Listening to Red by Taylor swift... -w-..

Oh yeah, here's the bits of the next story! Enjoy!

I could feel the venom slowly overwhelming me, turning me into a worthless dead body. But I could feel see my own, pure blood, fighting for me. I can't let the poison win me... I have to win. I gathered my remaining energy, and pushed, with all my strength, spreading more pure energy into my body. The poison seemed to hiss, and overcame my creation.

Hopelessness downed me. This is useless, let me die, just let me die...

Then I thought of Ashlyn.

Live, for me, Reanne. Please.

Then my brother the dragon...

You are our only chance.

Kai...

Jay...

Zane...

Guys...

I can't loose. Not for them.

I can still feel the venom, almost over with the process. But not late enough for me to rebel. I still have the power of the Silver Dragon in my positive veins flowing peacefully. At first it was what I expected, my power slow and bleak, the poison as powerful as ever. Then I thought of my family, my mom, dad, my Ninja Brotherhood. Hope and determination charged me, and I slammed my energy into the venom.

Now my turn to be the head.

The venom fizzed and bubbled, trying to surpass my pure blood. I felt strength flowing back, and charged, again, and again, joy and relief pouring into my emotions. The venom in my body faded, slowly, until it completely vanished.

I sighed, trying my best to make all the stress, all the worries evaporate from me. I survived. I actually survived...

Congratulations, sister. You've made yourself worthy as a pride by overcoming the deathly venom of the Serpentines.

I looked around, hoping to see my brother again, after all the stress from getting dead. Sure enough, a wispy image of the Silver Dragon levitated in front of me, the eyes shining like stars in the deepest part of the midnights.

"Thanks, bro." I smiled.

My brother shifted, and gazed at me. "You've completed the first verse of the Prophecy. Find the others, for I will not tell you, and it will help you fulfill the Mark of the Silver Dragon.

And my eyes fluttered open.

"Her pulse. Her pulse did came back! She's alive!"

My sight was blurry at first. I could only make our camper's familiar tent color, some blurry people surrounding me. Then I heard some cries, and the blurry objects started to collide and scream. One of them leaned her face, and my eyesight focused. I was in my tent, and the other six ninjas were slamming into each other, which doesn't look like hugging at all. Ashlyn was looking at me, her eyes were red from crying, but now... I couldn't describe how light her eyes shone, with so much pure joy, relief...

"Ashlyn?" I choked. The blonde haired girl flashed her teeth. "Reanne." She screamed again, and crushed me with a big bear hug. "You survived. You did survived." More tears spilled onto my ninja suit, and I couldn't help it. Tears of great alleviating and happiness escaped my eyelids, and dripped onto the floor. I was back. With my best friend. My brothers. My crazy life.

I replied her hug with all my strength. "Ashlyn..." My eyelids crushed together, making even more tears. "Aww. Group Hug!" Somewhere, Lloyd shouted, and everyone piled in. I laughed, still not releasing my grip on Ashlyn. Ashlyn laughed too, similar to the tingle of the bells, as light as the clouds of a spring day.

"You just broke our three year old promise, you know." Ashlyn held my hand, gleaming at me. I frowned to remember that, then all of it came back to me, the moment me and Ashlyn's young, fat pinkies intersecting each other. I grinned. "Wanna make a new one?" I held my pinkie finger.

Ashlyn smiled. "Make sure you won't break this." She held up hers. I laughed."Pinkie promise." And we shook, the second life promise of our friendship created. Will embraced me with a brotherly hug, and said that his slapping through the whole six hours helped. That explained why my cheeks were so red and stings.

"You know you just scared the crap out of me? I'm gonna make you toilet-paper the Mayor's mansion next time you do that." I smirked. "Yessir."

I changed into my winter clothes as I stared at the mirror, trying to spot some signs that the venom still stays. But my face, my teeth, my arms and legs, or toes and fingers, they were still completely normal. Then what my brother said in the dream before I woke up again... Did he said anything about a prophecy to help me? What was the first verse? Then the second, third? I pondered for a moment, and shrugged. Save that for later. Right now, I want to spend all the fun I could get the that after I rose from near death.

"TREASURE HUNT! KIDS GAME, SO WE'LL ALTER IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT! WE'LL BE STILL GIVING MAPS, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT YOUR WAY TO THE TREASURE! GET YOUR BONES CHARGED WITH CALCIUM! TO THE HUNTING FIELD!"

