Chapter 11 – Frienemies
The night arrived when the storm arrived in the desert. Yes, a storm in the desert, very rare, but rain was pouring down and there were strong winds, thunder and even a little lightning.
Lloyd was caught in the storm as he had his flashlight out again, trying to push against the weather. Lloyd looked up and looked into the darkness around him.
"Where am I?!" Lloyd exclaimed. His question was soon answered when some lightning lit up the sky, and even a huge object ahead of Lloyd. Before him was the mere glimpse of the same fang shaped rock monument on the Serpentine tomb map. When Lloyd saw the monument, his face lit up.
"The tomb!" Lloyd exclaimed as he ran up to the rock. When he got to it, he arrived at another rock the fang rock was sitting on, and it was a big ancient door that lead into the tomb.
Above the door was a lit torch with wildly blowing flames due to the wind outside. Lloyd saw the handle and grabbed it, and had to pull hard a couple of times before the door budged outward. The door didn't really make any noises as Lloyd opened the door, and stared into dark nothingness inside. Lloyd aimed his flashlight inside the tomb as he walked in. The door was so heavy that it shut behind Lloyd just as he walked in, surprising Lloyd.
As Lloyd walked in, mysteriously, a torch on a large rock in the center of the large room lit up and brought some light, and then two more torches, one on each wall of the tomb, lit up as well, bringing more light. Lloyd's face cringed as the smell of decay hit him. But when Lloyd took a step forward to explore, he stepped on a hard object and it made a CRACK sound. Lloyd slowly looked down, and there below his feet was a carcass.
The carcass was shaped mostly like a human skeleton, but it had an elongated neck bone that was attached to a snake shaped skull. Lloyd gasped at the sight of a Serpentine skeleton.
But then Lloyd heard hissing, and he flashed his flashlight around in fear. And then Lloyd's flashlight landed on the sandy ground a few good feet away from him, and he noticed big snake tacks that were getting closer to him, but whoever the moving tracks belonged to, wasn't visible.
The tracks that were moving towards him caused Lloyd to shake and walk back in fear. But then suddenly the tracks stopped moving, and when they did, Lloyd stopped walking backwards and examined them. Lloyd took a few shaky steps towards the unnaturally large snake tracks. But suddenly, who ever the tracks belonged to then became visible and hissed loudly as he bared his fangs and claws at Lloyd. Lloyd didn't expect this, so he shrieked and stumbled onto his back. But unexpectedly, the room was then filled with laughter coming from the beast that just scared Lloyd. Lloyd examined him.
He was a Serpentine, and he had a tail, just like a tribe general, so he must be a general, his body was covered in violet covered scales, and had black and even a few yellow scale designs all down the back of his neck, torso, and tail. This was one huge snake though, he was larger than the other snake generals because he had an elongated neck, just like the Serpentine carcass Lloyd stepped on. He had a mid section shaped like a human's, just like the other generals, and he had long purple scaled arms with clawed hands covered in black scales. He had a snake head shaped like an Anaconda's, and two fairly large fangs. And he had glowing dark purple eyes with black slit pupils, and he had a diamond gem crest embedded atop his head, his tail was also pretty long.
"Oh, that never gets old," the purple snake said in a some what English accent, his voice sounded calm and charming, but still with traces of insanity, "ssssorry, I've just had no company in so many years, I just had to do that—oh, and where are my manners, my name is Pythor P. Chumsworth, and who might you be, my little appetiz-I mean friend," the snake, or Pythor, said, and spoke quickly to correct what he almost said, and unlike the other snakes, he didn't hold out on the letter 's' as much. Lloyd got up slowly as he stared at Pythor.
"Um, Lloyd—and why are you being so nice?" asked Lloyd.
"Must I repeat myself? I ssssaid I don't have any friends—it'sssss not my fault though, I never asked to be born an Anacondrai," said Pythor.
"Wait, your species' name is the 'Anacondrai'?" asked Lloyd.
"Yesss, and sadly, I am the last one—being locked away for so long made the tribe slip into starvation, insanity, and cannibalism," Pythor replied.
