Chapter 17
Lucas glared at his uncle for calling him his apprentice. He knows that he's no longer an apprentice to him, but a ninja for his father and cousin. He looks over at Lloyd and see's him struggling, but the fire and lightning ninja held him in place; not even fazed to his attemps. He looks to his father and saw that he was shocked that they have them captured again. He began to struggle to break the ice off his wrists and couldn't move much since Zane and Cole held his shoulders down.
Garmadon evily grins at him and walks up to him. He could see the fire in his eyes, ignored it, and looks at Cole and Zane.
"You, ice ninja, remove his hood." he commanded, "And you, earth ninja, put him in the venom."
They both nodded and let go of Lucas's shoulders. Zane removed Lucas's hood and Cole grabbed his wrists and forces him to his feet and begin to push him to the venom. Lucas resisted as he was being pushed towards the venom, but Cole, being the strongest, pushes him with ease. Sensei and Nya watched at they saw Lucas being pushed to the pool and couldn't believe that he was going to be transformed. When the two ninja's reached the basin of the pool, Cole kicks the back of Lucas's knee's to force him down, and pushes his body, head first, into the pool. Lucas continued to resist the earth ninja's strength and slowly pushes his body away from the green liquid until Cole used a free hand to grab a handful of his hair. Lucas screamed in pain as Cole was pulling the roots of his hair and still resisted as his head was near the liquid.
"Lucas!" Lloyd yelled to him.
"Ignore him." said Cole, "Join us and feel the power of evil and darkness corrupt your body and rule with our master."
Anger and adrenaline ran through his body as he heard his brother told him to ignore his cousin after he made a promise to his cousin. He resisted more on Cole's strength and got himself onto one knee. Cole kept pushing Lucas's head into the venom and didn't bother the fact he had his left knee up and kept pushing him till head towards the pool.
"I. Will Not. Be Controlled!" Lucas says and jerks his head to Cole's face and used his fist to hit him.
With Cole stunned, Lucas used his left leg to launch himself and Cole back, and Cole landed on his back, while Lucas landed on top of him and felt the ice break off his wrists. Lucas quickly turned his body around to face Cole and punched him in the face; not into unconsciousness just to leave him in a daze. He picks up his sai's and runs towards Zane. Zane was in a attack stance with his weapons ready to be thrown. He threw both of his shurikens at Lucas, while Lucas easily dodged them and continued running towards the nindroid. Lucas jumps infront of Zane, hops off his head, performed a front flip, used his heels to kick Zane in the back of the head, tuck in his knee's in his chest, rolls on the ground, got up and continued running to save his cousin with Zane on the ground. Lucas pointed his sai's at Kai and Jay and water shoots out of the tips, hitting both ninja's in the chest and hitting their backs against the wall; leaving Lloyd standing alone.
Lucas quickly threw Lloyd onto his back, scale up the rocky wall, and launched himself and Lloyd towards the cage with his father and sister held in. Lucas landed on top of the cage, which caused it to sway and rock till it stopped, and Lloyd hops off his back and hangs onto the opposite side of Lucas. Lucas glances at his brothers, who had their weapons drawn out and all glared at him. Then looks at Garmadon, who is still grinning at him for being trapped.
"Oh Lucas, if only you can see youself now." said Garmadon, "You basically gotten yourself trapped. You might as well give up and jump in."
Lucas looked at the pool as it bubbled and gave a misty green vapor. He saw a drop ripple the surface of the liquid and looked up to see several giant roots hang above the venom with the venom seeping through the roots and dripping into the pool. Lucas thought it was odd that he didn't see them before, but mostly because the roots blended into the wet earth above them. He kept looking at his brothers and the roots above the pool and smirked as he had an idea. If his brothers got to his 'bad side', he fights them and wins. But what if he got to their 'bad side'.
Lucas leaned over to Lloyd and whispered, "When I give the signal, you freeze your father in place, while I take care of the others." then looks at Garmadon, "Actually uncle, I prefer to hang for awhile. Now!"
