Chapter 1: Possessing Arguments.
The 2 policemen ran over to 'Paul'. Morro continued up with his act, he could feel the overwhelming nervous mood of Paul get to him.
"Paul what happened?!" Officer Carl asked anxiously, passing a cup of tea and a blanket to him, rolls of police tape around his shoulders.
Morro wrapped the blanket around his shoulders, gripping the cup of tea. All he could do was shake and tremble - showing them that Paul was still a bit spooked, he managed to quietly speak up, trying to keep Paul's voice from breaking into his own, "I-I don't know..honestly."
He turned around to sit on one of the hard, museum benches, rolling his eyes as the 2 walked back over to the entrance.
"W-why are you doing this?" he heard Paul pipe up in his head, Morro grimaced at this and the sweetened smell of the tea clutched in his hands.
"Oh just shut it, stop thinking you'll find stuff I- you won't like." Morro replied, trying to keep his thought firm and threatening.
On the inside - he'd hate it if he knew what Paul could've possibly seen inside his head..
Meanwhile, the 5 Ninja were soaring over the crystal blue ocean, returning to Sensei Wu's tea shop - Steep Wisdom - after capturing a fish terrorizing a village.
"Did you see how HUGE that thing was?!" Jay yelled, his electric-blue dragon flying lower than the others, it's pointed claws running like a blade through the waters - spraying white foamy flecks at everyone.
"I've seen way bigger." Kai rolled his eyes, flying away from the specks of water, for it'd mess up his well-gelled spikes.
"What, like your ego?" Cole interrupted, laughing as his dragon spun in a spiral over Jay, crashing down into the water and dampening the blue ninja in the salty waters of the sea.
Lloyd - who was guiding them back home - sniggered at Cole's comeback, "okay, okay let's just focus. It's been a day and we still need to help Sensei with his tea shop."
Zane nodded in agreement, absent-mindedly stroking the head of his ice dragon, "affirmative."
They saw the thatched roof of the tea shop below - Lloyd nodded at their steady descent, their dragons disappearing as they summoned them back to themselves slowly as they were closer to the ground.
Dust from the ground flew up as the 5 landed, legs outstretched - the warm sun shining softly onto their backs.
"We're back, Sensei." Cole yelled, walking back inside the tea shop to see their Sensei waiting with a box in his arms.
"I have work for you to do." Wu greeted them, putting the box down in the middle of them, "we need word about our tea shop, you need to wear your new uniforms and hand out fliers."
"So no 'hello' or 'how did it go?'" Jay raised an eyebrow, getting the uniform out, his eyes seemingly coming out of their sockets at the teapot-hat and the Steep Wisdom tshirt.
Lloyd bit his lip, trying not to snigger as Kai placed his on the well-gelled brunette spikes of his head, thinking about how dorky he'd look wearing the attire.
Before Sensei could say anything else - Misako put down the phone, the slam of it alerting everybody to look her way, "the museum just called up - there's been a break-in." she announced, "they've asked for Lloyd."
The 4 other ninja groaned in response - it was always Lloyd in situations like this.
"Go on - I'll take your share." Cole sighed, taking the fliers from Lloyd and adding it to his ever-growing armful.
"Thanks - I owe you one.." Lloyd grinned slightly before flicking up his jade-green hood and heading out the door, focusing as he summoned his Energy Dragon once again - front-flipping onto it's back before soaring off into the sapphire sky, the gentle breeze ruffling it's fingers through his clothes.
'If he falls for this - I'll be surprised.' Morro thought to himself, hoping Paul didn't hear him think as he looked over at the entrance - he grinned.
"Oh great it's Lloyd - it feels safer already." he heard Officer Carl say to him, Carl adjusted his hat, nodding over to 'Paul', "he had quite the fright."
"I'll sort this out as best I can." Lloyd reassured them, flicking down his gi hood and walking over to 'Paul'
Morro ran his finger over the handle of the cup, he had no idea why - but as he looked up, the sight of Lloyd with his blonde hair, shining green gi and strong posture had gotten his heart racing.
"I heard you had a fright last night?" Lloyd softly spoke to him, tightening the belt of his gi absent-mindedly, Morro kept Paul shaking and 'shell-shocked', he saw Lloyd's face soften, "can you show me where it happened..?" he asked.
"Follow me." Morro made Paul whisper, dropping the cold tea all over the floor - sick of the tension between them as he grabbed Lloyd's wrist, warmth flowing beneath his fingertips as he ran down a corridor.
"Oh um.. o-okay then?" Lloyd replied - trying to keep the calmness in his voice, his heart thudding like a stampede of wild horses.
The two stopped as they ran into a room, Morro shut the door behind them, trying to battle with the guilt of his mind as he saw Lloyd looking around - intrigued, "the thief tried to get some old armour" he calmly told him, letting Paul's voice fade as he used his own - feeling strong once again.
