Earth, Fire, Ice, and Lightning. (a Genderbent Ninjago Fanfiction)

All Tied up and Nowhere to Go

Kailee

"Lady Garmadon," I breathed. Slowly, I reached to pull my sword from it's place on my back, but my green eyes widened as my hand found nothing to grab.

"Forgotten something, have you?" Lady Garmadon mocked. How was she here, anyway?

"You... you're banished! Trapped in the underworld!" I cried.

"And that is why, Kailee, my sweet, are going to remove the sword of fire for me."

"I don't think so! I'm not doing anything for you!"

"Are you really so sure, honey?" the shadow mused, flashing away. 

Now, I could see the dragon-cave thing again, but, what really shocked me was what was inside it. A golden chain dangled from the top, and, wrapped in it, hung the limp figure of my brother. He turned his head, and gasped when he saw me.

"Kailee!" Nathan called, obviously quite distressed.

"Nathan!" I began to move toward the place where she was standing, going to save her, until Garmadon interrupted.

"Now, you have to cut the sword, dear. How else will you be able to cut down your precious baby brother?" came her voice.

I looked around, but her shadowy form was nowhere in sight. But Lady Garmadon did, in fact, have a point. There was no other weapon in here but the golden elemental one that stood in the center of the cave, on a stone platform that rose above all of the others. And Nathan was suspended right above it. However, pulling the sword would release a dragon, and I would then have to defeat that with the sword, and Sensei Sue yelled at me, specifically, never to use the weapons without her consent. What in the world was I to do?

"You know it's a trap!" Nathan called, somewhat agreeing with my thoughts. He struggled with his bonds. "I can... free... myself!" he grunted. With a little more effort, he sighed. "Okay, that is very tight."

At those words, the chain dropped lower, moving him closer to the molten rock that made up most of this cave. We both screamed. "Nathan!!!" I began running towards my brother. Who cared what Sensei said- my brother was going to die if I didn't save him!

"Tick tock, tick tock," Lady Garmadon taunted from the shadows.

I stopped, trying to concentrate. Maybe, with a little effort, I could pull some of my elemental powers out from within me, and use them to stop this calamity. No, I couldn't do that. However, I could summon all of my strength and agility from training, and swiftly move from where I was standing, over the thin slabs of rock that were to guide someone from the entrance to the sword, and onto the middle platform.

While in the middle of a spectacular flip, I snatched the sword and immediately entered spinjitzu, shrieking the signature "Ninja-Go!" Once in my fiery cyclone, I maneuvered it over to Nathan, and, with the sword, sliced the chain and caught him in my tornado. We landed on a stone penninsula on the side of the temple. I clenched the sword of fire in my hands so hard that my knuckles began to turn white. I wouldn't drop the sword. I couldn't screw it up.

As we got up and began to leave the cave, Lady Garmadon's cackling tainted the air once more. What was she going to do now?

"Stay close," I whispereed.

"Trust me," Nathan shuddered, "I'm not going anywhere!"

"You can't hurt us," I accused, "you're only a shadow!"

"But, my dear, even shadows have their uses," Lady Garmadon cooed. Her shadow appeared in from of me, her ruby eyes glowing, and she glided away.

"Kailee!" Nathan cried, "look out!"

I whipped around, sword at the ready. Lady Garmadon was in front of me, and she had her own shadowy weapon, some sort of demonic sword. The witch swung at me, but I jumped back.

"Stay back Nathan," I commanded my brother.

"Stay close, stay back! Make up your mind!" Nathan muttered as he hid behind a rock.

Ignoring her, I proceeded to battle Lady Garmadon, swingning my sword this way and that, but my weapon only went through the shadow. However, when she fought back, every move touched me, and, eventually, I was flung off of my feet and sprawled out on the ground, my whole body aching.

"That's not fair!" Nathan accused.

"Oh, I'm sorry, honey. Am I being too hard on you?"  With that, Lady Garmadon's shadow divided into many, many duplicates. Now, there were at least a dozen of them that I, alone, had to fight off. I sat up, groaning, but then attempting once more to do some damage to the shadows. 

It didn't work.

Of course, though, the whole of them attacked me. I couldn't fend them off forever. Surely, I would die soon, and the whole world will be doomed. All because I'm an arrogant snot who didn't bother to wake anyone up before going up into the woods. What is wrong with me?

Then, one of them managed to fling the sword out of my grasp and land me on the stone floor. The elemental sword clattered to the ground a couple yards away. I was done for.

One of them picked it up, and I struggled to sit, bruised and broken. I was postitive that something terrible was about to happen when all of a sudden, a new shadow entered the mix. Sensei Sue.

As I watched her, I realized that she was fightning air, but her shadow was fighting it's attackers. Woah. Then, once all of the evil things went away, Sensei began doing weird shadow puppets, chucking to herself. I rolled my eyes.

Then, in all seriousness, Sensei Sue jumped up and spun around, and grabbed the sword as it flew in midair. 

"Sister," Lady Garmadon hissed. "I see you protect one of your precious ninja, but, dear sissy, what of the others?" 

"They are safe!" Sensei Sue replied, "far from your grasp, Garmadon!"

"I wouldn't be so confident, sweet pea," Lady Garmadon sneered. All of a sudden, a swirling blue orb appeared, showing us what exactly was happening back at camp.

Nicole

I slept by the dying fire, curled up on the grass. My sleeping bag had gotten much too hot for me, to I tossed it aside and laid on the earth. I felt much safer being right on the dirt, but I guess that was just on account of my element.

Oh yes, all was very peaceful, until I heard footsteps that awoke me from my light slumber. Opening my eyes, I gasped as a pair of skeletal feet blocked my vision. A skeleton stared down on me, and it took all the strength I could muster so as not to scream. I gritted my teeth and leaped up, beginng to sprint away, but another skeleton blocked my path. He was the one with the samurai helmet on, but that wasn't the only thing special about him. He had my scythe. However, thank Sensei, it wasn't the scythe of quakes.

With my dark eyes widened, I turned to see that two more skeletons had tied up Zinnia and Jayne, and they were both struggling against the rope that tied them down, and, that, just because the skeleton in front of me didn't hold the elemental weapons, another one did. It was the four armed one, and I think his name was Samukai. He cackled as he held Jayne's nunchucks, my scythe, and Zinnia's shurikens in three of his four bony hands. Samukai laughed louder when he saw my panicked expression.

"These belong to Lady Garmadon now!" he sneered. All of the dozens of skeletons that surrounded us laughed too.

Where in Ninjago was Kailee, and, more importantly, where was Sensei Sue?