(Harumi's POV)

"Yay!" I happily cheered as my request to press the shiny red button was granted, without any hesitation my gloved hand quickly flipped up the protective glass that was covering the very exciting button and with one swift movement my arm crashing down with my open hand slamming itself down onto the red button. This is going to be so awesome! 

It took no time at all for whatever Jay, Nya and Zane were messing around with to start activating, the Bounty's control room shook with everyone on board quickly reaching out to cling onto something to hopefully stop themselves from falling over and possibly sliding out onto the deck of the ship  

Wait a minute.......the deck...... 

"Cole!" We all shouted in perfect unison before sprinting out of the control room to check up on our man bun sporting friend. Relieved sighs were released by everyone on the deck once we saw Cole was perfectly fine and hadn't fallen into the water below, clinging onto the mast of the Destiny's Bounty for dear life 

"You alright Cole?" Kai snickered at the sight of the strong and muscular Black Ninja wrapping his entire body around the mast of the ship, looking like a cat that was just scared 

"I am perfectly fine Kai" Cole responded to the Red Ninja with an unamused look as he let go off the wooden mast and stood on the deck, dusting himself off 

The sound of engines roaring loudly grabbed my attention along with the rest of the Ninja, the eight of us all looked to the stern of the Destiny's Bounty to see the cause of the sudden shake and the loud engine noise. My eyes widened as we all watched the two large red fins at the back of the ship suddenly rotate around in sync, with two small booster engines coming out of the side of the front area of the ship at the same time

A sort of blue energy was expelled from the two large engines at the back of the ship with the Bounty rocking side to side in response, all eight of us quickly grabbed onto the deck's golden railing to stop ourselves from falling overboard. My grip on the boat's railing tightened as I felt the Destiny's Bounty begin to move, but it wasn't moving backwards or forwards, instead it was starting to hover above the ocean below! 

Kai, Cole, Skylor, Lloyd and I watched in total amazement as the two large engines continued to push the Bounty higher and higher into the sky. With Jay, Nya and Zane looking at our shocked and excited expressions with their own proud expressions, which only lasted a few seconds as Jay quickly covered his mouth before suddenly rushing to the other side of the ship with his head dangling over the side, being accompanied by some.........unpleasant sounds 

"Ugh Jay! That is disgusting!" I groaned in disgust while looking away from the currently vomiting Blue Ninja, trying my hardest to ignore the noise coming from him. That really ruined the cool flying ship moment......

"S-S-Sorry!" He weakly apologised from across the deck "I r-r-really tried to h-hold it in!" The auburn haired teen told us before swiftly throwing his head back over the railing and losing more of his lunch

"Why are you throwing up!? We've been on the Bounty before and you even helped make this thing fly!" Cole pointed out, also trying his best to look away from the unpleasant sight 

"I-I-I'm still n-not the best w-w-with h-heights!" Jay stuttered out as Zane made his way over to the Blue Ninja and began patting him on the back in an attempt to stop his vomiting

"Well other than Jay's slight sickness this new flight mode is looking great" Lloyd thankfully interrupted my thoughts of Jay vomiting, if they had gone on for any longer I'm afraid I might have joined him..... "Great work you three" My blonde boyfriend praised Zane, Nya and the throwing up Jay with a smile and a thumbs up 

"Thank you Lloyd!" Nya happily accepted the praise from Lloyd on the behalf of the other two engineers "But I have to say there is definitely some room for improvement, the take off wasn't exactly the smoothest and the small booster engines at the front aren't really working as expected. Not to mention the fact that the speed it took for us to reach this altitude-"

"Alright sis that's enough nerd talk" Kai interrupted the Water Ninja's engineering mumbo jumbo "Save it for the two that actually care for it" The hotheaded sibling chuckled as he motioned toward Jay and Zane. In response Nya simply pouted with her arms crossed before turning her back to Kai, I know for a fact that if I were in Nya's position right now I would do a lot more than just pout with my arms crossed..............

