A/N: Hello! I feel like my writing has improved some so I might try rewriting some old stories to see if I can't get them better. Please enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I own Nothing! Except for my OCs!
Chapter Twenty-Three: Final Battle…Begin! Wait…this isn't a contest!
Cole began filling his pockets with apples, ignoring the weird looks everyone was giving him…except for his friends. They were busy doing the same thing…though Kai was still annoyed that Nya didn't like his finding Cole's situation funny at all. Zane snapped his head up, excitement dancing in his eyes. "Chayton! You're here!" The falcon swooped into the room, landing on Zane's extended arm.
Jay perked up, lifting his hand up for Teal to land on. "Teal! How was your flight here?"
Kai and Nya both already had their respective birds perched on their shoulders, gently stroking them. Calli and Phoenix nuzzled their cheeks, making happy noises while at it. Cole looked around the room, before turning to face Zane. "Manu is on my head…isn't he?"
Zane glanced up at Cole's head, a small smile crossing his face. "And sound asleep."
Cole groaned, before pulling the owl off his head. "Of course… he likes sleeping on my head." Cradling Manu in his arms, he continued, his fingers stroking his soft feathers. "Are the dragons in position yet?"
"No idea. Should we ask Lloyd to ask Dareth?" Kai asked as he tilted his head to the side.
"Part of me wants to say no…but part of me suspects that you are already asking him." Cole rolled his eyes at his impatient friend.
"Yeah…Dareth told him not yet."
~With Lloyd~
"Hey, Lloyd? How did you know Kai was wondering about that?" Skylor asked as she looked around for potential ambushes.
Lloyd frowned, picking up a slight movement up ahead. "We're all telepathically connected to each other. Why are you asking?"
"Umm…no reason, Agh!" The last part was because several serpentine popped out of nowhere.
Misako gasped as she stared at them, horror flooding her. Lloyd grinned as he pulled out his apples. "Let the games begin!" As he yelled this, the door to the music room, which was right behind the serpentine sprang open, the rest of the gang standing in its doorways. All of them had birds perched on their shoulders, and apples in their hands.
Flinging their apples at the serpentine as hard as they could, they leapt feet first into the fight. Kai smirked as he caught his apple on fire, throwing it has hard as he could. The serpentine that caught it with his face screeched as he tumbled backwards. Kai punched the air in victory. "Sweet! Three points in one shot!"
Jay flung an apple at two of them, easily taking them out… possibly due to the fact it was crackling with lightning. "Ha! Take that! Six points in one move for the one and only Jay Walker!"
Zane froze his apples before flinging them. A satisfied smile crossed his face as three of the serpentine fell over. "I believe that is nine points for me."
Nya concentrated hard, soaking her apple. Flinging it, she grinned as the water sprayed all over the floor. The serpentine it hit slammed hard onto the floor, while six others slipped on her watery puddle, falling down to the floor. "Sorry Zane, I believe that I am in the lead, since I just scored twenty-seven points at once."
Cole threw his apples, knocking four down. "Twelve points for me. How are you doing, kiddo?"
Lloyd flung his single apple towards the only serpentine with a tail. The apple slammed into the serpentine, right before it exploded, throwing twenty serpentine into the farthest wall. "Hmm, that would be sixty normal points…plus the twenty points for a general… seventy points total for me. Why do you ask?" Lloyd suddenly tilted his head, staring at a Gold Eagle that just showed up. "Hey, look who decided to show up. You're late Arnett." The gold eagle merely screeched happily as he landed on his shoulders.
Just then, there was a loud rumbling before every single stone warrior, skeleton, and serpentine charged into the room. Jay punched the air as he promptly hollered loudly. "Bonus round! Go!"
With that said; they quickly dragged out all of the crates of apples and began throwing them like crazy. After awhile, Jay snapped his fingers and began spinning quickly, turning himself into a blue tornado. Grinning, the others quickly did the same thing, though each one was a different color. Kai was red, while Zane was white. Cole was black, and Lloyd was green. Nya was a dark maroon color. The apples were sucked out of their crates, and began pummeling the enemy like crazy.
Yelps could be heard as the various enemies were flung around and pummeled as if they were nothing more than target practice. Cole spun to a stop a smirk on his face. "One hundred and thirty-three points!"
Zane stopped as well, smiling as he turned to look at Cole. "Three hundred and sixty-four points."
Kai nudged Zane out of the way, quickly speaking up. "Try five hundred and ninety-two points."
Nya slung her arms around his shoulders. "Nice try brother dear, seven hundred and ninety-nine points."
Jay bounced over to them, a huge smile on his face. "I'm losing aren't I? I have one hundred and twenty-nine points."
