After the Ninja's Recent victory over the Oni they soon discover that they're first attempt the Bringers of Doom to stop may have changed their's and another realm's future forever but just for the better of worse?
It been one week since the Ninja's victory over the Oni and all of Ninjago is at peace that is until the Ninja realize that when Lloyd destroyed the Realm Crystal it pull Ninjago and another realm together merging them into one realm. Now in a new united realm along the rest of his team they knows next to nothing about Lloyd must work alongside a newly crowned and overly curious princess by the name of Twilight Sparkle and Her Friends the Elements of Harmony and the rest of the Ninja to protect this new realm he himself had inadvertently created from enemies both old and new but can they face an ancient evil that almost brought doom to their home once before and may just succeed now???....
Events of this story take place after season 10 of Ninjago and Season 3 of My Little Pony All creatures are different human or humanoid creatures: Ponies: humans with/without wings and/or unicorn horns Equestrian Dragons: dragon people with wings, horns and tails Changelings: Elven shapeshifters, with horns and insect wings Griffins: Harpies with talon feet and feathered ears SeaPonies and Hippogriffs: Merpeople and Avians Breezies: Fairies Yaks and Buffalo: Fauns with hooves and horns while Ninjago dragons and other monsters and creatures from Ninjago including the Serpentine, Formlings and skeletons will remain as they only imagine them looking at little less Lego
some ships will include; Jaya, Applecole, TwiLoyd, Fluttercord, Spikebelle, Etc Ninjago Is owned Lego and My Little Pony is owned by Hasbro
Cover image was Created by my friend Fluffeh-Shiba onn Devianart
Volume 1 Prologue: Everything gonna be Just fine...Right?
In the magical Realm of Equestria a recently crowned alicorn princess named Twilight Sparkle (The Element of Magic and leader of the Elements of Harmony) watches as her new people go about their lives from a balcony on Canterlot castle. She had dark blue hair and tail with a purple and pink stripe running down the both. a pair lovely violet eyes and was wearing a bright pink dress with yellow hemmed shoulders, bows, it was white at the end ran across the floor. And she had gold slippers, gauntlets and a crown with a pink six point star that was her Element of Harmony in it.
It had only been 2 whole month since her coronation and she still adjusting to the new changes. Princesses Celestia (who was Twilight former teacher and mother figure) and Luna (Celestia's younger sister and a former villain known as Nightmare Moon) had ordered that a new castle for Twilight would be built in Ponyville so that she wouldn't be away from her friends and still follow royal protocol that a princess should live in a castle.
she also recently befriended a former student and adoptive daughter of Celestia's in the form of teenage girl (just a year and half older then she was) named Sunset Shimmer. had abandoned her studies when she didn't get what she thought she deserved but returned to try and take Twilight's power and title as princess.
However when she was defeated by Twilight and her friends she realized she was wrong and after clearing things up with her adoptive mom, she and Twilight had become so close they were all most like sisters. after that things had calmed down for awhile so the Blue haired princess believed that just like on her coronation day that everything was going to be just fine...
'So why do I feel so empty?' she thought somberly. overly last couple of days almost all Twilight's friends had gotten together with their own boyfriends all but her that is.
With Rainbow Dash (the Element of Loyalty) she gotten together with a Wonderbolt pilot named Soarin shortly after she joined the Wonderbolts stunt team. Pinkie Pie (the Element of Laughter) had a long distance relationship with a fellow wandering party planner named Cheese Sandwich who she fell head over heels for. Rarity (the Element Generosity) had started dating several men (including her number one assistant and surrogate Dragon-boy brother Spike who had been dating Rarity Sister Sweetie Belle) in hopes of finding the perfect one but had no luck so far. Fluttershy (the Element of Kindness) had hooked up with a former enemy and the Lord of Chaos himself, Discord but how that relationship made any sense or how it even started was beyond her understanding. Only Applejack( Element of Honesty) was with out any romance but the farm girl just said:
"I ain't interested in lovey dovey stuff."
Even Sunset had gotten together with a guard named Flash Sentry who Twilight did have a little crush on but convince Sunset to try him out when she learned she was in love him, preferring seeing her friends happy than seeing herself happy.
Now Twilight was the only one (other the Applejack) who wasn't romantically involved at the moment. she told her friends not worry her when they grew concerned about her, but deep down it was seriously bugging her and she could help but feel jealous about her friends being in relationship and she wasn't. Before she was princess she was a major bookworm always having her nose in books too busy for to look for friends let alone a boyfriend.
After she meet the girls and learned about friendship however she began to think about having a starting a relationship with someone but she figured no guy would like as Rainbow would put it an egghead like her. Now that she was a princess she did get some attention but not way she wanted or liked, all the men that tried to woe her only care about her title and wanted to use her to brag about dating royalty or feel powerful in the world. While other felt like they were beneath a princess and shouldn't even say Hello. All she wished was to have some boy who was kind, true, smart (and could live for a long time given that Princesses like her were Immortal)and would look past the crown and love not Princess Twilight but Twilight Sparkle.
she took deep breath and sighed as looked across Equestria specifically to crystal castle in the distance.
"Maybe I should ask Cadence for some love advise? she asked herself,
Cadence was her old babysitter and sister-in-law when she married her B.B.B.F.F (Big Brother Best Friend Forever) Shining Armor who were both ruling a kingdom for north called "The Crystal Empire". Since her babysitter was known as the Princess of Love she figured that Cadence could help with her love-lack-life while also hoping their wouldn't be too much teasing. She chuckled when she remembered how her sis-in-law and friends teased her about her little crush on Flash.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw what looked like a Portal.
"Huh?!" she said rubbing her eyes to check if she was seeing things, but when she looked again the portal or whatever it was disappeared.
She wondered why is vanished or if it was even there at all. if wasn't there she need to get her eyes checked Before she could question what she just saw the voice of trusted assistant Spike shouting from inside the castle.
"Hey Twilight! Sunset and I are going meet with the girls now, you coming or what?!" she turned and smiled her friends always made her feel at ease.
"Oh yeah I'll be right there!" she replied back to her adopted brother but then looked back to where she saw the portal she just shrugged and turn to leave.
She figured that she was thinking too much about her love life that it was making her see things, she than thought maybe she should talk to her friends about finding a boyfriend and then she could stop worrying something silly.
'Stop worrying so much "Your Majesty" your sure to find somebody just don't think about so hard.' she mentally teased herself knowing full well what happens when she thinks to hard.
'It like I said on my coronation everything going to be just fine...right?'
she thought that last part with some hesitation as she looked to the sky. Everything was going to be just fine...right?
Meanwhile in another Realm entirely called Ninjago in the monastery of Spinjitzu a young ninja Master named Lloyd Garmadon was pacing back & forth throughout the courtyard. He a light blonde hair, bright green eyes. He was wearing a ninja gi colored green, had brown leather knee pads and belt with pouches. He also had a bronze arm guard on his right arm with his symbol marked on the chest piece. It had been weeks since he and his friends had defeated the bringers of Doom the Oni and saved Ninjago again. Things were finally starting to cool down the people went on with their daily lives, the Serpentine were officially considered equals and allies to the humans and were living under and above ground and the rest of the ninja got some much needed rest.
Nya (the Master of Water) and Jay (the Master of Lightning) began dating properly. Zane (the Master of Ice) and P.I.X.A.L (the new Samurai X) helped Cyrus Borg at his company Borg tech. Kai (the Master of Fire) was helping out Skylor (the Master of Amber and an old enemy Master Chen's Daughter) at her restaurant as well catching up with her. And Cole (the Master of Earth) was visiting his father to catch up on old times.
Even his mom Misako and his uncle and Master Wu were relaxing possibly to ease the pressure of the return of the evil version of his father Lord Garmadon. However he hadn't been seen since the battle with Oni along with the photo of him as his true self and Lloyd (Lloyd figured that his Father took it with him to help remind him of his old life). Soon trouble in Ninjago had slowed to a crawl so Lloyd knew that everything was going to be just fine. (Hmm...Where have I heard that before?)
'So why don't I feel Fine?' he thought to himself.
ever since the incident with the Sons of Garmadon (a Biker Gang completely dedicated to his father evil form) and Princess Harumi (his first Crush and the leader of the SOG known as the Quiet One) he still felt a little heavy hearted about Harumi.
Apart from Cole (who seemed just happy) he was the only one without special somebody. Kai had Skylor, Zane had P.I.X.A.L and Jay & Nya had each other even Dareth (the self-proclaimed 'Brown Ninja') found love in Gayle Gossip a Ninjago Newswoman. not to mention the first girl he liked was a Crazy fangirl of his father and biker gang/cult leader, Sure Harumi played with his feelings, tried to kill him and his friends but he could help but feel if things were different things would have been great with him and Harumi. The others had decided to keep quiet about Harumi to spare Lloyd's feelings but he could tell they wanted him to move on.
He sighed and looked to the mural wall that showed his and the other Ninja's adventures specifically the two that showed their battle with the Sons of Garmadon.
"Just keep dreaming Lloyd, Harumi would never like you that." he reminded himself to move on.
"Besides there are plenty of girls out there you can find someone else." he said to himself assuring him that he could find someone else.
But he doubted he could fine another girl that would want him for him. any girl that would want date Lloyd would only like the handsome and brave Green Ninja not boring old Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon'. And any girl that didn't want him would be because of his Father or that no girl would be good enough for him. All he wanted was cute girl that was brave, smart, funny (could live for a long time because since he was part Oni and Dragon he was basically immortal) and would love Lloyd Garmadon, not just The Green Ninja (Wait! this seems Really Familiar).
his thinking was interrupted when he heard Kai voice over his ear comm, he put his hand to the comm and listen to what the fire ninja had say.
"Lloyd are there you need to get to Borg Tower now!" Kai shouted (in worried tone) over the comm as Lloyd winced at his surrogate brother scream and answered back.
"Kai calm down. what going on? is it the Sons of Garmadon, Pythor, my Father?"
"Just Get to Borg Tower now! Nya and Zane will explain everything there better then I can! JUST HURRY!" Kai screamed again.
after getting his hearing back Lloyd answered back to fire ninja,"Okay! Okay! don't shout. I'll be there as fast as I can." he said and end the call.
Lloyd couldn't tell but Kai sounded worried and if KAI was worried then something really bad was happening. he soon realized that time for relaxing was over.
he then used his powers and a green energy dragon appeared over the monastery. Once FirstBourne (the mother of all dragons) was back to full health the Ninja regained the ability to summon their elemental dragons. Lloyd hopped on the Dragon and readied for take off.
"Now to New Ninjago City and fast!" Lloyd said to his dragon and with a roar they were off.
along the way he could help but wonder what the emergency was but he shook his thinking it wasn't anything they could handle everything was going to be just fine...Right?(Okay seriously! where have I seen this before?!)
Meanwhile back in Equestria a Beautiful alicorn woman named Princess Celestia was writing on some blank scrolls. She had violet colored eyes, blue, green, pink and cyan rainbow hair and tail. she wore a long white and gold trim dress with a sun symbol on the right hip. her crown and necklace were gold with an diamond cut amethyst on of each one and two great white giant wings on her back, a long white horn on her head that had a quill wrapped in it's golden magical aura. she continued to writing and minding her business until she dropped them her Eyes flashed white as she was a vision...
she flew through a blue vortex and then came out only to an Equestria that a bit looked different then the one she knew with cities, forests, islands and other things that were not familiar to her, "What in the? what happened to Equestria?" she wondered aloud.
then rising from all sides was deep black shadow that engulfed the whole kingdom then in blackness she her 'faithful student' and daughter 'figure' Twilight Sparkle next to boy with blonde hair and straw hat but they were both surrounded by a golden light and were staring directly and preparing to fight a pair blood red and golden yellow eyes emitting purple fire. It released a dark and raspy laugh that sent shiver down Celestia's spine for she seemed to recognize them.
"What?! No! it can't be! how is this possible?!" she Exclaimed never believing she see HIM again.
but before she could question anything there was a bright light and the vision ended.
Celestia shot up and gasped in fright! she held a hand to her head trying to process what just happen in her vison, the with a look of fear she said "Something is terrible not right."
Twilight was walking down the hall and saw at the other side a draconian boy her trusted assistant and little brother-figure Spike he spiky green hair and slit eyes of the same color, a purple dragon tail with green spines on it, purple hoodie on top of a lime green shirt, blue shorts and purple sneakers. Along side him with was a Unicorn girl named Sunset Shimmer her former enemy turned friend, Princess Celestia adoptive daughter and her sister-figure she had red and yellow striped hair and matching tail and and honey yellow horn on her head, greenish cyan eyes, black leather jacket on top a purple shirt with red and yellow sun emblem, a orange skirt with a yellow and pink stripe on the left side and black high rise boots with magenta flame printing from the toes to the shins.
"Hey Took your time eh 'Sparky'." Sunset said with a smirk and Spike just snickered from the remark. Twilight just rolled her eyes ever since the two of them became friends Sunset kept calling her Sparky but Twilight didn't mind too much and replied with a smirk of her own.
"Well sorry 'Sunny' but I was just getting into my common clothes." She said and held arms and spun around to emphasis her point.
Rarity had tried and tried to convince Twilight to wear her princess clothing but Twilight didn't really like wearing regal dresses or princess regalia, (at least not on normal days) so she stuck to her blue shirt, pink bow tie, purple skirt, black boots with purple covers and (just for today) her crown too."So Where are the girls?" she asked.
"Just outside waiting for us in the Foyer, Discord, Flash and CMC (Cutie Mark Crusader) are here too." Spike replied as they started to walk towards the foyer.
"Looking forward to see your 'Sweetie' Again Spike".Sunset teased as Twilight giggled.
"Uh...well...um maybe? What's it to you?!" Stammered Spike blushing furiously about his relationship with Sweetie Belle, Rarity's little sister. While Twilight did feel happy for Spike, Sunset and the others that they had found their soulmates she couldn't help but wished she had one as well and looked away in dismissal, Sunset sensed this and gestured to Spike to go on ahead. Once he was out of sight Sunset place a counselling hand on her sister figure's shoulder.
"Hey Twilight you okay?"
"Huh?" Twilight snapped out her dismiss and looked at Sunset's concerned face. "Oh yeah I'm fine." the princess lied but Sunset was not having it.
"Come on Twi, I know that look, something obviously bugging you, just tell me okay? I'll listen." Twilight smiled even though Sunset had a teasing nature she did have a compassionate side. So she took a deep breath and looked at her friend and explained her love life problems and how they've been bothering for the last few days. Sunset listened attentively like the sister she was like to the blue haired girl. once she was finished Twilight looked down somberly. "So that what's been bothering you huh?"
"don't say anything about this Sunset! if word gets out that I'm looking for somebody-" Twilight's panic attack was cut off when Sunset placed two fingers on her lips and spoke to her friend,"Relax Twilight! I know you want a guy who likes you for you not because of your crown."
"Really?" Twilight asked Sunset nodded and continued
"Yeah and I know that your thinking that being a princess is the only thing that's lovable about you but it's not, your brave, smart, natural gifted, kind and pretty beautiful to boot." Twilight blushed at the compliments as Sunset went on. "Point is there's more to love about you than just the crown & wings and you prove that when you gave me a second chance when everyone else thought otherwise even me, so I know that there's a guy for my little sis out there who want her for her and if not than I'm coming after him as hot the sun!" Sunset announced and she wrapped her right arm around Twilight's waist and pumped her left arm up as the princess giggled at the fiery haired girl's sisterly protective mode and gave her a warm hug.
"Thanks Sunset I really needed to hear that. Maybe your right that there's the right guy for me out there, I'll just have to wait and see." Sunset smiled at the gratitude but winced when Twilight playful elbowed her and smirked. "But since when am I your 'little' sister?" she retorted as Sunset smirked back.
"Maybe because I am older than you and I'm the only one other than Shining Armor who can do this!" Sunset than trapped Twilight in a headlock and gave her a noggie like any older sibling gives to there younger to make her point.
"AH! Hey! No! Stop! Not the noggie! You know I hate the noggie! Sunset stop it!" Twilight shouted as she tried to break free.
"Not until you say the secret word!" Sunset retorted.
"Noooo! Not that! I'll never say it!! NEVER!!!"
"is that so your highness?" Sunset said as she started to noggie Twilight even harder. Twilight Finally conceding said the word, unaware that two others figures were approaching.
"OKAY! OKAY! Uncle! I give! I give! your my BSBFF Sunny!"
"Which means what Sparky"? Sunset said in a sing-song voice.
"Big Sister Best Friend Forever! BIG SISTER BEST FRIEND FOREVER!!! OK! there I said! now let me go!" Twilight exclaimed and Sunset finally did and gave a satisfied smirk while Twilight glared at her.
" Are you sure your not still evil Mrs. Sunset Shimmer?" she asked grumpily.
"Maybe or maybe not Princess Twilight Sparkle but you might want to ask our friends here what they think of our little show..." Sunset said as she pointed toward two girls in front of them, both who witnessed the noggieing and Twilight calling Sunset her BSBFF. the first girl was Rainbow Dash the element of Loyalty who had a rainbow colored tail and hair as her namesake and magenta eyes. She was wearing a blue jacket with a gold badge on the left side atop a white shirt with a cloud with rainbow lightning bolt symbol on it, a white and magenta striped skirt, black shorts and blue knee-high running shoes and red, blue and yellow socks and wristbands. she also had a pair of cyan wings a bit smaller than Twilight's. Next to her was Applejack the element of Honesty and had green eyes and freakles and blonde hair and a tail both tied at the end. she was wearing a brown stepson cowboy hat, a green and white work shirt, a brown belt with an apple for a buckle, a blue jean skirt and brown tall cowgirl boots with three apples on each. since she was a Terran (yes that what I'm calling the earth pony characters in this story) she didn't have any specials features like her three friends.
Rainbow Dash was on the ground laughing her head off at Twilight for Sunset's noggie attack and the BSBFF statement while Applejack just smirked and crossed her arms snickering now and than. "Oh my God! that has got to be the most hilarious thing I've ever seen you do Egghead! Oh my sides!!!" Rainbow said in between her howling laughes and Twilight flushed with embarrassment groaned and covered her face with her hands not daring look up while Sunset place a hand on the poor princess.
Applejack than walked up a gave her a pat on the back to cheer her up."Now come on sugarcube ya gotta admit that was pretty funny but from one sister to another it's not all that bad." she said while remember the times she gave a noggie to her little sister Applebloom or gotten one from her brother Big Macintosh. "Anyhoo, we just came to getcha cause the other are getting mighty antsy Discord especially." Applejack said trying to move away from the Alicorn girl's embarrassment as said girl finally moved her hands away from her face and looked at her three friends.
"But if your too busy with your 'BSBFF' right now we can just leave." Rainbow joked as she, Applejack and Sunset started gigging again. Twilight than huffed, blushed a little, straighten up and walked forward at a fast pace as her three friends following close behind still snickering at her embarrassment.
As they walked down the hall Twilight smiled the stain glass windows displaying the victory of she and her friends, from their victory over Nightmare Moon to her ascension to a princess and everything else in between. 'we've all come so far haven't we?' she thought of how she and her friends accomplished so much, but was snapped back to reality when she and the other heard screams of terror from down the hall.
"What in Tarnation?!" AppleJack Exclaimed as three girls came in screaming their heads off in fright. the first girl was Pinkie Pie the Element of Laughter, she was an Terran like Applejack she had a dark pink puffy tail and hair, light cyan eyes, a cool blue jacket on top of a white shirt with pink heart on her chest, a hot pink skirt with three balloons one yellow and two blue on the left side with purple bow tied to her waist, blue knee high boots and blue bracelets. The second girl was Rarity the Element of Generosity like Sunset she was Unicorn with a white horn, purple curly hair and tail with triple diamond hair pin, she had baby blue blue blouse, a dark purple belt with a two crescent moon belt buckle, a lighter purple skirt with a triple diamond symbol on the left side, dark purple boots with lavender socks and diamonds attached to them and she wore gold bangles on her wrists. The third girl was Fluttershy The Element of Kindness a Pegasus like Rainbow dash with light yellow wings on her back, light pink hair and tail with white butterfly barrette, she wore a simple white tank top, a lime green skirt with pink frills on the end, three butterflies on the right side one light pink, one dark pink and one white, lime green knee high boots with white souls and pink socks with white polka dots. The three girls were running and screaming like they just saw a ghost until Pinkie shouted from the top of her lungs.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!" Then the seven girls crashed together creating a huge pile all moaning and groaning in pain. "Ugh for goodness's sake girls! What are you running from and where are Spike and the others?!" Sunset Asked, Pinkie was breathing in and out very quickly, Fluttershy was whimpering and rocking back and forth trying to calm down and Rarity always being dramatic grabbed Rainbow and rambled on about 'big hole in the sky' and 'huge unnatural storm' as she shook her violently causing the Wonderbolt's eyes to roll in multiple directions.
"Fluttershy? Sugarcube what wrong?" Applejack asked as she held the whimpering Pegasus girl while everyone finally got untangled and up on their feet. Twilight turned her timid friend's head towards than said "It's okay Fluttershy we're all here, just tell what's wrong." finally composing herself Fluttershy with tears in her eyes spoke.
"T-Twilight w-we just saw a...a.."
But before she could finished the stain glass windows shattered and scattered across the ground! reacting quickly Twilight cast a force field around herself and the girls protecting them from the shards of glass. When she looked up again she gasped and saw a huge storm producing huge lightning bolts of unknown magic and at center was the same vortex she saw early only it's was a whole lot bigger. "The Portal! so I did see it!" she shouted as friends backed away from the huge tear in the sky but before anyone could anything about what was happening there was a massive white light from the storm/portal flashed and engulfed the entire realm.
Twilight soon thought to herself 'something tells everything is not going to fine.' before the lighted blinded her and all she could do was hope nothing too terrible had happened. How both wrong and right she was.
Back in Ninjago Lloyd was flying towards Borg Tower on his Elemental dragon after Kai the Master of Fire had called him for an urgent meeting. along the way Lloyd was beginning to wonder what could be happening, Was a villain back for revenge?, Did Master Wu discover an ancient secret?, Had Cole finally found love()?! Lloyd mentally laughed at the last one, unlike him Cole seemed to be okay with being a bachelor but it was still fun tease him about it(as long as they kept Nya out of it to avoid flying rocks and lightning bolts after the 'perfect match incident' was finally put to rest). His train of thought was lost when he saw a tall high-tech sky scraper with a blue energy symbol in a hole at the top of the of it up ahead.
"Alright, time to find out what all the fuss is about." He then saw the other Ninja's vehicles indicating he was the last to arrive. He landed next Kai's fire cycle, hopped off his dragon as it disappeared and walked into the building and saw said Master of Fire was waiting. Kai had brown fiery like hair and red eyes with a scar across his right eye and a bandage above his left, he wore a red ninja gi with brown harness with packs and buckled at the back with a badge with a fire symbol on it and had a silver shoulder pan on his left arm. He was tapping his foot impatiently and had an annoyed looked on his face, Lloyd knowing first hand that patience was not exactly one of the fire ninja's strong points had uneasy look on his face as he approached him.
"There you are ya slacker!" Kai shouted in Lloyd face and walked behind him, "Come on the others are waiting for us!" he than pushed the young master into the elevator, pushed a button and as the doors closed the two boys rode it upwards. After some silence Lloyd tried to ease the uncomfortably and tension in the elevator with a conversation.
"So...uh what the emergency?"
"You'll find out and trust me it's going to blow your mind." Kai answered back as they reached the top.
Waiting for them were three other teenage boys and a teenage girl each having the same shoulder pad Kai did on their left arm and all standing by a man in a wheelchair wearing glasses a gray jacket and pants and black turtle neck sweater who was Cyrus Borg the owner of Borg Tech and was a trust ally of the Ninja. The first boy was Jay the Master of Lightning he had blue eyes, brown messy hair and freckles, his gi was blue and had gray straps with two buttons on right side one with lightning bolt and the other with a smily face emoji. The second boy was Cole the Master of Earth he was more buff than the others, had black hair, dark purple eyes and green scar running down the left side of his forehead to the side of his eye, his gi was black held by an orange belt and dark brown armbands/bandages on his wrists. The last boy name was Zane the Master of Ice and was in fact a robot (or Nindroid as he called himself) he was in cloak mode though so he looked like a normal human, his eyes were bright cyan and his hair was white, flatten at the top and shaved down and his gi was white with a silver armor pad at the top leftside of his torso, a cyan belt tied around his waist and bandages wrapped around his shins. The girl was Nya the Master of Water and Kai's little sister, her hair was black tied into a ponytail by a gray band, her eyes were a light blue and had beauty mark on the right of face just underneath her eye and her gi was dark silverish gray with a light blue shirt under it, a matching colored belt and strapped around her and fasten together by a buckle with a water symbol. Lloyd soon noticed that Pixal was not with them, she was probably out patrolling the city as the new Samurai-X. All of them looked a little be worried but a lot more patient than Kai was when Lloyd approached. " Hey guys, sorry I'm late, must've missed breakfast today." he joked trying lighten the mood while the others laughed, shook their heads or rolled their eyes at the Green Ninja joke Kai was getting annoyed and let out groan of exasperation.
"Can we please just tell him what's happening?!" he shouted when the Cyrus approached him.
"Calm down Master Kai! We will get to that just try and keep your cool." The wheel-chaired man said to the red ninja but he just scoffed and walked over to his sister and brothers.
"Sorry about Kai Mr.Borg. you know how brother gets when he's impatient: just like a volcano waiting blow up." Nya said teasing her brother, the other boys and Cyrus Borg all laugh at Kai who scowling at his sister that now turned her attention back their leader."By the way Lloyd how's the new gi? looks good." she commented on Lloyd's new suit was green, had brown leather knee pads and belt, a bronze arm guard on his right arm with his symbol marked on the chest piece.
"Feels good. got give to Master Wu, he got some other skills besides ninjutsu."
"Perhaps now you'll attract a less villainous young female with that suit." Zane teased.
Lloyd blushed and stuttered at the Android remark while the others even Kai snickered. Though they kept things about Harumi quiet it didn't stop them from teasing Lloyd about it. "W-well an-anyway! what is you wanted to show me?" Lloyd said after finally getting a grip of himself. Cyrus realizing they were getting off topic put a more serious face along with the others and turned to his screen that showed a replay of Lloyd and Garmadon's battle with the Oni's leader; the Omega down in the vault and where Lloyd destroyed the Realm Crystal. An artifact sealed in his grandfather; the First Spinjitzu Master's tomb and had the power to travel between realms.
