And the story-line for this was inspired by "Rescue Me" which was written by ArwynandCole, who got inspired by "Hopeless", written by Nevermore-evermore.
~Chapter 4~
Danni's pov
"And we're back where we started," Tara explained, wow, that tour was… boring. I want a little excitement. I mean, she works, or at least used to, for the ninja's! Something around here should be cool!
"Tara, if you wouldn't mind, could you please fetch the others?" Sensei asked, after walking up to us rather stealthily.
"Danielle, does your sister have a strange sense?" He asked me while he and I were waiting, though I wasn't quite sure what that had to do with anything.
"Uh, yeah, why?" I asked, not really the most polite thing I'd ever said.
"Hmm… Are you very good at reading people?" He then asked. What? Was this some kind of Q and A session?
"Uh, yeah I guess" I replied with a shrug, making nothing of it. Just then, everyone filed in the room, Tara standing next to me, forming a semi-circle around Sensei and me. The confusion was plain to see on all of their faces. I could almost smell the curiosity hanging thick in the air. The silence was almost awkward when Sensei finally spoke up.
"Tara, Danielle. I have something to confess. I only hired you because, an old friend of mine who goes by the name of Ms We told me she saw something special within you two. I was just trying to be sure before I went ahead and NINJA-GO!" He yelled, throwing me off a bit, I did not see that coming. But what was weirder was him spinning into a golden tornado, which quickly stopped, and he reappeared holding to ninja gis.
I inspected the orange one he gave me. It had a high neck-line and the close-fitting sleeves that would reach my wrists. The lower half was made of an orange heavy skirt that wasn't too baggy, but was stretchy. And to top it all off, some black ninja shoes.
She held a plain yellow ninja-dress with black tights, a black belt with a weird loopy-hole thing on the side that looked like it held something, a pair of yellow ninja shoes and a shocked expression.
"Danielle, you are the orange master of glass, fragile, yet dangerous," Sensei said to me, and I tried really hard not be offended by it.
"And you Tara," he continued "are the yellow ninja of air, flexible and necessary."
"Wait. Tara's element is air, yet her colour is yellow?"
"Yes yellow, Cole. Is that alright?" Sensei said, vaguely bored with Cole's chatter, turning back to Tara and myself.
"You will receive your weapon and mask when you are ready." Oh, ok… I guess he did that for the guys too.
"Wait." I said, just as everyone was getting ready to move to leave and celebrate, or whatever. "Did you plan on asking us if we wanted to join the ninja's?" I asked, crossing my arms as much as I could with the clothing still in my hands. Everyone just looked around the room at everyone else in a silent question, asking if they knew the answer.
"Uh, Danni, would you please join us to help defeat the great evil that festers in Ninjago?" Kai asked, knowing no-one else would. Making me smile. I was wanted somewhere.
"Of course, duh!" I said, jokingly. It was his turn to smile.
Tara's pov
The next day Danni and I moved her stuff into our room. With a little help from the guys in their breaks. Sensei said we could have three days before we started training. The guys (and Sensei and Nya) needed to work out how they were going to train us, and who for the different components. Danni have to get used to the bounty, and fully move-in. And I got to finish cleaning the whole ship before I kind of… retired from being the maid.
But Sensei told us to wear our uniform, so that we would already be comfortable with them before starting to train in them.
"So, what do you do around here for fun?" Danni asked. We were in our room, her un-packing, me helping.
"I don't think 'fun' will be on agenda for a long time, Danni. We're going to train hard, do you hear me? You're not going to mess this up, ok? … Ok?... Danni?" I look up from folding her clothes to see her mouth cover by a hand. A scaly hand. She was trying to talk but it only came out as a muffled groan. Her eyes looked at me desperately. Hoping I could help in some way. Or that this was a practice test from the guys. But those hypnotising eyes of the snake that was holding Danni tightly told me it wasn't a costume. Then one grabbed me.
I screamed as loud as I could, hoping someone heard me. But if they had, they weren't fast enough.
The serpentine had already escaped out the window, holding us captive.
Cole's pov
My day had started out okay.
We stopped by Danni's old houseand collected her stuff with the guys and I stopping off to help the sisters unpack every once in a while.
