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"Are you gonna answer?"

"Huh?"

"You've been staring into space ever since I asked where you went."

March shook his head and sighed. "Mind your own businesss, Kai."

"You said something about Cody. You're plotting with him, aren't you?!"

"Sure, why not? And while we're at it, I'm actually a human in disssguissse."

Kai rolled his eyes. "Once again, where have you been all day?"

"Ssso I can't go anywhere without sssomeone sssupervisssing me like I'm a child?"

"Not until we can trust you."

"When will that happen if it hasssn't already? I told you Jay was hypnotized, I insssisssted on telling you the ssstupid riddle, I made Cody warn you about the ratsss, I let you lisssten to the bug-"

"You also bit Jay and it might kill him!"

"And I did all of that trying to make up for it! Why elssse would I even be here?! I only went to the tree houssse to sssee if I could find my knife. There, you happy now?"

"You have a tree house?"

"Cody called it that, but-"

"So you have-"

"Do not interrupt me being all flipping sssusspiciousss again! For a few daysss before all of thisss messs ssstarted we lived in the remainsss of some treehouse, isss that ssso horrible?"

"I wonder if it was my treehouse fortress." Lloyd's voice nearly made March jump; he hadn't seen or heard him coming.

Kai shook his head, "Different forest. And March, how has you staying here helped at all?"

March turned around, fists clenched so tightly his fingernails dug into his palm (which hurt a bit), and walked towards the door. He knew he honestly hadn't helped any, but he knew a way he could.

"Where are you going?" Lloyd asked, shooting a look at Kai.

March shrugged, but a plan was already forming in his head. He could turn Cody (and himself) in. The snake jumped off the deck. Grabbing his knife from a bush, he headed back towards the forest. He had hidden it there just a few minutes prior because it definitely wouldn't have looked good returning to the ship with a weapon.

The idiot couldn't have strayed very far in ten minutes, March thought. Sure enough, Cody was pretty close to where March had last seen him. As quietly as he could, he walked up behind the kid and grabbed Cody's arms, forcing them behind his back.

"What in the absolute helk are you doing?!" Good question. Too bad the answer's I have no clue.

"Did you jussst say helk?" he asked instead.

"Lemme go, March!"

"And I'd do that why? Walk, kid," he said, shoving him forward.


"How are you not cold?" Cole finally asked.

"I can stand temperatures of below -30 degrees."

"Celsius or Fahrenheit? Wait. Green and white!"

"Is it what we have been looking for?"

Cole bent down and triumphantly held up a flower with 5 petals and a purple middle. "Yeah. How much time do we have left?"

[a/n: I'm assuming everyone hated chapter 8's style as much as I did. I'm thinking about redoing it. I'm trying to find a good balance because like 95% of my chapters are dialogue, and I feel like I don't describe things enough. I ended up with two new stories posted, Ninjerella (Ninjago-Cinderella one-shot) and Divided (3 way crossover where Lloyd goes to Hogwarts and Cole, Kai, and Nya end up at Camp Half-Blood). That's my excuse for not updating as fast.]