"While repairing the damage to my tower that was done when those Oni invaded I detected a strange anomaly with an energy signal similar to that of the Realm Crystal. After some research and studying I discovered that it was a side effect that happened when you destroyed it," Cyrus explained, as Lloyd began to worried what their first attempt to stop the Oni had caused Cyrus continued. "Apparently somehow some of the shards of the Realm Crystal got into another realm and they along with the shards still here in Ninjago are now pulling themselves together trying to restore itself and dragging both realms with them as a result!" Lloyd gasped at this reveal what his and soon realized from his friends expressions what it meant for their home as they explained the results.
"Which means..." Jay started worryingly.
"That Ninjago..." Cole continued.
"And another realm..." Zane stated.
"Will collide with eachother..." Nya said.
"And when that happens..." Kai put in.
"The two Realms will merge into one." Lloyd ended. Cyrus nodded but assured them that there was a guarantee that no one would be harmed and no damage would come to either realm. However Lloyd hoped their was some way to stop this. "When will the collision happen?"
but before he could get answer a massive black storm cloud the size of the city appeared, crackling unnatural Lightning with a humongous Vortex at the center of it. the windows broke by the wind as the Ninja and Cyrus ducked for cover and when they looked to the sky in horror Cyrus only said one word.
"Now."
Then a bright white light from the giant vortex flashed and spread throughout all Ninjago and blinding everyone. Lloyd soon thought to himself 'something tells everything is not going to fine.' before the light blinded him leaving him to wonder what could have happened.
When Lloyd woke up he notice that he and his friends (sans Professor Borg) who were unconscious, were in the middle of a field which was located in a majestic gold, white, dark purple medieval looking city with great castle in the distance. "Ow my head." he groaned and turned to his team who were just waking up as well, "Hey guys, you ok?"
"Ugh a-ok." answered Kai.
"I think so." replied Nya.
"pretty alright." said Jay.
"yeah I'm fine." said Cole.
"all my systems are in perfect working order." replied Zane.
Once they got they're barrings the Ninja looked around his location. "Ok where are we? I don't recognize this city from anywhere in Ninjago." Asked Kai while Zane scanned the area and turned to the others once he finished. "My database of Ninjago cities and villages has no information on the settlement we are currently in. which indicates that this city is a city from the other realm that the shards of the Realm Crystal that Professor Borg. " he told the others.
"Which means we're in a unified realm of Ninjago and probably some realm we never been to before." Cole assumed but than he realized something, "Hey wait. if the Realm Crystal has been restored when the realms merged than where is it now?"
Nya than spoke up, "We'll figure that out later right now we have figure out where we are and getting around might be hard without our rides." The boys than looked around and saw that the water ninja was right there was no sign of any of their vehicles, than Jay groaned in exasperation and threw his arms up in the air and walked back forth as he did one of his famous 'Jay spazz outs'.
Oh that's just great! We're in a new combo realm created from Ninjago and another one we nothing about, in a city that we also know nothing about and our rides are knows where! Can our day get any worse?!" He asked rhetorically but he soon regretted as they were surrounded by men in gold armor and had tails, horns and wings?
Before anyone could question anything one taller guard with blue hair, tail and eyes, gold and purple armor with purple shield crest with magenta six point star on his chest-part and a white horn on his head through a whole in his helmet pointed a spear to Lloyd.
"State your names and your business in Canterlot" The guard demanded as the Ninja drew their weapons. Kai unsheathed his Golden Sword of Fire, Jay whipped his Golden Nun-chucks of Lightning, Cole brought forth his Scythe of Quakes, Zane pulled out his Shurikens of Ice and Nya show her silver trident. While his friends prepared for battle, Lloyd thought 'Just another day in the life of a ninja.' knowing this sort of thing was basically normal them.
Inside Canterlot Castle Twilight and her friends slowly began to regain their vision. When they reopened their eyes they saw the broken pieces of glass everywhere but now sign of that strange vortex in the sky but they were relieved that it was gone and that their was not too much damage. Twilight soon got onto her feet, dusted herself off and than turned to her friends. "Is everyone OK?" she asked.
"I'm good." Sunset said getting back up.
"Eeyup." Applejack answered putting her hat back on.
"I think so." Rainbow replied shaking her head to get out any cobwebs still in it.
"Me as well." Rarity announced dusting hair off.
"That was so scary." Fluttershy whimpered still on her knees and her hands on her cheeks.
"WHEEEE! that was fun! can we do it again?!" Pinkie shouted bouncing up and down. She got her answer when her friends shot her looks that screamed 'Forget it Pinkie!' and she giggled and smiled sheepishly. "Ahem!" Twilight clearing her throat. "Now that whatever that was over we should-"
"TWILIGHT!!"
"APPLEJACK!!"
"RARITY!!"
"RAINBOW DASH!!"
She was interrupted when she heard Spike along three other voices rushing down the hallway. the girls were CMCs, (Cutie Mark Crusaders) they were around Spike's age and were three of the Elements of Harmony's little sisters. The first girl was a Terran, she Applejack's little sister Applebloom. She had long red hair and tail with a pink bow on her head, reddish orange eyes a green shirt, blue jeans and yellow & red boots.
Following her was a unicorn girl named Sweetie Belle, Rarity's little sister. her hair and tail was a combination of light and dark purple with a magenta headband, she had bright green eyes and a short white horn. And was wearing a waist long magenta coat underneath a white and light pink dress with a yellow knee-high skirt and magenta boots with yellow straps.
And the last girl was pegasus and was Rainbow Dash's surrogate sister Scootaloo. She dark magenta hair, purple eyes and a pair of small orange wings on her back, she wore a black hoodie with elbow length sleeves with aqua teal edges and a matching armband on right arm, she also had military green shorts with knots on the ends and black knee high boots and teal socks.
Spike and the CMCs all ran to each of their respectable sister and hugged them (albeit Scootaloo was a bit reluctant) and they hugged them back. Rarity was the first to speak.
"Sweetie Belle, Spike, girls what in Equestria is wrong? Are you ok?" She than checked her sister for any damage on her or her clothes much to Sweetie Belle Ire.
"We're fine sis but we were ya'll." Applebloom answered as she hugged Applejack tightly and her big sister returned it with just as much love. "Yeah when that storm came out of nowhere we were worried you didn't make it." Spike said as Twilight reassured them that they were fine.
"Oh yes it would be absolutely terrible if my favorite lady and friends were gone with the wind."
A mysterious male voice rang through the hall but everyone merely sighed and/or rolled their eyes as they knew who it was. "Alright Discord you come out now." an annoyed Twilight said.
Then appearing in flash was boy slightly older then the Mane 7 with grayish brown skin, black wild hair, big white eyebrows and small goatee, Yellow and red eyes, a single fang in his mouth, he wore a brown vest, a white dress shirt, a dark brown short sleeve tailed-jacket with a blue spotted flower on left side, a white scarf with red circular jewel in a gold ring, tan brown dress pants, A brown right shoe, a green dragon left foot, a dark purple right bat wing, a blue left bird wing, a right yellow lion's paw, a left yellow eagle claw, a deer antler on the right side of his head, a goat horn on the left side of his head and had a crimson Asian dragon tail with white spines and hair at the end. this young man was infact a former enemy turned ally of the Mane 7, and Fluttershy boyfriend; Discord the Lord of Chaos who currently had a sour look on his at the new princess.
"Oh Twilight Sparkle your just as no fun as Celly and Lulu. The least you could give a good friend a decent hello." Discord said as he crossed his arms clearly feeling insulted.
"That was a little rude of you Twilight." Fluttershy said in defense of her boyfriend. as Discord than teleported next her and then dipped her.
"Why thank you for coming to my aid my lovely little butterfly, I can always count on you." he said to her as Fluttershy giggled and blushed at the nickname while the others all had mixed reactions, Rarity, Pinkie, Applebloom and Sweetie belle aww'ed and giggled at the scene, Applejack and Sunset had bemused smirks, Twilight rolled her eyes in amusement (while feeling a bit envious of Fluttershy) and Spike, Scootaloo and Rainbow gagged at the display.
Twilight than approached Discord wanting to ask what his appearance was about "Alright Discord I apologize for the cold welcome but what are you even doing here?" she asked as Discord made a lounge chair appear with newspapers and glasses.
"Oh just thought I tell you that your BBBFF, Flash and the royal guard are fighting some colorful dress people in the city and decided to let you all in on the fun." he said casually as he read his news paper.
"WHAT?!?!" everyone in the hall said.
Meanwhile
"Surrender now!" the captain said as he and the guards fought against the Ninja. One of the of guards who was fighting Kai had blue hair and tail, bright blue eyes, orangish yellow wings and gold armor with a blue shield with lighting bolt symbol on the chest plate. He was Flash Sentry Sunset Shimmer's boyfriend.
Lloyd was holding back against the captain because he knows that these men are royal guards meaning they tasked to protecting so he tried to explaining, "Listen to me, Captain Shining Armor was it? We don't mean any harm we're just a little lost." He while avoiding another thrust from Shining.
"Than why were you and your comrades carrying weapons?! No doubt trying to over throw the princesses!" Shining Armor shouted as he gave Lloyd a right hook to the stomach and knocked him to the ground. Lloyd glared back at the captain as he got up.
"What in Equestri-AAAAAAHHHH?!?!?!?!" Shining said but was cut off as he was pulled into it and from the inside Lloyd unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks on him and incredible speed.
"ugh..what in the world was that?" Flash asked struggling to get up but in no state to fight as the Ninja approached them. "That my blue haired friend was a little trick we Ninja like to call 'Spinjitzu'!" Kai said cockily as he and Nya fist bumped, Jay cheered, Cole pumped his fist in triumph and Zane Put his hands behind back and nodded while Lloyd kneeled before Shining Armor who glared at him unable to believe he got beat a teenage boy who could use a technique even he never seen or heard of before.
"Alright captain Armor now that we've all calm down would you and guards please listen to what we have to sa-ARGH!!!" Lloyd suddenly got blasted by a beam of magenta energy that cut him off and sent him tumbling a couple of feet away from the others. The other Ninja turned to see who cheap shot their leader but were surprise to see 7 teenage girls around their age that had colorful hair, tails, ears, horns and wings glaring at them. One of the had both wings and a horn and wearing a crown while her horn glowed a magenta aura so they guessed she shot Lloyd.
But before any of the could react the girl's horn glowed brighter and they were all surrounded by the same and they all yelped as they were lifted slightly off the ground and flunged right towards Lloyd, crashing into him and causing them pile on each other groaning. Lloyd pushed Jay and Zane off of him and looked to see one of the girls with red and yellow hair and a golden horn on her head guiding the guards elsewhere while other six got into fighting stances.
"Rarity you take the girl!" the girl with the lavender wings and horn said to the girl with the white horn and purple curly hair and tail.
"Understood darling." Rarity answered as she and Nya glared at each other while the other girl turned to the girl with cyan wings and rainbow colored hair and tail.
"Rainbow Dash you got the red one!" She declared.
"You got it Twilight!" Rainbow Dash reply as she raised her fists and flashed a cocky grin at Kai who gave a cocky grin back at her Twilight turned to the blonde haired and tailed girl with the cowboy hat who looked at Cole with interest.
"Applejack can you handled the black one?" Twilight asked her.
"You betcha sugarcube!" Applejack answered while cracking her knuckles and winked at Cole who blinked in surprise before looking determined again as Twilight turned to the girl with the puffy pink hair and tail.
"Pinkie Pie the blue one's yours!" Twilight said to her.
"Yes indeedily Twi!" Pinkie saluted and then growled like a dog at Jay who was slightly recoiled in fear as Twilight turned to the final girl with the long light pink hair and tail and yellow wings.
"And Fluttershy I want you to take the white one, ok?" she told Fluttershy as she twiddled her fingers while looking back & forth between the ground and Zane who just look confused.
"Um, uh okay I-I think so?" Fluttershy mumbled before gulping and then looking determined at Zane who got into a fighting position as Twilight stared down Lloyd and pointed to him.
"That just leaves you and me Greenie! Nobody hurts my BBBFF and gets away with it!" she declared while Lloyd was confused by the BBBFF statement but regained his composure as he readied themselves knowing a fight was impossible to avoid now. The Ninja decided to put their weapons away to even the odds a little as both sides glared at one another waiting for the right moment to make their move.
Then as a clock hand moved, a feather hit the ground and a unicorn took a sip of tea they charged, yelling. Applejack and Cole were caught in a grapple as both were determined to push the other onto their back. Cole surprised by the cowgirl's strength spoke, "Whoa! He-ha your pretty strong, I gotta admit I haven't met many people who are just as strong as me," he said with a smile and grunted as he was pushed back, "you must lift some crazy weights!" He then pushed her back!
Applejack smirked at his compliment and pushed him back, "Well your purty strong yourself big boy and comin' from someone whose a member of the hardest working family in Equestria that there means a lot." She commented as continued to push the black Ninja back while looking closely at his arm muscles.
"But ya ain't strong enough!" She said and continued to push him back.
Cole than pushed AJ back even harder causing her feet to slide across the ground then clenched fist and smirked at her, "Well cowgirl if you thought that was good, your gonna love this," he than surprised her when he punched his fists together and the green scar on his head started glowed and orangish yellow energy formed on his hands and arms making it look like his skin was splitting apart with lava coming out! "EARTH PUNCH!!!" he shouted as ran towards Applejack jumped up and pounded the ground cause it crack slightly. Applejack managed to back flip and dodge the punch and landed a few feet away from Cole, she then gave a low whistle and readjusted her hat while looking to him.
"Well I be!" She said walking backing to him,"That a mighty powerful punch you got there sugarcube. But let's if it take a kick from old 'Bucky McGillicuddy' and 'Kicks McGee'!" She shook her legs to empathizes her point.
"Well 'Bucky' and 'Kicks', time for you to meet 'Lefty' and 'Righty '!" Cole said as he held up his hands then he Applejack charged with Applejack kicking and Cole punching.
Meanwhile Zane spun his shurikens while Fluttershy held up her hands nervously in defense waiting for the former to make the first move. However Zane just stop spinning his shurikens, placed them back and stared at the timid pegasus girl in a non threatening way and spoke, "Forgive me miss but I sense that you do not wish to battle me do you?" Zane asked as Fluttershy smiles slightly and fidgets with her mane, "Oh uh yes? I'don't really like violence unlike the rest of my friends," she said softy.
"I don't supposed you'd liked to talk things out would you Mr...." she trailed off not knowing his name.
"Zane." he answered before walking up to her, smiling. "And yes I would Like to approach this with conversation but perhaps with should discuss this somewhere less...chaotic?" He gestured to battle going on around them.
"Oh yes, good idea." Fluttershy replied as they left the fight to talk. While they the two walk away Pinkie was jumping around avoided Jay's punches and kicks while he was getting frustrated, "Dang it, your as slippery as a Serpentine!" He shouted.
"Oh sure it's funny until they hypnotize to you, turn you into a snake, squeeze you to death or-" Jay stopped himself when realized, "Hey! trying to divert me?! Well Mrs. Cotton Candy, your in for a shock!" Jay then fired Lightning bolts out his hands at Pinkie.
She managed to dodge a few of them but on the fourth one she got zapped so much you could see her skeleton. When the electricity wore off she a few burnt marks on her face and clothes and her hair looked like a giant pink Afro with black marks on it. Jay to one look at her and then started snorting and then loudly laughing at Pinkie ridiculous hair due and Pinkie looking at her too started laughing uncontrollably too. The two approached each other still laughing and jay spoke in between his laughs.
"Wow! Now 'that's' a bad hair day." He said while Pinkie looked at him, "Yeah it was a real shocker!" She joked and she and Jay laughed even harder.
"Finally somebody who can take a joke during a fight." Jay said as Pinkie shook her head returning her hair back to normal, "Yeah I mean what's fight without a 'punch' line!" Pinkie quipped as the two continued to laugh and hold each other.
Nearby Rarity was blocking Nya punches and kicks when they saw Pinkie and Jay were joking around and the two sighed and shook their heads knowing their funny friends would get distracted by laughing.
Rarity sighed, "I will never understand how Pinkie always finds fighting a good time for joking around."
"Ugh tell me about it, honestly sometimes I think Jay would make a better comedian than a ninja but then again that what I love about him." Nya said while smiling warmly at her laughing boyfriend. Rarity noticed this and smiled as well seeing how the two of the work well together.
"Well I definitely say we your looks and outfit he would sure fall head over heels for you." Rarity complimented as Nya grinned and ran a hand through her hair. "Thanks, your not so bad yourself, but I got little question for you." Nya said as Rarity looked at her curiously.
"What?"
"Are your clothes... water proof?!" Nya held up her hands and shot a steam of water straight at Rarity. Rarity shrieked and rolled out the way but not before a splodge of water stained her skirt. When Rarity noticed she glared at Nya, "HOW DARE YOU?! Do you have any idea how long it took me to dry this out?!" She shouted.
"Oh relax it just a skirt-OOF!" Nya was then kicked in the gut and looked at the fuming girl while clutching her stomach. Strangely though she smiled, "Well, well. Looks like your more then just a pretty face." She commented as Rarity smirked and placed one hand on her hips and one fixing her hair.
"Why thank you darling. I like to people to see just because I'm a lady doesn't mean I'm a damsel in distress." She replied while taking a fighting stance and gestured to the water ninja to come and get her.
"I couldn't agree with you more. Just because I'm the only girl in this team doesn't mean I'm helpless!" Nya smirked as the two girls fought they soon found a similarity between them: Being beautiful but deadly.
While the two pretty girls fought Rainbow Dash and Kai were trading blows with no intent of running or dodging. Kai then delivered a strong punch to Rainbow's cheek. While Rainbow readjusted her jaw Kai smirked, "Not bad. I can tell your the kind person who prefers to go for your opponents head on." He commented to her, Rainbow then smirked back to him and rolled her shoulders.
"You too. Nice to meet someone who actually likes to fights back." She said before getting into a running position, "But let's see you fight THIS!"
Then in the blink of an eye Rainbow dashed off. Kai looked surprised for a moment but then before he could react he felt something kicked him. He stumbled back a little and looked to see a trail of Rainbow color moved quickly away, only for it to come back and strike him again and again. Kai was getting bounced around all over the place as Rainbow taunted him "Guess that's all ya got hot shot!" she smirked until she noticed him gritting his teeth and widening her eyes when she saw his hands were literally on fire. "Not so fast Missy, I'm just getting warmed up!"
Kai then released a big burst of flames that sent Rainbow flying to the ground from the blast. Rainbow got up onto her feet and patted out the flames that were on her jacket that was thankful fireproof as Kai approached her with flaming fists. Rainbow whistled and smirked at him cockily, "Okay I got admit, that's pretty cool or should I say hot." she joked while she dusted herself off and Kai smirked backed her, "Thanks when your kicking butt you got give'em something good to look at, right?" he asked.
"Duh! I thought I was only one who knew that!" Rainbow said like it was obvious before raising her fists again and Kai did the same after putting his flames out.
"But unfortunately the only getting their butt kicked is you hair gel." Rainbow remarked.
"Heh, I liked to see you try Skittles!" Kai shot back.
The two then charged at each other determined to pound the other into the ground while looking cool doing it.
As their teams continued to clash with one another, Lloyd and Twilight were fighting fiercely. Twilight had taken self defense classes before and after she back a princess so she held her own against the green ninja. Lloyd however was trying hard not to fight by using a fighting style his father taught him called 'The Art of the Silent Fist'. It relied on using dodging and blocking attacks from the opponent making them losing energy and tiring themselves out while the user reserved their own strength, it was to fighting without fighting. As Lloyd thought about his father, his real father he mentally frowned.
'Not the time!' he shouted shaking his head focusing on the fight.
Twilight head however was running with questions. Who were these people? Where did they come from? What were they since they didn't have ears, tails, wings or horns like they did? And how could they used such incredible magic?
She had noticed the others fighting and Saw the black one hands glow orange and create a mini earthquake that nearly crushed Applejack, the blue one firing bolts of electricity that electrocuted Pinkie, the girl shooting out water at Rarity and the red one releasing streams of fire so powerful it knocked Rainbow right off her feet. She didn't the white one's magic though yet, as matter fact there was no sign of him or Fluttershy anywhere. Before she could wonder where they wear she grabbed a punch from her green opponent as he grabbed her other fist.
The two leaders struggled to break the other's grip while Twilight looked into Lloyd's eyes. when she did she saw incredible light and also equally incredible darkness. She also wondered what kind of magic boy could do. She theorized that his magic was nature based because of the green of his outfit. She was pulled out her musing when he heard him speak.
"Listen, I don't who you are but me and friends aren't here to cause any trouble!" He said trying to reason with her but Twilight just glared at him. "Oh so you call beating my big brother and his men to a pulp not causing trouble?!" She asked rhetorically.
"He attacked us first we were just-"
"Save it! Let's see how you like THIS!" Twilight shouted cutting him of before pushing him back and charging her horn and firing a magenta beam of energy straight to him. Lloyd just glared and raised his hands, "Not this time!" He then fired a green beam of energy at her's and as the two collided it released a small explosion causing them to recoil back a bit. Both the young princess and master were surprised to see that the other was just powerful as themselves. Twilight Immediately realized this wasn't a normal kind of magic she and her friends were dealing with, in fact she wasn't even sure if these colored outfit warriors powers were magic.
"What was that? I've never seen or heard of any magic like that before in any book, scroll or ancient text anywhere." Twilight asked glancing suspiciously at the boy knowing that there was more to him than meets the eye. Lloyd regained his senses and answered back, "It not magic. It's an Elemental power. Each of my friends has them that can control a different element of nature. I control energy, Kai has fire, Jay uses Lightning, Cole masters Earth, Nya handles water and Zane does-" He stopped himself as he looked around and noticed that there was one Ninja was missing, "Wait a minute where is he?!" He said before Twilight charged at him. The two knew that had to get answers later
"And that is how we were able to defeat the Great Devourer." Zane finished telling Fluttershy about their fight with the giant serpent as they walked back to where the fight was going down. Fluttershy was shocked to hear how the boy and his friends were able to fight so many evil threats along with that they were not bad at all. Though she would've broken down when she learned that someone killed an animal from what Zane had told her the Great Devourer was not an animal but a monster that would listen to or be control by anyone.
"My goodness you certainly had a lot of adventures with your friends." Fluttershy commented as they made it back to the fight but stayed at safe distance.
"Why thank you. Also I would like ask you something," Zane replied not noticing Rainbow glaring at him and dashing towards them while Kai was crying out for her to get back here.
"What is it?" Fluttershy inquired.
"Have you or your friends seen a-" He stopped himself when his sensors detected an incoming attack to his left. He turned to see Rainbow coming at him like a bullet. Zane then kicked her pretty hard in the chest causing her cry out in pain making the others stop fighting.
"Rainbow!" the girls cried and ran over to their friends while the Ninja did the same but to check on Zane.
"Oh! That guy hits like a Minotaur." Rainbow groaned as she clutched her stomach as the friends helped her up. Fluttershy then glared angrily at Zane. "Zane for goodness sake! I know Rainbow Dash was a little foolish to attack you in mid-sentence but you didn't have kick her that hard!" She shouted. "Now apologize to her or else," She glared intensely at him giving him her infamous move 'The Stare'.
While the Ninja looked at the girl glaring at their robotic friend and suddenly felt very uncomfortable but the Mane 5 grinned knowing that when Fluttershy got ticked off enough she used her Stare to make anybody do whatever she wanted. Zane however just looked back at her confused and blinked, "I apologize Fluttershy but is something supposed to happen?" He asked causing Fluttershy to stop glaring and gasp while the other girls jaws to drop in shock.
"What in Tarnation?!" Applejack said in surprise.
"He resisted The Stare?!?!" Pinkie Screamed putting her hands on her head.
"That's impossible! No one can resist Fluttershy's Stare!" Rarity exclaimed.
"How? What? Why? When? Huh?!" Twilight sputtered unable to even fathom how it was possible.
Zane then approached Rainbow who looked at him in shock as he was the only person other than Discord who could resisted her childhood friend's best move. "I will however apologize for my assault. I sensed you coming and I went into defense mode." He apologized bowing to her respectfully. Rainbow getting over shock just waved at him "Nah. It, it's cool. Just dial it down a little bit next time."
Fluttershy also getting over shock turned to her friends, "Now that you've all stopped fighting, I want to say that Zane and friends are not the enemy." she said.
"They're not?" the girls asked.
Lloyd stood infront of his friends, "No we aren't. We fight to protect those who can't protect themselves. So allow us to introduce ourselves, My name is Lloyd Garmadon the Green Ninja and Master of Energy."
"I'm Kai Smith, the Red Ninja, Master of Fire." Kai said lighting he hand on fire and winking at them.
"The name's Jay Walker, The Blue Ninja and not only Master of Lightning but also Inventing, some model building, cooking, dable in a little poetry," Jay went on about his talents as the other Ninja just groaned.
"He forget to mention he's also the 'Mouth' of Lightning." Cole joked as Jay glared at him while the others laughed, " They call me Cole Brookstone the Black Ninja and Master of Earth." He introduced himself crossing his arms and glancing at Applejack who smiled back him.
"I am Zane Julien, White Ninja and Master of Ice." He said creating some ice on the ground to emphasize his point as the mane 6 'ooh'ed in awe.
"And you can call me Nya Smith, The Silver Ninja, Master of Water and Kai's little sister." She finished putting her hands on her hips.
"Together we are..." Lloyd began.
"The Wu-Cru!" The other Ninja said together posing. The Mane 6 looked curiously before Rainbow snorted,"Seriously? 'The Wu-Cru'? That's all you got?!" she asked while the other girls were trying hard not laugh at the corny name.
Lloyd then turned to his team glaring, "I told you guys we're not calling ourselves that!" he scolded as they looked sheepishly. Twilight recomposing herself approached them. "Now that we've got your names, how about we introduce ourselves?"
"My name's Applejack Apple of Sweet Apple Acres. You got hard work that need to be done or an honest answer, I'm your gal." She introduced herself putting one leg behind the other and tipping her hat while subtly winking at Cole.
"I'm Fluttershy Breeze." She said as quiet as mouse.
