Months had passed since Jay, now self proclaimed Lord Kilton, had fully completed his transformation. During this period he had completely redone the warehouse which he had proclaimed as his lair, the walls adorned with all kinds of devilish and evil decorations which included the Serpentine General Staffs. The Lair had been expanded into several rooms, the main ones being a throne room, training room, slither pit area, and a room dedicated to combining the Fang Blades into the ultimate weapon. Not only that he was able to convince the Serpentine to leave Pythor's cause and join his side.
The Throne Room was filled with various snakes from each of the Serpentine Tribes. Getting up from his throne, Kilton had gathered up the serpentine defectors, "Have you all found a way to combine these Fang Blades?"
A Hypnobrai soldier came up to to him, the visibly anxious snake was trembling at his feet, knowing full well there was no progress to be seen, Stuttering he said, "Uh n-no ssssir, we've b-been sssssstruggling to figure out h-how in what way to turn these into a Mega-Weapon."
The Dark Lord starts to get frustrated, after all this time he can't believe that these idiots weren't able to find any kind of progress.
"Well I suggest you keep you're search going, My patience is wearing thin and you don't want to see that pathway do you?"
The Hypnobrai nodded and nervously scurried on, not wanting to invoke the wrath of his leader. Murmurs and sounds of conversations were going throughout the room, the serpentine were starting to question whether it was worth switching over to Kilton's side over Pythor.
Months Earlier
Shortly after donning his new attire, Kilton had left the building. Thinking, he continued to devise his plan, but he needed the Serpentine on his side but not the Generals.
He needed to fight and defeat Pythor and gain the alliegence of a considerable amount of them. But how would he do it? he was outnumbered and he wasn't sure if Pythor would keep up his end of the deal, But it was worth a try.
After traveling for a little bit, Leaving the outskirts of Ninjago City and ending up in the desert where he'd come back to the Serpentine City of Ouroboros. After looking around he noticed that the whole place was empty.
"Where must everyone be? I hope that this place is not abandoned." The Serpentine Lord pondered.
After taking sometime to look around some more, he realized that the place was not abandoned, in the distance he noticed a bunch of different colored dots in the horizon. Thousands and Thousands of them. He realized that the Serpentine were on their way back after the collapse of their underground base. Quickly moving on his feet, he hid somewhere, preferably where he could not be seen.
"Thankfully I brought these Fang Blades with me, this will surely be a great bargaining tool." Kilton though, laughing to himself.
Soon enough the Serpentine had arrived back to their original base, Ouroboros. The devious snakes were chatting amongst themselves, talking about their defeat at the hands of the Ninja. Others were talking about a certain blue ninja making off with the Fang Blades.
Soon enough the voice of Pythor brought it all to a halt, "Now... you all know that earlier we were taken by surprise by those pesky Ninja and one of them has run off with the Fang Blades."
The serpentine began to converse with each other again, seemingly questioning his leadership abilities and his plans.
"What will we do now without the fang blades?"
"How can we have our revenge on the humans if we have nothing?"
"What's the point of doing this if we don't have the Fang Blades?"
Pythor's patience was wearing thin, he had enough of them all questioning him, "Enough... ENOUGH!"
This was enough to stop the Serpentine army from chatting. Pythor continued on saying, "You all don't understand do you? Yes, we may have lost the Fang Blades, but you must understand that just because we lot them doesn't mean we can't get them back right? We will find the culprit who has the Fang Blades and we will take it from this person!"
In the background, Kilton had heard everything and not only that was seeing what was going on. He heard the dissension that was happening in the Serpentine and now understood that he must take action now.
"Yes... This will do nicely... Everything is going as I have foreseen..." He said, with an evil smile.
Kilton then went out into the open and revealed himself, Fang Blades and all. "Pythor... I know what you're looking for... it must be these!"
Pythor and the Generals turned around and saw person they had heard in the background. Pythor slithered over to Kilton, "Who do you think you are just waltzing in here and how do you have the Fang Blades!?"
Kilton developed a sly grin on his face, reveling in the events that were transpiring, knowing that everything was going to plan. He stepped up towards Pythor,
"Oh? don't you know who I am... let me give you a little reminder, you see we made a deal, it was at concert hall correct? Well here I am with the Fang Blades!"
Pythor started to step back a little bit, a shocked expression developed across his face. He kept thinking about it, not believing a second that this was the Blue Ninja that he dealt with sometime ago at the Concert Hall. Regaining his composure, he stepped towards the evil consumed being.
"No no no! That must not be true! and even then if you were to be the Blue Ninja, why would I ever deal with you!" Pythor said in disbelief.
