She never realized who it was that forced her to run, but she was grateful none-the-less. Every-one of them was panicked, though most tried to keep it internal as they ran as fast as their feet could go.
Nya was the first to reach the destiny's bounty and wasted no time pushing Lloyd into action to help her get the flying ship off the ground, shouting at him to start the engines.
The young blonde managed to stay calm and assess the situation. "There is no wind, and we only have reserved fuel." He told her. Not taking his eyes off the ships readings.
The black-haired girl whirled around with narrowed eyes. "Use it!" She barked as the others tumbled in, all breathing heavily as they quickly manned their stations. Zane would help with navigating whilst the others all went on the defense against the massive snake that was gaining on them, Jay and Kai had lookout duty whilst Cole helped Lloyd.
Calli on the other hand kept to the doorway, Deploying a shield each time the creature went in for an attack with the spike on it's tail, though it was slowly wearing her down.
She could hear Jay cry out from his position next to the monitor. "I hate to tell you this." He started in a tone that didn't at all match the panic that rolled of him in waves. "But objects in the mirror are closer then they appear!"
"Working on it." Nya replied, turning to Lloyd as the ship jerked to the right. "Blasters on full!"
Lloyd did as she requested and the ship shot forward, widening the space between them and the ever-growing snake.
Kai cheered as he saw the snake get smaller. "Take that, You stupid snake!"
However as the others also relaxed some, Jay paled as the snake once again grew and gained on them. "I think it heard you." he stuttered as the door slammed open, the tiny redhead stumbling inside.
"We need to go faster, It's gaining on us and my shields won't stop this thing anymore." She breathed as she steadied herself against the table.
"We're going as fast as we can." Nya snapped at her. "I'll try to make for Scattered Canyon."
"Probability of us making it that far is less then 8 percent." Zane calculated, though his assessment of the whole situation didn't help and most actually looked ready to smother him for making the situation even more stressful.
"Never tell me the odds!" Nya snapped. Zane looked ready to reply but Cole cut him off, having taken over at the wheel and full view of both outside and behind them. "It's coming in for another attack! Port side!"
Before anyone could react the bounty jerked again as the snake clamped its mouth on one of the thrusters and tore it off violently.
Alarms blared loudly, forcing Calli to clamp her hands over her ears to stop them from hurting. She could barely make out Lloyd shouting something about them losing speed.
Kai quickly disabled the loud alarm leaving a silence, the situation finally setting in for everyone. Was this really it? Could they really do nothing to avoid meeting their end at the hands of a giant snake?
"Trow everything overboard."
Nya's command had to sink in for a few seconds before everyone stared at her in shock.
"Care to repeat that?" Kai asked his sister who about now seemed done with everyone questioning her at every opportunity.
"We need to lose weight! Throw everything that isn't nailed down overboard."
The four Ninja finally snapped into action, going out and throwing everything they could find overboard, whilst Calli helped Nya with her navigation.
With every bit of weight lost the bounty gained a bit of speed. Until the group realized a slight flaw in their plan as Cole cried out for them to stop dropping things overboard: "The more it consumes, the bigger it gets!"
Once again the snake raised his head, ready for another attack. Lloyd quickly maneuvered the ship to the right, avoiding the snake by just a few centimeters and then steering it trough a narrow gap in between a large stone wall.
"We made it Scattered Canyon. Hold on!" Nya warned the others as she took the wheel again.
"Ye did great kid" Calli complemented as he went back to his original position.
He just nodded with a grin before Cole called back inside. "He's gone! I think we lost him."
Nya breathed out a sigh of relief, as did all the others, but this relief was short-lived. They hadn't lost the snake, it had just burrowed down the ground, planning to get in front of them and strike.
It burst out of the ground, crushing the front of the ship in it's jaws. The black-haired girl cursed the snake with some very strong words that Calli would usually laugh at if the situation hadn't be bad.
"Abandon ship!" This was the only command Nya had made no-one needed to be told twice. Though Calli on the other hand suddenly stopped and made a quick dive below deck. Ignoring the others calling her name. She refused to leave without her little friend.
The wooden exterior of the ship creaked as the ship violently shook under the pressure of the snakes grip. Despite everything she managed to get into the bedroom and quickly fished Tangle out of the drawer he usually slept in and wrapped him around her neck.
"Gotcha. Now let's g-" She couldn't finish her sentence, as the ship tilted sending a large trunk flying to the wall, breaking trough it and sending her after it, leaving her hanging at the edge, the ground very far away, even by her standards.