"What was that?" Kai said cleaning ears so he could hear better.
"It's Fluttershy Breeze." She said even quieter hiding behind her long banks.
"Um honey? I'm afraid your going to have to speak up." Nya said kindly.
"She said her name is Fluttershy Breeze." Zane clarified, "And from what she's told me she takes care of all kinds of animals that can't care for themselves, great and small. Showing kindness to all who need it." he explained as Fluttershy smiled and nodded timidly.
"Wow you must be pretty good with animals then." Jay complimented as Fluttershy blushed at little and fiddles with her hair. "I-I g-guess so." She said shyly.
"I'm Pinkie Pie! Certifiable Super Party Planning Girl at your service! You need a party or a good laugh then I'll make it happen!" She announced bouncing up to The Ninja and beamed widely.
"UH is she always like this?" Lloyd asked nervously.
"24 hours a day darling." Rarity answered before approaching them and flipping her hair. "You may call me Rarity Belle. If you need to look absolutely fabulous and need the perfect generous gift just come to me and I'll have it ready for you. And I must say Mr.Garmadon you certainly look like quite the handsome young man." She compliment as Lloyd chucked, scratched the back of his head and blushed as his friends glanced slyly at him.
"T-thanks. I think."
Rainbow approached them smirking, "The's name Rainbow Dash. The most awesome and Loyal Flyer in all of Equestria and an official Wonderbolt!" She said puffing her chest proudly.
"She's also the biggest showoff in Equestria." Applejack snarked and Rainbow growled at her while the others laughed.
Twilight then approached them slightly bowing, " And I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, There's no magic spell or question or riddle that I can't solve." The Ninja caught their attention when she said princess.
"Your a Princess?!" They asked in unison and Twilight nodded. The Ninja looked at each other before kneeling down one knee before her.
"Um, forgive us your majesty, we didn't know you were a princess since you don't exactly look like one. Not that what your wearing is bad!" Cole said quickly while still kneeling. The girls chuckled at their chivalry while Twilight gestured for them to stand.
"It's alright. I just became a princess a week ago." She assured them, "And please, just call me Twilight." She asked as Ninja looked at each other again.
"Okay then...Twilight, Nice to meet you. So how about we put that fight we had early behind us and just shake on it." Lloyd said offering his hand to her. Twilight at him for a moment before smiling and accepting it but mentally she felt like he was hiding something.
"Now that we all know each other, can someone please explain to me how he resisted Fluttershy's Stare?!" Rainbow demands pointing Zane.
"What's this 'Stare' anyway?" Kai asked.
"The Stare is what Fluttershy uses to make her animals behave," Twilight explained, "It makes any living thing do whatever she asks."
"I usually only do it when my animals are being difficult about their care." Fluttershy said twiddling her fingers as the Ninja looked at each other for moment, then at Zane, then back to her.
"Every 'living' thing you say?" Jay asked as the girls nodded he grinned and chuckle, "Well that it explains it then. You see Zane not exactly what you would call a living thing." He said making emphasizing fingering.
"What do you mean by, not exactly?" Rarity asked in confusion.
Lloyd, Kai, Jay, Cole and Nya then turned to the Zane and made gestured that looked like they were opening their chests . Zane nodded as the girls grew even more confused. Then suddenly Zane reached for his shirt and grabbed it.
"What the.." Rainbow muttered.
He then opened it and suddenly as his body fizzled out for second and showed that his pale skin and white hair turned silver, his eyes turned full glowing cyan, his chest revealed tons of wires, gears, circuits, switches and buttons.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" The girls screamed in horror as Rainbow jumped into Applejack arms, Rarity nearly fainted, Fluttershy hid behind a stunned Twilight and Pinkie jaw dropped right to the floor.
"Ta-da." Nya said bluntly.
Rarity trying to control her heart rate spoke breathlessly, "Z-Zane darling! Y-y-y-your a, a machine?!?", The girls getting over their shock now understood why Fluttershy's Stare didn't work on Zane because she was glaring at a walking piece of metal.
"A robot." Zane clarified. "Though I prefer to go by Nindroid." Twilight shook her head before her eyes sparkles, smiled widely and took big gasp.
"Ohmygosh,Ohmygosh,Ohmygosh,Ohmygosh,Ohmygosh!" She exclaimed, conjuring up a quill and notepad as she zoomed up to The Nindroid and examined him as she took notes, "This is amazing! An actual fully sentient, multi-functional, automaton! the technology of Equestria isn't even close enough to into making this kind tech!" She cheered as Zane continued stand there not really minding her taking notes.
"An excellent description Twilight though I still prefer Nindroid." He said while she continue to take notes.
"Well guess that explains why you resisted The Stare. Fluttershy can bend walking tin-can to her will." Rainbow said laughing nervously as Applejack put her down.
"Wowie Zowie! Zaney you look totally metal!" Pinkie joked.
"Actually my exoskeleton is made out of titanium as well as combination of-" Zane was cut off when Jay scoffed.
"Zane she making a joke! I think your funny switch is off again." Jay said pointing a switch that said 'humor'.
Zane looked down at the switch, "Oh! So it is. Thank you for pointing that out for me Jay." He said before he reached for the switch. As the Ninja back away Jay then grinned at the girls, "Your gonna love this." The girls then looked confused before Zane flipped the switch.
Zane then started playing country music and danced around in a silly fashion while sing a song called "send me a kiss by wire". When he finished the girls looked at him awkwardly for second before Pinkie snorted a few times and then bursted with laughter so hard she fell on her back kicking her legs in air. "T-That...That was...the, the FUNNIEST THING I EVER SAW!!!!" She said inbetween her laughs as her friends had also started laughing uncontrollably along with the other Ninja.
"OH! That never gets old!" Jay said struggling to breathe.
"I think we're gonna get along with ya'll just fine!" Applejack said clutching her sides.
"I agree!" Nya laughed.
As everyone laughed their heads they didn't notice a shadowy figure with a not-so-friendly grin watching them. Their eye glowed red as they spoke in masculine voice,
"Laugh while you can kiddies. Because soon you'll all be in for a nightmare." He then glanced to the laughing princess, "Starting with you Twilight Sparkle." He then laughed wicked plotting to wipe out The Ninja and the Elements of Harmony once and for all.
In the Halls of canterlot castle, Spike was pacing back and forth while the CMCs were sitting down and doing their own thing, (Sweetie was hugging her knees looking concerned, Applebloom crossed her legs with her hand her cheek looking dismissed and Scootaloo was drawing circles on the floor with her finger looking bored) and Discord was laying on a hammock that hung from nowhere as he read a news paper with sunglasses probably to hide the concern and worry in his eyes.
The Girls had bolted out of the room to help Shining Armor and the royal guard when Discord informed them that they were fighting brightly colored warriors. They told Spike and the CMCs to stay put and reluctantly trusted Discord to keep an eye on them. The young ones tried to sneak off to help but Discord stopped them every time they tried, "I got eyes and ears everywhere." he said as a bunch of random eyes and ears sprouted out of walls when they tried to sneak away the fifth time.
Now all they were doing was waiting around hoping that the girls were okay, until they heard someone shout, "Get out of the way!" They all turned and Discord comically feel off of his Hammock as Sunset Shimmer charged in carrying Flash on her shoulder and Shining Armor and some other guards in her reddish-orange magical aura all looking very beaten up. While other guards took the injured ones elsewhere, Sunset layed Shining and Flash up against the wall as Spike, CMCs and Discord rushed over to them.
"Whoa what happened to you guys?" Spike asked amazed by how badly they were hurt as Sunset bandaged up Flash's arm despite her boyfriend's protest.
"These teenagers without any wings, tails, horns or ears turned into tornadoes and beat us into the ground that's what happen!" Shining exclaimed but hissed as his side still hurt. The others looked in disbelief by what Shining Armor said because it sound down right ridiculous. But when they turned to Flash and Sunset they nodded saying that what the stallion said was true.
"Well why were you fighting them?" Sweetie Belle asked getting over her disbelief and Shining Armor looked at her like it was obvious "They had weapons, and were in the middle of the city after that storm and hole in the sky appeared! so obviously-"
"You were jumping to conclusions again, sweetie?"
Everyone turned to the door and Standing their were three people. The first one was young alicorn woman with a light pink, purple and white dress with short sleeves, a cyan crystal heart pin with two gold markings under it connecting the breast parts of dress, gold slippers, bracelets and collar and crown with a purple jewel on it. Her hair and tail were a combination of Purple, magenta and yellow and was so long it reached down to her knees, horn was long and pink and her wings wear just a little bit bigger than Twilight's and were pink with purple on the ends, and her eyes were purple. This was Princess Mi Amore Cadenza or Cadence, the Princess of Love, ruler of the Crystal Empire, Shining Armor's wife, Twilight's Sister-in-law and Celestia's adoptive niece.
On her right was an old man with a Straw hat, white robes, a red sash around his waist, black pants, a bamboo walking stick and a white beard and pony-tail on the back of his head and grey eyes. And on her left was a woman with Greyish brown hair tied into a braided ponytail with a silver stripe on the right side of her head, green eyes, a beige jacket, green scarf, light green pants, dark brown boots.
Cadance then approached Shining Armor glaring at him. "Because from what my new friends Master Wu and Misako told me about these teenagers and from what I heard, they don't sound like attackers." She said in disappointed tone as both Wu and Misako stood next to her.
Shining Armor darted his eyes for a moment and spoke "W-well how do you know they can be trusted?" He asked as Misako got close to his face, "Because one of the teenagers just happens to be my son, and I would have never raised him to be an attacker to such a fine city like this one." She said bluntly as Shining Armor bite his lip knowing that messing around with an angry mother was never a good idea.
"And he is not only my nephew but he is also along with the others are my students in the arts of Ninjutsu." Wu added stomping his staff down as emphasis slightly scaring the captain, "And also that turning tornadoes attack they used happens to be ancient marital art created by my Father." He added then looked and saw the young chaotic man who seemed just as surprised to see him.
"Well, well, well Discord," Wu said smugly, "It seems you've decided it is fun being a-what did call it-'Goody two shoes' after all?" Discord glared crossed his arms and turned his back to the old man.
"It's a free realm I choose to be on any side I want thank you very much, grandpa," Discord argued as everyone just chuckled at the master of chaos pout, "Besides I'm not the first reformed villain in Equestria for your information." This made Wu raise an eyebrow.
"Oh really? and who else was refor-" Wu was cut off when there was gasp from down the hall and everyone turned to see who it was and Wu's eye went wide at who he saw "I-I don't believe it."
Standing in front of them was another Alicorn princess who was a little taller than Cadence. Her skin was brownish color, her eyes were aquatic green with slit pupils like a reptile's, her hair and Tail seem to resemble a blue starry night smog moving in an ethereal wind, Her wings dark blue and were like bird wings at the start but on the ends they were more like bat wings with the membrane a pale light blue and the fingers were the same color as the feathers and a thump claw on top of each. She wore and dark blue and black gown, Silver bracelets and slippers, a black collar with a white moon on it, and a small black tiara with a aquatic green oval jewel on it. This was Princess Luna, the princess of the moon, Celestia's little sister and former villain known as Nightmare Moon. As she looked at Wu she had tears in hers but a small barely noticeable smile on her face showed she was very happy to see him.
"W-Wu? Is-is it really you?" Luna said as she approached him as the old master smiled and gave her a warm hug that she greatly returned, "It is Luna...my sister." Wu replied with a few tears himself as Luna breathed a sign of peace as she hugged the old master. The other's had mixed reactions at the display, Misako and Cadence had warm teary smiles, Discord had a bemused smirk and crossed his arms, Sunset and CMCs had small smiles and Spike, Shining Armor and Flash had confused looks but Spike was the only one who actually spoke, "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! Wait a minute!" He said waving his arms in the air causing everyone to look at him, "Have I gone deaf but did that old guy just call Princess Luna 'Sister'?!" Luna blushed and Wu sheepishly brushed his beard as everyone looked at them, clearly there was gonna be some explaining to do.
"Then once Lloyd was back on feet after 'meeting his grandpa' we made a new painting on the mural and celebrated our latest victory!"
Jay said making air quotes about Lloyd seeing the First Spinjitzu Master as he told the Mane 6 about their most recent battle with the Oni. After getting all their giggles out after Zane's dance, the group was currently walking back to the castle to explain to the princesses about what happened and along the way the Ninja felt they should tell the equine girls about their adventures.
To say the girls were amazed by the Ninja's stories would be an understatement, They were shocked to learn that their home was just one of sixteen realms and in another realm, 6 teenagers fought to protect their home from skeletons, dragons, snakes, pirates, stone warriors, evil spirits, robots, elemental masters, snake cultists, ghosts, sky pirates, time travelers, biker gangs, dragon hunters and demons of darkness while they just fought against changelings, evil princesses, chaos spirits, dark kings and other monsters, infact they were almost jealous.
But while her friends were amazed by Lloyd's and his siblings achievements, Twilight had a sense of mistrust towards the green ninja especially when they told them that Lloyd's father was an evil warlord Tartarus-bent on turning their world into his evil image. Now she wasn't one to say that Lloyd was anything like his father but she could sense a darkness in him and slightly wondered how long it would take for it to be brought to the surface. She also sense something else about him, something that attracted her attention to him but she ignored that feeling for now. She also believed that Lloyd was hiding something else and she had a feeling it had something to do with that storm they saw earlier.
"Wow! And I thought WE did pretty awesome things but you guys are on whole level of awesome!" Rainbow's voice snapped Twilight out of her thoughts as she sees her friends complimenting the Ninja but she just frowns and says nothing still feeling a bit distrustful of the blonde young man. The other girls however felt like they could trust these people with their lives.
"For once I agree with Rainbow Dash. facing off against so many brutes, ruffians and scoundrels for so long, you certainly are a force to reckoned with." Rarity said walking next to Nya.
"Darn tootin'! And here I thought other worlds were just bunch of mumbo'gumbo but ya'll certainly changed my opinion on that." Applejack added as she playfully punched Cole's shoulder.
Kai chuckled with pride and said "Yup, when your a Ninja life is filled with adventure, danger, mystery and excitement!" He then put his hands on the hips and posed triumphantly.
"Including all the times your impatiences nearly got us all killed." Nya snarked as her brother growled at her as the other (apart from Twilight) laughed at Kai's wounded ego. Finally Twilight decided to speak her mind and stood infront of the group.
"Now hold on a minute girls, why are you trusting these guys so fast?", The teens looked surprised by what Twilight said, the Mane 5 more than the ninja for they never suspected 'Twilight' would be suspicious of their new friends.
"What you talking about Twi, these guys our awesome!" Pinkie said hold the the Ninja close, "And funny!"
"And they're really nice." Fluttershy added.
"Wicked cool superheroes!" Rainbow cheered.
"With astonishing ensembles." Rarity said admiring Jay's gi.
"Yeah sugarcube. these fellas are okay in my book." Applejack finished looking confused as to why their princess friend was so doubtful about trusting the Ninja as Twilight just frowned and paced back and forth. "Look, I agree from what they've told us their world does sound amazing and their adventures do sound like something I'd like to take notes on," She said before she stopped pacing infront of Lloyd and turned to face him narrowing her eyes at him, "But I wondering how much we can trust this one."
"Huh?" They all exclaimed, bewildered that Twilight was suspicious of Lloyd out of all them. "What are you talking about darling? Why wouldn't we trust Lloyd?" Rarity asked highly shocked.
"Well did all of you forget the fact that his father just happens to be a dangerous mad-man that nearly destroyed their whole world? Or the fact that HE was the one who started all their troubles by opening up those snake tombs?" Twilight pointed out as Lloyd looked offended that she decided he was untrustworthy because of his mistakes and who his father was as it was starting to remind him of another princess who also only looked at his wrong doings and not all that he had done since then.
However the fact she talked about his father like he was just some kind of monster, was something that really bugged so he walked up to the princess and stood his ground, "I admit, opening the serpentine tombs wasn't my smartest move but I've made up for that little mistake by risking my life time and time again for my home, and my friends," He said getting close to Twilight's face as the other worried another fight was gonna come up and chose to stay out of it.
"And another thing your Majesty, I don't appreciate people talking about my father like that no matter how evil he is or suggesting that I'm anything like him, so watch your words." He warned the Alicorn girl but Twilight merely crossed her arms and frowned, "Well then Master Lloyd do you think you and your team could tell us exactly what was that big vortex me and my friends saw earlier, and how is it that people from two different realms are here right now?" she challenged.
Lloyd flinched and darted his eyes unsure as how to tell her and the others about how the merging of their realm and Ninjago was his fault. Lloyd just straightened up and cleared his throat, "We'll...tell you when we meet these other princesses. So come on." He gestured for the others to follow him. But Twilight just hanged back as she felt Lloyd was definitely hiding something.
'I'don't what it is your hiding Lloyd Garmadon, But I swear I'm gonna find out' she thought as she glared at the blonde boy and followed after the group. What she didn't know was that watching from the shadows was the same mysterious boy that was spying on them earlier, he then chuckles evilly as he watched the heroes walk towards the palace, having big plans for the young princess and her powers.
The group soon arrived at the palace the guards at the gates looked a bit weary about the colorfully dress people accompanying the Elements of Harmony. Twilight saw this and step forward, "It's okay sirs these people can be...trusted." She said while looking at Lloyd saying the last part and he frowned at her for that, as the guards nodded and raised their spears allowing them to pass. The group walked through the halls of the castle and the Ninja were amazed by the architecture of Equestria.
"Amazing." Lloyd gasped.
"Now this is a palace." Kai whistled.
"I'll say." Cole agreed.
"Yeah, The palace of secrets has got nothing on this." Jay put in.
"Such incredible design." Zane said scanning the walls and columns.
"Eh, just another fancy palace." Nya bluntly said and Rarity gasped as she grabbed the water Ninja by the shoulders, "Just another fancy palace?! Nya, this castle has been for centuries and the most fabulously artwork, culture from across the land and..." Rarity stopped herself and looked to see the others looking slightly amused while some were snickering and she cleared her throat and blushed sheepishly.
"Oh, um please excuse my outburst darling." Rarity apologized to Nya who just chuckled and offered Rarity her hand and the two of them shook.
The group continued to walk until the Ninja noticed the stained glass windows on the walls. Some of the windows showed the Mane 6 together looking heroic or fighting some villains. others showed a boy with a dragon tail and wings and green hair holding up a heart shaped crystal to a pink Alicorn princess and four other equine people, Two Alicorn women combining their powers to turn a boy who looked like a combination of animals into stone or them fighting eachother.
"Wow, these are some impressive windows." Jay commented looking at each one.
"they sure are." Applejack replied, but Nya raised an eyebrow, "But what do they mean and why are you girls in most of them?" she asked feeling curious as Twilight answered.
"Well each of the windows represent an important in equestrian history such as Princesses Celestia and Luna defeating the Master of Chaos, Discord, Celestia banishing Nightmare Moon or the six of us defeating them again by harnessing the power of the Elements of Harmony." Twilight explained with a small amount of pride as the Ninja looked in confusion.
" Um, the Elements of What-now?" Jay asked scratching his head. But before Twilight could reply Pinkie bounced up answer for her.
"Oh they're just the sparkly crystal necklaces and big crown thingy that represent each of us," She explained.
"Laughter," She started throwing confetti into the air.
"Honesty," She then hugs Applejack from the back while beaming widely as the Cowgirl deadpans at her.
"Generosity," then she flips a peacock fan over to reveal Rarity who winks and flips her hair.
"Loyalty," she states as she pulls down Rainbow by tail who smirks at her pink hair friend as she salutes.
"Kindness," Pinkie then side hugs Fluttershy who smiles timidly as the two nuzzles their cheeks.
"And Magic." Pinkie Finishes by releasing some sparkles and glitter over Twilight who placed her fists against her hips and smiled confidently. "When all six elements are brought together we can use them to defeat anything that stands in our way." Twilight explained
"Whoa." The Ninja said in unison.
"Yes, It goes to show that there's only so much we can do alone and sometimes it never hurts to count on the aid of others." A wise voice said the group turned to Wu walking towards them.
"Sensei!" The Ninja exclaimed as they bowed in respect towards their master. The Mane 6 however looked in confusion.
"Um what are you doing partners?" Applejack asked.
"Shh, that's our Master Wu," Kai hissed, "And if I were you I show some respect unless you wanna get wacked in the head by his staff!" The girls looked at him in confusion and then looked to Wu who stood before Rainbow started laughing,
"Oh that's a good one!" She laughed as The Mane 5 expression showed surpise, the Ninja's showed fear and Wu's showed unamusement as he approached her, "I mean how can an old man like him possibly-"
"NINJAAAAAAA-GO!!!"
Rainbow was interrupted when she yelped and got sucked into a gold and white tornado emitting whites sparkles. It then stopped revealing Master Wu standing smugly on Rainbow's back with his staff on her head.
"Never disrespect your elders Ms. Dash, it will only led to your own defeat." Wu advised as the rest of the mane 5 had mixed reactions: Rarity had her hands over her mouth, Applejack held a shuddering Pinkie in her arms while looking stunned that her rival ended up face first in the ground by in old man and Fluttershy was whimpering behind a stunned Twilight.
Rainbow weakly lifted up her head once Master Wu moved his staff off her, "Ugh you got it sir." She groaned as Wu stepped off of her and Applejack helped her up. Then the Pegasus realized something, "Wait you know my name?!" She exclaimed.
"Indeed I do," Wu said stoking his beard, a walking up to her, "Rainbow Dash, Element of Loyalty: your devotion to helping your loved ones is as great as your speed." He stated tapping his staff on her shoulder as she crossed her arms and smirked confidently while Wu moved to Applejack.
"Applejack, Element of Honesty: your strength is only match by strength to express truth when it is needed. " He said doing the same with staff to Applejack as the cowgirl tipped her hat and smiled, "Thank ya kindly sir." She said as Wu moved to Rarity.
"Rarity, Element of Generosity: your beauty is great but your willingness to give to others is even greater." Wu described as Rarity closed her eyes fixed her hair, "Why thank you darling." She thanked the old master while he moved to Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy, Element of Kindness: despite your fears of the world it does not stop you from filling it with your compassion." He commented as Fluttershy blushed and played with her long hair, "T-thank you m-mister Wu." She replied timidly as Wu smiled at her and moved to Pinkie.
"Pinkimena Diana Pie, Element of Laughter: Your ability to spread happiness and smiles through out the land make it a much more colorful place." He said as Pinkie gasped and smiled brightly with stars in her eyes. "You know me so well!" Pinkie cheered hugging the old master before letting go and smiling at him.
"Whoa big name for peppy girl huh?" Jay whispered to Kai who nodded in agreement.
The old master chuckled at the girl's friendliness and moved to Twilight.
"And Finally Princess Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic and Leader of the elements of Harmony: Your knowledge and power is vast and it those two that help bring you six together." He finished bowing his head in respect to the Alicorn girl. Twilight fiddled with her hair not use to compliments while also getting the strange feeling from Master Wu. Like she's seen him before.
"Um thank you Master Wu sir, but how do you know about us?" Twilight asked as Wu smiled.
"Tia was kind enough to fill me in on all of you." Wu answered as the teens looked to the elder in confusion.
"Tia?" They all asked in confusion before Twilight gasped in realization, "Wait you mean..?" She asked before Master nodded.
"Yes I speak of your Teacher: Celestia." Wu answered as the group looked in shock. "You know eachother?!?" They exclaimed as Wu chuckled and motioned for them to follow.
"Come. we will answer all of your questions in the throne room." He then opened the doors to the throne room. The teens looked at each other confusion before shrugging and following him, none of the noticing the hooded boy watching them through a stain glass window though his face was hidden there was clearly seen a green streak running through dark hair. His cloak's pin was a silver snake's head with green eyes. He watches as the Ninja and Mane 6 follow Wu into the throne room.
"Soon Master." He spoke with a genuine smile on his face before jumping off the building and gliding with his cloak on the wind.
As the Grouped walked in they saw the crowd gathered in the throne room: to the right Three young girls, One was a Pegasus with short magenta hair and tail with small orange wings on her and orange ears in her hair, another was a unicorn with long lavender hair and tail with a stubby white horn and ears sticking out of it and finally one was Terran with long red hair and tail with a pink bow and yellow ears in her hair.
Next to the trio was a boy around their age with green spikey hair, a purple and green dragon tail and green dragon eyes and floating around was a young teen who looked to be a bit older then the Ninja and girls but had body parts from different animals which weirded them out.
to left were two of the guards the Ninja were fighting early one of them (Shining Armor) was glaring at them and standing next to them was a unicorn with a red and yellow striped tail and honey yellow horn and ears probably standing there to keep them from attacking the Ninja.
Finally standing infront of them were three other Alicorns, The one to the left was the shortest who looked to be at least a foot taller than them with long a purple, yellow and magenta tail and hair with a pink horn, wings and ears with gold regaila symbolizing her princesshood.
On the right was a princess with a much darker vibe from how she was dressed, looked to be a foot taller than the one on the left. But unlike her, she had dark blue wings that looked more bat like on the ends with rest looked more feathered. Her horn and ears were the same color as her wings. And the rested in long blue and purple hair that looked like it was flowing in non-existent wind and her tail was the same. her regalia was silver and black with white giltter on them.
Finally standing in the center was really a tall Alicorn woman wearing beautiful white and yellow dress and golden regalia, her white wings were much larger than the other two's wings, her white ears and long white horn rested within a rainbow of purple, pink, green and blue hair which that and her tail like the darker princess was both blowing in an aether wind. The Ninja were in complete at the princesses and their beauty when...
"Twilight!"
"Cadence!"
They were brought out of their awe when Twilight ran up to one of the princess who name they guessed was Cadence and then...
Sunshine, Sunshine
Ladybugs Awake,
Clap your hands,
And do a little shake!
The Ninja watched as the two teenage alicorns girls did a little dance that looked more like a little girl's handshake. They had to stifle their giggles after the 'do a like shake' part of the song when the two shook their tails at each other. After the two did their dance/handshake they giggled and shared a warm hug.
While the the sisters-in-laws shared their hug, Lloyd noticed the elder woman standing off to the side. When Misako's eyes met his he beamed, "Mom!" he said as ran up to Misako gave her hug. The others watched as the mother and son had their little reunion with smiles.
