Chapter 21 – A volcano battle

After Lloyd discovered he was the Green Ninja, he decided to go out to the deck and work out. Lloyd was doing push-ups, but to make it harder for him Kate laid back first against Lloyd's back as he tried to do his push-ups.

"How does a sweet body like yours weigh this much?" Lloyd huffed.

"Hey, you were the one that wanted to push your limits when you found out you had all the power of the fifth ninja, and you were also the one that wanted my help," Kate protested as she kept herself balanced on Lloyd.

"You know the saying 'if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all'?" Lloyd asked with a bit of sarcasm.

"Yeah, I know the saying. But the least I could do was help you; especially since I envy you," Kate sneered, but then her eyes went wide when she heard what she just said, "what?" Kate questioned.

"What?" Lloyd asked as well but also as his arms finally gave out and his body plopped down to the floor. Kate lost her balance and she fell off of Lloyd. The two quickly sat up and looked at each other with a dazed expression.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," Lloyd said rapidly, "you're jealous of me—for being the Green Ninja?" Lloyd asked as a smile slowly crept onto his face. Kate was getting nervous as she tried to speak, but no words would come out. "You're crushing on me, aren't you?"

"Uh..."

"Ha! I knew I was getting under your skin!" Lloyd exclaimed happily. Kate sighed and surprisingly smiled.

"Alright, alright, so—I admit you did manage to make me fall for you...but don't take this too far," Kate said with a grin.

"Too far is the only way it's gonna go," Lloyd scoffed.

"Guys!" Kai's voice interrupted Kate and Lloyd's little moment, so the two looked up at the higher deck to find Kai looking down at them with a worried look, "you're gonna want to see this," said Kai.

Once Kai led Lloyd and Kate to the computer room, where everyone else was, they all looked up at the giant computer monitor to find a the image of a nearly erupting volcano.

"What is it?" asked Kate.

"Jay and I programmed the hawk to be our look out for any danger, and it stumbled upon Serpentine activity inside this volcano," said Zane.

"Why a volcano?" asked Lloyd.

"We believe there is another fang blade hidden there, and if they get it then they will have three of the four blades," Cole explained.

"Men—and girls—we gotta quit waiting for things like this to happen. Nya, you take you Samurai-X suit while we ninja will take the dragons," Kai said firmly.

"What about Lloyd and I?" Kate questioned.

"You don't have very much training, Kate. And Lloyd, you're the chosen fifth ninja; we can't take any risks with you, so you two are staying here," Kai replied.

"But we'll give the hawk a message to deliver to you incase," Nya added.

"Incase of what?" asked Lloyd.

"We'll talk about it later, but we need to go," Jay cut in.

The four ninja and Nya fled the computer room and ran out onto the deck and eventually off the ship. The boys did Spinjitzu and they were dressed in their ninja suits and pulled their ninja masks over their faces and they had their golden weapons bared. While Nya ran back behind the ship where her Samurai X robot suit was hidden. Nya jumped in, turned it on and she was then in control. The ninja rode their dragons as Nya activated the rocket boots on her robot and they fled into the horizon. But the whole time Lloyd and Kate watched as they left, and the they looked at their dragons, Titan and Hope, as the sibling dragons rest there with nothing to do.

"You wanna be someone who made a difference in the world?" asked Lloyd.

"Yeah, why?" Kate asked.

"Follow me," Lloyd replied as he grabbed Kate's hand and they ran into the ship's cabin and eventually came to the ninja's room. Kate face cringed up when she entered the room.

"Ugh, what is it with you men and B.O.?" Kate asked angrily. But Lloyd ignored her and rushed over to his bed, and he lifted up his mattress. Kate walked up to Lloyd's bed and her eyes went wide at what she saw under Lloyd's mattress.

As the ninja rode their dragons and Nya drove her Samurai X robot through the skies as they all approached their destination: a volcano.

"We must use our golden weapons with caution in there. This place is too unstable and could explode if not careful!" Zane explained to everyone as they landed at the foot of the rather large volcano. The ninja dismounted their dragons, and Nya stayed in her robot suit.

"Then it's time for some old school fighting," Cole said with a grin as he punched the air.

"Look over there!" Jay said as he pointed to a large tunnel that dug into the volcano off in the distance to the right, "if the Serpentine went in that way, then we can too," Jay continued. And so they made their way through the tunnel until they came up to a large magma chamber. Lucky for everyone the levels of the magma were low. But the ninja and Nya stared out into the chamber to find rocks that acted as bridges for the Serpentine to get around over the magma. Pythor and the other generals were in the middle of it all, but that's when a random Venomarai ran up to Pythor, and it was the same Venomarai the Jay scratched his eye out.

