On another day, Raven was walking towards the castle with Lloyd. She told him she wanted to show him something, and he agreed, even though Raven didn't say what it was that she wanted to show him. They entered the castle and took the staircase down to the basement. The basement entrance was hidden in the lower level room, which had one wall with shelves full of books, and on the adjacent wall was a stone statue of a bird perched on a golden branch. Raven took a blue book on the shelf and switch it with a black one next to it, which made the head of the bird statue flip up, and then she pressed a red button under the statue's head. Then the corner between the walls of the statue and books pulled away to reveal the secret entrance.
"Whoa," Lloyd said.
"Pretty cool, huh?" Raven said with a smile.
Then they traveled down the dark staircase to the basement. They made it into a room that was a plain square room, with only one light bulb in the center of the ceiling lighting the room. Raven stood in the center of the room, and then she walked opposite where the staircase was and touched the wall. Around her hand on the wall, a vertical, rectangular outline of green, red, and blue glistened and faded. Raven stepped back, as the wall opened from the center like sliding doors.
The next room was dark, but there was an illuminating light of cyan that lit up even the room Raven and Lloyd were in. As they both entered the hidden room, there was a metal staircase that lead seven steps downward to a circular platform that went around the the whole room. Also, there were four steps that lead from the circular platform down to the ground level of the room.
In the center of the room, there was a large, cyan-colored crystalline structure that was surrounded by some computers that went in a circle around it. Above the crystalline structure, hanging from the ceiling, were robotic arms and tools that were controlled by another computer system on the circular platform. The only real lights in the room were the glowing buttons, the screens on the computers, and the crystalline structure itself.
Raven and Lloyd stood before the crystalline structure.
Then Lloyd asked, "Um, Raven, What's going on? What are we doing here, and what is this?"
Raven looked down with some sadness, and then she turned towards Lloyd and said,
"Lloyd, I wanted to show you... this is the crystal prison my dad told everyone about. The same prison that my mother is trapped in."
"What?" Lloyd said as his eyes widened, and he looked back towards the crystalline structure.
Then he noticed who was trapped within the crystal:
It was a little hard to see at first because the crystal was a little frosted on the outside. But when Lloyd moved just a little to the center of the crystal, he saw a woman with black hair, and who wore what looked to be silver, black, and purple clothes. As I said, the frost made her appearance unclear, but you could see her face much more clearly. Her face was very similar to Raven's and her hair had two pieces in the front that had one blue bead near the end of each strand. Her eyes were closed, with a serene expression on her face.
"Frozen in ssspace, frozen in time, yet she's still alive... presssserved in the crystal prison."
Lloyd and Raven turned to see that King Terrin was walking towards them, as he spoke those words. He was in his Serpentine form, so technically he was slithering towards them.
"Daddy."
"Your Highness."
Raven and Lloyd said simultaneously.
Terrin nodded, as he turned towards his crystallized wife.
"Dr. Julien hasss been a big help in the processs of freeing my wife from the prisssson. He's given me very helpful suggestionssss, and extra ssssupport. I believe we're even closer to freeing Reine from thissss prison then ever before," Terrin said, as he moved closer to the computer in front of him.
"That'sss great dad! Do you think... do you think you'll be able to free her sssoon?" Raven asked, as her father thought about it and then turned towards her and said,
"I'm sure we'll be able to break her out ssssoon. I can't wait to ssssee her face when she ssssees how much you've grown Raven."
Raven nodded, as her father turned to Lloyd and said,
"And how she'll react to meeting the Golden Sssspinjitzu Master."
Lloyd laughed a little and said, "Just Lloyd is fine."
Terrin nodded, as he smiled, and Lloyd nodded back. Then Terrin turned back to the crystal that encased Reine and approached it closely. He became saddened, as he placed his hand on the crystal and said,
"Ssssoon my love, you will be free. Ssssoon."