She chuckled and hugged her son back, "It's good to see you too Lloyd." When they broke the embrace she gave Lloyd a quick peck on the cheek. Lloyd hastily backed away slightly and blushed as the others laughed at his embarrassment.
"Mom! You promised not to do that in public!" Lloyd groaned, as Misako just rolled her eyes and gave him a sly grin, "Oh Lloyd, Have you forgotten? I'm your mother," She said cupping his cheek, "I'm allowed to embarrass you if I want to."
Lloyd groaned and hid his face behind his head, begging his mom to stop. The others continued to chuckle at the green ninja being made fun of by his Mom until Discord coughed to get their attention.
"I hate to kill the joy here but perhaps we should this story on the road, the readers need their entertainment." He said winking at the fourth wall. Every looked at the Master of Chaos in confusion but just shrugged it off. Celestia approached the Ninja as Lloyd walked back to them.
"Welcome Masters of Spinjitzu, I am Princess Celestia, Princess of the Sun and this is my little sister Princess Luna, Princess of the Moon." Celestia introduced herself and her sister who bowed her head in respect to the elemental masters, "On behalf of Equestria, we welcome you to our land." Celestia finished bowing her head as well.
The Ninja then bowed before the two princess as well, "Thank you for the welcome your Highness but we must admit we weren't expecting such an interesting welcome." Lloyd said, saying the "interesting" part while glancing at Shining Armor as he glared back him and Twilight did the same while Lloyd had his back turned.
Celestia sighed and turned to Lloyd, "Yes, I apologize Shining Armor tends to act before he thinks when protecting the kingdom. Especially after that mysterious storm passed over." She explained while Shining winced knowing that was true while Sunset patted his shoulder comforting the young Unicorn man.
"I can see that but after seeing his devotion to this city and his skills while fighting I can say you chose the right guy to lead your guard." Lloyd imformed her while Shining looked at the green ninja in surprise as he winked at the captain. And Shining Armor thanking him for the compliment. 'Maybe these guys aren't all bad.' he thought, as Lloyd turned back to the princesses, "As for the storm thing me and friends may have an Idea as to how that happened." The rest of Ninja nodded in confirmation.
"And just what might that reason be?" Luna asked raising an eyebrow.
"Well you see..." Lloyd began before Master Wu took over.
"Ninjago and Equestria have become one realm once again." Wu explained as the Royal sisters and Discord's eyes widen and everyone else jaws dropped and said,
"WHAT?!?!"
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!" Jay shouted waving his arms, "Excuse me master but what do you mean that our two realms merged into one, 'once more'!?"
"Wait a moment. Are you saying our worlds were once one and the same before?!" Rarity exclaimed as Master Wu nodded, "Indeed they were."
Twilight shook her head and zipped right up to the old master, "But how is that possible?! How are our two world once one?! And how did they seperate?!" she demanded.
Wu turned to Celestia who nodded in agreement before both turned to Discord. The master of Chaos nodded in understand before snapping his fingers and causing a yellowish smoke cloud to appear, "Well to answer your questions my dear Twilight," Celestia started as two astral projections of two people appeared. One of the wore a straw hat and had a braided pony tail and the other had wings, a horn, pony ears and tail and long wavy hair.
"We must explain the truth. The truth of the creation of our world and the birth of the elemental masters." Wu finished as the Ninja, Mane 7, CMCs, Spike, Shining Armor, Flash and Cadence all looked in the projection in awe. "Ooh! I love story time!" Pinkie cheered, reaching into her hair and pulling out a box of popcorn. The Ninja were shocked as to how she got popcorn in her hair. "How did she-" Kai asked pointing a finger at her.
"Don't question it." the Mane 6 answered bluntly as Rainbow pulled Kai closer. "Trust me dude, it'll save you a really big headache." Rainbow warned as the Ninja looked at each other and shrugged deciding to take their advice as they watched the story playing out in the could while Pinkie munched on her Popcorn.
In the throne room of Canterlot everyone was watching the story of the birth of the realm being projected in the cloud Discord conjured up. The Ninja and the Mane 7 watched in awe as a man in a straw hat holding a sword and an alicorn woman wearing a crown stood next to each other.
"Long before time had a name this world was created by the First Spinjitzu Master..." Celestia Began gesturing to the man before Lloyd interrupted her.
"With all due respect, your majesty we've heard the story over a hundred times already." He said.
"But you've only heard how the land itself was created not how life was." Celestia replies, surprising the younger people before continuing. "While the lands, seas and sky of this realm were created by the First Spinjitzu Master, the plant, animal and sentient life was created by Mistress Aurora, The Master of Magic." She gestured to the Alicorn woman.
"The Master of Magic?" Twilight gasped, surprised that the woman's element was the same as her's.
"One of the original Elemental Masters?" Nya asked and the girls turned to her.
"Wait, you mean there were Elemental Masters before you guys?" Rainbow inquired.
"Yup there power passed onto their children, then them to theirs and then to us." Cole explained.
"So this Aurora was one of them?" Lloyd asked.
"Not just one of them my nephew, The 'first' of the elemental master." Master Wu clarified. Earning a shocked look from the younger people.
"The 'First'?!" They exclaimed as Wu nodded and continued the story.
"As the First Elemental Master, Aurora had the ability to use multiple elements to create all kinds of plants and animals to fill this realm with life." He explained as the projection of Aurora showed her using her powers to create trees, flowers and animals, as the First Spinjitzu Master created Mountains, lakes, rivers, oceans, fields and many other places and habitats, "Then one day, they combined they're powers to create special kind of water called 'Chi', that when ingested by an animal causes them to undergo a special evolution, making them smarter, faster, stronger while still holding on to their primal instincts." The projection showed the two masters creating blue mystical water and then showed different animals drinking it, changing them into human-like beings. Among them were humans who evolved from apes and monkeys, Equines (That's what I'm calling humanized ponies in my fanfic as a whole) who evolved from horses, Unicorns and Pegasi and other creatures, one the Ninja immediately recognized.
"Hold on. Is that a...Serpentine?!" Cole asked while pointing at a snake that gained human like arms.
"Indeed it is Master Cole," Luna confirmed taking over the story, "While most of the creatures stayed pure to their primal animal states and large majority changed and evolved into the creatures of this present time from both of our worlds eventually spreading that evolution to other realms but the two masters agreed to let those realms find their own balance and focused on protecting the world they created and the balance between light and darkness, but to do so they passed on their knowledge and element powers to others and had them pass them to others creating the race of the Elemental Masters." She told as the Projection showed the FSM and Aurora passing the power of the elements to others humans, equines and other creatures.
"The teachings of the Elements and Spinjitzu was passed from person to person and the balance remained even and the people of our realm stood together united as friends for many years," Celestia continued, The younger people watched in awe as the element master projections show them teaching the elemental ways to others but soon the cloud turned to darkish purple and show project of what looked like man with long hair and a scar on his, "Unfortunately there was one Elemental Master who as old as the original masters, didn't want a world in perfect balance and unity, he wanted power and prove he was the best, He called himself, 'Lordin'. and he would change our world forever." The projection of Lordin then laughed evilly as his eyes glowed red and purple. A red and purple that felt fearfully familiar to the Ninja, almost as if they seen it before.
"Wait, wait, wait. So some evil Elemental Master called Lordin is the reason Ninjago and Equestria became two separate realms? But how?" Jay asked.
"Yeah how could just one guy cause a realm to split in two?" Sunset added as the other nodded in agreement.
Master Wu sighed and paced in-front of them, "as a single spark is all it takes to light a fire, a single person is all it takes to created disaster," He then turned back to the Story cloud and as it show Lordin stealing some kind of blueprints, from the FSM, "In his quest for power Lordin stole blueprints for a unique type of armor from, my father. Armor that could amplify an elemental master's powers."
"Whoa, sounds handy." Spike commented.
"Unfortunately for him the FSM never finished the blue prints where the armor knew when to stop amplifying the master powers," Luna continued, "But Lordin didn't care about this fact and he planned to construct an armor that not only increased his powers but also combined the powers of other elements."
"Which ones?" Sunset inquired.
"...All except for Creation, Magic and Time." Luna Answered as they all gasped.
"Wait a sec, so you're saying this guy had the elemental powers of not only us but also the powers of the elemental masters we met during the Tournament of Elements?!" Kai exclaimed but princess Celestia shook her head, "Not exactly, The combining of all those elements would take a long time to complete however Lordin knew that by then the FSM, Aurora and the other elemental master would discover his armor. So he needed to distract them."
The scene changed to Lordin impersonating different beings or controlling them to commit crimes against each other, he continued telling the story, "In order to do by himself time to complete his armor Lordin used his power to mind control and impersonate others to cause the people of the realm to turn against each other." The cloud soon showed equines, humans, serpentine and many other creatures fighting and arguing. The Ninja, Mane 7, Spike, CMCs, Shining Armor, Flash and Cadance watch in shock as the people who were once the best of friends became the worst of enemies, while Wu, Celestia, Luna, Misako and Discord watched with grim looks.
"Because of Lordin's influence war broke out, each kind of people trying to eliminate the others and take full control of the realm and prove who was the superior species. Even the First Spinjitzu Master, Mistress Aurora and the other Elemental got involved either trying to stop the war or taking part in it. And so began the Great War. " Wu added as the younger people watched in horror as the army projections fought against each others' warriors , and the FSM, Aurora and the Elemental Master got involved as well. While Fluttershy covered her eyes to avoid seeing the horror. Twilight then remembered something and spoke.
"Wait, I remember reading about the Great War but it mentions nothing about Humans, Serpentine, Elemental Masters or Lordin." Celestia than Spoke, “Because it was to keep the knowledge of the two realms secret. So the true events of the great war were covered up by the leaders at the time to protect the generations after from learning this.”
"But all the war brought was death, destruction and waste of time, energy and resources just as Lordin intended. Near the climax of the Great War Lordin had completed his Armor he called The ‘Ultimarmor’.” Luna said as the cloud showed Lordin pulling a set of armor that’s design looked strangely familiar to the Ninja.
“But when he put on the Armor, it’s power turned his ambition and selfishness into pure evil and as his mind was warped his body followed, turning him into a being you my pupils know all to well,” The Ninja gasped as they watch Lordin place the armor on himself and turn into an enemy they were all too familiar with,
"What in the...?" Jay muttered.
"Is that?!" Nya gasped, her eyes widening.
"No way!" Kai added.
"How can it be?" Zane inquired.
"Lordin is..?" Cole trailed off.
"The Overlord?!" Lloyd exclaimed, as they saw Lordin turn into the evil spirit complete with blackish skin, sharp teeth, completely Purple eyes, a helmet and an evil, raspy laugh echoed throughout the room from the projection.
“Wait the Overlord? As in the Evil Spirit and original essences of evil itself you fought during your first battle with Lord Garmadon and during the New Ninjago City incident?” Twilight asked as Lloyd glanced annoyedly at her when she mentioned his father. Celestia noticed this but decided to answer Twilight's question first.
“The very same I’m afraid. And unfortunately by the time FSM and Aurora discovered what he had done it was already too late.” Celestia answered, as it showed the two masters watch in horror as the Overlord used his powers to create an army of monsters.
Once the creatures had exhausted enough, He unleashed a horde of monsters and creatures born of darkness and destruction that brought the people of the realm to their knees. one of these monsters you Ninja may find familiar." Celestia added as The Ninja and Mane 7 and the others watched as a projection of Overlord leading an army of stone warriors, batmen, golems, basilisks and many other monsters wiped out humans, equines and every other kind creature by the dozens, Fluttershy and Cadance, covered their eyes at the carnage being shown while Sweetie Belle and Applebloom held onto their older siblings for comfort.
And to top it all off, rising from the ground at Overgar side was a purple and black, hook tailed and hooded serpent that looked greatly familiar to the Ninja.
"Is that..?" Kai asked before Jay took over.
"The Great Devourer?!" he exclaimed, as the Mane 6 gasped while Spike, CMCs, Sunset, Flash, Shining Armor and Cadance just looked in confusion. "the Great what-now?" Spike and Scootaloo.
"A giant, colossal, monster snake that gets bigger the more it eats and the bigger it gets the hungrier it gets and well, I think you can see the pattern." Jay explained to them as they're eyes widened. "Yeah sounds unbelievable but why does the Great Devourer the cloud thing look different than what we faced back in Ninjago City?" He asked gesturing to the monster snake projection.
"The answer Master Walker, is that the creature you see is not the one you Ninja battle in your city but in fact it's predecessor; The Great Destroyer. Unlike the Great Devourer the Destroyer grew the more it destroyed" Princess Luna answered, looking grimly at the Snake projection as it roared to the skies. The Ninja looked in surprise as they didn't know the Great Devourer had a predecessor, Zane then turned to Wu, "Did you know about this Sensei?" he asked.
"I'd hoped if I kept the secret, that foul beast would not be spoken again," The old master answered, as they're eyes returned to the projection, “With the great Destroyer and army of monster, The Overlord would have laid waste to the whole realm but My father and Aurora would not allow that to happen, so they went to confront they’re former friend personally and with some help.” The projection then shows the FSM and Aurora preparing to fight the Overlord and standing beside them were projections of six other Elemental Masters. Four of them were each holding one of the four Golden Weapons. The red held the Sword of Fire. The black one held Scythe of Quakes, The white one held the Shurikens of Ice and the blue one held Nunchucks of Lightning. The other two, the cyan and purple ones stood at their sides.
“Those must be the original Elemental Masters of Fire, Ice, Earth and Lightning.” Cole guessed before looking at the other two, “But who are those two.” he asked.
“They are the Elemental Masters of Water and Wind,” The Ninja looked amazed as Nya looked to the Original Water Master while Lloyd looked at the Wind Master and remembered the current Master of Wind.
‘Morro.’ he thought.
Then standing next to Aurora were five other equines each wearing a necklace with a gem in it, while she wore a familiar looking crown with a gem shaped like a six point star which gave the Equestrians an idea of what they were.
“Celestia are those...The Elements of Harmony?” She gasped and Celestia nodded, “Mistress Aurora created the Elements of Harmony?!” she exclaimed.
“Indeed she did. She created them to aid defeating threats to the realm but only as a last resort. And this was definitely a last resort situation,” She answered as the 13 masters fought against the Overlord, “Their battle was Earth shattering causing the balance to shift back and forth but before long The Overlord grew weak enough to where the masters were able to combine their powers with the Elements of Harmony and the Golden Weapons to shatter his armor and banish him. " The Masters then released a rainbow beam at The evil lord destroying his armor and sending him screaming into the ether.
"Alright, take that ya creep!" Rainbow cheered as Kai, Spike and Scootaloo joined in.
"Yes it was a great victory but this victory came at a heavy price," Wu spoke grimly, as the younger people looked at him with confusion before they notice that in the project the land started to shake violently while storms blew, tornado spiraled and volcanoes became unstable, "Before he was defeated The Overlord used the last of his power to upset the balance causing the realm to destroy itself from the inside out!"
"The Land was soon overrun with natural disasters, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, thunder storms, Volcanoes and Tsunamis. In order to stop this devastation The FSM and Aurora had no choice but to use all of their power to split the realm in two so that over time the scars from their battle with the Overlord would heal. And order to spilt a realm they needed help from a certain artifact." The Projection then showed the two masters' eyes glowing white as their powers combined with a certain blue crystal.
"The Realm Crystal." The Ninja gasped as they watch the realm split into Equestria and Ninjago.
"Yes. Thanks to that the realms were separated, each unaware of the other's existence but this feat came at price and that was the immortality of the FSM and the life of Mistress Aurora," Celestia said solemnly as they watched the FSM shrivel into an old man and Aurora disappearing into sparkles. Discord snapped his fingers and the projection
"Oh man." Flash and Kai muttered.
"That's the saddest story I ever heard!" Pinkie cried.
"So that's why he died." Lloyd said to uncle and mom who nodded, the latter holding the former's hand, clearly reliving those events.
"But still that doesn't explain how you three know each other." Sunset asked Wu and the Royal sisters who nodded.
"Somehow or another Luna and I ended up in Ninjago but were soon found by the First Spinjitzu Master and raised by him as if we were his own, and he trained us in the ways of Ninjutsu as his pupils that is how we came to know his two sons: Wu and Garmadon." Celestia explained as the Ninja's jaws dropped.
Kai was the first to snap out of it, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute!" He exclaimed waving his arms, "You two were students of the first Spinjitzu Master!"
Luna and Celestia nodded in reply as the Ninja, Mane 7, CMCs, Cadence, Shining Armor, Flash and Spike were completely surprised. Then Twilight said in shock, "But if you were his students! Does that mean you know how to use…"
Celestia smiled at her former student, "That's right Twilight Luna and I know how to do Spinjitzu. Just like Wu and the ninja. Observe." Then she and Luna spun around and used Spinjitzu. Celestia's tornado was a combination of Green, pink, and blue with gold sparks, While Luna's was dark blue, purple and black with silver sparks.
The youngers watched in awe while Misako, Discord and Wu watched with small smiles as the royal sisters stopped spinning and stood before them.
"Wow." They simply said as the princesses and Wu chuckled, Princess Celestia stepped forward, "I must say it's an honor to finally the protectors of the Ninjago half of our Realm. and I hope you will continue to do so even now that the two realms have merged into one." She said as The Ninja smiled with pride.
"Of course we will your highnesses." Lloyd said bowing respect.
"Not that we can't handle anything that come for the realm anyways." Kai boasted crossing his arms.
"Actually he's right, We've already dealt with plenty over lives as Ninja." Nya added.
"Indeed we have made many allies during our adventures and have faced many a great enemy during them." Zane spoke.
"Skeletons, Serpentine, Stone Warriors, Nindroids, Anacondrai Wannabes, Ghosts, Pirates, Time travelers, Biker gangs, Dragon Hunters, Oni and even the Overlord himself, Twice!" Cole said surprising the royal sister as they didn't they had defeated the ultimate evil more than once.
"That's right if they can't stop us, Nothing can." Jay announced at the Ninja then did a six way high five. The princesses smiled in amusement at their confidence. But then Rainbow dropped, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Like we're gonna let you Ninja have all the fun. If you're all gonna fight off any evils out there then so are we." She said landing next to her friends and pulling them to her.
"Wait what?" Kai said in confusion.
"I guess what I'm saying is that we wanna help you guys out with protecting this place because this is our home too ya know?" She clarified as her friends looked to her in shock.
"But, you girl don't know how to fight like us. You don't even how to you Spinjitzu." Cole said.
"Well then you guy are just gonna have to teach us, besides we can't just sit around on our tails knowing our home is endanger. Plus who would want the chance to be a super awesome ninja?!" Rainbow reasoned pumping her fists.
"Well it is a nice line of work." Jay admitted as his teammate glared at him. "What? It is."
"Ooh-ooh-ooh! I want to be Ninja too, it could be fun to learn that Spin-Twist-su! " Pinkie piped up before spinning around like a top.
"Spinjitzu." Nya corrected.
"If it means protecting my family from some low down dirty varmints, then count me in y'all." Applejack added holding Applebloom closely.
"While fighting isn't really my type of exercise being a lady of fashion," Rarity began fixing her hair as the other rolled they're eyes before she grew a determined look and held Sweetie Belle closely, "But for my friends and dear baby sister I will endure such a trial of being a ninja." She announced while Sweetie blushed at the affection from her big sisters.
"Oh, I don't know if I want to do this. I don't really like to fight." Fluttershy said in doubt and fear.
"There's more to being a ninja than just knowing how to fight." Zane said.
"It's also about being wise and resourceful enough in knowing when to fight who or to not to fight." Wu added.
"We even know fighting style where you can fight without fighting." Lloyd mentioned.
"Really?" Fluttershy asked, as they nodded.
"Wait a minute 'Fight without fighting'? Scootaloo repeated while scratching her head, "How does that even make sense?"
Kai leaned down to her, "Trust me we didn't get it the first time either." He assured her.
Fluttershy meanwhile grew more confident. "Well, I guess I can do that. And I'll do it to help protect all of my little animals friends as well." Discord then wrapped her in a one armed hug, "An excellent choice made by an equally excellent female, my dear." He said, while Fluttershy giggled and blushed.
The Ninja and Wu just looked in confusion before Wu turned to the royal sister and pointed to the timid Pegasus and the Master of Chaos silently asking if the two of them were a couple. Celestia nodded while Luna rolled her eyes as an answer. "Hmm, he really has changed." Wu muttered looking bewildered at Discord.
"Well I've made more than enough mistakes before I came back, I'm going to take ever chance I get to prove that I am a better person." Sunset said while Looking at her adoptive mother and Celestia smiled warmly at her and Flash standing next to her gave a side hug.
"Wait what'ya mean by 'Mistakes'?" Jay asked as Sunset looked at little nervous.
"Um, I'll explain later." She answered as all eyes fell on Twilight.
"How about it, Twilight? Interested in becoming one of us?" Lloyd asked before Shining stepped forward.
Now hold on there, I'm not just letting my sister join your Ninja club just like," He stated before turning to his sister, "Twilight the life of warrior is not easy as people make it look. I don't want you getting hurt or worse,"
"Now Shining, I agree that being a ninja will bring a wave of new troubles and dangers for Twilight but with what she and her friends have faced over the years I know she's up to the task," Cadence reasoned with her husband before turning to Twilight, "That is if you want to do this Twilight."
Twilight looked a little concerned about this choice knowing she had to help in protecting her home from those who could harm to it. But she also question whether or not she could make it out as warrior, "Well, I'm not sure if I'll be as good a Ninja as you guys are." she said in doubt looking at the Ninja. Celestia saw this and walked towards her student and place a hand on her shoulder.
"Twilight, it won't matter whether or not if you can be as good as warrior compared the Ninja, for what matters is you will fighting together. Meaning they'll be there for you as you'll be there for them." Celestia explained.
"Yeah besides we Ninja have a motto," Kai said standing tall with pride "'As iron sharpens iron,"
"'Brother sharpens brother!'" Lloyd finished.
"And the same goes for sister!" Nya added but the equestrian looked confused at what they meant. "Uh what does mean exactly?" Applebloom asked.
"It means that we help make each other stronger with every adventure and battle we come across." Cole explained.
"Oh." The Equestrian replied before everyone turned to Twilight. Twilight smiled from her mentor's words of wisdom, and the encouragement from Cadence, and so she answered, "Then I want to learn be a Ninja too." Everyone cheered at Twilight choice, while she glanced toward Lloyd with a suspicious glare. 'Plus it means I can find out exactly what it is your hiding Lloyd Garmadon. she thought as she leered at the green Ninja.
"Ooh, this is going to be the perfect opportunity for me to design new combat wear for us. I can even borrow inspiration from your Gi's." Rarity Exclaimed eagerly, gesturing to the Ninja's outfits as her friends chuckles at the Fashionista's love for clothes.
"Pth, yeah good luck getting me into one those suits." Rainbow said crossing her.
Nya then said to cyan pegasus with a smirk, "Well I'm not one for getting all frou-frou either Dash. But if you want be a ninja your gonna have to get use to it. At least be greatful we're making you wear a ball gown when we're kicking bad guy butt." Rainbow then glared at the water ninja as everyone laughed at Nya's joke while Luna and Celestia chuckled at the thought the pegasus mare fighting evil while wearing a dress. All laughed except Lloyd who walked away a bit from the group when a not so pleasent thought came to him. Celestia noticed this and turned to Luna, "Lulu, do you think you could have the keep the other occupied While I have a little talk with Lloyd" she whispered.
Luna nodded and Celestia spoke to others "Excuse me everyone but I am needed else where?" They all nodded to the Sun princess and moved out of the way as she walked to the door. But before she left she turned to Lloyd and placed a hand on his shoulder "Lloyd, would you coming with me? I wish to speak with you alone." Lloyd looked in confusion before nodding while Twilight was shocked that her teacher wanted to talk to him over her and glared at the green ninja while the others weren't looking as she watch the two walked out of the door with jealousy.
"Wonder what that was about?" Jay asked.
Once they were out of the throne room Celestia guided Lloyd to her bedroom the two sat down and Celestia turned to stood the green ninja and asked him, "Is there something troubling you Lloyd?" Lloyd looked back at the princess of the sun and said to her with a small frown, "It's nothing your highness, it's just… well… I was just thinking about..." he trailed off unable to tell what he was thinking about.
Celestia could easily tell what was on Lloyd's mind right: his father, Garmadon. Then the white alicorn said to the green ninja hero with her face baring slight sorrow, "About your father?"
Lloyd looked at Celestia and said to her with shock, surprised how easily she guessed. "How did you know?"
"Before you arrived Wu had informed me and Luna what had transpired in Ninjago before it merged with Equestria," Celestia explained before looking down with saddness, "Including what happened to Garmadon, so I assume your still hurting from those events." Lloyd then looked away.
"Yeah I do," he answered before he realized something, "Wait you know him?"
Celestia nodded and replied to Lloyd's question as she began reliving in old story, "Yes I do. Back when we were around your age, he was still a good man, as well as a very close friend of mine. In fact we even went as far as to consider ourselves brother and sister to each other when Luna and I were training under your grandfather. He helped me through my training and taught me abilities I never knew I had. Even helping reach my destiny to be a princess when me Luna found a way back to Equestria. I wanted to repay him for his kindness in the future but I never got the chance." Celestia frowned and looked down. Lloyd knew her change in facial expression was because of his father's banishment to the underworld.
"Right my father's Banishment and his transfromation to Evil." Lloyd answered as Celestia nodded.
"Eventually Wu and your mother told me what happened to him after Luna and returned from the moon. It's still so hard for me to believe that a single small snake's venom would turn someone that kind and gentle as him into a dark lord and caused him to be banished to the forsaken Underworld. I was overjoyed when I learned he was cured from the devourer's bite but soon after sacrificing his life to stop Master Chen and his Anacondrai imposers from conquering Ninjago and now I learn that he has been brought back to life into a being of pure evil by someone who toyed with your emotions." She said the last part with disgust and then surprised him by giving him a warm hug, "I'm truly sorry for what happened to him and for the torment Harumi had put you through."
Lloyd's eyes watered as he hugged the princess and let out a few tears he kept in since that horrible night he was deceived by the Quiet one and nearly lost everything he loved to a man he loved more than anything else. Eventually the two broke the hug and Celestia wiping a few tears herself placed her hand on Lloyd's shoulder, "feeling any better?" she asked and Lloyd managed to make a sad smile and nodded.
