Story takes place after Rebuilding Zane
Disclaimer: I don't own Ninjago
A year has passed ever since Zane defeated the Overlord and big things have happened. First off, Zane survived the battle and was inside the Digiverse so the ninjas, Nya, Cyrus Borg, and PIXAL did everything to bring him back. Eventually they did, but Cryptor also returned with new nindroids at his control. However, Zane was able to defeat him and ever since, Ninjago was at a state of peace.
During the nindroid invasion, Cyrus also lost the use of his arms and now resigns in a new chair that moves on his thoughts. Perhaps the biggest change was PIXAL returning with the ninjas to Sensei Wu's new monestary. With her having Zane's old power source, it increased her fighting abilities. With Zane and the others training her, PIXAL has become a great fighter.
Although Ninjago is at peace now, danger still lurks in the shadows. Sure, every now and then some crime happens or crimmals try to do something, but they're all stoped by the ninjas or the police. Everyday the ninjas train, because they never know if evil will ever strike...
Kai's POV
I can't believe they're making me get the milk. Me. The red ninja of fire reduce to getting cow juice! Zane just needed to have milk for dinner tonight. Let's not send Jay or anybody. Sigh. I was once a ninja, then a teacher, back to a ninja, and now I'm getting milk. Sooner or later we'll be dancing. Oh wait a minute, we already did that.
I finally make it to a pharmacy and get Zane's special milk. I walk up to the counter and reach in my pocket for the money.
"Is that all." The cashier asked.
"Yes." I sighed.
You see I have on thing there. Just scan it.
"That'll be $2.50." The cashier told me.
"For a gallon of milk?" I asked in disbelief.
"Yeah. This isn't a grocery store, man." He said rudely.
"Alright here." I said as I gave him exact change.
"Thank you. Come again." He said as I was leaving.
"Doubt it." I said as I left.
I always get the last word.
I remember a time when me and my brothers fought skeletons, snakes, stones, and robots. Now here I am running errands. No one even seems to know who I am as I walk by them. Inside my pocket I feel my phone vibrate.
"Hello?" I answer.
"Hey, Kai. Did you get the milk?" Nya asked.
"Yes. Tell Zane he can start dinner now." I told her.
"You're not still mad because Cole threw down rock are you?" Nya asked.
I know my sister well enough to know she's smirking right now.
"He was gonna throw down paper and you know it." I spoke into the phone.
She laughs as I stop and wait for the bus.
"How long until you're home?" She asked me.
"I don't know. Five minutes." I shrugged my shoulders.
From on top a building someone fired an arrow right at me. I don't know if they missed or if it was their target, because the arrow went straight through my gallon of milk. The milk spilled everywhere as the arrow got stuck in the ground. On the fletching of the arrow, a wire was attached to it.
"What in the hell..." I whispered as I turned my head.
The next thing I see are a pair of feet coming my way. I should've been quick enough to dodge them, but I wasn't and they kicked me right in my face. I landed hard on the street and quickly jumped out of the way from an oncoming car. I look at my attacker as Nya is still on the phone.
"Kai?" She asksed worriedly.
"Make that ten minutes." I said as I hung up.
My attacker looks like something out of a comic book. He's wearing all black from head to toe. Shurikens, throwing knifes, smoke pellets, bombs, and a katana are his weapons of choice. A mask with a white skull on it covers his face. Judging by his appearance I'm guessing he's an assassin.
"Kai Pyrrhus, the Society of Ghosts has sentenced you to death." The assassin said.
Nailed it.
"Listen, buddy. I don't know who you're working for, but clearly thay sent you to a total beatdown." I said as I cracked my knuckles.
I barely saw him move as he pulled out a small throwing knife and...you know, threw it.
I look down at my left arm and see the knife deep in my skin. I then see my blood escape my body. I look up to see the assassin fly right at me with his foot coming my way. I dodged it this time and moved to the left. I hear another car honk at me and I jump in the air to avoid it. Not only do I have to worry about this guy, I've also got to worry about someone hitting me.
The assassin runs up to me. He throws a punch and I duck. He throws another and I dodge it. He throws one more and I catch his fist. Then I punch him in his face with my wounded arm. I let go and grunt in pain as more blood comes out. During my pain, the assassin doesn't hesitate to punch me. I'm unfocued enough to try to stop him so he keeps going.
"This is the most skilled warrior in Ninjago?" The assassin asked himself.
Did I hear him right? Most skilled?
"I must say: I'm not impressed." He finishes with another punch in my face.
OK, play times over.
