Kai:

"Do you see now Kai?" Shadow Darkness said calmly, as he stood floating a few feet away from Kai.

Kai was sitting slouched against a shadow wall. His eyes looked dull as he stared at the ground, and he had cuts and bruises all over his body and a larger bruise on his cheek. The Shadow versions of the other Ninja had beaten Kai up, and Shadow Lloyd delivered the final kick that sent Kai onto the wall that he was leaning on.

"Your too weak. Not physically, but mentally. You let your friends beat the fire out of you while you begged and pleaded with them not to. Even though you knew that, deep down, they were just shadow versions of the real ones, you still couldn't bring yourself to fight them. Weakness. That weakness was how you lost now," Shadow Darkness said, as he floated in front of Kai and extended his hand towards him.

"But if you join me Kai, you won't be weak-willed anymore. I can give you the strength and power you need to be the greatest of them all... Join me Kai," Shadow Darkness said.

Kai slowly looked up at Shadow Darkness with the same dullness in his eyes. He looked at his hand, as he slowly picked up his own.

"Yes. Join me Kai. I can help you. I can make you stronger," Shadow Darkness said with a small smirk forming on his face.

Kai slowly reached his hand up to Shadow Darkness' hand. But then he froze when he heard a voice in the distance.

"Kai!"

A spark had lit up in Kai when he heard the familiar voice, and life started to return to his eyes.

"F-Flare..." Kai whispered.

"Kai!" Flare's voice came louder, as Kai started to lower his hand and stare in the direction of Flare's voice.

"No! Listen to me Kai! It's a trick. I can give you strength. Follow me!" Shadow Darkness said more demanding.

"KAI! Don't listen to him Kai! Don't listen to him!" Flare yelled out as she was getting closer.

"Flare! My Flare! My spark! Where are you?!" Kai called out as a smile began to form on his face, and his eyes lit up fully with life.

"NO! This isn't right! You were suppose to follow me!" Shadow Darkness said in slight frustration, as he stood in front of Kai.

Kai looked at Shadow Darkness with a smirk and furrowed eyebrows, as he said, "I follow my own path, and your in my way!"

Kai's eyes began to glow red, as his body transformed into the pure form of fire. He was using his Full potential.

"No! NO! NOOO!" Shadow Darkness said, as the intense fire that Kai began to release had engulfed him in flames until he disappeared.

The flames that emitted from Kai started to spread far and wide throughout the shadow bubble, destroying it in the process. Flare was in the shadow bubble when she noticed the flames. She covered her face, but when she didn't feel anything, she moved her arm away. Flare gasped when she saw that the fire that Kai released was burning the shadows, but they didn't come near her. As she continued to watch the flames consume the shadow mist, Flare didn't notice that Kai had emerged from the flames from behind her, while in Full Potential form. He smiled wholeheartedly, as he came closer to her.

"Flare," Kai said in relief, as Flare turned towards him and smiled.

"Kai! Your alright," Flare said as she walked closer to him.

Then Kai breathed in and out, as his body returned to normal and the flames started to cease. Kai and Flare stepped closer to one another as they embraced. Flare nuzzled her head under Kai's chin, as he stroked her hair.

"I thought for a moment that I... that I was going to lose you there dude. I panicked and I started yelling for you to fight him. I was... scared that I would be too late," Flare said.

"I thought I lost you too. I thought that Darkness got you already and... and I almost lost hope... I'm so glad that your alright," Kai said.

Then they released one another, as they smiled at each other.

"Your... not going to tell anyone that I admitted that I was afraid right?" Flare asked.

"As long as if you don't tell anyone that I almost gave up," Kai said.

"Let's never give up, or be afraid to do what we must," Flare said and Kai nodded in agreement.

-Squeak, Roar, Screech!-

Kai and Flare turned back-to-back to see that they were nearly surrounded by a large group of various Lizarians.

"Great. Now they decided to come," Kai said, irritated.

"At least we get to show them how we feel about it," Flare said, also irritated.

Then the sound of an engine was heard, as Kai and Flare noticed something coming towards them, as well as the Lizarians.

"What is- oh my gosh is that Lucy?!" Flare said in surprise, and Kai's eyes widened.

Lucy was driving towards Kai and Flare on her platinum vehicle, as she skidded around them while hitting the Lizarians away. She came to a stop when she went around them three times.

"Hey guys! I thought I might have found you here," Lucy said, as she waved towards them.

Lucy's Platinum Water Vehicle was in the shape of wave scooter, which is like a wheel-less motorcycle on water that uses an engine to shoot water from the back to move forward. There were extra attachments to Lucy's water scooter, like platinum streamers that waved-out from the sides and the back of the vehicle. There were other streamers of various colors and shades of blue too with a few white ones, and all the streamers had white tips to them. There was also water that covered the whole bottom of the water scooter and kept it afloat just above the ground. The color of the body of the scooter was blue on the front half and cyan on the back half, with four diagonal lines on the center of each side that were white, black, platinum, and white in that order. The booster on the back was all black, as well as the handles, and there was a glass frame that covered the front of the vehicle where Lucy sat.

"I've never seen the platinum vehicle of the Water Staff before. It looks awesome," Flare said.

"That's amazing. But what are you doing here Lucy? Weren't you supposed to turn off the Security System?" Kai asked.

"Thank you, and yes I did turn off the Security System. I came straight here to save you guys from the shadow mists, but I see that you guys were able to handle that," Lucy said, as she rubbed the back of her head.

"You knew about those shadow bubbles?" Flare asked, as she walked up to Lucy, as well as Kai.

"I just found out about them from Silva. She said that all of the Lizarian Spawners were rigged," Lucy replied.

"Then the others are in danger too," Kai said.

"We have to find them," Flare said, as she looked towards Kai, and he nodded towards her.

"We have to hurry. Flare, you can sense, where are the others?" Lucy asked, and Flare closed her eyes to concentrate.

"I can sense seven more shadow bubbles. One isn't too far from here, and the other three are more closer North from here. I sense that Jay and Nya are the closest ones," Flare said as she opened her eyes.

"Then you two go to the closest one for Jay and Nya, and I'll check out the further ones. It'll be easier that way," Lucy said, and Kai and Flare nodded in agreement.

"Alright. Let's do this!" Kai said, as he jumped up and held his Platinum Fire sword in his hand as he summoned his Platinum motorcycle.

"Let's roll!" Flare said, as she jumped up with her Platinum Scimitar in hand and summoned her Platinum cycle.

Kai and Flare headed towards the closest shadow bubbles, as Lucy went towards the farther ones. Flare's eyes flickered a few times towards the sky because she could sense two powers fighting in mid-air.