"Hey you guys, come over here!" Zane's voice suddenly called out to us, at first we were a little cautious about joining the Nindroid in fear that the Blue Ninja might ruin our gi's but after Jay assured us that he was feeling a lot better we quickly joined the two Ninja on the other side of the ship's deck to see the very destination we set out to reach

"Wow.......it's.......magnificent!" Kai admired the massive active volcano ahead of us with stars in his eyes. Of course he would have such an overly excited reaction to this volcano, it's full of his element! 

The red headed Orange Ninja chuckled from beside her almost childlike boyfriend "Geez, why am I not surprised that out of all of us you would think that this place is magnificent" Skylor playfully nudged Kai with her elbow 

"Well I think that as the official Fire Ninja of the Secret Ninja Force" Kai began to brag with his thumb pointing toward his chest "It is one of my important duties to point out how cool a place as hot as me is" He finished with a grin and a wink

"Even if I'm not the official Fire Ninja I can still appreciate that this volcano is pretty cool looking" Cole smiled with his large arms crossed, joining Kai in admiring the colossal volcano Sensei was continuing to the Destiny's Bounty toward. Now that's a real surprise, the Earth Ninja thinks a volcano is pretty cool looking! 

As our now flying vessel grew closer and closer to the blazing hot Torchfire Mountain which really made me wish we all got more breathable outfits like Cole did, Sensei Wu began to slow down the Bounty with some help from Zane and Nya until the airborne ship was hovering quite a bit above the lava of the giant volcano. I sure hope this new Destiny's Bounty isn't very flammable because just one little splash of that burning hot lava and we're going to need another new Bounty. Maybe those three clever Ninja engineers can put their smart heads together and whip up some sort of protection for the bottom half of the ship

Zane, Nya and Sensei Wu stepped out of the control room and joined us on the wooden deck, with the old bearded man holding onto the Fang Blade "Now that the Destiny's Bounty should be stable, we can now safely deposit the Fang Blade into Torchfire Mountain" The Ice Ninja told us as our Sensei carefully made his way over to the edge of the deck, looking at the boiling hot lava below us and preparing himself to get rid of the final Fang Blade

I can't wait for all this Great Devourer and Serpentine stuff to be over! I really doubt that just tossing one of the four Fang Blades into a volcano will automatically stop the Serpentine from being a nuisance, but hopefully without the goal of bringing back the Great Devourer they'll be a little confused on what to do next and we can hopefully seize that opportunity to finally throw those scaly monsters back into their tombs! Ugh especially that Pythor, he really creeps me out with his long purple neck and large mouth. We've got to make sure that slimy Anacondrai gets locked away in the worst tomb out of all the Serpentine, a tomb preferably off the main Ninjago island

"Alright Sensei hurry up and throw that Fang Blade into the volcano already!" Kai spoke out impatiently with what I swore were flames forming in his brown eyes. Jeez, he's really excited about all of this 

"Be patient Kai, the Serpentine do not have any knowledge about our current whereabouts so there is no need to hurry" Zane said to the fired up Ninja in an almost scolding manner, something Skylor and Nya found to be both amusing and relatable 

Sensei Wu let out a small chuckle before turning his attention back to Torchfire Mountain below us, holding the silver Fang Blade over the golden railing and ready to drop the sharp artefact into the large volcano "I believe Kai is correct, it is time we finally end the Serpentine's plans of summoning the Great Devourer" Our Sensei announced to us 

I watched the old man intrigued with anticipating eyes, joining Kai in eagerly looking forward to seeing one of the four blades we've been so busy chasing after finally be dropped into the scalding hot lava of Torchfire Mountain below us. Now I kind of wish I asked Zane to make us some popcorn, it would really go well with watching the Fang Blade melt inside of the volcano....