I shake my head and avoid another punch. I duck under his arm and punch him in his ribs. As he grabs them I run behind him and put him in a headlock. I begin squeezeing his throat to make him pass out. This'll be over as soon as...What?
I don't get it. It only takes 11 pounds of pressure to collapse a windpipe. I'm using over 50 and he's not even flinching. He must be on some sorta drug.
"Ahh!" I yelled.
Something sharp found it's way inside my skin. I let go of my attacker and look at my side. There's a knife wound in my side with blood gushing out. How could he do that without me seeing?
On the assassin's elbow, I see a retractable blood stained blade.
"A retractable blade? That's just lazy." I tell him.
He turns around and starts to come my way. There's no more of what I can do tongiht. I see an oncoming semi truck and make my plan. I run towards my attacker, but before he does anything, I jump on top of him and then kick myself on top of the truck. I look down at the street and wave goodbye to him.
"So long, sucker!" I said.
Now I can focus on my body. Thanks to Lloyd giving back my fire powers, this should work. I remove my shirt and cause a flame to appear in my hands. I then grab my side and grit my teeth as the fire burns my skin. I hold it there for about 15 seconds and let go. I was able to close the wound and sto the bleeding. I put my shirt back on and take a look at my forearm and I still see tha blade in there.
I touch it and it doesn't move. It's in there deep. I take the end and pull with all my might and yell when the blade comes out of my skin. I then use my flames to close the wound as before. I sit down and relax as I take a look at the throwing knife he used. Pretty standard. A long, thin, silver, blade with a pointed tip and...what looks like a skull for a design on the other end. Better take it back to Sensei. I feel my phone vibrate again.
"Hello?" I answer.
"Kai! Where are you? Are you alright?" My sister asked scared.
"I'm fine, Sis. I'm on my way home and tell Sensei to wait for me." I told her.
"Why?" She asked.
"I've got something he'll want to see." I said as I examined the blade.
Just then, another throwing knife was thrown. This time in my phone.
"K-Kai? What h-happened?" My sister said as the phone shut down.
I turn my head and see the assassin on a motorcycle. No doubt stolen.
"No one to save you. You're stuck with me." The assassin said.
I tuck his trowing knifes in my socks in case I need them later. This time, the assassin throws some shurikens at me. Because of Zane, I've had practice with them before.
Five come my way. I block two of them, catched one, dodged another, and flung the last one right at him. The shuriken hit his wheel and he lost control of the bike. The motorcycle fell on it's side and the assassin jumps right at me. Thinking quick, I punch him in the face and he falls on the street and begins to roll. I think he's done, but I'm wrong.
The assassin then fires a grappling hook from his right wrist.
"This guy's a walking weapon." I said in disbelief as the hook attached itself to the truck. I look back at him and burst out laughing. He's being flopped around like a fish out of water. I stop laughing when I see blades come out of his vambraces as he uses them to hold himself up. Spark fly everywhere as drivers behind him try their best to avoid the sparks.
"He's good." I started.
The assassin looks at me and I smirk.
"But I'm better." I finished as I snapped the wire from his wrist using his shuriken.
I think that's what he wanted, because he pushed himself off his forearm and landed on top the truck with me.
"Kai Pyrrhus, the Society of Ghosts has sentenced you to death." The assassin said.
"Heard you the first time." I said.
We fought again. I threw him punches and he blocked them with ease. He punched back and sometimes I wasn't so lucky. I don't know who this guy is, but he's strong and fast. He's clearly had more training than I have.
He blocks another punch I threw and this time punches me in my chest. I get sent back close to the actual truck and look up. That's when I see him jump at me. Thinking quick, I put my knees to my chest and waited until the assassin landed on my feet. With all my strength I kick him up back into the air where he hits a street light. As he comes back down I stand up and grab his neck and chest. With the last of the strength I have, I flipped him over my head where he landed on his.
"Take that!" I said out of breath.
He flips on his back and fires another grappling hook, missing me completely.
"You missed." I taunt.
He doesn't say anything as I realized I wasn't the target. I turn around and see his hook lodged in a building. I turn back around to see tha assassin grab my shirt. The next thing I noticed is that the both of us are flying above the streets of New Ninjago City.
"Who are you?" I asked.
He doesn't reply. Instead, he just throws me into a window.
I get up quickly and look around. A family sitting down to dinner is looking at me in horror. I turn my head as I hear more glass breaking. The assassin climbed in through the window and looked at me then at the family. I grabbed a kitchen knife. He ran over and grabed a child. The father ran up to punch him but got knocked down instead.
"Whoa whoa whoa! This is between you and me! Put her down!" I yelled.
