Mission: Green

Chapter sixteen

" Jey!" Lloyd called out, checking his pulse. It was still there, but faint.
" I will get you out! I promise!" He pulled him closer, tears forming in his eyes. This couldn't be the end! Jey couldn't die now! No! He wouldn't let him! Not now!
Lloyd looked around for anything that could help. Anything that could keep Jey alive, but he found nothing.
" s..stay with me..." he carefully laid his head down, standing up to find anything.
He ran around the room, looking for anything, but the room only contained blue pills. " monsters..." Lloyd mumbles and walks past it, but then suddenly stoped. " those pills needs to be destroyed... if not.. there will be an army just like this one..." Lloyd then turned and headed back to Jey, carefully lifting his body into his arms.
" I think we should get out of here.." he reached out his right arm and formed a ball of fire in his hand. As the green ninja, he could control all the primary elements, including fire. He formed the fire ball and threw it at the computers and the blue pills. Explosions of fire broke out and Lloyd quickly headed towards the exit with Jey unconsciously onto his back. The fire in the room ate anything they came across, including the pills, melting then down until they were destroyed and gone forever.
Lloyd left the door open, so the fire could spread across the base, forcing every serpentine out of here. Lloyd reached out for the map in his pocket, but to his horror, it was gone. He had left it in the room with all the pills, now burning down to ashes. However, it was to late now and now he had to rely on his memory to get out of there, and with a dying friend onto his back, it wouldn't be an easy task.
Then the alarms went off. Another problem to add to the list as now, every serpentine would be after them!
He ran. As fast as he could at least. The sound of angry snakes got louder by every corner he passed. He could also hear whispers of the word blood being repeated distantly, and fear built up inside of him. According to the map, if he kept walking forward now, he would be able to reach a door, leading towards a small passage that would lead them out on the edge of the eastern side of ninjago city. He crossed the last corner and headed towards the door, now not being careful of what could be hiding close by. As he was about to reach out his hand for the door handle, something from behind him grabbed his leg with such force that he lost his balance, dripping Jey to the ground before himself falling onto him.
But whatever had grabbed him, it was now moving its way up his leg like a ...snake. This wasn't a serpentine... but this was a real snake, working under the serpentines!
" agh!" Lloyd tried to kick off the snake but it only strangled itself onto Lloyds leg, stoping blood from getting to his leg, turning it blue and painful.

" there they are!" A serpentine yelled out as he reached the corner to their path. More followed. Soon they were both surrounded by them, all blocking every possible escape route.
" I guess there's no way to go little boy" the general stepped out from the crowd, coming closer to them.
" h...how did you survive... the fire!?" Lloyd looked up at him in surprise. The general were covered in lots of burn marks, and he seemed to be in lots of pain, but the joy of catching the foolish ninja was a triumph.
" you underestimate me boy" the sneakily whispers into his ear as he grabs Lloyd by his hair, forcing him to look him in the eyes, face to face.
" you shouldn't have done what you did. You little fool of a ninja. You will pay for destroying our life goal, for destroying your friends worth of life. " the general angrily let go of his hair, slamming Lloyds head to the ground.
Lloyd didn't let that stop him.
Maybe he was caught, and maybe he had no chance of escaping, but he still didn't stop fighting.
" you can't win, you never will, because the ninja, will never stop fighting your evil with good. Because that's how it is, the dark side never wins." Lloyd spat at him, knowing very well it wouldn't turn out good.
" we will prove that theory wrong, one and for all. " the general angrily looks down at him. Earlier, he hadn't cared about this kid at all, all he had needed was the blue ninja. But now, a hatred grew inside him towards this boy, and he felt the urge to prove him how powerful he actually is, and how cruel he could be to him.
He wanted to hurt him, hurt him so bad that he never could get healed from this deep scar. He wanted to hurt his soul so bad that he would never be happy again, he wanted to break the green ninja. But how? He didn't know. At least not now.
" Samadhi, why don't you give him a kiss?" The gentleman whispers to his snake pet, it slowly nodding its head as it understood and slowly moves upwards Lloyds body. The snake was long, had to be more than 4 meters long and it was preventing him from moving his hands or legs now. It slowly sneaks its way up, heading towards the head, very slowly.
" kissssss" the snake whispers as it moves slowly upwards, keeping its eyes onto Lloyds.

