And we're back, well… I'm back. Enjoy, I only own Ani and plot changes.
On the bounty in the conference room, Nya took off the cover from a Fangpyre skeleton.
"Some villagers unearthed the remains of a Fangpyre a few miles away," Nya began her lecture, although some of the ninjas weren't quite that interested: Cole was painting a picture of him fighting, Kai had his feet up, Zane and Ani were listening intently and Jay had his hair teased up and was just staring dreamily at Nya.
"It predates the golden age and must be hundreds of years old," Nya continued and activated a laser pointer at the fangs of the skeleton, "Although the venom in the fangs of the Fangpyre genetically mutate human cells into reptilian, I've learned there could be a way to stop the effects without having to create an anti-venom…"
At this point, Nya's cheeks were turning pink, "If one is able to wildly raise their heart rate, hypothetically it could reverse the venom's effects. Resulting in… diminished…,"
Nya lost concentration, "Excuse me is someone wearing perfume? I'm severely allergic to perfume."
Everyone looked at Ani who looked back at them saying, "Have any of you ever known me to wear perfume?"
Then Jay realized what was going on.
"Ehe! You told me it was men's cologne!" Jay whispered to Kai.
"Eh. I get them mixed up," Kai responded to which everyone except Ani, Jay, and Nya laughed.
Kai and Zane high fived before Zane opened his arm panel and switched off his humor switch.
"Whelp, looks like history class is over. Time to start stompin' serpentine but before they find any Fangblades, for sure!" Cole said as he and the others got up.
"And rescue Lloyd," Ani grimly reminded them as they began walking out the door.
"I'm excited to join!" Zane added.
Jay walked with them before stopping by the door, and then walked to Nya.
"Uh… Hey uh, Nya? I'm sorry. The reason I was…" Jay stammered, "I went to Kai because he… huuuhh… What I'm trying to say is…"
"I know, it's just a cruel joke," Nya reassured him, "I should be fine, please, go fight snakes."
"No, no- no! I was trying to impress you," Jay explained, "Look, before Sensei left, he said our hearts was the key to unlocking our true potential..."
"You were trying to impress, me? But I look so…"
"Fantastic…. Maybe if you let me, I could take you to some big fancy restaurant! You know… You don't have to if you don't want to…"
"Y…You mean like a date?"
"Ummmmm… Y…Y…Yeah?"
"Sure! I'd love to! But I have to go before the perfume toxins enter my blood stream and I go into shock. See you tonight!"
Nya picked up her lecture notes and then left the room.
"YYYYYEAHH!" Jay jumped for joy, "HAHAHAHAHA! Ja- chukka- uh- huhu!"
Jay then pricked his hand on the fang of skeleton in his happy state, "Ow! Man!"
As Jay shrugged, it wasn't like he got bit or anything; it was nothing, so he left the room not knowing that a single drop of green venom fell from the fang and when it reached the ground.
Sensei now stood a few feet away from Garmadon in the dark world.
"Hello brother. What took you so long?" Garmadon asked.
He then talked bit as he turned his back; he was playing with his prey. When the old man demanded why the dark lord came to this evil place; the latter answered by turning around and revealing his four arms, startling the mentor. He then grabbed some weapons and charged to Wu who then slid underneath and then parried each of the weapons with his old katana. Garmadon growled in frustration and piled all of the weapons onto the sensei's katana. The latter then fell down the hill into a muddy field. The former jumped and landed in front of his brother.
Sensei jumped back onto his feet and used Spinjitzu to spin a bit away from Garmadon, who covered his eyes from the hurling mud. Garmadon raised his arms in the air and large mud monsters emerged from the mud and began to surround Sensei. Sensei quickly tackled each of the monsters using spinjitzu before stopping in the middle.
"Brother! I've not come here to-"
"You will pay for your visit!" Garmadon cut Sensei off, "Mud monsters CONVERGE!"
The mud monsters trapped Sensei in their bodies.
