Everyone looked right towards Zane in shock.
"Are you certain it's Silva?" King Shou asked, as Queen Kani and himself were walking towards the Ninja Crew.
They just came outside to see where the others were, when they heard Zane shout out that Silva was coming.
Zane nodded and said, "I saw her through my falcon's eyes. She's on what appears to be a flying ship, like the Bounty but more devious and evil. There were two other flying vehicles in the shape of crows following the ship. They're heading straight to Aeroplane."
Shou nodded, as he looked out towards where Silva was coming from. Then he jumped off the heli pad. The others were shocked, until they saw Shou flying upward on a hover-board.
"Now that's too awesome," Jay said.
Then Shou looked towards Kani and said, "Go warn the surrounding area about Silva's arrival my love. I'll go set the troops for battle."
Before Shou left, Cole called out, "Hang on your majesty, we'll help fight too."
"Yeah! We've got a score to settle with Silva and her goons," Flare said, as she nudged her fist into her hand.
Shou looked at them and smirked, while he turned around and said, "Alright. Let's move out!"
Shou started flying with his hover-board to prepare his troops.
Auria, Christa, and Flare told everyone else to stand back. The girls' weapons began to glow and nearly blind the others. Then, when the light faded, the ninja and parents saw three vehicles of which each girl was occupying:
Auria's vehicle had large feathered wings on the sides of it that were vertically attached. The body of the vehicle was in the shape of a bobsleigh, with Auria standing in the center-front where two handles, like on a motorcycle, reached the floor of the vehicle. The body of the vehicle was grey with a silver line across it, while the wings were white, and the engine boosters on the back were sky blue. This machine was hovering above the ground.
Christa's vehicle was a circular-shape body with four floating discs that circled around the center body. Christa was within the vehicle sitting, holding onto two short handles like a motorcycle as well. The vehicle hovered above the floor without wheels, and the back had three green boosters. The body was yellow on top and white on the bottom with one stripe of black were the colors meet. The floating discs were all yellow while the bottom was black.
Flare's vehicle was like a motorcycle but different. It had four big wheels with two together on the front and two together on the back like an airplane, and two little wheels that didn't touch the floor on the center sides. The sides of the motorcycle had two wings like an airplane that pointed back at the tips. Flare was sitting within the vehicle, using a steering wheel and a few other buttons. The vehicle was orange on top that flamed down to the black bottom while the wheels and wings were white, but the wings were grey at the tips.
All the vehicles had clear windows in front of them to protect the girls' faces.
The ninja's jaws dropped.
"What are you gapping at you fools? We have to hurry! Jump in!" Flare said.
The ninja snapped out of their amazement, and they jumped into each vehicle. Sensei Wu, Garmadon, Nya, and Misako jumped in the vehicles as well.
Christa had Cole, Misako and Garmadon in her hover-car; Flare had Kai, Nya, and Jay in her motorbike; and Auria had Zane and Sensei Wu in her flying bike.
Lloyd wanted to go too, but Sensei Wu stopped him and said, "Lloyd, it's better if you stay behind. You would be of better use here than where were going."
"But Sensei I could help," Lloyd said.
"You have a more important task to take care of here, Lloyd," Garmadon said.
Garmadon glanced towards Raven, as did Lloyd. Then Lloyd looked back at his father and uncle and nodded, as they nodded towards him.
Then the vehicles took off. Auria's flying bike flew across the sky, Christa's hover-car glided but bounces back up when if lands with sound power, and Flare's vehicle drove regularly, but when it hops off a ramp, it gets an extra boost through the air.
"Man! Where did you get these hot rides?" Jay asked, and Christa replied,
"We were able to summon them with our weapons, well, our weapons transformed into these vehicles to be exact. At will, we can turn them back to their original form... or if we end up unconscious or something like that."
Then Cole replied, "That's like how the golden weapons used to work. That's funny how the platinum weapons and golden weapons are so much alike."
Christa turned to Cole and said, "Do they? I've never seen the golden weapons in person tho-"
"LOOK OUT!" Misako yelled out, as Christa turned and saw a building in front of them.
