《Brother of Wind (ninjago au)》chapter 28
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The bounty was flying through a storm, towards a great destination.
Inside, sensei Wu was in his meditating chamber, in front of the spirit smoke.
Within the smoke, sensei saw the battle for the fangblades. What he also saw, was himself facing Pythor alone, while the legendary serpent rose behind him.
In the main room, the fangblades were played on the table, swaying with the moments of the ship.
"Why is it that Torch fire mountain is the only place we can destroy the fangblades?" Nya asked.
"Because the fangblades are made from the original teeth of the devourer." Kai said.
"They're pretty durable. You need some strong heat to break them down." Morro said.
"Ah, could someone pass the salt?" Jay asked. Then, the bounty tilted, and the salt slid over into his hand.
"Heh, thanks!"
Cole slid the door open looking nauseous and about to fall down.
"Please. No one talk about food." Cole begged. The bounty swayed in the air, making Cole almost fall if he hadn't grabbed the door.
"How much longer until we get there?" Cole asked.
"Not long." Jay replied.
"Hey, Cole, you're looking a little green over there. How'd you like a mucus salt sandwich?" Jay teased.
Cole covered his mouth and ran away.
"Heheheh... Speaking if green, who would have though little Lloyd Garmadon turned out to be the green ninja?" Jay said.
"I know. He was such a brat at first. It's hard to believe he's gonna become the greatest ninja that ever lived." Nya said.
Kai cleared his throat.
"Ooohhh. Someone's jealous I see?" Morro said.
"No, not that." Kai said making an annoyed face.
"Where is that little runt anyways?"
In a room below deck, training equipment turned on.
"Serpentine, it's time I spinjitzu you back into the filtgy holes you came from!" Lloyd talked to himself, flipping his hood on.
"Ninja kick!" Lloyd shouted as he jumped in the air.
"Ninja-go!" Lloyd spun his body around trying to so spinjitzu but ultimately failing. He tripped on one of the obstacles and got hit around with the punching bags. Lloyd got knocked onto the ground. Then he herd laughing. Lloyd saw Pythor flash by.
"What a joke. You were always a boy who chased stupid dreams." Lloyd looked around but saw nothing. Then the boy got lifted up off if the ground, and Pythor revealed himself.
"Pythor! How did you get aboard?!" Lloyd shouted.
"You think I would allow the ninja to steal the fangblades from me?" Pythor tied Lloyd up to a punching bad.
"Unh! You'll never get away with it! Hey uuu----" Pythor took a piece of tape and covered Lloyd's mouth.
"Oh, tsk, tsk, tsk. I wouldn't worry about that. As they say, out of sight, out of mind." Pythor disappeared and exited the room leaving Lloyd tied up.
The next day, the bounty reached Torch fire mountain.
"Will everyone please put their seat back and tray table upright and locked in position? We have reached out destination. Torch fire mountain!" Nya announced over the p.a.
"Give it a minute while we settle into position." Nya pushed a button and the anchor dropped down and hooked onto the mountain.
Sensei Wu approached the edge. Thinking about what he saw in the spirit smoke, Wu held a worried look.
The ninja walked out holding the fangblades.
"Ah! It's roasting out here!" Jay said squinting because of the heat.
"Heh, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!" Kai said.
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Morro stared at his sensei on the lower deck. Morro also had a worried look on.
"Hey, what's with sensei?" Jay asked.
Zane looked beside him.
"And Morro for that fact. They both seem to be... Spaced out?" Zane said.
Sensei sighed.
"Ah, it is beautiful, is it not?"
"Sensei we are ready for the destruction of the fangblades." Zane said leading the group down.
"Yet, you seem disinterested."
"You need not my approval to finish the task." Sensei Wu said.
"Uh, but sensei--" Jay got cut off.
"Butts, are for sitting. And besides, there will come a time when you will have to go on with out me." Sensei said.
"That's nonsence!" Morro said.
"You've been alive for like forever!" Kai said.
Cole hit Kai.
"What he is trying to say is, you are like the sunrise. We cannot begin a day with out you." Zane said.
"Ah, but even the sun must go down so a new day begins." Sensei replied.
Morro leaned on the rail and eyed his sensei.
"Woah, Morro. Careful or you could fall!" Cole said. Morro ignored him.
Morro kept staring at sensei, as if he new something was going on.
"Okay... Um, sensei, I don't like metaphors. What are you trying to say? Are you leaving us again?" Cole asked.
"In meditation, my smoke visions have come to an end. And tomorrow, I cannot see. This worried me." Sensei said.
Morro tuned away and walked to the middle of the deck. He slapped his face and wiped away the sweat caused from the heat.