"You don't belong here old fool! You should have known better than to try and stop me!" Garamdon said
"I didn't come to stop you! I came to warn you! To tell you! Mhf!" Sensei yelled as he continued to struggle but he got covered for a split second,
"Your children are in danger!" Sensei managed to get out before he got sucked in again, only his hand was free.
"Ani?! Lloyd?!"
Parental instinct kicked in and the dark lord rushed to pull the old man out of the mud monsters. The younger gasped for his breathe when his older brother got him free.
"What has Lloyd gotten himself into? And Ani? Is she alright? Is she safe?"
Sensei raised himself up a bit, "Lloyd has opened a can of worms I fear I will never be able to close."
"You mean we might never be able to close, Get up. You can tell me more on the way," Garmadon helped his brother up from the mud, "First we need to return home... How did you find me?"
"Travelers Tea. But I used it all, and now have no way back." Sensei replied.
"There is only one way to return to Ninjago. But to get there, we must first pass through the Mountain of Madness. And it is a long and dangerous road ahead that will take days, maybe weeks to travel."
"I wouldn't have it any other way."
"We should leave now before it gets really dark."
Sensei looked up to the sky before the two brothers began their journey.
In a grassy field, a Constrictai warrior bursted out of the ground. Some of the serpentine and the five generals climbed out of the hole, Pythor insisting on the Constrictai warrior's assistance. Skales unfurled the map.
"Thissss is it Pythor. The map leads us here, the first Fangblade," Skales said, pointing to the Mega Monster Amusement Park.
Realizing that they would bend in, the serpentine group began casually walking to the amusement park. Some people there were dressed as different creatures, making them look like park employees. One family even asked to take a picture with Pythor. The family walked up to him and turned around for the camera which Skales was holding.
"Say Cheesssssssssssse!" Skales held the camera up.
"Cheese!" The family said.
On the Bounty, Jay was in the bathroom wearing a tux and practicing his lines in front of a mirror.
"Did I ever tell you that I was the first one to learn Spinjitzu? No uhhhhh, I mean… uh… I invented Spinjitzu. Yeah that's it. I invented a few other moves, like the karate double chop…. Wha ha!"
Jay did two mid-air punches before seeing his left hand. It was green with dark green scales.
"No, No no no! The prick from the Fangpyre fang. Oh no, this isn't happening. No, it's nothing, it's just a rash, it'll probably just go away, you're gonna do great Jay. This is your chance to shine! Ehehe..."
Jay slid into the control room with both hands gloved and he was now wearing a scarf on his neck.
"And just when I thought Jay couldn't get any dumber," Ani muttered to herself loud enough for Jay to hear.
"Where are you going Mr. Fancy?" Cole asked.
"You didn't hear? I'm taking Nya to a nice restaurant!" Jay gloated, "A really nice restaurant."
"You might wanna change your plan," Kai interjected, "The radar picked up serpentine activity over at the Mega Monster Amusement park."
The screen was frozen on a picture of the serpentine taking a picture with a family.
"Hey that's Pythor!" Jay said.
"Pythor would not be there for fun," Zane stated, "If he's there, then that means that a fangblade is there too, buried beneath the park."
Ani shouted, "Well we can't let them get it!
"Oh but my date," Jay moaned.
"Jay, if they get all five of them, Pythor can unleash the Great Devourer," Kai reminded, "Get your priorities straight man."
"Jay, Nya is a deadweight, a helpless princess who can't go two seconds without getting into trouble and distracting us from our mission," Ani lectured, "If you and Kai wish to find your true potentials, I suggest you both get over her, realize she's a waste of our time, and dump her off at the nearest truck stop."
Kai growled and glared at Ani while Jay thought for a moment before an idea struck his head.
Outside the bounty, Nya, who was now bruise free, was flying in her samurai suit and flew into her room. She took off her jetpack when someone knocked on her door.
