Morro
He had to hide. The other ghosts were after him with vengeance, seeing as he didn't do as the mistress ordered. In fact, he was part of the reason she was dead. Well, more dead.
The safest place would be with the ninjas, but they were his enemies. Wu wasn't around anymore, if what he's been reading in the papers was right. When he searched his memories hard enough, he could find a memory of him when he was little, with his mom and dad giving him his baby brother and telling him to run. And run he did.
His baby brother was only a year old, with big blue eyes and brown hair. Morro was ten. Handing a ten-year-old a baby wasn't the best idea, but it was all they had at the time.
He didn't know what was after his parents, but it got them in the end.
He kept running, using his powers over the wind to go faster while his baby brother somehow knew to stay quiet. He kept running, until he wound up in a junkyard. There was a lady and a man living there, from what Morro could see. When they went inside, he found a box and put the baby inside. He rang to doorbell before he hid behind a dumpster.
The baby was too big, though. He was old enough to walk and was trying to go after Morro.
The lady and the man came out, however, and found Morro's baby brother where the wind blew him down to sit on his butt thanks to Morro.
The lady gasped and took the baby inside while the man came out to see if there was anyone out there. He wasn't sure, but he had a feeling that the man saw him right as he ran away.
Now, back to the problem at hand.
Evil ghosts, after him.
Morro hoped that maybe his little brother, now about eighteen years old, if he was right, would be nice enough to help him. That was why he was standing in front of the junkyard's gates, waiting for whoever the nice man and nice lady who adopted his baby brother called their son.
He was starting to think that it would never happen, that maybe the social services didn't let them keep the baby, but then Morro (who was invisible) felt someone pass through him, calling out to the people who were sweeping the yard.
"Mom! Dad! I'm here!" The lady came running to the guy.
The guy looked a lot like one of the ninjas, but that might've been a simple coincidence. Maybe the ninja just had one of those faces, or maybe Morro was just bad at recognising faces.
"Jay! Come on in, it's been windy all day," the lady told the guy who Morro was sure was his little brother. Same blue eyes, same brown hair. Older, but still looked a lot like his baby brother.
And he looked a little like Morro did when he was still alive.
Well, they had the same eyes and the same freckles.
He had to get into the boy's old room and wait for him to get his stuff, which he was here for, if the lady was to be believed. There was a photo album on the bed, marked "Jay" which Morro started going through. It seems that Ed and Edna kept his little brother's real name, which Morro left written on a sticker on him when he was a baby.
It was nice that he wouldn't have to get used to using a different name for the boy.
"I'm fine, Ma! See? My arm's all better. I can carry the boxes myself." And then the door opened.
Jay came in, wearing a grey T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans, staring at the photo album in shock as the pages seemingly turned by themselves. Morro decided to mess with Jay a little by picking up the book and dropping it a couple of times. Jay reacted, then he threw his phone through Morro.
Morro turned visible. "Hey, calm down. I mean you no harm."
Jay threw something else through Morro. "Morro! What are you doing here?! You know what, I don't care. I have a water pistol in my top drawer and. I. Will. Shoot."
Morro grabbed Jay by the arm and pulled him back. "No! I need your help!"
Jay pulled away and turned to glare at Morro. "I'm not going to help you! Are you insane? You really messed up back with the Preeminent. You messed up Cole, Kai and you really messed up Lloyd. And Wu. He was heartbroken. And then you just appear out of nowhere, and ask for help. Sure, Morro. I'll help the psychopathic ghost who broke into my home and…"
"I'm your brother."
Jay didn't say a word. Instead, he fell down on his bed and stared at Morro the same way he did back when their parents were still alive and Morro would try to make him do something interesting by poking him. All he got was shocked by static when Jay started poking back, which led to Morro zapping him right back. That was the look of vengeance.
"No, you're not."
"I am. I can explain later, when we're safe, but I really am your brother. As in, we're flesh and blood, same mom, same dad."
