Separated: A Ninjago Fanfic
Prologue: What Happened Before
It was just any ordinary day in Ninjago. With the Serpentine and Great Devourer defeated, peace had been restored. However, an unusual group of people were on the move, trying to flee from a team of ninjas. The mysterious group fleeing was actually the Curse Thugs, an organization of bandits bent on stealing rare treasures. Basically, anything that would pay a pretty penny. When the ninja were busy fighting the Serpentine, the group of thiefs were in business. Now, at the rate they were being caught, the Curse Thugs would be finished in only a few days. That standing, the thugs needed something worth stealing.
"The ninja are right behind us, boss," a grunt warned.
"I know that! That's why we're going to end 'em for all," the leader explained.
"But how," another thug asked, "are we gonna do that?"
"Just listen to my plan and follow my lead," he answered.
The group ran into a dark tunnel. One of the grunts tried to light a torch, but the leader shook his head 'no', and continued deeper into the cavern. Meanwhile, four figures silently pursuited them. The one in red looked down the pathway and then nodded to the other three.
"The coast is clear," he told them.
Then they followed the tunnel down into the deepest chamber of the cavern. On the way, the black ninja told them briefly what their attack strategy was going to be. When they got there, a glow was eminating from a crystal in the center of the room.
"Whoa," the blue ninja said, "What's that thing?"
"It must be what those thugs are after," the white ninja replied, "The Shard Crystal."
They waited until the thugs' backs were turned, then the team landed behind the bandits. The leader noticed them and turned around slowly with a evil smirk on his face.
"You have fallen into our trap."
With those few words uttered, the Curse Thugs leader sidestepped, and before the ninja had any time to react, a few thugs stepped from the shadows and pushed them into the Shard Crystal. It shattered when they hit the crystal, allowing a blinding light to shoot out of it. When the light weakened, and finally vanished, the team of ninja were nowhere in sight. The leader had a dark look in his eyes, and said this one sentence: "The ninja will be finished by the end of this day, and will never know each other as a team."