"Auria!" Raven yelled out happily, as Lucy looked on in shock. Auria stood with her back towards Raven and Lucy with her hair dramatically flowing in the breeze, as she held her Platinum fans in each hand at her sides.

"Oh wow... the Princess of Aeroplane," Lucy said, still in shock.

Auria looked over her shoulder to see Raven and Lucy.

"I guess I came just in time. You must be Lucy, and Raven are you alright?" Auria asked, as Lucy nodded and said,

"It's nice to meet you,"

and Raven said,

"We're okay Auria. Thanks for coming."

Auria nodded, and then she turned to Kerri with a cold and unnerving expression that surprised even Kerri.

"Auria... it's been awhile," Kerri said in a nervous tone, as she looked into Auria's eyes and saw a silent rage ready to be unleashed.

Auria didn't say anything at first.

"What's the matter Auria? Can't speak?" Kerri asked, as Auria took one step forth, which caused a pretty strong gust of wind to surge and push Kerri back.

"You have no right to speak to me or any of us. The only words I would allow you to say is 'I surrender' or none at all!" Auria hissed at Kerri, who's eyes widened with furrowed brows.

"I've never heard you speak with such contempt Auria," Kerri said, which served to enhance the strength of the wind encircling Auria.

"You of all people should know why, Kerri," Auria said without a falter in her expression.

Kerri's eyes widened as she realized what Auria meant, while Lucy and Raven looked at each other in confusion.

"Ha...ha...haha...hahahahaha," Kerri laughed, and then she smirked deviously and said,

"So you remember now. That's unfortunate, but it makes no difference! Unlike before, I have much more power at my disposal."

Kerri put her hands to her sides outward, as Auria stood in a fighting stance with one foot almost behind the other, and one hand forward, while the other was bended up above her head. Before either side made a move, Christa jumped in, and landed a few feet from her sister and cracked the ground around her a bit.

"Christa!" Raven called out, as Christa turned and said,

"Hey Raven, and your Lucy right?"

Lucy nodded and waved. Then, Christa turned to Auria and asked,

"Sister, what's going on? Are you going to fight Ms. Kerri?"

Auria just turned towards Christa with her eyes, and Christa knew the answer.

"But why? I heard what she said to Lucy and Raven before, but why are you so upset?" Christa asked, concerned, but serious.

Auria turned her attention to Kerri and said, "She knew all this time, and she ran off like a coward."

Kerri glared at Auria and said, "Coward?! Nonsense! There is a time and a place for everything and I had other things to do-"

"Like running away and hiding in this forest?"

The girls looked, and saw that Flare jumped in from on top of a tree and landed not too far from Auria's side, opposite of Christa. Followed by Flare, Garmadon and Sensei Wu jumped in and stood one on each side of Lucy and Raven. Violet, Nya and Lloyd jumped in as well, surrounding Lucy and Raven as follows: Violet stood behind them, Nya stood in front, and Lloyd stood in front of Nya, which was about a few feet from Auria. Kerri saw all of them standing together, and she just laughed and said,

"Oh look how nice this is. All of you standing together, thinking you can stand against me. This is sooo precious... WELL GUYS! COME ON OUT!"

From the forest behind everyone came forth more minions, who wore all black with royal blue hoods on and white scarves on their mouths with different types of weapons as before. They also had two black vans with cannons on them and shooters ready to fire.

"How is your confidence now?" Kerri said tauntingly like a jerk, as she took a few steps forward.

Auria stood her ground, as the others prepared themselves for a brawl.

"HEY GUYS! WE'RE HERE!" A voice called out as engines roared.

"... Jay?" Nya said, as she looked around along with everyone else.

Then, from the two sides where Garmadon and Sensei Wu came from, emerged two vehicles from each side: Kai and Jay in their platinum vehicles from one side, and Zane and Cole on the other side, which was where the pond was, but Zane froze the water so that they could drive over it. All four ninja dismissed their vehicles and jumped forth with their weapons in hand, and landed next to Sensei Wu and Garmadon.

