Happy Valentine's Day from Australia!

Chapter 52
Mourning the Lost

.:Violet:.

As much as the ninja of air hated this new plan she knew it was the only way they could get rid of the Great Devourer. Sure giving her weapon to Garmadon was hard but it was harder to watch more innocent lives dying. But now, Violet waited patiently with a sickening feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"Come on Cole, hurry up…" She mumbled to herself as her leg started to shake which it does whenever she's nervous. The female ninja then saw him as he ran around the corner with the large serpent behind him.

"I'll take it from here." She said and he nodded. "Over here you worm!"

At this, the snake wailed and she dashed through the street, waving her arm. When she turned her head, she was surprised to see the Devourer taking its time to catch up. But suddenly, she heard a deafening crash up ahead and dread slowly crept into her guts. When she turned around the corner, she groaned with frustration to see another building have fallen and blocked her from its path. When Violet turned her head he saw the Great Devourer coming closer. The ninja of air flick her wrist to the glass floor she was planning on running through. The glass shattered and she ran into the building. She mentally cringe seeing people's corpse littered all over the work building. When a wall came up, she flicked her whole arm and the wall crumbled away but the hole was tiny. She ended up leaping through like a lion would through a hoop of fire. She continued doing this with speed until she reached the end and she headed towards a narrow path between two buildings.

According to plan, the devourer couldn't be bothered to get through to her so it went up the building where it should meet Jay. She ran to the end of the narrow passage way and back to the centre of Ninjago. She could see Cole and Kai waiting for her upon their dragon.

"Come on, what took you so long?" She heard Cole yelled out as she ran closer to them.

"A fallen building got in the way." She answered and she jumped onto the dragon. Instantly, Cole flicked the reins and the dragon flew up.

"You're okay though?"

"Of course I am Kai." She sighed, finding herself getting frustrated from Kai's protectiveness. It wasn't long until they saw Zane and Jay sliding down the 'Ice Escape' and they were edging closer to the end. Once they jumped off, Cole flicked the reins once again, making the dragon dive and catching the two on its back.

"Will the plan work?" Jay panted and he lay on the beast's strong hide.

"I guess we have to find out." Kai mumbled next to her but Violet found herself looking around. She saw that Nya and Lloyd have returned to the centre of Ninjago City and citizens at the edge of the city yet there weren't signs of her sister. Then, the younger sister spotted a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes running along the streets. Violet assumed it was Scarlett and she let out a sigh of relief.

"It worked!"

This caught her attention and she looked down to see the Great Devourer gnawing on its own tail. But suddenly, an eerie feeling covered the city as the sky turn dark with the clouds pitch black displaying purple strikes of lightning here and there. The dragon quickly landed on the park and they all dismounted and Nya and Lloyd ran up to them.

"It's dad!" The green ninja exclaimed and he pointed his hand to the top of a building that the Devourer's head was at. Garmadon held the golden weapons high, conducting purple lightning here and there.

"You are the reason why evil runs through my blood!" Garmadon yelled out crystal clear and suddenly, all five weapons glowed with an ominous purple light. "You bit me once; now feel what it's like to be bitten back!"

And they all watched as Garmadon jumped off the building and dived head first towards the Great Devourer with the weapons poised. Once they made contact, Garmadon seemed to disappear but little pink strings of lightning shimmered over the serpent's scaly body and it wasn't long before it burst open with a green substance wetting every valley of Ninjago City.

The female ninja felt small arms wrap around her stomach once again and then the venom hit them. Violet slightly moved her legs apart to keep her balance as the violent waves of venom threatened to knock her and Lloyd over. Once it was over, Violet opened her eyes to see she was coated with the awful stuff as well as Lloyd. She looked around and saw everything was layered with a thick coating of green slime.

"H-He did it." She heard Jay mumbled with disbelief but a smile on his lips.

"No, we did it." Kai then announced proudly. Suddenly, loud cheers were heard and they all turned their heads to see the citizens of Ninjago running around the city, cheering for the serpent's death.

"B-But where's my dad? I don't see him." She heard Lloyd muttered and the realisation of Garmadon's disappearance hit the ex-homeless girl like a truck.

"Then our golden weapons are gone too!" Cole yelled in distressed but Violet could only sigh. She should have known this would have come.

"Who cares about that? I think we would be best with we round up the wounded and see how many deaths have occurred today." Violet said gloomily and she looked around, expecting to see her sister running out to them. "Have anyone seen Scarlett?"

"No… Now that you've mentioned it, I haven't seen her since we have split up." Zane replied. When Violet looked around, she saw a blonde girl helping an old man up.

"Scarlett!" She called out with a smile and ran out to her. Once Violet placed a hand on her shoulder, the ninja of air gasped. The girl wasn't Scarlett at all but she had blonde hair and blue eyes exactly like Scarlett.

"May I help you with something?"

"Oh umm… never mind." Violet muttered before returning to the others and suddenly, their faces lit up.

"Sensei Wu!" She heard Cole exclaimed and when her eyes followed where they were facing, she saw an old man getting up from the slime with a blue tea pot in his hands. She honestly didn't know where he got the tea pot from but it was Sensei. Instantly the boys ran to Wu and Violet followed after with a big smile on her face.

"Sensei Wu!" They all called out again and instantly, Lloyd ran into his arms and hugged him tightly. Once Lloyd pulled apart, Violet couldn't help but pull the old man into a hug as well.