Raven and Lloyd turned towards one another with sad expressions from watching Terrin's gesture. Raven looked down in sorrow, as Lloyd noticed this and he wrapped his arm around her to comfort her. Raven turned towards Lloyd and rested her head on his shoulder, as Lloyd held her close to him. Terrin turned to see Lloyd comforting Raven, and he smiled as he thought to himself,
'He cares much for my daughter. That's good to know... But... I'll be watching him, VERYcarefully.'
Terrin's expression became more stern, as he looked towards Lloyd.
On an island between the dark islands and light islands, stood a large, rectangular tower. Near the base from the ground up to one story was made of grey stone bricks. The next six floors had one window on each side and the wall was made of caramel-colored bricks. The roof was red and flat, and the corners of the building from the roof to the ground was blue.
The rest of the island was covered in grey-colored grass, which was more accumulated in the center of the island acting as a field around the tower, and extended out towards the black-leaved forest around the rest of the island. The outer perimeter of the island was mostly composed of beach that lead out to the sea.
Within the tower in the sixth floor, was a certain room that held a particular person. The room was actually two rooms that connected together. One room side had a bed made of golden wood with a blue and pink bedspread, a vanity with gold around the mirror while the drawers and legs were made of bronze, and a bathroom as well. In the other room side, had a table next to the window to look out, a kitchen in one corner of the room with an island table, a televison on the opposite corner with some videos games and movies, and another corner of that room had some shelves with books on the top and clothes on the bottom.
The particular person who lived there was sitting next to the table and looking out the window. She had her elbow resting on the table with her chin resting on her hand. Her hair was jet-black medium-length, with two pink and two light blue streaks that went from the sides of her forehead down just past the rest of her hair length. She had bangs that just reached her eyes and slightly curled in and up. She wore a black sweater with pink linings on the pockets. She had blue capri pants with black shoes that had a pink, horizontal strip across them. She just stood looking out the window bored, but also sad, and thought,
'I wish I could go home to the others. Silva says I have to stay here to be safe while the others work, but I can help them! -sign- I want to be back with my family! OhMarcell, it's be too long sister...'
Lucy continued to look out the window, as she thought of the times being with her big sister and her people, as they would just travel across the lands of Ninjago, race the wind, and watch the moon rise as the sun would set.
'Enough!' Lucy thought, as she stood up from her seat with determination.
'I wish to return home!I miss Marcell and our peoplesoo much and...and I know something they don't. Silva isn't the only one...'
Then Lucy turned towards the kitchen where the vent on the upper wall was.
'Hmm... I can climb down through the ventuntil the second floor, andthen I'll have to sneak out the rest of the way. -sign- I wish the windows weren't locked so well.'
Lucy removed the vent cover, and climbed in while pulling the vent cover to close it. She then manuveured her way throw the ventilation shaft to the second floor. She looked down through the grated cover of the horizontal ventilation shaft that went across the ceiling of the room she was in.
Apparently, the second floor was just one huge room that had a long white rug that went across the center and connected the two staircases on the opposite sides of the room. The two opposite walls, adjacent to the walls where the staircases were, had two windows on each side with one potted plant under each window. The walls were black, the ceiling was blue, and the rest of the floor was a dark, shiny blue.
There were four guards in this room, and they were playing cards in the middle of the floor since they were bored. They wore full dark grey clothes, with light-grey hoods, and black belts.
Lucy smirked since their boredom would enable her to escape. She pulled out a short red-handled knife from one of her pockets, and used it to slice open a square from the top of the ventilation shaft so that she would be able to walk on top of it, without drawing much attention.
After she was firmly standing on the ventilation shaft, Lucy looked back at the guards and decided to play it safe. She dug in her pocket and pulled out a white pebble that she found in a river one time with Marcell. She took aim, and threw the pebble at the potted plant opposite where the vent was under the window. The guards immediately rose when they heard the pot smash onto the glossy floor. They walked over to inspect the damage while Lucy jumped over to the staircase leading downward.
She was able to jump down the staircase so that even if the guards looked, she would already be halfway down the stairs. Then Lucy climbed down the rest of the stairs and looked over the side to see if there were more guards, but no one was there.
