Months ago

The ninja were sitting and kicking back near the fire, with echo's of conversation going around the campfire. They had earned this rest as they three of the four golden weapons now but one still remained, the Sword of Fire, the last of the golden weapons which was known to be at the Fire Temple in the Forest of Tranquility; which is where they were camping at in the meantime trying to take a break from the constant chaos that came to them in their search for the Golden Weapons.

During this stay, Jay was not acting as his usual self for some awkward reason. The other ninja start to take notice.

"Hey Jay, what's wrong man?"

"Yeah Jay is everything ok?"

The Blue Ninja continued to think. Unbeknownst to them, Jay was suffering on the inside and the memories from his past kept resurfacing, horrible excruciating memories that he had always tried to keep away, memories from his childhood that he become to painful to even think about.

"Look guys... I really dont want to talk about it... ok?" He said, choking up. "I just want to be left to myself right now, there is a lot on my mind right now."

Jay layed down on the ground, he closed his eyes and hoped that sleep would help ease the pain of these memories. Soon enough he was transported to a strange place, a place of peace and harmony. Trees were scattered around with a pathway, a beautiful landscape that would take anyones breath away.

Soon enough he realized he was now with in the deepest parts of his mind, so he decided to go along the pathway taking the trek what seemed to be a gorgeous looking forest. Eventually things started to get dark and morbid very quickly, the trees went from a tranquil type of green to a husk of its former self which burnt down by some kind of fire and the pathway all around the place and destroyed. Finding an end to the path he found what looked to be the Monastery, which was partially destroyed and still on fire.

"Oh no! not again!" Jay thought to himself.

Jay started to panic as he rushed towards the crumbling building going further into the desolate landscape. As he entered the main courtyard he had found everything to be desecrated and destroyed, with rubble and training equipment thrown everywhere.

Going through each room he found the dead bodies of his comrades and brothers in arms, the. Looking everywhere at every detail he noticed Nya wasn't in the room. Soon enough he heard Nya's screams followed by a dark laughter which brought a shiver to his spine. "What could this be? why oh why did this have to happen?" He thought to himself

As he entered into the bedroom he stormed in only to find Nya's dead body and a hooded figure in black and purple, Jay looked to him with anger,

"How could you do this?!" he said, seething.

The figure turned around and revealed himself smiling back at him as it was Jay, but he wasn't a man but more so a serpentine like being, it was as if Jay was looking into a twisted mirror.

This whole revelation brought Jay down to his knees where he screamed,

"No... no no no no no... this can't be, Nooooooooooo!"

Snapping back to reality Jay jolted up from that nightmare, with a sigh of relief he looked around and saw that everyone had went to sleep. Taking deep breaths he calmed himself down.

"Man what a nightmare, this was the 5th one I've had during this whole trip."

Jay then goes back to sleep, shortly before Kai wakes up to the noise of what he thought was Nya.


Pythor lay down on the ground, bloody and beaten, how did the great Serpentine leader be beaten to a pulp and now begging for his life on the ground, How could it all come to this?

Minutes earlier

While the ninja were on their way to find what was going on at the gathering in the city of Ouroboros, The serpentine had initiated a Slither Pit, a most ingenious way to determine the new leader of a tribe or in this case the leader of the entire Serpentine Army. Pythor and Kilton had been duking it out for what felt like an hour, they analyzed each others moves hoping to break through with an advance but the other would know what attack to expect and would dodge the attacks or block them. Sounds of steel and wood echo throughout the fight as they both try their hardest to make a breakthrough.

"You're beginning to grow weak, why don't you just step down and let me be in charge!"

Soon after making that statement, Kilton senses that an opening is about to happen and soon makes the attack, catching Pythor off-guard. He tries all his hardest but he is no match for Kiltons quick reflexes and counter attacks and soon he is disarmed. Quickly, he tries to find away out of this mess saying, "Oh c'mon why can't we just be friends? remember the deal that we made?"

Kilton scoffs at Pythors pleas and with victory all in his mind he stalks Pythor, slowly moving towards him as Pythor scurries along the ground.

"Face it Pythor, your reign as the Serpentine Leader... IS OVER!" Kilton yells out in victory. Pythor on the other hand had a look of grave defeat, he knew his time was running out and he quickly had to think of a plan. Meanwhile, Kilton started going on a monologue saying, "Bow down! BOW DOWN TO YOUR MASTER SERPENTINE! No more games! No more Great Devourer! I assume you all have had enough of this fools plan to release a great being of pure rage and hunger that will devour everything in site? Because he was a fool, this "Great Devourer wouldn't have done us any favors, it would just consume us all no different from the people in Ninjago! Well I have an alternative plan... A new plan that will unleash our dominance... THE AGE OF THE SERPENTINE!"

Soon enough the crowd erupted into cheers and applause as they had realized that they had a new leader, a stronger leader. During all the commotion, Pythor slithered away in disgrace with shame and disgust on his face. He knew he had failed his great plan, a plan which he now realized would result in the death of everything. During this commotion the other Serpentine Generals would also hide away in one of the many rooms to convene on another plan.


Meanwhile

During their trip on the Destiny's Bounty, the ninja were on the lookout during the trip using the falcon incase of any other instances of Serpentine activity. Eventually after sometime, getting closer and closer to Ouroboros, Kai notices a purple figure moving in the desert.

"Guys! I think I found something!" He says pointing down below at what the purple figure was.

