[Note: "Normal", "Malay",please be aware of this tiny difference. and if you see these bits |".."| the character is thinking]
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--flashback--
Meanwhile in the air Morro managed to stop himself from falling, glaring up at the bounty before waving his hand in a swinging motion to stop it, but Managing to tilt the bounty on its side at the same time.
"No! I'm not losing them this time!!" Morro exclaimed, pulling the bounty back harder, not caring when he saw jay and cole almost fall off. "No! Stop! If you keep doing that! You'll hurt them more than the damage we already caused!" Cyclone yelled back, with both him and Morro being momentarily shocked by it.
"Well then why don't you do it if you're so smart?!" Morro spat back, now fighting over control with Cyclone. "Mabey I will!" Cyclone snapped back, taking back enough control to attempt to create a cyclone vail with the clouds, unaware of his powerwatch glitching.
"Cyclone! Morro! Stop it! You both have the wind element! If you two keep fighting who knows what might happen!" Solar exclaimed, after all, their powers combined already worried the light element enough.. but as for what might result if the two kept on fighting.. he wasn't sure.
Sadly however, the two seemed to care less to listen to what he or the earth element was saying as the duo continued to yell at them to stop. The rest of the elements kept by their original, watching the scene play out.
Morro and cyclone however, continuing fight for control.. but it seemed neither one was winning.
Or at least that was until both of them started to lose.. from something else.
In the mist of their rage, the duo hadn't even realized that their elements were actively fusing. Whether this be as a result of boboiboy's fusion ability or the fact Morro was currently possessing cyclone when the other had control.. we'll never know.
All we do know is that something was created as a result of the elemental power boost..
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Kai couldn't help but feel something was wrong, that thing wasn't their little brother, nor was it morro..
Whoever that was, wanted something else.
The fire ninja would turn towards the group and before he could say anything a blast of wind went in their direction, knocking the bounty off its originally course and causing it to tilt to its side. With the ninja having no choice but to helplessly hang on in hopes of not getting flung of the ship.
Tempest could continue to laugh as the wind would violently swirl around him, the wind element having the time of his life despite the confusion he had.
Which speaking of confusion, the wind elemental couldn't help but stop for a moment to examine himself. Before smirking at his appearance, before turning his head towards the bounty.
As a result of both morro and cyclones intentions beforehand, he couldn't help but look at all of it as a sickening game, and to win it all he had to get that staff.
So with a hand extended towards the bounty he'd use the very wind that had once pushed it to its side to pull it back upright, before pulling it towards him.
Meanwhile on the ship the ninja were still trying to get a grip on the situation as kai technically was the only one who had an idea of what was going on; but he unfortunately couldn't explain at the moment as he was still trying to stand on the deck of the ship.
However nya seemed to be the only one with a functioning braincell, and since she was already in the bounty's control room. She'd run to the wheel to get the ship started again before turning it to the side and away from tempest. Nya was a little surprised when she had speed it up, it with it not taking that much effort to speed away and out of the winds hold that it had on the ship.
Which the reason for that being the fact that tempest hadn't actually payed too much attention on the ship, as he was just laughing and softly spinning in circles about his easy "victory".
Only for then to turn and see the ship leaving, his smile soon being replaced by an annoyed frown.
Why did they have to make the game so much harder for the him? Eh, in a way it just made it more fun!
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Nya couldn't help but curse when her and misako saw that red dot returning, "guys! He's getting close again!.. and quickly!" Nya yelled out onto the deck.
Jay and kai were of course the first to react, and jay for once, had a pretty good last minute plan.. that would involve something he knew would hurt the others more him.
"I'm going to go stop him!" The blue ninja declared, running towards the back of the ship only to be stopped by kai grabbing him by the wrist to stop him. "Are you crazy?! Alone?!" Kai yelled, and Jay would slip his hand out of kais grip before stepping foward to him.
"Mabey! But it's the only chance we got okay!! I'm the only other one here other than boboiboy who can have a battle in the sky against him without using our elemental dragons! Besides! Both you and cole are hurt! And Lloyd's still unconscious! And don't even try dragging zane into this!" Jay explained, with kai trying to reply and spat something in return, only to feel at a loss for words.
"Kai please.. just let me do this one thing.." jay muttered, with the rain on his face not making it easy to tell if he was crying or not.
Kai sighed, moving to shove the scrolled up piece of paper he had into Jay's hands. And jay instantly knew what it was, "not a word.." kai said with a sigh; after all he knew what risks there were giving jay the copy of the secret message on the staff.
"There's a chance he might try to kill you.." kai explained and jay muttered a "yeah thanks captain obvious..". "Listen." Kai command, shutting jay up.
"As I was saying.. if you manage to get out of there- which you better!.. this should let you know where to find us... after all.. enemy or friend, we never know how the battle will end.." kai replied, and jay would've made some remark about how kai sounded like wu, but instead slightly grinned; thankful kai was actually letting him go.
