"Sirens…No…..Genies….No… Hobbits.." The Girl let out a snort. "Got the right height for it, but no. Santa.. Wait, what." The redhead did a doubletake in her book. "Why is he in here… Ugh, moving on. Vampire? Eeh… Maybe?... No… Golems….This could be something… let's see…Page 207
"What are you doing?" Calli snapped out of her agitated thinking and smacked the book she was reading close on her hand, resulting in a shout and some curses at the fact Kai had managed to sneak up on her.
The girl quickly shoved all the papers and books into one pile, ignoring her still injured hands from three days ago. "Nothing." She managed to cough. "What are yeh doing up?"
"Wanted to get a drink, but what about you? It's like three in the morning?"
Calli blinked a few times. "Oh, I just wanted to write down some more information over treehorns."
"For more than 6 hours?"
She sighed. "Would you believe me if I say yes?"
The Red Ninja only raised his eyebrow in answer, making her throw her head on the table.
"Alright, what's wrong?" He took a seat next to the girl.
"Nothing really, just my imagination running wild." The girl sighed and rubbed her temples. "I think I just need to go to bed."
Kai snickered. "It's a miracle, the girl is tired." He mocked with a grin. Calli, however, let out a sigh and scribbled something else on a list.
"That is not just imagination running wild." The red ninja eyed his friend in concern as he tried to decipher her handwriting.
"Maybe, Maybe not." The redhead turned towards him. "I just need to figure out some stuff myself."
Kai sighed, pretty frustrated it was so hard to get anything out of her. "Alright, but, if you keep sulking, I'll set my sister on you."
Eyes narrowed. "You wouldn't."
"Oh, I will. Consider it payback for the two of you going behind our backs. Now you go to bed, we need everyone in top form if we want to get the fangblades and save the pipsqueak."
Calli groaned but didn't complain as she quickly cleaned up the table and then finally crawled into her hammock.
"Some villagers unearthed the skeleton of this Fangpyre a few miles away." Nya stared her lecture. "It pre-dates the Golden age and must hundreds of years old. Although the venom in the fangs of the Fangpyre genetically mutates human cells into reptilian, I've learned there might be a way to stop the effects without having to create an anti-venom." No-one was listening. Kai was bored and just playing with his brush, Zane was busy with the falcon, Calli was reading in the background and Cole was drawing. The only one that was paying attention was Jay but even he wasn't listening to what she was saying.
"If one is able to wildly raise their heartrate, hypothetically it could reverse the venom's effect." The girl coughed, visibly uncomfortable. "Resulting in... diminished…Excuse me, is anyone wearing perfume? I'm severely allergic to perfume."
Jay shrunk down as all he leaned towards Kai. "I thought you said it was men's cologne."
The red Ninja snickered. "Huh, I get them mixed up." He started laughing.
"Very funny, Jay now feels bad and your sister is basically suffocating." Calli huffed, effectively calling Kai back in line.
"Well, looks like class is over." Cole stopped any further argument. "It's time to start stomping some serpentine before they find any fangblades."
"Sound like a plan." The Red Ninja grinned as Zane agreed with them.
"Call!" The redhead snapped up to Cole as he mentioned for her to follow.
She sighed but nodded and walked out with them. "What is it?"
The black ninja grinned. "I had a feeling Jay was trying to ask out Nya, better to have no-one else there."
Moments later, Jay walked into the door, all dressed up.
"Whoa, Where'r you going, Mr. Fancy?" Cole grinned at his friend even though he knew the answer already.
Jay turned to his friend. "didn't you hear? I'm taking Nya to a nice restaurant, a really nice restaurant." Calli and Cole shared a grin at Jay's confidence.
Kai, however, sighed, obviously not glad for what he was about to do. "Might want to change your plans, the bridge picked up evidence of serpentine activity at Mega Monster Amusement park."
The screen went through a few stills until it stopped on a picture of Pythor.
"Pythor would not be there for fun. A Fangblade might be buried under the park." Zane theorized.
"Well, we can't let him get it!" The Blue Ninja exclaimed. "Oh, but my date." He sighed.
Kai snapped him back to reality. "If they get all four of them, they'll unleash the great devourer! Get your priorities straight." Jay only sighed.
Calli sighed behind her mask, being wrangled by Nya to go there as Guard. She was seated on the roof of the restaurant in the park, watching the boys scout ahead. Until now she hadn't seen any snakes but knowing them she would see them sooner or later and the moments the screams came from the haunted house she knew she was correct.
She quickly jumped from roof to roof, closing the gap between her, the Ninja, and the haunted house.
"I think we can handle this." She grinned beneath her mask. That would be her cue. She slipped into the building behind the boys, glaive at the ready.
Once inside it wasn't that hard to find a bunch of digging snakes, especially since Pythor loudly announced he had found the Fangblade.
The boys readied their weapons, Kai even igniting his sword.
