Drum roll please... The major story edits begin! First off:
No Lord Garmadon joining them! I'm sorry, but without Lloyd getting captured, this would make no sense. If people flame me for this, I will do what my friend does: look at it, edit for mistakes, and either praise it or show how bad it was! I am the all-powerful author, and Lord Garmadon will still be seen later. Sensei Wu went off for a different reason.
So remember: YOU NO HAVE POWER OVER ME.
No P.O.V.
Long before anyone else, Nya and Diane were awake. Nya was studying Serpentine movements, while Diane was scanning every document she could find about the first time they'd been sealed away.
"This isn't going anywhere!" Nya said, frustrated.
"We must be patient." Diane reminded her. Nya sighed.
"Lemme guess, you guys were up before the break of dawn?" Emera asked, coming in with her pajamas still on. Diane yawned.
"I suppose." She admitted.
"Then get some sleep."Annabella told them. Grudgingly, they went back to the girls' bedroom for a few hours of rest. "They work too hard."
"You guys awake?" The boys came in, also out of bed. Before they could answer, the monitor of the computer lit up. Zane went over, opening a new message. He smiled.
"Sensei Wu is returning!" Zane said.
"Come on!" Everyone awake went outside, where Sensei Wu had just gotten on the deck.
"Sensei! You've missed so much! Zane's a nindroid, Cole's a dancer, and," Jay was cut off as Emera smacked him.
"And Jay refuses to shut his mouth." She added.
"Sensei, why did you leave?" Zane asked.
Sensei Wu chuckled. "Very well. First, I would like to eat something before I tell you why I left the Bounty. And, what is a nindroid?"
After fixing Sensei Wu breakfast and explaining how Zane was a robot the ninja (plus Lloyd and Amelia) met in the control room. Sensei Wu held out an old, worn scroll. "I went on my travels to find this. I believe it will clear up the arguments about the green ninja."
He opened the scroll and everyone looked at it. There were eight ninja surrounding a single light green ninja. "None of the established ninja are the green ninja. In fact, the green ninja has been hiding among us as someone else for quite some time."
The male ninja grumbled, but the girls sighed in relief. "Finally." Annabella muttered. "That was getting annoying."
"The golden weapons will show the green ninja. Put them on the table." Sensei Wu instructed. The boys did so. "Lloyd, step forward."
Confused, Lloyd went towards the table. The golden weapons began to shimmer and encircled Lloyd, emitting a bright, green light. The ninja (and Amelia) gasped and the light faded.
"I-I'm the green ninja?" Lloyd said, confused.
"What?! How's he the green ninja?" Cole demanded.
"We trained for much longer, Sensei!" Kai added.
"Perhaps fate is cruel." Diane suggested. When everyone looked at her, she continued. "First, it turned brother against brother with Sensei Wu and Lord Garmadon. Now, it has turned father against son."
"Diane may be correct." Sensei Wu sighed. "For now, you must begin to train Lloyd." He left the room, and silence ensued throughout the room.
Finally, Annabella called, "Not it!" and ran from the room. Emera, Nya, Kai, Jay, and Cole followed suit, leaving Diane, Zane, and Amelia.
"I guess we will train you." Diane said, leading Lloyd to the training room.
"I'll help." Amelia offered, and Diane nodded.
Two hours later...
Diane, exhausted, stumbled into the girls' room. "Why I said 'not it'." Annabella told her. The others had resumed training on the deck after leaving and were now resting. Diane sighed.
"It didn't go well?" Nya asked.
"Lloyd has very little strength of his own. It was difficult for him to do the simplest exercises." Diane replied.
"Well, the boys retreated to the game room. Want to see what they're doing?" Emera said.
As it turned out, they were unable to, since the alarm went off. The ninja ran for the control room where Nya typed on the keyboard. "The Serpentine have found the third fang blade!"
"Great! Where?" Kai asked.
"The Fire Temple." She answered.
