Chapter 18: Monstrous Creation
Anger boiled in the green skinned girl as she glared at Catwoman for intervening. She had everything according to plan; capturing the Ninja, having the seed in her hands. But it was ruined for the vial she had was wretched from her hands. It laid in a broken mess with the green substance on the floor. Everything was in her grasp. All thanks to the unknown samurai, it was ruined. Or so she had thought.
Ivy averted her eyes to the broken glass to see some of the shards had large amounts of the substance she had. She carefully grabbed a shard to turn to the seed and glared at the girl. "You may have ruined my perfected creation," she hissed. "But you are too late. Ninjago is mine to control."
The samurai's smirk disappeared to take a step forward toward the meta-human, but Ivy had swayed her arm to make her stop. Three people were released from the ceiling to land in front of the girl to act as guard for Ivy. Nya gasped to herself as she recognized the three males as they glared at her. It was the water, ice, and earth ninja as their gaze gave her a clueless daze to realize Ivy had used her pheromones to control them. But what about Jay as he was still tangled? "You are finished." she stated. "Ninjago will not fall to you. Once I deal with you that is. Why did you change when you were betrayed by your old partner?"
"I've changed ever since I became this." said Ivy as she walked to the seed. Nya tried to move forward, but her friends blocked the way to prevent her. "Every day, hour, minute, I can feel the land crying to me. Crying for me to save them. From deforestation, fires, everything to ruin Mother Nature." She met with the pedistal to see her bulb plant poke out of the seed to stroke it softly. "With my powers and this seed, said to bring destruction, I can control Ninjago with an iron fist. Everything will be saved. Ninjago will be once what it use to be. Alive." She gripped the shard tightly to impale it into the seed. The bulb hissed in happiness to burrow into the seed.
Nya watched in awe and horror as the fossilized seed cracked as a real seed would and a large bulb plant grew from the seed to take a monstrous form. The bulb had grown larger than what it was with short spikes budding on the plant and stem. The monstrous plant grew more and more and the bulb end had split into four sections to bloom a large mouth that had sharp teeth that lined the inside of it. The samurai was frozen in fear to what Ivy had created with the two plants. The once Venomous Poison Barb moved; studying its surroundings and hissed loudly to have the glass of the sun roof shatter and rain glass shards.
Ivy smiled to her creation as it moved it closer to her to nuzzle against her. And she had to pet her creation lovingly to nuzzle it softly. "Our dreams can come true now my darling." she cooed to it motherly. Nya tried to move closer to her, but Cole simply stopped her with his arms crossed. The green skinned girl turned to Catwoman to snort. "Deal with her." she commanded to wave her hand. "Once she's dealt with, we can begin our reign of Ninjago and deliver the boy and girl to the dark lord."
Adrenaline rushed into her veins as her controlled friends drawn out their weapons to swing at her while Zane threw his shurikens. But the samurai had jumped back to tuck herself into a ball to avoid the scythe swing and stretched herself out to have the thrown weapons fly past her and landed in a crouch. The males growled and started running for her to have her spun her heels and ran.
Her breaths were quick as she ran to glance over her shoulder to see her friends were close to her to quickly duck into another corridor to have only the earth ninja behind her now. She glanced around her surroundings to see the large corridor had support pillars that was brought from an archeology site and saw the balcony of the second floor as an idea. The raven haired girl quickly dropped to her hands to leap onto the nearest pillar to bound off to the next one. But Cole had jumped onto the farthest one to launch himself toward the girl and missed as Nya twisted her body to avoid him to land roughly on the floor as she landed above him. He stopped as he heard something falling to turn and watched the support pillars fall down as dominos to scream as the last pair fell onto him; pinning him to the floor without crushing him. Smirking, Nya blew him a kiss and ran off to hear him scream in hatred.
After her departure from the black ninja, the girl stopped as she heard approaching footsteps to see a large vent to quickly pry the grate off the wall and crawled in while replacing the grate back into place. Her breaths became more quiet as the footsteps appeared closer to have her see white pants in front of her. She knew it was Zane. But her heart was racing as the nindroid was remained in place as she knew he was sensing for her. And if he found, it was over for her. Taking a quiet breath, Nya crawled out quietly to sneak onto the white ninja. The ice ninja immediately turned to reach out to grab her by the throat.
