Lee, Ella, Donna, Ellie, and Kage sprang high in the air as they began leaping onto every floating platforms to Saldana's aid. They finally saw that Lady Shade pinned Saldana to the ground with her claws at the center of the large floating platform.

"I will crush you like the vile insect you are." Lady Shade said with a dark smile. "And then, I'll do it again with your daughters."

Saldana slowly gathered white energy and released a large quantity of white light from her eyes, causing the entire floating platform to crumble and making Lady Shade and Saldana fall at the same time.

"Mother!" Donna shouted.

Lady Shade tried to spring into a nearby floating chunk, but Saldana created a sphere of white energy in her hand and shot it at the black mystic mutant that released several chains to wrap around Lady Shade. With that, Saldana and Lady Shade vanished into the skeletal abyss as they continued to fight each other.

"Your efforts to stop me are futile, witch!" Lady Shade yelled.

"I won't be so sure!" Saldana yelled back.

As the white mystic and the black mystic mutant have now engulfed in the red light, Saldana used her white energy chains to hit Lady Shade against the wall of an endless underground area. Saldana then screamed as she fell farther down alone in an unknown place where she landed on the ground in pain.

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Meanwhile, the Lotus Ninjas and Kage watched Saldana and Lady Shade vanish into the skeletal abyss.

"Mother!" Kage shouted.

"No!" Lee exclaimed.

The Lotus Ninjas and Kage moved to the edge of the floating platform as they looked over at the broken floating platform that both Lady Shade and Saldana have fell off from.

"I...I can't...believe this." Ella muttered sadly.

"No, she has to be alive." Lee said with a sad frown.

"But that drop is at least 2,000 feet down. Not even she could survive that fall." Donna replied sadly. "I'm not even sure if your aura sense can't track her."

"So, what do we do now?" Ellie asked.

"We have to keep going." Kage declared. "For our mother!"

Lee, Donna, Ella, and Ellie nodded their heads in agreement.

Suddenly, the five mystics turned around to see powered up Jinx and Crystallia standing on a nearby floating chunk.

"You should have run when you had chance." Jinx grinned.

"Now, it's time for us to knock you guys out!" Crystallia smiled.

Jinx and Crystallia leapt down on the floating platform to confront the Lotus Ninjas and Kage. Crystallia unloaded a machine-gun barrage of crystal shards from her palms while Jinx unloaded a machine-gun barrage of pink energy waves from her index fingers. The five mystics scattered out of the way to avoid the attacks. Lee and Ella sped through the attacks without getting hit as they both jumped high above the mystic mutant and fired a simultaneous psychic energy blast that drove Jinx and Crystallia to the ground together.

Before Jinx and Crystallia can get back up on their feet, Kage threw a black smoke bomb at them and the five mystics ran past the mystic mutants to escape out of the ruined catacombs.

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In the Crete Fortress, the five mystics sat in the living room with silence just when Selina entered the living room.

"I got here as soon as I can, Kage." Selina said. "I left Diana temporary in charge of the Shadow Clan until we come back. So what happened? Is Saldana alright?"

"No. Saldana disappeared." Donna replied sadly. "She fell down in the catacombs inside the Holy Trinity Cathedral."

"What? But that's impossible." Selina murmured.

"Kage and Lee definitely lost their aura sense with our mother." Ella added with a sad frown.

"But that doesn't mean we can't give up hope on her." Selina said.

"Selina's right. Our mom is still alive back in that cathedral. Right, guys? Right?" Ellie said as she looked at her older siblings.

"We're going back." Lee declared as she stood up from the couch. "We'll search every place of that cathedral to find our mother and stop anyone that gets in our way."

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Back in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Lady Shade was leaping back to one of the nearby floating platform as her claws attached themselves to the chunk below that caught Tigress's attention from above.

"Mistress Shade! You alive!" Tigress gasped sharply as she helped the black mystic mutant up. "But is Saldana finally gone?"

"Maybe. But she is a clever witch." Lady Shade replied. "Send Domino and Rhona to search every inch of the catacomb. We have to be sure Saldana is perish."

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Back in the Crete Fortress, six mystics are preparing to suit up. Donna and Ellie put on their Ringu Bracelets. Ella cracked her knuckles hard in preparation. Selina, Kage, and Lee readied their magic in preparation.

