A New Beginning (Lloyd x reader)

Chapter 29

We all stopped for a moment to get something to drink and check up on the vehicles. You were helping Zane and Faith fix up one of the vehicles. That was until you heard a commotion from behind you. 

You saw Kai and Jay fighting over our water canteen. Faith jumped down and walked towards them. She pulled her sword, and you were ready to jump in and stop her, but Zane stopped you. 

She cuts in between the two of them and slices a cactus in half. 

"Now we all have water." She said and walked back to you and Zane. 

"How you have survived this long is beyond me." Faith said to you and Zane. 

"Yeah, I know how you feel, Faith." You told her, and you three went back to work. 

"Uhh, guys?" You Heard Cole shout, and he pointed towards the sound of fast vehicles coming our way. 

"Baron's Hunters. We need to go." Faith said, and we quickly got a move on to get away from the Hunters. It didn't take long for the Hunters to catch up to us. 

"Always knew you were a defector!" A woman shouted to Faith. They slammed their vehicle into Faith's and Kai's, only for Faith to slam our vehicle into their as retaliation. 

Zane and Jay managed to crash two other vehicles by braking right in front of a boulder since they had latched on to Zane and Jay's vehicle. 

We all nearly dodged an Ice Dragon feeding, but we destroyed its skeletal meal, and to say it got a little angry was an understatement. Soon it had locked on to Cole, Sensei Wu, and you. Cole sped up to catch up with the others to warn them. 

"Uh, guys?" Cole shouted. You saw Kai and Faith switch placed, what Faith was thinking you didn't know. 

"Lose it in the canyons." She told Kai, and we all went down into the canyons. 

Despite swerving in, out, and in between giant rocks and boulders, the dragons kept pace with, you couldn't say the same for the Hunters. 

Faith shot a chain at the dragon, and it immediately fell to the ground, eliminating several Hunters in its fall. 

"All right! We're home free!" Cole shouted to you and Sensei Wu. Just then, Sensei Wu noticed the woman from before. 

"Spoke too soon." Sensei Wu said. 

"Hey. Come on. Get out from there." Cole tried to hit her with a hammer, but she just climbed under to the other side of the vehicle. She tried to hit Cole with her weapon, but the surrounding grid protected him. She kicked Sensei Wu and You out of the way, luckily you two latched on to something before you both could fly off. She then began kicking Cole. 

"A little help?" Cole looked at you two. You spotted a button, you didn't know what it was for, but you hoped it helped. You pressed the button and her metal wings spread, and she flew off of the vehicle and into the canyon. 

"Ha! Nice work!" Cole shouted. 

"Just looking out for you bud!" You shouted. You caught up with the other. 

"Where to, son of Spinjitzu Master?" Faith asked Sensei Wu. 

"An easier path. This way." Sensei Wu said and pointed in the direction in front of you guys. 

"We'll follow you." Faith said and we sped off. 

You guys thought that the fight was over, but you were ever so wrong about that. All of you had failed to notice a small tracking device as you sped off into the distance. 

"Did you catch them?" Iron Baron spoke over a communication device. 

"No. But I know where they are going." The woman smiled and laughed as she looked at the device tracking you. 

TIME SKIP

Night had fallen, but you guy was still speeding off to the dragon armor, and as far away from the Hunters as possible. 

You spotted something in the distance, but couldn't see what it was. 

"What is that?" You asked and pointed into the horizon. 

"I don't know, but it looks like something we should check out," Cole said to you. You later found out by Faith that it was Oni territory. 

You looked at all the dragon skulls placed on those spikes, lined up as far as the eyes could reach. 

"Are you sure it's this way?" Faith asked Sensei Wu. 

"Well, we're not going back, 'cause then it'll be our skulls on pikes." Jay had a really good point. 

"Think before you answer, Master Wu. You have a responsibility to at least do that." Cole said to Sensei Wu, but he still looked uncertain. 

"Yes. The Dragon Armor is this way." Sensei Wu sounded certain, but you could see on his face, that he wasn't. 

"I was afraid you'd say that." Faith told us. 

"Afraid? Heh. You don't look like the type of person who'd be afraid." Kai said to her. 

"This is Oni land. As long as we stay on our site, they will stay on theirs. But we need the Dragon Armor." Faith told us, and in all honesty, you didn't wanna go onto their land. 

"Need? Pfft. "Need" is such a strong word. There could be other ways of getting home." Cole leaned up against our vehicle, and you looked at him with the most frustrating look you've ever had. 

"Gaining the Firstbourne's trust so that her Dragons can ferry us home is the only way back to Ninjago," Zane explained to Cole as if he forgot. 

"How dangerous are these...Oni?" Sensei Wu asked. A pretty good question if you think about how the Hunters thought we were Onis. 

"Dangerous enough that when Iron Baron and his bravors crossed this line to get the Dragon Blade, he was the only one to come back. Oni has dark magic about them, destructive magic. They are like nightfall, consuming darkness. After the stories Baron told us, we know better than to search these lands. Are you sure the Dragon Armor is this way?" Faith explained to us and asked Sensei Wu about the armor again. 

"I think so?" Sensei Wu hesitated with his answer. 

"Do not let fear guide you. Your first instinct is usually correct. We must go before it gets dark." Faith told us and got in her vehicle. 

"After you, Master." You could hear the disapproving voice Cole gave Sensei Wu when he said that. You punch his arm and he looked at you. 

"Don't be too harsh on him, remember we have been through some of the same things before." You told him before walking over to Sensei Wu and the vehicle.