He'd nod, before moving to continue running, shoving the scrolled up paper in his gi.
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Lightning struck in the distance as tempest grew closer to the bounty, only stopping and feeling rather confused when he caught the sight of a ninja in a blue gi.
There jay stood, ready for the fight of his life.
Lightning struck behind him, his eyes flashing a quick light blue as he felt himself grow even more determined than before.
Two kings of the storm.
Wind and lighting
But who will come on top?
Tempest felt slightly frustrated but laughed, "you ninja really do never quit do you.." he'd remark, his voice echoy, yet it held a bit of morros voice within it.
"No.. WE DONT!" Jay exclaimed, sending a ball of electricity towards tempest, with the ball suddenly vanishing and causing tempest to laugh.
"Is that all you got-" before he could finish an explosion of electricity came from infront him of, with him flying back with his arms block his face as he watched lightning strike right where he once stood.
He'd end up flying back a small distance before regaining his balance with a burst of wind. He'd look over to where jay once stood, only to float there confused at the spot being empty.
Unknown to him, jay reappeared behind him from the very lightning in the sky. Not even being able to hear him with the ringing in his ears from being that close to that lightning strike. Tempest really only noticed him a moment later, instantly getting ready to block Jay's attack with his own.
With the duo attacks clashing a burst of lightning and wind would come from that very spot with a loud BOOM!!
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Jay managed to stop himself mid-air, using the electric partials in the clouds as a sorta safety net to keep him from falling down to the ground below.
He couldn't help feel dizzy from the lack of oxygen in a way, he could handle the lack of oxygen better when he got too high up compared to the others.. but now in the fight..
It was as if it wasn't there.
Mabey it was because he used most his energy up fighting.. he wasn't sure.
The lightning ninja did get a glance over at the ship, only to see it speeding away with somewhat trouble; most likely from earlier. He couldn't help but feel proud to manage to have gotten the group that far from tempest, even if that ment him sacrificing himself in the process.
That feeling of proudness didn't last long however as he felt two hands tightly grip around his neck, clawing at them in a desperate attempt to escape as he felt the need to breathe only grow worse.
Tempest continued to choking
jay, watching the desperation in his hazy eyes with a sickening delight.
Only for a pain to shoot through his head, lightening his grip on jay and lifting one hand to grab at his hair from the pure pain of the sudden and momentarily headache.
Unaware of the minor glitch in his powerwatch, which was the wind element flickering back to its 2nd tier color only for a moment.
Lowering jay slightly as he felt the headache disappear as soon as it came, he'd notice the bounty speeding away and let go of the lightning ninja in an attempt to follow it. "It's getting away!" He'd exclaim, with his attempt to speed off towards it being stopped by two arms grasping around his stomach.
He'd then slowly turns his head to look at Jay, who had his eyes closed as he clung onto tempest in another desperate attempt to stop him. With the blue ninja looking up just in time to catch tempest smirking down at it, clearly pissed.
He'd then grabbed jay by his gi, pulling off him before throwing him up with a blast of wind. Following him up, the other had turned just in time to catch him moving his hands up in a 'X' motion, moving his arms up to block his face and chest from the attack the best he could.
Jay would grunt, feeling the fast paced wind cut him like a knife on his arms and push him back. Only for the cold feeling of a shadow to overtake him, opening an eye only to see tempest above him, smiling like a madman. The wind element would the move to kick him in the stomach and higher into the sky.
The mix of wind and rain feeling as if it was cutting him like multiple tiny pieces of glass as he flew up and through the clouds was the only real thing can could feel after that. And he couldn't help but open his eyes as he felt the warmth of the sun, only to see the almost clean blue sky above the clouds, the sun slowly moving down in the distance.
He'd sigh out a shaky breath of air, this was the end wasn't it? There was so much he hadn't done yet.. and still.. he went out of the way to do this. He knew he wouldn't win that fight, he knew he likely wouldn't live.. he was always the weakest ninja wasn't he?
He'd close his eyes, feeling tears drip from them as he smiled brightly. His teammates were okay right? He had to have distracted him long enough right?
Feeling his body finally sink back through the clouds, the warmth of the sun leaving him as the coldness of the rain and find below hit him.. he couldn't help but think that this was it.
He, jay walker, was going to die, saving his friends..
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Or at least.. that's what he thought..
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However, after a moment of closing his eyes and accepting his grew ever closer to the ground below, he felt something grab his arm to catch him. Only to let out a scream as he felt something snap, with the sickening sound of it joining the burst of pain in his arm.
Tears continued to pour out his eyes from the pain, opening his eyes slightly and looking down out at the ground below, before blinking and looking up..
His eyes widening at the sight of who just caught him.