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

A loud irritating noise suddenly rang out as the Destiny's Bounty began to uncontrollably move around in the sky, causing all of us on the ship to crash into the golden railing which thankfully managed to hold itself together despite both Cole and Zane smashing into it

"What was that?!" I yelled out before holding onto Lloyd's right arm for my dear life 

"That would be the Bounty's alarm system!" Zane shouted over the blaring noise and some weird sound the back thrusters were starting to make "It would seem that something has happened to the thrusters located at the back of the ship!" He continued to shout whilst looking toward the stern of our somehow still flying vessel, spotting what appeared to be sparks coming from the two large thrusters 

"YA THINK?!" Jay screamed at the white haired Ice Ninja with a look of pure terror, his entire body clinging onto the railing 

"Why is this happening!?" Cole joined in on all the screaming and shouting "I thought you three were supposed to be smart!" He directed his attention toward Zane, Nya and the petrified Lightning Ninja 

"Zane are you sure that everything on your end was working correctly?" The black haired Water Ninja asked the Nindroid who quickly nodded his head in response "I am absolutely positive that my wiring was 100% correct!" Zane then looked over at the almost crying Blue Ninja "Jay do you believe that you may have possibly installed the thrusters incorrectly?"

"Z-ZANE I AM SURE T-T-THAT I INSTALLED THE THRUSTERS C-CORRECTLY!!!" The high-pitched screaming voice of a panicking Jay responded "And I'm sure that everything that I worked on was done correctly too!" Nya told the two other Ninja 

"Do you guys think you can fix this?" Lloyd asked Jay, Zane and Nya whilst one of his hands were firmly planted on the deck's railing, with the other one being wrapped around me to make sure I didn't fall off the ship. This would feel a lot more romantic if we weren't all just one bad step away from losing our balance and falling into the three bajillion degree lava of Torchfire Mountain! 

"I am positive that we are capable of fixing this, but first we will have to found out what has caused this to happen!" Zane shouted to Lloyd over the combined sounds of Jay's terrified screaming and the Bounty's out of control thrusters before starting to make his way toward the boats control room, holding onto the railing and other parts of the ship to keep himself from losing balance during his struggle to the control room doorway 

The rest of us watched the Nindroid slowly trudge his way across the wooden deck all silently praying that he would be able to reach the doorway without an issue. Suddenly the Destiny's Bounty tilted slightly to the right and Zane lost his balance, Cole was about to rush towards him but Sensei stopped the black haired teen in his tracks once we saw the white haired Nindroid think fast and use his Shurikens of Ice to shoot two beams of ice behind him, propelling the White Ninja right into the control room doorway. Sighs of relief filling the air upon seeing Zane safely glide across the deck and roll into the control room

"Alright! Way to go Zane!" Kai cheered for our friend. I suppose we now just have to hang on tight while waiting for Zane to figure out whatever happened to those thrusters and hopefully it should be smooth flying from the-

CLANK

Out of nowhere a loud metallic clank rang out before Zane suddenly flew out of the control room's doorway and crashed right into the wooden mast of the Bounty, shocking us all. The ship  once again turned with the Ice Ninja moving away from the mast and beginning to fall towards the red dragon head at the front of our ship, Lloyd tried to reach out and grab his arm but Zane fell by too quickly for anyone to reach him

For a moment it seemed as if we were about to lose our favourite Nindroid until Cole did something daring, he removed the Scythe of Quakes from his back and hooked the sharp end of it onto the golden railing and held onto the end of the Golden Weapon's shaft with his other arm extended out to grab Zane before it was too late, the white haired Ninja saw Cole's hand reaching out for his own so once again he used his own Golden Weapon to shoot himself slightly forward just enough to be able to grab onto Cole's gloved hand, relieving us all

Zane held onto Cole's hand tightly as the Earth Ninja pulled him up towards the railing and quickly placed both of his hands back onto the protective barrier "Thank you my friend" He graciously thanked the teen standing beside him once his balance was regained 

"Sure, don't mention it!" Cole nonchalantly accepted the Nindroid's thanks, sweating just a little bit from his heroic stunt 

"What happened in there Zane?" Nya questioned the Ice Ninja "Did you find out what went wrong with the thrusters?" She asked, wobbling just a little from another slight tilt 

It took our bright blue eyed teammate a moment to respond as he seemed to look a little dazed and confused, momentarily looking down at the deck below us before raising his head  answering the Water Ninja "I am sorry to say but I was unable to find the problem with the thrusters!" He shouted over to the black haired ponytail Ninja "I tried to locate the issue, but the moment I entered the control room my vision was cut short by something I was incapable of seeing before I was suddenly knocked out of the room and into the mast of our ship" Zane explained to us all

"I believe that would be my cue" A devious voice suddenly spoke out, a voice that sounded all too familiar....

