Chapter 25 – 'Tis never over

The Great Devourer wasted no time in creating destruction on the sky scrapers in Ninjago City, as it continued to fly through the sky. But as it waved its flight hood to keep itself in the air, Rocky with Cole on his back came running toward the Devourer's tail. Rocky jumped up into the air with his powerful legs and clamped his massive jaws down on the giant snake's tail, and Rocky weighed the snake down and they both landed on the ground with BOOM.

"Zane, now!" Cole boomed. Zane was flying on Shard directly above the momentarily grounded Great Devourer. Shard opened his mouth and aimed it at the flight hoods of the Great Devourer. Shard shot two giant glowing ice beams from the back of his throat; each hitting the Devourer's flight hood. As soon as the ice hit the snake's hood, the ice expanded itself until it was a thick layer of ice covering every inch on both of the flight hoods.

"Whack-a-snake time, Rocky!" Cole told Rocky, and his earth dragon turned his head sideways. Rocky lifted his upper body into the air, taking the Devourer and its frozen hoods with it. With one giant thrust back toward the ground Rocky threw the Devourer back onto the ground, causing the ice to shatter and break apart the hoods. The Devourer roared in pain with frozen bits of its, used to be, flight hood.

"You're grounded!" Jay's voice rang, getting the snake's attention. The Great Devourer turned completely around, and Rocky and Cole immediately moved out of the way, and the Great Devourer was met with Flame, who was ridden by Kai, and Wisp, ridden by Jay, as the fire and lightning dragon bared the claws out and impaled their claws into the giant snake. The dragons flapped their wings hard, and eventually lifted the snake off the ground. Pretty soon, the Great Devourer was hundreds of feet in the air, but the snake could do nothing now. The Great Devourer was forced to look straight ahead as it caught sight of Garmadon, Lloyd and Kate riding on Titan, who was flying rather quickly towards it.

Lloyd was keeping the green dragon controlled in flight, while Garmadon and Kate were standing up. Garmadon held out each of the four golden weapon, and Kate, for some reason, was clutching Garmadon's torso as they neared the Great Devourer's head.

"Don't let go of me until you see the back of the Devourer's throat!" Garmadon shouted.

Garmadon and Kate walked to the edge of Titan's neck as they were closer than ever to the giant snake. Kate, along with Garmadon still in her grasp, jumped off of the green dragon and dove for the Devourer's mouth while Lloyd made Titan pull up so that the necklaces' magnetic pull on Lloyd and Kate's necks would act like a vine and swing Garmadon and Kate toward the Great Devourer. The purple magnetic rod that connected Lloyd and Kate by their necks became visible again, and Kate and Garmadon were swinging forward as Garmadon bared the Golden Weapons.

Kate let go and threw Garmadon into the Devourer's mouth, but Garmadon made sure at least one golden weapon struck each of the four Devourer's large fangs. The weapons struck the fangs with a loud CLANK and the teeth were dislodged and immedtiately turned back into their Silver Fang Blade form. As Garmadon and the golden weapons disappeared down the Devourer's throat, the fang blades fell hundreds of feet to the ground and the Devourer roared as it thrashed around after Wisp and Flame let go.

The green scales that covered the snake's body began to morph back into the rock mineral they once were when they used to make a snake statue, and as the rocks came back, the stone body parts became immobilized. And a bright white glow came from between the cracks as the entire snake became immobilized and covered in stone. But before anyone could say anything else, the almighty Great Devourer exploded and rocks and debris went flying through the city, some rocks even flying so they ended up over half a mile away.

That was it. It was done. The Devourer was defeated. The good guys have won this battle.

Everyone landed back down into to park and looked at each other with nothing to say, and the citizens of Ninjago City made themselves seen as the hundreds of city fold crowded the park. The crowd suddenly burst into cheers and the ninja, Lloyd, Wu and the girls were surprised to see everyone cheering.

Cheers like, "They did it!" or, "The First Spinjitzu Master has blessed us!" and "Awesome!"

Epilogue.

The sun had set over the now peaceful Ninjago city. The crowd was no longer at the park or cheering the ninja, but the ninja and everyone else remained at the park. Even the dragons, except for Titan who was relaxing on the grass, were gone as their part to serve their riders were done, and they returned to the locations in which they used to protect the Golden Weapons.

Any debris and rock was cleaned up, and the Four Silver Fang Blades were taken to be put in publication at the Ninjago Museum.

Zane's face was still in two, and his blue robotic eye on the recently scarred side of his face was glowing as Zane scanned the area.

"I see no sign of Garmadon or…" Zane began but his voice trailed off after he stopped scanning.

"The Golden Weapons," Kai finished for Zane as he looked at Wu, and Wu sighed a sorrowful sigh.

"I knew Garmadon would run off with the weapons if he was given the chance to live. But what saddens me most is that he possibly didn't make it. But all of Ninjago, and even us, should be greatful for Garmadon's sacrifice," Wu explained softly.

Lloyd hung his head sadly knowing his father could possibly be dead because he could've sacrificed himself to save Ninjago. So Kate put a reassuring hand on Lloyd's shoulder, and gave him a peck on his cheek; surprising everyone else since they didn't know Kate finally admitted her love for Lloyd.

"When did this happen?" asked Jay.

"The moment I, literally, woke up, and realized the future that was right in front of me," Kate said softly with a smile, making Lloyd smile and look her in her violet eyes.

"Speaking of which, how did you regain consciousness so quickly?" asked Nya.

"I'm not sure...I guess with all the time I've been spending with elemental ninja, I must've absorbed the powers. Nya, you said ice had healing abilities, so I must've picked up some of Zane's ice power, and the ice healed me faster than I should have," Kate explained with a questioning look on her face. Wu pondered this the most.

"That is very unique. Kate, I believe you have the elemental power to absorb," said Wu, making everyone's eyes widen and gawk at Kate, even Kate was shocked.

"I did not know that," Kate said slowly.

"Born to be a Ninja" by The Fold begins to play.

THE END