ELLOOO, everyone! Hawk here with yet another Ninjago Fanfic! :D

This idea has been merrily swimming around in my noggin for awhile, and I finally decided to start writing it. X3

The title is still kinda a work-in-progress... :P

I hope you all enjoy this story as much as I do, and I'll see you all at the end you the chapter. ;)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Ninjago... yet. *rubs paws together with a diabolical twinkle in my eyes*


The battle was brutal.

And all our careful planning failed thanks to Pythor, who swallowed our last hope of victory.

Around me, my brothers and the Senseis were caught in the Overlords golden grip, slowly draining them of their strength as they struggled.

That's when I realized that there was only one way left to end this... "Support me brothers, for one. Last. Time."

Time slowed as I bounced from one brother's support to another, none of them yet realizing what I myself had. If they did, they surely would have tried to stop me, futilely protesting that I should save myself.

With one final push into the air, I flipped through the air and locked a stronger-than-steel grip onto the golden metal pieces of the Overlord's armor, my eyes glaring up into his with all the fury of an enraged dragon.

"Let. My. Friends. GO!"

"Go where, doomed ninja?!", the Overlord demanded with a cackle.

The power was overwhelming, roaring through my ears and glowing through my very skin. I locked my jaw to contain my pained howls, even as my eyes watered with pain-induced tears. It was a wonder I hadn't yet been vaporized.

But still my glare never faltered from the despicable villain's leering face as I writhed. "The Golden Weapons are to powerful for you to behold! Your survival chance... IS ZERO!"

"U-ughhh...T-this isn't a-about numbers!" I gasped for breath, my lungs and throat screaming at me as tears streamed down my face... but I only distantly felt it as I looked strait into true evil's eyes with the strongest voice I could muster.

"It's about family."

The glow around around me increased ten -no- a hundred-fold as I stated that, the light becoming akin to a second sun.

I never realized that a family had been freed, but even if I had, I was in too deep to stop anyways.

My writhing increased, the agony like nothing I've even felt running rampant through my mortal body, irreparably destroying it from the inside out. I could feel my heart burning with a fire that felt hotter than a hundred super-novas. I wanted to scream, to let the world hear and know my torment, but I no longer had this option as my body rebelled and locked and twisted in silent agony.

Distantly, I thought I could hear my friends- my brothers- yelling at me, screaming, and even though I couldn't decipher their words, I could still hear the sheer terror in their voices.

"...Critical...!"

"...He'll bl...!...-er survive!"

"LET GO OF HIM!" Now that came in quiet clearly. Let go? Don't they know that this is their best -their only- shot at beating this guy? That if I let go right now, my sacrifice would end up being for nothing (Because he knows that he won't survive this. He's far to damaged to be salvaged in the aftermath.) and then the Overlord will wipe them out? Yeahh, not happening if I has anything to say about it. No-one threatens his siblings, friends, and family and gets away with it. No-one.

"I... am... a Ninja..." I could feel my heart start to falter. "And ninja...never quit!"

With that, control came rushing back into my limbs, and I focused all the agonizingly over-loaded, built up power howling inside me... And released it all right into the Overlord's face.

"GO, NINJA. GO!"

"W-what are you DOING?!", The being of pure evil shrieked as he stumbled backwards in the vain attempt to escape. "Let me go, you fool!"

The sheer power flowing out of me forced my eyes closed, the Overlord's screams ringing in my ears... And through the din, I could hear my brothers screaming their protests in one single, unified voice. "NOOO!"

The Overlord gagged on his spit, unable to truly even breath as his blood-curling screams became more ragged with the passing second.

But...

I...

I didn't feel... anything...

I...

Couldn't hear anything...

Nothing... Except my frantic, failing heart-beat fluttering in my chest and pounding in my ears...

Fond memories passed through my mind's eye... I smiled -a lone tear rolling down the side of my face- as I was truly at peace.

Everything... slowly... faded away...

"KAIIII!"


Grumbling about the light shining onto my face, I rolled over and- wait a minute.

Shooting up, my eyes flying open, I took in my surroundings. I was surrounded by a soothing, glowing light blue energy, that stretched for farther than the eye could see.

This... wasn't my bedroom that I shared with my brothers. And aren't I... suppose to be dead?

A warm chuckle sounded behind me, and I'm surprised that I didn't get whip-lash from how fast I turned around. Blinking in surprise, I took in the older man...

You could tell he was well built, even behind his loose white, black, and golden gi. He looked much like Sensei Wu, but his hair was a dark grey and his wizened, old eyes held a cunning sparkle to them that I had only even seen in Garmadon's... and, at times, Lloyd's.

"Figured it out yet, have you?"

"Ahhh, umm... You... Your the first Spinjitsu Master... Right?"

The older man's eyes sparkled with mirth. "It appears so, doesn't it? And you must be Kai, Master of Fire. I've heard much of you."

"I... umm, w-what? Y-you, ah, you have?" I just knew that I would later feel like slapping myself for shuddering so badly, but c'mon. I just died, okay?

The Master chuckled again and nodded, "Oh, yes. The Fates speak fondly of you and your brothers. And the answer to your question is yes. You are dead." The Master spread his arms, gesturing to the area surrounding them, his grin turning wry. "Welcome to the after-life of the Elemental Masters."


This... was far to short in my opinion... BUT, it's as good a starting place as any, so I'll take it! X3

Now, this is really just the prologue, to get the story going... The NEXT chapter is where the adventure REALLY starts taking place. ;)

Like it? Love it? Hate it? Lemme know! :D

~See you all next time,

Hawkfeather