Happy Friday everyone. Time for another update along with a soundtrack. I said this in my third story that I'm a guy who enjoys listening to soundtracks because there's nothing good to listen to really. Anyway I'm getting off track now. Copy the link for Youtube, watch?v=1S8edAEGorU and skip it over to the time 1:44 and wait for the signal, *. Enjoy and can't wait for your reviews. Enjoy. :)
Chapter 12: The Sai's of Water
"You will never be anywhere closer to being the strongest ninja!" my father's voice shouted.
I growled through my teeth as I kept twisting my head to find my father. Where was he? Instantly, I was surrounded with mirrors with my father glaring at me. How I wanted to destroy him and now can do it multiple times. I drew out my sai's and stood in a stance.
"You are nothing!" he said. I growled at him and broke the mirror on the one that said it. "Weak!" I broke that one. "Pathetic!" I punched that one. I broke each and everyone as my father continued to insult me. I watched my father's shattered remains fall in showers of water and littered the ground. My anger or what I call my bad side didn't calm down as I knew he was still near. But where? "What would your mother say?" he asked. I looked up to see his head in a glass orb and growled at him for mentioning my mother. "She too would see you as a weak, pathetic, worthless child!" he insulted.
"Shut up!" I screamed at him. "She would never say that!" I gripped my weapons tightly and threw them both in the air at him. My sai's sliced through the air like if they were arrows fired without a bow and made contact to the globe. The glass orb shattered from my weapons and began to shower broken glass. I saw what was happening and quickly shielded my face and turned my back to protect myself. I cried in pain as the thin shards sliced through my gi and my back to make blood pour out and felt one stab into my lower left lung. I lifted my head and felt a thin shard slice across my left eyebrow to have my blood blind me. I continued to cry out as the pain increased from the glass and saw the blood pool around me as I began to cough out blood and was having a hard time trying to breathe. My vision began to cloud up and I drew a choky breath and saw darkness.
I gasped and jolted awake to quickly sit up in my bed. My hands were shaking as I was trembling and could feel my heart racing against my chest. I couldn't stop trembling from the sight of the blood. And it was mine. I felt nausated and removed my black gloves to see my hands were clammy with sweat and felt my left eyebrow to find a cut. But sighed as there was no laceration. I swung my legs out of my bed to slowly and carefully walked over to my mirror as I felt unbalanced to walk straight. I slowly untied my belt, opened my gi and let gravity remove it to the floor. Taking a grip of my grey undershirt over my shoulders, I drew a deep breath and quickly removed my shirt over my head. I mentally prepared myself to see my back and opened my eyes and looked at the mirror on my back to sigh in relief to not see any open wounds and put my shirt and gi back on.
Rrrroooooaaaaarrrrr! I turned my head to my window as I hear Storm calling to me. It sounded like he was in trouble. I quickly picked my sai's up and didn't bother to pull my shoes on and dashed out of my room. I bolted down the halls as fast as I could to reach Storm. My grey ankle socks felt ruined on the stone floor as I exited the fortress and ran over to the keep. I didn't have time to care though as my dragon was more important than a pair of socks.
I ran into the keep to see Storm thrashing around as two skeletons were on his back. "What are you doing?" I shouted at them as they were putting something on his back. "Get off of him!" Storm stopped thrashing around and walked over to me and bent his head down. "Hey, it's alright." I said to him to calm him while petting his snout. I glared at the skeletons as I can see them glaring at me. After being in the Underworld for three years, you can tell whenever a skeleton was glaring at you and you get used to it. "Now what's going on here?" I demanded to know.
"Your master wanted us to have your dragon strapped up with a saddle." One answered. "As you can see for yourself. He just kept giving us trouble."
I looked at Storm's back to see a harness was strapped onto his back with a seat on top of it for me to sit on him without going bareback like last time. It looked like that he was almost prepped for flight as some of the straps weren't fully secured. What was he mad about then? I saw the happiness in his grey reptilian eyes gleaming and knew the reason now. "The reason why he was throwing a fit with you two is because my dragon only trusts me since I'm his rider and doesn't trust your kind." I sneered on the last part. "So I'll take care of him and finish the last straps."
