A/N: Well, still not done with the story, sorry, but I have the rest of it planed out so it wont take very long to write it. I have edited it what I have wrote. If you have already read to where I left you off last go to the line break that is bold and go up to where Sensei says "I wonder why,". Comprende?
Title: Weird Happenings
Summery: What if Cole never told his dad he was a ninja? How would one small thing change the future of Ninjago?
Characters: Everybody.
Rating: T for safety.
Genre: Adventure
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Ninjago.
Disclaimer: This idea was Mortal Draw, all credit goes to her!
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Weird Happenings
Cole hated this, absolutely despised it. He hated this place, he hated doing this, he hated being here, heck he even hated this outfit. Cole hated performing; he looked at his friends to see what they thought of this vile place, he glanced at Zane, who was to the left of him; he looked like he didn't care, he turned his head to the right to face Jay, he seemed to be enjoying it, he then looked at Kai, who was at the end, he had a disdainful face that could be read I-hate-this-but-I-will-do-this-to-get-the-Fangblade.
'At least someone else hates it almost as much I do,' Cole thought.
Cole continued to narrate their dance steps, "Kick ball change, barrel roll, turn and do the double wings."
"Dude, you got to follow me," Jay whined, when Kai bumped into him.
"Follow you?!" Kai exclaimed in disbelief, "You were 2 seconds off."
"Actually 2.72 seconds off the beat," Zane butted in.
"Guys, guys we don't need to make this any harder than it already is," Cole said, irritated, "let's stick to the plan, we keep this charade up until we get our hands on the Blade Cup so we can steal-" he stopped when he saw Kai make slitting motions with his hand across his throat, then he discreetly gestured behind Cole.
Cole turned around and saw his dad, Lou walk up with a horrified face, "You were going to steal the Blade Cup?"
Before Cole could say something Kai used his quick thinking and said, "Metaphorically speaking, you know we are going to steal the stage?" Lou looked a little confused so Kai explained, "Cole said that we will be so good that it would be a steal to get our hands on the Fang- I mean Blade Cup."
"Oh, that makes sense, sorry I jumped to conclusions, son," Lou apologized, "I just came back here to tell you how proud I am of you and that I can't wait to watch your performance."
Lou turned around and went back to his seat.
'Now I have to perform,' Cole thought, he said sincerely, "Thank you Kai, I don't know what would of happened if you didn't step in like that."
"You're welcome, but if you want to keep your dad proud we better perform to win the Blade Cup, but if you want to steal it I will be with you 100%," Kai said.
Cole could see in Kai's face that he wanted to steal the Blade Cup; his thoughts were cut short as a familiar voice sounded from behind the curtain.
Kai went over to see through the stage curtains, "Pythor," he hissed venomously.
"Then we better steal the Blade Cup," Jay said with dismay. "I wanted to perform," he mumbled.
"No, I have a better idea," Cole stated, the ninjas gathered around. "How about we perform and see if we win it, if we do not we steal it from the people who did win it," Kai brightened, "and if it is the Serpentine, we ambush them on their way out of the auditorium."
"But what if they escape? Like they did last time," Zane asked.
"There is always a first," Kai said.
"Now for the moment most of you have been waiting for, The Royal Blacksmiths!" the announcer announced.
"Are you ready?" Cole inquired.
His brothers nodded determinedly and walked out on the stage.
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"Bop 'til you drop," Kai began singing and started his dance moves.
"Shake it 'til you break it," Jay sang and did his dance steps.
"Move it 'til you lose it," Zane sang.
"Spin it 'til you win it," Cole finished the phrase and that dance set.
Then they commenced their dance moves.
When Kai was by Cole he queried, "How come we can't Break Dance? I'm good at it."
Cole laughed, "I would like that, maybe we can when we are back on the Bounty."
Kai was about to say something else but their next steps brought them away from each other.
The crowd was wild.
When they finished they were breathing heavily, the ninja waited for their scores. One of the judges gave them a 9 the other a 10 and Pythor gave them a 0, the crowd booed, but the judge he swallowed earlier that day brought his hand out of his mouth and drew a 1 in front of the 0, making it a 10.
