(In the Munce's Home-Cave, the Munce are in an uproar at the table. Nya is seen on the throne with Jay, Lloyd, and Crystal watching this.)
Meckel: Not good! Not good idea at all!
Munt: Is bad idea!
Mole: Truce meeting with Geckle is trap!
Murt: Tricky Geckle trap!
Jay: Guys, it's not a trap! The Geckles aren't your enemies! (Glop is thrown his way as he yelps and dodges.) Hey!
Lloyd: The Skull Sorcerer is your enemy, and the only chance we have to defeat them is to work together!
Crystal: We have to ally ourselves with the Geckles if you want there to be peace!
(The Munce stand still before continuing their fight. Lloyd slouches in disappointment, while Crystal facepalms.)
Jay: I don't think they're going to agree anytime soon... (Hiding behind the throne.) How long do we have?
Crystal: Not long enough.
Nya: It's no use! They're not listening.
Murtessa: (Walks up.) You must make them listen.
Nya: Oh, it's you.
Jay: Nya. Be nice.
Nya: Nice?
Jay: Yeah, guys back me up. (Lloyd whistles in the other direction while Crystal looks at her hands.) Guys?
Crystal: Uh, what Jay said.
Lloyd: Or do whatever you want.
Jay: (Mutters.) And I thought Kai was terrible backup.
Nya: And she attacked me with a giant spiked club, Jay. Remember?
Jay: Yeah, but if you hold every little thing against a person, you won't make any friends at all.
Nya: (Sighs. To Murtessa) Make them listen how?
Murtessa: Munce are proud. Strong.
Lloyd: Yeah, I think we got that much. (Jay shushes him.)
Murtessa: They respect only power.
Crystal: Vague. (Giggles.) Just how we like our advice.
Lloyd: (Chuckles.) Yeah.
Nya: Hmm. (She uses Water as it gathers around the Munce gaining their attention.) Alright, you Munce. Listen up! (She stands up.) We are going to that truce meeting, and there will be peace! If I have to fight every last one of you! Is that clear?
(The Munce look at each other while Nya glares at them again. They nod their heads in agreement.)
Lloyd: Huh. (Scratches his head.) That actually worked.
Jay: I didn't doubt it for a second!
Nya: Good. Now, let's get this show on the road.
Crystal: To the tunnels.
Nya: To the tunnels.
(In the Geckle Strong-Cave, the Geckles are arguing as well. Kai stands on the counselor chair overseeing the argument with Zane and Pixal.)
Groko: This meeting is a trap! A treacherous Munce ambush!
Garpo: Hear, hear!
Ginkle: I propose we ambush them!
Garpo & Groko: Yeah!
Kai: Order! (Slams his gavel.) Order in the court.
Zane: I do not believe they're listening.
Pixal: I suppose a different tactic is in order.
Kai: Ugh. (He uses Fire to get the Geckles' attention.) Thank you. Now, I propose that we trust the new Munce Queen, whoever she is, and go to the truce meeting.
Zane: (He throws a pebble at Kai's head.) Hear, hear. (Kai frowns at him as Pixal giggles.) I am attempting to follow Geckle Parliamentary procedures.
Groko: What if you're wrong?
Ginkle: Yeah, how do you know?
Gulch: We could settle the matter by slug.
Kai: How do you settle a matter by slug?
Pixal: With all these Geckle Parliamentary procedures. I am afraid to find out.
(Later, "Slug" turns out to be a slug race.)
Gulch: On your mark, get set...slow!
Geckle: Oh, Brown! You can do it!
Garpo: Go go go! Brown for the win!
Pixal: (Shakes her head.) I find my statement true.
Zane: (Watches this confused.) What is the purpose of this?
Gulch: It's simple. If the gray slug wins, you're right, and the Munce can be trusted. If the brown slug wins, you're wrong, and the Munce cannot be trusted. Only the slugs know...
(Kai looks at the race while huffing annoyed. A Geckle walks up and tugs Pixal's arm.)
The Geckle: Please! I am Gleck! I must speak to you most urgently!
Pixal: (Takes Zane's hand.) Come on.
(The Geckle takes the three out of the other Geckles' sight.)
