Chapter 2: Morro

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Kai trudged into the teashop and growled, slamming his fist into the wall. The shelves in the shop shook and Nya frowned.

She had been busy unpacking teabags and containers, placing them on the correct places on the shelves all morning, and frankly, she wasn't in the mood for one of Kai's temper tantrums. She looked up, ready to give him a piece of her mind when her face fell, seeing Kai soaked and his face twisted in anger. Most would assume that he was just furious, but knowing her brother Nya could tell that something was wrong.

"Hey, what's up?" She asked softly. "We didn't see you or Lloyd since last night. Did something happen?"

Kai's face fell and for a flicker of a moment Nya could see the sadness lurking in his expression before his face returned.

"It's Lloyd," Kai growled, pressing his head against the wall. "Doesn't he know that his position on the team is more important than mine? I don't think he has learned anything since he's had tomorrow's tea. He might look he's a teenager, but he's still a kid." Kai's voice broke and he slammed his fist back on the shelves, but he refused to say anymore.

"Whatever it is, we'll figure it out. You guys are ninja for a reason after all," Nya said, trying to put a bit of humor into her voice as she placed her hand on her brother's shoulder and steered him to the counter. "Sit down while I go get the others, alright?"

Kai sighed and sat down. When she left he burrowed he ran his hands through his hair and sighed, pressing his head against the counter.


The ninja along with Misako and Wu were seated in the living room. After listening to Kai's mumbled testimony of the previous night's events Wu sipped his tea calmly and met Kai's gaze.

"So, you say that this ghost attacked you and Lloyd?" Wu said. He took another long sip of his tea and Kai's eyes narrowed. After what seemed like an eternity, Wu put the cup down onto the table in front of them.

"No offense Kai," Cole said, "but this sounds more like one of Jay's weird sci-fi movies. Are you sure you really saw what happened?"

Kai's face darkened dangerously. "Why would I lie about something like this? Lloyd is gone and you're comparing this to one of Jay's stupid movies?"

Jay leaned forward to defend himself, but Cole's warning expression made him sink back into the couch.

"Try to give us more of a description of the ghost then. If we have a lead we can ask around and maybe get some information from the locals."

After fiddling with the empty tea cup Wu sighed, stroking his beard. "That would be unnecessary Cole. I am positive that Kai is speaking the truth and I have an idea of who the culprit is. I believe that it was one of my former students that cornered you at the monastery: Morro."

"Wow, wow, wow," Jay said. "You had another student that you never told us about?"

"Wu has had several students before you four," Misako explained. "He taught for a while at the monastery before the Serpentine Wars broke out."

Misako turned to Wu, expecting him to elaborate, but he didn't say anymore.

That was when Kai lost it.

"That's all you to have to say? Your nephew is captured and all you can do is drink from your stupid cup, telling us about a student we've never heard of before like it's no big deal?"

"Kai…" Nya said with warning. Everyone expected her to tell her brother off, but she instead focused her attention to Wu. "You're actually on to something. I'd also like some answers. Why have we never heard of him before?"

Wu turned to the others, but even Zane reproached him with a stare. Heaving another sigh Wu began to talk again. "While I loved teaching others I secretly hoped that I would one day find a student that surpassed my expectations and could one day wear the robes of the green ninja. I thought that I had found that Morro. But I was wrong. I assume that his rage is what led him to attack and possibly possess Lloyd."

"I don't care what his motivation is," Kai said, throwing his hand down onto the coffee table. "What matters is that we get Lloyd back."

"No offense, but didn't Sensei say possess?" Jay asked, his voice filled with anxiety. "As in 'take control of Lloyd's body'? How are we supposed to even fight against something like that without hurting Lloyd?"

Zane frowned. "Perhaps we can look through some books on exorcisms seeing as how Pixal can find nothing in my database." Zane shook his head, lost in thought. "I will admit, this is something we have never faced before. We have no idea how to approach this without hurting Lloyd. It actually frightens me to some extent…"

"I don't want to add any more stress to the situation, but we need to remember that pretty much every villain we've ever fought before has had goons," Cole said, getting up from his previously relaxed position on the couch. "That leaves the issue that Kai and Lloyd had before with fighting Morro. If Morro has some ghost friends they'll be able to pull us down in a heartbeat."

As the weight of the situation settled over them Nya hissed under her breath as she frantically typed on her laptop. "And we couldn't have any worse timing. I'm getting reports of an attack from the city." She sighed, closing her laptop. "We'll just have to figure things out as we go, seeing as how everything in Ninjago doesn't ever want to give us just a few minutes to collect ourselves."