Christa pressed a button on the handles and the vehicle bounced up above the building.
"No need to worry. This time I'm gluing my eyes to the road," Christa said with a smile, as she continued to drive, following Flare and Auria to confront Silva and her minions.
Back at the helipad, Lloyd, Raven, and Dr. Julien stood together looking out towards where the others departed. Dr. Julien noticed that Raven and Lloyd were the most worried about the others, so he walked closer to them to get their attention.
"Hey. There's no need to fret. I'm sure everyone will be fine," Dr. Julien said with a smile.
Lloyd and Raven thought about it, and then they turned to Dr. Julien and smiled.
"Your right. There's no need for us to worry. They're all strong, they can handle Silva and her goons," Lloyd said, as the three started walking towards the castle tower.
"Here we go," Kai said, as all the ninja stood lined up horizontally in front of Silva's goons, who already landed by the time the ninja arrived. The guy minions had black pants and royal navy shirts with open black leather jackets, and a white 'X' on the front. The girl minions wore black shirts with royal blue scarves and black pants. Three guys and two gals had brown hair, two guys and three gals had black hair, one guy and four gals had orange-red hair, four guys and one gal had gold hair, and two gals and three guys had light brown hair with light highlights. The total minions were twenty five. They stood with their weapons that ranged between swords, knives, scythes, staffs, spiked-ball on chains, and large hammers.
The ninja had all their weapons ready: Kai, Zane, Cole, and Jay had their elemental swords; Flare, Auria and Christa had their platinum weapons; Sensei Wu had his stick; Misako had one hunting knife; Garmadon had a spear, given to him by the king; King Shou had a bow and arrow that could become a sword of awesome might; and Kani had two sickles in each hand, and one she had on her back just in case. There were also some soldiers of the king counting ten in white armor on the chest and legs and grey under armor clothes... if that's what you call them. The soldiers had swords, bow and arrows, and spears.
"Ready..." King Shou said, as everyone readied themselves around an area of the city that was a large circle surrounded by the city buildings.
"Now! Attack!"
The good warriors and evil minions clashed with mighty fury.
However, two people wearing hoods weren't present during this fight. They went over to where the aerocars and aerocycles were. They jumped on one of the aerocycles and took off.
"Heeeyyy! Wait, you can't take that!" Gary yelled out, but the two hooded ones were gone.
"Time to retrieve the young kunoichi, eh Ryan?" Silva said, as she removed her hood while driving the aerocycle.
"Yeah. I guess," Ryan said, as he looked ahead and saw two ninja and a scientist walking towards a castle tower.
Lloyd suddenly stopped in his tracks. Raven and Dr. Julien turned towards him and stopped walking. They were about to question him when Lloyd said,
"Someone's coming."
Lloyd turned around, and he noticed an aerocycle approaching. There was one person on the aerocycle with steel colored eyes, and a grin of mischief etched across her face.
"Silva," Lloyd said in all seriousness, as he put his ninja hood on and stood forward to guard Raven and Dr. Julien.
Raven gasped at the sight of Silva, and Dr. Julien stood in front of Raven protectively.
Silva put the kick stand for the aerocycle even though it didn't make much of a difference, since the cycle was hovering above the floor. She hopped off the aerocycle and slowly approached Lloyd with a cheeky grin on her face.
"So Green ninja, we finally meet face to face. Though I should say Golden ninja based on your gi, or is it Golden Spinjitzu Master? All well. It's still a pleasure, don't you think? Heh heh heh. Anyway, I'm a busy woman so, I would appreciate it greatly if you handed Raven over to me so that I can be on my way," Silva said, as she approached Lloyd, who stood his ground.
After she finished speaking, Lloyd thought,
'She thinks she can force Marcell to serve her, hurt my mother, attack Aeroplane, and think I'll just hand Raven over? Well here's my answer...'
"Silva," Lloyd said, which made Silva stop in her tracks about ten feet away from him.