"There you have it, The Royal Blacksmiths have won the blade cup," the announcer pronounced.
Two people brought the Blade Cup and passed it to Cole who held it triumphantly in the air. He looked to the proud face of his dad, 'I don't deserve it,' Cole thought, 'I am lying to him, but he would be mad it I didn't.'
Kai glanced at the sour face of Pythor; Pythor caught his gaze and mouthed: I will get it and get you. You ninja better watch your back because I will always be at it ready to stab.
Kai mouth back: that is if you can catch us with your excruciatingly slow pace and your dreadfully stupid minions.
Pythor glared and slithered out of the auditorium, with his henchmen following.
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The ninja entered Lou's house and sat on the couch, they watched as Cole's dad hung a picture of them with the Blade Cup on the wall, "Do you think that I could keep the Blade Cup here?" Lou asked.
Cole was not expecting this so he stumbled over his words a bit, "Actually, I wanted to take it with me."
"But it might be stolen if you bring it to school," Lou exclaimed.
"Don't worry, we will take good care of it, I…," Cole paused to think of an excuse.
Kai rolled his eyes, "He wants to take it to remind him of when his dad who taught him how to dance like a pro and because of that he won the Blade Cup."
Lou's eyes welded up with tears, "I am so proud of you son. I knew you would be almost as good as me one day. I need to write a song about this."
With that he went into the back room to compose a song.
"Now I almost feel bad about lying to him," Cole stated.
"You can always go and tell him the truth," Zane said.
"I said 'almost', I still want to get out of this mess hole and burn these memories from my head as soon as possible."
"I am with you 210% with that," Kai said, "can we leave now?"
Zane looked at Kai confused, "There is no such thing as a 210%."
The ninja laughed at Zane's confusion, making him even more bewildered.
"I'll leave a note saying that we had to get back to school," Cole said. "So we can leave right now."
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When Lou came out of the back room after he had finished writing his song, all he saw in his son and quartets' place a note:
Dear Dad,
Thank you for everything; we had a really fun time (*"Why do I have to put that?" "It will make him happy."). We realized, when we looked at the calendar, that we had to go to school tomorrow bright and early; and Kai is a deep sleeper ("I am not a deep sleeper, just a washing machine!" "It's revenge for making me put 'fun time'.") and it takes a lot of time to wake him up ("It doesn't." "You're right; you always wake up when we laugh at you." "Humph."), so we have to leave right away so we don't get detention or worse. Again thank you, it was nice seeing you again ("But it wasn't!" "It will fill his heart with rainbow's." "But I don't want to fill his heart with rainbows!" "Just do it!" "Fine.").
Sincerely ("Put 'with love'." "Kai, how can I put 'with love' when I don't really love him?"),
Cole, Jay, Kai and Zane.
'He had a fun time and he's thankful,' Lou thought, 'I am so happy.'
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"Pythor will most likely come after us to steal the Fangblade," Zane affirmed, while staring at the blade that was on the table.
"Of course he will, I just don't know what to do with it," Nya said. "I still can't believe you got a Fangblade."
"Me neither," Jay said, he looked to Kai who was staring intently at the Fangblade. "Is something wrong Kai?"
"No, I am just thinking," Kai replied, he reached over and picked it up, weighed it then he found the balance point and he gazed keenly at the markings. A wicked smirk lit up his fair face, "I know what to do with it."
He looked up at his brothers and sister, a gleam was in his eye that one would get before one did a great prank, "I'll be back in 6 or 7 days, don't follow me I need to do this alone."
"What are you going to do?" Nya asked unsurely.
"You will see, oh yes, you will see," his voice grew malicious at the last bit, his smirk still plastered on his face. Kai got up with the Fangblade in his hand, ran out the door and jumped off the port side of the ship, changing his Fire Sword into a vehicle to break his landing.
"I wonder where his is going," Cole murmured.