Tempest would stare back down at him silently, before looking back at the paper in his hand, with jay realizing that was his!
The one kai gave to him... oh no..
Tempest would scroll up the paper would the smirk, before looking down at Jay. "Looks like I win" he'd say with a giggle, before pulling Jay's arm to force him up to look at him face to face. To which the elemental master of lightning would close his eyes and grunt in pain from the movement.
"I gotta thank you though.. sooo I'll let you live!" tempest jokingly said with a shrug, before chuckling at the pained face jay had at the moment.
Of course, that was short lived as the powerwatch glitched again, causing tempest to almost drop jay. But he managed to grab him by the wrist, with the other crying out in pain again, before glaring at tempest.
However tempest just gave him a look, "what? At least your not falling to your death anymore" he'd simply remark, and jay couldn't really argue with that..
But now he was stuck with his possessed friend! And had a broken arm!
Lucky him..
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The bounty finally managed to land somewhere in the woods, with it being somewhat damaged from before. Rain continuing to pour down from the clouds above and keep their cover hidden.
As for the ninja themselves, they were sat around a small campfire nearby; with the cover of the trees being the only thing really keeping the fire alive from the remaining drizzle of rainfall.
"HE WHAT?!"
Nya patience was practically gone at this point, her hands resting on her brothers shoulders from shaking the other, with him grabbing her wrists to stop her from yanking him any further from misako; who was trying her best to stitch up the wound on his back.
Misako had thankfully had some knowledge in the medical field, considering their team definitely needed it right now; of course zane and cole were pretty good at it too, but misako wanted the two to rest from the fight.
Kai would move to sit back down, letting go of his younger sister wrists when he did, with misako giving him a look before forcing him lean a bit forward so she could continue trying to stitch up the wound on his lower back up..
He's lucky Morro didn't manage to cut or damage his spine when he did cut him, considering how deep the cut actually was.
Kai currently sat there shirtless, looking up at nya, cole and zane, with wu frustratingly sitting on a tree stump ahead. Cole had already gotten checked up on from hitting the past that hard and thankfully, he only actually gotten a bruise from it, it was the mast of the bounty that was cracked slightly. Zane was okay too, is systems just were disrupted for a moment when he had hit the ground as hard as he did.
"Look it wasn't my decision, it was his, I tried to stop him okay!" Kai exclaimed, brushing a hand through his hair out of frustration. "And you let him fight him?!" Cole exclaimed back, giving kai a look of concern. "Well he managed to get us out of there right?!" Kai yelled back, only to feel a sudden stinging feeling on his cheek as his head was turned to the side.
It only took kai a moment to realize cole had slapped him, with zane and nya looking at the earth ninja with completely disbelief. "Cole!" Misako exclaimed, standing up and about to lecture the black ninja when wu finally stepped in.
"I understand the situation at hand, but we need to at least stay together.." he'd say, giving cole and kai a serious look as the duo were about to fight, with them before looking down when they noticed him staring directly at them.
Wu then sighed, with each minute that goes on, it seemed as if they were losing another piece of their team.
"Kai.. I uh.." cole stammered, trying to figure out how to apologize to the fire ninja, who shaked his head. "No, no.. it's alright.. I kinda deserved that.." he'd mutter, looking up at cole, one hand on his cheek where the elemental master of earth slapped him.
Misako sighed, before kneeling back down, about to continue stitching kais wound when zane stopped her; having walked over to her before she kneeled down. "Ms garmadon, I'll handle the stitches from here.. you should go check on your son again. After all, we're aware you're worried" the ice ninja suggested and misako would sigh.
"You're too kind zane.." she'd reply, getting up and letting the nindroid continue her work. Moving to go back to the bounty to check on her still unconscious son, which still worried her; of course zane assured her before that lloyd did not infact have any brain damage of the sort.
Wu then turned his attention to the three remaining boys, feeling concerned when he saw kai wince from zane continuing to stitch up his back.
"It's up to you three now.. I know you all aren't in the best state and I understand that.. but if morro got his hands on that copy of the staff that you had given jay.. then it's lot more than saving boboiboy and jay we'll have to worry about.." wu explained, with nya stepping foward and infront of wu.
"Uh, heck no! Look at kai, the last thing he needs is to be in some fight-" "sis!" Nya tried to yell at wu only to get cut off by her brother, turning around to face him only to see that determined look on his face. "Oh no, no way! Kai you're hurt!" Nya said, walking towards her brother who shaked his head.
"It was my fault we lost jay.. and I made a promise to lloyd and boboiboy.. I'm doing it" he'd say, giving nya a serious look, to which she would just sigh in defeat; there really was nothing stopping her brother now was there?
"We'll sleep till sunrise tomorrow.. we've been through quite a lot today and need time to rest." wu explained, looking up to the bounty and sighing. "But it seems the rest of our journey for now.. will be on foot.." wu continued, seeing the damage from tempestes wind on the ship, aswell as the tree damage from their crash.