"Ooh, that's a bit harsh," Lloyd said grimly.
"Yes, I suppossse—but lucky for me, I was the tribe leader, and though I am at fault for losing my tribe, I was smart enough to survive—usssss Anacondrai may be the most big and feared, but that's only because we relied on brainsssss, not brawn," Pythor explained.
"Huh, that's cool, I guess, but it sucks that you're all that's left, I was trying to find a descent tribe to be, like, my snake army," Lloyd complained.
"Hmm, and why would you want such help?" asked Pythor.
"Because my dad, Lord Garmadon, is my idol, and I want to be like him, and plus, I want an army to get revenge on my uncle and his ninja team, and make them suffer too," Lloyd replied with an evil smile.
"Ooh, if there's anything I love more than making my enemies suffer, it'sssss to get revenge on them—if only I had feet, so I could click my heels with joy," Pythor said darkly with an evil grin.
"Hey, you seem like a promising guy, Pythor. How would you like to be my evil henchman?" asked Lloyd. Pythor thought as he tapped a claw to his chin, but then he smiled at Lloyd.
"Hmm, lucky for you, my schedule is alwaysssss free—I'd love to be your henchman," Pythor replied.
"Awesome," Lloyd said as he pumped a fist, "now, I think I already have a plan on how we can gain an army," Lloyd said and grabbed out the map and unrolled it for Pythor to see, "we can go to the last two tombs and let those tribes loose, but then they'll become our army," Lloyd explained, but he didn't notice as Pythor peeked over his shoulder and stared evilly at the map, and flicked his green tongue while putting on a big evil smile.
But Pythor frowned when Lloyd rolled up the parchment and put it away, but when he turned to look at Pythor, Pythor quickly put on a fake smile.
"Ssssssounds like a devious plan to me," said Pythor.
"But before we get into that serious stuff, I want to do a few fun things first," Lloyd cut in.
"Like what?" Pythor asked as his smile went away again and he looked a little confused, but that made Lloyd grin.
"Pythor, how long has it been since you've last eaten anything?" asked Lloyd.
Dawn crept over the horizon and onto Destiny's Bounty. Everyone was asleep, and the ninja all shared a room, and Kate and Nya shared a different room. There were two bunk beds in the boys' room, Kai and Zane shared a bunk, Kai on top and Zane took the bottom, and Jay and Cole shared the other, Cole took the bottom bunk while Jay took the top.
But suddenly Zane awoke from his slumber. Zane looked at his sleeping team, but then he groaned and clutched his head with a hand.
"I do not feel so well. Perhaps I should get some air," Zane said quietly and stood up from his bed and eventually tip toed onto the ship's deck to look outside.
But when Zane got there, he noticed he wasn't alone. Just standing with his back turned to Zane was a grown person about six feet tall, and he was wearing a suit, a ninja suit, that looked just like the other ninjas' suits, but instead, it was a different color, it was green.
"Um, excuse me, but who are you?" Zane asked as he walked out onto the deck and towards the green ninja. The ninja also had his mask up, so when he turned, all that was visible was blond eye brows and eyes with familiar red irises. When the person in green looked at Zane, Zane stopped a few feet in front of him.
"Can you not speak? A-are you mute?" asked Zane. The person didn't reply, he only blinked, but suddenly he reached out an arm horizontally, which confused Zane. But soon the hawk Kate and Zane followed appeared in the sky and flew down and perched onto the man's arm. But something was different about the hawk, instead of piercing yellow eyes, it had glowing blue eyes.
"The hawk," Zane said softly. Suddenly the background changed, it soon began to glow a bright white color. Zane tried to shield his eyes but while still looking at the green ninja and the hawk.
The hawk then opened its wings and fluttered off of the ninja's arm, and then suddenly the green ninja disintegrated. Zane was confused when the green ninja disappeared, but then he stared up at the hawk, and noticed the bird changed form. The hawk soon became the silhouette of a cross in the surrounding white light.
Zane screamed as he shot up, and he realized he was still in his bed in his team's room. It was all a dream. The ninja were awake and staring at Zane wide eyed.
"What?" asked Zane.