"We will just have to sit here and wonder," Jay said.
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Kai finally came back a week later with the Fangblade still in his hand. His face was red, like it got sunburned and he was holding his left arm muttering, "Sore, sore, soreness, so sore," he whined, "I forgot how painful it was, oh the pain."
Nya took one look at him and realized where he had been, "Kai, why were you at the forge?"
"Oh, no reason, I just wanted to go back to get my arms back in shape," he touched his right arm and winced. "Ouch, anyway when I got there I realized that I still had the Fangblade, sorry if you needed it."
Nya narrowed her eyes, he gave a cheeky smile and tossed her the Fangblade, "You better put that under tight security."
Kai walked below decks. Nya looked at the Fangblade in her hand, 'What was he doing at the forge?' she wondered.
Meanwhile; Kai went to the ninjas shared room, he hopped on his top bunk, he went to the wood paneling and pulled a piece off, he looked around before he pulled out the real Fangblade from his boot and stuck it in the little crevice he created, he then put the wood paneling back in place and went to where his brothers were having lunch.
During the week Kai had carefully and painstakingly forged a replica of the Fangblade. It was easier this time because Sensei Wu had taught him how to be patient, not that he liked being patient. He hammered the block of metal 'til the blade was perfect, he made the handle, and then he meticulously carved out every ruin with acute precision. He acquired (stole) a jewel the right color, about the right size and had a jeweler cut it to the right shape.
Kai had spent many sleepless nights on it, but it was worth it for the flawless finished result. Pythor wouldn't know the difference, until it was too late.
"Kai, where have you been?" Cole asked.
"Somewhere," he answered vaguely with an impish glint in his green eyes.
"I will get you to talk bro," Cole threatened.
"I do not doubt that," he responded while he sat down and began to stuff his face, to make up for not having a lot of food during the week.
"Why won't you tell?" Zane queried.
Kai swallowed the food he was eating to speak with a mysterious air about him, "The less people who knows, the easier it will be."
Jay finally managed to gulp down the huge mouthful of food that was keeping from talking, "Very indistinct, but we will find out soon."
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"What issss the plan to get the Fangblade back, General," Skales hissed. "You've been thinking of one for a week."
"The ninja will have the blade under top security in their flying ship," Pythor menacing voice said. "When they land you and a horde of snakes will have an all out frontal attack, while I sneak in and steal the Fangblade before they know that you are the diversion."
"When do we sssstart?" Skales asked.
"Tonight, Skales rally the troops!"
"Your wish is my command, General," Skales bowed and left the underground hideout.
Pythor laughed maliciously, "Soon, surface dwellers, we will have our revenge."
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Later that night the ninja were relaxing playing video games, "Take that!" Jay shouted.
"Never!" Cole yelled, "Kai help me defeat this little twerp."
"Gladly," Kai made his character get past Zane to make his way over to Cole to help him defeat Jay.
"That was a cheap shot, you ganged up on me!" Jay pouted.
"You're the one who wanted to play team battle," Cole defended.
"But you were fighting each other before!"
"As Nya used to say when she was around four, 'My enemies enemy is also known as my friend'," Kai said after he looked around to make sure she wasn't around.
The ninja chortled, "She really said that?" Cole asked.
"Yes, Nya was so proud of herself for thinking it up, she walked around saying it to almost everybody she pasted, it was hilarious watching her embarrassed herself. She started saying it when our mom read a book that had a line that said, 'a common enemy unites even the oldest of foes'," Kai explained.
He didn't get any farther because the red emergency lights started flashing and Nya's voice blared over the intercom, "A legion of Serpentine are attacking the Bounty, I think they are here for the Fangblade! Meet me at the deck!"
Kai got a knowing infuriating smirk on his face before leaving the living room, 'what is that about?' Cole thought.
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Pythor slithered invisibly past the ninja and samurai's defenses, he looked at the fire ninja, that one annoyed him. He had an annoying smart mouth, Pythor hoped that one day he could teach that boy a lesson in manners, a sadistic grin grew on his face. He shook his to clear out these thoughts, he could save that for later now was the time to steal the Fangblade back.