"I'll tell you this right now. I will never hand Raven over to the likes of you!" Lloyd said, with fiery determination.
Silva was impressed by Lloyd's determination and committment. However, she started to giggle, and then she burst out laughing evilly, yet calmly.
"Do you think you can stand in my way? Oh you foolish boy. You don't realize who your dealing with," Silva said with a sly smile.
"Do you know who your dealing with?" Lloyd replied.
Silva once again laughed and said, "Ah, how bold you are. Just like your mother. You know, sometimes that boldness is helpful..."
Then she pulled out a black glove and put it on her right hand. Then, a blade came out from the back hand of the black glove, and became a glove blade.
"But sometimes that boldness is what leads to defeat!" Silva finished her sentence.
Silva ran towards Lloyd with the glove blade, and he ran towards her. Silva swiped the blade at Lloyd's legs, which he was able to dodge by jumping over her. Then, as Lloyd landed, Silva turned around to strike him with the blade. Lloyd was able to grab hold of the blade with both hands to prevent it from slashing his head.
As he struggled to hold it up, Silva smiled at Lloyd, darkly, as she revealed her other glove blade that was one her hand already. Lloyd's eyes widened, as Silva attempted to cut him with the other blade. Lloyd jumped back quickly, and started charging a golden-green energy ball. Silva ran up to Lloyd, full force, as he shot out a beam of golden-green light energy at her. Silva snickered, as she blocked the attack by putting her blades in an 'X' form in front of her, while running through the beam of light. Lloyd tried to use more power to push Silva back, but it only slowed her down a bit, as she continued to charge through the energy beam.
Silva made it to the source of the beam right in front of Lloyd, and she side stepped to the left and put her left hand on the floor, as she swipped her leg under Lloyd's, which made him land on his back. Lloyd hit the floor and his energy beam died off, as Silva stood up on her two feet again. She jumped up with her blades upward, and then she thrusted downward with the two blades to stave him. Lloyd saw this, and he rolled over to the side while jumping up to his feet, as Silva hit right into the ground. Silva's blade staved threw the floor, but she easily pulled it out of the ground and looked towards Lloyd.
Then Silva smiled wickly, which made Lloyd stiffen trying to predict what Silva was going to do... which wasn't easy for him to do since she wasn't so predictable. Silva lifted her head and smirked at Lloyd in a 'your too easy' look, which made Lloyd confused until he heard a cry.
"LLOYD! HEEEELP!" Hearing Raven's plea, Lloyd quickly turned around and saw that the guy in the hood was carrying a tied up Raven to the aerocycle.
Lloyd turned towards where Dr. Julien was and gasped when he saw the old man on the floor nearly unconscious. Lloyd turned towards Silva, who was laughing, as she vanished in a puff of gray and black smoke. Lloyd looked towards where Raven was being taken, and he ran towards her, and even more so when he saw that Silva was in the front seat ready to drive off.
"Lloyd!" Raven called out again after she was placed on the motorcycle, sideways.
Then Silva tried to drive off, when the aerocycle came to a complete hault at a sixty degree angle, upward.
Silva and Ryan turned around, as they saw that Lloyd was holding onto the back of the aerocycle.
"Er! Your. Not. Taking. HER!" Lloyd yelled out, as he pulled the aerocycle back a few feet.
"Boy, you are trying my patience!" Silva shouted, as she hit the blue button on the machine.
The aerocycle began boosting forward, but Lloyd was able to use all his strength to hold it back, while bending the titanium outside of the aerocycle.
"Stop the foolish boy, Ryan!" Silva yelled out to Ryan, the hooded stranger.
Ryan signed. He hopped off the aerocycle and started walking towards the Golden ninja. Lloyd looked towards Ryan, while struggling to hold the aerocycle. Ryan raised up his hand as he continued walking towards Lloyd, when Dr. Julien came out of nowhere and tackled Ryan. However, Ryan didn't really fall on the floor, but he was pushed back a little when the old man jumped him.
