Ok so I'm pretty sure you all may be confused about the venom the ninja's have on them. But thanks to Malica15, I've been pointed out that venom can make someone or something evil when they come in contact with it. But what I done was that they were surround by the mist and have been made evil, but not completely evil as Garmadon is when he was injected with the venom. And since he has the venom inside of him, he's more evil than the ninja's and has the power to control them. So let me know if that helps out a bit to all of you readers.
Chapter 7
Lucas's dragon landed on top of a building. It was dark when Lucas and Lloyd reached Ninjago City and slid off Storm's back. Storm flew off so they wouldn't attract attention. They looked over the ledge of the building and looked down at an alley and spotted two figures below them. Lucas easily recognized them as Cole and Zane climbing down in the sewers with Cole closing the sewer above them. Lloyd took this as a chance to jump down and follow them. As he stood on the ledge ready to jump, he was stopped by Lucas, shaking his head 'No'.
They waited for a few minutes and finally decided to follow them. Lucas picks up Lloyd and placed him on his back. With Lloyd's arms wrapped around his neck, he stands on the ledge; ready to jump. He stretches his arms out, falls forward into a dive, flips and lands on the ground. Lloyd hops off his back and runs to the cover and tries to lift it; but couldn't. Lucas rolled his eyes and went over to him. He pushes him aside, draws out one of his sai's, then places it in the slot for crowbars.
Using his foot, he steps on the sai's handle and lifts the cover to a slit for him to grab and move it away. He picks up his weapon, satisfied that the weapon didn't bend against the heavy metal cover, and looks down at the darkness of the sewers that twist and turn underneath Ninjago City. The sewer let out a foul smell that made Lloyd and Lucas wrinkle their noses.
"Ugh, I don't know what smells worse." said Lloyd turning a bit green, "This? Or Cole's chili?"
"Hey what do expect from a sewer?" Lucas stated, "Now come on."
Lucas stepped down to the hole and began to climb down first followed by Lloyd. Once he and Lloyd reached the last rung and jumped off, all they could see was darkness. Their eyes slowly adjusted and they could see the narrow stone walls a few feet infront of them. They didn't close the sewer hole, since they decided it would be their way of escape; if nedded.
"Well," Lucas says as he pulled down his hood over his face and Lloyd does the same, "Lets go look for our family."
They ventured into the darkness. Not knowing what could happen to them. They walked for a few minutes in the dark, till they came across their first obstacle; a choice to go left or right. They turned their heads left and right; debating on which way to go. On the left it was silent, that can make their footsteps echo, while the right they could hear water rushing down. Lucas pointed left to Lloyd to let him which way to go. Lloyd raised an eyebrow, curious on why left.
"Why left?" he wondered.
"Because Lloyd, if we go right, we'll be splashing the water making noise." Lucas exclaimed, "Remember this is a stealth mission."
"But you're the ninja of water. You can just push it away."
"Yes. But the slightest movement of water, could alert those with keen ears."
They took the left tunnel and found it surprising that it didn't echoed their footsteps as they walked. After making many turns, choices, and a couple of dead ends, they walked for a couple of hours and stopped dead silent as they heard two voices coming towards them. Lucas quickly throws Lloyd over his back, jumps to the ceiling, and grabs the pipes above him. With Lloyd on his back, and his arms and legs spread out on the pipes, they listen and wait patiently to see who was coming.
"I can't believe we lost those two. They're getting clever by the minute."
"Quit you're complaining Jay. Our master is already mad at us for not capturing them."
"Oh I'll stop Kai. Only if you stop being a jerk, you hot-head."
Lucas sighed, for it was only Kai and Jay having a usual argument at each other's throats. Using all of his strength in his right arm to keep himself hoist, he uses his left hand and reaches into his pouch and pull two of the leaves he found in the forest, and hands them to Lloyd. Lloyd looked in curiousity of the leaves Lucas handed to him, studied them, and wonder why he handed them to him. The leaves were shaped as a elm's leaf, but were large as a maple leaf. Lloyd kept studying them, but still couldn't figure out what these are for.
"What are these suppose to do?" Lloyd whispered and puts the leaves closer to his face for a closer look.
"Don't sniff it!" Lucas whispered back.
"Why?"
"It's called Knock-out leaf. It's a special leaf that can put someone to sleep; less than a minute."
Lloyd looked at the leaves and wonder how one leaf can out someone to sleep. Then in the back of his head was a nagging voice; telling him to ask his cousin on the leaves.
"Find out what he knows." said the voice in his head, "He knows what the leaves can do."
"Wait, how do you know what these leaves can do?" he asks, while giving Lucas a funny look.
"Well it's kind of a funny story." Lucas says, while scratching his head in shame, "But it's the same leaf I used on you and the other's back in the forest. But that was when I was Garmadon's apprentice."
Lloyd glared at him and turned his head away. But he couldn't move much since he was still on Lucas's back.
"Lloyd don't give me this, I need you right now." Lucas pleaded, "We can talk about this later, but more importantly, we have to take care of Kai and Jay."
Lloyd sighed and turned his head to face Lucas; ready to listen.
"Alright this is how it's going to work." Lucas continued, "When those two pass us, we'll drop down quietly and follow them. I need you to pull down their hoods, while I use the leaves to put them down. Understand?"
