A/N: Hey there! A slightly sleep-deprived Ice Ninja here. Daylight Savings is not on my side right now. Thank the heavens midterm just ended. That means summer is comin to town! Woo! Thank you all for bringing this book/story up to 1.24K views, and giving me 43 followers!!😊 Here is Pt 3. I think at the moment I will update Dare or Truth show within the next few days. So back to the story! Thanks for reading, commenting, and voting!😁
The boys all stood in silence while Loriah was back inside.
“Welp, I'm bored.” Jay said, breaking the silence
“Agreed.” the other four said in unison
“Video games?” Kai suggested
“Like Pac-Man?” Echo asked curiously
“What? No. More like Fist to Face or Super Smash Bros.” Cole said
“I’ve seen you guys play the Fist to Face game before, but I haven't mastered the controls yet. What's a Super Smash Bros?” Echo asked
“You shouldn't do that. Knowing you three something will end up goin wrong.” Jackson warned
“Cmon, what harm could it do?” Kai said
“Well can't say I didn’t warn you. I want zero, zip, zilch part in this so see ya.” Jackson said before he headed off
“Well now Echo. Looks like your in our hands. Time to show you Super Smash Bros.” Jay said with a grin before leading the way to the game room.
***
Lloyd, Nya, and Zane continued walking. Sloshing every now and then.
“I think we're nearby. It's like I can feel it.” Nya said as they took a pause.
“Well that’s great because now we can-” Lloyd said before he was then pulled under the water
“Lloyd!” both Nya and Zane cried out before they too were pulled under suddenly.
The trio could no longer see each other in the inky darkness. The water swirled and swirled, as though an invisible force was spinning it around like a top. Each of them felt their chests about to burst. Suddenly all the water disappeared and the three were on a land of sorts. All of them were coughing and spluttering from the suddenness.
“Is everyone alright?” Zane choked out before coughing again.
“Mostly.” Lloyd rasped, his voice sounding scratchy after spitting out water once more. His hair was soaked and plastered against his forehead, dripping water into his eyes.
“That was unexpected.” Nya commented as she moved her hair out of her eyes.
After a couple minutes, they managed to stand back up, each dripping with water and soaked to the bone.
“Here let me try something.” Nya said
She then concentrated and used her powers to pull the water out all their clothes and hair.
“That should do it.” Nya said as she dropped the water back where it came from.
“Well now that we’re dry, where exactly are we.” Lloyd said as he looked around
The land seemed tropicalish. There were tall trees, swaying side to side. Tons of bushes and vines everywhere, also as if they we there to protect something.
“I believe we have been pulled further below. I think the Water Stone is somewhere ahead. I have the sense we are being watched however.” Zane said as he did a quick scan of their surroundings, with no threats detected.
“I think the stone is somewhere ahead.” Nya said as she looked around
“Lead the way then.” Lloyd said
The three then started to make their way through the vines.
Fifteen minutes passed before they came to a large clearing. They looked around for a path but were instead met with overgrown bushes and vines.
“Where now?” Lloyd said as he pulled a couple vine bits out of his hair.
“Well technically speaking, since we are not in water at the moment and the space isn't as cramped, perhaps we could use our dragons?” Zane suggested
“That's actually a really good idea.” Nya said
The trio then summon their dragons and rose up into the air.
“There! I think..” Lloyd said as he pointed to a small cave up ahead that would not have been seen at ground level
“Let's give it a try.” Zane said as his dragon gave a gleeful roar.
Together they then rode off to the cave.
**
Each of them landed their dragons before making them disappear.
“I think that's it up there!” Nya said.
Further within the cave there was a soft blue glow.
“What are we waiting for then?” Lloyd said with a grin.
They then quickly rushed forward before making their way into a large connected cave. Water was dripping gently from the ceiling. Then they saw it. Up on one of the several rock formations was a maroon and sky blue wave patterned stone.
“There it is.” Nya said as she pointed up to it.
“Alright, Nya you go get the stone. Zane and I will stay here and keep watch.” Lloyd said
Nya nodded in agreeance and started to climb the rock formation. Lloyd and Zane both pulled out their weapons. Within just a few minutes, there was double trouble. The water dragon then appeared. Having maroon and sky blue wave patterned wings, tail, head and body, long claws, deep blue eyes, and rather sharp looking teeth; the dragon definitely looked like it was something you did not want to mess with.
At the same time, shadows appeared, one of them ended up dropping down from the ceiling. The shadow from the ceiling dropped something on both Lloyd and Zane’s heads. It seemed to have been a glass filled of sorts because the minute it made impact, it shattered; wetting both of their hair with a water of sorts.
“Ack!” the two said as they shook the glass shards out
“Attack!” one of the shadows commanded
“Ninja Go!” Zane and Lloyd both cried out as they spun into their spinjitzu tornados, spinning around the room and knocking down the shadows
They then stopped and the shadows got back up. All, of their weapons then clashed
“Nya! We need a little help!” Lloyd called out as he fought two shadows at a time
“I’m just a little busy at the moment.” Nya called back as she avoided a blast of hot water from the dragon.
