Chapter 7: Game of Masks
Lloyd and Harumi had finally reached their destination. "We found it, the Oni Temple." Lloyd said. "Now that we're here we can get the mask before the Sons of Garmadon do." Harumi replied.
They went inside in the front and there were lots of stalagmites and stalactites, which made it look like a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. "This is kinda creepy." voiced Haurmi. "Don't worry, everything will be fine." Lloyd assured her.
Then they came to some rock columns standing in the way. They were very tall, and the ground was a very far away. "Looks like a booby trap if I ever saw one." Lloyd said. He jumped on a few, and told Harumi to follow his steps.
He then jumped on a column that had a weird looking symbol on it. When he did, it crumbled, luckily he jumped off, and landed on another. "Lloyd, are you okay?" Harumi asked him. "Yeah, but let's stay away from the ones with that symbol." he advised.
And they kept going. But little did they know a figure was following them into the temple.
Meanwhile, the other members of the Ninja were still trying to get the Destiny's Bounty airborne, but the Sons of Garmadon showed up and ambushed them. They pulled on their hoods, and fought back. "What did you do to Pixal?" Zane asked Ultraviolet, as they fought.
"We put that hunk of metal in her place." Ultraviolet answered. Zane got angry and hit her. But with the Masks of Deception and Vengeance in their procession, the Sons of Garmadon took over the ship, and tied the Ninja up.
"With this ship, we'll be at the Oni Temple in no time." Killow said happily, as he steered. Meanwhile Ultraviolet was now holding onto Toddler Wu, luckily he was still too young to understand what was happening.
"Don't you dare hurt him." Cole threatened. "Or you'll what, sing me to death?" Ultraviolet scoffed. The Sons of Garmadon laughed. "Where's the Green Ninja and the princess?" Killow demanded. "Why should we tell you anything?" Nya snarked.
"Besides, isn't Harumi..." Jay tried to ask, but what interrupted. "Killow, Ultraviolet. Mr. E found them, they're at the temple." a member announced. "Good. The Eye will be pleased." Ultraviolet replied.
"Take us there." ordered Killow. "We know the Eye's Harumi you don't have to call her that anymore." Kai told them. Once again the Sons of Garmadon laughed. "You think we'd take orders from that bratty little princess?" asked another member.
"But if it's not Harumi then who?" wondered Jay. "That's for us to know and you to find out." Killow explained. "Do you guys know what you're getting yourselves into? You're trying to bring back Garmadon, Lord Garmadon, the most evil man in history." Zane told them.
"Exactly." answered Ultraviolet. "We've seen plenty of people who tried to use some kind of spirit or resurrected being for their own plots, but it always blew up in their faces." Nya warned. But the Sons of Garmadon just ignored them.
Kai noticed his arm was a little loose, and tried to pull it out from the chain. "Don't even think about it, Fire Ninja. Unless you want to see a kid cry." Ultraviolet threatened, while holding Toddler Wu. So Kai didn't do anything.
"If Harumi isn't the Eye, then who is?" Cole whispered to the others.
At the temple, Lloyd and Harumi got through the rock columns. "Well that felt like something straight out of a movie." Harumi replied. "Yeah, those are booby traps for you." Lloyd answered. They walked down a dark hallway with a torch Lloyd had lit with his powers.
Then they came to a room with pictures of the Oni. "Amazing, I wonder what the Oni were like." Harumi said. "I don't know, all I know is that I'm part Oni, and they were mysterious creature-like people." Lloyd answered.
As he looked around for another way out, Lloyd discovered there was no other way. "Looks like we're in a riddle room." he told Harumi. "Hmm, maybe there's some sort of secret door somewhere." she suggested.
"Right, but where would it be?" Lloyd wondered. "Well, it can't be here." Harumi pointed out, looking at a wall that had the symbol on it. Lloyd was about to use his powers to knock through another but of the wall, but stopped.
"What's wrong?" "This is a trick, I think the Oni knew that if anyone ever got this far they'd avoid the symbol. So that would be a perfect place to hide the mask." he explained. He blasted through the wall with the symbol on it with his energy powers, and sure enough it was the right one.
A stone bridge led to a small platform where the last mask, the Mask of Hatred sat surrounded by a strange purple mist. Harumi tried to take the mask, but she couldn't grab it because of the mist. "Maybe someone with Oni blood in them can get it." she told Lloyd.
So Lloyd grabbed the mask, and because of his heritage held it with no problem. "We got the mask before the Sons of Garmadon, now let's get out of here." Lloyd said. "Oh, I wouldn't leave just yet." an ominous voice told them.
The two whirled around, and saw a figure in the dark. It walked into the light to reveal that it was...Hutchins, wearing black clothes. "Hutchins?" Asked Harumi astonished. "Thank you so much for finding the third mask for me." Hutchins told them, as he walked closer.
