Ninja- Kai, Flare, Jay, Nya:
"They just keep coming!" Jay said, as he electrocuted a group of red-eyed lizarians.
"That's why we have to keep fighting!" Kai said, as he slashed towards a group of lizarians and a fire wave burst forth from his Platinum sword and burned them.
"This isn't going anywhere if we just keep fighting! There has to be a way out of here!" Flare said, as she jumped into her shadow, and then she jumped out as shadow claws and slashes attacked the lizarians that surrounded her.
"We have to make a break in the group of lizarians so that we can escape!" Nya said, as she slashed a few lizarians with a katana in each hand.
"Then we need to attack all at once, together!" Kai said, as he started slashing his way to the others.
"I'm coming!" Flare said, as she slapped a red-eyed lizarian in the face with her hand.
"I'm coming soon!" Jay said, as he smacked two lizarians with his Platinum nunchunks.
Nya was watching the lizarians that were slowly creeping towards her, as she readied her katanas to strike them if they lunged forward. However, Nya failed to notice that a certain lizarian was sneaking her way through the crowd, and she stood low to the ground just behind Nya. When three red-eyed lizarians lunged forward, Nya was able to slash at them and send them flying back with cuts across their abdomens. In the moment when Nya stopped moving after her attack, the purple-eyed lizarian that was low to the ground behind her quickly reached forward and bit her back leg. Nya was surprised by the sudden strike, as she turned while jumping away from what bit her. She saw that it was a purple-eyed lizarian, who slowly stood up on two feet, while a slither of dark purple liquid seamed from her teeth.
Nya looked at the purple-eyed lizarian in puzzlement, and she gasped when the creature started to chuckle with a guttural voice. Then the purple-eyed lizarian slipped away through the crowd of lizarians, almost like a shadow, as Nya tried to run after her. However, Nya stopped when her vision started to blur between blinks. She held her back hand on her head, as she started to feel the leg that was bitten grow more numb by the moment. Nya fell to the ground helplessly, as she dropped her katanas. She stood propped on one elbow while holding her head with one hand and groaning from nausea.
"Wh-What h-happened... W-What's h-happening..." Nya said, as she could feel that it was getting more difficult to speak.
"NYA!" Kai called out to his sister when he saw her drop to the ground, and still surrounded by lizarians.
"NO!" Jay screamed out when he saw Nya hit the ground, and when he noticed that the lizarians were moving closer to her.
"Don't you dare touch my FRIEND!" Flare yelled out, when she noticed the lizarians encircling Nya.
The three Ninja used their elements to push the lizarians that were around them away, as they quickly ran over to where Nya was. They each attacked at the same time with elemental slashes of their own element that knocked the lizarians that surrounded Nya far away. They encircled Nya, as Jay and Kai knelt down besides her on each side, while Flare kept an eye on the lizarians.
"Nya! Are you alright? What's wrong?" Kai asked with much concern.
"She looks pale, a-and she's trembling," Jay said, with a worried expression.
"We have to get out of here guys. These lizarians aren't going to stay down for long. They're tough," Flare said, as she held her weapons at the ready, since the lizarians were slowly rising from the ground.
"W-Where can we go now? Nya is hurt, or sick, or something!" Jay said, worry clearly present in his voice.
"Calm down Jay. We can carry her on one of our vehicles remember?" Flare asked.
"Heh... Oh yeah," Jay said, while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
Kai signed and said, "Then let's go."
Nya started to whimper, as she held onto her arms while shivering, as if she was cold inside.
"She's getting worse," Kai said, as he held his backhand on her forehead.
-Boom- -BOOM- -BOOM!- -BOOM!-
Stomping was heard some yards behind the Ninja, as the lizarians that were in front of them started to lower themselves and back away. The Ninja were confused for a moment, and then they turned towards the booming and realized that it was stomping.
"Oh. My. Good. Ness." Flare said, as she stared in awe at the large lizarian that was approaching them slowly.
"What the..." Kai trailed off as he examined the large beast, while still staying knelt besides Nya.
"Oh hohoho, no," Jay said, as he held his hands near his mouth with surprise and some fear.
The large lizarian that stood before them had a black band around it's white glowing eyes, while the rest of it's body was composed of dark gray scales. It stood on two bulky, four-clawed, flat feet with cylinder-like legs that walked forward. It's torso was muscular, as well as it's arms, and each hand had four white claws. It's shoulders had padding made up of sharp scales that spiked horizontally slightly upward. The neck and head was like a dragon, with four spikes that spiked out towards the back of it's head, and a long, broad snout with short, white, sharp teeth. It was as tall as five ninja standing on top of each others' shoulders, and it's shoulder length was four ninja wide, and three ninja wide for the waist.
