"That's impossible...", Aaliyah said, "How are you alive!?"
"It's because he's the Master of Wind", Lloyd answered. Morro grinned at him, "That's correct. To be honest, I already knew you were the Green Ninja anyway. When I heard that you, quote on quote, 'disappeared', I was actually happy about it.
Aaliyah gritted her teeth, "Then why did you trick everyone into killing Lloyd!? They already treated you as a hero!"
"Because I was chosen to be the Green Ninja. As told be your Sensei."
Lloyd's eyes widened , "Uncle...? So that's why..."
Morro nodded, "But when it was actually YOU, I wanted to prove destiny wrong, but the more you grew popular, the more I became envious of you. And so, now that I'm this close to ending you, Lloyd Garmadon, I can finally be recognise as an actual hero for killing the beast! And I'll have Aaliyah all to myself!"
As Morro lunged foward at Lloyd, a sudden blast knocked out the wind ninja to the side, to Lloyd and Aaliyah's surprise. "W-Where did that come from?", Aaliyah questioned. The dust cleared out to reveal a huge piece from one of the decor of the mansion.
"Hey. If you're gonna deal with our brother, then you'll have to deal with us."
Aaliyah and Lloyd turned their heads to the side to show none other than Cole, who is standing on the ledge of the balcony. Along with him are Kai, Zane, and Jay, and had determined looks on their faces. "You guys!", Lloyd said. "We didn't want to you deal with him alone", Kai pointed out. Zane nodded, "Because we're a team."
Jay raised his fist into the air, "And ninja never quit!." Aaliyah smiled among their reunion, "I can't believe this is happening". Jay then took his hand out to her, "We have a lot to talk about, Aaliyah, but we have to get you to safety." Aaliyah nodded as she grabbed his hand, and pulled her up.
"Nya, can you?", Kai asked from behind.
"I'm already coming!"
As Aaliyah turned around to see Nya running to her, she was also no longer an object like the rest. "Come on, we have to get going", Nya said. Aaliyah nodded, "Be careful", she said to the five. "Don't worry. We will", Lloyd smiled.
Aaliyah and Nya ran off to a safe place, and there, she saw, Misako, Wu, and Dareth. Upon arriving, Aaliyah smiled at Misako and Wu, without any word, and looked at the battle from a distance.
Morro slowly walked up to the four as he gritted his teeth and held onto his arm tightly. "Why you...", he muttered. Lloyd, Kai, Cole, Zane, and Jay all went into a fighting stance. "Be prepared everyone", Lloyd said.
"I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
As the wind ninja started floating up in the air, he thrust his arms out, creating a huge gust of wind toward the group, however Kai blocked it from blowing them away by blasting against the wind with fire sprouting from his hands. The gust of wind though, was able to break a part of a tower in the mansion. Morro then threw it to try and smash the group, but Cole came running to it, and stopped it from moving any further with with his bare hands.
Jay and Zane then both used it as a platform to jump off and try to injure Morro. As they both jumped, Zane created an ice-like path, so that he and Jay could slide on in the air. With all his might, Jay attempted to hit Morro with his lighting bolts coming out of his hands.
"Man, this is a lot more harder to use without our weapons", the lighting ninja complained.
Lloyd suddenly appeared above Jay, along with Kai and Cole. "Well, we have at least spinjitzu", Kai pointed out. At that moment, he spinned, resulting in a small fire tornado to appear around him, targeting toward Morro. However, he easliy used a blast of wind against it, which ended up disappearing. With his spinjitzu gone, Kai was thrown to the roof by the wind.
"Ow...", he mumbled.
Zane jumped over to his side, and grabbed his hand to pull him up while doing so. "Looks like our spinjitzu won't work against him", he said. "We have to try and lower his guard down!", Lloyd said in the distance. "But how are we going to do that?", Jay questioned after jumping off the ice path.
Suddenly, they all see Cole, who was also still in the air, jumping to Morro, grabbing him, and pushing the wind ninja to the rooftop to stop him from flying anywhere else. "Well, that worked", Kai said. "Guys, you know I can't hold him down forever!", Cole yelled out, "I need a little help here!"
Lloyd, Kai, Zane, and Jay hurried over to Cole, who was struggling to keep Morro at bay. As the four got closer, Morro suddenly unleashed a huge gust of wind around himself, sending Cole backward and smashing against the wall."Cole!", Jay yelled.
"Ugh...", the earth ninja groaned, "Guys! Behind you!"