The ninja sat awkwardly in their seats. Cole looked over his friends and remembered with a hint of pain that Lloyd would usually give them a command before they departed on a mission. After a bit of hesitation Cole stood up.

"Sitting here isn't going to solve anything. I know that we're all hurt by Lloyd getting possessed, but instead of letting that hold us down, we need to take that energy and direct back at Morro full force. If Lloyd was here and it was someone else that was captured, he'd say the same thing."

Seeming to recover their spirits the four called out,"Ninjago!," and ran out the tea shop, following Cole to the docks.

They lifted themselves up, prepared to form their elemental dragons….Except that didn't happen.

In the middle of their cheer they fell into the water and soon sputtered up.

Kai started to breath heavily and quickly pulled himself up onto the dock, giving a sigh of relief.

Jay watched him with a confused expression. "Hey, are you-"

"If you finish that statement I'll personally see to it that the internet knows that you still sleep with Mr. Cuddlywomps at night."

"Uh, I mean, why aren't our elemental dragons working?" Jay asked, laughing awkwardly. "Hah hah …"

"It depends," Zane said. His usual calm face was instead marked with worry. "Do you want to hear my hypothesis that would be bad if true, or just call it an accident due to the stress of figuring out how to deal with the ghosts?"

"Just how bad is this hypothesis?" Cole asked.

"Remember when Lloyd gave up his golden power? His sacrifice allowed us to perform our elemental abilities again. However, with Lloyd possessed I believe that Morro could be preventing his link to us in some way."

"Yea, that's definitely a problem," Cole said, wincing. "Unless anyone has any idea of how we can teleport to New Ninjago City, we're pretty much sitting ducks."

The dock bounced and Nya, in her Samurai X mech, extended her arm out.

"With the Destiny's Bounty in repair and our vehicles sold for the tea shop we'll have to use my exo-suit," Nya said, helping the others up. "Hold on, I don't have any extra seats on this thing."


"I didn't think that you'd stay here after the others accused you," Misako said, moving around the shop. She stopped at the counter and stared at the door. The lack of customers in the shop was obvious. "We didn't have a chance to send any flyers about our location. I doubt that we'll be very busy today."

Misako turned to Wu, who was trying to busy himself with arranging items on the shelves. She sighed and watched him carefully. "Must I remind you that my son is the victim of all of this? How can you just stand here and not do anything?"

Wu finally looked at Misako and the mask he had worn with the ninja slowly fell. She had never seen such a broken man.

Using his staff Wu lifted himself into a chair at the counter and faced Misako directly. "It isn't Kai's fault. I never thought that I would hear of Morro again. He left with such venom towards me after I told him that he couldn't be the green ninja-he must have spent years trying to prove himself, but died in trying to do so. Is there really any question as to why he would target Lloyd?"

"You should have told them about Morro before," Misako said sternly. "I'm not surprised that they're angry. But what do you think you are doing staying here? Garmadon spent the rest of his life trying to redeem himself-one mistake isn't enough of an excuse to do nothing."

There was a moment of silence. Eventually Wu tilted his head up, revealing his face from the cover of his hat. He gave a nod.


"Jay, your leg is pressing into my head," Cole complained. "I'm starting to see how it must feel to not have a brain zaptrap."

"Oh, how funny. I bet that was a jab at me, wasn't it?" Jay said. His usual light-hearted tone was gone as he stared forward as Nya piloted the exo-suit over the water.

"Hey, it was just a joke. I didn't mean anything by it." Cole moved to touch Jay's shoulder, but Jay huffed and turned back.

Zane frowned at seeing his brothers fight. He was prepared to interject when he saw a golden-white dragon fly in the distance towards them from the direction of Steep Wisdom. "There's a dragon! That's…strange. I didn't call for any assistance from any of the elemental masters."

Kai held his hand over his eyes to see more clearly. "Oh, it's Wu."

The four exchanged glances.

Wu steered the dragon towards them. The dragon sniffed at them before giving a nod, returning its focus on the faint outline of New Ninjago City in the distance.

"I hope that it won't be too much trouble if I aid in this fight. I don't want you five to go alone when we are unaware of how to fight the ghosts."

"Yea, but since when have you been able to do that?" Jay squealed. "It's so cool! Why haven't you ever done it before?"

"Is there any other secret you want to tell us about?" Kai said.

"Sensei, how are you able to form your dragon with Lloyd possessed?" Zane asked quickly as Kai turned away, refusing to look at Wu. "We actually haven't seen much of your powers. I must admit that I am curious."

Wu suddenly grew silent. He stared across the ripples of water, stroking his dragon's head. The dragon gave him an appreciative snort and closed its eyes. "I inherited the power of creation from my father. I don't like using them often. But considering the need and our situation I will not hesitate to put aside my own reservations."

