Hey everyone, Packerfan95 is back with a whole new story. Plus I've got OCs you may have seen in my previous stories, don't get confused. This time this AU is all on our favorite fire ninja, Kai. What happens if the Ninja of Fire sold his soul to a skeleton king we know as Samukai. He begins to act weird and at night on a night to pay his debt, he is a whole new person. A Ghost Rider. Find out what happens to Ghost of a Chance.


Prolouge: The Deed

It's said that the Land was built on legends. Tall tales that help us make sense of things too great... or too terrifying to believe. This is the legend of the Ghost Rider. Story goes that every generation has one. Some damned soul, cursed to ride the earth collecting the Underworld king's deals.

Many years ago, a Ghost Rider was sent to the village of San Anumlia to fetch a contract worth a thousand evil souls. But the contract was so powerful, he knew he could never let Samukai get his hands on it. So he did what no Rider has ever done before. He outran the Underworld King himself.

The thing about legends is that... Sometimes they're ture.


Across the land of Ninjago and in a small village named Ignacia Village, a sixteen year old teen with messy brown hair that was sculpted to become spiky, eyes were a chocolate brown color with a notch of scar on his left eyebrow, was working inside his family's blacksmith shop. Four Weapons. The teen, Kai, pounded on the white hot bar of iron with a mallet to craft a sword for a customer. After he gave the bar a final pound to have the mallet echo in the quiet shop, Kai gripped the handle tightly with his leather gloves and dipped it in a tub of water by his side. Steam clouded in front of his sweat drenched face from the heat of the furance and wiped his brow with the sleeve of his white workshirt and lifted the finished sword up. He narrowed his eyes as the weapons he worked hard on for hours was twisted and bent. "Ugh! What am I doing wrong!?" he grumbled and tossed the disfigured metal into a small pile of other mis-shapened swords that he manufactured were the same.

The metal clanked and a man simplied chuckled. Kai looked over his broad shoulder to see his father the one that chuckling. A man with similar features as his son as well on his hair but had a red bandana wrapped on his forehead. His eyes were darker and had no scar on his eyebrow, but has burnt marks for years as a blacksmith. "You made it too fast, Kai." he chuckled lightly and placed a hand on his shoulder to pat it. "Remember what I told you..."

"I know. I know." Kai sighed. "To forge the perfect weapon, you first need the right metal and plenty of heat. Cool it off and. And Presto!" He grabbed a fresh bar of iron and placed it in the coals of the furance.

His father chuckled. He remembered the first part, but not the second most important one. "And also need to be patient. No matter how much fire you have, experience isn't something you learn overnight. That's what it takes to be a blacksmith." He then began to throw a coughing fit and kept coughing till he cleared his lungs.

Kai looked at his father worriedly. He has been throwing those fits for almost a month now and it's not only worrying him. But his mother and his little sister, Nya, as well. "You okay, Dad?" he asked finally.

His father coughed the final time and nodded. "Yeah I am." he wheezed. "This smoke is only getting to me that's all." He turned to the clock on the wall to see it was closing time and the customer hasn't arrived for his sword. "Since the customer hasn't arrived, let's close up for the night." He saw his son nod and walked over to the entrance and pulled the garage door down from the ceiling and locked it. He then turned to his son. "Remember to stoke the fire or else the furance gets clogged up." and headed for the stairs to the upper floors of their home.

Kai watched his father disappear on the last step and grabbed the stoker and pushed the coals around until they were cooling embers. He grabbed the bar that he began heating and was grateful it wasn't hot and placed it with the other bars, tossed his leather apron on a coat rack and his gloves aside and headed upstairs after his father while shutting the lights off.


Time has past and it was late at night. Darkness filled the sky with stars scattering the night with a crescent moon shining. Kai shifted on the couch from lounging as he watched TV and turned his head to see his father as he snored in his sleep on the recliner. He rolled his eyes while smiling and pulled himself to hear his bones pop and trekked for the kitchen. The house was silent as it was past midnight and every resident was asleep. Except for Kai. The spiked, burnet teen groggrily stepped into the small kitchen with his feet softly padding on the hardwood flooring and opened the fridge to grab himself a midnight snack. He gazed around while scanning and grabbed the carton of milk and opened the flap to receive a disgusting rotten scent in his nose. He gave it a quick sniff to crinkle his nose. "Spoiled." he muttered and drained the milk in the sink and tossed it in the trashcan underneath the sink. But stopped as noticed something when the other garbage was moved.

He reached into pick up a piece of paper as he read the letterhead from the Ignacia General Hospital with his father's name below it. His chocolate brown eyes scanned the letter and suddenly grew wide as he read. Test results, confirmed. Stage two, lung cancer. Bronchitous from second hand smoke. Possible life span, 1-2 years.