"Uh, it's just that you were mumbling in your sleep," Kai replied.
"Yeah, what kind of wacky dream were you having?" asked Jay.
"Well, it was certainly an unusual dream, but I will tell you all at breakfast," said Zane as he stood from his bed and adjusted his white colored pajamas, "and could someone be so kind as to clarify to me if this is or is not a dream?" asked Zane.
Without warning, Cole just flicked Zane, rather hard, on his forehead. Zane winced and put his hand on his head.
"Cole, that was very unnecessary," Zane said a little angry.
"I know, but do you think you're awake?" asked Cole.
"Yes, I know I am now," Zane replied.
"Well, there you go, now let's go to breakfast," Cole said quickly and left the room, along with Kai and Jay, but Zane stayed in the room. Zane took his hand from his head and sighed and then left the room as well.
The smell of bacon, eggs, and pancakes filled the dining room as they sat on the table and everyone was soon seated and began to eat.
"So Zane," Kai began before taking a big of a strip of bacon, "you were going to tell us about your dream," Kai continued, his voice a little muffled from the bacon in his mouth. Everyone looked at Zane, but continued to eat.
"It just started out as me waking up in our room, but then I felt odd and decided to go to the deck to get some air, but I wasn't alone on deck. There was a man there, dressed up just like a ninja, like us, but his mask was up, so I could not tell what his identity was. But what was most strange about him was that his suit was the color of green," Zane explained, but Wu's eyes went wide at what Zane said.
"A green ninja suit?!" Wu cut in, grabbing everyone's attention, "Zane, do you have any idea of who you have just encountered?" Wu asked softly.
"I'm afraid not," Zane replied. Wu stood from his seat.
"Ninja, there is someone very important that I have not told you about, and that is my fault—but Zane's dream was correct, he is a ninja dressed in a green color, and he is very unique—because he has control over all four of your elements: ice, earth, lightning, and fire, and he is known as the Green Ninja of Creation," Wu explained firmly. The ninja were stunned to hear this.
"Whoa," Cole breathed.
"Cool," Jay happily sighed.
"And, what, you think one of us is the Green Ninja?" asked Kai.
"That is hard to tell, but what I do know is that you four are very far from knowing if you can hold the title of such a ninja. First you must look and see the potential inside yourselves, only then will you know," Wu replied. Even Kate and Nya pondered this.
"But aside from that, when you four are finished eating, you will come onto the deck and do some Sunrise Stretches," Wu said, and walked out of the room with his staff.
"Who agrees that after Sunrise Stretches, we train to see who can be the best to hold the title of Green Ninja?" Cole whispered once Wu left. The other three boys smiled at this idea.
"Yeah, let's do it," Jay whispered. With that the boys left their breakfast and left the room, making Kate and Nya look at each other with disappointed looks.
"Oh brother," Kate said as she looked outside.
"Tell me about it," Nya sighed. But after a while, the ninja dressed into their ninja suits and walked onto the deck where their sensei was waiting.
"Ah, now that you are all ready," Wu said as he turned his back to the ninja, "Crouching Crab," Wu said as he put his hands out and made them look like crab claws, and squatted a bit and hunched over too. The boys copied Wu's stretching pose.
"This is stupid," Kai complained quietly.
"I heard that," Wu called.
"I thought old people had bad hearing," Jay whispered.
"Well, you thought wrong, Jay!" Wu called again.
"Guys, are you not getting the fact that he can hear everything we're saying?" Cole asked while quirking an eye brow.
"I would listen to Cole," Wu called once more. Kai got angry and got out of his stretch pose by accident, and glared at Cole as he put his hands on his hips.
"Oh, I see what you're doing, you're just trying to distract me and get me in trouble, so that you can look the best and be the Green Ninja," Kai said angrily. Suddenly Wu appeared by Kai and hit Kai on the head with his staff.
"Ow!" Kai cried as he rubbed his head.
"Kai, that looked more like an angry mother," said Wu, making the other boys smirk.
"Oh, so you think that is funny?" Wu asked when he noticed the others laughing. The boys immediately got out of their positions too and stopped snickering.