Kilton's expression turned from a sly grin to that of a annoyed frown. He started to move closer to Pythor feeling that the deal had been broken. Rage started to build up as the other serpentine felt the tension build in the room, they readied their weapons.
"How DARE YOU! We made a deal! I should've known not to trust your word you worthless chameleon scaleback!"
Pythor, offended by the statements made by this person he deemed a threat, "Oh if its a fight you want then, ITS A FIGHT YOU WILL GET!" Pythor angrily said.
"slither pit"
"Slither Pit"
"Slither PIT"
"SLITHER PIT"
The Serpentine started to chant what they had wanted, each chant growing louder and louder. Soon enough after some preparation the two Villains started to duke it out. Obstacles were seen all around and so were the weapons that the combatants could use. The destiny of the serpentine would be determined here in the Slither Pit, Pythor vs Kilton over control of the Serpentine Army and to hold the Fang Blades.
This very battle in the Slither Pit would forever change the direction of the Serpentine. If Jay won then he would have the Serpentine army in his grasp and he could continue his Grand Scheme to make Ninjago into his own image, one that would be ruled by snakes.
Unknown to them the Falcon had been surveying the area and picked up on the activity.
Meanwhile over at the Destiny's Bounty, Nya was using the ships computer to monitor any unusual activity happening across Ninjago. As she was trying to look at the screen, she was starting to loose focus, All she could think about was Jay. She loved him oh so very much, why did he do this? Why couldn't he say something or ask for help?
these very thoughts brought her to the brink of tears. She wanted to find where Jay was at and somehow bring him back, but she knew it would never be possible unless she found an alternative way to help cure him.
"Oh Jay... I will find a way to cure you... I know you're just enslaved in whatever alter ego consumed you."
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hold back her tears anymore and started to cry. her sobbing could be heard nearby as Kai happened to walk in, " Sis! is everything ok?
Kai quickly went over to Nya, who had been hunching over onto the table nearby. She started to cling onto Kai, crying onto his shoulder. Giving his comfort he started to brush his hand through her hair, trying his best to help comfort her.
"I know Nya... I know, losing Jay has been a great blow to us all, I know that under that villainous evil person is the Jay we all know and love." Kai said, trying his best to help calm her down.
Quivering, Nya brought her head up, she knew that she couldn't let these thoughts cloud her from the objective at hand. After all the Fang Blades were still missing. Suddenly a beeping noise could be heard coming from the machine. Nya quickly went over to the computer and brought up the Falcon. Both her and Kai were shocked at what they were seeing. The Serpentine had went back to the City of Ouroboros.
Over the intercom Nya called everyone into the command deck and explained the situation.
"It seems that the Serpentine have gathered 'round back at Ouroboros, I'm still not sure as to why though."
Zane chimed in, having an idea about what could possibly be going down, " Hmm, it seems to me that they are regrouping. They don't have the Fang Blades at this but that doesn't mean we should lower our guard."
Wu joined in the conversation, stroking his long white beard.
"Zane is correct, although we both don't have the Fang Blades, that doesn't mean they don't think we could possibly have them."
Unbeknownst to everyone, Cole had stayed behind in his room. He wasn't sure if he could trust these strangers. He kept thinking about the incident that had happened, how he couldn't remember any of the events prior to him regaining consciousness. He was so confused, so lost.
"Who was I before this? Am I really the Earth Ninja?" He asked himself.
Cole looked at his reflection in the mirror. He looked sad, he tried his best to remember but he couldn't, only empty thoughts and a sense of loss could he feel. Then he looked over to a what seemingly is a picture of him and and someone else posing together for a photo. it was a photo of him and his long gone dad. Weirdly enough he started to feel really sad, he didn't know why and he didnt even know who the person was next to him in the picture. A tear starts going down his face as it lands on the picture.
Suddenly, Cole drops the picture in the frame, causing the glass holding in it to crack and shatter. Cole starts putting his hands on his head gripping his hair. He feels a sharp pain go across his head. He wasn't sure why it was happening but it hurt... a lot. soon enough the pain subsided, But Cole started to feel weird afterwards. Almost as if old memories were starting to return but soon faded away again.
"Maybe one of these days I will get the answers and discover who I am."
Cole preceded to leave the room, leaving the cracked picture frame on the ground where it lay.
AN: Hello everyone, So id like to apologize for the extended hiatus, alot has happened in my life the past few months since ive lasted uploaded a chapter to this story and my other ones. Ive moved into my own place and I didnt have wifi for months on end. But now im back and hopefully I can get back to making New chapters. I don't want anyone to worry about anything I wont be leaving again anytime soon. On another note Id like to thank you all for the support this story has gotten, its almost at 10k views and there have been multiple reviews asking for this stories return. Once again thank you so muc for the support! Excal out!