Jay reached for the drawer where he said he kept the water gun. Morro panicked and reached to grab Jay, only to instead find himself reaching out to the drawer instead.
"Great job, idiot. I just wanted to get my phone." Oh no. He was inside Jay. And Jay's phone was on top of the desk. And in his pants' pocket. "Don't say a word, Morro. My body, my rules. Now, get out before I kick you out."
"I can't. This was why I was looking for you. There are a bunch of ghosts after me. They're going to kill me!"
"You're a ghost. They're a little late, don't you think?"
"Ha ha. Very funny. Make jokes while my afterlife's in danger. But I can't leave. They'll find me and then I'm dead. Deader. More dead. These guys, they're bad news. You have to let me stay! I won't get in the way, promise!"
"How in the world won't you get in the way? YOU'RE IN MY BODY!"
"I can pull back. Hide away so you won't even notice me. Nobody will ever know."
"Nobody's going to notice that I'm acting weird, Morro? We had to deal with you before. I don't think my friends will be too happy when they realise that you've been pretending to be me when those other ghosts come after you. They're still mad at you after you messed up Lloyd, remember? And my girlfriend? Remember her? She's the Water Ninja. She'll exorcize you out of here the moment she figures out what's going on."
"You'll drown before there's enough water to get me out."
Jay managed to send memories of the ninjas to Morro. Memories from the Blue Ninja's point of view. Yeah, he figured as much. "Please, get out."
"I can't. These ghosts, when they find me, they'll continue their mistress' work. They're very powerful, and very dangerous. First me, then the rest of Ninjago. You have to hide me!"
"Hide you from what, Jay?" Edna's voice asked from outside the door. "Are you okay?"
"Listen closely and repeat what I say: I am a ghost who took over your son's body because I am hiding from other ghosts."
Morro wasn't going to say that to Edna. She'd freak out, or think Jay's gone crazy, neither which were good.
"In that case, let me have control."
Okay. He could do that.
He faded into the background, letting Jay take back control of his body.
"I'm fine, Mom." Morro could see and feel Jay grabbing a Fritz Donegan action figure and a Dark Fritz action figure from his desk. "Just playing with these," Jay added lamely as his mom opened the bedroom door to see what was going on.
Edna smiled at Jay. "Okay, sweetie. Can I play too?" Edna sat down on Jay's bad. "It'll be just like when you were little. I would be that little blue girl…" Edna pointed to the blue alien who was Fritz's friend on the show.
"Trixie."
"… and your dad would be that thing with all the arms…"
"Myaxx."
"… and you would be those little guys and we'd play dress up… I think I still have some of those old costumes I made for us!" Edna ran out in search of said costumes.
"Aw, that's so sweet."
Jay didn't answer, but he did manage to kick Morro out now that he was in control again. Morro wasn't surprised. Unlike with Lloyd, he wasn't in a hurry and he wasn't trying to take over this guy's life.
"Explain, or else I'll get that water gun and shoot."
Morro took a deep fake breath and started explaining. "You remember the whole mess with the Preeminent? Well, some of her biggest, baddest generals are after me because of what happened. They got the Soul Archer already and they got Lloyd's father, and now they're after me!"
"Well, why don't you just surrender? Maybe then…"
"You don't get it! They control the other ghosts! If they get me, it's over. They want to take over Ninjago!"
Edna, who found the box she was looking for, was in the door at a bad moment. She dropped the box and started swaying. Jay ran over to catch her. Fortunately, she didn't faint. Unfortunately, she called for Ed, who came running in. Jay was starting to panic, which led to his parents panicking, which led to Morro panicking, which led to a miniature tornado forming in the room, which led to more panicking. It was a vicious cycle.
By the time everything calmed down, Jay had a witch's hat on his head, Ed had a cape stuck to his face (and was freaking out because of it) and Edna was waving a broom through Morro.
"I can explain!" Morro screamed.