The Geckle: I believe you! I do not think the Munce are evil. I do not think they stole our blade. But nobody listens to me.
Kai: (He notices his necklace.) Huh, looks like Cole wasn't dreaming.
Gleck: I'm only...Gleck.
Kai: Okay, uh, Gleck, don't take this the wrong way, but you're the little purple creature Cole saw in the palace, aren't you?
Gleck: Yes. I did not mean to scare him. I was looking for Gilly. I heard that the Elemental Master of Earth was invited to Shintaro. But I was wrong.
Pixal: You were half correct.
Zane: Gleck, may I see your necklace?
Gleck: Will you give it back? It is my most prized possession! Given to me by Gilly, herself!
Zane: Of course, I promise. (Gleck hands him the locket as he opens it.)
Kai: Hey! Those are Cole's parents, Lou, and- and- ugh, what's his mom's name again?
Zane & Pixal: Lilly.
Kai, Zane & Pixal: (Gasps) Lilly is Gilly!
Gleck: You- you know her? Oh, joyous news! Will you tell her the Geckles need her help again? Please?
Kai: (Pixal looks at Zane who looks at him.) Ah, Gleck, I'm not sure how to say this, but...the woman you called Gilly...she passed away a while ago. (Gleck's lips tremble at the news, saddened.) I'm sorry.
(Above ground in the throne room.)
Hazza D'ur: A meeting between Munce and Geckles! They plan a truce! The disobedient voices resonate through the mountain.
Vangelis: What? Who is to blame for this?
Hazza D'ur: The Ninja. They yet live. You know what must be done...
(Vangelis transforms into the Skull Sorcerer and flies down to the Pit, to a tomb guarded by Re-Awakened. Misako runs into the throne room having heard the conversation.)
Misako: I can't believe this. Not only has Wu, my son, and the others left me. But the king is the Sorcerer? (Fixes her glasses.) My goodness, this Team must get a break someday.
(Misako looks around as she sees Chompy in a cage unconscious. Before proceeding, the guards are heard from afar as she goes through one of the vents.)
Hailmar: Keep searching! The Heroes of Ninjago are around here somewhere.
(Underground....)
Hazza D'ur: Wake up, spawn!
Skull Sorcerer: Open it! (The Awakened Warriors open the tomb) Bring the bones back to life, Hazza D'ur! Bring back Grief-Bringer!
Hazza D'ur: Rise. Rise!
(The dragon comes back to life. With the Geckles, the brown slug is seen with a massive lead.)
Gleck: Oh no! The Brown Slug is winning. That means the Munce cannot be trusted.
Kai: We have to do something.
Pixal: It's a race. There is nothing you can do-
Kai: I got it! (Whispers.) Zane. Use your powers. Make an ice slick for the grey slug!
Zane: That would be cheating.
Pixal: Exactly what we shouldn't do.
Kai: It's not cheating, Zane and Pix, it's a...white lie.
Pixal: A white lie?
Zane: I am not familiar with the term.
Kai: It means we're doing it for a good reason. To stop a war, to defeat the Skull Sorcerer. (The brown slug is almost past the finish line.) Oh, no.
Zane: You are implying that a lie can be good if done for a good reason?
Pixal: Kai you must learn your definitions. Because, I do not accept this supposition.
Kai: Ugh. Okay, Zane, what about the time you impersonated Clutch Powers to get into the Explorer's Club?
Zane: Clutch Powers was hospitalized and unable to go himself. It was necessary.
Kai: And Pixal, what about the time you kept your secret identity hidden from us that you were Samurai X?
Pixal: I would not call that much of a lie. In my opinion, my choice was done for your protection.
Kai: Right! We did it because we had to. Because there was no other way! Argh, we're running out of time.
(Pixal and Zane look at each other.)
Kai: Oh, it's over. It's all over.
Zane: (Pixal nods.) Very well. I accept the necessity of a white lie. (He creates an ice path.)
Pixal: A while lie it is. (She looks around before pushing the slug.)
(The gray slug screams as it is propelled all the way past the finish line)
Kai: Wow! Wow, wow, wow. (Claps.) What a race! Well, the slugs have decided. Meeting's on. (He drops a rock as Zane Pixal throws rocks at him.) Oh, come on! (The Nindroids smile.)