"Pythor, my lord, we think we have found ssssomething," the green snake humanoid hissed. Pythor grinned and the Venomarai led Pythor over a few bridges before he reached a pit that was dug into a rock platform that was connected by other bridges. Pythor glared down at the green snake as he hopped into the pit and dug a few times before his claws hit something. The Venomarai grabbed out the object which was what Pythor was looking for: another fang blade. The blade looked just like the others as it gave off a luminous red glow. Pythor snatched the blade from his crony.

"Well done," Pythor said to the three eyed snake while smiling evilly at the blade.

"Ninja-Go!" the ninjas' and Nya's voices rang through the chamber and caught the attention of the Serpentine as the jumped off the ledge and onto the bridges to face the Serpentine.

"Get them!" Skales cried out and the Serpentine tribe members wasted no time in running into combat.

A large group of the snakes went after Nya, but Nya simply swung a robotic arm and hit the snakes, causing them all to plummet into a burning lava death.

Cole brought out the Golden Scythe of Quakes and slightly jerked it up, causing a bridge that some of the Serpentine were standing on to stagger and almost fall into lava, but Cole didn't give up. Cole turned his scythe completely upside down, making the bridge also turn upside down and the Serpentine on it to fall and burn and die.

Zane didn't have much trouble fighting either. He simply threw his shurikans as they spun through the air and sprayed a layer of ice over a bridge and boomeranged back to Zane. Just as the ice layer hit the bridge some Serpentine didn't notice the ice in time and slipped. They slid their way towards Zane so he stepped out of the way as the snakes crashed into a wall.

Jay was fairing well considering he was surrounded by Serpentine. He didn't even use the electrical powers inside his golden Nun-chucks of Lightning, he merely just hit and knocked out any approaching snake. But one final snake approached Jay and hissed, but then Jay smirked.

"Hey, you got a bug on your zipper," Jay said as he looked down at the snake humanoids crotch. The snake was confused.

"But I don't wear pantssss," the snake mumbled as he looked down.

"Don't worry I'll get it," Jay said quickly and hit the snake between the sensitive spot between his legs, and this time Jay used some electricity which made it worse for the serpent.

Unlike everyone else, Kai wasn't doing so well as Serpentine swarmed him. Suddenly a Fangpyre bared its fangs as it lunged toward Kai's face. Kai just merely escaped the Fangpyre's bite, but he wasn't lucky enough. The Fangpyre managed to create a scar over Kai's right eye, but the scratch wasn't too deep and Kai's eye was unscathed. The Fangpyre the hit Kai once was about to hit Kai again when the rapid shooting noise of a firing machine gun was heard and the Fangpyre was shot and killed. Everyone, even the Serpentine, stopped to find Kate and Lloyd standing up on the tunnel entrance's ledge up above. Kate was holding a machinegun while Lloyd was holding a large rifle.

"Lloyd, I told you that you were too important! And Kate, you knew you weren't ready!" Kai yelled up to them.

But while everyone was distracted, Pythor grabbed out a bow and quiver of arrows, in which used to be Kate's. Pythor strung a bow and aimed right at Kate. When Pythor let the arrow fly, it went right for Kate and shot her straight in the torso.

"Kate!" the ninja, Nya and Lloyd all exclaimed as Kate dropped her rifle and began to breath heavily as she staggered and tried to grasp the arrow. Lloyd tried to grab her before she fell off the ledge but he wasn't quick enough. Kate plummeted toward a rock platform.

"Zane!" Cole cried.

"I'm on it!" Zane quickly said as he threw his shurikans in the air again as they produced a large mound of soft snow for Kate to land on, and it worked. Zane caught his shurikans as Kate's limp body landed on the snow mound.

"Pythor!" Lloyd grunted loudly.

"Oopssssie," Pythor said with a shrug and fake smile. But suddenly the whole place began to shake and rumble.

"What is that?!" Nya cried.

"It's like I predicted. This place is very unstable!" said Zane. Kai was the first to run up to Kate, who was still alive, but not by much, and he picked her up bridal style.

"We gotta get out of here!" Kai exclaimed.

The ninja grabbed onto Nya's Samurai X suit as she activated the rocket boots and she blasted them up to the tunnel exit where Lloyd was. They all sprinted through the tunnel and hopped onto their dragons as they fled the volcano. The volcano exploded into a fiery rage when they were far enough away.

"I don't think the Serpentine survived that," said Jay.

"Good riddance," Lloyd grumbled and then looked sorrowfully at Kate. But everyone was wrong about the Serpentine.

As the volcano was now in ruin, the remaining Serpentine were actually alive.

"Skalidor, I thank you and your strong tribe to dig usss out of there," said Pythor, and Skalidor bowed his head in respect, "but fear not everyone—we still retrieved the third fang blade!" Pythor announced to everyone as he held up the third fang blade.