Pythor went into the hallway and looked through all the doors. At the 3rd door he opened, he saw at the end of the room, the 2nd Fangblade. Pythor rushed forward but stopped when he saw something on the wall. He looked closer, it was a laser. Pythor was about to break it when he thought, 'I don't need to do that, the lasers will not be able to pick up me.'
He continued, the lasers giving him no problem, he leered, the ninja are so daft. Pythor reached over and slowly took the Fangblade from the pedestal.
"I got you now," he whispered to himself.
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Cole knocked a blow aside that was meant for his neck with his scythe. Although they were outnumbered 40 to 1, his brothers and he were doing great. Kai came up to Cole to fight back to back.
"Is it just me or does it seem that the Serpentine are not trying at all," Kai inquired.
Cole thought about it, "It's a diversion! Jay, you're the fastest, go check!"
Jay was about to run off when Pythor's voice cut through the noise of battle, "No need for that now is there?"
The elemental ninja looked around for him but couldn't locate him, "I am right here."
Their heads swiveled to where the sound was, they saw a shimmer and Pythor became visible, he was holding the Fangblade in his right hand and stroking it with his left.
Everybody but Kai gasped, "Just so know, your lasers were pathetic."
Out of the corner of his eye Cole saw Nya face palm.
Pythor looked to Kai before continuing, "I used my excruciatingly slow pace and my dreadfully stupid minions to my advantage."
Kai gave a little chuckle then said, "I see what you did there and I applaud you," Kai clapped a slow mocking clap, "flamey-o hotman, flamey-o."
"I don't like to be mocked," Pythor threatened.
"Well you better deal with it, because as long as I live I will mock whoever I wish whenever I wish relentlessly," he retorted.
Pythor hissed.
Cole snorted; he whispered to Kai, who was next to him, "You are an idiot."
"A geniusly insane idiot," he replied.
Cole shook his head, "That tongue of yours will be the death of you."
Any further conversation was cut short by a shout of, "Retreat! We have what we need, we need not tarry!"
"Get the Fangblade! Don't let it get away!" Cole ordered.
They did spinjitzu and Nya used her rocket boost on her exo-suit, Kai ended up the closest to the insane Serpentine.
"Quick get the blade," Jay yelled.
Kai chased Pythor's retreating form halfheartedly, for what would be the point of retrieving a fake blade?
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"Why didn't you get the Fangblade? You were so close!" Jay chastised.
Cole noticed that even though Kai made his eyes look sad his mouth still held the knowing but infuriating smirk.
"I can't take it anymore!" Cole practically yelled.
Startled everybody turned around to look at him.
"I thought that having an outburst was Kai's job," Jay teased.
Kai made a sound of agreement while nodding his head a bit.
"What can't you take anymore, Cole?" Zane asked.
"Kai!" Cole screeched.
"That just hurt me, right here, right in the heart," Kai mocked cried as he put a hand to his heart. "I think I shall go," Kai got up and headed to the door. "Somewhere where I am appreciated, where they can handle the awesomeness of Kai."
"You knucklehead, get back here," Cole reproached.
Kai turned back around a huge smirk plastered on his face, "Then what can't you stand about me?"
"Your smirk!"
"But it's my smirk!" Kai teased. He walked over and put a hand on Cole's shoulder, "I know that you are jealous of it, but you need to learn that your smirk will never be as good as mine," he tried to keep a straight face but was failing, miserably.
Cole flicked Kai's hand off his shoulder, making Kai lose his barely controlled amusement and making fall over laughing. Soon his laugher was contagious and everybody was laughing.
"Kai what were you smirking for?" Cole queried when the laugher died down.
"Because I like smirking."
"You know that is not an answer," Cole said annoyed.
"I will tell you when the time is right," Kai said. "Anyway it is Jay's turn to cook!"
"But I thought it was my turn," Cole grumbled.
