NINJAGO: The Fray Of Crows

CHAPTER EIGHT - The First Gift

"Did I grant you the luxury of your people only to be met with such dissonance?" Medua growled as she paced in the presence of King Toromor. "What do you think stops me from sending you to the very place I sent the rest of the minotaurs?"

Toromor huffed, writhing in his chains with anger before letting out the loudest roar he could manage. Medua glared.

"This is no luxury!" he yelled. "You destroyed my village, ruined the Islands, and you dare to call yourself an Empress over a Tyrant?"

Medua just stood still after the air from his shouts blew her hair off her face.

"Is that what this is about, Toromor? You let prisoners go, all because my family made a poor decision years ago?" she asked.

"You act like it was an accident, but it was actually a mistake that your family made. You didn't even think to correct the wrongs they made and instead, continued where their destruction left off," Toromor growled. "You even put me in these chains because you know that otherwise, I'd be too strong for you to stop."

"I am not afraid of you," Medua swore. "You may be a minotaur, but I have only gained power over the years you've been locked up."

"Well, if you're so powerful, then why don't you challenge me to prove it?" Toromor asked.

Medua got a smug look on her face, then she snapped her fingers, causing the chains around Toromor's wrists to break off. He looked down at them, mildly surprised, then looked at Medua as she readied her Vengestone falchion.

"Remember, you asked for everything that's about to happen to you." she said, and Toromor snorted before he charged at her.

Using his horns, he launched her across the room and she slammed into the wall, but she got back up, unharmed by the mere motion.

"That's all? Chasing me around and throwing me at the walls like I'm some matador?" Medua taunted, and Toromor huffed but stayed silent. "Well, I suppose it is suitable, since I am the only one with a sword."

Medua readied her falchion, but Toromor watched her cautiously now. Circling around until he believed he had caught her best vulnerability, then he charged at her, horns ready to fling her again.

But Medua tricked him. She turned quickly and struck Toromor's arm, making him halt to grab his arm. Medua lowered her blade and began to step back from Toromor.

"We better not have anymore problems from now on, understand?" Medua growled.

"You will have more problems to deal with than just me." remarked Toromor.

That's when they were bombarded by the front doors swinging open to the Ninja. Medua looked back at Toromor and laughed.

"So much for banishing them, it appears they will need a harsher sentencing!" she said, then turned her blade toward them.

"No," Toromor began. "I told them to return, to stop you."

"Oh, of course, I should've expected you had planned something," Medua remarked. "You just wanted me to keep busy."

"He sure did," said Cole. "Because now it's our turn to stop you!"

"Oh really?" Medua asked. "Now just how did that go with the Vengestone last time?"

Medua laughed and then launched her falchion forward at Cole, but he just put his hand forward and stomped on the ground, making earth come up to shield him as the falchion impaled the stone wall with a shrnk!

"I should've expected that to happen," Medua muttered.

"That all you got, Medua?" Cole asked.

Then Medua's falchion then fell loose and landed on the floor by Cole's earth mound, and Medua's gaze bounced from it, back up to his face.