"Yeah, thank you princess, I just..." He hesitated for a minute, "I just feel like I lost him all over again." He sniffled as Celestia wiped away his tears, "You saved him once, you can do it again and though he does not show it he does still care about you does he not?" Celestia asked, smiling.
Lloyd nodded and smiled back to the white alicorn, "Yeah, he came to help us when the Oni invaded Ninjago. And he took the old photo of me and him, we took after we defeated the Overlord the first time." Lloyd then stood back up with a confident smile on his face, "And your right I know that one day some how some way the man I once called father will return," His smile then faltered. Celestia was quick to follow this facial expression change.
"But?" She asked.
Lloyd sighed, "But after learning from Mistaké That I'm part Oni like my dad, uncle and Grandfather I've been worried that deep down I'm just like him and I don't mean in the good way," He joked before frowning and gripping his arms. Celestia just smiled and place a hand his shoulder, "Lloyd you are nothing like that side of your father, I should know I insured that fact." She encouraged him before he looked to her in confusion.
"What do you mean your highness?" He asked, Celestia held up a hand.
"Please just call me 'Celestia' Lloyd. And to answer your question have you ever wonder why the Great Devourer's venom never infected you like it did your father?" She asked him as Lloyd thought about. "Acutally yeah I've wondered to this day why I didn't have the venom in me when I was born while my dad was infected by it."
A few seconds of silence came for a bit until Celestia broke the silence saying to Lloyd, "Well you weren't told this by your uncle or your mother to keep our world a secret, but when you were born you did have a bit of the devourer's venom in you. I knew that the venom would eventually consume you like it did to your father so I decided to intervened by using What little bit of Elements of Harmony's Magic I had left in me to neutralize the venom inside of you." She explained as Lloyd looked at the Sun princess in awe now knowing she saved him from his father fate of become evil.
"You saved me?" Lloyd asked still in shock. Celestia nodded and continued.
"I knew that your father never wanted you follow down the dark path that he went down, for you have the chance to be a good man that he never had. when he became the dark lord." Celestia then smiled, "But I also wanted to finally repay his kindness for helping me by giving him the peace of knowing his son would share his terrible fate.
Lloyd looked down remembering what his father said to him while his friends and uncle went after the fang blade,"Every boy has a choice to grow up to be whoever they want to be. But I never had that choice. Because I was bitten, evil runs through my veins. But you still have a choice. " His father knew that thanks to Celestia, he had the chance to be a truly great man, to be the man he could be. He then smiled and hugged Celestia "Thank you for saving me Celestia, I'm glad I got the chance to be a better person."
Celestia smiled hugged the boy she saw as a small baby grow into a handsome young man. she than spoke, "You're welcome Lloyd and from what your uncle has told me I am proud of the man you've grown into." Lloyd then blushed at the praise she gave, "And I know there's still some good inside of Garmadon somewhere deep inside him and I'm sure one day the man you once called father will return."
They then broke and Lloyd smiled, "Thanks Celestia, I know there has to be to get to my dad but," He then remembered Harumi and frowned, "There are other times where I wished thing could've gone better with me and Harumi. I tried to forget about her move on but she just keep coming back to my thoughts." He groans plants his face in his hands.
Celestia rolls her eyes playfully, 'Like father like son.' She thought as she remember how Garmadon struggled with his relationship with Misako. She than patted the green ninja's back and offered some words of encouragements, "The first crush is always the hardest to move on from but I think you might want to talk to my niece about this sort or problem of yours." Lloyd then lifted his head and turned to her.
"Your niece?" He asked confusion.
"Princess Mi Amore Cadenza or Cadence as she likes to call herself." She clarifed, "She's the Princess of Love, Ruler of the crystal empire as well Shining Armor wife and Twilight's Sister in law." Lloyd then grimaced at the mention of Twilight's name.
"Oh great, I hope she more opened minded then her sister," Lloyd said Celestia looked confused before Lloyd explained how Twilight was going on about how she and her friends could trust him because of his Father and how he started all this mess by opening the Serpentine tombs. Celestia was surprised that Twilight would judge someone especially Lloyd because of their family and turned to the green ninja, "I'm sorry about Twilight I promise I'll talk to her about changing her view on you and your father."
Lloyd nodded and got up, "Thanks I better go and catch we the others, we gotta start training Twilight and her friends so they can be ready for whatever this world throws at us," He then walked over to the doors but turned to the princess, "Celestia aren't you coming too?" He asked but Celestia merely shook her head.
"No I have other, Business to attend to at the moment. You go on ahead." Lloyd nodded and walked out of the room. Celestia then sighed and then without even turning her head she spoke to a third person hiding in the shadows, "You can come out now...."
Then stepping out of the shadows was a Man with jet black skin and four arms two just above his waist and two at his shoulders, and wearing a dark purple tattered cap with two parts of falling over his shoulders and black armor with silver lining. He wore boots, arm guards, shoulder pads and a chest plate but on the chest piece there a hole revealing part of his chest and purple blood oozing out of it. On his head he wore a black samurai like helmet with a U-shaped ring resting at the front and his face had silver face paint like marking on it, grey eyebrows, sharp teeth shined in the light as he smirked and his blood red eyes and yellow irises looked at the princess of the sun who still had her head turned away from him. Celestia knew that she was in the presences of the very person she was talking about with Lloyd. The man she once loved like a brother, now one of the most dangerous people in the realm, The Emperor of Darkness himself, Wu's older brother, Misako's husband and Lloyd's father: Lord Garmadon.
Garmadon then chuckled and walked over to the sun princess, "How long did know I was there Tia?" He asked innocently as he watched Celestia stand up. "Long enough to knoq that you heard our entire conversation but regardless of that I know you didn't just come here for a friendly hello, now did you?"
Garmadon smirked and pointed his finger to her, "While I am grateful for all you've done for my son Tia, you and I have a score to settle." He then pulled out a black Staff with spiked spear head, "And I attend to settle today." Celestia merely looked at the Dark Lord and engulfed them both in a bright golden light and Teleported them out of her room.
The two soon appeared in a small clearing in the woods, Garmadon the took notice that Celestia had changed her dress to a white and gold set of armor with diamond cut amethysts on her knees, wrists and neck collar. She also held a golden spear with the head shaped like the sun and positioned herself with it for battle, "This area is completely devoid of any villages or settlements for miles. Here we can fight freely without the risk of someone getting hurt," Celestia Explained as She Garmadon started to circle each other, "So shall we finish what we started all so long ago? I've been waiting many a year for this chance...big brother."
"Really?" Garmadon chuckles as gripped his staff tightly, "It hasn't felt that long to me...little sister." The two then stopped circling and glared at one another. The Sun slowly beginning to set and as the wind whipped around them Celestia merely said three words.
Back in the Canterlot throne room the others were exchanging stories about their adventures. The Ninja were amazed to hear about the Mane 7 adventures starting with their journey to find the Elements of Harmony. They also learned that when equines find their greatest talents a mark called a "Cutie Mark" appears on their shoulders to show what they are.
The Equestrian each showed their cutie marks, Twilight's was a six point magenta star surrounded white stars, Sunset's was a red and yellow sun, Rainbow's was a white cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt, Fluttershy's was three pink butterflies, Pinkie's was three balloons, two blue and one yellow, Rarity's was three diamonds, Shining Armor's was a shield with magenta six point star, Flash's was a blue two-tone shield and a yellow lightning bolt, Cadence's was a crystal heart with gold reefs on the bottom and Luna's was a silver moon over a black splodge.
Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were the only ones who didn't have any cutie marks saying they still haven't found them yet and that there reasons for become the CMCs was to find them, Wu then offered his advise saying, "Have patience. The mark of your talents will only appear when those talents have been found." But it only made them more desperate to find them.
They were also surprised to learn that Princess Luna was once a villain called Nightmare Moon who wanted to bring the realm into eternal night.
"So over a thousand years ago when people didn't appreciate your night time like they did the day the way they do now, you got super jealous of your big sister turned into an evil alicorn lady called 'Nightmare Moon' and tried to make people like the night better by casting a spell that would cause the moon and sun to stop rising and setting trapping the realm in an endless night?" Kai ask rhetorically as Luna rubbed the back of her head nervously.
"In hindsight that probably wasn't the best idea I had, if I consider all of the possible consequences it might have on the realm." She said sheepishly.
"Actually according to my calculations, the possible outcomes if the sun and moon stopped rising and setting would be that, with the sun energy on one half of the realm, plants would not be able to grow and soon the crops would wither and die, and on the other half they would dry up from the constant heat and drought." Zane, explained as everyone listen attentively, "Then people would soon perish from starvation without enough food or water, that is unless without the heat from the sun that plunge the realm into age of cold, ice and snow on one half while on the other half the land would burn and dry up from the extreme heat and sunlight would not end them all first." Zane put in, as everyone stared at him in shock and slight fear if Nightmare Moon had succeeded.
"Oh well," Rarity struggled to speak as she Luna shameful expression, before clearing her throat, "Th-then I suppose it was a good thing Celestia stopped you all those centuries ago?" She said nervously as Luna groaned and slumped on the floor, burying her face in her hands as she didn't think of those things that her plan to make an eternal night might have on the realm. Everyone turned and glared at Rarity for her failed attempted to lighten the situation.
Cadence approached her other aunt, sat down next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "Now Auntie Luna I know after that review of what could happen if Celestia didn't stop you is causing you some strife but as Wu and Misako taught me 'The past is the past.'." She said comfortingly.
"'And the Future,'' Misako continued.
"'Is the Future.'" Wu finished before helping Luna up to her feet and taking her hand, "We cannot change the past but we can learn from it to improve for the future Luna, and now there are people who do take the time to appreciate the night sky." Luna smiled and breathed out a sigh knowing what he said was true.
"You are right Wu, and I am greatly indebted to you six for saving me and having me see all those who truly adore my night." Luna gestured to the Mane 6 as Twilight smiled warmly, Pinkie gave a toothy grin, Rarity flipped her hair, Applejack tipped her hat, Fluttershy blushed as played with her hair and Rainbow smiled cockily.
"So after you freed Princess Luna here, You used the elements again to turn the Captain of chaos into a statue over here," Kai said gesturing to Discord, who appear next to him in a Pirate costume, startling him.
"'Captain of Chaos'? Heh, I like that! Ooh, I got write that down." Discord said pulling out a pen and paper, writing on it.
"So uh, Discord what's your story?" Cole asked the draconequus boy, as he turn to the earth Elemental. "Well since you asked Mr.Brookstone, I was just a boy born with the ability to bend reality to my will or rather in my case creating a fun filled land of chaos for me to enjoy but Apparently Celly and Lully didn't know how to have a good time and decided it would be fun to turn me into a lawn ornament! How rude!" He scowled before turning his back to Luna.
"You were making equines suffer because of your nonsense and disharmony." Luna argued, stepping up to the master of Chaos, "Not my fault if some people can't take a joke!" He rebutted, the two immortals soon got in each others faces before Fluttershy got in between them, "Princess, Discord please, It's not healthy to hold a grudge." She pleaded, but the two merely humphed and turned away from each other as she merely sighed.
"Well getting back on topic. Defeating Discord wasn't exactly a walk in the park," Rainbow spoke up, " He put us through this crazy maze and stripping us of our wings and horns."
"Well I couldn't have you cheat your way to victory, now could I." Discord said innocently.
"Well it certainly help that he turned us into the opposite side of ourselves." Rarity put in.
"AND that he got you to think some giant rock was a big honest to goodness diamond?" Sweetie Belle smirked as Rarity looked to her in shock.
"WHAT?!" Nya and Kai said before everyone started laughing except for Rarity who just stood fuming with a red face of anger and embarrassment.
"HAHA!!! You've seen how much you protected 'Tom' while you were under Discord's Spell!" Twilight laughed to Rarity.
Jay looked to Rarity struggling to even talk, "S-seriously you-you, you called a giant rock 'TOM'?!" He asked and started laughing even harder, "Oh that is just rich!"
Applejack then joined the conversation, "Oh yeah she did, She wouldn't even go inside the library without that rock!"
Rarity groaned, "Yes that all did happened and I thought me and my friends agreed never to speak of that part of our quest again." She then scowled at the Mane 6.
Twilight eventually calmed down and spoke, "but thanks to Princess Celestia, I managed to break us free of Discord's spell and we managed to turn Discord back into stone." She then frowned, " But then a few months later Princess Celestia asked us-well mostly Fluttershy-to reform him, believing he could use his Chaos power for good instead of evil." Discord then glanced at her annoyingly.
"You make it sound like it was a bad thing." He said to the Alicorn girl.
Master Wu then stroked his beard and spoke, "Actually what Celestia suggested doesn't sound all that strange, from what my father had taught me and what I taught each of you no element is truly good nor evil, it all depends on the person who wields it." He gestured to the Ninja as they remember they met a couple of evil elemental masters.
Nya thought on this and decided to join the conversation, " And when you think about Chaos is just as important as in the world as order is, as Misaké once said 'without one you cannot have the other'." She said, "As Darkness is need to balance out Light, Chaos and Disorder is need to balance Order and Harmony."
"Yeah if everything was just order and peace it would be totally boring with absolutely nothing to do." Jay put in.
"I guess when you think about without a little chaos in life it's wouldn't be any fun at all," Rainbow admitted, knowing for a fact she enjoyed the unexpected.
Discord then poofed up in between them and wrapped his arms around them, "Thank you! It gives me such joy to see people who see the importance of chaos!" He said as he hugged them while they struggled to break free. Discord then noticed that Fluttershy looked at little jealous of him hugging Rainbow, so he smirked and let go of her & Jay and teleported over to his girlfriend and gave her a hug, "Oh Fluttershy, hasn't anyone told you that, jealousy isn't a good look for you." Fluttershy blushed.
"Maybe." She mumbled.
"Well I prefer a 'Kind and understanding' Fluttershy over a 'Jealous and mean' Fluttershy anyday." Discord reassured her and the timid pegasus giggled and returned the hug. The others in the room either looking either, disturbed, confused or they were smiling in admiration, amusement or adoration.
"I find it weird how someone like you would become a couple with guy like Discord, Fluttershy." Nya said.
"Believe me, sugarcube, it still confuses us too." Applejack told her, putting her hands behind her head.
"What can I? I like shy girls."Discord said stroking Fluttershy's cheek as she giggled and took her turn to speak, "And he's actually quite the big softy once you get to know him," She then gave the chaotic young man a big hug as he blushed with a goofy grin on his face while everyone else chuckle in amusement. However Twilight glances over to the side sadly, still wishing she had someone to love and would love her as well. Sunset noticed her soul-sister downcasted expression and gave her a surprise side hug, Twilight glanced over to the fiery haired unicorn girl as she her a wink of encouragement and smiled at her in thanks.
Then at that moment everyone turned to the sound of the doors opening and walking in was Lloyd walked in to the throne room with a small smile on his face. The Ninja moved to greet their leader while Twilight slightly glared with suspicion at the young master. "Hey, so how'd go with the princess and what were you two talking about." Kai asked.
"It went well, and as for what we were talking about well um," Lloyd rubbed his arm unsure of how tell his brothers and sister that he and Celestia were talking about his father. Misako noticed her son's hesistantion and walked over to him giving him a hug, "Don't worry Lloyd, I know one day he will return to us." she whispered to him as his eyes widened but then he closed them and return his mother's hug. The others smiled as Wu nodded his head in pride, then Jay looked outside the window and Noticed something.
"Uh guys? You might wanna look at the sky." He said as everyone looked outside and saw the blue sky had turned yellow and orange meaning one thing, "AHH! How'd it get so late?!" Applejack screamed and turned to the others, "We gotta get back home!".
"But how?" Rarity asked, "From the look of the sky, the last train to Ponyville left an hour ago." The Mane 7, Spike and CMCs were starting to worry how were they gonna back home now? Lloyd then got an idea and whispered it to the others. Soon they all started think about it.
"Hmm, that not a bad idea," Kai admitted.
"Yeah, Might actually be fun." Jay agreed.
"And it has been awhile since we've done that as group." Nya added.
"That's assuming the girls are willing to try it." Cole reminded them.
"I don't see that they have any other likely options." Zane pointed out.
"Then if we're all agreed, let's fly." Lloyd announced. The Ninja turned to their new equestrian friends, "Girls, Flash, and Spike I think we got a way to get you all home." The girls were surprised by this, but Scootaloo was the only one who, "Well what is it?" She asked.
"I think it's better if we show you," Lloyd said before turning to the other Equestrians, "Anyone else like to join us?" Cadence and Shining shook their heads.
"Sorry but we had to talked with Celestia about something important but because of everything that's happened we had to postpone it to tomorrow," Cadence answered before she walked up to Twilight and gave her hug, "I hope we can finally meet under much happier circumstances." She joked as she and Twilight giggled.
"Me too Cadence," Twilight agreed as they broke their hug, then she walked over to her big brother and gave him a hug to, "Take care of yourself BBBFF." She then heard a chorus of 'huh's and turned to see confusion on the faces of the Ninjas.
She rolled her eyes and spoke, "It means Big Brother Best Friend Forever." She ended each word by moving her hands like splitting some up.
"Ohh." The Ninja said now getting her nickname for her brother, "Don't worry guys, none of us got it either." Sunset reassured them.
"Wait, then let me guess, Shining Armor calls you Little Sister Best Friend Forever or rather LSBFF?" Nya said rhetorically. As Shining and Twilight looked at her with surprise and she groaned, "You do, don't you?" And Shining nodded. "Alright I'm out of here. I'll be in the Castle courtyard if you're all ready to leave." with that the water ninja left the throne room.
"The courtyard?" Rarity asked raising an eyebrow, The Ninja just waved saying they'll find out while Twilight and Shining shared a goodbye hug, "Hope to see you soon Twiliy." Shining said before the two siblings separated. Fluttershy then turned to her boyfriend, "Care to join us Discord?" She asked but Discord shook his head.
"Thank you my dear Fluttershy, but I'll just snap travel back to Ponyville," He started before pointed to the others, "And before you ask, no I will not transport us all back that just ruin this chapter's length especially with that lame and short description of your cutie marks and your adventures, Anyways, ciao!" He Then gave Fluttershy a quick peck on the lips and teleported back to her cottage. Everyone just looked in confusion to what the Master of Chaos just said but shrugged it off thinking he was trying to be silly and left to meet Nya in the courtyard. Before they all left Lloyd turned to his Uncle and Mom.
"You two coming with us?" He asked as they shook their head. "We will rejoin you in Ponyville in the morning, we have some catching up to do with the Celestia and Luna here." Wu said gesturing to Luna as the two of shared a small smile before something came to Luna's attention.
"By the way young Master Garmadon, where is Tia?" She asked the Green clad boy as merely shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know, Celestia just told me to go on ahead while she had business to attend to, whatever that means." He answered as Twilight gasped and zipped over to Lloyd pointing a finger in his face while glaring, "That's Princess Celestia to you mister! And if I were you I'd show some-" But before she could finished lecturing him, she was grabbed by the shoulder, spun around and met the angry gaze of Misako and just like that her own anger vanished on the spot.
"What were you just saying to my son, your Majesty? Because I certainly hope it was something compassionate and understanding if you were." Misako said as Twilight shoke with fear, knowing an angry mother was not something you want to mess around with. Lloyd however looked at his mother in astonishment as he never seen her act like this before.
He was brought of his awe when Twilight made a nervous smile and patted his shoulder, "Um, uh what I meant was that's, um very interesting Master Lloyd and please excuse my earlier outburst." She said doing a quick curtsey and walked over to her friends and the Ninja, who were snickering and holding smug grins on their faces. She glared at them and said through gritted teeth, "Not. One. Word."
Lloyd turned to looked at his mom as she smiled confidently while Wu and Luna were slightly chuckling, "Uh thanks for the save mom." Misako just nodded her head to say your welcome.
"Anyways we'll see you two tomorrow." He then turned to leave but not before Misako spoke again, "Aren't you gonna kiss your mom goodbye?" She teased as Lloyd stopped dead in tracks and his cheeks turned bright red and while the other laughed at his embarrassment he slapped his hand over his face.
"Mom! We talked about this!" Lloyd groaned and turned to his mother but Misako just smiled held out her arms as if she was expecting Lloyd to her a goodbye kiss. Lloyd groaned as he remembered what happened the last time he decided not to give his mom a goodbye kiss. Not wanting to get possessed again or anything else he decide to swallow his pride, walked back to his mom and gave her a quick hug and peck on the cheek, "Happy now?" he asked while the girls tried hard not giggle and coo at the cute son and mother moment as Misako smiled smugly and cupped his cheek.
"Yes, I am." she answered and gave him a quick cheek kiss too, "Just for good luck, enjoy the trip back Lloyd." She said as Lloyd groaned and walked back to his friends looking smugly at him.
"Not. One. Word." He echoed Twilight's words from earlier as the Ninja, Mane 7, CMCs and Spike all started walking out of the throne room but not before Flash and Sunset gave their own goodbye kiss.
"Anyways I'm sure you guys are wondering how we're gonna get you all back home." The Mane 7 nodded in confirmation as Lloyd smiled, "Well to answer your question, let me ask you girls one: Have you ever ridden a Dragon before?" Whatever was said after that was not heard as door of the throne room was closed leaving, Flash, Cadence, Shining, Wu, Luna and Misako while the adult couldn't help but wonder what sort of business Celestia was doing at the moment. They were so deep in thought that none of the noticed that outside the window two black and white specks clashing were through the sky in the distance.
What they didn't know was that while they were wondering about Celestia, she was currently battling her former friend/brother and Evil lord Garmadon in a remote forest clearing. The two circled each other, keeping a grip on each of their weapons, waiting for the other to make the first move. Garmadon then spoke while he and Celestia continued to circle, "You may as well just give up Tia! I'm the superior warrior here, I taught you every move and ability you know and your little sister isn't here to save your hide this time." he declared but Celestia did not waver at his boasts, "No but neither is your brother Garmadon, and she and I have learned many things since we last met."
"Well I'll be sure to visit Luna and Wu next and see what they've learned," He then stopped walking and crouched down as Celestia prepared for him to attack, "But only after I destroy YOU!" He shouted jumped up and smashed his staff into the ground. Celestia managed to dodge and started jabbing her spear at him multiple times. Garmadon dodged and blocked her every blow but was still being pushed back so he decided to start striking back. Before long sparks were flying as the two clashed their weapon over and over again, but soon Celestia started panting.
"What's the matter sister? Running of steam already? Seems sitting on a throne for all these years has made you weak." Garmadon mocked as Celestia just growled, unfurled her wings and rocketed over to him, her spear held back and once she got close she swung it forward, knocking the staff out of the dark lord's hands and pushing him back a couple of feet. Garmadon so shocked that he didn't have time to block and avoid Celestia landing a couple of punches and kicks on him. He soon started shaking in pain with two of his arms clutching the spots where Celestia inflicted the most pain as she pointed her spear at his face while baring a confident smirk, "Well clearly you haven't heard of 'playing possum' brother."
Garmadon just returned her smirk with his own, "The benevolent Princess Celestia resorting to playing dead, how deliciously deceptive of you," He said before his smirk turned more devious as Celestia's eyes widen when she notice a purple glow from his hands, "But unfortunately for you it's not enough!" He then blasted her a couple of meters away through some trees, He then grabbed his staff and charged at the princess yelling in determination. Celestia opened her eyes just in time to see Garmadon grabbing her by the neck collar of her shirt and grunted in pain as he knocked her upwards with his staff. While Celestia was airborne Garmadon used his lower hands as thrusters to fly up to her and ready to strike.
Celestia managed regain control of herself and block Garmadon attack. The pushed hard determined to knock the other out of the sky. Soon they started zooming all over the sky clashing but since Garmadon was flying because of his powers his soon exhausted himself much faster as he struggled to keep up with the alicorn women, soon enough of his strength had been used up, for Celestia to gain the upper hand on him and swung her spear down sending him hurtling back down to the ground. She dived after him and even as he was falling towards the ground Garmadon did not give up, "Oh so you want to take a piece of me on the way down, do you?! Well then come get and me!" He shouted as Celestia continued to dive straight for him. Once she got close enough she grabbed Garmadon by the shoulders with both of her hands as he grabbed her shoulders and waist with all four of his arms. The two started spinning like a wheel as they kept a firm grip on each other while they were still falling trying to make the other break their fall.
Soon they impacted the ground creating a medium size crater then they rolled away from each other by a few meters. Garmadon stood gripping his staff while Celestia struggled to stand, using her spear to help pull herself up all while her back was turned. "Just how long do you think you can endure against me, Tia?" He demanded before Celestia turned him looking more determined than ever, "Long enough to beat the evil out of you and leave you, lying face flat in the ground!" She hollered before whipping her spear again and the two charged at one another again.
Garmadon moved to the side just before Celestia collided with him. Celestia confusion by why he dodged her soon turned into shock when suddenly she felt him grab her from behind by her long rainbow hair, "Ooh, the hair!" She strained before Garmadon lifted her over his shoulder embedding her face first in the ground, "Ooh, the face." He then tossed her into a boulder. For while Celestia thought she saw three Garmadon coming at her. But she shook her head few times, glaring at the one Garmadon and charged
The two masters exchanged blows and clashes, speeding all over the field, only being able to be seen for a split second when make a few big clashes before they zip off and start trading blows over again. Before long, elemental energy starts surrounding each of them. purple and black fiery energy surrounds Garmadon while gold and white sparkly energy surrounds Celestia. The energy started swirling around them like leaves blowing in a storm as they clashed once more, they then swap their weapons and start striking over and over again until eventually they both knock the weapons out of their hands and pushing them back a couple feet away from each other simultaneously. Garmadon's Staff became embedded in a rock and Celestia's spear ended up stuck in a tree trunk.
