And once again I finished 2 chapters this week and am busy with the 3rd (Well the second and third are from the same episode but otherwise that one became way to long...) ooh and i figured out how to do the line thingies thanks to It'sYourGirl xD
"Forget it! I'm not hitting ye." Calli growled, awkwardly holding a training sword in her hands. She never thought she'd miss her Glaive.
"Come on. You won't hurt me."
"It's not you I'm afraid for." The girl muttered crossly, glaring at Cole. Why did she agree to help again? Oh yeah, to cover for Nya.
"Please, just train with them to keep them busy."She had said. Calli had agreed, but only realized the boys hadn't known about her and Nya's training sessions and thus couldn't train with her own weapon, or let them know she could fight for that matter.
She chose Cole for the sole reason he was the only one available. She didn't want to risk more burns by the hand of Kai, Jay was practicing with the Arrows and Zane was meditating.
"I won't hurt you, it's just a bit of sparring."
After some convincing, she finally but reluctantly agreed. "Ugh, Fine! Just… go easy on me, 'kay?
Five minutes later, she was once again on the ground, Cole's golden scythe against her neck.
"Careful!" She cried out.
"Sorry." The Black Ninja pulled the weapon away and moved to help her up when Jay suddenly let out a shout and only a second later Cole had lost his scythe and was nearly on top of her. Zane had suddenly sprung up, interrupting Jay's routine, Stealing Cole's weapon and freezing the training grounds.
"Ehm… Sorry." The Black ninja coughed and got off of her.
Calli stood as well, cheeks somewhat red. "Don't worry about it." She told him and walked towards the other two boys.
"Had a nice practice?" The Blue Ninja couldn't help but tease.
"Shuttit." She muttered, turning away her head to hide her red cheeks making Jay snicker
Kai scoffed as he kept his gaze on the White Ninja. "This roof isn't big enough for the four off us." He commented on Zane's behaviour.
"Correction." Cole looked at him. "This roof isn't big enough for him." The Black Ninja refused to look at her, instead focusing on the boys. It made Calli raise her eyebrow but she didn't mention it.
"Yeah, it's like he's off in his own little world." Said Jay before turning his head halfway towards the White Ninja. "I bet he can't even hear us!" His sentence ended in a groan as Calli jabbed him in the stomach.
Sensei made his was over to his students.
"Sensei." Kai started his complain "Zane's weird."
"What is weird?" He answered "Someone who is different or someone who is different from you."
"No Sensei, he is weird -Weird." Cole said and explained why. Apparently, Zane walked into the bathroom without knocking and completely ignored him.
"Yeah, Nya and I were watching a movie, and during the really sad part he just started laughing!" Calli had to snicker at that. Only to be on the receiving end of one of the Blue Ninja's glares.
"And I found him in the fridge last night! We like the guy, he's really smart! He's just a little... Ehm…" Kai fumbled a little, trying to find the right word. "Off… Sometimes."
"Wait, the fridge?" The ginger girl asked incredulously. The red ninja nodded.
"Zane is a brother. Brothers are often different, I should know." Calli gave the man a small smile before walking off and grabbing her Violin. She'd put it next to the gates before training so she could practice afterwards and it turned out that the dragons had taken a liking to the instrument. So, when she practiced, she practiced there.
However, she was just getting ready when Cole bolted down the stairs. No doubt to take care of Rocky. She found it nice to see that the one person that feared dragons so much before, now loved his dragon the most.
"Well, there goes my practice." Wisp let out a whining growl, making her smile. "Another time, bud." She gave the Lightning dragon a pet on the nose before walking off again.
"You can just stay you know." The boy told her. Calli just shook her head and turned away.
Her violin practice wasn't something she wanted to share with the rest, at least not yet.
Around dinner Calli had been helping Zane with said dinner. She wore specific gloves so the metal knives and other equipment wouldn't actually burn her. She enjoyed cooking and thus had no trouble helping the ones on cooking duty, or saving everyone from the… interesting? Side effects from Cole's food. The boy had many talents… Cooking wasn't one of them.
"Everythin' ready?" She asked the White Ninja.
"Yes." He nodded "I believe we are done, thank you for helping."
The girl smiled. "No problem."
Zane grabbed the food and carried it out while Calli quickly threw the mess away before following.
The boys were arguing around the table, Nya listening bemusedly and Sensei was patiently waiting. "I didn't hear any complains about my duck chowder I made last night." That was Cole.
"That's because it glued our mouths shut!" Kai laughed. "You really thought jay was speechless all throughout dinner?"
"Yeah…. Please don't make that again."
"I dunno, I didn't have the problem and I really liked the silence." Calli quipped once she stepped in.
"Yeah, but you didn't even eat it." Jay argued.
"I wasn't hungry." This was true, Calli only really ate just for the fact of eating not because she was hungry, she'd learned quickly enough to keep up a charade on that front.