The girl in his hands starts to cry along with the family begging him to let her go.
"Put her down!" I yelled again.
"Lay down your weapon." He said.
I threw the knife away from me.
"Put her down." I said.
"Kneel." He told me.
Not wanting the girl to get hurt I did as he told me to do. I got down on one knee and he dropped the girl. While she ran over to her family the assassin walked up to me. Very carefully, I reached inside my sock...
"How I love killing ninjas." The assassin said to himself as he was getting ready to grab his katana.
Before he did anything, I pulled out his throwing knifes from before and threw then at him. One got lodged in his eye while the other hit his face. I jumped up and punched him over and over again. To my left I could hear the family cheer me on.
I went for a kick in the neck, but he blocked it. I threw a punch, but he caught my fist and twisted it. I yelled again and he punched me hard.
I went flying right through the door and landed at the end of the hall. I must've hit the elevator button because I saw the numbers getting lower to my floor. I got up and saw the assassin walk out the door. He then pulled out two knives and ran my way. I ran towards him and we met in the middle.
He swung his blades and I avoided them. His attacks were becoming much aster because it was getting harder to avoid them. One blade them sliced through my cheek. He jabbed at me heading for my chest, but I caught his wrist and bent it back. He dropped the knife and I caught it.
I swung the knife at him, but he blocked the attacks with his. I then was able to stab his hand with the knife and he let go of his. It fell on the floor and I grabbed it. I tried to stab the assassin, but he caught my wrists. As I was pushin down, he was squeezing. He leaned in our heads and had a stare off. I was glarring at him with hatred and I couldn't tell what he was doing. The mask covered his entire face so I couldn't see his eyes. Make that eye becasue the knife was still in his left one. I hear the elvator ding and I head but him. He lets go of me and I dash to the door before it closes. I run inside and push the roof button repeatedly.
"Come on! Come on!" I say to myself.
I look up to see him running right at me. The door soon begins to close and I smile at this. The assassin then grabs a small bomb and throws it right at me. Thinking quick, I dropped the knifes and blasted fire at the bomb. The elevator doors close as the bomb goes off. I fall back against the wall and slide down it.
"I need help." I whispered.
Over the year of peace, Sensei taught us some new things. One being we can call for help using our thoughts. Since Zane has a sixth sense, all we have to do is focus hard enough and he will know what to do. I put the knives in my back pocket and then I sit locus postion on the floor and close my eyes.
"Zane. Hear me brother. I need help. Please find me." I whispered.
The elevator doors open and I walk out. I walk to the edge of the building and look over the side. The train tracks is what I see and I look to my left and to my right to see if any trains are oming. I see nothing.
Just then, a door bursted open. I turn my head to see the assassin standing there with burn marks. This guy can't be human!
We start to circle each other. I stop when my back is at the elevator. I reach for the button, but a shuriken is thrown at the controls. I look up at him.
"No where to hide now." He said.
From under his vambraces, two blades conected to chains fall out. The chains are about five feet long, but what do I know.
"Dude, how do you fit those in there?" I asked seriously.
He doesn't respond. Instead, he swings the chains. I'm not fast enough to avoid them and they slashed across my chest. I'm in too much pain to avoid them again, so he does the same thing over and over again. It feels like he's drawing something on my chest, but I'm to week to noticed. He then stops. I look at my chest and it doesn't look that bad. Just my clothes are ruined and I probably have scars now.
"Kai Pyrrhus, the Society of Ghosts..." The assassin starts.
"...Has sentenced me to death. I heard you the first time." I said annoyed.
I start to run at him with full speed. He tries to ready his chains again, but it's too late. I tackled into him and grabbed his two knives from before. I then stabbed him in the back and held on to him as we fell off the building. I look down and see the train tracks coming right at us. Only then do I hear a train whistle.
My thoughts stopped as the assassin threw his chains at the building. They both got stuck in there and we came to a sudden stop.
He dangled in the air while I flipped over him from the stop. Using my badass ninja skills, I take the blades out of his back, flip around, and grab his arms.
"You're coming with me." I said as I cut the chains with his knives.
Both of us then fall again as we get closer to thre tracks. But instead of us landing on them, we landed on the train instead.
I'm so weak. I can barely move. I turn my head to see the assassin standing up!
He twists and turns his body as I hear his bones crack. This...thing got ran over by cars, a knife in the eye, blew up, two knives in the back and then fell on top of a train. Sure, I mean I got worse than that but I can barely move. This guy is standing up like no big deal.
I get up and prop myself as well. The assassin run towards me and throws punches. I do my best to avoid them, but it's not enough. I throw my punches and the same thing happens to him. I need a weapon.