(Later, Kai, Pixal, and Zane are seen leading the Geckles to the meeting in their Hero suits.)
Zane: I do not see the need of this armour.
Gulch: Merely a precaution. Just in case it is an ambush. The slugs are never wrong, but I suppose there's always a first.
Pixal: You had talked about the Munce having a monarch instead of a democracy. Who rules the Munce?
Kai: Yeah, what do you know about this new Munce Queen? What's she like?
Gulch: I have no idea. Except the Munce consider her very fierce and very...ugly.
Kai: (Shivers.) Ugh.
(Meanwhile, Nya is being carried by the Munce on the way to the truce meeting.)
Nya: Is it really necessary for them to carry me?
Jay: Maybe it's because they think you're important.
Crystal: Jay's right, you are their queen now.
Murt: You are queen of the Munce. Very important position. Yes, it is necessary.
Lloyd: Hang in there, Nya. Just a little further.
(The Geckles and Munce meet in the middle of the tunnel.)
Nya: Kai?
Kai: Nya?
(The two siblings embrace.)
Lloyd: Guys!
Zane: Lloyd!
Crystal: Pixal?
Jay: Boy, are we glad to see you!
Pixal: (Sighs in relief.) The feeling is mutual.
Geckle: (Gets in front of Kai.) Protect the Chancellor!
Munce: (Stands between the siblings.) Protect the Queen!
Kai: Whoa, whoa. Easy, guys. Stand down!
Nya: Yeah, relax, it's okay!
Gulch: You know the Munce Queen?
Kai: Yeah, it's my sister. And she's not that ugly.
Nya: Excuse me?!
Kai: Uh, long story. Gulch, Gleck, relax, guys. Nothing's gonna happen. Okay?
(Grief-Bringer roars in the distance.)
Gulch: That sound...
Murtessa: No! It is not possible!
Crystal: What is it?
Gulch & Murtessa: Grief Bringer!
Lloyd: Who?!
Jay: (Roaring is heard.) I'm not sticking around to find out!
Nya: Run!
(The Geckles and Munce scream as they run away with the Team behind them.)
Gleck: This way!
Lloyd: (To Nya) Get them to safety!
Nya: What about you?
Lloyd: We're gonna try to slow it down! Come on, Crystal!
Crystal: (She uses her powers and creates a wall to block attacks.) I-I can't hold it!
Nya: (They halt in front of lava.) Oh no!
Kai: Oh, what do we do now?
Pixal: Zane, freeze the lava.
Zane: (Nods as he slowly freezes the lava.)
Kai: Could you go faster?! Crystal and Lloyd aren't going to keep the thing away forever!
Zane: (He continues to freeze the lava.) There is too much lava.
Nya: There's gotta be another way across the lava.
Pixal: (Gets an idea.) A bridge then.
Gleck: There is! It's easy! Like this! (He grabs a rope and swings to the other side.)
Crystal: Lloyd! I can't hold it for long!
Lloyd: On three, let it go! (Crystal looks at him.) Trust me! On three! One, two, three!
(The barrier is destroyed, and Lloyd blasts Grief-Bringer with Energy, then collapses.)
Crystal: Lloyd! (She helps him up.) At least you-
(Grief-Bringer slowly reassembles itself as Crystal and Lloyd watch.)
Crystal: -Stopped it?
Lloyd: (The dragon roars at them.) Run. (Takes Crystal's hand.) Run, run, run!
Nya: (To some Geckles.) Come on! Swing across!
Pixal: Hurry Zane!
Zane: Almost-
Skull Sorcerer: Look at them, fleeing like rats.
Zane: (He finishes the bridge.) Everyone across the lava!
Skull Sorcerer: But they cannot escape...
Crystal: (Runs up to the rest with Lloyd.) We need to get out of here!
Jay: I thought you destroyed it?!
Kai: Quit your yammering and run! (Pushes Jay onto the bridge.) Come on!
Jay: Ahhhhhhh! (Kai facepalms.)
Crystal: (She starts gaining a headache and leans on the ice railing.) Been some time.
