Chapter 23: The calm before the storm.
Reader Key
(Y/N) = Your Name
(H/L) = Hair Length
(H/C) = Hair Colour
(E/C) = Eye Colour
(N/N) = Nickname
(Third Person P.O.V)
The Ninja had taken Lloyd to train a Dareth's Dojo just to get him and (Y/N) away from Mrs Garmadon.
That morning Mrs Garmadon made a dangerous mistake in trying to corner Lloyd to talk with her.
"I don't want to talk to you!" Lloyd screamed and this bought (Y/N) running.
"Lloyd, what's wrong?" (Y/N) asked as she came skidding into the room, then her eyes fell on Mrs Garmandon. "Oh." (Y/N) snorted at Misako.
"(Y/N), please keep her away from me." Lloyd pleaded running to (Y/N) and throwing her arms around her with tears in his eyes.
That was all (Y/N) needed to hear she gently and lovingly stroked his hair and wiped the tears from his eyes.
"I'll handle it, Lloyd, Why don't you go train with the Ninja and I'll handle Mrs Garamdon for you." (Y/N) told him her voice calm and sweet.
Lloyd nodded and stepped out of the room. (Y/N) gave him a sweet smile and as soon as he was gone (Y/N) face turned to the calm before the storm.
That storm was directed right at Misako Garamdon. "I'm trying to talk to my son." Misako said turning her nose up at (Y/N).
"No. You're talking to me." (Y/N) declared blocking the way.
Misako Garamdon had a smug look on her face, as she stared down at the girl. "Don't make me call Wu. Little girl." Misako said dropping her façade.
"I don't care, what game you're playing with the old man and his brother's hearts. Play them to your heart's content but Lloyd is under my protection and off limits to your twisted games, understand." (Y/N) said putting on a huge radiant smile.
(Y/N) despised the rituals of fake friendship. She'd much rather claw someone's eyes out and call it a day; instead of spouting out fake politeness and false compliments till her stomach hurt from the nauseating faux sweetness of it all.
Misako didn't like what (Y/N) was hinting at which served to make Misako Garmadon even angrier.
It didn't seem to bother (Y/N) though, she, in fact, seemed to be enjoying it.
"Out of all of you ninja, you are the worst, at least the others have some decent qualities, but you girl... Your just some disturbed, dysfunctional little girl." Misako spat at (Y/N)
(Y/N) burst into laughter. "That's the best you can do? You're a manipulative witch that loves to cause family strife and play with the hearts of brothers. You can do better than that, Can't you?" (Y/N) said with a smile.
"Oh and I'm not a ninja, I don't have the tolerance for hypocrites who try to convince others that they're a good person, while continuing to do vile atrocities to children on a daily basis." (Y/N) said as she continued to verbally spar with the vile woman.
Misako's face went red with rage. "You vile child." Misako spat at her.
"A vile child who saved your son even more times than your husband tried to rule Ninjago, and kill us but together." (Y/N) corrected her.
"You didn't even know that he'd been living on the streets cold and alone after Darkly's kicked him out, did you? I've been more of a mother to that sweet little boy then you have in your entire life!" (Y/N) continued.
Misako stayed silent tears running down her face. "Do us all a favour and go join your husband go make his life miserable, you've done enough to Lloyd to last a lifetime." (Y/N) finished and walked out the room to join Lloyd.
____Timeskip____
Lloyd had his eyes covered while standing back to back. The others were ready with weapons around him.
"Don't rely on your eyes," Cole told Lloyd. "Use your ears!"
Lloyd nodded as the guys got ready to attack him.
They got interrupted when Dareth entered the room. "Uhm, guys? I'm teaching a class later, so I would appreciate a clean Dojo."
Ignoring Dareth, The team attacked Lloyd one by one, but all ended up on the floor.
The only person who didn't land on the floor was Jay who instead was thrown into Dareth's trophy-cabinet.
Jay got up on his feet again, but Dareth panicked when he saw that the majority of his precious trophies laid on the floor. "Oh no! No, no, no, no, no!"
Dareth opened the window in the Dojo, and Jay threw outside. "Hey! Open the window, let me in!" Jay yelled.
Jay was completely ignored as Lloyd continued his fight. Green flames soon appeared in his hands, which only caused Dareth to get even more worried about his beloved Dojo.
"GUYS! Stop fighting! Everything is burning and look at my precious trophies!" Dareth shouted desperately gestured to his burning Dojo.