"So what's the plan?" Ellie asked.

"Kage, Selina, and I will guard you, Donna, and Ella from Lady Shadestrike." Lee explained.

"Sounds like a plan." Ellie said. "But what if Shade is still alive and her crew show up?"

"Then, we'll be ready to take them on. For Saldana." Ella said as she held her hand out.

"For Saldana!" Lee, Donna, Ellie, Kage, and Selina exclaimed as they placed their hands on top of Ella's hand.

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Meanwhile, Saldana slowly woke up from her unconscious state and looked around the place with wide eyes. The entire place was a barren underground wasteland filled to the brim with many broken columns and statues scattered around the area.

"Oh, my head." Saldana groaned. "I must flee out of this place."

"Don't leave just yet, Saldana." A familiar female voice spoke through the air. "We need to protect each other, old friend."

"Who are you? Show yourself!" Saldana demanded.

"Remember me, Shiroibara Saldana?" A female voice asked.

A familiar woman slowly stepped out of the darkness with six mystical jellyfishes floating above her. She has light pink skin and red eyes. She also wore a long-sleeved black bodysuit, dark pink thigh-high boots, and a dark pink hooded cape.

"Your master. The Kurage Queen!" A mystic woman said.

"Vela? But I've defeated you. What are you doing here?" Saldana asked in disbelief.

"I've hid myself in here ever since my defeat, except this time you will not escape from me and my Kurages." Vela explained.

"I would rather die than be trapped in here with you!" Saldana spat.

"Is that so?" Vela smiled.

Six Kurages scattered around the area and formed a large circle around Vela. They rose into the air and hovered several feet above the ground. The mystical jellyfishes started spinning faster and faster until they fused together with Vela.

Only Saldana can do is watch with a horror face.

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The Lotus Ninjas, Kage, and Selina walked through the cathedral entrance as they stood at the center of the room.

"We'll stay here on look-out. The rest of you, start searching for our mother." Lee ordered her younger sisters.

Ellie, Donna, and Ella nodded their heads as they ran off to the stairs all the way down to the catacombs.

"We must be ready just in case Shade have survived that fall." Selina said.

"And If she did, you have to take her on." Kage said to Lee.

"And I will...for Saldana's honor." Lee said with a nod.

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In the catacombs, Jinx and Crystallia looked down at the skeletal abyss where Saldana had disappeared.

"Now, that's a long way down!" Jinx said.

"Definitely indeed." Crystallia said. "Well, you better light up a sphere if we gonna jump down to find Saldana."

"Yup, this is definitely the spot."

Jinx and Crystallia turned to the source of the voice as they detected Ella, Donna, and Ellie standing on a floating platform not so far from where the mystic mutants are standing.

"Looks like the Lotus are looking for Saldana as well." Crystallia said.

"So what you do that for?" Jinx said. "If they find Saldana's body, we took all of them and get them back to Shade. It's perfect!"

Donna and Ellie summoned jet turbines from the Ringu Bracelets as they walked close to the edge of the floating platform.

"Alright, let's do this!" Ellie exclaimed.

"We have to do it slowly and carefully, Ellie. Got it?" Donna warned.

"Always, Donna!" Ellie answered. "Now, let's find mom."

Ellie backflipped off of the floating platform and soared down to the skeletal abyss with her jet turbines while screaming in joy.

"Ellie!" Donna shouted.

"Hey, Donna! This abyss is definitely deep!" Ellie exclaimed as she flew back to floating platform above. "I don't know how are we gonna mom down there!"

"Our mother is down there somewhere." Donna said as she flew up next to Ellie with her jet turbines. "Let's go."

Donna and Ellie soared deep down to the skeletal abyss, leaving Ella on a look out on the floating platform as she was unaware that two mystic mutants were watching her carefully on a nearby floating platform.

But when Jinx and Crystallia leapt quietly on the floating platform, Ella stopped looking down at the skeletal abyss and shot two large red orbs of psychic energy that hit both Jinx and Crystallia that sent them flying away to the ground.

"Jinx and Crystallia?" Ella asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Now, bring us your mother or we will break you down!" Crystallia demanded.