Nya: (Notices Crystal.) Argh, not again!
Lloyd: (Watches Grief-Bringer and the Reawakened Warriors coming after them.) I'm starting to think there's no way to defeat something that's already dead.
Zane: Reawakened to be more precise.
Hazza D'ur: Grief will come to you all!
(Meanwhile, the rest of the the Team are being chased by the lava monster on the other side of the mountain.)
Plundar: I thought we lost this thing!
Korgran: Plundar think wrong!
Silk: I had been thinking that the monster was going to come back through the lava!
Styx: No more thinking!
Cole: What Styx said! Just run! (He sees some carts.) Everyone, into the carts!
Vania: Are you sure these still work?
Wu: I am forced to agree with the Princess, this looks rather old!
Silk: I've never used this contraption in my life.
Cole: Trust me, it'll work! Korgran, gimmie a hand! (They push the cart together.)
Plundar: Time to go! All aboard! (They scream as they travel along the tracks.)
Cole: I told you it would work! Whoo! That's what you call a good idea!
Styx: Uh, Silk, where is this going to take us?
Silk: (Looks down.) Wherever this railing ends, we won't be able to see it.
Vania: We're going too fast!
Wu: Hold on!
Cole: (The cart tilts dangerously.) On that side! Quick! Oh, what kind of person would build a track like this?
Styx: I'd like to have a talk with the ones who did make his track!
Silk: They died! A long time ago!
Styx: I'll speak to their bones! Give them a scolding, I don't care!
Vania: It won't stop!
Fungus: I think I'm going to be sick.
Cole: (The cart slows.) Whew. That was close. (The cart accelerates again.)
Styx: You've got to be kidding me!
Silk: Look down!
Cole: Huh?
Korgran: Down!
Cole: Uh-oh.
Vania: What's, uh oh?
(They smash through some gates and tumble onto the ground.)
Cole: See? Another good idea.
Silk: (Stands.) Your friend doesn't have many ideas, does he?
Styx: We like to think of stuff on the fly.
Wu: Is everyone alright?
Korgran: Ugh. Korgran head hurt.
Plundar: My whole body hurts.
Fungus: Where are we?
(The Team looks towards a stone wall.)
Wu: Cole? What is it?
Cole: I don't know. I have a strange feeling about this place. (Several torches suddenly light up.)
Styx: At least we can see. (Looks at the wording on the wall.) Uh...I still can't see.
Silk: Do not tell me you did not learn the Serpentine writing system.
Styx: ....I didn't learn it.
Silk: (Shakes her head and pushes Styx out of the way.) Let's see here.
Styx: Hey, haven't you seen this place before?
Silk: I live more above ground, than down here.
Styx: Uh-huh.
Wu: (Reads the inscriptions with Silk) Hmm.
Cole: What is it?
Wu: It is the Old Temple. The language in which my oldest scrolls are written. The language of the Serpentine.
Fungus: What does it say?
Wu: There's something about...the heart of the mountain?
Silk: If I may. (Clears her throat.) "Let pass through here, into this refuge and sanctuary. Only those who are one with the Earth."
Wu: Hmm, I wonder.
Korgran: What means that?
Wu: "The Heart of the Mountain" is the name of the legendary temple of the Masters of Earth. Some believe it was hidden in the mountains of Shintaro. But it has never been found.
Vania: Oh, I know this story! It's in one of my books. Famous Places That I Will Find Before Anyone Else, by Clutch Powers. (Cole and Styx look at her.)
Plundar: What's inside? Treasure? Loot?
Wu: Something even more precious.
Silk: From the old Elemental Earth Masters themselves.
Wu: Correct.
Plundar: Gemstones!
Wu: The teachings of the "Spinjitzu Burst."
(The group stay silent.)
Fungus: The what?
Plundar: Boring!
Fungus: Plundar!
Plundar: What?!
Styx: Never heard of it.
Cole: Me neither.
Wu: It's a powerful force. Only an Elemental Master surrounded by their element can achieve it, it's mentioned in some of the earliest teachings of Spinjitzu. Your mother sought to learn the Burst...but she never did.
Cole: (Walks up to the wall.) There's so much I never knew about her.
