(Lloyd move in and tried to help out but just gets in the way. Pythor awakens the Venomari and the Constrictai, and an all-out snake war breaks out.)

Season One: Episode Five
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I watch Lloyd walk around the ship doing what Sensei told him to do, and laugh when the boys all yell each other's names.

I walk to the bedroom where all the boys are arguing.
"You couldn't just be happy with the top score? You had to rub it in my face?"
You know how long it took me to make that? Three days. Three days."
"It's an unsaid law, okay? You don't touch a mans robot."
"How am I supposed to strike fear in this? It's pink."

Sensei walks in as they continue arguing and reveals Lloyd as he cackles catching their attention.
"You did this," they all yell.
Cole starts walking towards Lloyd so I wrap my arms around him, holding him back.

He relaxes in my grip and I blush letting go of him.

"Stop! I put him up to this for today's lesson. I wanted to show you the destructive power of rumors and that jumping to conclusions can only lead to trouble. Did you ever think to find out if the accusations were true?"

"Wait wait wait," Jay stops Cole from speaking, "what about (y/n)? Or Nya?"
"Oh no," I start," I thought Nya took the shine out of my wrist guards," I hold up my very dull guards. "And I though (y/n) threw all my clothes overboard," Nya says walking in and walking back out.

"Uh, no offense Sensei. Today's lesson is lame."
"Yeah why can you teach us to paralyze your enemy with one finger," Jay asks frustrated.
"Or find out of a man is lying by the twitch of his nose," Kai adds.

"Because not all lessons are about fighting," Sensei says, "and I misplaced my lesson book."
I roll my eyes and walk to the bridge where Nya is. She gives me a smile before using the com to talk, "if you're done fooling around, I could use you guys on the bridge. We do still have a snake problem to attend to. Over and out."

I give her a laugh as Kai gives a smart remark about Nya, "you do know I can hear you? Over and out."

The boys all walk into the bridge as Nya starts explaining, "last we heard from Pythor, he stole the Map of Dens for Lloyd and is now on his way to open the last two Serpentine tombs."

"Pythor's our most dangerous threat. If he finds those tombs before we do, with his intellect, and all four tribes unleashed, there's no telling what he'll do."

"But those tombs could be anywhere. Without the map, we might as well just throw darts at a map," Jay says as Nya hands me a dart.

"Good idea, why don't we," Nya says as we each throw a dart. "Hey," Cole yells as I almost hit him.
"These are the two locations of the Hypnobrai and Fangpyer tombs."
I throw another dart," and this is Pythor's tomb."
"After many hours of ruminating on why these tombs were placed in these three precise locations, I discovered a secret pattern," Nya says.
"All three are in line with the Ninjago symbol for serpent," she says as Jay looks at her lovingly, "so that means the last two tombs must be here and here," he points to the map.

"There's little time. Kai, Jay, and (Y/n), you head to the Venomari. Cole and Zane take the Constrictai." Sensei gives Cole the flute.
"Lets go guys. We've got some snakes to club," Cole says running out the door. We all follow him.

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Jay and I fly through the trees while Kai zooms through the bushes. We transform back to normal and swing through the trees using the vines as rope.

We land in front of an acid lake, "ew," Jay says turning to Kai. "What, it's not me. We're in the Toxic Bogs. This stuff will eat through you worse than Cole's chili."

I laugh as Kai pulls out a stick he put in the acid just to see it gone.
We stop jumping through the trees and land in front of the tomb. As Jay open it he says 'P-yew' and it echoes making him laugh.

"Let's just make this quick before Pythor gets here," Kai says as I walk around the corner to check out the outside. Kai walks to the other side to check it out while Jay looks inside, "this place looks empty we must've just missed them."

I hear Kai grunt and go to check it out but get pulled by back Venomari. I yell as they tie ropes around me and carry me. "Let go of me," I yell getting Jay's attention. He runs to me but gets cornered with Kai as the venom takes over his eyesight. "We're toast," he screams.

I hear rumbling as Cole and Zane jump out of their vehicle and land beside us, "anyone order a little kick butt?"

They surround us once more and Zane tries to use the flute but Pythor takes it away. They back them up onto a log on the acid lake and toss me on also, still tied up. I break free with Cole's help and try to jump buts it's too far.

"I've got a sinking feeling this may be last last I see of you five," Pythor cackles evilly.
"That's it. I used to hate dragons, but now I officially hate snakes," Cole yells.

"Wait, do you see that? A magic floating rope. We can climb to safety," Kai said reaching for nothing.
"Kai," I yell as Jay pulls him back from falling into the toxic water.
"For whatever it is worth, it was an honor to fight beside you all," Zane says.
"Ugh, don't say that," I groan sarcastically,  hiding my nervousness.
I jump slightly as a rope appears in front of us, "the magic rope."