Jay had an unimpressed look on his face while he was helping his father. Morro explained, telling the nice couple what he told Jay.
"Oh, that's not very good, dearie," Edna whispered. "How are you going to hide?"
Morro scratched his head. "I don't know, Mrs Walker. I was hoping Jay could help me, but he yelled at me and then he kicked me out."
Jay threw an action figure at Morro.
Then he went on to pick up the stuff that flew everywhere due to the sudden wind.
Ed and Edna were both very curious about the ghost claiming to be Jay's long-lost brother and were pelting him with questions.
"How do you eat?"
"I don't need to."
"What if you're thirsty?"
"I don't drink."
"What do you do?"
"I guess I just haunt people."
"Well, that's just sad," Edna said. Morro didn't disagree.
"Okay, ghost-brother, like my mom asked earlier, how are you planning to hide from these generals? And the other ninjas? Because, as you must already know, they're not your biggest fans after you messed all of them up."
Morro sighed. "Okay. There are a couple of things I didn't think all the way through. I didn't know that you were a ninja. But… um… these generals, they can't track me if…"
"If you're in a living body?" Jay asked, putting one of the books from the bookshelf in a box.
Morro nodded.
"No!" Edna pointed a finger under Morro's nose. "Don't you dare!"
Morro raised his hands in surrender. "I wasn't going to."
"I'm going to call the guys and ask them what we should do. We could help you better if everybody knows what's going on."
Something tapped on the windows. It sent shivers down Morro's spine.
"Hey, Morro, didn't my mom tell you not to do that?"
Now he was in Jay's body again. The tapping stopped, but Morro was too spooked to leave. Edna was glaring at him while Ed was holding her back.
"Edna, honey, Jay's still in there! You'll hurt him!"
Morro seriously doubted that the tiny woman would be able to hurt anyone. Nonetheless, he stepped back from her, tripping over the box that was still sitting on the floor where Jay dropped it to call the others.
"Get out, Morro. My mom's pretty scary when she's mad."
"I heard something at the window. Don't let them get me! They're dangerous!"
Edna was still clawing in his general direction (Bad choice of words), while Ed picked her up to keep his wife away from Jay. And, obviously, Morro.
"Get out of my son!" Edna screeched.
Instead of getting out, as Edna was yelling at him to do, Morro pulled back again.
"Mom, calm down, I'm okay!" Jay jumped up and ran over to try and convince Edna that it was really him right now.
"He's not out!" Edna sobbed.
"I'm not leaving until those generals are gone."
"Mom, it's okay. See?" Jay flapped his arms. "Still me. A little freaked out, a little weirded out, but I'm fine."
Edna stopped scratching and clawing at them. Ed let her go, but he seemed pretty freaked as well.
"Where's Morro? He's still there, isn't he?"
Jay nodded. "Yeah." He picked up the box and stared at the contents as if they might hold the answers to his questions. "I have to… um… go back… to the temple. I have to get help."
Jay left the trailer, taking Morro with him.
"What's going to happen when they find out I'm here?" Morro asked.
"Well, they'll either freak out, like my mom did, but with led Dad to hold them back and try to beat you out of me, or they'll try to help." Jay got in his car and started the engine. "Or both."
"They didn't try to beat me out of Lloyd."
"That's because we didn't have our powers, and we did try to get rid of you."
Morro sighed. "Well, at least you can try to explain what's going on when we reach this temple. By the way, what happened to the boat?"
"You can ask them yourself."
Morro was afraid of this. Those ninjas wouldn't listen to him, inside their friend or not.
"Well, then you clearly didn't think this through," Jay scolded Morro.
Jay was right. When did he grow up so much?
"Shut up, or I'll go swimming right now."
Not that that would hurt Morro, seeing as he was more relaxed in his possession of Jay and the Preeminent wasn't there to force him to do things against his will, but Morro shut up.
"There. That's better. Now I can think."