They eventually resume moving along the maze, until they came across another opening on the right. When they turned to it, they find a purple sword with some jagged edges at the bottom of the sword's blade side, floating in mid air, among some knocked over columns. It suddenly glows a little. "There it is!" Jay said, pointing out to it. "The Key-Tana!"
Okino quickly grabs his hand and covers his mouth, shushing him. "Speak softly." He whispered before pointing out to something. There was a red tail behind the Key-Tana before they turn to the right to see a red dragon that looked cybernetic, without wings, sleeping.
Shocked at the sight, Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Cole, Nya, Geoff and Gewuji quickly move to a corner to take cover before they peek out of it to see the dragon. "Could have been worse." Gewuji said.
"How?" Kai asked her.
"It could have been awake."
"Well, if we're quiet, we can sneak by, grab the Key-Tana, and get the hell out of here before it wakes up." Nya said before they back away as Okino approaches them.
"That is a wise plan." He replied. "But one of you must retrieve the Key-Tana. I can only guide a quest, not complete one."
"I'll go." Nya brings her left fist into her right hand.
"No." Lloyd said to her. "It should be the one with the highest stealth rating."
They start to look amongst each other before Jay opened his traits display to show his stealth rating is higher than the others and sighs. "It's me." He replied, closing the display. Nya was about to object. "I've been in the game longest and upgraded my stealth the most." They all reluctantly nod. Jay comes up to Okino, sighing as he did so before crouching down and charges towards a nearby knocked over column, sliding towards it halfway there before hiding behind it. He then peeks out to see the all clear before jumping over to column and rolls towards the next one on its right. He stands to peek over it before vaulting over it and runs towards another column. He stops near it and peeks around the corner to see the sleeping dragon before moving out further to see the Key-Tana and moves out. He rushes toward a step before jumping down, and was about to reach the Key-Tana, when the dragon's tail soon lands in front of him, making him stop. The dragon moans in its sleep as Jay climbs onto its tail and was about to go over it when the dragon raises its tail again, causing the others to gasp out of shock. Jay soon fell off the tail, lands on the ground and tries to crawl away before the tail lands on top of him, causing him to groan as he tried to get himself free. The others gasp out of shock again before they rush toward him, summoning their hoods as they do so.
They reach the tail before Kai, Cole, Geoff and Gewuji lift it as high as they could while Lloyd and Nya drag Jay out from underneath it, and then lower it. Unfortunately, the whole ordeal makes the dragon wake up and stood to face them. "Uh oh." Lloyd said.
Wings soon appeared on its back before it breathes out fire, and a health board appears, displaying the dragon has twenty lives. (A/N: I gave the dragon 20 lives so that Geoff and Gewuji can get a few hits themselves) The dragon moves around a little before placing its claws on the ground and shoots out fire at them. But they manage to dodge it by running away from it, with Lloyd, Kai, Nya and Geoff on the right, and Jay, Cole and Gewuji on the left. "Hit it!" Jay summons his kusarigama before swinging it to create an energy wave.
"We gotta knock its life force down!" Cole said as he and the others summon their weapons and swung them to create energy waves to hit the dragon. They swing their weapons to crate energy waves, which was hardly working, as they barely faze it before the dragon roars at them. It charges at them as they just kept swinging their weapons to create energy waves to hit it before they charge toward it.
Lloyd hits the dragon's front right claws while Jay hits its left claws before Kai jumps and somersault to try and strike it from underneath, but it doesn't work as Geoff jumped and barrel rolls to strike the neck, but it doesn't work before he lands and swung his naginata to create an energy wave. "Our hits aren't working!" He said.
The dragon shoots fire at the girls, who move back before stopping near Kai. "There has to be a way to bring it down!" Nya replied.
"Look out!" Gewuji yelled before they quickly move out of the way as the dragon shot at them.
The seven Ninja relentlessly swing their weapons to shoot energy waves at the dragon. "It's gotta have a weak point." Geoff said as he swung his naginata before cartwheeling to the right try and avoid the dragon. "Maybe we should try looking for a weak point."
Okino gets out his sword and moves towards them before stopping as they move to split up and attack in different directions. "The Red Dragon's weak point is-"
Before he could continue, the sky turns red, and the Ninja and the dragon came to a complete freeze. Lloyd and Cole were about to land on the dragon's back while the others were in random spots.
Okino looked at his surroundings to see the frozen Ninja and dragon before Unagami's face appeared in the sky. "It is time." He said. "All you must do is remain silent. Let them perish." Okino frowns and looks away. "Do not help them."
He looks back up. "But, they trust me."
Unagami becomes angry as his blue eyebrows turn red. "Remember what I offer!" His eyebrows turn back to blue as he calmed down. "Escape. Freedom. A place in the real world."
Okino turns away upon hearing the sentence. "In the real world?"