As Ryan struggled a bit to get Dr. Julien off of him, Silva was annoyed by this time. Yet, when she turned back towards Lloyd, she saw that he had broken the engine of the aerocycle, which made it hit the floor.
Before Silva could grab Raven, Lloyd already pulled Raven out of the aerocycle, and placed her on the ground beside him. Silva started to become angry, but then she shook it off and relaxed, as she jumped off the aerocycle. Ryan followed Silva and jumped back next to her, while Dr. Julien was able to run over towards where Lloyd and Raven was.
As each side stared each other down, suddenly an attack from above caused Silva and Ryan to jump closer to the edge of the helipad. They saw that the attack was a fire and a light and dark energy attack. Silva smirked while Ryan had no reaction, as they saw the rest of the Ninja crew jump down from three vehicles that had turned back into normal weapons. They all stood around Lloyd, Raven, and Dr. Julien.
"Not so-" Kai was cut off when Cole said,
"Kai. Don't even say it!"
"What? I couldn't think of anything better to say."
Then Flare said, "Kai, leave the cool ending remarks to the pros."
Flare extended her white blade toward Silva and Ryan, and glared at them with a menacing look of angered annoyance.
After assessing the situation, Silva bowed her head a little and said, "Alright, alright. We shall take our leave for now, but don't expect for us to let you go so easily next time. There's still enough time left. So enjoy the time you have now..."
Silva turned her back and said, "Til Darkness falls... See ya then."
Then Silva and Ryan disappeared: Silva in a puff of grey and black smoke, while Ryan disappeared in a black flash.
After a few minutes of standing there waiting... and waiting... and waiting... and wait-
"Um, I think they're gone," Jay said, and everyone finally relaxed.
Then Shou and Kani flew over on their hover boards, and jumped down near the others.
"Silva and her minions have fled," King Shou said.
"Thank goodness your all alright," Queen Kani said.
"I don't know about all of us. My head still hurts," said Dr. Julien, as he rubbed his head.
"Don't worry Doctor. I have just the thing," Kani said, as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a clear glass bottle and a cotton swab.
"I hope it doesn't sting," Dr. Julien said with a smile.
"Oh don't worry, it will only be a small pinch," Kani said, as she dabbed the back of Dr. Julien's head where he was hit.
Then Dr. Julien said, "Oh wow. That works great! My head doesn't hurt anymore. But I didn't have a cut, only a headache. How did that-"
"It's a special serum that's soaked up deep into the skin tissue to the muscle tissue, and starts to heal any damage done even bruises. It can even reach the bones and lubricate them to lessen pain," Kani said.
"Yeah, but unlike healing the muscles and lessening bone pain, my healing ointment can heal cuts, wounds, and bone damage," Flare said, and then Kani said,
"Well then, here. You can take this bottle, I have plenty more in stock," Kani said, as she handed Flare the bottle, which she took greatfully and said,
"Thank you your majesty."
After this, Lloyd was able to untie Raven and he asked, "Are you okay, Raven?"
Raven replied, "Yes I'm alright, Lloyd. Thank you for helping me."
Lloyd smiled and said, "Eh, no biggy. I would do anything to protect you."
Raven smiled back, as she held Lloyd's hand, but then she let go when he winced at her touch. Then Raven asked,
"Lloyd, did you strain yourself holding the aerocycle?"
Lloyd looked into Raven's eyes, and he knew that he couldn't try to act tough from seeing that Raven wasn't going to hear it. She was very concerned and she pretty much knew what was wrong with him.
So Lloyd gave in and said, "-sign- Yes. Holding the aerocycle took a toll on my hands. They hurt pretty bad."
Raven turned towards Flare and asked, "Flare. May I borrow some serum?"
Flare passed Raven a cotton swab with some of the serum on it. As Raven took off Lloyd's gloves and started to pat his hands with the serum, Lloyd winced again from the contact. Then he relaxed when the pain started to dissipate. Raven disposed of the cotton swab, and gave Lloyd his gloves back, that he quickly slipped on.
