And It's time for the last Pilot Chapter! Yeey.
The group hurried to the Fire temple in the hopes of finding Kai or Sensei Wu. With Samukai now in possession of the Golden weapons, they needed a plan to get there as well.
"Kai! Sensei." Cole called out through the closed doors, hoping to get an answer.
Zane removed his hood. "The sword of fire was here, as were our friends. But I only sense... loss. We are too late. The elemental weapons have left this realm and are now in the underworld, as is our friend. The end is drawing near."
Cole sighed and let himself fall down on the staircase next to Calli "Great, the one place no moral can cross over."
"We might not be able too." A familiar voice suddenly rang out as the temple opened. "But a dragon can."
The temple revealed Kai and his sister seated atop of the dragon of fire. The large lizard looked at Cole, who let out a scream and dove behind one of the pillars.
"Our father used to tell us stories about the dragons, how they were mystical creatures that belonged to both worlds and ferried between them."
The Earth Ninja didn't buy it. "Are you INSANE?" He called from his hiding spot making the girls giggle.
"Once he realized we were trying to protect the sword of fire, he actually became quite a softy." The dragon nudged his head against Kai. "Ha-ha. Knock it off."
Jay tried to say something to The Red Ninja's sister.
"He cannot talk, but he would like to know if you like the color blue." Zane came to the rescue.
She smiled at the blue ninja. "It's my favourite color."
"Yess." Jay managed to squeeze out.
Kai turned to his sister. "Nya."
She nodded in understanding. "This is goodbye, isn't it?" The red ninja nodded. "Come back to me in one piece, Okay. I don't want to have to run the store on my own." The last part was jokingly, at least somewhat.
"I promise I won't be gone for long." Kai promised as he jumped on the dragon's back.
"I'll keep a candle lit outside our shop until you return." Nya said as Jay and Zane joined kai on the back of the dragon.
"Cole, you coming?" The black ninja was obviously torn between saving his friends and Ninjago and climbing on a dragon.
"There ehm… There is not enough room for all of us on that… that thing." Calli let out a agreeing hum as the Fire dragon gave him a look, feeling slightly insulted by being called a thing.
Kai just grinned, plan already forming in his mind. "You're right Cole, but I've got a way to fix that." Cole gulped, He didn't like where this was going.
Once at the frozen Wasteland, the Black Ninja knew his suspicions were right.
Zane was currently standing eye to eye with the Ice dragon. While they had to hurry, taming a dragon wasn't easy. Zane carefully moved towards the creature as it watched his every move.
"We need your help." Jay and Cole's jaws dropped as the dragon understood the White Ninja's plea and allowed him to climb on.
The lightning dragon had been just as easy. He was a little playful and Jay ended up playing tug of war to gain its trust. A pretty one-sided battle, but it worked nonetheless.
And then there was the Earth dragon. That didn't go so smoothly. Firstly, it still remembered them, so it ended up chasing them though the caves that were still fragile from Kai's plan with the golden scythe, and thus ended up collapsing again.
While the group came out unscathed, the dragon hadn't much luck as his tail became buried in rocks.
"Help him." Kai had pushed the frightened Cole toward the dragon.
"Okay, Okay." With a deep breath, he walked towards the agitated dragon. "H-Hey there." The dragon turned its head, making the black ninja jump back a bit and take a large bow around its head to its tail. "I'm just going to remove these rocks. Okay."
The dragon calmed down somewhat. Allowing the boy to get closer.
The rocks were cleared easily due to Cole's strength, and the moment he was free, the brown dragon spread its wings and turned to Cole who pressed himself against the cave wall.
But this time instead of attacking, it nodded its head in thanks.
"Alright you did it, Cole!" Jay called to his friend.
"Good job." Calli breathed at her friend whilst staying away from the dragon.
Cole gulped nervously, knowing what would come next. "Eeh, yeah."
"Oh no! I'm not gettin' on those!" The previous encounters with the dragons hadn't given Calli a favourable look on the animals. The moment Kai offered she could ride with him she started to protest furiously.
"Come on! We need all the help we can get! And besides that, we're not leaving you alone to get home yourself." Jay tried to convince her ignoring
"I'm not gonna fly on one of those."
Cole sighed. "If I'm going to fly one of those. You can do it to."
After a minute or two of soul searching the girl caved in.
"Fine." She sighed and turned to Kai. "But I'm flying with you." The red ninja snickered behind his mask and helped the girl up behind him.
Kai and Jay cheered as their dragons swooped through the sky. Absolutely loving the feeling of flying. Even Zane had fun atop the Ice dragon and Calli was just holding on for dear life.