"Okay..." He muttered and took a deep breath, returning to the group.
"But I could be a good omen, you know? We destroy the fangnlades, then everything's gravy." Jay suggested.
"Let's just get rid of them. For good." Sensei said.
The ninja placed a plank out to walk over the lava. What the ninja didn't see, is Pythor sneaking into the room with all the power controls and breaking it. The Bounty's engines sputtered out of control.
The ninja were sliding down the deck. Sensei Wu slid down the plank but caught the end of it.
"Sensei!" Morro imidiatly got up.
"Hang on! We're coming!" Cole shouted right behind Morro.
The ninja threw the fangblades behind them and slowly started to walk towards sensei.
Sensei's hand was slipping. Eventually, Sensei Wu had let go of the plank, and started to fall.
At the last second, Morro had grabbed sensei's hand, with the other ninja making a chain behind him.
"You're staying with us sensei!" Morro shouted.
"Thank you, Morro."
"Arrgh! Nya! What's going on?!" Kai shouted stuggling to hold everyone up.
"Ah! Someone or something has overridden the system!" Nya shouted back.
Back in the room where Lloyd was left, Lloyd was able to slide down the sparing bag and ran to the door. There, he rammed into the wall, making the tape come off a bit, and shouted into the p.a.
"PYTHOR'S ON BOARD!"
everyone gasped as they looked behind and saw Pythor holding all the fangblades on the deck.
"Sorry if I don't lend a hand, but I'm really in a rush. Got this whole, devourer thing going on." Pythor said.
"Ha, ha. Toodaloo." Pythor waved.
Pythor turned around to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" Lloyd was standing in front of Pythor holding a staff incorrectly.
Pythor sighed.
"Little cliché don't you think?" Pythor said.
"Uh, cliché?" Lloyd repeated confused.
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"Oh, I wouldn't expect a child to understand." Pythor said.
"Hey! I've grown up a lot!" Lloyd claimed.
The young green ninja flipped his hood on and tried to attack Pythor.
It was pretty pathetic. Lloyd had no balance and couldn't land a single bow on Pytbor.
"Hm. Puny strength. No fundamentals. Sloopy footwork." Pythor pointed out Lloyd's terrible fighting style.
"You think you can defeat me?"
"I'm not trying to defeat you! I'm just trying to keep you busy until the calvary arrives!" As Lloyd said that, Nya dropped down in her samurai x suit.
While Pythor was distracted by the giant red suit, Lloyd took a jump and kicked Pythor in the face!
"Haha, I hit him! I hit him guys!" Lloyd shouted with pride.
Because the samurai x suit was big, meant it was slow, and Pythor could dodge Nya's attempts to grab him.
"As much as I would like to play with your overgrown toys, I have a ride to catch!" Pythor said as he jumped off the bounty.
Waiting down below, a helicopter with Skales on it. Pythor landed on it and they started to fly away.
"So long suckers!" Pythor called out.
Still hanging over the edge, the ninja tested their strength.
"Ah! Don't let go!" Jay yelled to Kai.
"You think I don't know that?!" Kai yelled back.
"Ugh! Morro can't you do anything?" Cole shouted.
"I'm sorry but MY HANDS ARE A LITTLE OCCUPIED AT THE MOMENT!!" Morro yelled.
Kai's feet slid off of the board and everyone started to fall. At the last moment, Nya dived down and caught them all.
"Gotcha!"
Jay sighed. I don't think I've ever been more glad to see you!" He said.
"Feel the same!" Nya said.
"Come on! He's getting away!"
"Look there!" Jay pointed to a moving aircraft.
"The City of Ouroboros is miles away, this Rattlercopter will never get us there in time. They'll catch up to us." Pythor said.
"Don't worry, sir. We've already made preparations." Skales said.
"What preparations?" The two landed down beside a tour bus taken over by serpentine.
"I take it you're please?" Skales said.
"Very. Very pleased." Pythor said.
He went up to the drivers seat.
"Next stop? Ouroboros!"
Without a choice, the driver stepped on the gas and drove to the Lost City of Ouroboros.
Lloyd threw the case with all the weapons down the steps towards the ninja.
"If Pythor returns the fangblades to the city of Ouroboros, he'll awaken the great devourer." Sensei informed.
"Well, we're not gonna let that happen!" Nya said.
"Uh, what about me?" Lloyd asked.
"We need someone to stay with the bounty." Kai said.
"But did you see me kick him in the face? I'm an asset!" Lloyd said.
"I kick butt! And face!" Lloyd jumped up.
"Patience kid. You're too important now that you're the chosen one." Kai told Lloyd.