Lloyd stopped spinning, scratching the back of his neck. "Umm, I have ten hundred thousand, five hundred and twenty-six points."
Dareth groaned as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Guys…it's not a competition!"
"It isn't? Since when?" They crowed back in unison.
Thuds could be heard as everyone that wasn't one of the six slapped their foreheads. Kai glanced back at the others, his face suddenly grim, all joking gone. "We need to get going…the Overlord should be here soon to see why all of his minions are unconscious."
Nods of agreement rippled through the friends…right before everyone realized that they had changed outfits. Instead of the matching barber outfits, they were all now wearing their respective ninja gis, Kai's was a bright red one. Breaking at a sprint, they bolted outside, their birds flying on ahead.
Rocky, Flames, Shard, Wisp, and a not so little Brooke and Greenie were standing outside waiting for them. Leaping onto their dragons backs, they began communicating to each other.
You all have to be a distraction…can't let him near me until it's too late.
Got it!
Why are we doing it this way again? You could get hurt!
Be careful…what you're doing is far more dangerous than us.
Time to freeze him in his tracks!
Haha! That was a good one, Zane!
Jay!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Keep his attention off of the kid. I totally have this!
Kai suddenly snapped forward, knocking Jay and Wisp out of the way of a ball of Dark Matter. Zane and Cole nudged Rocky and Shard into action, firing at the large, dark purple dragon thing that was in the midst of tearing up all of Ninjago City. Nya swooped in from the left, Brooke slamming into it before quickly flying away before it could hurt her.
The Overlord screeched loudly…and was promptly answered by another roar. All five of their faces paled as a dark pink dragon-like creature with black stripes surged out from behind one of the buildings. Guys….there are two of them!
"Noted! Everyone converge together and watch each other's backs!" Cole barked out, quickly guiding Rocky into a three-sixty circle.
Blasts flew everywhere as the five friends fought against the two creatures, drawing their attention away from a single, extra tall skyscraper. The Overlord and his sister moved around so that their backs were turned to the building that they wanted them to stay away from.
Zane suddenly spoke up, his voice filled with humor. "Earth, Ice, Lightning, Fire, Energy, aaaannnddd, WATER!" At the end of the strange countdown, an extra loud explosion ripped through the air, destroying both of the evil entities.
Lloyd and Greenie slipped into their places, smiles on their faces. "Soo, that all just happened. Anyone up to ice cream?"
~Fifty-three years later~
"…And that is the story of how I know your grandfather." Ice beamed as he looked down at a disbelieving teen girl. Her silvery blonde hair was pulled back in a French braid which was wrapped around the top of her head. Her icy blue eyes were staring at him as if he were insane, her arms crossed over her purple sundress.
"I have a hard time believing that Grandfather did all of that." She lifted one hand up to fiddle with Zane's pendant, which hung around her neck.
"You are the one that asked how I met him." Ice calmly pointed out.
"No…I asked which school he went to. I need to sign up for the entrance exams if I want to go to one of the boarding schools instead of a public school." She grumbled under her breath.
"Oh…well now you know! He went to Sensei Wu's Monastery For the Gifted!" Ice cheerfully announced.
She narrowed her eyes, not finding that very helpful. "Ice…that school burned down during the Second Serpentine War."
Ice blinked rapidly. "Oh… what was the new school built for it again?"
"There isn't one. With the Test removed from the law and things, it didn't really make sense to keep that one around. Most of those boarding schools you mentioned are gone." She paused, exasperation on her face. "And by that I mean they were either torn down or changed so that they don't specialize in anything. Except for that one school you mentioned. Seeing as I have two left feet though, I don't think Marty Oppenheimer's school of Performing Arts is the one for me." She fiddled some more with the pendant.
"Sorry Zelda. I am afraid I am not being much help here. Maybe you should go ask one of your parents for help." Ice apologized, sincerity dancing in his eyes.
Zelda sighed, before turning around to face the long hiking path that leads back to the nearest village. "Great…wait. Didn't you say in your story that Uncle Cole was positive that Grandpa Lou would never marry Grandma Jo Anna?"
Ice sniggered as he realized what it was she was hinting at. "Yes, well he was wrong about that. Six kids are rather a lot to handle…by the way, how is Isabella doing?"
Zelda smiled as she thought of her youngest 'aunt', the only child that Cole's father and stepmother had together. "She's doing fine. Just finished getting her doctorate."
Ice smiled, suddenly glad that it had been years since everything had happened. Peace truthfully looked good in Ninjago.
A/N: Done! Yeah, the spiritia are all knowing so the whole thing was Ice talking to Zane's granddaughter. Also, I decided to have Lou and Mrs. Jones get married and have a kid of their own.
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