Everyone Abandons Zane…Also they make a startling discovery:

Zane watched as the children played together, giggles flooding the area. The map had this time lead them to the ancient Temple of Fire. They were camping just within walking distance to it, with plans to head over there in the morning. If they could last that long without someone disappearing on them…

After awhile, he pulled the pot of soup he was making off of the collapsible stove. "Dinner's ready!"

"Oh yum!" "Smells good."

….

Kai tossed and turned in his red sleeping bag, sleep evading him. Sighing, he sat up and slowly unzipped his bag. Kicking the top layer off, he crawled out and headed to the tent flap door. He had just started to unzip that when Nya woke up.

"Uh…what's goin'…Kai what are you doing!?" Nya scrambled out of her maroon sleeping bag, panic flaring in her eyes.

Kai rolled his eyes as he crouched down next to the door. "I can't sleep. Reason why I'm gonna go see what is making that singing noise."

Nya blinked slowly, before bursting into tears. "No! If you go then you'll find the last weapon without us! It's supposed to be a team effort!"

Unfortunately, her yelling awoke Lloyd. Catching on to what she was saying, the young child burst into tears as well. "Kai, you can't leave us!"

His crying and shouting lead to Cole waking up. Cole sighed, before slipping out of his dark brown with orange stripes sleeping bag….unfortunately he knocked into Jay, making him drop the teddy bear that he was cuddling with. Of course being Jay meant that he woke up after that. "What's going on?"

"Kai keeps hearing something called music. The rest of us can't hear anything which means it has to be the sword of fire. As long as we're careful we can all go and find it." Cole pointed out as he grabbed his shoes and shoved them on.

"Oh..." "Why didn't I think of that?" "Brilliant Cole." "Wait…should we wake Zane and the dragons first?"

Everyone paused in the process of putting their shoes on, upon hearing Lloyd's question. Kai glanced over at where Zane's sleeping form was covered by the silvery white sleeping bag. "Maybe not. We can get Rocky and Wisp but we should leave Shard since he is Zane's dragon." Turning his attention back to his shoes, he quickly finished tying them. "We'll be doing Zane a favor by not waking him. He doesn't get enough sleep as is."

Nods of agreement rippled through the five friends as they agreed to the plan. Unzipping the tent, they slipped silently into the cold night air…

…..

"That's the fire temple?! It is…sooo much smaller than I thought it would be." Jay gawked at the sight of the fire temple in front of them.

Kai shrugged, leading the way to the giant front doors. "Come on. It's coming from inside."

Nya ran up ahead and grabbed her brother's hand, ignoring the fact some might take that as she is scared or something. Upon entering the building itself, they immediately noticed the sword of fire resting in the middle of a river of lava, a bright red fire dragon sleeping next to it.

Lloyd bit his bottom lip as he eyed the sleeping mythical creature. "Soo, what now?"

Cole shrugged, not really knowing, while Jay stared dumbfounded at the river of lava. Nya spoke up, her voice soft. "I think you need to let the dragon know you're here Kai. And after that you need to touch the sword so that it can shrink and go inside of you."

Kai swallowed hard at that, before tiptoeing up to the giant creature. "Hey there…can…can you hear me?" The dragon snorted, lifting one heavy eyelid to look at him. "I can hear the sword of fire singing, so is it ok if I touch it real quick?" Another snort, only this time the dragon pushed him to the sword. "Taking that as a yes…wait! I'm not fire proofed!"

Shaking his head, the dragon slid into the lava, making sure that his back was above the lava. Kai blinked, before slowly crossing over the dragon's back. "Thank you. Uh, I probably should give you a name to refer to you as…how does Flames sound?"

Flames happily gurgled at that, before nudging the stone that the sword was sitting on. Kai reached out and gently touched the sword of fire…and the blinding light that the others had to deal with flooded the room.

~Meanwhile back with Zane~

Zane stirred awake, wanting to check on his young companions. Eyes flickering slightly, he barely noticed anything out of the ordinary as he started to slip back asleep…and promptly snapped wide awake. Jay's teddy bear was lying on the ground next to his sleeping bag. And all of the sleeping bags were empty. "Guys!" Zane shoved his shoes on as he tumbled head first out of the tent, frantically calling for his friends. "Kai! Nya! Cole! Jay! Lloyd! Where are you!?"

~Meanwhile with Sensei~

Sensei paced frantically around the Flouting Ruins, his mind spinning. They weren't here. Why weren't they here!? A loud ringing filled the air as his phone went off. Yanking it out of his pocket, he barely glanced at it before hitting answer. "They're not at the Floating Ruins! I need to get to the Fire Temple ASAP!" Silence fell as he listened to the voice on the other side of the call. "Yes, the guardian and weapon that I hid here are gone too. I'm sure if I move quickly enough then I can catch them at the Fire Temple. I'll see you later. Bye." He hung up his phone, before turning and starting the long trek to the Fire Temple.

~Back with the Others~

Kai stared at the chest in front of him, before looking over to the others. Flames had already shrunk down to the size of his palm, and they were outside of the Temple, puzzled over why there was another chest there.

Nya shrugged, before nudging her brother gently. "Might as well as open it. Maybe it is an instruction manual for you guys."

"Ok." Kai opened the chest. Reaching in, he pulled out…another flashlight?

Jay blinked, before narrowing his eyes. "Is that another map? I thought that there was only four golden weapons of the First Spinjitzu Master?"

"Soo, who wants to wake Zane up and ask about the new map?" Kai asked casually before all five took off running back to the campsite…

A/N: Done! What's this? The treasure hunt is not over with? And Zane missed out on all the fun! Of course how did he, who is the lightest sleeper out of all them, managed to sleep through all of that when Jay, who is the heaviest sleeper, didn't is a mystery that shall never be solved.

For anyone that said that Sensei is talking to Misako on the phone, the answer is yes! It is Misako! Now, what do you think the new map will lead to?

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