"Why would he try to get the armor when there are all sorts of other artifacts?" Lloyd replied, kneeling down inf ront of the box and running his fingertips over the articulate engraving of the armor.
"It's the Allied armor of Azure. Legends say you can summon allies to help you in battle.. even ghosts from the Cursed Realm." he said, grabbing a sledge-hammer from the dusty floor.
Lloyd turned his head around quickly, "the Cursed Realm..? That's where my Father-" he mumbled, his eyes widening as he saw the sledge-hammer being thrown full force at him, "hey!" he yelled out, rolling out of the way and back-flipping to his feet.
'He's pretty agile.. but I bet I can defeat him' Morro thought to himself, grinning, ignoring the biting thoughts of hesitation and 'what will Vesper do if you don't'
Paul screamed in agony inside his head once again as Morro focused, ripping apart their minds and bodies, green smoke filling the room as Paul's limp body fell to the floor as Morro possessed a painting.
"What did you DO to him?!" Lloyd asked, gripping the possessed picture - his eyes flashing anger as he hurled the frame at the wall, splitting it into smithereens.
"How foolish of you." Morro crowed, possessing the rusted, golden sculpture of a serpentine, "you think you can defeat me? I'm a ghost!" he spat, the sculpture's tail wrapping tightly around Lloyd's waist as he tried to escape, "I can possess whoever I want to!" he grinned, using the power of the wind to bring the Allied armor of Azure to him, phasing it through the serpentine sculpture he was possessing and donning it onto himself.
He could feel power rush through his veins - his beams of green becoming vibrant and stronger as he fought against Lloyd.
"L-let me go!" Lloyd stammered, he could feel all breath leave his lungs as the winds quickened, the speed forming a tornado around him, streams of green mist wrapping around his throat, Morro slowly coming out the sculpture - taking care to weaken Lloyd as he came closer to him, "I won't l-let you get them."
"You already have." Morro plainly replied, sculpting their bodies together, trying to ignore the agony toning Lloyd's screams as he entered his body and mind, he felt the strength in his muscles, the toned shape of his abs as he clenched his - well Lloyd's - fists.
Overwhelming amount of power struck him as the sculpture released him, and he landed on the floor.
"C-crap.. your power.. it's so strong." Morro hissed to the boy he was possessing, even though he knew he was somewhat - n full control - as he knelt on the floor, pain stabbing him straight into the stomach.
'I-I know.. I feel it too' Lloyd replied weakly - knowing that there was no way back out of this now.
Morro closed his eyes, his mouth turned into a snarl as he absorbed all this power - with Lloyd's energy had came 4 other elements and his body is having a hard time trying to control this new surge of power, and the pain that comes with possessing a spinjitzu master.
He knew he'd get mocked by Vesper if he didn't fulfill this task.. he was forever being told 'You're so weak' 'You're not even strong enough' 'Get up, you need to be BETTER.'
That's why everybody was so surprised when the Preeminent chose him to free her and not Vesper, the one stronger than the others, the one who puts him down. The one who makes him tremble every time she knocks him to the floor..
Suddenly, the pain resided and he could stand to his feet. He felt his mind snap over to the task he now had - retrieve the staff.
'Your plan will never work' Lloyd told him, Morro could feel Lloyd's emotions, it was overwhelming, but he decided not to mention it, 'I saw your thoughts'
'I can see all yours too.. we're not safe from each other Greenie.. now watch as I tear your friends apart.' Morro replied, grinning as he flew up through the skylight of the museum, twisting and summoning his elemental dragon through his fingertips, it was black and green, it's scales glowing luminous jade that faded to a deep green at it's claws, specks of black and green particles surrounded it as he grabbed the chains.
"Don't call me that.. the least you can do is call me my name." Lloyd hissed, Morro rolled his eyes at this - this was going to infuriate him.
Morro felt their power surging into one, he grinned as the strength Lloyd had, kicked in, the sun had began setting to night as he soared into the sky, it was a mix of ruby, amber and pale yellow as the sapphire blues of the day were slowly being absorbed from the shades of the night, he strongly tried to ignore Lloyd as he was shifting through his thoughts to find out where his former Sensei was located.
He knew having a headstrong Green Ninja as a subconscious would grow to be obnoxious.. but also, Morro knew it would be even worse if Vesper had gotten to the boy.
A/N: That chapter was pretty long. For me anyway.. (I'm so lazy.. damn)
I won't be able to update until Saturday or Sunday! I'm so sorry for this, I need to go to two weddings (yay.. dresses..)
If I have time though, I may be able to update on Thursday - hopefully, I love writing this.Thank you so so much to all who reviewed though! I never expected people to read this mess :]
It gives you inspiration.. ya know.. you want to carry on.
Again, thank you so so much to all who've reviewed, followed or even read a single word of this so far, be ready for more to come.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
-Gee