The four turned around seeing Morro flying head-straight not into them, but only Lloyd. He then grabbed Lloyd be the shoulders, and proceeded to throw him at a tower, sending flying debris everywhere. Kai, Cole, Zane , and Jay dodged the incoming debris, but soon realized it's too dangerous to reach Lloyd and Morro now. Not only that, but everytime they try to stop Morro, he keeps on blowing them away, and the more they try to interfere, the stronger the wind curreny becomes.
Morro and Lloyd continued to fight on the rooftop, as they punched and kicked each other. Lloyd attempted to use his powers on Morro, summoning light energy balls and blasts at him. However even though they were able to inflict damage on him, the wind ninja remained strong through all that.
Quickly Lloyd summoned a small shield by crossing his arms, but Morro ended up trying to smash it. Lloyd struggled, but felt his feet sliding against the surface of the roof.
"You took away the life I've ever wanted!", Morro yelled at him in anger, "I could've become a great ninja if it weren't for you!"
Now Lloyd, who was angry, stared into Morro's eyes. "You don't have to be the Green Ninja to get everything you want! And by hurting those around you, that isn't what a ninja is supposed to do! It's about taking responsibility for your own actions, and dedicating yourself to protect Ninjago!
Morro gritted his teeth as he punched Lloyd's shield with more force. "Why should I listen to you!? I will get what I want!" Right at that very moment, Morro's last hit destroyed Lloyd's shield, and then proceeded to punch the Green Ninja's face.
As Lloyd fell to the floor, his eyes were fixed onto Morro's face. The wind ninja's expression was full of pure anger, and raised his hands, gathering a huge ball of wind, dust, etc. Just as he was about to throw it at Lloyd a familiar voice interrupted him.
"Morro, stop!"
Morro turned around to see none other than Aaliyah, who was slowly walking towards him. Lloyd's eyes widened upon seeing her and tried to mouthed to her to go back but she ignored it.
"Or what?", Morro scoffed, "there's nothing you can't do to stop me."
"I'll...marry you then."
"Aaliyah, what are you doing!?", Lloyd spoke up.
"Be quiet!"
Lloyd suddenly flinched as he felt a wind like rope around his arms and hands, tightening it the more he moved. "Anyway", Morro continued, "what was it that you were trying to say?"
Aaliyah took a deep breath before saing it again. "I'll marry you if you leave everyone alone. Please." Morro smiled at Aaliyah as he walked up to her and touched her cheek as his fingers trailed down her face.
"Let me tell you something, Aaliyah", he said.
Morro then leaned in towards her ear and whispered, "If you think you're going to trick me, it's not gonna work." Suddenly, Aaliyah looked at her stomach, seeing Morro's fist on it. She then fell to her knees and held it in pain.
"AALIYAH!", Lloyd yelled out.
Lloyd then sees Morro walking up to him, grinning, and holding a ball full of wind about to be unleashed at him, the Green Ninja stuggled to get free, and even if he did try to kick him with his legs, it still wouldn't work.
"I've been waiting a long time for this."
As Morro was about to kill Lloyd, the wind ninja let out a sharp gasp, and looked down to see blood on his chest. His eyes widened and also Lloyd's and looked behind, seeing Aaliyah holding onto the handle of a knife, which the blade stabbed him.
"I'm sorry", Aaliyah muttered to him. The wind holding onto Lloyd disappeared, as he watched the scene unfolding before him. Blood came out of Morro's mouth as his shocked exprression was left unchanged. As Aaliyah let go of the knife handle, he stepped back from the two and fell back from the roof and to the abyss, never to be seen again.
Aaliyah sadly looked down at the abyss, and fell to her kness. And felt Lloyd touching her shoulder with his hand as they both looked down.
Everyone gathered at the balcony of the West Wing, who were worried for Lloyd and Aaliyah. "Hey, I found them!", Cole called out to the rest. As the two arrived at the balcony, Lloyd ran to Misako and Wu and hugged them. "You did good, Lloyd", Misako said to him. As Aaliyah watched them, smiling, she sees Jay walking up to her. "So, now that it's over, what do you think we'll do?", he asked. Aaliyah thought, "Maybe visiting Dad would be a good idea." Jay nodded and the siblings hugged each other.
As everyone talked and laughed with each other, the sun soon began to shine as the clouds parted and rays of sunlight fell on the mansion. "Wait, do all of you think we should head to Ninjago City?", Zane questioned. "You're right about that", Kai spoke up first. Wu nodded at Zane's question, "I believe it's time for all of us to leave this place", and glanced at Lloyd, "And to visit those we haven't seen in forever."
Lloyd nodded at what Wu just meant, "Come on, everyone, let's go."
Wow. I really suck at writing battle scenes. It's my first time anyway, so yeah...
So after this is our last chapter, everyone! Again, thank you for the support for this story, and I'll see you all in the last chapter!
~RaindropM out~