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The ninja were out on the deck training in the early hours of the morning, when Kai spoke up, "When is sensei going to come back? He's been gone for weeks!"
"I hope it is soon," Jay said.
Kai walked to the starboard side of the Bounty, and looked out across the sky; the sky was still filled with stars. They stars seemed to have a life of their own always blinking out and lighting up a second later.
Kai turn around and came face-to-face with Cole. Kai jumped back a little.
"You said you wanted to Break Dance and right now we aren't busy," Cole stated.
Kai looked around, "Where did Zane and Jay go?"
"Zane and Jay are in the kitchen," He responded. "You've been standing here for ten minutes," Cole said to answer Kai's unspoken question.
"Oh."
Cole smirked. He left and came back with a CD player, "Ready?" Cole asked.
"What's the song?"
"Dragon Rider," Cole replied.**
"Now I am ready."
They got into position, Kai shot the play button with a not hot fire ball and the music started, "What should we do?" Kai questioned.
"Just follow my lead."
"Okay."
Cole started doing the coffee grinder and Kai copied. Soon they were synchronized as they did flips, back flips, tumbles, twists, leaps, side flips, handsprings and back handsprings. Once they put their hands on the ground and swung their legs around without anything touching the floor (except their hands).
"Kai I want to try something, can you do two back handsprings?"
Cole backed up and as he was running forward he gave give a thumbs up to begin and Kai started. When Kai's feet were in the air Cole leaped and landed on them with his feet, he jumped forward and did a half turn so his head was pointing downward, he stuck one of his hands out and it landed on Kai hands as he was leaning back for the second handspring. Cole pushed up with his one arm to get the altitude he would need for the next part. He side flipped from his position and perfectly timed it so his head would land on Kai's feet.
Kai realizing that he might need altitude sprung his feet out to push Cole higher so he could end it with a double flip. He landed crouched like a cat he lifted his left hand and clawed the air and said, "Rrrawr."
"The Triple Tiger Sashay," they heard Zane whisper, then they heard clapping.
Cole and Kai practically jumped out of their skin when Zane whispered and there was clapping. They turned around and saw that Zane, Jay and Nya had been watching, Kai blushed with embarrassment, "I hate performing," he muttered.
"I did it," Cole said in disbelief.
"That was awesome!" Jay yelled.
Cole blushed with pride, "Thank you Kai," he whispered.
"You're welcome," came his reply.
The sun was just peeking over the horizon when the ninja went to go have breakfast, but before they got there, Sensei Wu came up.
"Sensei," Jay said surprised, "your back."
"Did you bring us anything?" Cole and Kai asked at the same time.
"How was your trip?" Zane inquired.
"What did you do when I was gone?" Sensei questioned ignoring everybody.
"Well," Jay started, "Zane's a nindroid and Cole's a dancer."
"Only Jay and I unlocked our True Potential," Zane said.
"I wonder why," Sensei pondered.
Zane looked behind Sensei Wu when he sensed a dark presence, there were four black arms.
"Sensei! Behind you!" Zane shouted.
Kai and Cole conversation ended as they looked at what Zane shouted, "Garmadon," Kai said menacing.
He was about to rung forward when sensei yelled, "Stop!"
Everybody looked at him surprised, "Why?"
"He is the reason I left."
"What!" shouted the ninja.
"I want him treated as a guest, is that clear?"
"Yes sensei," the ninja chorused.
"Look, all I want is my son back, we can fight all we want later," Garmadon explained.
"Wait, Nindroid?" Sensei Wu asked confusion written all over his face.
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Kai had dark circles under his eyes, 'stupid Dark Lord making me sleep deprived.' He needed complete darkness to sleep and Garmadon messing with his dark lightning making the bedroom as bright as day was not helping, 'why can't he bunk with Sensei?' he thought to himself, a malicious smile spread across his face, 'maybe I can-'
"What are you going to do? You don't make that face over nothing," Cole asked, as he walked up.
"Nothing anymore, you ruined my thought process," Kai complained.
Cole chuckled, "Sorry."