Lloyd brought his hands to his chest, concentrated his ice powers, points his hands at his father, and a white light shoots out and hits Garmadon; freezing him in place. Lucas jumped off the cage, caught the tips of the roots, and climbed up like its rope climbing, while avoiding making contact with the venom, till his back was against the wet earth. His brothers were locked onto him and Lucas took a deep breath and hoped for the best.
"Hey Kai," Lucas shouted at the fire ninja, "I know you hate it when people do this, but I beaten your highscore!"
"You did what?!" said Kai furious and pointed his sword at Lucas, "Fire!"
A blazing fire shoots out of the tip of Kai's sword and heads towards Lucas. Lucas dodged out of the way, caught another root, and watched the fire burn near him and disappeared from his spot; leaving the ground to burn red hot. He climbed his way back to his spot and could feel the heat against his back and looks at Zane.
"Hey Zane," he yells at the nindroid, "I think you were a mistake when you were invented. How could you be a ninja, if you can't laugh at a joke and always stay cool?!"
"You know I have a humor switch Lucas!" Zane shouted at him and pointed his shurikens at him, "But I'll show you to stay cool. Ice!"
Ice shards shoot out of the ends and head towards Lucas. Just as before, Lucas dodged out of the way and watched as the ice shards hit the still hot earth and left it frozen. Lucas climbed his way back and stared at Jay.
"Jay," he shouts to the talkative ninja, "I think you're the worst inventor. You put so little time in them and they never worked. How does that make you feel?!"
"I put so much time on them and you never seen them in action!" Jay bellowed and swings his nunchucks, "Lightning!"
A blue lightning bolt cames towards Lucas fast. Again Lucas dodged the bolt and watch it strike the ice off the ceiling; leaving it in a spider web pattern. And again Lucas climbed back up and finally looked at Cole.
"Just one more hit." he muttered under his breath and raised his voice to Cole, "And you Cole, you may be the strongest one of us, but I considered you the worst leader, who runs away from things he nevered accomplished in his past!"
Cole didn't say anything back at him, just glared at him. Lucas saw his face turn bright red as Kai's ninja suit. He knew he went to far on him as Cole screamed in rage and struck the earth with his scythe. The power of the weapon made the ground shake and huge crack was formed and went through the pool of venom and climbed its way up the wall and hit the spider web pattern. Chunks of rock fell off the ceiling and heads towards the ninja's with Lucas falling down when the roots broke off.
"Ninja-Go!" Lucas said and created his torando.
Lucas used his spinjitzu to break the chunks of rocks and climbed his way up to his father. He stopped his torando to hop off a boulder and land on top of the swaying and rocking cage. The boulder landed at the basin of the pool and widen the crack Cole made and small chunks of rocks were hitting the ninja's to the ground and leaving Garmadon under the rubble. Lucas kept swinging the cage away from the venom and used his sai's to slice the chain as they were at an angle away from the pool.
"Hold on!" Lucas said to Nya and his father and places a protective arm over Lloyd.
When the cage hit the ground, the impact forced Lucas and Lloyd away from the cage and land roughly on the ground. Lucas quickly got to his feet, looked at his brothers, slowly recovering, and then looks at the venom and saw it slowly seeping into the crack. He drew out his sai's and looked at the gap he and his brothers made. His grey iris's and pupils turned from their original color to milky white and storm clouds began to form in the sky. Rain poured down, thunder roared as the rain water was over filling the pool of venom into the cracks. The rain kept pouring till all of the venom was washed away and leaving a pool of clear water. Lucas's eyes turned back to normal and looks at his brothers as they were still recovering and were standing up.
"It's now or never Lloyd." Lucas said to his cousin and Lloyd nodded and held out his arms.
