Hey everyone, happy...Saturday instead of Friday. Sorry about yesterday, I knew it was the day for update, but I didn't have the update downloaded to my Doc Manager. So I couldn't update the story from my phone while I was at work. Anyway, here's the chapter I wanted to update yesterday, so enjoy. Again sorry. :)
Chapter 3: The Truth
"How can he not see the cat at all?" Nya grumbled. "It was right there and the next gone. Ugh..."
The samurai kept pacing her way down the streets of Ninjago City, head full of steam in frustration. After the mistake Jay was accusing her for to think there wasn't a cat on the ledge, when there was a cat she saw, she couldn't keep her mind off it. And now to this, she thought Jay was accusing her for something she would never do. Being on a ledge to jump from. And she would never do that. The cat from before had her doing that. But how can he not notice the cat that was there with her?
Nya stopped to gaze around on where she was at from her pacing in anger. She noticed she found herself almost near the bay of Ninjago City to ponder. Had she really walked far from Dareth's Dojo than she thought? It would explain why she was this far in the city and it was almost becoming evening as the sun was slowly leaving the city skyline. The girl had to shiver as she didn't have a light jacket on as well as the weather was becoming much colder in the autumn season. She sighed to have come out this far and needed to head back. If I can catch the next bus, I should be back at the Bounty before Kai or Jay get worried. she said to her and turned to start heading back.
Rawn...
Nya stopped to the familiar mew to turn on her heels to have her eyes widen to the sight of the cat from Dareth's Dojo in the alley next to her. The cat stared her with its big blue eyes as it mewed at her and cleaned its paw. "Why are you...like stalking me?" she questioned it. But she stopped to shake her head as she was probably losing it to be talking to a cat like if it'll talk back. "First you have me on the ledge to save and then you're gone. What do you want from me then to find me here?"
The sandy-furred cat stared her after cleaning itself up to hop off the trash can it was seated on and walked around the girl's legs to nuzzle itself to her. Nya sighed to it and nudged her leg to move it away from her. "You're not helping me then." she scowled at it. She scowled to herself as well. "I have get away from here, I'm sure I'm losing it now!" She looked at the cat one last time to continue her way back to the Bounty.
The cat watched her leave to purr to itself and followed down after her until she stopped. "Ugh, what do you want from me?" she demanded. The cat waited for the question to come and mewed to lead the way back into the alley it came from. The girl watched it disappear to sigh and followed after it. "I had to ask."
The two walked together in the alley until she watched the cat enter through a small window that was near the ground and poked it head out, waiting for her to follow. Nya eyed the cat curiously and turned to her bracelet to twist the gemstone to prime a tracer she installed in case she needed to alert her brother and friends, or if she needed back-up. Either way now, she was prepped now. I can't believe I'm doing this. she said and carefully crawled in after the cat.
Darkness surrounded her after entering into the abandoned building to look for the cat's eyes, but couldn't find it. "What did I get myself into now?" she sighed until she saw light coming from the set of stairs to quickly rush over there, colliding into unknown stuff that was lying around the basement. Once she got to the top to be on the first floor, she sighed as she couldn't find the cat still to huff as it was a waste of time to her. "I had to follow the cat, I just had to." She glanced around to the building she was in. "Now...where's the exit?"
Unknown, she walked up to the two largest doors that were in front of her to push them open to blink in surprise to what she saw. "Wow..." she gasped as she walked down the rows of rich green plants that thrived around her. Her eyes glanced upward to see the sky windows to realize where she was at now. A conservatory, one that had been abandoned for years, and yet someone was here to grow these plants. "Who's here then to grow these?" she wondered until the stench of rotten plants wafted into her nose to cringe.
She turned her head to the source of dead plants to see the small piles of ceramic pots to see ruined plants with bright green liquid in the plant's veins. She had to study them carefully to have her bracelet scan the plants and the green liquid to conduct a chemical scan in them. And the results she received revealed something horrid to scare her. They were poisoned. "Who would do this?" she asked herself. There was the sound of something breaking happening far from her to turn on her heels. "Hello?"
Nya waited for a response, but no-one came out to respond and cautiously walked out of the sun room to look for the source until she decided to head for the offices from the signs she saw. She had to wonder if this used to be open for the public until it was closed off. She stopped and held her breath as she heard hushed, angered voices happening in the offices to carefully enter to look for someone, but heard the voices happen in a hidden room to quietly sneak over to peer in the corner. Her chocolate eyes widen to the sight of a woman with red hair aiming a gun at a man with green dyed hair.