Turning our attention toward the voice all of our eyes immediately widened, I held onto Lloyd tightly as the speaker looked at us all with his own red eyes, a malicious look on his purple scaly face 

"Pythor!" Lloyd yelled across at the Serpentine Leader standing right outside the control room, looking right at us with an evil grin plastered onto his face

"S-S-S-So it was y-y-you who messed w-w-with the thrusters!" Jay pointed at Pythor who merely smiled back wickedly "Ugh! I-I knew none of us m-made a mistake!" 

"Yes Ninja it was I who sabotaged your precious ship!" Pythor proudly told us "And I am not leaving this ship until that Fang Blade is mine!" His black scaly hand pointed at our Sensei holding onto the final Serpentine weapon the Anacondria was after 

"How did you even get onto our ship!?" Kai questioned the creepy long necked snake "Do you Anacondrai have some sort of teleportation ability!?" 

Pythor chuckled at Kai's pretty stupid question as he began to slowly slither towards us, his purple tail managing to keep himself steady on the deck "After you Ninja stole the final Fang Blade from my hands I couldn't let you get away with it, so once Skales had helped me back up I came up with the brilliant plan of simply following you Ninja to your secret hideout whilst invisible" He explained to us, getting closer with every word 

"Ahah!" Jay suddenly shouted out, interrupting Pythor's monologue "I-I-I knew I t-t-tripped over s-something!" The auburn haired Ninja reassured himself he wasn't going crazy. I guess he isn't that much of a cluts 

"Well aren't you a clever Ninja" The Serpentine mocked Jay with a sly smile "Unfortunately you weren't clever enough to stop me from sneaking aboard your silly flying boat, sabotaging the thrusters and stealing back the Fang Blade!" On the last words Pythor lunged toward us with his mouth wide open and tongue hissing 

Kai was the quickest to react with a well timed blow to the Serpentine's face with the hilt of his Sword of Fire, successfully managing to knock the Anacondrai back a little but also successfully making him even angrier than before. Pythor snarled before whipping his long purple tail right at Kai knocking the Red Ninja back first into the golden railing and then charging at us again, this time with Zane stepping forward trying to freeze the scaly snake in place but before his Shurikens of Ice could be retrieved Pythor swiftly knocked right into the Nindroid sending him tumbling into the golden railing as well, making an awful metallic and wood splitting sound

Lloyd and Cole looked at each other before nodding their heads and leaping into action, the both of them tackling Pythor to the deck together. We thought that would be it for the Anacondrai, sure his species of Serpentine are supposed to be the strongest but there's no way he could deal with both the muscly hunk of our team and Cole at the same time! 

Thinking it was over for creepy old Pythor I happily left my spot at the railing and carefully made my way over to the two Ninja, hoping to congratulate my boyfriend with a quick cuddle and a large amount of kisses. Just as I had finally reached Lloyd without the thrusters making me fall off the Bounty a sudden movement came from the grounded Anacondrai and in a flash he shot up with Cole and my beloved Lloyd being sent into the air, both of them crashing down onto the wooden deck

"Argh! That's enough playing around!" Pythor growled, staring the rest of us down with a very agitated look in his red eyes "That Fang Blade will be mine!" He once again lunged at us, Skylor pulled out her bow and fired off a few arrows right at Pythor but the arrows either missed or Pythor's golden necklace took the hit 