Nya would stretch a bit, "don't worry, ill stay up and work on repairs" she insisted, feeling bad that she didn't have jay here to help her.
"Are you sure?" Wu asked, concerned at the thought of nya depriving herself of sleep to repair the bounty the best she could. "Uh, heck yeah I'm sure!" She'd reply, clearly determined to do it like her brother.
Wu sighed, it would be hours before daylight returned and they needed to rest... this was for the best.
"Alright, but everyone better rest tonight, you'll need the energy tomorrow" wu continued, giving the three remaining ninja a serious expression.
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Morro rested against the wall of a the wall of a building with a pained grunt, still possessing boboiboy and almost falling to the ground when the watch glitched too much, releasing him from tempestes form.
He groaned for a minute, grabbing at his head, as if he had a biggest headache of his life.. er.. death?
He thought he was fine for a moment till he heard a pained chuckle from below him, only to look down and see jay, clutching his broken arm with pained expression. "Tch.. almost forgot about you.. ninja" the wind element spat, deforming back from cyclones form and grabbing Jay's gi, lifting him up.
Jay just glared at him, and Morro couldn't help but snicker. "What? Cat got your tongue?" He'd joke, pushing jay into the wall beside him, with the blue ninja siding into a sitting position soon after; far too tired to do anything.
Morro laughed for a moment before grabbing at his head and muttering a curseword..
Okay, what the heck happened?
He knew what happened, of course he did! But he didn't have the slightest clue what truly went down as all he knew were faded memories.
But the wind element had no time for this, "stay put." He'd say, before smirking. "Well... not like you could go anywhere anyway.." he'd quietly remark, pulling his hood up and walking inside the building.
It was a bar, and Morro couldn't help but feel somewhat annoyed at the sound of the loud music; feeling as if his headache was only getting worse.
Morro would then look around, he was about to walk towards the bar before a voice stopped him.
|"Hey! You're in our body remember! No drinking!"| quake exclaimed, with Morro wincing and grabbing at his head, with a few of the civilians inside the bar glancing over at him. |"yeah, I got it.. first spinjitzu master, don't do that again.."| he'd reply, obviously annoyed by the others yelling, but he couldn't exactly blame the elementals for being so pissed.
He did just damage their friend and hurt their "brothers"...
Morro would step away from the bar, moving to sit down at a pretty far off from everyone else, looking at the symbols on the paper for what felt like the first time with a grin; considering he wasn't exactly in control of tempest back there.
Finally! And to think it would involve losing control and almost killing a guy to do it!
Morro would then frown, looking over his shoulder at the group of thugs slowly approaching him. "You're a bit young for a place like this, ain't you?" One of them asked, with Morro choicing to ignore them.
That was until another one of the thugs grabbed morros shoulder, holding it in a rather tight grip. "Wrong place to come if you ain't got friends kid.. if you know what I mean" he'd remark, forcing Morro to turn and face the group; with some of them holding pole sticks.
Morro looked down, the hood overshadowing his face when he did. They definitely noticed the ninja gi, didn't they? To think they'd realize something was off was somewhat shocking to the ghost boy.
Mabey these guys weren't completely idiots to be able to figure that out... eh.. good for them, they got a few braincells.
"Oh, I got friends all right..." Morro said with a laugh, not daring to look up at the group. Instead, he leaned his chair back against the table, the very armor he had stolen from the museum glowing an ominous green.
Wind began to move inside the building, with it specifically spinning around morro, causing the thugs to step back a bit.
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Outside jay sat, still tightly clutching onto his wounded arm, feeling a lot more numb than before. "..why in the spirit realm did this have to happen to me.." he'd huff, glaring down at the sidewalk. He should just get up, hotwire one of those motorcycles and go!..
Which of course he could... if it weren't for his predicament...
Even if he was able to, it would take too long cause of him not being able to use an arm.. an arm that hurt like heck mind you!
Besides, he could stay with boboiboy this way, maybe let his teammates know what's going on at some point too!
Unfortunately, it seemed the odds were against him as he was in the middle of nowhere anyway.. so looks like he was stuck..
However, jay wasn't not expecting to hear the sound of breaking class from the side of the building; having barely noticed the flash of green light seconds before.
Flinching for a moment at the sound of the door opening, he looked over just to see the possessed form of boboiboy dusting his gi off, looking over his shoulder at someone... another ghost?
"Uh.. you know where you're going?" The ghost asked, his voice very much scratchy; to the point where the blue ninja had to double check if he heard correctly. Morro would chuckle, "I do now.." he'd answer, before turning towards jay.
"But make sure no one else tries to stop me" he'd continue, walking to jay and dragging him onto his feet by his gi.