Kai stopped and turned to his father asleep while coughing a little in his throat. He couldn't believe it. His father was slowly dying. Has he told his mother and Nya? Was he ever gonna tell them at all? Or keep it a secret for good? Kai couldn't imagine his father lying on a bed with a respirator mask over his face as his life was slowly vanishing away. His father taught him everything to become a blacksmith and didn't want him to leave. Angirly on his father's fate, he crumpled the letter into a ball and tossed it in the trashcan and headed downstairs to the shop.


Wind howled with thunder rolling in the sky. Street lights dimmed as a man walked down the deserted roads. He was elderly with snow white hair combed back to reveal his wrinkles on his forehead with dark eyes with tints of red in them. He was dressed in a black kimono with ancient hieroglyphics of an unknown language running down the right side of his chest. He even walked with a bamboo staff with a skull as the head.

The elder walked down the quiet streets of Ignacia with his staff tapping to echo the streets. His dark eyes scanned around until he caught a faint red glow that came from a shop on top of a hill. He simply smirked. "Perfect." he said to himself with a scratchy throat and continued his way to the shop with the lights behind him illuminating.


Inside the shop, Kai grabbed the heated metal bar from the furance and brought it over to the anvil to pound it with the mallet. Metal echoed through the quiet shop as the teen was making a sword. Or pounding his anger and frustration out. He couldn't believe that his father was dying without his family not knowing and couldn't see him gone. His father meant everything to him and kept wishing there was a way to save him. The teen kept forging the sword to its shape and placed it in the tub of water and pulled it out to growl as it was bent and twisted again and tossed it aside to grab a new bar, unaware of the man at the back door. Kai placed the bar into the furance to heat it up and felt an uneasy presense to turn and stare at the man. He had no idea how he unlocked the back door or who he was. The elder simply walked in with his staff tapping on the stone floor and gazed at the deformed swords. "Nice swords." he complimented, voice cracking and a bit raspy. "For a beginner, Kai."

Kai stopped frozen and looked at him suspicously. How does he know his name out of the blue? And what was he doing here at this hour? So many questions. "Uh... Can I help you?" he asked. "How do you know my name? Who are you?"

The elder chuckled while walking around. "I know everyone there is in the world." he replied. "I travel far and wide to seek those in need of help. But I was wondering if I can help you?"

The burnet kept eyeing him. "I don't understand." he said, puzzled. "Who are you?"

The elder again chuckled and stopped near a light-shown wall. "I have many names but I prefer to be named Samukai." he replied. Thunder rolled and lightning flashed after the name without any rain pouring. Kai could've even sworn he saw a shadow of a hunched skeleton with four arms from the elder's shadow. "As I was saying," he continued. "I know you're in need of help. Your precious father dying soon and you don't want him to leave." Kai felt his heart racing as he knows of his father's fate and slowly reached for a knife behind him and kept it behind his back. Major stalker he saw. "But my purpose here is to help. I can help you and heal your father if you are willingly."

Kai eased down while keeping the knife hidden. He didn't know whether to trust him or not to believe him, but the glint in his eyes meant truth. He slowly placed the knife down while eyeing him still. "What's your price then?" he wondered.

Samukai smirked and walked up to him till he stood in front of him. "Oh... I was thinking maybe...your soul." he replied.

My soul? Kai wondered.

Samukai reached into his kimono and pulled out a small scroll and held it out. "Sign the contract and I can promise you a better life for your father." he said. "For you, your mother, and sister." Kai kept eyeing him as he knew of his family and took the small scroll and unraveled it and slowly read it. He felt something prick his thumb on the wooden base and watched a single drop of blood land on the signature line. "Oh that'll do." Samukai said and took the scroll from him. Kai looked at him confused on how the drop of blood was his signature. Samukai rolled the scoll back up and hid it in his kimono. "By morning, your father will be healthy and you and your family can be happy. Now sleep." and tapped his forehead.


Kai immediately snapped his eyes open and looked around his surroundings. He noticed that he was lying on a bed and kept turning his gaze to survey the area and realized he was in somewhere familiar. He was lying on a twin-sized bed with a red comforter on top. A wall of weapons hung with metal glistening by the dawn light. Kai then realized it. He was in his room. But how did he end up in it in the first place?

He heard the sound of someone whistling a tune and turned his head to his door to see his father was the one. He noticed he looked normal and wasn't throwing a coughing fit every minute. "Rise and shine, sleeping beauty." he said with a clear voice. "What are you doing? Sleeping the day away?"

The spiky haired burnet slowly sat up and stretched his tired arms and rubbed his eyes. "You're looking better." he rebutted with a yawn.

His father smiled. "I feel better even." he said and then sighed. He knew now he had to tell son the truth. "Kai," he began. "I've been diagnosed with lung cancer from second hand smoke. But when I went to the doctor, they couldn't find it. Almost like if I was cured last night." Kai thought it over on how he was better than before but then remembered. Samukai last night. After he signed that contract, he kept his word. His father was still alive with his family. "Kai?" his father asked.

