Chapter 19: Love Has No Bounds

His body felt hot, like his skin was caught ablaze with fire. Pain radiated throughout his entire body as he twitched on the marble-moss floor. He could feel his blood spilling from his puncture wound on his neck, but he could feel the skin mend itself quickly as he screamed in pain to roll on the floor. Every muscle of his contracted to where he felt paralyzed to move and quickly got to his feet to throw himself to a pillar. But the marble column broke upon impact to have him slouch to a knee.

His breathing became heavy and rapid to squeeze his eyes tightly as he screamed to feel his body froze in pain. The auburn haired teen's eyes snapped immediately open to reveal not hazel eyes, but bright green eyes. And they glared straight at a girl donned in a cat mask and black unitard. He screamed again, but it was much deeper and darker to feel his body changing. He felt his chest growing larger, shoulders wider to where it ruined his blue gi and white undershirt. The metal armor on his right arm snapped due to the large arm as he grew. His tabi boots snapped in half to the large feet and the calfs of his blue pants were torn off to only be in shorts as he grew taller. The girl, whom he glared at, only watched in horror to what has happened to the person she loved.

Jay now has changed. To some monstrous being as Ivy's creation. He stood at eleven feet tall, large muscles, his auburn hair grown longer to his shoulders than what it usually was. Green eyes bore into her with green liquid visible in his veins. Nya could only gasped to this. Poison Ivy had turned him into a monster. Jay glanced around his surroundings to stare at Nya to roar loudly as a banshee.

Ivy smirked to laugh to herself to her creation as she walked over to Jay to gently lay an arm on him. The samurai was too afraid to move as the meta-human done this. "Hello my darling." she cooed to him and turned to Nya. "Kill her. She betrayed you and has to suffer." The monstrous blue ninja snapped his head to her to roar and charged at her in fast speed.

The girl snapped from her trance to see Jay was running for her to jump out of the way to have him crashed into the wall; leaving a large crater. The dust settled down to have her watched as Jay stumbled around while holding his head. I've got to find a way to stop him before he hurts me or himself worse than he has. she thought to herself. Jay quickly shook the nausea away to see the black clothed girl to roar and ran for her again. This time Nya ran toward him as well to jump and placed her hands on his shoulder to bound over him and ran into a corridor.

She could hear his anger as she ran to glance over her shoulder to see him break through a wall to chase after her. His newly developed speed was gaining himself closer to her after each step. But the samurai quickly saw a vent ahead to sprint fast and slid on her knees while arching her back to break the grate and moved in far from him. She had to let a scream after the lightning ninja stopped to reach in and grabbed her leg. In retaliation, she drew her claws out to slash at his large hand to hear him screech in pain to release her and quickly drew his hand back. Without hesitation, Nya started moving away from him while he followed to each grate to wretch them off and reach in for her. Her heart was racing to everything he was doing to get to her. But she heard silence to poke herself out cautiously and saw it was now empty.

All seemed quiet to her, she didn't like it one bit. Knowing Jay, he was full of surprises. She had to wonder though, was the real Jay still with her deep within that body of his. For someone to control him, the real Jay still had to be in there, trying to break free of the control. But the word of betrayal still lingered on the girl when Ivy used it against her for Jay. It felt raw still when she did hurt Jay on the Bounty before this happened. She might've lost the real Jay then...

The girl's ears perked to the stomps of the auburn rushing up to her. But instead of running, she drew out her whip. As he got closer, Nya quickly threw the whip at him to have it crack near his ears to have him stop in his tracks. He growled to reach out for her, but the samurai cracked the whip again. "Stop it!" she demanded to crack the whip again. Her heart was racing to think she was taming a wild animal. "Jay, I know you're in there and listen to me. You can fight it, I know you can." She saw he was paying attention to her to have her crack her whip again, but the blue ninja grabbed onto the end and pulled to have her tossed over him. She lost her grip on her weapon to have crash against glass display to have glass shatter around her.

She groggily lifted her head to let the stiffness in her back ease away to gasp a little as part of cat mask was in front her. She had to feel her face as the left side of the eye area was missing and one of the ears was chipped off. She sighed a bit to her as it was her concern right now, Jay was the concern as he turned to the girl and ran for her. Nya quickly got to her feet and ran into another corridor to have him chase right behind her. Her heart was racing as she could feel his presence getting closer to her to leap onto all fours and bound off the walls to avoid him at arms length and got behind him to throw a punch to his legs. But she had to wince and drew her hand back to cradle it gently to make Jay turn to her. She had to chuckle nervously and ran between his legs to keep running with him turning back around.