The ghost was a little surprised by jay, but didn't say anything about the master of lightning. With him simply replying "it'll be my pleasure", instead of asking questions.
The master of wind would walk onto the street, before holding out a hand and creating the ghostly muti-elemental dragon; before throwing jay onto it and jumping up and on.
"Nice ride" the ghost remarked, with Morro making sure jay wouldn't fall off; he kept the idiot alive for too long after all, it would be pointless if he fell to his dead for real now when he could've done it before!
"Take one of your own" the ghostly ninja replied, extending a hand towards the motorcycles before flying off.
The ghost wasted no time to move towards one of his choice, before touching it and turning it into a much bigger motorbike more fitting for him than the original mortal owner; and with that, he too fled the scene.
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Kai walked on the very dock they were at days before back when they were trying to capture that fish.. actually, now that he mentioned it, it kinda felt like weeks ago with how much has happened!
Lloyd and boboiboy stood at the edge of the dock, looking out at the sea, backs turned to kai.
The fire ninja would just chuckle, "hey you two! What exactly are you doing now?" He'd remark, stepping closer to the duo before stopping. A sudden sickening feeling in his gut as if he had done something very wrong...
But that feeling was quickly dismissed when the duo turned to face him, soft smiles on their faces. "Hey kai! We're just looking at the sunset! Come on! Join us!" Lloyd called out, a smile on his face, making the red ninja dismiss his feeling from before even more.
Moving foward, he sat down on the edge of the dock, looking out at the sun for a minute as the orange and green boys sat down on either side of him. It was calm for a moment, till kai looked down at the water, seeing his torn and bloody gi and widening his eyes at his reflection.
Wait.. what's going on?
A hand out rest on his shoulder, with kai flinching and looking back at boboiboy, the very person who touched his shoulder. "Kai.. are you okay?" He'd ask, and kai looked down at his reflection, not seeing the one he saw moments before. He sighed and nodded, "yeah kid, I'm fine.." he'd reply.
It was silent for a moment, with kai enjoying the peace until he heard the quiet words "you did mean it right?", quickly turning his head back to the duo; who just stared at him confused.
"Mean what?" Lloyd asked, with boboiboy giving kai a concerned look and asking "are you sure you're okay?".
The elemental master of fire however, would move to stand up, taking a step away from the duo. He'd let out a dry chuckle, "okay, at this point you two are messing with my head.." he'd brush a hand through his hair, before it hit him.
"You two aren't real.. are you?" He'd mutter, the color leaving his face as he stepped further away from the two. "Of course we're real.. what are you saying?" The green ninja replied, stepping foward only for kai to step further back and to the edge of the dock.
Kai would then take another step back only to fall off the dock completely and into the water, not even managing to stay above the surface as he quickly sinked. He couldn't help but feel fear and panic rise within him too, knowing he couldn't swim and being too scared of the water around him.
"So much for keeping your promise"
"We trusted you.. looks like we were wrong.."
Kai tried to say something, to apologize, to say that he was trying his best! Only for water to pour into his lungs when he did try.... his vision getting darker and as he faded further below.
However, one voice spoke up fight before everything went dark, a voice from a certain blue ninja he had regretted letting go..
"You lost.."
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"Kai?..."
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"..Kai!.."
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"Kai! Wake up!"
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The fire ninja gasped as he sat upright, sweating heavily and grasping his gi tightly as he looked around.
He wasn't drowning.. he was safe..
It was all the nightmare.
Cole had knelt down beside kai, having been the one to awaken the fire ninja. Being the one to see him fumbling around with his blanket, concerned about the others wellbeing ever since last night.
Misako was discussing the symbols on the staff with wu, while nya and zane were eating; despite the nindroid not really needing to eat, it still felt nice to.
"You okay?.. that had to be one heck of a nightmare.." he'd remarked, unaware of the being reason for it being kais guilt. To which the fire ninja would just sigh, "I'm fine.. I swear" he'd lie, even though cole knew that was obviously not truth.
The earth ninja would help kai onto his feet, with kai looking over at misako and wu. "As far as I knew, the tomb was only a fable, until I saw whats on the staff" misako said, looking down at the long paper in her hands.
Kai would walking over to them, with Cole handing kai a bowl of noodles; having kept it close when kai was asleep. "Does she know what the symbols means?" Kai asked, looking over at cole who sighed. "Not the last two yet, but get this, the first symbol means airjitzu" cole explained, with kai looking over at the symbols on the paper; another copy of them, since they had the staff with them.
"A lost martial art created by sensei yang, who passed years ago.. if mastered, it allows one to temporarily take flight" misako explained, with wu sighing. "However, the scroll of airjitzu is well guarded in the ancient library of domu" he'd say, with zane fake coughing to get the attention of the group.