"Not so fast!" The red ninja called, resulting in raised eyebrows from everyone including his teammates.
"Really?" Cole deadpanned. "That's the best you got."
Seeing the argument unfold Calli jumped forward, this was enough to snap the guys out of it.
"Right, snakes."
The girl rolled her eyes and charged at the upcoming snakes. Blocking swords and trying to get to Pythor.
"DUCK." The girl did as she was told and a pair of shuriken nearly missed her head. She gave the White Ninja a thankful nod and knocked down the now frozen snake.
"Watch and learn, brothers." Zane told them as he caught his shuriken. His aura started to glow and the temperature lowered significantly. Sadly this backfired as he froze himself and his friends.
Calli wanted to slap her forehead but to Zane's credit, he only had these powers for a day. The redhead knew she would have to thaw them out but those snakes were more important for now.
The girl ran outside only to see her companion in trouble. Nya had dressed up as samurai X and was using her magnet to make sure the snakes had little to no weapons and made sure she had the Fangblade. However, she had some trouble getting away due to malfunctioning thrusters.
"Ohw, Why now of all times."
Calli couldn't help but giggle in her earpiece. "I'll keep them off your back." She was glad her mask allowed for her not to be heard.
"Thanks!"And with that the large robot comically ran away, Snakes on her tail. Calli grinned as she went to knocking down all the snakes she could.
"There are too many for you to take on alone." The redhead scoffed at Nya's statement as she knocked down another Constrictai. "See if you can free the boys!"
"But-"Go!"
The redhead pursed her lips but complied nonetheless. Kicking down another snake as she tried to make her way back to the haunted house. With little success. There were more snakes coming and she was slowly running out of gadgets.
As she gave another snake a roundhouse-kick in the face, she noticed another one sneaking towards her with some make-shift weapon in his hands. With too little time to react, Calli shielded her head with her arm.
Only the blow never came.
The redhead quickly lowered her arm, using the snake's confusion to her advantage, knocked him out and taking a sprint towards the haunted house.
The girl let herself take a small breath when she ended up where she'd left the boys.
"And now how to get ya out."
Had she paid a little more attention, she would have seen the pale Amethyst shimmers disappear in the air when she beat the snake.
The moment when they stepped out a few minutes later, the boy soaked and freezing, and she with frozen and cramped hands.
"Let's find Jay." Kai shivered.
"I believe there is no need for that." Zane, who was probably the only one to not be that affected by the cold he caused, pointed towards the rollercoaster. And indeed. Whilst the said attraction was broken down and had a burning hoop on a dead-end track.
On that said track was a single cart driving with a bright blue light next to it. As Calli narrowed her eyes she noticed the light's shape and grinned under her mask. Jay had, just as Zane, unlocked his true potential and was using his powers to stop the cart before it fell down the broken tracks.
Once the cleanup was done the group met up at the gate, and it was here that Nya came clean to those who didn't know that she was the mysterious Samurai X.
"You surely had me fooled." Zane explained as Calli looked at the scene with an amused smile. She'd removed the mask and was seated on the park wall. "I never guessed you were the samurai."
Cole grinned at the girl. "I wish I had a sister like you." Nya gave him a thankful smile.
"Technically, I was the first to discover the secret." Kai boasted making Cole snicker and Calli stand up.
"Technically, ya weren't." She grinned and jumped down, making both Jay and Kai jump. "That would be Cole."
The Red Ninja stared at her with a blank expression before it turned into a look between annoyance and awe at the girl's stance. "When?"
"The day that Lloyd pulled all those pranks." She didn't elaborate and tried to sound somewhat indifferent but failed resulting in some raised eyebrows.
"Well, the Serpentine now have the first Fangblade." Cole changed the subject.
"But we're getting stronger each day." Zane told them. "One day we will all reach out true potential and Pythor will be stopped."
"And we figured out all this without Sensei." Jay grinned. "Pretty good for four Ninja." Nya and Calli glared at him and the former gave him a punch in the arm whilst Cole put an arm around the other to calm her down. "And a Samurai and Guardian."
At the mention of their Mentor, Kai looked away from the group. "I wonder what he is doing now."
Sooo, all the secrets are out, Jay unlocked his true potential but on the other the snakes have one of the blades. And we have a start of Calli's powers starting to show! not that she even noticed xD
also i'm finally back into the swing of things :D To the point that this week I finished the last two of the Royal Blacksmiths Chapters (yeah that episode has 3 chapters... And none of them are short in any way...) Finished a separate chapter and started the next chapter... Jeez i've been busy xD
Anyhow onto the reviews:
MightyShipper: Don't worry! I plan to write all seasons (excluding 6), an own Arc for Calli and if people are up for it: Shadow of Ronin... So whilst i will split them in probably a trilogy or whatever the one with 4 is...
Aurro sister of Morro: Haha well you have some hints xD
Pappilie: I am now :) Thanks for the well wishes!