"It's you. You're the Eye." Lloyd realized. Harumi gasped. "You're pretty sharp, Green Ninja." He sneered. "But Hutchins...you're our advisor." Said Harumi. Then she remembered something.
"My mother and father, w-what did you do with them?" "Don't expect to see them anytime soon princess." Hutchins remarked. Harumi fought back tears, and then Lloyd asked. "How'd you find us?"
Hutchins pulled out a small remote control, and pressed a button. They heard a beeping sound, and Harumi felt something vibrating on her shirt. She took off her jacket, to see that it was a button on her shirt that was making the noise and vibrating.
"You put some kind of tracking device on me?" "No extra charge for that. Now that that's out of the way, hand over the mask." said Hutchins, running to Lloyd. Lloyd shot green energy waves at him, sending him back.
"Harumi, take the mask, and try to get out of here!" Lloyd shouted as he threw the mask to her. Though still hurt by the betrayal, Harumi grabbed the mask and tried to run. Hutchins tried going after her, but Lloyd stopped him, and they continued to fight.
Harumi ran out of the room, down the hall, and jumped on the right rock columns. But when she got outside she ran into Killow, and a couple other members of the Sons of Garmadon. "Well looks like our delivery is here." Killow replied.
She tried to run, but was stopped by the other members. Killow took the mask, while the others grabbed her arms, and then tied her up. "Take her back to the ship, I'll get this back to the boss." Killow ordered. "Let me go." Harumi protested as she was dragged away.
Back on the Bounty, Ultraviolet and the others were keeping guard, while Toddler Wu kept running around. "Hey, Ultraviolet, look who we have." called one of the members. They got on the boat, with Harumi in tow.
"Ah, Princess so glad you could honor us with your presence." Ultraviolet greeted with sarcasm. "Put her with the others." They slammed her by the Ninja and went back to work. "Harumi, what happened?" asked Nya.
"And where's Lloyd?" added Cole. "Back at the temple, Hutchins is the Eye, he's behind all of this." Harumi told them. "Hutchins." said Jay. "I knew there was something off about that guy." Kai told them.
They looked up when they heard laughing. Toddler Wu had fallen over and a member was laughing at him. But Toddler Wu threw a hammer at him, then hurried away laughing at what he'd done.
"Get back here, you little brat." As Toddler Wu was being chased, the Ninja saw where the keys were. "Guys, we need a plan." said Nya. At the temple Lloyd was still battling Hutchins. "Why are you doing this?" Lloyd asked.
"Revenge, against you, the rest of the Ninja and the Royal family as well." Hutchins explained. "But why?" Before Hutchins could answer, Killow came in with the mask. "Boss, catch." he called. He threw the Mask of Hatred to him.
Hutchins caught it and put it on. His body turned to stone and he was much stronger now, he picked Lloyd up, and threw down into the water below. "I hope the others are on their way." he said to himself.
Ultraviolet was getting impatient waiting for Killow and Hutchins. "Where are they? Keep an eye on them." she told a member. Once she was gone, the Ninja put their plan into action. Cole started singing "Glow Little Glowworm."
"You're not gonna distract me with that song again." "Well maybe I just want to sing." Cole remarked. As Cole kept singing, to keep him distracted Nya got Toddler Wu's attention. "Wu, get the keys." she whispered.
At first Toddler Wu got the teapot, but then got the keys, and unlocked them. The Ninja broke out, subdued their guard, and untied Harumi. "You're a good boy, Toddler Wu." Nya told him, as she picked him up.
Hutchins stepped out of the cave with the mask still on, and the other members cheered. "The Eye got the mask." Ultraviolet said. Hutchins took it off, and bowed. "Thank you, and now we have a ceremony to do." he told them.
"I don't think so." said Kai. The Ninja and Princess Harumi surrounded them. "Where's Lloyd?" Harumi demanded. "He's gone like the rest of the ones you love." Hutchins answered. But Lloyd swam out of the waterfall from the temple.
"Lloyd." the Ninja and Harumi cried happily. "You again, get them!" ordered Hutchins. The Ninja, Harumi, and the Sons of Garmadon began fighting with each other. As they fought the sea monster, that Lloyd and Harumi encountered earlier came back, and started attacking them all.
As the Ninja battled the monster, Hutchins gave an order to Killow. He grabbed Lloyd, he tried to get away but with Killow's muscles and the Mask of Deception on his face, he couldn't get away.
"To the ship!" yelled Hutchins. Everyone hurried to the Destiny's Bounty and boarded it. "Lloyd!" cried Harumi. The ship flew away, leaving the team alone with the sea monster. "This isn't good." said Cole, as the sea monster got closer to them.
That's chapter 7, plz review