Loki God of Evil: I felt I needed to put it in, because I looked at the way other stories were set up when referring to Shipping and generally they had lines something like, 'So-and-so doesn't like so-and-so, but then they begin to grow closer' which is kind of what I described Myrker and Nya's relationship as, which wasn't what I intended. Anyway, I am glad you enjoyed the story.
Well this is where the story really starts. Also this story is going to be way shorter than I originally intended, simply because the way I set up the last two chapters accidentally makes this story shorter. Also due to my accidental rushing of the story this chapter isn't as good as it could have been, I definitely messed up on a part of it, and I won't say which part but you'll see it.
The Shadow King
The alarms on the Destiny's Bounty began to wail. The Ninja each appeared from their rooms, each in full costume, rushing down the hallway, they slid into the main control room to find the Myrker, Wu, and Misako already waiting. Myrker flashed them a bright grin, "We apparently have a problem, the Ninjago City Bank is being robbed by a mysterious attacker who wields elemental powers, I believe it is Veor, of course I could be wrong."
"Then we need to hurry." Kai said rushing outside and creating his elemental dragon.
"Indeed we do." Myrker replied.
After a couple minutes of flying, the Ninja, and Myrker arrived, Myrker had been riding on the back of Nya's Elemental Dragon. The group landed in front of the Bank to find a figure, not Veor, standing there, around him swirled a mix of fire and earth. The figure was wearing something similar to the Ninja's clothing, dark goggles were over his eyes, and he was sending miniature tremors through the earth, and pools of lava formed around him. His hair was black and was jelled back, he gave a cruel laugh examining the Ninja.
"Ninja, at last you have come to face me, Volcanus, Lord of Destruction, Bringer of Ash, and soon to be Ninja Conquerer." The being said in a loud and triumphant voice.
"Nya and Myrker deal with the heat of the lava pools, Zane you need to help them out, Jay, you, me and Kai are going to charge him, Cole you need to deal with the tremors." Lloyd said, taking leadership, the Ninja nodded, and yelled their normal battle cry of 'Ninja Go!'
Nya and Myrker pulled water from a nearby large fountain, sending multiple small streams of water at Volcanus. Each stream was precise and targeted against his pools of molten rock, or heated element. Volcanus spun to see them looking distracted, meanwhile Zane sent a blast of freezing energy into the Villain, who shook as the cold bit at him. At that moment Lloyd and Kai sent a blast of fire and energy into the beings stomach, sending Volcanus flying backwards. As he flew by Jay struck him with a blast of Lightning in to the Villains back, stunning him. Meanwhile Cole had stopped the vibrations that Volcanus was causing.
As the team of seven walked in approaching the fallen Volcanus, the fallen villain looked up at them in surprise, "Wait, wait, thats not fair everyone knows there are Five Ninja not Seven, I was prepared to face five of you! I want a rematch!"
Kai looked down at the figure in surprise, "Really? You don't get one, we beat you fair and square, and even if we didn't it doesn't matter this isn't a game, we stopped you because you are dangerous."
"But, but, I should have won, you broke the rules." Volcanus said with a cry of anger.
"A tip to anyone of wisdom Volcanus, there are no rules. Be glad you are alive, because that situation can be rectified." Myrker said, his usual polite smile switching to a cruel grin.
"What, but! Fine I surrender, the cops can take me away then." Volcanus, moved back away from Myrker, who was twirling his staff in one hand.
A couple minutes later when the police had successfully chained up, and were dragging away Volcanus, an officer strode over to the Ninja, "I'm sorry to bother you, but there's a strange woman in the Police Station asking to see the Ninja."
The group looked around at each other, Kai smiled at them, "You guys go ahead I'll deal with this."
The woman moved through the streets, her robes fluttering around her, her Kapesh over her back. Unlike the last world jumper she did not create unease or fear, her eyes were warm and kind, yet in others ways they gave her the look of a huntress. One person however did seem afraid, a young man, ran off to a telephone box and called the police. Strange for anyone to do based off clothing, especially in Ninjago. As the woman moved she smiled at those around her, her smile was soft and warm. As she stepped into the street she moved through the traffic of cars, her feet falling softly upon the ground. Suddenly there was a loud sound, and she covered her ears looking over to the source of the noise, a siren. She let out a sigh, a soft annoyed sigh, and pulled out her Kapesh, then she dropped it to the ground holding up her hands.