Cole however, was awkwardly standing on top of his dragon, instead of properly mounting it, clinging to his saddle like a Koala to a tree.
"This is awesome!" Jay yelled as Cole told the earth dragon to slow down.
"Yes, this is quite fun." Zane agreed as Kai cheered some more.
"So, how do the dragons cross over to the underworld?" Cole shut them up from his position.
Kai braced himself as he felt his dragon speed up.
"I think we're about to find out!" He answered the black ninja's question. "You might want to sit down."
The dragons moved in tandem now. Taking a dive towards the ground in fast spinning movements. When they were about to hit the ground and a portal opened, allowing them to cross to the underworld.
"Is it over?" The Black Ninja asked as he felt his dragon had stopped spinning, carefully opening one eye.
"Hardly!" Kai called from the front as the dragons navigated the tunnels they were now in wincing as he felt Calli's nails dig into his side. "I hope these dragons know what they're doing!"
And they did, taking the ninja through a maze of tunnels.
"Hold on!" Kai called to his friends. "They're speeding up!" Right after the warning there was no sound and all blackness for what felt like forever.
And when they finally got out, there was too much speed for the small landing space and the deceleration was enough to throw them all out of their saddles.
"HA! Solid ground!" Cole exclaimed too happy to be off his dragon to notice his situation. "We made it!"
"Speak for yourself." Calli grunted and pushed the boy off of her. Everyone jumped back on her feet and dusted themselves off. "Next time when you take a trip like this, leave me out of it."
Cole and Kai snickered at their female friend before they took a quick look around.
There was darkness and floating islands all around, the largest in the middle which was connected via bridge with a smaller one with a castle on it.
"They are there." Zane said with a look of determination.
Kai took another look, Spotting an army of Skulkin guards. "They're expecting us." He explained after seeing the two generals conduct a cart control, searching all the barrels in it.
"Let's go." Cole whispered.
The group used the stalactites to get over to the main island. Kai however lost his grip somewhat as a piece of his fell off, He was able to hold on, but the rock fell down, effectively knocking out one of the guards. The group held their breath as the other guard looked around for what had knocked out his colleague.
Calli let out a relieved breath at the skeletons inability to think to look up.
All of the sudden. Jay began to make shrill squeaks, trying to get their friend's attention. Needless to say, it didn't have the desired effect.
"Can I be the first to say, it's an absolute pleasure since Jay lost his voice." Cole said. Kai nodded but they soon realized their mistake. They were hanging onto Spykor legs. They let go as fast as they could and plummeted to the ground. Calli, who was at the back and still clinging to a real stalactite, cringed as they did so. It looked and probably was painful, she let out a sigh before jumping down as well, if they were going to die, might as well all go together.
There was a minute of silence before Nuchal leaned in to his partner. "Uh if there're more than one Ninja, is it Ninjas or just Ninja."
"I think it's just ninja."
"Oh, okay." The skeleton gave the group another look. "Then… NINJA!"
The skeletons jumped into action circling the boys who readied their weapons.
"I count ten boneheads to every one of us…. I think I like these odds." You could hear the excitement in Cole's voice as he spoke. That mood was quickly squashed however, when the Spykor decided to jump into the action, probably pissed that the group had been hanging onto their legs.
"Ehm anyone got any bright ideas?" Kai asked his teammates as he started to slash at the skeletons.
Jay tried to vocalize an idea.
"You feel a weird sensation?" Cole tried. Jay shook his head and repeated himself.
"You ate an odd crustacean?" Zane guessed.
"Oh, Oh I know!" Kai yelled. "Two natives on vacation."
The blue ninja growled and tried again. "Tornado of CREATION."
A collective "ooh" rang though the group as Jay's voice suddenly rang out, followed by a welcome back from Zane and Cole quoting Wu over the consequences.
"We're about to have a disastrous consequence." Said Kai, slightly panicked.
"Alright let's do this. Earth!" Cole unleashed his Spinjitzu first followed by Kai, then Zane and lastly Jay before they combined their powers to make the Tornado of Creation. Thanks to the distraction Calli was able to hit the dirt a safe distance from the Vortex.
It was large about the size of a small real tornado and was overflowing with elemental energy. The move did its job in trapping the Skulkin in a build from scrap, prison Ferris wheel.
"Come on, there's no time to waste." Kai called as the others admired their handiwork, running towards where Calli was now lying on the ground.
"You okay?" Cole asked as he helped her up.
The girl nodded. "Yeah, Just, maybe a little more heads up next time?"
"Then let's go" Kai had taken the lead as they hurried down the stairs and towards the sounds of a fight.