"Not. A. Chance!" Ella shouted.

"Let's take her down!" Jinx said as she was engulfing her hands in pink energy.

Crystallia shot multiple rapid crystals at Ella from her palms, but Ella moved out of the way with fast speed. Jinx swiftly jumped on Crystallia's shoulders and fired a large crescent wave of pink energy at Ella that threw the red mystic kunoichi off balance.

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Ellie and Donna hovered themselves into the skeletal abyss with a purple and orange bubble of psychic energy generating light.

"Mom? Are you down here?" Ellie called out.

"Quiet, Ellie!" Donna said. "You may not know if Lady Shadestrike survived the fall as well."

"Well, if you have any other ideas of finding our mom, I'm all ears." Ellie retorted.

"This abyss can go on forever. She could be anywhere down here." Donna said.

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Meanwhile, Saldana stood motionless as she was confronted by Vela's new form. She now has long thin dark pink hair-like fins above her eyes and two big black pectoral fins each with four pink square-shaped nails. She retains her bodysuit, but her legs are replaced by a long bright pink fish-like tail that shows her visible navel. Her long fish tail has small pointed black fins around her hips and the tip of the tail is pink. She also has one transparent pink fins that drapes around her waist where her fishtail begins and one near the tip of her tail.

Saldana got into her fighting stance as she engulfed herself with her white magic that increased her strength and speed.

"Ha, do you really think you can defeat me in my new form?" The Kurage Queen taunted with a smile. "Let's us see who's the superior now."

The Kurage Queen and Saldana charged towards each other with everything they got.

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Back in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, three mystics were still waiting for the other three mystics to find Saldana. But Kage and Lee suddenly sensed two dark auras coming from behind them with their aura senses.

"It's Lady Shade and Tigress! They'll be here in a second!" Lee alerted.

"We can't keep both of them away from the catacombs." Selina said.

"Selina's right. We'll bait them on the surface and take them both down." Kage said.

Lee, Kage, and Selina then turned around to see Tigress and Lady Shade walking out of the portal made of black energy.

"Here they come!" Selina exclaimed.

"Mistress Shade!" Tigress said, pointing her finger at the three mystic ninjas.

"Kage!" Lady Shade called.

"Time to roll!" Lee shouted.

Lee, Kage, and Selina ran out of the building through the exit doors.

"I'll end Leona myself." Lady Shade ordered Tigress. "You can destroy Selina, but capture Kage for me."

Tigress grinned sinisterly as her left eye started to glow in a dark orangish light and began following after the mystics.

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Meanwhile, Ella grunted as she formed a red force field made of psychic energy to protect herself from Crystallia's rapid crystal shards. Ella extended the force field to force Crystallia away from her, but she then moved away to avoid incoming pink energy waves coming from Jinx in quick speed. Jinx came at Ella with a jumping spin kick, but Ella ducked away and got behind the luck mystic mutant. Ella quickly dodged five more bad luck strikes and countered with a spin kick, which Jinx had blocked it with her right fist.

"You almost fight like a boy." Jinx chuckled.

Jinx leapt backward and landed on her knees to cast a bad luck spell that created a very wide chasm running straight down toward Ella, causing her to jump high in the air and landed on the safe spot of the floating platform. Crystallia and Jinx came together as Ella cracked her knuckles hard twice.

"That's it, tough girl. Now, it's time to get real serious!" Crystallia said.

Crystallia charged forward towards Ella, who waved her hands in the air and summoned a bunch of red psychic energized fist-shaped lasers that was sent to explode the crystal mystic mutant on impact. That made Crystallia flying into Jinx to the ground as Jinx fell down. As Crystallia and Jinx both looked at the red mystic, Ella put her hands together and generated an intense red burst of psychic energy that filled the entire platform. When it cleared, Jinx and Crystallia knocked out in a daze.

"Well, this fight wasn't very impressive." Ella said with a grin.

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Outside, three mystics quickly climbed up to a nearby building rooftop.

"Did we lost them?" Lee asked.

"I think so." Selina replied as she took deep breaths.

Kage suddenly sensed a familiar aura in his surroundings.

"Look out!" Kage warned.