A choked cry escaped from the girl as she tried to remove his grip from her throat. She could feel him squeeze her a bit to make her gasp and struggled harder. Her brown eyes scanned around a weakness she could have to her advantage to see his chest more. An idea came to her to draw her claws out to slash at his gi to reveal his bare chest. And she threw a kick at him to have the hatch open his chest cavity and saw the switch she needed. Motor Control. In haste, she swung another kick to the switch and soon the nindroid fell limp to the floor to have the samurai gasp loudly to breathe again and land on the floor roughly.
In his predicament, Zane tried to move his limbs that have be shut down to scream at her. Nya kept drawing in deep breaths to regain her breath, ingoring the Ninja of Ice cursing at her. She sighed for now; two down and one left to go. And with Lucas, being the guardian to the green ninja, still had his element without his golden weapons. To her, she had a disadvantage to the water ninja. Once she regained her breath, the girl lifted her head to see a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall to have an idea toward the grey ninja. Without haste, she quickly grabbed it to start searching for Lucas.
All seemed quiet to the samurai in the dense jungle that was the museum still. Thick undergrowth surrounded her as she tried to look for the Ninja of Water, but yet he could be anywhere. Above her, behind, or next to her to surprise her. The possibilities could really catch her off guard. If only she could find him sooner and stop him from following Ivy.
The samurai stopped to the sound of water moving around her to carefully scan around for the grey ninja and spotted her in front of her. She could see his glare boring into her to clutch the extinguisher tightly and threw it across the clearing. The compressed canister bounced on the marble floor to slide toward Lucas' feet. It made him snort and held his arms out to have water surround him to launch himself and flew toward her in a jet stream of water. Nya smirked as she knew he would do that to charge toward him. And as the two got closer, the samurai leaped while twisting her body to avoid her friend to land and grabbed the extinguisher to watch him turn around and gave the handle a squeeze to let the compressed fire agent at him. The clearing soon became cloudy and hard to see and breath, but the girl had had held her breath as she watched the water ninja enter in and heard him crash into something.
The smoke finally had cleared up to let Nya see the limp body of his friend, but saw him recovering slowly to crouch onto a knee. The girl sighed to walk over to him to grab a hold of his gi and threw him against a tree to hear the soft thud and watched him fall limp again; rendering him into unconsciousness. She sighed again as it was over with her controlled friends to hear the loud roar of the monstrous plant in the lobby to quickly rush over to a corridor to gasp as the plant now had reached the vaulted ceilings. Time was running out for the girl and she now had to deal with both Ivy and the hybrid plant. She spotted the green skinned girl sitting on a throne of leaves with Jay hanging near her still, having her pheromones blown into his face. But he still refused to bow to her to make her smack Jay across the face.
Nya snarled to this to grab onto a thick vine and jumped off the second floor and swung the lobby to kick Ivy off her seat and landed in a crouch while the meta-human was sprawled to the floor. "Honestly," she said, cheeky. "Ever tried the online dating site? Might be better than these plants or having this pheromone to have men follow you. And I know that that man there will never fall for you."
All Ivy could do was glare at the girl for not giving up. Her vial was destroyed and now her minions were incapacitated from her. But a flash of realization occured to the girl as she darted her eyes back and forth to Jay and Catwoman to smirk. "So this is the one that the blue ninja falls with." she cooed as she got up and held her hand out to have Jay closer to her. Nya tried to take a step, but remained in place. "You know, I was about to give up with him if he kept resisting. But now that I finally see who the real one he loves with, I think I can play with both of your hearts."
Her heart was racing a bit to try and calm it down as the green skinned girl had Jay in her hands. And she could see a look of worry being plastered on his face. "Don't you hurt him!" she demanded. "He has nothing to do with this."
A smirk flashed on the girl's face to remove Jay's mask and softly patted his auburn hair. And the blue ninja jerked his head away from her hand. "I honestly like the way he looks, I'm sure you did too." she said. "But how does it feel to be betrayed by the girl you loved?" Jay's eyes had gotten wide as well as Nya's. "It must feel painful. To where you can't love her again, but your heart still lies with her." She reached down to the floor to grab another broken shard of the vial that had the green substance on it. "How bold of you. But how will love find it's way for both of you?"
Jay could feel his heart beating against his ribs to the shard and saw the plant. He had no idea of what it could do to him if she plans to use it. But his blood turned to ice and heart stopped as she raised the shard over him. "NO!" He heard Nya shout to feel the piece of glass puncture through his jugular vein to scream in pain. He felt his legs become free from the vines and was tossed aside to lay limp on the floor.