"Very well, if you think you all know so much, then perhaps you can figure out this riddle: how can you defeat your enemy?" asked Wu.
"Uh, weapons?" asked Cole.
"Fighting?" asked Kai.
"Precision?" asked Zane.
"Surprise parties?" Jay asked with a goofy smile, and made everyone, even Wu, look very confused at Jay. Wu shook his head.
"No, and since you answered incorrectly, each of you will only train, no T.V. or video games, just training—until you figure out the riddle," Wu said, and turned and walked away.
"What, but who knows how long that will take?" asked Kai. Wu turned to look at them.
"I don't know," Wu simply said, and turned and walked out of sight.
"Aw man, I don't want to spend too much time on some stupid question," Cole whined.
"Yeah I know, but sometimes I can be quite the philosopher, like if someone asks why, I think why not, and another thing, why is Monday so far from Friday, but why is Friday so close to Monday?" Jay babbled.
"I don't know how to respond to that," said Cole.
"I don't either, but I guess let's just train," Kai said as he walked over to a crate containing regular versions of the ninja's golden weapon.
There was a scythe with a long wooden handle and metal blade for Cole, nun chucks with silver chains for Jay, a regular sword for Kai, and a pair of iron shurikens for Zane. Kai grabbed out the shurikens and threw them so that they pierced the floor, but nearly striking Zane's feet. Cole walked up to Kai, and barely missed the blade of a scythe when Kai grabbed out the scythe and held it out. Cole glared at Kai but grabbed the scythe. Lastly, Kai grabbed out a sword and a pair of nun chucks. Kai threw Jay the nun chucks, and Jay caught them with success. But then Jay began to get too cocky and began twirling his nun chucks, but then he accidently hit himself in the head very hard with one end of the nun chucks.
"Hey, your head sounds hollow Jay—that explains your ignorance," Cole said with a smile.
"What's ignorance?" Jay asked.
"Exactly," Cole replied.
"I feel stupid having to train, because while we're stuck here, evil is out there just enjoying itself," Kai complained.
Off in a small western-like town in a location in the same desert far away, a man screamed in terror because he was running an ice cream cart that was being invaded. But the ones invading it were Pythor and Lloyd, as they were both holding ice cream cones with many colorful scoops of ice cream was stacked up and they licked at the ice cream.
"Oh, your idea of fun was a good one," Pythor said, and burped a bit, "ooh, excuse moi," Pythor mumbled.
"Yeah, but we still have the important plans of releasing the other Serpentine tribes," Lloyd said and took a lick from a strawberry scoop.
"But, of course," Pythor said darkly and continued to eat his ice cream.
But Lloyd didn't notice that Pythor snuck his long tail around the cart and behind Lloyd and reached behind him without Lloyd noticing his tail. Pythor used his tail to grab to rolled up map of the Serpentine tombs. Pythor brought the paper back around and he grinned at it.
"Important plans," Pythor repeated, and his black pupil slits in his purple eyes gave him a very intimidating and scary look in his eyes as they became almost as thin as a thread. Pythor lifted his tail so could grab the map in his claws.
"You know Lloyd, sometimes a henchman is underessssstimated," Pythor said darkly.
"What are you-?" Lloyd asked as he looked at Pythor, but he stopped when he saw the map in Pythor's claws. Lloyd took his free hand and felt around him looking for the map, but he realized that Pythor now had it. Pythor grinned at Lloyd, but then his smile went away as he dropped his ice cream on purpose.
"No, you do can't this, you said you'd be my henchman!" Lloyd pleaded, and accidently dropped his ice cream.
"Oh, but you never read the fine print: once I got what I wanted by tricking you, I'm gone," Pythor replied. And with that, Pythor turned invisible, obviously being his unique power like all the other snakes had powers. His scales just disappeared, and apparently whatever he touches disappears with him, because soon the map faded away too. Lloyd was left there in shock as Pythor's evil and soft chuckling filled the air. Lloyd looked down sadly.
"I'm sorry, Dad," Lloyd said to himself, and he suddenly turned and sprinted out of the town and into the big empty desert.
