jay finished his fast spoken sentence by electrocuting the guard.

Almost as soon as the first guard fell down, a hoard of other guards ran into the room.

Once the ninja had gotten through the doors the first guard was guarding, Cole said, "I thought this was supposed to be the throne room."

"Well, I was only in a cell," Jay shot back before running through one of the many doorways that was in front of them to enter a kitchen.

"Block the door!" Cole yelled as he picked up a nearby table and put it against the doorknob. Jay followed by placing smaller, yet heavy items on top of it.

"That won't hold them for long," Cole said as they could feel the vibration of the many guards trying to break through.

Cole looked over to his friend to see that he was stuffing food into his bags.

"What are you doing?" Cole asked.

"We would've starved if those hanging bushes didn't have any berries on them, and I'm still not sure if they were poisonous!" Jay pointed out.

"Eh, we'll find out in a day or two," Cole replied.

"Sure you don't want some of this cake?" Jay asked.

"Don't do that to me," Cole replied as he picked up an apple.

Once Jay finished getting food, Cole punched a hole into the wall to get to what appeared to be a break room.

There were a bunch of guards talking and playing cards. Or, they were before they saw the ninja and picked up their spears.

"Why did that guy have to take our weapons away?" Jay asked.

Cole punched and kicked every guard that was in his way until he got to a weapon rack.

"I don't know, but these should do," Cole replied as he threw some nunchucks back over to Jay as Cole had a hammer with him.

Jay kicked and punched and did spinjitzu on a bunch of guards while Cole knocked a unch out with his new hammer and did spinjitzu.

Once they were done, Cole picked up a helmet that one of the guards were wearing and said, "I have a plan."

A little while later, Cole and Jay were calming walking through the rooms in guard uniforms.

"You were right," Jay whispered as they walked back two unsuspecting guards, "no one suspects a thing."

The ninja looked through a bunch of different rooms until they made it to the throne room, but Jay was right to be confused earlier. The throne room looked a lot like a lab.

"What are you two doing in here?" the man who captured them asked.

"Oh, uh, we're just checking for suspicious activity," Jay said nervously.

"I was very clear with my orders that no one was to enter my throne room, but my personnel guard.

"Uh oh," Cole said.

The man lifted up his sword and charged at the two. Jay tried to stop him by electrocuting him, but he acted like he didn't feel anything.

"How?" Jay asked.

"There is a lot you don't know, boy," the man said.

Cole jumped up and was about to kick the man down, but he grabbed a hold of Cole's leg and threw him against a nearby wall. Jay then did spinjitzu on the man and threw him into a closet before locking the door.

"Did you see that guy's armor?" Jay asked.

"No. What was it?" Cole asked.

"It looked like it was made out of vengestone," Jay replied.

"That explains how he was so resistant to your power," Cole replied as something caught his eye.

He went over to some blueprints of some sort of machine. He looked up to see the machine with ice all over it. He pressed a blue button on it, and it started making a cloud near the ceiling.

"What is that?" Jay asked.

"I don't know," Cole replied.

He got his answer soon enough, when it started snowing. Cole went back over to the machine and pressed the red button, causing the cloud to disappear again.

"What did you say this guy wanted again?" Cole asked. He couldn't take his eyes off of the ceiling.

"Something about freezing the whole mountain to prevent people from coming," Jay replied.

"That's unnecessary," Cole said.

Jay was about to reply, when he noticed another machine. It was a bit smaller than the first one and had a dial and one button instead of the other one that had a bunch of different colored buttons.

"What do you do?" Jay asked as he turned the dial to the lowest level.

He pointed a beam on the machine towards the wall, but when he pressed the button it shook so much that it zapped him!

"Jay what are y..." Cole started when he saw Jay looking pretty frightened. He seemed uninjured but looked very different. He had longer, darker, curly hair, and his notch was completely gone.

"Is something wrong?" Jay asked as he scratched his suddenly itchy eyebrow.

"Um, no," Cole lied as he blew on his bangs again. "Anyway, we have to destroy this machine before it does any damage," Cole said as he picked up the ice machine.

"Great! How do we do that?" Jay asked.

"Let me out!" they heard the king yell.

"Is it waterproof?" Jay asked.

Cole looked at the blueprints before saying, "I'm not sure."

"It's waterproof!" the king yelled.

"How do we know you're not lying?" Jay asked.

"Because I'm trapped in my own closet by two people who hate me," the king replied.

"I don't remember them being that gullable," Cole mentioned.

"Just let me out!" the king yelled again.

Jay looked like he was thinking about for a moment.

"Are you crazy? We can't trust him!" Cole told his friend.

"Well, maybe he can help us," Jay mentioned.

"Fine," Cole relented before opening the closet door.

The king fell out as if he was leaning on the door beforehand before getting back up with an evil smirk on his face.

"How do we destroy it?" Cole demanded to know.

"It's not made to merely be destroyed," the king replied.

"Nothing is unbreakable. Even the realms can be destroyed. How do we destroy this?" Cole asked.

The king didn't reply.

"What if we put it in the water?" Jay suggested.

"It's waterproof," the king replied.

"Fried it?"

The kind didn't respond.

"Freeze it? Crush it? What if we burn it?"

When Jay said the last thing, he could see a wave of fear in the king's eyes.

"Aha! We burn it!" ay cheered at his newfound knowledge.

"Then we take it to K-Ah!" Cole yelled as the king kicked him to the ground causing Cole to drop the machine.

"Sorry, but I can't have you two spoiling all of my plans," he said as he picked up the machine.

Just as the man was leaving the room, Jay used his powers to take out the lights. The king couldn't see, and neither could the ninja!

"Seriously, Jay?" Cole asked.

"Sorry," Jay replied as they attempted to fight the king in the dark.

As they were fighting, Cole felt a strong sting in his side, and Jay nearly lost his weapon in the dark, but they could feel and hear that they got a few hits in, at least.

Soon, everyone could see again, but that was only because the king had lit a candle to show the ninja that he had dumped Traveler's Tea on them.

"No!" Jay yelled as they disappeared in a light purple cloud of smoke.

As soon as Cole had his senses come back to him, he realized that he and Jay were in the snow. Seeing as Jay's face was buried in the snow, he pushed him over to lay on his back.

"Aah!" Jay screamed once he was out of the snow. He looked around his surroundings and realized that he and Cole were still on top of the mountain, just really far away from the man's cave. "Well, at lease we don't have to climb again," he said, "but we can't destroy the machine, now!"

"Actually...," Cole said as he showed Jay the ice machine.

"How did you get that?" Jay asked.

"I tried grabbing that guy's weapon when he hit me, but I guess I grabbed this instead," Cole replied.

"Yes!" Jay cheered.

"And, we're here," Cole added as he looked at the monastery door in front of the two ninja.

They had made it. They might actually be able to find their master here.

I hope you guys liked that chapter. Next, the last chapter of Kai and Zane's journey.