"You better be," Kai teased, "or else you got something coming."
"I'm shaking in my boots."
"As you should."
Cole sat next to Kai on the bench he was sitting on, "You look beat," Cole stated.
"Your powers of perception are astounding," grumbled Kai.
"Touchy, but that proves that you are beat. Why?"
"Garmadon. I think it is his plan to make me sleep deprived so when we do fight he has the upper hand," he dropped his head in his hands.
Cole smiled, "His lighting doesn't bother me much. Ah, that reminds me of the reason I came down, the Falcon found Lloyd and the Serpentine."
"He did? Well then, let's go!"
Kai ran off to the bridge with Cole hot on his heels.
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The Bounty was circling over the volcano that was the Fire Temple, "The volcano has gotten unstable and unsafe, and it might erupt any minute now. We have to get Lloyd quick before it erupts," Nya stated with authority in her voice.
"If it means I can get a full night rest, then let's go!" Kai said as he raced out of the bridge and jumped of the side of the bounty.
"We don't even have a plan yet! Kai!" Jay yelled after him.
They heard a faint, 'Suck it,' it was said in a sing-song voice.
Jay glowered, "Oh the rudeness of him," he grumbled.
"What are we waiting for?" Cole said clearly getting impatient, "The last one to the Fire Temple has to take out the trash for a week!" He ran off after Kai.
Zane, Jay and Nya followed quickly so they weren't the unlucky ones to take out the trash.
"I hope we are not too late," Garmadon whispered, as he and Wu tailed the ninja.
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"You lost Zane! You have to take out the trash, ha!" Jay shouted triumphantly.
"Enough of this foolery," Garmadon commanded. "I cannot concentrate!"
"Chillax dude," Jay said, "you can't do anything without a clear head."
Garmadon growled so Jay gave him a big innocent smile.
"We need to be silent and travel by shadows from now on," Sensei ordered.
They walked through the tunnel and came out into a big cavern. There was a lake of lava with a chain of island in the middle of the lava lake. The Serpentine had dug all over the island, in search of the Silver Fangblade; Pythor was slithering around while looking at a map. Garmadon gasped, "Lloyd!"
Lloyd was in a cage off to the side of one of the excavation pits. He was holding the bars of the cage looking out.
"We must quickly travel by shadows, if we are seen there is a possibility that this mission with be forfeit," Sensei declared.
All the ninja and Garmadon nodded and silently crept off.
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There was a loud clink as a shovel hit something metal. Pythor's head snapped up from the map he was studying, he looked to were the sound was. A serpentine was bending over to study what his shovel had he. Pythor had a sense that it would be the Fangblade, "Get out of my way!"
The warrior quickly hopped out of the way as Pythor jumped down into the hole. He bent down and rubbed the dirt out of the way. He grabbed it and slithered out of the pit to see it clearly.
The blade glowed red, he lovingly stroked off the fine dirt so it would shine. At the corner of the blade there was movement that was not supposed to there. Pythor stared at it, not really sure that he saw something at all when, lo and behold, there it was again and this time he saw a ninja. Not want the ninja to spoil his plan he yelled, "NINJA!"
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"Be as light as a leave and fight like there is no tomorrow," ordered Sensei.
The ninja and Garmadon nodded as the Serpentine attacked. Kai drew out his Fire Sword but sensei stopped him, "The volcano is too unstable to use our powers."
"Well that's a bummer," complained the earth ninja.
They started lashing out with punches and kicks to reach Lloyd.
"RETREAT!" Pythor screamed. He turned to his left and spotted Fang-Suei. A smile appeared on his face, "Fang-Suei come here. I have a plan."
Fang-Suei quickly came to his master; Pythor whispered his plan in his ear. A sadistic smile grew on his face, "Yes Master."
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The earth rumbled under their feet, "All this fighting must have agitated the volcano!" shouted Nya. "I'm going to go get the Bounty ready for lift-off!"
With that Nya dashed back up the winding path, out of the volcano, leaving the ninja, Sensei Wu and Garmadon to continue on the fight with the fleeing Serpentine.
