Lower levels of the Dark Tower:

"RAAHH!" the last lizarian on the first floor yelled, as Cole smacked him away with an Earth slash from his scythe.

Cole and Christa stood together back-to-back as the last lizarian melted away into shadows, and then the shadows evaporated. They stood a moment longer on guard, to be sure that the lizarians on that floor were gone, and then they signed in relief and relaxed their shoulders and bodies.

"We finally got them down," Christa said, and Cole turned towards her and said,

"Yeah. We beat'em good."

The two gave each other high-five, and then they started walking towards the elevator that led to the next floor.

"I hope the others are okay," Christa said, in concern.

Cole reached for Christa's hand, as he tugged her closer towards him as they continued to walk.

"Don't worry Christa. They're strong too. I'm sure they're fine," Cole said, and he and Christa exchanged a smile.

Christa leaned her head on Cole's shoulder as they waited for the elevator.

"Thank you Cole. I'm glad I have you to put my mind at ease," Christa said.

"Your welcome, and I'm glad that your still as sweet as can be," Cole said, and Christa smiled lovingly towards him and he smiled back.

The elevator doors opened, and they both entered, as Cole pressed the button for the second floor. When the doors opened, Cole and Christa immediately held out their weapons in attack mode and stepped outside of the elevator. They were surprised to see Flare, Kai, and Jay giving a triple high-five together, as they stood in the center of the room while three lizarians were fading into shadows around them.

"We knocked them OUUUT!" Kai said, as he pretended to play air guitar when saying 'out.'

"Oh yeah! We're freaking awesome!" Flare said, as she punched upward.

"That was amazing! We all used our Full Potentials at the same time without even planning it, and then we Spinjitzu'd them to OBLIVION! That was epic! It was like our elements were working as one!" Jay said, gesturing each sentence with his hands, and Kai and Flare nodded.

Then the three heard an 'Ah hem,' as they turned to see Cole and Christa looking at them: Cole with his arms crossed and an unamused facial expression, and Christa with her hands on her hips and an amused facial expression. Jay, Kai, and Flare slightly blushed, while they chuckled and rubbed the back of their heads, sheepishly.

"We got pretty over excited, didn't we?" Flare asked, and Christa replied,

"Yup."

"Well, at least you guys are safe," Cole said, and he and Christa approached their friends, as they all came together in a circle.

"Yeah. The others went up ahead, but we agreed to find a way outside so that we can help fight Kerrie," Kai said, and Christa and Cole nodded.

"Let's go up first to make sure our team is alright," Christa suggested, and the group agreed.

The five continued up to the next floors to find the other ninja and kunoichi,

Top floor of the tower:

"I got you!" Lloyd yelled out, as he grabbed Raven around the waist with one arm and continued running to dodge an attack.

Raven continued shooting Silver beams at Ryan, while he was blocking them with one hand, and shooting dark beams with the other at them. Finally, one of Raven's beams were able to land a hit on him, as Ryan was pushed back a few steps, and Lloyd stopped running.

Then Lloyd and Raven shot two beams at him, one of gold and one of silver. They noticed that, as the attack came closer to Ryan, the golden and silver energies started to fuse together, which created a larger beam of Platinum that shot forth. Ryan blocked the attack with both arms, but he was pushed back far, almost to the wall. When some of the dust cleared, Lloyd and Raven noticed how the darkness that enveloped Ryan's hands were actually damaged by the Platinum beam.

"That's it!" Lloyd said, as he let Raven stand on her own.

"We weren't strong enough to penetrate that darkness on him alone..." Raven said.

"But together, along with the Platinum power, we could set him free," Lloyd said, and they looked towards one another, as they nodded and then dispersed.

Ryan slowly moved his arms away from his face, as he started closing his hands into fists since he felt he was regaining control of his hands. However, he felt a heavy pressure on his arms, as the darkness tried to resurface around his arms to lock him into control. Ryan tried to fight back, as he kept his hands down and closed into fists, while the darkness tried to make him lift his hands up and open his clenched palms.

"N-No! I'm in c-control... of myself!" Ryan said, as he struggled against the darkness, but it was slowly overpowering him.

"L-Lloyd… R-Raven… do something now!" Ryan said, as he kept himself in place with all of his might.

"We're on it!" Lloyd said, as he started running towards Ryan from his right, as Raven started running towards Ryan from his left.

