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Chapter 13 - Season 1: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

*In the control room, Nya takes the covers off of a skeleton.*

"Some villagers unearthed the remains of this a few miles away. It predates the Golden Age, and must be hundreds of years old. Although the fangs of the Fangpyre genetically mutate human cells into reptilian, I've learned there could be a way to stop the effects without having to create an antivenom." Nya is explaining to the group.

Zane is taking notes while Kai is bored. Cole is drawing a picture of him fighting. Nova is slowly falling asleep, nodding her head while Jay, sporting a new hairstyle, stares at Nya with an infatuated expression on his face. "If one is able to wildly raise their heart rate, hypothetically, it could reverse the venom's effects." Nya kept explaining until her cheeks turned pink. "Resulting in...diminished, uh, excuse me, is someone wearing perfume? I'm severely allergic to perfume."

The ninja looks over at Nova, who drops her head, hitting it on the table before quickly shooting back up. "Huh? what ,what, I'm awake! *yawns* Did I miss anything for the test?" She asked with a confused look on her face, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes with gloves now covering her hands, as to hide what was happening to them.

"Heh." Jay turned to whisper to Kai. "You told me it was men's cologne."

"Meh, I get them mixed up." said Kai, causing everyone but Jay and Nya to laugh. Zane turns his humor switch off.

"Ah, looks like class is over. Time to start stomping some Serpentines before they find any fangblades." said Cole getting up to leave.

"Sounds like a plan." said Kai following soon after.

"I'm excited to join." said Zane, joining them.

"I have some training I need to work on too. Oh, and good luck Jay." said Nova, giving Jay a smirk as she left the room, knowing he was planning on asking Nya on a date.

Nova headed upstairs to the deck and started training with some of the dummies they had while having a few thoughts running through her head.

"Decay, and shadow teleportation is a little weird to have for an elemental master.... I mean, Wu and I believe that I'm the elemental master of decay... But something just doesn't sit right with me when I think about it." She thought unsure.

Nova stopped training and looked at her hands. "... Shadow teleportation would be more connected to shadows...decay falling close to destruction or even.....t-the oni and Overlord....but that wouldn't make sense.....if nothing else. My elemental power would be closer to....darkness." Her thoughts were digging deeper into theories and connections.

Nova looked over at one of the dummies, eyes slowly turning purple, without knowing. She raised a hand as she wanted to try something.

Soon, shadows started moving and one of them pierced right through the dummy, like a big spike formed by shadow.

Her eyes widened in shock as they changed back to normal before she lowered her hand. "I can....control.....shadows." Now both surprised but also scared of this new discovery.

*Some time later in the control room.*

"Whoa, where are you going, Mr. Fancy?" said Cole when Jay walked into the room.

"Didn't you hear? I'm taking Nya to a nice restaurant. A really nice restaurant." Jay told him.

"You might wanna change your plans. The bridge just picked up evidence of Serpentine activity over at Mega Monster Amusement Park." said Kai.

The monitor shows a photo of Serpentine in the park.

"Hey, that's Pythor." said Jay pointing at the screen.

"Pythor would not be there for fun. We believe a Fangblade may be buried underneath the park." said Zane.

"We can't let them get it! Oh, but my date..." said Jay.

"Jay, if they get all four of them, Pythor can unleash the Great devourer. Get your priorities straight, man." said Kai.

"For once Kai is right. Get your priorities straight." said Nova.

"Hey!"

*At the amusement park.*

"Ha! Lame! This ride is stupid." The man said before he saw the Serpentine digging. "Heh, look how stupid this guy looks." He and the others were sprayed with Venomari venom. "Get me off this thing! Mommy!"

"Where is everybody?" asked Kai, and soon they see the riders scream and run out of the attraction.

"Wait a minute, that ride was never scary." said Cole.

"Venomari." said Zane.

"Should we get Jay?" Kai asked.

"Let's not bother the two lovebirds. I think we can handle this." said Nova, summoning her dual blades.

"Excuse us, coming through." said Kai as they were running past the screaming people.

"Nothing to look at, folks." said Cole.

"This is official ninja business." said Zane.

"Get to safety, everyone. We'll handle this." said Nova.

They soon arrived to where the Serpentine uncovers the Fangblade.

"Ah." Pythor laughs. "The first fangblade is ours!"

The sword of fire is shown igniting as Kai, Cole, Zane and Nova arrives.

"Not so fast." said Kai.

"Really? That's the best you got?" said Cole and Nova looking at him.

"I couldn't think of anything on the fly." said Kai.

"And this is why Lloyd is the leader of these idiots later on, at least his sounds better." Nova thought, shaking her head.

"How about "Time to burn" or "Jump on this fire ride?" suggested Cole.

"Or "Someone ordered burned snakes."? " Nova suggested.

"Well, next time, you lead." said Kai to Cole.

"Next time I will." said Cole.

"Oh, yeah? If you can catch up." said Kai, running head in to fight.

"Oh, come on. You gotta follow my lead." said Cole.

The ninja and Nova then went on to attack the Serpentine.

Nova narrowed her eyes as she went straight for Pythor while dodging incoming attacks.

"We meet again, worm." said Nova with a smirk.

"W-worm, well now that's just rude little princess. AH!" said Pythor before quickly dodging with a scream when a knife was thrown at him. "Call me that again, motherfucker, and next time I won't miss." She said in a cold tone.

Nova went straight for him and was only a meter from hitting him, until she got frozen by Zane losing control of his powers. "No, no, no, no! I had him. I FUCKING HAD HIM!!" Nova screamed in her head.

Pythor and everyone laughs and runs away, but Nya uses her Mech to steal the Fangblade. "Stop him!"

*After getting free from the ice. Nova and the ninja meet up at the Park's entrance.*

"You really had me fooled. I never guessed you were the Samurai." said Zane to Nya.

"I wished I had a sister like you." said Cole.

"Oh, so I don't count as a sister?" Nova questioned, raising an eyebrow as she crossed her arms.

"Technically, I was the first to discover her secret, and didn't we agree whoever we thought was the best would naturally be the Green Ninja? Huh? The Green Ninja! The destined ninja to defeat Lord Garmadon, huh?" said Kai.

"Why would we say that?" asked Jay.

"Yeah, I'm drawing a blank." said Cole.

"Nope. That conversation is not in my database." said Zane.

"Wow, they are just gaslighting Kai." Nova thought, trying not to laugh.

"You know what I learned today?" Jay asked.

"What's that?" Nya asked.

"No matter what kind of secret you have, whether you're a snake or a samurai, it's important to be yourself." said Jay.

Nova smiled a bit at what he said before looking down at her gloved hands, soon other thoughts started running through her head, turning her smile into a frown.

"Yeah, that's cute, but you wanna know what I learned? The Serpentine now have the first Fangblade." said Cole.

"But we are getting stronger. One day, we will all reach our True Potential and Pythor will be stopped." said Zane.

"And we figured out all this without Sensei. Pretty good for four ninja." said Jay until Nya and Nova punches him. "And a Samurai and a Ninja-in-training."

"What the FUCK! Do you mean with ninja-in-training! I might be a little behind, but I'm already catching up to you guys!" said Nova, crossing her arms annoyed.

"Language!"

"English!"

"Can we please just drop this, it's already getting pretty old at this point." said Cole.

"I wonder what Sensei is doing now." said Kai, trying to change the subject.

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