Chapter 12
Not a Damsel in Distress

.:Violet:.

She groaned as she tried to get up without getting caught by the skeletons. Violet stiffly made her way to a tree nearby and she climbed up with great difficultly. The right side of her body burned in pain and she suppressed another groan and she bit hard onto her lip. She watched as the skeletons tied Zane, Jay and Cole together before tying them high to the tree she was on.

"To the Fire Temple!" Samukai exclaimed and his army erupted in cheers. Then a shadow of Garmadon appeared on a rock and it exchanged words with the skeleton. Violet sighed and leaned against the trunk of the tree while her hand clutched her stomach. She knows for sure there's no internal bleeding otherwise Zane's fingers wouldn't just be touching the skin surrounding the wound. It's a clean pierce, missing all the intestines and all those other stuff.

But she remembered that in a scroll, it shows all the amazing things the purple ninja can do; for example, she can heal herself. She's slightly different from the rest of the four ninja. Reasons are because: She's a girl, she can turn invisible and she doesn't need a weapon to control her element because it's already surrounding her.

"Change of plans, to the Underworld!" Samukai shouted and the skeletons cheered and the skeletons left in a hurry, leaving the three ninja below her stranded. She casted her invisibility spell on herself but she could already feel that she only have minutes left of using it. She's already too weak. She wrapped her legs around the branch and hung herself upside down. She could feel her wound stretching and the blood rushing to her head. She quickly slipped one of her daggers into Zane's bounded hands. At first it was invisible but once it left her touch, it became visible.

"Great, now we're struck here and our golden weapons are gone!" She heard Cole hissed. She pulled herself up onto the branch and continued to listen.

"We're not stuck here." Zane simply stated as he twisted the dagger around his fingers.

"Where did you get that? They stripped us down from our weapons." Jay sighed as he looked closely at the dagger. "Hmm, that's a pretty good dagger, it have a really nice blade and handle."

Then Zane cut the rope and the three fell to the ground.

"Oops, wrong rope." She heard Zane groaned. She nearly chuckle but she was in too much pain to do so.

"Okay, let's go!" Jay shouted as he untangled himself from the ropes and got onto his feet.

"Give me a minute, I need to make sure that there's no scouts here to warn the others." Zane told the others. She could hear the lie in his voice but Cole and Jay nodded and ran ahead. Zane waited for a couple seconds before saying, "Violet, where are you?"

"Up here." She said softly and she could feel the invisibility charm broke. She sighed and looked down to meet with Zane's concerning eyes.

"Can you climb down?"

"I don't know. I think I stretched the wound when I reached down to give you the dagger." She sighed once again.

"I'll climb up then." And he quickly climbed up and rechecked her wounds. "You shouldn't be doing such dangerous and harmful things for us; we would have been able to get out ourselves."

"Yeah but you three need to go and rescue Sensei Wu, he the closet person I have left." She admitted and looked to the sky.

"Is everyone in your family gone?" Zane asked. He was asking her such a personal question, she didn't know if she could answer that. Her voice was caught in her throat. She just nodded and continued not to share eye contact. "I'm sorry; this must be a difficult subject to talk about."

"No, it's alright." She answered quickly and once he was done, he leaned back. "You should go and help Jay and Cole before they get capture again.

"Oh yes, that's correct." He handed back her dagger but she shook her head.

"I don't need it, you need it more. It's a throwing knife so it'll be more useful to you since you throw shurikens anyway. I still have my golden weapon so Garmadon won't be able to do anything to the other weapons yet."

"But won't that mean the others will eventually find out about your existence?" His question really got her.

"I'm sure Sensei will figure something out… it was his idea in the first place." And she got up despite Zane's heavy concerning glance at her. "I'm fine. Thanks to you I should be fine now to travel along with you guys."

"What? That is out of the question." He said sternly and crossed his arms.

"I have had more training than you guys and more experience with the skeletons. You'll need my help. I'm not a damsel in distress or those princesses, I'm a ninja like you boys but more years on training." And it was her turn to cross her arms.

"But you could barely move before."

"I heal fast due to my element… Apparently I can heal myself but I haven't been able to accomplish that." She answered him. That is true. "Although I'll have to wait for a while before I can go invisible."

"And how do you plan to follow us?" He asked. She was about to answer when she felt the air around give intense and a smile formed on her lips.

"With them." And she pointed to the sky. She saw four dragons coming their way. Her's, the ice, earth and lightning dragon. "But I'll send mine back otherwise the other's will grow suspicious. While the dragons travel to the Underworld, I'll just hitch a ride behind the wing of your dragon and he can just travel behind."

"But you'll fall off with the high speed they travel at."

"I'm a ninja remember?" And she heard him sigh. She had just won.

.::.

She hid underneath the wing of the ice dragon –which belongs to Zane- and watched as Zane caught up to Jay and Cole who were lying on the ground with two trails of flames on the world.

Damn, the skeletons already left for the Underworld and with the weapons.

She sighed along with her little voice. Then the three changed their way to go the Fire Temple. Once they got inside, she directed the dragon to land in front and the other two joined them –since Kai would be dealing with his and her's went home- and they waited. Then the Temple spilt into two halves and she saw Kai and Nya sitting upon a dragon with shades of red, orange and yellow. She nearly broke into a laughter of tears as Cole jumped behind a rock with a shrilly girl scream.