"There're taking Lloyd!" Garmadon yelled.
Cole, who was fighting back to back with Kai, looked over to where Garmadon was glaring.
A Fangpyre had a long pole slung over his shoulders, attached to the flexing pole was a cage and inside the cage was Lloyd.
The Fangpyre was running up the stairs that were spiraling to a back exit. Everybody but Kai ran after him. Kai stayed behind so he could guard their rear by blocking the retreating Serpentines' path at the beginning of the narrow winding stairs. He sliced them this way and that with his katana, the volcano shook again. He looked to where his brothers were on the stairs they were more than half way up. Kai jumped back quickly to dodge a sword strike, but not quickly enough, the blade grazed his forearm by his left hand, he bit back a cry of surprise and pain.
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Fang-Suei chuckled slightly as he saw the ninja, their sensei and the Dark Lord, he was a little surprised when the red ninja stayed behind, but no matters, the rest were falling right into Pythor's plan.
Fang-Suei looked behind him again, they were gaining on him, he put on another burst of speed. He was a few yards from the spot Pythor had planed when the volcano shook. Because Fang-Suei had Lloyd on one shoulder he lost balance and let him drop before the designated dropping spot. Fang-Suei cursed, the spot where the human brat, Lloyd was dropped had pointy rocks at the bottom that caught Lloyd, making his descent into the lava much more slowly.
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Lloyd's stomach felt like it went into his mouth when the Fangpyre let go of him. He could tell that the cage he was in was slowly sinking into the lake of lava. He looked above him and started at his dad, he couldn't believe that he actually came to rescue him. Maybe his dad loved him after all, that was a good thought as he slowly came closer to the lava.
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Garmadon went into a blind rage when he saw his son flying over the edge of the narrow path. He pushed himself to greater speed to catch up to the Serpentine who had done the foul deed.
The Serpentine didn't even stand a chance.
He started to climb down the cliff to reach his son, but was stopped by his brother, "We have to get going! There is no time, if you try to get Lloyd you will die as well as him."
Garmadon reluctantly followed Wu to the exit.
Cole looked around franticly, "Where's Kai?"
Everybody looked around, Jay was the one to find him. Kai was running up the stairs at break-neck speed.
"Kai!" Cole screamed, a desperate plan forming in his mind.
Kai managed a breathless, "What?"
"See if you can get Lloyd!" He pointed to were Lloyd was, before he could finish saying his plan the volcano shook again, lava started to rise up and the entrance was blocked by rocks, leaving Kai and Lloyd on the other side.
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Kai lost his balance as the volcano had a mini eruption. He went tumbling down the side of the stairs. Kai quickly got hold of a ledge on the cliff, stopping his dissent into the magma.
He used both his hands and feet so his arms could brace his fall so wouldn't feel like they've been ripped out of their sockets.
Looking over to his left, Kai saw Lloyd, 5 yards away with a terrified expression on his face as the lava slowly came up to his cage. "Kai, please help me!" he begged.
Kai found a way to get to Lloyd. There was a small rock platform 6 feet behind him and 4 more small rock platforms that lad right by Lloyd. H pushed himself off the rock wall and into a back-flip to reach the small dais. Kai flipped to the next three tiny daises.
Lloyd was hanging on to the bars by the top for t bottom of the cage was in the lava. Kai lifted the cage out of the lava and pulled Lloyd out with his right hand. He jumped up to the rock wall and started to climb awkwardly up. Pain shot through his left wrist and blood started to seep through his fingerless gloves. He almost let go of the cliff side.
"Lloyd, do you think you could climb on my back?" Kai managed to gasp.
Lloyd, upon hearing the pain in his voice complied quickly.
Kai pushed the searing pain aside and climbed with renewed urgency.
The volcano erupted again and this time it was for real.
Lava started spewing everywhere, Kai came up with an insane plan, he saw both exits collapse when Cole had called to him, but there was one more place to escape.
