Heart of the Oni

by Princess Keda

After the supposed deaths of their friends and family, Nya, Lloyd, Pixal, and Misako cope with the aftermath of Harumi's rein and try to move on with the help of some old friends. But not everyone grieves the same way. Meanwhile in the First Realm, the ninja are trying to survive and find a way home. Post S8, this started out as a speculative fiction about S9 but its so much more.

1. Preface

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Preface-

To anyone who is actually finding themselves reading this:

Once upon a time, my cousin and I finished watching Season 8 of Ninjago and realized how long we were going to have to wait for season 9. Knowing I had a penchant for writing, my cousin challenged me to write a fan fiction season 9 while we waiting. Having never really written a fan fiction and having absolutely no "fandom presence" as I call it, I wasn't really sure I could. After a lot of persuasion I decided "why not?" and started writing just for fun and only because my cousin was the only one who ever was going to read it and I didn't really think I'd get that far…

Then suddenly it was like 400 pages long and my cousin was insisting that other people would actually enjoy reading it. So here I am, going out on a limb and letting other people read it…I hope you like it.

Obviously when I wrote this season 9 wasn't out and we only knew a handful of details about it. So I incorporated those details and had fun making the rest up. Here's hoping that my cousin was right and other people actually enjoy reading it…especially now that the real season 9 is actually out. Fair warning; the first couple chapters read a lot like character analysis but after you get past that I promise there really is a plot line.

Happy Reading!

-NP