"Uh, Nya? Are you there?" Jay asked with the door slightly opened, before Nya hastily closed it.
"Don't come in! I'm getting ready," Nya hastened.
"Um, I just wanna talk to you about our date," Jay was saying while Nya put her suit and weapons away, except for the helmet that she put on the floor, "You know I-I'm hearing really bad reviews for the restaurant…"
Nya's bracelet flashed red before bringing up a hologram of a part of Ninjago with a red dot on the Mega Monster Amusement Park, "Serpentine spotted at the Mega Monster Amusement park?"
"You know I think we should cancel," Jay finished as Nya opened the door.
"Oh… you're canceling?"
"No, no-no, I was just… I just wanted to know if you would rather go to the… Mega Monster Amusement park instead."
"Really?! That would be perfect! A-Aren't you over dressed?" Nya asked before spotting the helmet she left on the floor.
"Well yeah but of course I need to change," Jay explained when Nya kicked the helmet into the closet, "What was that?"
"Nothing!" Nya hastily replied, "You know what? I'll dress up too! It looks fun!"
Nya walked behind a changing screen, looking for the outfit she chose.
"Huh, you know I was thinking we could take my Storm Glider there."
"Sounds like fun!"
She stepped out of the changing screen wearing a beautiful red dress and made Jay squeak. Ani was so wrong about Nya.
"I'm in your hands," Nya said as she picked up her bag, then shrunk her helmet and put it in her bag and then walked down the halls with Jay.
At the Mega Monster Amusement park, Jay and Nya were sitting in a restaurant with large burgers in front of them. Nya was listening to Jay ramble.
"Yeah, when I was young it was clear I was born and bred for adventure. I was the first to get my knot badge in little scouts. I was always trying new foods, ha ho ha, I once built these wings from scrap metal," Jay rambled, at some point Nya's bracelet was rapidly flashing, "Uh… You okay? You seem kinda distant."
"Uh, yeah! It's just the portions are so big. And to think we split our dish," Nya replied.
"Eha. So uh, that samurai," Jay fumbled a bit, obviously out of topics, "Um, I hate him. Don't you? He's such a show off. I-If you ask me, he's nothing without his clunky exo suit…"
"Oh," Nya said flatly.
"Yeah, nothing can compare to two good ole fashioned feet and fists. Don't you think?" Jay asked.
"Yeah, sure," Nya replied.
"You know, sssssssomebody oncssssse told me-"
Jay was now hissing on the "s"-s or "s" sounds. He picked up a spoon and turned to the side. In the reflection on the spoon, he had two little fangs.
"Are you okay?" Nya asked.
"Excusssssse me. I have to use the resssssssstroom" Jay covered his mouth and ran into the restroom.
When he got inside, Jay dunked his slightly green face into the water. After, he took of his left glove, which still looked the same.
"Oh gosssssssh. I'm turning into a sssssssnake!"
In one of the park's rides, called the Ghost Train, a group of people were riding it.
"Ha. Lame!" a guy complained in response to a vampire, "This ride is stupid!"
Skales was digging at a point in the train ride, and the train was passing by.
"Ha! Look at how this guy looks!" the guy said in response to three of the Venomari, which they retaliate by spraying the passengers.
Then they start panicking from the hallucinations.
A guy walked into the restroom and tried to open one of the stalls, the one Jay was in.
"I'm bussssy, dude! Can't you ssssssee itssss taken?" Jay barked and the guy left.
"I can't go out there looking like thissss!" the blue ninja lamented, "Thisss isss the worssst date ever!"
Meanwhile, Nya was still waiting at their table, a bit worried.
Outside, the rest of the ninjas were standing around.
"Where is everybody?" Kai asked.
"Doesn't matter," Ani replied, "We have enough distractions with your sister."
"When we get back to the Bounty," Cole said as he grabbed Kai's arm to stop him from attacking Ani, "We seriously gotta talk about your recent insult campaign."