Then we had breakfast, which was… mediocre, since it was burnt. But Kai made it, so what should I have expected?
Then we started to plan how we were going to tackle training two new ninjas with one impatient moron, one guy who'd rather talk than try to teach, one meditating robot, one cryptic old man and one devilishly handsome man who was skilled, professional and a born leader. Hmm, I wonder who's going to do all the work.
Just as I finished writing down the schedule we planned, an ear-splitting scream was heard from the side of the Bounty.
By the time we got to their room, however, they were gone. And so was whatever took them.
"I can guess who took them," Jay said calmly, looking out the window. As I approached him, my eyes looking out of the window, I saw a foot prints in the dirt just below The Bounty, some casual, some dragged in certain parts. Yet that's not what I was interested in, since the foot prints stopped as they reached the sidewalk, I was staring at the thick, twirling line that lead the other prints.
"The Serpentine." Zane said, voicing the thought that was buzzing around our minds.
Danni's pov
I woke up.
Let's just say, it's not the only time I haven't wanted to wake up, but I'm pretty sure this time trumps all the others.
I woke up to see some massive blue snake. It had arms and hands, but no legs, only a tail. And the weirdest part was, it seemed to be gloating about something.
"And, sso…. how would you like to ssee your little groupiess go bye-bye?" It finished talking. Where am I?
Once all of the memories came back, I looked around. I was in a wooden chair with my hands tied behind the back and my legs left free.
The room we were in was hardly nice. We were in some abandoned warehouse. Original. With boxes full of who-knows-what everywhere.
But, where was my sister? I searched harder and faster, but she was not in sight. Only me, the blue snake and a bunch of tail-less snakes hanging-out around us. Oh, just great.
"Sso… what iss your name?" The blue thing asked, trying to intimidate me with his big, red, swirling eyes…. that ….you… could….just…..just….get…. lost in.
As I shake my head to clear my thoughts, I try and think of something so witty and clever, causing even Jay to fall to his knees. But my mind blanked.
"Yooo" I reply, making it unclear as to what I was saying.
"What? Did you ssay 'you'?" It asked, showcasing its confusion, but I merely smiled.
"Yes, as in, YOU SUCK!" I shouted right into its face, which had gotten closer to mine when it leaned forward to hear me better. It just closed its eyes calmly, using its hand-thing to wipe away pretend-spit off its face.
"Well, Miss 'You Suck', I am Skales, the great Serpentine leader!" Skales' voice was full of pride, almost as if he were expecting me to gasp and beg for his forgiveness.
Well that sure as hell wasn't going to happen.
I just stared at him, unimpressed, and he finally got the clue. I didn't know who-the-hell he was.
SLAP!
My cheek burned, and I wished my hands weren't tied behind my back, so I could rub my cheek, or better still, return the favour to 'Skales'.
"I shall do much worse to this girl, ninja! Bring me what I want. Or else!" He finished talking into what I could know see was a video-camera. I was so confused.
"Get her out of here. Bring in the other one." Tara!
I was soon untied and pulled out of the seat. Roughly.
After walking through the walls of boxes I found myself face-to-face with a wall of bars. A cell. My snake-escort unlocked the door, shoved me in, and locked it closed again.
Wow, thanks!
'You Suck'? Was that really the best I could do?
Tara's pov
I woke up to feel upside-down. With my head in a bucket. Which was full of ice-water.
I gasped, which was not a good idea.
The freezing water sucked into my lungs, taking the place of my beloved oxygen. My throat and windpipe burned, my arms struggled to get me out, but fell short since they were being restricted by something. I tried to pull my head out of the water, but it was being held down.
I stopped struggling.
I was drowning.
The hand let go of the back of my head, I used this opportunity to thrust my head out of the freezing-cold water.
I spend the next five minutes coughing and vomiting the water out of my system. After that, I sat quietly, the only noise for a while being my teeth chattering and the occasional water-drop falling from my untied hair, hitting the concrete floor with a 'tink'.
"Well, wasn't that fun?' Skales said. I looked up at him, not knowing what my facial expression was due to it feeling completely numb.
I knew his name was Skales, because he was kindly wearing a name-tag.
"No."