"Forgive me if I speak out of turn, but my records reveal it was recently stolen" the nindroid explained, with Cole groaning in annoyance. "Let me guess, ronan" he'd spat, somewhat annoyed at the thought of the thief. "Uh.. who's ronan?" Nya asked, a little confused.
"Let's just say, he is definitely not our friend" kai replied, with Cole thinking for a moment before speaking up again "Ronan's most likely holed up in the village of stiix, of course.. we don't exactly get much of a headstart huh? Since cyclone exists and unfortunately, Morro can control wind to... er.. what would he even need airjitzu for when he can just combine two..." he'd remark, with wu sighing; not to mention they were still somewhat avoiding the topic of tempest.
"I don't know, of course, this means we are further behind than we suspect if morro does infact know where he's going" wu explained, knowing they were far from the clear at the moment. "Then it's decided, the ninja will head to stiix, we three with head back to the tea shop and start deciphering the next clue" wu continued.
"What?! But Lloyd's my brother too! And the ninja will need my help! And-" "I'm sorry nya, but you're sitting this one out.. there's too much to be done here.." wu cut nya off, with the samurai frowning at the thought of not going to helping her brother and friends.
Meanwhile kai, cole and zane climbed aboard three of the wollopers that had stood around their camp, with kai having a bit of trouble t etting onboard; and his injury didn't exactly help him here too.
"Don't worry sis, with me in charge, this scroll will be ours in no-time" kai assured, before frowning, had jay been here with them he probably would've made some joke about airjitzu or something.
"Be careful ninja for the path we seek is never a straight line, rely on each other to guide your way" wu warned, and with that they were off, with Cole and zane having no choice but to wait a moment for the fire ninja; since he seemed to be having some trouble with the furry animal he was on.
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It was late in the afternoon with the sun high in the sky and the three remaining ninja traveling foward through the desert, with Cole and zane singing a song about tea on a wall.
"Will you two stop! I'm really thirsty so please stop singing about tea!" Kai cried out, with Cole chuckled "woah, someone's cranky" he'd joke, with kai rolling his eyes. "We've been following the sun for hour! We should've arrived at stiix already!" Kai groaned, with zane deciding to correct him at the worst possible time "but stixx is on the eastern coast, we should be riding away from the sun".
"Now you tell us?!" Cole whined, stopping his wolloper to turn it around. "Well.. Kai wanted to lead" Zane replied, extending a hand towards the fire ninja and cole would groan. "Great! We're officially lost!" The earth ninja exclaimed, "first boboiboy gets possessed by some ghost, then jay goes missing and now this!" He'd continue.
"I swear, my gut says we should be following the sun" kai defended with Cole shaking his head, "you're arguing with a nindroid kai, do you hear yourself??" The black ninja replied. And it didn't take long before zane and cole turned around and began to travel the opposite way.
"Well I still think it's that way! And when I learn airjitzu first, we'll see who's right!" Kai exclaimed, however, his wolloper had other plans, not listening to him and instead following behind the ice and earth duo.
And soon after a bit of walking, zane managed to detect something in the sand beside a phoneline, with him soon discovering that thing to be rainroad tracks.
He'd speed ahead to get a closer look, with cole turning his head to look back at kai and yell "he's already found something! Let's go!". The trio would stop soon after approaching the tracks, with zane turning to face the duo and explaining that "they lead straight to stiix".
The duo would already start walking beside the train tracks with kai reminding "but.. sensei said the path we seek is never a straight line..". And zane would reply "but he also said rely on each to guide", and with that cole and zane went back to "counting" cups of tea on a wall; or well, singing the song.
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Meanwhile back with the others, the bounty landed at last behind the mess of the tea shop. It had taken most of the day for nya to reply the damages enjoy to fly it, and they were lucky it was able to get them back there.
The teashop itself was a mess after their fight with boboiboy back when he was possessed by Morro the day before.
"Who needs to go on a epic quest when my services are best needed here" nya sarcastically remarked, even if that wasn't the only reason for her wanting to go with the trio. She'd then walked inside before kneeling down to try and work on cleaning up the mess of a shop.
"You need to tell her.." misako whispered to wu, placing a hand on the others shoulder. Wu would shake his head, "she's not ready" he'd reply and misako would scoff. "You waited this long to tell them about Morro and how did that go?" She'd sarcastically remarked, mentioning their current disaster that was her unconscious son, the missing lightning ninja and their possessed new ninja.
"Nya dear, we didn't exactly hold you back to care for the shop" misako explained and nya would lean back upright, turning to face them. "Really? Then why?" She'd ask, a little confused.
Wu sighed, "um, there's something I haven't told you about your parents.." the elder began and nya held a hand up. "Ah, you can save it.. Kai already told me that chen dangled that carrot too.. we looked into it and we know our father used to be a master of fire.. not exactly "mind-shattering".." she'd explain, picking up some boxes of tea and putting them back on the shelf.