They then heard screaming from the ride and saw a group of people running out in panic.
"Wait a minute," Kai said, "That ride was never scary."
"Venomari," Zane deduced.
"Shouldn't we get Jay?" Ani asked.
"Let's not bother the two lovebirds" Cole answered, "We can handle this."
"Excuse us, folks. /Outta away, nothing to see here people, move! / This is official ninja business," Ani and Kai said as the team minus one lightning master ran into the ride.
In the restaurant, Nya's bracelet beeped again and she sighed.
"Sorry Jay. Duty calls," Nya grabbed her bag and ran out of the restaurant.
Jay was still in the restroom looking at his reflection. His face was now a light green and had dark green scales on the sides.
"Huh well. You don't look ssssssso bad… jusssst go out there, and tell her the truth," he tried to reassure himself until something went rip.
Jay looked to his back and saw a small tail.
"Huhm…. A-aa! I have a tail! Uhmm, itsss okay, Jay," He began walking to the door, "Girlsssss like tailssss."
Jay walked to their table to see it empty except for their burgers.
"SSShe left? Nya?"
"S…s…s…snake!" a customer yelled when he saw Jay.
Once that shout was heard, all the people inside began beating Jay in a group with various objects. Outside, Nya ran into an alley and changed into her samurai suit before calling her exo suit to her using her bracelet. Nya jumped in and ran to the Ghost Train.
Inside the ride, Skales was still digging when he hit something metal. Pythor grinned as he pushed the dirt away, revealing a fangblade.
Pythor chuckled as he held the fangblade up high, "The first fangblade is ours!"
Kai raised his golden sword above his head and set it aflame as the others readied their weapons.
"Not so fast!" Kai yelled.
"Really? That's the best you've got?" Cole glared, shaking his head.
"Couldn't really think of anything on the fly," Kai said.
"Well how about… Time to burn!" Cole mocked, "Or a… Jump on this fire rod!"
"Well next time you lead," Kai glared.
"Well maybe I will!" Cole argued.
"Oh yeah, if you can catch up!" Kai countered.
While they were arguing, the serpentine readied their weapons.
"That's it!" Ani shouted, breaking up the two, "From now on, I take the lead!"
So then the two groups fought, neither side really winning, until Zane had an idea.
"Watch and learn brothers and sister," Zane closed his eyes and focused.
His eyes glowed blue and he began to have icy energy cover his body. Pythor and Skales prepared themselves for an attack. Zane was lifted a bit into the air by a blue light. A blue blast came from Zane's body but when it ended, he and the other ninjas were frozen in blocks of ice.
"Oops," Zane winced.
"Great," Ani sarcastically groaned, "Isn't this magical, we're ninjasicals!"
Pythor and his slithering companions began laughing at the iced team while the other ninjas glared at Zane. The serpentine ran out of the ride when a magnetizer drew the fangblade from Pythor to the Nya in her exo suit.
"Stop Him!" Pythor shouted.
Nya activated her rockets but they just puffed out smoke.
"Booster malfunction."
Nya then ran into the roller coaster part with the serpentine hot on her trails. She climbed to the top of the roller coaster and rode on the rails down with the serpentine just watching her go in a full circle.
After the roller coaster, Nya dropped from a Ferris wheel but some serpentine dropped in front of her. Nya ran again but the constrictai cut her off and dog piled her. The constrictai damage her exo suit to the point of it shutting down. Pythor slithered to them as the compartment opened.
"Finally… The mystery man is revealed," Pythor said.
A Constrictai warrior removed the helmet, showing Nya to the serpentine.
"Or should I have said, mystery girl. Who's gonna save you now?"
Back in the restaurant, Jay was still being battered. Jay managed to run into the bathroom and shut the door. After a few seconds, the crowd was still throwing things at the door when Jay opened the door. This time, he had his scarf on his head like his ninja mask.