The two skeletons looked at me and shrugged their bony armored shoulders. "Whatever." the other grumbled and both started heading out of the keep. But before they left, he turned his head on me with a sly grin. "While you are at it," he said. "Make sure it clean up after him. After all, he's your responsibility." He laughed and left with the other laughing with him.
I rolled my eyes at them and sighed in relief that they were finally gone. Leaving me and Storm alone. I smiled to be alone with him and patted his cheek to comfort him. And in return, I recieved a deep throat purr and a slimy wet kiss from his tongue. I cringed a little as I smelled his breath and shook my head to bring myself back. I better get used to that sooner or later. But for now, I'll accept ot as he's my own to take care of as my dragon, pet, and friend.
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Ugh! I never knew that cleaning up after a dragon could be so...hard and disgusting. I know he's my responsibility after all, but still didn't know it would be...gross! Anyway, besides the cleaning part, Storm was now all strapped up and ready to fly. All I had to do to finish him was to make sure the straps were tight and secured and the reins fitted him perfectly without being too tight or loose. Once I finished with my chores, I collapsed on a pile of hay that was suppose to be Storm's bed, but I don't think he'll mind if I close my eyes for a little bit after the work I did to make him comfortable. I felt sleep crawl up and rested my eyes.
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"Lucas!" my uncle shouted. "Where are you?"
I pried my eyes open and groaned groggily as I now have to train. Even after all of the work I done, I slowly sat with much energy I can muster and stretched my arms and rubbed my eyes to wake up with a yawn. How long was I out for? It didn't matter now as I have to train. I picked bits of hay out of my messy, shaggy hair and looked at Storm. "I'll be back." I told him as I stood up. "I'll see if we can go flying later. I promise." My grey dragon chirped in a roar and nuzzle me out of his bed with his head so he can rest. I patted his snout and ran out of the keep and to the courtyard where my uncle was waiting for me.
Garmadon looked angry at me for being late. "Where were you?" he asked.
"I was in the keep taking care of my dragon." I answered his question and bowed to him.
My uncle kept the same look on his face and then looked down at my feet. I looked down too to see I still had my socks and could tell and feel that they were worn and ruined against the stone floor and dirt. I felt him staring me down with his cold red eyes and knew I made him mad about being late and my socks. My father would be mad at me too if I worn my socks out in the courtyard of the dojo because if I did do that then I wouldn't have any to wear. "Why were you late?" he asked. "And where are your shoes?"
"I...I...uh..." I stuttered for a moment to speak and closed my eyes to sigh and began to collect my words. Trying make sure I didn't him more furious. "I heard my dragon calling for me and it sounded like he was in trouble. So I ran over to him, but forgot my shoes. And when I got to him, he was throwing a fit about the skeletons. So that was why I was late because I had to get him settled. I can run back to get my shoes, if you need me to."
Garmadon sighed and rubbed his temples as he was mad at me for being late. How long was I late for? Sighing, my uncle calmed down. "No need." he said. "For being late, you won't get to fly your dragon after training. Is that clear?"
Inside, I felt depressed. Outside, I sighed. "Yes master." I sighed. There goes the fun.
"Good." Garmadon murmured. My uncle walked over to Kruncha and took a black briefcase from him and walked back to me. "For today's lesson, we will harness your elemental powers with your golden weapons."
Really!? I now felt excitement crawl up as I got over my small depression of not flying. I am gonna use my golden weapons. "Really?" I perked up. And my uncle nodded in reply. Wait. Did he say my golden weapons? I have more than one? "What are they?" I asked curiously.
Garmadon set the suitcase down and flipped the locks unlock and opened the case. I could see a golden glow shadowing his face as he reached in. "My apprentice," he said as he reached in and grasped something with both hands. "I present to you, the Sai's of Water."
I gazed in magifincents to my golden weapons. Two identical sai's made of gold with wave-like patterns on the blades embedded with grey rhinestones. I felt myself gazing down to my belt and pulled my other sai's out. I looked at them as they were my weapons of choice and then my golden weapons as they were like my weapons of choice. Was it a coincidence or destiny?