"Everyone climb over," Jay yells as we hop off the log as it sinks fully into the acid. A large samurai thing comes down from the sky and shoots Pythor with a dart but he gets away as the other snakes run.

The person hops down from the suit.
"Who are you," Cole and I ask.
"How about the coolest thing I've ever seen," Jay says.
"Santa," Kai asks the venom still affecting him.
"Thank you, mysterious warrior. I owe you my life for saving," Zane gets cut off by the person spraying gas at him making him go unconscious.

"Hey that wasn't nice," Jay says but also goes unconscious. They spray me and I collapse.

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I wake up and groan holding my head as Nya walks in, "come on guys time for lunch," then she walks out as everyone else wakes up.
"What happened," Cole asks also rubbing his head.
"I don't know."

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"Just when we were about to bite it this huge mechanical robot," Jay starts but Zane cuts him off, "Samurai."

"It was soo cool," I yell happily. I see Nya smile out of the corner of my eye.
"Samurai. Highest level of warrior class. They would protect nobility and serve with honor on the battlefield," Sensei explains.

Kai starts to talk but since he still on the Venomari venom it's different from what we saw, "look at Sensei's beard. It's moving like snakes."

"When is this Venomari spit supposed to wear off, it's getting annoying," Nya says making us laugh.

I look at Kai as he put a piece of food on his face and watch it slide off, "okay, don't let this mysterious samurai cloud what really important: All the Serpentine are out, and if Pythor and unite them, the legend states some Great Devourer is gonna consume the land and," Cole stops to take a breath, "great devourer," Nya asks.

"Whatever it is, it's a can of worms I don't wanna see open," he says. Lloyd goes to say it's all his fault but I softly kick his leg under the table and shake my head no.

"We cannot change the past, but we can affect the future. At least we have the Sacred Flute in our possession."

I stifle a laugh as Jay goes to speak, "Yeah. Ahem. About that," he says, "Pythor sort of stole it," Zane rubs the back of his head.

"The last Scared Flute gone?"
Sensei sighs, "you five are Ninjago's last hope."
The alarm goes off as we all hop up.
"Cold vision must've caught something, Nya says, "that means the Serpentine are near."
"Oh, no! Ninjago City."

We all run to the bridge and see that all the tribe are gathered underneath the city.
"Go. We mustn't let the five tribes unite," Sensei says.

We all run into the changing room, "Ninja go," we yell spinning into our clothes. I run out as the others follow, Kai with Jay. They jump first, then Zane, then Cole and I.

Cole grabs me and uses his weapons to transform into his vehicle and drive down the side of the building before transforming back. We all land on the ground, alert.

"Wow," I say as the others also mumble in awe at the city.
They all talk about living in Ninjago, "um dont we have a snake problem," I say shutting them up.
"But where are they," Zane asks, "we should be standing in the middle of a massive Serpentine gathering."

"Ugh I hate snakes," Cole says pointing to a pot hole.

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"That's a lot of snakes," I say.
"What are we going to do," Jay asks.
"I have an idea. Follow my lead," Kai says.

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"That sound like a great plan, but you know the Hypnobrai will screw it up," Kai says.
"Those buck teeth can bite my rear end," Jay says.
"We can't trust the Anacondrai, they think they're so high and mighty," I say.
"I bet there drinking there own venom," Cole says.
"All that digging must have given them dirt for brains," Zane says.

All the tribes start arguing, "it's working."
I rest on the wall waiting for the others but I yell as I'm pulled into the ground.

I get tied to the others, "where's Zane," I ask noticing he's not here," I don't know, but I saw him run. I don't know if they got him," Jay says.

We see Zane swing across the room and yell, "go pink ninja, go!"

He cuts the rope, "unh. Now let's get out of here." We use the ropes and swing over the angry snakes and out of the sewers. "Let us blow this popsicle stand. Ninja go," Zane yells.
He transform his weapons into a bike and we all hop on.

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We all help set up for dinner and take a seat and start eating.
"You know, whether it was in a lesson book or not, we used the destructive power of rumors to our advantage," Cole says.
"And now the Serpentine are further away than ever from getting their act together," Kai adds.
"You know I don't think we would've gotten out of there if it hadn't been for Zane," Jay says.
"Yeah you're right he's the one who did all the work," I add.

"Don't thank me. Thank Lloyd. If it hadn't been for his "laundry skills," we would've all been found," he says making us all laugh.

"Speak of the devil and he'll appear," I say as Lloyd walks in giving Zane's suit back, white.
"And to show you I'm sorry Cole, I got you a can of nuts," Lloyd says.
Cole speaks, "don't thing I don't see what this is. When I open this, a bunch of snakes are gonna pop put, right?"

He walks to pen the fridge and a bunch of fake snakes pop out, scaring him. I give Lloyd a tight hug as we all start laughing.