Kai shook his head to bring himself back and simply smiled. "I'm just glad you told me that, Dad." he replied, lying a little as he read the letter. "But I wished you would've told me, Mom, and Nya the news before. Then we wouldn't be scared later in the future."

His father sighed and softly pat his head. That was true on his part but didn't know how to. "I know." he said. "I just didn't know how you and Nya would react. Your mother already knew, but we kept wondering about you two." and wrapped his arms around him. Kai smiled a little and wrapped him too for a light embrace. "But now that I'm better, we can put that aside." he said and removed himself away from his son. "So how about you and me forget this and go forge some weapons as father and son?" Kai still smiled on the plan and nodded. Time to rebuild a better bond.


Kai swung his katana with both hands as he sliced across the wooden dummy. He favored the katana as the best weapon to fight and defend with. Others may not agree, but he enjoyed the feel and light, weightness of the blade. Quick and swift. He practices with it nearly three hours a day to perform the techniques right and effectivly. Try to become the best ever. Even have a rematch against a friend of his that fought with the sai's. The burnet stopped slashing the dummy to turn his head to smile at his father in the shop. He gripped the handle of his weapon to continue to slay his foe while his sister watched.

Kai's father lifted his head to see his son and daughter out on the small courtyard to smile. He was glad to announce the good news after saying he told about the bad news. His children were both proud of him and forgiven him for keeping the news a secret. Even his wife was proud too that he has told them when she knew before them. He turned away while smiling and continued hammering the heated bar of metal.

As he slammed the piece of metal on the anvil, he began to hear something making an unusal sound and turned his head to the source; the furance. He peered closely to see that the coals weren't heating evenly and and pushed the air pump down to noticed there wasn't any air flow. He gasped. The furance was clogged.

He quickly grabbed the stoker and shifted through the coals to unclog the vents and heard the unusual sound growing louder. To that, he began to take action faster to unclog the vents. His wife turned her head from the front desk while brushing her long black hair behind her ear. "Richard?" she asked, wondering about the situation.

Richard stopped as the sound was starting to sound catastrophic and quickly turned to his wife. But it was too late. "Kathleen!" he shouted and saw darkness.


Kai and Nya felt the ground shook a little and turned to the small explosion and felt the blood drain from their faces as they saw the fire. "Mom! Dad!" they both shouted and ran to their home. The siblings could hear their neighbors screaming with alarms blaring down the streets. Officials were on their way to aide. The siblings reached the entrance of their home to gasp in horror to what they say. Their father laid on the ground with his back burnt to third degree burns from the furnace that had a crater on the side. And their mother laid on the ground as well with blood pooling around her, but was barely breathing. Kai and Nya were petrified to move from the scene and slowly cried while Nya held to her brother tightly.

Kai wrapped his arms around her to softly cry with her as their parents were gone. He watched paramaedics reach the shop and escorted the two outside while they tended to the bodies and the fire department extinguished what little flames were left. The spiked hair teen watched as if everything was silent and time had slowed as he watched the paramedics move his father's body to a black bag with his slowly dying mother in the back of an ambulance and rushed to the hospital. He couldn't believe it though. His father was gonna be on his death bed, but was cured in the morning, but died too soon. He then realized it now.

Samukai.

He furrowed his brows to the broken promise and quickly noticed no one was moving. As if time was frozen now. Even his sister was frozen in his arms. He suddenly felt a flash of light run through him to see a skeleton and heard the sound of a staff tapping the stone floor and turned his head to growl at the elder turning up from nowhere. Samukai. He removed his arms from his sister as she remained still in her spot and slowly walked up to him. "You promised to save him!" he hissed.

"I promised to heal him and I must take his life. Might as well as your mother's." Samukai chuckled. Kai growled towards him and swung a hook punch at him, but felt something touch underneath his chin and suddenly became petrified to move. "You cannot harm me. I'm immortal. You sold your soul to me to heal your father. You're not the first to do so. And if you don't do your bargin of the deal as my bounty hunter, I can do far worse to you than my gatekeeper. You work for me now and you can regain your soul once I'm finished with you." He removed his finger from his chin and walked away. "I'll be watching over you, Kai."

Kai fell to his knees on the ground and prompt himself up to see time had returned to its natural state and watched his sister fall to her knees and crawled over to her. She rested her head into his shirt while clinging to him tightly. Kai gazed around the shop to see the damage and saw there wasn't much damage, but the broken furance. Almost as if it was the only thing to cause damage to both parents. He glared at the thought of Samukai and patted his sister's back for comfort.

He thought about the future now as he'll have to take the shop to support them. He'll become the head of the house will be there for Nya like his parents would. He'll take full responsibility now like his father taught him. But he then remembered Samukai and his final words he said and growled.

I'll be watching over you, Kai.


Well how's that for a prolouge so far? Starting the first chapter on a new story is slow work but hey I got it finished. So what do you think? Leave a review and follow and favorite the story if you wish to find out more. Have a nice weekend and see you all next week. :)