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The air was tense as she and the guys searched a fallen building for any dead people. So far, a hundred and twenty-seven have died according to Zane. The building have obviously fallen side way and Violet cringed every time a window cracked underneath her feet. The furniture in this work environment were flipped over with stacks of paper scattered everywhere as well as computer screens, pens and phones. The lights were blinking on and off at an irregular pattern with sparks once in a while.

The lavender-eyed girl pushed a desk to the side to see a young man, probably in his early twenties dead. His light hair was covered in blood and his lifeless green eyes looked to the side. Violet casted her eyes away with dread hanging onto her heart and she looked where his eyes were facing. It was another worker except a woman, dead of course. The female ninja looked between the two and saw they were looking at each other with one of their hands outstretched to the other. When she looked to their hands, she saw a ring on their finger.

She didn't know why but she felt so sad seeing that these two died together. With a heavy sigh escaping her dried lips, she clicked her fingers and the two floated in air. She walked over to them, avoiding looking at their squashed limbs and she softly closed their eyes. With a heavy breath she decided to walk outside with the couple levitating after her. She placed the couple down. When the parentless girl heard a window scatter, she turned her head and saw Kai walking outside with an older looking man over his shoulder.

"Dead?" She asked.

"Dead." He confirmed and Violet looked away. That's a hundred and thirty deaths she knew of. "I've already searched my level; you want me to help you?"

"Sure." She replied and she headed back into the level she searched. It wasn't long before she and Kai stumbled upon a bookshelf with a body caught underneath with their hand sticking out. "Can you help me lift it up?"

She didn't hear a vocal response but a simple nod of his head. She jumped over to the other side and put her fingers underneath the wooden furniture. With another nod from Kai, they both lifted the bookshelf and Violet looked underneath to see who was poor victim. When she saw it, her heart froze. A startle cry escaped her lips and she threw the bookshelf to the side despites the worrying questions from cry.

The woman that lay on the ground was older than Violet by four years. Her blonde hair was fanned out but near the crown, it was matted with blood. Her bright blue eyes seemed to hold a bit of life left but nevertheless, Violet crouched down and pulled her sister into her arms.

"Scarlett!" She cried and she placed one hand underneath her sister's head.

"V-Violet..?" The blonde whispered in a hoarse and weak voice that made the younger sibling's eyes burn.

"Y-You're going to be okay, hold on." Violet cried softly as she said this, mainly to reassure herself.

She didn't want to believe her sister was leaving her like this. Already she have lost her parents, watched Sensei Wu get eaten and there was no way Scarlett was leaving her like this. Violet felt a hand on her shoulder and she knew it was Kai but she didn't pay attention to him. Her hand cupped her sister's cheek and forced her to keep looking into Violet's eye. But it felt like her sister was struggling to stay awake. To Violet, it felt like Scarlett was slipping through her fingers.

"P-Please Violet. Stop crying my s-sweet little sister."

"No, don't leave me please!" She cried out in fright as she saw her sister's eye starting to close slightly.

"I-I'll always be with you…" And Scarlett's hand softly reached up to cup Violet's cheek. "I love you my sweet sister."

"No Scarlett. Scarlett? Scarlett!"

There was nothing in her arms. She could see the body but there was nothing there. The woman who was immature yet caring and loving was gone, gone from the world. Violet didn't want to accept that would be the last time she would ever hear Scarlett speak again, smile at her again, laugh again or even see her do anything again. It was like Scarlett was a fragment of the younger sibling's imagination and memories they shared now felt like a dream, a dream that would never occur.

Call it cheesy but Violet literally saw all her life experiences that included Scarlett flashed before her eyes: the time when she saw the blonde in their old home, when Scarlett was actually in Ninjago for the first time, all of their training sessions and many other sweet memories including the torture of going shopping with the blonde.

Violet let out a pained wail when the life that occupied her sister's bright blue eyes disappeared and the warmness of her skin turn cold and hard. Not wanting to see anymore, she turned her body around –letting the corpse of Scarlett roll off her laps- and buried her face into Kai's shoulder, letting out agonised sobs. She then remembered to breathe through her nose when she felt Kai's comforting arms wrap around her body.

"I'm so sorry Violet." She heard him say gravely and his warm breath skimmed over her neck.

"W-Why did she have to die?" She cried, not moving her face from his shoulder where she could hear the faint beat of his heart. She hoped it would calm her down like many times before but it wasn't working. Her heart was shattered into a million pieces. It was painful to breathe with her aching heart and it was hard to concentrate with the remaining memories of her sister. The remaining person from her family was dead, making her the living survivor of the Emerson's.

But Kai didn't answer her question, not that she minded. She just let him cradle her as her tears fell. When she heard hush whispers, she lifted her head lightly to see the others were here: Zane, Cole, Jay, Lloyd, Nya and Sensei Wu. They all had their heads bowed down with a blue look on their face. The purple ninja buried her head back into Kai's shoulder and she let at sobs that would shake her whole body. She couldn't make the tears stop or the sobs that kept exiting her mouth. Violet wanted this heart-aching pain to stop. But when she felt two fingers kneaded a certain spot behind her ear and just like that, she fell unconscious.

I didn't make that too depressing did I? But big big thanks to: BrightnessAndDarknessStories, ElementzGirl7, MortalNinjas, LightningDanino23, Guest1234, Kaiisthebest, CarlyShi208, ShadowNinja27, KaiRulesSuckers and Rachymel!

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