"Do not go in there! He bitess!" Jay warned so to try and get out, "Thisss isss not dinner theater people, Itsss real! Arm yourselvesss!"
Jay tried his best to make the least hiss sound walked out of the restaurant and looked to his tail, now grown a bit more.
"Nya?! Where isss sssshe?" Jay then saw Pythor with some of the serpentine, "Hey!"
Jay caught the serpentines attention. Jay brought out his nun-chucks and readied them, while showing his tail. The serpentine broke out into laughter again; this was not a good day for the ninjas.
"Awww, what happened… snake bite your tongue?" Pythor mocked, Jay began to run to the Serpentine before someone called to him.
"JAY!" Nya called, she was strapped in chains to the roller coaster seat, "HELP!"
Pythor made a signal for a Constrictai warrior. The warrior pulled a lever, and the ride started.
"Later alligator! Let's go boys," Pythor left the park with the serpentine while Jay ran to the ride and got in before hanging onto the seat where Nya was.
"What happened to you?" Nya asked.
"What happened to you?" Jay asked back before seeing that a part of the tracks was broken and a ring of fire.
Jay tugged on the chains, "We have to get you outta here!"
That's when Nya noticed Jay's tail.
"Were you bit? Take of your head scarf," Nya said.
"I prefer not, I wassss meaning to tell you but I didn't want to ruin our date," Jay admitted.
"Aww, that's so sweet," Nya said before struggling a bit more, "Hey! You were the first in your little scouts group to get your knot badge right?"
"Ehehe. About that, I made that up jussssst ssso I could impresss you. I wasss never in little scouts," Jay sadly confessed.
"You weren't? Oh, hold on!" Nya said.
"What, you have an idea?" Jay asked.
"No, hold on!" Nya yelled as they were at the top of the roller coaster and it was about to do the steep dive.
Jay jumped into the seat next to Nya and held on as they descended. And during the descent, Jay's scarf flies off from the wind. Once the ride slows down a bit, Jay realizes that the scarf was off.
"Gah! Don't look at me! I'm a monssster!" Jay said, "Though I hate the Sssamurai, where isss he when you actually need him. SSSSSSAMURAI! HELP! HELP! SSSSSAMURAI!"
"Jay, I don't think the samurai is coming," Nya said.
"Why?" Jay asked.
"Well this may not be the best time but I haven't been totally honest either," Nya admitted.
"What isss it?" Jay asked.
"I…I'm the Samurai!" Nya loudly confessed.
"HUH… You're the SSSSamurai?!" Jay said shocked.
The ride sped closer and closer to the break.
"Ah! We're running out of tracks!" Jay panicked.
"Jay, if anything horrible were to happen, I want you to know that you don't have to wear perfume," Nya declared, "Or pretend to anything you're not. Because, I like you best when you're you."
Nya kissed Jay on the cheek and a yellow glow enveloped him, restoring and curing Jay of the venom.
"Your face, you turned back to normal," Nya noticed.
"Huh, it's just like you said. You've must have raised my heart rate," Jay smiled, now free of the hissing accent.
"Whatever happens next, just remember," Nya said as they neared the break, "You are the best you."
Once Nya said that, Jay stood up and electricity was starting to cover his body.
"What's happening?" Nya asked, amazed.
In small flash and glowing blue eyes, Jay was in his ninja suit and became a being of pure lightning.
"My true potential!"
The ride was nearing the break. Jay teleported to the front of the train and began to push with all his might on the ride to stop it. Jay managed to stop the train just before it went through the fire ring. Jay reverted back into normal while still holding the train, and letting out a few breathes of relief and exhaustion.
Outside the park, the once frozen ninjas joined up with Nya and Jay. There, Nya, Jay, and Kai told the other three everything.
"You're still in big trouble for getting in our way as well as embarrassing and humiliating us," Ani snapped, the only ninja not at all impressed, "And I was so right about you being a hinderance."
"You really had me fooled, I never would have guessed you were the Samurai," Zane said.