She only had two options now, and she didn't exactly favor the first one. So she opted for the second one, closed her eyes and let go.
"That was a stupid move!" Nya hissed as Zane pushed her arm back in it's socket. The landing she had made was a rough one despite the use of her shield, she had still managed to dislocate her shoulder. Most of them hadn't gotten out of the situation unharmed anyway. Jay had a sore ankle. Kai had a few rips in the pants of his Gi that had gotten stuck on something during the escape. Cole had a scratch on his cheek and forehead that had stopped thankfully stopped bleeding and more scratches on his hands. Zane had a few dents but was fine otherwise. The only one unharmed were Nya and Lloyd, who had been protected by the mech.
"I wasn't about to leave him." Calli challenged back with a pained edge in her voice and she gave a nod towards the snake that was now comfortably wrapped around Cole's arm.
Nya opened her mouth to retaliate but the said black ninja cut her off. "This is no time for arguing. No matter how stupid Calli's plan was." He gave a warning look to both girls, though mostly to his Girlfriend. She only huffed and carefully crossed her arms over her chest. Just opting to go for quietly sulking."We don't have time for it."
"Indeed, we need to warn the people before it gets bigger."
"Bigger?" Jay exclaimed sarcastically. "Bigger?! That thing, in one big bite, crushed our entire ship! We need to save as many as we can." By now the others couldn't tell if he was talking to himself or them. "We'll find some kind of refuge, somewhere save to hide. Oh! The serpentine tombs! Yeah they're underground. Sure we'll be without sunlight, but their perfect!"
"And what? Just give up?" Cole bit right back, trying to cross his arms the best he could with a snake wrapped around his arm.
Jay jumped up glaring at his best friend. "You know as well as I do we have no chance at stopping that thing-Oof!" Both him and Cole let out a startled cry before glaring at the tiny redhead who was rotating her shoulder with a pained expression. Maybe it hadn't been the best idea to knock their heads together but; "You just said it yourself, we can't be fighting at times like this, we need to come up with a plan to destroy that thing for once and for all."
"But how do we destroy a snake of that magnitude." Zane asked the vital question. Calli pursed her lips, sadly she had no answer, not that she could give any with the very anxious Jay around.
"Yeah, it's not like we have another sacred flute lying around to charm it. Or wait one of our awesome dragons? Oh they took off and left us high and dry. Oh hey! What about our golden weapons? Which will do NOTHING against a snake that size." He sighed and slid down on the ground, his hands in front of his face. "We are so hooped."
"Jay's right." Cole sighed. "we would need a weapon that big."
After a moment of silence, Kai's face lit up. "Or an idea even bigger! He exclaimed. "Jay you're a genius! You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Jay raised one of his hands to look at the Red Ninja. "Probably not, but go ahead." he murmured.
"There's no time." Kai told them as he grabbed his sword and roughly pulled Jay up. "I'll fill you guys in on the way there." and with that he took off running.
"Wha- Where are we going?" Jay exclaimed as the rest quickly followed him before he was gone.
The red Ninja turned to his friends with a look of fierce determination on his face. "We are going to destroy that snake for once and for all."
So not that long and I apologize for cutting it in half but it would become too long otherwise and since we have a new provider we haven't re-installed the thingy that strengthens the wifi upstairs and despite having a week long holiday I actually went out a lot, so that didn't give me much time to atually write.
Though i did go to lego world on tuesday with my dad and little brother. I actually bought Jay's dragon from s9 and my dad got me Kai's dragon from the same season :D so that was fun :)
Also I just realized that if this would be life-action that: 1. that would be awesome. 2. This would NOT be a kids-show xD
Anyhow you don't care about that ;) onto the reviews.
MightyShipper: Why not study first before reading? To give yourself a little reward after? IDK xD Good luck with the studies
Invisigirl: Thanks for the review :) As the writer, i know who says what because well... I write it. This is also actually the reason I gave Calli a Scottish-like accent (yeah i know it isn't scottish but i needed something to compare) but thank you for letting me know and I'm glad you think i improved :) but I probably won't go back to adjust it for a long time but I hope you stick with this story anyway :) also i'm going to assume the follow-up review is also yours because it said I forgot to mention and I got it right after yours. if you didn't you can ignore this part (^_^') I did come across it at one point but I think I glanced over it or had some other reason for not reading it IDK I'll put it on my: "To check out." list.
Well I hope you enjoyd and i'll see you in the next chapter. :)