He then punches me and I fall close to the edge. I look down and see a pole attached to the train.
"Bingo." I said to myself.
I pulled on it with all my might and it broke off. I got up and smirked as I twirled the pole around in my hands with skill.
"You're move." I smikred at him.
The assassin didn't say anything. He only looked at my face as I saw blades come out of his vambraces.
"Oh great." I said.
He ran up to me and I gripped my pol tighter. His punches would be more deadlier now that blades were out.
I swung my pole, but he ducked to avoid it. He jabbed at my side, but I blocked the blades with my pole. I pushed him back, but he came running after me. I ran too and before he got to me, I stuck my pole on the train and lifted myself above him. I then flipped over the assassin and with my pole, I whacked him in the back. He stumbled forward a bit, but turned around. That's when I hit him in the head. I guess he was mad now, because he got off part of my pole. Then it hit me. An idea not the pole.
"Is that the best you can do?" I mocked.
I started to spin my pole in my hands as he tried to stab me. I kept moving my pole like a boss to avoid him. Once he stopped I think I saw his eye widen.
Both ends of my pole were now pointed and sharp.
"Thank you." I joked.
I then jabbed at him but he dodged it. He slashed at me and I whacked his arm away. Very quickly, I then kicked him in the chest. He was about to fall over, but he caught himself before he did. With his legs bent I had to move fast. I ran and then jumped in the air. When I could reach, I shoved my pole right through his leg and through the train. Blood moved down the pole and down his leg as he looked at it. Not even a scream.
"What are you?" I aksed.
Again, he didn't say anything. He then punched me over the side of the train. Instead of falling off, I grabbed the edge of it and then kicked myself right trough the window. I got up to see the horror on people's faces.
"It wouldn't be New Ninjago City if ninjas didn't rain from the sky, am I right?" I joked.
"There is blood dripping everywhere." I heard a woman say.
I walked over to the blood and looked up. I saw the blood stained pole in the train and I smiled at it. A guard walked in the cart.
"What's going on here?" He asked.
"There's a dangerous person on top of the train. I've got him trapped up there and hopefully he'll stay there. Can we move these people to other carts so they're not grossed out by the blood.?" I told the guard.
"Yes. I'll take care of it." The guard said.
"Thank you. Where's this train stopping at?" I asked.
"Uh First and Main." He told me.
"Call the police and tell them to meet us there." I said.
"OK." The guard said.
"Uh, Mr. Ninja." I heard a small boy ask.
I turn my head to him and he points up. I look up and see the pol moving upwards.
"Oh no you don't!" I said as I grabbed the pole.
I pulled it back down, but he pulled it back up. During this, the guard was moving the people to another cart.
Our little game of tug of war went on for a minute. Both of us were pulling at the same time, but he stopped and I fell on the ground. Seeing the pole about to fall out, I kicked it back into place. I thought I had him, but he started to pull it back up.
"Alright, tough guy. Try this!" I said.
I heated the end of the pole in my hands and pulled it back down. When the pole was nice and orange with heat, I curved the end of it into a hook and let go. The assassin on top was moving it around. When he didn't feel me pulling on it, he pulled on the pole hard and the curve part now went into the bottom of his foot.
"Nice." I said.
I climbed back out the window and back on top. More blood was escaping his body now with his bleeding foot. I walked up to him.
"You're done." I told him.
Clearly he wasn't, because he slashed at me. I backed up to avoid and went back up to him. Again, he tried to hit me. Eventually he did and I fell on the floor.
""Kai Pyrrhus, the Society of Ghosts has sentenced you to death." The assassin said for the fourth time.
I was about to say something, but instead I flattened my body out. The assasin looked at me confused and then turned his head. There he saw a low tunnel coming up.
I blink and when I open my eyes, I'm covered in darkness. I hear flesh tearing and bones breaking as something wet splatters across my face. I can only imagine it's blood. I don't know what happened because it's too dark. I try to make a flame, but I'm too weak. So I sit in the darkness and wait.
About two minutes later the train comes out of the tunnel. We soon come to a complete stop. I look around and see no one else on the train with me. I turn my head and see police cars, ambulances, and the news waiting at the train stop. I lift my head up to see anything else and I almost puked.
In front of me I see the severed leg of the assassin, still standing up right thanks to the pole. I lay my head back down and look towards the sky. I was complaining about life being to boring when I walked into the city. Now I wish I could teach again. As my eyes begin to close I see five people running along the roof tops getting closer to me.
"Guys." I said weakly.
With that, I closed my eyes.
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