Lloyd nodded to the plan and held the leaves tightly; ready to strike the fire and lightning ninja. Lucas placed his arm back on the pipes, to keep himself hoisted, and wait as the footsteps were drawing closer. After waitng for a few minutes, Lucas and Lloyd could see two figures in red and blue walking below them and past them. Lucas finally lets go of the pipes, drops to floor, and lands quietly. Lloyd hops off Lucas's back, hands him the leaves, and walks behind them quietly. With him infront and Lucas behind him, he reaches up and pulls down Kai's and Jay's hood down fast. With quick reactions, Lucas places the leaves over the surprised fire and lightning ninja's mouths and nose, and breaks the veins of the leaves; releasing a gas that can put them down.
Kai and Jay struggled a bit to shake off the leaves over their faces, but slowly grew weak and fell to the floor; unconscious. Lucas smirked as he and Lloyd took out two of the four betraying ninja's.
"Well two down, two to go." said Lucas, "Now lets hide them before Cole and Zane find out what happened to them."
Lucas grabs Kai's arms, while Lloyd grabs Jay's arms, and dragged them through the darkness. After dragging them the unconscious ninja's, they came across a door that read: Pipe Inspection Room. Lucas thought it was a perfect place to hide the bodies, tried to open the door, but found it locked.
"Great, we can't get in without a key." he says and looked at the key hole that required an old key, "Or do we."
Lucas drew out his sai's and inserted one into the keyhole. He jiggles the sai in the door for a while till he finally heard a click, and the door swung open. After placing Kai and Jay in the room, they left it unlocked, for whenever they encounter Cole or Zane. They became alert as they heard two more voices coming towards them. Same as last time, Lucas throws Lloyd onto his back, jumps and grabs the pipes, hands Lloyd the leaves, and wait patiently.
"Kai? Jay? Where are you? Where did those idiots go?"
"Be patient Cole, where ever they went must have gotten themselves lost."
"How can I be patient Zane? They were suppose to return from patrol, but haven't. Our master is already furious at us for losing his son and apprentice, but now we lost those two."
As the ice and earth ninja walked closely to them, Lucas could easily spot Zane in his white outfit, but had a hard time to spot Cole in his black outfit till he finally spotted him from his possessed glowing green eyes. Once they past Lucas and Lloyd, Lucas quietly drops to the floor, Lloyd hops off and hands him the leaves, and they begin to walk behind the unexpect ninja's. Just as Lloyd was about to do his part, Zane and Cole stopped suddenly.
"I sense something is behind us." said Zane.
Lucas's eyes grew wide as he forgot about Zane's sixth sense. He quickly stood infront of Lloyd as the two ninja's turned around to punch him the chest; dropping the leaves and sending him flying off his feet and land on the hard concrete. He quickly stood up and saw Cole surrounding his cousin and Zane was running towards him. Zane jumps up high and stuck out a leg to kick Lucas. Lucas kept running and slid on his knee's and arched his back to avoid the kick. Once Zane landed, Lucas quickly turned around and kicked him the back. Sending him flying and land on the ground; not moving.
Triumphed to him as Zane was down, but left his guard down as he turned and saw Cole's fist hitting him in the jaw. That only stunned him, but quickly recovered and charged at him to fight. Lucas threw a punch at Cole, but he dodged it, grabs his arm, and twists it behind his back; between the shoulder blades. Lucas whimpered in pain and tried to escape Cole's grasp, while he was being pushed against a wall. In instant reaction, Lucas uses his legs to climb up and flip himself behind Cole; freeing himself. Once he was behind Cole, he grabs his arm and twists it behind his shoulder blades, harder, and forced him to his knee's. Lucas quickly picks up one of the fallen leaves, places it over Cole's face, breaks the veins, and resisted Cole's struggle till he fell asleep.
He lets go of Cole's arm, but felt something touch his shoulder and jerked around to see Zane back up, and used his forearm to pin Lucas to the wall by his throat. Lucas struggled to escape the nindroid's strength but was starting lose air.
"What happens when water is near something cold?" Zane asks while pushing Lucas harder against the wall, "It turns to ice. Which is about to happen to you."
Lucas began to ice climb down his chest as Zane still choked him. Just as Lucas was about slip into unconsciousness, Zane felt something heavy jump onto back, his removed, and a leaf pressed against his face. Lloyd was Zane's back as he removed his hood and place the leaf on his face, break the veins, and held on to Zane as he released Lucas and struggled to shake Lloyd off. Zane began to feel weak, fell to his knee's, and to the ground; unconscious. Lucas swallowed breaths of air after Zane released him and saw his cousin on top of Zane's back. Lucas broke off the ice his chest, grabs Cole's arms, while Lloyd grabs Zane's arms and dragged them to the room where Kai and Jay are held. They placed the bodies in, locked the door, and continued their mission.
"I guess Cole got on your bad side." said Lloyd, snickering a little.
"You could say something like that." said Lucas, laughing with him, "Now we must hurry or in a couple of hours, they'll be up and will hunt us down."
They two ninja's continued walking through the sewers in the dark. They kept making choices, walking to dead ends, and walked past the room where their brother's are held in. After a couple of hours of walking, they reached the sewer entrance they came from and saw dawn peeking through. Lucas was disappointed that he couldn't find his father anywhere or where the venom is.
"We'll try again another time." he says to Lloyd, "You first."
Lloyd began to climb up to the surface, while Lucas stayed down to keep watch. When Lloyd was halfway up, Lucas began to climb behind him, but stopped as voices were yelling at him. Lucas looked both ways and saw Cole and Kai on one side, and Jay and Zane on the other side running towards him.
"Stop right there!" Cole commanded.