Chapter 50
New Haircuts

.:Violet:.

The ninja of wind was personally glad that unlocking her true potential also means she can heal herself faster. Already after half an hour, Violet's strength returned to her and the only place that hurt was the back of her head and her throbbing ankle. She knew though that another hour and her head should be fine and hopefully her ankle. But that was least of the purple-eyed girl's concerns. She watched from the cave they took refuge in as the Great Devourer slithered underneath the sand. It pretty much looked like a moving hill of sand.

"There's no time to rest," Zane declared as he stood up from the sand, "we need to warn people before it becomes bigger."

"Bigger? Bigger?! That thing -in just one bite- has just crushed our whole entire ship and nearly took Violet with it!" The blue ninja panicked and he started to pace in the cave, "we need to save as many as we can. We'll find some kind of shelter, somewhere safe to hide... Ooh! The Serpentine tombs! They're underground, we can hide in there!"

"And what, just give up?" Violet asked with a slight snappiness to her tone.

"You all now as well as I do that there is no chance at stopping that thing!"

"No, I do believe there is a way to defeat it." She heard Cole argued back before she knew it, an argument broke out. Violet could only merely sigh at their childish behaviour at a time like this.

"Stop it you two!" Scarlett shouted, silencing Jay and Cole.

"Listen to yourselves," Kai began, "is this what Sensei Wu would have wanted?"

Instantly, that name made her heart constrict with grief and Violet casted her eyes down to the ground. If he was here right now, they would have a plan forming without a single argument to be heard. She missed the kind smile and the twinkle in his eyes and his obsession over tea and Ferris wheels.

"He would want us to fight or run and hide or even give up?"

"But… He's gone…" She and Lloyd said at the same time. She looked to the young child and found that this must be especially hard for him. He had to defeat his father soon, his mother left while he was a baby and now his Uncle was gone.

"He's not here anymore." Lloyd added and she looked over to him.

She wished she could walk over to him and hug him tightly. She knew what it was like to lose her parents… sure he didn't lose his father but defeating him is just as bad or even worse. Violet used the rocky texture of the wall of the cave to get up and she limped her way to Lloyd. She got onto her knees and pulled the young boy into a tight hug. She softly smiled when she felt his short arms wrap around her body and his head resting on her shoulder.

"But his teachings live on," The ninja of fire continued, "Sensei once told me that it's not the size of a ninja in a fight but it's about the size of the fight in the ninja. All this training, all these battles we had with skeletons and serpentine; we have been through so much so we just can't give up now. A ninja never admits defeat. A ninja always pick himself- and herself up whenever they're down which is exactly what Sensei Wu would want us to do right now."

"Have you been rehearsing for that speech Kai? It sounded like you practiced." Violet smirked as she said this and this earned a couple of short-lived chuckles.

"Nah, not really. I just made it up on the spot." He played along with a smile, knowing she was trying to lift the mood up.

"But how do we destroy a snake that large?" Zane questioned.

"Yeah, it's not like we have an extra sacred flute lying around somewhere? Or wait, how about one of our awesome dragons? Oh, I forgot they took off and left us high and dry or hey! What about our golden weapons which will do nothing against a snake that size! We are so hooped…"

At this, Violet's eyebrows perked up and she looked at her older sister to see she had the same look on her face. She drowned out the rest of their conversation and formed a small plan in her head.

"Jay is right; we're going to need a weapon that big to defeat the Devourer." Cole muttered.

"Or an idea that's even bigger!" Violet exclaimed exactly the same time with Kai.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked.

"I'm pretty sure I am." She smiled and she looked down at Lloyd how looked up at her in confusion. Slowly, she pulled apart from the hug. "Jay, you're a genius! Are you also thinking what we're thinking?"

"Probably not but go on ahead." The junkyard-born ninja mumbled. Just as she was about to explain, Kai cut her off.

"No time to explain, Violet and I will fill you guys in on the plan along the way."

.:Kai:.

"It's a good thing my parents aren't at home." Jay shouted out from his parent's little house as Kai spread the blueprints of a new weapon on top of the hood of a car.

"Zane, do you still have the recording of the sacred flute in your memory bank?"

"It might have been destroyed earlier but I have its exact tone recorded and ready for play back." The Nindroid replied and he rolled the sleeve on his left arm up and pushed down on his forehead, making a panel open.

"Good, there should be enough spare parts to make it here but we're going to need to create our biggest Tornado of Creation yet. It's going to be dangerous and we can't let anyone be around for it." Kai ordered and they all nodded but a familiar bell rang and Violet silently sighed. She turned around to see the postman riding his rusty bike with a shoulder bag overfilled with mail.

"What is he doing here?" Violet asked to no one in particular and she walked her way over to him, in front of the rest.

"Ah! You ninja are always sneaking around giving people heart-attacks. You're too quiet."

"I'm sorry but you need to be more observant about your surroundings next time but you need to get out of here now." The ninja of air said in a slight demanding tone.

"Well I got a job to do and no missy with that attitude can boss me around." The mailman snapped. Just as she was about to counter back, Jay stepped in front of her.

"Dude, my parents aren't even here, you should really be on your way."

"Why doesn't that surprise me? They must be at the Take-Back-Ninjago Rally…"

"Take-Back-Ninjago Rally?"

"What, you guys haven't heard about it? Everyone is getting together for a rally in the city to raise awareness about all the Serpentine activity that have been surfacing lately but you know what? You guys are right," the mailman said and Violet couldn't help but let out a startle gasp when she could see the Great Devourer coming towards the junkyard, "wherever you guys are, trouble is around the corner."

