Chapter One: Connor versus Ash
Welcome, fellow fans of Ninjago! In this fanfic I'll be writing fights between characters of your choice! Any character or creature from the original series may be chosen. So if, for example, you wanted Samukai to fight Pythor, or General Cryptor fight young Garmadon, it's all possible! To start this this all, I'll begin with a fight I've been meaning to write: Ash, the Master of Smoke, versus my own OC, Connor, the Master of Darkness. It'll make a fine example of what you may expect.
The Island of Darkness. After the events here that led to the reincarnation of the Overlord, this place has been left forgotten. After all, no one has any interest in the one place where the Stone Army remains, and in force at that.
But this one day, two people did wander the island. Both were there to look for traces of the Overlord, for different reasons. One wanted to prevent a possible return of that evil, the other wanted to get, or take, power from him now that he was at his weakest. It was on a rocky cape of the island near the water that these two met.
They approached each other, calmly, but guarded.
"Why are you here?" Asked Ash. –"To test my strength against the Stone Army. And you? You would be here for…?" "Not your business. There aren't any warrior camps here, so why are you really here."
"Great. Hostility." Connor sighed. "You'll have to tell me why you're here though; I won't turn my back to anyone who's intentions I don't know."
"Here's something new for you: You are gonna turn your back to me, 'cause you're going off this island!"
"Oh, I see. Whatever you're doing here you find important, or you wouldn't be on this island. Can't be fighting the army, as you yourself pointed out. Also you'd be glad to see another human here if you were, but you want me gone. Shall I just answer both our questions? We're looking for the same thing anyway: the caves where the Overlord came from!"
Ash gave some sort of animalistic hiss, raising Connor's eyebrow. "Clever. Too clever for your own good! You had your chance!"
With some odd laughter, Ash ran at Connor, who jumped out of the way and unsheathed his double-bladed warglaives. He looked at his opponent, who stared back in turn.
"What, don't you have weapons? Do you intent to hiss me to death?"
Connor send a ball of shadow at Ash. He dodged, but then one of his opponents blades came at him. He disappeared into a cloud of smoke, re-appeared behind his foe and kicked him in the back, sending him stumbling forwards. With a powerful kick to the side he knocked the ninja of darkness over, but he rolled and recovered. He came upon the other in a whirling dervish, but to no avail: he had disappeared again, and came from a new direction. It was foreseen and countered, but Ash avoided the blow with an impressive backflip.
Again he laughed.
"Looks like I've hit a new low: getting matched by someone who's vocabulary consists of hisses, grunts, and raspy laughter."
"You can still get lower! Let me show you!"
He set upon Connor, but the latter caused a sudden darkness around the two silver ninjas. Before Ash could realize what to do, he was struck cleanly across his chest, but he dematerialized in time to avoid a second blow. Another blast came from within the darkness, sending Ash flying some distance.
The darkness dissipated, and out charged its master, blades at the ready. It became apparent that Ash's armour had shielded him from most of the blow, and he determined not to be outdone by this unknown adversary. He jumped out of the way, and Connor slowed in preparation of his next move. It was then that the former conjured a cloud of smoke right as the other tried to breathe. It filled the ninja's lungs, draining him of his strength quickly. He manoeuvred his way out of the cloud, but there a high kick was waiting for him. He ducked underneath it, but he could not avoid the punch coming in immediately after, and it landed in his gut. With the air knocked out of him, he was pushed back into the cloud. Ash followed up immediately, appearing behind him, and taking him into a choke hold.
It was a deadly situation for both. Connor's arms remained free, and he thus stabbed Ash's side with his backblade, again, and again. The moment he got free he jumped head-first out of the smoke cloud, and again summoned the darkness he commanded. Within the black all around, he collapsed onto the ground. Unbeknownst to him, so did Ash. While one tried to clear his lungs, the other tried to stop his bleeding.
Ash realized that blood was streaming through the cracks that were now in the side of his armour, but he could still win, he thought to himself. So long as he didn't get hit again. Still, he had no idea where the dark ended, and while he didn't know where Connor was, he could see him.
When the area was visible again, he pulled his disappearing trick again. Connor swiped his left glaive behind him, but he wasn't there. Yet he didn't see Ash before him either. He moved forward, to avoid another potential attack, but then his enemy materialized behind him again. With both fighters drained of their strength, Ash hoped to squeeze the life out of the Master of Darkness at last. Again his arms wrapped around the other's throat. But then, his supposed victim raised his leg, and a sharp kick came into Ash's gut. He stumbled backwards, trying to regain his balance, when Connor turned around, took a few quick steps, and brought his blades rushing at his foe's head. He slit Ash's throat.
Ash collapsed onto the ground. The ninja of darkness stood triumphantly over his opponent's body. He took a deep breath of the fresh air around him.
"Sorry, sir ninja. The colour was already taken."
That's It! I hope you enjoyed it. Remember, I'm taking requests. You can suggest any character from the show, as well as my own OC Connor. No other OCs, I'm afraid, as I'd have to read their respective fics just to know how to write them properly. Have a fine day!