Chasing Shadows (Lego Ninjago)

Chapter 5: Future visions

Their vision was blurred, but they could tell they were slowly spinning around something, some kind of spirit.

"Ninja..Ninja..how the time is running out.." The same low, croaky voice taunted through the black as night darkness. The sound of the voice was moving around the pitch-blank nothing.

A flash of purple-black dust caused the area to light up only slightly. The four cave walls were a dark grey with the same black shadow on each, moving from wall to wall every 3seconds. The purpley-black fire was is the middle of the rotting walls, as the image slightly became clearer, whatever was there also came into view, but not enough to see anything but a deep purple silhouette of young women, around the age of 21.

"Hurry, Ninja.." The ghastly voice acted innocent, whilst a ghostly spirt spiralled around the girl, who you could only tell she was a female by the curves in her figure.

The setting became more focused as again it moved closer with every circuit of the image. Now, it was close enough to hear her breathing as it was shallow and fast compared the deep and slow breaths of the other beings. It almost sounded like the girl had been crying for hours, like now it had become a permanent thing for her to breathe unevenly.

Suddenly, to join the sound of breathing, a faint tick of an ancient clock, progressively getting louder with every second that ticked.

"The clock is ticking.." It mocked once again, but his time the voice's tone had raised much louder this time.

From that line, their course of orbit around the scene changed. They moved slower and more closer towards the girl, who still they couldn't see any of her features, but faster and further out into the room once they had pasted her.

The tick of the clock had gotten louder, now it was a much louder volume than anything else in the room, it had got so loud that it was ringing inside their heads.

The Ninja's, whose sight this was, were in a deep sleep. They could see what was going on infront of them, but they couldn't move, talk or think. It was in their head, this was their dream.

"..AND THE CLOCK HAS STOPPED! TIME IS UP!" Suddenly the tick of the clock has got so loud it stopped, and the voice blared out those sentences like an alarm.

As soon as the voice had finished yelling, the shadows on the walls stopped moving and the Ninja's observation halted at a stand still, they could see the whole area, but it was fading rapidly lighter, the four shadows disappeared like they would when there was no sun. The room was continuing to get lighter.

The girl, she screeched. She screeched louder than anything the Ninja had ever heard. A spine chilling screech at the top of her lungs. An extremely high pitched shriek. Falling to her knees, she lifted her hands up and grasped her head still screaming.

Then the Ninja's eyesight went glowing and white, the girls cry had been silenced by something..the silence was deafening. It burnt their ears, the piercing squeal drilled deep into their skulls.

And the last thing they heard from that, almost fantasy dream..or nightmare, was the fading, silky-soft voice of the girl.

"Please..please save me"