Far within a certain desert, a lone snake was travelling across it. He was heading towards Ouroboros, and he was pretty tired from his journey.
'Hm, if I'm not misssstaken, the other sssserpentine are trapped ssssomewhere elsse... Which isss the perfect opportunity to revisssit Ouroborosss and sssstay for a while. Until I can think of a better plan to rule the worldwithout getting eaten like last time!' The lone Serpentine thought, as he continued on his way.
He finally entered the city of Ouroboros. It was late at night, and the 'streets' were deathly quiet.
As the snake reached the center ring of the city, he heard shuffling behind him. He ignored it once, but when he heard it again, he pulled out a blade, which he stole, and he held it out.
"Come out, whoever you are!" The lone Serpentine yelled out.
There was silence, then a flash of lights. The lone Serpentine blocked his eyes from the lights, and then he refocused his vision and noticed that he was surrounded.
"Oh dear..." The snake said.
Then he heard a voice among the crowd say, "Welly well, look here, a serpentine. He's pretty big huh?"
The snake turned around to see a woman with short white hair looking at him. She stood a little forward from the crowd, and spoke to a man with blonde hair in a pony tail,
"What do you think, Bronze?"
Bronze looked at the lone Serpentine with a smirk and said, "Oh please Luna. He may be big, but he's not a threat."
The snake became aggrivated, but then he realized that what the man said was true. He was surrounded, but that doesn't mean he didn't have a few tricks up his sleeves. He held his weapon out, but then the blade was smacked out of his hand by a rock. He watched as his weapon slide under one of the vampire's feet, and then he looked at who threw the rock, and saw a woman with black hair and a stern, yet annoyed expression on her face.
"Why Marcell, you have come-" Luna said, but then she stopped talking when she saw that Marcell wasn't in the mood, especially since she was still angry about learning that Silva was holding her sister hostage.
"Who is this vacuous snake and why isn't he eating dirt and begging for mercy?" Marcell said, as she walked closer to the Serpentine as he back away slowly, intimidated by her fierce presence and words.
"He just came here your highness," said Bronze, as Marcell looked at the snake more carefully.
The Serpentine thought, 'Your highnessss? She musst be there leader... and a royal one at that.'
"So, your a normal serpentine, huh? Well, it doesn't matter, you are of no use to us," Marcell said in a gruff manner.
Then she turned around and put one hand on her hip, as she started walking away and said, "Dispose of him."
The vampires around the snake revealed their razor sharp teeth and red-ringed eyes, which scared the life out of the lone snake. The lone Serpentine had to think fast, and then he called out to Marcell,
"Wait! I can be more of an asssset then you think! Just give me a chanccce to prove mysself, your majessty!"
Marcell stopped walking and turned around.
"Hold on," Marcell commanded, as she approached the snake.
"Well then snake. What can you do to benefit me and my fellow vampires?" The Queen Vampire asked.
''Vampiresssss eh? How intriging...' The snake thought.
Then he said, "Well, how about thissss."
The Serpentine disappeared in thin air. The vampires were impressed by this, and they started looking around to see where the Serpentine had gone. Marcell stood in one place, and then she felt a cold blade near her neck and she couldn't move her legs. Marcell looked straight ahead of her and saw the lone Serpentine reappear before her eyes. He held his blade close to Marcell's neck, and he coiled her legs with his tail. He smile deviously at Marcell, as she just looked at him plainly and said,
"Hmph. Impressive power of turning invisible."
The Serpentine chuckled and said, "Yesss quite my dear, and I can do more than that you know, essspecially if you let me go. I wouldn't want to harm such a lovely lady-"
The Serpentine cut off when Marcell grabbed the tip of his blade, and moved it closer to where her heart was.
Then she said, in a more lively tone, "Go ahead you fool. Strike me down! Pierce through my heart! Take me down! You have your chance. Go ahead... I dare you to take it!"
Red rings came around Marcell's eyes, and her fangs showed forth through her sinister grin. This made the Snake tremble and gulp in fear from her dark gaze. He lowered his blade and uncoiled the Queen Vampire.
Then he bowed to her and said, "I am your humble sssservant your highnesssss."
Marcell smirked, as her face turned back to normal and she said, "Very good, your smart. By the way, I'm Marcell, the Queen of the Vampire Kingdom. What's your name servant?"
The Snake looked up at Marcell, as he grinned and thought, 'She isss highly hossstile,yet sssociable... I wouldn't mind ssserving her for the time being. I may learn ssssomething ussseful...'
Then the Serpentine answered Marcell, "I am Pythor P. Chumsworth... just Pythor iss fine."
Marcell had a mischievous smirk and thought, 'Heh heh heh. Wouldn't the Viporeons be surprised...'
The next morning around the camp, the ninja and kunoichi woke up early, even though they weren't so enthusiastic about it since Sensei used a horn to awake them.
"Ugh! Sensei, why would you use a horn?" Jay asked in a groggy tone, as he loosened up from his fighting pose since he thought they were being attacked.
The others also jumped up and were ready to fight, even though Christa, Kai, and Raven were looking in the opposite direction of the horn.