" NINJA-GO!!!" Flames suddenly flew up around the snake, burning its skin.
Freezing ice flew through the air, taking out a bunch of snakes to the left while a large rock finds its way to the right, taking out a bunch of snakes there. A red dressed character jumps out nowhere, pulling out his sword, holding it above Lloyd, ready to attack the first snake to move. Then more of them appeared, surrounding the snakes.
" sorry we were late to the party, some jerks upstairs held us busy for a moment " Kai grins at the general who now was furious over this sudden change.
" ninja " he groans angrily, knowing that his guards outside the house upstairs had failed him and deserved death.
" you won't get away with this ninja!" The general snaps at Kai.
Kai then pointed his sword into his face. " watch it general, we're just here to get our friends back, now back off before I do something you will remember for life." Kai stope, taking some steps towards him, forcing the serpentine general backwards.
" you will pay later, ninja" he angrily backed away. But as he did, he noticed the emerald green bracelet onto Lloyds wrist, recognizing it right away. It was an old ancient artifacts from their serpentine tribe from the old days. If this boy carries this one, then the second one wouldn't be to far away. The general grins, backing away from the ninja, leaving them alone, for now.
The large snake that had held Lloyd captive slowly let go of him, following her master and the other serpentines away from them.
As they were out of sight, Nya fell to her knees behind Jey, crying out his name as she saw how ill he was.
" I... .." Lloyd began but tears filled his eyes, not being able to speak another word. He was scared that he might be gone.
" he's alive... but he needs help right away " Zane checked his pulse, then very gently lifting up Jey's limp body into his arms.
" let's get out of here, " Kai knelt down to Lloyd, carefully helping him up, supporting him, since his leg was hurt.
" I will call for sensei to pick us up, Jey needs him right now."
Nya stayed by his side all the way up, not letting go of his cold hand. They came back into the very old house, Lloyd recognizing it right away. When he had gotten caught, they had brought him in another way, through a secret tunnel that they had recently built, but this hose was old, and unlivable. This was one of very few entrance to the shadow league's base. He looked into the living room as they passed it. There it was. The fireplace that would take you there.
" we should get out of here fast.." Lloyd spoke to Kai, not not understanding why , but agreed to it anyway. It would be for the best to leave right now.
As they got outside, Wu were already there with... a flying ship?

Wu had gotten there, few minutes before the ninja had cane out of the old house, but what he saw was not what he had expected. Horror filled his heart at the sight of a pale and ... unconscious Jey. It didn't look good at all.
" get onboard quickly!" He called our, jumping down himself to take care of Jey. He gently took him into his arms, carrying him under deck to see if he could do anything to keep life in him. The others stayed above, not daring to follow. Afraid of getting the news they didn't want. Only Nya had gone with sensei Wu.
They stood there quietly, no one saying another word. They all were thinking about the very same thing. Was he going to make it...?
Quietly Zane walked over to the control room, silently turning the ship towards the mountains where their base laid. Kai gently helped Lloyd sit down onto a barrel, kneeling down to tend to his damaged leg.
It was luckily nothing to bad, and it just needed to lay still for some while.
Lloyd took a deep breath, trying to calm down his nerves, but it wasn't possible. Not when his ... friend was dying. He thought back to Jey's last words: I'm sorry..
He had apologized, he no longer thought of him as a bad guy, and that meant the world to Lloyd. He at that second felt like he for real had become a part of... yeah, their family.
Lloyd slowly lowered his head. If Misaco's God was real... could he heal Jey..? Can a God so something like that?
Was Jey even able to be saved? Sensei Wu didn't seem sure when he had brought him onboard. His body was all cold and lifeless. His pulse was almost not noticeable. Was there anything to be done...?
" please... save him..." Lloyd whispered into his heart. Wishing with all of his heart that Jey would recover and live...