The sun was just beginning to set as Lloyd arrived in the parts where Destiny's Bounty was. When Lloyd was many yards away, Jay's dragon, Wisp, was first to notice Lloyd, so he turned invisible to keep Lloyd from seeing him. Lloyd continued to walk towards the ship, and saw Flame, Rocky, and Shard resting so he stayed away from them, but he didn't know he was walking right past Wisp. So after Lloyd did walk by the dragon's invisible form, Wisp opened his and growled quietly at Lloyd. Lloyd managed to walk up to the ship unnoticed, despite the fact that the ninja were in combat training with each other on deck, and Wu, Nya and Kate watched them from the highest deck. Suddenly Kate's purple eyes widened.
"Guys!" Kate shouted to the boys, making them stop training and look at Kate, "someone's here," said Kate. When Lloyd heard this, he got worried so he began to walk away from the ship, but he still didn't know he was walking right towards Wisp. But when Lloyd was just a few feet away from the invisible lightning dragon, Wisp made himself visible again and roared at Lloyd, catching Lloyd completely off guard. But that got everyone on Destiny's Bounty attention as they looked at Wisp and Lloyd.
"Lloyd?!" Kai exclaimed when he saw Lloyd. Lloyd gasped and turned to find he's been discovered, so he tried to run.
"Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, come here right now!" Wu exclaimed to his nephew, but Lloyd didn't stop for no one.
"Get him, Wisp!" Jay called to his dragon. Wisp quickly stood up and barely even tried to catch Lloyd by pick Lloyd up by the hood of his hoody, blond bowl cut hair do, and Wisp carried the thrashing Lloyd over to the boat and dropped him onto the deck. Everyone looked at Lloyd, mostly angry. When Lloyd got up he gave everyone a sheepish smile.
"Uh, hi—haven't we met before?" Lloyd chuckled awkwardly. It was quiet, until Kate was first to make a move and grab Lloyd by the arm.
"Excuse us for a second," Kate said and pulled Lloyd with her as she took him into the ship's cabin. Everyone just watched as the two young ones walked away.
Once Kate dragged Lloyd into the dark halls she let go of his arm, and glared at him.
"What is wrong with you?!" Kate asked angrily.
"What are you talking about," Lloyd protested.
"You keep failing at trying to be evil, and then when you've had enough, you come here thinking we'd take you in? Man, you're lucky your uncle runs everything or else you might as well leave," Kate explained.
"You really think he'll let me stay?" asked Lloyd.
"Why else would you come here?" asked Kate.
"Fair point," Lloyd simply said. Kate put a hand on her head as she turned her back to Lloyd.
"Oh man, you're trouble," Kate sighed. Lloyd grinned at this though.
"And yet, you've taken a liking to me and proved it by kissing me," Lloyd pointed out. Kate's eyes instantly went wide and her hand dropped to her side.
Meanwhile, everyone was still waiting outside.
"Hey, you think Lloyd and Kate are an item?" Jay chuckled at Nya. Nya snickered and gave Jay a friendly punch.
"Shut up, Jay," Nya giggled.
"Did anyone know that the brat's middle name was 'Montgomery'?" asked Cole, and the other ninja only shook their heads.
Suddenly Lloyd's screams came from the ship's cabin, and the next thing everyone knew, Lloyd was being chased onto the deck by and angry Kate. Lloyd tried to run away from Kate, but she was too fast for him. So Kate jumped onto Lloyd and flipped him over. Everyone stared wide eye at this as Kate grabbed Lloyd's neck as she sat on top of him and throttled him.
"You will take that back if you don't want to be decapitated!" Kate exclaimed while continuing to strangle Lloyd.
It took Kai and Cole to pry Kate off of Lloyd and Lloyd was gasping for air as he meekly stood up.
"Whoa, kid, what was that about?" asked Cole. Lloyd backed up a bit, only to bump into his Uncle Wu, and Wu stared down at Lloyd with a quirked eye brow.
"Uh, h-hi uncle," Lloyd said sheepishly.
"Now I am going to discipline you, but not like Kate," said Wu. Without questioning, Lloyd followed Wu into the cabin as he hung his head in shame. Once Kate calmed down, Kai and Cole let go of Kate.
