Legacy chapters! Because it sounds better than "old chapters I wrote when I couldn't write as well".

Anyway enjoy.


Lloyd Garmadon was the Green Ninja.

It was pretty cool sometimes. He got to fight bad guys and he had awesome powers. Awesome friends, too. He couldn't imagine life without his brothers, Kai, Jay, Zane, and Cole.

But it wasn't all fun and games. Sometimes the bad guy won, and he was injured. Or worse, his friends were. Sometimes he wished that whenever he went... well, anywhere, he wasn't swamped by fans wanting an autograph, a picture, or worse, a kiss (bleh). Sometimes someone very close to him was gone. Forever.

The particular instance that Lloyd was thinking of, as he wandered aimlessly through a complex of alleys on the west side of New Ninjago City trying to hide from the rest of the world, was his father.

Montgomery Garmadon, Lloyd's father, had sacrificed himself for the good of Ninjago a little under a year ago. Not by dying, but by sending himself to the Cursed Realm, one of the sixteen realms of the universe that was almost completely populated by ghosts.

Until it was destroyed.

The last time Lloyd had seen his father was about three months ago. After a little incident where Lloyd was possessed by a vengeful spirit named Morro who was intent on cursing the entire realm of Ninjago, he had visited the Cursed Realm briefly and found his father, chained and on his knees. He had tried to free his father, but the chains were unbreakable. After a brief but heartfelt conversation, Lloyd had escaped from the realm via a portal and ultimately helped destroy the Preeminent, the physical embodiment of the Cursed Realm, with his father still inside.

Lloyd had relied heavily on his family the past few months for comfort and support. The rest of his family was devastated as well, but no one was as affected as Lloyd. His father had been more of his best friend than his guardian. Lloyd would never understand people who disliked their fathers.

Lloyd was torn from his thoughts when he heard a metallic clatter nearby. He jumped to his feet, hand instinctively moving to pull his ninja hood over his face. However, he wasn't wearing it, as he had been trying to avoid being recognized as the Green Ninja. He settled for pulling the hood from the sweater he was wearing over his head and flattened himself against the alley wall. The clang sounded again. Lloyd inched towards the noise, unsure of what to expect. As the noise sounded a third time, Lloyd peeked around the corner. A slightly-glowing figure was rifling through a trash can. As soon as he saw Lloyd, he dashed into another alley, but not before Lloyd could recognize him. The tattered robes, the ghostly glow, the green streak through his jet-black hair... Lloyd gasped.

"Morro?"


~FFF