"Well not everyone can go without ever eating." The blue Ninja bit back as the others focused on their discussion with raised eyebrows as the redhead glared at her friend.
Kai raised an eyebrow making Calli advert her eyes. "I don't really need to eat." She confessed, clearing her throat. "I really only eat to just, Ya know… people find it strange when you never eat or drink." In fact, it wasn't human and she knew it.
Kai gave the girl a long look before shaking his head.
Calli was glad Zane interrupted any further banter. "Dinner is served."
Silence took hold of the room before people burst out in laughter. Calli kicked the two Smith siblings, not daring to kick a laughing Sensei, in defence of her friend.
"What's wrong?" Zane asked, obviously not getting why they were laughing.
"Zane!" Nya called as if it was obvious. "You're wearing a…. Even I wouldn't wear that!"
"Neither will I but ye don' 'ear me laughin' now do ya?" Calli bit towards her friends. She never was one who liked it when people teased. It's teasing when the one being teased can laugh along, if not, it's not funny.
"You laugh because I take steps to ensure I am clean after cooking?"
Kai laughed again, ignoring another kick from Calli. "No, we laugh because you came out wearing that ridiculous outfit!"
The white ninja looked down. "I guess we don't share the same sense of humor." He shrugged.
"Well how 'bout this." Cole grinned and pushed a plate of food in Kai's face, resulting in everyone laughing again.
"How could you not find that funny?" He laughed, Sensei walked up to the black ninja another plate in hand. Master Wu dumped it onto Cole's head, making him scream as some sauce slid down his back.
"Now you are brothers." The old man said. However, this only instigated a food fight.
"This's ridiculous. I'm outta here." Calli grumbled and left the room.
"Are ye okay?" Calli asked the White Ninja as she helped him with the trash. "They were really mean at dinner."
Before he could answer, a bird's cry rang out. A falcon was seated in the tree next to the door. Zane leaned his head to the side, the bird mirrored him. Then Zane shook his head and once again the bird mirrored it.
Then he mirrored a birds' behaviour. The bird did the same. Suddenly it flew off and Zane gave one last look inside the gate before following. Calli wasted no time sprinting after him, there was no telling what would happen if he went off on his own.
After a long walk, they ended up in wildwood forest. Lights slowly turned brighter in the distance and Calli could hear talking and hissing in the distance. As they got closer the lights changed into a treehouse. A treehouse filled with snakes.
"If I see one girl in here, I'm gonna go ballistic!" Calli crept closer, away from Zane, finally glad for years of stealth and thievery being put to good use, to see the kid from Jamanakai being carried by two snakes. The boys had explained he was Lloyd Garmadon, the son of Lord Garmadon, and the Snakes were Hypnobrai; a branch of Serpentine, or just a general problem to make a long story short.
"We have to tell the others." Calli told Zane as she walked back to him. He nodded and looked to the falcon.
"Thank you, my mysterious friend." And with that they hurried back to the monastery.
The boys went out early that morning, following Zane to the treehouse. Calli was actually glad they went out. She was still angry for their behaviour yesterday. Meanwhile Sensei was searching the storage room for some specific item. He hadn't told her or Nya what.
After some time, he came back out holding an old flute.
"They will need this. Nya, get your brother's dragon." The girl nodded and ran towards the stable.
"I'm staying here. I won't be much help against the snakes."
Sensei nodded. "Be careful, I have a feeling they will strike when they think we're gone." The ginger didn't answer as Nya ran back and the two went towards the treehouse.
In the time the others were gone, Calli took to meditating, trying to get herself somewhat in check. But after a minute of ten, her eyes suddenly snapped open. Something was wrong, there was a faint burning smell in the air, with a sigh she stood up, probably one of the boys that forgot to turn down the gas before leaving. She went to put it out, only to realize something. As she looked outside she could see smoke coming from both ends of the building.
Fire
And it was spreading fast.
Her eyes widened as she quickly went to close all the doors and windows. Closing them might not seem like a smart plan, but she had to slow it down. The less oxygen it would get, the slower it would go. It hadn't reached outside yet.
Calli wasted no time, grabbing a large bag and raiding all the rooms. The game-console for the boys, Jay's blueprints and work, Cole's art supplies, Nya's project, USB and Tools which she had hidden inside a hollow support beam, Zane his cooking supplies, Kai's weapons and even Sensei's tea-set.
She went to Nya and her room lastly, only to find it impossible to get to now, while slowly crawling, the flames had still taken hold of their room
Calli bit her lip, feeling the pain of her Violin and books boing lost, but she had to get out. The smoke was getting to her, as was the heat.
Coughing, she ran towards the door, Careful as to not touch any of the flames.
"Thiss will do." The ginger girl's head snapped up. She couldn't see who, but she knew it was snakes.
The voices were followed by the sound of something shattering, a flash of light and heat, effectively knocking her to the ground. The flames had grown, licking the walls and the floor.