The three Ninja looked at this beast in surprise, and Flare said,
"That's the bulky lizarian from the video message from Falcon."
"Well apparently, Falcon's vision is like a car mirror, it's deceiving!" Jay shouted in panic.
"We can still take it on," Kai said, as he stood up and held his fire sword firmly.
"But we need to get Nya out of here now. I have a funny feeling about her condition," Flare said, as she could sense that something dark was creeping in Nya's bloodstream.
Kai and Jay looked equally worried towards Flare, until the black-eyed lizarian before them roared like a lion, but with a deeper voice.
"Let's get this thing out of the way, and then we'll go," Kai said, and Flare and Jay agreed.
The black-eyed lizarian started running towards them, as the three Ninja ran forward and attacked with elemental slashes like before. The Beast(Black-eyed lizarian) stopped running and blocked it's body with one arm from the slashes. After the impact of the attacks, the Ninja went to attack again as a team. However, the Beast swept it's blocking arm towards the Ninja, which blocked their attacks, and then it punched with it's other hand as the Ninja were hit back. They rolled across the ground, as the Ninja were able to get their footing afterward.
"What the what! -Pant- He just smacked us l-like if we were flies," Jay said, as he held his knees with his hands.
"He's a beast," Flare said, as she wiped the side of her mouth with her free hand.
"Then we need to get stronger," Kai said, as he slowly pushed himself up to stand straight.
"But we used our Full Potentials before Kai. -Pant- It would be dangerous if we used it without resting up," Jay said, as he slowly stood up straight.
The Beast started walking slowly towards the Ninja.
"There's nothing else we can do. We have to get Nya out of here, and this beast is strong," Kai said, and then he turned towards Flare to see what she thought.
However, Kai was surprised to see that Flare was looking up with a bewildered expression on her face. Jay noticed this too, as he looked at her in surprise too, but then he heard Nya whimper, which made him turn his attention to her for a moment. He knelt down next to Nya, as he stroked her hair to comfort her in some way, and then he looked back towards Flare.
"Flare, what's wrong? Are you sensing something? Is someone coming?" Kai asked.
"..." Flare didn't respond, as her face grew pale.
"Flare. What is it?" Kai asked again, with more concern, as he took a step towards her.
"N...N... No... No... I-It can't be... why..." Flare started saying, as she stood almost frozen in place and lowered her head.
"What? What can't be?" Kai asked, as he stepped closer to her.
Oddly, the Beast had stopped walking and was letting them have a moment to speak to one another. Most likely, the Beast knew it's own strength, and it didn't mind waiting.
"It's... It's Auria... I can sense her strength depleting. It's dangerously low... as if... as if she's..." Flare couldn't continue her sentence, as her eyes became watery.
"What? Auria? No way," Kai said, as he stood next to Flare.
"B-But she's the s-strongest of most of us. She can't be," Jay said, with a surprised expression.
"I can sense the others too... they won't last long..." Flare said, as started to almost tremble, and then she fell on one knee.
"Flare," Kai said, as he stood closer to her and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"No No No! This isn't right! We found our Full Potentials, we got stronger, we fought the shadow bubbles... why is this happening? Why to Auria?!" Flare said, as one tear slid down her cheek.
"Calm down Flare. We're going to make it through this. We have to be strong even when everything looks like it's going crazy. We can't give up just because of what the situation looks like," Kai said, as he rubbed Flare's shoulders with one hand, comfortingly.
"Uh Kai, the Beast is moving again!" Jay yelled out, as he pointed towards it, and Kai looked up.
The Beast started walking towards them, as he readied his claws to attack. Kai quickly moved forward towards the Beast, as he readied his Fire sword by igniting it on fire.
"Bring it!" Kai shouted, as he ran towards the Beast and attacked.
Jay stood up, and was about to help, when he felt a stinging pain on his left leg and right hand. He jumped and turned around to see that a green-eyed lizarian had bite his hand, and that a yellow-eyed lizarian bit his leg. The two lizarians ran back to the crowd of lizarians, as they stood waiting for the black-eyed lizarian to finish it's fight.
Then Jay's right leg stiffened up, as he fell to the ground. He tried to move it, but it didn't budge, as his right hand started to spaz and twitch uncontrollably.
