Lies Of The Serpent: A Ninjago AU

Chapter 72: Spin Harmony

Cole's POV

"Wait a minute. What are they doing here?" Jay asked. Hebi grumbled.

"I can't help it if I offend anyone. My only job will be to tell the truth," a familiar voice said.

"Hide me!" Lloyd exclaimed before hiding behind Hebi. Hebi grumbled.

"As if! All he does is lie!" She said. We all looked behind the curtains.

"You don't look anything like your photo," a judge said.

"Ah, sadly the camera adds a few pounds. I'm just happy to have the opportunity to judge this prestigious competition," Pythor said. His stomach made a sound that kinda sounded like talking, but from here it was hard to tell.

"Quiet! Or else I won't let you out," Pythor said presumably to whoever he swallowed. Hebi grumbled.

"He seriously ate someone? Who actually does that?" She said angrily.

"He s-seems a lot m-more scary then I r-remember," Lloyd said in a scared tone.

"He's probably just trying to intimidate the judges. Or the fact that he just ate someone is making him seem more intimidating."

A bunch of people walked in, holding the blade cup.

"The blade cup," I said in awe. It was even cooler than I'd remembered. Or maybe that just had to do with the fact that we had to use it to save the world.

"Looks like we're not the only one's planning to steal the blade cup," Kai said.

"I say we make our move. We can't risk losing out again. I say we steal it," Jay said.

"We're not gonna steal it," I said as I decided what I was going to do. I was going to show my father that what I was doing was good. "We're gonna win this competition, but we're gonna do it our way."

"Our way?" Everyone asked.

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"My pOIsoN lIeS oVeR ThE OcEaN! My pOIsoN lIeS oVeR ThE SeA! My pOIsoN lIeS oVeR ThE OcEaN! Oh, BrInG bAcK mY pOIsoN tO Me!" The Treble Makers sang badly. I covered my ears. They definitely didn't get a good score.

"And last but not least the royal blacksmith, uh, hold on, uh, this just in. There's been a switch. Taking the stage next is spin harmony!" The announcer announced.

"If we're gonna do this I want everyone to see who we are," I said.

"Does that mean I can-" Hebi began, but I quickly shut her down.

"Sorry, but I don't think the world's ready for a serpentine ninja."

"Last call for....... Spin harmony!" The announcer said.

"Let's do this. For Cole," Jay said.

"If we can do the tornado of creation we can score perfect tens out there," Kai said.

"The only thing that would make this better is if I knew spinjitzu!" Hebi said.

"G-Go team," Lloyd said in a small scared tone behind Hebi. That's when I realized just how scared of Pythor Lloyd was. Poor kid.

"I'm glad you guys are my friends. Even our new recruits," I said. "Let's do the whip!"

"Ninja go!" we all said as we did spinjitzu. Well, except for Lloyd and Hebi they just spun in a circle.

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"Ladies and gentleman, spin harmony!" The announcer said.

The weekend whip played as we danced. Well, everyone except me and Hebi. We both attempted to dance at first, but Hebi ended up falling on her face, and I froze as soon as I saw the audience.

Then the serpentine began to attack. And all of a sudden it went from me being the scared one to Lloyd.

"So it's only dancing and singing?" Hebi asked as she knocked out a venomari.

"Yeah. Only things I was supposed to be perfect at," I replied before kicking a hypnobrai.

"Jump up, kick back, whip around, and spin!" The music continued. We all did spinjitzu.

After a moment I was surrounded. I quickly attacked them all at once, doing the triple tiger sashay in the process.

I didn't even realize I'd done it until the announcer said, "He did it! The triple tiger sashay! He's danced the impossible!" I stood there shocked. I'd really done the triple tiger sashay! Me, someone who couldn't even dance in front of people, had managed to do the triple tiger sashay!

The judges all put up ten points except for Pythor who put up a zero, smiling smugly. He then burped, and the judge he'd eaten wrote a one in front of the zero, making it a ten.

"Wait, what? I didn't write that!" Pythor said.

"It's a perfect score! Spin harmony wins the blade cup!" The announcer said.

"This is a travesty of epic proportions! I demand there be a recount!" Pythor said.

I smiled, basking in the cheers of the crowd. After so many years of only criticism it felt pretty good to be cheered on for a change.

I sighed once I realized my dad wasn't there. The entire reason I did this was to show him that what I was doing wasn't bad, and he wasn't even there.