Hello guys! I decided I wanted to update again :) I'm going to Florida this Saturday so I'm not sure whether I'll be able to update (Unless I do it late night on my tablet instead of a laptop XD) But just in case I am unable to post during my holiday, I'll be trying to post as many as I can this week, or maybe just one if I'm really THAT busy with packing ^_^' And before we get on to the next chapter: I'M SORRY FOR DOING THIS TO GARMADON! DX I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON OMG D:...Okay, I feel better now :) Anyways, ONTO THE STORY! XD
The weak man looked around him. He saw his brother and wife being held captive by ghosts and his son was trapped in the hand of the demon. He tried to call their names, but he couldn't. He was too weak to even whisper. Let alone speak.
"Dad...DAD!" Lloyd tried to jump off of Ziroth's hand but Ziroth drew his hand into a fist to trap him inside. Lloyd tried to struggle out, but every time he moved, Ziroth's enclosed hand just grew tighter and tighter. Lloyd had struggled quite a bit, so he found it hard to breathe. Eventually he stopped struggling. Tears ran from his eyes.
"You MONSTER! What did you do to him!?" Lloyd bawled.
"I THOUGHT YOU KNEW ALREADY." Ziroth sneered.
Then Lloyd remembered.
"He's going to be a sacrifice to Ziroth! I wasn't supposed to tell you this!"
Morro had already warned him what was going to happen to his father.
"Why is my father going to be sacrificed?..." He whimpered, finally saying something.
"IN ORDER TO ESCAPE FROM THIS PLACE, I NEED A GOD OR A DEMI-GOD WHO IS ABLE TO LEAVE A REALM. IN ORDER FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, HE NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED BY ME, SO I CAN HAVE HIS POWER." Ziroth explained. "BUT HE IS REFUSING TO DO THIS. HE KEEPS USING AN ELEMENTAL SHIELD TO KEEP ME FROM DESTROYING HIM. THAT IS WHY HE IS SO EXHAUSTED. BUT NOW I HAVE YOU THREE. SO EACH TIME HE REFUSES, I GET TO KILL ONE OF YOU." He smiled in an unpleasant way.
Lloyd quivered and stared at his family. It'd either be them, or Garmadon who'd die.
"SO GARMADON, WHICH ONE? YOU, OR YOUR FAMILY? OF COURSE, YOU'D ALL BE DEAD EITHER WAY!" He cackled. Taunting Garmadon in a cruel, menacing way.
"D-o-n'-t...p-l-e-a-s-e..." He hoarsely pleaded. His throat must have been in pain from even TRYING to speak. "Y-o-u...c-a-n...k-i-l-l...m-e...j-u-s-t—p-l-e-a-s-e...d-o-n'-t—k-i-l-l—m-y—f-a-m-i-l-y...o-r—a-n-y-o-n-e—e-l-s-e—i-n—N-i-n-j-a-g-o..." He begged once more.
Ziroth collapsed into laughter. Did this monster not feel any remorse at all?
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHY I'M USING YOU AS THE SACRIFICE?! SO I CAN TRAVEL TO ANY REALM I WANT AND KILL THEM! THEN, I'LL TRANSFORM THEIR CORPSES INTO MY PUPPETS AND THEY'LL BOW BEFORE ME FOR ALL ETERNIT-!"
Before Ziroth could finish, he felt a sharp pain in his foot. He roared in pain. He sounded so demonic that it would chill any being to the bone.
The God looked down to see Morro had sliced both of his feet with his cursed sword. All of the ghosts gasped and gave him dirty looks.
"What did you DO!?" Bansha hissed.
Morro looked back at her with a stern eye. "I did what was right."
Because Ziroth's feet were cut off, he collapsed to the ground, allowing Lloyd to escape from his hand. He then sliced the cuffs which attached the chains to his father's wrists and ankles, and carried his father on his back. Morro also rushed to Wu and Misako and freed them from their handcuffs.
"Hurry!" Morro commanded. "It won't be long before Ziroth regenerates a new pair of feet!"
They began to run off. Garmadon looked to the side of him to see a ghost with the realm crystal in his pocket. He reached an arm out and grabbed it while Lloyd was still near him.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE! GET THEEEM!" Ziroth yelled.
The ghosts stopped staring and clumsily began chasing after the 5 who were running off, the shadow-people also. Morro looked behind him and realised they were being chased. He began to swirl his hands and then blew. A massive tornado was let loose which swept up most of the ghosts and shadows.
They finally reached the end of the floating island.
"Dammit! The realm crystal!" Morro cursed.
Garmadon slowly took out the realm crystal from his pocket and handed it to his son.
"Dad! You managed to get it? You're a life-saver!" Lloyd praised him.
Lloyd handed it to Morro. Morro held out the realm crystal and the swirl of black and blue appeared in the sky. They all jumped as high as they could from the island they were standing on and got swept into the portal. The ghosts and shadows began shaking their fists at them as they disappeared into the portal. They had arrived too late.
The portal transported them to the camp that was destroyed that night. They all laid on the ground in exhaustion. Laughing a little bit from relief. Garmadon couldn't laugh thanks to his current state but smiled instead.
He was finally back home.