"I don't mean you any harm, your world seems nice enough, and I have no reason to ruin it. That would just be foolish, and a waste of time." the woman said as the police approached.
"I'm sorry miss, but why were you wandering around with a weapon?" The officer asked looking her up and down.
"That is quite simple, because I have a sword and no place to leave it, I'm new to your world, as I said." The woman replied.
"Uh-huh, and your name miss?" The officer asked, as another officer went over and tried to pick up the Kapesh, but failed.
"My name is Senka, Servant of the Lady Bast, Goddess of Protection and Cats." The woman replied smiling.
"I think this is above my pay grade. I'm going to call in the Ninja." The officer said with a sigh.
"These Ninja, they are the protectors of your world?" Senka asked blinking at the officer.
"I suppose so yes." The officer said.
"Good, call them please, I would speak with them." Senka said with a smile.
As Myrker and Nya landed back on board the deck of the ship, Nya's face was one of puzzlement, "Myrker, sorry to ask, but did you really mean what you said to Volcanus, that you would kill him?"
"No, of course not, anyway you shouldn't worry about it, there are much more important things going on right now." Myrker said, with the wave of his hand.
Nya smiled at Myrker, "Yes, of course, you're right. Sorry, I don't know why I was wondering."
"No problem, everybody has little doubts occasionally." Myrker said with a polite smile, but in his eyes for a tiny second there was a glint of purple to the blue, still he smiled dismounting the Dragon.
Kai arrived at the police station to find a lady dressed in Black and Orange robes sitting there waiting for him, she smiled and stood up when she saw him, "You are a Protector of this World are you not?"
"Um, I guess?" Kai said blinking at her.
"Good, I would have words with you. There is a grave threat to this world, he has come here to conquer it." Senka said with a smile.
"Woah, slow down, my name is Kai, who are you?" Kai said looking at her.
"I am the Senka, Servant of the Cat Goddess Bast." Senka said with a smile.
"So why are you here." Kai said looking at her.
"There is a threat, I have chased him with my team across several realms, each time we fight him he has slipped away, originally there were eight of us, now it may just be me, but I think my partner escaped as well, he is hard to kill, and I must admit powerful." Senka said, stepping forwards.
"I think I know him, I'm guessing I've met both of them, we should get back to the Destiny's Bounty if you want to talk to him, and you can speak to our entire team there." Senka nodded and smiled at him, her warm comforting smile.
"I'd save any explanations as well, I don't want to hear the same thing twice." Kai added as the two headed out the door.
"A logical decision. You are smart Kai, Ninja of Fire." Senka said with a smile.
Kai and Senka strode up the gang plank to the Destiny's Bounty, Senka was speaking more easily now, her tone was calmer, still it was saturated with a strange kindness.
"I'm surprised he is working with you, I do not know the full of it, but as I understand it he has had much trouble with Ninja in the past." Senka said as the two stepped onto the Bounty.
"He hadn't mentioned it, or you for that matter." Kai said, then Senka saw who was on the deck, she pulled out her Kapesh rushing forwards at Myrker her blade in her hand.
"You tricked me Ninja of Fire, you keep the Shadow King here upon your vessel! I will die with honor and bravery fitting a servant of Bast." Senka yelled her Kapesh clashing harmlessly with Myrker's staff.
"Wait, so who do you work with then if not Myrker, also what is going on?" Kai asked looking at Senka as if she was mad.
"I work with Veor, to slay the Shadow King, who brought forth water upon the temple of Bast, and shattered the Temple of Ra." Senka said clashing her blade against Myrker's staff.
Myrker at first acted surprised his usual warmth staying, but in a second it drained away and he gave a cruel smile. "Oh hello Senka, I'd rather hoped you'd died. Too bad I suppose. How is Mythosia by the way?"
The words seemed to only increase Senka's anger as she swung her blade down again at Myrker who simply held his cruel smile. "This is getting boring very quickly Senka, you and Veor were never really a threat to me. Not even at my weakest point have I ever been beaten by something as weak as you two."