"Go ninja. Lloyd, Amelia, stay here." Sensei Wu instructed. The ninja and their sensei took off, leaving the two in the room.
Lloyd sighed. "I'm a ninja, and they still get all the fun."
Amelia shrugged. "Last I checked I don't get any fun either." She pointed out.
STEVEN MOFFAT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CRUEL!
...Okay, I'm done.
Once at the Fire Temple, the ninja quietly followed the Serpentine. "Where's the fang blade? It shouldn't be this hard to find." Emera remarked.
"There!" Nya pointed to Pythor, who had picked up a red-silver blade. However, he frowned.
"Ninja!" Pythor shouted. The Serpentine turned and hissed, going for the ninja.
"Shit!" The ninja took out their weapons, but the Serpentine were merely stalling, and Pythor soon escaped, fang blade in hand.
"Fall back!" Cole yelled, and the ninja retreated back to the Bounty.
Some days later...
"Great. The Serpentine have three of the four fang blades, and we don't even know where the last one is!" Annabella said.
"And it would seem Pythor has found the last one." Diane said glumly.
There was silence until Lloyd spoke up. "Hey. We don't we take back the other three? Pythor wouldn't have them all on hand."
"That's brilliant!" Nya praised.
"Wait. My calculations suggest taking back the other three would be far more dangerous than going for the fourth." Zane put in.
"And where would you look? Over the past few days there have been little to none Serpentine sightings." Sensei Wu added. "It's almost as though they've all disappeared, or are acting like ghosts."
"Or snakes!" Nya cried. "Bridge, sonar sweep of Ninjago."
The computer beeped, and showed no signs of Serpentine. "See? It's like Sensei said. Nothing." Kai pointed out.
"What if they're not traveling above ground? Bridge, sonar sweep of Ninjago twenty feet below the surface." Nya instructed.
This time, it showed activity from all the Serpentine tombs, gathering in one area. "All this time, right under our noses." Jay said.
"Or rather, feet." Zane amended.
Scanning the map, Emera pointed to the center. "That's where all the Serpentine are, so that's where the fang blades must be." She noted.
"Then set the course." Sensei Wu ordered. Nya did so, and they took off.
The next morning, everyone was on the deck. Sensei Wu instructed them on fighting against the Serpentine's tactics. Once finished, Sensei Wu looked at them. "I have trained you well. You are all ready."
"What about you, Sensei?" Annabella said.
"My concern is my old bones cannot keep up." Sensei Wu claimed.
"But Sensei, you're our master. Surely you can fight with us." Diane insisted.
"Perhaps. But someone should stay with Lloyd," Sensei Wu began.
"I can do it." Amelia said, coming outside. "Also, look over by the mountain, would you?"
The ninja did so. "Look at all the dirt!" Jay said.
"What're the snakes up to?" Emera wondered.
"Can I come?" Lloyd begged.
"You are for a future fight. Stay here with Amelia." Sensei Wu told him.
The ninja crept down into the tomb, Sensei Wu following. There was no one there, not even a single Serpentine. "I thought this would be heavily guarded." Jay said.
"Forgive me. Even nindroids make mistakes." Zane apologized.
"Hey, look at that." Annabella went up to the paintings and made a face. "They don't show us!"
"And we look terrible! They're gonna pay for that." Kai growled.
"I mean, at least give me a decent mustache." Cole remarked, pressing it. It opened up a hallway. "Uh, I meant to do that?"
Everyone ran inside finding the Serpentine down below. They were discussing the release of the Great Devourer. Some seemed to doubt it. "We should travel by shadow for now. Too many." Nya said. Everyone began downward slowly.
Back on the Bounty...
Amelia was in the control room, bored, when Lloyd walked in. "Anything?"
"Nope. Man, I wish I could've gone." Amelia sighed.
"I know. Why don't they trust us?" Lloyd asked.