He let go of the wall, he heard Lloyd gasp with fear. Kai then fire bent out of his hands and feet, he rocketed upwards, the spewing lava right behind him.
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Lloyd's stomach felt like it went in his throat for the second time that when Kai let go of the wall, fear burned threw him, 'What is Kai doing?' He let out a gasp, it was cut short when Kai used his fire-bending as rocket boots, the fire coming out of his hands as extra stability and boost.
A spout of lava was shooting towards them, "Kai go right! Right!"
Kai swiveled right just in time as to not become a burnt crisp.
"Kai more are coming!" Lloyd screamed.
Kai growled in frustration, "Tell me where they are."
"Go right! Now left! Left again! Right! Forward! Left! Forward! Right! Backwards! Right! Backwards!" Lloyd yelled directions and Kai followed.
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"Where's Kai?" Nya asked when everybody came back to the Bounty.
Garmadon answered sadly, "He's trapped in there with Lloyd."
Nya's eyes widened and she looked toward the volcano. It erupted again, lava spluttered out of the hole in the top.
2 minutes later a weird object was flying toward the flying ship out of the exploding volcano. It had fire streaming behind it. As it came closer they could make out two shapes, a red one and a black one that was clinging on the red one.
"It's Kai and Lloyd!" Zane cried.
They could now make out their outlines as they came hurtling towards the deck in a stream of fire.
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Kai could feel his fire ebbing, he had never done this before; it was especially hard with Lloyd clinging on his back. Kai's fire started flickering on and off, then it stayed off, Kai was almost above the Bounty, "Can you catch Lloyd?" Kai yelled to someone on the deck.
He could see Garmadon getting into position, "Lloyd! Jump to your father! Do it now! Quickly!"
Lloyd could see the logic off the order; Kai didn't want him to get hurt. He detached himself from Kai and looked to his dad he had his arms outstretched ready to catch him. The problem was: Did he trust his dad enough to catch him? 'Yes,' he thought, 'I do.'
He jumped; pushing off of Kai's back, making Kai start spinning and him trying to regain his balance. Lloyd did not notice this though as he spread his arms out for his dad to catch him.
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Kai could barely regain his balance after Lloyd had jumped and safely landed in his father's arms. He managed to fire-bend a little more to slow his landing as he rolled to break his fall on the wooden deck of the Bounty.
It hurt a bit when he landed on the deck but he quickly recovered. He was panting heavily, "If I ever do that again I'll make sure I don't have any passengers," he teased, to lighten the tension.
Kai pulled his hood down from off his head, he started swaying side to side then he collapsed backwards on the deck.
Nya gasped and ran to her brother, but by this time he was raising himself on his elbows and shaking his head to clear out the haziness in his head.
Cole reached down and grabbed his left wrist to pull him up. Kai cried out in pain, he twisted his arm out of Cole's grasp and held his wrist with his right hand by his chest, his teeth gritted in agony.
"What did I do? I'm sorry!" Cole apologized sincerely.
"'S okay," Kai gave a thin smile.
"What's wrong Kai?" Nay asked.
"Nothing."
Nya reached out and grabbed Kai's wrist, Kai winced, "You call this nothing?"
Gesturing to the deep cut on Kai's wrist, "I'm gonna have to put stitches on it," she chastised.
Kai's eyes went wide, "I didn't know it was so deep!"
"Well it is, come on," with that she snatched his right hand and practically dragged him away.
"Wait!" Kai said in a loud tone, ripping his hand out of Nya's clutches. "I just had an epiphany." He said when everybody looked at him.
"That's dangerous," Cole whispered to Jay. Jay bit back a smile.
"It's about the Green Ninja," this got everybody's attention. "I think I know who it is."
*This is Kai talking to Cole while he is writing the letter.
**Dragon Rider from Two Steps From Hell
A/N: So mad at me yet? *angery readers trowing rotten tomatos* I'll take that as a yes. Hehe.
QUESTION!
How do you think Kai figured out Lloyd was the Green Ninja? I seriously need help with this so I can move on to the next parts.