"Would you mind explaining to us about why you were trying rip Lloyd's head off?" asked Jay.
"Lloyd keeps bringing up the fact that I kissed him, and says that I like him, when I don't," Kate replied as everyone gasped.
But then Kate's eyes went wide when she realized she just spilled the beans.
"Aw, fudge," Kate said under her breath.
"You kissed Lloyd?" Zane asked, rather softly.
"Yes, but only because he freed me when I was captured by the Fangpyre at the junk yard, and I was only thanking him!" Kate admitted.
"Yeah, sounds like you sure gave him a hell of a thank you," Kai said with crossed arms.
"Guys, come on, don't be mad or surprised at her—ok, well, be surprised, but don't be mad, I think her and Lloyd being together is cute," Nya protested.
"What?!" Kate exclaimed. But suddenly the conversation was interrupted when Wu and Lloyd walked back onto the deck, everyone went quiet and looked at Wu and his nephew.
"I have explained to Lloyd that though he didn't know his parents, I did, and I told him that neither of them would want him to follow the dark path he tried to go down," Wu explained firmly.
"So, in other words, the kid's living with us now?" asked Jay.
"Precisely," Wu replied.
"Alright, fine, but I'm not babysitting," Cole cut in.
"And boys, you do not have to train for the whole day anymore, because you can let Lloyd be the example of the answer to my riddle: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer—but Lloyd is no longer our enemy, so treat him like it—now, come, let's get dinner ready," Wu explained, and the adults began to leave, but Lloyd and Kate just stood there awkwardly.
"You throttle like a girl, by the way," Lloyd said, breaking the silence. Kate squinted her eyes angrily at Lloyd.
"I take it back," Lloyd quickly said.
"Yeah whatever—could you tell the others I won't be coming to dinner?" Kate asked as she walked over to the ship's walk board and walked off the ship.
"Why, where you going?" Lloyd asked as he followed her. Kate only pointed at the dragons.
"Ever since we were living at the monastery—well, until you burned it down—the dragons have been acting weird. Rocky, Wisp, and Shard won't let us go near Flame because obviously, Flame's got something pretty special under his wing, and I've been watching the dragon's to see if I could find out what it is—the dragons won't even give us a ride anymore," Kate explained.
"Well, have you ever considered the fact that maybe one of the dragons is a girl?" asked Lloyd.
"What are you implying?" asked Kate.
"I mean, what if they're just trying to protect a dragon egg of theirs," Lloyd replied with a shrug.
"I don't know about all that," Kate said grimly. Kate and Lloyd began to walk towards the dragons. And then Lloyd looked over at Kate, and she noticed.
"What?" asked Kate.
"Why do you have sparkly eyes?" asked Lloyd.
"Long story, short: I was born with these eyes, and I'm blind, but they also came with a special power to see the future, but I don't have any say over it," Kate sighed.
But suddenly, one of Rocky's front powerful legs stepped in front of the two before they could get any closer to Flame. "Forbidden Friendship" by London Music Works began to play. Rocky growled at Kate, but then she grabbed Rocky's muzzle in a hug.
"Please let us see, Rocky, you can trust us," Kate said softly as she lifted her head to look into Rocky's green eyes, and she grabbed Lloyd's hand, and Lloyd looked down at Kate holding his hand rather surprised. Rocky exhaled and laid down as Kate let go of his snout. Kate looked at Lloyd before they walked closer to Flame, Wisp and Shard. Shard was first to get up and walk up to Lloyd and Kate to block their path. Kate put her hand gently on Shard's snout.
"Here," Kate said as she put Lloyd's hand on Shard's nose and removed hers. With the touch of Lloyd's hand, Shard closed his eyes and made a low growl noise that sounded like a purr.
"Wow," Lloyd breathed as he smiled at Shard. Suddenly Shard used his icy wings to push Kate gently over to Lloyd. But Kate tripped and caused Lloyd to fall with her, resulting in Lloyd landing on top of her, and Shard only chirped at them.
