A/N Short and bad chappy cause I'm going away for a week with no wifi, no iPad, no NINJAGO (passes out) and no phone reception. Why do I have to be punished. When I get back I'll have time to finish both Ninjago Highs, Charades and the final chappy of The Dragon Dawn II

Quote of the Week

"Jay I take back everything I said, you are a fine ninja. Not finer than me but fine."-Cole

Chapter 3:

The Nindroid General paced across the room. Six of his seven prisoners watched as each pace became faster and he became more and more agitated. He turned to two of his drones.

"Where is that coward, I want more electrocobrai." He grunted. The drones shrugged. "No one answers me!"

"You must wait. We have almost depleted our store. Now we have all the ninja, we don't need to worry about power." A white cloaked figure from behind the Nindroid General Cryptor

"What about the two members missing from the group? We need power to use the MechDragon to get them." The Nindroid General grumbled.

"I've tracked down two human, she is Aurora City. She is their most dangerous asset, you must find her."

The ninja waited until the mysterious stranger, General Cryptor and the drones left the room to tend to Kai's wounds. The red ninja was unconscious and spats of dried blood covered his red gi, but it didn't look noticeable, being the same colours. He one deep burgundy ring around his left eye. Jay was horrified at his wounds and just wanted to look away.

How was he still alive?

"Be easy on him, he might have a couple of broken ribs." Misako said, as Zane and Lloyd hurled Kai on the the only bed in the prison cell.

"Well the Nindroids were easy to fight, I don't get it how he would get owned by them." Lloyd puffed.

"Until the MechDragon came, by then Kai was out cold." Cole interrupted Zane, who had his mouth prepared to say a reply to Lloyd. Zane shot him a dirty look.

"Yeah but how did the Nindroids get power, we shut down the only power source for them." Lloyd looked anxiously around the room, half expecting to see a Nindroid pop out of thin air.

"If you were paying attention Lloyd, you wouldn't be asking that question." Jay snapped. His attitude since their capture was fiery like Kai's, sort of like a replacement for the unresponsive fire ninja.

"Still, what powered them?" Lloyd asked, just wanting to annoy Jay, despite not knowing the answer.

"Electrocobrai. Though there are extremely rare, they are extremely useful." Zane repeated, like it was off the back of his hand. Who knows where his main database was?

Lloyd grinned childishly. "That was Pythor's favourite thing to do, play with those. I didn't know they actually could power things."

"Same here, until quite recently." A distorted creepy voice said.

The group turned to the bars of the prison cell. A figure in white robes with a head covered by a hood stood there. Under the hood, glowing red reptilian eyes started at the inmates.

"Who are you?" Cole asked, addressing the mysterious figure.

The figure laughed, it's metallic creepy voice laugh, a bit more distorted than the ninjas arch-nemesis, the Overlord. "You haven't changed a bit since we last met."

The four ninja scratched their heads. The figure pulled off its mask.

A long white serpents head emerged from it. It had red eyes and beautifully detailed purple markings. It's most distinct feature was a light blue gem on its head. It was...

"...Pythor?"

"Well hello old chum!"

Nya had settled into her new home well, it was comfortable and felt just right. And Nya was enjoying that right now, sitting on her comfortable and squishy couch.

She had kept the bow and sword that she 'possessed as her belongings' from the dragon cave. She was still baffled on who General Varius was and why he or she had their weapons stolen and how it landed in the hands of a King's dragon.

Time to investigate this General Varius a bit more so she could learn a bit of (useless) information on them. She pulled out her flashy new laptop and typed in 'Who was General Varius?' into the popular search engine 'Ninoogle'. She found an article:

General Varius of the Vipoids

Varius is the current (known) general of an ancient race of snake people called Vipoids. The Vipoids were there first Serpentine with toxic venom that paralyses when splashed with it or bitten. They were created and appointed by the First Spinjitzu Master to protect Ninjago from the Overlords Stone army.

It succeeded but their last known record of him and his tribe were them retreating in the Glacier Barrens. Sources suggest the Vipoids unknown records for 12,000 years may confirm they fell down a crevasse and have been frozen all this time. In 2015 a search party will go down a crevasse they possibly fell down and search it, possibly solving this age old mystery.