She then saw Jay trying to utter some words. It was unnatural that he's not speaking since he always talks. She listened carefully and heard:

"Blue? It's my favorite colour." She heard Nya said and she put on a bright smile. Jay then wore a face full of pride.

Oh no, that's love right there!

She hissed at her little voice and scolded it for thinking about love when Sensei Wu is now trapped in the Underworld. Then Zane's dragon let out a roar and the other four ninja and Nya turned to look at the ice, earth and lightning dragons. The purple ninja made sure not to be seen. Jay then ran and jumped onto his dragon with what may have been a 'Woohoo! We got dragons!'.

"Umm… You guys can go ahead. I-I'll stay here and guard the p-place." She heard Cole spluttered as Zane started to sit onto his dragon. She ducked her head to prevent it from getting crushed between the strong wings of the dragon. But Cole's dragon stubbornly stomped over to him and picked Cole up gently with his teeth. "Ah! Let go of me!"

Violet clamped a hand over her mouth to hide the fit of giggles she was about to have. The dragon snorted loudly and flicked his head back and let go of Cole. The black ninja yelled in fear as he landed on the dragon's back.

"Stop being a baby Cole!" Kai shouted as he tried to disguise his laughter.

After all of that, the dragons took off and flew into the clouds. Violet enjoyed the wind rushing past her, it helped to calm her down.

But she started to do some thinking. Even if they do go into the underworld, she won't be able to go to save Sensei since she'll have to keep an eye on these reckless four.

But you have been pretty reckless too lately.

She sighed and realized this was true. There was the time when she nearly got caught by Kai in his blacksmith shop.

.::.

"Can I recommend some advice? I won't mention it in my report." Violet asked Kai as she went over her report to Kai.

"Sure."

"With the daggers, the handles are a bit too long, so it may put the aim a bit off."

"How do you know about this? Just being a blacksmith assistance doesn't mean you know how to do each weapon perfectly and how to use them." And at this point he was towering over her.

.::.

She should have thought about that plan a bit more clearly. And then there was the time when she nearly got caught by Jay, Zane and Cole.

.::.

"Wait… I think I can see something over there." She heard Zane's monotone voice rang out and she went to change into her invisible form. "It's gone, never mind."

"What colour?" Jay asked as he placed a hand on the white ninja's shoulder.

"Purple."

"It's probably those frogs we saw." Cole suggested. "Let's go and get a closer look."

Violet quickly leaped like a deer to another tree. She watched as all 3 investigated the tree she had moved from.

"There are footprints, someone's watching us." Zane observed as he discovered her footstep. "And they're more leading that way."

.::.

And there was this one…

.::.

"Stop!" She was about to leap another branch forward when she heard Wu say that. She tried to stop but her foot slipped and her hand failed to grab the nearest branch. She bit down on her tongue as she fell and when she made contact with the ground, a guttural groan escaped her lips.

"Did you guys hear something?" The wind ninja heard Cole asked and she held her breath.

"It was nothing." She then heard Wu said.

"I heard it too Sensei… can we check it out to make sure we aren't being followed?" Kai's voice echoed through the stilled air.

.::.

Violet sighed as she went to search through her memories to find more 'reckless' incidents.

.::.

The red ninja already slammed the blade of the scythe into the ground. A crack appeared in the ground and the dragon let out a startled cry before flapping its wings. Violet herself was pushed back violently from the force into the wall. A small cry left her lips without her permission but she couldn't see if the others heard her or not.

"We got to escape otherwise we'll be buried alive!" She heard Cole shouted; his voice didn't tremble.

She groaned and stood up shakily.

"We can't. I swear I heard someone else in here. We have to look for her." She heard Jay argued. She bit her tongue for her foolishness for allowing herself to be heard.

"I too heard a female… but it was more of a cry." She heard Zane mutter too. She silently cursed and got up.

.::.

And the other one was the sneeze when Kai barged into Wu's room. That's five slip ups in total. She leaned her head against the dragon's cold scales and she looked at the clouds that were beneath her feet. Everyone –except her and Cole- were exclaiming with excitement in their voices as the dragons sped up to gather enough speed to cross into the Underworld.

Suddenly the dragons drive and if she hasn't sense so, she would have fallen off. With the air resistance that was building up against her, it was making it quite difficult to hold on and since she's weakened slightly, she can't seem to grip onto the dragon properly. There were also some times when the dragon's wing would hit her, accidently of course but she knows the boys were too busy enjoying the view or –in Cole's case- closing his eyes to even acknowledge her.

Plus she needs to save her invisibility for when they enter the Underworld. Then the dragon started to spin as they came closer to the ground. Lucky for her, the dragon closed his wings to allow more speed. The wing wrapped around Violet's body and she managed to feel safe. She was also fascinated by dragons when she was little but she did stop believing such things exist when her parents passed. Then a blinding light pierced her eyes and she closed them instantly. Once she felt the dragon's wings flapping again she cling onto the scales.

'I think I'm going to be sick.'

Agreed.

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