"I wish I had a sister like you," the earth master said.
"What am I, chopped liver?!" the orange ninja glared.
"Technically, I was the first to discover her secret. And didn't we agree that whoever found out was the best and naturally the Green Ninja? Huh? The Green Ninja?" Kai asked enthusiastically, "The destined ninja to defeat the Dark Lord? Garmadon? Huh? Or… at least become the Green Ninja's master?"
"Why would we say that?" Jay asked.
"Doesn't ring any bells," Cole agreed.
"Nope, that conversation is not in my database," Zane said.
Kai just shook his head then he and Nya glared at the girl ninja.
Ani groaned and replied, "Sorry about my attack on you back in Oroborus, it was a new power I learned and I wanted to make a point about how incompetent samurai are compared to ninja."
"You know what I learned today?" Jay interjected, changing the conversation.
"What's that?" Nya asked.
"No matter what secret you have, whether you're a snake or a samurai, it's important to be yourself," Jay explained.
"Yeah that's cute. But you wanna know what I learned?" Cole reminded everyone, "The serpentine now have the first fangblade."
"But we are getting stronger," Zane said confidently, "One day for sure, all of us will reach our true potential."
"And Pythor will be stopped," Ani added.
"We figured out all this without Sensei. Pretty good for five ninja," Jay said before Nya slugged him in the arm, "And a Samurai."
"I wonder what Sensei's doing now?" Kai wondered.
Sensei and Garmadon had reached the base of a valley and the Mountain of Madness was at the middle. At the top was a glowing blue peak.
"The worst is yet to come," The older of the two warned.
Later that night, back on the deck of the Bounty, Ani and Nya were discussing something very important.
"Seriously?! You called me a deadweight, a hindrance, a distraction, and a helpless 'damsel in distress' princess?" Nya scolded.
"Not in that order but yes," Ani answered.
"What's your problem? Why are you always being so mean?" Nya ranted, "What did I do to you? I figured that…"
"That what?" Ani interrupted, "That since we're the only two girls on the ship that we should be the best of friends and hang out?"
"Well, that would be better…"
"That kind of thing only happens in children's television shows. And I'm not mean, I'm trying to keep my team on track and that's hard to do when Kai and Jay are busy fussing over you with Kai's overprotectiveness and Jay's raging hormones on top of the boys' other nonsense. That's my problem. But now I have a new problem concerning you."
"…What do you mean?"
"Ninja protect Ninjago, not samurai. This is a ninja team on a ninja headquarters; we don't have time for samurai getting in our way and messing things up for us, especially amateur ones."
"I've been nothing but helpful to you guys!"
"Yes, today was evident of that."
Nya was hurt by Ani's sarcastic comment and looked down at the floor, a little embarrassed. A moment later, a plain katana was thrown at her feet. Nya, though confused, picked it up and looked at the mistress of energy, puzzled.
"What's this?" she asked.
"What do you think it is?" Ani deadpanned, "It's a practice katana."
"I know that, I'm just wondering why…?"
"You want my respect?"
Nya nodded.
"Well, you're not going to get it by playing samurai. So, I'm just going to have to teach you how to be a ninja."
The fire ninja's sister's mouth dropped, she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"I…I don't know what to say," She blurted out, "Thank you…"
"Don't thank me now," a knowing smirk grew on the ninja girl's face, "Because first thing tomorrow morning we start your training. And believe me, by the time that's over, you're going to wish I kicked you off this ship. The boys might've gotten away with their shortcut training, but true ninja train is going to break you. Physically, mentally, and emotionally."
Nya cringed, then swallowed her fears and said, "Well, ready when you are."
So, what do you think, love it or not? And Ani, any ideas? Come on, don't be shy, there's no such thing as a dumb review…
Random reviewer (not a real one, just for a joke): turn this into a Jay/OC (Ani) fic.
Me: that's the dumbest review I ever read.