Zane nods as Cole, who was practicing with Zane, started to look confused and just stood there and Zane went back and grabbed Cole by the arm and took him to the main hub area of the bounty. Soon after The three ninja were in the room, where after using falcon vision, Zane spots Pythor, "Pythor?! What is he doing all alone in the desert?"

Kai starts to grow a smirk across his face saying, "Pythor Huh, the Serpentine must've grown real tired of the whole release the great devourer talk?"

Soon enough the commotion from there draws in Nya.

"Hey guys! what are you all talking about?"

Zane looks over to Nya, a serious facial expression develops.

"Nya, were glad you're here, we've just discovered something on the far outskirts of Ouroboros, we saw Pythor!" Zane explains to Nya

Nya, looking confused, her eyes dart around to each person in the room. Zane soon enough making haste shows Nya the images the falcon captured with each shot zooming more and more into Pythor. Soon enough Nya realizes the situation at hand and starts to steer the bounty towards the direction where Pythor is heading to.

"So what are we going to do now?" Cole asks

Kai walks over to Cole and puts his hand on Cole's shoulder.

"Well were just going to do a bit of interrogating, that's all."


Eventually after a bit of traveling they reach pythor who after noticing something coming towards him he realizes who it is, he starts to ready himself for whatever the ninja throw at him. The ninja swoop down, using their elemental weapon vehicles they start to go down towards Pythor. They all start to circle Pythor where they start to question him.

"What are your plans Pythor?

"Yeah is this some kind of diversion or trick?"

"Who is this guy again?"

Pythor then starts to lower his guard, his ready stance soon going away. He takes a breath saying,

"Honestly what's the point in fighting? I have nothing left to fight for."

Confused, Kai walks up more towards Pythor.

"What do you mean by that?" Kai asks

Pythor with a solemn defeated expression finally relents and starts to give out the Details.

"Alright if you want to know what happened, Ill tell you everything!"


Meanwhile on the opposite end past the city of Ouroboros, the Serpentine Generals had made their discreet escape, Kilton had declared them to be enemies after taking control of the Serpentine Army. They start argue about what the events that have transpired

"You see... I told you all... that this was going to happen... But you all... didnt believe us... its all... your fault!" both Fangtom and Fangdom said in anger

Acidicus, visibly agitated by that statement said, "Our fault?! how issss it all our fault, if it'ss someone'ssss fault it'sssss Pythor! He'sssss the one that made the damn deal!

Skales, seeing an an opportunity, breaks into the argument.

"Would everyone just shut up! We may have lost our own army to a madman bent on domination, we may have lost our staffs, well we may have lost... everything, but we will not lose the will to keep going, we must keep going and find away to stop him, what do you all say!?"

The serpentine generals rejuvenated by that speech, come to an agreement again, now with Skales as their new leader they continue to go along the desert searching for something along the way.

Over back at the Bounty, the Ninja, Nya, Wu, Lloyd, Garmadon, and Pythor are all in the main hub for a meeting to discuss what the situation at hand is. To the others surprise, especially Garmadon and Lloyd, Pythor had decided to join them to defeat a common enemy. After everything was told to them by Pythor they devise a plan to stop Lord Kilton. Although there is awkwardness in the room, especially due to the past experiences they had with Pythor.

"Alright so with what we know from what Pythor has told us, we know that Jay is going to use the General Staffs and the Fangblades to make a device that will turn the inhabitants of Ninjago into Serpentine, is that correct?" Nya asked

Pythor with a grin of assurance, nods and says, "Now, I do have a couple ideas as to how this madman could make the weapon he desires"

Kai looks over to Pythor with doubt, still not fully trusting what Pythor might be saying.

"Oh and what would that be?"

Pythor looks over to Kai, slithering over to him he says, " Well if you listen to me right now maybe you'll learn a thing or two!"

Kai, who was visibly irritated, tried to pull out his sword but a quick stern glance from Wu causes him to sheath it.

"Fine... But if you as so much pull something I will not hesitate to take you down!"

After the situation calmed, Pythor starts to explain, pulling up some potential schematics on the mainframe of the bounty explaining, "You see here from what i gathered during his speech at Ouroboros while I was hiding I found out that he wants to use the four Fangblades and combining with the four serpentine staffs, to make some kind of super weapon. How he will accomplish it, I have no knowledge of it."

Pythor finishes it off with a nod to everyone as he leaves to go elsewhere. Meanwhile, Kai and Zane discuss the current events that have unfolded.

"I still can't believe that Jay would do all this... There must be something, anything that we could've done to prevent this." Kai says

Zane looks over to Kai with a reassuring look, he puts his hand on Kai's shoulder he says, " I know Kai, taking the fangblades, and especially taking over the whole Serpentine and the staffs of the generals, that's unlike him, he never was leadership material... unless."

Kai, looking confused, he asks, "Unless what?"

Zane rushes past Kai, going throughout the hallways of the bounty until reaching the bedroom where the Ninja sleep, Kai soon follows him into the room where he finds Zane going through Jays old stuff which has been sitting in the same spot since they had done the mission to the underground base. Kai, seeing this confused by what Zane is doing he says, "Zane what are you doing? you know its not cool to go through peoples things."

Zane stands up from a crouching position, a book in his hand that read: "The Journal of Jay Walker"

Zane walks over to Kai and shows him the contents of the Book, "Kai this is the answer, this book will explain all this madness, it will explain everything!"

Kai looked at Zane, not sure if they should be going through this, begrudgingly goes through with reading it and soon enough they will find out everything.