Calli stayed away from most of the Destiny's bounty all day. The boys' constant competing about this whole 'Green Ninja' business was getting on her nerves and Nya wasn't helping either. She liked the younger girl, but she also liked her moments of quiet.
The girl was seated on her hammock, an old heavy book in her lap. She'd gotten it from Sensei, didn't know where he got it from but she didn't really care. It was quite an interesting read, most of it was short stories or myths, often accompanied with black and white illustrations to explain or visualise things. She liked it.
Her moment of quiet didn't last very long however, she could hear the voices of the boys, as well as a younger voice.
"I stay in our room for one day and I miss everythin' don't I?" The boys, who had been standing in front of the captain's quarters, where Sensei slept, jumped up.
"Okay, we really need to give you a bell to wear." Jay breathed. Calli just shrugged. By this time Sensei had walked out of the door, the boys jumped out of the way to act as nonchalant as possible all five followed their teacher out to the deck.
"I don't get it Sensei." Asked Kai once everyone was outside.
Jay nodded and continued. "Why isn't the little brat getting punished."
"I'm with them on this one." The female redhead agreed. "He and those snakes have caused enough trouble.'
"Yeah, It's not fair! We had to train all day and he gets a bedtime story."
The elder man finally turned. "That reminds me, why are you not still training? Have you found the answer to the riddle yet?"
Kai sighed and shook his head. "No, we still don't know what the best way to defeat your enemy is." The boys sighed and turned in defeat.
Calli gave Sensei a pointed look. The man just gave a small snicker and turned away again. "It is to turn them into your friend."
The girl smiled as realisation crept on their faces, another lesson learned.
"Oh, come on! I'm supposed to be the one kicking Ye out of the kitchen." Calli exclaimed. "Can I at least help?" Calli didn't whine often but having finished the book twice in three days made her bored. She'd been avoiding Lloyd the same way she'd done with the others and the others themselves were busy. So now she was in the kitchen bugging Cole to let her help him.
The black ninja grinned, enjoying the fact their roles had been reversed for once. "Nope, Now out."
The Ginger childishly stuck out her tongue with a small growl. "Fine." She huffed and walked out. She went outside next, still grumbling over what happened into the kitchen. She spotted Zane talking with Lloyd at the front. Calli narrowed her eyes slightly when she saw the look on the face of the youngest boy, he was up to something.
"What do ya think ye'r doing!"
The young blonde jumped up and whirled around to come face to face with the irritated ginger.
"Nothing."
"Gimme my book back." He knew she was angry and didn't trust him and the only thing that made it scarier was the awful calm tone of voice. Lloyd quickly handed her the object. She opened her mouth to speak again, and most likely to scold him when other voices entered the other side of the room.
The boys were arguing loudly. Lloyd started laughing as the girl gave him a pointed look. Suddenly the rice paper wall that separated the small bathroom and the bedroom opened. The boys turned at the laughter and glared at the boy.
"You did this!" They shouted in unison. "Boys, I get first Dibs on- "No Dibs!" Sensei interrupted Cole. Calli stepped away from the bathroom and went to put away her book.
"I put him up to this for today's lesson. I wanted to show you the destructive power of rumours and that jumping to conclusions can only lead to trouble. Did you ever think to find out if the accusations were true?
"Ehm no offence, Sensei, but let me jump to this conclusion. Today's lesson is lame." Jay quickly agreed with the Black Ninja, going into a ramble of better lessons.
"Not all lessons are about fighting." Sensei scolded them before looking down. "And I misplaced my lesson book."
Kai glanced at the younger boy who was still snickering. He was holding a book behind his back. The red ninja quickly snatched it.
"You mean this lesson book?"
"It was the perfect plan! Until you came alo-" Cole cut him off by sliding the door close.
"If you're done fooling around, I could use your help on the bridge, we do still have a snake problem to attend to…. Over and out." Came over the intercom.
Kai scoffed. "It's one thing to let the son of your nemesis live with you, but having my sister here, I mean come on! I thought this was a ninja headquarters."
"You do know I can hear you?" Nya asked, followed by the laughter of Calli from behind her. "Over and out"
As soon as everyone was gathered on the bridge, Nya started her story.
"The last we heard of Pythor, he stole the map of dens from Lloyd." She started pointing at different areas on the map. "He is now on his way to open the last two serpentine tombs."
"Don't remind me." Lloyd said, looking to the ground to avoid any and all eye-contact.
"Pythor is out most dangerous threat. If he finds those tombs before we do, with his intellect and all four tribes unleashed, there is no telling what he'll do." Sensei finished.
"But those tombs could be anywhere"
"And without a map ye'r out of luck. Ya might as well throw darts at a map." All eyes in the room glared at the ginger who just shrugged it off.
"Good Idea. Why don't we." Nya grinned and threw a handful of darts to the map before anyone could tell her not to and nearly hitting her brothers head.
"These are the two locations of the Hypnobrai and Fangpyre tombs." Kai glared at his sister.
"Show off." He grumbled.
Nya ignored him and threw a third dart. "And this is Phythor's tomb. After many hours of ruminating on why the tombs were placed in these three precise locations, I discovered a secret pattern." She pulled out a special flashlight and shined it on the map. The flashlight illuminated the whole map with a strategically placed snake in the middle.
"If you noticed, all three tombs are in line with the Ninjago symbol for serpent."