Ashlyn placed a arm around my shoulder, her maroon eyes nictitate. I beamed, and advanced. More like marching. Kai and Jay took bets on who was gonna be at the hunting field faster, and Cole was jogging beside me, thrilled to know how I actually saved my soul. Lloyd tagged behind me, mumbling something about how much kilos of candy will be inside the treasure once we found it. Zane was walking calmly at a side, chatting quietly with his falcon.

"So...how did you get yourself up?" Ashlyn asked my typically. I smirked. "I would like to hear how you got your memory back first." The Ninja of Air rubbed her arms a little awkwardly. "It was from a dream. At first the moment I was in a dark room, and the hisses from the dream before I came here returned, forcing me to let me curling into ball to be my only choice. Then a humble voice calling my name came, and the creepy hisses disappeared. I opened my eyes, and came face to face with a near transparent tiger. He said something, like 'it was time for the true mask of time to settle.' He purred, like a cat, and all the memories poured back into me, I almost had a headache. The first thing I thought when I got up was you. I tried to hunt you down when you were in the tent, but I couldn't find you, until I heard hisses, and screams..." She pursed her lips as she stared at the delicate snowflakes drifted down, so slowly, so freely.

"I can't believe Ken did that to you." She murmured at the fascinating exquisiteness of the winter. The tone was sorrowful, with a little hurt. "He was so nice back at school... and now he was, like he lost himself. Completely."

I sighed. I couldn't blame Ashlyn. We both lost a friend to the darkness, no thanks to the serpentine. "So, you think you can get away from my previous topic, eh?" Ashlyn smirked deviously, and nudged me. I giggled. "Of course not! Um, it's the how-I-learn-the-way-of-zombie-thing right?"

"You can say that."

I winced, like someone pinched me, to register the mental battle within me. "It was all thanks to you guys. Or not, I wouldn't have another reason to live on.I thought of you guys, and that helped restraining the venom from finishing its work."

"That's it? Wow. Expected something more thrilling." Cole mumbled, and shoved his hands into his pockets, his thick trekking boots creaking above the freezing cover of frost, his mouth muttering cussing words as a girl tried to flirt with him. I patted his shoulder sympathetically. "That's what you get for looking good." I smiled.

"Sarcasm."

We arrived at a deserted snowy area, where only the morning bird's chirping gave signals that there's still life in the place. This frost started to creep over the thin trunks, like moss on branches.

"EACH TEAM WILL SPREAD INTO DIFFERENT ZONES, WITH A COMPASS AND A MAP! YOU ARE GIVEN FIVE MINUTES TO GO THROUGH THE MAP. AND IT STARTS NOW!"

"Who the heck uses a compass when you have GPS?" Jay muttered. Cole and Kai rolled their eyes. I stayed still, as the hosts ushered us to different places, far from each other. The moment I received the map from Sensei Hokoru, the Karate mentor for the camp. and we gathered into a tight circle to scrutinize the delicate piece of paper.

"The treasure seem to be at South," Zane murmured as he took a look at the given compass. The arrow with a bronze chicken (okay, not really a chicken, a rooster) spun around crazily for a moment, and pointed to the 'N' sign.

I scanned around. I could see the Sons of Ares planning around, and some of them ever started to leap onto the trees for a better look. I stared at the trees worriedly as the buff guys started to climb onto the fragile branches. It groaned softly, and as if it ached to snap. Poor things.

Jay scanned the map, and glanced at the compass again, before pointing to a specified direction. Lloyd took the compass out of Zane's white glove and compared the direction Jay was pointing to the old fashioned machine.

"South-West. You sure?" Lloyd mumbled. Will scrunched his eyebrows into one. "We'll have to try?" Jay threw his hands into the air. "Why do guys never trust me?! Did I steal anything from you guys? Sure enough, yeah, I stole Cole's favorite pants, but he stole mine first!"

Cole widened his black eyes. "You did it?! Oh, you're so gonna pay for that-"

"Stop! I didn't say I didn't trust you, Jay!" Kai exclaimed. Jay showed his puppy eyes. "Finally, a supporter!" Ashlyn rolled her eyes. "Oh, quit it, guys, we only have two minutes left!"

"HE STARTED IT!" The Ninja of Electricity and Earth pointed at each other. I facepalmed. "I have no idea how Nya took care you you guys."

How was the awkward part? Too fast? Review please, so I can write more! XD