Calli started coughing, the smoke burning in her lungs, her skin was sweaty and places on her arms and legs burned painfully. She stood up again, the beams started to creak, break and move. With the bag clutched tightly against her body, she took a sprint. By now the fire had access to the outside, burning down the walls.
She pushed the remains of the door out of the way and stumbled out. The wind outside felt cold on her skin and she could feel her lungs opening up again.
Suddenly she heard the roars. The Dragons. They were stuck in their stables!
Ignoring the pain in her limbs she ran down the stairs to the pens, pushing down the lever that opened all the doors at the same time.
They all flew out, glad to have fresh air, and circled the monastery. Wisp used his wings to clear the smoke away from the girl, who was now on her knees. She vaguely noticed that the three dragons became four but didn't bother to get up. That was until Zane moved past her. The girl pushed herself up and followed after him as he mounted Shard.
"Where ye going?" Her friend jumped up a bit and turned towards her. He pointed upwards. The girl's eyes lit up, despite feeling terrible and moved towards the dragon.
"Well, let's go then." With some hesitation and difficulty, she climbed behind Zane on the dragon and Shard took off.
"Maybe you should have stayed with the others. This heat is very bad for those burns."
Calli swallowed the piece of ice she was sucking on. "I'm fine, it's not like I haven't been burned before."
Zane had managed to make her a couple of ice-cubes, mainly to smear her throat, and albeit her voice was still somewhat raspy, it was working.
The duo was currently walking though the desert, as Shard got tired from carrying them. so, right now the dragon was walking next to them. The falcon was flying overhead and a small snake was slithering next to Calli's feet.
After stopping to let Shard rest, Calli had found the animal dehydrated and shared one of her now melting ice-cubes. The animal then decided to tag along.
"Where is that bloody bird taking us?" The girl squinted against the sun as the falcon flew in front of it.
"No idea, but he has not once lead us astray."
"Can't argue with ye there bud." It was true, until now the Falcon had helped them… or the boys rather and it seemed to have a bond with Zane. "What's that'?" She asked as the bird landed on a giant rock and cried out.
The two looked around the large rock and Calli grinned at her companion.
Laughter sounded through the Ship called "The Destiny's Bounty". Well, from all but the Ginger girl who was being held down by Kai and Jay, whilst Cole and Nya worked on wrapping her libs with bandages. Nya handling her legs as Cole did her arms. Calli herself had stopped struggling by now and was only muttering every curse word in her vocabulary and probably all forgotten vocabularies.
"You really should take more care of yourself." The girl cut her current curse to a halt to give the Black Ninja a dark glare. She honestly liked the guy but sometimes… She opened her mouth to retaliate as she'd done with Zane before suddenly getting the strength to push all the boy off her and she ran towards the main hall.
She grabbed the bag she had been carrying before someone grabbed her and pulled her over their shoulder. Her scream mixed with the sudden jerk awoke the small Snake, who'd fallen asleep in the back and lunged itself into the ankles of her assailant.
"Ouch!" Tangle! Back down!" The snake let go and slithered back into the bag. The boy gave Calli an incredulous look, not that she could see.
"Tangle?!"
Calli just shrugged, not bothering to explain the situation, and managed to hang the bag over her shoulder. "Well, Ye carrying me back to the others?"
"You gonna sit still so we can finish bandaging your arms?"
The girl rolled her eyes but nodded as Kai carried her back.
"I can't believe you saved this." Currently she was handing out the stuff from the bag, surprising everyone, but she couldn't really tell if it was from her saving the items or the snake loosely curled around the girl's wrist. Nya was currently looking if everything was intact. Jay was doing the same with the game console. Zane went to move his supplies and the tea set she grabbed for Sensei away, Kai did the same for his weapons, making sure to avoid the snake at all costs.
"And these are yours." She handed Cole his supplies, he grabbed them gratefully, checking them out before setting them aside.
"You didn't save anything for yourself?" It wasn't Cole that had spoken the question, even though he wanted to., but Sensei. Calli shook her head.
"No, the fire started in the storage room, when I realized there was a fire, I was too late." The girl shrugged sadly. "But I's okay, I'm just glad it was the stuff that burned and not one of us."
And another chapter done :) From here on out the role Calli will have in certain chapters will move between a lot to do to just background character. Calli got a pet xD and we had a little bit of teasing from Jay xD
I also finished the Cover for the story xD
But now: Onto the reviews!
It'sYourGirl: I'm so relieved you seem to think so :)
Reepicheep'sLucy: Not exactly…. She is still heavenly allergic to metal, so a metal suit would be more problems then helpful.
Aurro sister of Morro: Yeey! xD
SweetHeart114: Haha you'll get to see her annoyed/angry in the future xD it'll take a lot to really piss her off.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and i'll see you next tuesday :)