"Oh." Lloyd scratched the back of his head. "Sorry about that."
_____Timeskip______
The ground began to shake. "Cole?" (Y/N) questioned. "Not me." Cole shouted.
"Earthquake!" Jay shouted running through the front door after the tremors someone turns on the tv.
"And NGTV reporter Gale Gossip on the scene of what appears to be an earthquake rocking the City of Ninjago! But it's an earthquake like no other, as scientists have yet to pick out the cause. And more frightening still, the aftershocks are getting worse!" Gale Gossip reported on the tv.
"What do you think it could be?" Cole asked as the news reporter finished.
"I wouldn't be surprised if it was Garmadon." Kai stated. "We haven't seen him for a while."
Zane let out a whistle calling his falcon. "My friend." Zane let the falcon land on his arm. "Be my eyes and look for danger in the streets above."
The citizens of Ninjago screams loudly as more and more earthquakes shook the city and large crevices appeared in the ground.
The Ninja ran out on the street everyone was doing there best to keep the people away from crevices in the ground, but one little girl didn't get away in time.
As she tried to save her dog, the street collapsed under her, which caused her to get trapped with no way to get back up.
"Help!" She yelled as her dog barking at the edge desperately crying out for someone to save its owner.
"Ninja Go!" Lloyd shouted. (Y/N) nodded and leapt head-first into the hole, only for Lloyd to grab her feet, Zane to grabbed Lloyd's Kai and Jay does the same and then they all caught each other's ankles until they could reach the helpless child at the bottom.
"A few more inches!" (Y/N) yelled as she tried to take the child's hands but failed each time.
Cole, who was the one anchored at the edge of the hole, crouched a little down, which finally let (Y/N) reach the frightened child and Cole began to pull everyone up.
Suddenly the ground beneath Cole crumbled, making him take a few steps back and almost drop us. "Could've thought this plan through a little more!" Cole grunted.
The dog was barking next to Cole. "I appreciate the support, Doggie." Cole grunted again.
"You can do it, Cole!" (Y/N) shouted out encouraging him. "Imagine we're a cake!"
(Y/N)'s strategy seemed to work and Cole actually managed to pull everyone up from the hole.
"Thank you!" The child said to (Y/N) but (Y/N) just shook her head and smiled. "Thank Cole he did all the work!" (Y/N) said nodding towards Cole who rested on the ground.
The little girl scooped up her dog and ran off to find her mum and dad.
"These quakes keep coming without warning!" Kai stated.
"They are the warning!" Misako Garmadon exclaimed as she and Sensei Wu approached the team. "The scrolls said the earthquakes would be a warning. A warning for something far worse to come!"
"Far worse?" Jay asked worriedly. "What could be far worse!?"
"Misako." Cole caught my moms attention. "The indestructible Stone Warrior we fought yesterday. Where did you find him?"
"He was buried under the city." Mrs Garmadon said with a smile.
"There's more of those things." (Y/N) hissed in contempt her day was about to get really busy.
"Be on guard, ninja." Sensei Wu warned. "We must be ready for whatever comes our way."
"Not a Ninja." (Y/N) pointed out.
(Serpentine P.O.V)
Skales finds a button that opens a large door underground. The Serpentine go through it and find a large army of Stone Warriors which come to life as the Great Devourer's venom drips onto them.
The Serpentine attempt to battle them, but as they are indestructible, the Serpentine are easily overpowered.
Acidicus asks Skales if they should retreat, but Skales disagrees and continues fighting, only to be defeated soon after.
The Stone Warriors all march out through the door, and then the door shuts, imprisoning all the Serpentine once again, much to their agony and dismay.
(Third Person P.O.V)
The earth began to move under the Ninja. Everyone turned around to see an arm pop up. Then in a crack there came more. More arms came up and there were stone warriors coming from the alleys.
"Sensei, it's as we feared. Another Stone Samurai warrior is loose on the street." Zane says.
All through out the Ninjago city, screams and crashing could be heard. Dareth had a warrior in his dojo. But the kids escaped, as well as himself.
Dearth had run straight into Gale Gossip's cameraman who quite and now Dareth was filming in his place. Just as they were attacked by a stone warrior.
Zane arrived in the nick of time and saved Gale Gossip and Dareth from the stone warrior.
"You seemed to be needing assistance." Zane said as the Ninja and (Y/N) came to aid him
"Thanks, Mr Ninja." Gale Gossip said.