The two kept running down each corridor, sometimes running into the ones where Nya fought against her controlled friends while sometimes avoiding Jay as well. She quickly turned a corner to let Jay run past her to control her breathing and beating heart. He won't give up until he catches me. she figured. But yet I get let him do that and let Ivy get away either. I need to stop him, how? She heard another screech in the jungle-like museum to know it wasn't Jay but the monstrous blub plant of Ivy's. With Jay away from her, maybe she could deal with Ivy for a short while. Maybe find a way to stop the seed. She peered out of her corner to see it was empty and ran out of it to head for Ivy.

Her heels clicked softly on the marble-moss floor as she raced herself to the lobby to reach the meta-human. Once in the clearing, she noticed a disapproving glare from her to smirk. With Jay away, she can deal with her personally. "I knew I should've killed them off." hissed Ivy. "They just can't do a simple task to rid you away from the face of this earth."

"I prefer my boys thoughtful, uncontrolled, and aren't trying to kill me." Nya smirked. But it disappeared as the large, monstrous bulb plant hissed as it stared at her to lunge itself for her. Reacting, Nya jumped out of the way to have a large crater left from her spot. The bulb roared in anger to latch a wispy vine around her ankles to have her dangle above the plant's open mouth to have her heart racing as she saw the fangs it bore. She quickly drew her claws out to slash at the vine to slice herself free and felt gravity take hold to fall but she quickly grabbed onto the other vine to swung herself away from the large plant to land clumsily on the floor.

Her breathing was ragged and fast as she tried to calm herself down. But her breath hitched as she heard the familiar stomps racing near her to turn her head to see Jay at the corridor. He roared loudly to charge for the samurai to have her jump to her feet, but was late to respond as his large arm made contact to her. She could feel the wind knocked from her lungs to have her thrown back across the lobby and felt her back made contact to the columns to have her slump to the floor.

She tiredly lifted her head to see Jay loom over her to wretch a piece of the column Nya was landed at to raise it over him. The dust cleared around her after Jay destroyed the column to feel her heart racing to his glare. Tears pricked in her chocolate brown eyes. "Jay, wait!" she yelped. The blue ninja stopped to growl at her. "Please, I know you're in there and can fight this. I'm sorry for betraying you with me being Catwoman, I never meant to hurt you like this. It hurts me too to make you feel like this. I'm sorry for everything and wanted you to know I still love you no matter what happens." She had her head bowed and removed her mask to look at him. "That's what I wanted you to know before I'm gone. One last look at me."

The monstrous Jay stared at the raven haired girl to feel his face loosen as he stared at her. As he studied her, he felt something strange in him to hear his inner voice screaming at him. Like he had strength to fight himself inwardly. He could feel his heart tugging as he stared at her to set the piece of limestone aside to gently rub a large finger across her raven hair. "N...N-Ny...a..." he said through his form. Nya had to lift her head to smile softly at him. The Ninja of Lightning smirked at her to turn to the bulb plant to roar loudly to it and charged at it to punch it away and grabbed onto the seed. He yelled as he pulled with his renewed strength to tear it into halves. Jay breathed heavily to collapse to the floor.

A hissing cry screamed loudly in the jungle-like museum to have Nya cover her ears to it. She watched as the large bulb plant thrashed around, slamming into the walls, columns, and the floor as well. Ivy screamed in pain to hold onto her chest as she fell to the floor to watch her beloved pet cry in pain as it struggled to move. The large stalk of the body began to shrivel away, the bulb head started to rot. The plant collapsed onto the floor as it gave out a final cry of help before dried up and broke into pieces.

A smile of relief washed over on the samurai to know the large plant was dead to keep Ninjago safe. And more relieved as Jay broke free from Ivy's control to have him fight on her side. Love had no bounds for them. She stared at Jay's limp body to feel worried for him to notice green liquid seeping from his pores as his body slowly changed back to his normal body figure. She had to don her mask back on to rush over to him have him rest his head on her knees to carefully stroke the long auburn hair that grown from his transformation. He stirred painfully to make her smile that he was still alive.

The pain bore into the green skinned girl to lift her head to stare at her beloved creation as it crumbled into pieces. She turned to the samurai as she carefully cradled the blue ninja's head to growl. Everything now was ruined to her and she had to get away. She carefully pulled herself up to turn on her heels to limp at first and sprinted into the corridors to escape. Nya's ears perked to the sound of footfalls fleeing to noticed Ivy was gone to hiss as she was going to get away. She saw the broken shards from the vial Ivy used on Jay to grab onto a shard of green liquid and gave pursuit.

Ivy wasn't going to get away, Nya was going to make sure of that.