"Thanks Raven," Lloyd said, but before Raven could reply, Flare cut in with her arms folded and said,
"Hey! What the what! Not even a 'Thanks' or a nod for providing the serum! I didn't have to do that you know, or give you that piece of cotton!"
Lloyd looked at Flare in surprise, but then he softly smiled and said, "Thank you Flare."
Flare smirked a bit and said, "No problem kid. You needed it... especially for saving Raven."
Flare... smiled at Lloyd and he smiled back. ~Respect~
Then Sensei Wu said, "It's good to see that everyone is all together safe and sound. You have all fought bravely for one another, and have proved your loyalty as well. I am proud of my students and my fellow friends. I am also proud of our new friends for their trust and assistance. We are all deeply grateful and honored."
Then King Shou said, "Thank you for your kind words Wu. We are also deeply grateful and honored by your loyalty and trust to help protect our kingdoms and our dear Raven from the hands of evil. Whatever you need for your journey, we will be happy to accomodate you all."
Then Jay said, "Well, we could use boosters-"
"JAY!" Kai, Cole, Zane, and Nya said at the same time.
"What? Those things are cool..."
Kani stood next to Shou and smiled sweetly at him, as he did the same.
Then King Shou turned back to the others and said, "We will be honored to help you in continuing your voyage. Also, I wish to request if my daughters may accompany all of you on your journey. They have skills, knowledge, and powers that I think would better contribute towards your group."
Sensei Wuand the other ninja stood together, while Auria and Christa stood in front of their parents and bowed respectfully.
"It would be an honor for us to join you in your quest," Auria said.
Christa added, "And we can learn more about how to use that spinjitzu to better our skills and strengthen our group power."
Each of the ninja and their parents along with Sensei Wu, Raven, and Flare looked towards one another and each began to nod. Then Sensei Wu stepped forward and bowed while saying,
"We will gladly accept your offer."
Auria smiled and Christa jumped up in joy and hugged Sensei Wu, which he didn't expect but he didn't mind much. Christa looked over Sensei Wu's shoulder and smiled at Cole without anyone else noticing, as Cole saw this and was surprised.
After Christa released Sensei Wu, then Garmadon said, "Well, this has been a very... interesting morning. I haven't had a workout like that in a while. Though I'm glad I'm on the right side."
Everyone started to nod and laugh.
Then Queen Kani said, "Well, let's get you guys ready to go."
Everyone agreed and followed the King and Queen towards the castle.
After the Bounty was all ready, Auria and Christa said goodbye to their parents.
After the last goodbyes were given, the Bounty was off, past the fog, which wasn't much of a fog when descending, and down below the clouds. The Bounty continued on it's way to where Raven called home, Fountain Falls.
"Fountain Falls?" Nya asked, as everyone was in the main control room sitting down besides Flare, Christa, Nya, and Raven.
"Yes. That's the name of my home. Above ground it is called Lake Aki," Raven said.
"You live under a lake?" Jay asked, and Flare replied,
"She just said Lake Aki. Why are you asking if she lives under a lake, it's obvious isn't it?"
Auria turned towards Flare with a stern and calm expression and said, "Flare, mind your manners."
Flare looked towards Auria with some irritation, but then she signed and said, "Yes, she lives under a lake."
Raven looked on the map displayed on the large screen, and pointed to a forest-like area and said, "It's around here. Once we get close enough, we'll have to go by foot to find the entrance."
Nya looked at the area that Raven pointed and nodded, saying, "Alrighty then. I can mark it on the map so that the Bounty could fly on auto-pilot."
As Nya went to work, Sensei Wu stood up and said, "Well, since we have a new destination to head to, it would be best if we prepared ourselves for the time being. Who knows if Silva is waiting for us like last time"
Then Cole replied, "I don't think Silva would bother us for a while. I mean, we beat down her goons pretty hard so she may not bother with us for the time being."
Sensei Wu thought about that, and he said, "Perhaps your right, but we shouldn't keep our guard down. Remember..." Sensei Wu started walking out of the room, "Silva may have more allies then we know of."