"So, the last two tombs must be here." Jay pointed to a location. "and here. You are so smart."
Lloyd and Kai pulled a face of disgust.
Nya herself just smiled. "Was there ever any doubt."
Sensei decided to interrupt the scene. "There is little time. Kai and Jay, you head to the Venomari tomb, Cole and Zane, you take the Constrictai Tomb, and take this." He handed his flute to Cole. "You might need it if you run into Pythor. Good luck Ninja!"
"What am I gonna do?" Nya asked. Lloyd directly asked the same.
"Nya, I need you and Calli here to make sure Lloyd can't get into any more trouble."
"Yes Sensei." The former girl sighed in defeat before elbowing the Ginger girl in the ribs. She looked up from whatever she was reading. "Huh? Oh, Yes Sensei."
The boys quickly ran out of the door, enthusiastic thanks to finally getting some fieldwork.
Cole and Zane quickly arrived at the foot of the Mountain of a Million Steps. The latter quickly deflated once he saw his bright pink Gi.
"Well, our vehicles won't traverse the steps. We go the rest of the way on foot."
Zane looked between the top of the mountain and his friend. "But this is the mountain of a Million steps, aren't we pressed for time?" He asked. The Black Ninja grinned under his mask. "Then we'll take a shortcut."
So, with that, Zane was told to get onto the Black Ninja's back and with that he climbed up.
"Am I holding on to tight?" Zane asked about halfway down. "Light as a feather, Pinky." Cole joked.
In record time the two made it up the mountain where they found a small hole with a rope going down in it.
"Looks like Pythor was already here, perhaps we should investigate." Zane told a heavy breathing Cole. "Gimme a sec, go on and start without me."
Zane did as he was told and jumped down the hole. He lit a small torch he had with him and looked around. The stone wall was full with markings and other paintings and scribbles.
By now Cole had climbed down as well. "Huh," he noted. "Didn't momma snake never tell them not to draw on the walls?"
Zane shook his head. "This image describes a legend of one tribe uniting them all."
"Well, those snakes had been at war with each-other for centuries." Cole interrupted.
"It says here, once they unite, they can find the four silver fangblades that will unleash the Great Devourer, an evil that will consume all of the land and turn day into night."
The two shared a look. "All that, from those little pictures?" Cole asked his friend.
"This has me deeply concerned. If Pythor is not here and unites all the tribes before Kai and Jay find him."
Zane trailed off, clearly uneasy, they didn't notice the ground breaking up. "Relax Zane, they're a bunch of stupid snakes that believe in fairy tales. If anything, we've got all the-." The Black Ninja stopped as he finally noticed the ground shifting. "Did you feel that?"
"What?" Zane asked, Confused.
"There is something in the ground." Whispered Cole, looking around for the source. "Don't move." He warned the now Pink ninja.
Suddenly a giant black snake burst from the ground, wrapping his tail around The Ice ninja.
"I've been waiting for you. Pythor sends his regards."
Zane wriggled in his grasp. "Did you, ugh, stay behind just to tell us that? Pathetic!" He scoffed with some difficulty.
The snake scoffed, noting the pink Gi. "Look who is calling who pathetic, Pinky!"
Cole scoffed as he readied himself. "Only I call him Pinky." He yelled and went for the attack, smashing the golden scythe in the ground, creating a small earthquake. It threw the snake of balance and ensured Zane's escape.
"Go for the rope!" Cole called and pushed his friend forward.
As Zane reached the rope, Cole suddenly let out a shout. The Constrictai had buried himself again and had now pulled the Black Ninja underground.
A few moments later, he burst out of the ground again and landed painfully on his back.
The earth rumbled and turned as the Constrictai moved through the ground. He circled the two trough the ground before bursting out of the ground again.
Cole wasted no time in grabbing the flute and played the song. However, it only worked for a moment, the snake threw his tail around the boy's neck.
With some effort, the black ninja managed to toss the flute to his friend. Zane quickly moved towards it using his Spinjitsu. But before he could play it the snake grabbed his neck.
While struggling against the snake, Zane was able to bring the flute to his lips and blow the first notes of the melody. It weakened the snakes grip enough to finish. Both Ninja escaped the snakes grip and Cole wasted no time in swinging down his scythe on the snake's head, knocking him out cold.
"Good one." Zane breathed.
"Thanks, but if he was expecting us, I think Kai and Jay are walking into a trap. Come on. Let's get outta here."
So not much of Calli at the moment xD she'll be back next one. And this is first of many split chapters. :) This one ended up with 8 pages on my word document so i had no choice but to split it in half because it became way to long... And that is discounting this A/N which I won't make too long because of a migraine i have at the moment so i'm very close to seeing double at the moment.
Anyhow onto the reviews.
NinjagoGeek4EVER: While that's true….I still think snakebite if the weirder one… Mostly because I have a habit of forgetting Once Bitten, Twice Shy exists sometimes. And I think the thing that makes this episode weird is because the Fangpyre Venom is a bit OP…. and not really well explained and not really possible because machines and those things don't have bloodstreams or DNA that can mutate but Oh well.
It'sYourGirl: :) Thankyouuuu
Anon Omega: Maybe…..Yeah it is xD Surprised you picked up on that xD It was originally supposed to be a placeholder because I know not many people know the books or actually like the series….but in the end I was like.. Let's see how many notice xD
Hope you Enjoyed, and I'll see you in the next Chapter.