Lucas grabbed his arms and threw him over their brothers and Lloyd landed opposite of Lucas. Lucas put his sai's away, brought up a large strip of water from the pool, and spun a ring around his brothers. He stopped spinning his hands to spin the ring and stretched his arms out. Lloyd held his arms out and both ninja's felt the power of water as the ring was picking up speed. Lucas didn't bother that the wind was blowing his hair into his face and he and Lloyd began to concentrate on healing. The ring began to glow blue as it spun and started to glow brighter. The ring kept spinning at top speed and glowed bright as white snow.
"Now!" Lucas shouted.
Both ninja's clapped their hands and the ring expanded and closed in their surrounding brothers; they glowed as white and the light disappeared. The ninja's laid on the ground, out cold, and Lucas and Lloyd ran to check on them.
"Did it work?" Lloyd asked as he removed his hood.
Cole was the first to make a groan and opened his eyes. The others slowly woke and removed their hoods. They all stood up and looked at Lucas and Lloyd and the two ninja's smiled that they saw no traces of green color in their eyes; but back to their original colors. The healing power of the water ninja and the green ninja had cured them.
"Ugh, what happened?" Cole asked, while holding onto his head in pain.
"What happened is that you were all evil and I had to find a cure." Lucas replied, "Don't you guys remember anything?"
"I vaguely remembered that I destroyed a bridge and eletricuted you with my powers." said Jay, "And I mostly saw it being dark. Like an endless sleep."
"Yeah me too." said Kai, "Anything else happened?"
"Let us explain." said Lucas, and began to explain the entire event.
Garmadon groaned in pain as he climbed his way out of the rubble. He looked at his pool of venom as cursed in his breath that his venom was gone. He was more shocked to the see the ninja's were no longer his pawns and grew angry for not knowing how they got cured. He knows there's no cure for the Devourer's venom and can't believe they are no longer evil. He heard a groan from his right and saw the cage he held his brother in with Nya and both were weakly climbing out. He got up and started to walk towards them as he has one final plan to rule Ninjago.
"So the things you said about us aren't true and you only did it to save us?" Jay asked Lucas and Lucas nodded in reply.
"Intresting.' said Zane, understanding, "Not only you saved us, but you also unlocked more of your elemental powers."
"Yeah, and it's pretty cool." said Lucas, "But it's great to have you guys back."
They all nodded and smiled to be back of being good again and not evil.
"Group hug." said Cole and hugs all of his brothers; leaving Lucas and Lloyd happy to have their brothers back.
"Oh ninja's! Aren't you forgetting about something?!"
The hug broke off and they all turned their heads to see Garmadon holding Sensei and Nya by their throats with his upper arms and in his lower arms were two daggers drawn at their hearts.
"Nya!" Kai shouted to his sister and didn't bother to throw his hood over his face and drew out his sword.
"Dad!" Lucas shouted and drew out his sai's.
The others drew out their weapons, except Lloyd as he glared at his father. They all took one step, but Garmadon stopped them.
"Take another step ninja's or these two will be gone." Garmadon threatened, "Now either you surrender yourselves and your weapons to me and these two will be free. If not, they will die. Chose wisely."
Lucas was furious at his uncle for proposing his life to save his father, and began to feel sorrow in his heart on the thought of losing him. He looks at his brothers and saw that Kai and Jay had fire in their eyes if his uncle harmed Nya. He looks at Cole and Zane, who have the hatred to the dark lord if they harmed their sensei. Then looks at Lloyd, who kept glaring at his father and could see nervousness on his face. Lucas, not wanting to surrender to his uncle and lose his father, could tell they wanted revenge on Garmadon for controlling them. His conscience was telling him to do something that could save them all.
He looks at everyone as they were taking a step fowards to save them. Lucas saw his uncle drawing the daggers closer to their chests and his conscience was yelling at him to do and save them. But if he did, what could happen. Following his conscience to save his family, he quickly ran past everyone and stood between his brothers and his uncle and looked at the dark lord with a grim look on his face.
"Wait, wait, wait." Lucas says and dropped his sai's to the floor and fell to his knee's with his head down, "I'll do what you'll say. Just...let them all go."