"We got one shot! Let's do it!" Raven said, as she and Lloyd ran faster towards Ryan.

"Ninjaaa… GOOO!" Raven and Lloyd said, as they used Spinjitzu and continued heading towards Ryan in Golden and Silver tornadoes.

On contact, Lloyd and Raven's tornadoes merged into a large platinum one that almost reached the 'ceiling' of the room. Ryan stood in the middle of the tornado, as he looked up and was amazed by the power being displayed before him. He saw the swirls of Platinum circling around him in various forms of the other elements, such as fire, lightning, earth, ice, shadow, water, sound, and wind. He also saw a few strands of gold and silver circling around the tornado.

As he watched the tornado spin around him, he felt the darkness that wrapped around his body being torn off and repelled from him into the tornado. The darkness was cut up into pieces and obliterated, while a gurgling shriek was heard from it. Ryan felt the weight of the darkness totally lifted off of him, as he could feel again, and was moving his hands through his own free will. Then he saw that the tornado was slowing down and was about to disappear, when a wave of platinum shot towards his eyes. He was hit and fell on his back, while his hood was pushed down from the hit, revealing his light brown and brown stripped hair that reached just passed his shoulders with bangs that just covered over his eyes.

After the tornado stopped, Raven and Lloyd stopped spinning, as they stood before each other. They looked towards one another and smiled to see that they were okay. Then they looked towards Ryan and quickly ran over to him to see if he was okay. Lloyd stood on one knee on Ryan's left, while Raven stood on both knees on Ryan's right. Lloyd and Raven each held Ryan up by placing one of their arms under his shoulders. Raven used her other hand to move Ryan's bangs off of his face, as she could feel his breath on her hand.

"He's breathing. He's still alive," Raven said, thankfully.

Lloyd signed in relief and said, "Thank goodness."

Then Ryan began to stir, as his eyes tightened a little more closed, and he gritted his teeth.

"Uhhh… ow. My body hurts," Ryan said coolly, as his face relaxed.

"Sorry about that bud. Besides that, are you okay?" Lloyd asked, as he and Raven smiled to see that Ryan was awake.

"Yeah… I'm alright," Ryan said, as he opened his eyes while blinking a few times.

Raven and Lloyd gasped, as they saw that Ryan's eyes were no longer red, but platinum-colored.

"R-Ryan, your eyes they're… they're not red," Lloyd said, as Ryan looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, they changed, they're platinum," Raven said, as Ryan looked towards her with raised eyebrows.

"Help me sit," Ryan said, eagerly, as Lloyd and Raven helped him sit up.

"Do any of you have a mirror?" Ryan asked.

"I could create one," Lloyd said, as he accumulated golden energy in his hands and created a small round mirror with golden edges.

Lloyd handed Ryan the mirror, as Ryan looked at his reflection and saw that his eyes were indeed platinum. He snickered and said,

"They're back to normal."

Lloyd and Raven looked at Ryan in surprise, and Lloyd asked, "What do you mean 'back to normal?"

"My eyes are originally platinum-colored. But when I entered the Forbidden Wilderness, it changed to red. Oh… I guess I forgot to mention to you what my original eye-color was, huh Lloyd?" Ryan replied, and Lloyd nodded.

"Wow, that's ironically amazing, since we used Platinum power to save you," Raven said, and Ryan nodded slowly.

Then they heard a gust of wind from around them, as the ceiling and walls disappeared, while the dark purple clouds disappeared, and the sky returned to normal. Since it was still night, the sky was dark, but the moon and stars shone bright enough, and even reflected on the floor that they stood on.

"What just happened?" Lloyd asked, as he looked around while he felt the wind softly blow through his hair.

"It just disappeared. As if the top floor was never here… Darkness must have added this floor here with his powers," Raven said, as she and Lloyd helped Ryan to stand up.

"… Oh no," Ryan almost whispered, although the two heard him.

"What's the matter?" Lloyd asked.

"What's wrong?" Raven asked.

"Darkness… his plan… his true plan. He's going to activate it," Ryan said, as Lloyd and Raven looked at him in surprise and question.

This is cliffhanger to the max, but it must be done. Don't worry, the next chapter won't take long for me to upload. Some time at the end of this week it will be up. ;)

See ya soon. :)