"Ah! AH! What's HAPPENING?! Ah! AH! AAHH!" Jay screamed in panic, as his hand continued to shake, and his leg was still limp.
Nya was still shaking and whimpering from the pressure on her head and the tremendous pain in her leg. Flare was trying to calm herself down, although she could still sense the wavering strengths of her friends. Kai was still battling the Beast, but it was too powerful of an adversary for one ninja to fight alone. At one point, the Beast was able to slap Kai, as he rolled a few feet on the ground and came to a stop on his back. His arms and legs were spread out as he tried to take a breath and then stand up. However, the Beast was too fast for him, as it jumped and landed on the ground on the other side of Kai where his head was pointing to.
Kai didn't realize that the Beast was trying to immobilize him, until it raised it's fists and slammed them on his arms. Two cracks were heard, as Kai felt his arms become numb, and then surging pain pounded through them.
"Wh- AAAAAAHHHHH!" Kai screamed at the top of his lungs from the sudden surge, although his hand never let go of his Platinum sword.
"KAI!" Jay screamed out, when he saw what happened, but he couldn't move much to save him.
"This isn't happening, this ISN'T HAPPENING!" Jay yelled out in panic.
Then the Beast lifted it's arms and stood back, as it smirked at Kai, and then turned away towards the others. It started making it's way towards Jay, since he was screaming, but then it stopped walking when it felt a dense power of built-up rage ready to explode. It turned towards the dense power, and it's eyes widened when it saw a mist of shadows emanating from Flare, as the ground around her was full of darker shadows that started to rise up from the ground in the form of sharp vines.
"You... you dare to mess with us... you've all harmed my friends... you've all hurt my friends here... and you had the nerve... the audacity... to touch my Fire Guy... I'll. Freaking. Break. YOU!" Flare said, as she looked up at the Beast with glowing orange eyes that had a dangerous glow of black around them.
The Black-eyed lizarian took a step back, as the other lizarians watched in surprise. Jay's mouth hung wide open, and even Nya was able to look up and look at Flare in shock. Kai found the strength to move with his body without his arms, as he was able to sit up and see Flare's display of power.
"Woah..." Kai said, but then he winced from the pain still present in his arms.
The Black-eyed lizarian growled, as it started walking towards Flare, and readied it's fist to attack. Flare stood in the same place, as the shadows around her started to move around her more quickly. Then the Black-eyed lizarian made a quick sprint towards Flare and punched. However, Flare slightly moved her hand upward, as a large shadow claw like a hawk's talon rose from the ground and grabbed the Black-eyed lizarians arm. It was confused at first, but then the Black-eyed lizarian tried to wriggle itself free from the shadow claw's grasp.
But Flare wasn't through yet, as she flicked her hand towards the Beast, and another shadow talon grabbed it's other arm. Then she flicked her hand again and again, as more shadow talons rose from the ground and grabbed the Beast, and some of them wrapped around it's torso and legs to hold it in place.
The Black-eyed lizarian struggled and roared, but it was at Flare's mercy at this point. Then Flare extended her hands downward, and then upward, as her hands were glowing dark orange. A tremor of some sort was felt in the ground, mostly underneath the Black-eyed lizarian, as two large, black wedges rose up from the shadowy ground and pointed upward towards the sky. As it moved higher, the wedges showed to not be what they seemed:
At least three sets of sharp, white teeth protruded from the inside of the wedges, now seen as the two halves of a large mouth, with two long orange fangs on one side of the mouth, and orange eyes peering up from the shadows on that same side. The large mouth that looked like the form of an eel's head reached upward just above the Black-eyed lizarian.
As the Black-eyed lizarian realized that it's end was near, it screamed and hollered and roared into the sky, as it tried to wriggle out of it's restraint, only to realize that it was futile. Then Flare turned her palms towards one another, as she smacked them together. In that moment, the large shadow mouth immediately clasped shut, with the Black-eyed lizarian inside, as Flare moved her hands downward, which made the shadow mouth retreat back to the shadows it came from.
After the shadow mouth was gone, along with the screams of it's victim, the shadows around Flare calmed down and retreated to just swirling around her. Kai, Jay, and Nya were in awe, and the lizarians that were watching were struck with fear, which kept them almost frozen in place.
Then Flare turned towards the group of lizarians, and they all took a step back. As Flare changed into her Full Potential form, she yelled out,
"You Think I Forgot About YOU GUYS!"
As Flare lunged towards the lizarians with smaller shadow mouths enveloped around her hands, the lizarians screamed in panic, as the others watched in surprise.