Alright now it's my turn! Forgetting all about the thrusters janky flying I spun into my jade coloured Spinjitzu, shooting forward clashing into Pythor throwing the pesky snake into the Bounty's mast. Haha score! 10 points for Harumi! But why should I stop at a low score of 10? Let's keep this score going! Filled head to toe with adrenaline I continued my Spinjiztu attack on the Anacondrai with my jade tornado circling around the slightly chipped wooden mast, hoping to make Pythor dizzy before spinning right into him

I circled the hopefully now confused Serpentine General for a couple of seconds before aiming directly for him, all was going just as I had quickly planned, Pythor was a mere moment away from being flattened when something suddenly grabbed hold of the bottom of my feet and tossed me out of my Spinjiztu tornado, sending me crashing into the ship's railing with a thud and another wood splitting sound. Where is that noise coming from? Ugh speaking of splitting, I think that throw had a pretty big impact in giving me a pretty bad headache, that darn tail! Maybe I'm just imagining that splitting sound....

"Oh so you like to use your tail huh?" Nya said whilst taking her Trident of Water and getting into a throwing stance "How about we see how well you do when it's stuck to the deck!" She finished with sending her Golden Weapon soaring through the sky toward Pythor's annoying tail, aiming to keep it in place 

But unfortunately that damn tail seemed to have a mind of it's own, as instead of giving us a break and getting pinned to the wood like a good tail, that nuisance winded up hitting Nya's Trident right back at us as if it were a baseball bat hitting a home run. With the Golden Weapon whizzing through the air like an arrow from Skylor's bow before stabbing itself into the control room's doorway, almost impaling the utterly horrified Jay that was standing close by 

"Uhhh N-N-Nya? M-Maybe next time y-y-you DON'T ANNOUNCE E-EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE GOING T-TO DO BEFORE YOU D-DO IT!!!" The clearly terrified and ticked off about almost becoming a kebab Jay yelled at Nya who sheepishly apologised 

After the small Jay freakout of the day Pythor seemed to lose interest in dealing with us Ninja, his reptilian red eyes focusing in on a certain old man firmly standing his ground beside me, clutching the final Fang Blade in his hand tightly 

"You!" Pythor pointed a black scaly hand at our Sensei who only stared back at the angered Serpentine ahead of him "Oh I'm going to enjoy finally getting rid of you!" The Anacondrai warrior yelled out before furiously whipping his strong purple tail right into Sensei's chest knocking the wise man into the Bounty's gold barrier hard, the splitting wood sound finally making sense as upon impact the barrier that protected us from falling overboard broke off from the ship's deck with Sensei Wu joining it in descending towards the lava of Torchfire Mountain

"SENSEI!!!"" All of our shouts ringed out in unison upon seeing the dreadful scene, all of us quickly raced to look over the edge of the Bounty, watching helplessly as our mentor seemed to fall away from us in slow-motion. I could feel a few tears swell up in my eyes along with the others

"UNCLE!!" Lloyd shrieked the loudest of us all, tears in his now sad looking green eyes. My hand went out to reach his cheek in an attempt to comfort him but Lloyd wiped his tears away and suddenly charged forward, diving after Sensei with both of his hands reaching out for the old man, shocking us all 

"Lloyd!" I screamed my boyfriend's name at the top of my lungs, horrified it might be the last time I say it. Well he isn't getting off the hook that easily!

Following in my boyfriend's reckless footsteps I threw all caution to the wind and dived off the wooden deck just like Lloyd, ignoring everyone's gasps as my two gloved hands reached out and  barely managed to grab a hold of Lloyd's ankles, immediately shutting my eyes in fear after the adrenaline rush wore off and my brain reminded me that Lloyd, Sensei and I were now just mere seconds away from being engulfed by Ninjago's hottest lava....