After a few more dodges, Nya managed to do a flip and grabbed the stone.
“Got it!” Nya said as she held the stone. The dragon then gave off an angered roar.
“Let's go boys! Our work here is done!” a lead shadow called out.
All the shadows then vanished.
The dragon then gave off another massive roar.
“I think it might be best if we RUN!” Zane yelled as Nya leaped down.
The group then ran as fast as they could, with an angry water dragon right on their tail.
“Get ready to hold your breath!” Lloyd called pushing branches and vines out of his way
They then came back to there started point, with the dragon not to far away.
Each of them then took a deep breath before jumping into the water. Everything swirled into inky darkness once more. The swirling then stopped and the trio found themselves back in the original cave that they were in. There was an echoing roar that came through the water.
“Well that went well.” Lloyd joked
“Other than the angry dragon, we got the stone.” Nya said with a smile as she showed them the water stone held tightly in her hand.
“Time to head back to the bounty.” Zane said before they headed off once more.
***
“Are you sure you plugged it in right?” Kai said to Jay as he checked the console once more.
“You’ve asked me that for the past ten minutes. again I say, yes!” Jay snapped back
Echo and Cole watched the two bicker back and forth over the static covered TV screen.
“Well, good luck with them Echo. I’m headed to go get the shower first.” Cole said before he headed off
Echo watched slightly bemused as Jay and Kai bickered for several more minutes over the TV.
There was then a splashing noise from outside just as the two can to an agreeance.
‘Zane, Lloyd, and Nya must be back!’ Echo thought eagerly as he bent over to tie his shoe.
Jay was trying to fix the TV again, Kai quietly snuck up on him.
“Boo!” Kai exclaimed behind Jay, making him yelp and electrocute the TV.
Echo then look up at the most unfortunate time. As soon as Jay shocked the TV, the screen went blank for a moment before the TV suddenly worked again; a life like zombie appeared on the screen before jumpscaring the watcher and screeched ‘kill’.
Jay and Kai heard this and quickly whipped around; Echo shrieked out of fright from the screen before he bolted from the room.
“Oh, shoot!” the two said before quickly heading after Echo.
“Zannnnnee!” Echo bawled as he raced onto the deck, rushing into his soaked brother, and burying his face into the chest of Zane's gi.
“Echo what's wrong?” Zane asked with great concern as his little brother sobbed.
“T-they….a-are..g-g-going..t-to..k-kill...m-m-me.” Echo whimpered as he cried
Just then Kai and Jay came onto the deck.
“Echo wait- oh hhhhey there Zane..” Kai said, witnessing the fact of how much trouble they would be in
“What is my brother talking about something is going to kill him?” Zane asked sharply at the two.
Lloyd casually slipped out of the seen, not wanting to be apart of the situation
“Oh um..heh..funny story bout that..” Jay said as he and Kai shifted uncomfortably
“Kai. Jay. What did you do.” Nya said even sharper than Zane while also shooting looks at the two.
There was silence before Jay ended up blurting everything out.
“IwastryingtofixthetvandKaiscaredmemakingmeshockthetvandascaryimageofazombiecameonandittalkedandthenitscaredEcho.”
“You did what!?” Nya and Zane both yelled over Echo’s muffled sobs
“Technically it's Kai’s fault for scaring me.”
“You're the one who electrocuted it!”
Jay and Kai started bickering back and forth again
“Whoa, everybody hold their horses.” Jackson said as he and Loriah then came down
“Jackson will you take Echo so I can freeze Kai and Jay here for a century?” Zane said as he was shot daggers at the two
Jackson sighed
“I told you two it was a bad idea.” Jackson said
“Ok clearly I missed something while I was brewing myself some tea.” Loriah said as she glanced around at everyone
“Care to explain you two?” Nya said annoyed by the two
Jay and Kai then explained what went on.
“So you weren't kidding about the whole ‘Don't do anything stupid’ thing huh Zane?” Loriah said after hearing the whole story.
“Seems to be so.” Zane said as he picked up Echo, who after crying managed to calm down some and started to fall asleep.
“Alright, I've got a plan to even everything out. Tomorrow and the day after you two get to do whatever Echo wants, not matter what. Otherwise Zane can tell Sensei what went down when he gets back. Deal?” Jackson said
“Deal.” Jay and Kai said unhappily
Zane then started to carry a sleeping Echo back to his room.
“If this happens again, Sensei Wu will be the least of your problems.” Zane said to the two as he pasted them, making Jay and Kai shared slightly frightened looks.
A/N: What happened to Echo has actually happened to me in real life. Gosh, I can't tell you how freaked out I was. I had nightmares for days. Poor Echo. I feel you buddy.
By the way, do you readers want me include a pic of Jackson in the next chapter? Let me know whether or not in the comments!😊😊😊