Once they regained their barring they glared at each other, reared themselves back, brought their hands together as purple energy built up in Garmadon's hands and gold energy build up in Celestia's and both release a barrage of Elemental energy blasts. The Elemental blasts collided creating small explosions that illuminated the entire area around them. Eventually though they began to lose energy Celestia more than Garmadon since she was as combat experienced as him. However Garmadon wasn't faring better, usually when fighting he absorbed the attacks of his opinions to increase his strength and stamina, but now while absorbing Celestia's power, he felt the energy course through his body but in his mind he felt something weakening while something else was trying to break free from it. It felt familiar, like he felt somewhere before, but the last time he felt this feeling was-
"NINJAAAAAAA-GO!!!", He was then brought out of his thoughts when a white, green, blue and violet tornado crashed right into him. he was knocked into a large tree and slid down it to the ground. He felt whatever was trying to break free in his get stronger and what was holding it back grow weaker. He then saw the Spinjitzu Tornado coming at him again Garmadon then used his, Spinjitzu tornado was Dark purple, and Black with violet lightning bolts and embers. The two tornado collided with each other creating shockwaves that blew most of the leaves out of their trees. As the two continued to clash they locked punches and kicks with one another. Eventually Celestia grew tired again and Garmadon used this opening to land a powerful kick to Celestia's midsection, knocking the wind out of her, cutting her spinjitzu off and sending her bouncing across the field. She skidded to a halt and falling to her knees. She tries to stand but her knees buckles falls again, coughing.
Garmadon stopped his Spinjitzu and stomped over to the downed Princess as she tries to take to the air but she was too stunned to take flight. She looked up just in time to see the evil lord grab her throat lifting her off the ground up to his eye level with his top left hand. Celestia glared at dark man even through he was strangling her, "Ha, ha. Well it seems you've grown soft since we last meant, Tia," Garmadon chuckled and in his top right hand a purple ethereal blade appeared aimed right her heart. "But now little sister, I believe now we should bring this duel to its end." He then drew the dagger back ready to dig it into Celestia's chest. Celestia just looked at him knowing somewhere deep down in this monstrous form he was still the man who help her become the alicorn she was today and who she saw as the big brother she never had. Even though every cell in her body was telling her that it was hopeless she still had to try.
"Garmadon, please. I know this isn't who you are, you can still change back to who once were." She pleaded.
Garmadon merely scoffed, "As I told my son that is mere youthful ignorance." He retorted increasing his grip on her neck, "People don't truly change. Only reveal who they really are and THIS is who I really am!"
"No. This is just a shadow of what you once were. Twilight has given the proof of what I've always believed in: that all people young and old can change for the better." Celestia argued, before her expression softened, "Garmadon tell me honestly, is this what you really want? To push away everyone you love? Wu, Misako, Luna, me,...Lloyd?"
Garmadon's glare weaken slightly at the mention of Lloyd, "I, I-I," He hesitated as grip on his blade and on Celestia.
The princess saw this and also saw that the real Garmadon was slowly but surely returning. She then realized that she had to keep pushing, "Listen to your heart Garmadon, it's telling you to stand by the people you care about. To serve this realm not as its master but as its protector. The realm need the real you, your family needs the real you," She then surprised him by touching his cheek. He then looked at her seeing tears in her eyes, " I need the real you."
Garmadon merely gave a dark chuckle, "Oh Celestia if you think words will help you win this battle I'm afraid you are sorely mista-" He stopped when felt something in his mind snap. He then saw not Celestia but a young Alicorn girl with light pink hair, a white horn and pair ears and violet eyes for few seconds before she shifted back to Celestia. He felt like he had no control over what he was doing when he looked down and pulled a photograph of Lloyd wearing a green jacket & blue jeans and standing next to him was an old man with gray hair, a black robe with white sleeves and green sash tied around his waist fastened by a gold buckle. That old man was in fact himself with his son few days after the Overlord's second defeat.
He then gritted his teeth, screwed his eyes shut and grabbed his head with his top arms and dropped his photo on the ground and let go of Celestia as he felt whatever was trapped inside him that was now free began to wrestle with his mind. As Celestia rubbed her sore neck she watch as Garmadon gripped his head tightly as if he was the world's most powerful headache.
What she didn't know was that Garmadon was seeing things, memories speeding through his mind. He saw the moments where he trained with Wu under their father, meeting Celestia and Luna, teaching them along with some others in the art of Spinjitzu, when he first met Misako, sending her his (or rather Wu's) love letter, dating her, fighting alongside the elemental alliance in the serpentine war, facing off against Krux and Acronix with the time blades, Celestia and Luna's Coronation in Equestria, fighting alongside Wu in the Realm of Madness, Saving Lloyd in the volcano, destroying the Great Devourer, being free from the darkness, training his own pupils, helping Lloyd find his balance, facing off against Clouse, sacrificing himself to stop Chen and when he saw Lloyd one last time in the Cursed Realm.
But the most powerful memory of all was when he saw his wife resting in a hospital bed, her hair disheveled and her eyes begging for rest but she wore a heartwarming smile as looked down at the small bundle in her arms. She passed it to him and as he held it protectively, he glanced down and saw a small but beautiful baby boy with soft blonde hair sleeping peacefully. When he woke up he looked at his daddy with his gorgeous emerald eyes, laughed with joy and reached for daddy's hands.
He heard himself chuckle at the baby and as he reached to hold the little one's hands he heard himself say,
"Welcome to our world, my Son. I promise I won't let anything happen to you...Lloyd."
He remembered. The promise. The promise that he made that he would let anything happen to Lloyd. For him to have the chance in life that he himself never had. But Garmadon now realized that he did have a choice, a choice here and now to change into a better man, the man he wanted to be, that he NEEDED to be. For himself and his family. The family he loved, his brother, sisters, wife, friends and students.
And above all else his son.
Garmadon eye shot right open and released a powerful scream into the sky that rang out across the forest, "RRRRAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" then erupting from his mouth black and purple elemental energy scattered all over the place. Celestia once she regained her barings stepped back in horror as she watched her brother spewed out dark energy out of him as his eyes glowed a bloody red.
The energy stopped after a few minutes and then he collapsed on the ground. Celestia just stood there cautiously thinking that Garmadon was merely playing dead. Eventually she took a deep breath and stepped closer to him, "Garmadon?" She called but instead of answering Garmadon got up slowly and shakily but still kept his towards the ground. Getting nervous, Celestia spoke again, "Brother, are you in there?"
After a few suspenseful moments Garmadon looked up at her with his red eyes and with unreadable expression before turned, grabbed his spear bounded across the forest, "Wait!" Celestia called but Garmadon was too far to hear her. Though downtrodden that her brother was gone and possibly not back to himself, Celestia just took a deep breath and made a small smile "One day big brother. One day we will be reunited again."
She then picked up her spear and took off once her wings felt flight worthy again. 'Luna's gonna want a long explanation.' She thought as flew back to Canterlot but before she left she failed noticed six creatures flying over head.
"Whoo-hoo!!!" Pinkie cheered, raising her arms in the air as she rode on the back Jay's elemental Lightning dragon while it roared. "Ho-ho-ho You haven't seen anything yet! Hold on Whoo-hoo!" Shouted Jay, as he and Pinkie laughed with joy and excitement as the dragon did all kinds of tricks.
After meeting with Nya in the courtyard the ninja showed them that they were going home via dragon riding. They all had different reactions to the dragons : Rainbow, Pinkie and Scootaloo beamed with excitement, Sunset, Applejack, Applebloom and Spike looked with interest, Twilight was simply in awe and slack-jawed that the ninja could create living creatures out of pure energy and outta thin air, however Rarity, Sweetie belle and Fluttershy were rather hesitant or afraid to ride such beasts.
But after some encouragement from their friends they all hopped onto the Dragons. Rainbow and Scootaloo rode with Kai on his Fire dragon. Pinkie rode on the Lightning dragon with Jay, Rarity and Sweetie Belle rode on the Water dragon of Nya. On Cole's Earth dragon, Applejack and Applebloom rode with him. For Fluttershy Zane and his Ice dragon. Finally Spike and Twilight rode on the back of Lloyd's Energy dragon, though Twilight was reluctant to ride with Lloyd, Sunset managed to convince him.
By the time they all took off the dusk turned into night as they all flew toward Ponyville. Along the way the Mane 7, Spike and CMCs took the time to enjoy the ride. Some more then others.
"Yeehaw! Getta along little doggy!" Applejack shouted, waving her hat in the air as the Earth dragon did a barrel roll. "Yahoo! This is fun!" Apple Bloom cheered as she infront of Cole in between his legs.
"Ha-ha! if you thought that was good, then hang on, this is gonna be a wild ride!" Cole declared and tightened his grip on the rains. Applejack looked at Cole with some admiration, She was impressed by his honest and responsible attitude from what she learned from the stories of his and the other Ninja's adventures especially during the time when Master Wu went missing before their fight the S.O.G. She also admitted to herself that his strength was also impressive, almost as great as her own, in fact the only one who matched her in strength was her big brother Big Macintosh. This along with his personality made a warm fuzzy feeling, one she had pretty good guess was. While she told her friends she wasn't interested in finding a boyfriend but now after meeting Cole she was starting to reconsider.
With a small smile Applejack surprised Cole by wrapped her arms around him. He then looked over his shoulder seeing her looking at him with half-opened eyes, "Oh don't you worry sugarcube, I'm holding on tight." She said in tone that brought a slight blush to his face, so he turned from her and focused on flying while he heard her giggle out a laugh he found kinda cute. When Cole saw firsthand how strong Applejack was he had to admit she was pretty strong for young women, almost as strong as him. Plus her hardworking, can-do attitude was something he found attractive along with the cowboy hat she wore. He made it clear to the guys he wasn't into romance after what happened with Nya and Jay during the perfect match incident. Still seeing Applejack smile at him like that made him question if he should change his mind. He was thankful that Applebloom was in front of him and shorter so she couldn't see the red on his cheeks when he looked at her green eyes.
But as he looked into her eyes he could also sense that her responsibility personality came from a very shocking and painful event, similar to him after She was gone. He decided not to ask about until the time came or at least until Applejack was more comfortable with talking about it with him.
Meanwhile on the Water dragon a certain Fashionista wasn't having as much fun as her friends, "Oh dear. E-easy now darling, not so fast." Rarity mumbled clutching onto Nya's middle tightly not wanting to fall off. Sweetie on the other hand wasn't as afraid but more curious as she saw the world a way she never imagined of seeing. "Wow, it's so beautiful up here, you can see everything from this height." She said taking in the beauty of the realm at night.
"Yeah it is," Nya agreed as she always a moonlight flight on her dragon. But she couldn't enjoy it full because of the pressure on stomach. she then glanced over her shoulder to look at the teenage unicorn squeezing her, "Rarity I think we feel alot better if you loosen that ironclad grip on stomach a little, please?" She asked as Rarity noticed she was squeezing Nya quite tightly. Blushing in embarrassment she loosened her grip.
"Ahem, my apologies Nya but after a little incident at Cloudsdale I'm exactly use to extremely high heights," She reasoned as Sweetie Belle snickered at her big sister fear of heights she developed after she fell from the sky during the 'Best Young Flyers' competition after showing off her butterfly wings. Nya made a small smirk wanting to hear that story some time later once they got to Ponyville, "Well don't worry Rarity you could have it worse. You've been riding with them." Nya pointed upwards as a red dragon zoomed over them with multi-color haired girl riding in the back.
"This!" Rainbow started with a wide Grin on her face.
"Is." Scootaloo added with a smile similar to her adoptive sister as Kai made his dragon do a triple loop-da-loop.
"AWESOME!!!" They both finished in unison and laughed as the Fire dragon did it's third loop-da-loop. "This totally rocks! How do you guys make these awesome dragons just appear out of nowhere?" Rainbow asked Kai who just smirked.
"All it takes is facing your fears, combined with your elemental powers and Presto! You got an elemental dragon!" Kai shouted as he pulled back the rains making the dragon roar out a stream of fire.
"So cool! And wow! It feels like I'm actually flying!" Scootaloo exclaimed happily as she held out her arms like she was a airplane. Kai meanwhile looked at her with confusion, "Why do say that? Your pegasus aren't you? Can't you just fly on your own?" he asked but instead of answering Scootaloo just looked down sadly. Seeing this Rainbow decided to answer for her.
"Actually, Scootaloo has a little trouble flying, most kids her age can fly just find but she still can't for some reason." Rainbow explained, as Kai looked a little surprise before glancing over to the purple haired girl feeling sorry for her, knowing that being the only one of your kind who couldn't do what they could best sounded pretty tough. Deciding to offer some encouragement Kai ruffled Scootaloo's hair and said, "Hey don't worry Scoots, if you just have patiences I'm sure those flight feathers will grow in, in no time." Scootaloo smiled taking his words to heart, she just had to wait for her wings to become flight ready which she hoped wouldn't be too long.
However while she was thinking about her future in flying Kai was thinking, 'Wow, way to sound like a hypocrite, Mr.Rush in first ask questions later.' He knew that telling someone else to be patient was kinda funny considering he wasn't very patient himself.
Meanwhile with on the Ice dragon Fluttershy had her eyes screwed shut and clutching on to Zane tightly not daring to look at the ground, "Ohmygoodness,Ohmygoodness,Ohmygoodness!" She whimpered feeling scared to the core of riding on the back of this mighty beast. Zane on the other hand being a robot wasn't really bother that Fluttershy was practically trying to squeeze him to death but rather felt concerned about his passenger. So reached a hand back to grab her's soothingly, it got her to look at him smiling with comfort, "Do not worry Fluttershy. As long as you hold onto me securely you will be alright." he said as Fluttershy smiled seeing Zane despite being a robot was a lot more human than most other real people.
"Thank you Zane." She said sweetly, and relaxed her grip on him but still kept it secure as they continued to fly.
Finally leading the way Riding the green Energy Dragon of Lloyd, was Spike riding in front of Lloyd between his legs, Twilight behind Lloyd and Sunset riding behind Twilight. Spike looked down at the ground and spoke, "This is a amazing. I still can't believe we're actually riding on the back of dragon."
Sunset looked around as well "Me too. I read in the book at canterlot, saying that dragon either went extinct or just left Equestria to somewhere else. I'm guessing it was mostly likely the latter, right Lloyd?" She asked him, as Lloyd nodded and continued to steer the dragon, "Yup most of the dragons returned to their birthplace in the First Realm, while some of the others stayed in Ninjago like our old Dragons." He explained gaining Twilight's attention.
"You had other dragons?" She asked.
"Yup, There was Flame, Kai's old fire dragon, Wisp, Jay's former lightning dragon, Then Shard, Zane's old Ice dragon and last but not least Rocky, Cole's former earth dragon." He chuckled remembering that Cole and Rocky had the closest relationship compared to the others, "Sometime after the Hypnobrai kicked me out, the dragons were starting to molt their scales and had to migrate east to the Spirit Coves for their Transformation." He explained.
"The 'Spirit Coves'?" Spike asked.
"It's a nesting grown for dragons who lay their eggs and where they go to undergo their transformation from adolescents to adults, and boy was it a transformation," Lloyd explained recalling what happened to the dragons, "When we saw them again it was during our battle with the Great Devourer. Me and Nya were seconds away from becoming snake food when they showed up at the last second to save us. We then saw that when the four of them reached adulthood they became a giant, white, four-headed Dragon. We then named him Ultra because he was just that an Ultra dragon. And with Ultra's help we were able to destroy the Devourer and stop a bunch of other bad guys as well!"
"Wow that all sounds amazing but if this Ultra really is all that, then where is he?" Sunset asked as Lloyd formed a sad smile, "Well sometime after our first victory against the Overlord, Ultra and I saved a village from some serpentine stragglers trying to loot it. But after we did Ultra went back to the Spirit Coves, I knew right there and then he was feeling homesick and missing the other dragons. So I decided to release him and let him go back to the First Realm. I just hope he's happy where ever he is." He said before looking up to the sky almost hearing his old friend's roar.
Twilight looked at him a little unsure what to feel. She could defintely tell that Lloyd loved this Ultra dragon and because of that he wanted him to be happy over him being happy. 'Maybe I was wrong about him. But shouldn't give my entire trust until I'm certain. she thought still feeling like he was hiding something. She was brought out of her thoughts when she noticed a familiar looking town up ahead, "Hey look Ponyville! Were almost there!" She said as the other three noticed the upcoming town. But they also noticed something else, something unusual floating in the sky just on the outskirts of the town. It looked like an Island with a fancy looking temple on it. "Is that a...floating temple?" Twilight asked in confusion as the other girls were saying their own things about the island but Lloyd and the rest of Ninja immedity reconized it.
"What?! No way!" Lloyd said as Spike, Sunset and Twilight looked at him with confusion. "What? Do you know that island?" Sunset asked.
"Yeah, I do! Guys, head for the Temple of Airjitzu!" He called to the others as they all speed up their dragons. the Equestrians all yelped at the sudden increase in speed as they all headed for this Temple of Airjitzu.
The Temple of Airjitzu, former home of the infamous Master Yang creator of lost Technique called Airjitzu. It's walls were a beautiful ruby red, with black roof tops resembling somewhat of an eastern temple, A statue of the temple's former master rested in front of the building in his honor and before that a bridge going over a river connected two other parts of temple, with a store house of the right side of it and a blacksmith hut on the left side. The temple had several different trees surrounding it a few pines, willows and oaks scattered around it. However the most unique thing about this temple was that it stood atop a floating island and down below it the humble town of Ponyville rested peaceful as it remained in the sky.
Though the master may have passed on many years ago, the Temple was kept in good condition by it's new owners who were now flying in with their new allies on the backs of their dragons. Once the Ninja got close enough to the island the hopped off their dragons with each of the Mane 7 their were carrying, with Twilight, Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow holding on to their respective younger sibling, before the dragons disappeared into thin air, "Whoa! Where they go?" Rainbow gasped as she set Scootaloo down,
"The Elemental dragons are tied to our minds and powers as soon as we don't need anymore they disappear until we summon them again, helps to take up less room." Kai explained. They all then turned to the temple before them, taking in its beauty, "Gee, it been awhile since we've been here huh guys?" Kai asked his friends as they all agreed.
What is this place?" Fluttershy asked.
"This is the Temple of Airjitzu our most recent home apart from Master Wu's Monastery, The Destiny's Bounty and the Samurai X Cave." Cole explained, "After a little incident we had on the Day of the Departed we moved here and used it as our base during our fight with the time twins."
"The 'Day of the Departed?'" Sunset asked.
"Story for another time."
"Well in any case I think we can all agree that's place is absolutely gorgeous!" Rarity squealed looking over the Temple, "The exterior! The design! The Color! It all simply divine! Who is the designer?"
"Master Kodokuna Yang, Master of every martial art known to man and creator of his own 'Airjitzu'. And who passed away a couple years ago." Cole answered.
"Air-what-zoo?" Rainbow asked scratching her head as the Ninja chuckled, "Airjitzu. It technique that allows a master to temporarily move through the air." Lloyd explained earning a chorus of 'Oh's' from the girls.
"Although you probably don't get the first time, so it's better you call by it better name 'Cyclonedo.'" Jay put in but immediately from his friends he got a...
"NO!"
Jay jolted back from they're yells. "Aw man! Why hasn't that caught on yet!" He complained, crossing his arms and scowling.
"Because Jay this martial art is sacred and forgotten," Nya explained before she started smiling sinsterly, "And if you do anything to insult it, even changing its name you'll have to answer to the ghost of Master Yang." She then started ghostly moans, slightly scaring Jay and also scaring Fluttershy and CMCs as well.
"G-g-g-ghost?!?" Fluttershy, Applebloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle stammered and hid behind Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow and Sunset Respectively.
Sunset sighed, "Come on girls, you there are no such things as ghosts." She reassured them before Cole spoke.
"Actually they're very real. I should know, I was one."
"WHAT!?!?" The girls and Spike shouted.
"Oh, yeah. Guess we forgot that part." Cole remembered, "In fact this temple is what turned me into a ghost."
"WHAT!?!?" They repeated.
"Th-that t-temple turned you int-to a-a, g-g-ghost?" Spike mumbled hiding behind Twilight and gesturing to the temple.
"Well I guess we should explain." Lloyd said before sighed, feeling at little cautious about this adventure, he then sighed, " You, see..." but before he could start...
"After you defeated Master Chen and his Anacondrai army by sending your dad to a realm a ghost, the ghost of your master first student and elemental master of wind escaped and returned for vengeance because he wanted to be the green Ninja and when the golden weapon said that he wasn't and you were he got really mad and went on a mission to find the Tomb of the First Spinjitzu Master AKA your grandpa but got sent to the cursed realm and then he lured you to the Ninjago museum of history and possessed you to try find the tomb which eventually sent Kai, Jay, Cole and Zaney to hunt down what they needed to find it while Nya trained to become a water ninja and eventually their search brought them here to learn Airjitzu to get up to the Cloudy Kingdom but when they got the scroll they had get out in hurry because the Temple has ancient voodoo magical curse placed on that turns anyone who stays in it before sunrise into a ghost for really, really long time and Cole couldn't get out in time and the curse turned him into ghost!" Pinkie said in one big breath before sporting a big toothy grin.
The Ninja (except Zane who just looked surprised) slacked jawed at the pink Terran, as she managed to guess their journey in the temple perfectly. Rainbow just scratched her head and spoke, "Yeah, so how accurate was she?"
Kai was the first to snap out of it, shaking his head, "Uh she hit the bullseye." He said still a little stunned.
"How did you know all that?!" Nya exclaimed at the pink girl.
"Just a hunch." Pinkie shrugged.
"A hunch?! You figured that all out on nothing but a HUNCH?!" Jay shouted getting in Pinkie face who just kept smiling.
"Uh-huh." She nodded and Jay groaned and collapsed to the ground. Twilight just giggled and walked up them, "I know it's sound crazy but when it comes to Pinkie things aren't always impossible." as she looked at her wide smiling friend.
After slapping some sense back into himself Cole continued, "Uh well, yes it is all true, the curse on the temple does turn anyone within its walls into ghosts but it didn't always have this curse," he explained, walking over to the statue of Master Yang and placing a hand on the pedestal, "Master Yang was once a like Master Wu, wise and strict but also kind and patience, he trained to master all of the martial arts even creating his own, but in truth his greatest fear was being forgotten when his students became afraid of him because of his strictness and thus wouldn't remember him as a good master or remembered at all for that matter,"
"Jeez, I get that. I couldn't stand it if everyone forgot about me and my awesome flying skills." Rainbow sympathized as the other rolled their eyes. Cole faked a cough regaining their attention.
"Anyways, so when Master Yang fears started to get the better of him, he sought out the Yin Blade; an ancient artifact infused with dark magic that was said to grant whoever used eternal life. He believe that if he could master this weapon he could never die, and if he could never die than nobody would ever forget about him." He continued.
"I'm guessin' his plan didn't exactly pan out the way he wanted?" Applejack questioned as Cole shook his head, "Nope after some practice he used the Yin Blade on himself but unfortunately it didn't give precisely what he wanted, the Yin Blade did make him eternal but as a ghost, cursing him, his temple and his students. So eventually he lost and used the power of the Yin Blade to enslave his students and anyone else who wandered into the temple so they would never leave the temple or forget about him."
The girls and Spikes gasped, "Oh no." Fluttershy said.
"That's horrible!" Rarity said as she held Sweetie Belle securely.
"Yeah nobody should be treated like that." Rainbow added as Scootaloo nodded.
"But if the temple was cursed how did change back." Twilight asked before Cole sighed.
"Well you see on the Day of the Departed, we were checking out the Ninjago museum of history, I found the Yin Blade encased in Clearstone completely impenetrable, but as I did I noticed I was starting to fade and worst part is that 'some people' couldn't even tell that they were missing someone." He said, pointing the last part while glaring at the other ninja who looked at him rather sheepishly.
"Uh, heh-heh, yeah sorry about that dude." Jay said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Yeah, sorry." Kai added.
"I supposed we got a little too distracted by the hall of Villainy we didn't noticed you fading." Zane reasoned.
"Besides what we did was only half as bad as what you did Mr. I'm gonna steal an ancient cursed artifact from the museum so I can get even with a ghost." Nya said sharply at Cole as he started rubbing his head.
"Wait, WHAT?!" Applejack exclaimed, looking at Cole who looked very nervous.
"You stole...from a Museum?!" Spike said.
"Cool!" Scootaloo beamed.
"More like downright stupid! Where do you get off thinking stealing from a museum is a good idea?!" Sunset demanded before Rainbow flew next her with a sly expression, "The same place 'you' get off thinking stealing a crown from Canterlot Castle is a good idea." she snarked as Sunset eyes widened and blushed in embarrassment as equestrian chuckled and the Ninja gawked at her as she sighed.
"Touché."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up, did I hear right? you stole from the Castle in Canterlot? Why?" Kai asked before Sunset raised her hand. "Story for another time. For now let's focus on the fact that Blacky here stole from a museum."
Cole chuckled sheepishly, "Looking back on it, that probably wasn't the best idea I ever had."
"YA THINK?!?!?!" The Ninja shouted in unison, causing Cole to jump back in shock.
"Anyways, I was just so angry and bitter at Yang for turning me into a ghost that I just wasn't thinking straight, so yeah I did take the Yin Blade after Master Yang said I needed to 'Close the Circle' in a painting of him I saw, but in my anger I accidentally unleashed the ghosts of some of our old villains that possessed the mannequins in the hall of Villainy that distracted the others while Master Yang tried to open the rift of return and return to life by combining the power of Yin Blade with the Yin Yang Eclipse." Cole went on.
"'Yin Yang' Eclipse? I've never heard about that phenomenon?" Twilight said looking through her Astronomy Book.
"I wouldn't be surprised. The Yin-Yang Eclipse is an extreme rare eclipse that only happens in Ninjago every 3,721 years." Zane explained. "It's said that the Yin-Blade could open the rift of return, bring any depart soul back to mortality."
"Luckily I manage to escape Yang's students, and stop Yang's plan by destroying the Yin-Blade freeing them of his control and allowing to cross the rift and returned to life. I even helped Yang realized he would be remembered as great master by creating Airjitzu, and as a way to say thanks Yang helped me become human again." Cole finished.
"Wow." the girls and Spike said. "But what happened to Master Yang?" Fluttershy asked.
"Eh, after the curse broke, he got up and skedaddled, at least that's what we think." Jay said, before turning nervously to the Earth ninja, "He is gone, right?"
"You never know..." Cole said almost singsongy, as he turned to the temple he saw a greyish green, glowing man with a long black beard standing by the window, he wore a silver straw hat, a white shirt and black pants. He smiled and nodded to Cole as he winked back at him.
"Uh, Cole?" Cole was snapped out his musing and looked back and see everyone looking at him oddly, "What were you looking at?" Lloyd asked raising a brow.
Cole then looked back at the window and saw the ghostly man had disappeared but he just smiled, "Nothing," he simply said, leaving the others greatly confused, "Anyways now that we're here, what's the next step green machine," he asked the green Ninja, getting back to business.