But my eyes slowly opened back up shortly after being closed when I felt something tightly gripping my own two ankles, looking upward I was relieved to see Kai holding onto me with everyone else forming a chain to save Lloyd, Sensei and I from the volcano in the order of Kai, Nya, Skylor and Zane with Cole at the top firmly holding on to the Bounty's deck as he was keeping everyone from falling into the lava whilst Jay panicked behind him, Pythor laying on the ground clutching his side after presumably being punched by Cole 

"Now would be a really good time to fix those thrusters Jay!" The Earth Ninja managed to tell Jay through his grunts and groans from making sure we didn't join our Fang Blade "No offence Zane but you're not exactly the lightest of the group!" 

"None taken" Zane calmly responded to the somewhat struggling Cole, how is he so calm!? If Jay doesn't hurry up and fix those thrusters Cole will end up slipping and because of that we're gonna end up being dropped below into the lava of Torchfire Mountain!!! 

"A-A-Alright I'm o-on it!" Jay stuttered out before quickly rushing into the Bounty's control room, almost falling over on the way there 

"Hang on for just a little longer you guys! Jay is gonna fix all that nerd stuff!" Cole shouted down to us 

Kai grunted slightly as his arms began to grow a little tired "Hey Sensei! Right now is probably the best time to get rid of that Fang Blade!" He suggested to our long white bearded mentor who seemed to agree 

"You're right Kai!" Sensei Wu shouted up to his spiky brown haired pupil, directing his attention back down to the lava below us 

He looked at the final Fang Blade in his hand one more time, probably relieved to be getting rid of it before finally releasing his grip on the blade's black handle and we all watched as it began to fall down into the mouth of Torchfire Mountain, the entire world going in slow-motion as the Serpentine weapon grew closer and closer to being swallowed by the large volcano 

Good rid- wait what!? 

Out of absolutely nowhere a lime green Serpentine themed helicopter flew by with the Hypnobrai General Skales standing on a small platform hanging from the Rattlecopter, the dark blue and yellow patterned snake swiped the Fang Blade from the air right before it could completely fall into the lava of Torchfire Mountain below 

"WHAT THE HECK?!" I loudly shouted out in shock and bewilderment, almost letting my boyfriend slip "WHERE THE HELL DID HE COME FROM!?"

"Pythor must have informed Skales of our location!" Zane told us as the Serpentine Rattlecopter flew around the tilting Bounty 

Pythor stood up on the ship's deck, dusting his purple scales off before slithering his way behind Cole "I would really love to stay and chat with you all Ninja but I'm afraid I've got a Great Devourer to unleash!" The Anacondrai maniacally laughed with his creepy large mouth curled into a grin

Everybody watched helplessly as Pythor turned his back to us, hopping onto the platform hanging from the Serpentine helicopter and joining Skales in flying away from Torchfire Mountain and presumably towards the Great Devourer's resting place, the final Fang Blade needed being in Pythor's hand

Just as the two Serpentine Generals and their stupid looking Rattlecopter began to fade away into the distance a few clanks, clangs and sparks rang out from the control room before the  back thrusters started to stabilise, stopping the Bounty from moving uncontrollably. Soon after Jay stumbled out of the control room in a hurry to help Cole lift us all back onto the wooden deck "Is e-e-everyone alright?" He questioned us once we were all standing safely on the Destiny's Bounty

"We are all perfectly fine Jay" Sensei Wu told the Blue Ninja as he retrieved his mysteriously appearing teapot and poured himself a cup of tea "But unfortunately we were unsuccessful in destroying the final Fang Blade, I am sure that Pythor and Skales will be arriving at the City of Ouroboros at any moment" He took a short break to drink his freshly poured cup of tea, even during such an important moment that old man continues to fuel his tea addiction "If we are to stop them now time is very much of the essence"

All of us nodded our heads in understanding "Then let's put the pedal to the metal!" I cheered with one of my fists in the air, hoping to fill everybody else with determination to stop Pythor which seemed to work as Zane quickly found himself steering the Destiny's Bounty away from Torchfire Mountain and at the highest speed the thrusters could manage chasing after Skales and Pythor's Rattlecopter 

And just like that another Ninja Life chapter comes to a close. Make sure to let me know your thoughts in the comments below and feel free to share this with other Ninjago fans, make sure you also go ahead and follow me too!