"You have two seconds to get off me," Kate said harshly. Lloyd struggled to get off of Kate, but their legs were tangled up. So Shard had to come in and pick up Lloyd by his hood and lift him off of Kate, and then gently put Lloyd down on his feet. Lloyd offered a hand to help Kate up, but she slapped it away and got herself up. Kate pushed passed Lloyd and continued to Flame and Wisp.
"Women," Lloyd sighed and followed Kate, and Shard heard Lloyd, so he huffed in response. Kate and Lloyd stopped when they got to Wisp, who stared at them and then looked at Flame and roared at Flame. Flame roared back in reply. Wisp looked back at Kate and Lloyd and walked behind them and began to gently push them both towards Flame. Once Wisp stopped pushing them, they were only a foot or two away from Flame. Flame exhaled some smoke through his nostrils, and he lifted his wing so they could see what he was curled up around. Lloyd and Kate's eyes widened when they saw two football sized dragon eggs.
One egg glimmered a dark pink color, while the other one glimmered two colors, green with hints of gold.
"Whoa, you were right," Kate sighed as she stared awe struck at the eggs.
"And you weren't," said Lloyd.
"Don't ruin the moment," Kate said while not looking away from the eggs.
Suddenly, both eggs began to stir, and cracking noises were heard from them. Flame noticed the eggs were moving and stood up and left the eggs fully exposed, but he, or she, still watched the eggs as the other dragons gathered around to watch. Suddenly a little scaly green wing covered in some tawny egg liquid popped out the side of the green egg, and a brown tail, also covered in liquids, with a tuft of brown fur at the end, popped out from one end of the pink egg. Kate suddenly hugged Lloyd in excitement, but Lloyd ignored it. It took a few moments as the eggs wobble and shook more and more before the baby dragons could fully come out of the egg. Suddenly, both eggs cracked entirely, and sooner did a baby dragon emerge from each egg.
The dragon from the green and golden outlined egg was a dragon covered in dark and light green scales, walked on four tiny legs and had two green scaled wings on its back, and had a fairly long green tail that ended in point, of course, and had a pair of beautifully green shimmering horns atop its cute head. The green baby dragon looked at everyone with big, cute, cheery, yellow eyes.
The dragon from the dark pink egg was the same size as its sibling, a house cat, and it was covered in brown scales, walked on two legs, and unlike any of the other dragons, it had six little brown scaled wings, three on each side, and had a set of nice horns atop its head, and had dragon eyes but in the same color of Kate's eyes, a sparkling purple color, and of course, also had its long enough tail with brown fur at the tip.
Both the baby dragons tried to walk but stumbled and let out tiny and playful growls. When the green dragon and brown dragon saw Kate and Lloyd, they looked at them with curiosity, and walked cautiously towards them. The brown scaled dragon walked towards Kate, while the green one walked up to Lloyd. Both Kate and Lloyd carefully sate down on the ground. And the dragons walked up to them and began to climb onto them and nuzzled their hands. Kate and Lloyd got the message, and began to gently pet the baby dragons' heads. Kate's dragon began to flutter her six tiny wings.
"This is so cool—what are you gonna name it?" Lloyd asked as he picked up the baby green dragon and cradled it.
"Well, I'm sensing this one's a girl, and I like the name Hope," Kate replied as she picked up and cradled the little dragon, or now called Hope.
"Yeah?" asked Lloyd.
"Yeah, she shows people hope when a disaster like you is around," Kate joked.
"Funny, real funny," Lloyd said sarcastically, "but what am I gonna name this little guy?" asked Lloyd as he looked down at his little green dragon.
"Well, I'm pretty sure that one's a boy," said Kate.
"Hmm," Lloyd thought, "how 'bout Titan?" asked Lloyd. The green dragon growled and chirped while looking up at Lloyd when he heard his name.
"Ok, I will admit, that is a cool name," Kate sighed, but with a smile. Lloyd and Kate stood up while still holding Titan and Hope.
"Think Momma Flame will let us take the baby dragon's inside and let them live on the ship until they're big enough?" asked Lloyd.
"I don't know, remember we'd still have to get your uncle's permission," Kate replied.