Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago. I also do not own "Loba," both by Shakira.
Chapter 13: Break out
Lupe's POV
I woke up the next day, at twilight. I smiled. I knew I would wake up at that time. I almost always did, until I stayed with the ninja. I was still in the Constrictai tomb and wore my black jeans, black tank top, and black boots that had a slight heel. But it was so small it was almost impossible to notice.
"¿Tienes hambre?" I looked up to see my reptilian friend whisper through the cage.
"Si," I responded.
"Bueno, eso es muy malo," I heard an eerily familiar voice hiss. Pythor! I thought, beginning to growl. I remembered the moon she-wolf anthem at that moment for an odd reason.
"Deja que se vaya," I growled.
"No," Pythor told me. I growled again, but there was nothing I could do. I could only sit there, changing into my she-wolf form every minute. Once they took my friend away, out of my sight forever, one of the generals, the short one slithered to me.
"Sssuch a shame, he wasss a good fighter," The general snickered. I growled at him, narrowed my eyes, and lashed out at him. "Ha! Ha! Ha! Misssssed." He laughed.
"Slithering freak!" I yelled after him. Apparently the snake cared a lot about pride and what others saw of him, because he spun around and glared at me. I snickered.
"What wasss that?" The snake slithered back over to me.
"Nothing, just this." Before he could respond, I lashed out at him again with my long nails. He cried out in pain, and I could see my nails broke scale. "There, now did I miss?"
"How…how did you do that?"
"Don't mess with a she-wolf." Since he was still confused, I decided to sing it out to him, usually that worked with Lloyd when I tried to get him to remember the Spanish colors. I just taught him the "Colors Song" Peridot made me memorize. And since he was acting childish, I would treat him like a child.
"Sigilosa al pasar
Sigilosa al pasar
Esa loba es especial
Mírala, caminar, caminar
Quién no ha querido a una diosa licantropía
En el ardor de una noche romántica
Mis aullidos son el llamado
Yo quiero un lobo domesticado
Por fin he encontrado un remedio infalible que borre del todo la culpa
No pienso quedarme a tu lado mirando la tele y oyendo disculpas
la vida me ha dado un hambre voraz y tu apenas me das caramelos
Me voy con mis piernas y mi juventud por ahí aunque te maten los celos
Una loba en el armario
Tiene ganas de salir
Deja que se coma el barrio
Antes de irte a dormir
Tengo tacones de aguja magnética
Para dejar a la manada frenética
La luna llena como una fruta
No da consejos ni los escucha
Llevo conmigo un radar especial para localizar solteros
Si acaso me meto en aprietos también llevo el número de los bomberos
ni tipos muy lindos ni divos ni niños ricos yo se lo que quiero
pasarla muy bien y portarme muy mal en los brazos de algún caballero
Una loba en el armario
Tiene ganas de salir
Deja que se coma el barrio
Antes de irte a dormir
Cuando son casi la una la loba en celo saluda a la luna
Duda si andar por la calle o entrar en un bar a probar fortuna
Ya está sentada en su mesa y pone la mira en su próxima presa
Pobre del desprevenido que no se esperaba una de esas
Sigilosa al pasar
Sigilosa al pasar
Esa loba es especial
Mírala caminar, caminar
Deja que se coma el barrio
Antes de irte a dormir."
"Como he dicho antes, nunca te metas con una loba," I told him, a threatening tone in my voice. "¿Lo tienes?"
The snake nodded his black head quickly, and then slithered away from me, just as I turned completely into a she-wolf. Once I opened my sharp sapphire eyes, I let a tear out of them. Being an animal, and not fully human, I, like any other moon wolf and animal, form friendships faster than humans. That's why even though I've only known Alejandro, Acuzio, and Delicia for a few days, we were already best friends. I began to howl quietly in Latin. Latin was howled at a moon wolf's funeral or when someone of the moon wolf clan lost a friend or missed a family member.
"Ego ibo quaeror, illi in perpetuum,
Sed nunc vitae goes in,
Lupus cum ita sit,
Et libera custodia hinnulus."
When I finished, I knew what I had to do. I looked at the bars of the cage, looking for a lock. Suddenly, I realized there was no lock. The snakes just put bars on top of the cage. I jumped up at the bars, hitting my head, but knocking the bars off. When I returned to the ground, I had a throbbing headache. Someone heard that. Who wouldn't? I thought. The bars clanging to the floor had made an ear-splitting clattering noise.
"Get her!" I heard snakes yell. Not today, slippery I thought. I jumped again, out of the cage, and dashed outside. When I got outside, I felt cold winds hit me with a great deal of force. I heard the snakes coming after me, so I took a leap of faith. Literally. I jumped off the side of the mountain and felt the air rush by me.
I howled at the sensation of free falling. Before I knew it, I landed on the ground. I bounced slightly on my paws and was shocked that I lived. I heard the snakes back at the top of the mountain yelling at each other.
"She'sss dead. There's no way she sssurvived that!" The snakes yelled at each other.
Not really I thought to myself, smiling. I decided to wait until the snakes went away back into the tomb before I moved.
"Pythor'ssss going to be mad," I heard a snake warn the others.
"Not if we don't come back." I heard another say.
"What do you mean?" A snake asked.
"I mean we run away, claim to look for the she-wolf, and don't come back." I heard the first snake plan. His brothers all agreed, and they started to scramble down the mountain and then split up.
Stupid snakes, I thought, getting up and shaking myself free of any dirt. It was then that I realized I was bleeding on my right side. It wasn't much blood, but it was a considerable amount. I knew that lose of blood would attract predators. I began to walk around in the darkness, yet could see well because of my she-wolf eyes. I then realized that I was in the middle of nowhere.
Where am I? I thought. Suddenly, I saw a ship-like shape flying over me. I looked up, and saw the Bounty.