The Day of the Great Devourer

                                    

                                          
M/n painfully watched as his sensei was consumed by the creature they had tried so hard to contain. He knew Sensei Wu would not let himself be killed by the Great Devourer, so he had no choice but to abandon his master to help the ninja. Nya quickly took off in her Samurai mech to start up the flying ship. The giant snake roared into the air, turning it head toward the colorful ninja. "Maybe if we stand perfectly still..." Jay breathed, trying to suppress his panic.
        "Run!" M/n yelled as he sprinted toward his comrades and pushed them into a panicked escape. The Devourer pursued the ninja as they made a bee-line for the Bounty.
"Wait! Wait for me!" the Lightning Ninja exclaimed from behind as he caught up to the group.
        The ninja and M/n threw themselves onto the deck and through the bridge door. Zane, Kai, Cole, and M/n landed in a pile and Jay rolled by with far more speed. The group untangled themselves as the Nindroid and dragon met each others' eyes with growing concern.
        Jay jumped to his feet and pointed to the screen which displayed the giant serpent, "Uh, hate to tell you this, but objects in the mirror are closer than they appear."
"Working on it," Nya called back with frustration laced in her voice, "Blasters on full."
The flying ship dragged itself off the sand and soared through the air.
"Woo-hoo!" Kai cheered as he watched the Devourer shrink in the window, believing they had escaped, "Take that, you stupid snake!"
        Suddenly the giant serpent shot itself out of the sand, intercepting the Bounty. Nya made a hard right to avoid the snake's open jaws which threw all the passengers around the bridge. Zane and M/n held each other (purely for balance purposes *wink wink*) as they watched the Great Devourer pursue the ship.
"Uh, I think it heard you," Jay whined.
"Nya, we gotta go faster. That thing is gaining on us," Kai observed, standing on buckets to see out the high window.
"We're going as fast as we can," Nya panicked at the wheel.
M/n pointed ahead to a section of land with rocks protruding from the sand, "Try to make it to Scattered Canyon," he advised.
"Probability of us making it that far is less than 8 percent," the Ice Ninja worried.
"Not helping, Zane!" M/n yelled as he watched from the bridge door.
"It's coming in for another attack!" Cole warned "Port side!"
        Nya jerked the wheel to avoid the Great Devourer's hungry maw. Everyone clung to the ship to prevent themselves from being thrown across the floor.
Lloyd's high-pitched voice called out "We're losing speed! We'll drop to the ground pretty soon."
        "Throw everything overboard!" Nya's command was met with a resounding 'what?!' from all of her teammates. She elaborated, "We need to lose some weight!"
        "Port side!" Lloyd announced just in time for the serpent to consume a portion of their right engine.
        Everyone began throwing things overboard while trying to keep their balance on the swaying ship. M/n rushed into a room finding Wu's teapot that he used daily. He wouldn't give that possession up. He grabbed his satchel and began packing it full of necessities in the event that they lost the Bounty. The dragon gently placed his master's beloved porcelain pot in the bag. He reemerged on deck just in time to watch the snake grow from consuming the ninjas' discarded items.
"The more it consumes, the bigger it gets," the Earth Ninja observed, "Don't throw anything else overboard!"
        "We made it to Scattered Canyons," Nya's voice echoed through the ship, "Hold on!" She maneuvered the ship around vertical rocks in an attempt to get the Great Devourer off their tail. Kai made his way toward the front of the ship which M/n held onto the rail and watched the serpent disappear.