'What?' She thought, as she walked down to the first floor.
This floor looked just like the second, but there were no windows and the opposite staircase was replaced by a double white door. Then Lucy heard voices approaching from the the staircase from the basement, as she quickly jumped up on the ceiling like a cat and held on. She looked down below, as she saw four guards walking up the stairs and talking.
"Dang man. That beast gave quite a fight." -Female guard one
"I know, it's so strong, and you can barely get behind him without him seeing." -Male guard one
"Dude, it has eight eyes to see with, and four BIG mouths. I'm surprised we even survived." -Female guard two
"Yeah, well, at least that's over with. We chained it down way better than before, so it's not breaking out anytime soon." -Male guard two
"Hey. Let's go upstairs and check on the princess real quick, then we can get something to eat." -Female guard one
The four guards started climbing up the staircase.
Lucy jumped down from the ceiling and landed softly on the floor. She looked towards the two white doors, then towards the basement stairs.
'Should I just leave? But, what sort of creature do they have locked updown there?' Lucy thought, as she made up her mind, and ran down the basement stairs.
It was pretty dark, but you could see that the basement was a corridor with iron doors.
As she walked across this corridor, Lucy heard a sound in the distance like wind, but then it sounded more like breathing, as she stood before the last iron door. Lucy looked at the lock and flicked her hand which revealed a metal pick. She started to fumble with the lock for a few seconds, and then the lock clicked, as Lucy unhooked it from the door and set it down on the floor gently. Then she slowly pushed open the iron door, and entered a large circular room.
In the center, stood a large, white dragon with four heads and huge wings. It was chained to the floor by it's four legs, it's tail, it's four necks, and the wings. Also, each mouth had a chain wrapped around it securely. The beast looked very weak and tired, with cuts and scraps on it's exterior.
When Lucy entered, the four headed beast looked up at her and stood with each of it's eyes fixed on her.
'What kind of monsters are these people that they would lock up such a beautiful creature?' Lucy thought, as she slowly approached the beast and said,
"Hey big dragon. Hi... you have four heads. Hey each head, how your doing?"
Ultra dragon pulled a little away from Lucy as it growled, but she continued walking towards him, and then she held out one hand and stopped moving.
"It's okay, my name's Lucy, vampire princess. I've come to bust you out of here, and myself too," Lucy said.
Ultra dragon looked at Lucy suspiciously, until she closed her eyes with her hand still in front of her towards the dragon. Then Ultra dragon slowly moved towards Lucy, as each head of the dragon sniffed, and then the head of the Earth dragon Rocky, placed the tip of his nose on her hand.
On contact, Lucy was able to peer into the minds of the Ultra dragon:
She saw when each dragon first met the ninja at the temples, and when the ninja became their riders. She saw when the dragons left the ninja to mature, when they returned as the Ultra dragon and fought the Great Devourer, when they participated in Ninjaball Run with Lloyd, and when they fought the Overlord. Also, Lucy saw when Ultra dragon was captured just shortly after leaving the ninja from Ninjago city, and when he was brought to the tower.
After seeing this, Lucy became conscious again, and then she placed her hand on her mouth, as she looked at the Ultra dragon with sympathy.
"Oh you dear, dear creature. You belong to the Green ninja... he's your master. I'v heard of him from others... You must go to him! And to the ninja," Lucy said, as she started to grab on the chains around the mouths of each dragon head and tore them off.
'No one should be stolen from their family! No matter if they are human or dragon or whatever,' Lucy thought, as she broke off all the chains on the white dragon's body.
Afterward, Ultra Dragon stood up and spreaded out his wings, as he stretch out his body. Then, he nuzzled Lucy with each of his heads and purred, thanking her for her help, as Lucy patted each head.
"Oh wait, we gotta go now! They probably realized that I've esccaped by now!" Lucy said, as she jumped up on Ultra dragon's back and held onto the reins, which were a little dusty and scratched but still good enough to use.
