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Chapter 4: Trapped in the Blaze

The heat of the fire increased in its temperature in the enclosed area. The flames spread far and wide in the abandoned conservatory, burning anything into its path. With this fire, the smoke it emitted became thick and hard to breathe. That's how Nya was experiencing as she ran from the fire to find an exit. The heat of the fire and thick smoke was scaring her to make her paranoid to find an exit.

The samurai ran down the long halls as the fire was spreading widely than what she was expecting. The smoke was clouding her vision as she ran, stinging her chocolate brown eyes to have tears escape. Not to mention she was having difficulty breathing as she coughed to the smoke entering her lungs. But it didn't make her stop running as she saw a window up ahead and knew it had to be a fire escape. But she stopped in her tracks as the ceiling collapsed in front of her to have the embers brush against her arms to feel the burns and quickly brushed them off to feel the pain relieved. She scowled as her exit was now blocked. "There has to be another way." she wondered quickly and turned to find the stairs to reach the next floor.

The Ultra Sonic Raider vehicle came to a quick halt to the sight of the burning building in front of it and four of the elemental ninjas climbed out while the other three climbed out of the other vehicle they took to reach their mission. Kai gazed around the burning wreckage to feel his heart racing as he scanned around the surrounding firefighters and engines as they were trying to stop the fire. But who he was looking for wasn't anywhere in sight. Jay had said that Nya was somewhere near the area and yet he couldn't see his sister. Where is she? he wondered and gazed at the building. His heart stopped to think she was in there actually. No. . . .

Cole gazed away from the blaze to see how tense the fire ninja became to feel worried for him. What had him like this? "Hey, you all right?" he asked him.

"She's in there." Kai gasped quietly. "She's in there!" He was about to charge in to feel someone grip his arm to stop him. He glanced over his shoulder to see it was Lucas who stopped him. "Let me go! She's in there!" He struggled to get out of his grip.

The water ninja resisted against his struggling to give him a hard stare. "And if you go in, you can get hurt too." he stated, but kept his grip on him arm. "Look, best chance is that she found the fire exit and is getting away from here. We need you here to help put out the fire and not go on a suicidal mission."

The fire in the red ninja's eyes burned to the statement to growl. This made him more angered to the grey ninja. "I don't care!" he growled through his teeth. "She is still in there and I know it. She's all I have left in my family and no one is going to stop me! Not even you!" He lashed his foot out to kick the burnet in the stomach to hear him gasp as his grip was released and quickly turned to head for the burning building. And all he done was ignore his friend's protesting and calling out to him as he barged through the burning door to enter the burning inferno.

The heat of the blaze grew hotter to where ever the samurai ran toward. Amazed her still how fast this fire spread than a usual building fire. But the more the girl ran to find an exit, the more paranoid she became to this. There wasn't an exit she could find and felt like hope was going to be lost for her. But she didn't want to give up; she couldn't at a time like this. But still, she felt lost and surrounded. She stopped running to panic and almost felt like cowering in fear.

"Nya!" a familiar voice cried out. The girl had to lift her head to the voice. "Nya!"

"Kai..." she gasped to feel her hope returning. He came for her. "Kai!" With renewed energy, she turned to run for her brother. "Kai, over here!"

The smoke got in her eyes as she ran with more embers brushing onto her arms to let the tears fall from the pain. Even into her lungs as she ran. But her heart was beating with joy. She stopped to look for her brother to shield her herself when any debris fell near her, but squinted through her teary eyes to see a figure running up the stairs across from her to feel her heart skip. "Kai!" she shouted for him to run for him, while dodging from any of debris.

"Nya!" the fire ninja shouted for his sister to see a figure running for him to rush over. He heard something creaking to glance up to see the ceiling above his sister was about to give way to feel the blood drain from his face to push himself more to race for his sister. "Ninjaa-Goo!" he shouted to spin in his fiery tornado to quicken his speed and encased his sister in the arts he trained himself under as the ceiling gave way finally. The two stopped spinning finally to stumble and fell to the floor. But they finally recovered to pull each other into a tight embrace.

"I'm glad you came for me," Nya cried, happily. "I thought I'd lost hope. But how did you get in here? The way you came in is probably gone by now."

The red ninja pulled himself away from his sister to look at her concern with his chocolate brown eyes. She was right on that. The entrance was probably blocked off by now and the fire department was still busy putting the fire out with them trapped inside. "We'll find a way." he stated. "When there's a will, there's always a way. Come on." He gently grabbed her hand to pull her to her feet and looked for a way.

The floor beneath their feet was groaning with their weight to alert them it was about to give way to quicken their pace to run down the long corridor. Kai felt the floor give way. And at a split second, he grabbed his sister to push her to safe end of the hall and jumped after her to land roughly on the edge and pulled himself over. The embers from the burnt floor sprayed everywhere. Luckily for Kai, his gi only received minor burns as he shielded his sister. "We need to reach higher ground, the fire shouldn't have reached the roof by now." he said and led the way to a set of stairs that haven't been effect by the fire.

The siblings noticed the smoke was slowing being pulled into the center of the building to feel concerned. But they noticed there wasn't another set of stairs to lead to the roof but saw a corner greenhouse ahead of them to rush into the room and stopped to the large window in front of them. Nya felt worried now, even with the smoke being pulled into the center of the burning building. Something didn't feel right. "We have to jump," Kai announced to use the handle of his katana to shatter the weakened glass. The samurai turned to look at him crazily on the idea. "It's the only way out and I'll use Spinjitzu to keep us safe. Just trust me, Nya." He held his hand out for her to take.

Nya had to give him her worried look on this, but shakily nod to take his hand. Many scenarios ran in her mind on this, but she had confidence on him. But she stopped as there wasn't any smoke being pulled in to panic. "Kai. . ." she said to see a stream of fire heading for them.

A ball of fire erupted from the building have the Ninja and fire department shielding themselves from the heat. But the elemental ninjas felt their blood turning to ice to the combustion. Inside were two people they know and they had no idea if they were still inside or far from where the combustion happened? "Kai! Nya!" they all shouted. To this, Lucas and Lloyd quickly rushed to burning building to raise their arms up.

Their eyes changed from their original colors to milky white as they were using their water powers to bring in storm clouds around the building. Rain began to cascade from the clouds they formed to help extinguish the fire and even keep the smoke from spreading into the city. But as this was helpful, everyone was still worried for the fire ninja and samurai.

A lot of things ran through Nya's mind. First she was with her brother in the corner greenhouse, the next she was now falling with her brother beside her. Both were stunned to move after they were pushed out powerfully. But she knew they were now falling from a five story fall. But the girl felt her back landing and breaking through the awnings that stood out from the windows with her brother. And before she could react, like her brother, she felt her back land into something rough and blacked out.