"But did you know your mother was the master of water?" Misako asked, and at that moment nya had picked up a glass jar, before turning to face her while replying "i... I didn't know that.. you mean?...".
"Yes, as kai took on the traits of your father to become a fire ninja, for the sake of saving ninjago, you must train to become the master of water" wu explained, and nya would instantly drop the glass jar she was holding before fainting from the shock.
"Told you" wu simply remarked, glancing over at misako. "Huh.. I guess you're right.." she'd reply.
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Laughing could be heard despite the dark, with zane, cole and kai actually getting some stress off from the events before.
Cole would sigh, "I wish jay, lloyd or boboiboy was here with us.." he'd admit, being the first to bring up the recent in a long time. Kai sighed, "yeah.. same here.. but we'll find the tomb.. we'll save boboiboy" he'd say with Cole shaking his head. "But even then, we have no idea where jay is! And lloyd still out!.." he'd reply, with zane giving cole a soft smile.
"We'll find jay.. and lloyd will wake up, I'm sure of it" he assured and cole and sigh and nod, even if he was the oldest among the ninja he had a tendency to overthink things and worry too much.
"I wonder why the tomb's so important anyway" cole remarked, and kai would answer him with "it's the tomb of the first spinjitzu master, whatever secrets it holds.. it must be protected".
"We'll take a break here" Zane said, looking up at the sort of abandoned trainstop ahead. With the trio eventually getting over their wollopers and zane waving kai over, it had been a while and he needed to check if they needed to change the bandages on kai yet; as he had some bandages wrapped around his torso specifically where the stitches from the cut were located.
However, the duo didn't even get to do anything as cole held out a hand to stop them. "Did you guys hear that?" He'd ask, checking if he had gotten paranoid, with zane looking rather confused.
"Hear what?" The ice ninja asked, only for the sound to reappeared, with all three of them hearing it. "Well I'm not sure what that was, but be on your guard!" Kai command, reaching for his katana.
And with that the sound repeated itself, with something appearing aswell to give that sound a face. A ghostly-looking motorcycle that drove straight for the trio.
Kai, cole and zane would instantly pull their hoods up, with zane--out of reflex--throwing a throwing star at the rider, only for it to fly straight through them.
"WATCH OUT!!" Kai exclaimed, with the trio having no choice but to move to the sides as the motorcycle landed where they were; Before driving off and onto the sand.
"My shurikens.. they went right through him.." Zane muttered, being the most logical of the group and not often thinking about the more.. unnatural outcomes about things. Meanwhile, cole had reached for his katana aswell; not a weapon he used often and not his favorite.. but not like he had much choice.
Knock of ghost rider would then drift around, speeding right back to the trio, before drifting around them on the sand. "Looks like Morro must have summoned some friends, we're sitting ducks out in the open!" Kai exclaimed, as if that wasn't already somewhat obvious. "We need to take shelter!" He'd continue, running towards the wooden shack of a building only for zane to grab his gi from the back while yelling "LOOK OUT!". just in time to stop him before the ghost biker came speeding back past the duo, drifting back once again to ram through the wooden building.
"Well so much for shelter!" cole scoffed, watching as the biker drove away from the wooden planks and metal roof remains of the shack. Before turning around and speeding towards the ninja, only to get ramped into the air above them. The blade of his weapon--which was a chain with a emerald-colored blade attached to the end--towards the ninja, with Cole narrowly avoiding it!
The chain would instead wrap around one of the wollopers horns, before turning it see through and greenish. "He turned my wolloper into a ghost?!" Cole exclaimed, more shocked at the moment that the wolloper--which was infact his--was turned into a ghost by the weapon. However that confusion turned to anger as he cried "nobody turns my wolloper into a ghost!!".
However kai would walk ahead and yell at the wollopers to get out of here, not wanting them to get involved with the rest of the fight. Before walking back to the other two, with the trio standing back to back. "Where'd did he go?! I can't see him!" Kai exclaimed, very much confused where the ghost biker went. "Stay together!" Zane instructed, with the trio standing closer.
After a moment of quiet, with the tension rising with every second making it higher, the ghost finally reappeared where the wollopers once stood; speeding directly towards the trio. "There he is! Watch out!" Kai exclaimed, with the group barely avoiding the large ghostly bike as it passed by; before driving away from them.
However, before it did it managed to swing its weapon a good distance back, only for the chain to hit kai and knock him down. With kai feeling somewhat relieved that the ghostly object didn't hold any weight like a normal one would. "Kai! Your leg!" Cole exclaimed, and kai looked down only to see the green chain wrapped loosely around his leg; thankfully not seeming to turn him into a ghost like the wolloper for whatever reason.