Tigress came up jumping in the air and landed down to swing her leg that fired a dark burnt energy bolt horizontally at Lee's chest that sent her falling to the alley.

"Lee!" Selina shouted.

Selina turned around to fight Tigress, but she immediately got punched to the edge of the rooftop. As Tigress was about to strike Selina, Kage jumped in front of Tigress and shaped his shadow into fifteen fists to punch the tiger mystic mutant forward. Tigress began firing blades of burnt orange energy at Kage, who kept evading the blades with fast speed.

"You will be welcome to a brainwashing trip, boy!" Tigress hissed.

Kage growled as he transformed into his mutant form and began attacking Tigress with swift kicks surrounded with light energy that knocked the tiger mystic mutant onto some power lines, electrocuting Tigress and knocking her out in the alley.

But Lee wasn't doing too well. She grunted in pain as she was struggling to get up off the ground. She suddenly heard heavy footsteps and turned her head to see Lady Shade in her direction.

"Oh boy." Lee murmured.

Lady Shade clenched her right hand into a tight fist and punched Lee into the street, causing a huge panic from the innocent civilians. After the screaming citizens ran away from the battle, Lady Shade walked slowly towards Lee and grabbed her by the neck.

"Good bye, Leona." Lady Shade said.

Lady Shade started crushing Lee, making the blue mystic kunoichi scream in pain.

"Shade!"

Lady Shade stopped from what she's doing and looked up to see Kage and Selina jump on a black car.

"Let my sister go, monster!" Kage hissed.

"Don't you dare disrespect me, Kage!" Lady Shade hissed as she threw Lee away and extended her claws.

Selina started firing several spheres of dark energy continuously at Lady Shade from his hands. Lady Shade slashes the air and released a large black crescent blade of energy from her left claw at Selina, knocking her back to the ground.

"Selina!" Kage shouted.

Kage jumped up from the car and attacked Lady Shade with his dark energized fists, but the black mystic mutant blocked the attack with a protective force field.

"You have a soft spot somewhere on you, freak!" Kage shouted.

Kage skillfully dodged a quick slash from Lady Shade.

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Meanwhile, the heat of battle between the Kurage Queen and Saldana have became intense. Vela jumped high into the air to perform a horizontal spin that enveloped herself in dark pink energy at high speeds into the white mystic. Saldana avoided the attack with remarkable speed and delivered a powerful spinning double-kick at Vela. The Kurage Queen regained her strength as Saldana backed away from her.

"Join me, Shiroibara Saldana." The Kurage Queen offered. "We'll embrace the darkness together."

"After countless times, my answer will still be no." Saldana declined. "I'd rather die than joining the likes of you."

"Very well then. You die!" The Kurage Queen roared.

A set of purple and orange psychic energy arrows came raining down to the Kurage Queen, making her screech out loud in pain as she collapsed onto the ground.

Saldana looked up to the source of that attack and found two of her daughters lowering themselves further into the underground area.

"Leave our mom alone!" Ellie yelled as she and Donna landed in front of Saldana in their fighting stances.

"You cannot get rid of me with the help of your daughters, Saldana." The Kurage Queen said with a devious smile. "I am your master! Your queen! And you will obey me!"

With that, the Kurage Queen rushed forward at the mystic family.

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Back in the city, Kage and Selina are the only ones left battling Lady Shade with Lee down and out. Selina kept firing many dark energy spheres at Lady Shade, but that attack has no effect against the black mystic mutant. Kage jumped up in the air and landed right in front of Lady Shade to strike until he got knocked back by her. Lady Shade started levitating forward to Selina in fast speed, but Kage stood up in front of the black mystic mutant.

"Rōzu, Stop!" Kage yelled. "Please don't do this! You can do something good for once in your life! Something without hatred nor the desire for revenge."

Lady Shade was touched by Kage's words and moved closer to him with an apologetic face.

"Kage, you know I've never meant to hurt you. Just call me mother and everything will be the way it was." Lady Shade pleaded. "The two of us together."

Karai looked over at Lee, who was crawling away to the sidewalk. But his eyes narrowed when he looked back at Lady Shade.

"You were never my mother!" Kage screamed.

Kage's right fist engulfed with a mix of light and dark energy as he punched Lady Shade right in her gut that made her weaken in pain.