"Guys! Your here," Nya said in relief.

"Yeah, and it looks like we came just in time," Kai said, noticing all of the enemies nearly surrounding them.

"So, I'm guessing your Lucy right?" Cole asked Lucy, as she nodded and said,

"Yes, I'm Lucy. Hey guys, it's nice to meet you all."

"Hey Lucy," the ninja said simultaneously, and then focused they're attention on the enemies.

"So you managed to get the Platinum weapons, and even summon forth your own vehicles," Sensei Wu said, proud of his students.

"Yeah we did! We got our new weapons and awesome vehicles. We're smoking!" Jay said excitedly, as the other guys agreed.

"We've also gained a boost in our elemental abilities and overall skills, as we shall test out right now," Zane said, as the guys readied themselves.

While the ninja, Violet, and Nya readied themselves to fight with the minions, Lloyd, Flare, Auria, and Christa went to challenge Kerri.

"How promising... even the ninja have arrived! This makes things MORE Exciting!" Kerri said, while clasping her hands together.

"Uh, who's that?" Jay asked, and Flare clarified,

"She was friends with Sensei Reine and she tried to steal Raven and Lucy not too long before you guys arrived."

"How do you know? Weren't you sleeping?" Lucy asked, and Flare turned to her and replied,

"I sensed a disturbance, and I was going to jump in, until Auria descended from the heavens awesomely."

As the others looked towards Auria, Flare and Kai happened to make eye contact. They were both surprised at seeing one another in their new attire and welding their new weapons.

'She...' Kai thought.

'He...' Flare thought.

Then Flare said low, "Are you kidding me? The Platinum weapon empowered him too."

Then Kai thought, 'Even Flare got a new weapon and clothes... aw come on!'

After that disappointing moment, Garmadon asked,

"But I thought you girls knew Kerri? Why is she doing this?"

"I'll tell you," Auria said, as she straightened up.

Kerri's eyes widened and Auria continued, "After Dr. Julien had repaired the damage that was present upon my left temple, the circuits in my mind had connected and revealed to me a lost memory from a long time ago..."

Everyone stood silent, even the minions, as Auria continued, while Kerri became more upset.

"One night I stood over at Fountain Falls with Christa and Flare. I couldn't sleep because I felt something odd in the air. When I stepped outside, I noticed that Sensei Reine was walking out of her castle, so I approached her and asked where she was going. She told me she had business to attend to, and that I should come as well with my Platinum fans. I agreed, and then we set off to the library archives. We sneaked into the archives when we heard a disturbance, and noticed that someone was stealing some scrolls. There was a thief who was stealing from the archives of the other lands that Sensei Reine knew would eventually come to Fountain Falls. When we confronted the intruder, it turned out to be Kerri. Sensei Reine and Kerri began to argue, which led to them fighting. As the battle ensued, I jumped in a few times to assist Sensei Reine, but my skills were not as adequate as they are now, and I was caught off guard by Kerri's next manuveur... she tried to... seal me in the Crystal prison..."

The others gasped, and Auria continued, "But before I could be sealed, Sensei Reine pushed me out of the way... I tried to help her, but it was too late. The last thing she told me was to protect Raven... Then she was sealed in the Crystal prison the next moment. I tried to break her out, but Kerri came from behind and knocked me over to the side. Then she took a powerful tazor and punched it to my left temple. That's why I forgot what happened that day, and why Sensei Reine is in the Crystal prison."

Silence had loomed over everyone as a wind blew across the people.

"...No. M-Mama... you sealed my m-mother," Raven said, shocked by what she just heard.

Kerri's head was down with her eyes closed and fists clenched.

"YOU! YOU SEALED SENSEI!" Flare yelled out, as the shadows on her blade intensified.

"Why? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" Christa yelled out, as her Platinum gauntlets began to glow yellow.