But before kai could react the chain tightened around his leg and dragging him foward, with kai barely getting a moment to ever think about the pain from the chain tightening around his leg as he felt himself get dragged across the wooden platform that had stood on before hitting the sand covered ground. "Kai!!" Both Cole and zane exclaimed, watching their friend get dragged against the ground behind the ghostly bike.
After a while though, kai tried swing his katana at the chain and surprisingly, it hit! Before hitting it again and freeing himself only to go tumbling against the sand to a stop. "I'm okay guys! I swear!" Kai called out, gripping the back of his gi tightly at the feeling of his bandages getting messed up a little.. man he hoped his wound didn't open up again from that! That's the last thing he needs!
Zane would sigh in relief and cole couldn't help but feel both angered by the ghost aswell as worried for kai. With the fire ninja slowly getting up onto his feet, looking around as he couldn't help but wonder where the ghost rider went. Only to see the sand below him glow an ominous green and internally panic. "He's underground!!" Kai yelled, grabbing his katana and jumping out the way just in time as the ghost bike drove out through the ground before floating in the air.
The bike would then fly towards cole and zane, with the earth ninja sliding infront of the nindroid and warning him to "stay back!". And when the biker tried to swing his weapon over at them, cole used his katana to catch it right between the chain and the blade, before pulling it over to the wooden watertower that stood nearby and using his katana to shove the blade into one of the bamboo "poles" keeping it up.
With the rider driving foward only to get yanked off his bike from his weapon getting stuck; the bike returning back to its originally state moments after the rider was off and crashing into the wooden remains of the building.
Kai had managed to get back to the duo just in time, with the ninja slowly approaching the side, looking down where the railroad tracks and ghost were.
However, it seemed the fight was far from over as the ghost stood back up before floating in the air infront of the group. Only for the sound of a horn to be heard as it turned his head and instantly got hit by a train moments after.
Kai, cole and zane stood there for a moment, trying to understand what the heck just happened before Cole remarked "welp that was anticlimactic".
Only for the ghost to fly foward onto the wooden platform before them, staring angerly at the trio as they stepped back.
He'd laugh, "you seriously thought a train could stop a ghost?! Your world will pay when Morro finds the tomb!" He'd begin, looking down at the handle part of his weapon with both his hands holding onto it tightly. "And when he does.. he will take possession of the-" the ghost would hold up the handle to yank his chain back to free the blade from where it was stuck. Only for the blade to break the water tower, sending the bucket-like top down and dumping a ton of water down onto the ghost.
Who stood there for a moment, his body illuminating an even brighter green as he clearly regretted his decision, before exploding! The green goo that remaining bursting onto the ninja who happened to be caught in the unfortunate splash zone of it.
"Ew.. " kai muttered, before walking foward with the others, putting their katanas back where they once were being held on their backs. "Okay.. what.. uh.. what just happened?!" Cole asked, looking down at the neon green slime that covered his gi before looking over at kai, then zane. "He went.. ka-blooey" Zane replied, taking his hood off, with the others doing the same.
"Seriously! Ugh! And he was just about to tell us what was in the tomb too!" Kai replied, disgusted, annoyed and confused. With cole's confusion lessening as he looked down at the green and watery slimey remains of the ghost. "Well.. we may not know what was in the tomb.. but at least we do know one thing, how to stop a ghost" cole explained, with kai and zane looking down at the remains too and saying "water?!".
Zane would then sigh, "well.. while I suppose it is unusual, i guess it's true.. the path we seek is never a straight line" the ice ninja continued, with kai coughing. "Well, speaking of straight lines.. if that train is heading to stiix shouldn't we?.." he'd suggest, with panic suddenly setting in the group as they ran after the train, calling out to slow it down.
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And with that the possession arc truly begins!
Honestly, the reason as to why tempest wasn't as op as he was in the comic/show is kinda for reasons. Since I wanted jay to at least have a fighting chance aswell as make a pretty cool fight scene. Which about that, originally this fight scene was going to be animated, with me starting the animation in May only to stop because.. I STILL DONT KNOW HOW TO ANIMATE! Or at least for now..
Of course I'm sorry for how late this chapter was since I haven't posted the entries month of June and that's because of sports! You see, I had explained it on my post thingy.. whatever it's called and basically this was my schedule for most of June
Morning weight lifting with there being cross-country and basketball practice 3 hours after! So yeah.. not to mention the basketball camps on weekends.. so to put it simply, I was occupied!
Of course at last I can continue working on this fanfic so.. Yay :D
If you are curious though, I used season 1 of Boboiboy galaxy's introduction to thunderstorm for how tempest is... although I'm sorry if he isn't as strong as he is in the comic or show.. but when you think about it.. it would make since in this case considering all things aside like the current powerwatch or how tempest got brought here this time!
Eh, I'm getting ahead myself so..
Here's some kid lloyd and boboiboy for your sorrows: