Arin rode on Riyu.
He had no idea why, but Ras told all of them to evacuate the City of Temples and to be cautious against the purple red cloud, to try to not breathe any of it in or to set it on fire.
And now, he probably understood why – the whole city reeked of rotten food, especially meat. The smell was unnerving.
Arin felt like he could pass out and fall off of Riyu at any second.
"No. You have to stay awake. You have to show Ras you're strong! If you pass out from flying in floating colored dust, how will you find your family?" Arin tried staying awake by internally beating himself up.
Them he saw the Master of Light and the Mater of Poison.
"Hey! Leave the city! The smoke's dangerous! Find shelter off of the mountain! The others will be waiting there! And don't set anything on fire! Even the slightest spark could make the smoke go of like a bomb!"
The others looked very skeptically at him, but complied. And to be honest, Arin wasn't mad about the skeptical looks, he would do those too.
The boy had no idea if what he was told was actually true, but it sounded very urgent.
Plus, now that Arin really thought about it, if the City of Temples exploded, all the legacies that the temples were apart of would be gone, all that work that Roby's ancestor had done would be gone.
It was kind of scary, just the thought already brought shivers to his spine.
"Ruawh?" Riyu brought Arin back to reality.
"Oh. Don't worry, buddy. Everything's fine, I'm just a bit… worried. But that's not important. We have to evacuate everyone out of the City of Temples first, so let's hurry!"\
Arin and Riyu picked up their pace.
A few hours have passed. The Ninja, Ras, Arin and Riyu have all been busy evacuating the city. Now all of them were off of the mountain with all the other elemental masters and some security bots.
Everyone was holding their breaths. Hoping for the best, but still the tension was so thick that you could cut it with a knife. But all that tension disappeared in an instant when the Games Master suddenly came back to life.
"Eugh! Argh! Man, that hurts!" Roby went to a coughing fit.
Despite that, Wyldfyre nearly strangled him with a dragon-strength hug.
"Roby! You're alive! I was so worried! I-I'm so sorry! I couldn't protect you! I-I'm a disgrace to all the-" Wyldyfre's tears soaked her face but Roby, even though still very dizzy, just hugged her back and simply said:
"You're not a disgrace to anyone. Not to your family, not to the Ninja and especially not to me. If not for you, I might've been dead… More than once. Thank you. I'm so lucky to have you as my girlfriend!"
"I'm lucky to have just met you!" Wyldfyre couldn't hide her blush.
All the elemental masters were happy for the couple, but Arin had to look away to not throw up.
But Nya felt nostalgic memories flowing back from when Jay still had his memory.
I've been practicing a new move. Look!
Whoa, that's great! What do you call it?
I call it the "Electric Jaya"
You named it after me? Uh huh, I've always wanted to be a dance move
I named it after us! Jay, plus Nya, equals Jaya! To pull it off, we need to do it together
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…
I don't know if I can do this. My powers are barely there, Jay.
I believe in you.
You're just saying that because you're my Yin.
I'm saying it because it's true! I've seen you do amazing, impossible things. I've seen you ride whales, and fight dragons, and command the sea! You can do this.
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I will love you forever Nya.
Nya nearly cried when Wyldfyre and Roby shared a kiss. These two really reminded her of herself and Jay.
"Nya?" Sora wanted to make sure Nya was okay.
"I-It's nothing." And gave the pink haired girl a little smile.
"If you say so." Though Sora still didn't look convinced.
"Look, sorry to ruin the moment, but are there any kinds of possible fire hazardous places in the City of Temples? It's important to know, since the City of Temples could explode at any moment." Cole interrupted their moment, even though he didn't really like that.
"Well, no, not really. Unless you count security bot SO-T3, that one's a walking firework and somehow auto activates at 8:28 in the morning. I've had so many good mornings ruined by that fire show."
"Zane… What's the time?" Cole looked at the nindroid.
"8:27"
"We have to hurry! The City of Temples is about to be destroyed!" Nya summed up.
"I'll go with you, I know where the bot's held."
"It is highly unadvisable, you might get hurt, more than you are now."
"Doesn't matter."
Roby started running to the mountain lift, Zane followed after him.
But they were already too late.
8:28
SO-T3 turned on.
Sparks went out of all sides and the smoke caught fire.
The purple red smoke turned into a white enormous explosion.
Everyone was blown back.
The mountain crumbled.
The City of Temples disappeared in a puff of dust.
And a huge dragon that had chains on it, was purple and red, had spirals on it's wings and 6 eyes suddenly flew out and disappeared in an instant.
Everyone felt some kind of chaos spring up inside of them, even though they felt that that feeling wasn't theirs.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain:
Lloyd was feeling more than half-dead and, trust me, he knows what being half-dead feels like.
After falling off of that mountain, his leg repaid him not so nicely. He was walking with a stick under his armpit and felt like he could turn into liquid and never turn back to normal again.
Lloyd didn't like the pain, but he liked the freedom and the fresh wind. So, the ex-Green ninja thought that falling off was a good thing, even the calm inside of his was restored.
Although… He knew that death is something hard to go through.
The boy sighed, put down his stick and carved out "I'm OK." With his now sharp hand and decided to go further. He didn't care where, he just wanted to go somewhere else.
But his peace was disturbed - an explosion went off where the City of Temples had been.
A few rocks nearly fell on Lloyd, even though he could barely move, he managed to move out of place. He sighed.
But then realized: "This was the prison for that thing!"
Horror and terror colored the boy's face and he looked to the other side.
"Thunderfang…" Lloyd and Ras said the creature's name at the same time unknowingly.