"They trust us, but probably think we're too young and inexperienced." Amelia replied. Under her breath, she muttered, "Yet I survived in the desert for two fucking years." but Lloyd still heard her.
"You were in the desert for two years?!" Lloyd said in disbelief.
"Yeah. Where do you think I got my knives?" Amelia replied.
Rather than ask for details, Lloyd's attention was soon occupied, as was Amelia's, by Nya's voice from the computer. "Operation stealth was a bust. We need reinforcements."
Amelia quickly typed on the computer, opening communications. "We hear you." She called, but Nya didn't seem to hear.
In the tomb...
"I can't get through!" Nya said, and Annabella looked at her.
"Where can we get reception in a CAVE?" She asked.
Nya shrugged. "Good point."
"Ninja, time to fight! Show them what you've learned!" Sensei Wu yelled.
A Constrictai tried to get Cole and Emera, but Cole managed to slip out, while Emera used her bow to shoot hers in the shoulder. "You didn't listen to Sensei, did you?" Cole shouted.
"I prefer attacking. Relaxing isn't my strong suit." Emera responded.
Kai closed his eyes to shield himself from getting hypnotized by Hypnobrai, which later became useless after Annabella knocked out the Serpentine with water (she now carried a water skin on her waist). "And I like using my eyes." Annabella remarked.
Jay ended up surrounded by Fangpyre, but was protected both by his armored ninja suit and Nya having his back. "Nice job, Jay!"
"Yeah. You're doing well too." Jay said dreamily.
"Pardon the lovebirds, but we've got fang blades to capture!" Zane reminded. He and Diane were the furthest down, and completely outnumbered. A Venomari spat in Zane's eyes, but thankfully he'd brought his falcon with him.
The ninja all ended up in the bottom of the tomb, and Kai spotted the fang blades. Cole ran to grab them, but hands shot out of the ground, trapping him. "Booby traps!"
Jay continued forward, but bars sprang up, and the ninja were encaged. "No!" Diane shouted.
"NOT. FAIR." Emera snorted.
"You would think the mighty ninja would be better than this." Pythor mocked. The cage was raised into the air and suspended, while the ninja were stripped of their weapons.
Quickly, Nya again tried to contact the ship, but only static was heard. "Come on, work!" Nya pleaded, but her device refused.
"Gimme that." Annabella ordered. Nya handed it to her and Annabella banged it against the bars.
"You'll break it!" Nya cried. Annabella rolled her eyes.
"Whenever something broke, I did this." Handing back the communicator, Nya tried it and found it was working perfectly.
"It worked?" Diane said, shocked.
"I find banging it rewires the thing and it fixes itself." Annabella told her.
Nya again spoke into the communicator. "Anyone there?"
Amelia's voice answered. "We're on the ship. What happened?"
"The Serpentine have the last fang blade and we lost our weapons. We need help." Nya replied.
"On it. Lloyd and I are on the way." The device went silent, and Emera sighed.
"We have to rely on two twelve year-olds to get out of this? If there are gods, I think they're laughing right now." She grumbled.
The snakes below began yelling, and two started fighting. Finding nothing better to do, Zane sat down to meditate, Jay and Cole played checkers with stones, Diane sat quietly making flowers, Nya and Emera watched the below matches, and Annabella gave the snakes below dagger-eyes.
Kai, restless, paced around the cage. "All we can do is wait around? This is killing me!"
"Patience. We must have faith in Lloyd and Amelia." Sensei Wu advised.
"Again, we're putting all our chances on twelve year-olds? Remind me to walk like a chicken and speak like one when we live through this." Emera snorted.
"Can't we get through? We shouldn't need our weapons." Annabella said, but Sensei Wu shook his head.
"The bars are vengestone. They block out all elemental powers." He insisted.
Walking over, Kai picked up Jay's hair oil. "Hey, that was about to be kinged." He protested.
"Would you rather that, or get out of here?" Kai popped off the cap, and rubbed the oil on his suit.
