Yes, that was an error on my part about Nya's powers in the last chapter! I didn't notice that until you pointed that out. Thank you NinjaSand GS!

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The Titan Mech walked through the snow, carrying Red in the mech's hand. Since the walk was burning, Lloyd talked about his horrible life and his trauma, But he also talked about Chantel and went on and on and on about her.

Behind Lloyd, inside the mech, Eleanor had fallen asleep, listening to him ramble for hours. But she quickly woke up when Red started to bark.

"What is it?" She asked, leaning forward to look over Lloyd's shoulder, only to see a storm coming in. "I had to ask."

"Those don't look good." Lloyd replied with a shake of his head. "Let's pick up the pace."

The mech moved faster as Lloyd started to run.

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The Blizzard Samurai returns to the Ice Castle. They march into the throne room and stopped in front of the throne.

"Hail, Emperor of Ice!" Grimfax calls. "The Legion of Grimfax returns in triumph. Victory is yours." He and the army all bow, only to receive a slow clapping from Vex.

"Hail indeed, Brave Grimfax. Tell us of your great victory, for you left with so many more Samurai than you brought back." Vex responses.

"It is true." Grimfax. "The battle was fierce. The villagers have protecters. Strangers who fight bravely, but we won in the end!"

"Did you slay the strangers?" Vex questioned.

"Better. We snuffed out their fire." Grimfax replied. "Without it, they are lost."

"Ah, 'snuffed out their fire,' you say? Then why is it, when I look through my crystal, I see it still burning?" Vex demanded as he showed the ice crystal. Inside the reflection is the village sitting comfortably surrounding the Hearth Fire.

"What!? Im - impossible!" Grimfax was too shocked for words.

"You bring news of defeat and dare to call it victory?! Punish him, my Lord, for his deceit."

Suddenly all eyes moved to the Ice Emperor, who broke out of his ice that kept him comfortable. He stood and used his staff to begin to freeze Grimfax. Icicles began to surround Grimfax, growing to impale through him.

"Wait! Please!" Grimfax begged, and the Ice Emperor stopped for a moment.

"Yes. Punish him!" Vex encouraged.

The Emperor brought his staff back to him, causing the ice to fall back into the ground. "You will atone for this."

Grimfax panted and relief washed through him. "Y-yes, Ice Emperor. Thank you."

"Now, leave me." The Emperor said.

Vex smiled evilly as he watched the army run out of the room, he turns back to the emperor, who's standing over his throne with his head down.

"What of the villagers who defy you?" Vex asked. "They plot, even now, to overthrow you. And the strangers in green and yellow. They grow closer every day. What should we do about them?"

"Green?" The Ice Emperor pauses and hesitates. "And yellow?" Deep down, hidden away he felt like he's suppose to know the two strangers.

"You are plagued by enemies. They rise. You must show strength. You must put down these usurpers."

"I shall unleash Boreal!" The Emperor called, he banged his staff a little too loudly on the floor. "Boreal shall punish the village."

"And the two strangers?"

"They shall meet another fate." The Emperor answered.

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Much more later. Lloyd continued to ramble.

"Lloyd! I am doing to duck tape your mouth!" Eleanor threatened, very annoyed now. "I think PIXAL has a roll that's somewhere in this thing."

"I'm just trying to pass the time."

"Red can't talk!" Eleanor hissed. "She's an animal! You're pouring your guts out about your life to an animal!"

Lloyd winced. "Are you sure Cole didn't get you pregnant?" He asked.

"YES!"

"Ow!" Lloyd cried when Eleanor flicked the back of his head.

As he rubbed the back of his head. Lloyd saw some weird looking ice. Lloyd jumped out of the mech to get a closer look and tried to touch it.

Eleanor jumped down to walk up next to him. "What is that?" She asked, now worried.

"This doesn't look like normal ice." Lloyd said, Red barked before he could touch it. "Yeah, maybe not a good idea." He looks around. "Wow. There's more of it. It's everywhere!"

Eleanor grabs his arm. "Lloyd, I don't like this. We should keep moving. That's the smart thing to do."

Lloyd looks around at everything. "We're going to have to find shelter if this thing gets any worse." Soon after he finished saying that, lightning struck something. A bunch of ice came towards them at a fast rate.

"That's not normal!" Eleanor cried, panicked she grabs Lloyd's shoulders. "That's not normal! Lloyd do something!"

"Do you hear that?" He turns the mech around to see a rock monster with one glowing blue eye. It tried to punch the mech, but Lloyd dodged it just in time. Lloyd ran at the monster with a sword, cutting the monster's arm off. But the arm grew back.

"Oh no!" Eleanor cried.

The rock monster ran at the Titan Mech, tackling the mech off the cliff.

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Eleanor slowly awoke, finding herself away from blizzard and the rock monster, she sat up and looked around, finding Lloyd attending Red's injured leg. "Lloyd?"

He turns to her. "Ellie!" He smiles, hurrying over to her and hugging her. "You're ok!"

"I think so." She placed a hand on her head. "What happened?"

"We got away from that rock monster." Lloyd answered, moving back towards the heating lantern. "And a big thanks to Red, here."

Eleanor lowered her arm as she looked at the wolf, who now has bandage on her leg. "Red." She pushed herself up and walked up to the animal. "Thank you Red." The wolf whimpers. "I wish I had some medicine for your leg."

Red moves her nose to Eleanor's hand.

Lloyd pulls a few blankets out from a compartment of the Titan Mech. "We should try to sleep for the night."