Cole pushed Kai with his arm and motioned to Wu. With a sigh Kai regarded his Sensei.

"Sensei, I'm…well...how do I put this...Sometimes I let my anger get the best of me-"

Nya coughed loudly.

Kai glared, but relented. "Okay, so maybe I'm a little hot-headed. The point is that I just never thought you could do anything wrong. You've always been our Sensei, you know?" Kai looked up, his eyes filled with sympathy. "But we've all been going through a tough time, so I shouldn't have blamed you for everything. It wasn't your fault that all of this is happening. It's Morro's. And when I get my hands on him-"

"You know, aside from your desire to hurt Morro that was surprisingly sentimental Kai," Nya said.

Kai tried to hide his embarrassment as the others laughed. "Okay I get, hah hah."

"Stay focused ninja. This isn't something to be unprepared for," Wu said. Kai looked at him gratefully. "We'll land in Ninjago's main square where most the alerts were reported."

Nya landed the Samurai X mech onto the main road, Wu following after her on his dragon. Citizens scrambled past them, running from floating objects that pulsed with a green glow.

The ninja jumped down from the mech and regarded the flying cars and telephone poles zooming past them.

Kai groaned. "Great. More ghosts. And now they're having a circus party."

Cole jumped to the side to avoid a traffic light flying at him. "Remember what our main goal is. As weird as this all is it's just a distraction to take us away from Morro."

Jay crossed his arms. "Don't think I don't notice what you're doing."

Cole groaned. "Are you still going on about me taking your robe when you were in the shower? I told you I was sorry at breakfast. I even gave you the toy from the stupid cereal box since you kept whining so much-"

"Do you really think I'm talking about as something like that? Right now? When ghosts are attacking!" Jay waved his hand as a tree flew past them. "I'm talking about all of this 'we're a team' and 'let's go team' stuff. Just because Lloyd's gone doesn't mean that we're going to replace him with you."

The two stared at each other before Nya groaned, forcing them apart. "Really? Is this really the time to be arguing? I'm starting to think that you guys just like to argue over stupid things!"

Cole shook his head. "Nya's right. Let's just focus on getting past the ghosts right now. We don't want them to hurt any citizens because we were too busy arguing to notice."

The ninja ran forward with Nya on her mech while Wu swung his dragon to hit the possessed objects.

"See, there he goes again," Jay said. He quickly came to a stop as a refrigerator dropped in front of him. "Uh…" Jay reached for the refrigerator's handle and jumped back as a ghost sprang from the fridge, throwing herself onto Jay.

The two fell down, flipping over as they both struggled to get on top of the other. Eventually the ghost pinned Jay down and screamed into his ear. All of the ninja groaned until she gave one last wailing screech at the sky and kicked Jay back.

Zane grabbed Jay as he fell back. Jay groaned, grabbing his head. "I know that I just had a ghost scream in my ear, but did anyone else hear that snapping sound?"

Looking back the ninja saw that the building behind them had begun to lurch forward. The citizens inside screamed as the building's base starting to crack. The female ghost screeched with laughter before she disappeared with a pop, leaving the ninja under the falling building.

Zane's eyes widened, seeing people inside the building clambering to get out.

"This is no longer a game that the ghosts are playing on others. They are threatening their lives." Zane said, anger in his voice. With no hesitation, he ran forward to the building's base and threw his hands out. "Ice!" Zane looked at his hands when nothing happened. "Did I do something incorrect?"

"Zane, you have no powers!" Pixal warned. "The building is going to fall in thirty seconds. You must get out of there!"

Just as the building started to collapse a huge gust of wind sent the building back onto its base. A green orb of energy rounded itself around the building, mending the cracks.

A cloaked figure dramatically swung over the building's side before flipping to land in front of the building. The figure looked up and the ninja gasped.

He looked exactly like Lloyd, wearing his original green gi with his mask pulled down tightly. As citizens cheered Morro looked to the retreating form of the screeching ghost.

Running forward he tried to grab the ghost before she disappeared into a truck. The truck started to lurch, threatening to fall onto him. Citizens gasped, but with complete ease Morro lifted his hands and sent a gust of wind forward, sending the truck back.

The ghost screeched as the truck fell onto the ground and disappeared into a burst of green, making the crowd go wild. Morro placed his foot on the truck and waved at the citizens.

As the citizens cheered the ninja continued to focus on the ghosts. Jay went to strike a punch, but the ghost, turning back to see Morro in his victory, nodded to the others before disappearing. Jay's fist instead came to the empty air.