Silk: (To Styx.) Who was Cole's mother?
Styx: (Shrugs.) Some name I can't remember. He doesn't talk about her much.
Plundar: (Knocks on the wall.) How do you open it?
Fungus: Korgran, a little help. (Korgran slams into the door, but he only falls over.)
Wu: If the legend is true, the doors will open only for those who are one with the Earth.
Styx: So?
Silk: He means, only an Earth Elemental can gain access to the Temple. Like the one who saved the belowground from the Skull Sorcerer.
Korgran: It would be nice to tell Korgran before.
(Cole hesitates, then activates the door and they enter the temple.)
Fungus: Whoa. Such beauty.
Wu: We are looking upon something that few have ever seen.
Vania: (Cole gasps when he sees a statue of his mother, then approaches it.) Who is it?
Silk: The one who saved us from the Skull Sorcerer years ago.
Wu: Cole's mother, Lilly.
Styx: Wait a minute...
Fungus: (He finds the Stone Mech.) Look. Look at this!
Korgran: What is it?
Wu: A mech. But unlike any mech I've ever seen. It appears to be made of stone?
Silk: The builders of this place used the mech to build the Temple.
Vania: Do you think it still works?
Plundar: (He climbs in.) There's no controls in this thing. Just a bunch of weird crystals. And this junk.
Cole: (He reads from a sign.) "This statue was carved with love and gratitude by Geckles and Munce craftsmen."
Wu: Cole.
(Elemental energy illuminates the ground, revealing a mural of Lilly.)
Cole: Whoa. I guess she did learn how to do it.
Vania: What's that light shining out of her?
Wu: Elemental energy. Power. The power of the Earth itself.
Vania: (Gasps) Cole! You have to try it!
Cole: Me? I-I-I can't. I don't know how!
Vania: But you're an Earth Elemental. If you could learn the Spinjitzu Burst, you could use it against my father and free all those poor creatures working in the mines.
Cole: We don't even know for sure if my mother could do the Burst. What if it was the Blades of Deliverance?
Styx: We don't have the Blades, Cole!
Wu: Styx's right. The Burst is our only chance. You have to try.
Cole: Okay. Fine. But I'm not making any promises. Okay. Let's get this Spinjitzu Burst started.
Silk: Wait. (The others look at her on Vania's shoulder.) If you want to defeat Skull Scorceere, you have to get rid of his power.
Styx: The Skull, yeah I think we got that. So back to that Spinjitzu Burs-
Silk: The Spinjitzu Burst won't destroy the Skull. (To Cole.) Or else your mother, the warrior, would have gotten rid of it already.
Cole: So even if I do learn the burst, it's not going to make a difference? (Crosses his arms.) Oh, great.
Styx: (Sarcastically.) Oh, thanks for boosting morale, Silk. You're a big help-
Silk: If you want to get rid of the Skull, Styx has to do it.
(Everyone looks at Styx.)
Styx: Hehe... (Whispers to Cole and Wu.) I think she's gone crazy.
Silk: (Appears behind Styx.) I heard you.
Styx: Ahh! Not cool!
Fungus: My Anacondrai friend, what are you trying to say?
Silk: First, I am not an Anacondrai.
Styx: What?!-
Silk: And second, neither are you, Styx.
Styx: (Cole, Vania, and Wu gasp.) Double what?!-
Silk: We're both from the Darvandai Tribe. The Sixth and most Powerful Tribe of the Serpentine.
(Everyone looks at her awestruck except Styx.)
Plundar: (Whispers to Korgran) What's a Serpentine?
Korgran: (Whispers.) Korgran don't know.
Styx: Yeah, Silk I think you've been in this mountain for way too lon-
Silk: Let's start at the beginning...
(Scene switches to 50 years in the past right before the Serpentine Wars.)
Arcturus: The humans will eliminate our kind!
Draco: (On a throne.) We will not go to war just because one human has told us so.
Arcturus: We must wage the first battle!
Draco: No! (Turns around.) The Serpentine will not go through another war. Let it be through the Serpentine or Humanity.