"Put the gun down, Ivy!" the man demanded.
"Not until this ends, Oak!" Ivy screamed, keeping the weapon aimed toward him. "You've gone too far than what I wanted to know. Give me the toxin and I'll turn you in to the police so you can't poison these innocent people. And the Ninja as well."
"I won't! This has to happen if you want this planet saved from the people who destroy it for marketing. And with the Serpentine and Garmadon's help, they can have their share of the bargain once I get rid of those ninjas that tend to destroy anything in their path."
Nya, horrid when witnessing this, felt her heart racing rapidly to everything. She had to quiet her gasps as she saw the cork board of photos with a green vial in the center. Was this what the cat wanted to show her, a plot to kill her brother and friends. She had to warn them and soon. Before she could turn and run, she took a step back to not notice the desk of vials to bump into and soon the vials rolled off to shatter on the floor to make her gasp. "Who's there!?" Ivy shouted. Nya had to hold her breath, but soon shots were being fired at her and soon a bullet struck the metal chair to cause a spark and it struck the liquid in the vials to ignite. The samurai jumped back to the fire starting next to her. The shots were still being fired at her as the fire was spreading and soon Nya took off.
At this chance, Oak took this to lunged himself at Ivy to lock hands with her to wrestle for the gun as the fire surrounded the two in the small room. He could see the angered glare of hers, but didn't see her hand lashed out at him to feel her long nails dig into his face to scream out in pain to release his grip on her. The pain radiated on his face to feel the thin grazes well out small trails of blood. To this, he turned to Ivy as she gripped the weapon tightly. Even with the fire spreading, only one will get out with the toxin. "If you care and love the plants to save than help me, then you can join them here!" he shouted to quickly rush over to her and shoved her roughly toward the chemistry table.
Ivy felt her back collide against the table to slump to the floor and gazed up to scream as the rack of chemicals and the poisonous plants fell on top of her. Oak quickly rushed over to her to see that she looked crushed and dead, along with the poisonous root of his, to smirk. It had to be done. "Rest in peace with our plants, Ivy." he said as the rotten wooden floor underneath her gave way and soon was gone. The heat of the fire alerted the eco-terrorist as it was spreading large and wide to have his instincts kick in to quickly rush over to the case that had the toxin. But before he could grab it, the ceiling burnt away to soon land in front of him to make him stop in his tracks to shout in hatred. It even angered him as he watched the fire lick up the case. "All of that work...gone!" The fire around him spread widely to grimace as he had to leave the room and soon left the conservatory to leave the scene, unaware that someone else was inside still.
The fire around the samurai was spreading quite rapidly as she ran through the sun room to head for the basement to use the window she used to climb in. But she stopped as the fire caught up to her and blocked her escape to feel her heart racing to find an alternative route now. To make her feel better, she quickly twisted the gemstone on her bracelet to alert her friends that she was in trouble. She glanced around to see the second floor of the old building hadn't caught a blaze to quickly rush over to the raised garden bed to launch herself higher to grip onto the metal floor and soon the railing to pull herself up and over to the floor and soon ran out of the room to find a new escape route. There had to be a way.
Quietness surrounded the Bounty's bridge as Jay was busy working on the ship's navigation system, hidden in one of the cabinets of the deck. His eyes were trained on the circuit board as he tinkered with it while rewiring some wires back into place. But he drew in a sigh of relief as he finally finished everything. "Now we can have better known locations than flying blind around here." he mused to himself. But something alerted in the bridge to alert the blue ninja to have him jump and smack back of his head inside the cabinet. "OW!" He grimaced to that as he pulled himself out to hold his head.
He could feel the small knot form on the back of his head to scoff and rubbed it away to feel the pain subside. But his eyes trained to the ship's computer to see the commotion but all he saw was a map of Ninjago City to see a picture of Nya appear with a dot on the screen. The auburn teen realized it was her location and he remembered it was a tracker she told him about incase she needed help or backup. His ears perked to the sounds of sirens to rush over to the window to see smoke rising in the descending sunlight sky to turn back to the computer to see where the samurai's location was to the smoke to have his hazel eyes widen. "Guys," he shouted as he rushed out of the bridge to find his teammates. "Nya's in trouble!"