"No!" Lady Shade exclaimed weakly as she started twitching rapidly. "I can't be weak now!"

Lady Shade started to run away and Kage ran forward towards her, but he protected himself from rapid burnt orange energy bolts with a light energized force field. Tigress landed in front of Lady Shade and carried the black mystic mutant in her arms before disappearing out of sight.

"No, we can't let them escape!" Kage snarled.

Lee was struggling to get up as Selina ran over to examine her.

"Kage, Lee's in no good. We need to get her back to the fortress." Selina informed. "I know how you feel with my mother right now, but we'll get her another time."

Kage looked back to see Tigress leaving with Lady Shade.

"You're right. Let's go." Kage said.

Kage helped Selina with Lee as they took back to the Crete Fortress for medical attention.

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Back in the underground area, three mystics and one mystic mutant kept on attacking and blocking moves from each other. Ellie then moved forward at lightning speed as a living beam of orange psychic energy with enough force to attack the Kurage Queen. But Vela shot a column of dark pink energy from the ground with a swipe of her hand that knocked Ellie away. Saldana summoned several large rings made of white energy that encircled her body and sent all the them hovering around Vela to point towards her, firing down at the evil mystic woman one-by-one when Saldana turned away and snapped her fingers. Vela got back up and surrounded her entire body to form an energy ball that hit Saldana multiple times, sending the white mystic away to crash on the ground next to the unconscious Ellie. Vela then created a huge sphere of dark pink energy from her hands and fired it straight to Saldana, but Donna stood in front of her mother and summoned a large transparent purple force field made of psychic energy to stop the attack from hitting Saldana.

Donna lowered herself down to take deep breaths and then looked up at the Kurage Queen with cold, glowing purple eyes when her purple glowing clover-shaped birthmark appeared brightly on her forehead. Saldana's eyes widened in shock when she saw Donna glaring dangerously at the Kurage Queen. Donna then shot twenty purple psychic energized spheres that exploded the Kurage Queen on impact, but that left the purple mystic kunoichi too fatigued to aid Saldana as she collapsed herself to the ground when her glowing birthmark started to fade away.

Saldana looked at her downed daughters before looking back at the Kurage Queen.

"Well, that was so easy I almost feel sorry for them." Vela grinned evilly. "Your daughters' efforts are impressive, but you are destined to fail just like you."

Saldana closed her eyes for a moment as all of the memories of her teenaged daughters, her teenaged son, and her husband were powering her strength. Saldana opened her eyes and got back up on her feet to stare at the Kurage Queen.

"You better prepared yourself, Vela." Saldana said with a deadly glare. "I am not to be messed with!"

Saldana gathered white light in her hands and opened her hands to release numerous homing beams of white light that inflicted a substantial amount of damage to the Kurage Queen, driving Vela back in the air by that attack. Vela screamed and dropped down to her tail on the ground in pain.

"Now, fear the power of the pure light!" Saldana yelled.

Saldana gathered a large quantity of white light around her fists and then rushed at the Kurage Queen with a punch that explosively released the stored light upon impact. Vela screamed agonizingly as she was quickly swallowed up by the blinding radiance.

As the white light faded away, Saldana had dropped her knees just when Donna and Ellie slowly got up from the ground to regain their consciousness.

"Mother!" Ellie and Donna shouted happily.

Donna and Ellie ran up to hug Saldana, who hugged them back with a bright smile.

"I'm so happy to see your smiling faces again, my daughters." Saldana smiled.

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Back in her fortress hideout, Lady Shade slowly stumbled into Viral's lab and sat on her bed as neon green lines began cracking on her navel area.

"Sage! I need a stronger mutagen dose! Now!" Lady Shade demanded.

"Yes, mistress Shade." Viral said quickly.

Viral immediately hooked Lady Shade up to several life-support machines around her arms, legs, and waist. As she hooked an I.V. loaded with glowing mutagen, the substance flowed smoothly into Shade's body. Tigress only watched the whole scene with shock and surprise as the mutagen drip was suddenly starting to heal Shade's navel area back to normal.

Then, Lady Shadestrike released a devilish smile as she strongly felt the synthetic mutagen strengthening her once again.