Havu: (Standing beside Arcturus) We should go Arc-
Arcturus: No! I will not stand and let you make the decision that will cause the extinction of the Serpentine. You're soft! Naive! (The Darvandai general slithers toward him.) The First Spinjitzu Master has passed from this Realm! Therefore, the truce is broken!
Draco: Guards, see him out.
Arcturus: (The guards drag him and Havu out.) Do not expect us to listen to your command. The Darvandai will be the first tribe to go extinct. And it will not be from humanity.
(General Arcturus slams the doors as Draco shakes his head. Years later, war is waged. But not before the Serpentine castle was invaded, no one but the Anacondrai came out of the structure breathing...)
Silk: The Darvandai Tribe never went extinct, the scrolls state that a few snakes were able to flee, some had their next generation, while others passed. Natural causes or others.
Korgran: (Gulps.) They were-
Silk: Eradicated, sure you can call it that. (To Styx.) As the Darvandai Tribe, we have the unique ability to shapeshift. Into any species we desire. Gain the power of what form we shifted into. You just like me, have been using the Anacondrai shape for some time now.
Styx: (Stares at Silk.) So, you're telling me that...
Silk: (Crosses her arms.) You're the only one who can destroy the Skull of Hazza D'ur, because if you didn't know, the Skull was made by our ancestors.
Wu: interesting. If only I had a pen and paper... (Pats himself.)
Cole: (Mutters.) I can't wait to tell Crystal and the others this.
Styx: I'm- My whole life's been-
Silk: A lie? More like a shift.
Styx: Would you quit intruppting me! I'm trying to have a sentimental moment here!
Silk: Now is not the time! Right now, you need to unlock your form! (Points at Cole.) And you! Need to do the Spinjitzu Burst! (Styx holds his head.)
Cole: All right, all right. Bossy... (He grunts and punches.) What do I do?
Silk: (Shakes her head.) Not the person to ask.
Cole: I was talking to Master Wu.
Wu: You're asking me? I don't know.
Styx: (Clears his throat and chuckles.) Hehe, what do you mean you don't know?! (Wu closes his eyes at Styx's volume.) And I don't care if I'm right beside your ear!
Cole: Styx's right. (Picks up Styx from Wu.) You're the Master.
Wu: I know nothing of this kind of Spinjitzu. This is known only to Earth Elementals. You must open your mind. You must discover the truth within you. (Cole closes his eyes.)
Korgran: Mm. Nothing is happen.
Fungus: Shhh.
Wu: Do you feel anything?
Cole: Nothing.
Korgran: Still nothing is happen.
Plundar: No kidding.
Fungus: Would you both- (Sighs.) Shhh.
Cole: You guys mind? (He does Spinjitzu.) That wasn't the Burst, was it?
Wu: (Styx gives the so-so sign.) No.
Cole: Come on, you stupid mountain! Do something! Do something! (He slams the ground, which begins to shake.) Was that me?
Silk: (Shakes her head.) Whatever it was, it shook the whole mountain.
Korgran: Sound like thunder!
Fungus: I must look into this. (He drops some mushrooms into his hat.)
Cole: (Whispers to Styx.) What's he doing?
Styx: Something he calls "Fungus Magic."
Cole: Fungus Magic?
Plundar: He's making the pictures again.
Fungus: I-It is not pictures. It is far-sight. I have discovered a special concoction of lichen and moss which reveal things that are happening far away. Observe!
(He throws something into his hat, which releases blue smoke that forms images.)
Cole: Hey!
Vania: It's the other Ninja!
Wu: Where are they? What's happened to them?
Fungus: Quiet. Watch.
(Smoke engulfs the Team in the picture as two silhouettes are shown making a barrier.)
Plundar: They're in trouble!
Korgran: They fight dragon?
Fungus: It must be GriefBringer.
Silk: It couldn't be. It was kil-
Cole: Grief-Bringer? As in the dragon from the picture with my mom?
(The image of the Grief-Bringer blasts the Team, which dispels the blue smoke.)
Styx: Yeah, that's not a good sign...
Cole: We have to do something! We have to help!
Wu: Against something so powerful, only the Spinjitzu Burst can prevail. And now with newfound information that Silk has given us-
Silk: You must unlock your true form. Your Darvandai form.