"Patience him? Ah, the student has become the teacher." Sensei Wu remarked.
"And besides." Morro said.
"You wait a little longer, then you can do some super cool moves."
"What do you say we play a little catch up?" Jay suggested.
"It's my favorite game!" Cole said.
"Already on it!" Morro said taking out his glider and racing to the edge of the bounty.
"False start!" Zane called as he grabbed his shurikens.
"Ninja-go!" The ninja used spinjitzu and jumped off the bounty deck, activating their vehicles in the process.
"I've got him in my sights!" Jay announced looking through his targeting system.
"Is this some kind of special tour?" The bus driver asked.
"Oh, shut up and drive!" Pythor shouted. Skales looked in the bus cameras and saw the ninja approaching quickly.
"Sir! The ninja are on our tail!" Skales informed.
"They'll catch up to us in no time!"
"Ninja!" Pythor leaned into the microphone.
"Good afternoon, my cold-blodded minions. If you look off to your left and behind you, you'll find ninja!" Pythor said.
The serpentine in the bus rolled down the windows ans looked back to see the ninja hot on their tail.
"So annoying. So man your stations, chaps! We've got guests. Let's make sure se give them the ride of a lifetime." Pythor instructed.
As he did, some fangpires climbed out of the top exit and bit the tour bus, making it one of their own. The bus transformed right in front of everyone's eyes, turning green and scaly, and with an additional tail.
"What is that? A truck?" Kai asked marveled.
"That is no truck. It's a moving fortress." Sensei informed aboard the samurai x suit.
Cole tried to get close, but the tail that was on the back targeted Cole and wouldn't let him anywhere near it.
"Argh!" Cole struggled to dodge.
"Watch out! How are supposed to get close to that thing?" Kai asked.
As Kai popped the question, two gunner cockpits sprouted out from the sides of the bus and started to shoot at Jay, Morro and Nya in the sky.
Just narrowly avoiding the shots, the three in the sky swirled around.
A few serpentine came out on bikes and jumped onto the road, chasing after Kai and Zane on their own bikes.
Kai took out a spare sword in his arsenal.
"Bring it on!" Kai shoved the sword into the front wheel of the serpentine's bike and sent him flying away.
The other, jumped onto the seat and started to attack Kai. Kai dodged all the attacks and came to an abrupt stop, sending the serpentine flying forwards.
The chase went on, as the ninja sped after Pythor to regain the fangblades.
Two more bikes came out of the sides of the bus.
"We've got company!" Nya said. She looked up to her left and saw sensei Wu sipping tea.
"Sensei!" Nya yelled.
"Huh? Ah, uh, let me see." Sensei Wu put down his tea and grabbed the controls in front of him. Using those, he sent an explosive blade towards the approaching serpentine and blew them away.
"Oh, this is fun." Sensei said.
Back at the bounty, Lloyd decided to try and fly it to help. It wasn't very stable as the ship swayed back and forward in the air. Multiple alarms were going off and the sound of beeping filled the bridge.
To serpentine closed in on on Cole. Cole flicked on off by opening his cockpit.
Then flicked off another with some cool features he added to his car.
"If we have any chance at getting on that truck, we need to work together!" Cole shouted.
"Good words! So who has a plan?" Morro asked.
"I have one! Sky boys? Follow me!" Nya shouted.
"Sky boys? What?!" Morro repeated as he followed the red mech.
"Zane! Try to get in close and cool him off!" Nya instructed. As the ninja in the sky began to lower down towards the ground, drawing the fire away, Zane started his move.
"Okay! I'm going in!" He informed.
Zane got right next to the bus and used spinjitzu to jump on it and disconnect the last car with his shurikens.
"Goodbye!" Zane waved as he separated the car.
"Alight! Nice one Zane! Now let's board that truck!" Jay shouted.
"We're running out of time! If the ninja stop is from getting to the city of Ouroboros, we may never awaken the great devourer!" Skales shouted in fear.
"Don't lecture me! Faster!" Pythor yelled at the driver.
"I can't! If I drive any faster, the engine could explode!" The driver responded.
"Fine. Then I'll do it. Get out!" Pythor commanded.
"Now?"
"Now."
The driver jumped out of the bus and rolled on the ground.
"I hate snakes."
"Don't let them reach the front." Pythor instructed.
"I'll personally see to it myself." Skales said slithering off.
The ninja gathered on the roof of the truck.
"Let's split up! Last one to the front is a rotten ninja!" Kai shouted.
"Then I'm sure to win!" Morro immediately took out his glider and started to run.
"Oh no! I'm gonna win!" Cole shouted grabbing Morro's foot. Doing that made Morro launch his glider forwards. Surprised, but prepared, Morro used wind to flip himself over and landed on top of his glider.
