Hello, everybody, my name is Markiplier and welcome back to-I'm just kidding! It's me, TRikiD. I have returned to post my sequel to Legends of Ninjago: Rise of Evil. I hope you enjoy. Oh, and I can't forget the people who inspired me: Toon Friend, StoneByrd, ML-Awesomeness, and PrincessMialyn. Thank you all, and let's read. XD

Legends of Ninjago: A Golden Legend Returns

Chapter 1 – Years later…

The large city of Ninjago was busy, as usual, but out of the thousands of citizens, four men dressed in white, black, red and blue were the most important.

They were at a sidewalk corner as they helped pick up trash. In case no one noticed, these four men were the ninja team, under the teachings of Sensei Wu. It was obvious that years have gone by since just the slightest bit of aging was shown in the ninja, but not that much to the point where they looked elderly. They seemed to be in their late twenties or early thirties.

"I always wanted to be a part of a community service," Jay, the blue ninja of lightning, said with enthusiasm as he threw an empty Mountain Dew soda can into the trash. But the sudden sound of a revving motorcycle was heard, and it appeared that Nya, with Wu in a side car, was driving up to the four ninja. When Nya slowed down, Jay wasted no time in greeting his girlfriend. On Nya's wrist was a beautiful bracelet that Jay had gotten for Nya. It had a golden band with a ruby crest.

"Hey baby," Jay cooed and leaned down as he and Nya shared a quick but loving kiss.

"I love riding side car," Wu said, in his rare enthusiastic voice.

"And we have good news. I know this girl, who knows a guy, and this guy knows another girl, that also knows this guy, and this guy knows an insurance agent who can get us a place to live since we've lost the Bounty," Nya explained with a smile, "now, with the little money we have left, we might as well use it to buy some groceries. Wu and I will be back soon," Nya continued and began to rev the motorcycle and drove away, making Wu raise his arms and yell in excitement from the ride.

"At least we can get back up on our feet after the Serpentine incident. Speaking of which, where did those scaly curs even go?" asked Cole.

"I'm not sure. But authorities are still searching the city for any signs of the Serpentine," said Zane.

"Which, for some reason, reminds me: Anyone seen Lloyd and Kate? They left on Titan early this morning," said Kai.

"Who knows? That young couple is unpredictable," Cole groaned.

Inside of a dense rain forest there was a grown woman with a rifle in her grasp. The woman wore attire that looked like it would let her move freely for athletic-ness. She had long brown hair put up in a pony-tail, and the most interesting trait about her was her sparkling violet colored irises. She also looked to be in her very early twenties.

She observed her surroundings in the thick tropical forest, but she didn't notice the green clad object moving quietly, high in the trees as it watched her. The object was wearing a ninja suit, with its green mask up and covering its face. It was a human shape and just a few inches taller than her.

The green ninja moved quietly from one branch to another, but even if he put all his might into staying silent; he stepped on a branch that was just a tad too small for his weight. The branch creaked, but didn't break. And the faint creak was loud enough for the woman to hear even if she was yards away.

The woman stopped in her tracks as he eyes went wide, but then she smirked.

"You bitch," the woman said in an appropriate grown woman's voice. She turned and aimed her gun at the trees, but before she could fire, the green ninja burst from the trees and began to run after the woman. She cocked the gun and pulled the trigger, but no bullets would fire from her rifle. That's when she got angry and turned tail.

She ran for a while until she came to a stop by a water fall that was surrounded by a beautiful grove full of blooming plant life. Though as she watched the waterfall, she didn't notice the green ninja was still behind her, but he was quiet as he used his green attire to camouflage. The green ninja was just inches behind her, but that's when the woman quirked an eye brow.

She was right to swing her rifle behind her because it hit the man right in the head and he fell to the ground but not unconscious.

The green ninja groaned in a voice that was a mix between a light and deep husky voice. He pulled back his mask to reveal long blond bangs over his forehead and the red irises of Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon. And, of course, the woman could only be Kate Chen.

These two didn't look twelve anymore; age, just like the ninja, Wu and Nya, have also had age take a toll on them. Kate's hair hand grown longer and had developed a more hour glass figure to her torso. While Lloyd's bowl cut grew so that it had bangs that swept to the left side.

"That's what you get for rigging my gun so I can't fire!" Kate exclaimed but with a smile as she gave Lloyd a hand to help him up as he rubbed his head.

"So what?! It's a stun gun! Do you really think I'd still want to get shot?!" Lloyd asked in anger as he took his hand from his head and checked for blood; there wasn't any.

Lloyd was obviously too small for the adult sized green ninja suit, during the times of the return of the Great Devourer, but Lloyd grew into his sleek and young man self and was big enough for the ninja suit.

"Lloyd, we're twenty and nine-teen," Kate said more calmly as she pointed at Lloyd and herself, "we can't be cheating at games anymore," Kate continued.

"Hey, you how I am. And you would know because you fell in love with 'this'," Lloyd said with confidence as he referred to himself. Kate chuckled.

"True. But love can't get in the way of the safety of all of Ninjago, and you destined—destined Green Ninja of Creation," Kate said with a smirk. But Lloyd was ignoring her.

"Do you smell that?" Lloyd asked as he looked around.

"Smell wha-?" Kate began to ask but then she sniffed the air and her nose cringed. The two young adults turned and looked at the beautiful waterfall that fell into a lovely lake, but the crystal clear water wasn't crystal clear; it was a foggy black color. More and more of the sickening color flowed through the water fall and flowed to the edge where the lake met the shore, and that was where Lloyd and Kate were standing. Kate leaned down and stuck her left hand into the disgusting water, and when she pulled her hand back out; she and Lloyd noticed a gross dark liquid covering the skin of her hand.

"It's oil," Kate said with a worried expression as she shook her hand to get as much oil off.

"We need to get out of here," Lloyd said firmly, but right after Lloyd spoke, flames went up from the oil contaminated water and exploded everywhere. Large flames even began to go up around the water area and the fire walls surrounded Lloyd and Kate.