Outside a bar, several miles from Ninjago City, Morro flies his dragon over it before it disperses and he lands on the ground. He soon enters the bar as some of the patrons look at him before he removed his hood and came up to the counter. "Thirsty?" The bartender asked, placing a glass of bourbon on the table.
"Insatiable." Morro replied as he took the glass and scowled it before putting it back. "Ahhh! It's been a while." He soon comes up to a pool table, blows some dust onto it and throws the staff on it, showing the three symbols. "Ohhh, of course."
"Well, well, well." Someone called out. "What have we here?" Morro turned to see Ashton, his brother and three other men coming up to him. "Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon. Your blue friend caused all of us to be banned from the Bot Bar in Ninjago City. So now we all have to drive half an hour out of town just to come here. Besides, you're a bit young for a place like this, ain't you?"
"We'll hurt that blue pyjama boy, through you." Ashton's brother said as he got out a switchblade and opened it. The others did the same while Ashton got out a Bowie knife. "Wrong place to come if you ain't got friends, if you know what I mean." Some patrons soon come up behind them, some holding pool cues.
"Oh, I have friends." Morro replied as the Allied Armor soon glows and wind starts coming out of it, causing everyone to look around.
Outside, a green light flashes inside the bar before returning to normal as the men were heard grunting and shouting. Gunfire was also heard before Ashton's brother and another member are thrown out the window and land near some motorbikes, the brother knocking over a few. "Let's get out of here!" They get up and run away.
The doors soon open as Morro and a ghost leave with Ashton and the patrons inside, all groaning. "Do you know where you're going?" The ghost asked.
Morro chuckles. "I do now." He replied as he puts his hood back on. "But make sure no one tries to stop me."
"Mmm. It'd be my pleasure."
"And find that traitorous bitch while you're at it." Morro soon conjures his Power Dragon.
"Nice ride."
Morro gets on it. "Take one of your own." The dragon soon flies off as the ghost looks at a nearby bike, holds his hands out to it and it turns into a big three-wheeler bike with a saw as the front wheel as he cackles. He gets on it and drives off before it flies into the air.
Several Days Earlier
Kai comes up to Lloyd as he looks from the end of the jetty. "Don't worry, big shot." He said. "I'll watch over you from now on." As Lloyd was about to come up to him, the big fish emerges and prepares to swallow him. "Oh, no!"
It turned out to be a nightmare as it was now morning before he immediately got up and sees he was still in the Forest of Tranquility with something licking his face. He looks to see it was a yak-like creature that licked his face with four more around them, Misako, Blake, Dragon and Tania looking at the clues as Jay, Cole, Geoff, Gewuji and Maggie were eating noodles for breakfast. Gewuji was barely touching hers. "Misako and Blake got our message." Kai got up and walked over to them. "And you made breakfast. Good. I'm starving."
"We put your plate down over there." Nya said, pointing to a nearby log, only to see one of the creatures eating it.
Kai groaned as his breakfast was eaten. "Have mine, Kai." Gewuji said, holding it out. "I'm on a diet."
Kai takes it and starts eating it. "As far as I knew, the tomb was only a fable until we saw what's on the staff." Misako said.
"Does she know what the symbols mean?" Kai asked.
"Not the last two yet." Geoff replied as he put his finished plate down. "But get this, the first symbol means 'Airjitzu'. Um, excuse me while I go take a leak." Geoff soon walked away.
"Airjitzu?" Kai comes up to them as the sound of Geoff urinating was heard.
"A lost martial art created by Master Yang, who passed years ago." Blake said. "If mastered, it allows one to temporarily take flight."
"Did you hear that, Kai?" Jay asked. "We get to fly."
"You haven't found it yet." Tania replied. "The Scroll of Airjitzu is well guarded in the Ancient Library of Domu. My father donated it before he passed away. I know Airjitzu, but it won't help out in this situation."
"Forgive me if I speak out of turn, but my records reveal it was recently stolen." Zane said.
Jay gasped. "By whom?" He asked.
"Police database confirms that the thief was identified as Ronin-"
"Ronin?" Geoff asked, coming up to them, pulling his pants up. "As in Ronin Davidson?"
"You know him?" Kai asked.
"More than knew him, he was my friend."
7 Years Earlier
"I met him after I left Chen's island." Geoff's present voice was heard as a young man with long brown hair and a patch over his right eye while holding a red straw hat and a younger Geoff shake hands in front of the Ninjago Museum. "I had returned some stolen Anacondrai artefacts. That's when I met him and we started an artefact recovery business."
Geoff and the young man see a suitcase on a table. "A pleasure doing business with you." A man said.
"Then one day, we were deciphering an ancient scroll, found in a recovered artefact. It lead us to the Dark Island."
Geoff and the young man move along the Dark Island, notably having stubbles. "Geoff, we combed the island for a week, maybe the Fangblade isn't here." The young man said.
"I told him I wouldn't give up. So, during the night, Ronin took off, leaving me behind."
Geoff wakes up and sees nothing on the beach. He soon got angry. "**** YOU, RONIN!" He yelled.
Present
"I spent those 10 months on that island because of him."
"Well, this is good news." Jay said.
"Er, how so?" Cole asked.
"Because if Morro doesn't know this, he'll be heading to the library."
"Ronin's most likely holed up in the village of Stiix, which gives us a head start." Geoff said.
"Then it's set." Dragon replied. "You boys will head to Stiix. Misako, Nya, Maggie, Gewuji, Blake, Tania and I will head back to the tea shop and start deciphering the next clues."
"Why can't I go with them?" Blake asked.
"Blake, we talked about this. You're a samurai, not a ninja. Besides, you're more useful in helping us decipher the clues."
"You're not my father, okay?!"
"True, I'm not your father. But at least I'm not the one who put my own sperm into specimen jars to clone myself and have the first one unaltered like his so called brothers."
"Is that what you think? You're cruel and pathetic." Blake soon walks away. "I'll walk back. When I get there, I expect an apology from you."
"Blake, get back here!" Blake just flips the bird as he walks away. "Blake!"
"Leave me alone!"
"Let him go." Tania said. "He obviously needs some time alone."
"And he knows the way back to the tea shop." Misako said.
Jay, Cole, Zane and Geoff get onto four of the yak-like creatures as Kai came up to the last one. "Er, OK." He said, coming up to it. "Stand still." He tries to gets up, but ends up, vaulting over it and lands on the other side before getting back up and gets onto it as he groans. "Don't worry, sis. With me in charge, this scroll will be ours in no time."
"Because time flies when you know Airjitzu." Jay said. "Get it?" He chuckles.
"Be careful, Ninja, for the path we seek is never a straight line." Dragon said. "Rely on each other to guide your way."
They move their yak-like creatures along as Kai struggles to get his to move. "Wait up!" He yelled. "I'm supposed to be leading here." He forces the creature to move around.