"Are we even close to the Ice Emperor?" Eleanor as she she wrapped the blanket that Lloyd gave her, around herself before lying down close to the heating lantern.

"Without a proper map, I'm not sure." He admitted. "But I think we're getting close."

Eleanor sighs as she looks down, hearing movement, she looks up to see Lloyd moving away. "Lloyd, where are you going?"

"Nature's calling." He answered simply, before disappearing behind a snowy bolder.

Eleanor sighed again.

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The following morning. Eleanor comes back from the other side of a bolder, finding a young woman where Red had been.

"Lloyd!" Eleanor ran up to the blonde and started to shake him awake. "Wake up, wake up!"

"Huh?" He awoke to her shaking him. "I'm up, I'm up." He pushed himself up. "Wh."- He trails off when he too sees the young woman. "Ahh!" He jumps in fright, falling backwards.

The woman opens her eyes and looks at them.

"Who are you!? Where's Red!?" Lloyd demanded, and the woman sat up. She has curly raven black hair with a hat that resembled a wolf, she's wearing red and white robe and has what looks like whiskers painted on her face.

She pushes herself to stand.

"That's the bandage I put on Red." Lloyd said, recognizing the bandage on her leg. "You're Red? You're a wolf? I mean, a girl?"

"I-I can explain."

"I'd like to see you try!"

"I am Akita, a Formling."

"Wow!" Eleanor smiled. "A shapeshifter!"

"All this time, you were tricking us?" Lloyd demanded with anger. "You just let me tell you all those things? Let me go on and on, thinking you were just a wolf?"

"I did not know if you could be trusted."

Eleanor was about to respond, but Lloyd was faster.

"You didn't know if we could be trusted? Haha. That's rich, considering you're the one who can't be trusted!"

"Lloyd!" Eleanor snapped.

"I meant no harm." Akita told them.

Eleanor turns back to face Akita. "Of course you didn't."

"As if!" Lloyd yelled, till a snowball hit him in the face. He whipped the snow off his face to glare at Eleanor, then turned his glare on Akira. "Harm done! I can't believe all the things I told you. About my father and."-

"Lloyd!" Eleanor snapped. "Stop it!"

"Stop what!? I'm merely pointing out."-

"Cork it, Garmadon!" Eleanor cuts him off with anger. "Stop being so hostel! She helped us! She saved us a number of times!"

"As a wolf!"

"So?"

"I never asked for your life story! It is not my fault you talk so much. Like, so much!" Akira interrupted the bickering, making the two Ninja turn to her.

"Spend enough time with Jay, the rambling takes effect instantly." Eleanor replied, folding her arms and turning to give Lloyd a look.

"How do you find this amusing!" He asked her. "Eleanor, this isn't funny!" He turns back to Akita. "At least I'm honest! I don't pretend to be something else!"

"She's a shapeshifter, Lloyd!" Eleanor defended their new friend. "She was still being herself!"

"I don't like this!" He threw his arms in the air.

"Are you calling me a liar?" Akira demanded.

"Maybe I am!" Lloyd snapped.

"Take it back!"

"No!"

"I saved your lives! You should be grateful!" Akita told Lloyd. "Eleanor is much more grateful then you seem to be."

"And I saved yours! So we're even!" Lloyd pushes past her. "Now stay away from me, I only travel with people I trust." The Green Ninja picks up the heating lantern and grabs Eleanor's arm with his free hand before making his way to the Titan Mech.

"Lloyd! We can't leave her behind!" Eleanor told him.

"Oh yes we can!" He said as they leap onto the mech and began making their way to the Ice Castle. Behind them, Akita transformed into her wolf form and starts to follow the mech. "Hey, what are you doing? I told you to not follow us! Ow!" He winced when Eleanor flicked the back of his head again.

Akita transforms back to her human form. "I am not yours to command! I go the way I wish to go! And that is this way!"

"That's they way I'm going!" Lloyd replied. "Ellie, please stop. Why are you going this way?" He demanded.

"I am going to face the Ice Emperor."

"That's where we're going." Eleanor said, ignoring Lloyd's shout at her. "To free our friend, Zane. From the Ice Emperor."

"Oh?" Akira raised an eyebrow. "So Lloyd can bore him to death with stories about this Harumi?"

"I hated that woman!" Eleanor said as Lloyd stumbled in shock. "At first I thought she was just a home-wrecker, because she broke up Lloyd and Chantal's relationship. Then it just turned out that she was a revengeful snot who was a blood thirsty brat!"

"What are you going to do, Akita?" Lloyd retorts in anger. "Fetch his slippers?"

"You know I can turn back into a wolf anytime, right? And bite you?"

"Maybe you'll get lucky and he's allergic to pets."

"Lloyd, will you please stop?" Eleanor begged as Akita transforms back into a wolf and runs off for the castle, the mech quickly moved past the wolf, until the wolf whimpers. "Lloyd! You hurt her feelings."

The Titan Mech turns around to see Akira couldn't run very well because of her hurt leg. Wolf or human form.

"Lloyd!" Eleanor snapped. "Apologize to her!"

"Ok, ok!" Lloyd opens the hatch of the mech. "You shouldn't run on that. You're still hurt." He leaps down to walk up to her and re adjust the bandage. This time, no harsh words were exchanged.

"I am sorry I deceived you." Akita apologies, but couldn't look at him.

"I'm sorry too."

"You told me everything about yourself and I … told you nothing. I will share my tale with you, if you will still hear it."

Lloyd turns to Eleanor, who just leaped out of the mech, then turns back to Akita. "Of course we will." He said.