The Ninja stared at the battle raging across their ship, "So whose side are we on?" Jay asked looking at the others for an answer.
"We've known Myrker longer, but well, he's not exactly acting like the good guy here." Kai added.
"I don't know, maybe he's just pretending to be a villain?" Lloyd asked hopefully.
"Or maybe he was just pretending to be our friend." Cole said.
"I think logically we should support Senka, her actions seem to indicate some amount of truth in her words, there has been no indication she was lying to us, logically she is the most likely to be who she says she is." Zane said matter of factly.
"Zane's right, even if we're wrong here and fight for Senka, Myrker will understand our confusion, but if we support Myrker and we're wrong Senka will never trust us." Kai said, the Ninja nodded then yelled at once, "Ninja GO!"
The group moved spinning into the Spinjitzu position, only for each of them to be countered by a single movement from Myrker, who smiled, and the kicked Senka's feet out from under them.
"I'd be angry at you if you weren't so stupid and easy to manipulate. Honestly, how longs it been since I got here? A week, and you didn't even begin to guess I was manipulating you. It doesn't matter now though, I have what I came here for. I needed a weapon and I got one." Myrker said with a smile.
The Ninja looked at each other, confused, before getting to their feet, "What Weapon?" Kai asked.
Myrker simply smiled, "That one."
Suddenly a blast of water knocked the Ninja to the ground, they turned to see Nya standing there, looking over them, her eyes were filled with anger and hatred. At first Jay was confused, and then he felt as if he'd been punched in the chest, because the look in her eyes was directed at them, at the Ninja as a team, a look of hatred directed at their team who had been through so much, and Nya for some reason hated them all. Senka blinked for a second and then let out in a grim tone, "He charmed her, oh Bast."
Myrker gave a smirk, and then he clutched his staff tightly, the blue gemstone let out a flickering glow, before shadows wrapped around it, making a withering trail of darkness that acted like smoke, a slight purple appeared in his blue eyes, as he let them see him as he was, he stepped back holding his hand in the air, "Time to go I think Nya."
Nya approached him wordlessly and held onto his staff, suddenly the darkness and water swirled around them and they were gone flashing from existance.
"What happened, what did he do to my Sister?" Kai yelled at Senka who rose slowly with a sad look in her eyes.
"He charmed her." Senka repeated slowly.
"What the hell does that mean?" Kai yelled at Senka.
"It means that we are left with no options but to pray." Senka replied.
"What does it mean though? You mean he just spoke really nicely and now she's evil?" Jay said with an eyebrow raised.
"No, charming, it is hard to explain, Veor would do better." Senka said.
"Actually none of this makes sense, if Veor was a good guy why'd he attack us." Jay yelled.
"Because on his world you were not heroes, the Ninja of his world were servants of Myrker, they helped imprison him for many years." Senka said.
"Fine, so he hates Ninja, but he acted like he had never encountered us before." Kai said in response.
"He has never encountered You before, not you five. Others however, the Ninja were a larger organization on his world as I understand, do not ask me of it, I have not been there, I joined more recently." Senka said.
"You mentioned your team earlier, so what are you?" Kai said.
"We are, we were, keepers of Justice, Defenders of each of our worlds, we worked together to slay the Shadow King, Veor had the greatest vendetta against him, for Veor was the most wronged. Veor was always the most powerful of us, if we are to succeed we need him, else Ninjago crumble." Senka said frowning.
"Then we get Veor." Lloyd said, "And then, we defeat Myrker and save Nya, and Ninjago."
The end feels a little less end-y for this chapter, anyway. Myrker is actually a villain, I failed heavily to hint at this before so I tried to put all the hints into this chapter. Also thats the reason I kind of wrote Myrker as a Mary-Sue, because you need to think he's this great hero, before its revealed that he is actually a villain. By the way, there was one hint in the story, Remember Nya not remembering why she disliked Myrker, that was one of the effects of Myrker's magic or 'Charming'. Anyway, I still have some stuff for this story, and I'm sorry that the Twist wasn't well established, I mean it feels possible, but not well written to me, and that really is my fault.
Anyway, reviews and feedback are always helpful.