Kerri stood quiet, then she started to giggle, and then she laughed out loud with her head up. After this, Kerri looked at the others and replied,

"You fools don't know anything. You don't know what it's like to lose everything, and then lose it again. Ever since she came to Hotaka's School of Hidden Arts! Reine was skilled, talented, humble... They all loved her, and I admired her strength as well, but the stronger she became, the more my job was in jeopardy. They considered letting her take my place as Sou-Sensei of school. I couldn't let that happen... That title was all I had... I lost everything once, and I wouldn't lose it again! So during an underground mission, I let her get trapped down there so that she wouldn't be a threat... but then she escaped with Terrin's help, and they fell in love. She became Queen, and after she left the school, the head Sensei suspected that I had something to do with her disappearance in the first place. She told me to leave, and never return or she will deal with me personally. I was forced to leave the school immediately, and I left with nothing. I reunited with Reine not too long after that, but she was oblivious to my attempt to get rid of her and referred to me as a friend, which I accepted. But then I realized that the Crystal technique piece was located in the archives of Fountain Falls. Of course, I wanted to test it on Auria, but sealing Reine actually made me feel better, since I took some vengeance. I left to this forest and I've been here ever since, waiting for the day I would be ready to use the Crystal technique on my old Sensei. Then Darkness came, and I decided to assist him..."

Kerri smiled wickedly and said, "And I intend to complete my mission by bringing Raven and Lucy to him! Ah hahahahahahah!"

Kerri laughed evilly, as the three kunoichi became enraged by her mockery. The whole Ninja Crew felt an arising anger within them, as Kerri laughed right in their faces about her crimes.

'Twice. She tried to hurt my mom twice...' Raven thought, as she was still shocked, and thought,

'She froze my mother in that prison... but she didn't just hurt her... she hurt my dad and me, and everyone. How could she? Because she was scared? Because she was mad? What did my mom do? She didn't so anything wrong. I don't understand!'

Raven held her head, as she tried to comprehend what she heard, and Lucy took notice. Then Lucy went over to Raven and stroked her head, like what Raven did to her when she was scared of flying.

"Calm down Raven. I may have just found out about what's been happening, but you need to try and stay calm," Lucy said calmly, as Raven started to feel a little better.

Lloyd turned his head towards Raven, and he noticed her turmoil. As Kerri laughed, Lloyd turned to Kerri with the utmost distaste, as she stopped laughing and noticed the storm ready to burst from the people in front of her.

"OOhhh, so what are you all going to do now? Hit me? Hehehehehe, just try!" Kerri said, as she held her hands outward, with a sinister grin on her face.

"ATTACK THEM!" Kerri shouted.

"NINJAGOOO!" The Ninja Crew shouted.

The minions ran over with their assault of weapons, as Kerri ran straight towards her opponents. Kai, Zane, Jay, and Cole used spinjitzu towards the minions, Violet and Nya jumped on the canons, and Flare, Christa, Auria, and Lloyd ran towards Kerri using spinjitzu. Raven and Lucy stood in the center with Garmadon and Sensei Wu guarding them. The ninja clashed with the minions, and Nya and Violet clashed with the cannons. The ninja noticed how much stronger they were with their Platinum weapons and continued to fight awesomely. Violet and Nya beat the sense out of the minions controlling the canons.

On the other side, Lloyd, Auria, Christa, and Flare fought with Kerri. At first, Kerri was dodging their attacks and throwing short knives and shurikens at the Ninja and kunoichi. Christa used her sound shields to protect her comrades and herself from the weapons, and Auria was able to throw the weapons off target with her wind. Flare was using the shadows to try to hit Kerri everytime she landed, and Lloyd was trying to catch Kerri and attack her when he could. Kerri stood light on her feet the whole time, until one point when Flare caught one of her feet with a shadow hand.

"Lloyd GO!" Flare yelled out, as Lloyd ran towards Kerri with golden energy charged up brightly in his right hand.

Right when Lloyd was going to make contact, Kerri just smirked, which surprised Lloyd even though he continued his attack.

BIFF!