"Eww. Warn us, would you?" Cole said.
"Laugh all you want, but this is going to get us out of here. We don't need elemental powers, just a little smart thinking." Kai went to the bars, and managed to squeeze his way through.
"Nice job!" Annabella praised.
"But now what?" Diane asked.
"Now, we're going to do a little ball and chain." Kai pulled one of the chains over and twisted it with the bars of the cage, and slowly began to swing. The cage slowly went with it, beginning to sway.
"Keep it up! It's working!" Nya said.
"Let's help by throwing our weight around!" Cole instructed. The ninja ran through the cage, and the cage edged toward the ends of the cave.
Unfortunately, Pythor caught them, and the ninja were soon chained by the arm to bars of the cage. "Great, this is much better than before!" Cole said, irritated.
Annabella delivered a swift kick to his shin. "Didn't hear that when you were helping!" She hissed, angry.
"Hey, I was going to be kinged!" Jay insisted. Emera snorted.
"None of that matters! Would you guys get your heads on straight?!" She asked.
"Guys, have faith in Lloyd!" Nya said, but when she looked at the others' faces, she sighed. "Or not."
Outside...
Lloyd and Amelia made their way up. Lloyd tried to impress her with his 'ninja skills', but ended up tripping and hurting himself more than once. "Try to get there in one piece." Amelia told him.
"Okay, okay." Lloyd sighed. They entered the tomb, and looked over the ledge.
"There they are!" Amelia pointed, and Lloyd nodded.
"Leave this one to the Green Ninja!" He insisted. Lloyd went down, but failed repeatedly and ended up flat on his face.
"Now we're doomed." Annabella said. Thankfully, Amelia slid down.
"I'm here." She went to work with her knvies, sawing away at the chains. "I knew Lloyd would get their attention, so I let him do his thing."
"You did something devious for someone else?" Emera said, surprised. "You are officially my sister now!"
Amelia smiled, but her joy was cut off as the Serpentine noticed her. "Not again! Get them!" Pythor ordered.
The cage began to move down, but in the confusion Lloyd flipped a switch and freed the ninja, along with their weapons. "Thanks, Lloyd!" Kai shouted, and the battle began.
Taking no chances, the girls unleashed their powers. Annabella used every drop of her water to freeze snakes, Emera harnessed some metal from the ground to ensnare Serpentine, Nya blew as much wind as she could, and Diane managed a few vines.
Pythor, seeming to realize the fight was lost, tried to run, but unfortunately for him, he bumped into the ninja. "Going somewhere?" Cole asked.
Snarling, Pythor dropped the fang blades and disappeared. "Okay, we've got the blades. How do we get out of here?" Jay asked.
"I rigged something." Nya hit a button, and several explosions occurred, blinding the Serpentine and giving cover for the ninja.
Later...
The ninja celebrated, the fang blades on the table in the control room. Emera toasted to Amelia and Lloyd. "I'll admit, you guys rock! I had total faith."
Annabella laughed, nearly getting her punch up her nose. "No, you had absolutely no faith! You said they'd fail, and I quote 'We're putting all our chances on twelve year-olds? Remind me to walk like a chicken and speak like one when we live through this'. Come on, we're alive, so you have to live up to your promise!"
"What?!" Emera said. Everyone looked at her expectantly, and she sighed. Emera bent her knees and raised her head, shouting, "Bok, bok, bok, bok, bok!"
The ninja burst out laughing, and Emera reddened. She got up and went next to Cole who looked at her.
"I've learned not to make promises like that." He told her, but to take off the edge, kissed her cheek and Emera smiled.
"Tomorrow, when we arrive at Torchfire Mountain, we will finally destroy the fang blades once and for all." Sensei Wu announced. Everyone whooped and continued to party, never looking out the window.
If they had, they would have noticed someone watching them carefully. Pythor reappeared, and chuckled evilly, preparing for the time to strike.