Now more warriors were coming down the street. "Stay strong!" Cole orders as everyone took a fighting position, while Dareth and Gale were standing behind them. "Show no weakness."
"Weakness? What weakness?" (Y/N) joked. "Good to hear you got it, (Y/N)." Cole smiled
The stone warriors were running towards the team but they, they were slow with their short legs.
Sensei Wu came driving to the rescue in the Ultra Sonic Rider along with Misako. He drove over the stone warriors and stopped before the team.
"We have to protect the people!" Sensei Wu says. "Gather as many as you can and get them to our evacuations point!"
"We've got problems with that evacuations point, guys!" Nya's voice was heard from the radio in the rider. "I can't find a safe place to land!" Gale ran over to Sensei Wu.
"The NGTV office building has a helicopter platform on the roof!" She says.
"High ground. Yes. Misako! Tell Nya to head there!" Sensei Wu orders while Gale is filmed by Dareth.
"Civilians who have not evacuate the city! Head to the NGTV Rooftop! Our Heroic ninjas will evacuate you from there! But hurry! We're running out of time!" Gale informed anyone still left.
The team covered Dareth and Gale as they got their evacuation orders out to everyone.
"Uh-oh. There are more of them!" Lloyd shouted. But the Ultra dragon came in and made them flat. "Yeah! Haha!" Lloyd cheered.
"Lloyd. Did you practice your elemental quakes?" Sensei Wu asked.
"Who needs to practice when you're a natural." Lloyd declared and jump up into the air, flipped over the dragon and hit the ground.
Rocks and edges shot up from the ground putting a stop to the stone warriors advances.
"Thanks, boy! Let's see if you can help us find a way outta here!" Lloyd says and with a back-flip, he landed next to (Y/N) on the roof of the Ultra Sonic Rider.
The Ultra Dragon blew ice and froze a way out for the Ultra Sonic Rider to drive on.
"Good! Now save yourself!" Lloyd shouted to the Ultra Dragon.
Ultra Sonic Rider drove to the TV stations office. People were desperately running into the building. The team ran after them into the building.
"Barricade the doors!" Cole shouted. Everyone began to carry stuff. "Good! Now, we head up the stairs!" Zane ordered.
"Stairs?" Dareth asked. "It's twenty floors! Let's just take the elevator guys!"
"It's unwise to take the elevator during an emergency, Dareth." Zane explained.
Dareth pushed the elevator button anyway, not caring about what he'd just been told. "Well, I think I'll take my chances!"
The door opened behind him and out stepped a Stone Warrior.
Dareth screamed, quickly pushed the 'close' button and hastily ran up the stairs. "Okay, stairs it is!"
Zane and (Y/N) shared an exasperated glance with one and other before going up the stairs as well.
Everyone was only about halfway up the stairs when the Stone Army caught up to the fleeing group.
"We must buy some time for the Civilians to get away." Zane says as some stone warriors were coming after them.
"Ninja!Go!" The boys all shouted shout. The Ninja and (Y/N) all slide down the rail and began attacking the stone warriors. Knocking them over the railings.
"Hah! Not so tough!" Lloyd shouted to the warriors who fell to the ground. But they only stood up and growled angrily at Lloyd "Woah! So tough!" Lloyd said with slight fear in his voice.
"Break the stairs." (Y/N) shouted Lloyd and summoned his earth powers and caused the stairs to split apart.
"Let's hope we bought enough time." Zane stated. "Yeah." Kai gulped. "Let's join Sensei on the roof.
"Where's the bounty!?" Dareth shouted. Just then Nya came flying in the bounty and the people cheered.
"Hurry, they're coming!" Lloyd warned the people. People began to push forward to go onto the flying ship.
When Misako was looking at the bounty she realized she had lost her research. "My research!" She began to run towards the stairs again.
"No! Misako! It's too dangerous to go back!" Sensei Wu shouted out to her but she didn't listen.
The Ninja made it on the bounty, leading people under the deck. "They just keep coming!" Lloyd exclaimed as the Stone Samurai Warriors came after the Bounty.
The warriors damaged one of the boosters. "Oh no! This is bad! Do we have everyone? We have to get out of here! Our only remaining booster won't last much longer." Nya shouted and the ship took off.
Then the Bounty suddenly stopped moving.
"Huh?" (Y/N) asked no-one in particular. "Why did we st-" (Y/N) was cut off when Sensei Wu and Misako landed on the deck beside her and Lloyd.
"Oh, I forgot about those two." (Y/N) said disappointed that Misako had survived.
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