Styx: (To Silk.) How?! All you've given me is a bunch of history nonsense! How do you even know I'm actually a Dar- Dar whatever!?
Silk: Your heritage can leave a mark, literally. (Points to pure-white scale under a purple one.)
Wu: If we are to destroy the Skull Scororer we will need the power of the Spinjitzu Burst and Styx's true Serpentine form.
Cole: (To Wu.) Well, I can't do that!
Styx: Me, neither! (Crosses his arms and huffs.)
Cole: Ugh. Our friends are in trouble, and we're wasting time, stuck here in this- this useless temple! (He storms off while Styx slithers in the other direction.)
Cole: & Styx: Argh!
Vania: (Watches Cole leave.) Master Wu? I hope you will forgive me saying this, but instead of standing around doing nothing, maybe you should be helping Cole.
Wu: Excuse me?
Vania: Cole needs you. And you're not doing anything to help.
Wu: Cole is no longer a student! He is an accomplished Ninja and an Elemental Master. He has not needed me in a long time.
Vania: That's not how it looks to me. (She walks away to see Silk looking at a wall.)
Wu: Hmm...
Vania: You could be a little more sympathetic.
Silk: How? Unlike that serpent who doesn't understand his ancestry, I had no problem with it.
Vania: What I've read from the Ninja's books is that Styx was a little serpent, often giving comments to the team. He never had a purpose. He never really had someone to talk to because, well, he had to fight against his own race that one time.
Silk: (Sighs.) I get it, princesses. (She disappears as Vania smiles in accomplishment.)
Korgran: (In the distance.) Ahh! The teleporting snakes are gone! They could be under Korgran's foot. (Lifts his foot as Fungus sighs.)
(Meanwhile, outside the Temple, the exit and the entrance. Wu is seen walking up to Cole as Silk appears behind Styx who is sitting down.)
Wu: (He follows Cole out of the temple.) On your feet, Cole.
Cole: What's the point?
Wu: We have work to do.
Cole: I can't do it, Master Wu. I'm not my mother! I can't do the Burst, so unless you know how...
Wu: I do not.
Cole: ...Then we have to find some other way.
Styx: Would you leave me alone for once? (Silk turns invisible.) And stop using your fake Anacondrai powers!
Silk: (Sighs and sits down.) Looks, I'm sorry I was a bit harsh on you before.
Styx: That's an understatement. (Silk looks at him.) Go on.
Silk: I understand how you've had the make choices in your past. So I'm here to help if you want to... (Clears her throat.) ...Talk about it, or want help or know anything about our tribe. Man, this is hard. Isolation does something to a person.
Styx: (Looks away.) I guess.
Wu: (Sighs) Vania is right.
Cole: Vania?
Wu: I have neglected my duties. What has been the principal lesson of all my teachings? I'm waiting.
Cole: Ninja never quit.
Wu: Exactly. Ninja never quit. And from this moment on, neither do Masters. They would never quit on us and we will never quit on them. (Cole smiles.)
Silk: (Facepalms.) I can't believe I'm doing this. You're not the only one who found out about their heritage the hard way. My parents were...eradicated by General Arcturus.
Styx: (Dryly chuckles.) Mine for sent to the Cursed Realm. And to think, that guy had the nerve of saying, to my face, "Oh, your parents are proud of you Styx, blah, blah, blah."
Silk: King Vengelis's father, the old King of Shintaro was friends with my parents. He told me things about them, how they had created the Skull of Hazadur, their biggest mistake. Now I've had to guard it. (Glares at the doors.) Until, some group had to-
Styx: Lay off them. They said sorry.
Silk: I guess. But that doesn't change the fact about the mess that's been created. Guess I'll have to fix it.
Styx: You mean, we're gonna fix it. (Gets up.) Hey, I found out that I could finally do something that's gonna change something else. I'm taking it.
Silk: (Smiles before shaking her head.) Don't start getting the idea that we're friends, got it "Anacondari?"
Styx: Pfft, sure. (Puts his hands on his sides.) I'm starting to like her.
Wu: Burst or not...
Silk: Form or no form...
Wu & Silk: We have a dragon to face!