I'm sorry for this being two days later :( Tuesday was a mess of a day to the point i fell asleep around 6 after dinner... and yesterday i was too busy to update :( and besides that i've just not been in the mood to write thanks to stuff at home lately. I'm still trying but it's
But you guys aren't interested in my excuses... So onto the chapter!:
Calli stared out of the window, slowly tapping on the windowsill. The boys were outside, watching Zane break a new breath-holding record. She'd read all the books she had by now, didn't have her violin anymore, Nya was gone for the day and Lloyd was still captured. She was just a bit bored by now. Okay… a lot bored. Tangle tried to ask for attention by circling her ankles.
As the girl carefully scratched his head, she glanced to the side to Sensei. He was currently carefully wrapping a sword into a blanket. She pursed her lips, he was packing and somehow, she had a bad feeling about it.
The door burst open to reveal the four boys, chatting and one-upping one-another in a playful manner. They walked towards the elder man and Cole cut his question short once they noticed the atmosphere.
"Our apologies, Sensei." Zane spoke for the group. "We have interrupted you."
Wu shook his head and placed the sword in a briefcase. "I'm sorry if I've been distant lately. My mind has gone elsewhere since Lloyd has gone missing. What can I help you with?"
The boys shared a look before Cole answered. "Sensei, what if we've done enough training? What if we reached our true potential? What if we're ready."
Sensei let out one small chuckle. "You might have reached peak physical potential. But you have yet to reach your inner potential.
In each and every one of us are obstacles that hold us back. Only when you conquer that fear, will your heart be freed. Only then, will you reach your true potential."
There was a small pause. "Only then will we have a fighting chance to stop the serpentine from releasing the great devourer."
"There is more to the great devourer then you have let on. Is there, Sensei." Zane caught on.
The elder man sighed. "I too, have obstacles within my own heart, there is a story I have never told you." The man turned to his students. "Long ago, when I was a young boy, Garmadon and I were more than brothers, we were the best of friends."
"Wait a minute!" Interrupted Jay. "Now I know you two were brothers, but really, The king of cruelness, the doer of destruction, caption or Chaos." Meanwhile the other tree stepped back to avoid the wild motions of the Blue Ninja. "And you were friends."
"I think he was getting to that point, dipstick." Calli called out as she joined the group, intrigued in the story. Jay rolled his eyes as she sat down on the floor like a young child. Legs crossed and leaning forward with interest.
"Please! No interruptions." Wu called out, amused at the girl's childlike behavior. "You see, He did not always have a wicked heart. One day, I lost this very Katana." He told them pointing to the object. "Knowing our father would be mad, my brother told me to retrieve it, but I refused. He told me not to put off what can be done today and went to get it himself."
Sensei sighed and turned back around. "When Father found him, he was very Ill. He was bitten by a legendary snake that would grow forever as long as it consumed.
A great evil had found its way into my brother's heart. The snakes Venom could turn the purest of things wicked. That snake is the same one the serpentine want to re-awaken today. It is the snake that took my brother from me."
"So." Kai was trying to pick his words carefully. "The snake is what turned your brother into the dark lord?"
"It was all my fault." The man closed the briefcase and stood up straight. "You four have finished your training, you must now focus on stopping Pythor from collecting the four fangblades, but never lose focus on the obstacles that lay within each of your hearts that holds you back from true greatness." He gave each of the boys a determined look. "Unlock your true potential."
"But how are we supposed to do that, Sensei." Zane asked.
"It is up to each of you to discover that."
Jay and Zane shared an uncertain look, Cole looked down in thought and Kai gave Sensei a pleading look.
"Now I must take a personal journey on my own."
Jay stopped him from walking out of the door. "But where are you going."
"To a place you cannot follow."
The five in the room gave each-other a look. "If you're going for Lloyd, the City of Ouroboros is filled with hundreds of Serpentine. You'll never do it alone!" Cole voiced the group's concern.
"I'm going to find someone who can be off aid. The serpentine have united and grown stronger we need all the help we can get." The elder man looked at his students one more time. "Calliope, walk with me please."
Kai an Jay snickered at the use of her full name, having never heard it before as the girl passed them to walk outside with Wu.
"I am counting on you to keep an eye on them while I'm gone."
The girl nodded. "Of course, I will."
"Good. You are a protector in nature, if you keep getting closer to that nature, I feel you can grow into your strengths as well."
Calli didn't know how to answer. Surely, she wasn't that important, was she? The redhead just managed a nod.
"Then I will see you all soon."
"I honestly don't think this is the smartest plan ye came up with." Calli commented as Kai hung another poster on a wall. It was a Fangblade missing poster.
"You have any better idea's" Cole pointed out.
"No" She answered. "But that's cuz ya guys already burst out the door after 5 minutes of thinking."
Jay whirled around. "Maybe Sensei is going to get the samurai."
Cole had to stop Calli from laughing out loud as Kai started to fumble with his words. Nya didn't help the situation when she tried to help her brother out.
As Zane and Jay eventually turned around Calli threw her arms over the Siblings shoulders.
"Ye know?" She started. "Ye guys are the worst liars I've ever met."
The siblings only had a chance to glare at the girl.
"Yoo-hoo! Maybe I should teach you a lesson in manners!" The group looked up to see a merchant yelling at Zane, who was staring into the distance.
"Sorry Sir!" Kai tried to calm him down. "Sometimes our friend is in another world."
The shopkeeper scoffed. "He's littering all over the place!"
"We'll clean it up." Cole assured. "So sorry." Calli by now had run after the White Ninja.
Jay gasped, being the first to see what his friend saw.
The falcon was back.
Calli wasted no time Dashing after it, the group quickly following apart from Kai.
"Head back to the bounty and wait until you hear from us." He told his sister.
"Wha- Where are you going!" she protested.
Kai walked ahead. "To follow the bird! Maybe it'll lead us to the first Fangblade!" and with that he was gone.
Calli had gotten a pretty annoyed message from Nya for ditching her as the group climbed up a mountain. Despite her hands still recovering from the burns she's suffered from Lloyd's cage, she kept up with the group well enough. Almost at the top however, Jay had given up the trek. Breathing heavily, stating he would catch up.
Cole was the next to take a break, sliding down a fallen tree the others used to cross a ravine. His strength was literal strength and climbing, not running long distance.
Whilst Kai also was showing signs of exhaustion, both Calli and Zane weren't feeling anything.
The redhead stopped running as she noticed Kai had stopped running as well.
"Good thing we're in top Physical condition." He huffed.
Calli gave him a symphatic smile. "I'll keep him out of trouble."
"Are you even Human? How are you not tired?" Kai breathed as he let himself fall down onto the ground. Calli just shrugged and dashed after the White Ninja, who had gained quite the distance.
The two ran into Birchwood forest.
"What do you think that is?" Calli asked as She and Zane came to a halt next to a wooden sign. "I am not familiar with a treehorn. Have you?"
The girl started thinking as she pulled her jacket better over her shoulder against the cold. "I only read the name once in one of my books but there weren't any pictures."
The falcon screed above them, snapping them back to topic.
"Well.." The redhead told her friend. "Go! I'll wait for the others to catch up."
Calli knew that falcon had a special connection to Zane. So it would be better if he went alone.
Soo.. shorter chapter then usual this time.. Oh well. So like i said: Sorry for the delay on posting this chapter... It's just been a shitty few days... Anyhooties: on to the reviews.
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