"Leave!" Violet shouted and she used her element to spin the man on his heels to see what was coming towards them. Instantly, a feminine scream came from the mailman and he dove into a nearby trash can.

"It's now or never guys!" She heard Kai shouted and she nodded her head. She quickly looked around to see Nya, Scarlett and Lloyd taking cover.

"Fire!"

"Earth!"

"Lightning!"

"Ice!"

"Air!"

And all five of them collided their Spinjitzu tornados together and instantly, scarps from the huge piles of trash came flying at them and near the base of the tornado, the basic structure of their soon-to-be Ultra Sonic Raider started building itself. And suddenly, a burst of light appeared and Violet no longer felt like she was spinning. When the light disappeared, she found herself to be sitting in a vehicle. To be precise: the Ultra Sonic Raider.

"Zane, shoot now!" She heard Kai yelled from in front of her. She lifted her neck up to see Cole steering at the front with Jay sitting behind him, then Kai, then her. Zane was separated from them since he had a different glass hatch/roof. Then the melody from the sacred flute was heard and Violet's eyes could detect the sound waves in the air and missed the Devourer's head.

"Zane, what was that? You're supposed to hit him, not give him a haircut!"

"May I remind you we have just magically wiped up this piece of junk?"

"Well I hoped one of us created a reverse feature because… Reverse!"

Then suddenly, the tank like vehicle dove backwards, avoiding the Devourer's head. Violet decided to let the boys figure this out and she went to see what the buttons and joysticks do at her station. She frowned upon seeing that they were the music surround system and the two joysticks were to control the guns on the vehicle. Suddenly, she felt a harsh vibration through her seat, shaking her body, and she looked to see Cole skilfully steering around the Great Devourer's head that had just smacked into the ground.

"Shoot Zane!" She called out and Zane shot the sound waves but the vast serpent ducked its head underneath and bared its fangs at them.

"Hold on!" Cole then shouted out and Violet looked around on her seat to see no seat belts.

"Where are the bloody seatbelts?!" She exclaimed and she saw Cole driving up onto a hill of trash, obviously trying to jump the wall that surrounded the junkyard. The ninja of wind quickly grab hold onto the seat in front of her and instantly she felt the tank in the air. Her stomach squeezed and when they hit the ground, her head hit the seat.

"What was that?" Violet heard Kai asked in front of her as her rubbed her throbbing forehead.

"My head…" She muttered.

"I need you guys to hold him still." She heard Zane's monotone voice through the tank.

"How about this?" Jay questioned as he pressed a button and the caramel-hair ninja watched as a hook grab hold of the serpent's scales. Then another shot out. Like they had one mind, Cole proceed the plan by driving underneath the upper body of the snake before making a sharp left –making Violet crash into the right side- and crash through the walls.

"Sorry bout that."

"I don't care, as long as it doesn't reach Ninjago, you can destroy as many walls as you want."

"Shoot now Zane! Take the shot!" Kai then yelled and just as the large serpent was getting up, their white brother fired at the snake, hitting it square on the head. Violet slightly winced when the snake let out an ear-piercing screech as fell back to the ground. But fear once again settled in her guts when the serpentine stood back up, looking madder than it was before. "It got a weak spot!"

"What?!" She yelled along with the other boys over the loud music of the sacred flute and they all turned their attention to Kai.

"On its head, there's a weak spot-" But he was cut off as a crash was sounded directly behind her and the scent of smoke filled her nose yet it didn't suffocate her. Instead, she felt immense heat at the back of her neck and smell something burning. When she turned around, she saw the end part of the tank where Zane was gone.

"Zane!" She cried out along with the other three boys. There was no way she was losing Zane as well.

"V-Violet! Your hair is burning!"

"What?!" She exclaimed and she quickly gathered her hair with one hand and the other fanned it. In an instant, her hair was saved from the fiery flames. Once it was out, she quickly jumped out and ran to the wreckage. "Zane!"

"I-I'm here." She heard Zane replied and she stepped back –resulting her crashing into Kai- as Zane pushed himself from the wreckage. She silently gasped when she saw that half of his face was gone and was replaced with metal underneath. "That was close."

"Too close." She heard Kai sighed. She ran her fingers through her hair to find that it ended just below her shoulders. That's a good fifteen centimetres of hair burnt away. The worst thing was that it wasn't even!

"Perfect, that was a total failure!" She heard Jay dramatically cry out.

"But it wasn't, didn't you guys see the weak spot on its forehead?"

"Oh great, let me make a note of that. Giant snake with a wee-itty-bitty weak spot that would be totally impossible to get at since the thing is too bloody ridiculously huge to do anything to stop it!"

"Are you done?" Nya then asked and with a sigh from Jay, he answered with a yes. "Because things just got worst. Look."

"It's heading to Ninjago city!"

What did you guys think? That's to everyone that have reviewed and I got a huge announcement to make. If you go on YouTube and check-up Kittystoyful Wyldstyle she has episodes 40-44 of 'Tournament of Elements/Rise of Ancient Evil' in English! But it's taken on camera but it's the best you can find! So big thanks to: ShadowNinja27, ninjaofairdeath, Guest1234, MortalNinjas, ElementzGirl7, CarlyShi208, legolover101, ALookIntoMyWorld, OnePieceFAN2012 and LightningDnaino23.

ALookIntoMyWorld: A Star Wars reference? I've never watched Star Wars before so if there is one, I didn't mean to copy it.