They are still in the caverns. Clouse is now very human again. That is not going to end well for him I think.
"So umm Cole, buddy. Are you gonna do that real neat use Bree's elemental power trick and uhhh open the door?" Jay asked nervously.
"Say what the fuck?" Morro asked in confusion.
"Its a thing" Kai added. The rest looking back and forth at each other.
Cole was still staring at the door with Bree's hair ribbon and pins in his first. Shoving it in his pocket he then punched his fists together. His already orange glowing arms brightened before the color started to creep up his neck and down his chest. Punching foreword into the door, he grabbed the metal and crunched it like it was a fabric curtain not a steel and vengestone door. With a heave Cole tore the door out of the stone. Then threw it sideways into the room in front of him. Walking into the cloud of dust and grit he had created.
"That'll do" Jay yelped.
Following Cole in it was not quite what they were expecting. Clouse and Bree were alone in the center of the room. But now it was a very human Clouse. Standing on top of a very exhausted and angry looking Bree.
Looking up fuming Clouse glared at them. Especially Cole.
"I thought you would all be dead by now. But somehow that seems not to be the case. No matter, you will be soon enough." Clouse snarled at them. Snapping his fingers, ominously using his fresh elemental magic to either start or summon a spell.
Reaching down to Bree he extended a hand to pull her up to him. Only to have her try and skeeter back and away from him.
"Get back here. We need to go!" Clouse yelled at her. As he said that the others could all hear sounds coming down the cavern tunnels. It was like dozens of large creatures hurtling to them.
Bree hissed at him and kicked back far enough to draw up a tiny ball of Purple magic at him. Aiming directly at his face. Not enough to kill him. But it pissed him off. Clouse was going to slap her when something stopped him. That something was Cole. Grabbing Clouses arm and hauling Clouse away from Bree and close to Cole. Grabbing him by the throat and squeezing.
Coughing Clouse drew up a shield spell. Blowing Cole away from him. And reaching for Bree once again only to find that she was struggling and screeching trying to pull the necklace off her neck. Burning herself with the effort and smoke rising from where she had the chain in both hands pulling.
"Its not coming off my dear, Its hearthstone and a little bit of tiger widow venom. You can't take it off yourself."Clouse told her. "And speaking of the tiger widows..."
Into the room hurtled three very large very aggressive looking massive spiders. Venom and plain drool running down their fangs. Faces and expressions...not totally there.
"The Kappa were nice, but theses are even better." He laughed.
Screams cam from some of the ninja. Jay and Nya not waiting for anything to start soaking the spiders and electrocuting them.
"OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD!" Jay repeated over and over again. Zapping the closest spider with everything he had until even his own hair started standing up on end with the electricity. Nya right beside him, not able to say a word. But using every ounce of power she had.
The rest of the group laid into the other two spiders. Morro's wind didn't do much more than push them backwards. He had to duck and dodge out of the way with a squeak. Lloyd laughing at him and blasting another spider.
"Shut up Lloyd and just help me kill this thing!" Morro yelped.
"Do they have any sort of weakness?" Wu cried out. Dogging and bouncing back beside Lloyd.
"Cut the legs off at the joints!" Bree screamed as she still tore at the necklace.
Cole grabbed a leg of one of the nearest spider. Arms glowing and with a growl he pulled and twisted the leg off before turning and stabbing the second spider with the firsts leg.
"Come the fuck on Cole, we can't all do that!" Kai yelled. Blasting the now seven legged spider in the face with fire. Only for it to scream in anger and chase him around the walls of the room.
Clouse had grabbed Bree by the arm and threw a shield spell around them both. Cole bolting after them as he tried to drag her from the room.
"Let go of her!" Cole roared at him.
"Go save your friends, this ones mine" Clouse spat at him. Cole reaching the edge of the shield spell and punching and smashing at it, Surprisingly causing it to crack. In rage and with understanding that Clouses shield spell was barely as effective as Bree's at full power.
Bree couldn't pull herself free from Clouse's magic powered grip. Nor was her own magic particularly effective with the necklace on.
"You forgot something asshole." She snarled. "Lloyd takes after the bright and shiny side of the family. I take after the other."
With that she shape shifted. Cole had seen her do it before. But it was still jarring to see his beautiful Bree turn into a red eyed black as night Oni. She leapt into Clouse and sank her teeth into his arm. From the wet and then crunching sound of it right to the bone. Causing him to scream and let go of her. She bolted directly into Coles arms.
"Get this off me!" She yelled. With that Cole grabbed the necklace arms glowing a fiery orange he tore if apart and tossed it on the floor at the bleeding Clouses feet before turning to wrap Bree in his arms and kiss her. The Oni coloring vanishing as she threw her arms around Coles neck and kissed him back.
"What the hell?!" Clouse sputtered. That was not what he was expecting.
"Kiss her later! Fucking spiders!" Lloyd bellowed. Two and a half ish spiders still ran hellbent around the cavern after the ninja and their family.
Tearing herself away from Cole Bree snagged one spider with a massive shield spell turned back on it. Once held aloft with one hand she used the other to pull the remaining seven legs off. Dropping it on the wet cavern floor with a thud. Cole kicked the now leg less screaming spider into the other two like a bowling ball. After knocking them down the spiders temporally turned on each other in anger.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder! Shall we?" Wu yelled over the screaming of the spiders and crys of the ninja.
Bolting out of the cavern and into the tunnel Bree and Cole were the last out the door. Bree snagging the necklace at Clouse's feet as she ran and using her magic to wrap it tightly around Clouse's neck. Sealing off any of his own newly reacquired elemental powers. Cole drew up his own elemental power and drawing stone out of the floors and walls sealing the spiders and Clouse inside with no way out. Clouse screaming in anger at realization of just how recently he had gotten his mortal body back and just how quickly he was going to loose it and his life again.
The tunnel pitch black save for the glow of Cole orange blazing arms and Bree's purple elemental magic wrapped around each other. It was silent and still save for everyone catching their breath. They stayed like that until Jay spoke up.
"Would anyone else like to go home now? Like in case there are any more spiders or kappa down here?" Jay said quickly.
At the sound of Jays voice they could hear at least one of the spiders smash against the stone door.
"Time to go!" Wu ordered, giving whoever was in front of him a boot forward. Running down the long dark tunnel Skyler and Kai once again lit the way enough for them to find their way out. Each one save Bree calling up their own elemental dragon and bolting off into the sky.
Cole scooped Bree up in his arms and hoped up on his dragon. Bree still slightly cringing and turned to Cole and wrapped her arms around him. She mumbled something into Coles chest.
"What did you say sweetheart?" Cole asked her. Gently running his hands over her back and hair.
"I said get me the hell out of this godforsaken swamp on this frigging dragon" She squeaked out.
"Oh really, I thought you said thank you so much for saving me Cole, I love you so much Cole, lets go have five more kids Cole" He teased.
"Well of course that...hey you dork" She laughed.
Pulling Bree into his lap Cole kissed her. She wrapped her arms around him and touch and kissed him untill they could both feel each others hearts beat in their chests.
"Lets go home and see our daughter" Cole told her as his dragon took off into the sky after the others.