Lloyd rubbed his chin in thought for a moment before turning the Equestrians first then to the temple. A small smile then appeared on his face as he turned completely to his friends and allies, "Well, since it pretty late and you all seem so interested in the temple I say we all sleep in the temple for tonight." He suggested.
"Huh?" The Equestrian gasped
"Seriously?!" The Ninja exclaimed.
"Seriously I think good rest here in the temple might help us get know each other better, and besides I think we're all bit too tired to go back to each of your homes." Lloyd reasoned and then turned to the girls, "So what ya say?"
"So your saying we should all have a mix gender slumber party inside an ancient, possibly still haunted temple?" Rainbow said skeptically before grinning and crossing her arms, "I'm game."
"Are you sure this is such a good idea?" Sweetie Belle said in worry.
"Uh, yeah I don't think I wanna wake up as a ghost in mornin'." Applebloom added.
"Hey. Like we said the curse on the temple is broken and we've been sleeping in this temple for months and nothings happened to us." Lloyd said gesturing to him and his friends.
"And don't worry Sweetie Belle, we'll all be in the temple together. It'll be just like when we were little?" Rarity said, kneeling down and side hugging Sweetie.
"Besides, it's not like it's the first time we've had a sleep away from the barn, remember sugarcube?" Applejack added, reminding Applebloom the times they slept at their aunt's and uncle's places.
"Plus, it would be pretty cool to see what a temple from another realm is like." Spike noted.
"And your sure it's safe?" Fluttershy asked in concern.
"Positive." Cole said.
"Then I guess, it's alright then." Scootaloo said, 'Just please no ghost stories.' she prayed in her mind.
"Well, how about it Twilight, up for one big sleepover?" Sunset asked the alicorn girl.
"Oh sure, let's all take a good night sleep inside a temple that turns anyone who stays in it before sunrise into ghosts just because people we just met say it safe." Twilight said skepticism as the Ninja slightly glared at her.
"Aw come on Twilight! It been ages since we had a sleepover!" Spike complained.
"Sorry Spike, but I think it be better if you, me and Sunset slept in our cozy, not cursed oak tree library." Twilight said turning from the others until Lloyd got an idea.
"The temple has a library too, filled with books and scrolls that have knowledge and wisdom from another realm within them." He said with a sly expression and as soon he finished a purple blur zoomed past him and straight into the building. Twilight head popped out the door with eyes gleaming, "Sunset you and the girls go and get your things for the sleepover, Spike you and I are gonna check out the library! Eeeeheee!!!" she Squealed and zoomed back into the temple, looking for the library as everyone outside chuckled at Twilight nerdtastic personality.
"Heh, nicely done Lloyd Garmadon." Sunset complimented, "If there's one thing Twilight can't resisted it's a good book."
"Thank you."
"But then again, to Twilight there's no such thing as a bad book." Spike joked as everyone laughed.
"Alright. Kai, Jay, Cole, you three take the girls back down to the village and get them their things while Nya, Zane and I will stay here with Spike, and Twilight, and get everything ready." Lloyd planned out.
"Got it!" Everyone chorused.
With that the Masters of Fire, Earth and Lightning, summoned their dragons, The Mane 6 and the CMCs hopped on with them and they took off down to Ponyville. Spike and the three remaining Ninja watched as they landed near a clearing.
"Well boys, we better get inside and get the temple ready for the sleepover, preferably before Twilight messes up or whole Library." Nya joked as Lloyd, Zane and Spike laughed while walking into the temple.
The three dragons landed and disappeared as the Kai, Jay, Cole and the girls all split up and headed out their homes to get everything they needed for the sleepover. Unknown to them was that as they head into town they were being watched by the same mysterious hooded boy who was spying on them during their fight at Canterlot. He watched as the heroes disappearing into the two from his table at local resturant, "So the Ninja's temple is now floating over the Elements of Harmony's village eh?" He asked himself, before chuckling darkly, "Well that just makes my job here easier, once Hunter and the other get here and launch the attack everything will fall into place and this Realm will be ours!" He smiled evilly.
"Um, sir?" He stopped smiling and looked to see a Terran waiter standing nect to him, "Who were you talking to?" The boy cleared his throat and changed his tone to a more humble one, "My apologies friend, I sometimes talk to self when I wait but in any case I would like the Raspberry wine and a Carrot and onion sandwich, if that's not any trouble?" He asked as the waiter nodded and wrote it down.
"Of course sir. But tell me if I may be so bold, your not from around here are you?"
"No I'm not. I once lived in Canterlot studying magic at the school for gifted unicorns," The boy then sneered under his hood, "Until my teacher turned her back on me, so I left and intended to increase my magic on my own, which has now brought me here, to the hometown of the element of Magic herself."
"Oh yes, Princess Twilight and her friends have done some extraordinary things since the Summer Sun Celebration, and intresting enough she too went to the school for gifted unicorns and was also the personal student of Princess Celestia herself." The Waiter noted.
"Really?" The boy pretended to sound interested.
"Indeed, and it's thanks to those five amazing girls she has surpassed the expectations of anyone could ever imagine," he then frown slightly, "Inspite of a little predicament that happened during the Canterlot Wedding some months ago." That caught the boy's attention.
"The Royal wedding of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Captain Shining Armor? From what I heard they are Princess Twilight's brother and sister-in law, correct?"
"Indeed they are, but according to rumors, when Twilight Sparkle suspected that Princess Cadence was Queen Chrysalis, Shining Armor, her friends and even Princess Celestia refused to believe her until she brought the real Cadence to the initial wedding." The waiter explained.
"I see." The boy then internally smirked. 'Betrayed by her friends, teacher and own brother, eh? Now that's information I can use. He thought already forming a plan.
"Well, I supposed I've wasted enough of your time young man, Allow me fetch your order mister," The waiter then turned and left but then trailed off and turned his head back to the boy, "Oh yes, I beileve you haven't told me What your name is?"
The boy smirked and as then a red aura covered the hem of his hood and pulled it off revealing he had pale skin, aquatic green eyes, a pale red unicorn horn and wil blood red hair with the front of it framed over his forehead. He turned to the waiter and said, "Call me Crimson Shard."
"Well mister Shard, I shall return with your food momentarily."
Once the waiter was gone Crimson looked out and saw the Ninja and the girls carrying, bags and other things back to the clearing while Rarity had Cole carry a whole lot of Baggage. The three Ninja then summoned their dragons and the girls loaded their luggage onto them, Rarity's had to be placed onto the earth dragon for it was much stronger than the other two. As the heroes hopped onto the three dragons, they took to the skies and headed to the floating island. Crimson continued to watch with an dark grin on his face 'Enjoy yourselves while you can my friends.' He said mentally, 'because when you and I cross paths, your peaceful way of life is gonna come to shocking and painful end.' the waiter than brought his meal and munched on it, deciding to eat first before making his move.
In the Lobby of the Airjitzu temple, there were chairs and book shelves up against the walls while the fireplace was emitting wonderful, toasty air while a picture of Master Yang hanged above it and finally there were colored sleeping bags laid across the carpeted floor while the Ninja, Mane 7, CMCs and Spike had changed into their pjamas and sat together at the fire place telling stories about their many adventures.
Currently they were discussing about the Grand Galloping Gala and the supposedly 'Best night Ever'. As they concluded to the part where the Mane 6 had run out of the ball room and straight into Donut Joe's shop, everyone was laughing.
"HAHAHA! Wow! That sounds like the worst night ever!" Cole laughed nearly falling off his chair.
"IT WAS!" The Mane 6 said in unison and started laughing again.
"But as it turned out, just hanging out with each other at Donut Joe's at the end did make it the best night!" Twilight said while holding a book she found in the library with her magic while she held Spike who sat in-between her legs.
"That and the fact that we made Princess Celestia's night by making the Gala a big mess and making it the most exciting gala she'd ever seen!" Pinkie added lying on her belly.
"A Pony polka, Blueblood covered in cake and Animals from the garden running wild in the ballroom?!" Sunset said before falling on her back laughing and kicking the air while clutching her sides, "That sound like the best night ever to me! Makes me wish I was there too. Though I probably just punch that Blueblood in the nose for how he treated you Rarity." She noted sitting back up and pointing to the Fasionista.
"Make that double for me." Nya said, sitting crossed legged next to Rarity.
Rarity sighed as her sister slept next to her, "Yes I'm afraid Blueblood wasn't the kinda man I thought him to be but I'm sure I'll find my knight in shining armor someday and have my happily ever after! Just you wait!" she declared while standing up dramatically as Kai deadpanned at her while leaning on his palms.
"Is she always this dramatic?" he whispered to Rainbow sitting next to him with Scootaloo sleeping on her lap.
"Dude, I could tell you stories."
"I heard that!" Rarity retorted as everyone laughed again. "Man, and thought my first date with Nya was bad!" Jay sitting left to his girlfriend.
"Well probably would've gone better if you didn't prick yourself on the Fangpyre fang." Cole smirked.
"What can I say? I was excited and I was paying attention!" Jay argued, "Besides where were you three when me Nya were about to crash?"
"Chilling out. Thanks to Zane's bad aim." Kai said, glancing at said Nindroid who sat in a meditative stance looking sheepish.
"I'm sorry, I supposed I got a bit to caught up moment to pay attention to aiming systems." Zane apologized as Fluttershy patted his back and hugging he bunny.
"I'm sure you were Zane. But at least Jay managed to find his True Potential and rescue Nya." She said.
"Which reminds me," Applejack said while placing Applebloom down so she wouldn't wake up. "What is this True Potential thing anyways?"
"True Potential is when an Elemental master unlocks his or hers power's fullest abilities but can only be achieved when what ever fear or weakness that is holding them back is overcome," Lloyd said standing up, "I unlocked mine when I accepted I had to do my duty to protect Ninjago even if meant facing my father or the ultimate evil."
"Now that's what I call brave!" Rainbow said pumping a fist.
"And as you all know mine came when Nya kissed me." Jay said only for to knock the back side of his head. "OW!"
"You goofball! You unlocked your true potential when you stopped pretending to be somebody else. All that kiss did was cure you of the Fangpyre venom.'And leaving a bad scaly taste in my mouth.'" Nya said while mentally stating the last part before turning to the group. "Mine was found when I learned to stop thinking about failing and just keep trying to find a new way to reach success?"
"I discovered my true potential after accepting what I was and learned that the no matter how diffrent I was, my brothers would always be there for me, just I will always be there from them and those who can't protect themselves." Zane said as the other Ninja smiled at him.
"Aww." The girls cooed.
"I found mine when I managed to reconnect with my dad and make him proud for who I truly was." Cole said smiling looking at a picture of him, Kai, Jay, Zane and his dad took after the annual Ninjago talent show.
"He must'a been the proudest pop in all of Ninjago to have you as his son." Applejack said punching his arm. Cole just chuckled and shrugged it off.
"And finally mine kicked in when I had to accept that just because it wasn't my destiny to be Green Ninja didn't mean I wasn't destined for glory." Kai said smiling at Lloyd who smiled back, grateful he saved him from the volcano.
"Hey don't let it get you down Hotshot, we all thought we be the Green Ninja." Cole ressured him as Jay and Zane nodded. "But at least didn't try on the Gi when Master Wu had his back turned." He smirked as Kai groaned and buried his face in his hands while everyone else laughed.
"Huh, so that's where that hair smell came from." Lloyd put in.
"Just don't tell Sensei. Okay? Please." Kai pleaded.
"Our lips are sealed." Pinkie said before yawning, "Wow it's getting pretty late, I guess we better-" She then fell fast asleep snoring as everyone chuckled and yawned as well.
"Well I think it's time we all got our beauty sleep. Goodnight Darlings." Rarity said before putting on her eye covers and falling asleep too.
"I guess your right, I got the fire." Nya yawned and shot a small water bullet at the fireplace putting in out instantly before lying on her back on closing her eyes, "Night everyone."
"G'night/Night/Goodnight." Everyone said before they all sank into their sleeping bags. Before he closed his eyes Cole looked at the portarit of Yang as he heard a faint whisper, "Goodnight Cole."
He smiled and whispered, "Night Yang." and fell asleep too.
While laying down Lloyd thought about the earlier conversation on they’re way here about their old friend, Ultra and with Celestia about his father. He had to admit that he really missed that Dragon and he hoped to see him again someday and also had hope that one day he true father would return to him. He looked out the window, into the night sky and whispered,
"Goodnight Ultra. Wherever you are." He smiled and pulled out a picture of his father in his normal form. "And goodnight to you too Dad." He then closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Meanwhile in the First Realm the first of all realms and homerealm of the dragons and oni, sleeping in a cave on a mountain was a large white dragon with a black underbelly with orange magma like markings on its chest. It had huge white wings with three orange claws on each with two green spikes on top of them, It's tail had white and green spines on it. Its back feet had three claws while its front ones had three with another claw sticking out the side resembling a thumb, making it look like a hand. However the most unique thing about this dragon was that it had four head each one with its own horns and coloring the first one on the left side had long, yellow horns, a black beard and red markings, the second left one had black short, stubby horns and a yellow horn on it's noses and carved rock on it chin resembling a goatee, the first one on the right had to long smooth yellow horns on it head, two that combined into one on it's nose and yellow markings on it face and the second one from the right had two long blue ice like horns and blue markings. This Dragon was in fact Lloyd's old dragon pet Ultra.
Ultra was snoozing and snoring sound asleep, when it heard something,
"Goodnight Ultra. Wherever you are."
Ultra’s four heads perked up as it recognized the voice of his old master. He then lumbered outside the cave and stared off into the night sky and remembered the adventures he, Lloyd and the Ninja went on before he returned home and noticed the old saddle it used to wear when serving the Green Ninja. While he did enjoy his freedom he missed his old master and his friends and would’ve loved to go on more adventures with them. All four head then bore determined expressions before turning back to the entrance of the cave and released a fourfold roar.
He than spread his wings and after a few flaps he took to the skies. He looked back at his mountain home one last time before he starting spinning opening a vortex and flying through it, and headed back to the Ninja.
Within the Glacier Barrens there was only vast landscape of white and black mountains and rocks with nary a blade of grass or patch of green within miles. Only plain white snow and white capped black mountains and in those mountains lied in wait a doubled door iron gate with two hawks carved on the doors holding their wings up and each had a talon foot gripping a circle with a starshaped shot in it. These doors were what held the allies of a certain dark lord in but soon no more.
Garmadon with staff trudged through the snow until he finally reached the irons doors. He gazed up at the owls on the gates and muttered, "The temple of the Owlucians Harpies." He approached the gates when he heard the cawing of a bird and the flapping of it's wings as it was flying in from behind him and without even looking he smiled. Then flying infront of him was a big male Vulture and holding a purple key like crystal in his talons. it dropped the crystal in Garmadon's hand, "Well done my feathered friend." He thanked the bird as it landed on his shoulder. "Now to free some other feathered friends of mine."
He placed the crystal on the door and as pure white energy flowed out of the crystal it traveled up the lines on the doors and around the circles as they illuminated with their colors and once it reached the two owls their eyes glowed yellow, their talons opened up as the gates opened wide revealing a darken chamber where inside lied weapons and artifacts from ages pass with only the light from neon green crystals sprouting out of the walls, but what stood out the most were the statues of at least 40 female warriors statues in owl armor and with wings for arms and talon feet. Standing at the center was a statue of a woman taller then the others that wore no mask or armor like many of the other warriors, she wore a dress that left her legs exposed and had a feathery over over her shoulders connect by a rather large necklace and Garmadon approached the statue as the woman appeared to be almost as tall as him and merely smiled at it and fear-filled face. He held the statue's shoulder and said, "Fear not Nyra, once my old ally returns with what I need this stone curse placed upon you and your people shall be broken."
"Allies? That has to be the first nice thing I've heard from you in years, Garmadon."
Garmadon rolled his eyes and turned to the source of the voice. Standing there was another man who appeared to in his late 40's clad in dark green and grey robes and black shoulder pads, arm and leg guards with silver outlines. His hair went past his neck, he had azure eyes, a long thin greyish black mustache and short goatie. Garmadon held out his hands as he walked towards the man, "Ah, Clerk. I was wondering when you would come."
The man named Clerk raised his hand, "Not to worry old friend, when it comes to matters of sorcery I never dilly-dally. "
"In any case did you bring it." Garmadon asked as Clerk pulled out a green tomb with a silver spine and dragon emblem on it's cover.
"Clouse did a good job hiding this from me," Clerk admitted as he smirked, "But unfortunately for my dear brother it was not enough." They both chuckled at his joke before Garmadon step aside gesturing towards Nyra's statue. Clerk nodded and walked toward the statue, opened the book to a particular page. He let go of the book as it seemed to be floating in the air by itself while he closed his eyes and spoke an incantation, "rue, cha, neiro, zi, ka, lu, ton, ji, ritzu, cai, rue, cha, neiro, zi, ka, lu, ton, ji, ritzu, cai, rue, cha, neiro, zi, ka, lu, ton, ji, ritzu, cai,!" he repeated the words for a few times as green mythical energy flowed through out the chamber as it rumbled causing the crystals glowed even brighter. The warriors statues started crack as light started to stream out of the cracks. Then as Clerk raised his hands and clapped them the statues imploded into light. Garmadon shielded his eyes but when uncovered them he saw the warrior statues had turned into living breathing winged women. They all wore white, dark grey and brown garbs with silver armor & masks, and on their bird like feet with they're wing tips painted red.
Nyra stood out the most. Her robes and hair was completely white while her armor and jewelry appeared to be silver and while the jewels appeared to be red. Her eyes were a combination of blue and yellow and she red markings over her eyes and another mark that started as a horizontal line across her forehead and went down vertically to the bridge of her nose. She gasped as did many of her warriors did as they had just take a new breath of fresh air, "What has-" She said before looking around her with her eyes stopping on the dark lord. Her eyes narrowed, "Well if isn't Garmadon, one of the two men responsible for ridding this realm of my slave-king Surtr. To what due I own the 'honor' of your presences and how exactly did you gain four arms?" She sneered looking at his extra arms.
"I know, that part surprised me too." Clerk said.
"Calm please Nyra," Garmadon said holding his hands out with ease, "I just came here to ask for a small favor."
"In the name of Owlucians harpies I will never again allow my sisters to fall under the command of men!" Nyra declared opening her wings showing her blades, "However since you robbed me of the pleasure of slaining our slave master, you're death will have to satisfy me." She was about charge before Garmadon suddenly bowed before her.
"Nyra, please I do not ask you to serve me." Garmadon said, "I only ask not only as man looking for redemption who seeks assistant from someone else who has been wronged but also as a friend." Nyra looked surprised she turned to her harpies who nodded to her, telling her to trust him. Nyra narrowed her eyes and lowered her wing blades,
"Very well, what is it you want from us Garmadon?" She asked blandly, as Garmadon grinned and looked to the vulture still on his shoulder as it pulled out a rusty red crystal shard from it coat with it's beak and dropped into his master's hand.
"Oh not much," he said coyly, "I just need you and your harpies' great tracking skills to find as many of these shards as you can find." Nyra just narrowed her eyes, clearly unimpressed.
"That's it? You want us to collect mere rocks?" She asked as Clerk stepped forward.
"Oh these are no mere rocks my dear," Clerk said, taking the crystal out of Garmadon's hand and looked at it intently, "These are the shards of an old friend of ours who was believed to have been killed many centuries ago but in reality her pieces of her life essence were sealed into these fragments and scattered across the realms." The crystal then started releasing a small cyan white glow from it surprising Nyra, "Which is why I believe if enough of these shards are brought together and combined with a spell, maybe able to bring her back."
Nyra listened carefully before turning to Garmadon, "And what is it my harpies gain from this?"
"Your freedom of course. after you complete your task you are free to do whatever you want and go wherever you want." Garmadon then afford his hand, "So what do you say Nyra? Do we have a deal?" Nyra looked at his hand. On one hand she and her warriors were once again serving a man but on the other hand this man had release her and her sister from their prison. After contemplating to herself she looked Garmadon, "If we do this, you will allow us to be free?" She asked.
"You have my word." Garmadon acknowledged.
"Then we have an agreement." Nyra then took the crystal and turned to her Harpies holding it up, "Listen me my sisters, the time of our freedom of Surtr's tyranny is at hand. But in order for our freedom to be fully granted we must complete the request of our liberators," She then held up the crystal, "These are we are after. Search the entire realm until you find as many you can find, and once you do bring them to Garmadon in-" She stopped herself and looked to Garmadon.
"Forgive me but where is it you want us to deliver the shards?" Garmadon pinched the bridge of his nose as he forgot to them where to deliver the fragments and Clerk chuckled while the vulture tilted his head.
"Bring them to where the light and love of the realm originates; The Crystal Empire." He said, Nyra nodded and then let out an owl like screech. After that The harpies spread their wings, grabbed their weapons and flew out of the chamber with Nyra being the last. Garmadon and Clerk stepped out and watched as the winged women scattered across the realm to search for the fragments.
Clerk turned to his old friend, "Garmadon I don't mean to overstep but are you sure this will work? I mean bringing back an empress who was turned to crystal and scattered across the realm seems rather impossible" Garmadon made no reaction to show he was listening he merely kept his back turn to the sorcerer as he walked down the mountain. "Garmadon?" He called again but this time Garmadon answered.
"Clerk If there is one thing the Ninja have taught me is that nothing is impossible until we try." The dark lord pulled out a photo but not the one of him and Lloyd but it was of a younger him in Black and gray robes with purple dragon markings while holding close to him a beautiful younger Misako with her light goldish blonde hair braided, jade eyes and in a gorgeous white wedding dress with gold and green details. Clearly this photo was taken during his and Misako's wedding. He saw how they were smiling but he himself frowned knowing that everything that built up to that wedding all started with a lie, he couldn't help but wonder if he could ever look upon his dear Misako again knowing that he actually tried to hurt her. He shook his head knowing now was not the time to wallow in guilt and cleared his throat "Now then let us seek out the others, if the great danger I sense is coming my son and his comrades will need all they can get."
Clerk nodded, and the two men travelled down the mountain Garmadon looked to the sky as he thought of his wife and whispered, "One day Misako, one day we will be together once again."
"One day we will be together once again."
Misako silently gasped as she heard a familiar voice, "Who's there?" she said as she whipped around behind her to see if anyone was behind her. But there wasn't anyone, thinking she was just hearing things she continued following Wu and Luna. After some catching up Shining and Cadance had already turned in for the night and Flash had continued his patrolling with the other guards once his injuries healed so Luna, Wu and Misako decide to wait for Celestia to return from her business in her chambers.
Eventually they reached doors of Celestia's chambers before they entered Wu asked, "What do you suppose was business Celestia had to take care of?"
Luna merely shrugged, "My sister does things for good reasons Wu, I'm sure whatever she had to take care it must've been very important."
"But we haven't seen her since she left to talk with Lloyd," Misako said in concern, "I just hope she hasn't gotten herself into trouble." Luna scoffed as grabbed the doors handles.
"Oh you worry too much Misa," She rebuked as Misako slightly furrowed her brows at the long-unused nickname Luna and Celestia called her during their childhood while Wu merely gave a wry grin, "I know back then Tia use to get us into more trouble than I like to admit, she's grown out of it. I'm sure she's perfectly-"
But whatever she was gonna say next died in her throat when the three gazed inside and were shocked to see a bruised and battered Celestia leaning against her bedpost. She turned to them and gave a weak smile, "Greeting everyone."
"Sister!" Luna practically shouted as she, Wu and Misako rushed inside the room. Luna held her older sister, helping her stand and immediately questioned her, "What happen?! Who did this to you."
Celestia gave a slight pain-filled chuckle, "I've got quite the tale to tell." So for next hour and a half, Celestia explained that her business was a battle with Garmadon and how she believed that Garmadon was restored to his true self, after that everyone was left thinking, Wu paced back and forth, Misako prepared them some tea and Luna was tending to her sisters injuries while berating her, "What were you thinking sister?! You could barely hold your own against Garmadon back in our youth when he held back but now he's even more powerful and dangerous than he ever?!"
Celestia merely sighed, she knew even back Luna and Garmadon never really got along which was rather funny considering how she and Wu would often point out how similar they were but right she could feel her chastising was out concern than anger. She noticed Wu had finished pacing as he sighed and turned to her, "Tia, if what you say is true, what makes you think Garmadon has been restored to his true self?" he asked, not wanting to get his hopes of his brother being restored.
"I'm positive Wu. I saw the look in his eyes and I saw not the dark emperor who tried to turn the realm into his image but the brother we were raised with and trained alongside with." Celestia said with a confident smile and wince as Luna tighten the bandage on her arm. "Which is good because I feel as if we will need him and any other ally we have if we are to survive what is coming."
"What?" The three said, as Misako walked over with the tea tray. Celestia stood up and walked over to her balcony, "Just before Ninjago and Equestria merged, I had vision where Twilight and Lloyd standing infront of me ready to face a being I thought we would never see."
"Who?" Luna asked as she stood a few feet away from her older sister. Celestia turned to face with a more serious face but only gave silence. But it was enough to answer Luna's question, "Wait you don't mean him? Do you?"
Celestia nodded grimly, "I'm afraid so Luna. When I saw those blood red eyes I knew in my heart it was him."
"Then the battle yet to come will truly be a fierce one." Luna noted as the two sister look on at their kingdom.
"Perhaps but we must dwell on it until we have proof he on the rise," Wu said as approached the two princesses, "What we can do is hope that Lloyd, Twilight and their friends will have the strength to stand against him," He turned to Celestia, "Speaking of Twilight, I take it she still doesn't knows about your 'little secret'?"
Celestia looked away as a somber expression appeared on her face, "No, she doesn't and honestly I think it's better she doesn't know." she said as she walked back inside as Wu and Luna followed her.
"Celestia you've kept this from her since her childhood, and we both know sooner or later Twilight is gonna start asking question and looking for answers and if she finds out from someone or somewhere that's not you she'll feel completely devastated and betrayed."
Celestia gave a deep exhale as she sat at her table with Misako, "I know Luna, I know. I wouldn't lie there were times where I just wanted to just tell her but the fear keeps stopping me." Celestia massaged her temples as she felt very conflicted. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked to see it was Misako comforting her. "Take it from me Celestia, the things we do the secrets we keep from those we care about are sometimes very dark and very painful but sometimes telling them the truth is the greatest remedy for it. So I think it might best you be more honest with Twilight about this secret and deal with consquences slowly." Misako soothed.
