Ninjago: Ninja Life

Fangs of the Birchwood Forest

(Nobody's POV)

"I-I-It's so c-cold h-here" The blue Ninja stuttered as he shivered with his orange scarf wrapped around his neck, trying to keep himself warm 

"Ugh, tell me about it" Cole groaned, his sleeveless arms being exposed to the environment around them. Times like these make him wish his muscles weren't so good looking and didn't have to be constantly shown off "At least you have a scarf!"

Speaking of the environment, our favourite Secret Ninja Force travelled across many different landscapes until they finally reached the one where the Serpentine's trail seemed to go cold, along with the temperature. The completely white land was covered in large birch trees that had not a single leaf attached to them, there was not a single evidence of humanity anywhere. A perfect place to hid a Fang Blade 

"Wait a minute, what does this mean?" Lloyd asked stopping for a moment, looking over at a small wooden sign that was partially covered in snow

"Beware of Treehorns?" Nya read out the sign that was firmly planted in the white snow around them "What is a Treehorn?" 

"I remember hearing about these Treehorns some time ago" Zane stepped forward and began to explain "From what I can remember Treehorns are creatures that only live in this Birchwood Forest, it is the only climate they seem to be able to survive in"

"But why should we beware of them? Are they protective of this Birchwood Forest?" Skylor asked the trusty Nindroid who took a moment to check his database for the information the red head wanted 

"My database seems to have reports of people venturing out here and encountering Treehorns, all of the reports feature the adventurers being attacked by the creatures and fleeing the Birchwood Forest" Zane told the Orange Ninja

"I r-r-really hope t-these Treehorns a-a-are just very a-aggressive s-s-squirrels" Jay quietly spoke from behind Harumi as he mentally prayed to the First Spinjitzu Master 

After Cole got a quick photo with the Treehorn sign, presumably a souvenir to send to his father to show how good he was getting along, the Ninja pressed forward through the snowy biome, making sure to watch their back in case the Serpentine were planning an ambush on them

It took quite a few steps in the cold snow until the Ninja found something that wasn't a birch tree or a small snow hill, as the Ninja got closer and closer to the new thing they had found they began to see some sort of manmade machine lying on the snowy ground. Jay inspected the golden giant and found several dents in the machine's armour, along with what looked to be a sort of venom that melted away some key components of the robot's cannons 

"This has got to be the work of the Serpentine" Harumi pointed at the green venom that even melted the snow around them 

"Could this giant robot thingy be a protector of the last Fang Blade?" Cole asked the other Ninja as he poked the manmade giant, making sure it wasn't going to spring up and attack them 

Zane joined the Blue Ninja in inspecting the fallen machine, climbing onto the back of the machine the Ice Ninja studied the damage it had taken and it was indeed attacked by the Serpentine. As the Nindroid looked all over the giant's busted armour, his bright blue eyes were drawn to what looked to be a sort of marking at the top of the machine's back

One of the Nindroid's black gloves swept away some snow that covered the marking and the Nindroid gazed at it, the symbol looked familiar to the white haired Ninja, but he was unable to determine where he had seen it before. The literal gears in his head turned and turned trying to figure it out but to no avail, Zane was really stumped as to where he had previously seen the marking