Varius was the son Vornon the Great, the first General ever. Vornon forged him some of the most powerful weapons ever, a Sword and a Bow with Vipoid Venom arrows. Those weapons are lost, they were lost since before the Vipoids disappearance.

After Vornon died, Varius adhered his Serpent Staff that holds the anti-venom to the Vipoids Venom. Upon wielding the staff he became the General. He continued his duties right until his disappearance 12,000 years ago.

Nya read the article over and again. Nya felt a strange want to meet Varius. Maybe he was the key to stopping the Overlord if he had Lloyd.

A falcon chirped outside her window, what a coincidence. It beamed a hologramatic image of the ice ninja, Zane.

"Nya, if you get this message we are all in trouble.

The Overlord has captured Lloyd and is draining his Golden Powers. I fear an ancient curse is upon us, The Curse of the Golden Master.

He has also severely injured Kai. We need you Nya, we need you to save us all, Ninjago depends on you."

The falcon flew off. Nya felt the need of Varius' strange connection to her recent events in life. Perhaps he was the key to solve this problem...

Nya looked up at the crevasse she had fell down. She could barely see the top. How she managed to survive was beyond her. But the punishment for falling was a few broken ribs. She faced a snowy cave. Behind her was a massive wall of ice.

You see this was no ordinary wall of ice as Nya discovered. Falling lime-green and brown snakemen were frozen in place, formed the decorative part of it. The horrified snakemen were frozen in action, as if the moment they fell down the massive crevass they tried to defy gravity.

These snakemen were much different from the modern day snakes. These looked like real snakes and were probably ace at stealth.

Nya, or now known as Jessica felt honoured to see Ninjago's ancient history right before her eyes. Seeing a great find like that, was usually reserved for historians, like Misako. Nya lightly chuckled as she imagined Misako's face at such a discovery.

How was Nya going to get out? "The only way out is if awaken the tribe, but how would they know to get outside of this hellhole?" Nya asked herself.

The sword

Nya unsheathed her sword. The lime green gems glowed. Bursts of golden power left it. She held the sword near Varius.

The lime green snake opened his eyes, they were a glowing pale pink. He made eye contact with Nya and he thrashed around in the ice.

He broke free, so did the rest of the tribe, Nya stood back while they gained their footing. A high-ranked snake handed Varius his golden serpent staff, it was like the regular serpentines but with a lime green anti-venom.

Five minutes it took for Varius to notice a quivering Nya standing back. He slithered over to her and hissed. "And who are you?" He asked, his voice was stern, uptight and firm and very unsnake-like.

"N-Nya." Nya stuttered, it was now bitterly cold. It could easily be assumed with fright.

Varius and the tribe bowed. "Thank you humble Nya. My tribe and myself are entirely grateful for your deed."

"I have come to tell you news." Nya said, in a worried voice. "And what would that be?" Varius asked, leaning his long snake neck towards Nya.

"The Curse of the Golden Master is upon us!" Nya hushed. Varius turned to his right-hand man, the snake who handed him his staff. The snake hissed some weird sounds.

"Stealthor has advised me." Varius said, pointing to that snake that hissed. "You are the prophesied one, you may keep my sword."

"Thank you Sir." Nya politely said, she was still contemplating on whether to call him Varius.

"We would like you to open a way for us to escape." The persistent Serpentine General asked.

Nya looked cluelessly at Varius. "Wave the sword at the ice and say stairs in you mind."

Nya looked at her sword and waved it.

Stairs

A stair-like structure formed out of the solid wall of ice. It was tall and narrow but lead straight to the top. Varius began to slither up it, he turned his head to Nya, who was complimenting herself on such an effort. "Come on miss, we need to go back to Ouroboros."

"Oh right, sorry." Nya scoffed, dashing up the stairs. The rest of the tribe followed.

Varius chuckled to himself. "She's definitely what I'm looking for."

What is you favourite variant of Pythor? Purple or White?