He turns back just as everything returns to normal, and the Ninja and the dragon start to move again. Lloyd lands on the dragon's back to try and strike it, but has no effect before it shoots out fire, which Kai rolls to avoid and it shakes Cole off its tail, strikes Nya aside and moves its paw back to avoid Jay's spin strike. Geoff charges at the tail to strike it, only to be swatted away by it and lands by a wall. "There's gotta be a way to defeat him." He said as he got up. Kai charges at the dragon, only to be struck and sent flying. Jay turns to the Key-Tana before turning back to see the dragon about to stomp, and quickly rolls away.
"Okino, help us!" Nya yelled before she is struck by the dragon.
"Okino!" Geoff yelled as he ran to try and avoid the tail, only to end up struck by it and hits a nearby wall.
Okino immediately became angered in determination. "I choose my own path!" He yelled before running up the dragon's tail, jumps with a yell of determination and stabs a target with Unagami's symbol on its back. The dragon's health board decreases by one as it roared in pain, rises up, and makes Okino roll backwards off of it.
"The scale!" Lloyd said, pointing out the weak point where Okino had struck it. "That's the dragon's weak point! Hit the scale in the middle of its back!"
Everyone looked up to notice the weak point. "I see it!" Gewuji replied.
"Yeah, we can do this!" Cole said before they all charge. Nya jumps into the air before coming across the dragon's weak point and stomps on it before sliding off. Cole lands on the dragon's back to jab his scythe's handle into it before rolling back. The dragon's health board deducts to seventeen before it shoots out some fire.
"Take some of this!" Geoff yelled as he double jumps from the left side before spinning to strike the dragon's weak point as he passed by.
"And some of this!" Gewuji yelled as she ran up from behind it and stabs its weak point before somersaulting off of it. The dragon's health board deducts to fifteen as Lloyd double jumps onto its back and slashed the weak point in an 'X' before jumping off.
The health board decreases to thirteen before the dragon roars. It started to move as Jay sees the Key-Tana before the dragon strikes him just as Lloyd, Kai, Geoff and Gewuji each made a strike at the weak point, decreasing the health board to nine. Jay gets up to look at the Key-Tana again as the dragon faces him and roared before he rushes toward it, slides underneath to avoid the dragon shooting out fire and grabs the Key-Tana. He soon stopped sliding before grinning as he held the Key-Tana then noticed the dragon's shadow to see it moving back, and quickly rolled back before it could step on him. He gets on his feet before looking at the Key-Tana and then the dragon just as it struck Lloyd, making him hit a column and lose his sword, and hits Gewuji with its tail, sending her crashing into Geoff. "Ouch." He silently muttered. Jay soon charged towards it as the dragon prepares to shoot at Lloyd, who flinches before he jumped and swung the Key-Tana, sending an energy wave at its weak point. Upon impact, the health board completely depletes, and the dragon turns into pixels before dissolving into smaller pixels and turning blue.
Jay soon lands and puts the Key-Tana away as Kai and Nya came up to him as what remaining pixels had formed a blue amulet with a dragon symbol on it, which descends and floats in front of Jay. The other Ninja came up to him as they disperse their hoods and Okino walks over to them. "What is that?" Gewuji asked, looking at the amulet.
"You have defeated the dragon." He said, sheathing his sword. "The amulet is yours." Gewuji touches the amulet, only it to briefly turn red and she moves her hand away from it. Geoff then went to try, only for the same result. "The amulet can only be taken by the one who defeated the dragon." They all turn to Jay, who soon touches the amulet and it spins faster before turning to pixels and flies into his body, surprising him. "You are empowered to call upon the dragon in a future battle." He opens his menu to see the amulet inside his item log. "But once, and only once."
"We did it!" Lloyd said, raising a fist in the air.
"We did it with your help, Okino." Nya said.
Before Kai could have a chance to pat him on the back, the sky turns red and the Ninja soon froze. Okino lowers his head, knowing what will happen next. "You have betrayed me, Okino." Unagami said as Okino looks at him in the sky. "But you have only doomed yourself. The gate will still be built, but you will never see it. NEVER!" His eyes flash white before he disappears.
Soon, everything returns to normal. "Thanks, Okino." Jay said.
"Tremendous courage." Gewuji said.
"You were great." Cole said.
"You have fulfilled your quest, samurai." Geoff said. "And now, you should come with us."
"I agree with Geoff." Lloyd replied. "You were a big help."
"I thank you." Okino said. "But I must go my own way."
"A wise decision." Geoff replied.
By the arcade cabinet a few minutes later, the Ninja had just left through it as Okino watched them before getting out his sword, walks into the middle of field of swords, and looks to the sky. He then turned his sword around and struck it into the ground. Looking at it briefly, Okino started to walk down a path, leaving his sword among others.
"For too long I have followed the ways of others. I am Okino, ronin of Terra Karana. No longer do I guide others on their adventures. Now... I seek my own adventure."
(A/N: I will take a brief break from this to continue Confidential)