Celestia glanced over to Wu and Luna who had also sat down, and saw they had supporting smiles. She glanced to her wall to see pictures of her, Luna, Twilight and even Sunset during happier times just studying, at formal occasions, hanging out or even having fun. Though a picture of her and a younger Twilight splashing around in pool like bath laughing caught her eye. She smiled at the memory of when Twilight had run through the rain to make to school on time only to arrive to early, and the two of them had passdd the time by cleaning off and then goofing off in her bath. Celestia knew Twilight had a right to know what she was keeping from her but she had make sure the two them would be ready for it.
"Perhaps your right. Maybe the time has come for the truth to come out. But when specifically I don't know. I'll just let things play out and when the opportunity presents itself to confess to her I'll-as the young ones say -take the plunge." The four adults laughed. After they all calmed down Celestia poured them some tea to drink. "Now how about we talk about some of young ones adventures."
Wu nodded as he took his cup, "Well I might as well start," He took a sip and turned to Celestia and Luna, "Did I tell you about our fight with the Time twins."
"Krux and Acronix?!" Luna gasped before scowling, "I thought we had finally seen the last of them."
"Unfortunately no," Wu replied before closing his eyes, recounting the battle, "It started when I was waiting at the ruins of my monastery..."
that was what Lloyd was feeling right now, he felt like he was floating on a thin blanket of air above an endless abyss, he hadn't felt like this since he was possessed by Morro but at that time he felt he bound by cold, suffocating chains.
but this.
This felt much nicer, like a thick, cozy blanket of air carrying him somewhere filled with bliss.
Lloyd then grunted as he opened his eyes he had flicked open. he looked to his left, to his right, up and down but no matter where he looked all his saw was utter blackness.
"Where am I?" He thought aloud.
"Where the land of dreams meets the waking world." A mysterious voice said as Lloyd whipped his head around trying to find out where the voice was coming from. But all he could see was nothing but black.
"I guess I was just imagining it." Lloyd told himself as turned around only to see a ghostly looking male Alicorn looking straight at him and right infront of him. "AHHH!" Lloyd shouted as reeled back.
"I'm afraid in this plane of existence there is nothing to imagine." The Alicorn said, in a refine and noble voice, once he got a good look at him look could see this Alicorn looked to be around Celestia's age (In appearance not actually Age FYI) maybe a few years more, his horn looked to be at least an inch longer than the Sun princess's as well. He also had dark & striped tail with hair that went up to his shoulders and subconsciously reminded Lloyd of Twilight Hair style only a little more male and rugged looking, robes and armors on his arms and sash around his waist, he had a short goatee that went past the corners of his mouth making a sort of mustache. though he couldn't tell the colors since he was a greenish teal color but what he could tell was this man had a scar on his left cheek, his right pony ear had a notch in it and his wings had the feathers on the end tattered.
"Uh, yeah I'll keep that in mind." Lloyd said carefully, normally he'd question how this was possible but given what he and his friends have been through he chose to just roll with it. he then looked back at the man, "So uh, who are you Mr. Ghost Alicorn?"
"Ah, yes How rude of me!" The Alicorn said as slapped his forehead then cleared his throat, "Ahem! My name at this moment cannot be said but just to make things easier for you Lloyd Garmadon you may call me, King."
"Okay then "King", strange other name cause honestly you look like a-" Lloyd paused as a thought came to him, "Wait, How do you know-"
"It's my duty to know." King said as he floated past the very confused boy, "I know everything about you Lloyd Garmadon, Son of Lord Garmadon Aurumin and Misako Montgomery, student of Master Wu Aurumin, Elemental Master of Energy and the prophesied Green Ninja of legend."
"Okay didn't know you were fan." Lloyd commented raising a brow.
"Unfortunately I did not come here to fuel your confidence my boy but to warn you." He went on as Lloyd face turned surprised. "Warn me? About what?" He asked.
King sighed, "I sense the merging of the two worlds and reached out to you to confirm my theory which I see was true." The blackness then fadded to meadow at sunset with a golden orange light bathing the land around the two, "I fear that an ancient evil has begun stirring is at work as we speak."
"Evil? What ancient evil." Lloyd asked as he and King walked or rather floated in the latter's case.
"One I'm afraid you are all to familar with." King said as Lloyd looked at him with suspense, "It is the Ov-"
*HOOOONNNNNKKK*
"AHHH!" Lloyd screamed at the sound of a bullhorn blaring, waking him up from his dream.
"AAHHH!" The others screamed, awaken by Lloyd and the loud honk, with some like Cole and Rainbow falling off the couches where they slept. Once everyone had regained their hearing they all turned to the person who rudely woke them up.
"GOOOOODDDD MORNING EVERYBODY!!!!" Pinkie cheered as her confetti cannons blasted confetti into the air.
"PINKIE! What did I say about waking us like that?!" Twilight snapped as her bed-head hair and blood-shot eyes showed she was still tired.
"Seriously, and I thought Wu morning gong was annoying!" Jay groan, rubbing his ears.
"Where did she get those-" Cole tried ask about the Cannons that suddenly appeared in the room but was cut off by Applejack.
"Don't ask!" She retorted as Applebloom rubbed her eyes.
"Oh come on guys! It's a new day and we need shows you ninja around Ponyville! And I need to prepare your 'Welcome' party!" Pinkie said gesturing to the Ninja.
"Well could you do that later?!" Kai groaned crankily, pulling his blanket over himself again, "Some of us still need to sleep!" Pinkie just pulled him up again and gave him her baby eyes.
"Aww! Come Kai! Just let us show you around town! PLEASE!" Pinkie begged as Kai looked uneasy at her puppy face.
"It would be a good idea for us to get acquainted with our new environment." Zane reasoned, not feeling as tired or annoyed as the others.
"He does make a good point." Rarity said taking out her curlers and Sweetie Belle shook her sleep.
"Of course he does it's hard to argue with a walking computer." Sunset stated rubbing her head.
"Alright but first we got Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to the school house." Fluttershy said before whipping around to face the three little girls who looked like she was about to argue, "And don't you try and argue you three are going to school like or not." She stated firmly, Discord and Applejack had been helping her be a bit more assertive to others but unlike Ironwill's methods taught to only do it when the situation absolutely called for it and this was probably one of those times.
"AWW!!!" The CMCs groaned.
"Fine, fine. Let's all just get dressed first, head to the school and then look around town." Lloyd said as everyone grumpily got ready but the green just sat where he was and thought back to his dream, 'What was the evil King was trying to warn me about?' he thought but shrugged it off stood up to get ready.
Once everyone got ready they flew off the island on the dragons and towards the school house where they saw a brown skinned Terran woman, with a two-toned pink hair and tail with plum colored ears and green apple eyes, she wore a magenta coat, a brown coat, black leggings and white shoes and she had three daisy pin on her jacket. The woman looked surprised as she saw the Ninja and the heroes of Equestria riding down on the backs of dragons.
"What in the,?" She said, not believing what she was seeing.
"Howdy Cheerilee," Applejack greeted with a tip of her hat, as she and Applebloom hopped off of Cole's dragon and the other followed after them to the door with the dragons disappearing baffling Cheerliee even more.
"W-wha? H-how did you do-" Cheerilee struggled to talked before Rarity silenced her.
"Another time Cheerilee but right now I believe it's time for Sweetie Belle and her friends to begin they're school day?" Rarity said, giving Sweetie a light shove telling to go in. The younger Belle sister sighed and nodded but not before giving a cute smile and wave to Spike who stood behind Twilight and waved to her as she, Applebloom and Scootaloo jog into the classroom.
Cheerliee then turned back to 13 teens but looked to the ninja in particular, "So who might you fine people be?"
"We're the Ninja Mrs. Cheerilee." Lloyd answered before introducing his team, "I'm Lloyd this Kai, Jay, Cole, Zane and Nya."
Cheerilee just smiled and noted they're lack of tails, horns, wings and ears, "I take your some of these human that have moved into Ponyville yesterday?"
"Yeah, we-" Kai stopped himself realizing what the teacher had said, "Wait a minute are you saying they're are others?"
"Indeed, infact there even some in my schoolhouse," Cheerilee pushed the door as the group looked to see a bunch of human kids among some of the Equines kids, but the Ninja noticed one in particular in his signiure Purple hoodie.
"Nelson?!" They whispered shouted, not wanting to catch some unwanted attention from the kids. True to their words Lil' Nelson was in-between next to Scootaloo and another Pegasus kid but had silver wings and ears and a black swept back mane.
"Do you know that boy?" Fluttershy asked as she and the girls saw the boy.
"Yeah, he's sort of the honorary Purple Ninja." Nya explained as the girls looked at the water ninja in surprise.
"Isn't he kinda small to be bashing bad guy heads?" AJ asked, raising an Eyebrow.
"Ahem!"
The group turned to see Cheerilee giving them an about face, "While normally I don't get involved with other peoples conversations, I really have to get my class started, so if you don't mind." The teens nodded and moved aside and began to explore the village of Ponyville.
As The teens walked through the town they saw many human who quickly become accustomed to the new village, the Ninja soon learned that Ponyville had merged with one of the larger villages in Ninjago called "Normonika" (The Same Village that appeared in "Big Trouble Little Ninjago). The Equines were of course surprised to see humans living among them but seeing as there was no major difference apart from the lack of extra ears, tails, wings and horns they pretty accepting to the new comers.
The Ninja and Mane 7 walked around until they came to a blue, white and purple building that had a roof similar to a carousel top. "I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this is your house Rarity?" Kai asked the Fashionista who just gave a chuckle.
"Oh my dear Kai, this is more than just my 'house'," she explained before standing infront of the building with her arms out, "My dear Ninja, Welcome to Carousel Boutique, home to Sleek, chic and oh so incredible Unique!"
"Oh, so it's a clothing store?" Cole guessed, rubbing his chin.
"Pretty much." Sunset explained, crossing her arms, "Whenever most of don't have anything to do, we stop by here and try on some of Rarity's creations." But she then smirked and glanced over to a certain farm girl and a Wonderbolt, "Or in Dash and Aj's cases forced to walk around in one of dresses after losing a bet."
The Ninja laugh at the thought of the two girls in dresses, since it would be ridiculous to see the two tomboys in girly dresses. Applejack and Rainbow just crossed they're arms and gave them unamused frowns, "Real funny." They groaned out.
They continued the tour of town, stopping by places like the Ponyville Spa, Fluttershy's Sacuntuary on the outskirts of town and then as they were walking through the middle of town Cole saw a building that really Caught his attention. The team then saw Cole with his tongue sticking out and drooling then he zoomed straight for a building that looked like it was made entirely out of sweets, and baked goods. The Ninja had a sinking feeling what that store was, "Um, that wouldn't happened to be a cake shop would it?" Kai asked heistantly.
"Uh, huh. That's Sugarcube Corner, best Cake, Cupcake, Cakepops and all kinds of sugary treats shop in all of Ponyville, why?" Pinkie said, confused why they would ask what kind of shop Sugarcube Corner was.
The Ninja looked at each other and all said, "Uh-Oh."
"What is it?" Twilight asked with a raise brow.
Nya pinched her nose and answered, "Cole sorta has an...Addiction to cakes."
"...Seriously?" The Mane 7 and Spike said, finding it weird that the most muscular member of the team would be addicted to cake.
"Seriously, Now let's go before Cole eats the poor store owners of that shop out of Shop and home." Kai as they all ran into Sugarcube Corner where they saw Cole getting a cake from a short and slightly plump Terran woman in a purple and white apron a three cupcake mark on it and light yellow dress shirt and pink earrings, with a Pink swirly tail and hair, hot pink eyes, and bright blue ears.
"Thanks, Mrs. Cake! I was starving all day!" Cole cheered looking at the cake happily.
"Oh it's no problem at all sweet heart, I honestly love making treats for the new comers." Mrs. Cake said with a sweet.
"Cole!" Cole and Mrs. Cake flinched they turned to see the rest of the teen standing behind them with Nya looking particularly unamused.
"Uh hey guys, What's up?" Cole said sheepishly.
"Oh don't 'Hey guys, what's up' us guys Rock for brains!" Nya retorted, storming up to Cole, "Are you bothering this nice lady?!"
"Oh no dearie. I can assure you, your friend has been no bother at all." Mrs. Cake said as the others gather around and turned to Cole and pointed to the other Ninja, "Cole are these your friends."
"Uh-huh, This is tough girl Nya, her hotshot brother Kai, my robo buddy Zane, my best Jay and my Green leader Lloyd." Cole introduced them with Nya giving a wry grin, Kai giving a raised brow, Zane giving slight head bow, Jay giving a bright smile and wave and Lloyd giving simple head nod, "Guys this is Mrs. Cake, she's the owners of this shop."
"It's Nice to meet you Mrs. Cake. Sorry if our black friend here was trying eat all of your products." Kai joked.
"HEY!" Cole retorted, as everyone laughed. Once they calmed down Mrs. Cake spoke again.
"Oh don't worry your friend was actually helping me by purchasing my new Apple and cinnamon Cake." She gestured to the cake Cole was holding.
"Ooh!" The group said looking at the yellow, Red and brown cake, decorated with cinnamon sticks and apple slices.
"Looks good, Mrs. Cake." Pinkie complimented the elder Terran, "you probably make this a special on the menu."
"She not wrong you know," the group turned to see a tale skinny male Terran, with yellow ears, an orange short sraggy tail and hair and green eyes. He wore brown pants, a white apron with a carrot cake picture on it over a teal shirt, and red and white bowtie with a matching hat.
In his arms his was holding two babies, in his right was a light skin boy with blown back brown hair with matching eyes, with small stubby wings and ears of a light goldish gray color and in his right arm a little girl, with orange hair with a blue bow on top, yellow ears and horn, sucking her thumb. The Terran walked over to the group and as he handed the boy to Mrs. Cake, "When I just caught a wiff of that cake I knew it was real Sugarcube Menu Special!"
"Oh Thank you, Carrot." Mrs. Cake replied blushing before realizing she didn't introduce them to her family, "Oh right where are my manners, ahem. Ninja this is My Carrot Cake and our childern Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake." She introduced them respectively.
"Aww!" The Ninja cooed looking the baby respectively. Pound looked at Kai and smiled before bobbing the fire Ninja on the nose.
"Pound! What have I told you about hitting people?" Mrs. Cake scolded before turning to Kai looking apological, "I'm a so sorry about that Kai. Pound you apologize too." She held up her son to Kai as the little boy made a gulity face and say "Sawry." Kai just chuckled.
"Heh no problem pal. I've hit by worst," He then let Pound hold one of his figures, "You got a real fighting spirit in you, I see the makings of warrior inside you."
"Maybe. I was told most Pegasi were born into lives of adventure. But it's still to early to tell." Mrs. Cake said nuzzling her son.
"So what about her, does she like to hit things?" Lloyd asked gesturing to Pumpkin who just smiled.
"Oh no." Mr. Cake said with a chuckle before gently scratching Pumpkin's chin with a finger, "Pumpkin prefers to chew on things rather than hit them I feel like she'll be quite the taste tester when she grows up." Pumpkin giggles at her daddy in response.
"Wait a second," Jay said before point to the Cakes, "How is that two Terrans can have both a baby pegasus and a baby Unicorn?" He asked, pointing to Pound and Pumpkin respectfully?
"Easy, My great-great-great-great- grand grandfather was a unicorn," Carrot Cake explained before going on, "and Cup Cake's great aunt's second cousin twice removed was a pegasus. That makes sense, right?"
The Ninja just blink in confusion at that really interesting explanation, "Um, I was gonna say it was pure dump luck but that works to." Jay spoke up.
"Don't' worry about it guys." Sunset reassured, "I was pretty confused by how this happened myself when I moved here."
"Well with that out of the way do you think we can go somewhere for some more food?" Cole asked as his stomach growled and his face turned sheepish, "Heh heh, I didn't have breakfast yet. And this cake is just for dessert."
"Oh, Cole. Is food all you ever think about?" Nya said as she and the other Ninja facepalmed at they're team's strongest member's appetite.
The girls chuckled, at the Black Ninja Hunger, before Applejack patted Cole's Shoulder "Now don't you worry Sugarcube I know just the place to get that belly of yours's full."
The Ninja turned to her curiously, "Really, where?" Jay asked.
"My Home." She replied
"*Whistle* That's a one big orchard ." Kai said seeing Apple trees as far as the eye can see.
"Yup, Sweet Apple Acres has more trees than any other Apple farm in all of kingdom." Applejack said, looking at her family's farm with pride. The had headed to Sweet Apple arces for breakfast, While Kai, Lloyd and Cole explored the orchard with Applejack and her brother Big Macintosh while collecting apples and the others were helping her grandmother make them all breakfast with the cake Cole got from Carrot and Cupcake as dessert.
The boys used there Ninja train to kick the apples of the trees or as the Apples say 'Buck em loose'. Kai gave one tree a good soild kick and the apples rained down in the baskets. Then the orange haired but not so talkative big man known as Big Mac Picked them up. He wore a red jacket with a brown collar over a white shirt, Blue jeans, red and white sneakers, brown belt.
As he carried the two buckets, Cole walked next to him carrying Four (Two stacked on each other in each hand) and complimented him, "Whoo, you must be pretty strong like your sister to carry to bucket loads of apples, Huh Mac?"
"Eeeyup." Big Mac answered.
"Ha! Your one to talk Mister 'Strongest ninja in the land'." Lloyd retorted as he loaded a bucket into the horse draw Carriage.
"Well I'm glad you boys are here to help, harvesting all the apples before they spoil is big job." Applejack said in the driver's seat.
"No problem AJ, helping people is what we Ninja do best." Cole said as the two shared a smile. Big Mac detect something more in the smiles they were giving each other and gave a smile back, 'Looks like AJ finally found some fella who caught her attention.' He thought before a less happy one crossed his mind, 'Now if only I could find my own-'
*Bang-bang-bang*
His thinking was interrupted when the group turn to see an elderly short Terran Woman with reddish orange eyes, her grey and white hair and tail in a bun, wearing a yellow dress shirt, a red dress, and apron with apple pies on it, an orange apple patterned scarf, and green ears and was banging a pot with a spoon and called out them.
"Alright ya Whipper Snappers! That's enough Apple Hualling! Come cool your Cabooses inside for some delicious Apple Family Breakfast!" The Apple siblings just sighed and shook they're heads while the three Ninja boys were amazed by the old woman's yelling skills.
"Comin' Granny!" They called and Big Mac Hopped on to the carriage next to his sister. Applejack then turned to her new Ninja friend and gestured for them to climb on. "Alright fellas, get on before Granny Smith comes down and tans our hides." She joked.
The boys turned to each and shrugged and hopped on to the carriage's flat bed, and then AJ whipped the reins of the horses before they neighed and clipped-clopped down the path.
"I sure hope an Apple Family breakfast is tasty." Cole said rubbing his belly in anticpation, he always loved apple foods growing up.
"Oh trust me partner, it's more then tasty. It's Lip Smackin' delicious!" Applejack promised. "And trust me when I say that's the honest truth."
"Would you expect anything less from the 'Element of Honesty'?" Kai joked as they laughed and head for the farm house, hoping to have a delicious apple breakfast.
"*BURP* AHH, That was good!" Cole said after he burped as he rubbed his happy belly after the delicious breakfast the apples made for them, as everyone murmured an agreement minus Rarity who made a grimace at the sound of Cole's burping.
Rarity scoffed, "Auh, Cole darling please I know you are a man but please would do you any harm if you could show a little dignity by not burping so loudl-"
*BBUUURRRPP*
The group froze and turn to the fashion Unicorn who had just made an even bigger burp than Cole's and was hunched over with her mouth covered. It was silent for a few moments before Kai, Rainbow, Jay and Pinkie fell to the ground rolling with laughter, Cole, Applejack Nya and Sunset laughed too but not as hard as first four while Lloyd, Twilight, Fluttershy and Zane did there best to hold back their giggles for the sake of poor Rarity who was now kneeling with a red face of embarrassment.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Oh man! Rares that- That was just- That was too-too AWWESSOMMME!!" Rainbow struggled said, as she held her aching sides.
"BAHHAHAHA! Yeah did-didn't know you burp like that!" Kai laughed out, pointing to the Bearer of Generosity as Jay and Pinkie were too busy laughing to talk.
"Heh, I tried to warn you drinking all that cider would have some backlash for ya!" Applejack chuckled.
"STOP YOUR LAUGHING! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!!!" Rarity screamed as she glared at her laughing friends.
Once she regained control of herself, Rainbow looked out and saw something approaching, she squinted her eyes to get a better look and her jaw drop when she got a good look at it. "Um guys call me crazy but is that a giant metal man heading straight towards us?" She said, pointing to the path up ahead as the said giant metal man was marching for the town.
"Huh?" They look and saw that the giant metal man was mostly dark navy blue and stark white with gold fingers on it left hand, a giant black laser cannon on it's right with a gold tube that was connected to the back and purple and gold details and what looked like a white samurai helmet with gold horns and on it's forehead was an insignia samurai's helmet as face guard and two swords crossing each other . On it's chest was what looked like some kind of energy core and on it's back were jet boosters and a gold sword handle.
"Hey don't we know that walking tin-can?" Jay asked as the other Ninja realized who was walking towards them.
"You should Jay." Nya said smirking at her boyfriends before placing a hand on her chest and spoke with some pride, "After all I Built it?"
"Wait YOU build that giant robot?!" Twilight exclaimed as the robot got closer, the girls now seeing how big it really was.
"Yes, but it's not really a robot, it's mecha-suit I built back when I was known as Samurai X." Nya explained before turning to said mecha-suit that had finally came to a stop. "Though looks like someone made some upgrades to it." The girls stared in awe at the giant mechanical marvel, though one could see that someone was piloting it and the girls noticed that Zane looked particularly happy as he stared at the person in the Mech. "But if it's your suit then who's that driving it?" Sunset asked.
"A good friend." Zane said as he then walked towards and gestured to the person, "Why don't you step out there and introduce yourself to our new friends?" The person nodded and the suit chest opened up and they hopped out. Once the person was out the Mane 7 could clearly see that this was a woman given her slim figure. She wore Blue, and white armor with red highlights, black pants and boots with the Samurai helmet and swords insignia on her chest. She wore a helmet with a white Visor and gold flame like horns.
Zane then turned back to group and gestured to masked woman, "Girls allow me to Introduce you to Samurai X," Samurai X then took off her helmet revealing herself as a pale skin girl with silverish colored hair and emerald eyes. She then hugged Zane and he hugged her back, "It is good to see you're alright Pixal."
"Likewise Zane." Pixal replied before they separated and she turned to the group, "Good day my friends, I am Pixal Borg, which stands for Primary Interactive eX-ternal Assistant Life-form Borg. The new Samurai X" She introduced herself while taking a respective bow.
The girls looked to each other confusedly, "Um, it's a very nice to meet you Pixal." Rarity said approaching the Samurai, "Forgive me for asking this but given how you just explain your first name you wouldn't to be a..." She trailed not wanting to be rude to the girl.
Pixal merely chuckled, "Yes my friend, I am indeed a robot. Observe." She then closed her eyes and then her face shimmered for a moment before her skin turned into a metallic white, with purple circuit like markings on her face, her hair turned into a shiny silver and her eyes turned into a brilliant glowing green. Unlike when Zane revealed to be a robot the girls were not terrifed but rather fascinated by the female robot. Rarity in particular was extreme appealed by her appearance.
"My Pixal you are quite the lovely Lady." She then made a sly look at Zane remembering how they hugged a few moments ago, "I'm sure a certain Nindroid loves to talk about you."
"Oh yeah, those two are like two magnets: They're attracted to each other!" Jay quipped.
Everyone except for Zane Pixal who didn't understand the joke and Pinkie and Rainbow who actually thought it was laughed just groaned. Zane then decide to answer Rarity question, "You are indeed correct Rarity. Pixal and I are compatible." He said holding the female droid's hand.
"Compatible?" Sunset asked with a raised brow at Nya.
"It's kind of a thing with them." Nya answered before turning to her Samurai X successor looking over her old suit, "So Pix I see you made some upgrades to my old suit."
"Correct. Since my original one was destroyed in the fight with the Oni I decide to bring the old one off the shelves with some of my, 'father's' tech." She answered but saying the father's part with some hesitant as she was still a little not use to call Dr. Borg that yet. She than turn back to the group, "I was about to return to Ninjago City when there was this big white flash of light, when I awoke I was still in the Samurai X Cave, I headed to Borg Tower to learn what happened. Once I understood the situation I tracked you to this town thanks to Zane signal."
"Well it's good to see you Pixal." Lloyd said, "Now that your here we can finally get some training done"
Pixal then turned to her left, "Well if you wish to begin your training, I suggest you start soon, especially with those enemies approaching the town rather quickly."
That got everyone to flinch and turned to female Nindroid with concern, "Uh, Enemies? What enemies?" Jay asked.
Pixal then pointed the border of the two as they all saw a large group of people riding on what looked motorcycles. Leading were five more advanced looking cycles and behind them them was a much larger one driven by a much larger man. "Oh, those enemies?" Jay squeaked.
"Who are those ruffians?" Rarity gasped.
"Wait a minute are those, The Sons of Garmadon?!" Nya shouted, recognizing they're motorcycles.
"Wait The Sons of Garmadon? The Motorcycle Cult and Worshippers of Lloyd's father you fought a few months ago?" Twilight asked, as Lloyd made a grimace at her for her choice of wording.
"Yup, we thought after we defeated Garmadon we caught them all but it looks like at least a handful managed to give us the slip. Including Killow." Cole said pointing to the big man at the back. "He was one of the SOG's top commanders."
"We figured he might've skipped town with some of his buddies." Kai said with a hand on his sword.
"B-but who-who are those five leading them." Fluttershy trembled pointing to the said five bikers.
"I don't know but look a like everyone. Looks like our job of protecting our new world just got started." Lloyd declared as the Ninja and Pixal drew they're weapons. The Bikes stopped with the lead bikers screeching to halt. The five were dress in Silver, Violet, Red, green and Blue colored gear and helmets respectively and Then the one in center who was wearing the red colored gear and bike spoke in male voice, reverberating through the helmet.
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