Holy crap on a cracker I updated! I am so sorry for the long delay. To be honest i wanted to finish this chapter on friday and post it then but it was such a shitty day i actually broke down crying once i came home. Just one of those days you know and then i had to work during the weekend during rushhours on the worst positions to stand during the rush so that was a nice plus... other then that i'm just way tired when i get home and I actually finally got myself a windows laptop so my Macbook won't be filled with games and word documents so i had to setup that and this thing doesn't have word so I had to use a similair program that i'm not completely used to yet.
Other then that i'm still alive. though I wans't able to actually use the episode for the second half of this chapter and had to go with the transcript from the wikia so that's why that part may be off and a bit dialogue heavy. so yeah...
Anyhow I hope you forgive me for the wait and you enjoy the chapter!
"Operation stealth was a total bust, we need reinforcements!" Nya called desperately trying to get the attention from either Lloyd of Garmadon. "Hello? Anyone there?"
The snakes coiled down using the metal chains that hung from the ceiling.
"Ugh, I'm not getting anything!" The girl scoffed as more snakes surrounded them and a venomari climbed on the Samurai Suit to get to Sensei Wu. The elder man fixed this by dumping a pot of steaming hot tea on his head.
"Forget them! We need to fight back." Wu told them. "Ninja! Show them what you've learned."
The redhead girl nodded and readied her daggers before charging into action, kicking a snake out of the way and blocking another's weapon.
"Keep out of this, little girl."
The girl scoffed and dodged a new incoming parry, making sure to jump behind the snake and pushing him down the ledge.
Cole, meanwhile found himself in another predicament. The Constrictai general had him wrapped in his tail and was currently squeezing the life out of him. The snake laughed at the Ninja's discomfort. "I always wanted to make you my main squeeze."
The Black Ninja groaned in the hold of the net. "Must… relax…Think…Loose." He huffed and relaxed, slipping out of the snakes hold before he could react. "Ha!" HE grinned under his mask before using the triple tiger sashay to down three Serpentine.
"You're surrounded, Young Fire starter." Skales told Kai as he and three more snakes surrounded her. "Perhaps you can now do our bidding!" The Fire ninja closed his eyes.
"Must not look…" He breathed and with that he used his Spinjitzu to get himself out of the situation. "I wish I could see me now."
All the way Jay was enjoying himself as he kicked one snake after the other, though he failed to notice the Fangpyre general sneak up on him. The two-headed snake grinned before he bit down on the Blue Ninja's arm, or at least he tried. The only thing he accomplished was hurt teeth.
"What's the matter." The blue-eyed boy grinned. "Don't like the taste of defeat."
The snakes glared at him before slithering off as Nya joined the fight. "Looking good." She snickered as she kicked another snake away.
"Thanks." Jay sighed dreamily. "You look great too."
Calli rolled her eyes from her position back to back with Zane as the white ninja snapped them back into action. "Don't mean to interrupt the lovebirds but we do have fangblades to capture."
With that he froze more snakes before a venomari saw an opening. Spitting his venom in Zane's eyes. He had a slight moment of panic before calming down and switched to his falcon vision. However, it didn't help much as more and more snakes surrounded them. The four ninja were back to back with Nya and sensei teamed up and Calli had been to the side.
"The Fangblades!" Kai called out once he spotted them on the pedestal.
Cole grinned. "I'll let you have the honors."
The Red Ninja rolled his eyes. "No, No after you."
"Ugh! I'll go. Now's not the time for this." Cole and Jay shared a snicker at the girl's attitude towards the situation. The Black ninja was faster than her however, dashing forward to get them.
As he crossed the line to get to them traps shot up an grabbed a hold of his arms. "It's a trap!"
The others jumped into action trying to free his friend but the moment they came close, bars snapped close around them.
Pythor laughed as he looked at Kai trying to break the bars apart, having just arrived. "Come, come. Can this get any better? Right into my trap!"
"My dagger in yer skull maybe." Calli muttered under her breath as Kai groaned.
"This isn't good."
The redhead bit her tongue to not burst out in a No shit sherlock. And opted to just silently glare at the purple serpentine from her pace in the middle. This could get only so much worse.
There were these moments when Calli wished the universe proved her wrong. But as the group hung suspended in a metal cage, she knew this wasn't one of those moments.
"Lloyd! Lord Garmadon!" Nya groaned as she once again tried to reach out to the bounty. "Is anyone there!"
"Nya! I'm here!" Everyone quickly made their way to the side of the hanging samurai x suit. "But my dad… He left."
The signal started to break up, crackling as Lloyd tried to answer. "How… Hol….. Nya?"
Nya huffed and tossed a rock towards the suit. "We're fine." She answered. "Just a little held up at the moment. Our weapons have been taken and we're locked in a cage."
"And Pythor's just returned with the last Fangblade." Cole continued.
"Lloyd, where did yer father go?" The ginger girl interrupted as she joined the others at the bars.
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line. "I told him to go, he was stealing secrets."
Kai scoffed. "What a surprise. I tried to warn you about that guy but you wouldn't listen."
"We get it."
"Someone's grumpy."
Calli gave him a glare. "Ye would be as well if you're surrounded by material that can kill ye. Now where did ye send yer dad!"
"Back to where he came from. I'm coming to save you, don't worry! "
Sensei decided to protest immediately. "You're not ready, Lloyd. Your destiny's at risk. "
"Ehm. Hate to break it to you Sensei, But if we don't get out of here before Pythor unleashes the great Devourer. I think this will be the end of all of our destinies. " Cole huffed.
"Ain't you a Debby Downer. " The black ninja Gave the redhead a look that told her to shut up immediately but unlike the previous times she only gave a devious grin.
There was a short silence on the other side of the line before Lloyd answered. "Don't worry! I'll get you out in a Jiff!" Followed by a loud crash that made the whole group flinch.
Jay leaned towards Calli and Nya. "We're doomed. "
After a few minutes of just sitting around, Kai had Had it. "Ugh." He groaned. "So all we can do is just wait?"
"Patience is a virtue. " Calli muttered from her position next to Jay and Cole who had been playing a game of checkers, Not opening her eyes even a little bit as she tried to meditate.
Wu agreed with her. "Lloyd will figure something out "
"So let me get this straight. We're putting all of our trust in the son of the greatest villain Ninjago has ever seen. Is anyone else having doubts about this plan? Just because we don't have our weapons doesn't mean we can't use our powers!"
"The chamber was built out of Vengestone. Our elemental powers are rendered useless. Patience. "
Kai all by glared at the elder master before snatching a tube of hair oil from the makeshift checker board.
"Hey "Jay protested. "That Oil was just to be kinged. "
"yeah? Well, I'm about to get us out of here." And with that he spread all of the oil on his Gi and body.
Cole snickered as Calli wrinkled her nose at the stench. "Whoa, greaseball. How 'bout warning us before you do that. " The black ninja teased.
"You can make jokes all you want. " The Fire Ninja retorted as he went to test out the bars. "I don't think we need special powers to get out of here. We just need a little ingenuity. " And with that he managed to slip tough the bars.
"and something tells me this is goin' wrong." Calli noted as she eyed Kai climbing up.
"Who's the Debby downer now? "
"We're sending Kai out alone against how many snakes. It's better to wait for Lloyd and use the distraction he'd most likely cause to get out. This'll only make it worse."
Calli knew she was right as the metal of the bars pushed into the back of her neck.
"Great. " Cole grumbled next to her. "We're in such a better place then we we're before. "
"At least yer neck isn't burning up."
Zane looked at the checker board with a forlorn expression, lamenting the fact they couldn't even play their game any-more as did Jay.
"Don't worry, Sensei. I have faith in Lloyd." Nya sighed as the boys started their checkers discussion.
Suddenly Calli's head snapped up and towards the entrance. "Speaking of Lloyd. " She grinned as s green spot entered the hideout. And despite the situation the girl couldn't help but chuckle as she could hear the boy mutter to himself. Sadly it didn't take long for the boy to be discovered.