After Sensei Wu departed, Raven suddenly sprinted out of the room like lightening, which startled everyone in the room. They pursued after her.
"Raven, where are you going?" Christa asked, as they ran after Raven.
Upon the Bounty's deck, Sensei Wu was already there, and Raven talked to him, since he asked why she was running on deck suddenly.
After about twenty seconds, the others in the ship ran outside to see what was up with Raven.
"There she-" Flare said, as she stopped in mid-sentence seeing that Raven was standing on the railing of the Bounty, looking outward.
"Raven don't!" Lloyd yelled out, as Raven jumped off the edge of the Bounty.
Everyone gasped, except Auria, as they ran towards Sensei, who was next to Raven when she jumped.
"Sensei, why didn't you stop her?" Kai asked, and Sensei Wu replied,
"There's no need to worry."
Then Lloyd said, "No need to worry? She just jumped off the Bounty. We're like two-hundred feet in the air!"
"Actually it's two-hundred and fourty-seven feet," Nya corrected.
Lloyd turned towards Nya with half closed eyes and a frown, as Nya rubbed the back of her head and said,
"I... guess that doesn't make it better, huh?"
"Woooohoooooo!"
Everyone turned towards where Raven had jumped from, and they saw her ascending upward on a large, winged creature:
It was all purple, with light blue lines around the eyes and light blue claws. The spikes that stuck out from it's slender tail were light blue as well and they turned green as they merged with the creatures skin. The eyes of the creature were a brilliant green, and it had two horns on it's head that were a darker purple than it's body angled back. The teeth were sharp, pearly whites, and the spikes on it's back were from green to blue. The wings were lon,g and under them was a pale purple color, while the top was a dark purple color, and on the bone parts were the regular purple color.
The beast soared into the skies, as Raven said, "Fly like the wind, Pearl!"
As the beast flew, everyone watched in amazement the beauty and fierceness of it.
"Is that a dragon?" Garmadon asked, as the others continued watching Raven and the dragon cut threw the sky.
Auria replied, "Yes. That is Raven's dragon, Pearl. Raven found Pearl when we ventured towards her homeland one time. Pearl had an injured wing, and was hiding in a cave, when Raven saw her and felt sympathy. She tried to feed her so that she could patch up her wing. After about a week or so, Pearl warmed up to Raven, and let her take care of her injury. They've both been watching each others' backs ever since."
Auria smiled and waved towards Raven, who waved back.
"Oh, that was the time you brought Raven home, right sister?" Christa asked, and Auria nodded.
"I forgot about Pearl. She's awesome. She must have been worried about Raven since she disappeared," Flare said, as she crossed her arms.
"Huh, even Raven has a dragon," Kai said.
Jay turned towards Lloyd and nudged him while saying, "Yeah. You two have got a lot in common, huh?"
Lloyd blushed a bit and turned away from Jay to continue watching Raven and Pearl.
Then Pearl flew ahead of the Bounty and turned a slight right.
"Hey. Where are they going?" Nya asked, and Auria replied,
"Pearl must be leading Raven somewhere. Let's follow them."
As the Bounty followed Raven and Pearl, the dragon continued to fly towards a certain rock formation in the distance.
"What's the matter Pearl? You want us to stay there for the night?" Raven asked.
Pearl turned towards Raven and nodded.
Then Raven said, "Well, okay. But we need to get home, Pearl."
The dragon looked at Raven with confident eyes. Raven recognized what Pearl was trying to say and asked,
"You know a safer route... but what about the regular route?"
Pearl roared a small roar, and Raven understood.
"Oh, I see. The regular route is more open air, which means that there isn't enough trees and stuff to conceal us as we fly. The enemy will be able to find us pretty easily. Wait... how did you know we have an enemy?"
Pearl roared again, and Raven replied, "So Queen Kani gave you a letter to give to my father about what's been happening... Thank you Pearl."
Pearl nodded, as she continued flying onward with the Bounty on her tail. (Not literally.)
It was pretty fun writing this chapter... but it gets even better... stay tuned. :)