Ninja Possession {Completed}

Chapter Twenty Two

A/N: So Chapters 22 & 23 were originally going to be one chapter but the final cut ended up being 6749 words long so I cut them up. This one is 3886 words long

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Lizz swatted away whoever's hand was prodding her in the cheek, "Bugger off."

"Well, okay," Jay sounded like he shrugged, "We'll go on ahead into the Tomb, you stay here."

Her eyes popped open, "I'm awake, I'm awa-ahhhhhh.....ke," she yawned, "What'd I miss?"

"Other than ocean?" Kai shuddered, hopping out the door and onto dry land, "We almost became leviathan food. Surprised our screaming didn't wake you up."

"I needed a power nap," she was the last to jump out, still trying to finger comb her hair so she could do something with it.

Cole looked around, "Well... if you want to hide a tomb... this would be the right place."

Lizz paused and closed her eyes, listening to the gentle waves of the water that surrounded them. She hummed in approval and tied off her second braid, "I love it."

"Yeah, well I don't," Kai huffed, "Let's get going."

A few feet ahead, Jay stopped the group again and groaned, pulling a piece of green cloth from a branch of a dead bush, "Ugh. There goes any hope that Morro couldn't find this place."

"Did you.. Not see the trail of footprints?" Lizz nonchalantly pointed at the trail in head of them.

"Just stay positive," Kai began, "We're about to risk our lives going through traps we know nothing about. All we have to rely on is each other. At least feel lucky we got this far."

Jay's voice jumped, "Oh! I'm sorry, what was I thinking? You're right!" his overly peppy voice was dripping with sarcasm and Lizz was at the back of the group busting a gut at the exchange between the two, "Wow! There goes any hope that Morro couldn't find the Tomb!" Jay grinned, "We're not alone! Yay! Now we're gonna have to fight him again! Sure, we got our tails handed to us last time, but y'never know in the future! Cuz Ninja never quit!" his face dropped and went stone cold, "Better?"

Kai made a face, "Uhh... I'll take it-- Lizz!" he smiled a little and broke into light chuckles.

HShe'd tried to stop laughing, getting it down to light sniggers. When Kai called her out on it, Lizz snorted really badly and soon her loud laughter was echoing through the entire cave. Her laughs were broken apart by squeaks, where she tried to breathe in but couldn't because she was laughing too hard.

It lightened up the mood considerably, as it got the rest of the team to break into a fit of light giggles with her, both laughing at Jay's outburst and laughing at Lizz's laughter.

Zane was the first to regain his seriousness, "Guys, look," he pointed at the wall behind Kai, at a stone statue carved into the wall.

Candles were lit there, for some reason, as a shrine, though.. How the candles were still burning after how many years, Lizz just... shrugged it of, wiping tears from her eyes. Kai nodded, "The First Spinjitzu Master... creator of all NinjaGo..."

Finally, a correct assumption, Lizz smiled softly -- sadly, really, looking at her feet. This was the resting place of a grandfather she never knew, but yet she still felt a wave of sadness wash over her. She turned her gaze upwards, towards the ceiling, to crack a joke to try to cheer herself up, "By the looks of the stature, you'd think this was Sensei's Tomb instead... they look exactly the same."

It got a couple snickers, so she felt a bit better about it. The bad vibes were short lived, replaced by an aire of anger and confusion when the airship -- loyally parked on the water's surface behind them -- began speaking, "Destination reached. Auto-return initiated."