"I have an announcement," Morro said, making the citizen's cheers die down. Despite his raspy voice he managed to keep a good impersonation of Lloyd. After looking down for a moment he returned his gaze back to the citizen's. "I am leaving the ninja team."

Before the citizens could react Morro held up his hand. He suddenly became nervous and fidgety. "The other ninja have been…abusing their powers. As you saw during the battle, they did nothing to truly protect you. S-so, I decided that I needed to leave. I promise that I'll never abandon you and will doing anything for Ninjago's safety."

Kai got up, staring angrily at the crowd circling Morro. "How stupid are they? How can they be buying what he's saying?"

Nya jumped out of her Samurai mech and watched the crowd carefully. "He planned all of this…He knew that when he possessed Lloyd that he would take your powers and used that to his advantage to make us to look like bad fighters…" Nya bit her lip as she processed the magnitude of the situation.

Wu was beginning to steer his dragon around the corner when, with a pop, the ghosts suddenly appeared around him. The dragon tried to snap at them, but its teeth faded through the ghosts.

Wu tried to use his staff to hit the ghosts circling around him, but the ghosts continued to reach him, ignoring the staff poking through their chests.

One with an arrow on his back caught the staff and flipped it back, sending Wu off the dragon. The ghost turned to the others as the dragon went to help Wu.

"We have what we need. Let's leave before the others give us trouble."

The ghosts nodded and started to disappear.

"No!" Wu tried to reach the ghost with an arrow on his back, but he disappeared just as his hand went through him.

Falling back Wu panted heavily. He looked around frantically and froze, seeing one of the ghosts near a food stand, searching through the food angrily.

Wu's eyes narrowed.


Zane ran to the others as Morro continued his speech. Reaching Kai he panted, pointing back to an alleyway. "I apologize for running off and believing that I could stop the building from falling. My actions were completely uncalled for. But right now we must focus on Sensei. I saw him make his way down that alleyway, chasing a ghost. I fear that he may be putting himself in a dangerous position."

The ninja slipped into the alleyway just as Morro was beginning to finish his speech. He gave them a smile before they disappeared around the corner. They followed Zane through a series of passages before they found Wu running after a ghost. Although Wu was trying to keep up his stamina, it was obvious that he was having difficulty running after him. The ghost gave him a goofy grin before he noticed the ninja behind him. He jumped and started to fly faster, his arms flailing around him.

Pulling his hat down protectively the ghost took a sharp turn. "I came all this way to do Morro's job and I didn't even get one puffy pot sticker! Not even one for Ghoultar's stomach!"

Wu turned to the others. "Quickly! This our chance to find what their weakness is! Throw anything that you think might work!"

A rubber duck shot through the ghost, causing Ghoultar to stop. "Huh?"

Cole turned to Jay. "Really, a rubber duck?"

Jay threw up his hands. "He said throw anything!"

"Maybe we can try electricity?" Zane proposed. "If I get close enough I can try to short circuit him."

"Well, not that we have any other leads," Kai said. "I'll distract him. Hey, Ghoultar, is this what you're looking for?"

Ghoultar stopped and turned around cautiously. "Do…do you have puffy pot stickers?"

Putting his hands behind his back Kai walked backwards.

"You'll have to come here to get it…"

As Ghoultar lunged forward Kai ducked. "Now!"

Zane flipped over Ghoultar, putting his hand over the ghost as a small band of electricity shot out. After landing Zane turned, only to see that it had gone through him.

"You lie!" Ghoultar thundered, pointing at Kai. "Ghoultar make red ninja pay!"

Ghoultar sped forward, ignoring the items hitting him, aiming himself at Kai.

Nya's eyes widened. For a second she could see the ghost fading into her brother and Kai's eyes lighting up with a green glow…

Nya stretched out her hand. "No!"

Just before Ghoultar reached Kai Nya felt drops of water hit her hand. Nya looked up at the once clear sky in bewilderment. "It's…raining?"

Ghoultar pulled his hat down, trying to protect himself from the rain, but the drops started to form gaping holes in his body. He shrieked as each one hit him, a small burst of steam rising off from each new hole.

"Rain?" Zane questioned. "But there was only a five percent chance for rain, and that wasn't until this evening."

Jay clapped Zane's shoulders and steered him to look at Ghoultar. "Who cares? We found out their weakness! Now we can actually attack them instead of having our attacks go through them!"

After Ghoultar gave one final wail he disappeared, only leaving the falling rain in his place. After a moment of silence the ninja broke into cheers, high-fiving one another and patting each other's backs. Kai groaned, pressing himself along the edge of the building to try to avoid the rain.

Nya watched their excitement with only some awareness. She let her gaze fall down. As the rain curled into her yellow hands she looked up at the sky, watching the drops fall.