Ch.3: Visions and Fears
A short while later, Pam went down the hall to show her mother and her friends' parents some of the photos she has taken and converted into some artwork with a bit of "splicing". You know, cutting certain items in the pictures and moving them around to make them more intriguing. Before she reached her room, however, she felt something strange inside of her. A strange power was compelling her to enter Sensei's room. She looked to the doorway, and the feeling became less likely to be ignored.
Is…Is Pythor in there? Pam certainly hopes not. If it is Pythor, her mother will freak out if she comes in to find a big violet snake making out with her daughter…even though Pam does miss her beloved Snake King.
Wait…did I just call him that? Ugh! Must've had too many mint chocolate chip cookies or something. Either way, she can't ignore the strange feeling going on within that room. So she went over and slid the doors open.
Sensei's room's very neat, and a few of his ink-paintings hung on the wall. She had always enjoyed painting a few with him; her own ink-paintings hung on the wall in her room as well. Everything seems to be alright…except for the smokes rising from those incense sticks at his altar. Why would Sensei leave them going? His room smells quite fresh…unless it was to get rid of the smell of ink from the paintings.
"Wait…those wouldn't be his vision smokes he's been telling me about, would they?" Pam then went up to them and knelt before the altar, staring into space as Sensei would do, right between the smokes…
Suddenly, they began to swirl around to become a round portal of some kind, showing her pictures like she would see in a TV screen. The first vision she saw was her disowned father Lawrence shooting out of Ninjago City with an enraged look upon his face. It then changed to show him shooting black tentacles of smoke out and catching her loved ones within its coils: the ninja; Lloyd; Kowalski and Julien; Garmadon and Sensei…and her mother. It then showed her lying on the ground as if some force blew her back, and Pythor was in front of her with a look of rage in his eyes as he faced off against Lawrence. The two of them then charged at each other…
Pam pulled away and staggered back with a gasp and breathed heavily. What was that she saw just now? Were the vision smokes telling her that her disowned father has escaped and is going to take his revenge on her by taking it out on her mother and friends?
No, no possible way…I took away his powers back at the island. And there's no way he can escape from prison. Still…are the visions warning me?
"Pam!" She snapped out of it when she heard Lloyd calling out to her. And by the sound of it, it can't be good.
"Pam, you better come here quick!" She quickly got up and made her way to the living room where everyone was watching the news on the TV:
"We interrupt this program to bring you this emergency news bulletin. Lawrence, a man whom Lord Garmadon turned in as a criminal for trying to murder his son destined Green Ninja Lloyd Garmadon, has escaped from Ninjago City Jail. Witnesses claim that they saw the walls of the prison blast open before Lawrence came out of the debris with 'fists glowing with a dark aura'. He then grabbed a nearby motorcycle and drove out of the city before anyone could catch him. Authorities ask that everyone be on the lookout for this criminal, stay clear of him, and inform the police if anyone catches sight of him."
Pam couldn't believe what she had heard…her disowned father has escaped from prison! She then ran out of the house before anyone could stop her.
"Pam!" Lloyd tried to go after her, but his uncle placed his hand on his shoulder to stop him. He turned to the older man in reply.
"Leave her be for now, nephew," he said calmly. "She needs to be alone for a while." And yet he could see in the Wind Ninja's eyes that she saw something that has happened through the vision smokes, for she has the faint scent of its incense on her. She must have foreseen her disowned father's escape.
Stay strong, Pamela…Stay strong.