"Coincidence of your choice in weaponary when you first began your training with me." Garmadon said as he noticed my confusing moment. "But destiny as you'll use them to fight." So it's both then. He tossed my sai's up and carefully caught them by the blades and held them out to me.
I sheathed my sai's into my belt and slowly reached for my golden sai's and grabbed the handles. I gasped in surprise as I felt unknown power to these weapons and couldn't release my grip on them. The jolt of power passed through me and I fell to one knee and gazed at my sai's as they were glowing and calmly dimmed. I felt lightheaded as if they drained my energy away. "What happened?" I inquired to know what happened quietly.
My uncle pulled me to my feet. "The sai's were testing you to see if you were ready to use them." he replied calmly. How would he know? Did he ever use them before? "But you've passed the test and they've seeked their wielder. You." He pointed at me. "The Ninja of Water.
I looked at my sai's as I suddenly felt my energy regained and gripped the handles tightly. "What can I do to help myself to train and understand my powers and weapons?" I asked him.
Garmadon cleared his throat. "When my father first created the weapons, he said that each elemental ninja must harness their elemental powers to understand their weapons." he began the lesson. "To understand, you must train with your weapons to understand your powers and abilities. And to that, it'll unlock your True Potential."
"My what?" I asked, confused. So many questions I have now. "Is it a new training method to make myself stronger? Something to do with my powers? What does it look like?" Why did I just ask that last one like an idiot?
Garmadon removed his helmet to his once brown hair that was now pitch black to scratch the back of his head. "Well so far you've only reached your peak physical potential." he said quietly to find his words. "You already proved yourself strong by making your body strong to the atheltic skinny type. But your True Potential is a new power that is locked away in your heart." My heart? "To unlock it, my father said that you must never lose focus on the obstacle that stands in the way, to never hold you back from true greatness. That's unlocking your True Potential."
I nodded as it made sense. I cannot unlock it when my main objective was in the way to my powers. To destroy my father. But I felt that it was something else though. But what? "How would you know what to say about unlocking your potentail when you're not an elemental ninja?" I questioned him.
My uncle donned his helmet back on his head. "My father taught me and my brother his lessons and sayings as he never thought I would turn completely evil as I grew and train the students of the elements with your father." he answered. "But when I bit by a snake, I kept losing myself to it and turned against my brother. We fought over the weapons and I managed to grab the map of your sai's along with this torn piece of the Green Ninja prophecy." He reached into his kimono and pulled out a piece of paper that was torn and yellowed with age. "I have no use for it as the markings are in ancient language and can't decipher it. But you can keep it if you want to." and held it out to me. "It might have to be something with you."
I took the parchment and looked at it. I saw two clouds, one black and one white and both merged in the center to create the color grey. It might have to do something with me. There were markings around the cloud's borders with the ink fading, but still readable for those that can speak this language. It obviously had to do something with me as the clouds created the color grey and rain comes from clouds. Was it a symbol of mine as a ninja? Or what? I folded the parchment and carefully slipped it into my pouch and tied the drawstrings tight and gripped my golden sai's tightly. "Shall we begin now?" I smirked.
*My uncle smirked. "We shall." he said. "Brings the guards!" Skeletons began to climb out of the fortress like swarm of wasps from their hive with their weapons drawn out and stood beside Garmadon in two rows. My uncle kept smirking as he drew out his katanas and stood in his stance to start charging beside them. I threw my mask over my face as this was my training with my new weapons. Will I be able to unlock my True Potential? Who knows? I'm ready. "Begin!" my uncle shouted and the skeletons started charging with him behind them. I didn't shout at them and charged at the skeletons and jumped with my sai's held high.
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I was breathing heavily as I stood alone with my uncle in the courtyard. Sweat formed around the brow on my head and had to wipe it away with my sleeves. I was finished with training on my new weapons. Skeletons laid on the stone ground, unconscious. I had a few grazes, but not deep enough ones to make blood pour out. A few close calls on them. Can't say that to my suit though. But around my socked feet were not only skeletons, but streaks of dampen rock from streams of water. From my sai's.