Sensei Wu was currently engaged in battle with Samukai, who was in possession of all the golden weapons apart from the sword of fire, which was the Weapon Wu was fighting with.
On the opposite side of the room was the dark shadowy figure that had told Samukai to get to the underworld, but this time a lot less shadowy and a lot more real. Lord Garmadon. His presence made Calli move behind her friends. Those shadows made her feel u
The battle between Sensei and Samukai went on, even though sensei only had one weapon, he looked pretty evenly matched. His movements were a lot faster than Samukai's, but Samukai possessed more brute strength.
Three of the four boys moved forward, only to be stopped by Kai.
"No." He said, stopping them in their tracks. "This is Sensei's fight."
Sensei used the sword to send a beam of fire at the skeleton leader. Samukai retaliated by throwing the Shuriken against the sword, forcing it into the ground, effectively it freezing over. The next attack would come from the Nunchucks and Wu was just able to dodge that in time.
With a loud yell, Samukai smashed the Scythe of Quakes into the earth, splitting the island he and sensei were fighting on. The shifting made the bridges connecting them collapse. The skeleton then repeated his last combo, this time, hitting Sensei in the chest with a lightning attack.
The sword of fire hit the ground with a loud clash. All eyes in the room fixed on it as Samukai made his way to grab it.
"Bring me the four weapons." Garmadon demanded.
Samukai didn't hesitate and grabbed the sword of the floor.
"NO!" He yelled. "You will obey ME now."
Garmadon just laughed, confusing Samukai as the weapons started to shake. Sensei jumped back to where his students were standing. This wasn't good.
"No-one can handle all their power at once."
"Selfish fool!" Garmadon yelled. "Did you think I wouldn't plan on your betrayal! You've fallen right into my masterplan! Not even I can handle all of their power! But now that they're combined, it'll create a vortex through space and time, it'll allowed me to finally escape this ghastly place!"
The weapons started to spin. Samukai let out a scream and then he was gone. Only a moment later a portal opened.
"Father would not want you to do this, Brother!" Calli's eyes snapped to Sensei Wu who tried to stop his brother.
"Father is no longer here!" Garmadon retaliated. "Good and even, there has always been a balance. Where I go, the balance can be destroyed. Soon I'll be strong enough to possess the four weapons so I can recreate the world in my image!"
With that he jumped into the portal.
Sensei lowered the brim from his hat.
"He is gone, but he will return."
The ninja all grabbed one of the weapons, now scattered on the floor.
"Then we'll be ready for him." Kai said, holding up the golden sword.
"And keep an eye out, in case he has any more of his evil plans." Cole pledged, grabbing the scythe.
Sensei Wu looked at each of his students. "Then I have done my part. The balance has been restored, for now."
Without any other words, he turned and walked away back towards the dragons.
Back in Ignacia, Nya was looking out of the window of the forge. The light had returned to the village, but her brother and the others hadn't, or so she thought. She suddenly could hear the sound of large wings and directly ran outside.
"Kai!" she yelled and threw her arms around her bother.
"Hey, my turn." Jay yelled, basically throwing himself down to the ground and Nya laughed as she hugged him too, making Kai roll his eyes.
"real subtle." Calli snickered as she jumped off the Earth-dragon, now named Rocky even with all the ginger girl's protests.
He just grinned. "I'll explain it later."
"I'm so happy you're back." Nya exclaimed.
"For now." Kai told her. "But it's not over, Lord Garmadon will return."
"And we'll be ready for him!" Cole agreed.
The Ninja went in for a high five with the golden weapons.
"Wait don'-" Calli's warning came too late, they had already done it and were directly thrown back by the blast.
"Okay, we gotta remember not to do that again." Kai groaned.
Cole agreed. "Ugh…. good idea."
"Yeah, we'll stick to high-fives instead." Jay said.
"Agreed." Zane finished. Making everyone laugh. "Is that a joke?" The white Ninja asked.
The group just shook their head in amusement as Kai pulled on his hood. Ready for the upcoming challenge.
And that was the Pilot! Yeey! The part with the dragons was actually fun to write. I went with it based on the personality from both the ninja and what I would assume worked best with that. Wisp only scared them using the thunder when they went to get the nunchucks, so i could picture him just very playful which could work well with Jay's mood swings and somewhat sarcastic nature. Shard, I thought, would be fun to be a more like Rider like Dragon situation with Zane just asking for help... Cole was just fun to torture some more XD I mean I could assume Rocky being pretty pissed they trashed his home. And as for Calli, She's not afraid of dragons per se but she doesn't favour them over any other way of travel.
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Anyhow I hope you enjoyed! Next chapter will take place in-between the Pilot and then it's onto season 1!
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