"Ha! Thanks Cole! Never tried this before!" Morro shouted.
"Ah no! I just gave you an advantage!" Cole shouted.
Jay used spinjitzu and dropped down into the compartment and kicked out the surrounding serpentine.
By accident.
"Haha! Hey... Where did everyone go?"
Kai was fighting against the wind pressure to walk forwards towards the front car. A few serpentine came out to fight him. One got blown away because of the speed and the other punched Kai making him dangle off the edge.
Meanwhile inside, Zane was face to face with three serpentine.
"Time to cool down!" Zane threw his shurikens of ice and froze the serpentine. He then looked out of the window to see Kai dangling outside.
"What?! You try fighting up here!" Kai shouted.
"Not that hard for me!" Morro air surfed by.
"Shut up!" Kai shouted. Kai slowly climbed up and came face to face with three opponents. Then, Nya and Sense came down.
"Mind if I interrupt?" Nya politely asked. She then swatted away the serpentine.
One crawled up to where sensei was.
"Hm... Hold this please." Sensei handed his tea cup to the serpentine and poured some hot water.
"Oh yeah. Thanks!" The serpentine said.
Sensei then punched away the serpentine grabbing his cup back.
"Everyone look ahead!" Morro called out. There was a sign speeding towards everyone.
"Duck, duck!" Sensei instructed.
"I'm trying! I can't!" Nya said. The samurai x mech was hit off of the truck with the sign.
The remaining fighters on the car laughed. Kai looked back and eyed Morro. They both nodded.
"Ninja-go!!" The two used their spinjitzu to take out the remaining serpentine.
"I told you to duck." Sensei said.
Nya threw the sign away.
"I don't want to hear it." She raced off.
The sun was setting now, and the ninja were still advancing. Cole walked into the next car cabin and got surrounded by an array of serpentine including, Skales.
"End of the line loser!" Skales said.
Cole narrowed his gaze.
"Watch out!" Cole shouted spinning his golden scythe. He then slammed it into the ground and summoned his elemental vehicle and shot a missile a Skales, sending him flying.
The other serpentine simply ran away.
"I love this thing!" Cole exclaimed after despawning his vehicle. Nya lifted up the roof of the car and Morro and sensei climbed in.
"Cole, good to see you." Sensei said being lowered down.
"Good to see you too." Cole said in response.
The engine started to catch on fire as the moving truck drove out of control. Kai fell into the car and Zane caught him.
"Nice catch Zane!" Jay said.
"Last one's a rotten ninja." Cole said.
"Ah, so be it! But one more car to go!" Kai said opening the door.
"Pythor's in there with the four fangblades! Who's first?" Kai asked.
"I get dibs!" Morro shouted.
Then, Sensei Wu rushed past them all and disconnected the two cars.
"Sensei!" Jay called.
"What are you doing?!" Cole shouted in confusion.
"My destiny is to face Pythor alone. Your destiny is to look after Lloyd." Sensei responded.
"This is turning into a habit with him!" Kai said.
"No! We're going with you! We're all a team!" Morro shouted.
"How do we get off this thing?!" Kai shouted.
Pythor looked at the camera to see the cars had been disconnected. He laughed in victory. Not far behind, Lloyd had gotten the hang of flying the bounty. Lloyd stood on his toes to see the upcoming destination.
"Ah! The lost city of Ouroboros!"
Lloyd pushed a button and the rocket boosters lit up and perpelled the ship faster.
Sensei Wu entered the driver's car.
"This ends now!" He exclaimed.
"So be it!" Pythor slid up to sensei.
The ninja and Nya were left on the car. Morro thought about going alone after sensei, but also thought about his team. He had to stay.
"This is really booring." Nya sighed.
Then, all of the sudden, an anchor hooked onto the bus and started pulling it towards the lost city.
"Lloyd!" The ninja looked up to see the bounty.
"Hook, line and sinker!" Lloyd exclaimed.
"To Ourorboros as fast as you can!" Kai instructed.
"Aye, aye, captain!" Lloyd saluted.
In the driver's car, Pythor was making attacks, but they never seemed to hit Wu.
"Ninja-go!" Sensei said as he created a yellow and white tornado. Python used his staff and hit Wu, making him drop his spinjitzu move. Pythor then grabbed Wu into a head lock.
"You're getting slow old man!" Pythor insulted. Pythor opened his mouth as wide as he can, but before he could do anything, sensei Wu stepped on his tail.
The truck was going out of control and tipped over, coming to and explicit stop. Pythor dizzily exited holding the four fangblades and made his way to the center of the city.
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