I found out that my sai's can propel water from the blades. Like those plastic toy water guns, but more pressurized as a fire hose. Not only I can fire water from my weapons, I can even create fog with them from my eyes changing to fight the blind skeletons while I can see so easily. I even have the ability to use the mist as an advantage to fight my enemies to create more clones of myself to confuse the enemy and take them out silently. Perfect for stealth missions. My Spinjitzu has become powerful than before with the power of my sai's. And even my accuriate throws made direct contact to the skeletons to break through their armor. I like these better than the shurikens.
Clap-clap-clap. I turned around to see Garmadon walking up to me after he sheathed his swords. I sheathed my sai's to my belt next to my others and made sure the side guards were out to loop through my belt and the blades were under so they wouldn't slip out. Once they were secured, I removed my mask and felt the waves of relief from the cold stone hit my face and bowed. "Bravo. Bravo." he said and stood in front of me. "You managed to defeat my army in less than thrity minutes." He placed a hand on my right shoulder. "You're growing stronger, Lucas." and held his free hand out. "Hand them over." he demanded.
I sighed as I knew what he wanted. I drew out my golden sai's and held them out by the blades. And he took them away. I was disappointed, not depressed, that I had to give them back as I enjoyed having them to train and fight, but knew that I couldn't keep them as I'm still training and will keep them when the time comes. But when?
I looked at them one last time as Garmadon walked over to the case that held them and opened it. I was no longer disappointed as I knew I'll have them again to train. My uncle placed the sai's back into the case and locked it as he closed the lid. He grabbed the handle and turned to me. "I shall now take them somewhere safe so no skeleton or you can retrieve them for the power or fun." he announced. "Is that clear?" I nodded in reply as I understood. Can't have anyone take control for power. "Good." he said and began walking to a wooden bridge to reach an isle and stopped at a mouth of a cave. "I'll be using Sheera as the guard because everyone fears her. And if anyone tries to steal the weapons, they will never be heard or seen again." and walked in.
I gulped as my uncle was using my worst fears as the guard. I know to not disobey him or Samukai. But when using Sheera as a guard for my sai's, I'll be staying away from her. Not going anywhere near her when she tried to eat me before. I looked up at the ceiling and watched the queen climbed down to the cave. She turned to me to stare with her eight blood red eyes and gave a low hiss at me and walked in.
A wave of comfort and relief washed over me as the arachid was gone and heard grunts behind me and turned around to see Samukai coming towards me with a dead deer over his shoulders. He stood in front of me and threw the limp body at my feet. I looked down as it stared at me with its cold stare of death of those big black eyes. I could see the punctured mark of an arrow where he killed it. Between the shoulder blades and lungs. A clean kill. I started to feel depressed and lightheaded and felt pity as it was a young buck for it still had velvet on his antlers. Why did he kill an innocent buck and toss it to me? "What's this for?" I asked hurtfully.
"Why for your dragon of course, stupid boy." he replied with a growl as he slung his bow away. :It's his food. Now go feed it." and left me.
I was now alone as the skeletons I fought against were slowly recovering and left me with the carcass. I looked down at the buck and sighed as I can't save it now. But I think this should be the start for me to protect those that are innocent. Probably not on animals as they're killed everyday, but with people. I looked around the buck to find away to grab onto him to feed it to Storm and sighed as I found a way. I grabbed onto the short-haired light brown front legs and grunted as I drug the heavy carcass to the keep. I now vow myself to protect those that can't protect themselves. When it's against skeletons or not, I'll protect people with my life. I won't care about the consequences. As long those people are safe.
Hoped you enjoyed the chapter with the soundtrack. May have not been a chapter for action scenes like I would do, but it came to me as I knew this soundtrack from one of my favorite games. So I thought it was a perfect touch for that part. What did you think? Anyway, hoped you enjoyed the chapter and see you all next week. Have a wonderful weekend and summer. :)