Sensei Wu said, with amusement, "I wanted to find a new method of waking up my students more efficiently, and I see it worked pretty well. What do you think Flare?"
The ninja and kunoichi looked towards Sensei Wu's right, and they saw Flare standing there with her arms crossed and a smirk across her face.
"Oh I think it worked perfectly Sensei Wu," Flare said, as the ninja signed, and Kai looked at Flare with an annoyed expression that made her slightly giggle.
"Alright... It is time for us to get ready for departure. Let's hurry onto the Bounty and continue towards our destination," Sensei Wu said, and then he turned and walked towards the Bounty with his walking stick, while the others packed their stuff and rolled up their sleeping bags.
Garmadon, Misako, and Dr. Julien were already on board the Bounty and ready to go, as the ninja and kunoichi finished packing their things from camping out.
"Marshmallows? Really Jay?" Cole asked, and Jay replied,
"Well it was a camp out, why not."
Cole thought about it, and then he extended a hand out towards Jay and said "Pass some over."
Jay smiled, as he took out two marshmallows and handed it over to Cole, who ate them both at the same time. While Jay passed Cole the marshmallows, Christa sneaked a hand over and pulled out a couple of marshmallows from the bag. Jay looked back in the bag, and rubbed his head when he saw only a few marshmallows remained. Christa was eating the marshmallows, while Auria stood next to her and took a marshmallow from her sister.
"You shouldn't be eating marshmallows so early in the morning Christa," Auria said.
"Heheh. Well Auria, you seem unable to resist too," Christa said in a silvery tone.
"... They taste good," Auria said as she ate the one she took from Christa.
"I know right?" Christa said as she finished eating the few she took.
Then Christa and Auria bumped fist and headed on the Bounty with the others.
As Auria and Christa walked across the deck, Auria looked towards Zane, who looked at her back. They exchanged a smile, as Auria and Christa continued heading inside the Bounty.
'I wonder about him...' Auria thought.
Raven jumped on Pearl's back, since she was going to lead the Bounty to her homeland. She looked over Pearl's shoulder, and saw Lloyd coming close to them. Pearl glanced at Lloyd, but then she looked away in a 'I'll-trust-you-for-now' matter.
Lloyd looked up at Raven and said, "Would you mind if I came with you? On Pearl I mean, just to ride?"
Raven looked towards Pearl, who looked at her and shrugged her wings while lightly nodding.
Then Raven turned back to Lloyd, with a smile and said, "Sure thing Lloyd. Pearl doesn't mind so hop on."
Lloyd nodded, and then he jumped up on Pearl's back beside Raven. There was enough room for both of them to sit next to each other. Raven held onto Pearl's harness, which was black with a light blue strip on it and a golden mouth piece, as she pulled upward and said,
"Let's go on up Pearl."
With that, Pearl spreaded her wings and hopped up into the sky within a heart beat. Lloyd was surprised by how quickly Pearl was able to ascend towards the clouds, which left him in awe... until he heard a voice call out,
"Whoa! She's fast!"
Raven and Lloyd quickly turned around to see Kai and Flare sitting next to each other behind them.
"I told you she's an awesome dragon," Flare said, and Kai replied,
"No kidding. But I gotta say, I still like Ultra Dragon though."
Pearl looked towards Kai and smacked him over the head with her tail.
Kai rubbed his head and said, "OW! It's not that your not awesome Pearl. It's just that, I've known Ultra Dragon for a longer time. One of his heads use to be my own dragon. It's nothing personal."
Pearl 'humph'ed and looked straight ahead, as she continued flying with the Bounty following behind her.
"You should heed your words carefully Kai. Especially when your flying a few hundred feet in the air," Flare said, as Kai looked over Pearl's side and saw the distance from the floor up to him. He gulped as he looked back at Flare and said,
"Y-Yeah. I guess I should be more considerate, especially in this case, huh?"
Flare chuckled, as Kai rubbed the back of his head.
Then Raven asked, "How did you two get on Pearl without us noticing?"
Flare and Kai looked at Raven and Lloyd 's confused expressions.
Then Flare replied, "We already asked Pearl to take us for a ride before you came, sooo here we are."
"Yeah. Pearl was pretty cool with it though. But I'm surprised thatyour here Lloyd. Although, I guess I shouldn't be eh?" Kai said with a smirk.
Lloyd was surprised by this, as Flare added, "Oh, but don't worry about us you two. We wouldn't want to interrupt the two baby love birds of our group, huh?"
Raven and Lloyd blushed, as they looked towards one another. They quickly turned away, embarassed, as Kai and Flare looked at them with triumphed smirks. Then they looked at each other while exchanging a high-five.
After a while of flying, Pearl started to fly in an odd way that was noticable to Kai, Flare, and Lloyd.
"Hey," Lloyd said to Raven, as she looked towards him.
"Why is Pearl flying, well, weird?" Lloyd asked.
"Yeah. It's like she's swimming instead of flying," Kai added.
Raven smiled at them and replied, "It's because... we're home."