Lloyd's eyes widened and he gasped as did the other kunoichi. Kerri was able to catch Lloyd's hand in her's, but the hand that caught his fist was encased in crystal. Kerri smiled evilly, as she raised her other hand that was also encased in crystal and upper-cutted Lloyd with it. Lloyd went flying up, and then Kerri jumped up and went to kick Lloyd, but he was able to block right on time when her foot executed the hit. He went flying back, but Christa was able to catch him, although she slid back.

"I gotcha Lloyd," Christa said, as she was able to place the Golden ninja down on the feet.

"Thanks Christa," Lloyd said, as he rubbed his chin since Kerri upper-cutted him there.

"Ah hahahahaha! You didn't expect this did you?!" Kerri said, as she raised her arm to show her crystallized hands.

"What do you fools think I was doing this whole time in this forest?" Kerri said, and then she noticed that the ninja, samurai, and vampire general had just finished fighting the last minions.

They turned towards her and started walking over, like bosses. Then Kerri said,

"Hahahahaha... imbeciles! I will show you what a Crystal Master can do!"

Kerri floated up with crystals spiraling up towards her about ten feet off the ground. She moved her arms forward, the right arm up and the left arm down in a circular motion, then back the other way with the right down and left up. Then she crossed her arms and spreaded them outward towards the Ninja crew.

"Oh no!" Auria said, as Flare turned to her and asked,

"What's is it?"

"Her hand movements, she's using the CRYSTAL SEALING TECHNIQUE!" Auria yelled out, as everyone stopped moving and stood looking at Kerri in surprise.

"When I used this techinique before, I could only use it on one person and much of my strength was drained. But, after I mastered using the crystal powers, now it doesn't drain nearly as much power as it did before... and I can not only seal one person..." -Kerri

Kerri moved her hands inward in balled up fists, then outward and said,

"But I can seal up to FIVE people now! And I know just the FIVE!"

Crystal pieces emerged from the ground and clinged onto everyone's feet.

"What?!"

"How?!"

"ERR!"

Everyone tried to pry off the crystal, but it wouldn't budge.

"How did she get this on our feet without us noticing?" Cole asked, as everyone looked around to think, and still tugged on the crystal.

Then Lucy said, "Her weapons... the weapons she used to fight you guys! Those weapons were made of crystal disguised as normal weapons!"

Everyone looked around and saw the weapons Kerri used before were now gone or 'melting' into crystals.

"Aw man! What?!" Kai said, panicing, as he smacked the crystal with his fire sword.

"Well dears, it's been fun, but I have a job to complete. Get ready to be sealed!" Kerri yelled out, as she opened her palms and crystal-spike circles came up from the ground around the five people.

The others gasped, as they saw who the five were:

Lloyd, Sensei Wu, Auria, Cole, and Violet were surrounded by the crystal-spike circles that came up from the ground.

"NOO!" Raven yelled out, but she couldn't move as she reached to the others, and especially to Lloyd and Auria.

"This Can't BE!" Jay yelled out, as he tried to move, but couldn't.

"NOO!" -Kai

"This Can't End Like This!" -Zane

"Brother! Lloyd!" -Garmadon

"NO! Please!" -Nya

"Not Like This!" -Flare

"AURIA! COLE!" -Christa

"AH! Violet!" -Lucy

"STOP!" -Raven

Violet was shocked but she tried to move her legs,

Cole was trying to hit the crystal with his scythe,

Sensei Wu tried to think of something, but to no avail as he struggled,

Auria tried to cut the crystal with her fans, but it didn't work,

and Lloyd was trying to pull himself out of the crystal, as he punched at it a few times with golden energy.

"AH HAHAHAHAHAHA! GOODNIGHT DEARS!" Kerri said with crazy eyes and a wide malicious grin, as she was about to close her hands and set the se-

SHHHHEEEEEENNNGGG! SLLLLAAASSSHHH!

For that moment in time, everyone stood in shock of the person who had just appeared...

Classic Cliffhanger. ;)