His voice echoing trough the space. "Unhand the Ninja, or suffer humiliation against the green Ninja!"
"At least he's trying?" Jay opped as he flinched at the boy's try.
Pythor laughed. "You and what army." The snake laughed.
Lloyd fell quiet. "Ehm, how about my army of fists?" The snakes once again started laughing their heads off, only to be once again cut off. But this time by great timing by Lord Garmadon, standing in front of an army of Skulkin.
Father and Son had a sweet little moment before all hell broke loose. In the commotion Pythor pulled the lever of the cage. Resulting in the thing slowly lowering into the green acid below their feet.
"Hey! We're moving. " Jay called out.
Cole glared at his best friend with a look that screamed he wanted to hit the guy. "Yeah! The wrong way"
As the skeletons and Snakes fought, Lloyd made his way towards the slowly sinking cage and managed to grab a hold of one of the bars and tossed them all their weapons.
"Told you I'd save you. " He grinned as Calli ruffled his hair quickly and sheathed her daggers.
"Never doubted ye kid."
Kai huffed as he and the others readied their weapons. With a shout he gave the order to attack. As he, Zane and Jay went in to attack the snakes, Calli went to cover Lloyd and Nya and Cole went for the fangblades.
"Going somewhere?" he taunted the snake as he pressed his scythe against the snakes long neck.
The purple snake just swallowed and backed off. Retreating away, leaving the fangblades open to grab.
The black ninja whistled and tossed two to the fighting redhead. Who managed to catch them in the middle of a somersault and sheathed them in the sheaths of her daggers.
"Where'd Pythor go?" she called before pulling the kid out of the way of an attack.
"Who cares!" Kai interrupted. "We have the fangblades. Let's get out of here. "
The group made their way back out, covered by the skulkin and Garmadon at their rear.
"Look who's decided to be a hero now." Calli couldn't help but quip as she fell in line with the four armed man. He just glared at her. "Don't get used to it girly."
Back on the bounty the group decided to celebrate the unexpected victory. Cole had made some snogfruit punch that everyone seemed to be enjoying. ( "A stopped clock is right twice a day" Calli and Zane had teased him.)
The four fangblades laid spread out on the table and everyone was chatting away.
Nya was the first to noticed a solemn expression.
"He left, didn't he?" She asked him kindly and gave him a glass. "Have some punch. Cole made and it's not back actually." Then she and the others raised their glassed. "To Lloyd's dad!"
A chorus of hear hear! Sounded trough the bridge.
This brought Lloyd's smile back as "To dad."
Wu nodded and joined the group and put a hand on his nephew's shoulder. "Tomorrow, we arrive at Torchfire Mountain to destroy these Fangblades once an for all. And it couldn't have been done without your father. I'm... going to miss him."
The boys and Nya were still out talking when Lloyd and Calli both retreated for the night.
"Hey, Call?" Lloyd softly started as he turned around in his hammock.
The girl let out a soft hum as she turned the page of her book."Yeah? "
"Was it hard to leave Stiix? To leave the person you lived with?"
The question made her close her book and sigh. "Well it wasn't easy but I didn't have much of a choice. It was sad really."
"Were you close? You and the person you lived with?"
"What's with the questions, kid?" She asked but Lloyd stayed silent so she just answered his question. "It was weird the first few weeks, i was told i could stay in exchange for doing errands but eventually we came to appreciate each-others presence." The redhead turned her head to towards the window.
"To be honest, I wonder how bloody thief's doing."
So, a bit more backstory on Calli I'm really curious what you think about that! But that's all i have to say at this point sooooo...
Onto the review:
MightyShipper: As much as i hate to say it... This oneshot doesn't really have much of a placement though you can see some of the effects in this chapter (Her getting more playfull and teasing with him and no longer shutting up at his glares.) But i hope you enjoyed. Next chapter will also be some shipping centric ;P
Well I hope you enjoyed and I'll see you guys in the next chapter!