"Let's go Ultra Dragon! Fly up!" Lucy called out and she kicked both legs at the same time, as Ultra dragon lifted up his four heads and shot out an element from each mouth.
As the ceiling cracked and split into numerous pieces, Ultra dragon flew straight up and charged through the falling rumble.
When he finally broke through the tumbling rocks, he ended up busting through the ground that was not too far from the tower.
As the white dragon rose up higher in the air, he and Lucy could hear the people in the tower yelling out in panik.
"Let's GO!" Lucy yelled out, as she turned the Ultra dragon away from the building, and he started flying away.
However, one of the guards, who was outside already, assembled a vehicle that looked like it had a large cross bow and could be driven from the compartment on the back of the vehicle. Right when he started the engine, another guard jumped on the vehicle and aimed the crossbow at the flying dragon. Then the driver guard drove the crossbow vehicle, following after Ultra dragon, as the second guard aimed and fired a ball and chain. It went flying across the sky and ended up latching itself around one of Ultra dragon's wings, which sent the dragon and vampire princess falling free-style to the ground.
They landed right into the forest part of the land, just where the forest and plains of grey grass met. The ground was pretty soft, and Ultra dragon wasn't flying so high, so the fall wasn't so bad. Lucy ended up getting thrown off of Ultra dragon when he landed, and rolling a little across the floor. She was able to get up, as Ultra dragon was trying to remove the ball and chain from his wing.
"I got it," Lucy said, as she tore the chain off the dragon's wing.
"Can you move?" Lucy asked, as Ultra dragon tried to move his wing slowly.
It hurt him a little, but he could manage. Then they heard people yelling in the distance.
'They're coming,' Lucy thought, as she saw Ultra dragon trying to turn around and face the people.
"No, Ultra dragon. Your too damaged right now to fight. You must find your owner and heal," Lucy said, as Ultra dragon roared lowly, since he didn't want to be heard by the guards.
Lucy understood what Ultra dragon was trying to say.
She shook her head and said, "No. Your not going to be bait for me. You've been here long enough, and suffered too much..."
Suddenly, Ultra dragon saw Lucy standing right in front of him with her back turned and face towards where the guards were.
Then she said, "I'll go. I can distract them long enough for you to escape. Quickly now."
Ultra dragon made another little roar in protest, until Lucy turned and looked at him with serious determination that made Ultra dragon lower his heads in understanding.
"Go! Do not let my risk be in vain! Go now my friend!" Lucy said, as she ran out of the forest and in the field.
She waved and yelled out at the guards, who were coming on their crossbow vehicles, and another vehicle that was like a truck of all black with red and orange flames on the bottom and spikes across the top like a mohawk, with poles around the body of the truck so that other people could hold onto it from the outside. Lucy ran towards them and jumped on the crossbow and kicked it down so hard that it snapped in half. The driver skidded from the attack and stopped the vehicle. After that attack, Lucy jumped on the truck and started breaking off the poles so that the guards would fall off of the vehicle. As she did this, more guards appeared, fighting with Lucy while the ones in the vehicles parked and joined the others to try and subdue the Vampire princess.
During this time, Ultra dragon was very sad that he had to leave his friend to fend for herself, and most likely, to get captured again. However, he knew he had to return to Lloyd and the ninja as soon as possible to warn them, and to come back to the island to save Lucy. After one more glance towards Lucy, he ran off to try to escape the forest and find the ninja. Ultra dragon made it to the beach part of the island, where he spreaded his wings and took off, though he was slow because of his injuries. He started heading across the sea back to Ninjago, in search of his master.
Meanwhile, Lucy fought bravely against Silva's guards, until a certain person showed up and easily captured her. She was once again placed in her room, where she stood with two women guards and a ball and chain on her left leg so that she couldn't escape again.
As Lucy stood looking out the window like she was before, she was concerned about a lot of things, but she had one thing on her mind,
'Please be safe my dragon friend.'
The princess is still in the castle. How about that toad?!